obfs4 Shutdown of default obfs4 bridge frosty.

ticket

snowflake Deployed version 0.4.1 of the Snowflake WebExtension, with NAT type detection in the browser.

comment

snowflake Deployed NAT-aware matching at the Snowflake broker.

comment

snowflake Release of Tor Browser 10.0a1, the first release with Snowflake for Android.

blog post ticket

snowflake Release of Tor Browser 9.5a13, the first release with Turbo Tunnel session persistence features for Snowflake.

blog post ticket

snowflake Redeployed the Snowflake bridge with support for non–Turbo Tunnel clients and KCP–Turbo Tunnel clients, removing support for QUIC–Turbo Tunnel clients.

comment

snowflake Made the Snowflake bridge stop reporting client IP addresses of 0.0.0.0. This also affects log messages that report how many client connections had an attached IP address.

comment

snowflake Deployed a Turbo Tunnel–capable Snowflake bridge.

comment

snowflake Outage of the Snowflake bridge caused by memory exhaustion.

ticket

ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest 4974C4F1F6842975999D0774F2636F383312EA2D , geoip6-db-digest 2046D67D7BBE67AFF12E1CEDD9F9083AB5E3DFAC ).

commit

Iran Internet blackout in Iran.

report NTC thread

ipv6 snowflake Changed DNS to point to the IPv6-enabled Snowflake broker.

comment

snowflake Deployed webext-0.1.0 of the Snowflake proxy (which uses a new proxy–broker protocol) to snowflake.torproject.org.

comment

snowflake Released version 0.1.0 of the Snowflake extension for Firefox and Chrome, using a new proxy–broker protocol.

comment

snowflake Restarted the broker with a new proxy–broker protocol.

comment

ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "November 6 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest 967E4D14ADF0C9439C31FB7B666537A0551C1E6A , geoip6-db-digest BD6E89A28801FA447693EDEC6D47ECCA03B8CD20 ).

commit

snowflake Version 0.0.13 of the Snowflake extension is released, decreasing the poll frequency to once every 300 s. The standalone proxy-go instances still poll once every 5 s.

comment

snowflake Pointed snowflake-broker.torproject.net (one of three domain names for the Snowflake broker) to a new broker instance set up with IPv6. Metrics unintentionally start being collected from the new instance, instead of the old instance that was still in use.

ticket ticket

China obfs4 The new default bridge 193.11.166.194 is already blocked by the GFW – two days after the Tor Browser alpha release that shipped with it. The block may have happened sooner, though. We only tested the bridge just now.

ticket

ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "October 1 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest 34ABC09019FAB09BA3083B3663EC0B807FC16151 , geoip6-db-digest F4D3BEC6294DF7FAEAEE5966CC6706CF91CE9BC4 ).

commit

snowflake Release of Tor Browser 9.0a7, the first release that has Snowflake for Windows.

blog post ticket

snowflake The Snowflake proxy hosted at snowflake.torproject.org is updated, changing domains from bamsoftware.com to freehaven.net in order to work around the Google Safe Browsing block.

comment

snowflake Version 0.0.7 of the Snowflake extension for Chrome is released, changing domains from bamsoftware.com to freehaven.net in order to work around the Google Safe Browsing block.

comment

flashproxy snowflake Cupcake 2.0 is released, now working with Snowflake rather than flash proxy.

Chrome Web Store page

snowflake Version 0.0.8 of the Snowflake extension for Firefox is released, changing domains from bamsoftware.com to freehaven.net in order to work around the Google Safe Browsing block.

comment

snowflake The broker domain name snowflake-broker.bamsoftware.com is blocked by Google Safe Browsing, preventing the Snowflake web browser extension from working.

ticket comment noting decrease in proxies

Kazakhstan The Kazakh ISP KazTelecom does man-in-the-middle of TLS connections.

Censored Planet report post about end

snowflake The Snowflake web browser extension for Chrome is published.

comment

Iran <OR> Bridges Relays Relays in Iran are reported to be unblocked once again, and user numbers recover to about 25% of the maximum they had reached during the previous period of unblocking. They then drop precipitously, and bridge users increase.

ticket comment comment

snowflake The Snowflake web browser extension for Firefox is published.

comment

Burma Internet shutdown in parts of Myanmar.

report

obfs4 A call to set up new obfs4 bridges is posted to the tor-relays mailing list.

mailing list thread thread continues

ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest A131E1F283F4AD307248B03A70B0413E81ADF2A4 , geoip6-db-digest 0EFF3EE1E22927EC9A77BFFAFD703F3A5B32FA79 ).

commit

Failure of network equipment at site of op-ab OnionPerf instance (equipment now replaced)

onionperf timeouts graph

fte Release of Tor Browser 9.0a1, removes support for FTE.

blog post ticket

ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest 35DFDA2D06D2A0467EF37D60A67B438B11952B74 , geoip6-db-digest C0193A1D086819353FABBF70AADB15866B7B2525 ).

commit

China snowflake China blocks the default Snowflake proxies.

ticket

Network equipment failure at site of op-ab OnionPerf instance

performance graph

Benin Social media blocking and Internet blackout during parliamentary elections in Benin.

OONI report

Russia Relays Unknown Relay users increase by about 100K, in an apparent weekly cycle. Bridge users are not similarly affected.

relay graph bridge graph tor-talk thread Reddit thread

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka blocks Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube after bombings.

relay graph bridge graph article

Unknown Tor browser update pings roughly double.

graph metrics-team thread

snowflake Outage of Snowflake fallback proxy-go instances, caused by a failure to restart after segregating old logs.

ticket

ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest 62A97D4DEBF76A5CE5C232B95BBF05B191EB8AAA , geoip6-db-digest 66620E57A8427C53D6084B3229807DC320CDC3D0 ).

commit

snowflake Outage of the Snowflake broker, caused by a full disk.

ticket

ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "March 4 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest 5B90C2F06292D8237A5C77E27ED4ABABF4AE0684 , geoip6-db-digest E971FCA4A89F6C685928FF9371D1BF7A2484F4CA ).

commit

Belarus Relays Unknown Increase of relay users in Belarus.

graph mailing list post

ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest DDAA25B4425EAA45EE8E92A6531CD3246C8E989A , geoip6-db-digest 0368FA722D90026E60BD60A26F615791A7A53D21 ).

commit

snowflake Disabled the 3 proxy-go instances that were pointing at the former broker hosted on App Engine.

comment

Bridges Release of tor 0.3.5.7, 0.3.4.10, and 0.3.3.11. Fixes the bug, present since 0.3.5.1-alpha/0.3.4.1-alpha, of idle bridges being unuseful.

comment ticket blog post ticket

ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest 2B8A70B399CF8B471289A4DB52947DE965D8DE5F , geoip6-db-digest FEA33E6F398DF67252F41DDD3D010E69B33D544E ).

commit

Gabon Internet shutdown in Gabon following a coup attempt.

OONI report NetBlocks report

United Arab Emirates <OR> Reported blocking of vanilla Tor in the UAE.

comment

ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "December 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest 0684E08BDC01ABB41A717E9C55BDEB21531CFAC8 , geoip6-db-digest AFFAD1475879D57B1C1EA119141EFA0E57547290 ).

commit

Outage of the onionperf-us instance, caused by a Greenhost east coast VPS migration.

mailing list post

flashproxy Outage of the flash proxy badge hosting server, flashproxy.bamsoftware.com, caused by a Greenhost east coast VPS migration.



Slow-running processes on the metrics host cause an observed drop in the overall relay bandwidth graph.

mailing list thread

snowflake A full disk stops the Snowflake bridge and fallback proxies from working.

ticket

ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest 603BE8A0CA1B7164D76DBC75A280C9CA0A556F65 , geoip6-db-digest 1CEF662539C0D91EC07A7C5C13134E3317B451E4 ).

commit

Relays Gap in observed number of relay users, caused by the estimated fraction of reporting relays exceeding 100%.

metrics-team post ticket graph archived graph

ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest 76907A8345DA84CC724CDD573B6E08F6A089FEEB , geoip6-db-digest 5852AB4D3A96D7526DD47D5573CB4FA32BE4ECEB ).

commit

fte Outage of default FTE bridge 128.105.214.162:8080.

comment

fte Outage of default FTE bridge 128.105.214.163:8080.

comment

Bridges Release of tor 0.3.5.1-alpha, containing a bug that makes idle bridges unuseful.



United Arab Emirates obfs4 Reported blocking of obfs4 in the UAE.

ticket comment

ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "September 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest C9118A0D763E069B890674A4D5000A3DB846746B , geoip6-db-digest 8A46B41B2AE16F3705C67DEECD20EAA50B043A51 ).

commit

Bridges Release of tor 0.3.4.8, 0.2.9.17, 0.3.2.12, and 0.3.3.10. 0.3.4.8, containing a bug that makes idle bridges unuseful, becomes the stable release.

blog post

ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest 4C2E4FF8220FFFB4989564728701016DF705BCBF , geoip6-db-digest F3F5C576BF3E8D5FD9F6F33603D7BFD64DEAA8B5 ).

commit

Collector was missing consensuses. They were recovered via recent relay consensus diffs.

metrics-team thread tor-relays thread

Turkey Relays Unknown Another jump of relay users in Turkey, from 5k to about 30k.

relay graph bridge graph

Bridges The estimated number of bridge users becomes available again, following the introduction of the new bridge authority Serge on 2018-07-13. The stats took about a week to reappear because of the discontinuity in bridge reporting affecting the estimated fraction of reporting bridges.

mailing list post graph

onion Unknown The number of v2 onion services increases from 70k to 100k.

comment

snowflake Made the Snowflake bridge report to the new Serge bridge authority.

comment

Bridges Release of Tor 0.2.9.16, 0.3.2.11, 0.3.3.9, and 0.3.4.5-rc. Switches bridge authority from Bifroest to Serge. The number of bridges begins counting up from zero as bridges are upgraded. The estimated number of bridge users remained unavailable until 2018-07-21 because of the discontinuity.

announcement ticket blog post number of bridges graph

Bridges The replacement bridge authority Serge begins publishing bridge descriptors.

ticket ticket number of bridges graph

Bridges The bridge authority Bifroest stops publishing bridge descriptors. Bridge stats are unavailable until 2018-07-13 and the introduction of a new bridge authority.

ticket ticket mailing list post number of bridges graph

ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest CFFD7B0544879150A31F966E83DBB7DDDFA16F49 , geoip6-db-digest B25710F60CB23F0C76F58AFB0A26A26ACB701BB2 ).

commit

snowflake Outage of the Snowflake bridge, caused by a full disk.

ticket

meek Release of Tor Browser 8.0a9 with non-working meek.

blog post ticket

snowflake Metrics for Snowflake are missing, for unknown reasons. The gap is nearly contemporaneous with the gap the measurements for all transports/bridges caused by Bifroest–Serge bridge authority switchover, but starts about 2 weeks earlier in Snowflake's case.

ticket

Venezuela Venezuela's largest ISP, CANTV, blocks direct access to Tor and the IP addresses of default bridges. meek and non-default bridges are reported to work.

ticket mailing list post Access Now report

ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest 93112125248AD2C11A2531B934FD4AC03999738D , geoip6-db-digest BFD2B453F2D9DC875B7B0C464A185E6C3202534F ).

commit

Turkey Relays Unknown Jump of relay users in Turkey, from 5k to about 30k. The timing of the beginning corresponds to the release of Tor Browser 7.5.5 and 8.0a8.

relay graph bridge graph comment

meek Release of Tor Browser 8.0a8, removes meek-amazon option.

blog post

meek Release of Tor Browser 7.5.5, removes meek-amazon option.

blog post

Bridges Unknown Sharp increase in bridge users in many unrelated countries, affecting even the global aggregate. Relay users unaffected. The graphs reach a peak around 2018-06-07 and then begin falling again. An incomplete sampling of affected countries: Bangladesh Chile Indonesia Morocco Venezuela.

relay graph bridge graph

Iraq obfs4 Unknown Increase in obfs4 users in Iraq, followed by a slow decrease. No matching change in relay users or other transports.

bridge graph

Bridges Release of tor 0.3.4.1-alpha. Has a bug that makes idle bridges unuseful.

ticket ticket

ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest 765D2F123DDA7DAEA9C9263975E2B4BAFBD2B908 , geoip6-db-digest 2AA568CC898BF9924FBACEA26946AA7ED10E7D87 ).

commit

meek Disabled the d2cly7j4zqgua7.cloudfront.net CDN endpoint for meek-amazon.

Tor Browser ticket Orbot ticket

snowflake Release of Tor Browser 8.0a7, which changes the default Snowflake rendezvous to use an Azure domain front, instead of the Google one that had been non-functional since 2018-04-13.

blog post ticket

meek The meek-amazon bridge imposes a rate limit of 1 MB/s.



