21 Jan
2026
21 Jan
'26
4:36 a.m.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hello. Sebastian Hahn wrote:
What do you mean with "somewhat recent"? This has been done since at least 2011 for security reasons, for compatibility reasons much longer.
I suspect he's referring to the recent choice to mark a minor upgrade as critical. I think it was the update from .18 to .19? Whatever it was, it led to a large number of relays getting a flag on Tor Metrics indicating that they were dangerously out of date and not recommended. Regards, forest -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEARYKAB0WIQQtr8ZXhq/o01Qf/pow+TRLM+X4xgUCaXBX7wAKCRAw+TRLM+X4 xhjrAQCstYA6/Pnd0CJf2CDewAr2gPLGtdmspGCE4+q2Y3lfWAEAgFCDZstE5tSI 6M6XYzooRr0Y5pEp/fnJtS7v/cEgvwA= =Yr0W -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----