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News Orgs & Activists: Onionize Your Sites Against Censorship

Launching an onion address is a preventative measure for news organizations and activists to take against censorship around the world.

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The Tor Project Defends the Human Rights Racists Oppose

Tor is designed to defend human rights and privacy by preventing anyone from censoring things, even us.

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The Tor Social Contract

At The Tor Project, we make tools that help promote and protect the essential human rights of people everywhere.

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Q and A with An East African Human Rights Activist

 Can you tell us about your work?

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UN Special Rapporteur: Anonymity Is Gateway to Free Expression

We at the Tor Project have long

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Recent Updates

New Release: Tor Browser 9.0a5

Tor Browser 9.0a5 is now available for Android from our distribution directory and

Tor’s Bug Smash Fund: Help Tor smash all the bugs!

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New release candidate: Tor 0.4.1.4-rc

There's a new release candidate available for download. If you build Tor from source, you can download the source code for 0.4.1.4-rc from the usual place on the website. Packages should be available over the coming weeks, with a new alpha Tor Browser release likely in the next month or so.

Remember, this is just a release candidate: you should only run this if you'd like to find and report bugs.

Tor 0.4.1.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous versions of Tor, and updates to a new list of fallback directories. If no new bugs are found, the next release in the 0.4.1.x series should be stable.

Changes in version 0.4.1.4-rc - 2019-07-25

Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
- When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise, we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
Minor features (continuous integration):
- Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.

Reflections from Our Stockholm All Hands

This month, the Tor Project held our biannual all hands meeting, this time in Stockholm, Sweden.