commit 2a3c01588d937c9c06e766dd17dbc5ee12606e47 Author: Karsten Loesing karsten.loesing@gmx.net Date: Sun Nov 10 11:54:02 2019 +0100

Update news.json to version 351 of doc/MetricsTimeline. --- src/main/resources/web/json/news.json | 612 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 590 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main/resources/web/json/news.json b/src/main/resources/web/json/news.json index 1a204e0..1c07ca4 100644 --- a/src/main/resources/web/json/news.json +++ b/src/main/resources/web/json/news.json @@ -540,6 +540,9 @@ "links" : [ { "label" : "blog post", "target" : "https://blog.torproject.org/combined-flash-proxy-pyobfsproxy-browser-bundles" + }, { + "label" : "ticket", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/7824" } ] }, { "start" : "2013-02-08", @@ -2165,7 +2168,7 @@ "label" : "news article", "target" : "https://www.rt.com/business/388502-ukraine-bans-vk-yandex/" }, { - "label" : "reddit post", + "label" : "Reddit post", "target" : "https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/6c9ig1" }, { "label" : "relay graph", @@ -2807,6 +2810,19 @@ "target" : "https://metrics.torproject.org/versions.html?start=2017-12-01&end=2018-0..." } ] }, { + "start" : "2018-01-18", + "end" : "2018-02-24", + "protocols" : [ "snowflake" ], + "short_description" : "Outage of Snowflake broker caused by the disabling of the Let's Encrypt TLS-SNI-01 challenge.", + "description" : "Outage of Snowflake broker caused by the disabling of the Let's Encrypt TLS-SNI-01 challenge.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "ticket", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/25345" + }, { + "label" : "graph", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/30693#comment:3" + } ] +}, { "start" : "2018-01-20", "protocols" : [ "relay" ], "short_description" : "Some more directory authorities upgrade to 0.3.2.9 which enforces new requirements for the exit flag", @@ -3026,6 +3042,19 @@ "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/25688#comment:1" } ] }, { + "start" : "2018-04-02", + "end" : "2018-04-18", + "protocols" : [ "snowflake" ], + "short_description" : "Accidentally misconfigured the 3 proxy-go instances that were meant to point to the new standalone broker so that they pointed to the old App Engine broker.", + "description" : "Accidentally misconfigured the 3 proxy-go instances that were meant to point to the new standalone broker so that they pointed to the old App Engine broker.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "start", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/25688#comment:1" + }, { + "label" : "end", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/22874#comment:10" + } ] +}, { "start" : "2018-04-05", "protocols" : [ "ipv4", "ipv6" ], "short_description" : "geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "April 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country"", @@ -3045,6 +3074,15 @@ } ] }, { "start" : "2018-04-16", + "protocols" : [ "snowflake" ], + "short_description" : "Moved the Snowflake broker from App Engine to a standalone server.", + "description" : "Moved the Snowflake broker from App Engine to a standalone server.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "comment", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/22874#comment:9" + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2018-04-16", "end" : "2018-05-08", "places" : [ "ru" ], "short_description" : "Russia tries to block Telegram; blocks about 18 million IP addresses including some belonging to Amazon and Google cloud services.", @@ -3060,16 +3098,6 @@ "target" : "https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2018-03-0..." } ] }, { - "start" : "2018-04-20", - "end" : "2018-04-27", - "protocols" : [ "onion" ], - "short_description" : "The number of v2 onion services increases from 70k to 120k.", - "description" : "The number of v2 onion services increases from 70k to 120k.", - "links" : [ { - "label" : "ticket", - "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/26081" - } ] -}, { "start" : "2018-04-28", "places" : [ "ru" ], "short_description" : "Russia unblocks about 3 million IP addresses belonging to Amazon and OVH.", @@ -3154,6 +3182,18 @@ "target" : "https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=033e4723f3651062779ff64a619..." } ] }, { + "start" : "2018-05-17", + "protocols" : [ "bridge" ], + "short_description" : "Release of tor 0.3.4.1-alpha", + "description" : "Release of tor 0.3.4.1-alpha. Has a bug that makes idle bridges unuseful.