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@@ -1,3 +1,491 @@ +Changes in version 0.4.6.12 - 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 0.4.6.11. + + +Changes in version 0.4.6.11 - 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. + + This is the very LAST version of this series. As of August 1st 2022, it is + end-of-life (EOL). We thus strongly recommend to upgrade 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 0.4.6.10 - 2022-02-04 + This version contains minor bugfixes but one in particular is that relays + don't advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level. + + 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 (MetricsPort, Prometheus): + - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service + metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. + + +Changes in version 0.4.6.9 - 2021-12-15 + This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One important + piece is the removal of DNS timeout metric from the overload general signal. + See below for more details. + + o Major bugfixes (relay, overload): + - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state. + These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to + be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network + problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha. + + 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 December 15, 2021. + + o Minor features (geoip data): + - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as + retrieved on 2021/12/15. + + o Minor bugfixes (compilation): + - 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 (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. + + o Documentation (man, relay): + - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504; + bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha. + + +Changes in version 0.4.6.8 - 2021-10-26 + This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One + highlight is a fix on how we track DNS timeouts to report general + relay overload. + + o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state): + - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors + only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before + that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which + was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10 + minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus + parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha. + + o Minor features (fallbackdir): + - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes + ticket 40493. + + o Minor features (testing): + - 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 (onion service): + - 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. + - Improve logging when a bad HS version is given. Fixes bug 40476; + bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha. + + 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 bugfixes (compatibility): + - 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 (onion service, TROVE-2021-008): + - 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 0.4.6.7 - 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. Close 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 bugfix (crypto): + - 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 (onion service): + - Send back the extended SOCKS error 0xF6 (Onion Service Invalid + Address) for a v2 onion address. Fixes bug 40421; bugfix + on 0.4.6.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (relay): + - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW + in order to reduce CPU load on the directory relays. Fixes bug + 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping): + - 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. + + +Changes in version 0.4.6.6 - 2021-06-30 + Tor 0.4.6.6 makes several small fixes on 0.4.6.5, including one that + allows Tor to build correctly on older versions of GCC. You should + upgrade to this version if you were having trouble building Tor + 0.4.6.5; otherwise, there is probably no need. + + o Minor bugfixes (compilation): + - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler + that does not support const variables in static initializers. + Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.6.5. + - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some + versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (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. + + +Changes in version 0.4.6.5 - 2021-06-14 + Tor 0.4.6.5 is the first stable release in its series. The 0.4.6.x + series includes numerous features and bugfixes, including a significant + improvement to our circuit timeout algorithm that should improve + observed client performance, and a way for relays to report when they are + overloaded. + + This release also includes security fixes for 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. + + Below are the changes since 0.4.6.4-rc. For a complete list of changes + since 0.4.5.8, see the ReleaseNotes file. + + o Major bugfixes (security): + - 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): + - 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): + - 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 (geoip data): + - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as + retrieved on 2021/06/10. + + o Minor features (logging, diagnostic): + - 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. + + +Changes in version 0.4.6.4-rc - 2021-05-28 + Tor 0.4.6.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous releases. This, we hope, + the final release candidate in its series: unless major new issues are + found, the next release will be stable. + + o Minor features (compatibility): + - 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 bugfixes (consensus handling): + - 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 (control, sandbox): + - 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): + - 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. + + o Removed features: + - Remove unneeded code for parsing private keys in directory + documents. This code was only used for client authentication in v2 + onion services, which are now unsupported. Closes ticket 40374. + + +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 0.4.6.3-rc - 2021-05-10 + Tor 0.4.6.3-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes + a few small bugs from previous versions, and adds a better error + message when trying to use (no longer supported) v2 onion services. + + 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 likely be at least one more release + candidate before 0.4.6.x is stable. + + o Major bugfixes (onion service, control port): + - Make the ADD_ONION command properly configure client authorization. + Before this fix, the created onion failed to add the client(s). + Fixes bug 40378; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha. + + o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox): + - 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): + - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions + 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335. + + 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 a warning message when trying to connect to (no longer + supported) v2 onion services. Closes ticket 40373. + + o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation): + - 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 (compiler warnings): + - 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 (logging, relay): + - Emit a warning if an Address is found to be internal and tor can't + use it. Fixes bug 40290; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak): + - 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. + + Changes in version 0.4.6.2-alpha - 2021-04-15 Tor 0.4.6.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes several small bugs in previous releases, and solves other issues that had |