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Tor 0.2.1.15-rc released

Posted May 31st, 2009 by phobos
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Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
of more minor bugs.

This is a release candidate! That means that we don't know of any
remaining show-stopping bugs, and this will become the new stable if
there are no problems. Please test it, and tell us about any problems
that you find. read more »

Testing Tor Browser Bundle 1.2.1-dev

Posted May 31st, 2009 by phobos
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This is a testing release of Tor IM Browser Bundle 1.2.1-dev. The only fix in this release so far is an updated prefs.js to fix plugin scanning. The InvalidPrefs.js file no longer appears either. I'm working on the other suggestions from this comment.

You can view the diffs to see the changes.

The bundle and associated signature and sha1 files are available too.

Testing Tor Browser Bundle 1.2.0-dev

Posted May 22nd, 2009 by phobos
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This is an open call for testing of the soon to be released Tor Browser Bundle 1.2.0.

The major changes in this version are that you can now run multiple instances of Firefox. This means each Firefox browser is independent of the others. They won't leak urls, scripts, etc between instances.

It also includes Tor's geoip database. This will enable people to set ExitNodes by country code. You still have to manually edit the torrc file. We'd love it if someone wrote a way to do this into Vidalia (such as right click on a country in the network map and choose "exit here"). read more »

  • Switch to launching Firefox directly from Vidalia to allow multiple instances of Firefox
  • Update Firefox to 3.0.10
  • Update to Qt 4.5.1
  • Update Firefox prefs.js to stop scanning for plugins
  • Update libevent to 1.4.11
  • Include the Tor geoip database

Performance measurements and blocking-resistance analysis in the Tor network

Posted May 21st, 2009 by karsten
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The Tor network has grown to more than one thousand relays and millions of casual users over the past few years. We are proud of our network's popularity, but with growth has come increasing performance problems and attempts by some countries to block access to the Tor network. In order to address these problems, we need to learn more about the Tor network. In this post, I describe the current state of network measurements in Tor and some proposed additions to help us understand the network better. read more »

April 2009 Progress Report

Posted May 11th, 2009 by phobos
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New releases
On April 12, we released 0.2.1.14-rc. Read the details in the announcement.

Outreach
Roger attended an ITSG conference in Chicago.

Roger, Nick, Jacob, and Mike attended the CodeCon conference in San Francisco, http://www.codecon.org/2009/.

Andrew met with the Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia to discuss using Tor for their mission, http://cdhr.info.

Roger and Andrew met with the Department of Justice CyberCrime Division to give an overview of how Tor works and how we could better work with law enforcement.

Wendy, Roger, and Andrew had a dinner with Internews Central Asia media development staff.

Andrew attended the CIMI/NED panel on World Press Freedom, http://cima.ned.org/860/world-press-freedom-day-2009.html. read more »