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  1. This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable release
  2. of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the changes in
  3. each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
  4. Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
  5. Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
  6. exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
  7. exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
  8. o Security fixes:
  9. - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
  10. relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
  11. ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
  12. many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
  13. on network address.
  14. o Major bugfixes:
  15. - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
  16. buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
  17. - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
  18. on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
  19. - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
  20. service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
  21. - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
  22. requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
  23. crashing or mis-answering these requests.
  24. - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
  25. not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
  26. purpose. Fixes bug 539.
  27. o Minor bugfixes:
  28. - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
  29. rebuild our server descriptor.
  30. - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
  31. networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
  32. unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
  33. - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
  34. in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
  35. nonstandard integer types.
  36. - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
  37. --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
  38. - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
  39. directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
  40. that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
  41. by lodger.
  42. - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
  43. responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
  44. that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
  45. when they receive them.
  46. - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
  47. This includes some 64-bit systems.
  48. - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
  49. the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
  50. from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
  51. - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
  52. - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
  53. router_get_by_hexdigest().
  54. - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
  55. port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
  56. happened.
  57. Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
  58. Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
  59. hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
  60. bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
  61. lists for a few hours each day.
  62. o Major bugfixes (crashes):
  63. - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
  64. happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
  65. connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
  66. "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
  67. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
  68. - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
  69. rend_process_relay_cell().
  70. o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
  71. - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
  72. hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
  73. they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
  74. - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
  75. connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
  76. digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
  77. changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
  78. o Major bugfixes (other):
  79. - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
  80. HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
  81. dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
  82. - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
  83. as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
  84. circuit cannibalization).
  85. - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
  86. the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
  87. Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
  88. that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
  89. clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
  90. consensus. Fixes bug 529.
  91. o Minor bugfixes:
  92. - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
  93. --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
  94. bug 499.
  95. - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
  96. router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
  97. absent. Resolves bug 467.
  98. - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
  99. a way to trigger this remotely.)
  100. - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
  101. OR address is readable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
  102. were reporting the dir port.)
  103. - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
  104. command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
  105. - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
  106. the future. Fixes bug 434.
  107. - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
  108. in the future.
  109. - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
  110. onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
  111. the onion key from getting rotated.
  112. - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
  113. this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
  114. - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
  115. cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
  116. is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
  117. - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
  118. option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
  119. Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
  120. o Major bugfixes (security):
  121. - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
  122. deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
  123. become more of a headache than it's worth.
  124. o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
  125. - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
  126. proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
  127. from Mike Perry.
  128. - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
  129. will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
  130. - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
  131. guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
  132. three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
  133. by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
  134. o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
  135. - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
  136. they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
  137. some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
  138. circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
  139. o Minor features (controller):
  140. - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
  141. is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
  142. a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
  143. protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
  144. o Minor bugfixes (performance):
  145. - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
  146. greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
  147. - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
  148. the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
  149. its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
  150. two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
  151. powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
  152. o Minor bugfixes (misc):
  153. - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
  154. use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
  155. Based on patch from Mike Perry.
  156. - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
  157. weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
  158. would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
  159. if we ran off the end of the list.
  160. - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
  161. cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
  162. where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
  163. - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
  164. every time we change any piece of our config.
  165. - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
  166. encourage people using them to stop.
  167. - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
  168. from tup.
  169. - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
  170. servers to choose a circuit.
  171. - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
  172. unparseable piece of it.
  173. Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
  174. o Major security fixes:
  175. - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
  176. do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
  177. Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
  178. o Major bugfixes (compilation):
  179. - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
  180. o Major bugfixes (crashes):
  181. - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
  182. an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
  183. - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
  184. routerlist while inserting a new router.
  185. - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
  186. don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
  187. from croup.)
  188. - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
  189. orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
  190. definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
  191. o Major bugfixes (security):
  192. - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
  193. found by croup.
  194. - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
  195. the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
  196. and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
  197. - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
  198. bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
  199. cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
  200. - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
  201. never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
  202. guard list unless we need to.
  203. o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
  204. - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
  205. don't get overused as guards.
  206. o Minor bugfixes (directory):
  207. - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
  208. version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
  209. - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
  210. once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
  211. o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
  212. - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
  213. connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
  214. Resolves bug 444.
  215. o Minor bugfixes (misc):
  216. - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
  217. cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
  218. - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
  219. bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
  220. unlikely. Patch from lodger.
  221. - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
  222. - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
  223. Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
  224. o Directory authority changes:
  225. - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
  226. IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
  227. or use hidden services.
  228. o Major bugfixes (crashes):
  229. - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
  230. as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
  231. but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
  232. behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
  233. - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
  234. to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
  235. - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
  236. - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
  237. by lodger.)
  238. o Major bugfixes (security):
  239. - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
  240. that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
  241. that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
  242. o Major bugfixes (resource management):
  243. - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
  244. networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
  245. every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
  246. - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
  247. don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
  248. not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
  249. - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
  250. lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
  251. think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
  252. o Minor bugfixes:
  253. - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
  254. purpose=controller.
  255. - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
  256. we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
  257. network-statuses.
  258. - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
  259. having a hard time downloading.
  260. - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
  261. partial results on small file reads.
  262. - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
  263. routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
  264. the gaps in the store get very large.
  265. o Minor features:
  266. - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
  267. authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
  268. documents.
  269. - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
  270. OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
  271. Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
  272. Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
  273. of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
  274. free speech on the Internet.
  275. o Major features, client performance:
  276. - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
  277. let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
  278. succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
  279. choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
  280. - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
  281. middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
  282. is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
  283. - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
  284. application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
  285. 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
  286. that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
  287. - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
  288. to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
  289. make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
  290. unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
  291. o Major features, client functionality:
  292. - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
  293. server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
  294. plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
  295. config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
  296. you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
  297. - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
  298. bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
  299. mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
  300. can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
  301. through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
  302. - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
  303. 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
  304. SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
  305. o Major features, servers:
  306. - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
  307. with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
  308. asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
  309. would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
  310. authenticated, so use with care.
  311. - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
  312. and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
  313. masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
  314. lots of memory.
  315. - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
  316. checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
  317. that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
  318. to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
  319. in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
  320. easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
  321. o Improvements on DNS support:
  322. - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
  323. from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
  324. concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
  325. multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
  326. - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
  327. records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
  328. IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
  329. now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
  330. - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
  331. DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
  332. redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
  333. DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
  334. RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
  335. lets you turn it off.
  336. - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
  337. wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
  338. their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
  339. - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
  340. requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
  341. useful to the network.
  342. - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
  343. useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
  344. - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
  345. lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
  346. - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
  347. our tests for DNS hijacking.
  348. o Improvements on reachability testing:
  349. - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
  350. established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
  351. so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
  352. bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
  353. - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
  354. so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
  355. - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
  356. if their identity keys are as expected.
  357. - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
  358. chews through many circuits before giving up.
  359. - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
  360. to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
  361. - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
  362. to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
  363. we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
  364. other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
  365. - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
  366. authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
  367. long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
  368. connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
  369. more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
  370. 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
  371. o Improvements on rate limiting:
  372. - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
  373. capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
  374. than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
  375. - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
  376. would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
  377. to send them.
  378. - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
  379. they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
  380. more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
  381. - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
  382. - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
  383. connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
  384. - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
  385. writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
  386. trying to flush.
  387. - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
  388. a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
  389. o Major features, NT services:
  390. - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
  391. command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
  392. "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
  393. existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
  394. will look for its configuration file in the service user's
  395. %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
  396. directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
  397. directory.)
  398. - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
  399. directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
  400. the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
  401. from Matt Edman.
  402. - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
  403. get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
  404. exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
  405. command line.
  406. - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
  407. stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
  408. o Directory authority improvements:
  409. - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
  410. bandwidth cutoffs.
  411. - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
  412. - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
  413. too much load to the exit nodes.
  414. - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
  415. about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
  416. clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
  417. The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
  418. protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
  419. - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
  420. clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
  421. having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
  422. moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
  423. - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
  424. can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
  425. broken. Not used yet.
  426. - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
  427. approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
  428. authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
  429. of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
  430. that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
  431. - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
  432. non-versioning dirservers.
  433. - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
  434. without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
  435. restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
  436. per day.
  437. - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
  438. a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
  439. authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
  440. clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
  441. o Directory mirrors and clients:
  442. - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
  443. directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
  444. - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
  445. dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
  446. gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
  447. - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
  448. longer count the failure against the total number of failures
  449. allowed for the object we're trying to download.
  450. - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
  451. discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
  452. recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
  453. the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
  454. routers for even longer.
  455. - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
  456. headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
  457. caching HTTP proxies.
  458. - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
  459. haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
  460. causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
  461. you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
  462. o Major fixes, crashes:
  463. - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
  464. one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
  465. - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
  466. out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
  467. bug 390.)
  468. - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
  469. cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
  470. - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
  471. stream is detached.
  472. - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
  473. uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
  474. - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
  475. service circuits (reported by mwenge).
  476. - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
  477. and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
  478. - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
  479. handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
  480. on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
  481. - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
  482. o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
  483. - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
  484. /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
  485. "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
  486. want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
  487. - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
  488. 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
  489. - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
  490. keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
  491. we never stay up for a week ourselves.
  492. - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
  493. in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
  494. could return an unnamed server instead.
  495. - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
  496. many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
  497. a more attractive target for compromise.)
  498. - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
  499. able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
  500. only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
  501. - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
  502. Stefan Nordhausen.
  503. - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
  504. connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
  505. o Major fixes, other:
  506. - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
  507. uptime in the descriptor.
  508. - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
  509. up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
  510. - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
  511. indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
  512. discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
  513. - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
  514. move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
  515. Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
  516. the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
  517. - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
  518. if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
  519. our DirPort now, etc.
  520. - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
  521. its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
  522. back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
  523. o New config options or behaviors:
  524. - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
  525. in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
  526. EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
  527. - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
  528. ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
  529. are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
  530. - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
  531. - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
  532. the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
  533. for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
  534. - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
  535. disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
  536. a timely fashion.
  537. - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
  538. the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
  539. - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
  540. - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
  541. accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
  542. options files.
  543. - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
  544. NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
  545. - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
  546. avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
  547. AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
  548. is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
  549. - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
  550. and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
  551. setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
  552. - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
  553. 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
  554. SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
  555. to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
  556. - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
  557. - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
  558. suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
  559. - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
  560. choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
  561. - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
  562. directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
  563. if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
  564. the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
  565. - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
  566. for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
  567. as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
  568. authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
  569. to continue being hidden service authorities too.
  570. - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
  571. - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
  572. ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
  573. an address.
  574. - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
  575. descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
  576. your ORPort is set.
  577. o Docs:
  578. - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
  579. new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
  580. versions too.
  581. - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
  582. addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
  583. - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
  584. and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
  585. o Packaging, porting, and contrib
  586. - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
  587. whether the config options are bad or good.
  588. - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
  589. to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
  590. - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
  591. take arguments rather than require direct editing.
  592. - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
  593. result more than once.
  594. - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
  595. - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
  596. esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
  597. - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
  598. values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
  599. - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
  600. - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
  601. Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
  602. before we check for libevent.
  603. - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
  604. - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
  605. or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
  606. it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
  607. win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
  608. recommendation system saner.)
  609. - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
  610. define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
  611. - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
  612. now universal binaries.
  613. - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
  614. - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
  615. for sure!)
  616. - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
  617. and many others).
  618. - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
  619. - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
  620. ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
  621. then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
  622. - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
  623. bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
  624. o Minor features, controller:
  625. - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
  626. control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
  627. the next development series, so it's good to give people some
  628. advance warning.
  629. - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
  630. use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
  631. - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
  632. impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
  633. mwenge; closes bug 394.)
  634. - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
  635. address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
  636. directive.
  637. - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
  638. make them generated in every case where we get a successful
  639. connected or resolved cell.
  640. - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
  641. available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
  642. - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
  643. can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
  644. - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
  645. - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
  646. - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
  647. actual keys.
  648. - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
  649. - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
  650. entry guard status as it changes.
  651. - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
  652. immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
  653. successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
  654. watching for STREAM events.
  655. - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
  656. field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
  657. event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
  658. a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
  659. Mike Perry)
  660. - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
  661. controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
  662. - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
  663. working much like those for circuit events.
  664. - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
  665. about the current status of a router.
  666. - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
  667. a router's status has changed.
  668. - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
  669. can tell which events and features are supported.
  670. - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
  671. client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
  672. - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
  673. identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
  674. - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
  675. of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
  676. for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
  677. and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
  678. for more information.
  679. - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
  680. best guess to the user.
  681. - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
  682. descriptor has changed.
  683. - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
  684. - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
  685. don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
  686. o Minor bugfixes, controller:
  687. - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
  688. event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
  689. - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
  690. to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
  691. - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
  692. implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
  693. ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
  694. - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
  695. clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
  696. that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
  697. 3 of bug 367.)
  698. - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
  699. protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
  700. "INTERNAL".
  701. - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
  702. we finally get the IP from an exit node.
  703. - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
  704. long.
  705. - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
  706. flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
  707. the controller from learning about current events.
  708. - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
  709. reported by Mike Perry.
  710. - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
  711. when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
  712. - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
  713. controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
  714. - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
  715. about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
  716. long nicknames where appropriate.
  717. - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
  718. make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
  719. not requested.
  720. - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
  721. SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
  722. - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
  723. the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
  724. - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
  725. o Minor features, code performance:
  726. - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
  727. algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
  728. - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
  729. time.
  730. - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
  731. some profiles, but not others.)
  732. - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
  733. arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
  734. (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
  735. - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
  736. operations, for profiling.
  737. - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
  738. malloc(0) returns a pointer.
  739. - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
  740. split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
  741. These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
  742. also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
  743. - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
  744. This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
  745. o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
  746. - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
  747. - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
  748. no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
  749. in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
  750. we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
  751. - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
  752. even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
  753. family lists conveniently.
  754. o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
  755. - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
  756. recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
  757. - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
  758. DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
  759. - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
  760. For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
  761. its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
  762. - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
  763. such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
  764. - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
  765. when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
  766. - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
  767. as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
  768. of it), is not therefore "up".
  769. o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
  770. - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
  771. what version a router is running.
