Tor: News

25 May 2008: Tor receives two awards from the NLnet Foundation. The first is to improve the performance of hidden services. The second is to make Tor work better for low bandwidth clients. The NLnet awards page has more details about the two projects.
13 May 2008: Tor 0.2.0.26-rc replaces several V3 directory authority keys affected by a recent Debian OpenSSL bug. This is a security-critical release. Everybody running any version in the 0.2.0.x series should upgrade, whether they are running Debian or not. Also, all servers running any version of Tor whose keys were generated by Debian, Ubuntu, or any derived distribution may have to replace their identity keys. See our security advisory or the blog follow-up for full details. As always, you can find Tor 0.2.0.26-rc on the downloads page.
Mar 2008: Tor Project is in Google Summer of Code 2008!
Feb 2008: The Board of Directors welcomes Isaac Mao to the board. We thank Rebecca McKinnon for her support and contributions to the project.
Feb 2008: Tor is happy to announce the official Tor blog.
Jan 2008: Tor 0.1.2.19 (the latest stable release) fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues. Please upgrade. Full release notes are available.
Oct 2007: Tor 0.1.2.18 (the new stable release) fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status lists for a few hours each day. We also modified the default Privoxy config files in the bundles to avoid some security problems, so make sure to leave "install Privoxy" checked when you upgrade. See the release announcement for more information.
Oct 2007: As many of you know, The Tor Project became an independent and official nonprofit this past February. We did this so we could accept grants from groups who only donate to NGOs, and so our donors could deduct qualifying donations made to us.
We'd like to extend our profound thanks to the Electronic Frontier Foundation for their past support, fiscal sponsorship, and help in hosting some of our web pages, and for their continued mentorship of and counsel to our fledgling nonprofit organization.
Sep 2007: If you have received email claiming to be Tor, it wasn't from us. The official Tor bundles can be verified as authentic.
Aug 2007: Please update your Tor software! The latest versions (stable: 0.1.2.17; development: 0.2.0.6-alpha) patch a significant security vulnerability. See the release announcement for more information.
Feb 2007: The Tor Project and UColo/Boulder respond to a recent blogstorm regarding a paper documenting a possible attack strategy against Tor.
Jan 2007: The Tor network has grown to hundreds of thousands of users. The developers can't do all the new features, bug fixes, and documentation. We need your help!
We are actively looking for new sponsors and funding. If your organization has an interest in keeping the Tor network usable and fast, please contact us. Sponsors of Tor also get personal attention, better support, publicity (if they want it), and get to influence the direction of our research and development. Please donate.