Hello Tor, hello world!
Below you'll find the highlights of Tor metrics team work done in August 2017.
On behalf of the Tor metrics team, Karsten
Published a blog post [1] summarizing achievements made in the past 12 months with support of Mozilla's Open Source Support (MOSS) program.
[1] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/we-enhanced-security-and-integrity-tor-metr...
Formalized the steps for sanitizing bridge descriptors [2] that are collected and published by CollecTor.
[2] https://metrics.torproject.org/bridge-descriptors.html
Released Onionoo releases 4.0-1.3.0 [3], 4.1-1.4.0, and 4.1-1.4.1 [4] which add a new "version" parameter, remove bridge clients objects' beta fields "countries", "transports", and "versions", contain configuration improvements, and update dependencies.
[3] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-August/012387.html
[4] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-August/012433.html
Released CollecTor 1.2.1 [5] with a fix for handling bridge network statuses containing zero entries.
[5] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-August/012402.html