  772. - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
  773. "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
  774. secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
  775. - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
  776. preceded by "opt".
  777. - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
  778. to have the wrong circ_id_type.
  779. - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
  780. actually mattered since 0.0.9.
  781. - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
  782. changed.
  783. o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
  784. - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
  785. whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
  786. bug 373.)
  787. - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
  788. time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
  789. time it is now.
  790. - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
  791. throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
  792. handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
  793. goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
  794. - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
  795. handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
  796. days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
  797. - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
  798. "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
  799. - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
  800. unstable ones.
  801. - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
  802. 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
  803. authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
  804. but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
  805. - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
  806. 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
  807. - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
  808. - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
  809. get one we don't recognize.
  810. Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
  811. o Security bugfixes:
  812. - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
  813. servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
  814. - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
  815. - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
  816. is set.
  817. o Minor bugfixes:
  818. - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
  819. AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
  820. unlisted router (reported by seeess).
  821. Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
  822. o Major bugfixes:
  823. - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
  824. an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
  825. answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
  826. - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
  827. hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
  828. its circuits on demand.
  829. - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
  830. require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
  831. we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
  832. connections more stable on average.
  833. - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
  834. tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
  835. servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
  836. o Security bugfixes:
  837. - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
  838. cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
  839. o Minor bugfixes:
  840. - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
  841. the first time.
  842. - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
  843. certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
  844. handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
  845. - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
  846. - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
  847. don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
  848. - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
  849. Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
  850. Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
  851. o Major bugfixes:
  852. - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
  853. directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
  854. - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
  855. whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
  856. do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
  857. This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
  858. - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
  859. it can't resolve its hostname.
  860. - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
  861. and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
  862. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
  863. o Minor bugfixes:
  864. - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
  865. - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
  866. "extendcircuit" request.
  867. - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
  868. response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
  869. - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
  870. more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
  871. voodoo.
  872. - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
  873. uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
  874. only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
  875. tolower().
  876. - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
  877. methods: these are known to be buggy.
  878. - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
  879. documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
  880. we don't recognize.
  881. Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
  882. o Major bugfixes:
  883. - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
  884. due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
  885. bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
  886. - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
  887. - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
  888. then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
  889. circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
  890. changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
  891. test reachability, so you won't publish.
  892. o Minor bugfixes:
  893. - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
  894. and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
  895. - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
  896. a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
  897. a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
  898. later than now.
  899. - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
  900. own server descriptor yet.
  901. Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
  902. o Major bugfixes:
  903. - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
  904. reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
  905. servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
  906. make sure to test via one of these.
  907. - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
  908. descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
  909. - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
  910. descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
  911. servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
  912. o Minor bugfixes:
  913. - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
  914. "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
  915. - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
  916. Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
  917. o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
  918. - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
  919. - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
  920. directory authority.
  921. - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
  922. while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
  923. exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
  924. - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
  925. o Other fixes:
  926. - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
  927. - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
  928. first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
  929. right after that.
  930. - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
  931. and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
  932. again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
  933. current guards when picking a new guard.
  934. - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
  935. is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
  936. when we had more than one pending.
  937. - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
  938. Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
  939. a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
  940. - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
  941. - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
  942. - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
  943. mapaddress. It's none of our business.
  944. - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
  945. middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
  946. debug the reachability problems better.
  947. o Log / documentation fixes:
  948. - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
  949. log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
  950. about protocol violations by others.
  951. - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
  952. - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
  953. about what happened to our old torrc.
  954. Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
  955. o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
  956. - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
  957. logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
  958. - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
  959. and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
  960. Palfrader).
  961. - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
  962. a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
  963. "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
  964. - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
  965. out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
  966. - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
  967. your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
  968. HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
  969. The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
  970. - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
  971. to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
  972. on malicious huge inputs.
  973. o Security fixes, major:
  974. - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
  975. non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
  976. sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
  977. misreading their logs.
  978. - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
  979. nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
  980. when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
  981. become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
  982. dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
  983. config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
  984. want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
  985. Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
  986. - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
  987. destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
  988. which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
  989. that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
  990. authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
  991. use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
  992. if you can.
  993. - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
  994. . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
  995. . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
  996. firewall options forbid.
  997. . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
  998. firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
  999. can only proxy to certain destinations.
  1000. - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
  1001. - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
  1002. out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
  1003. through privoxy.
  1004. - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
  1005. keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
  1006. each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
  1007. periodically, so it's not so bad.)
  1008. - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
  1009. node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
  1010. already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
  1011. - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
  1012. are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
  1013. to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
  1014. preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
  1015. - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
  1016. was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
  1017. o Security fixes, minor:
  1018. - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
  1019. Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
  1020. easily.
  1021. - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
  1022. mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
  1023. is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
  1024. - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
  1025. if we've not heard of a server.
  1026. - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
  1027. OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
  1028. startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
  1029. - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
  1030. the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
  1031. humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
  1032. - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
  1033. don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
  1034. - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
  1035. circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
  1036. introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
  1037. useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
  1038. aids some statistical attacks.
  1039. - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
  1040. It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
  1041. have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
  1042. exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
  1043. - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
  1044. - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
  1045. service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
  1046. back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
  1047. that anyway.
  1048. o Packaging improvements:
  1049. - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
  1050. search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
  1051. - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
  1052. there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
  1053. - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
  1054. - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
  1055. "-Wall -g -O2".
  1056. - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
  1057. run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
  1058. - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
  1059. the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
  1060. - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
  1061. Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
  1062. target arch.
  1063. - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
  1064. if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
  1065. - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
  1066. connections.
  1067. - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
  1068. tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
  1069. - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
  1070. They are useless now.
  1071. - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
  1072. easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
  1073. is reachable by you.
  1074. - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
  1075. Thoenen.
  1076. o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
  1077. - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
  1078. - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
  1079. digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
  1080. - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
  1081. download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
  1082. fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
  1083. - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
  1084. - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
  1085. download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
  1086. download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
  1087. and isolating attacks better.
  1088. - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
  1089. hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
  1090. - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
  1091. haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
  1092. tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
  1093. minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
  1094. - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
  1095. not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
  1096. go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
  1097. to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
  1098. - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
  1099. are known.
  1100. - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
  1101. can answer v2 directory requests too.
  1102. - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
  1103. docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
  1104. - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
  1105. mirrors still cache and serve it).
  1106. - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
  1107. before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
  1108. - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
  1109. for clients and for servers.
  1110. - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
  1111. - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
  1112. without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
  1113. - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
  1114. support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
  1115. to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
  1116. - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
  1117. reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
  1118. - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
  1119. - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
  1120. authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
  1121. o Other directory improvements:
  1122. - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
  1123. fifth authoritative directory servers.
  1124. - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
  1125. a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
  1126. when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
  1127. to hang up on them.
  1128. - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
  1129. of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
  1130. be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
  1131. it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
  1132. - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
  1133. entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
  1134. every 20 minutes.
  1135. - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
  1136. the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
  1137. attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
  1138. to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
  1139. connections more reliable.
  1140. - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
  1141. like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
  1142. top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
  1143. - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
  1144. from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
  1145. we fail to connect).
  1146. - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
  1147. o Controller protocol improvements:
  1148. - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
  1149. than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
  1150. in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
  1151. applications without caring how our protocol works.
