On 20 Sep 2018, at 07:02, Keifer Bly <keifer.bly@gmail.com> wrote:

A few days ago, I upgraded my version of tor from 0.3.3.9 to tor 0.3.4.8. I noticed, however, that tor does not tell me when a new version is available. But in the past when I was a few versions behind, it popped up with a message saying “WARNING: this version of tor is out of date or no longer recommended.”

So, I am just wondering, why is it that the tor software warns when the current version is “no longer recommended” but does not warn when an update is available?

From: teor
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2018 5:04 PM

Tor only warns about obsolete versions.

It doesn't warn when there is a new release or "new in series" version available.

Definitions here:
https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/version-spec.txt#n53

On 20 Sep 2018, at 12:56, Keifer Bly <keifer.bly@gmail.com> wrote:

So does this mean any version of tor is safe to use as long as it is not considered “obsolete”? Thanks.

Sometimes, a supported releases series will have serious security bugs.

When we fix those bugs, we "un-recommend" that version, and recommend

the newer versions in that series.

So please don't run "obsolete" or "un-recommended" Tor versions.

T