commit 5f035e2c6501fe166900cb493e2c3de51371c9c5 Author: Roger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org> Date: Thu Apr 18 05:48:25 2013 -0400 forward-port 0.2.4.1[12] changelogs --- ChangeLog | 374 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 374 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index cd7f691..6a5ab8d 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,377 @@ +Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18 + Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the + process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory + authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5 + username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide + variety of other issues. + + o Major features: + - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from + "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES + 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client + load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable + via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus + parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. + - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to + advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves + ticket 8273. + - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number + of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured + bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435. + + o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use): + - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain + network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU + consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. + - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell + onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another + case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha. + + o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy): + - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it + continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness + is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps + backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26. + - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries + which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that + rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. + - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but + we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc + consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting. + Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular + address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. + - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with + IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer + username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor + had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications + never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects + username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable + this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes + bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. + + o Major bugfixes (other): + - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a + directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working + nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231; + bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. + + o Minor features: + - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL. + Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037. + - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more + entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes + bug 8638. + - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol + to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves + ticket 8596. + - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. + + o Minor features (build): + - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support + when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support. + Fixes bug 6673. + - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking + specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation. + Fixes bug 8014. + - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there + are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can + hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably + some will remain. + + o Minor bugfixes (build): + - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and + run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem. + Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. + - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES. + On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon + as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha. + - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build + but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587; + bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. + - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would + prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch + statements with missing enum values, even if those switch + statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix + on 0.2.4.10-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (protocol): + - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the + circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1. + - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a + VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as + 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have + only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on + 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously. + - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups + consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes + bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy." + - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2 + cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and + later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha. + Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (other): + - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with + an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. + Bug reported by "cypherpunks". + - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's + link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the + only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported + pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. + - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a + buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add + additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias + counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling. + Should help resolve bug 8235. + - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to + nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use + "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix + on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (syscalls): + - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and + setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in + practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return + values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from + 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor. + - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor + caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it + less common. + + o Minor bugfixes (config): + - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a + quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix + on 0.2.0.16-alpha. + - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout + but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes + bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. + - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available + CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the + user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002; + bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. + - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes, + since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes + bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. + - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for + the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've + observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. + - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the + PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix + on 0.2.4.10-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs): + - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log + the filename and line number from which we tried to free it. + - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log + overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is + high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time. + Diagnostic for bug 7707. + - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help + track bug 7799. + - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a + microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, + or at least make it more diagnosable. + - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug: + outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.") + - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly. + Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy): + - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits. + They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of + the relaxed timeout log message. + - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This + should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused + by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on + 0.2.4.8-alpha. + - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message + is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196; + bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. + - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup. + Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. + - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in + connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on + 0.2.4.11-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy): + - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we + finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the + connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427; + bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. + - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes + bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. + - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount + of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha. + - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a + hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus, + decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302; + bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. + - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating. + These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one + with any problematic effects (no connections are actually + opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. + + o Documentation fixes: + - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option + names match. Fixes bug 7768. + - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't + supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha. + - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks. + - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to + ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent + ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk. + + o Removed files: + - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We + recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves + ticket 8290. + + +Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11 + Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities + more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and + resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport. + + o Major features (directory authorities): + - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17) + where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which + insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286. + - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer + serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the + old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has + any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783. + - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of + the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags. + Implements ticket 8151. + + o Major bugfixes (directory authorities): + - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every + time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes + were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes + bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha. + + o Major bugfixes (hidden services): + - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we + refactored the hidden service introduction code back + in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks + whether authentication information is present, causing all + authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix + on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615. + + o Minor features (relays, bridges): + - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP + address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves + bugs 1913 and 1992. + - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we + decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from + explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname). + Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses + its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in + /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267. + - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making + microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal + descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors + (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall + back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred + them). Resolves ticket 4994. + - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't + use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443; + related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33. + + o Minor features (portability): + - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems + that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. + - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine + the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old + approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling. + - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the + only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727; + bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. + + o Minor features (other): + - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values + of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in + units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054. + - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to + our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do + so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit, + we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would + be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on + 0.2.4.8-alpha. + - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. + + o Minor bugfixes (clients): + - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no + reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS + status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases + as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug + 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". + - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an + LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message + from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose + is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on + 0.2.4.8-alpha. + - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn. + Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages + independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161; + bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (relays): + - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we + think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached + answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc) + and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha). + - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status + "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix + on 0.1.2.6-alpha. + - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake + first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously, + we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a + 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with + many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on + 0.2.2.20-alpha. + - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and + Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more + bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated + by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities): + - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical + microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix + on 0.2.4.1-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816): + - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature + or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. + - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix + on 0.2.1.1-alpha. + - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication. + Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. + - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into + a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. + + o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues): + - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor. + Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity; + this is CID 718634. + - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to + close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually + use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken. + Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this + is CID 743383. + - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset + because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650. + Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. + - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how + long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us + to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes + bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. + + o Code simplification and refactoring: + - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a + rate-limit" case. + + Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue