[Tor-BSD] Fwd: FreeBSD port: security/tor

[George Rosamond]

On 09/07/16 14:12, N.J. Thomas wrote:
> FYI...

looks like it's in...

	===>>> New version available: tor-devel-0.2.9.2.a_1

g

> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Thomas Nybergh <thomas at nybergh.net> -----
> 
> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 12:38:07 +0300
> From: Thomas Nybergh <thomas at nybergh.net>
> To: ports at freebsd.org
> Cc: Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com>
> Subject: Fwd: FreeBSD port: security/tor
> List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD <freebsd-ports.freebsd.org>
> 
> Hi all!
> 
> The maintainer of the security/tor port, yuri at rawbw.com, asked me to ping
> this list about committing a patch to bump Tor to version 0.2.8.7, a
> critical update.
> 
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212124
> 
> Further details in the link below, but suffice to say that this new version
> of Tor is super important for maintaining the health of the Tor 'bridge'
> relay infrastructure.
> 
> 'Bridges' are the secret(ish) entry relays that Tor's most vulnerable users
> rely on, in despotic countries etc. These special relays can help users
> sneak into the anonymisation network, if otherwise blocked and/or monitored.
> 
> https://blog.torproject.org/blog/new-bridge-authority
> 
> Thanks for all your great work!
> 
> 
> Short time user, first time caller,
> --
> Thomas Nybergh
> Helsinki, Finland
> 
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com>
> Date: Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 2:43 AM
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD port: security/tor
> To: Thomas Nybergh <thomas at nybergh.net>
> 
> 
> On 09/06/2016 15:58, Thomas Nybergh wrote:
> 
>> I'm a random user of the security/tor port (now at version 0.2.8.6),
>> of which you're marked as the maintainer in the FreeBSD ports tree.
>>
>> I'm contacting you with a reminder about an important update, Tor
>> 0.2.8.7, which was released a couple of weeks ago. This update is
>> critical, since it replaces one of the hardcoded values Tor depends
>> on, the bridge authority.
>>
>> https://blog.torproject.org/blog/new-bridge-authority
>>
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Thanks for your concern.
> 
> 
> Somebody has made a patch updating tor to 0.2.8.7 even before I started on
> it. I approved it, but it hasn't been committed yet:
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212124
> 
> 
> You can write to ports at FreeBSD.org (mailing list) and ask them to commit it.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Yuri
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