Concern Over Bridge Distribution And Tor Updates
Hello, So I am aware a new version of tor is now available, but am wondering, is there a way for relay / bridge operators to be notified when a new version of tor is available? Right now, it seems like the only way of knowing if an update for tor is available for our OS is to manually check. Thanks. I also wanted to say, I noticed that an available email provider to request bridges from is Yahoo Mail. Here’s my thought, Yahoo (alongside AOL) was bought by Verizon, so they are now owned by a phone carrier / ISP. This makes me wonder if Yahoo is still a safe email provider to send bridges to, seeing as their new privacy policy is essentially allowing them to use emails as public knowledge. Just a thought. Thanks all. --Keifer
Hi, Just on the Tor updates side of your mail: On 04/05/2019 21:06, Keifer Bly wrote:
So I am aware a new version of tor is now available, but am wondering, is there a way for relay / bridge operators to be notified when a new version of tor is available? Right now, it seems like the only way of knowing if an update for tor is available for our OS is to manually check. Thanks.
Yes! There is a low traffic mailing list for exactly this purpose: https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-announce I've been thinking about Nagios plugins again, but I'm not sure how many relay operators are using Nagios. I wonder if we should have some JSON somewhere that allows you to check the latest stable or LTS Tor releases to compare to the version you have installed (by Onionoo, control port, package manager, or otherwise). Thanks, Iain.
Thanks. Does this also give updates on Tor Expert Bundle? That's what I am using. --Keifer On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 1:12 PM Iain Learmonth <irl@torproject.org> wrote:
Hi,
Just on the Tor updates side of your mail:
On 04/05/2019 21:06, Keifer Bly wrote:
So I am aware a new version of tor is now available, but am wondering, is there a way for relay / bridge operators to be notified when a new version of tor is available? Right now, it seems like the only way of knowing if an update for tor is available for our OS is to manually check. Thanks.
Yes! There is a low traffic mailing list for exactly this purpose:
https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-announce
I've been thinking about Nagios plugins again, but I'm not sure how many relay operators are using Nagios. I wonder if we should have some JSON somewhere that allows you to check the latest stable or LTS Tor releases to compare to the version you have installed (by Onionoo, control port, package manager, or otherwise).
Thanks, Iain.
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Hi, On 05/05/2019 05:19, Keifer Bly wrote:
Thanks. Does this also give updates on Tor Expert Bundle? That's what I am using.
This is mostly a guess, but it looks like the Tor Expert Bundle is built from the Tor Browser build system, so probably gets updates when there are Tor Browser releases. Tor Browser releases are announced on that list, so you should watch out for those announcements and upgrade your bundle when you see them. Thanks, Iain.
On Sun, 05 May 2019, Iain Learmonth wrote:
Hi,
On 05/05/2019 05:19, Keifer Bly wrote:
Thanks. Does this also give updates on Tor Expert Bundle? That's what I am using.
This is mostly a guess, but it looks like the Tor Expert Bundle is built from the Tor Browser build system, so probably gets updates when there are Tor Browser releases.
Yes, this is correct. Nicolas
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