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@ -2,6 +2,183 @@ This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable release
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of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the changes in
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of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the changes in
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each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
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each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
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Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
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Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
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later Tor releases.
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It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
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against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
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This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
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denial-of-service attacks against relays.
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This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
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earlier releases.
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All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
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released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
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the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
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o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
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- Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
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directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
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bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
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CVE-2018-0490.
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o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
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- Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
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start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
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First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
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connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
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single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
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second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
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connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
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(1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
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point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
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manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
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take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
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configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
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o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
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- Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
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circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
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Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
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than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
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were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
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0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
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0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
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primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
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o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
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- Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
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onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
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attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
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circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
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and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
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override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
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o Minor feature (relay statistics):
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- Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
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hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
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attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
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o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
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- Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
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Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
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since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
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ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
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Closes ticket 24978.
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o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
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- Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
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doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
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our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
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o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
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- The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
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current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
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bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
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information. Closes ticket 24801.
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- Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
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prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
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follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
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fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
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o Minor features (geoip):
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- Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
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Country database.
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o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
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- Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
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with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
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o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
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- Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
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not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
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making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
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Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
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- Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
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relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
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ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
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Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
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o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
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- When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
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reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
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and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
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not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
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o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
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- Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
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TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
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o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
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- Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
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with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
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on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
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o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
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- Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
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contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
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and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
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issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
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directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
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0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
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o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
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- When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
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and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
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help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
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free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
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- When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
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mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
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trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
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backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
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circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
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- Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
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limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
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bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
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- When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
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could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
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Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
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the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
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weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
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weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
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- When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
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all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
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nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
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- Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
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Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
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- Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
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MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
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to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
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- Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
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of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
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the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
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of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
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- Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
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0.2.9.4-alpha.
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- Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
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bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
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Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
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Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
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Tor 0.2.9.14 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
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Tor 0.2.9.14 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
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later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
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later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
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