commit e5eb260b7a534ab1ad9d3221c047ca13004b7756 Author: Nick Mathewson nickm@torproject.org Date: Wed Apr 26 15:39:10 2017 -0400
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 2dba2f3..65850b3 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,44 @@ Changes in version 0.3.1.1-alpha - 2017-??-??
+ +Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26 + Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series. + + With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to + authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old + RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been + Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced + the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly + in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard- + capture attacks. + + This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes, + along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp. + + Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0 + release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months + after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is + longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend + that you stay with the 0.2.9 series. + + Below are the changes since 0.3.0.5-rc. For a list of all changes + since 0.2.9, see the ReleaseNotes file. + + o Minor features (geoip): + - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 + Country database. + + o Minor bugfixes (control port): + - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because + of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when + refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention): + - Fix a (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash + bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of + 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + + Changes in version 0.3.0.5-rc - 2017-04-05 Tor 0.3.0.5-rc fixes a few remaining bugs, large and small, in the 0.3.0 release series. diff --git a/ReleaseNotes b/ReleaseNotes index 8b1d54e..ca5a30d 100644 --- a/ReleaseNotes +++ b/ReleaseNotes @@ -3,6 +3,598 @@ of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the changes in each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
+Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26 + Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series. + + With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to + authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old + RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been + Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced + the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly + in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard- + capture attacks. + + This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes, + along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp. + + Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0 + release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months + after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is + longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend + that you stay with the 0.2.9 series. + + Below are the changes since 0.2.9.10. For a list of only the changes + since 0.3.0.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file. + + o Major features (directory authority, security): + - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities + will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously + seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319. + + o Major features (guard selection algorithm): + - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the + ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive + sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by + hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes + ticket 19877. + + o Major features (next-generation hidden services): + - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by + prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients + don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on + initial code by Alec Heifetz. + - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can + can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next- + generation onion service work detailled in proposal 224. Closes + ticket 17238. + + o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys): + - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2 + cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus + parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for + testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This + might make your traffic appear different than the traffic + generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket + 15056; part of proposal 220. + - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their + Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in + an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the + other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part + of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220. + - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to + one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more + secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now. + Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes + ticket 15055. + + o Major features (security): + - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server + side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the + DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and + Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL + values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3 + hours long. Closes ticket 19769. + + o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9): + - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple + socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request) + could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's + introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so + eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a + mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log + warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to + remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled + negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307; + bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. + + o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections): + - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose + linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug + 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett. + + o Major bugfixes (directory authority): + - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not + clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways + too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix + on 0.2.0.13-alpha. + + o Major bugfixes (DNS): + - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for + more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. + + o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits): + - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects + any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the + exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of + addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha, + which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug + 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. + + o Major bugfixes (parsing): + - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor + versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with + --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor + 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases + it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix + on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz. + - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP + message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a + potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and + relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this + bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue, + which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch). + Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing + using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/). + + o Major bugfixes (scheduler): + - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug + caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly, + rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits. + Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. + + o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9): + - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when + --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, + like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it + on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug + into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); + bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + + o Minor feature (client): + - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this, + a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269. + + o Minor feature (fallback scripts): + - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks + if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket + 20174. Patch by haxxpop. + + o Minor feature (protocol versioning): + - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises + version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656. + + o Minor features (ciphersuite selection): + - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including + chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426. + - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones + preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426. + + o Minor features (controller): + - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose + shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925. + - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument" + rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from + Ivan Markin. + + o Minor features (controller, configuration): + - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort, + and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved + to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This + change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for + each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956. + - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be + meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller + to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced + in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300. + + o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client): + - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory + download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of + bug 20593. + + o Minor features (directory authorities): + - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be + malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of + bug 21278. + - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX. + Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently. + Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. + + o Minor features (directory authority): + - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by + default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays + by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few + releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link + protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option. + + o Minor features (directory cache): + - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they + have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes + ticket 20511. + + o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake): + - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the + subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which + relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552. + + o Minor features (entry guards): + - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not + break regression tests. + - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make + sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502. + + o Minor features (fallback directories): + - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we + are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912. + - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus + weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878. + - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from + fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908. + - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list. + Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions + known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver + a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago). + Closes ticket 20539. + - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks. + Closes ticket 20822. + - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of + ticket 18828. + - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for + 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability). + Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug + 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for + this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix + in 0.2.8.2-alpha. + - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted + decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of + clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an + authority. Part of ticket 18828. + - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes + ticket 20881. + + o Minor features (fingerprinting resistence, authentication): + - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to + 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward + secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752. + + o Minor features (geoip): + - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 + Country database. + + o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9): + - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 + Country database. + + o Minor features (infrastructure): + - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of + smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048. + + o Minor features (linting): + - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are + prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096. + + o Minor features (logging): + - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>", + rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037. + + o Minor features (portability, compilation): + - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque, + instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part + of ticket 21359. + - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque + structures. Closes ticket 21359. + + o Minor features (relay): + - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different + source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and + OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975. + Written by Michael Sonntag. + + o Minor features (reliability, crash): + - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or + think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for + bug 21369. + + o Minor features (testing): + - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask + chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with + the 21572 patch. Implements 21570. + + o Minor bugfix (control protocol): + - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control + protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a + breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be + ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146; + bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha. + - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because + of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when + refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfix (logging): + - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode. + Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all + anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users + who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix + on 0.2.9.3-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience): + - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug + 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by + Hans Jerry Illikainen. + + o Minor bugfixes (build): + - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and + prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix + on 0.1.0.1-rc. + + o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time): + - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some + time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha + + o Minor bugfixes (client): + - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an + attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372; + bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. + - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on + disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they + use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (code correctness): + - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky + comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278. + + o Minor bugfixes (config): + - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and + LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the + options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062; + bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (configuration): + - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in + the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. + - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes. + "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already + supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf): + - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to + --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor + daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it + makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or + heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a + message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix + on 0.2.5.4-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight): + - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead + of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to + the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error. + Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention): + - Fix an (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash + bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of + 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (dead code): + - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in + options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed + regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123; + bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (descriptors): + - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even + when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with + FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities. + Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors): + - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these + relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir + connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. + - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly + missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a + local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix + on 0.2.8.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (directory system): + - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do) + rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend + in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug + 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. + - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority + certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of + whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix + on all recent tor versions. + + o Minor bugfixes (documentation): + - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not + be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122. + + o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates): + - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some + time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories): + - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in + OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this + prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes + bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. + - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py. + Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. + - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in + updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (hidden service): + - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated + circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring + introduction points to not open enough additional introduction + points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. + - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and + closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop. + Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. + - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just + because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever + value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix + on 0.2.6.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (hidden services): + - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections, + even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit. + Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett. + - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for + failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would + wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug + 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett. + - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to + start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes + bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha + and earlier. + + o Minor bugfixes (IPv6): + - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory + server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. + - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc + consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard- + coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured + bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug + 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit): + - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused + RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix + on 0.2.7.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (onion services): + - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather + than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (portability): + - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__". + It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD + variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix + on 0.1.2.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9): + - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain + CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel + without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix + on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers + installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (relay): + - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we + receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix + on 0.1.0.1-rc. + - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously, + initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700 + instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1. + Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish". + + o Minor bugfixes (testing): + - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in + test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch by "hein". + - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing + its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. + - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably + call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes + bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve): + - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255 + characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them, + which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. + Patch by "junglefowl". + + o Minor bugfixes (unit tests): + - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus + addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863; + bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha + through 0.2.9.4-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (util): + - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace + the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to + replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk. + Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk. + + o Minor bugfixes (Windows services): + - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using + it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix + on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (Windows): + - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes + compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on + 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice". + + o Code simplification and refactoring: + - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new + guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271. + Closes ticket 19858. + - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables. + - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion + service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service + directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526. + - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check. + - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and + testability. Closes ticket 18873. + - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into + separate functions. Closes ticket 20921. + - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use + switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077. + - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as + is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717. + - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection + objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully + redundant with the similar structures used in the + channel abstraction. + - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions. + Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl. + - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to + use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077. + - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been + replaced with code automatically generated by the + "trunnel" utility. + + o Documentation (formatting): + - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre> + blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885. + + o Documentation (man page): + - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for + HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058. + + o Documentation: + - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation + comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch + from pastly. + - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which + is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local + network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes + ticket 17070. + - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from + 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix on 0.2.5.6-alpha. + - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug + 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. + - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472. + - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir + must already exist. Fixes 20486. + - Update the description of the directory server options in the + manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set + DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720. + + o Removed features: + - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same + limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP + addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes + ticket 20960. + - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users + that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to + proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831. + + o Testing: + - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10. + - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new. + - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other + test functions. + - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch + from "overcaffeinated". + - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail + when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500. + + Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this