Greetings everyone!
Network team will be releasing on Thursday a new Tor 0.4.6.x stable and 0.4.7.x alpha containing various fixes but nothing critical.
One important fix is the one removing DNS timeouts from the overload general signal. You will find more details about it here:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/team/-/issues/139
Another thing we would like to clarify. We are way pass our usual timeline of 6 months per stable version with regards to the 0.4.7.x series. The reason is that we've been working very hard on this new congestion control feature (prop#324) for the network that is not only very complex but takes a long time to test and simulate.
And thus, we made the decision to delay 0.4.7.x first stable version until congestion control is to our standard and hopefully a wonderful thing :). The estimate for that might not be until February if all goes well but don't take my words for it.
In the meantime, we'll be rolling out more alphas as important bugs need to be release. Nothing is set in stone, we regularly assess the schedule for 0.4.7.
Upcoming versions: - 0.4.6.9 - 0.4.7.3-alpha
@network-team: It is _now_ a good time to start reviewing changes/ files:
046: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/tree/release-0.4.6/changes 047: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/tree/main/changes
Last, we've asked the dirauth to recommend these versions few minutes ago.
Cheers! David