Recategorize some uncategorized things in the releasenotes

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Nick Mathewson 2014-10-19 14:17:34 -04:00
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attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
router's identity is not forgeable.
o Major bugfixes:
o Major bugfixes (client):
- Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
construction operations are disabled (because the network is
disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
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0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
to build circuits".
o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
- Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
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memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
11477.
- Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
o Minor features (security, memory management):
- Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
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on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
o Minor features:
- Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
o Minor features (bridge client):
- Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
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pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
o Minor features (other):
o Minor features (client):
- Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
o Minor features (interface):
- Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
o Minor features (kernel API usage):
- Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
o Minor features (diagnostic):
- Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
o Minor features (controller):
- Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
o Minor features (performance):
- If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
Closes ticket 8109.
o Minor bugfixes:
o Minor bugfixes (tools):
- Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
- Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
- No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
- In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
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platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
o Minor bugfixes (interface):
- Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
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but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
o Minor bugfixes (build):
o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
- Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
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- Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
fixes bug 10616.
- Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
- Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
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- Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
- Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
o Code simplifications and refactoring:
- Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
from Arlo Breault.
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the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
o Downgraded warnings:
- Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
o Package cleanup:
- The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.