commit a1cc966685cf18cbc26adb07c98b5a2467358be6
Author: Roger Dingledine <arma(a)torproject.org>
Date: Mon Mar 28 13:20:51 2016 -0400
minor changelog cleanups to help the new alpha
---
ChangeLog | 92 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------------
ReleaseNotes | 10 +++----
2 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 88ac085..78c732f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -22,15 +22,14 @@ Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
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;
- bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug
- incompletely. Reported by Guido Vranken.
+ bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
+ Reported by Guido Vranken.
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".
+ bug 18517; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by gk, patch by teor.
o Major bugfixes (compilation):
- Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
@@ -53,7 +52,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
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'.
+ bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
o Major bugfixes (relays, bridge clients):
- Ensure relays always allow IPv4 OR and Dir connections. Ensure
@@ -80,8 +79,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
o Minor features (security, win32):
- Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
- attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
- by "teor".
+ attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch by teor.
o Minor features (bug-resistance):
- Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
@@ -95,9 +93,8 @@ Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
o Minor features (code hardening):
- Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
- level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
- terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from 'jsturgix'. Found
- with Flawfinder.
+ level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-terminate.
+ Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
o Minor features (crypto):
- Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
@@ -121,7 +118,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
- Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
"ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
- "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by "teor".
+ "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
- Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
@@ -147,24 +144,23 @@ Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
- Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
- 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
+ 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
- Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
- 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by "dgoulet"
- and "teor".
+ 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
o Minor bugfixes (build):
- - 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.
+ - 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.
- Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18625; bugfix on
0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
- Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
- 0f3eeca9 in 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by "teor".
+ 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
- Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
@@ -174,9 +170,8 @@ Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
- Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
- avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
- by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
- on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
+ avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found by
+ clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
- Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
@@ -203,7 +198,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
- When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
- 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by "atagar", patch by "teor".
+ 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
- Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
@@ -226,14 +221,14 @@ Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
+ - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
+ syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
+ Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
- Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
- Fix the sandbox's interoperability with unix domain sockets under
setuid. Fixes bug 18253; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
- - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
- syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
- Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (logging):
- When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
@@ -243,17 +238,16 @@ Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
- 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".
+ bug 18351; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb and
+ Christian, patch by teor.
o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
- Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
- 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.
+ 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".
+ by toralf, patch by "cypherpunks".
- Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
- Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
@@ -262,12 +256,12 @@ Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
- Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852. Patch
- from 'jsturgix'. Found with Flawfinder.
+ from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
- Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
- Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 6b4af1071 in 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by
- "teor", reported by "karsten".
+ Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by
+ teor, reported by karsten.
o Minor bugfixes (testing):
- We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
@@ -279,17 +273,17 @@ Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
o Minor bugfixes (time parsing):
- Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
- 0.0.2pre14. Patch by "teor".
+ 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
- Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
- 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "junglefowl".
+ 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
o Code simplification and refactoring:
- Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
- 17744. Patch from "zerosion".
+ 17744. Patch from zerosion.
- Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
@@ -514,7 +508,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
- Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
- on tor-0.1.1.1-alpha.
+ on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
- Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
bugfix on 0.0.6.
@@ -526,16 +520,16 @@ Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
- Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
- on tor-0.2.5.2-alpha.
+ on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
- Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
- Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
- Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
- build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on tor-0.2.7.3-rc.
+ build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
- Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
- on tor-0.0.2pre8.
+ on 0.0.2pre8.
- Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
@@ -554,7 +548,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
- Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
- seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-alpha.
+ seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
o Minor bugfixes (logging):
- In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
@@ -783,7 +777,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21
o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
- Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
- bugfix on tor-0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
+ bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
o Minor bugfixes (testing):
- Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
@@ -977,7 +971,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
- Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
- 16274; bugfix on tor- 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
+ 16274; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
o Minor bugfixes (portability):
- Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
@@ -1451,7 +1445,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
- Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
flag to relay without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
- on tor-0.2.6.3-alpha.
+ on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
- Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
@@ -1492,7 +1486,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
- Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
flag to relay without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
- on tor-0.2.6.3-alpha.
+ on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
- Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
@@ -1672,7 +1666,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
o Removed code:
- Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
- has been part of tor since tor-0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
+ has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
- Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
Closes ticket 14922.
@@ -9701,7 +9695,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
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.
- Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
- consensus. Bugfix on tor-0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
+ consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
clang's analyzer.
- Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
diff --git a/ReleaseNotes b/ReleaseNotes
index 1e9f7f2..ba5de30 100644
--- a/ReleaseNotes
+++ b/ReleaseNotes
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
- Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
flag to relay without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
- on tor-0.2.6.3-alpha.
+ on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
- When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
- Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
- bugfix on tor-0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
+ bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
- Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
o Removed code:
- Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
- has been part of tor since tor-0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
+ has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
- Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
Closes ticket 14922.
@@ -802,7 +802,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
- Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
flag to relay without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
- on tor-0.2.6.3-alpha.
+ on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
- Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
@@ -6960,7 +6960,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
- Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
- consensus. Bugfix on tor-0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
+ consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
clang's analyzer.
- If 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
