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@@ -1,4 +1,1122 @@ -Changes in version 0.2.9.5-rc - 2016-1?-?? +Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10 + Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor. + + o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8): + - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous + RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these + ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344. + + o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): + - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes + ticket 24629. + - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional + dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560. + - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087. + - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952. + + o Minor features (geoip): + - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 + Country database. Closes ticket 27089. + + o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc): + - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc, + tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation. + Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. + + o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): + - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses + function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in + 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465; + bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. + - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not + supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the + function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix + on 0.2.2.23-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): + - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even + if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a + pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. + + o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc): + - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until + the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and + bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively. + + o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): + - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags + before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a + precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8): + - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to + show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc. + - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first + argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc. + + o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc): + - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the + versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix + on 0.1.1.6-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): + - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. + Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break + filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440; + bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto. + + o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8): + - Silence a spurious compiler warning in + rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix + on 0.1.1.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc): + - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients + fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. + Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc): + - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make + distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8): + - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test + result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix + on 0.2.7.3-rc. + + o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): + - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on + OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL + behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. + Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): + - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug + 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. + + +Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13 + Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running + bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport + other minor fixes. + + o Directory authority changes: + - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge + authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the + TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771. + + o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7): + - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority. + Closes ticket 26343. + + o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): + - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they + would previously log a warning with the contents of an + uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file + instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. + + o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha): + - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux + seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of + libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313. + + o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): + - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the + results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check" + to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814. + - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls + coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818. + + o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc): + - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more + recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes + ticket 26372. + + o Minor features (geoip): + - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 + Country database. Closes ticket 26674. + + o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): + - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the + cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for + close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were + open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): + - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement + sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc): + - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings + (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module. + Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix + on 0.2.5.5-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha): + - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that + would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty + password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with + OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances + would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16. + + o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc): + - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building + code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming + that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug + 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): + - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open, + but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix + on 0.2.9.4-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha): + - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in + protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha): + - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer + dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by + Coverity; this is CID 1430932. + + o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc): + - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes + bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions. + + o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc): + - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file. + Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0". + + +Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03 + Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from + later Tor releases. + + It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack + against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001. + + This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to + denial-of-service attacks against relays. + + This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from + earlier releases. + + All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions + released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of + the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations. + + o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha): + - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash + directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074; + bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and + CVE-2018-0490. + + o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation): + - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We + start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses). + First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent + connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a + single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per + second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many + connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while + (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous + point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be + manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also + take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to + configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902. + + o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping): + - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build + circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing. + Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer + than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors + were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on + 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in + 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our + primary guards as a reason to delay circuits. + + o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior): + - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the + onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous + attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three + circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2, + and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to + override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6. + + o Minor feature (relay statistics): + - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24 + hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery + attacks. Fixes ticket 23856. + + o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL): + - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released. + Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1, + since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the + ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites. + Closes ticket 24978. + + o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance): + - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it + doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and + our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122. + + o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors): + - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the + current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to + bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory + information. Closes ticket 24801. + - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients + prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a + follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default + fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681. + + o Minor features (geoip): + - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 + Country database. + + o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox): + - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly + with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315. + + o Minor bugfix (channel connection): + - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection, + not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when + making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection. + Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera". + + o Minor bugfix (directory authority): + - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected + relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid + ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list. + Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1. + + o Minor bugfixes (address selection): + - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a + reachable address, set the returned address to the null address + and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do + not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix + on 0.2.8.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (compilation): + - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to + TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16. + + o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox): + - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together + with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix + on 0.2.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha): + - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had + contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients + and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this + issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the + directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on + 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004. + + o Minor bugfixes (memory usage): + - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id + and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should + help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and + free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix + on 0.2.