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@@ -1,3 +1,850 @@ +Changes in version 0.4.5.16 - 2023-01-12 + This version has one major bugfix for relay and a security fix, + TROVE-2022-002, affecting clients. We strongly recommend to upgrade to our + 0.4.7.x stable series. As a reminder, this series is EOL on February 15th, + 2023. + + o Major bugfixes (relay): + - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not + include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we + actually received, so that we can use the channel for other + circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously + we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to + be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch + from "cypherpunks". + + o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client): + - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and + SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe + SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on + Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor features (fallbackdir): + - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023. + + o Minor features (geoip data): + - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as + retrieved on 2023/01/12. + + +Changes in version 0.4.5.15 - 2022-12-06 + This version has several major changes for directory authorities. And a + major bugfix on OSX. Again, we strongly recommend to upgrade to our 0.4.7.x + series latest stable. This series is EOL on February 15th, 2023. + + o Directory authority changes (dizum): + - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687. + + o Directory authority changes (Faravahar): + - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online + outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688. + + o Directory authority changes (moria1): + - Rotate the relay identity key and v3 identity key for moria1. They + have been online for more than a decade and refreshing keys + periodically is good practice. Advertise new ports too, to avoid + confusion. Closes ticket 40722. + + o Major bugfixes (OSX): + - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where + the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to + nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which + led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix + on 0.3.3.1-alpha. + + o Major bugfixes (relay): + - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL + value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor features (fallbackdir): + - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022. + + o Minor features (geoip data): + - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as + retrieved on 2022/12/06. + + +Changes in version 0.4.5.14 - 2022-08-12 + This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location + database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this + latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly + affected. + + o Major bugfixes (geoip data): + - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after + (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We + are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022. + Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13. + + +Changes in version 0.4.5.13 - 2022-08-11 + This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on + relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for + stability or safety purposes. We strongly recommend to upgrade your relay to + this version or, ideally, to the latest stable of the 0.4.7.x series. + + o Major bugfixes (relay): + - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections + close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and + thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604; + bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. + - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we + received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to + stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. + + o Minor features (fallbackdir): + - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022. + + o Minor features (geoip data): + - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as + retrieved on 2022/08/11. + + o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox): + - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34 + and later. Closes ticket 40590. + + o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias): + - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the + controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias + calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell + whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a + "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth): + - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more + _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe + against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645; + bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox): + - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash + issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug + 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11. + + o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service): + - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now + unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion + service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of + unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client): + - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by + the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS): + - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack + found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack + causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately + frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers + enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (relay): + - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when + closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug + 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. + + +Changes in version 0.4.5.12 - 2022-02-04 + This version contains mostly minor bugfixes for which you can find the + details below. The previous release (0.4.5.11) was suppose to update the + GeoIP and fallbackdir lists but a problem in our release pipeline prevented + those files to be updated correctly. Thus, this release regenerates up to + date lists. Furthermore, another fix to highlight is that relays don't + advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level. + + o Minor feature (reproducible build): + - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the + build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes + ticket 26299. + + o Minor features (compilation): + - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of + LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility + with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of + their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes + ticket 40511. + + o Minor features (fallbackdir): + - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022. + + o Minor features (geoip data): + - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as + retrieved on 2022/02/04. + + o Minor bugfix (logging): + - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544; + bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfix (relay): + - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so + relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509; + bugfix on 0.3.5.17. + + o Minor bugfixes (compilation): + - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler + that does not support expanding statitically initialized const + values in macro's. Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha + - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3: + previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than + to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug + 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13. + + o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus): + - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service + metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (relay): + - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces + DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to + be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494; + bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. + + +Changes in version 0.4.5.11 - 2021-10-26 + The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now + disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this + version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the + last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services. + Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or + an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11, + or 0.4.6.8. + + o Major feature (onion service v2): + - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for + details on how to transition from v2 to v3. + - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow + version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service + with ADD_ONION. + - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a + client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or + introduction point. This effectively disables onion service + version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476. + + o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8): + - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at + https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a + bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477. + + o Minor features (fallbackdir): + - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes + ticket 40493. + + o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.6.5): + - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they + can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We + rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they + begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175. + + o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.6.8): + - On a testing network, relays can now use the + TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest + amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed + maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For + safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing + networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337. + - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently + they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a + fix for ticket 40337. + - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths + immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had + been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337. + + o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service): + - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500; + bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfix (onion service, backport from 0.4.6.8): + - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload + or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory + connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead + to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building + path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8): + - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no + longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this + function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe + for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix + on 0.2.1.7-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc): + - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently + preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory + cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest + consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008, backport from 0.4.6.8): + - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute + the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk + when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was + _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue. + Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8. + + +Changes in version 0.4.5.10 - 2021-08-16 + This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, + including one that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone + running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion + service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7. + + o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security): + - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between + our batch-signature verification code and our single-signature + verification code. This assertion failure could be triggered + remotely, leading to a denial of service attack. We fix this issue + by disabling batch verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on + 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and + CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de Valence. + + o Minor feature (fallbackdir): + - Regenerate fallback directories list. Closes ticket 40447. + + o Minor features (geoip data): + - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as + retrieved on 2021/08/12. + + o Minor features (testing): + - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the + address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix + on 0.3.3.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfix (crypto, backport from 0.4.6.7): + - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. + Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry + de Valence. + + o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.7): + - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. + Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping, backport from 0.4.6.7): + - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t + type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most + operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm + function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function, + which could result in assertion failures when calculating voting + schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (warnings, portability, backport from 0.4.6.6): + - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some + versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. + + +Changes in version 0.4.5.9 - 2021-06-14 + Tor 0.4.5.9 fixes several security issues, including a + denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another + denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to + one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5. + + o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5): + - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on + half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which + hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end + a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389; + bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021- + 003 and CVE-2021-34548. + + o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5): + - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code. + Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG + implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself. + Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice + when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug + 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as + TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero. + + o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5): + - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against + relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look + up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this + to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create + collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a + SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on + 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and + CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero. + - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor + parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion + service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit + it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also + tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei + Glazunov from Google's Project Zero. + + o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc): + - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was + used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking + compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes + ticket 40399. + + o Minor features (geoip data): + - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as + retrieved on 2021/06/10. + + o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc): + - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp + sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to + simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large + number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the + sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by + Daniel Pinto. + + o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc): + - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open + MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix + on 0.4.5.1-alpha. + + +Changes in version 0.4.5.8 - 2021-05-10 + Tor 0.4.5.8 fixes several bugs in earlier version, backporting fixes + from the 0.4.6.x series. + + o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc): + - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly + with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the + fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow. + Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs. + + o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc): + - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions + 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335. + + o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha): + - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set + of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265. + + o Minor features (geoip data): + - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as + retrieved on 2021/05/07. + + o Minor features (onion services): + - Add warning message when connecting to now deprecated v2 onion + services. As announced, Tor 0.4.5.x is the last series that will + support v2 onions. Closes ticket 40373. + + o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha): + - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge + line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360; + bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc. + + o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc): + - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build + script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but + it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha): + - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string, + when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem. + Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc. + + o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc): + - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1. + Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.4.6.1-alpha): + - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses + the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug + 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc): + - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten + with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes + bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha): + - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths + on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by + Daniel Pinto. + + +Changes in version 0.4.5.7 - 2021-03-16 + Tor 0.4.5.7 fixes two important denial-of-service bugs in earlier + versions of Tor. + + One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker + who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor + instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit + against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory + caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients + when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only + affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely + crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already + been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure + network stability. + + We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes + these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available + to you. + + This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a few + smaller bugs in earlier releases. + + o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service): + - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable + information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places, + in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286; + bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021- + 001 and CVE-2021-28089. + - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus + document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes + bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002 + and CVE-2021-28090. + + o Minor features (geoip data): + - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to- + country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed + their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that + point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location + Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more + information). This release updates our geoip files to match the + IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes + ticket 40224. + + o Minor bugfixes (directory authority): + - Now that exit relays don't allow exit connections to directory + authority DirPorts (to prevent network reentry), disable + authorities' reachability self test on the DirPort. Fixes bug + 40287; bugfix on 0.4.5.5-rc. + + o Minor bugfixes (documentation): + - Fix a formatting error in the documentation for + VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6. Fixes bug 40256; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (Linux, relay): + - Fix a bug in determining total available system memory that would + have been triggered if the format of Linux's /proc/meminfo file + had ever changed to include "MemTotal:" in the middle of a line. + Fixes bug 40315; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (metrics port): + - Fix a BUG() warning on the MetricsPort for an internal missing + handler. Fixes bug 40295; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (onion service): + - Remove a harmless BUG() warning when reloading tor configured with + onion services. Fixes bug 40334; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (portability): + - Fix a non-portable