On 21. Jan 2026, at 05:36, forest-relay-contact--- via tor-relays <tor-relays@lists.torproject.org> wrote:
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Whatever it was, it led to a large number of relays getting a flag on Tor Metrics indicating that they were dangerously out of date and not recommended.
Well, this is quite different, as getting a notification about running a version which is no longer recommended does not mean the relay is excluded from participating in the network in any way. Also, that's not a new policy, we've been doing recommended version updates for well over a decade now - and it was always possible to recommend a fresh update, whether that coincides with a new major version or not. Cheers Sebastian