Tor 0.2.8.6 has been released! You can download the source from the Tor website. Packages should be available over the next week or so.

Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.

The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance, completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance improvements throughout the program. This release continues to improve the coverage of Tor's test suite.

Below is a list of the changes since Tor 0.2.7. For a list of only the changes that are new since 0.2.8.5-rc, please see the ChangeLog file.

Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02

New system requirements: Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t" type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes ticket 18184. Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no longer runs with, these versions. Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.

