Hi,
If you're running Snowflake proxies, please read and share the message below.
Thank you! Gus
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please Update your Snowflake Proxy to help us rollout Distributed Snowflake Server Support
https://forum.torproject.net/t/please-update-your-snowflake-proxy-to-help-us...
At Tor, we are constantly trying to improve Snowflake to make it accessible to more people. This means we are currently working on enabling horizontal scaling of Snowflake to distribute the traffic to more than one server. After this update is roll outed, users will be able to choose one of the secondary snowflake servers as the connection target and reduce the traffic load on the default server.
However, this change requires an updated version of the snowflake to be rolled out. This means this change is not live until enough proxies are updated to the most recent version and after we start to reject the previous version of snowflake proxies.
For this reason, we would like to request you to update the version of your snowflake proxy, if you haven’t done that yet.
Here are some guides on how to check the version and/or update the most recent version of snowflake:
### WebExtension on Firefox
To check the version:
go to about:addons.
Click the 3 dot symbol on the right of Snowflake, and then select manage.
you will be able to check the version of Snowflake. It should be 0.6.1.
To update:
Click the gear symbol on the top of the page, and then select check for updates.
### WebExtension on Chrome
To check the version:
go to chrome://extensions/?id=mafpmfcccpbjnhfhjnllmmalhifmlcie, and you will see the option to update the snowflake WebExtension. It should be 0.6.1.
To update:
go to chrome://extensions/ turn on developer mode and then select update.
### Standalone with Docker
To check the version:
docker run thetorproject/snowflake-proxy -v
should include “-allowed-relay-hostname-pattern” in the output.
To update:
docker pull thetorproject/snowflake-proxy
### Standalone with Go Toolchain
To check the version:
proxy -v
should include “-allowed-relay-hostname-pattern” in the output.
To update:
go install git.torproject.org/pluggable-transports/snowflake.git/v2/proxy@latest