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "ticket", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/28717" + }, { + "label" : "ticket", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/28912" + } ] +}, { "start" : "2018-06-09", "protocols" : [ "meek" ], "short_description" : "Release of Tor Browser 7.5.5, removes meek-amazon option.", @@ -3379,6 +3419,52 @@ "target" : "https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2018-August/015850.html" } ] }, { + "start" : "2018-08-09", + "protocols" : [ "ipv4", "ipv6" ], + "short_description" : "geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country"", + "description" : "geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (<code>geoip-db-digest 4C2E4FF8220FFFB4989564728701016DF705BCBF</code>, <code>geoip6-db-digest F3F5C576BF3E8D5FD9F6F33603D7BFD64DEAA8B5</code>).", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "commit", + "target" : "https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=fe19b40fe9e2f78caf6f58bb3cc..." + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2018-09-10", + "protocols" : [ "bridge" ], + "short_description" : "Release of tor 0.3.4.8, 0.2.9.17, 0.3.2.12, and 0.3.3.10", + "description" : "Release of tor 0.3.4.8, 0.2.9.17, 0.3.2.12, and 0.3.3.10. 0.3.4.8, containing a bug that makes idle bridges unuseful, becomes the stable release.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "blog post", + "target" : "https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-0348-also-other-stable-updates-0..." + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2018-09-11", + "protocols" : [ "ipv4", "ipv6" ], + "short_description" : "geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "September 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country"", + "description" : "geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "September 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (<code>geoip-db-digest C9118A0D763E069B890674A4D5000A3DB846746B</code>, <code>geoip6-db-digest 8A46B41B2AE16F3705C67DEECD20EAA50B043A51</code>).", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "commit", + "target" : "https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=19429fac23734070933591774d2..." + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2018-09-15", + "end" : "2018-09-16", + "places" : [ "ae" ], + "protocols" : [ "obfs4" ], + "short_description" : "Reported blocking of obfs4 in the UAE.", + "description" : "Reported blocking of obfs4 in the UAE.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "ticket", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/27723" + }, { + "label" : "comment", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/27723#comment:4" + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2018-09-18", + "protocols" : [ "bridge" ], + "short_description" : "Release of tor 0.3.5.1-alpha, containing a bug that makes idle bridges unuseful.", + "description" : "Release of tor 0.3.5.1-alpha, containing a bug that makes idle bridges unuseful." +}, { "start" : "2018-09-26", "ongoing" : true, "protocols" : [ "fte" ], @@ -3399,6 +3485,15 @@ "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/28521#comment:3" } ] }, { + "start" : "2018-10-10", + "protocols" : [ "ipv4", "ipv6" ], + "short_description" : "geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country"", + "description" : "geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (<code>geoip-db-digest 76907A8345DA84CC724CDD573B6E08F6A089FEEB</code>, <code>geoip6-db-digest 5852AB4D3A96D7526DD47D5573CB4FA32BE4ECEB</code>).", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "commit", + "target" : "https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=119df9c1c0781e379bc83e06b9c..." + } ] +}, { "start" : "2018-10-25", "end" : "2018-10-28", "protocols" : [ "relay" ], @@ -3418,6 +3513,15 @@ "target" : "https://web.archive.org/web/20181104023227/https://metrics.torproject.org/us..." } ] }, { + "start" : "2018-11-11", + "protocols" : [ "ipv4", "ipv6" ], + "short_description" : "geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country"", + "description" : "geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (<code>geoip-db-digest 603BE8A0CA1B7164D76DBC75A280C9CA0A556F65</code>, <code>geoip6-db-digest 1CEF662539C0D91EC07A7C5C13134E3317B451E4</code>).", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "commit", + "target" : "https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=5ba3d09a89502963029483422dc..." + } ] +}, { "start" : "2018-11-16", "end" : "2018-11-22", "protocols" : [ "snowflake" ], @@ -3452,6 +3556,26 @@ "short_description" : "Outage of the flash proxy badge hosting server, flashproxy.bamsoftware.com, caused by a Greenhost east coast VPS migration.", "description" : "Outage of the flash proxy badge hosting server, flashproxy.bamsoftware.com, caused by a Greenhost east coast VPS migration." }, { + "start" : "2018-12-05", + "protocols" : [ "ipv4", "ipv6" ], + "short_description" : "geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "December 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country"", + "description" : "geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "December 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (<code>geoip-db-digest 0684E08BDC01ABB41A717E9C55BDEB21531CFAC8</code>, <code>geoip6-db-digest AFFAD1475879D57B1C1EA119141EFA0E57547290</code>).", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "commit", + "target" : "https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=57798eb1cb7a5c6e5b5a82625d9..." + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2018-12-18", + "end" : "2018-12-21", + "places" : [ "ae" ], + "protocols" : [ "<OR>" ], + "short_description" : "Reported blocking of vanilla Tor in the UAE.", + "description" : "Reported blocking of vanilla Tor in the UAE.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "comment", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/27723#comment:16" + } ] +}, { "start" : "2018-12-20", "ongoing" : true, "places" : [ "sd" ], @@ -3481,6 +3605,368 @@ "target" : "https://netblocks.org/reports/evidence-of-gabon-full-internet-shutdown-coup-..." } ] }, { + "start" : "2019-01-07", + "protocols" : [ "bridge" ], + "short_description" : "Release of tor 0.3.5.7, 0.3.4.10, and 0.3.3.11", + "description" : "Release of tor 0.3.5.7, 0.3.4.10, and 0.3.3.11. Fixes the bug, present since 0.3.5.1-alpha/0.3.4.1-alpha, of idle bridges being unuseful.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "comment", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/28717#comment:32" + }, { + "label" : "ticket", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/28912" + }, { + "label" : "blog post", + "target" : "https://blog.torproject.org/new-releases-tor-0357-03410-and-03311" + }, { + "label" : "ticket", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/29184" + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2019-01-07", + "protocols" : [ "ipv4", "ipv6" ], + "short_description" : "geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country"", + "description" : "geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (<code>geoip-db-digest 2B8A70B399CF8B471289A4DB52947DE965D8DE5F</code>, <code>geoip6-db-digest FEA33E6F398DF67252F41DDD3D010E69B33D544E</code>).", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "commit", + "target" : "https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=445d6750f79c266c0e21e7a31e6..." + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2019-02-07", + "protocols" : [ "snowflake" ], + "short_description" : "Disabled the 3 proxy-go instances that were pointing at the former broker hosted on App Engine.", + "description" : "Disabled the 3 proxy-go instances that were pointing at the former broker hosted on App Engine.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "comment", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/29308#comment:4" + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2019-02-12", + "protocols" : [ "ipv4", "ipv6" ], + "short_description" : "geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country"", + "description" : "geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (<code>geoip-db-digest DDAA25B4425EAA45EE8E92A6531CD3246C8E989A</code>, <code>geoip6-db-digest 0368FA722D90026E60BD60A26F615791A7A53D21</code>).", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "commit", + "target" : "https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=a3f9ddcf033881ac78cda0aa7e6..." + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2019-03-06", + "protocols" : [ "ipv4", "ipv6" ], + "short_description" : "geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "March 4 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country"", + "description" : "geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "March 4 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (<code>geoip-db-digest 5B90C2F06292D8237A5C77E27ED4ABABF4AE0684</code>, <code>geoip6-db-digest E971FCA4A89F6C685928FF9371D1BF7A2484F4CA</code>).", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "commit", + "target" : "https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=2e74edb53ef9ac417d8424a0785..." + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2019-03-22", + "end" : "2019-03-22", + "protocols" : [ "snowflake" ], + "short_description" : "Outage of the Snowflake broker, caused by a full disk.", + "description" : "Outage of the Snowflake broker, caused by a full disk.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "ticket", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/29861" + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2019-04-03", + "protocols" : [ "ipv4", "ipv6" ], + "short_description" : "geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country"", + "description" : "geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (<code>geoip-db-digest 62A97D4DEBF76A5CE5C232B95BBF05B191EB8AAA</code>, <code>geoip6-db-digest 66620E57A8427C53D6084B3229807DC320CDC3D0</code>).", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "commit", + "target" : "https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=54e249e269c63fd5f003dd8c15f..." + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2019-04-16", + "end" : "2019-04-16", + "protocols" : [ "snowflake" ], + "short_description" : "Outage of Snowflake fallback proxy-go instances, caused by a failure to restart after segregating old logs.", + "description" : "Outage of Snowflake fallback proxy-go instances, caused by a failure to restart after segregating old logs.