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@@ -1,3 +1,911 @@ +Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05 + + Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support + for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows, + microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic + home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements + to try to make the code easier for developers to work with. + + This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be + bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should + stay with 0.2.2.x for now. + + o Major features + - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO + backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you + have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the + --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from + source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible, + let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient + zero-copy transports where available. + - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows. + Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better + performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To + try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor + with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to + your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help + debug it as it breaks. + - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP + addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options + because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to + date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here. + - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams. + Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was + connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable + clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without + having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch + from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.) + - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many + home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on + Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp + library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the + feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or + "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new + PortForwarding option. + - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the + consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors. + - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small + summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the + directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code, + clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth + by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors. + + o Minor features: + - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogGranularity + option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 + second. Implements enhancement 1668. + - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket + 2444. + - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like + 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting. + There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this + behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara. + - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as + statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from + Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket + 2702. + - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how + many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior. + - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in + extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database. + - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the + bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours. + - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements + enhancement 1883. + - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message + describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for + operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor + server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis. + + o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha): + - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size. + In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing + without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in + 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. + Fix posted by "cypherpunks." + - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is + at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length + of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230. + - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 + legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. + Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106. + - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when + reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors. + This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix + on 0.2.2.6-alpha. + + o Minor features (controller) + - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that + controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves + issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks. + - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch + from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345. + - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about + the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits. + + o Build changes + - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the + Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4. + This only affects developers and people building Tor from git; + people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing + the Makefile.am files should be fine. + - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and + so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes + associated with running the autotools pieces on their own. + + o Minor packaging issues: + - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not + already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573. + + o Code simplifications and refactoring: + - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic. + Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of + "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors, + and a list of entries in the current consensus. With + microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems + without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase. + Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent + interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all + of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t. + - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey + no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but + our library structure used to force them to link it. + + o Removed features: + - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that + used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor + are no longer in use as servers. + + o Documentation fixes: + - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307. + - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options + RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves + issue 2379. + + +Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29 + Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more + robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash + a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button) + now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It + provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is + working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and + StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more + understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options, + please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page. + + o Major bugfixes: + - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because + they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the + correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the + state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha. + - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have + extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not + listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently + have, retry with an introduction point from the current + descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and + 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. + - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given + destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node. + Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. + - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return + NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug + 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper. + + o Security and stability fixes: + - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if + it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable + microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954. + Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks". + - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a + nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay. + Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the + "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic + behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being + useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which + introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq. + - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under + heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. + - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget + all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a + SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6. + + o Major features: + - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we + have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators + can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their + contributions to the network. + + o Major features and bugfixes (node selection): + - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes, + ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes + options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what + counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes + 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built + through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from + surprises. Now the intended behavior is: + . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means + a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network. + . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the + first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct + connections to directory servers. + . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes. + . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When + StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in + ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When + StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes + whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to + perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a + hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory + information, or fetch directory information. + Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090. + - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if + a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded. + - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if + StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1. + Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1 + unless you really want your Tor to break. + - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving. + - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests. + - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes. + - When StrictNodes is 1: + . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points + and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This + can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution! + . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay + reachability self-tests. + . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not + even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay. + . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node. + - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags + when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. + - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings + introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on + 0.1.0.1-rc. + - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even + if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. + - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to + circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent + a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved + code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. + - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a + given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency + between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our + "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic. + - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes. + + o Minor bugfixes: + - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long + month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on + 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020. + - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit + stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously, + we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6. + - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6. + Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. + - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed + connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to + look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason. + Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. + - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte + counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection + in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta. + - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds + the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by + John Brooks. + - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden + service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no + DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will + eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no + DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. + - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from + Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. + - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug + 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. + - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple + HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST + operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir. + - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file, + rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop + trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039; + bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. + - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should + get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option. + Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the + feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options. + + o Minor features: + - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours. + Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state + file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity + estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012. + - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors. + Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such + clients are already deprecated because of security bugs. + - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients. + Required by fix for bug 3000. + - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required + by fix for bug 3000. + - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added + to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497. + + o Code simplification and refactoring: + - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers + that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_ + send a body too). Since only server versions before + 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to + keep the workaround in place. + - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for + handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and + an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three + places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is + still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll + want to do it differently. + - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned. + None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making + this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28. + - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on + Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by + Gisle Vanem. + + +Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08 + Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that + prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges, + that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users + can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked. + + o Major bugfixes: + - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical + address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical + address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be + able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked + addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes + bug 2510. + - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and + configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue + to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is + a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a + dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511. + - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own + uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag + to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in + its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small + set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole + a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be + fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709. + + o Minor bugfixes: + - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection + from the outside before we've started our reachability tests, + triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no + routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This + bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller + like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a + REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; + fixes bug 1172. + - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when + relays that have failed several reachability tests became + unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable, + Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716. + - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on + some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on + versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing + the --with-static-libevent configure option). + - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit) + for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on + that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the + other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which + it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we + had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix + should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest + released versions of Tor (svn commit r152). + - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a + transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in + 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong + connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original + bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix). + - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile, + give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. + + o Minor features: + - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3 + networkstatus vote. + - Make compilation with clang possible when using + --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning optionss that clang + hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements + ticket 2696. + - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than + one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a + circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right + near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit + timeout values. + - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch + parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously, + we would retry after 15 seconds.) + - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. + + o Packaging fixes: + - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is + not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573. + + o Documentation changes: + - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707. + - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation. + Fixes bug 2705. + - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types. + + +Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08 + Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when + they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This + release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from + relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about + clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority. + + o Major bugfixes: + - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever + we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock. + Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority + that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes + the rest of bug 1074. + - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6 + addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when + somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. + - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory + requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge + descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak. + Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. + - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate, + Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting, + potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on + 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470. + - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor + hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled + publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. + + o Major features: + - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their + state file (along with total usage, which was already saved) + so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on + restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their + estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting. + - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and + ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously, + if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not + treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability + calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the + change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035. + - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution + Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for + attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks. + + o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier): + - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured + with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on + 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei". + - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a + transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes + bug 2279. + - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378; + found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first + Tor release, in svn commit r110. + - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so + don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue + spotted by keb and G-Lo. + - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been + triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing + granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on + Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha. + - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve + as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but + continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental + partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is + going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should + really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366. + Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac. + - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your + bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last + hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead. + Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer". + - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't + correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504, + bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. + - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X). + Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by + "piebeer". + - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix + on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660. + - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time + when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime + or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give + incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing + bug 1035. + - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork + configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control + command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x): + - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node + selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit + bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights. + Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203. + - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an + error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on + Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha. + - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects + with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha. + Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer". + - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to + publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix + on 0.2.2.22-alpha. + + o Minor features: + - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve + some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004. + - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer + accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181. + - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private + IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with + a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always + ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually + in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent + proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting + "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc. + - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable + allocation error. + - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. + + o Minor features (log subsystem): + - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in + different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha, + but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes + bug 2215. + - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B". + Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say + "[~A,~B]". + - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log + messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way + to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot + of guessing. + + o Packaging changes: + - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents + in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at + git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git + + +Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25 + Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The + main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes + relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again. + We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it + will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution. + + o Major bugfixes: + - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to + remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. + Found by "piebeer". + - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa + via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly + initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes + bug 2433. Reported by bastik. + + o Minor features: + - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by + Apache's mod_ssl. + - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing + instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file. + Implements ticket 2432. + + o Minor bugfixes: + - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and + directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions. + Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss". + + +Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15 + Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which + continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves + a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code + execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert + and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely. + + o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29: + - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap + corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution + attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on + 0.1.2.10-rc. + - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any + zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly + high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss". + - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes + bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by + "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able + to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough + permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9. + + o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29: + - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers. + This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially + if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running + Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages. + Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190. + - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid + underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324. + - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a + cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into + memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix + on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss. + - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly + malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27. + Found by doorss. + + o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29: + - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup + requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a + bug reported by doorss. + - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library + has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't + be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. + - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual + addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix + on 0.1.2.1-alpha. + - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but + no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on + 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss. + - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual + address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. + + o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29: + - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. + - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions. + + o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29: + - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier; + added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with + Automake 1.7 or later. + - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c + because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that + release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular + among really fast exit relays on Linux. + + o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha: + - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus + parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix + on 0.2.2.14-alpha. + + o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha: + - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe + from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes + or worse when a consensus param has a weird value. + + o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha: + - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't + used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier. + - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before + retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug + 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha. + - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later, + and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe + reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages + get through. + - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to + build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom. + - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5. + Resolves bug 2314. + + o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha: + - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather + than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix + on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss. + - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to + base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned + comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor, + but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss. + - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent + versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns + implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*() + functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug + 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger". + + o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha: + - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for + tor-resolve. + + +Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15 + Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main + fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote + code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs, + most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely. + + o Major bugfixes (security): + - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap + corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution + attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on + 0.1.2.10-rc. + - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any + zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly + high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss". + - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes + bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by + "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able + to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough + permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9. + + o Major bugfixes (crashes): + - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers. + This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially + if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running + Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages. + Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190. + - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid + underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324. + - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a + cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into + memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix + on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss. + - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly + malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27. + Found by doorss. + + o Minor bugfixes (other): + - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup + requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a + bug reported by doorss. + - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library + has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't + be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. + - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual + addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix + on 0.1.2.1-alpha. + - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but + no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on + 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss. + - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual + address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. + - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c + because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that + release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular + among really fast exit relays on Linux. + + o Minor features: + - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. + - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions. + + o Build changes: + - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier; + added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with + Automake 1.7 or later. + + +Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17 + Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely + exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs, + change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update + the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network. + + o Major bugfixes: + - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances + of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution + hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should + upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later. + - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large + time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals. + Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper. + - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that + would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits + to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch + from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; + fix by boboper. + - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given + circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or + destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was + introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152. + + o Directory authority changes: + - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority). + + o Minor bugfixes: + - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235. + Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper. + - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command + argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since + the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by + boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. + - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its + extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on + Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha. + + o Minor features: + - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. + - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of + Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have + known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous + circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081. + - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor + older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches + current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156. + - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to + exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements + task 2196. + + +Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17 + Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely + exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address + for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database + we ship. + + o Major bugfixes: + - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances + of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution + hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should + upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later. + + o Directory authority changes: + - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority). + + o Minor features: + - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. + + +Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23 + Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor: + Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We + also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new + directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database. + + o Major bugfixes: + - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b: + No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects; + but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting + it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204; + bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. + - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer + freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection + try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals + of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125; + fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. + - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if + we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, + where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to + be useful. Fixes bug 2050. + - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on + router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously + we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk + anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer. + - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your + bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks + connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an + hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on + 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981. + + o Major features: + - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather + than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that + count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll + have more accurate data, especially for many African countries. + + o New directory authorities: + - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory + authority. + + o Minor bugfixes: + - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or + bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing + network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on + 0.2.0.8-alpha. + - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on + 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer. + - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod + seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after + IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they + were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san + for analysis help. + - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable + warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings + pass on OpenBSD 4.8. + + o Minor features: + - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code, + and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new + stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE. + Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize + it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793. + - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8. + Patch from mingw-san. + + o Removed files: + - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution. + The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL + https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git + - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We + changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in + 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway. + + Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor: Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. @@ -5359,7 +6267,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01 o Minor bugfixes (logging): - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down), don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as - unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.) + unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.) o Minor bugfixes (other): - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published @@ -5369,7 +6277,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.) - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast". - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading - cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar) + cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar) - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it in Oct 2004.) |