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diff --git a/ReleaseNotes b/ReleaseNotes index 729f7f950a..b117620905 100644 --- a/ReleaseNotes +++ b/ReleaseNotes @@ -46,12 +46,6 @@ Changes in version 0.2.8.??? - 2015-0?-?? ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195. - o Major bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transports): - - Modify the check for OR connections to private addresses. Allow - bridges on private addresses, including pluggable transports that - ignore the (potentially private) address in the bridge line. Fixes - bug 18517; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by gk, patch by teor. - o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping): - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary @@ -63,46 +57,16 @@ Changes in version 0.2.8.??? - 2015-0?-?? - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times, rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of ticket 18809. - - Stop downloading consensuses when we have a consensus, even if we - don't have all the certificates for it yet. Fixes bug 18809; - bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patches by arma and teor. o Major bugfixes (compilation): - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. - o Major bugfixes (crash on shutdown): - - Correctly handle detaching circuits from muxes when shutting down. - Fixes bug 18116; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. - - Fix an assert-on-exit bug related to counting memory usage in - rephist.c. Fixes bug 18651; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. - - o Major bugfixes (crash on startup): - - Fix a segfault during startup: If a Unix domain socket was - configured as listener (such as a ControlSocket or a SocksPort - "unix:" socket), and tor was started as root but not configured to - switch to another user, tor would segfault while trying to string - compare a NULL value. Fixes bug 18261; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. - Patch by weasel. - - o Major bugfixes (directory mirrors): - - Decide whether to advertise begindir support in the the same way - we decide whether to advertise our DirPort. Allowing these - decisions to become out-of-sync led to surprising behavior like - advertising begindir support when hibernation made us not - advertise a DirPort. Resolves bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. - Patch by teor. - o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash): - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks". - o Major bugfixes (IPv6 bridges, client): - - Actually use IPv6 addresses when selecting directory addresses for - IPv6 bridges. Fixes bug 18921; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch - by "teor". - o Major bugfixes (key management): - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here @@ -112,12 +76,6 @@ Changes in version 0.2.8.??? - 2015-0?-?? 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and Baishakhi Ray. - o Major bugfixes (relays, bridge clients): - - Ensure relays always allow IPv4 OR and Dir connections. Ensure - bridge clients use the address configured in the bridge line. - Fixes bug 18348; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb, - patch by teor. - o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy): - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort received a query with multiple address types, and the first @@ -131,11 +89,6 @@ Changes in version 0.2.8.??? - 2015-0?-?? needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal". - o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities): - - Fix a crash and out-of-bounds write during authority voting, when - the list of relays includes duplicate ed25519 identity keys. Fixes - bug 19032; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. - o Major bugfixes (security, pointers): - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162; @@ -143,8 +96,6 @@ Changes in version 0.2.8.??? - 2015-0?-?? Reported by Guido Vranken. o Major bugfixes (testing): - - Avoid "WSANOTINITIALISED" warnings in the unit tests. Fixes bug 18668; - bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on tor-0.2.7.3-rc. @@ -245,14 +196,6 @@ Changes in version 0.2.8.??? - 2015-0?-?? for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket 17864; patch by "teor". - o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors): - - Give each fallback the same weight for client selection; restrict - fallbacks to one per operator; report fallback directory detail - changes when rebuilding list; add new fallback directory mirrors - to the whitelist; update fallback directories based on the latest - OnionOO data; and any other minor simplifications and fixes. - Closes tasks 17158, 17905, 18749, bug 18689, and fixes part of bug - 18812 on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by "teor". o Minor features (geoip): - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 @@ -424,9 +367,6 @@ Changes in version 0.2.8.??? - 2015-0?-?? - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non- testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. - - Remove a pair of redundant AM_CONDITIONAL declarations from - configure.ac. Fixes one final case of bug 17744; bugfix - on 0.2.8.2-alpha. - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha and 0.2.6.1-alpha. @@ -437,15 +377,6 @@ Changes in version 0.2.8.??? - 2015-0?-?? treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. - o Minor bugfixes (client): - - Make directory node selection more reliable, mainly for IPv6-only - clients and clients with few reachable addresses. Fixes bug 18929; - bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by "teor". - - Turn all TestingClientBootstrap* into non-testing torrc options. - This changes simply renames them by removing "Testing" in front of - them and they do not require TestingTorNetwork to be enabled - anymore. Fixes bug 18481; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. - o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap): - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not @@ -516,9 +447,6 @@ Changes in version 0.2.8.??? - 2015-0?-?? 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "teor". o Minor bugfixes (crypto, portability): - - The SHA3 and SHAKE routines now produce the correct output on Big - Endian systems. No code calls either algorithm yet, so this is - primarily a build fix. Fixes bug 18943; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. - Tor now builds again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre4 and 1.1.0-pre5-dev). Closes ticket 18286. @@ -591,14 +519,8 @@ Changes in version 0.2.8.??? - 2015-0?-?? start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. - - Fix the sandbox's interoperability with unix domain sockets under - setuid. Fixes bug 18253; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. o Minor bugfixes (logging): - - Downgrade logs and backtraces about IP versions to info-level. - Only log backtraces once each time tor runs. Assists in diagnosing - bug 18351; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb and - Christian, patch by teor. - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__ instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't @@ -608,13 +530,9 @@ Changes in version 0.2.8.??? - 2015-0?-?? addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages. Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. - - Stop periodic_event_dispatch() from blasting twelve lines per - second at loglevel debug. Fixes bug 18729; fix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. - - When rejecting a misformed INTRODUCE2 cell, only log at - PROTOCOL_WARN severity. Fixes bug 18761; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. @@ -624,9 +542,6 @@ Changes in version 0.2.8.??? - 2015-0?-?? in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch by teor. - - Correctly duplicate addresses in get_interface_address6_list(). - Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by toralf, - patch by "cypherpunks". - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix @@ -661,9 +576,6 @@ Changes in version 0.2.8.??? - 2015-0?-?? descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor". - - Consider more config options when relays decide whether to - regenerate their descriptor. Fixes more of bug 12538; bugfix - on 0.2.8.1-alpha. - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. @@ -704,9 +616,6 @@ Changes in version 0.2.8.??? - 2015-0?-?? by karsten. o Minor bugfixes (testing): - - Allow directories in small networks to bootstrap by skipping - DirPort checks when the consensus has no exits. Fixes bug 19003; - bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor. - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by "teor". - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix |