commit ba5889011853bc1d86892b5379a87766b0380be5
Author: Nick Mathewson <nickm(a)torproject.org>
Date: Tue Jan 15 13:15:22 2019 -0500
Forward-port changelog and releasenotes entries from last Monday
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ReleaseNotes | 1017 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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+Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2018-01-07
+ Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
+ numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
+ 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
+ to this version, or to a later series.
+
+ As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
+ We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
+ some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
+ should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
+ 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
+ support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
+
+ o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
+ - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
+ OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
+ running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
+ 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
+ support was added).
+
+ o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
+ - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
+ impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
+ Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
+ - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
+ errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
+ they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
+ - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
+ duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
+ Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
+ use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
+
+ o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
+ - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
+ Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
+ does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
+
+ o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
+ - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
+ 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
+ functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
+ removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
+
+ o Minor features (geoip):
+ - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
+ Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
+
+ o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
+ - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
+ key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
+ detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
+ version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
+ Closes ticket 28973.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
+ - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
+ is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
+ discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
+ - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
+ the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
+ on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
+ - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
+ compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
+ - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
+ some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
+ use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
+ - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
+ with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
+ 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
+ - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
+ them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
+ were the same, the default setting (0) for
+ CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
+ DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
+ on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
+ - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
+ permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
+ on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
+ - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
+ descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
+ one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
+ Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
+ - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
+ descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
+ gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
+ authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
+ - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
+ any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
+ connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
+ HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
+ all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
+ - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
+ an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
+ 0.3.2.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
+ - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
+ bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
+ - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
+ padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
+ - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
+ characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
+ on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
+ - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
+ protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
+ repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
+ to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
+ 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
+ - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
+ 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
+ - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
+ some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
+ bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
+ - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
+ a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
+ - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
+ created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
+ bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
+ - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
+ protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
+ directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
+ recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
+ - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
+ nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
+ test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
+ the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
+ bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
+ - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
+ (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
+ (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
+ 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
+ - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
+ bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
+
+
+Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2018-01-07
+ Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
+ numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
+ using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
+ should upgrade.
+
+ As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
+ 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
+ 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
+ Feb 2022.
+
+ o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
+ - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
+ OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
+ running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
+ 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
+ support was added).
+
+ o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
+ - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
+ any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
+ serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
+ first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
+ clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
+ 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
+
+ o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
+ - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
+ artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
+ Implements 28459.
+
+ o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
+ - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
+ closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
+ bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
+ either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
+ ticket 25573.
+
+ o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
+ - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
+ 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
+ functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
+ removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
+
+ o Minor features (geoip):
+ - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
+ Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
+
+ o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
+ - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
+ key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
+ detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
+ version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
+ Closes ticket 28973.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
+ - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
+ some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
+ use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
+ - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
+ open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
+ Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
+ able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
+ on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
+ - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
+ mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
+ not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
+ on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
+ - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
+ packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
+ bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
+ - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
+ download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
+ already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
+ - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
+ them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
+ were the same, the default setting (0) for
+ CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
+ DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
+ on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
+ - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
+ bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
+ - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
+ descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
+ gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
+ authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
+ - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
+ any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
+ connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
+ HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
+ all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
+ - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
+ is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
+ discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
+ - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
+ bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
+
+
+Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
+ Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
+ compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
+ affecting directory caches.
+
+ The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
+ improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
+ cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
+ measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
+ and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
+ layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
+ Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
+ bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
+
+ There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
+ compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
+ services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
+ override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
+ changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
+ so it will recognize them.
+
+ We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
+ will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
+ until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
+ support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
+ authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
+ with the latest stable release.)
+
+ Below are the changes since 0.3.5.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
+ since 0.3.4.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
+
+ o Major bugfixes (relay, directory):
+ - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
+ any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
+ serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
+ first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
+ clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
+ 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
+
+ o Minor features (compilation):
+ - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
+ avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
+
+ o Minor features (geoip):
+ - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
+ Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
+
+ o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
+ - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
+ key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
+ detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
+ version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
+ Closes ticket 28973.
+
+ o Minor features (performance):
+ - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
+ startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
+ this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
+ it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
+ information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
+ on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
+ platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
+ - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
+ every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
+ low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
+ - Fix compilation for Android by adding a missing header to
+ freespace.c. Fixes bug 28974; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
+ - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
+ "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
+ used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
+ 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (testing):
+ - Make sure that test_rebind.py actually obeys its timeout, even
+ when it receives a large number of log messages. Fixes bug 28883;
+ bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
+ - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
+ continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
+ stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (windows services):
+ - Make Tor start correctly as an NT service again: previously it was
+ broken by refactoring. Fixes bug 28612; bugfix on 0.3.5.3-alpha.