Russia Russia unblocks about 3.7 million IP addresses belonging to Google and Digital Ocean.

Roskomnadzor press release monitoring page

Russia Russia unblocks about 3 million IP addresses belonging to Amazon and OVH.

Roskomnadzor press release monitoring page

onion Unknown The number of v2 onion services increases from 70k to 120k.

ticket

Russia Russia tries to block Telegram; blocks about 18 million IP addresses including some belonging to Amazon and Google cloud services.

article relay graph bridge graph

snowflake Moved the Snowflake broker from App Engine to a standalone server.

comment

snowflake Snowflake client registrations (based on domain fronting) stop working, because of a Google infrastructure change that stops domain fronting from working. The time of the change is between 2018-04-13 14:00:00 and 2018-04-13 18:00:00, based on when the bandwidth graph of the Snowflake bridge 5481936581E23D2D178105D44DB6915AB06BFB7F went to zero.

ticket

ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "April 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest 8A53650327E8D30E971DC90F564BA9BD1A513F19 , geoip6-db-digest 698852511F6BC27DFFC115805044C71FDCCF70AF ).

commit

snowflake Accidentally misconfigured the 3 proxy-go instances that were meant to point to the new standalone broker so that they pointed to the old App Engine broker.

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snowflake Reinstated periodic restarts of the fallback snowflake proxies.

comment

Chad Chad blocks social messaging apps.

article graph

snowflake Restarted the fallback snowflake proxies with no limit on memory.

comment

snowflake Release of Tor Browser 8.0a5. Improves snowflake client performance.

blog post ticket

snowflake Restarted the fallback snowflake proxies with a limit on resident memory ( ulimit -m ) rather than virtual memory ( ulimit -v ).

comment comment

snowflake Provisionally increased memory limits of the fallback snowflake proxies to 400 MB, 800 MB, or unlimited.

comment

snowflake Increased memory limit of the fallback snowflake proxies from 200 MB to 400 MB.

comment comment

snowflake Disabled periodic restarts of the fallback snowflake proxies; gave them a memory limit of 200 MB.

comment

snowflake Deployed another attempt to fix frequent crashes of the fallback snowflake proxies.

comment

snowflake Deployed an attempt to fix frequent crashes of the fallback snowflake proxies.

comment commit

ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "March 8 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest 0FD75C42A32E82100361BD367CB13862806E6A13 , geoip6-db-digest 5AFA101C4A6AD4289CEE4575943D6BA851606245 ).

commit

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka blocks Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Viber.

relay graph bridge graph article

Germany <OR> Relays Unknown Steady drop in the number of relay users in Germany, from 1.5M to 650k. (Drop coincides with the release of tor 0.3.2.10, 0.3.1.10, and 0.2.9.15, which offer better resistance against DoS attacks; as well as improvements in speed for downloads from onions graph; see this graph as well. More datapoints: DDoS of the network happened around the time that saw an increase in the number of relay users in Germany, see entry above or graph)

graph ticket

Release of tor 0.3.2.10, 0.3.1.10, and 0.2.9.15, which offer better resistance against DoS attacks.

blog post ticket

Less than 3 bandwidth authorities are available.

tor-relays

China Blocking in China intensifies following the announcement of proposed changes to remove presidential term limits.

article

Relays Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha reaches deb.torproject.org repositories



Relays Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha reaches FreeBSD repositories



Relays Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha is released (containing important denial-of-service migitations for relays)

blog

ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest FF83AD73DE7672C77EDF8888F4B241642C7C90F7 , geoip6-db-digest B1CDBFEB7C88F82EF3B5289CAFEED1321FA4693F ).

commit

Iran meek Unknown Drop of meek users in Iran; other transports not affected.

graph

webstats Tor Browser update pings roughly halve, again. The beginning corresponds with the release of Tor Browser 7.5; however unlike with Tor Browser 6.5.2, there was no change to app.update.url this time.

ticket thread

obfs4 Tor Browser 7.5 is released. It adds the default obfs4 bridge noisetor01:46089.

blog post

Relays Some more directory authorities upgrade to 0.3.2.9 which enforces new requirements for the exit flag. ~50 relays lose the exit flag

tor-relays post

snowflake Outage of Snowflake broker caused by the disabling of the Let's Encrypt TLS-SNI-01 challenge.

