commit a522e9492b8c9bad4f33e8cf65d0dc141deda84a Author: Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> Date: Wed Mar 12 15:58:18 2014 -0400 Sort the 0.2.5.3-alpha changelog a little --- ChangeLog | 169 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+), 112 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index e03205f..8002e4e 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -5,32 +5,38 @@ Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-?? conditions. Rename MaxMemInCellQueues to MaxMemInQueues. Fixes bug 10169. - o Minor bugfixes: - - Exit immediately when exiting because of dropped connection from - a process-owning controller. Previously, if we were running in - server mode, we would wait for a little while as in the when we - got an INT signal--but this was problematic, since there was no - feedback for the user. Controllers that want to do a clean - shutdown should send an INT signal, and let the user know what's - going on. Fix for bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. - - o Minor bugfixes: - - Log an improved message when excluding hidden service directory - nodes prevents a hidden service from working. - Improves on our fix for bug #10722, which was a bugfix on - 0.2.0.10-alpha. - - o Removed code - - Remove all code for hidden service authorities to accept and serve - version 0 descriptors and left-over code for hidden services and - hidden service clients to upload and fetch version 0 descriptors. - Version 0 descriptors are not in use anymore since 0.2.2.1-alpha. - Fixes the rest of bug 10841. - o Minor features: - Bridges write the SHA1 digest of their identity key fingerprint to notice-level logs and to hashed-fingerprint, so that bridge operators can look up their bridge in Globe and similar tools. + - Improve the message that gets displayed when Tor as a bridge is + using pluggable transports but doesn't have an Extended ORPort + listener. Furthermore, we now log the message in the log file + too. Resolves ticket 11043. + - Warn the user if they put any ports in the SocksPolicy, + DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or + AuthDirBadExit options. Fixes ticket #11108. + - Don't log at warning severity when we refuse to launch a + pluggable transport proxy that we don't need. Resolves ticket + 5018; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. + - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country + database. + - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes, to + appease raspberry pi users. Fixes bug 9686. + - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure + SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this + feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted + client or server by flooding their data structures with a large + number of data entries all calculated to be stored at the same + hash table position, thereby degrading hash table + performance. With this feature, hash table positions are derived + from a randomized cryptographic key using SipHash-2-4, and an + attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. + Closes ticket 4900. + - Made PREDICTED_CIRCS_RELEVANCE_TIME configurable from config + file with a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime. Implements + ticket #9176. Patch by unixninja92. + - Update to the latest version of tinytest. o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21): - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that @@ -41,25 +47,26 @@ Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-?? manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py". Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch. - o Minor bugfixes (unit tests); + o Minor bugfixes: + - Exit immediately when exiting because of dropped connection from + a process-owning controller. Previously, if we were running in + server mode, we would wait for a little while as in the when we + got an INT signal--but this was problematic, since there was no + feedback for the user. Controllers that want to do a clean + shutdown should send an INT signal, and let the user know what's + going on. Fix for bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. + - Log an improved message when excluding hidden service directory + nodes prevents a hidden service from working. + Improves on our fix for bug #10722, which was a bugfix on + 0.2.0.10-alpha. - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch. - - o Minor bugfixes - Fix IPv6 support when using the SocksPort with SOCKS5. Using IPv6 through a SOCKS5 using the SocksPort option will now work with this fix. This part of the code has never been updated to support IPv6 thus this does not fix a previously introduced regression. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. - - o Minor features (log messages): - - Improve the message that gets displayed when Tor as a bridge is - using pluggable transports but doesn't have an Extended ORPort - listener. Furthermore, we now log the message in the log file - too. Resolves ticket 11043. - - o Minor bugfixes: - Build using the -fasynchronous-unwind-tables option so that more platforms (in particular, ones like 32-bit Intel where the -fomit-frame-pointer option is on by default and table @@ -67,126 +74,64 @@ Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-?? doesn't yet add Windows support yet; only Linux, OSX, and some BSD are affected. Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. - - o Minor bugfixes: - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed asswertions at the same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. - - o Minor bugfixes (clients): - Fix tor so that it raises a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of our bridges. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on tor-0.2.1.2-alpha. - - o Minor features: - - Warn the user if they put any ports in the SocksPolicy, - DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or - AuthDirBadExit options. Fixes ticket #11108. - - o Documentation: - - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and their allies don't take - port arguments. Fixes ticket #11108. - - o Documentation: - - Fix the max client name length in the manpage's description of - HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient description: it should have been - 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. - - o Minor bugfixes (clients): - Fix a bug where we would attempt to connect to bridges before our pluggable transports were configured, which resulted in some erroneous log messages. Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. - - o Minor features: - - Don't log at warning severity when we refuse to launch a - pluggable transport proxy that we don't need. Resolves ticket - 5018; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. - - o Minor bugfixes: - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for relays. Fix for bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. - - o Minor bugfixes: - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. - - o Minor bugfixes: - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a server using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23. - - o Minor bugfixes (testing): - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so that comparisons NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. - - o Minor bugfixes: - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. - - o Documentation: - - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as - "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as - "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket #9222. - - o Minor bugfixes: - Give the correct URL in the warning message that we present when the user is trying to run a Tor relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393. - - o Minor bugfixes: - Non-exit servers no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when non-exit servers stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan. - - o Minor changes: - - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes, to - appease raspberry pi users. Fixes bug 9686. - - o Minor features: - - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure - SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this - feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted - client or server by flooding their data structures with a large - number of data entries all calculated to be stored at the same - hash table position, thereby degrading hash table - performance. With this feature, hash table positions are derived - from a randomized cryptographic key using SipHash-2-4, and an - attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. - Closes ticket 4900. - - o Minor features: - - Update geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country - database. - o Minor features: - - Update to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database. - - o Minor features: - - Fix our version of the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database. - - o Minor bugfixes (compilation): - Fix a 64-to-32-conversion warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper. + o Removed code + - Remove all code for hidden service authorities to accept and serve + version 0 descriptors and left-over code for hidden services and + hidden service clients to upload and fetch version 0 descriptors. + Version 0 descriptors are not in use anymore since 0.2.2.1-alpha. + Fixes the rest of bug 10841. + + o Documentation: + - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and their allies don't take + port arguments. Fixes ticket #11108. + - Fix the max client name length in the manpage's description of + HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient description: it should have been + 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. + - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as + "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as + "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket #9222. + o Code simplifications and refactoring: - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528. - o Minor features: - - Made PREDICTED_CIRCS_RELEVANCE_TIME configurable from config - file with a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime. Implements - ticket #9176. Patch by unixninja92. - - o Testing: - - Update to the latest version of tinytest. - Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28