+
+ o Code simplification and refactoring:
+ - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
+ analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
+ ticket 28881.
+
+
Changes in version 0.3.5.6-rc - 2018-12-18
Tor 0.3.5.6-rc fixes numerous small bugs in earlier versions of Tor.
It is the first release candidate in the 0.3.5.x series; if no further
diff --git a/ReleaseNotes b/ReleaseNotes
index e0a25a74b..7c8ab0166 100644
--- a/ReleaseNotes
+++ b/ReleaseNotes
@@ -2,6 +2,1023 @@ This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable
release of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the
changes in each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
+Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2018-01-07
+ Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
+ numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
+ 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
+ to this version, or to a later series.
+
+ As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
+ We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
+ some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
+ should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
+ 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
+ support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
+
+ o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
+ - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
+ OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
+ running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
+ 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
+ support was added).
+
+ o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
+ - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
+ impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
+ Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
+ - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
+ errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
+ they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
+ - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
+ duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
+ Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
+ use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
+
+ o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
+ - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
+ Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
+ does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
+
+ o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
+ - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
+ 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
+ functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
+ removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
+
+ o Minor features (geoip):
+ - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
+ Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
+
+ o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
+ - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
+ key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
+ detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
+ version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
+ Closes ticket 28973.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
+ - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
+ is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
+ discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
+ - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
+ the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
+ on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
+ - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
+ compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
+ - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
+ some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
+ use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
+ - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
+ with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
+ 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
+ - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
+ them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
+ were the same, the default setting (0) for
+ CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
+ DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
+ on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
+ - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
+ permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
+ on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
+ - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
+ descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
+ one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
+ Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
+ - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
+ descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
+ gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
+ authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
+ - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
+ any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
+ connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
+ HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
+ all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
+ - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
+ an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
+ 0.3.2.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
+ - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
+ bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
+ - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
+ padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
+ - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
+ characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
+ on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
+ - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
+ protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
+ repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
+ to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
+ 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
+ - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
+ 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
+ - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
+ some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
+ bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
+ - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
+ a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
+ - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
+ created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
+ bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
+ - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
+ protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
+ directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
+ recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
+ - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
+ nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
+ test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
+ the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
+ bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
+ - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
+ (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
+ (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
+ 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
+ - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
+ bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
+
+
+Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2018-01-07
+ Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
+ numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
+ using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
+ should upgrade.
+
+ As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
+ 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
+ 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
+ Feb 2022.
+
+ o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
+ - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
+ OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
+ running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
+ 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
+ support was added).
+
+ o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
+ - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
+ any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
+ serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
+ first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
+ clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
+ 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
+
+ o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
+ - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
+ artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
+ Implements 28459.
+
+ o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
+ - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
+ closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
+ bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
+ either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
+ ticket 25573.
+
+ o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
+ - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
+ 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
+ functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
+ removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
+
+ o Minor features (geoip):
+ - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
+ Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
+
+ o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
+ - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
+ key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
+ detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
+ version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
+ Closes ticket 28973.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
+ - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
+ some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
+ use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
+ - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
+ open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
+ Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
+ able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
+ on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
+ - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
+ mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
+ not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
+ on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
+ - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
+ packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
+ bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
+ - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
+ download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
+ already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
+ - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
+ them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
+ were the same, the default setting (0) for
+ CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
+ DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
+ on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
+ - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
+ bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
+ - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
+ descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
+ gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
+ authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
+ - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
+ any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
+ connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
+ HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
+ all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
+ - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
+ is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
+ discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
+ - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
+ bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
+
+
+Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
+ Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
+ compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
+ affecting directory caches.
+
+ The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
+ improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
+ cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
+ measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
+ and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
+ layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
+ Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
+ bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
+
+ There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
+ compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
+ services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
+ override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
+ changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
+ so it will recognize them.
+
+ We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
+ will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
+ until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
+ support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
+ authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
+ with the latest stable release.)
+
+ Below are the changes since 0.3.4.9. For a complete list of changes
+ since 0.3.5.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
+
+ o Major features (bootstrap):
+ - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
+ relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
+ progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
+ even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
+
+ o Major features (new code layout):
+ - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
+ logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
+ of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
+ split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
+ "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
+ and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
+ more information. Closes ticket 26481.
