[tor-commits] [tor/release-0.2.9] read through and tidy up the upcoming releasenotes
arma at torproject.org
arma at torproject.org
Mon Dec 19 08:54:39 UTC 2016
commit a8b6998958ac7696ef9b11731a4bfe6a2badedeb
Author: Roger Dingledine <arma at torproject.org>
Date: Mon Dec 19 03:54:23 2016 -0500
read through and tidy up the upcoming releasenotes
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ChangeLog | 114 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------
ReleaseNotes.029 | 116 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
2 files changed, 104 insertions(+), 126 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5671e0c..feaa94b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.7-rc - 2016-12-12
- Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
Country database.
- o Minor bugfix (build):
+ o Minor bugfixes (build):
- The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.7-rc - 2016-12-12
SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
- When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
- destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on tor-0.2.8.3-alpha.
+ destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, use-after-free, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
- Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.6-rc - 2016-12-02
created by single onion services and Tor2web. These log messages
are intended to diagnose issue 8387, which relates to circuits
hanging around forever for no reason. Fixes bug 20613; bugfix on
- 0.2.9.1-alpha. Reported by "pastly".
+ 0.2.9.1-alpha. Reported by pastly.
o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
- Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
@@ -218,8 +218,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.5-alpha - 2016-11-08
o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
- When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
- hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix the work to fix 13942
- in 0.2.6.2-alpha.
+ hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (portability):
- Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
@@ -308,19 +307,13 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
o Major features (subprotocol versions):
- Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
- subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol
+ "subprotocol versions", and on a set of required subprotocol
versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
_recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
- Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264.
- - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility.
- Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of
- a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they
- should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This
- change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to
- exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular
- releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of
- proposal 264.
+ This change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s)
+ to exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with
+ particular releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264.
o Minor feature (fallback directories):
- Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
@@ -349,7 +342,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
- When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
- domain socket paths to contain spaces.
+ domain socket paths to contain spaces. Resolves ticket 18753.
o Minor features (virtual addresses):
- Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
@@ -357,7 +350,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
- o Minor bugfixes (address discovery):
+ o Minor bugfixes (relay address discovery):
- Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
@@ -375,13 +368,13 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
- When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
- handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
+ handle Windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
- Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
- #19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
+ 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
by nherring.
o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
@@ -391,7 +384,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
o Documentation:
- Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
- previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385.
+ previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket 20385.
o Required libraries:
- When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
@@ -423,22 +416,22 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
this one.
o Major features (circuit building, security):
- - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all
+ - Authorities, relays, and clients now require ntor keys in all
descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
ticket 19163.
- - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
+ - Authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
- Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
- every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
+ every hidden service on that Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
- connections to their introduction and renzedvous points. One-hop
+ connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
- hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor
+ hidden service implementation, and works on the current Tor
network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
@@ -452,7 +445,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
- Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
- point cicruits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
+ point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
o Major bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
@@ -468,12 +461,12 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
o Minor features (security, TLS):
- - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites.
+ - Servers no longer support clients that lack AES ciphersuites.
(3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
- o Minor feature (fallback directories):
+ o Minor features (fallback directories):
- Remove broken entries from the hard-coded fallback directory list.
Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
@@ -481,8 +474,8 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
- Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
Country database.
- o Minor feature (port flags):
- - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which
+ o Minor features (port flags):
+ - Add new flags to the *Port options to give finer control over which
requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
@@ -502,7 +495,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
- Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
"make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
- with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later).
+ with the single onion network flavors (git c72a652 or later).
Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
- Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
@@ -520,7 +513,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
- Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
- (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test"
+ (by passing --debug or --info or --notice or --warn to the "test"
binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
ticket 19999.
@@ -569,8 +562,8 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
- Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
by clients when the directory authorities don't set
- min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02
- in tor-0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
+ min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
+ Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
- Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
a manpage!).
@@ -598,26 +591,26 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
- When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
- Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'.
+ Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from pastly.
o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
- Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
- NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these
+ NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behavior changes: these
options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
- behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
+ behavior in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
o Minor bugfixes (options):
- Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
- reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on tor- 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
+ reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
by teor.
- Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
- commits 51fc6799 in tor-0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in tor-0.2.4.3-
- alpha. Patch by teor.
+ commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
+ Patch by teor.
o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
- - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services
+ - Prevent Tor2web clients from running hidden services: these services
are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
19678. Patch by teor.
@@ -681,8 +674,9 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
o Major features (user interface):
- Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
- that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously,
- this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820.
+ that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously, this
+ was done in an ad-hoc way. There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to list all of the deprecated options. Closes
+ ticket 19820.
o Major bugfixes (directory downloads):
- Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
@@ -697,11 +691,6 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
- Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
Country database.
- o Minor features (user interface):
- - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to
- list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of
- ticket 19820.
-
o Minor bugfixes (code style):
- Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
@@ -736,7 +725,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
o Deprecated features:
- A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
- version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS cacheing is a bad
+ version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
@@ -761,7 +750,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
o Removed code:
- We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
- Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.
+ Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from "U+039b".
Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
@@ -880,16 +869,16 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
Closes ticket 18895.
o Minor features (code safety):
- - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we
- give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
- patch from U+039b.
+ - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that the maximum value we
+ allow is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
+ patch from "U+039b".
o Minor features (controller):
- Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
- Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
- hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control
+ hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION controller
command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
- Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
@@ -936,13 +925,11 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
o Minor features (performance):
- - Changer the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
+ - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
"on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
- from. Changing this default When fetching a consensus for the
- first time, use optimistic data. This saves a round-trip during
- startup. Closes ticket 18815.
+ from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup. Closes ticket 18815.
o Minor features (relay, usability):
- When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
@@ -952,8 +939,6 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
ticket 18760.
o Minor features (testing):
- - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes
- part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
- Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
@@ -963,7 +948,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
ticket 16792.
o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
- - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous
+ - Remember the directory server we fetched the consensus or previous
certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
@@ -988,7 +973,7 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
- When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
- the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
+ the digest algorithm instead of a hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
@@ -1032,9 +1017,10 @@ Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
o Minor bugfixes (testing):
- Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
- - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
+ - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer:
+ disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
- generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix
+ generation code works. Fixes bug 18934; bugfix
on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
- Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
diff --git a/ReleaseNotes.029 b/ReleaseNotes.029
index 40d2a02..6c34f29 100644
--- a/ReleaseNotes.029
+++ b/ReleaseNotes.029
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ into the ReleaseNotes file before stable.]
o Deprecated features:
- A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
- version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS cacheing is a bad
+ version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
@@ -65,11 +65,11 @@ into the ReleaseNotes file before stable.]
able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
o Major features (circuit building, security):
- - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all
+ - Authorities, relays, and clients now require ntor keys in all
descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
ticket 19163.
- - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
+ - Authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
o Major features (compilation):
@@ -110,34 +110,29 @@ into the ReleaseNotes file before stable.]
o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
- Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
- every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
+ every hidden service on that Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
- connections to their introduction and renzedvous points. One-hop
+ connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
- hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor
+ hidden service implementation, and works on the current Tor
network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
o Major features (subprotocol versions):
- Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
- subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol
+ "subprotocol versions", and on a set of required subprotocol
versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
_recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
- Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264.
- - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility.
- Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of
- a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they
- should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This
- change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to
- exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular
- releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of
- proposal 264.
+ This change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s)
+ to exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with
+ particular releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements
+ part of proposal 264.
o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
- Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
- point cicruits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
+ point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
@@ -180,8 +175,8 @@ into the ReleaseNotes file before stable.]
log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
- o Minor feature (port flags):
- - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which
+ o Minor features (port flags):
+ - Add new flags to the *Port options to give finer control over which
requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
@@ -204,9 +199,9 @@ into the ReleaseNotes file before stable.]
proposal 272.
o Minor features (code safety):
- - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we
- give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
- patch from U+039b.
+ - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that the maximum value we
+ allow is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
+ patch from "U+039b".
o Minor features (compilation, portability):
- Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
@@ -218,7 +213,7 @@ into the ReleaseNotes file before stable.]
o Minor features (controller):
- Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
- hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control
+ hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION controller
command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
- Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
@@ -276,13 +271,12 @@ into the ReleaseNotes file before stable.]
setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
o Minor features (performance):
- - Changer the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
+ - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
"on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
- from. Changing this default When fetching a consensus for the
- first time, use optimistic data. This saves a round-trip during
- startup. Closes ticket 18815.
