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Updates on Tor Project’s Board

Today, we're welcoming two new members to our Board of Directors: Chelsea Komlo and Rabbi Rob. We are happy to say both have accepted our invitation and joined the Tor Project's Board.

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Ecuador: Free Ola Bini

We at the Tor Project would like to express our deep concern regarding the well-being and the rights of Ola Bini.

Announcing Tor’s Next Executive Director: Isabela Bagueros

Isabela Bagueros will oversee the Tor Project into its next phase of sustainable growth beginning January 2019

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The Tor Project Joined the $500,000 DuckDuckGo Privacy Challenge 2018

Help the Tor Project win $50,000 by donating to its CrowdRise campaign

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We've Launched a Search for Our Next Executive Director

Successful candidates will have a global perspective on privacy and censorship issues and be able to lead the diverse and distributed organization into its next phase of growth and sustainability.

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We're Welcoming Two New Members to Our Board of Directors

Today, we're welcoming two new members to our Board of Directors: Julius Mittenzwei and Ramy Raoof. “Julius and Ramy bring a wealth of diverse experience in internet activism and organizational leadership to Tor’s Board,” said Shari Steele, Executive Director of the Tor Project.

OONI report released: The State of Internet Censorship in Thailand

SEATTLE, WA, USA – Monday, March 20th, 2017 – The Tor Project announces the release of The State of Int

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Our three-year development roadmap is published

We've published our three-year development roadmap.

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New Alpha Release: Tor 0.4.7.1-alpha

There's a new alpha release available for download. If you build Tor from source, you can download the source code for 0.4.7.1-alpha from the download page on the website. Packages should be available over the coming weeks, with a new alpha Tor Browser release likely some time next week.

Remember, this is an alpha release: you should only run this if you'd like to find and report more bugs than usual.

This version is the first alpha release of the 0.4.7.x series. One major feature is Vanguards Lite, from proposal 333, to help mitigate guard discovery attacks against onion services. It also includes numerous bugfixes.

Changes in version 0.4.7.1-alpha - 2021-09-17

Major features (Proposal 332, onion services, guard selection algorithm):
- Clients and onion services now choose four long-lived "layer 2" guard relays for use as the middle hop in all onion circuits. These relays are kept in place for a randomized duration averaging 1 week. This mitigates guard discovery attacks against clients and short-lived onion services such as OnionShare. Long-lived onion services that need high security should still use the Vanguards addon (https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/vanguards). Closes ticket 40363; implements proposal 333.
Minor features (bridge testing support):
- Let external bridge reachability testing tools discard cached bridge descriptors when setting new bridges, so they can be sure to get a clean reachability test. Implements ticket 40209.