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Welcome to the nineteenth issue in 2015 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
------------
+Contents
+--------
-Feature 1 with cited source [XXX]
+ 1. Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is out
+ 2. Tails 1.4 is out
+ 3. Tor Cloud is retired
+ 4. Relay operators: please enable IPv6!
+ 5. More monthly status reports for April 2015
+ 6. Miscellaneous news
+ 7. Upcoming events
- [XXX]:
+Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is out
+------------------------
-Monthly status reports for XXX month 2015
------------------------------------------
+Nick Mathewson announced [XXX] the first alpha release in the Tor
+0.2.7.x series. The most notable new feature in this release is the
+ability to create, delete, control, and get information about onion
+services and their descriptors via a Tor controller. It also fixes a bug
+that assigned the HSDir flag to relays that would not function properly
+as directories, affecting the availability of some onion services over
+the past few weeks.
+
+The source code is available as usual from the distribution
+directory [XXX]; as with any alpha release, “please expect bugs”.
+
+ [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-0271-alpha-released
+ [XXX]: https://dist.torproject.org/
+
+Tails 1.4 is out
+----------------
+
+The Tails team announced [XXX] version 1.4 of the anonymous live
+operating system. Most notable in this release is the inclusion of Tor
+Browser 4.5, meaning Tails users can now take advantage of the security
+slider, enhanced anti-tracking protection, and other exciting new
+features in the latest stable Tor Browser series.
+
+Another user-facing enhancement is the addition of Paperkey [XXX], a
+program that lets you back up the secret part of your GPG key on the one
+storage medium that never goes out of fashion.
+
+For a full list of changes, see the team’s announcement. This release
+contains important security updates, so head to the download page [XXX]
+(or the incremental updater) as soon as possible.
+
+ [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tails-14-out
+ [XXX]: http://www.jabberwocky.com/software/paperkey/
+
+Tor Cloud is retired
+--------------------
+
+The Tor Cloud project [XXX], which offered prospective Tor relay
+operators an easy way of setting up a bridge relay on Amazon’s EC2 cloud
+computing platform, has been discontinued, as Karsten Loesing explained
+on the Tor blog [XXX].
+
+“The main reason for discontinuing Tor Cloud is the fact that software
+requires maintenance, and Tor Cloud is no exception”, wrote Karsten.
+Several serious bugs have rendered Tor Cloud unusable, and no solution
+could be found for its continued maintenance, so the service will no
+longer be offered for new relays.
+
+This doesn’t mean, however, that existing Tor Cloud relays will be shut
+down as well — those will continue to run as long as their operators
+want them to. Similarly, everyday Tor Browser users do not need to worry
+about this announcement: it will have no effect on the working of
+software that uses the Tor network.
+
+If you want to help grow the Tor network and strengthen
+the protection it offers to Internet users around the world, but don’t
+have the resources to set up a relay from scratch, please consider
+donating to a Tor relay organization like Torservers.net [XXX], Nos
+Oignons [XXX], or another of their partners [XXX]. These experienced
+Tor relay operators will run the services on your behalf, ensuring they
+stay secure, efficient, and up-to-date. Please see the organizations’
+donation pages for more details!
+
+ [XXX]: https://cloud.torproject.org/
+ [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-cloud-service-ending-many-ways-remain-help-users-access-uncensored-internet#comments
+ [XXX]: https://www.torservers.net/donate.html
+ [XXX]: https://nos-oignons.net/Donnez/index.fr.html
+ [XXX]: https://www.torservers.net/partners.html
+
+Relay operators: please enable IPv6!
+------------------------------------
+
+“We still have a depressingly low number of relays that support IPv6
+(currently only ~120 of ~1900 relays)”, wrote Moritz Bartl in a post to
+the tor-relays mailing list [XXX]. If your host supports the new
+protocol, enabling it on your Tor relay is as simple as a change to your
+torrc file: please see Moritz’ post for the full details.
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2015-May/006964.html
+
+More monthly status reports for April 2015
+------------------------------------------
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].
+month of April continued, with reports from Karsten Loesing [XXX]
+(coordinating translations and reports for SponsorO, researching onion
+service statistics, and developing Onionoo), Noel Torres [XXX]
+(responding to Tor help desk requests), Sukhbir Singh [XXX] (developing
+Tor Messenger), Isabela Bagueros [XXX] (overall project management), and
+Arlo Breault [XXX] (also working on Tor Messenger).
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
+David Goulet sent out the report for the SponsorR team [XXX], who are
+researching Tor onion services and working on improvements to their
+security and stability.
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-May/000821.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-May/000822.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-May/000824.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-May/000825.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-May/000826.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2015-May/000823.html
Miscellaneous news
------------------
-Tails published their monthly report for April. Read about their activities :) [https://tails.boum.org/news/report_2015_04]
+meejah announced [XXX]version 0.13.0 of txtorcon, the Twisted-based
+asynchronous Tor controller. This version brings with it speed
+improvements, as well as support for “basic” and “stealth” onion service
+authentication; see meejah’s announcement for full details.
-Item 1 with cited source [XXX].
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-May/008810.html
-Item 2 with cited source [XXX].
+The Tails team published their monthly report for April 2015 [XXX]. Take
+a look for news of recent development work, summaries of ongoing
+discussions, upcoming events, and more.
-Item 3 with cited source [XXX].
+ [XXX]: https://tails.boum.org/news/report_2015_04
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
+Lunar gave an interview (in French) to lundimatin [XXX] on the subject
+of the French government’s “Bill on Intelligence” [XXX] and what it
+means for the Tor network.
-Tor help desk roundup
----------------------
+ [XXX]: https://lundi.am/Tor-Loi-Renseignement
+ [XXX]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_on_Intelligence
-Summary of some questions sent to the Tor help desk.
+Jacob Appelbaum took part in a panel discussion [XXX] at re:publica 15
+entitled “A Deeper Frontier of Freedom: The State of the Deepweb”.
-News from Tor StackExchange
----------------------------
-
-Text with cited source [XXX].
-
- [XXX]:
-
-Easy development tasks to get involved with
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-
-Text with cited source [XXX].
-
- [XXX]:
-
-This week in Tor history
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-
-Text with cited source [XXX].
-
- [XXX]:
+ [XXX]: https://voicerepublic.com/talks/a-deeper-frontier-of-freedom-the-state-of-the-deepweb
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
+ May 13 13:30 UTC | little-t tor development meeting
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ May 14 16:00 UTC | SponsorO support/documentation meeting
+ | #tor-project, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ May 14 16:00 UTC | SponsorO Tor Messenger/Tor Mail meeting
+ | #tor-project, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ May 18 18:00 UTC | Tor Browser meeting
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ May 18 18:00 UTC | OONI development meeting
+ | #ooni, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ May 19 18:00 UTC | little-t tor patch workshop
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ May 27 02:00 UTC | Pluggable transports/bridges meeting
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ Jun 30 - Jul 02 | Many Tor people @ 15th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium
+ | Philadelphia, USA
+ | https://petsymposium.org/2015/
-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 and the
+Tails team.
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