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "ticket", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/30205" + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2019-04-23", + "ongoing" : true, + "places" : [ "lk" ], + "short_description" : "Sri Lanka blocks Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube after bombings.", + "description" : "Sri Lanka blocks Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube after bombings.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "relay graph", + "target" : "https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2019-03-15..." + }, { + "label" : "bridge graph", + "target" : "https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2019-03-1..." + }, { + "label" : "article", + "target" : "https://gizmodo.com/sri-lanka-blocks-facebook-whatsapp-after-easter-bombin-1..." + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2019-04-28", + "end" : "2019-04-29", + "places" : [ "bj" ], + "short_description" : "Social media blocking and Internet blackout during parliamentary elections in Benin.", + "description" : "Social media blocking and Internet blackout during parliamentary elections in Benin.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "OONI report", + "target" : "https://ooni.io/post/2019-benin-social-media-blocking/#social-media-blocking" + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2019-04-29", + "short_description" : "Network equipment failure at site of op-ab OnionPerf instance", + "description" : "Network equipment failure at site of op-ab OnionPerf instance", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "performance graph", + "target" : "https://metrics.torproject.org/torperf.html?start=2019-04-25&end=2019-05..." + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2019-05-01", + "places" : [ "cn" ], + "protocols" : [ "snowflake" ], + "short_description" : "China blocks the default Snowflake proxies.", + "description" : "China blocks the default Snowflake proxies.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "ticket", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/30350" + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2019-05-16", + "end" : "2019-06-23", + "places" : [ "ir" ], + "protocols" : [ "relay" ], + "short_description" : "Tor becomes directly accessible in Iran, leading to an explosion in relay users up to about 1.5 million, before being blocked again.", + "description" : "Tor becomes directly accessible in Iran, leading to an explosion in relay users up to about 1.5 million, before being blocked again.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "ticket", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/30636" + }, { + "label" : "comment about end", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/30636#comment:25" + }, { + "label" : "tor-talk thread", + "target" : "https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2019-June/045221.html" + }, { + "label" : "Reddit thread", + "target" : "https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/bw4byr/surge_in_users/" + }, { + "label" : "comment", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/30636#comment:30" + }, { + "label" : "Reddit thread", + "target" : "https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/c4lwdj/today_iran_government_blocked_t..." + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2019-05-17", + "protocols" : [ "ipv4", "ipv6" ], + "short_description" : "geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country"", + "description" : "geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (<code>geoip-db-digest 35DFDA2D06D2A0467EF37D60A67B438B11952B74</code>, <code>geoip6-db-digest C0193A1D086819353FABBF70AADB15866B7B2525</code>).", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "commit", + "target" : "https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=4e262196a88d2a7d3be059d075f..." + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2019-05-22", + "protocols" : [ "fte" ], + "short_description" : "Release of Tor Browser 9.0a1, removes support for FTE.", + "description" : "Release of Tor Browser 9.0a1, removes support for FTE.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "blog post", + "target" : "https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-90a1" + }, { + "label" : "ticket", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/30319" + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2019-05-28", + "short_description" : "Failure of network equipment at site of op-ab OnionPerf instance", + "description" : "Failure of network equipment at site of op-ab OnionPerf instance (equipment now replaced)", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "onionperf timeouts graph", + "target" : "https://metrics.torproject.org/torperf-failures.html?start=2019-05-23&en..." + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2019-06-20", + "protocols" : [ "obfs4" ], + "short_description" : "A call to set up new obfs4 bridges is posted to the tor-relays mailing list.", + "description" : "A call to set up new obfs4 bridges is posted to the tor-relays mailing list.