Hello,

here is the July 2017 report for SponsorR:

- Our development team has entered the final stages of coding prop224! We successfuly demoed a proof-of-concept client connection to a prop224 hidden service website on the real network with great results!

The remaining prop224 work is testing, bugfixing, stabilization, and improvements. Also, we need to merge all this code upstream in tor-0.3.2 which means a serious review process!

- To mark the beginning of this merge procedure, we *merged* upstream the first service-side part of prop224!!! That's a pretty big piece of work: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/21979

- We also merged upstream some groundwork prop224 tasks: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/22727 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/22726

- The final service-side part of prop224 passed its first review rounds, and we have now moved to final review and fixes: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/20657 https://oniongit.eu/dgoulet/tor/merge_requests/6

- We also finished the client-side branch and we are now starting the review: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17242 https://oniongit.eu/asn/tor/merge_requests/2/commits

- Fixed an annoying prop224 warning message that was forgotten in 0.3.0: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2017-August/012689.html