  1152. - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
  1153. entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
  1154. - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
  1155. many bytes we've used in this time period.
  1156. - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
  1157. AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
  1158. a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
  1159. entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
  1160. - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
  1161. expose guard nodes, config options/names.
  1162. - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
  1163. - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
  1164. stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
  1165. don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
  1166. or "signal reload".
  1167. - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
  1168. we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
  1169. option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
  1170. - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
  1171. controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
  1172. a router in its role as directory authority.
  1173. - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
  1174. latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
  1175. - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
  1176. it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
  1177. .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
  1178. that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
  1179. - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
  1180. the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
  1181. changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
  1182. worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
  1183. - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
  1184. for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
  1185. controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
  1186. a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
  1187. let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
  1188. - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
  1189. directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
  1190. dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
  1191. is enabled.
  1192. - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
  1193. that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
  1194. "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
  1195. - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
  1196. message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
  1197. just tell them to go read their logs.
  1198. o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
  1199. - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
  1200. chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
  1201. a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
  1202. try to be a bit more fair.
  1203. - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
  1204. The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
  1205. and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
  1206. and we're using a default DirPort.
  1207. - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
  1208. CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
  1209. CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
  1210. build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
  1211. - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
  1212. services faster on the service end.
  1213. - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
  1214. remove them.
  1215. - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
  1216. warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
  1217. - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
  1218. server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
  1219. line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
  1220. - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
  1221. of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
  1222. bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
  1223. abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
  1224. in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
  1225. - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
  1226. truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
  1227. descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
  1228. purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
  1229. - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
  1230. 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
  1231. translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
  1232. - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
  1233. of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
  1234. - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
  1235. Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
  1236. - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
  1237. might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
  1238. - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
  1239. It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
  1240. o Other bugfixes and improvements:
  1241. - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
  1242. remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
  1243. lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
  1244. so we can be backward-compatible.
  1245. - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
  1246. resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
  1247. if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
  1248. themselves as localhost can guess their address.
  1249. - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
  1250. it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
  1251. This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
  1252. initial descriptor forever.
  1253. - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
  1254. hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
  1255. the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
  1256. the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
  1257. rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
  1258. - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
  1259. reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
  1260. has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
  1261. servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
  1262. high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
  1263. suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
  1264. - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
  1265. circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
  1266. - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
  1267. connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
  1268. space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
  1269. feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
  1270. been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
  1271. - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
  1272. socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
  1273. leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
  1274. - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
  1275. - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
  1276. closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
  1277. ports that have changed.
  1278. - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
  1279. requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
  1280. - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
  1281. broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
  1282. connections once a week.
  1283. - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
  1284. would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
  1285. servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
  1286. - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
  1287. string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
  1288. - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
  1289. get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
  1290. - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
  1291. We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
  1292. able to discover them.
  1293. - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
  1294. want to make it an NT service.
  1295. - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
  1296. running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
  1297. - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
  1298. - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
  1299. memory leaks better.
  1300. - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
  1301. use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
  1302. - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
  1303. statistics are now uint64_t's.
  1304. - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
  1305. log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
  1306. Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
  1307. - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
  1308. our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
  1309. - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
  1310. so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
  1311. default ulimit -n is 1024.
  1312. - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
  1313. and its existence is confusing some users.
  1314. o Config option fixes:
  1315. - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
  1316. to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
  1317. addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
  1318. - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
  1319. - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
  1320. that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
  1321. for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
  1322. - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
  1323. since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
  1324. or port.
  1325. - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
  1326. we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
  1327. This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
  1328. November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
  1329. - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
  1330. torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
  1331. it would silently ignore the 6668.
  1332. - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
  1333. e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
  1334. silently resetting it to its default.
  1335. - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
  1336. - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
  1337. will be more likely to learn that it exists.
  1338. - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
  1339. - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
  1340. config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
  1341. that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
  1342. - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
  1343. only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
  1344. - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
  1345. - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
  1346. - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
  1347. Address config option.
  1348. - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
  1349. reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
  1350. o Config option features:
  1351. - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
  1352. do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
  1353. already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
  1354. - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
  1355. dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
  1356. makes sense.
  1357. - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
  1358. and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
  1359. info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
  1360. PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
  1361. - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
  1362. option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
  1363. Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
  1364. - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
  1365. accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
  1366. smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
  1367. in at least some cases.)
  1368. - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
  1369. as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
  1370. revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
  1371. - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
  1372. with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
  1373. by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
  1374. nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
  1375. currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
  1376. even if we know they're jerks.
  1377. - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
  1378. applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
  1379. socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
  1380. with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
  1381. - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
  1382. you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
  1383. every single internal or nonroutable network space.
  1384. - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
  1385. because older Tors do not understand it.
  1386. - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
  1387. moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
  1388. - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
  1389. get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
  1390. around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
  1391. - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
  1392. for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
  1393. to know about even the non-running descriptors.
  1394. - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
  1395. unattached before we fail it?
  1396. - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
  1397. at least this many seconds ago.
  1398. - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
  1399. at least this many seconds ago.
  1400. - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
  1401. using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
  1402. o Improved and clearer log messages:
  1403. - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
  1404. them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
  1405. lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
  1406. by default.
  1407. - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
  1408. of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
  1409. log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
  1410. - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
  1411. have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
  1412. - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
  1413. move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
  1414. - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
  1415. temporarily unreachable.
  1416. - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
  1417. Windows-style errno back.
  1418. - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
  1419. - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
  1420. culling them.
  1421. - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
  1422. - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
  1423. even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
  1424. exactly for this case.
  1425. - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
  1426. warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
  1427. don't warn twice about the same name.
  1428. - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
  1429. unreachability.
  1430. - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
  1431. it was self-testing that told us so.
  1432. - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
  1433. as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
  1434. - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
  1435. the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
  1436. - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
  1437. will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
  1438. - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
  1439. log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
  1440. - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
  1441. circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
  1442. - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
  1443. established a circuit.
  1444. - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
  1445. - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
  1446. lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
  1447. and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
  1448. since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
  1449. - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
  1450. rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
  1451. - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
  1452. "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
  1453. - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
  1454. line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
  1455. - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
  1456. descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
  1457. a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
  1458. - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
  1459. a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
  1460. - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
  1461. server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
  1462. we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
  1463. - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
  1464. as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
  1465. testing for reachability.
  1466. - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
  1467. more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
  1468. to the torrc.
  1469. - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
  1470. Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
  1471. o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  1472. - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
  1473. sometimes they would trigger an assert.
  1474. o Other important bugfixes:
  1475. - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
  1476. artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
  1477. connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
  1478. connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
  1479. o Backported features:
  1480. - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
  1481. and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
  1482. small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
  1483. without getting overloaded.
  1484. - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
  1485. once more. This will become important once servers start sending
  1486. 503's whenever they feel busy.
  1487. - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
  1488. Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
  1489. directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
  1490. - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
  1491. from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
  1492. Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
  1493. o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  1494. - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
  1495. corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
  1496. the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
  1497. - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
  1498. too -- so detect and avoid this.
  1499. - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
  1500. giving an error).