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (network layer): + - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we + mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from + trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a + backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various + circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. + + o Minor bugfixes (OSX): + - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file + limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes + bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. + + o Minor bugfixes (path selection): + - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that + could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly. + Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards + the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's + weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got + weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha. + - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and + all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of + nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. + - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths(). + Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc): + - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on + MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due + to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix + on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (relay): + - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort + of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether + the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part + of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898. + + o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha): + - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on + 0.2.9.4-alpha. + - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; + bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. + + +Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01 + Tor 0.2.9.14 backports important security and stability bugfixes from + later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or + to another of the releases coming out today. + + o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha): + - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes, + making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on + 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for + identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz, + Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and + analyze it. + + o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha): + - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a + malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while + OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor + instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor + packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every + version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821. + Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720. + - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a + directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug + 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010 + and CVE-2017-8820. + - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a + (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA- + encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for + replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to + the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps + prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on + 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009 + and CVE-2017-8819. + + o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha): + - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services + when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction + points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is + also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823. + + o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha): + - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path + through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the + version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part + of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked + as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822. + + o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9): + - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are + bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their + publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine- + grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x + or later. + + o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha): + - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes + ticket 24394. + + o Minor features (geoip): + - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 + Country database. + + o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha): + - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one + (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default + since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one + (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't + affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953. + + o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha): + - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on + relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor + rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470; + bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha): + - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code. + Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha): + - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any + cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect + this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the + circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message. + Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha): + - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode. + Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our + "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode + changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc): + - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291; + bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij. + + +Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25 + Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release + series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays + under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet. + + o Directory authority changes: + - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list. + Closes ticket 23910. + - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address. + Closes ticket 23592. + + o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha): + - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the + circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer. + Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. + + o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha): + - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority + IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves + 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also + 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760. + + o Minor features (geoip): + - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 + Country database. + + o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): + - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with + a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do + not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously + tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we + didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This + behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities + began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix + on 0.2.1.19-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha): + - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early. + Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc): + - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread + correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to + the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event + delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion + failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. + Patch and diagnosis from "Vort". + + +Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18 + Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later + Tor series. + + Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a + security bug that affects hidden services running with the + SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see + https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490 + + o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha): + - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server + side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the + DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and + Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL + values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3 + hours long. Closes ticket 19769. + + o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc): + - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose + linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug + 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett. + + o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha): + - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for + more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. + + o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha): + - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying + from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. + Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ". + + o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): + - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of + inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol() + handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug + 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007. + + o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha): + - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence + GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas + Stieger. Closes ticket 22446. + + o Minor features (geoip): + - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 + Country database. + + o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha): + - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute, + rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1. + Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio. + + o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): + - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915; + bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. + - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support + on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. + - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid + float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(), + isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7): + - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf() + with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha): + - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared + in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on + 0.2.8.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7): + - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body. + Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. + - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an + empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): + - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By + default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an + instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro + doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it. + Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha): + - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This + bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are + still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes, + ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler + behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make + sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the + network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on + 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591. + + o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): + - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS, + always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes + bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): + - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and + mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha): + - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when + starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of + permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug + 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc): + - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we + receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix + on 0.1.0.1-rc. + + o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha): + - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or + whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version + parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507 + and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. + + o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): + - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI) + configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new + developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be + better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect + to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your + Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the + repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push + your changes. Closes ticket 22636. + + +Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08 + Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to + remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone + running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some + other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0 + are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.) + + Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs + that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other + bugfixes described below. + + o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport + from 0.3.1.3-alpha): + - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a + BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug + 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix + on 0.2.2.1-alpha. + + o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha): + - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report + that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that + connection, even if we have changed certificates since that + connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have + used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes + make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix + on 0.2.3.6-alpha. + + o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha): + - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in + December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of + 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May + 2017. Resolves ticket 21564. + + o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7): + - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if + they are listed as "published in the future". This change will + eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates + in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the + resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%. + Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275. + + o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc) + - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions + 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays + suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache + up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509. + + o Minor features (geoip): + - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 + Country database. + + o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6): + - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because + of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when + refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha): + - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6 + file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7): + - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2 + sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other + libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the + syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix + on 0.2.