[network-health] Upgrade your 'cave' Tor relay?

m9wjsc4wyq at snkmail.com m9wjsc4wyq at snkmail.com
Mon Sep 2 08:44:18 UTC 2019


Well the box is still running Ubuntu trusty (14.04), so it isn't getting the Tor updates anymore, and i haven't found the time to upgrade it yet.


Roger Dingledine arma-at-torproject.org |Tor| wrote on 9/2/19 01:21:
> Hi,
> 
> You are running a Tor relay, which is great:
> http://rougmnvswfsmd4dq.onion/rs.html#details/3875C9C843D33762FA733BCAF128F26A10BC75E7
> 
> First: that Tor version is obsolete, and because of old bugs, we will
> soon cut relays running those versions out of the network. Please
> consider upgrading!
> 
> Second: let us know if there is any way to help you bump up the
> bandwidth that you are allocating to the Tor relay. :)
> 
> You can find Tor packages for your distro / OS here:
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide#PlatformspecificInstructions
> 
> Ideally you will switch to keeping up with our stable releases, but if
> you need a stable that is especially stable, the Tor 0.3.5 branch will
> be maintained until Feb 2022:
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/CoreTorReleases#Current
> and you can see the lifetimes of other Tor versions on that table too.
> 
> Let us know if we can do anything to make the process easier.
> 
> And lastly, I am cc'ing the new network health mailing list (which
> has public archives), to help us stay synced:
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkHealthTeam
> 
> Thanks!
> --Roger
> 
> 


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