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 alpha release: Tor 0.4.1.1-alpha

There's a new alpha release available for download. If you build Tor from source, you can download the source code for 0.4.1.1-alpha from the usual place on the website. Packages should be available over the coming weeks, with a new alpha Tor Browser release in the next couple of weeks.

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

This is the first alpha in the 0.4.1.x series. It introduces lightweight circuit padding to make some onion-service circuits harder to distinguish, includes a new "authenticated SENDME" feature to make certain denial-of-service attacks more difficult, and improves performance in several areas.

Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-22

Major features (circuit padding):
- Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature with the CircuitPadding torrc.) Closes ticket 28634.
Major features (code organization):
- Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes ticket 28226.