Hi Steve!
Nadas, Stephen:
Hi Georg,
Do you have a more specific timeframe than "we will soon"?
I ask because currently there are ongoing discussions with the interested user as to how best to replace the hardware that runs this relay. Everything being equal we would wait for the new solution and then change the software. But will take some time (weeks easily) so if we have an idea what you are thinking that would be helpful for us to plan.
I don't have an exact date for you. Here is what I answered another operator asking essentially the same questions:
""" It's not exactly set yet. We want to make the change in Tor's 0.4.4 timeframe.[1] And the feature freeze of it is scheduled for May 2020 with backports of the delisting patch for stable versions, so Directory Authorities can start applying it. So, I'd say while not a matter of days it's a matter of some weeks which is why we start contacting operators now. """
Hope this helps, Georg
[1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/32672
Thanks, Steve
-----Original Message----- From: support-bounces@cs-mailman.bu.edu support-bounces@cs-mailman.bu.edu On Behalf Of Georg Koppen Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 7:36 AM To: tor@cs.bu.edu Cc: Network Health network-health@lists.torproject.org Subject: Please upgrade your "BostonUCompSci" Tor relay running 0.2.9.17
Hi,
You are running a Tor relay, which is great:
http://rougmnvswfsmd4dq.onion/rs.html#search/94C4B7B8C50C86A92B6A20107539EE2...
But that Tor version is obsolete, and because of old bugs, we will soon cut relays running those versions out of the network. Please consider upgrading!
You can find Tor packages and instructions for your distro / OS here: https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/guard/
Ideally you will switch to keeping up with our stable releases, but if you need a stable that is especially stable, the Tor 0.3.5 branch will be maintained until Feb 2022:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/CoreTorR...
and you can see the lifetimes of other Tor versions on that table too.
Let us know if we can do anything to make the process easier.
And lastly, I am cc'ing the new network health mailing list (which has public archives), to help us stay synced:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkHealthTeam
Thanks! Georg