  1501. - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
  1502. - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
  1503. stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
  1504. - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
  1505. don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
  1506. - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
  1507. connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
  1508. - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
  1509. rendezvous circuits.
  1510. - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
  1511. o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  1512. - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
  1513. messages so the operator knows what to expect.
  1514. - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
  1515. advertising it because of hibernation.
  1516. - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
  1517. - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
  1518. - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
  1519. that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
  1520. that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
  1521. - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
  1522. us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
  1523. - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
  1524. the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
  1525. - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
  1526. - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
  1527. exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
  1528. policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
  1529. as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
  1530. reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
  1531. Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
  1532. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  1533. - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
  1534. - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
  1535. try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
  1536. - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
  1537. only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
  1538. - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
  1539. be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
  1540. - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
  1541. so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
  1542. - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
  1543. - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
  1544. most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
  1545. - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
  1546. Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
  1547. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  1548. - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
  1549. (CVE-2005-2643).
  1550. - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
  1551. controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
  1552. Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
  1553. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  1554. - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
  1555. - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
  1556. it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
  1557. - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
  1558. pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
  1559. in the start menu.
  1560. - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
  1561. new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
  1562. not-broken.
  1563. Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
  1564. o New directory servers:
  1565. - tor26 has changed IP address.
  1566. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  1567. - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
  1568. - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
  1569. pthreads libraries.
  1570. - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
  1571. claims its dirport is 0.
  1572. - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
  1573. getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
  1574. Edman for the fix.
  1575. Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
  1576. o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
  1577. - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
  1578. exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
  1579. - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
  1580. confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
  1581. - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
  1582. - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
  1583. Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
  1584. o Fixes on Win32:
  1585. - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
  1586. patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
  1587. - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
  1588. servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
  1589. - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
  1590. right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
  1591. means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
  1592. has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
  1593. - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
  1594. file.
  1595. - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
  1596. Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
  1597. o Assert / crash bugs:
  1598. - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
  1599. maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
  1600. arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
  1601. (CVE-2005-2050).
  1602. - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
  1603. Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
  1604. TLS errors better in other situations too.
  1605. - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
  1606. pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
  1607. o Resource leaks:
  1608. - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
  1609. forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
  1610. duplicate ram over time.
  1611. - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
  1612. reentry and threadsafeness.
  1613. - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
  1614. netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
  1615. resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
  1616. threading issues.
  1617. - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
  1618. leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
  1619. - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
  1620. point at your Tor server.
  1621. - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
  1622. Adam Langley.)
  1623. - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
  1624. - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
  1625. we're leaking.
  1626. o Protocol correctness:
  1627. - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
  1628. the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
  1629. cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
  1630. - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
  1631. if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
  1632. to abandon partially built circuits.
  1633. - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
  1634. fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
  1635. right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
  1636. fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
  1637. descriptors we just dropped.
  1638. - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
  1639. - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
  1640. and to take errno into account where possible.
  1641. - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
  1642. 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
  1643. - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
  1644. things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
  1645. o Robustness improvements:
  1646. - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
  1647. - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
  1648. nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
  1649. appropriate nodes.
  1650. - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
  1651. not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
  1652. - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
  1653. that will want high uptime circuits.
  1654. - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
  1655. hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
  1656. - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
  1657. clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
  1658. - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
  1659. - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
  1660. regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
  1661. circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
  1662. and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
  1663. - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
  1664. we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
  1665. make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
  1666. make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
  1667. circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
  1668. - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
  1669. help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
  1670. for google.com" problem.
  1671. - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
  1672. launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
  1673. - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
  1674. these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
  1675. provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
  1676. clients yet.
  1677. o Reachability testing.
  1678. - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
  1679. DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
  1680. descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
  1681. DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
  1682. - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
  1683. high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
  1684. - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
  1685. - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
  1686. they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
  1687. already connected to them.
  1688. - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
  1689. or later.
  1690. o Dirserver fixes:
  1691. - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
  1692. but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
  1693. nickname+key are allowed.
  1694. - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
  1695. and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
  1696. descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
  1697. about all other descriptors for that address:port.
  1698. - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
  1699. Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
  1700. he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
  1701. have quite wrong clocks).
  1702. - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
  1703. addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
  1704. IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
  1705. their descriptors are being rejected.
  1706. o Efficiency improvements:
  1707. - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
  1708. and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
  1709. - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
  1710. kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
  1711. - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
  1712. CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
  1713. - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
  1714. after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
  1715. if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
  1716. assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
  1717. error message.
  1718. - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
  1719. reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
  1720. it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
  1721. - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
  1722. to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
  1723. - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
  1724. OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
  1725. OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
  1726. of CPU time plus memory.
  1727. - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
  1728. directory every time you regenerate it.
  1729. - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
  1730. it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
  1731. - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
  1732. since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
  1733. - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
  1734. dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
  1735. lowercase when you first see them.
  1736. o Hidden services:
  1737. - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
  1738. hidden services better.
  1739. - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
  1740. circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
  1741. when we try to launch one.
  1742. - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
  1743. after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
  1744. attempts to build a circuit.
  1745. - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
  1746. be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
  1747. - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
  1748. normal web requests.
  1749. o Controller:
  1750. - More Tor controller support. See
  1751. http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
  1752. including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
  1753. redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
  1754. closestream; closecircuit; etc.
  1755. - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
  1756. to make it easier to write controllers.
  1757. - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
  1758. be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
  1759. Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
  1760. log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
  1761. new log event types.
  1762. o New config options/defaults:
  1763. - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
  1764. the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
  1765. - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
  1766. rejecting most low-numbered ports.
  1767. - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
  1768. exit policy.
  1769. - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
  1770. config option.
  1771. - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
  1772. based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
  1773. - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
  1774. the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
  1775. willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
  1776. capacity too.)
  1777. - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
  1778. a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
  1779. allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
  1780. - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
  1781. - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
  1782. testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
  1783. publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
  1784. - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
  1785. addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
  1786. required exit node for certain sites.
  1787. - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
  1788. for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
  1789. your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
  1790. - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
  1791. which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
  1792. ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
  1793. how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
  1794. - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
  1795. a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
  1796. servers).
  1797. - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
  1798. on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
  1799. - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
  1800. Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
  1801. private-IP addresses.
  1802. - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
  1803. smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
  1804. - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
  1805. a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
  1806. - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
  1807. LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
  1808. - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
  1809. is valid without actually launching Tor.
  1810. o Logging improvements:
  1811. - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
  1812. contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
  1813. - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
  1814. per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
  1815. yell so much.
  1816. - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
  1817. than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
  1818. dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
  1819. - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
  1820. - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
  1821. - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
  1822. ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
  1823. - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
  1824. that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
  1825. wrong.
  1826. - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
  1827. it was.
  1828. - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
  1829. already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
  1830. - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
  1831. - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
  1832. - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
  1833. pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
  1834. o New contrib scripts:
  1835. - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
  1836. script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
  1837. addresses/ports.
  1838. - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
  1839. work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
  1840. fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
  1841. have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
  1842. - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
  1843. that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
  1844. via addresses like
  1845. "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
  1846. - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
  1847. Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
  1848. - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
  1849. on FreeBSD)
  1850. o Misc bugfixes:
  1851. - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
  1852. not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
  1853. run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
  1854. to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
  1855. - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
  1856. a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
  1857. - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
  1858. the socks reject.
