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@@ -1,3 +1,408 @@ +Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02 + This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains + improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as + preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds + of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for + long-term maintainability. + + Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine + months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x: + whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick + with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022. + + Below are the changes since 0.4.0.4-rc. For a complete list of changes + since 0.3.5.7, see the ReleaseNotes file. + + o Minor features (continuous integration): + - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and + launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the + signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117. + + o Minor features (diagnostic): + - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue + of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to + ticket 28223. + + o Minor features (testing): + - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header + in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for + ticket 30001. + + o Minor bugfixes (rust): + - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially + unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck): + - Look for scripts in their correct locations during "make + shellcheck". Previously we had looked in the wrong place during + out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 30263; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (testing): + - Check the time in the "Expires" header using approx_time(). Fixes + bug 30001; bugfix on 0.4.0.4-rc. + + o Minor bugfixes (UI): + - Lower log level of unlink() errors during bootstrap. Fixes bug + 29930; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. + + +Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11 + Tor 0.4.0.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series; it fixes + several bugs from earlier versions, including some that had affected + stability, and one that prevented relays from working with NSS. + + o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay): + - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use + SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for + these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to + handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled. + Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor features (bandwidth authority): + - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the + bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to + report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including + their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes + ticket 29806. + - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the + bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve + this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes + ticket 21377. + + o Minor features (circuit padding): + - Stop warning about undefined behavior in the probability + distribution tests. Float division by zero may technically be + undefined behavior in C, but it's well defined in IEEE 754. + Partial backport of 29298. Closes ticket 29527; bugfix + on 0.4.0.1-alpha. + + o Minor features (continuous integration): + - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from + caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves + issue 29962. + + o Minor features (dormant mode): + - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should + treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state. + Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be + used if Tor is being started because of something that the user + did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the + background. Closes ticket 29357. + + o Minor features (geoip): + - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 + Country database. Closes ticket 29992. + + o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic): + - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful + description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to + SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241. + + o Minor bugfixes (security): + - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files. + The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because + the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities + read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted + source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the + issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures, + which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug + 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by + Tobias Stoeckmann. + - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer + with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the + event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and + fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann. + + o Minor bugfix (continuous integration): + - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This + should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test + suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem + was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix + on 0.2.9.15. + - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run. + (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.) + Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap reporting): + - During bootstrap reporting, correctly distinguish pluggable + transports from plain proxies. Fixes bug 28925; bugfix + on 0.4.0.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (C correctness): + - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug + 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning + CID 1444119. + + o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding testing): + - Minor tweaks to avoid rare test failures related to timers and + monotonic time. Fixes bug 29500; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities): + - Actually include the bandwidth-file-digest line in directory + authority votes. Fixes bug 29959; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (logging): + - On Windows, when errors cause us to reload a consensus from disk, + tell the user that we are retrying at log level "notice". + Previously we only logged this information at "info", which was + confusing because the errors themselves were logged at "warning". + Improves previous fix for 28614. Fixes bug 30004; bugfix + on 0.4.0.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports): + - Restore old behavior when it comes to discovering the path of a + given Pluggable Transport executable file. A change in + 0.4.0.1-alpha had broken this behavior on paths containing a + space. Fixes bug 29874; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (testing): + - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a + recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes + bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG" + warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix + on 0.2.9.3-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol): + - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the + client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result. + Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list + and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the + client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn, + was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes + bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. + + o Code simplification and refactoring: + - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects + whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly. + Resolves issue 28816. + - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use + connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897. + + o Documentation: + - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners + by default. Resolves issue 29121. + + +Changes in version 0.4.0.3-alpha - 2019-03-22 + Tor 0.4.0.3-alpha is the third in its series; it fixes several small + bugs from earlier versions. + + o Minor features (address selection): + - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes; + private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade + NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to + RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now + blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users + if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address. + Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan. + + o Minor features (geoip): + - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 4 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 + Country database. Closes ticket 29666. + + o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding): + - Inspect the circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to + avoid sending padding when too much data is queued. Fixes bug + 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (logging): + - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is + used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address + of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on + 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn. + - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is + used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was + logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix + on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn. + - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit + descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (memory management): + - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it + actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers. + Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing): + - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random + unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports): + - Fix an assertion failure crash bug when a pluggable transport is + terminated during the bootstrap phase. Fixes bug 29562; bugfix + on 0.4.0.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (Rust, protover): + - Add a missing "Padding" value to the Rust implementation of + protover. Fixes bug 29631; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (single onion services): + - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without + being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points + for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous + circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused + directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes + bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26. + + o Minor bugfixes (stats): + - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in + relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix + on 0.3.1.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (testing): + - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to + warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no + configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we + backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug + 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8. + - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the + correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. + - Decrease the false positive rate of stochastic probability + distribution tests. Fixes bug 29693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI): + - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit + Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide + coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set + fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes + bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha. + + +Changes in version 0.4.0.2-alpha - 2019-02-21 + Tor 0.4.0.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series; it fixes several + bugs from earlier versions, including several that had broken + backward compatibility. + + It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor + 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release + should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha. + + o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security): + - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can + put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf + were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It + is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor + client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168; + bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as + TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955. + + o Major bugfixes (networking): + - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5 + username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to + continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking + certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. + + o Major bugfixes (windows, startup): + - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was + written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always + write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into + memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which + confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug + 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. + + o Minor features (compilation): + - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support + disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026. + Patches from "Mangix". + + o Minor features (developer tooling): + - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions + from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future + release. Closes ticket 27761. + - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows commiting if we have + any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is + now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements + feature 28976. + + o Minor features (directory authority): + - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain + bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote. + Closes ticket 26698. + + o Minor features (geoip): + - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 + Country database. Closes ticket 29478. + + o Minor features (testing): + - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes + ticket 28668. + + o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust): + - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest + version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes + bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (compilation): + - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug + 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. + - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug + 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn. + + o Minor bugfixes (documentation): + - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization + files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes + bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix". + + o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox): + - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled. + Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber. + + o Minor bugfixes (logging): + - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that + timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. + - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a + private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to + read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost + during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (misc): + - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined + using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM) + when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes + bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn. + + o Minor bugfixes (onion services): + - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more + than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix + on 0.3.5.1-alpha. + - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at + "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very + long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix + on 0.3.2.1-alpha. + - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..." + as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there + is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029; + bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. + + o Minor bugfixes (scheduler): + - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct + channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline + Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions + of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix + on 0.3.2.10. + + o Minor bugfixes (tests): + - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one + case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. + - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing + intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such + histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes + a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. + - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on + Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. + - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6 + network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix + on 0.2.7.3-rc. + + o Documentation: + - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use + example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation + by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623. + + o Removed features: + - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072. + + Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18 Tor 0.4.0.1-alpha is the first release in the new 0.4.0.x series. It introduces improved features for power and bandwidth conservation, |