[tor-talk] Security update notice after new install

Katya Titov kattitov at yandex.com
Sat Sep 15 08:49:26 UTC 2012


"Runa A. Sandvik":

>> o Any reason why there was no testing via tor-qa?
> 
> Tor 0.2.2.39 was a security-fix release for a fairly severe bug and we
> wanted to get a new release out as soon as possible.

OK, understood.

>> o Any reason why the release wasn't sent to tor-talk?
> 
> We announce new Tor Browser Bundle releases on the blog.

I've never actually realised this! Kudos that the other communications
channels work so well.

>> o What was the reason for disabling random port selection? (I
>> disable it anyway, but just wondering why in this case?)
> 
> Random port selection was disabled because of
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6803

Thanks
-- 
kat


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