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport + from 0.3.1.2-alpha): + - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to + keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the + memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. + + +Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01 + Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix for users who build Tor with + the --enable-expensive-hardening option. It also includes fixes for + some major issues affecting directory authorities, LibreSSL + compatibility, and IPv6 correctness. + + The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support + series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at + least January of 2020. + + o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha): + - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not + clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways + too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix + on 0.2.0.13-alpha. + + o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha): + - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects + any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the + exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of + addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha, + which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug + 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. + + o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc): + - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor + versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with + --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor + 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases + it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix + on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz. + + o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc): + - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be + malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of + bug 21278. + - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX. + Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently. + Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. + + o Minor features (geoip): + - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 + Country database. + + o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha): + - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque, + instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part + of ticket 21359. + - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque + structures. Closes ticket 21359. + + o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc): + - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky + comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278. + + o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha): + - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255 + characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them, + which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. + Patch by "junglefowl". + + +Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23 + Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could + cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with + the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x + versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected + version should upgrade. + + This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability + bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues. + + o Major bugfixes (security): + - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when + --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, + like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having + it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug + into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); + bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + + o Major bugfixes (client, onion service): + - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple + socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request) + could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's + introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so + eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a + mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log + warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to + remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled + negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307; + bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. + + o Minor features (geoip): + - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 + Country database. + + o Minor bugfixes (portability): + - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain + CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel + without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix + on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers + installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + + +Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19 + + Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series. + + The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features + that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared- + randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation + hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for + optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden, + tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive + downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for + improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol. + + And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements. + + This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug + 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a + hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages + become available for their systems. + + Below are the changes since 0.2.9.7-rc. For a list of all changes + since 0.2.8, see the ReleaseNotes file. + + o Major bugfixes (parsing, security): + - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single + byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used + to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening) + to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non- + hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of + their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on + 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE- + 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254. + + o Minor features (fallback directory list): + - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally + introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177 + fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December + 2016. Resolves ticket 20170. + + +Changes in version 0.2.9.7-rc - 2016-12-12 + Tor 0.2.9.7-rc fixes a few small bugs remaining in Tor 0.2.9.6-rc, + including a few that had prevented tests from passing on + some platforms. + + o Minor features (geoip): + - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 + Country database. + + o Minor bugfixes (build): + - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is + now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492; + bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (directory authority): + - When computing old Tor protocol line version in protover, we were + looking at 0.2.7.5 twice instead of a specific case for + 0.2.9.1-alpha. Fixes bug 20810; bugfix on tor-0.2.9.4-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (download scheduling): + - Resolve a "bug" warning when considering a download schedule whose + delay had approached INT_MAX. Fixes 20875; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (logging): + - Downgrade a harmless log message about the + pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates + bug 19926. + + o Minor bugfixes (memory leak): + - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a + SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. + - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an + existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that + destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, use-after-free, linux seccomp2 sandbox): + - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries + from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on + 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks". + + o Minor bugfixes (portability): + - Use the correct spelling of MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_12 on configure.ac + Fixes bug 20935; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc. + + o Minor bugfixes (unit tests): + - Stop expecting NetBSD unit tests to report success for ipfw. Part + of a fix for bug 19960; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha. + - Fix tolerances in unit tests for monotonic time comparisons + between nanoseconds and microseconds. Previously, we accepted a 10 + us difference only, which is not realistic on every platform's + clock_gettime(). Fixes bug 19974; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + - Remove a double-free in the single onion service unit test. Stop + ignoring a return value. Make future changes less error-prone. + Fixes bug 20864; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc. + + +Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08 + Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that + could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with + OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay + with 0.2.8.10. + + o Minor bugfixes (portability): + - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began + to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created + a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of + workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach + monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix + on 0.2.8.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha): + - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU + architectures. Closes ticket 20588. + + +Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02 + Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients + unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for + a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak. + + o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha): + - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open + circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would + potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix + on 0.2.8.1-alpha. + + o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha): + - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately + when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before + starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix + on 0.2.8.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc): + - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from + successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves + ticket 20235. + + o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha): + - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug + 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha): + - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public + keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. + + o Minor features (geoip): + - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 + Country database. + + +Changes in version 0.2.9.6-rc - 2016-12-02 + Tor 0.2.9.6-rc fixes a few remaining bugs found in the previous alpha + version. We hope that it will be ready to become stable soon, and we + encourage everyone to test this release. If no showstopper bugs are + found here, the next 0.2.9 release will be stable. + + o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging): + - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a + local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This + will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'" + log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver + is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall): + - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall + is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (hidden services): + - Stop ignoring the anonymity status of saved keys for hidden + services and single onion services when first starting tor. + Instead, refuse to start tor if any hidden service key has been + used in a different hidden service anonymity mode. Fixes bug + 20638; bugfix on 17178 in 0.2.9.3-alpha; reported by ahf. + + o Minor bugfixes (portability): + - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from + successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves + ticket 20235. + - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that + require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web): + - Stop complaining about long-term one-hop circuits deliberately + created by single onion services and Tor2web. These log messages + are intended to diagnose issue 8387, which relates to circuits + hanging around forever for no reason. Fixes bug 20613; bugfix on + 0.2.9.1-alpha. Reported by pastly. + + o Minor bugfixes (unit tests): + - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery + unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by + Neel Chauhan. + + o Documentation: + - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a + corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085. + + +Changes in version 0.2.9.5-alpha - 2016-11-08 + Tor 0.2.9.5-alpha fixes numerous bugs discovered in the previous alpha + version. We believe one or two probably remain, and we encourage + everyone to test this release. + + o Major bugfixes (client performance): + - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately + when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before + starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix + on 0.2.8.1-alpha. + + o Major bugfixes (client reliability): + - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open + circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would + potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix + on 0.2.8.1-alpha. + + o Major bugfixes (download scheduling): + - When using an exponential backoff schedule, do not give up on + downloading just because we have failed a bunch of times. Since + each delay is longer than the last, retrying indefinitely won't + hurt. Fixes bug 20536; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to + download, stop waiting for certificates. + - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we + started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download + failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix + on 0.2.0.9-alpha. + - Remove the maximum delay on exponential-backoff scheduling. Since + we now allow an infinite number of failures (see ticket 20536), we + must now allow the time to grow longer on each failure. Fixes part + of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + - Make our initial download delays closer to those from 0.2.8. Fixes + another part of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + - When determining when to download a directory object, handle times + after 2038 if the operating system supports them. (Someday this + will be important!) Fixes bug 20587; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. + - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower + exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test + networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499. + + o Minor features (geoip): + - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 + Country database. + + o Minor bugfixes (client directory scheduling): + - Treat "relay too busy to answer request" as a failed request and a + reason to back off on our retry frequency. This is safe now that + exponential backoffs retry indefinitely, and avoids a bug where we + would reset our download schedule erroneously. Fixes bug 20593; + bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (client, logging): + - Remove a BUG warning in circuit_pick_extend_handshake(). Instead, + assume all nodes support EXTEND2. Use ntor whenever a key is + available. Fixes bug 20472; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. + - On DNSPort, stop logging a BUG warning on a failed hostname + lookup. Fixes bug 19869; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (hidden services): + - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service + directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last + hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (portability): + - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU + architectures. Closes ticket 20588. + - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has + removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on + platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. + - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug + 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (relay bootstrap): + - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap. + Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (relay): + - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public + keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. + - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about + rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. + - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user + explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than + 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (single onion services): + - Start correctly when creating a single onion service in a + directory that did not previously exist. Fixes bug 20484; bugfix + on 0.2.9.3-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (testing): + - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU + cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. + + o Documentation: + - Clarify that setting HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode requires you to + also set "SOCKSPort 0". Fixes bug 20487; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. + - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes + tickets 19287 and 19290. Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17 @@ -50,19 +1168,13 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17 o Major features (subprotocol versions): - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended - subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol + "subprotocol versions", and on a set of required subprotocol versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_ subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade. - Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264. - - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility. - Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of - a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they - should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This - change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to - exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular - releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of - proposal 264. + This change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) + to exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with + particular releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264. o Minor feature (fallback directories): - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory @@ -91,7 +1203,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort, ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix - domain socket paths to contain spaces. + domain socket paths to contain spaces. Resolves ticket 18753. o Minor features (virtual addresses): - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network @@ -99,7 +1211,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature on 0.2.4.7-alpha. - o Minor bugfixes (address discovery): + o Minor bugfixes (relay address discovery): - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027. @@ -117,13 +1229,13 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17 o Minor bugfixes (configuration): - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file, - handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on + handle Windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl". o Minor bugfixes (getpass): - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass() to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug - #19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch + 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch by nherring. o Minor bugfixes (hidden service): @@ -133,7 +1245,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17 o Documentation: - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that - previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385. + previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket 20385. o Required libraries: - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or @@ -165,22 +1277,22 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23 this one. o Major features (circuit building, security): - - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all + - Authorities, relays, and clients now require ntor keys in all descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of ticket 19163. - - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for + - Authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163. o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services): - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1, - every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous + every hidden service on that Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct) - connections to their introduction and renzedvous points. One-hop + connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing - hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor + hidden service implementation, and works on the current Tor network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn. @@ -194,7 +1306,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23 o Major bugfixes (circuit building): - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous- - point cicruits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid + point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc. o Major bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD): @@ -210,12 +1322,12 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor. o Minor features (security, TLS): - - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites. + - Servers no longer support clients that lack AES ciphersuites. (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998. - o Minor feature (fallback directories): + o Minor features (fallback directories): - Remove broken entries from the hard-coded fallback directory list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor. @@ -223,8 +1335,8 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database. - o Minor feature (port flags): - - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which + o Minor features (port flags): + - Add new flags to the *Port options to give finer control over which requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic, and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement @@ -244,7 +1356,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23 o Minor features (testing, ipv6): - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version - with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later). + with the single onion network flavors (git c72a652 or later). Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor. - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This @@ -262,7 +1374,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected. - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them - (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test" + (by passing --debug or --info or --notice or --warn to the "test" binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to ticket 19999. @@ -311,8 +1423,8 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23 o Minor bugfixes (documentation): - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used by clients when the directory authorities don't set - min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02 - in tor-0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V. + min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. + Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V. - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID. Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have a manpage!). @@ -340,26 +1452,26 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23 on 0.2.9.1-alpha. - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist. - Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'. + Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from pastly. o Minor bugfixes (option parsing): - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans, - NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these + NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behavior changes: these options are set once, and never read. Required for correct - behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on + behavior in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor. o Minor bugfixes (options): - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more - reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on tor- 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch + reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor. - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on - commits 51fc6799 in tor-0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in tor-0.2.4.3- - alpha. Patch by teor. + commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha. + Patch by teor. o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web): - - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services + - Prevent Tor2web clients from running hidden services: these services are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug 19678. Patch by teor. @@ -423,8 +1535,9 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24 o Major features (user interface): - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so - that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously, - this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820. + that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously, this + was done in an ad-hoc way. There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to list all of the deprecated options. Closes + ticket 19820. o Major bugfixes (directory downloads): - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we @@ -439,11 +1552,6 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database. - o Minor features (user interface): - - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to - list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of - ticket 19820. - o Minor bugfixes (code style): - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha. @@ -478,7 +1586,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24 o Deprecated features: - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future - version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS cacheing is a bad + version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache, UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache. @@ -503,7 +1611,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24 o Removed code: - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in - Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b. + Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from "U+039b". Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24 @@ -622,16 +1730,16 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08 Closes ticket 18895. o Minor features (code safety): - - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we - give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063; - patch from U+039b. + - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that the maximum value we + allow is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063; + patch from "U+039b". o Minor features (controller): - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323. - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on - hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control + hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION controller command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special". - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685. @@ -678,13 +1786,11 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613. o Minor features (performance): - - Changer the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to + - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option - from. Changing this default When fetching a consensus for the - first time, use optimistic data. This saves a round-trip during - startup. Closes ticket 18815. + from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup. Closes ticket 18815. o Minor features (relay, usability): - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor, @@ -694,8 +1800,6 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08 ticket 18760. o Minor features (testing): - - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes - part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test- network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available. Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor. @@ -705,7 +1809,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08 ticket 16792. o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap): - - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous + - Remember the directory server we fetched the consensus or previous certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance. Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. @@ -730,7 +1834,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.) Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of - the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in + the digest algorithm instead of a hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. @@ -774,9 +1878,10 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08 o Minor bugfixes (testing): - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor. - - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running + - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer: + disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace - generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix + generation code works. Fixes bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks". - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix @@ -21498,4 +22603,3 @@ Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup - diff --git a/ReleaseNotes b/ReleaseNotes index af61a4d739..c501cbef19 100644 --- a/ReleaseNotes +++ b/ReleaseNotes @@ -2,6 +2,1536 @@ This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable release of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the changes in each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file. +Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10 + Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor. + + o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8): + - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous + RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these + ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344. + + o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): + - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes + ticket 24629. + - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional + dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560. + - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087. + - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952. + + o Minor features (geoip): + - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 + Country database. Closes ticket 27089. + + o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc): + - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc, + tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation. + Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. + + o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): + - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses + function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in + 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465; + bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. + - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not + supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the + function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix + on 0.2.2.23-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): + - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even + if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a + pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. + + o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc): + - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until + the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and + bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively. + + o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): + - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags + before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a + precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8): + - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to + show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc. + - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first + argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc. + + o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc): + - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the + versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix + on 0.1.1.6-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): + - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. + Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break + filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440; + bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto. + + o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8): + - Silence a spurious compiler warning in + rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix + on 0.1.1.