+
+ This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
+ refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
+ interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
+
+ o Major features (onion services v3):
+ - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
+ level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
+ to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
+ control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
+ service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
+ onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
+ the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
+ 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
+ - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
+ Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
+ different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
+ previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
+ HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
+ - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
+ HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
+ circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
+ protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
+ circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
+
+ o Major features (onion services, UI change):
+ - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
+ Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
+ now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
+ version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
+ version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
+
+ o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
+ - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
+ OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
+ remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
+ performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
+ installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
+ flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
+
+ If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
+ consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
+ "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
+ (if present), and restart Tor.
+
+ o Major features (relay, UI change):
+ - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
+ option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
+ ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
+ Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
+ warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
+ - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
+ 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
+
+ o Major bugfixes (compilation):
+ - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
+ with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
+
+ o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
+ - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
+ --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
+ requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
+ rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
+ Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
+
+ o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
+ - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
+ configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
+ address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
+ on 0.1.2.10-rc.
+
+ o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
+ - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
+ that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
+ enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
+ Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
+
+ o Major bugfixes (main loop, bootstrap):
+ - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
+ ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
+ when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
+ port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
+
+ o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
+ - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
+ introduction circuits on a NACK. This lets the client decide
+ whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
+ intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
+ 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
+
+ o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
+ - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
+ OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
+ running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
+ 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
+ support was added).
+
+ o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
+ - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
+ queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
+ mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
+ for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
+ statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
+
+ o Major bugfixes (relay):
+ - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
+ connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
+ us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
+ indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
+ on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
+ - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
+ any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
+ serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
+ first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
+ clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
+ 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
+
+ o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
+ - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
+ impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
+ Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor features (admin tools):
+ - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
+ the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
+ issue 19506.
+
+ o Minor features (build):
+ - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
+ to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
+ to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
+ code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
+
+ o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
+ - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
+ verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
+ level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
+ refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
+
+ o Minor features (code layout):
+ - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
+ invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
+ logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
+ failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
+ ticket 26427.
+
+ o Minor features (compilation):
+ - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
+ avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
+ - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
+ select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
+ "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
+ default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
+ Alex Xu.
+
+ o Minor features (config):
+ - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
+ ticket 26663.
+
+ o Minor features (continuous integration):
+ - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
+ ticket 27751.
+ - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
+ integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
+ - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
+ Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
+ does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
+ - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
+ occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
+ ticket 28024.
+ - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
+ Implements ticket 27252.
+ - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
+ dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
+ - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
+ errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
+ they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
+ - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
+ duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
+ Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
+ use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
+
+ o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
+ - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
+ artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
+ Implements 28459.
+ - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
+ Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
+
+ o Minor features (controller):
+ - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
+ invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
+ vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
+ cells. Closes ticket 27678.
+ - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
+ closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
+ bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
+ either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
+ ticket 25573.
+ - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
+ all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
+ - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
+ Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
+
+ o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
+ - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
+ fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
+ subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
+
+ o Minor features (development):
+ - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
+ on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
+
+ o Minor features (directory authority):
+ - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
+ bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
+ - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
+ include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
+ ticket 3723.
+ - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
+ single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
+ ticket 25928.
+
+ o Minor features (embedding API):
+ - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
+ a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
+ applications don't need to manage controller ports and
+ authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
+ - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
+ and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
+ ticket 26947.
+
+ o Minor features (fallback directory list):
+ - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
+ 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
+ functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
+ removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
+
+ o Minor features (geoip):
+ - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
+ Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
+
+ o Minor features (memory management):
+ - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
+ event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
+ ticket 8415.
+
+ o Minor features (memory usage):
+ - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
+ encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
+ save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
+
+ o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
+ - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
+ key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
+ detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
+ version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
+ Closes ticket 28973.
