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 ''77th issue of Tor Weekly News. Covering what's happening from December 16th, 2014 to December 23rd, 2014. To be released on December 24th, 2014.''
 
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 '''Subject:''' Tor Weekly News — December 24th, 2014
 
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 Welcome to the fifty-first issue in 2014 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly
-newsletter that covers what’s happening in the XXX Tor community.
+newsletter that covers what’s happening in the Tor community.
 
-Feature XXX
------------
+Stem 1.3 is out
+---------------
 
-Feature 1 with cited source [XXX]
+“After months down in the engine room”, Damian Johnson announced [XXX]
+version 1.3 of Stem [XXX], the Tor controller library written in Python.
+Among the many improvements in this release, Damian singled out the new
+set of controller methods for working with hidden services, as well as
+the 40% increase in descriptor parsing speed.
 
- [XXX]:
+Please see the changelog [XXX] for full details of all the new features.
 
-Monthly status reports for XXX month 2014
------------------------------------------
-
-The wave of regular monthly reports from Tor project members for the
-month of XXX has begun. XXX released his report first [XXX], followed
-by reports from name 2 [XXX], name 3 [XXX], and name 4 [XXX].
-
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
+ [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/stem-release-13
+ [XXX]: https://stem.torproject.org/
+ [XXX]: https://stem.torproject.org/change_log.html#version-1-3
 
 Miscellaneous news
 ------------------
 
-Item 1 with cited source [XXX].
+The team of researchers working on the collection of hidden service
+statistics [XXX] published a tutorial [XXX] for relay operators who want
+to enable this feature, now that the relevant code has been merged into
+Tor’s main branch.
 
-Item 2 with cited source [XXX].
+ [XXX]: https://bugs.torproject.org/13509
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2014-December/005953.html
 
-Item 3 with cited source [XXX].
+Building on Andrea Shepard’s recently-merged work on global cell
+scheduling [XXX], Nick Mathewson announced [XXX] that the KIST socket
+management algorithm proposed earlier this year [XXX] to reduce
+congestion in the Tor network is now “somewhat implemented” for Linux.
+You can follow the testing and reviews on the associated ticket [XXX].
 
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
+ [XXX]: https://bugs.torproject.org/9262
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-December/008001.html
+ [XXX]: http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf
+ [XXX]: https://bugs.torproject.org/12890
 
-Tor help desk roundup
----------------------
+Nick also asked for feedback [XXX] on the proposal to increase the
+interval at which Tor relays report their bandwidth usage statistics
+from fifteen minutes to four hours [XXX]: “Will this break anything you
+know about?”
 
-Summary of some questions sent to the Tor help desk. 
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-December/008007.html
+ [XXX]: https://bugs.torproject.org/13988
 
-News from Tor StackExchange
----------------------------
+Moritz Bartl invited [XXX] Tor relay operators to a meet-up [XXX] at the
+upcoming Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg: “We will do quick
+presentations on recent and future activities around Torservers.net,
+talk about events relevant to the Tor relay community, and what lies
+ahead.”
 
-Text with cited source [XXX].
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2014-December/005958.html
+ [XXX]: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Session:Tor_Relay_Operators_Meetup
 
- [XXX]:
+Thanks to Thomas White for keeping the community updated [XXX] following
+a brief period of suspicious activity around his exit relays and Onionoo
+application mirrors!
 
-Easy development tasks to get involved with
--------------------------------------------
-
-Text with cited source [XXX].
-
- [XXX]: 
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-December/036067.html
 
 This week in Tor history
 ------------------------
 
-Text with cited source [XXX].
+A year ago this week [XXX], Tor Browser hit version 3.5, bringing with
+it a pioneering deterministic build system [XXX] that set a new standard
+in software distribution security, and has since drawn interest from
+many other projects, including the Debian operating system [XXX]. It
+also laid the long-obsolete Vidalia graphical controller to rest,
+replacing it with the faster, sleeker Tor Launcher. The
+privacy-preserving browser is now approaching version 4.5, and users can
+look forward to a security slider [XXX] offering finer-grained tuning of
+security preferences, as well as features that restore some of Vidalia’s
+circuit-visualization capabilities [XXX].
 
- [XXX]: 
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-news/2013-December/000026.html
+ [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/deterministic-builds-part-one-cyberwar-and-global-compromise
+ [XXX]: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds
+ [XXX]: https://bugs.torproject.org/9387
+ [XXX]: https://bugs.torproject.org/8641
 
 Upcoming events
 ---------------
 
-Jul XX-XX | Event XXX brief description
-          | Event City, Event Country
-          | Event website URL
-          |
-Jul XX-XX | Event XXX brief description
-          | Event City, Event Country
-          | Event website URL
+  Dec 24 13:30 UTC | little-t tor development meeting
+                   | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+                   |
+  Dec 24 16:00 UTC | Pluggable transports meeting
+                   | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+                   |
+  Dec 27-30        | Tor @ 31st Chaos Communication Congress
+                   | Hamburg, Germany
+                   | https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Main_Page
+                   |
+  Dec 29 18:00 UTC | Tor Browser online meeting
+                   | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+                   |
+  Dec 29 18:00 UTC | OONI development meeting
+                   | #ooni, irc.oftc.net
+                   |
+  Dec 30 18:00 UTC | little-t tor patch workshop
+                   | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+                   |
+  Jan 03 20:00 UTC | Tails contributors meeting
+                   | #tails-dev, irc.oftc.net
+                   | https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2014-December/007626.html
+                   |
+  Jan 07 09:00 GMT | Roger @ Real World Cryptography Workshop 2015
+                   | London, England
+                   | http://www.realworldcrypto.com/rwc2015
 
 
-This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by XXX, XXX, and
-XXX.
+This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by Harmony.
 
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