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc): + - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients + fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. + Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc): + - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make + distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8): + - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test + result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix + on 0.2.7.3-rc. + + o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): + - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on + OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL + behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. + Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc): + - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug + 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. + + +Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13 + Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running + bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport + other minor fixes. + + o Directory authority changes: + - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge + authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the + TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771. + + o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7): + - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority. + Closes ticket 26343. + + o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): + - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they + would previously log a warning with the contents of an + uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file + instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. + + o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha): + - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux + seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of + libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313. + + o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): + - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the + results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check" + to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814. + - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls + coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818. + + o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc): + - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more + recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes + ticket 26372. + + o Minor features (geoip): + - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 + Country database. Closes ticket 26674. + + o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): + - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the + cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for + close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were + open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): + - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement + sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc): + - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings + (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module. + Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix + on 0.2.5.5-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha): + - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that + would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty + password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with + OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances + would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16. + + o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc): + - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building + code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming + that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug + 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha): + - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open, + but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix + on 0.2.9.4-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha): + - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in + protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha): + - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer + dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by + Coverity; this is CID 1430932. + + o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc): + - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes + bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions. + + o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc): + - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file. + Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0". + + +Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03 + Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from + later Tor releases. + + It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack + against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001. + + This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to + denial-of-service attacks against relays. + + This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from + earlier releases. + + All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions + released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of + the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations. + + o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha): + - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash + directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074; + bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and + CVE-2018-0490. + + o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation): + - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We + start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses). + First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent + connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a + single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per + second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many + connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while + (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous + point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be + manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also + take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to + configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902. + + o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping): + - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build + circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing. + Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer + than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors + were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on + 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in + 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our + primary guards as a reason to delay circuits. + + o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior): + - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the + onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous + attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three + circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2, + and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to + override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6. + + o Minor feature (relay statistics): + - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24 + hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery + attacks. Fixes ticket 23856. + + o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL): + - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released. + Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1, + since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the + ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites. + Closes ticket 24978. + + o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance): + - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it + doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and + our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122. + + o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors): + - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the + current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to + bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory + information. Closes ticket 24801. + - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients + prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a + follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default + fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681. + + o Minor features (geoip): + - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 + Country database. + + o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox): + - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly + with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315. + + o Minor bugfix (channel connection): + - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection, + not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when + making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection. + Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera". + + o Minor bugfix (directory authority): + - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected + relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid + ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list. + Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1. + + o Minor bugfixes (address selection): + - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a + reachable address, set the returned address to the null address + and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do + not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix + on 0.2.8.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (compilation): + - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to + TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16. + + o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox): + - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together + with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix + on 0.2.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha): + - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had + contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients + and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this + issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the + directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on + 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004. + + o Minor bugfixes (memory usage): + - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id + and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should + help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and + free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix + on 0.2.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (network layer): + - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we + mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from + trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a + backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various + circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. + + o Minor bugfixes (OSX): + - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file + limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes + bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. + + o Minor bugfixes (path selection): + - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that + could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly. + Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards + the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's + weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got + weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha. + - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and + all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of + nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. + - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths(). + Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc): + - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on + MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due + to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix + on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (relay): + - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort + of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether + the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part + of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898. + + o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha): + - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on + 0.2.9.4-alpha. + - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; + bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. + + +Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01 + Tor 0.2.9.14 backports important security and stability bugfixes from + later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or + to another of the releases coming out today. + + o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha): + - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes, + making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on + 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for + identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz, + Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and + analyze it. + + o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha): + - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a + malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while + OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor + instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor + packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every + version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821. + Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720. + - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a + directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug + 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010 + and CVE-2017-8820. + - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a + (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA- + encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for + replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to + the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps + prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on + 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009 + and CVE-2017-8819. + + o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha): + - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services + when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction + points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is + also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823. + + o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha): + - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path + through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the + version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part + of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked + as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822. + + o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9): + - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are + bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their + publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine- + grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x + or later. + + o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha): + - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes + ticket 24394. + + o Minor features (geoip): + - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 + Country database. + + o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha): + - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one + (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default + since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one + (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't + affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953. + + o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha): + - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on + relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor + rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470; + bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha): + - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code. + Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha): + - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any + cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect + this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the + circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message. + Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha): + - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode. + Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our + "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode + changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc): + - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291; + bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij. + + +Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25 + Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release + series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays + under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet. + + o Directory authority changes: + - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list. + Closes ticket 23910. + - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address. + Closes ticket 23592. + + o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha): + - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the + circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer. + Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. + + o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha): + - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority + IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves + 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also + 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760. + + o Minor features (geoip): + - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 + Country database. + + o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): + - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with + a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do + not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously + tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we + didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This + behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities + began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix + on 0.2.1.19-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha): + - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early. + Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc): + - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread + correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to + the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event + delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion + failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. + Patch and diagnosis from "Vort". + + +Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18 + Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later + Tor series. + + Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a + security bug that affects hidden services running with the + SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see + https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490 + + o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha): + - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server + side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the + DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and + Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL + values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3 + hours long. Closes ticket 19769. + + o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc): + - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose + linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug + 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett. + + o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha): + - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for + more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. + + o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha): + - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying + from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. + Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ". + + o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): + - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of + inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol() + handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug + 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007. + + o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha): + - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence + GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas + Stieger. Closes ticket 22446. + + o Minor features (geoip): + - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 + Country database. + + o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha): + - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute, + rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1. + Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio. + + o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): + - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915; + bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. + - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support + on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. + - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid + float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(), + isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7): + - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf() + with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha): + - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared + in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on + 0.2.8.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7): + - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body. + Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. + - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an + empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): + - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By + default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an + instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro + doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it. + Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha): + - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This + bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are + still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes, + ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler + behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make + sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the + network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on + 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591. + + o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): + - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS, + always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes + bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): + - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and + mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha): + - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when + starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of + permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug + 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc): + - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we + receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix + on 0.1.0.1-rc. + + o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha): + - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or + whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version + parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507 + and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. + + o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha): + - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI) + configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new + developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be + better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect + to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your + Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the + repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push + your changes. Closes ticket 22636. + + +Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08 + Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to + remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone + running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some + other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0 + are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.) + + Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs + that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other + bugfixes described below. + + o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport + from 0.3.1.3-alpha): + - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a + BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug + 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix + on 0.2.2.1-alpha. + + o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha): + - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report + that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that + connection, even if we have changed certificates since that + connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have + used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes + make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix + on 0.2.3.6-alpha. + + o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha): + - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in + December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of + 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May + 2017. Resolves ticket 21564. + + o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7): + - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if + they are listed as "published in the future". This change will + eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates + in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the + resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%. + Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275. + + o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc) + - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions + 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays + suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache + up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509. + + o Minor features (geoip): + - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 + Country database. + + o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6): + - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because + of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when + refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha): + - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6 + file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7): + - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2 + sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other + libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the + syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix + on 0.2.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport + from 0.3.1.2-alpha): + - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to + keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the + memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. + + +Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01 + Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix for users who build Tor with + the --enable-expensive-hardening option. It also includes fixes for + some major issues affecting directory authorities, LibreSSL + compatibility, and IPv6 correctness. + + The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support + series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at + least January of 2020. + + o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha): + - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not + clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways + too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix + on 0.2.0.13-alpha. + + o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha): + - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects + any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the + exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of + addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha, + which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug + 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. + + o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc): + - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor + versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with + --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor + 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases + it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix + on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz. + + o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc): + - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be + malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of + bug 21278. + - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX. + Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently. + Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. + + o Minor features (geoip): + - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 + Country database. + + o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha): + - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque, + instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part + of ticket 21359. + - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque + structures. Closes ticket 21359. + + o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc): + - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky + comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278. + + o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha): + - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255 + characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them, + which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. + Patch by "junglefowl". + + +Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23 + Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could + cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with + the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x + versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected + version should upgrade. + + This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability + bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues. + + o Major bugfixes (security): + - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when + --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, + like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having + it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug + into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); + bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + + o Major bugfixes (client, onion service): + - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple + socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request) + could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's + introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so + eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a + mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log + warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to + remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled + negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307; + bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. + + o Minor features (geoip): + - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 + Country database. + + o Minor bugfixes (portability): + - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain + CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel + without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix + on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers + installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + + +Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19 + Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series. + + The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features + that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared- + randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation + hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for + optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden, + tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive + downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for + improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol. + + And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements. + + This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug + 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a + hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages + become available for their systems. + + Below are listed the changes since Tor 0.2.8.11. For a list of + changes since 0.2.9.