+
+ o Minor features (OpenSSL):
+ - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
+ than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
+
+ o Minor features (performance):
+ - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
+ startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
+ this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
+ it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
+ information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
+ on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
+ platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
+ - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
+ every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
+ low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
+
+ o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
+ - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
+ making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
+ take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
+
+ o Minor features (testing):
+ - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
+ chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
+
+ o Minor features (tor-resolve):
+ - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
+ Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
+
+ o Minor features (UI):
+ - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
+ to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
+ from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
+ - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
+ Closes ticket 26703.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
+ - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
+ difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
+ would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
+ more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
+ on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
+ - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
+ algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
+ bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
+ - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
+ running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
+ on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
+ - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
+ the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
+ bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
+ - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
+ a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
+ 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
+ - Use time_t for all values in
+ predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
+ computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
+ bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
+ - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
+ the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
+ Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
+ over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
+ on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (client, ReachableAddresses):
+ - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
+ loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
+ in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
+ lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
+ 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
+ - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
+ misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
+ bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
+ - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
+ compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
+ on 0.0.6.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
+ - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
+ some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
+ use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
+ - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
+ (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
+ on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
+ - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
+ after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
+ port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
+ 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
+ - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
+ open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
+ Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
+ able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
+ on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
+ - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
+ 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
+ - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
+ builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
+ a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
+ ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
+ - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
+ download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
+ already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
+ - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
+ mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
+ not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
+ on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
+ - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
+ packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
+ bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (controller):
+ - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
+ transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
+ request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
+ recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
+ on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
+ - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
+ "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
+ used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
+ 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
+ - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
+ connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
+ - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
+ them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
+ were the same, the default setting (0) for
+ CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
+ DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
+ on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
+ - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
+ HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
+ on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
+ - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
+ on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
+ subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
+ 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
+ - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
+ OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
+ on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (logging):
+ - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
+ ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
+ on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
+ - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
+ Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
+ this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
+ bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
+ - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
+ fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
+ - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
+ channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
+ that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
+ bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
+ - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
+ bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
+ - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
+ bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
+ - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
+ padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
+ - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
+ have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
+ normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
+ on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
+ - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
+ any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
+ connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
+ HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
+ all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
+ - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
+ uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
+ it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
+ on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
+ - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
+ point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
+ on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
+ - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
+ protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
+ present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
+ rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
+ bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
+ - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
+ descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
+ one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
+ Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
+ - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
+ permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
+ on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
+ - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
+ close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
+ we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
+ bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
+ - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
+ wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
+ close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
+ 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
+ - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
+ node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
+ allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (protover):
+ - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
+ characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
+ on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
+ - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
+ on 0.3.3.3-alpha.
+ - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
+ some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
+ bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
+ - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
+ protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
+ repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
+ to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
+ 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
+ - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
+ 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
+ - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
+ than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
+ TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
+ Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
+ - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
+ is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
+ discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (relay):
+ - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
+ entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
+ have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
+ at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
+ guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
+ Patch by Neel Chauhan.
+ - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
+ Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
+ Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (testing):
+ - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
+ continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
+ stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
+ - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
+ bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
+ - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
+ the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
+ on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
+ on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
+ - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
+ heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
+ within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
+ - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
+ set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
+ - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
+ nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
+ test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
+ the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
+ bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
+ - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
+ report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
+ bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
+ - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
+ the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
+ - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
+ 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
+ 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
+ - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
+ an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
+ confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
+ versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
+ by Keifer Bly.
+ - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
+ GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
+ version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
+ reported by Keifer Bly.
+
+ o Code simplification and refactoring:
+ - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
+ analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
+ ticket 28881.
+ - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
+ multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
+ onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
+ - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
+ group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
+ - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
+ Closes ticket 27814.
+ - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
+ common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
+ - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
+ geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
+ - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
+ help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
+ - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
+ Closes ticket 27799.
+ - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
+ longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
+ - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
+ directory within the top-level src directory.
+ - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
+ header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
+ reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
+ structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
+ - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
+ - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
+ removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
+ - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
+ autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
+ format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
+ should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
+ Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
+ - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
+ select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
+ entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
+ into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
+ Closes ticket 21349.
+ - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
+ inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
+ - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
+ code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
+ calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
+ - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
+ rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
+ ticket 27630.
+ - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
+ separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
+ modules. Closes ticket 26526.
+
+ o Documentation:
+ - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
+ extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
+ - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
+ integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
+ - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
+ CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
+ - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
+ - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
+ torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
+
+ o Removed features:
+ - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
+ debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
+ instead. Closes ticket 26426.
+ - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
+ GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
+ Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
+ - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
+ Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
+ (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
+ possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
+ time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
+ Closes ticket 26367.
+
+ o Testing:
+ - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
+ test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
+
+ o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
+ - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
+ crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
+ it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
+ if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
+ will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
+ Closes ticket 19566.
+
+ o Documentation (onion services):
+ - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
+ explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
+ - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
+ adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
+ sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
+ - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
+ onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
+ process. Closes ticket 28275.
+
+
Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
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