[network-health] Your Tor bridge is running an obsolete version

[Francesco Truzzi]

Thank you Philipp, I have upgraded my Tor bridge to 0.4.2.6.

I'm running it on my Raspberry Pi, and the issue was that the tor version included in Raspbian's standard repo is still 0.2.9.16 -- this could be the cause for a lot of outdated nodes.

Francesco

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Saturday, March 14, 2020 4:40 PM, Philipp Winter <phw at torproject.org> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> You seem to be running the following Tor bridge, which is great:
>
> 64DF5E59804B058E64BF19B6992F1330C73B2CF4
>
> But that Tor version (0.2.9.16) is obsolete, and because of old bugs,
> we will soon cut bridges running those versions out of the network.
> Please consider upgrading!
>
> You can find Tor packages and instructions for your distro / OS here:
> https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/bridge/
>
> 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 copying 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,
> Philipp