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "mailing list thread", + "target" : "https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2019-June/017419.html" + }, { + "label" : "thread continues", + "target" : "https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2019-July/017477.html" + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2019-06-21", + "ongoing" : true, + "places" : [ "mm" ], + "short_description" : "Internet shutdown in parts of Myanmar.", + "description" : "Internet shutdown in parts of Myanmar.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "report", + "target" : "https://reliefweb.int/report/myanmar/myanmar-end-internet-shutdown-rakhine-c..." + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2019-06-26", + "protocols" : [ "snowflake" ], + "short_description" : "The Snowflake web browser extension for Firefox is published.", + "description" : "The Snowflake web browser extension for Firefox is published.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "comment", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/30931#comment:10" + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2019-07-02", + "end" : "2019-08-26", + "places" : [ "ir" ], + "protocols" : [ "<OR>", "relay", "bridge" ], + "short_description" : "Relays in Iran are reported to be unblocked once again, and user numbers recover to about 25% of the maximum they had reached during the previous period of unblocking", + "description" : "Relays in Iran are reported to be unblocked once again, and user numbers recover to about 25% of the maximum they had reached during the previous period of unblocking. They then drop precipitously, and <OR> bridge users increase.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "ticket", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/30636" + }, { + "label" : "comment", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/30636#comment:31" + }, { + "label" : "comment", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/30636#comment:32" + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2019-07-03", + "protocols" : [ "snowflake" ], + "short_description" : "The Snowflake web browser extension for Chrome is published.", + "description" : "The Snowflake web browser extension for Chrome is published.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "comment", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/30999#comment:5" + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2019-07-18", + "end" : "2019-08-07", + "places" : [ "kz" ], + "short_description" : "The Kazakh ISP KazTelecom does man-in-the-middle of TLS connections.", + "description" : "The Kazakh ISP KazTelecom does man-in-the-middle of TLS connections.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "Censored Planet report", + "target" : "https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/6#issuecomment-519131315" + }, { + "label" : "post about end", + "target" : "https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/6#issuecomment-519131315" + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2019-07-23", + "protocols" : [ "snowflake" ], + "short_description" : "The broker domain name snowflake-broker.bamsoftware.com is blocked by Google Safe Browsing, preventing the Snowflake web browser extension from working.", + "description" : "The broker domain name snowflake-broker.bamsoftware.com is blocked by Google Safe Browsing, preventing the Snowflake web browser extension from working.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "ticket", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/31230" + }, { + "label" : "comment noting decrease in proxies", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/31200?cversion=0&cnum_hist=3#comment:3" + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2019-07-26", + "protocols" : [ "flashproxy", "snowflake" ], + "short_description" : "Cupcake 2.0 is released, now working with Snowflake rather than flash proxy.", + "description" : "Cupcake 2.0 is released, now working with Snowflake rather than flash proxy.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "Chrome Web Store page", + "target" : "https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cupcake/dajjbehmbnbppjkcnpdkaniapg..." + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2019-07-26", + "protocols" : [ "snowflake" ], + "short_description" : "Version 0.0.8 of the Snowflake extension for Firefox is released, changing domains from bamsoftware.com to freehaven.net in order to work around the Google Safe Browsing block.", + "description" : "Version 0.0.8 of the Snowflake extension for Firefox is released, changing domains from bamsoftware.com to freehaven.net in order to work around the Google Safe Browsing block.