[tor-commits] [tor/master] Minor edits to changelog headers
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Author: Nick Mathewson <nickm at torproject.org>
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+Changes in version 0.4.5.1-alpha - 2020-10-30
+ Tor 0.4.5.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.4.5.x series.
+ It improves support for IPv6, address discovery and self-testing, code
+ metrics and tracing.
+
+ Here are the changes since 0.4.4.5.
+
+ o Major features (IPv6, relay):
+ - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. By doing so, we've also
+ unified the interface to find our address to support IPv4, IPv6 and
+ hostname. Closes ticket 33233.
+
+ o Major features (relay, IPv6):
+ - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort unless specified
+ otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246.
+
+ o Major features (tracing):
+ - Add a tracing library with USDT and LTTng-UST support. Few tracepoints
+ were added in the circuit subsystem. More will come incrementally. This
+ feature is compiled out by default. It needs to be enabled at configure
+ time. See documentation in doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910.
+
+ o Major features (IPv6, relay):
+ - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and bridges.
+ Closes ticket 33222.
+
+ o Major features (metrics):
+ - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP GET /metrics, a
+ series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At the moment, the only
+ supported output format is Prometheus data model. Closes ticket 40063;
+
+ o Major features (relay self-testing, IPv6):
+ - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort separately from the reachability of
+ their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a descriptor unless _both_
+ ports appear to be externally reachable. Closes ticket 34067.
+
+ o Major features (relay, IPv6):
+ - When a relay with IPv6 support opens a connection to another
+ relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, the
+ first relay now picks randomly which address to use. Closes
+ ticket 33220.
+
+ o Major bugfix (TLS, buffer):
+ - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to read
+ those N bytes. Before that, Tor would stop reading after the first TLS
+ record which can be smaller than N bytes even though more data was waiting
+ on the TLS connection socket. The remaining data would have been read at
+ the next mainloop event. Fixes bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc.
+
+ o Minor features (address discovery):
+ - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing their
+ address by looking at the local interface instead of the local hostname.
+ If the interface address can't be found, the local hostname is used.
+ Closes ticket 33238.
+
+ o Minor features (configuration):
+ - Allow the using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on
+ configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
+ - Allows configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes,
+ ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and
+ HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket
+ 28361. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
+
+ o Minor features (control port):
+ - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS control port command to drop circuit build timeout
+ history and reset the timeout. Closes ticket 40002.
+
+ o Minor features (directory authorities):
+ - Create new consensus method that removes the unecessary = padding
+ from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
+
+ o Minor features (relay):
+ - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it from the
+ NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022.
+
+ o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
+ - If Address is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our address with the
+ configured ORPort address if any. Closes ticket 33236.
+
+ o Minor features (admin tools):
+ - Add new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow
+ specifying the time format of expiration date. Adds Unix
+ timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes
+ ticket 30045.
+
+ o Minor features (authorities):
+ - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
+ recommended. These lists are chosen so that only truly recommended
+ and/or required protocols are included, and so that clients using 0.2.9
+ or later will continue to work (even though they are not supported),
+ whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or later will meet the requirements.
+ Closes ticket 40162.
+
+ o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
+ - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider
+ connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit.
+ Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential
+ bootstrapping failures, including those that had been opened because of
+ client requests. Closes ticket 25061.
+
+ o Minor features (build):
+ - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user about
+ them at the end of the script. Related to 40138.
+ - When running the configure script, try to detect version mismatches
+ between the openssl headers and libraries, and suggest that the
+ user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138.
+
+ o Minor features (compilation):
+ - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single
+ static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other
+ programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a
+ part of a stable or supported API: Only those functions in
+ tor_api.h should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket
+ 40127.
+
+ o Minor features (control port):
+ - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status,
+ send a control port event CONTROLLER_WAIT. Closes ticket 32190.
+ Patch by Neel Chauhan.
+
+ o Minor features (control port, relay):
+ - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the control
+ port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6 address. We keep
+ "GETINFO address" for backwords-compatibility which retains the current
+ behavior. Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
+
+ o Minor features (control port, rephist):
+ - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and
+ "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTorand TAP
+ circuit onion handshake rephist values respectively.
+ Closes ticket 28279. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
+
+ o Minor features (controller, IPv6):
+ - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are launching
+ an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068.
