[Tor-BSD] OpenBSD testers neededFw: fix security issue in -stable for net/tor

teor teor2345 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 13 18:00:56 EST 2017


On 14 Dec 2017, at 08:22, Daniel Jakots <vigdis+tor at chown.me> wrote:

>> We usually don't remove relays from the network unless they are
>> actively causing severe issues for clients. The last time we did this
>> for a particular tor version was back in 0.2.9 due to a bad directory
>> cache bug.
>> 
>> As far as I know, there are no plans to remove older relays from the
>> network.
>> 
>> Instead, we will mark them as "not recommended" in Relay Search,
>> and the relays themselves will warn about their old version in their
>> logs.
> 
> So what does the "not recommended" mark? Just a hint that you should
> update?

Yes, just a hint to update.

We also declare major version series unsupported.
(Like 0.2.7 earlier this year, or 0.2.8 and 0.3.0 in January.)
Then they stop receiving security patches.

T



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