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "comment", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/31250#comment:6" + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2019-07-27", + "protocols" : [ "snowflake" ], + "short_description" : "Version 0.0.7 of the Snowflake extension for Chrome is released, changing domains from bamsoftware.com to freehaven.net in order to work around the Google Safe Browsing block.", + "description" : "Version 0.0.7 of the Snowflake extension for Chrome is released, changing domains from bamsoftware.com to freehaven.net in order to work around the Google Safe Browsing block.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "comment", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/31250#comment:13" + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2019-07-27", + "protocols" : [ "snowflake" ], + "short_description" : "The Snowflake proxy hosted at snowflake.torproject.org is updated, changing domains from bamsoftware.com to freehaven.net in order to work around the Google Safe Browsing block.", + "description" : "The Snowflake proxy hosted at snowflake.torproject.org is updated, changing domains from bamsoftware.com to freehaven.net in order to work around the Google Safe Browsing block.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "comment", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/31250#comment:16" + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2019-08-06", + "end" : "2019-08-09", + "short_description" : "Experiment to test the accuracy of relays' advertised bandwidth estimation.", + "description" : "Experiment to test the accuracy of relays' advertised bandwidth estimation.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "description of experiment", + "target" : "https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2019-July/017535.html" + }, { + "label" : "post announcing start", + "target" : "https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2019-August/017599.html" + }, { + "label" : "post announcing end", + "target" : "https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2019-August/017617.html" + }, { + "label" : "advertised bandwidth graph", + "target" : "https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth.html?start=2019-07-01&end=2019-..." + }, { + "label" : "relay flags graph", + "target" : "https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth-flags.html?start=2019-07-01&end..." + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2019-10-01", + "protocols" : [ "snowflake" ], + "short_description" : "Release of Tor Browser 9.0a7, the first release that has Snowflake for Windows.", + "description" : "Release of Tor Browser 9.0a7, the first release that has Snowflake for Windows.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "blog post", + "target" : "https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-90a7" + }, { + "label" : "ticket", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/25483" + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2019-10-17", + "protocols" : [ "snowflake" ], + "short_description" : "Pointed snowflake-broker.torproject.net", + "description" : "Pointed snowflake-broker.torproject.net (one of three domain names for the Snowflake broker) to a new broker instance set up with IPv6. Metrics unintentionally start being collected from the new instance, instead of the old instance that was still in use.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "ticket", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/32128" + }, { + "label" : "ticket", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/32231" + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2019-10-28", + "protocols" : [ "snowflake" ], + "short_description" : "Version 0.0.13 of the Snowflake extension is released, decreasing the poll frequency to once every 300 s", + "description" : "Version 0.0.13 of the Snowflake extension is released, decreasing the poll frequency to once every 300 s. The standalone proxy-go instances still poll once every 5 s.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "comment", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/32129#comment:5" + } ] +}, { + "start" : "2014-06-01", + "end" : "2014-06-19", + "places" : [ "ru" ], + "protocols" : [ "<OR>", "relay" ], + "short_description" : "Rapid increase of relay users in Russia, going from 80K to 200K before settling in around 150K.", + "description" : "Rapid increase of relay users in Russia, going from 80K to 200K before settling in around 150K.", + "unknown" : true +}, { "start" : "2016-02-24", "places" : [ "tm" ], "protocols" : [ "<OR>" ], @@ -3594,7 +4080,7 @@ "label" : "metrics-team thread", "target" : "https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2017-January/000284.html" }, { - "label" : "reddit thread", + "label" : "Reddit thread", "target" : "https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/5pbukk/united_arab_emirates_went_from_..." }, { "label" : "comment about botnet", @@ -3963,7 +4449,7 @@ "label" : "de graph", "target" : "https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-08-15..." }, { - "label" : "reddit thread", + "label" : "Reddit thread", "target" : "https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/7b53kq/direct_users_from_germany_go_fr..." }, { "label" : "ticket", @@ -4008,7 +4494,7 @@ "label" : "graph", "target" : "https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-11-01..." }, { - "label" : "reddit thread", + "label" : "Reddit thread", "target" : "https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/7ldrox/tor_usage_in_germany_what_happe..." }, { "label" : "ticket", @@ -4069,6 +4555,29 @@ } ], "unknown" : true }, { + "start" : "2018-04-25", + "end" : "2018-07-02", + "protocols" : [ "onion" ], + "short_description" : "The number of v2 onion services increases from 70k to 120k.", + "description" : "The number of v2 onion services increases from 70k to 120k.