  1859. - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
  1860. something more reasonable when first installing.
  1861. - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
  1862. It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
  1863. - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
  1864. circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
  1865. get the nodes.
  1866. - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
  1867. artificially capped at 500kB.
  1868. - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
  1869. addresses.
  1870. - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
  1871. - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
  1872. they could use instead.
  1873. - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
  1874. - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
  1875. installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
  1876. the user asks you to.
  1877. o Misc features:
  1878. - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
  1879. rather than just rejecting it.
  1880. - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
  1881. has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
  1882. - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
  1883. potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
  1884. rather than just "success" or "failure".
  1885. - A more sane version numbering system. See
  1886. http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
  1887. - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
  1888. recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
  1889. same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
  1890. series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
  1891. A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
  1892. the same series.
  1893. - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
  1894. servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
  1895. - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
  1896. contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
  1897. they're malformed.
  1898. - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
  1899. actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
  1900. for now.
  1901. - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
  1902. cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
  1903. to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
  1904. - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
  1905. come later.
  1906. - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
  1907. whether the server is hibernating.
  1908. Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
  1909. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
  1910. - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
  1911. maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
  1912. arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
  1913. (CVE-2005-2050).
  1914. Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
  1915. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
  1916. - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
  1917. Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
  1918. backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
  1919. Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
  1920. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
  1921. - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
  1922. cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
  1923. thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
  1924. established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
  1925. busy for more than 100 seconds.
  1926. Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
  1927. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
  1928. - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
  1929. - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
  1930. a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
  1931. extending to unknown routers. Oops.
  1932. - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
  1933. creating actual system users.
  1934. - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
  1935. a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
  1936. in 0.1.0.x).
  1937. Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
  1938. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
  1939. - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
  1940. reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
  1941. - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
  1942. - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
  1943. blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
  1944. checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
  1945. sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
  1946. - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
  1947. inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
  1948. - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
  1949. - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
  1950. you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
  1951. other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
  1952. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
  1953. - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
  1954. - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
  1955. speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
  1956. - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
  1957. into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
  1958. resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
  1959. because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
  1960. yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
  1961. - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
  1962. existing torrc files.
  1963. - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
  1964. Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
  1965. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
  1966. - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
  1967. - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
  1968. - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
  1969. support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
  1970. - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
  1971. the win32 SYSTEM account.
  1972. - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
  1973. - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
  1974. file descriptors available.
  1975. - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
  1976. - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
  1977. seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
  1978. Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
  1979. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
  1980. - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
  1981. a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
  1982. freak out.
  1983. - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
  1984. of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
  1985. - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
  1986. - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
  1987. file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
  1988. logs, etc.
  1989. - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
  1990. ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
  1991. - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
  1992. - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
  1993. - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
  1994. - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
  1995. not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
  1996. have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
  1997. cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
  1998. - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
  1999. 800kB/s of capacity.
  2000. - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
  2001. Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
  2002. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
  2003. - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
  2004. need as much processor time.
  2005. - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
  2006. run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
  2007. optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
  2008. application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
  2009. human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
  2010. - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
  2011. long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
  2012. shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
  2013. - Enable Mac startup script by default.
  2014. - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
  2015. - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
  2016. controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
  2017. resetting.
  2018. - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
  2019. the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
  2020. - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
  2021. will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
  2022. - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
  2023. now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
  2024. itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
  2025. Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
  2026. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
  2027. - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
  2028. to a file.
  2029. - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
  2030. style address, then we'd crash.
  2031. - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
  2032. a dirserver is broken.
  2033. - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
  2034. may work better.
  2035. - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
  2036. where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
  2037. doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
  2038. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
  2039. - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
  2040. name out of the warning/assert messages.
  2041. - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
  2042. - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
  2043. license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
  2044. take any away.
  2045. - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
  2046. immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
  2047. - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
  2048. DataDirectory.
  2049. - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
  2050. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
  2051. - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
  2052. - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
  2053. confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
  2054. values at once couldn't work.
  2055. - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
  2056. if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
  2057. being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
  2058. - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
  2059. strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
  2060. they can handle any number of routers.
  2061. - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
  2062. - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
  2063. - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
  2064. nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
  2065. - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
  2066. - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
  2067. writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
  2068. - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
  2069. now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
  2070. Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
  2071. o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
  2072. - Make hibernation actually work.
  2073. - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
  2074. - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
  2075. don't use the stream status code.
  2076. Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
  2077. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
  2078. - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
  2079. write() call will fail and we handle it there.
  2080. - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
  2081. crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
  2082. - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
  2083. but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
  2084. - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
  2085. - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
  2086. the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
  2087. - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
  2088. bit platforms.
  2089. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
  2090. - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
  2091. win32 socket errors better.
  2092. - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
  2093. - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
  2094. - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
  2095. - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
  2096. happier.
  2097. - Make unit tests work on win32.
  2098. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
  2099. - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
  2100. we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
  2101. it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
  2102. right after sending the begin cell.
  2103. - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
  2104. of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
  2105. exit nodes too. Oops.
  2106. - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
  2107. back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
  2108. the user would get no response.
  2109. - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
  2110. we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
  2111. - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
  2112. forever.
  2113. - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
  2114. more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
  2115. circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
  2116. connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
  2117. a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
  2118. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
  2119. - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
  2120. With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
  2121. we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
  2122. socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
  2123. eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
  2124. bytes sitting in the inbuf.
  2125. - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
  2126. half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
  2127. because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
  2128. as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
  2129. o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
  2130. - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
  2131. - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
  2132. - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
  2133. - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
  2134. - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
  2135. and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
  2136. - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
  2137. - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
  2138. so we don't see those messages days later.
  2139. - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
  2140. INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
  2141. bug).
  2142. - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
  2143. Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
  2144. they ran out of file descriptors.
  2145. - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
  2146. that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
  2147. with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
  2148. don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
  2149. recent enough.
  2150. - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
  2151. - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
  2152. - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
  2153. the ones we find in directories.)
  2154. - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
  2155. empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
  2156. if you don't want it open.
  2157. - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
  2158. there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
  2159. which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
  2160. - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
  2161. or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
  2162. connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
  2163. o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
  2164. - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
  2165. overflow behavior.
  2166. - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
  2167. hey.)
  2168. - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
  2169. - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
  2170. o Features (circuits and streams):
  2171. - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
  2172. used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
  2173. or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
  2174. 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
  2175. - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
  2176. - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
  2177. the user knows which one it's talking about.
  2178. - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
  2179. just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
  2180. unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
  2181. - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
  2182. address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
  2183. from Geoff Goodell.
  2184. - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
  2185. pick it anyway.
  2186. - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
  2187. once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
  2188. to fill the last cell completely.
  2189. - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
  2190. - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
  2191. o Features (bandwidth):
  2192. - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
  2193. set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
  2194. allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
  2195. bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
  2196. of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
  2197. the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
  2198. "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
  2199. your billing cycle starts on.
  2200. - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
  2201. hibernation properties by
  2202. AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
  2203. AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
  2204. Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
  2205. - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
  2206. kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
  2207. o Features (directories):
  2208. - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
  2209. nickname to its identity key.
  2210. - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
  2211. of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
  2212. - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
  2213. lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
  2214. - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
  2215. appropriate.