+
+ o Minor features (directory authorities):
+ - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
+ Tor versions from the 0.4.1 series, but still allow the 0.3.5
+ series. Resolves ticket 34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
+
+ o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6):
+ - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted dir
+ servers list. Authorities currently add themselves to the trusted dir
+ servers list, but they only add their IPv4 address and ports to the list.
+ Closes ticket 32822.
+
+ o Minor features (directory authority):
+ - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
+ Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
+ ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from
+ a different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
+ - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities
+ from checking whether other relays are running. A new
+ AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these checks.
+ Closes ticket 34445.
+ - When looking for possible sybil attacks, also consider IPv6 addresses.
+ Two routers are considered to have "the same" address by this metric
+ if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from Maurice Pibouin. Closes
+ ticket 7193.
+
+ o Minor features (ed25519, relay):
+ - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data
+ directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket 30642.
+ Patch by Neel Chauhan.
+
+ o Minor features (heartbeat):
+ - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6
+ connections in the heartbeat message . Closes ticket 29113.
+
+ o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes):
+ - Make routerset_contains_router() capable of handling IPv6
+ addresses. This makes ExcludeNodes capable of excluding an
+ IPv6 adddress. Previously, ExcludeNodes ignored IPv6
+ addresses. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
+
+ o Minor features (IPv6, relay):
+ - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222.
+ - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes ticket 33226.
+ - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the
+ second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222.
+
+ o Minor features (logging):
+ - Adds the running glibc version to the log. Also adds the
+ running and compiled glibc version to the library list
+ returned when using the flag --library-versions. Patch
+ from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047; bugfix on
+ 0.4.5.0-alpha-dev.
+ - Consider 301 as an error like a 404 when processing the response to a
+ request for a group of server descriptors or an extrainfo documents.
+ Closes ticket 40053.
+ - Print directory fetch information a single line. Closes ticket 40159.
+ - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging
+ about them. Closes ticket 40041.
+ - When describing a relay in th elogs, we now include its ed25519 identity.
+ Closes ticket 22668.
+
+ o Minor features (onion services):
+ - When writing an onion service hostname file, first read it to make
+ sure it contains what we want before attempting to write it. Now
+ onion services can set their existing onion service directories to
+ read-only and Tor will still work. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by
+ Neel Chauhan.
+
+ o Minor features (pluggable transports):
+ - Added option OutboundBindAddressPT to torrc. This option allows users to
+ specify which IPv4 and IPv6 address they want pluggable transports to use
+ for outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the pluggable
+ transport honors this option so each pluggable transport will have to
+ implement support for this feature. Closes ticket 5304.
+
+ o Minor features (protocol simplification):
+ - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63. Previously
+ versions up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which significantly complicated
+ our code.
+ Implements proposal 318; closes ticket 40133.
+
+ o Minor features (relay address tracking):
+ - We store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical way.
+ Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of a
+ connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real
+ address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical address"
+ elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the connection's
+ address alone. Closes ticket 33898.
+
+ o Minor features (relay):
+ - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously
+ we would try to log before launching checks, or approximately
+ when we intended to launch checks, but this tended to be
+ error-prone. Closes ticket 34137.
+
+ o Minor features (relay, IPv6):
+ - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6
+ reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224.
+ - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" parameters
+ to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they should publish
+ even if they cannot complete their ORPort self-checks.
+ Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224.
+
+ o Minor features (specification update):
+ - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and consensus
+ documents that were formerly optional are now required. Implements
+ proposal 315; closes ticket 40132.
+
+ o Minor features (state):
+ - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile that
+ have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves
+ unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but
+ these statefile entries have not actually been used in any release
+ since before the 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137.
+
+ o Minor features (statistics, ipv6):
+ - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction
+ versus bidirectional relay connections.
+ Closes ticket 33264.
+ - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time,
+ if statistics are enabled.
+ Closes ticket 33263.
+
+ o Minor features (subprotocol versions):
+ - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal
+ 318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133.
+
+ o Minor features (testing configuration):
+ - The TestingTorNetwork no longer implicitly sets AssumeReachable to 1.
+ This change will allow us to test relays' self-testing mechanisms,
+ and eventually to test authorities' relay-testing functionality.
+ Closes ticket 34446.
+
+ o Minor features (testing):
+ - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend().
+ Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (logging):
+ - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spam the logs. Fixes bug
+ 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
+ - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called,
+ `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to 0 at
+ the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
+ - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can
+ differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a circuit;
+ Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
+ - Add the abilility to keep circuit padding machines if they match a set
+ of circuit state or purposes. This allows us to have machines that start
+ up under some conditions but don't shut down under others. We now
+ use this mask to avoid starting up introduction circuit padding
+ again after the machines have already completed. Fixes bug 32040;
+ bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
+ - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
+ This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a relay from
+ Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of Tor's various state
+ files to match the platform, the CRLF line endings from Windows ends up leaking
+ into other files such as the extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on
+ 0.0.9pre5.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
+ - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
+ "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay"
+ at the same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
+ - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in test_connection.c.
+ Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
+ - Fix bug where %including a pattern ending with */ would include files
+ and folders (instead of folders only) in versions of glibc < 2.19.
+ Fixes bug 40141; bugfix on 0.4.5.0-alpha-dev. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (logging):
+ - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have been
+ suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for N, rounded
+ up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report the size of the
+ rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the messages started to
+ occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (protover):
+ - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting leading commas.
+ Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash):
+ - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener connection for an
+ address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions):
+ - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of
+ service extensions, when building tor with Rust.
+ Fixes bug 34248; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
+ - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the
+ undocumented error behaviour of the corresponding C code.
+ Fixes bug 34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (security):
+ - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to make
+ sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching those
+ circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519 identities were not
+ checked in this case, but only when extending circuits on an existing
+ channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (self-testing):
+ - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence that we
+ are reachable if the declared address of its channel is the same
+ address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be evidence that
+ we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug 20165; bugfix on
+ 0.1.0.1-rc.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS, onion services):
+ - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells when a
+ stream is attached with the purpose CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug
+ 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
+ - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link
+ certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (string handling):
+ - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as NULL.
+ This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we treated
+ empty strings as normal strings, which led to protocols_known being
+ set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
+
+ o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services):
+ - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the length of
+ bytes decoded, not the base32 length. This takes the behavior introduced
+ in commit a517daa56f5848d25ba79617a1a7b82ed2b0a7c0 into consideration.
+ Fixes bug 34400; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
+
+ o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf):
+ - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket
+ 31699; Patch by @bduszel
+
+ o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts):
+ - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment variable
+ TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it. Furthermore, stop running
+ practracker in the pre-commit hook and make check-local. Closes ticket
+ 40019.
+
+ o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
+ - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been moved to
+ use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is so we can
+ properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common interfaces. Closes ticket
+ 40043.
+
+ o Code simplification and refactoring:
+ - Add and use a set of functions to perform downcasts on constant
+ connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046.
+ - Refactor our code that logs a descriptions of connections, channels,
+ and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change
+ enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminate
+ many confusing users of those types. Closes ticket 40041.
+ - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function.
+ Closes ticket 34200.
+ - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our connection
+ type. It was previously used for an older version of our rate-limiting
+ logic. Closes ticket 33097.
+ - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*" instead,
+ for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106.
+ - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact
+ guaranteed to return the ports have been advertised. Closes
+ ticket 40055.
+ - Split implementation of several command line options from
+ options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions.
+ Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102.
+ - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in the address
+ from the extend info. This is similar to what was done in ticket 33633 for
+ ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
+
+ o Deprecated features:
+ - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now
+ deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which
+ you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398.
+
+ o Documentation (manpages):
+ - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044.
+
+ o Documentation (manual page):
+ - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is no
+ longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc
+ versions. Closes ticket 23378.
+
+ o Documentation (tracing):
+ - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new
+ doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036.
+
+ o Documentation:
+ - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the
+ new bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101.
+
+ o Removed features (network parameters):
+ - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer an
+ option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus
+ directory.
+ Closes part of 40139.
+ - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no
+ longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part of 40139.
+
+ o Removed features:
+ - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with systemd.
+ No distribution included this script unmodified, and we don't have the
+ expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that all the various
+ systemd-based distributions can use. Closes ticket 30797.
+ - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern
+ versions of Android can use the syslog API instead.
+ Closes ticket 32181.
+
+ o Testing (CI):
+ - Build tracing configure option into our CI. Closes ticket 40038.
+
+ o Testing (onion service v2):
+ - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow on the
+ global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix on
+ 0.2.8.1-alpha.
+ - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow on the
+ global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126; bugfix on
+ 0.2.8.1-alpha.
+
+ o Testing:
+ - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions.
+ Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee.
+
+
+
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
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