Tor help desk expands with four more languages

When we first launched the Tor help desk back in November 2011, we provided support in English and Farsi. We recently expanded the help desk with four more languages: Arabic, French, Mandarin, and Spanish. The help desk is a best effort service with no guarantees, but we generally respond within 48 hours.

For support in English, email help@rt.torproject.org. For other languages, try:

help-ar@rt.torproject.org for Arabic
help-es@rt.torproject.org for Spanish
help-fa@rt.torproject.org for Farsi
help-fr@rt.torproject.org for French
help-zh@rt.torproject.org for Mandarin

Y u no add Turkish?

I'm not sure there's such a

I'm not sure there's such a high demand for support in Turkish.

Not a lot of people are

Not a lot of people are aware of Tor in Turkey, where only 17% speaks English. In short: if you build it, they will come :)

Join www.rt.com

Thank you so much

is there a site where you

is there a site where you can ask some basic questions about tor a blog I guess?

There will be with the

There will be with the revolution.

Updating TOR from 6.5 to 7…

Updating TOR from 6.5 to 7 on Debian breaks it and it cannot connect, not directly like 6.5 was, not obfs and not with bridges. It gives an error of cannot connect to 198.CCC.ccc.ccc:443 an IP which I am sure it thinks is the router's but is not. Next to it on Mint, Tor is updated and works as usual connected to the same router and with the same settings.

You are commenting on a very…

You are commenting on a very old blog post and chances are high that causal blog readers are missing your question here. Does this happen every time you start Tor Browser? Does it happen with a clean, new Tor Browser from our download page as well?

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New Release: Tor 0.3.5.2-alpha

There's a new alpha release available for download. If you build Tor from source, you can download the source code for 0.3.5.2-alpha from the usual place on the website. Packages should be available over the coming weeks, with a new alpha Tor Browser release very soon.

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

Tor 0.3.5.2-alpha fixes several bugs in 0.3.5.1-alpha, including one that made Tor think it had run out of sockets. Anybody running a relay or an onion service on 0.3.5.1-alpha should upgrade.

Changes in version 0.3.5.2-alpha - 2018-09-21

Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
- When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
Major bugfixes (socket accounting):
- In our socket accounting code, count a socket as closed even when it is closed indirectly by the TLS layer. Previously, we would count these sockets as still in use, and incorrectly believe that we had run out of sockets. Fixes bug 27795; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.

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New release: Tor 0.3.5.1-alpha

There's a new alpha release available for download. If you build Tor from source, you can download the source code for 0.3.5.1-alpha from the usual place on the website. Packages should be available over the coming weeks, with a new alpha Tor Browser release some time this week.

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

Tor 0.3.5.1-alpha is the first release of the 0.3.5.x series. It adds client authorization for modern (v3) onion services, improves bootstrap reporting, begins reorganizing Tor's codebase, adds optional support for NSS in place of OpenSSL, and much more.

Changes in version 0.3.5.1-alpha - 2018-09-18

Major features (onion services, UI change):
- For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3. Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
Major features (relay, UI change):
- Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay" option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0. Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
- Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF- 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.