January 2019 - tor-packagers - lists.torproject.org

Tor 0.4.0.1-alpha is released!
by Nick Mathewson 18 Jan '19

18 Jan '19

Hi! We've got a new dev release: Tor 0.4.0.1-alpha. It's in feature-freeze, and it needs testing. The code is now available at https://dist.torproject.org/ -- I'll send out the official announcements once the download page has updated. You can read the changelog online at https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/ChangeLog?h=tor-0.4.0.1-alpha A note: for the new padding backend, we now include some code that implements different statistical distributions. That code needs stochastic tests -- and stochastic tests have a false positive rate. This means that right now, the "test-slow" test suite will fail about 1 time in 300 with a message saying that some stochastic test has failed. I realize that this is inconvenient, especially if you're running a bunch of builds: We're going to try to lower the observed false positive rate for these tests between now and 0.4.0.2-alpha. happy hacking, -- Nick

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Fwd: Nyx Release 2.1.0
by Damian Johnson 13 Jan '19

13 Jan '19

Hi lovely packaging community! Quick friendly head's up that Nyx has a new release. If you run into any issues please let me know. https://pypi.org/project/nyx/ https://nyx.torproject.org/changelog/index.html#version-2-1 Cheers! -Damian ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Damian Johnson <atagar(a)torproject.org> Date: Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 3:59 PM Subject: Nyx Release 2.1.0 To: tor-project <tor-project(a)lists.torproject.org> Hi all, I'm pleased to announce Nyx 2.1.0. This is a fixup release that corrects issues uncovered over this last year... https://nyx.torproject.org/changelog/index.html#version-2-1 Cheers! -Damian

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Tor 0.3.3.11, 0.3.4.10, and 0.3.5.7 (!) are released!
by Nick Mathewson 07 Jan '19

07 Jan '19

Hi! I've uploaded new releases to https://dist.torproject.org. Please check the signatures. (Unless you think that the internet is a nice safe place. But if you think that, why are you packaging Tor?) These releases are important for servers and less so for clients, though if you are packaging for an environment that packages OpenSSL 1.1.x, you should really upgrade: there's a fix here to make TLS 1.3 actually work and not crash when you run openssl 1.1.1a. === This is the first stable release for Tor 0.3.5.7. We think it's great, though if you're set on 0.3.4.x, I can't blame you if you take a little while to change over. Don't wait too long though: 0.3.4.x is only supported till June 10. By the way, if you don't like releases becoming "unsupported" all of a sudden, then 0.3.5.x is the one you should standardize on: it is an LTS release, and we plan to support it until at least Feb 2022. The other LTS release, 0.2.9.x, is only going to be supported until Jan 2020. And as for 0.3.3.x? It becomes unsupported on Feb 22 of this year. I hope this is not a surprise! If it was, please see https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/CoreTor… to learn more about our release policy and plans. All best wishes to you, and all my thanks in this new year for helping people get the privacy they need. Sincerely, -- Nick Mathewson

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