  2216. - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
  2217. running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
  2218. running-routers.z
  2219. - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
  2220. will be able to get a directory.
  2221. - Http proxy support
  2222. - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
  2223. - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
  2224. be routed through this host.
  2225. - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
  2226. This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
  2227. - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
  2228. with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
  2229. - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
  2230. 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
  2231. o Features (packages and install):
  2232. - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
  2233. - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
  2234. - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
  2235. - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
  2236. - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
  2237. - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
  2238. - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
  2239. ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
  2240. - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
  2241. - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
  2242. is broken.
  2243. o Features (ui controller):
  2244. - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
  2245. client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
  2246. notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
  2247. bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
  2248. Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
  2249. - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
  2250. with the control port.
  2251. - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
  2252. use in authenticating to the control interface.
  2253. - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
  2254. configuration to torrc.
  2255. - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
  2256. - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
  2257. But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
  2258. o Features (config and command-line):
  2259. - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
  2260. not on the command line.
  2261. - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
  2262. options.
  2263. - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
  2264. - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
  2265. - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
  2266. - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
  2267. - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
  2268. - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
  2269. - New log format in config:
  2270. "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
  2271. "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
  2272. - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
  2273. from their dirserver.
  2274. - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
  2275. and then exit.
  2276. - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
  2277. - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
  2278. specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
  2279. with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
  2280. - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
  2281. specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
  2282. - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
  2283. server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
  2284. - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
  2285. out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
  2286. - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
  2287. - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
  2288. parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
  2289. - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
  2290. - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
  2291. repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
  2292. default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
  2293. - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
  2294. - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
  2295. than once per minute.
  2296. o Features (other):
  2297. - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
  2298. get back to normal.)
  2299. - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
  2300. - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
  2301. - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
  2302. log more informatively.
  2303. - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
  2304. servers and clients to have any clock skew.
  2305. - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
  2306. from each other, to hinder linkability.
  2307. - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
  2308. them act more like real nodes.
  2309. - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
  2310. - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
  2311. 1024) file descriptors.
  2312. - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
  2313. Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
  2314. o Bugfixes:
  2315. - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
  2316. clients/servers with an open dirport.
  2317. - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
  2318. our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
  2319. - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
  2320. - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
  2321. intermittent connections.
  2322. - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
  2323. - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
  2324. reattaches.
  2325. - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
  2326. in reporting stats locally.
  2327. - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
  2328. immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
  2329. - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
  2330. Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
  2331. o Bugfixes:
  2332. - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
  2333. itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
  2334. - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
  2335. everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
  2336. - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
  2337. you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
  2338. - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
  2339. list to decide who's running.
  2340. - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
  2341. end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
  2342. - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
  2343. - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
  2344. hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
  2345. - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
  2346. function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
  2347. for pointing out this bug.)
  2348. - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
  2349. directory.
  2350. - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
  2351. don't put it into the client dns cache.
  2352. - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
  2353. address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
  2354. reject *:* until we get our next directory.
  2355. o Protocol changes:
  2356. - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
  2357. intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
  2358. extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
  2359. hadn't heard of before.
  2360. o Features:
  2361. - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
  2362. without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
  2363. - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
  2364. by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
  2365. - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
  2366. list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
  2367. - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
  2368. nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
  2369. - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
  2370. routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
  2371. Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
  2372. - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
  2373. low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
  2374. - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
  2375. - Directory caching.
  2376. - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
  2377. - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
  2378. directory they've pulled down.
  2379. - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
  2380. - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
  2381. DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
  2382. - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
  2383. authdirservers, to stay better synced.
  2384. - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
  2385. if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
  2386. by hash-of-key).
  2387. - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
  2388. This isn't used yet.
  2389. - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
  2390. running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
  2391. clients don't use this yet.)
  2392. - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
  2393. - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
  2394. - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
  2395. options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
  2396. detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
  2397. - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
  2398. ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
  2399. which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
  2400. - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
  2401. should tolerate down dirservers better now.
  2402. - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
  2403. - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
  2404. connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
  2405. - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
  2406. and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
  2407. clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
  2408. - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
  2409. connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
  2410. - File and name management:
  2411. - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
  2412. - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
  2413. as datadir.
  2414. - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
  2415. - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
  2416. - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
  2417. - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
  2418. to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
  2419. - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
  2420. it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
  2421. to use.
  2422. - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
  2423. rather than an is-in-the-list check.
  2424. - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
  2425. locally.
  2426. - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
  2427. - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
  2428. interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
  2429. - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
  2430. - Write tor version at the top of each log file
  2431. - New docs in the tarball:
  2432. - tor-doc.html.
  2433. - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
  2434. - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
  2435. are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
  2436. - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
  2437. know you might want to get it verified.
  2438. - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
  2439. kazaa, gnutella ports.
  2440. - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
  2441. - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
  2442. - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
  2443. snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
  2444. - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
  2445. has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
  2446. - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
  2447. "GET /".
  2448. - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
  2449. an exitnode.
  2450. - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
  2451. we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
  2452. or exit nodes.
  2453. - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
  2454. IP address for outgoing connect()s.
  2455. - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
  2456. Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
  2457. o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
  2458. ask them to resolve the host "".
  2459. Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
  2460. o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
  2461. eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
  2462. Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
  2463. o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
  2464. since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
  2465. Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
  2466. o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
  2467. - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
  2468. to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
  2469. them.
  2470. - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
  2471. would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
  2472. give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
  2473. exit nodes.
  2474. - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
  2475. hidden service per 15-minute period.
  2476. - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
  2477. the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
  2478. even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
  2479. o Fixes for security bugs:
  2480. - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
  2481. random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
  2482. a trusted dirserver.
  2483. o Other bugfixes:
  2484. - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
  2485. start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
  2486. - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
  2487. didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
  2488. but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
  2489. - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
  2490. will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
  2491. - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
  2492. arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
  2493. - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
  2494. have failed.
  2495. - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
  2496. - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
  2497. - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
  2498. breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
  2499. - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
  2500. we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
  2501. easily.
  2502. - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
  2503. settings too.
  2504. o Features:
  2505. - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
  2506. - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
  2507. now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
  2508. - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
  2509. directory (not that we were anywhere close).
  2510. - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
  2511. - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
  2512. separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
  2513. option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
  2514. - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
  2515. Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
  2516. - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
  2517. to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
  2518. - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
  2519. Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
  2520. o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
  2521. not the previous cells like we'd thought.
  2522. Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
  2523. Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
  2524. o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
  2525. onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
  2526. out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
  2527. polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
  2528. Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
  2529. o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
  2530. server.
  2531. Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
  2532. o Features:
  2533. - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
  2534. http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
  2535. hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
  2536. Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
  2537. - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
  2538. - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
  2539. if you decrypted them correctly.
  2540. - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
  2541. exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
  2542. - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
  2543. approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
  2544. in-memory directories too.
  2545. - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
  2546. - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
  2547. - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
  2548. - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
  2549. just close the circ.
  2550. - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
  2551. - Better debugging for tls errors
  2552. - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
  2553. - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
  2554. o Bugfixes:
  2555. - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
  2556. the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
  2557. - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
  2558. It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
  2559. happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
  2560. operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
  2561. it tells you about the first error.
