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

[Kushal Das]

On 10/05/22, Ladar Levison via tor-relays wrote:
> On 5/4/22 4:31 PM, Mike Perry wrote:
> > Tor 0.4.7.7-stable contains a very important performance improvement,
> > called Congestion Control. 
> ....
> > We have packages in available for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, and
> > BSD:
> >   - Debian: https://support.torproject.org/apt/tor-deb-repo/
> >   - Ubuntu: https://support.torproject.org/relay-operators/operators-4/
> >   - Fedora/CentOS: https://support.torproject.org/rpm/tor-rpm-install/
> >   - BSD:
> > https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2022-May/020528.html
> 
> 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.
> 
EPEL generally never updates anything major, and I think in this case
they counted it as a major update. More details can be found at [0].

[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL_Updates_Policy

Kushal
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