State of the Onion: Tor & Community Updates from 2020

November 16, 2020

Join us for the (virtual) State of the Onion at on Nov 16, 2020 @ 16:00 - 18:00 UTC.*

The Tor Project is building usable free software to fight surveillance and censorship across the globe. In this talk we'll give an update on what we got up to during 2020, what happened in the wider Tor ecosystem, and what lies ahead of us.

Watch the State of the Onion on YouTube: https://youtu.be/IyWyTypRGWQ

We will update this page with more information as it is available.

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Remember, this is a not a stable release yet: but we still hope that people will try it out and look for bugs before the official stable release comes out in June.

Tor 0.4.6.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous releases. This, we hope, the final release candidate in its series: unless major new issues are found, the next release will be stable.

Changes in version 0.4.6.4-rc - 2021-05-28

Minor features (compatibility):
- Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes ticket 40399.
Minor bugfixes (consensus handling):
- Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.