+ from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
+ Closes ticket 18815.
o Minor features (relay, usability):
- When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
@@ -292,7 +286,7 @@ into the ReleaseNotes file before stable.]
ticket 18760.
o Minor features (security, TLS):
- - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites.
+ - Servers no longer support clients that lack AES ciphersuites.
(3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
@@ -302,8 +296,6 @@ into the ReleaseNotes file before stable.]
tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
- - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes
- part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
- Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
@@ -315,7 +307,7 @@ into the ReleaseNotes file before stable.]
handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
- Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
- (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test"
+ (by passing --debug or --info or --notice or --warn to the "test"
binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
ticket 19999.
@@ -336,7 +328,7 @@ into the ReleaseNotes file before stable.]
relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
- Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
"make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
- with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later).
+ with the single onion network flavors (git c72a652 or later).
Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
o Minor features (Tor2web):
@@ -348,14 +340,13 @@ into the ReleaseNotes file before stable.]
- When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
- domain socket paths to contain spaces.
+ domain socket paths to contain spaces. Resolves ticket 18753.
o Minor features (user interface):
- Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
- that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously,
- this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820.
- - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to
- list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of
+ that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously, this
+ was done in an ad-hoc way. There is a new --list-deprecated-options
+ command-line option to list all of the deprecated options. Closes
ticket 19820.
o Minor features (virtual addresses):
@@ -371,25 +362,25 @@ into the ReleaseNotes file before stable.]
because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
- o Minor bugfix (build):
+ o Minor bugfixes (build):
- The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
- o Minor bugfixes (address discovery):
+ o Minor bugfixes (relay address discovery):
- Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
- o Minor bugfixes (allocation):
+ o Minor bugfixes (memory allocation):
- Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
- - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous
+ - Remember the directory server we fetched the consensus or previous
certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
@@ -426,7 +417,7 @@ into the ReleaseNotes file before stable.]
o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
- When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
- handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
+ handle Windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
@@ -441,14 +432,14 @@ into the ReleaseNotes file before stable.]
private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
- When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
- the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
+ the digest algorithm instead of a hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
- Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
- #19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
+ 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
by nherring.
o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
@@ -476,8 +467,7 @@ into the ReleaseNotes file before stable.]
on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
- When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
- hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix the work to fix 13942
- in 0.2.6.2-alpha.
+ hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
- Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
@@ -500,16 +490,18 @@ into the ReleaseNotes file before stable.]
username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
- When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
- Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'.
+ Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from pastly.
o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
- Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
+ - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
+ rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
- Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
- When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
- destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on tor-0.2.8.3-alpha.
+ destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
- Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
@@ -519,25 +511,23 @@ into the ReleaseNotes file before stable.]
o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
- Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
- NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these
+ NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behavior changes: these
options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
- behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
+ behavior in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
o Minor bugfixes (options):
- Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
- reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on tor- 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
+ reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
by teor.
- Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
- commits 51fc6799 in tor-0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in tor-0.2.4.3-
- alpha. Patch by teor.
+ commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
+ Patch by teor.
o Minor bugfixes (relay):
- Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
- - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
- rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
- Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
@@ -551,9 +541,10 @@ into the ReleaseNotes file before stable.]
bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
- Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
- - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
+ - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer:
+ disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
- generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix
+ generation code works. Fixes bug 18934; bugfix
on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
- Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
@@ -577,7 +568,7 @@ into the ReleaseNotes file before stable.]
bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
- - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services
+ - Prevent Tor2web clients from running hidden services: these services
are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
19678. Patch by teor.
@@ -600,7 +591,7 @@ into the ReleaseNotes file before stable.]
o Documentation:
- Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
- previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385.
+ previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket 20385.
- Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
- Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
@@ -613,8 +604,8 @@ into the ReleaseNotes file before stable.]
19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
- Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
by clients when the directory authorities don't set
- min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02
- in tor-0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
+ min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
+ Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
- Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
a manpage!).
@@ -625,7 +616,7 @@ into the ReleaseNotes file before stable.]
o Removed code:
- We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
- Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.
+ Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from "U+039b".
o Removed features:
- Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
@@ -642,3 +633,4 @@ into the ReleaseNotes file before stable.]
command-line options to enable them.
- We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
+
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