usage of "==" with "test" in the configure + script. Fixes bug 40298; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (relay): + - Remove a spammy log notice falsely claiming that the IPv4/v6 + address was missing. Fixes bug 40300; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. + - Do not query the address cache early in the boot process when + deciding if a relay needs to fetch early directory information + from an authority. This bug resulted in a relay falsely believing + it didn't have an address and thus triggering an authority fetch + at each boot. Related to our fix for 40300. + + o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated): + - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it. + Closes ticket 40309. + + +Changes in version 0.4.5.6 - 2021-02-15 + The Tor 0.4.5.x release series is dedicated to the memory of Karsten + Loesing (1979-2020), Tor developer, cypherpunk, husband, and father. + Karsten is best known for creating the Tor metrics portal and leading + the metrics team, but he was involved in Tor from the early days. For + example, while he was still a student he invented and implemented the + v2 onion service directory design, and he also served as an ambassador + to the many German researchers working in the anonymity field. We + loved him and respected him for his patience, his consistency, and his + welcoming approach to growing our community. + + This release series introduces significant improvements in relay IPv6 + address discovery, a new "MetricsPort" mechanism for relay operators + to measure performance, LTTng support, build system improvements to + help when using Tor as a static library, and significant bugfixes + related to Windows relay performance. It also includes numerous + smaller features and bugfixes. + + Below are the changes since 0.4.4.4-rc. For a complete list of changes + since 0.4.4.7, see the ReleaseNotes file. + + o Major bugfixes (IPv6, relay): + - Fix a bug that prevented a relay from publishing its descriptor if + an auto-discovered IPv6 that was found unreachable. Fixes bug + 40279; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor features (protocol versions): + - Stop claiming to support the "DirCache=1" subprotocol version. + Technically, we stopped supporting this subprotocol back in + 0.4.5.1-alpha, but we needed to wait for the authorities to stop + listing it as "required" before we could drop it from the list. + Closes ticket 40221. + + o Minor bugfixes (logging): + - Avoid a spurious log message about missing subprotocol versions, + when the consensus that we're reading from is older than the + current release. Previously we had made this message nonfatal, but + in practice, it is never relevant when the consensus is older than + the current release. Fixes bug 40281; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (metrics port): + - Fix a bug warning when a metrics port socket was unexpectedly + closed. Fixes bug 40257; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha + + o Minor bugfixes (relay): + - Allow relays to have a RFC1918 address if PublishServerDescriptor + is set to 0 and AssumeReachable is set to 1. This is to support + the use case of a bridge on a local network, exposed via a + pluggable transport. Fixes bug 40208; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (relay, config): + - Fix a problem in the removal of duplicate ORPorts from the + internal port list when loading the config file. We were removing + the wrong ports, breaking valid torrc uses cases for multiple + ORPorts of the same address family. Fixes bug 40289; bugfix + on 0.4.5.1-alpha. + + +Changes in version 0.4.5.5-rc - 2021-02-01 + Tor 0.4.5.5-rc is the third release candidate in its series. We're + coming closer and closer to a stable release series. This release + fixes an annoyance with address detection code, and somewhat mitigates + an ongoing denial-of-service attack. + + We anticipate no more code changes between this and the stable + release, though of course that could change. + + o Major feature (exit): + - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all + relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change + should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes + ticket 2667. + + o Minor bugfixes (relay, configuration): + - Don't attempt to discover our address (IPv4 or IPv6) if no ORPort + for it can be found in the configuration. Fixes bug 40254; bugfix + on 0.4.5.1-alpha. + + +Changes in version 0.4.5.4-rc - 2021-01-22 + Tor 0.4.5.4-rc is the second release candidate in its series. It fixes + several bugs present in previous releases. + + We expect that the stable release will be the same, or almost the + same, as this release candidate, unless serious bugs are found. + + o Major bugfixes (authority, IPv6): + - Do not consider multiple relays in the same IPv6 /64 network to be + sybils. Fixes bug 40243; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. + + o Major bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows): + - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on + Windows. We hope this will mitigate an issue where Windows relay + operators reported Tor using 100% CPU, while we investigate better + solutions. Fixes bug 24857; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. + + o Minor feature (build system): + - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file + used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for + this. Closes ticket 40227. + + o Minor features (authority, logging): + - Log more information for directory authority operators during the + consensus voting process, and while processing relay descriptors. + Closes ticket 40245. + - Reject obsolete router/extrainfo descriptors earlier and more + quietly, to avoid spamming the logs. Fixes bug 40238; bugfix + on 0.4.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (compilation): + - Fix another warning about unreachable fallthrough annotations when + building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on some compilers. + Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.4.5.3-rc. + - Change the linker flag ordering in our library search code so that + it works for compilers that need the libraries to be listed in the + right order. Fixes bug 33624; bugfix on 0.1.1.0-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (config, bridge): + - Don't initiate a connection to a bridge configured to use a + missing transport. This change reverts an earlier fix that would + try to avoid such situations during configuration chcecking, but + which doesn't work with DisableNetwork. Fixes bug 40106; bugfix + on 0.4.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (onion services): + - Avoid a non-fatal assertion in certain edge-cases when + establishing a circuit to an onion service. Fixes bug 32666; + bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (relay): + - If we were unable to build our descriptor, don't mark it as having + been advertised. Also remove an harmless BUG(). Fixes bug 40231; + bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. + + +Changes in version 0.4.5.3-rc - 2021-01-12 + Tor 0.4.5.3-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes + several bugs, including one that broke onion services on certain older + ARM CPUs. + + Though we anticipate that we'll be doing a bit more clean-up between + now and the stable release, we expect that our remaining changes will + be fairly simple. There will be at least one more release candidate + before 0.4.5.x is stable. + + o Major bugfixes (onion service v3): + - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and + allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion + services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a + consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix + on 0.3.