Arti 1.4.4 is released: Continued work on Counter Galois Onion, and Conflux.

Arti is our ongoing project to create a next-generation Tor client in Rust. We're happy to announce the latest release, Arti 1.4.4.

This release of Arti continues our development efforts towards supporting multi-legged tunnels in Arti via our Conflux feature. We have also continued preparing Arti for support of our Counter Galois Onion proposal feature.

In addition to the ongoing client feature efforts, the Network Team continues to work towards making Arti ready for use by our Relay Operators, who run the Tor network. However, no user-visible changes have occurred in this direction for this release, but the team continue working on the internals of Arti to make it ready for Relay and Bridge support.

For full details on what we've done, including API changes, and for information about many more minor and less visible changes as well, please see the CHANGELOG.

For more information on using Arti, see our top-level README, and the documentation for the arti binary.

Thanks to everybody who's contributed to this release, including hjrgrn, Lionel Goffaux, Neel Chauhan, Niel Duysters, playbahn, retort-dev, shivam37483, syphyr, Tobias Stoeckmann, and Vijaya Bhaskar.

Also, our deep thanks to the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, and our other sponsors for funding the development of Arti!