[tor-dev] RFC: Tor long-term support policy

[Nick Mathewson]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 4:12 AM, grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:
> You may encounter special justification to
> extend support for last branch that still supports
> pre-prop224 onions. There is a *lot* of code / community
> built on those. Darknet fora have mentioned possible
> maintenance forks as such if need be.

There's no current plan to drop support for the old .onion addresses
any time soon, though I sure would hope that people start migrating
not too long after the new ones are available.

-- 
Nick