commit 9e2435c25fd48765a6c298c7f0bb7739ba495580 Author: Nick Mathewson nickm@torproject.org Date: Tue Sep 15 08:46:07 2020 -0400
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index dff7e552f6..d4c764fa21 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,64 @@ +Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15 + Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This + series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance + support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running + without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and + enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that + we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series. + + Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine + months after its first stable release, or three months after the first + stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means + that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if + 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated. + + Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3 + will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting + 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022. + + Below are the changes since 0.4.4.4-rc. For a complete list of changes + since 0.4.3.6, see the ReleaseNotes file. + + o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS): + - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense. + Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS + defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service + operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug + 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha. + + o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services): + - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total + onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from + clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services. + Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. + + o Minor features (control port): + - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an + onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW. + Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan. + + o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter): + - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the + MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB, + when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no + minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so + low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308. + + o Minor features (tests): + - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel + chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a + factor of two. Closes ticket 40098. + + o Minor bugfixes (guard selection algorithm): + - Avoid needless guard-related warning when upgrading from 0.4.3 to + 0.4.4. Fixes bug 40105; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (tests): + - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run + on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug + 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. + + Changes in version 0.4.4.3-alpha - 2020-07-27 Tor 0.4.4.3-alpha fixes several annoyances in previous versions, including one affecting NSS users, and several affecting the Linux diff --git a/ReleaseNotes b/ReleaseNotes index 688dea935e..8755024e9e 100644 --- a/ReleaseNotes +++ b/ReleaseNotes @@ -3,6 +3,448 @@ 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 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15 + Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This + series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance + support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running + without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and + enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that + we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series. + + Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine + months after its first stable release, or three months after the first + stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means + that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if + 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated. + + Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3 + will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting + 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022. + + Below are the changes since 0.4.3.6-rc. For a complete list of changes + since 0.4.4.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file. + + o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security): + - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal + 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard + selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new + algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all + previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements + recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS + project researching optimal client location-aware path selections. + This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group, + the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.) + + o Major features (fallback directory list): + - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor + 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list + of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061. + + o Major features (IPv6, relay): + - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol + warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and + internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other + address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817. + - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are + provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes + ticket 33817. + - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes + ticket 33817. + - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6 + ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in + the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6 + ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817. + + o Major features (v3 onion services): + - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances, + by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option. + Closes ticket 32709. + + o Major bugfixes (NSS): + - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect + nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as + nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to + unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix + on 0.3.5.1-alpha. + + o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS): + - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense. + Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS + defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service + operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug + 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha. + + o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services): + - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total + onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from + clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services. + Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. + + o Minor features (security): + - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no + longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is + only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519 + keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that + specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081. + + o Minor features (bootstrap reporting): + - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the + failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call + these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE" + when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes + ticket 32622. + + o Minor features (client-only compilation): + - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when + compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368. + - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode + is disabled. Closes ticket 33370. + - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without + support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366. + + o Minor features (code safety): + - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa() + functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust + codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances. + Resolves issue 33788. + + o Minor features (continuous integration): + - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with + ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor. + Resolves ticket 32143. + + o Minor features (control port): + - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an + onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW. + Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan. + - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh- + relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned + a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket + 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan. + + o Minor features (defense in depth): + - Wipe more data from connection address fields before returning + them to the memory heap. Closes ticket 6198. + + o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter): + - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the + MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB, + when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no + minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so + low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308. + + o Minor features (developer tooling): + - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option + names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339. + - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor + build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers + all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642. + - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and + helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451. + + o Minor features (directory authority): + - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported + by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been + deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will + cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or + when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696. + + o Minor features (directory authority, shared random): + - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling + code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when + compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436. + + o Minor features (directory): + - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory + purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log + this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes + ticket 32720. + + o Minor features (entry guards): + - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events. + Closes ticket 40001. + + o Minor features (IPv6 support): + - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above + changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch + by MrSquanchee. + - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 + cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays. + Closes ticket 33901. + + o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability): + - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to + report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail. + This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less + common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382. + - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use + to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346. + + o Minor features (logging): + - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to + report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888. + + o Minor features (onion service client, SOCKS5): + - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back + new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of + these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes + ticket 32542. + + o Minor features (onion service v3): + - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO + level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. + + o Minor features (python scripts): + - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a + hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use + /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes + bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2. + + o Minor features (testing, architecture): + - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization + order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established + by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634. + - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test + harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow- + up from ticket 33316. + - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel + chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a + factor of two. Closes ticket 40098. + + o Minor features (v3 onion services): + - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is + triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion + services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan. + + o Minor features (windows): + - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows. + Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder). + + o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service): + - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to + ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say + 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers): + - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we + ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input + buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this. + Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities): + - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In + particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes, + it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This + change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities + have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (git scripts): + - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push + hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes + bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (initialization): + - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely + corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is + initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it. + Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay): + - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and + receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay): + - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is + canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could + consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the + canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899; + bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. + - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the + responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote + IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug + 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox): + - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The + fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27 + but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on + the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315; + bugfix on 0.3.5.11. + - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir + according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when + reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to + 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix + on 0.3.5.11. + + o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing): + - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL + and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE() + used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging + mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha. + - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit + build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (mainloop): + - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in + size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. + + o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3 client): + - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug + 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging): + - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0. + Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3): + - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when + opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix + on 0.3.2.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions): + - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the + tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix + on 0.4.0.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports): + - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by + default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges + would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly + received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count + as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local + address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (refactoring): + - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the + circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are + many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9. + + o Minor bugfixes (relay, self-testing): + - When starting up as a relay, if we haven't been able to verify + that we're reachable, only launch reachability tests at most once + a minute. Previously, we had been launching tests up to once a + second, which was needlessly noisy. Fixes bug 40083; bugfix + on 0.2.8.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability): + - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many + connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5 + connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections + for directory authorities, and raise the number of total + connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix + on 0.3.1.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS, onion service client): + - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when + returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix + on 0.4.3.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (tests): + - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run + on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug + 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services): + - Remove a BUG() warning that could trigger in certain unlikely + edge-cases. Fixes bug 34086; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. + - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor + changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix + on 0.3.2.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (windows): + - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew + above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha. + + o Code simplification and refactoring: + - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like + TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address, + brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956. + Patch by Neel Chauhan. + - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which + manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were + isolated in subsystems of their own. + - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency + inversion. Closes ticket 33633. + - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the + circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes + ticket 33633. + - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from + port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee. + - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and + simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes + ticket 33349. + - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem + code. Closes ticket 33014. + - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their + own files. Closes ticket 33789. + + o Documentation: + - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with + https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and + the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand. + - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with + seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on + 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto. + + o Removed features: + - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the + Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it + is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C + before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has + proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with + "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. + - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to + randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and + wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option + failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905. + Patch by Neel Chauhan. + - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used + on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576. + + o Testing: + - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs + when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300. + - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile. + These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from + test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280. + - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194. + - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6 + chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes + ticket 33303. + - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs + first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes + ticket 33194. + - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was + previously configured to fast_finish (which requires + allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195. + - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And + add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the + test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make + targets. Closes ticket 33334. + - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test- + network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid- + February 2020). Closes ticket 28208. + - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh" + tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792. + + o Deprecated features (onion service v2): + - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes + ticket 40003. + + o Documentation (manual page): + - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor + manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of + Google Season of Docs. + - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory + Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing + Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket + 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs. + - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily + torrc option. Resolves issue 33417. + - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page. + Closes ticket 33778. + + Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several usability, portability, and reliability fixes.