  2562. - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
  2563. When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
  2564. - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
  2565. - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
  2566. returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
  2567. - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
  2568. o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
  2569. o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
  2570. o Win32's close can't close a socket.
  2571. o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
  2572. o Portability:
  2573. - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
  2574. <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
  2575. Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
  2576. o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
  2577. torrc. (Woo!)
  2578. o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
  2579. o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
  2580. using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
  2581. This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
  2582. o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
  2583. expect it to have a nickname.
  2584. o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
  2585. early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
  2586. o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
  2587. o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
  2588. the dns farm to do it.
  2589. o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
  2590. o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
  2591. directory.
  2592. o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
  2593. rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
  2594. o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
  2595. o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
  2596. but that aren't warnings
  2597. Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
  2598. o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
  2599. we would crash.
  2600. Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
  2601. o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
  2602. o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
  2603. - include missing header fcntl.h
  2604. - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
  2605. - deal with hardware word alignment
  2606. - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
  2607. - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
  2608. o Preliminary work on reputation system:
  2609. - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
  2610. by kill -USR1 currently.
  2611. - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
  2612. circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
  2613. - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
  2614. Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
  2615. - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
  2616. - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
  2617. Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
  2618. o Bugfixes:
  2619. - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
  2620. now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
  2621. - And fix a few endian issues.
  2622. Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
  2623. o New features:
  2624. - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
  2625. try that circuit again: try a new one.
  2626. - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
  2627. - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
  2628. logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
  2629. accept it even without mail from the server operator).
  2630. - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
  2631. - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
  2632. about as a server.
  2633. - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
  2634. - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
  2635. (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
  2636. o Bugfixes:
  2637. - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
  2638. simply not true.
  2639. - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
  2640. expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
  2641. side isn't reading right then.
  2642. - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
  2643. RecommendedVersions
  2644. - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
  2645. - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
  2646. - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
  2647. Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
  2648. o New features:
  2649. - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
  2650. we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
  2651. e.g. poblano.
  2652. o Bugfixes:
  2653. - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
  2654. crashed.
  2655. Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
  2656. o Bugfixes:
  2657. - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
  2658. a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
  2659. - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
  2660. connection is finished.
  2661. - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
  2662. flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
  2663. - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
  2664. - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
  2665. - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
  2666. will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
  2667. - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
  2668. - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
  2669. rather than warn and continue.
  2670. - Make --version work
  2671. - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
  2672. Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
  2673. o New features:
  2674. - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
  2675. knows it's working.
  2676. - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
  2677. send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
  2678. clearly thwarted.)
  2679. - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
  2680. - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
  2681. so you can collect coredumps there.
  2682. o Bugfixes:
  2683. - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
  2684. didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
  2685. a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
  2686. - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
  2687. dns cache actually gets populated.
  2688. - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
  2689. - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
  2690. end cell down it first.
  2691. - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
  2692. excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
  2693. Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
  2694. o New features:
  2695. - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
  2696. - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
  2697. errors happen.
  2698. - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
  2699. Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
  2700. - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
  2701. 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
  2702. - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
  2703. their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
  2704. it.
  2705. - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
  2706. o Bugfixes:
  2707. - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
  2708. then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
  2709. think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
  2710. - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
  2711. - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
  2712. Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
  2713. dirservers.
  2714. - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
  2715. many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
  2716. Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
  2717. o New features:
  2718. - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
  2719. - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
  2720. tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
  2721. tor. It even has a man page.
  2722. - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
  2723. - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
  2724. - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
  2725. so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
  2726. his/her torrc.
  2727. - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
  2728. o Bugfixes:
  2729. - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
  2730. Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
  2731. o New features:
  2732. - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
  2733. it, apt-getters. :)
  2734. - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
  2735. bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
  2736. BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
  2737. kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
  2738. BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
  2739. performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
  2740. - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
  2741. than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
  2742. may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
  2743. - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
  2744. from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
  2745. to new ones.
  2746. - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
  2747. have them reattach to new circuits instead.
  2748. o Bugfixes:
  2749. - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
  2750. after a while.
  2751. - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
  2752. - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
  2753. Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
  2754. o Bugfixes:
  2755. - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
  2756. closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
  2757. inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
  2758. weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
  2759. eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
  2760. open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
  2761. - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
  2762. - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
  2763. logfile so you know it's working.
  2764. - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
  2765. - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
  2766. Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
  2767. o Bugfixes:
  2768. - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
  2769. - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
  2770. AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
  2771. Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
  2772. o Bugfixes:
  2773. - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
  2774. - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
  2775. adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
  2776. o Features:
  2777. - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
  2778. to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
  2779. - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
  2780. with MorphMix).
  2781. - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
  2782. - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
  2783. relay cells.
  2784. - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
  2785. messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
  2786. use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
  2787. this hop.
  2788. - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
  2789. breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
  2790. been made so far.
  2791. Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
  2792. o Bugfixes:
  2793. - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
  2794. - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
  2795. counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
  2796. o Features:
  2797. - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
  2798. open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
  2799. the circuit and then we open streams at him.
  2800. - Add port ranges to exit policies
  2801. - Add a conservative default exit policy
  2802. - Warn if you're running tor as root
  2803. - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
  2804. - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
  2805. - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
  2806. your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
  2807. exit nodes.
  2808. - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
  2809. Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
  2810. o Robustness and bugfixes:
  2811. - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
  2812. really screw things up.
  2813. - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
  2814. working.
  2815. - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
  2816. handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
  2817. established.
  2818. - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
  2819. - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
  2820. - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
  2821. - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
  2822. - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
  2823. - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
  2824. o Documentation:
  2825. - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
  2826. o Configuration:
  2827. - Change default loglevel to warn.
  2828. - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
  2829. - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
  2830. ORPort>0.
  2831. - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
  2832. Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
  2833. o Robustness and bugfixes:
  2834. - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
  2835. - to get ownership/permissions right
  2836. - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
  2837. - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
  2838. pull down a directory again
  2839. - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
  2840. causing server crashes
  2841. - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
  2842. - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
  2843. - exit if bind() fails
  2844. - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
  2845. - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
  2846. - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
  2847. - fix minor bias in PRNG
  2848. - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
  2849. o Documentation:
  2850. - Wrote the design document (woo)
  2851. o Circuit building and exit policies:
  2852. - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
  2853. are down.
  2854. - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
  2855. bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
  2856. - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
  2857. exists, rather than failing
  2858. - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
  2859. which AP connections are standing by
  2860. - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
  2861. - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
  2862. - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
  2863. circuit.
  2864. - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
  2865. - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
  2866. o Configuration:
  2867. - APPort is now called SocksPort
  2868. - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
  2869. where to bind
  2870. - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
  2871. hardcoded (for dirservers)
  2872. - Reloads config on HUP
  2873. - Usage info on -h or --help
  2874. - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
  2875. Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
  2876. o General stability:
  2877. - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
  2878. of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
  2879. - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
  2880. - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
  2881. - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
  2882. to take down the network when I approve a new router
  2883. - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
  2884. o Buffers:
  2885. - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
  2886. - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
  2887. o Autoconf improvements:
  2888. - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
  2889. - Make install now works
  2890. - create var/lib/tor on make install
  2891. - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
  2892. - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
  2893. o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
  2894. - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
  2895. - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
  2896. - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup