Hi all! Tis that time of year coal appears in all my sox so guess it's time for a status report. This month I set arm aside to polish improvements that accumulated in the Stem 1.3 release...
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/stem-release-13
There were a lot of small tweaks, but the highlights for this month were...
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By a bit of serendipity I came across a nice article by Jordan Wright for spinning up hidden services with Stem...
https://jordan-wright.github.io/blog/2014/10/06/creating-tor-hidden-services...
Federico Ceratto and Patrick O'Doherty have been improving our hidden service support, so I spruced up their contributions and wrote a tutorial of our own that demos it...
https://stem.torproject.org/tutorials/over_the_river.html
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Thanks to Anthony Basile Stem is now packaged for Gentoo. Installing is as simple as...
% emerge stem
I've been delighted at how many Gentoo people have jumped out of the woodwork to help. toralf worked with me on ticket #13904 to address testing issues, and Manuel took on Stem 1.3 packaging the same day as its release - thanks guys!
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Couple other quick things of note is that I updated our OpenHub repository listing so it includes most of our newer projects...
... and trimmed membership of our internal lists.
Cheers! -Damian