[tor-relays] Ext Relay Operators: Please Upgrade to 0.4.7.7!

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On Tuesday, May 10, 2022 4:55:57 PM CEST Ladar Levison via tor-relays wrote:

> Anyone know when the EPEL TOR packages will updated? The EL 8 repos only
> offer 0.4.5.11. EL 9 is only a little newer with RPMs for TOR 0.4.6.8.
> Fedora 35 and 36 (with the latter launching today) have only been
> updated to 0.4.6.9. As of now, it appears that only Fedora 37 has been
> updated to 0.4.7.7.

I don't know the philosophy of Fedora/EPEL (CentOS/RHEL). In general, no 
configuration-breaking software is installed on productive systems.
With debian, once the release is frozen and stable, there are _no_ upgrades. 
This is the main reason for the stable archive! There are only updates, 
security updates in the 'stable main' archive
Some new features are offered in backports if they don't break configs of 
stable packages. There are very few upgrades (virus scanners and timezone 
data) in stable-updates, formerly volatile.

Therefore, Tor upgrades with new features must be installed from the Tor 
project repro.
EPEL (CentOS/RHEL) may have a similar policy and you must grab packages from 
the Tor project if you want to upgrade.

-- 
╰_╯ Ciao Marco!

Debian GNU/Linux

It's free software and it gives you freedom!
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