Download Tor 0.2.1.27

Tor is a network that can be used to surf the Internet anonymously. All users’ tcp traffic is routed through different Tor routers, after which it is no longer possible for the recipient to determine who the original sender was. This information is still present within the Tor network, so that answers – of course also via the system of routers – eventually arrive at the right place. The developers released version 0.2.1.27 a while ago with the following announcement:

Tor 0.2.1.27 has been released

Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b — yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor. We also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.

If you operate a relay, please upgrade.

Major bug fixes:

• Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b: No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects; but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204; bug fix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
• Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125; fixed by Robert Ransom. Bug fix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
• Learn our external IP address when we’re a relay or bridge, even if we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, where we introduced bridge relays that don’t need to publish to be useful. Fix bug 2050.
• Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
• When you’re using bridges and your network goes away and your bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges . Bug fix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fix bug 1981.

Major features:

• Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we’ll have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.

New directory authorities:

• Set up Maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory authority.

Minor bug fixes:

• Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bug fix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
• Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
• Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they were open. Bug fix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san for analysis help.
• When building with –enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable warnings in system headers. This makes –enable-gcc-warnings pass on OpenBSD 4.8.

Minor features:

• Exit nodes didn’t recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code, and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE. Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize it. Bug fix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
• Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8. Patch from mingw-san.

Removed files:

• Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution. The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
• Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in 0.2.1.26 really wasn’t that useful anyway.