[tor-commits] [tor/master] light movement and editing on changelog
nickm at torproject.org
nickm at torproject.org
Tue May 21 23:19:02 UTC 2019
commit 5614137a929fbb349baecbfd172cc39430d71de0
Author: Nick Mathewson <nickm at torproject.org>
Date: Tue May 21 19:18:58 2019 -0400
light movement and editing on changelog
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ChangeLog | 119 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------------------
1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 81 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
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+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-??
certain denial-of-service attacks more difficult, and improves
performance in several areas.
- o Major features (Circuit padding):
+ o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit padding):
+
+ o Major features (circuit padding):
- Onion service clients will now add padding cells to the initial
portions of their INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those
circuits' traffic patterns look more like general purpose Exit
@@ -42,15 +44,19 @@ Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-??
time. Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow
down heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
- o Minor feature (circuit padding):
- - We now use a fast RNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
- ticket 28636.
-
- o Minor feature (maintenance scripts):
- - Add to scripts/maint/ helper maintainer scripts used for git
- maintenance. Closes ticket 29391.
+ o Major features (performance, RNG):
+ - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
+ each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
+ based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
+ libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
+ outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
+ small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
+ strong, we are only using it when necessary for reasonable
+ performance. Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
o Minor features (circuit padding):
+ - We now use a fast RNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
+ ticket 28636.
- Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
@@ -90,39 +96,24 @@ Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-??
load-balancing and statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our
fast RNG in those cases. Closes ticket 29542.
- o Minor features (developer tooling):
+ o Minor features (developer tools):
+ - Tor's test scripts now check for files and functions that seem too
+ long and complicated. Existing overlong functions and files are
+ accepted for now, but should eventually be refactored. Closes
+ ticket 29221.
+ - Add to scripts/maint/ helper maintainer scripts used for git
+ maintenance. Closes ticket 29391.
- Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let a
developer know if they made any code style violations in their
last commit. This should help preventing code style violations
appearing upstream. Closes ticket 30051.
- - Call pre-commit git hook from pre-push hook to make sure we're
- running documentation and code style checks before pushing to
- remote git repository. Implements feature 30033.
- - Modify git pre-push hook script to disallow pushing branches other
- than master, release-* and maint-* to origin remote. Implements
- feature 29532.
-
- o Minor features (developer tools):
- Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
unique guard marco. Closes ticket 29756.
- - Introduce a post-merge git hook script to check if we're pulling
- in any changes to our git workspace management scripts from
- upstream. Resolves issue 29588.
-
- o Minor features (development tools):
- - Tor's test scripts now check for files and functions that seem too
- long and complicated. Existing overlong functions and files are
- accepted for now, but should eventually be refactored. Closes
- ticket 29221.
o Minor features (geoip):
- Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
- o Minor features (git scripts):
- - In git-pull-all.sh, also fetch the latest tor-github pull
- requests. Implements ticket 30114.
-
o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
- Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
@@ -141,16 +132,6 @@ Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-??
1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
Closes ticket 28837.
- o Minor features (performance, RNG):
- - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
- each thread, to use for cases where performance is critical. This
- PRNG is based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar
- to libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
- outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
- small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
- strong, we are only using it when necessary for reasonable
- performance. Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
-
o Minor features (testing):
- Tor's unit test code now contains a standard set of functions to
replace the PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for
@@ -159,6 +140,8 @@ Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-??
- We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
ticket 29436.
+ - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
+ int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
- We set bridges as running when we dump the bridge status to a
@@ -166,7 +149,7 @@ Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-??
controller, but these shouldn't modify vital data structures.
Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan
- o Minor bugfixes (Channel padding statistics):
+ o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
- Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha
@@ -183,13 +166,11 @@ Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-??
bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
- The circuit padding subsystem does not schedule padding if dormant
mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
-
- o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding):
- Inspect circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to avoid
sending padding while too much data is queued. Fixes bug 29204;
bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
- o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configuration):
+ o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
- Avoid failures when building with ALL_BUGS_ARE_FAILED due to
missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such failures
in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
@@ -200,16 +181,10 @@ Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-??
couldn't distinguish an argument list from the first line of a
multiline object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
- o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
- - Update our pre-commit.git-hook script to work correctly on older
- Tor branches and release branches without any changes files, and
- to actually exit when something fails. Fixes bug 29553; bugfix
- on 0.4.0.2-alpha.
-
- o Minor bugfixes (dirauth, ipv6):
- - If we are a durauth with IPv6 and are marking relays as running,
- mark ourselves as reachable on IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on
- 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan
+ o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, ipv6):
+ - If we are a directory authity with IPv6 and are marking relays as
+ running, mark ourselves as reachable on IPv6. Fixes bug 24338;
+ bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan
o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
- Improve the documentation for MapAddress .exit. Fixes bug 30109;
@@ -218,18 +193,12 @@ Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-??
Explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
-
- o Minor bugfixes (documentation, manpage):
- Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
- o Minor bugfixes (lib):
-
o Minor bugfixes (logging):
- Do not log a warning for OpenSSL versions that should be
compatible. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha
-
- o Minor bugfixes (logging, configuration):
- Warn operators when MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
@@ -255,6 +224,10 @@ Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-??
we only set this flag when we received a INTRODUCE2 cell in
rend_service_receive_introduction(). Fixes bug 17357; bugfix on
0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan
+ - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services. v3
+ onion service IPv6 support is still incomplete, see 23493 for
+ details. Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by
+ Neel Chauhan.
o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
- If we are building circuits to onion services, in
@@ -301,18 +274,8 @@ Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-??
- Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c instead of
using `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
-
- o Minor bugfixes (testing, v3 onion services):
- Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
-
- o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
- - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
- a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
- actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
- 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
-
- o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
- In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
@@ -321,11 +284,11 @@ Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-??
deallocation on assert failure and fixes Coverity warnings CID
1444117 and CID 1444118. Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
- o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
- - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services. v3
- onion service IPv6 support is still incomplete, see 23493 for
- details. Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by
- Neel Chauhan.
+ o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
+ - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
+ a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
+ actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
+ 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
o Code simplification and refactoring:
- Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
@@ -380,12 +343,6 @@ Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-??
- Remove obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
- Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
issue 30075.
-
- o Testing:
- - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
- int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
-
- o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit padding):
- Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
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