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor features (crypto): + - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only + appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel) + and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on + 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and + weasel for diagnosing this. + + o Minor features (documentation): + - Mention the "!badexit" directive that can appear in an authority's + approved-routers file, and update the description of the + "!invalid" directive. Closes ticket 40188. + + o Minor bugfixes (compilation): + - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough + annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on + some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha. + - Fix the "--enable-static-tor" switch to properly set the "-static" + compile option onto the tor binary only. Fixes bug 40111; bugfix + on 0.2.3.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (config, bridge): + - Really fix the case where torrc has a missing ClientTransportPlugin + but is configured with a Bridge line and UseBridges. Previously, + we didn't look at the managed proxy list and thus would fail for + the "exec" case. Fixes bug 40106; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay): + - Log our address as reported by the directory authorities, if none + was configured or detected before. Fixes bug 40201; bugfix + on 0.4.5.1-alpha. + - When a launching bandwidth testing circuit, don't incorrectly call + it a reachability test, or trigger a "CHECKING_REACHABILITY" + control event. Fixes bug 40205; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (relay, statistics): + - Report the correct connection statistics in our extrainfo + documents. Previously there was a problem in the file loading + function which would wrongly truncate a state file, causing the + wrong information to be reported. Fixes bug 40226; bugfix + on 0.4.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5): + - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code + would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request + that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. + + +Changes in version 0.4.5.2-alpha - 2020-11-23 + Tor 0.4.5.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.4.5.x series. + It fixes several bugs present in earlier releases, including one that + made it impractical to run relays on Windows. It also adds a few small + safety features to improve Tor's behavior in the presence of strange + compile-time options, misbehaving proxies, and future versions + of OpenSSL. + + o Major bugfixes (relay, windows): + - Fix a bug in our implementation of condition variables on Windows. + Previously, a relay on Windows would use 100% CPU after running + for some time. Because of this change, Tor now require Windows + Vista or later to build and run. Fixes bug 30187; bugfix on + 0.2.6.3-alpha. (This bug became more serious in 0.3.1.1-alpha with + the introduction of consensus diffs.) Patch by Daniel Pinto. + + o Minor features (compilation): + - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or + later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL + 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to + stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165. + + o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth): + - Respond more deliberately to misbehaving proxies that leave + leftover data on their connections, so as to make Tor even less + likely to allow the proxies to pass their data off as having come + from a relay. Closes ticket 40017. + + o Minor features (safety): + - Log a warning at startup if Tor is built with compile-time options + that are likely to make it less stable or reliable. Closes + ticket 18888. + + o Minor bugfixes (circuit, handshake): + - In the v3 handshaking code, use connection_or_change_state() to + change the state. Previously, we changed the state directly, but + this did not pass the state change to the pubsub or channel + objects, potentially leading to bugs. Fixes bug 32880; bugfix on + 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan. + + o Minor bugfixes (compilation): + - Use the correct 'ranlib' program when building libtor.a. + Previously we used the default ranlib, which broke some kinds of + cross-compilation. Fixes bug 40172; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. + - Remove a duplicate typedef in metrics_store.c. Fixes bug 40177; + bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. + - When USDT tracing is enabled, and STAP_PROBEV() is missing, don't + attempt to build. Linux supports that macro but not the BSDs. + Fixes bug 40174; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (configuration): + - Exit Tor on a misconfiguration when the Bridge line is configured + to use a transport but no corresponding ClientTransportPlugin can + be found. Prior to this fix, Tor would attempt to connect to the + bridge directly without using the transport, making it easier for + adversaries to notice the bridge. Fixes bug 25528; bugfix + on 0.2.6.1-alpha. + - Fix an issue where an ORPort was compared with other kinds of + ports, when it should have been only checked against other + ORPorts. This bug would lead to "DirPort auto" getting ignored. + Fixes bug 40195; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. + - Fix a bug where a second non-ORPort with a variant family (ex: + SocksPort [::1]:9050) would be ignored due to a configuration + parsing error. Fixes bug 40183; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (crash, relay, signing key): + - Avoid assertion failures when we run Tor from the command line + with `--key-expiration sign`, but an ORPort is not set. Fixes bug + 40015; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan. + + o Minor bugfixes (logging): + - Remove trailing whitespace from control event log messages. Fixes + bug 32178; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Based on a patch by + Amadeusz Pawlik. + - Turn warning-level log message about SENDME failure into a debug- + level message. (This event can happen naturally, and is no reason + for concern). Fixes bug 40142; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (relay, address discovery): + - Don't trigger an IP change when no new valid IP can be found. + Fixes bug 40071; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. + - When attempting to discover our IP, use a simple test circuit, + rather than a descriptor fetch: the same address information is + present in NETINFO cells, and is better authenticated there. Fixes + bug 40071; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (testing): + - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works + correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid + queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. + - Fix unit tests that used newly generated list of routers so that + they check them with respect to the date when they were generated, + not with respect to the current time. Fixes bug 40187; bugfix + on 0.4.5.1-alpha. + - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service + handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib + provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix + on 0.3.1.6-rc. + - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL + 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. + + o Removed features (controller): + - Remove the "GETINFO network-status" controller command. It has + been deprecated since 0.3.1.1-alpha. Closes ticket 22473. + + Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020- |