ticket graph

Tor 0.3.2.9 reaches deb.torproject.org.

relay versions graph

ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest ACE2AF82816B9D3F58FC9C79A41B4506D6DAD713 , geoip6-db-digest 387B3F555F1E054F0F9971C726F49848C5B5CF8B ).

commit

Outage of the op-hk OnionPerf instance.

op-hk graph

United Arab Emirates Relays User report that the UAE blocked Tor, bridges work.

comment

Release of tor 0.3.2.8-rc, intended to fix the KIST bug that enabled a DoS on relays by running them out of memory.

announcement ticket

ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "December 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest 1D486694A710145631B295CC39ECC5682F75858C , geoip6-db-digest F33231CAC761A71F7C19273DB1E11CEE01E2D982 ).

commit

Bridges Unknown Drop in the number of measured bridges.

graph mailing list post

meek Outage of the meek.bamsoftware.com (unthrottled for public use), meek.bamsoftware.com:7443 (former meek-azure, now unused), and gaeuploader.meek.bamsoftware.com (used by GAEuploader) bridges.



France <OR> Relays Unknown Temporary tripling of relay users in France. Bridges not affected.

graph

Germany <OR> Relays Unknown Further, slow increase of relay users in Germany, from 500k to over 1.5M.

graph Reddit thread ticket

<OR> ipv6 Relays Release of Tor Browser 7.0.11, containing tor 0.3.1.9, which adds an IPv6 address for the bridge authority bastet.

blog post

<OR> ipv6 Relays Release of Tor Browser 7.5a9, containing tor 0.3.2.6-alpha, which adds an IPv6 address for the bridge authority bastet.

blog post

Bridges The bridge authority was down for unknown reasons.

graph mailing list post

Zimbabwe Internet outage in Zimbabwe.

article

<OR> ipv6 Relays Release of tor 0.2.8.17, 0.2.9.14, 0.3.0.13, 0.3.1.9, and 0.3.2.6-alpha, which add an IPv6 address for the bridge authority bastet.

ticket blog post

<OR> Relays Release of Tor Browser 7.5a8, containing tor 0.3.2.4-alpha, which adds a new directory authority bastet, and changes the IP address of the directory authority Longclaw.

blog post

meek Outage of meek-amazon bridge.

ticket

<OR> Relays Release of Tor Browser 7.0.10, containing tor 0.3.1.8, which adds a new directory authority bastet, and changes the IP address of the directory authority Longclaw.

blog post

Outage of the op-hk OnionPerf instance.

op-hk graph

ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest E3C910F3B2A6C916C7BE33A943091EF57048B72C , geoip6-db-digest E8BD5B2E6554C27F718F1222667C09680D75F799 ).

commit

meek Turned off the old meek-amazon CDN endpoint d2zfqthxsdq309.cloudfront.net.

mailing list post

Russia Ban on VPNs and anonymizers takes effect in Russia.

news article law

Zambia <OR> Relays Unknown Short-lived tripling of relay users in Zambia.

graph

<OR> Relays Release of tor 0.2.5.15, 0.2.8.16, 0.2.9.13, 0.3.0.12, and 0.3.1.8, which add a new directory authority bastet, and change the IP address of the directory authority Longclaw.

blog post Bastet blog post bastet ticket Longclaw ticket

China 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

wikipedia Psiphon users

snowflake Activated client IP address statistics on the Snowflake server and standalone proxies.

comment

Romania <OR> Relays Unknown Surge of relay users in Romania, from 10k to around 90k, which later subsided.

graph metrics-team thread

China Guo Wengui speaks at the National Press Club, 09:00–11:00 eastern time. Reports of disruption of VPNs, Tor, Psiphon, Lantern, Shadowsocks in China.

article on conference tweet tweet tweet

ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest 3A59213E5CFEE380F544B72DC1105366C6BD1CDE , geoip6-db-digest 1B8C975E5C62CF0FB5B4E598AE27B7189952BB09 ).

commit

fte Permanent hardware failure of default FTE bridge 128.105.214.161:8080.

comment

Germany <OR> Relays Unknown Steady increase of relay users in Germany, from 180k to around 500k. It would increase further starting 2017-12-10.

de graph Reddit thread ticket

Puerto Rico Hurricane Maria hits Puerto Rico.

graph wikipedia

Bridges The bridge authority was down due to an issue with its offline master key.

graph mailing list post

Bridges Outage of the bridge authority Bifroest.



ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest 0CE9EA8882EDED265451C36B49AE7BBB06A11C16 , geoip6-db-digest C4573496EBD1CC335843067107DA49E482568FF6 ).

commit

Puerto Rico Hurricane Irma hits Puerto Rico.

graph wikipedia

obfs4 Unknown About a 35% increase in obfs4 users before returning to normal. Happened in many countries. Other transports do not have it.

graph

Egypt Turkey <OR> Relays Unknown Short-lived, simultaneous spike in direct users in Egypt and Turkey. Bridge users not affected.

eg graph tr graph

Korea, Republic of <OR> Relays Unknown Increase of users in South Korea, relay only.

graph

Hong Kong <OR> Relays Unknown Triple increase in direct Tor users in Hong Kong. Bridge users not affected.

relay graph

ipv6 obfs4 Unknown Jump in IPv6 users of the Lisbeth default obfs4 bridge.

comment

Outage of the op-hk OnionPerf instance. Reported timeouts on the tor network increased, download speed improved.

torperf graph torperf-failures graph op-hk graph

snowflake Tor Browser 7.5a4 released, including Snowflake for macOS.

blog post

Congo, The Democratic Republic of the The Democratic Republic of the Congo orders a block of social media services.

article relay graph bridge graph

ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "August 3 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest 75AABD32582AC554AF252DDC7BBBABE7C6F28B28 , geoip6-db-digest A52EFFEF8CF6F3CAA8EBD34961361544E959FAE1 ).

commit

Romania <OR> Relays Unknown Increase of relay users in Romania, from 10k to 40k. Bridge users not affected. Stopped at the same time as increases in the Netherlands, Lithuania, and the Seychelles. Another increase began immediately after.

relay graph post suggesting link to 2× dirauth bandwidth

Austria <OR> Relays Unknown Fluctuations of relay users in Austria. Bridge users not affected.

relay graph

meek Outage of meek-amazon bridge, caused by an expired certificate.

Atlas expired certificate new certificate

Seychelles <OR> Relays Unknown Increase of relay users in the Seychelles, from 400 to 6000. Bridge users not affected.

relay graph

ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest 3D04F191098640F2E03B4D5F7800088D14B7EC30 , geoip6-db-digest A3649B9E909C59942FB3D8F874AB4BEA36E8BEC1 ).

commit

obfs4 Outage of default obfs4 bridge frosty.

mailing list post

obfs4 Outage of default obfs4 bridge dragon.

mailing list post

deb.torproject.org upgrades from tor 0.2.9 to tor 0.3.0

relay versions graph tweet

United Arab Emirates <OR> Relays Unknown Sudden drop in relay users.

graph

obfs4 Outage of default obfs4 bridge dragon.

mailing list post

obfs4 Outage of default obfs4 bridge frosty.

mailing list post

meek Outage of meek-azure bridge.

start end

obfs4 Outage of default obfs4 bridge dragon.

mailing list post

obfs4 Outage of default obfs4 bridge frosty.

mailing list post

Mali Unknown Sudden increase of direct and bridge users in Mali.

relay graph bridge graph

Switzerland obfs4 Unknown Increase in obfs4 users in Switzerland, from 200 to 400.

bridge graph transport graph

obfs4 Increased the file descriptor limit on default obfs4 bridges ndnop3 and ndnop5 from 4096 to 32768. They had been failing bootstrap attempts from a test location in the U.S. about 40% of the time.

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ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest AFD609025B66305AD9FA8E0B15AF4F2BC82271F1 , geoip6-db-digest A69FD14ACE46EE695F589ACE0EB7B915285B51B4 ).

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Brazil meek Unknown Sustained increase of meek users in Brazil, similar to the one that took place between 2016-07-21 and 2017-03-03.

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obfs4 Set AssumeReachable 1 on the default obfs4 bridges cymrubridge31 and cymrubridge33 in an attempt to make them publish statistics.

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obfs4 Default obfs4 bridge LeifEricson rejects connections due to a broken firewall forwarding rule. This didn't affect the bridges "real" obfs4 port, but it did affect the port at that time configured in Tor Browser.



