progress report

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• On July 4th, we released Tor Browser Bundle 1.3.7 for Microsoft Windows. This is a security update for Firefox and Pidgin. The changes are: update to Firefox 3.5.10 and Pidgin Instant Messenger 2.7.1r2 to fix some security issues.
• On July 6th, we released Tor Browser Bundle 1.0.8 for GNU/Linux distributions. This fixes a number of security issues with included software. The updates include:
  • Update libpng to 1.4.3 (see CVE-2010-1205)
  • Update Firefox to 3.5.10
  • Update HTTPS Everywhere to 0.2.1

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• On June 1, we released the latest Tor Browser Bundle for Linux, version 1.0.7. This is a compatibility release to allow the bundle to work on a wider variety of Linux distributions.
• On June 2, updated the Vidalia bundle for OS X PowerPC to include Vidalia 0.2.9.
• On June 14, we released orbot 0.0.8. This is a maintenance release to fix issues discovered with Android 2.2.
• On June 17, Tor and the EFF released a Firefox extension called HTTPS Everywhere. The goal is to enable encrypted website viewing by default. More about this release at https://blog.torproject.org/blog/https-everywhere-firefox-addon-helps-yo....
• Damian continues to improve and release new versions of ARM, the console-based anonymizing relay monitor, http://www.atagar.com/arm/. Consider it to be like the graphical control application, Vidalia, for relays without a graphical environment.

New releases

On May 26, Tor Browser Bundle for Microsoft Windows is updated to include the newer Vidalia 0.2.9. This fixes some issues with character set handling, and adds Vietnamese as a new language.

On May 31, we released Tor Browser Bundle for Linux 1.0.6. It contains the following updates:

• Add arch to tarball name so there's no collision
• Add libpng for Arch Linux
• Add HTTPS Everywhere extension
• Update Qt to 4.6.2
• Update Vidalia to 0.2.9
• Update NoScript to 1.9.9.80

On June 1st, we released Tor Browser Bundle for Linux 1.0.7. It uses an older glibc for better compatibility with older linux distributions.

On May 20, we released Vidalia 0.2.9. Fixes include Qt 4.6.2 compatibility, new cert, and some new translations. You can download it at https://www.torproject.org/vidalia/. Packages are slowly being updated to include this version of Vidalia.
The full changelog is: read more »

New releases

• On April 24, we released Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha. This version addresses the recent connection and memory overload problems we’ve been seeing on relays, especially relays with their DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off because it used too many resources, give this release a try.

  o Major bugfixes:
  - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
  now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
  for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
  TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
  unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
  up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
  and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
  their directory fetches over TLS).

  o Minor features: read more »

New Releases
On March 7th, we released the latest in the -alpha series, Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha. Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the Guard flag and the Exit flag.

o Major bugfixes:
- Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.

o Major features (performance):
- Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute read more »

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• On February 13, we released a new stable version of Tor, 0.2.1.23. Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory authority.
• On February 21st, we released an update Tor stable in 0.2.1.24. Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X – this time for sure!
• On February 22, we released the latest in the -alpha series, 0.2.2.9-alpha.
• On February 15th, we released an updated Tor Browser Bundle; version 1.3.2.
• On February 27th, we released an updated Tor Browser Bundle, version 1.3.3.
• On February 18th, Tor for the Nokia Maemo mobile platform was announced. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-nokia-n900-maemo-gsm-telephone.

New releases, new hires, new funding
On January 19, 2010 we released the latest in the -stable series, Tor 0.2.1.22-stable.
Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors if you make the right directory request. This stable update also rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations. read more »

New releases, new hires, new funding
Erinn Clark joins Tor to develop, enhance, and upgrade our package build system. Her initial goals are to configure, maintain, and automate builds of tor and vidalia for Windows, OS X, ubuntu, debian, centos, fedora, and opensuse systems. Secondary goals are to develop a builtbot system that includes as many disparate operating systems as possible, including Apple OS X and Microsoft
Windows flavors. read more »

New releases, new hires, new funding

Bruce Leidl joins to work on developing Tor in Java. Bruce will write a fully functional Tor in Java in order to provide a solid foundation for other java-based projects; such as Tor on mobile platforms like Maemo and Android.

On November 2nd we released Vidalia 0.2.6. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/vidalia-026-released

On November 20th, we released Tor Browser Bundle 1.2.10. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-bundle-1210-released

On November 19th, we released Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-0226-alpha-released

Design, develop, and implement enhancements that make
Tor a better tool for users in censored countries.

Roger met with his class at KAIST working on bridge deployment strategies. A few teams developed some creative strategies. Roger is continuing to work with the leading teams to further refine their ideas before publishing. read more »

New releases, new hires, new funding
Christian Fromme joins Tor to work on development and maintenance of the growing number of tools we’ve created over the past year. Christian is a great python hacker with a strong security mindset. He’s going to enhance and maintain the tools such as tor weather, get-tor, bridge database, tor control, tor flow, check.torproject.org, etc. Christian has been a volunteer developer for the past year helping to enhance get-tor, tor weather, and generally helping out with our python coding needs.

On October 10, we released Tor version 0.2.2.4-alpha. The release notes can be read at https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-0224-alpha-released or below: read more »