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "ticket", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/26081" + } ], + "unknown" : true +}, { + "start" : "2018-05-22", + "end" : "2018-06-08", + "places" : [ "iq" ], + "protocols" : [ "obfs4" ], + "short_description" : "Increase in obfs4 users in Iraq, followed by a slow decrease", + "description" : "Increase in obfs4 users in Iraq, followed by a slow decrease. No matching change in relay users or other transports.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "bridge graph", + "target" : "https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2018-04-0..." + } ], + "unknown" : true +}, { "start" : "2018-05-23", "ongoing" : true, "protocols" : [ "bridge" ], @@ -4101,15 +4610,14 @@ } ], "unknown" : true }, { - "start" : "2018-05-22", - "end" : "2018-06-08", - "places" : [ "iq" ], - "protocols" : [ "obfs4" ], - "short_description" : "Increase in obfs4 users in Iraq, followed by a slow decrease", - "description" : "Increase in obfs4 users in Iraq, followed by a slow decrease. No matching change in relay users or other transports.", + "start" : "2018-07-20", + "end" : "2019-05-02", + "protocols" : [ "onion" ], + "short_description" : "The number of v2 onion services increases from 70k to 100k.", + "description" : "The number of v2 onion services increases from 70k to 100k.", "links" : [ { - "label" : "bridge graph", - "target" : "https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2018-04-0..." + "label" : "comment", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/26081#comment:2" } ], "unknown" : true }, { @@ -4127,4 +4635,64 @@ "target" : "https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2018-05-0..." } ], "unknown" : true +}, { + "start" : "2019-02-16", + "ongoing" : true, + "places" : [ "by" ], + "protocols" : [ "relay" ], + "short_description" : "Increase of relay users in Belarus.", + "description" : "Increase of relay users in Belarus.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "graph", + "target" : "https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2018-07-01..." + }, { + "label" : "mailing list post", + "target" : "https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2019-May/001064.html" + } ], + "unknown" : true +}, { + "start" : "2019-04-17", + "short_description" : "Tor browser update pings roughly double.", + "description" : "Tor browser update pings roughly double.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "graph", + "target" : "https://metrics.torproject.org/webstats-tb-platform.html?start=2019-04-01&am..." + }, { + "label" : "metrics-team thread", + "target" : "https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2019-May/001053.html" + } ], + "unknown" : true +}, { + "start" : "2019-04-27", + "ongoing" : true, + "places" : [ "ru" ], + "protocols" : [ "relay" ], + "short_description" : "Relay users increase by about 100K, in an apparent weekly cycle", + "description" : "Relay users increase by about 100K, in an apparent weekly cycle. Bridge users are not similarly affected.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "relay graph", + "target" : "https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2019-03-01..." + }, { + "label" : "bridge graph", + "target" : "https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2019-03-0..." + }, { + "label" : "tor-talk thread", + "target" : "https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2019-June/045221.html" + }, { + "label" : "Reddit thread", + "target" : "https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/bw4byr/surge_in_users/" + } ], + "unknown" : true +}, { + "start" : "2019-10-03", + "ongoing" : true, + "places" : [ "cn" ], + "protocols" : [ "bridge" ], + "short_description" : "New default bridge, 193.11.166.194, is already blocked by the GFW – two days after the Tor Browser alpha release that shipped with it", + "description" : "New default bridge, 193.11.166.194, is already blocked by the GFW &ndash; two days after the <a href="https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-90a7%5C%22%3ETor Browser alpha release</a> that shipped with it. The block may have happened sooner, though. We only tested the bridge just now.", + "links" : [ { + "label" : "new default bridge", + "target" : "https://bugs.torproject.org/31164" + } ], + "unknown" : true } ] \ No newline at end of file