Egypt <OR> Relays Unknown Drop in direct users from Egypt.

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Macau <OR> Relays Unknown Sudden temporary peak of 3k direct users in Macau.

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ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest B2E5105287668771E34A66F90B34982D419727EF , geoip6-db-digest 8DA8AC3C8158CBFDF7DB53BBF73338246872371A ).

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snowflake Set AssumeReachable 1 on the Snowflake bridge 2B280B23E1107BB62ABFC40DDCC8824814F80A72 in an attempt to make it start publishing statistics.

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meek The meek-amazon bridge upgrades to meek-server 0.27.



Taiwan <OR> Relays Unknown Relay users triple and begin to fluctuate in Taiwan.

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meek obfs4 scramblesuit Tor Browser 7.0a3 is released. It changes the app.update.url . It removes the last remaining scramblesuit bridge. It changes the meek-amazon backend. It adds the new default obfs4 bridges cymrubridge31:80 and cymrubridge33:80.

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meek obfs4 Tor Browser 6.5.2 is released. It changes the app.update.url . It changes the meek-amazon backend. It adds the new default obfs4 bridges cymrubridge31:80 and cymrubridge33:80.

blog post comment about app.update.url

Israel <OR> Relays Unknown Another sudden increase of direct users in Israel. Bridge users not affected.

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ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest 0F3D4A456E5078CC9E49398ADCB04C40EA49B793 , geoip6-db-digest 04F41F05FA167EF6EEE3FE953404AB0BCCD33008 ).

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Israel <OR> Relays Unknown Sudden increase of direct users in Israel. Bridge users not affected.

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meek Orbot 15.4.0 beta-2 multi is released, containing the new meek-azure CDN configuration.

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ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "March 7 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest 63921843E3AAA632088D189D877F836A373CD40D , geoip6-db-digest 2B93B9C6679BB09E1746F212A6DCDC6E710F5F52 ).

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meek scramblesuit Tor Browser 6.5.1 is released, containing the new meek-azure CDN configuration, and removing the last remaining scramblesuit bridge.

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meek Stopped the (unused) meek-azure CDN endpoint meek-reflect.azureedge.net.

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meek Stopped the meek-azure CDN endpoint az786092.vo.msecnd.net.

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meek Stopped the meek-azure CDN endpoint az668014.vo.msecnd.net.

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United Arab Emirates <OR> Relays Unknown Another increase in relay users, slower and more sustained than the previous one.

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ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest C0C6099CE335916862978F77756C0B42521A74B2 , geoip6-db-digest A54B14B9D47584E010F763D3EAE23C4726F4A8D5 ).

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<OR> exit Measurement error from bandwidth authority causes decrease in measured bandwidth in Europe.

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India obfs3 Unknown Gradual but large increase of obfs3 users in India, followed by slow decay. Relay users and other transports seemingly not affected.

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Jordan obfs3 Unknown Abrupt increase and decrease in obfs3 users in Jordan. Relay users and other transports seemingly not affected.

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United Arab Emirates obfs3 Unknown Increase in obfs3 users from the UAE, from 5K to 100K. Other transports not affected.

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webstats Tor Browser update pings roughly halve. The beginning corresponds with the release of Tor Browser 6.5.2, which changed the app.update.url . The end doesn't correspond to any release.

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Tor Browser 6.5 is released. It changes the app.update.url , which causes an apparent drop in update pings.

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snowflake Tor Browser 7.0a1 released, including Snowflake for GNU/Linux only.

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meek 1.0-beta release of GAEuploader, a tool that automates the setting up of meek.

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United Arab Emirates <OR> Relays Unknown Huge spike in relay users (400k+). An anonymous contributor suggests that it may be a botnet, based on the large number of hosts with an open SMB port in the UAE.

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meek Decreased the rate limit on the meek-azure bridge to 2.0 MB/s, from 3.0 MB/s.



ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" ( geoip-db-digest 672C29A4FA9BF81DE97CFE128741445E2BDE8097 , geoip6-db-digest 81F380639A8E1000539204949A363FD3BFAFBA74 ).

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<OR> Relays Unknown Drop in relay users.

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Brazil meek Unknown Sustained increase in meek users in Brazil. Locals believe that they are not actual users, rather bots or something like that. End date coincides with shutdown of meek-azure before migration. Would pick up again 2017-06-07.

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