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file. + + o New system requirements: + - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or + later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the + OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303. + - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older + versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several + platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side + DNS support. This implements ticket 19554. + - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security, + efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started, + zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was + released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.) + + o Deprecated features: + - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now + deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future + version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad + idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options + are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache, + UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache. + - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may + be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are: + AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits, + AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses, + CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout, + CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout, + ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup, + UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks. + - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the + corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options + may someday be removed. The affected options are: + ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress, + NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress, + and TransListenAddress. + + o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, new since 0.2.9.7-rc): + - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single + byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used + to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening) + to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non- + hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of + their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on + 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE- + 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254. + + o Major features (build, hardening): + - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support + it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids), + and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to + code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels; + instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983. + - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the + clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time. + Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not + able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983. + + o Major features (circuit building, security): + - Authorities, relays, and clients now require ntor keys in all + descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol + cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of + ticket 19163. + - Authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for + rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163. + + o Major features (compilation): + - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when + building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be + GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation + errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes + ticket 19044. + - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically + turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do + this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139. + + o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services): + - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness + protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory + authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the + future, this value will be used by hidden services to select + HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature; + the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part + of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250. + + o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff): + - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait + for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before + retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This + prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized, + or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its + download schedule. Closes ticket 15942. + + o Major features (resource management): + - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and + preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is + off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is + yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting + "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets + you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640. + + o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services): + - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and + HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1, + every hidden service on that Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous + Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct) + connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop + circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients + remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing + hidden service implementation, and works on the current Tor + network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements + proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn. + + o Major features (subprotocol versions): + - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended + "subprotocol versions", and on a set of required subprotocol + versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_ + subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a + _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade. + This change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) + to exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with + particular releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements + part of proposal 264. + + o Major bugfixes (circuit building): + - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous- + point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid + epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc. + + o Major bugfixes (download scheduling): + - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we + already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625; + bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. + - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to + download, stop waiting for certificates. + - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we + started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download + failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix + on 0.2.0.9-alpha. + - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower + exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test + networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499. + + o Major bugfixes (exit policies): + - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port + bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors + by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject + these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if + ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on + 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor. + + o Major bugfixes (hidden services): + - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with + FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also + disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services + entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim". + - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for + their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents + an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service + could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug + 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor. + + o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging): + - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a + local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This + will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'" + log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver + is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. + + o Minor features (port flags): + - Add new flags to the *Port options to give finer control over which + requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic, + and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to + NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement + 18693; patch by "teor". + + o Minor features (build, hardening): + - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent + clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus + keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079. + - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime + hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration + time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If + expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error. + Closes ticket 18895. + + o Minor features (client, directory): + - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and + Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must + have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of + proposal 272. + + o Minor features (code safety): + - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that the maximum value we + allow is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063; + patch from "U+039b". + + o Minor features (compilation, portability): + - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes + ticket 20241. + + o Minor features (config): + - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent. + Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor. + + o Minor features (controller): + - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on + hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION controller + command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special". + - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation + status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685. + - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use + download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to + examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323. + + o Minor features (development tools, etags): + - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find + "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes + ticket 16869. + + o Minor features (directory authority): + - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not + "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes + ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272. + - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if + they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to + simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect + in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag. + Implements ticket 18624. + - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to + disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the + votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves + ticket 19036. + + o Minor features (fallback directory list, new since 0.2.9.7-rc): + - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally + introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177 + fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December + 2016. Resolves ticket 20170. + + o Minor features (hidden service): + - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1" + cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and + now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves + ticket 18998. + + o Minor features (infrastructure, time): + - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can + efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent + timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic- + analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c" + project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel". + Closes ticket 18365. + - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where + available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would + look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the + clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908. + + o Minor features (logging): + - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal + use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid + needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613. + - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an + invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount". + - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them + in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size + limit. You can change the size limit by setting the + MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by + setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322. + + o Minor features (performance): + - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to + "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a + consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the + first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option + from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup. + Closes ticket 18815. + + o Minor features (relay, usability): + - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor, + encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators + won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few + learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves + ticket 18760. + + o Minor features (security, TLS): + - Servers no longer support clients that lack AES ciphersuites. + (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe + that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required + OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998. + + o Minor features (testing): + - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit + tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined + behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch + from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066. + - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test- + network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available. + Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor. + - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that + we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data. + Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes + ticket 16792. + - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid + handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected. + - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer + prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them + (by passing --debug or --info or --notice or --warn to the "test" + binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log + messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to + ticket 19999. + - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag. + Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will + help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we + only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however, + there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before. + This is preparatory work for ticket 19999. + - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()" + assertion as a test failure. + - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster. + + o Minor features (testing, ipv6): + - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6 + tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This + requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients, + relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor. + - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to + "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version + with the single onion network flavors (git c72a652 or later). + Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor. + + o Minor features (Tor2web): + - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was + inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on + 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor. + + o Minor features (unix domain sockets): + - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort, + ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in + quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix + domain socket paths to contain spaces. Resolves ticket 18753. + + o Minor features (user interface): + - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so + that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously, this + was done in an ad-hoc way. There is a new --list-deprecated-options + command-line option to list all of the deprecated options. Closes + ticket 19820. + + o Minor features (virtual addresses): + - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network + prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address + allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature + on 0.2.4.7-alpha. + + o Minor bug fixes (circuits): + - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever + LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect + the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled + because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on + 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor. + + o Minor bugfixes (build): + - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is + now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492; + bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (relay address discovery): + - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it + more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every + time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027. + Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks". + + o Minor bugfixes (memory allocation): + - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to + avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less + space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081; + bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken. + + o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap): + - Remember the directory server we fetched the consensus or previous + certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority + certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance. + Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (circuits): + - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers. + Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall): + - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall + is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets): + - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as + the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix + on 0.2.6.3-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (code style): + - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion + tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (compilation): + - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for + evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix + on 0.2.5.4-alpha. + - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings. + (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we + detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. + - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide + libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug + 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate. + - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that + require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (configuration): + - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file, + handle Windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on + 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl". + + o Minor bugfixes (directory authority): + - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease + of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.) + Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. + - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place + the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This + avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid + key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. + - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to + private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix + on 0.2.2.9-alpha. + - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of + the digest algorithm instead of a hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in + order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest + length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (getpass): + - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass() + to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug + 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch + by nherring. + + o Minor bugfixes (guard selection): + - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails. + That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal + anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix + on 0.2.3.10-alpha. + - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus + parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix + on 0.2.5.6-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (hidden services): + - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively + build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client + connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix + on 0.1.0.1-rc. + - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the + IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix + on 0.2.4.7-alpha. + - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain + error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on + 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor. + - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points + even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix + on 0.2.7.1-alpha. + - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service + directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last + hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing): + - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks. + Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor. + + o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox): + - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system + calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or + ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and + "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more + systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (logging): + - Downgrade a harmless log message about the + pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates + bug 19926. + - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor. + Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto. + - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning + username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. + - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn + if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist. + Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from pastly. + + o Minor bugfixes (memory leak): + - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files + and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. + - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about + rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. + - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a + SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. + - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an + existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that + destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. + - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries + from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on + 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks". + - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a + truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix + on 0.2.6.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (option parsing): + - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans, + NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behavior changes: these + options are set once, and never read. Required for correct + behavior in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on + 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor. + + o Minor bugfixes (options): + - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more + reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch + by teor. + - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on + authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on + commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha. + Patch by teor. + + o Minor bugfixes (relay): + - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap. + Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. + - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user + explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than + 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (testing): + - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on + the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on + "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a + patch from "cypherpunks". + - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes + bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor. + - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU + cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. + - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer: + disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running + test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace + generation code works. Fixes bug 18934; bugfix + on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks". + - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the + correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix + on 0.2.7.3-rc. + - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery + unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by + Neel Chauhan. + - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has + removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on + platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. + - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when + debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix + on 0.2.8.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (time): + - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483; + bugfix on all released tor versions. + - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds, + we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we + could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428; + bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web): + - Prevent Tor2web clients from running hidden services: these services + are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug + 19678. Patch by teor. + + o Minor bugfixes (user interface): + - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log + rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow + in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the + rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix + on 0.2.4.11-alpha. + - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key. + Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. + + o Code simplification and refactoring: + - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes + ticket 18889. + - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion. + Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount". + - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into + separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698. + + o Documentation: + - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that + previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket 20385. + - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the + VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743. + - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a + corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085. + - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes + ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b". + - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes + tickets 19287 and 19290. + - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug + 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. + - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used + by clients when the directory authorities don't set + min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. + Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V. + - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID. + Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have + a manpage!). + - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the + tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a + file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file + descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha. + + o Removed code: + - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in + Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from "U+039b". + + o Removed features: + - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and + "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available + via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in + 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035. + - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for + TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort, just don't use it.) Patch + from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449. + + o Testing: + - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had + previously been implemented, but you needed to know special + command-line options to enable them. + - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression + bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.) + + +Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08 + Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that + could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with + OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay + with 0.2.8.10. + + o Minor bugfixes (portability): + - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began + to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created + a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of + workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach + monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix + on 0.2.8.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha): + - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU + architectures. Closes ticket 20588. + + +Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02 + Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients + unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for + a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak. + + o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha): + - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open + circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would + potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix + on 0.2.8.1-alpha. + + o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha): + - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately + when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before + starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix + on 0.2.8.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc): + - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from + successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves + ticket 20235. + + o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha): + - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug + 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha): + - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public + keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. + + o Minor features (geoip): + - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 + Country database. + + Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, @@ -6577,7 +8107,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet. - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections - that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge + that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge connections from client connections, creating another avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Found by "frosty_un". @@ -13196,4 +14726,3 @@ Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup - |