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An incomplete timeline of events that might affect user metrics, to aid in the interpretation of data and graphs from https://metrics.torproject.org/.
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Other data sources:
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* [[OONI/censorshipwiki]]
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* [https://ooni.torproject.org/post/] (Explanatory blog posts from OONI)
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* [query:?component=Circumvention%2FCensorship+analysis&order=time Circumvention/Censorship Analysis tickets] (not all events have been imported into this page)
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* [https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-bundle.git/tree/Bundle-Data/Docs/ChangeLog.txt Tor Browser ChangeLog.txt] (for release dates)
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* [http://lists.infolabe.net/lists/listinfo/infolabe-anomalies infolabe-anomalies mailing list] (automatic detection of anomalies in user counts)
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* [https://internet-freedom-science.org/circumvention-survey/database.zip circumvention-survey database] (see `database.attacks` for a list of times censors have tried to block Tor)
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* http://bloqueios.info/en/timeline/ timeline of application blocking orders in Brazil
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* https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=Tor%20Browser - Google Trends results for e.g. "Tor Browser"
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* Edit history of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Internet_censorship_and_surveillance_by_country&action=history Internet censorship by country] article on Wikipedia.
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* "Last Month In Internet Intelligence" posts at https://internetintel.oracle.com/blogs.html.
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* geoip database changes: see `scrape-geoip` in [[#tools|metrics-timeline-tools]]. (geoip entries last updated 2019-05-31.)
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[[=#tools]]
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Helper maintenance scripts:
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* `git clone https://www.bamsoftware.com/git/metrics-timeline-tools.git`
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**Guide to start and end dates:** some entries represent singular point events; some are time ranges with a beginning and an end; and some are ongoing ranges that have begun but not ended yet.
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When you add a link, make sure to keep it as an absolute URL; i.e., write `https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/Page`, not `wiki:Page` or `[[Page]]`. The URLs are used in other contexts, like https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html, where only absolute URLs make sense.
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||2008-05-28 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated (`geoip-db-digest C4F4C0FDC9D15AEA7132404B6D51E11ACB828023`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=d232d2d188f405b50cc6f857be025079fd4a9d1f commit] ||
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||2008-05-28 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated (`geoip-db-digest 947841EF4BED1B4E891BBDEC3E7643D62AFDD544`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=a1aeaf308964a18a876120b97cabe35dc89f1d86 commit] ||
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||2008-06-11 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "June 9 2008 ip-to-country db" (`geoip-db-digest 43DBBB309037C48A70B2C31512E21D45E95C72B0`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=89c903d9aa5b02f1b212178cdc3d41430060959e commit] ||
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||2008-09-23 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "September 1 2008 ip-to-country db" (`geoip-db-digest 64129F664F291BC3D2D746BBBFD83FE7CB2264D3`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=29abfab8bfdc14d4f2f725aee6755dfc2bd6036b commit] ||
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||2009-01-06 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "December 19 2008 ip-to-country db" (`geoip-db-digest 79365660714FF9D3F5AD1DE427A604251188F94B`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=d1351750ed7c7c7f8d8716d1a9a004c96cce5f2c commit] ||
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||2009-02-12 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "January 23 2009 ip-to-country db" (`geoip-db-digest E6455B416994835C4F355AF8386F71D606C56937`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=b03f78e8af442bfd554023fbe6ac0b17b664e496 commit] ||
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||2009-03-05 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "February 26 2009 ip-to-country db" (`geoip-db-digest 07D75C8790B6D575061EE3D19B46BD4478B7AAEC`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=0f46c1dc6ecf2aef559983e555b2237fc5c08744 commit] ||
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||2009-04-12 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "April 3 2009 ip-to-country db" (`geoip-db-digest 94674ED08A3AB5A5722749314870F176776CBEA3`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=72e4d48c7a8a7722d01c914766a8a663f97c77ec commit] ||
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||2009-06-03 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "June 3 2009 ip-to-country db" (`geoip-db-digest 507DBE49979319B61E8EC637BDC72D53C91A907A`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=48bf1d97eeed9fd0812e281cbc1f08c6c5ade89c commit] ||
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||2010-05-06 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "May 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest 2F36F923FD3368E208924A81169F8B4B3468A6E8`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=befcc84f432800532a092402daecd2c95addf45c commit] ||
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||2010-06-02 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "June 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest 0F7A148E7A934235263345AD913E44C9E44BF495`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=f60e4bcdd9b24cdc1d9b05a94088eb4aef6c7fec commit] ||
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||2010-08-03 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest 60B2587014A74FF8E5A1BD52AD081F02D57098D5`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=f206209abfc1f98bbbd0be5b6e36fdec6709953d commit] ||
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||2010-09-08 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest 952F4038C3D493AB62673577191B0F779A40D7BB`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=80d9dbac20fec1585e03c04da4f321ece3804ce4 commit] ||
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||2010-10-04 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "October 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest F090EBEEC4A0E05B2A2D33EE9F2AA8B73FB2C350`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=bad609ae6b5505783034cd3951afd382c528c532 commit] ||
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||2010-12-08 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest 7726B7A80C3EC4534EA2A5C62D2AC1096931DD39`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=35148ba5329eef357bd020d1ef5f2d10a1c28693 commit] ||
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||2011-01-10 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest 9D4EBE51F94EAAD7DC40DF26837E5E892345BB7C`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=d43cba6c690d9c227b13cd7426285b82b9523611 commit] ||
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||2011-01-25 || || ||<OR> ||Release of tor 0.2.2.22-alpha. Changes the TLS Diffie–Hellman parameter to match that used by Apache mod_ssl, to evade blocking in Iran. ||[https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/OONI/censorshipwiki/CensorshipCircumvention/TorChanges#a0.2.2.22-alpha censorshipwiki entry] [https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/projects/Tor/TLSHistory#Stage2:Tor0.2.0.20through0.2.3.6 tor TLSHistory] ||
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||2011-02-03 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest 12EBCF2FB208695E447EF151038881F08FDCBFD8`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=9c2cb6fc8929cb02d500e8d276445205937ab01b commit] ||
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||2011-03-08 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest 8CCD8DB72C71E6D764DF888511DC37DD5A13ED97`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=d080fe8db14817e6eaf37359c638805909a306a1 commit] ||
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||2011-04-04 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest 754DCDF6CCF1BB631B0C14D2EBFECE649501A88D`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=0cdd2629418f019bda5fa2daa271aae4f7131fa6 commit] ||
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||2011-05-11 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest 9CA15F4E4D1235116956F3DEA9B3E8A714D15D5D`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=e7b10e5ecfdf3ede4123f921c1d2419268235176 commit] ||
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||2011-06-05 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest C5C0785F3E1DF5319609B87FCA295FC7D0CE6215`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=bf4b819aae43c11db824f3e790f8a92260e9988e commit] ||
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||2011-07-07 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest CCABBFAF7036BA3E7580D7F71845AC0673B9E922`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=51d6e950235a76cbc2eaef0e2a28bd8da338ac2a commit] ||
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||2011-08-08 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest F8D51025DD9B5CC482B3171D3B43FB81868568A9`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=c75ee94ab41e3a76e8159366defe3159614b497c commit] ||
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||2011-09-12 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest F39A5F424559CF5654C793531982BA536D1CEDCA`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=679f617345dc31c46560b09d3b5d5d350e06ab23 commit] ||
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||2011-09-13 || || ||<OR> ||Release of tor 0.2.3.4-alpha. Changes the expiration time of TLS certificates, to evade blocking in Iran. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/4014 ticket] [https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/OONI/censorshipwiki/CensorshipCircumvention/TorChanges#a0.2.3.4-alpha censorshipwiki entry] ||
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||2011-10-13 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest 25138998CF10DDAC1B4F745EBC6790DA4E5A6F1B`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=ee545cd4cb32b2aa6a37285d0afcd1e4d11fa27c commit] ||
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||2011-11-07 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest F730E870057D6CA19EE55BC80604E41BEEB5B607`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=6d45c6d548bd3467cbc816327d1a7778e6fc9539 commit] ||
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||2011-12-08 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest 916A3CA8B7DF61473D5AE5B21711F35F301CE9E8`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=ff2c9acbb39d7ae917501b1e719cf5be994fe4e2 commit] ||
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||2012-01-05 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest DCF8969A2B080FAE2664F1D46F758B1CB08C286C`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=1db1b23a7b12f4e9b0419b7264456ad7817678e0 commit] ||
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||2012-02-08 ||2012-02-11 ||ir ||<OR> ||Iran partially blocks Tor. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/iran-partially-blocks-encrypted-network-traffic blog post] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2012-01-01&end=2012-04-01&country=ir relay graph] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2012-01-01&end=2012-04-01&country=ir bridge graph] ||
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||2012-02-09 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest 3BCA888461BCC79CA29E78603DC197090F8C96CB`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=4180624a7d5a3e528be2cf2fe7f9f673b3964a23 commit] ||
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||2012-02-11 || || ||obfs2 ||First release of "Tor Obfsproxy Browser Bundle", containing 2 obfs2 bridges. Version number unknown; no bundle containing 2 bridges exists at https://archive.torproject.org/tor-package-archive/obfsproxy/. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/obfsproxy-next-step-censorship-arms-race blog post] ||
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||2012-02-11 || || ||obfs2 ||Release of "Tor Obfsproxy Browser Bundle" 2.3.10, containing 14 obfs2 bridges. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/obfsproxy-next-step-censorship-arms-race blog post] [https://archive.torproject.org/tor-package-archive/obfsproxy/ package archive] [https://gitweb.torproject.org/project/web/webwml.git/diff/projects/en/obfsproxy.wml?id2=8e52e5e4f8b9cb7b7cb65602446cfec0e0d17ff0&id=d83582eeefe41ffb0125e47d4bde8b3c7f629511 commits] ||
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||2012-02-13 || || ||obfs2 ||Release of "Tor Obfsproxy Browser Bundle" 2.3.12, containing 13 obfs2 bridges (removed 128.30.30.25:51420 relative to version 2.3.10). ||[https://blog.torproject.org/obfsproxy-next-step-censorship-arms-race blog post] [https://archive.torproject.org/tor-package-archive/obfsproxy/ package archive] [https://gitweb.torproject.org/project/web/webwml.git/diff/projects/en/obfsproxy.wml?id2=d83582eeefe41ffb0125e47d4bde8b3c7f629511&id=34941f5f8d7f3452b494e384b556a21fe763ad33 commits] ||
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||2012-02-18 || || ||obfs2 ||Release of "Tor Obfsproxy Browser Bundle" 2.3.12-2, for Windows and Mac OS X only. ||[https://archive.torproject.org/tor-package-archive/obfsproxy/ package archive] [https://gitweb.torproject.org/project/web/webwml.git/commit/projects/en/obfsproxy.wml?id=b3ba7c694b8dcd21ab738d753d5dac05e7157ba6 commit] ||
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||2012-02-22 || || ||obfs2 ||Release of "Tor Obfsproxy Browser Bundle" 2.3.12-3, for Windows and Linux only. ||[https://archive.torproject.org/tor-package-archive/obfsproxy/ package archive] [https://gitweb.torproject.org/project/web/webwml.git/diff/projects/en/obfsproxy.wml?id2=ab4e421afab1a3ff2a6fb1a8cbe33cd63a24ceda&id=b3ba7c694b8dcd21ab738d753d5dac05e7157ba6 commits] ||
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||2012-03-01 || || ||ipv6 ||geoip6 database updated to "February 22 2012 Maxmind GeoLite IPv6 Country" (`geoip6-db-digest E39E1056F219DDF6E1C12F27CC50963D0F9774ED`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=abb886014e1ee35909e8876fe3361cbfd26cc27c commit] ||
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||2012-03-01 ||2013-08-19 ||kz ||<OR> ||Kazakhstan blocks Tor TLS by ClientHello and ServerHello fingerprints. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/6140 ticket] [https://gitweb.torproject.org/censorship-timeline.git/tree/patches/kazakhstan/notes.txt?id=3b09a1571c67f53dc81533c81f99cfadfd550d26 tor patches] ||
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||2012-03-08 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest 51EA5ED511A11D31FB4DAFCEC05B5347F6462B56`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=c5d7ee714f161f4963948cf948fb94a072b0017c commit] ||
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||2012-03-28 || || ||ipv6 ||geoip6 database updated to "February 22 2012 Maxmind GeoLite IPv6 Country" (`geoip6-db-digest 2B442C5D9781145C0172ECC250DF71E25F0A957E`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=c03e3d66a910d103d3cce50a3bc1b778f68c36f2 commit] ||
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||2012-04-11 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest A27BE984989AB31C50D0861C7106B17A7EEC3756`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=b395b59353ea4b1b3221e220b47420b93aadcd0b commit] ||
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||2012-04-12 || || ||obfs2 ||Release of "Tor Obfsproxy Browser Bundle" 2.3.12-4. ||[https://archive.torproject.org/tor-package-archive/obfsproxy/ package archive] [https://gitweb.torproject.org/project/web/webwml.git/commit/projects/en/obfsproxy.wml?id=69f23bb361501c4cff1faeeeddb213f6c96b841a commit] ||
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||2012-05-07 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest 207A8167FC83230884A7B463B8EE12385CF1874F`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=24731ce6a779d67af832d882425bf7a6c6a6f9d2 commit] ||
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||~2012-05-15 ||~2012-12-15 ||et ||<OR> ||Ethiopia blocks Tor TLS. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/6045 ticket] [https://blog.torproject.org/blog/ethiopia-introduces-deep-packet-inspection blog post 1] [https://blog.torproject.org/blog/update-censorship-ethiopia blog post 2] [https://gitweb.torproject.org/censorship-timeline.git/tree/binaries/ethiopia?id=3b09a1571c67f53dc81533c81f99cfadfd550d26 sample packets] [https://gitweb.torproject.org/censorship-timeline.git/tree/patches/ethiopia?id=3b09a1571c67f53dc81533c81f99cfadfd550d26 tor patches] ||
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||2012-06-13 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest B7DC8C42403B1E0B50C671587DE406AED8DC5831`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=229abbf4bbb86b3fd2c138ec62460e1a0fda395f commit] ||
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||2012-06-15 || || ||<OR> ||Release of tor 0.2.3.17-beta. Changes the TLS ciphersuite list to match that of Firefox 8, to evade blocking by China. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/4744 ticket] [https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/OONI/censorshipwiki/CensorshipCircumvention/TorChanges#a0.2.3.17-beta censorshipwiki entry] ||
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||2012-07-06 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest 207A8167FC83230884A7B463B8EE12385CF1874F`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=4e7552e5528e9e7f2f8ddaee81fe2da9606091b2 commit] ||
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||2012-10-16 || || ||ipv6 ||geoip6 database updated to "October 16 2012 Maxmind GeoLite IPv6 Country" (`geoip6-db-digest 7F82A502C248B0CFBCCF6FE370919E34E04A21FA`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=96a731347592f1cbd4ddba9bfd7bc418344c4e38 commit] ||
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||2012-11-28 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "November 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest 0D1734EB51EC9168C6428CD771945567B927F45C`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=d2cfd52d2c41a60cbf297aa9792cb63b22ad2ef9 commit] ||
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||2012-12-06 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest 5A258599E3F768D0CEFBBD26F1D039760D43BB15`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=c9a5d613a6f12b7824ab03aa7c991a756fd14e19 commit] ||
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||2012-12-13 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest E00C7CD522D9ED6BEF69C6A904DCE51EC54EB768`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=6bdfa295b5bc921cba33bde15e1724a04780dea1 commit] ||
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||2013-01-05 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest DBBBA6D1F6CD90E860DDD42C90A21CF8A1B8395F`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=32114d70ae595eb570ceb7d4f9648fe83a361605 commit] ||
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||2013-01-13 || || ||flashproxy obfs2 obfs3 ||Release of the pluggable transports browser bundle 2.4.7-alpha-1, containing flash proxy, obfs2, and obfs3 built in and enabled by default. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/combined-flash-proxy-pyobfsproxy-browser-bundles blog post] [https://bugs.torproject.org/7824 ticket] ||
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||2013-02-08 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated (`geoip-db-digest 29DF86915FF87E2FBE12F3514776B7292B556CCD`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=adff7f944a50dd03bc74967343a376637b4195d1 commit] ||
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||2013-03-07 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest CB30D739CF972BEE0EF0635838A2AD76E2171004`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=3dde6d5d29640fcab583e0f4a16b6aa1b000618d commit] ||
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||2013-03-19 || || ||flashproxy obfs2 obfs3 ||Release of the pluggable transports browser bundle 0.2.4.11-alpha-2. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/new-pluggable-transports-bundles-02411-alpha-flashproxy-obfsproxy blog post] ||
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||2013-04-08 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest 7DDD315EBCDC2A8BCA47A8B5153EB697947AC851`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=b41f03f6dfd855e34628d935340d0f6292c82af8 commit] ||
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||2013-05-13 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "May 9 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest 2ADCA1913666A685B141C03E7B2F50B3DB84FDC9`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=f8053179c972130482b70f62695ad0b0265e377d commit] ||
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||2013-06-02 || || ||flashproxy obfs2 obfs3 ||Release of the pluggable transports browser bundle 2.4.12-alpha-2-pt1. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/pluggable-transports-bundles-2412-alpha-2-pt1-firefox-1706esr blog post] ||
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||2013-06-05 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest 5E570BB92DBEE1D517E35DAA4A52F58FDA6BB44E`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=d34753174eeaaae73be9cb9890368fab04afefd2 commit] ||
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||2013-07-08 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest 4D558EA73DD91A0361DE3FA3E83171DCD38D1A2D`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=2a61b0dd6be2eba9525b777dcb4400b93b695a2d commit] ||
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||2013-08-10 || || ||flashproxy obfs2 obfs3 ||Release of the pluggable transports browser bundle 2.4.15-beta-2-pt1. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/pluggable-transports-bundles-2415-beta-2-pt1-firefox-1708esr blog post] ||
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||2013-08-12 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest 83CCB5AF823A5CCF3C86C3CA33AF801D4E8996EC`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=41bf8fa8892bc7ee2fc5c1d176535e9218d15afa commit] ||
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||2013-08-19 ||~2014-04-28 || ||<OR> relay ||Relay users increase globally from about 800K to over 5M, when computers in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mevade_Botnet Mevade/Sefnit botnet] began using Tor to communicate. The user count decreased in the following months through efforts to clean up the botnet. Sometime in 2014-04, the botnet switched from using Tor to using SSH. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/blog/how-to-handle-millions-new-tor-clients blog post] [https://research.torproject.org/techreports/botnet-tr-2013-11-20.pdf tech report] [https://blog.fox-it.com/2013/09/05/large-botnet-cause-of-recent-tor-network-overload/ analysis] [https://www.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/sefnit-is-back/1448087102098103 switch to SSH] ||
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||2013-09-10 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest CB632F60547F141E06FB0705D1F171047165722E`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=13d192c1d8aebb331f49621abb0702624fdceef8 commit] ||
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||2013-09-23 || || ||flashproxy obfs2 obfs3 ||Release of the pluggable transports browser bundle 2.4.17-beta-2-pt3. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/pluggable-transports-bundles-2417-beta-2-pt3-firefox-1709esr blog post] ||
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||2013-10-11 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country" (`geoip-db-digest A28267CED18A1D80B4298796E9FE42EC755420C0`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=3b0265198fc8a55279f2a8501104d2c54900c9d0 commit] ||
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||2013-10-27 || || ||<OR> relay ||Microsoft adds the Mevade/Sefnit botnet signature to various security scanners. ||[https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mmpc/2014/01/09/tackling-the-sefnit-botnet-tor-hazard/ blog post] ||
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||2013-11-03 || || ||<OR> relay ||Microsoft adds the Mevade/Sefnit botnet signature to their Malicious Software Removal Tool. ||[https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mmpc/2014/01/09/tackling-the-sefnit-botnet-tor-hazard/ blog post] ||
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||2013-11-04 || || ||flashproxy obfs2 obfs3 ||Release of the pluggable transports browser bundle 2.4.17-rc-1-pt1. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/pluggable-transports-bundles-2417-rc-1-pt1-firefox-17010esr blog post] ||
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||2013-11-11 || || ||flashproxy obfs2 obfs3 ||Release of the pluggable transports browser bundle 2.4.17-rc-1-pt2. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/pluggable-transports-bundles-2417-rc-1-pt2-firefox-17010esr blog post] ||
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||2013-12-04 || || ||flashproxy obfs2 obfs3 ||Release of the pluggable transports browser bundle 2.4.18-rc-1-pt1 and 2.4.18-rc-2-pt1. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/pluggable-transports-bundles-2418-rc-1-pt1-and-2418-rc-2-pt1-firefox-17011esr blog post] ||
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||2014-01-31 || || ||meek ||First public announcement of meek. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-January/006159.html mailing list post] ||
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||2014-02-08 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest FA903A1122A248E107A1C17A5AC50A5852F03966`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=26dd328891b26fb3861851a6963c6dd628a35772 commit] ||
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||2014-02-13 || || ||ipv6 ||geoip6 database updated to "February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip6-db-digest FB95DF46D6B29167668F4D2CAC9F947C4B2A0C26`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=f6f691df7373cbf571f0e8d98deff87fb9a1e34e commit] ||
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||~2014-02-15 || || ||flashproxy meek ||Began running meek-server on bridge already hosting websocket-server for flash proxy. || ||
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||2014-02-25 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 182195DB4DA9A979A829012F71CF128FAF1203F7`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=2658e70d16eccfdd4b37d23a8399fce492d0eea1 commit] ||
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||2014-03-18 || || ||flashproxy fte obfs2 obfs3 ||Release of Tor Browser 3.6-beta-1, the first release with integrated pluggable transports. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-36-beta-1-released blog post] ||
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||2014-04-11 || || || ||Release of Tor Browser 3.6-beta-2. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-36-beta-2-released blog post] ||
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||2014-04-29 || || ||flashproxy fte obfs2 obfs3 ||Release of Tor Browser 3.6, the first stable release with integrated pluggable transports. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-36-released blog post] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-transport.html?start=2014-03-17&end=2014-06-15&transport=obfs2&transport=obfs3&transport=websocket&transport=%3COR%3E transport graph] ||
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||2014-05-08 || || ||flashproxy meek ||Reinstalled the bridge running meek and flash proxy. || ||
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||2014-06-10 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest BFC7453BBEAD611B7FF97AD71BE3392AA8BCFBE3`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=555c43cd03b8a9c8ed1bb230ba206b3b62b9fec8 commit] ||
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||2014-06-10 || || ||ipv6 ||geoip6 database updated to "June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip6-db-digest E0A79ABC85672AACD47878029C2C383D4C669335`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=40579cb6a5dca93f8d85d632f4589d29ab062a7c commit] ||
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||2014-07-18 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest F2E34A314F2101E3F5AE0774660C4BA670646B8D`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=6d5efbef22739364c9d02d9237b66d26ac3ebb57 commit] ||
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||2014-07-18 || || ||ipv6 ||geoip6 database updated to "July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip6-db-digest 45893A1BDDABACCEB346DE4644A155450FD28B0E`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=6345dfa1fe6651f0ce447c78028b30c3d5a1b6d0 commit] ||
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||2014-07-27 ||2014-09-23 ||ir || ||Iran blocks Tor directory authorities. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/12727 ticket] ||
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||~2014-07-28 || || ||meek ||Set up meek-amazon CDN configuration. || ||
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||2014-08-12 || || || ||Tor Browser 3.6.4 released. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-364-and-40-alpha-1-are-released blog post] ||
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||2014-08-12 || || ||meek scramblesuit ||Tor Browser 4.0-alpha-1 released. This is the first release to have meek and ScrambleSuit built in. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-364-and-40-alpha-1-are-released blog post] ||
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||2014-08-13 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 9EF0A1874377BFB6413ED3F9EB5504B1DB17BE13`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=b98e3f993617fb6cb2e5f41bfa49c16a21965a4c commit] ||
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||2014-08-13 || || ||ipv6 ||geoip6 database updated to "August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip6-db-digest 542D349827A88738A04332DAFF2516A384BCC8FF`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=6235b4769d97df383472f8d0d5533b5b23a82f52 commit] ||
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||2014-08-15 || || ||meek ||'How to use the “meek” pluggable transport' blog post is published. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/how-use-meek-pluggable-transport blog post] ||
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||2014-08-29 ||2014-09-01 || ||fte ||Decrease in fte users, perhaps caused by an outage of one of the default Tor Browser bridges. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-September/007494.html mailing list post] ||
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||2014-09-15 || || ||flashproxy meek ||Split the bridge running meek and flashproxy into separate processes in order to avoid spurious correlation in user counts. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-September/007486.html mailing list post] ||
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||2014-09-16 || || ||meek ||Switched meek-amazon to HTTPS. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/13174 ticket] ||
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||2014-09-26 ||2014-12-15 ||hk || ||"Umbrella Revolution" protests in Hong Kong. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2014-01-01&end=2015-02-01&country=hk relay graph] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2014-01-01&end=2015-02-01&country=hk bridge graph] ||
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||2014-09-29 || || ||meek ||Changed the bridge backing meek-amazon. || ||
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||2014-09-29 || ||cn || ||China blocks Instagram in response to ongoing protests in Hong Kong. A research paper by Hobbs and Roberts shows evidence for an increase in circumvention, but the measurable effect on Tor is slight if anything. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2014-01-01&end=2015-02-01&country=cn relay graph] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2014-01-01&end=2015-02-01&country=cn bridge graph] [https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29409533 BBC article] [http://www.margaretroberts.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/selfiecensorship.pdf research paper] ||
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||2014-10-14 || || ||meek ||Enabled PublishServerDescriptor on the meek-amazon bridge. Between 2014-09-29 and 2014-10-14, meek-amazon users were not being counted. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-October/007611.html mailing list post] ||
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||2014-10-15 || || ||meek scramblesuit ||Tor Browser 4.0 released. This is the first stable release with meek and ScrambleSuit built in. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-40-released blog post] ||
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||2014-10-25 || || ||meek ||Changed the bridge backing meek-google. || ||
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||2014-10-25 || || ||meek ||Changed the meek-google App Engine instance to the F2 class, from F1. || ||
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||2014-10-27 || || ||meek ||Changed the meek-google App Engine instance back to the F1 class, from F2. || ||
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||2014-10-31 || || ||meek ||Changed the meek-google App Engine instance to the F2 class again, from F1. || ||
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||2014-11-08 || || ||meek ||Changed the meek-google App Engine instance back to the F1 class, from F2. || ||
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||2014-11-15 || || ||meek ||Moved the meek-google bridge to better hardware. || ||
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||2014-11-17 || || ||obfs4 ||Release of Tor Browser 4.5-alpha-1, first alpha release with obfs4. (Tor Browser changelog says 2014-11-14.) ||[https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-45-alpha-1-released blog post] ||
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||2014-11-24 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest DC1A94D962AE165EF4AA1F14857A23C34875F39D`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=8611c6bccd9fe4c688e83b28fb4e2b2b0fe7a6b3 commit] ||
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||2014-11-24 || || ||ipv6 ||geoip6 database updated to "November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip6-db-digest 923BA7ED922B2A4B30C9B76EE7E72D1D1714BFAF`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=5441c733e07beafaba61251b0fafed4bd96eaf40 commit] ||
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||2015-01-22 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "January 7 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 49D309B9663C4EFB8D126D84BBB373D7C84658C3`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=c3f8f5ab0e74db2269d55ff51a0918a41b374fc6 commit] ||
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||2015-01-22 || || ||ipv6 ||geoip6 database updated to "January 7 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip6-db-digest 9B26276EA470137894566882885AD82701D38D62`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=a9ce0cd659fae01a139f4aed5745817717ccabc0 commit] ||
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||2015-02-14 || || ||meek ||Release of Orbot v15-alpha-3, first release with meek. ||[https://lists.mayfirst.org/pipermail/guardian-dev/2015-February/004243.html mailing list post] ||
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||2015-02-28 || || ||meek ||Altered performance settings on the meek-google App Engine instance in an effort to reduce instance hours. Set max idle instances to 4 and min pending latency to 500 ms. || ||
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||2015-03-09 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest C1EB5237F2FBAF63381D8551157F13D12EFCCA25`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=beda8d2934e41e9b4b5d36f172deed9e71e91f24 commit] ||
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||2015-03-09 || || ||ipv6 ||geoip6 database updated to "March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip6-db-digest 1F99B6B0EC78E9DB34D61AE7E0FC261D558E8E5D`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=62714068d94772e74e7eb8c1ea63cfa5304a4403 commit] ||
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||2015-04-08 || || ||meek ||Implemented persistent connections for meek-azure, increasing performance. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-April/008637.html mailing list post] ||
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||2015-04-15 || || ||meek ||Tor Weekly News covers the meek-azure performance improvement. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-weekly-news-%E2%80%94-april-15th-2015 blog post] ||
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||2015-04-19 || || ||meek obfs4 ||Release of Orbot v15 alpha 5, first release with obfs4. ||[https://lists.mayfirst.org/pipermail/guardian-dev/2015-March/004283.html mailing list post] ||
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||2015-04-24 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 0A1F9C09E08F6F2490E8880664D4E863D1680A12`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=bcc0a48cfe6cfd3a96580fc345553fa3fb37c5b1 commit] ||
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||2015-04-24 || || ||ipv6 ||geoip6 database updated to "April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip6-db-digest A6E9B5DE6F887315749B29F9C9F698215BE5240A`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=b5f64958764aae7f2ccb7c873fa61b47a2a7e9ba commit] ||
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||2015-04-27 || || ||obfs4 ||Release of Tor Browser 4.5, the first stable release with obfs4. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-45-released blog post] ||
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||2015-05-22 || || ||meek ||Rate-limited the meek-google bridge to 1.5 MB/s. || ||
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||2015-06-02 || || ||meek ||Further rate-limited meek-google to 1.1 MB/s, from 1.5 MB/s. || ||
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||2015-06-08 || || ||meek ||Rate-limited the meek-amazon bridge to 1.1 MB/s. || ||
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||2015-06-09 || || ||ipv4 ||geoip database updated to "June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest D095D62E8A1607C2C3AF61366929BCAD0E6D3184`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=e5907e94c225cabec1f5cf94870c424fc1767c7e commit] ||
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||2015-06-09 || || ||ipv6 ||geoip6 database updated to "June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip6-db-digest AC1BE3D0707D16AB04092FE00C9732658C926CD8`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=08e14e1448fdf8e82e0336c6f7bfb729572d6b29 commit] ||
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||2015-07-20 ||2015-08-14 || ||meek ||Outage of meek-azure. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-July/038487.html mailing list post about start] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-August/038780.html mailing list post about end] ||
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||2015-07-22 || || ||meek ||Published a workaround for the meek-azure outage that started 2015-07-20. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-July/038496.html mailing list post] ||
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||2015-07-29 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "July 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 6882B8663F74C23E26E3C2274C24CAB2E82D67A2`, `geoip6-db-digest F063BD5247EB9829E6B9E586393D7036656DAF44`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=7004d67430857f8b279bbfe789eb127c954f69eb commit] ||
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||2015-08-11 || || ||meek ||Tor Browser 5.0 and 5.5a1 released. They have an updated configuration to work around the meek-azure outage that started 2015-07-20. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-50-released blog post] [https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-55a1-released blog post] [https://bugs.torproject.org/16634 ticket] ||
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||2015-09-23 || || ||meek ||Upgraded meek-azure bridge from KVM to Xen. ||[https://blog.linode.com/2015/06/16/linode-turns-12-heres-some-kvm/ blog post] ||
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||2015-09-24 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 022B9BADD23D743E51F165FB4C87E78E59F0BCB8`, `geoip6-db-digest DE13219FCF0F27999D1F91174CF80291B1746C95`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=8b3e0b772991b5611f06596865b6a61dd394237f commit] ||
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||2015-09-30 ||2015-10-09 || ||meek ||Outage of meek-amazon caused by an expired certificate. As a result of being rebooted, the bridge also changes its fingerprint from 4EE0CC769EB4B15A872F742EDE27D298A59DCADE to 6DDD1DB8526282837C50E9AB5D14AB50150CD624. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-October/039231.html mailing list post about start] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-October/039234.html mailing list post about end] [https://bugs.torproject.org/17473 ticket] ||
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||2015-10-02 || || ||meek ||Rate-limited the meek-azure bridge to 1.1 MB/s. (Azure grant expired.) || ||
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||2015-10-09 || || ||meek ||The fingerprint of the meek-amazon bridge changes, as a result of begin rebooted. Released Tor Browsers with the former fingerprint are unable to connect. The fingerprint changed from 4EE0CC769EB4B15A872F742EDE27D298A59DCADE to 6DDD1DB8526282837C50E9AB5D14AB50150CD624, then again to B9E7141C594AF25699E0079C1F0146F409495296. The new fingerprint shipped with Tor Browser 5.0.4 and 5.5a4 on 2015-11-04. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/17473 ticket] ||
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||2015-10-09 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 5BF366AD4A0572D82A1A0F6628AF8EF7725E3AB9`, `geoip6-db-digest 212DE17D5A368DCAFA19B95F168BFFA101145A93`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=62b02a1941c6c51efe36f804ddd10f62a3606d41 commit] ||
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||2015-10-30 || || ||meek ||Altered the performance settings on the meek-google App Engine instance. Set max idle instances to 2 and min pending latency to 1000 ms. This used to be configured through the web interface but is now configured in an application file, which at some point caused the settings from 2015-02-28 to be lost. || ||
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||2015-10-30 || || ||meek ||Further rate-limited the meek-azure bridge to 0.8 MB/s, from 1.1 MB/s. || ||
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||2015-11-04 || || ||meek ||Tor Browser 5.0.4 and 5.5a4 released, containing a fixed fingerprint for meek-amazon. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-504-released 5.0.4 blog post] [https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-55a4-released 5.5a4 blog post] [https://bugs.torproject.org/17473 ticket] ||
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||2015-11-18 ||2015-12-10 ||bd ||<OR> obfs3 obfs4 ||Bangladesh blocks Facebook, WhatsApp, and Viber. ||[http://phys.org/news/2015-12-bangladesh-facebook.html news article] [https://archive.fo/fc2WQ (archive)] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2015-08-01&end=2016-02-01&country=bd&events=off relay graph] ||
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||2015-12-05 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 6346E26E2BC96F8511588CE2695E9B0339A75D32`, `geoip6-db-digest 43CCB43DBC653D8CC16396A882C5F116A6004F0C`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=dbb919cf9400738987bbb91166b7b30c4cf770e9 commit] ||
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||2015-12-14 || || ||meek ||Enabled client IP statistics on the meek-azure bridge. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/13171#comment:7 comment] ||
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||2015-12-20 || || ||meek ||Enabled client IP statistics on the meek-google bridge. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/13171#comment:10 comment] ||
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||2015-12-25 || || ||meek ||Established an unthrottled bridge [https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/C20658946DD706A7A2181159A1A04CD838570D04 C20658946DD706A7A2181159A1A04CD838570D04] for people who set up their own meek CDN configuration. || ||
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||2016-01-07 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 44FC92E4D3F8C9A3A49EE9A594790C52E684298A`, `geoip6-db-digest BB261912C96611967FE5C1AE2700C965DBB8D61C`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=1496056c121d02193433d98173213e52eb3e90a7 commit] ||
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||2016-01-11 || || ||meek ||Enabled client IP statistics on the meek-amazon bridge. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/13171#comment:13 comment] ||
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||2016-01-14 || || ||meek ||Increased rate limit of the meek-azure bridge to 3 MB/s, from 0.8 MB/s. || ||
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||2016-01-15 || || ||meek ||Increased rate limit of the meek-google bridge to 3 MB/s, from 1.1 MB/s. || ||
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||2016-01-16 || || ||meek ||Increased rate limit of the meek-amazon bridge to 3 MB/s, from 1.1 MB/s. || ||
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||2016-01-29 ||2016-02-02 ||cn ||meek ||Temporary blocking of an Azure edge server in China. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2016-February/040199.html mailing list post] ||
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||2016-02-04 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "February 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 9E16EDBB826B958A7B8B84674EA98B78C13F1177`, `geoip6-db-digest DF9538534517275080F8335DDEE4B879A3314ED4`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=d5ac79e056bdb740adecf45ef3b50d1c16cf394f commit] ||
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||2016-02-17 ||2016-02-21 ||ug || ||Social media blackout in Uganda during presidential election. ||[https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2016/uganda#a2-limits Freedom House report] ||
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||2016-03-04 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "March 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest A34F49E5A871FA4D243C46C04B67BB3CAAFE6F74`, `geoip6-db-digest 9C8C4F7C7612849C88206726FCDA8CB85B8D27F3`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=8e2640b15ab72630e0f391a51f927c042346b503 commit] ||
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||2016-03-27 18:30:00 ||2016-03-27 20:30:00 || ||meek ||Outage of meek-azure bridge, caused by an expired TLS certificate. || ||
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||2016-03-27 21:28:00 ||2016-03-31 17:20:00 || ||meek ||Temporarily ran an experimental branch for IPv6 counting on the meek-azure bridge. ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/karsten/tor.git/log/?h=task-18460-2&id=b79d859 task-18460-2 branch] ||
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||2016-04-07 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "April 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest F9DFB82B6F1A480F07F4B87992CBFB7A48CB8DA2`, `geoip6-db-digest 769B499E6AE9FE0C2366141B931A3DB1B5489114`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=97c6e717b9f3f198163c6d5b4bde86e7f3da28d0 commit] ||
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||2016-04-28 || || ||fte ||Tor Browser 6.0a5 and 6.0a5-hardened released, which lacks the fte pluggable transport on Mac. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-60a5-released 6.0a5 blog post] [https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-60a5-hardened-released 6.0a5-hardened blog post] [https://bugs.torproject.org/18495 ticket] ||
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||2016-05-02 ||2016-05-03 ||br ||<OR> ||WhatsApp block in Brazil ||[https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tracking-impact-whatsapp-blockage-tor blog post] [https://ooni.torproject.org/post/brazil-whatsapp-block/ OONI report] [http://bloqueios.info/en/casos/block-for-non-compliance-with-judicial-requests-for-user-data-3/ bloqueios report] ||
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||2016-05-09 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 76631C314A048A59A1D801515CC7FD55CE719499`, `geoip6-db-digest C9392F0337A7509F1187890925CF7006F884ECBA`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=3c2d4611ce52024364bc729a97749651ac239e80 commit] ||
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||2016-05-11 ||2016-05-13 ||ug || ||Social media blackout in Uganda following presidential inauguration. ||[https://advox.globalvoices.org/2016/05/17/ugandans-are-finally-back-on-social-media-after-days-long-blackout/ advox article] [https://ooni.torproject.org/post/uganda-social-media-blocked/ OONI report] [https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2016/uganda#a2-limits Freedom House report] ||
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||2016-05-13 || || ||meek ||meek-google's App Engine instance is suspended and meek-google stops working. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2016-June/041057.html mailing list post] ||
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||2016-05-30 || || ||fte ||Tor Browser 6.0 released, which lacks the fte pluggable transport on Mac. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-60-released 6.0 blog post] [https://bugs.torproject.org/18495 ticket] ||
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||2016-06-01 || ||kz ||<OR> obfs4 ||Kazakhstan blocks vanilla Tor TLS. Users mostly switch to obfs4. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/20348 ticket] ||
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||2016-06-12 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest DA31976A9C7D48C2C16EA70BCE9006772A0F4A34`, `geoip6-db-digest FF1DD08CA9EB6528E1A6389E7154BD9586F24370`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=c14c662758e95e85aa251c959c4d03c7598783d8 commit] ||
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||2016-07-15 || ||tr ||<OR> ||Coup attempt in Turkey. A paper (§ 4.1) reports a decline in Tor users. ||[https://www.usenix.org/conference/foci17/workshop-program/presentation/tanash paper] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2016-04-01&end=2016-09-01&country=tr relay graph] ||
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||2016-07-18 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 19FC902B6A860BA7E4BADCB5404482995F7E0763`, `geoip6-db-digest 7E717154718F2065240B90F8132F305AF78C9A9D`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=79939c6f11edbd5bec21594b1f4337d8cfa2a843 commit] ||
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||2016-08-12 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 9DD185BEC4F482DDD20A0221B3DD3F40175F0123`, `geoip6-db-digest B1C1B6BDC9627E3D87530A2C70578AC69C20C5C6`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=1410947351a0e498c2a4c568db3a55b44fd9aa6e commit] ||
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||2016-08-18 || || ||meek ||Changed the meek-amazon CDN price class from "All" to "Use Only US, Canada and Europe." || ||
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||2016-08-20 || ||ir ||<OR> ||Iran somehow blocks most direct Tor connections. May also affect bridge users, but it's hard to tell because there were few vanilla bridge users anyway. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/20216 ticket] ||
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||2016-08-24 || || ||bridge ||tor 0.2.8.7 and 0.2.9.2-alpha are released, changing the bridge authority from Tonga to Bifroest. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-0287-released-important-fixes 0.2.8.7 announcement] ||
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||2016-08-31 || || ||bridge ||CollecTor begins publishing bridge stats from the new bridge authority Bifroest. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2016-August/011336.html post] ||
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||2016-09-02 || || ||bridge ||The former bridge authority Tonga shuts down. Bridges that have not updated to tor 0.2.8.7 or 0.2.9.2-alpha (which include all 5 default obfs3 bridges and 3/16 default obfs4 bridges) stop reporting statistics. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/19690#comment:17 shutdown notice] [https://blog.torproject.org/blog/new-bridge-authority blog post] [https://metrics.torproject.org/networksize.html?start=2016-07-01&end=2016-09-23 loss of reporting bridges] ||
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||2016-09-04 || ||ir ||<OR> ||Iran intensifies the blocking begun on 2016-08-20, getting most of the remaining direct users. There is interference in the graphs from the bridge authority changeover on 2016-09-02, but because the changeover would not have affected counts of ''direct'' users, it may be a coincidence. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/20216 ticket] ||
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||2016-09-07 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 72F8AD2CD7C97D173AD53276366EAD32B13E0A50`, `geoip6-db-digest B6427DEAD2291FBF8311A2233AF4960BF4009713`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=56f95ba94dfeaacee63047b1613129de3d01be87 commit] ||
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||2016-09-20 || || ||meek ||macOS 10.12 (Sierra) is released, breaking some programs that are built with Go <1.7, including the meek-client that comes with Tor Browser. (See 2016-11-15 unbreaking event.) ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/20250 ticket] ||
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||2016-09-23 || || ||obfs3 ||Default obfs3 bridges ndnop0 and ndnop2 upgrade and begin reporting statistics to the new bridge authority Bifroest. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2016-September/000217.html post on bridges not reporting statistics] ||
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||2016-09-23 || || ||obfs4 ||Default obfs3 bridges ndnop3 and ndnop5 upgrade and begin reporting statistics to the new bridge authority Bifroest. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2016-September/000217.html post on bridges not reporting statistics] ||
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||2016-09-23 || || ||obfs3 ||Default obfs3 bridges "Unnamed" and "Unnamed" (fingerprint [https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/AF9F66B7B04F8FF6F32D455F05135250A16543C9 AF9F66B7B04F8FF6F32D455F05135250A16543C9]) upgrade and begin reporting statistics to the new bridge authority Bifroest. || ||
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||~2016-09-23 ||2016-11-28 || ||obfs3 ||Outage of default obfs3 bridges "Unnamed" and "Unnamed" (fingerprint [https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/AF9F66B7B04F8FF6F32D455F05135250A16543C9 AF9F66B7B04F8FF6F32D455F05135250A16543C9]). (Start date not known for sure, though it must have been after 2016-09-23; discussed in non-archived tor-team email.) || ||
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||2016-09-24 || || ||obfs3 ||Default obfs3 bridge LeifEricson upgrades and begins reporting statistics to the new bridge authority Bifroest. This is the last obfs3 bridge that hadn't upgraded. || ||
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||2016-09-24 || || ||obfs4 ||Default obfs4 bridge LeifEricson upgrades and begins reporting statistics to the new bridge authority Bifroest. This is the last obfs4 bridge that hadn't upgraded. || ||
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||2016-09-28 || || ||meek ||Rate limit on the meek-amazon bridge returns to 3.0 MB/s, having been set to about 1.0 MB/s for some time, cause uncertain. || ||
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||2016-10-02 ||2016-10-03 ||eg ||<OR> relay ||Reports that direct connections from Egypt are blocked; bridges are required. Maybe be the same as the block beginning 2016-10-25. ||[https://ooni.torproject.org/post/egypt-network-interference/#attempts-to-block-tor OONI report] ||
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||2016-10-05 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest C14DF5AE94101562DEACDD296278B0EFA3EA26E5`, `geoip6-db-digest A88A828020A558D37F97CF683D4521270F0511A2`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=1b4984f196848cd404456fd1251e0352b9abf05e commit] ||
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||2016-10-08 || ||et || ||Ethiopia declares a state of emergency and implements network blocks. ||[https://ooni.torproject.org/post/ethiopia-report/#internet-shutdown OONI report] ||
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||2016-10-08 ||2016-10-09 ||tr || ||Turkey blocks storage services including Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and GitHub. Most (all?) of the blocks were rescinded the next day. ||[https://turkeyblocks.org/2016/10/08/google-drive-dropbox-blocked-in-turkey/ blocking article] [https://twitter.com/TurkeyBlocks/status/785054084856512512 unblocking tweet] [https://www.turkishminute.com/2016/10/09/turkey-lifts-block-dropbox-google-drive-onedrive-remains-blocked/ unblocking article] ||
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||2016-10-19 ||2016-11-10 || ||meek ||Large decrease in meek users, perhaps caused by problems in Orbot 15.0.2 BETA 1 that were fixed in Orbot 15.2.0 RC8. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/20495 ticket] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-October/000764.html initial email] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-November/000778.html followup email] [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/traffic-obf/CSJLt3t-_OI/FnAqWqquAwAJ Orbot mail] ||
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||2016-10-25 ||ongoing ||eg ||<OR> relay ||Egypt blocks Tor directory authorities and public relays by TCP RST. Bridges work. ||[https://ooni.torproject.org/post/egypt-network-interference/#attempts-to-block-tor OONI report] ||
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||2016-10-28 || || ||meek ||Decreased the rate limit on the meek-amazon bridge to 1.0 MB/s, from 3.0 MB/s. || ||
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||2016-10-30 || || ||meek ||Increased the rate limit on the meek-amazon bridge to 3.0 MB/s, from 1.0 MB/s. || ||
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||2016-11-03 ||ongoing ||tr || ||Turkey blocks Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, WhatsApp. ||[https://turkeyblocks.org/2016/11/04/social-media-shutdown-turkey/ article] ||
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||2016-11-04 || ||tr || ||Turkey orders a block on VPN services and Tor. ||[http://turk-internet.com/portal/yazigoster.php?yaziid=54465 Turkish article] [https://motherboard.vice.com/read/turkey-doubles-down-on-censorship-with-block-on-vpns-tor English article] [https://bugs.torproject.org/21014 ticket] ||
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||2016-11-07 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 363C038D0BE61D6E0A63C43DE8EA70771ED7BEA5`, `geoip6-db-digest 6110A2B794AFF0180FD096A4759434CABD289C40`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=ea597832e25e776a45375d18a973e079ca32d424 commit] ||
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||2016-11-15 || || ||meek ||Tor Browser 6.0.6 is released, unbreaking meek on macOS 10.12 (Sierra). (See 2016-09-20 breaking event.) ||[https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-606-released blog post] [https://bugs.torproject.org/20250#comment:29 ticket] ||
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||2016-11-15 || || ||obfs4 ||Default obfs4 bridges ndnop3 and ndnop5 turn on timing obfuscation (`iat-mode`). ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2016-November/000780.html mailing list post] [https://bugs.torproject.org/20837 ticket] ||
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||2016-11-16 09:20:45 || || || ||Tor Browser 6.5a4 is released. It changes the `app.update.url`. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-65a4-released blog post] [https://bugs.torproject.org/19481 ticket] ||
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||2016-11-18 || || ||obfs4 ||Default obfs4 bridge [https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/D9C805C955CB124D188C0D44F271E9BE57DE2109 Lisbeth] turns on timing obfuscation (`iat-mode=1`). ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/20837 ticket] ||
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||2016-11-22 || || ||meek ||Decreased the rate limit on the meek-amazon bridge to 2.0 MB/s, from 3.0 MB/s. || ||
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||2016-11-30 20:00:00 ||2016-12-02 12:00:00 ||gm || ||Internet shutdown in Gambia. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2016-11-14&end=2016-12-14&country=gm relay graph] [https://ooni.torproject.org/post/gambia-internet-shutdown/ OONI report] [https://blog.cloudflare.com/will-autocrats-ever-learn-the-internet-blackout-in-gambia/ Cloudflare blog post] ||
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||2016-12-01 || ||by ||<OR> relay ||Belarus blocks the addresses of public Tor relays, apparently by RST injection. Bridges work, even unobfuscated ones. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/20907 ticket] [https://geektimes.ru/post/283392/ article (Russian)] [https://ooni.torproject.org/post/belarus-fries-onion/ OONI blog post] ||
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||2016-12-09 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 1317BB3525E85E01FB34A89E04CE549AC23D07BD`, `geoip6-db-digest 865048C69BEC02B37268BFBAD66D9729B21CFCF5`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=9db47e792160766de49b76bff71afdc4f743df88 commit] ||
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||2016-12-12 || ||tr ||<OR> ||Turkey blocks direct Tor connections. The order to block had come on 2016-11-04. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/21014 ticket] [https://twitter.com/josswright/status/809379534420185089 tweet] [https://turkeyblocks.org/2016/12/18/tor-blocked-in-turkey-vpn-ban/ article] ||
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||2016-12-13 19:08:09 || || ||obfs4 ||Tor Browser 6.5a6 is released. It fixes the `app.update.url`. It adds (uncomments) the default obfs4 bridge NX01:443. It activates timing obfuscation for certain obfs4 bridges. It changes the port of other obfs4 bridges. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-65a6-released blog post] ||
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||2016-12-15 ||ongoing ||cd || ||The Democratic Republic of the Congo orders a block of social media services. ||[http://wlrn.org/post/congo-block-social-media-sites-ahead-protests-against-president article] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2016-10-01&end=2016-12-20&country=cd relay graph] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2016-10-01&end=2016-12-20&country=cd bridge graph] ||
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||2017-01-04 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 672C29A4FA9BF81DE97CFE128741445E2BDE8097`, `geoip6-db-digest 81F380639A8E1000539204949A363FD3BFAFBA74`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=3833f67dd2dc35dbcfe1d5659c885f0b5f54125b commit] ||
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||2017-01-09 || || ||meek ||Decreased the rate limit on the meek-azure bridge to 2.0 MB/s, from 3.0 MB/s. || ||
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||2017-01-22 || || ||meek ||1.0-beta release of GAEuploader, a tool that automates the setting up of meek. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-January/011812.html mailing list post] ||
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||2017-01-24 || || ||snowflake ||Tor Browser 7.0a1 released, including Snowflake for GNU/Linux only. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-70a1-released blog post] ||
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||2017-01-24 22:22:32 || || || ||Tor Browser 6.5 is released. It changes the `app.update.url`, which causes an apparent drop in update pings. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-65-released blog post] [https://metrics.torproject.org/webstats-tb.html?start=2017-01-01&end=2017-06-01 graph] [https://bugs.torproject.org/19481 ticket] [https://bugs.torproject.org/22346#comment:1 comment about app.update.url] ||
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||2017-01-25 ||2017-04-05 || ||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. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/22346 ticket] ||
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||~2017-02-10 ||ongoing || ||<OR> exit ||Measurement error from bandwidth authority causes decrease in measured bandwidth in Europe. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2017-February/000963.html mailing list post] ||
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||2017-02-12 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest C0C6099CE335916862978F77756C0B42521A74B2`, `geoip6-db-digest A54B14B9D47584E010F763D3EAE23C4726F4A8D5`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=f6016058b42aa1c4528fd8c7c2da3d13eddd63dc commit] ||
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||2017-03-03 17:32:00 || || ||meek ||Stopped the meek-azure CDN endpoint az668014.vo.msecnd.net. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2017-March/000981.html mailing list post] ||
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||2017-03-03 17:34:00 || || ||meek ||Stopped the meek-azure CDN endpoint az786092.vo.msecnd.net. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2017-March/000981.html mailing list post] ||
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||2017-03-03 17:36:00 || || ||meek ||Stopped the (unused) meek-azure CDN endpoint meek-reflect.azureedge.net. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2017-March/000981.html mailing list post] ||
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||2017-03-07 18:32:11 || || ||meek scramblesuit ||Tor Browser 6.5.1 is released, containing the new meek-azure CDN configuration, and removing the last remaining scramblesuit bridge. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-651-released blog post] [https://bugs.torproject.org/21342 meek ticket] [https://bugs.torproject.org/21536 scramblesuit ticket] ||
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||2017-03-08 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "March 7 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 63921843E3AAA632088D189D877F836A373CD40D`, `geoip6-db-digest 2B93B9C6679BB09E1746F212A6DCDC6E710F5F52`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=4488c319dde4c986da01a4635edaabeb1bc574a4 commit] ||
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||2017-03-22 || || ||meek ||Orbot 15.4.0 beta-2 multi is released, containing the new meek-azure CDN configuration. ||[https://lists.mayfirst.org/pipermail/guardian-dev/2017-March/005220.html mailing list post] [https://github.com/n8fr8/orbot/commit/6496cb11d61e0e42c48569c9eae303e0cd625e85 commit] ||
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||2017-04-06 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 0F3D4A456E5078CC9E49398ADCB04C40EA49B793`, `geoip6-db-digest 04F41F05FA167EF6EEE3FE953404AB0BCCD33008`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=9d7933296c187061ce121012cdd7964321e06db2 commit] ||
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||2017-04-14 ||2017-08-20 || ||<OR> ||Directory authority maatuska's bwscanner stops operating, leading to a drop in traffic on some relays. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-consensus-health/2017-April/007845.html tor-consensus-health post about start] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-consensus-health/2017-August/008106.html tor-consensus-health post about end] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-April/012215.html tor-dev thread] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-consensus-health/2017-May/007908.html analysis] ||
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||2017-04-19 19:00:55 || || ||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. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-652-released blog post] [https://bugs.torproject.org/22346#comment:1 comment about app.update.url] ||
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||2017-04-20 11:59:50 || || ||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. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-70a3-released blog post] ||
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||2017-04-30 || || ||meek ||The meek-amazon bridge upgrades to meek-server 0.27. || ||
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||2017-05-06 16:20:00 || || ||snowflake ||Set `AssumeReachable 1` on the Snowflake bridge [https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/2B280B23E1107BB62ABFC40DDCC8824814F80A72 2B280B23E1107BB62ABFC40DDCC8824814F80A72] in an attempt to make it start publishing statistics. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-May/012243.html mailing list post] ||
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||2017-05-08 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest B2E5105287668771E34A66F90B34982D419727EF`, `geoip6-db-digest 8DA8AC3C8158CBFDF7DB53BBF73338246872371A`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=5207e41ffeb99089adbb56376c0759b97a556801 commit] ||
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||2017-05-16 || ||ua || ||Ukraine blocks Russian-operated web services. Relay and bridge users increase over 5×. May be partly attributable to the [https://freeu.online/ FreeU Browser] , a browser produced and advertised by Mail.ru that includes a tor client. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/22369 ticket] [https://www.rt.com/business/388502-ukraine-bans-vk-yandex/ news article] [https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/6c9ig1 Reddit post] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-05-01&end=2017-05-21&country=ua&events=on relay graph] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2017-05-01&end=2017-05-21&country=ua bridge graph] [https://tjournal.ru/44669-vkontakte-predlozhila-ukraincam-peredelannii-brauzer-amigo-s-tor-dlya-obhoda-blokirovok news article on FreeU] ||
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||2017-05-23 07:00:00 ||2017-06-13 19:20:00 || ||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. || ||
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||2017-05-25 || || ||obfs4 ||Set `AssumeReachable 1` on the default obfs4 bridges [https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/C8CBDB2464FC9804A69531437BCF2BE31FDD2EE4 cymrubridge31] and [https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/0BAC39417268B96B9F514E7F63FA6FBA1A788955 cymrubridge33] in an attempt to make them publish statistics. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-May/012283.html mailing list post] ||
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||2017-06-07 || || ||ipv6 obfs4 ||Tor Browser 7.0 released. Adds an IPv6 address for default obfs4 bridge Lisbeth. Adds new default obfs4 bridges [https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/854173307E33686BBBAC36A3A093BEF320B719D4 frosty] and [https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/D9E712E593400635462172121B7DB90B07669F71 dragon]. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-70-released blog post] [https://bugs.torproject.org/22429 IPv6 ticket] [https://bugs.torproject.org/22468 frosty and dragon ticket] ||
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||2017-06-09 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest AFD609025B66305AD9FA8E0B15AF4F2BC82271F1`, `geoip6-db-digest A69FD14ACE46EE695F589ACE0EB7B915285B51B4`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=104e8fa751c1bef051ac47e39da9bbbc6d158800 commit] ||
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||2017-06-12 || || ||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. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/20348#comment:193 graph showing failed connections] ||
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||2017-06-18 22:00:00 ||2017-06-23 10:00:00 || ||obfs4 ||Outage of default obfs4 bridge [https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/854173307E33686BBBAC36A3A093BEF320B719D4 frosty]. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2017-June/001211.html mailing list post] ||
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||2017-06-19 18:00:00 ||2017-06-23 10:00:00 || ||obfs4 ||Outage of default obfs4 bridge [https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/D9E712E593400635462172121B7DB90B07669F71 dragon]. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2017-June/001211.html mailing list post] ||
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||2017-06-20 00:09:50 ||2017-06-20 00:32:21 || ||meek ||Outage of meek-azure bridge. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2017-June/001209.html start] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2017-June/001209.html end] ||
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||2017-06-26 18:00:00 ||2017-07-03 02:00:00 || ||obfs4 ||Outage of default obfs4 bridge [https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/854173307E33686BBBAC36A3A093BEF320B719D4 frosty]. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2017-July/001280.html mailing list post] ||
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||2017-06-26 22:00:00 ||2017-07-02 02:00:00 || ||obfs4 ||Outage of default obfs4 bridge [https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/D9E712E593400635462172121B7DB90B07669F71 dragon]. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2017-July/001280.html mailing list post] ||
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||2017-07-02 || || || ||deb.torproject.org upgrades from tor 0.2.9 to tor 0.3.0 ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/versions.html?start=2017-05-01&end=2017-07-15 relay versions graph] [https://twitter.com/nusenu_/status/884128686764687361 tweet] ||
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||2017-07-04 14:00:00 ||2017-07-21 10:00:00 || ||obfs4 ||Outage of default obfs4 bridge [https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/D9E712E593400635462172121B7DB90B07669F71 dragon]. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2017-July/001280.html mailing list post] ||
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||2017-07-04 18:00:00 ||2017-07-21 10:00:00 || ||obfs4 ||Outage of default obfs4 bridge [https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/854173307E33686BBBAC36A3A093BEF320B719D4 frosty]. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2017-July/001280.html mailing list post] ||
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||2017-07-07 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 3D04F191098640F2E03B4D5F7800088D14B7EC30`, `geoip6-db-digest A3649B9E909C59942FB3D8F874AB4BEA36E8BEC1`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=b6acfa491e7fdb6e3d71665a55617727816155fd commit] ||
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||2017-07-29 07:19:00 ||2017-08-17 03:32:00 || ||meek ||Outage of meek-amazon bridge, caused by an expired certificate. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/F4AD82B2032EDEF6C02C5A529C42CFAFE516564D Atlas] [https://crt.sh/?id=130970041 expired certificate] [https://crt.sh/?id=192217077 new certificate] ||
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||2017-08-03 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "August 3 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 75AABD32582AC554AF252DDC7BBBABE7C6F28B28`, `geoip6-db-digest A52EFFEF8CF6F3CAA8EBD34961361544E959FAE1`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=1280de42a41ccf7ae398cc86529c880455e9c5d1 commit] ||
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||2017-08-07 ||ongoing ||cd || ||The Democratic Republic of the Congo orders a block of social media services. ||[https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2017/08/drc-block-on-social-media-images-an-appalling-attack-on-freedom-of-expression/ article] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-06-01&end=2017-10-01&country=cd relay graph] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2017-06-01&end=2017-10-01&country=cd bridge graph] ||
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||2017-08-08 || || ||snowflake ||Tor Browser 7.5a4 released, including Snowflake for macOS. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-75a4-released blog post] ||
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||2017-08-10 ||2017-08-11 || || ||Outage of the op-hk OnionPerf instance. Reported timeouts on the tor network increased, download speed improved. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/torperf.html?start=2017-07-01&end=2017-10-09&source=all&server=public&filesize=50kb torperf graph] [https://metrics.torproject.org/torperf-failures.html?start=2017-07-11&end=2017-10-09&source=all&server=public&filesize=50kb torperf-failures graph] [https://metrics.torproject.org/torperf.html?start=2017-07-01&end=2017-10-09&source=op-hk&server=public&filesize=50kb op-hk graph] ||
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||2017-08-14 ||2017-08-15 || ||bridge ||Outage of the bridge authority [https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/1D8F3A91C37C5D1C4C19B1AD1D0CFBE8BF72D8E1 Bifroest]. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2017-August/000441.html mailing list post] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2018-March/000713.html mailing list post] [https://metrics.torproject.org/networksize.html?start=2017-07-01&end=2017-08-27 graph] ||
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||2017-09-01 ||2017-09-20 || ||obfs4 ||A flood of over 4,000 obfs4 bridges nicknamed "Machiavelli". ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/networksize.html?start=2017-08-01&end=2017-09-30 graph of number of bridges] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2017-September/012925.html tor-relays post] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2017-September/000450.html metrics-team thread] [https://twitter.com/nusenu_/status/905580044503969792 tweet] ||
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||2017-09-06 || ||pr || ||Hurricane Irma hits Puerto Rico. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-08-01&end=2017-11-09&country=pr&events=off graph] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Irma#Puerto_Rico_2 wikipedia] ||
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||2017-09-07 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 0CE9EA8882EDED265451C36B49AE7BBB06A11C16`, `geoip6-db-digest C4573496EBD1CC335843067107DA49E482568FF6`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=09618ffe38bc6cd91755c6c1aedb86dc099dfdf8 commit] ||
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||2017-09-14 20:00:00 ||2017-09-16 22:12:00 || ||bridge ||Outage of the bridge authority [https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/1D8F3A91C37C5D1C4C19B1AD1D0CFBE8BF72D8E1 Bifroest]. || ||
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||2017-09-15 ||2017-09-16 || ||bridge ||The bridge authority was down due to an issue with its offline master key. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/networksize.html?start=2017-07-01&end=2018-01-01 graph] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2018-March/000713.html mailing list post] ||
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||2017-09-15 ||2017-10-12 || || ||Outage of the op-hk OnionPerf instance. Reported timeouts on the tor network increased, download speed improved. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2017-October/000476.html mailing list post] [https://metrics.torproject.org/torperf.html?start=2017-07-01&end=2017-10-09&source=all&server=public&filesize=50kb torperf graph] [https://metrics.torproject.org/torperf-failures.html?start=2017-07-11&end=2017-10-09&source=all&server=public&filesize=50kb torperf-failures graph] [https://metrics.torproject.org/torperf.html?start=2017-07-01&end=2017-10-09&source=op-hk&server=public&filesize=50kb op-hk graph] ||
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||2017-09-20 || ||pr || ||Hurricane Maria hits Puerto Rico. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-08-01&end=2017-11-09&country=pr&events=off graph] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Maria#Puerto_Rico_3 wikipedia] ||
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||2017-10-04 || || ||fte ||Permanent hardware failure of default FTE bridge 128.105.214.161:8080. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/28521#comment:2 comment] ||
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||2017-10-05 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 3A59213E5CFEE380F544B72DC1105366C6BD1CDE`, `geoip6-db-digest 1B8C975E5C62CF0FB5B4E598AE27B7189952BB09`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=b9d9b16b7685c79e6440e5f8a1d4bd01a8cefb2c commit] ||
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||2017-10-05 13:00:00 ||2017-10-05 15:00:00 ||cn || ||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. ||[https://www.msn.com/en-sg/money/markets/exiled-chinese-billionaire-blasts-kleptocracy-running-china-warns-of-spy-infiltration-in-us/ar-AAsXLvL article on conference] [https://twitter.com/szshu/status/916289656169275392 tweet] [https://twitter.com/paulwang_xz/status/916633633548525568 tweet] [https://twitter.com/iuui/status/916583990085033985 tweet] ||
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||2017-10-14 19:30:00 || || ||snowflake ||Activated client IP address statistics on the Snowflake server and standalone proxies. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/18628#comment:16 comment] ||
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||2017-10-18 ||2017-10-24 ||cn || ||19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. ||[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_National_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_China wikipedia] [https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9964-cat_mouse_evading_the_censors_in_2018#t=2067 Psiphon users] ||
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||2017-10-25 || || ||<OR> relay ||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. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/new-stable-tor-releases-0318-03012-02913-02816-02515 blog post] [https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-bastet-our-new-directory-authority Bastet blog post] [https://bugs.torproject.org/23910 bastet ticket] [https://bugs.torproject.org/23592 Longclaw ticket] ||
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||2017-11-01 || ||ru || ||Ban on VPNs and anonymizers takes effect in Russia. ||[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-internet/putin-bans-vpns-to-stop-russians-accessing-prohibited-websites-idUSKBN1AF0QI news article] [http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201707300002 law] ||
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||2017-11-01 18:10:00 || || ||meek ||Turned off the old meek-amazon CDN endpoint d2zfqthxsdq309.cloudfront.net. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2017-November/001555.html mailing list post] ||
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||2017-11-10 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest E3C910F3B2A6C916C7BE33A943091EF57048B72C`, `geoip6-db-digest E8BD5B2E6554C27F718F1222667C09680D75F799`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=6f8c32b7deb9f0cec6d1553aba71969c9fb6064f commit] ||
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||2017-11-11 ||2017-11-12 || || ||Outage of the op-hk OnionPerf instance. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/torperf.html?start=2017-10-01&end=2017-12-01&source=op-hk&server=public&filesize=50kb op-hk graph] ||
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||2017-11-14 || || ||<OR> relay ||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. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-7010-released blog post] ||
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||2017-11-15 01:41:36 ||2017-11-15 05:44:28 || ||meek ||Outage of meek-amazon bridge. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/24284 ticket] ||
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||2017-11-15 || || ||<OR> relay ||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. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-75a8-released blog post] ||
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||2017-11-25 ||2017-11-27 ||pk || ||Social media block in Pakistan. ||[https://dailytimes.com.pk/147132/social-media-goes-down-in-pakistan/ article] [https://digitalrightsfoundation.pk/press-release-drf-and-netblocks-find-blanket-and-nation-wide-ban-on-social-media-in-pakistan-and-demand-it-to-be-lifted-immediately/ NetBlocks data] [https://ooni.torproject.org/post/how-pakistan-blocked-social-media/ OONI/Bytes For All report] ||
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||2017-12-01 || || ||<OR> ipv6 relay ||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. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/24394 ticket] [https://blog.torproject.org/new-stable-tor-releases-security-fixes-0319-03013-02914-02817-02516 blog post] ||
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||2017-12-04 ||ongoing || || ||DDoS attack creates load on the network. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2017-December/013669.html tor-relays thread] [https://metrics.torproject.org/relayflags.html?start=2017-11-01&end=2018-01-31&flag=Running&flag=Exit&flag=Fast&flag=Guard&flag=Stable&flag=HSDir relay graph] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2017-December/001604.html summary post] [https://bugs.torproject.org/24902 ticket] ||
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||2017-12-05 09:44:00 ||2017-12-15 15:17:00 ||zw || ||Internet outage in Zimbabwe. ||[https://www.techzim.co.zw/2017/12/zimbabwe-internet-outage-here-what-happened/ article] ||
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||2017-12-08 ||2017-12-11 || ||bridge ||The bridge authority was down for unknown reasons. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/networksize.html?start=2017-07-01&end=2018-01-01 graph] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2018-March/000713.html mailing list post] ||
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||2017-12-09 || || ||<OR> ipv6 relay ||Release of Tor Browser 7.0.11, containing tor 0.3.1.9, which adds an IPv6 address for the bridge authority bastet. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-7011-released blog post] ||
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||2017-12-09 || || ||<OR> ipv6 relay ||Release of Tor Browser 7.5a9, containing tor 0.3.2.6-alpha, which adds an IPv6 address for the bridge authority bastet. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-75a9-released blog post] ||
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||2017-12-12 20:15:53 ||2018-01-18 02:28:54 || ||meek ||Outage of the [https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/C20658946DD706A7A2181159A1A04CD838570D04 meek.bamsoftware.com] (unthrottled for public use), [https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/AA033EEB61601B2B7312D89B62AAA23DC3ED8A34 meek.bamsoftware.com:7443] (former meek-azure, now unused), and [https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/D36B0328969EC57AB3085A4470882D99A09C0492 gaeuploader.meek.bamsoftware.com] (used by [https://github.com/katherinelitor/GAEuploader GAEuploader]) bridges. || ||
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||2017-12-20 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "December 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 1D486694A710145631B295CC39ECC5682F75858C`, `geoip6-db-digest F33231CAC761A71F7C19273DB1E11CEE01E2D982`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=428f8a375b8846edd1a056ce66f00fe08117a4ba commit] ||
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||2017-12-21 || || || ||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. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2017-December/043844.html announcement] [https://bugs.torproject.org/24665 ticket] ||
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||2017-12-28 ||2018-01-13 ||ir || ||Protests in Iran, blocking of various services including Tor. Instagram was unblocked 2018-01-06. Telegram was unblocked 2018-01-13. ||[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%932018_Iranian_protests#Media_coverage_and_censorship Wikipedia] [https://ooni.torproject.org/post/2018-iran-protests/ OONI report] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-11-01&end=2018-01-20&country=ir relay graph] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2017-11-01&end=2018-01-20&country=ir bridge graph] [https://twitter.com/nusenu_/status/948914485045145601 tweet] [https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9964-cat_mouse_evading_the_censors_in_2018#t=1770 Psiphon users] ||
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||2018-01-01 || ||ae ||relay ||User report that the UAE blocked Tor, bridges work. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/25137#comment:17 comment] ||
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||2018-01-05 ||ongoing || || ||Outage of the op-hk OnionPerf instance. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/torperf.html?start=2017-12-01&end=2017-02-01&source=op-hk&server=public&filesize=50kb op-hk graph] ||
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||2018-01-08 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest ACE2AF82816B9D3F58FC9C79A41B4506D6DAD713`, `geoip6-db-digest 387B3F555F1E054F0F9971C726F49848C5B5CF8B`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=8efbeb09826030302481619dab83e83f35fdc26e commit] ||
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||2018-01-16 19:15:00 || || || ||Tor 0.3.2.9 reaches deb.torproject.org. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/versions.html?start=2017-12-01&end=2018-03-01 relay versions graph] ||
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||2018-01-18 ||2018-02-24 || ||snowflake ||Outage of Snowflake broker caused by the disabling of the Let's Encrypt TLS-SNI-01 challenge. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/25345 ticket] [https://bugs.torproject.org/30693#comment:3 graph] ||
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||2018-01-20 || || ||relay ||Some more directory authorities upgrade to 0.3.2.9 which enforces new requirements for the exit flag. ~50 relays lose the exit flag ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2018-February/014478.html tor-relays post] ||
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||2018-01-23 20:28:40 || || ||obfs4 ||Tor Browser 7.5 is released. It adds the default obfs4 bridge noisetor01:46089. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-75-released blog post] ||
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||2018-01-24 ||ongoing || ||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. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/22346 ticket] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2018-March/000750.html thread] ||
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||2018-02-08 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest FF83AD73DE7672C77EDF8888F4B241642C7C90F7`, `geoip6-db-digest B1CDBFEB7C88F82EF3B5289CAFEED1321FA4693F`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=f1278b7e573f01edb8bc3ab4d7fbfbd65b5d2c60 commit] ||
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||2018-02-10 || || ||relay ||Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha is released (containing important denial-of-service migitations for relays) ||[https://blog.torproject.org/tor-0332-alpha-released-bugfixes-and-dos-prevention blog] ||
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||2018-02-11 || || ||relay ||Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha reaches FreeBSD repositories || ||
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||2018-02-12 || || ||relay ||Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha reaches deb.torproject.org repositories || ||
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||2018-02-24 || ||cn || ||Blocking in China intensifies following the announcement of proposed changes to remove presidential term limits. ||[https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2018/02/sensitive-words-emperor-xi-jinping-ascend-throne/ article] ||
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||2018-02-27 16:00:00 ||2018-03-02 || || ||Less than 3 bandwidth authorities are available. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2018-February/014676.html tor-relays] ||
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||2018-03-03 16:35:22 || || || ||Release of tor 0.3.2.10, 0.3.1.10, and 0.2.9.15, which offer better resistance against DoS attacks. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/new-stable-tor-releases-security-fixes-and-dos-prevention-03210-03110-02915 blog post] [https://bugs.torproject.org/24902 ticket] ||
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||2018-03-07 ||2018-03-15 ||lk || ||Sri Lanka blocks Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Viber. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2018-01-01&end=2018-04-01&country=lk relay graph] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2018-01-01&end=2018-04-01&country=lk bridge graph] [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sri-lanka-clashes-socialmedia/sri-lanka-lifts-ban-on-facebook-imposed-after-spasm-of-communal-violence-idUSKCN1GR31R article] ||
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||2018-03-12 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "March 8 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 0FD75C42A32E82100361BD367CB13862806E6A13`, `geoip6-db-digest 5AFA101C4A6AD4289CEE4575943D6BA851606245`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=3418a3a7f0199c0573213dfa586315ff2329f667 commit] ||
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||2018-03-14 16:53:00 || || ||snowflake ||Deployed an attempt to fix frequent crashes of the fallback snowflake proxies. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/21312#comment:39 comment] [https://gitweb.torproject.org/pluggable-transports/snowflake.git/commit/?id=f2abf5b60c289103d8661b8e54b3d3aee43a4aaf commit] ||
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||2018-03-16 04:07:45 || || ||snowflake ||Deployed another attempt to fix frequent crashes of the fallback snowflake proxies. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/21312#comment:57 comment] ||
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||2018-03-22 03:03:45 || || ||snowflake ||Disabled periodic restarts of the fallback snowflake proxies; gave them a memory limit of 200 MB. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/21312#comment:63 comment] ||
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||2018-03-22 03:19:19 || || ||snowflake ||Increased memory limit of the fallback snowflake proxies from 200 MB to 400 MB. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/21312#comment:63 comment] [https://bugs.torproject.org/25688#comment:1 comment] ||
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||2018-03-22 05:16:59 || || ||snowflake ||Provisionally increased memory limits of the fallback snowflake proxies to 400 MB, 800 MB, or unlimited. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/25688#comment:1 comment] ||
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||2018-03-23 01:02:18 || || ||snowflake ||Restarted the fallback snowflake proxies with a limit on resident memory (`ulimit -m`) rather than virtual memory (`ulimit -v`). ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/21312#comment:64 comment] [https://bugs.torproject.org/25688#comment:1 comment] ||
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||2018-03-26 20:43:42 || || ||snowflake ||Release of Tor Browser 8.0a5. Improves snowflake client performance. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-80a5-released blog post] [https://bugs.torproject.org/21312 ticket] ||
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||2018-03-27 19:26:12 || || ||snowflake ||Restarted the fallback snowflake proxies with no limit on memory. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/25688#comment:1 comment] ||
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||2018-03-28 ||ongoing ||td || ||Chad blocks social messaging apps. ||[https://qz.com/1247234/chad-has-blocked-social-messaging-apps-bbc-amid-political-and-economic-anxiety/ article] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2018-02-01&end=2018-05-15&country=td&events=off graph] ||
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||2018-04-02 04:57:42 || || ||snowflake ||Reinstated periodic restarts of the fallback snowflake proxies. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/25688#comment:1 comment] ||
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||2018-04-02 04:57:42 ||2018-04-18 || ||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. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/25688#comment:1 start] [https://bugs.torproject.org/22874#comment:10 end] ||
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||2018-04-05 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "April 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 8A53650327E8D30E971DC90F564BA9BD1A513F19`, `geoip6-db-digest 698852511F6BC27DFFC115805044C71FDCCF70AF`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=1fa396b0a49448103ad16cb411163e6f5d741cc0 commit] ||
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||2018-04-13 16:00:00 || || ||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 [https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/5481936581E23D2D178105D44DB6915AB06BFB7F 5481936581E23D2D178105D44DB6915AB06BFB7F] went to zero. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/25804 ticket] ||
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||2018-04-16 || || ||snowflake ||Moved the Snowflake broker from App Engine to a standalone server. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/22874#comment:9 comment] ||
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||2018-04-16 ||2018-05-08 ||ru || ||Russia tries to block Telegram; blocks about 18 million IP addresses including some belonging to Amazon and Google cloud services. ||[https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/government/russia-bans-18-million-amazon-and-google-ips-in-attempt-to-block-telegram/ article] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2018-03-01&end=2018-07-15&country=ru relay graph] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2018-03-01&end=2018-07-15&country=ru bridge graph] ||
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||2018-04-28 || ||ru || ||Russia unblocks about 3 million IP addresses belonging to Amazon and OVH. ||[http://rkn.gov.ru/news/rsoc/news57288.htm Roskomnadzor press release] [https://usher2.club/en/ monitoring page] ||
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||2018-04-30 ||ongoing ||ir || ||Iranian ISPs block Telegram. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/26087 ticket] [https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/05/iran-blocks-telegram-pushes-replacement-with-death-to-america-emoji/ article] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2018-03-01&end=2018-06-01&country=ir&events=off relay graph] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2018-03-11&end=2018-06-01&country=ir bridge graph] [https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9964-cat_mouse_evading_the_censors_in_2018#t=1922 Psiphon users] ||
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||2018-05-08 || ||ru || ||Russia unblocks about 3.7 million IP addresses belonging to Google and Digital Ocean. ||[http://rkn.gov.ru/news/rsoc/news57454.htm Roskomnadzor press release] [https://usher2.club/en/ monitoring page] ||
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||2018-05-08 22:01:06 || || ||meek ||The [https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/F4AD82B2032EDEF6C02C5A529C42CFAFE516564D meek-amazon bridge] imposes a rate limit of 1 MB/s. || ||
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||2018-05-09 20:46:16 || || ||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. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-80a7-released blog post] [https://bugs.torproject.org/26010 ticket] ||
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||2018-05-14 || || ||meek ||Disabled the d2cly7j4zqgua7.cloudfront.net CDN endpoint for meek-amazon. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/26098 Tor Browser ticket] [https://bugs.torproject.org/26111 Orbot ticket] ||
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||2018-05-15 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 765D2F123DDA7DAEA9C9263975E2B4BAFBD2B908`, `geoip6-db-digest 2AA568CC898BF9924FBACEA26946AA7ED10E7D87`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=033e4723f3651062779ff64a619ec526950857f5 commit] ||
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||2018-05-17 || || ||bridge ||Release of tor 0.3.4.1-alpha. Has a bug that makes idle bridges unuseful. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/28717 ticket] [https://bugs.torproject.org/28912 ticket] ||
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||2018-06-09 17:17:09 || || ||meek ||Release of Tor Browser 7.5.5, removes meek-amazon option. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-755-released blog post] ||
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||2018-06-10 10:15:04 || || ||meek ||Release of Tor Browser 8.0a8, removes meek-amazon option. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-80a8-released blog post] ||
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||2018-06-11 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 93112125248AD2C11A2531B934FD4AC03999738D`, `geoip6-db-digest BFD2B453F2D9DC875B7B0C464A185E6C3202534F`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=ae540569ce25041db6e78119b2879a127906fbd5 commit] ||
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||2018-06-20 ||ongoing ||ve || ||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. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/26807 ticket] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-June/001842.html mailing list post] [https://www.accessnow.org/venezuela-blocks-tor/ Access Now report] ||
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||2018-06-24 ||2018-07-06 || ||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. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/26783 ticket] ||
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||2018-06-27 20:17:18 || || ||meek ||Release of Tor Browser 8.0a9 with non-working meek. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-80a9 blog post] [https://bugs.torproject.org/26477 ticket] ||
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||2018-07-01 ||ongoing ||ug || ||A social media tax takes effect in Uganda. The government pressures ISPs to block VPNs. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2018-05-01&end=2018-08-01&country=ug&events=off relay graph] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2018-05-01&end=2018-08-01&country=ug&events=off bridge graph] [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-44315675 BBC article] [http://allafrica.com/stories/201807040129.html AllAfrica article] [https://ooni.io/post/uganda-social-media-tax/ OONI report] ||
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||2018-07-04 07:00:20 ||2018-07-06 05:36:08 || ||snowflake ||Outage of the Snowflake bridge, caused by a full disk. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/26661 ticket] ||
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||2018-07-06 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest CFFD7B0544879150A31F966E83DBB7DDDFA16F49`, `geoip6-db-digest B25710F60CB23F0C76F58AFB0A26A26ACB701BB2`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=9faa28b60e5012549a2ea207028db655257d3a74 commit] ||
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||2018-07-06 18:09:03 || || ||bridge ||The bridge authority Bifroest stops publishing bridge descriptors. Bridge stats are unavailable until 2018-07-13 and the introduction of a new bridge authority. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/26711 ticket] [https://bugs.torproject.org/26771 ticket] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2018-July/000863.html mailing list post] [https://metrics.torproject.org/networksize.html?start=2018-06-01&end=2018-09-01 number of bridges graph] ||
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||2018-07-13 13:29:39 || || ||bridge ||The replacement bridge authority Serge begins publishing bridge descriptors. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/26771 ticket] [https://bugs.torproject.org/26786 ticket] [https://metrics.torproject.org/networksize.html?start=2018-06-01&end=2018-09-01 number of bridges graph] ||
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||2018-07-14 ||2018-07-25 ||iq || ||Protests, Internet shutdowns, and social media blocks in Iraq. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2018-06-01&end=2018-09-01&country=iq relay graph] [https://netblocks.org/reports/study-shows-extent-of-iraq-internet-shutdown-and-social-media-restrictions-during-protests-zPyXjzAE NetBlocks post] [http://www.nrttv.com/EN/News.aspx?id=2810&MapID=1 NRT article about end] [https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9964-cat_mouse_evading_the_censors_in_2018#t=1729 Psiphon users] ||
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||2018-07-14 20:21:37 || || ||bridge ||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 [https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/BA44A889E64B93FAA2B114E02C2A279A8555C533 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. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2018-July/015681.html announcement] [https://bugs.torproject.org/26771 ticket] [https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-0339-bridge-authority-update blog post] [https://metrics.torproject.org/networksize.html?start=2018-06-01&end=2018-09-01 number of bridges graph] ||
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||2018-07-15 16:25:34 || || ||snowflake ||Made the Snowflake bridge report to the new Serge bridge authority. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/26783#comment:1 comment] ||
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||2018-07-21 || || ||bridge ||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. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2018-July/000866.html mailing list post] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2018-06-01&end=2018-09-01&country=all graph] ||
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||2018-07-29 ||2018-08-08 ||bd || ||Protests over road safety in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Reports of mobile network throttling and blocking of Facebook. ||[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/05/world/asia/bangladesh-students-protests.html New York Times article] [https://www.thedailystar.net/country/bangladesh-mobile-internet-speed-brought-down-across-for-24hrs-1615909 Daily Star article on throttling] [https://netblocks.org/reports/bangladesh-internet-shutdown-student-protests-jDA37KAW NetBlocks report] ||
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||2018-08-04 19:00:00 ||2018-08-05 17:00:00 || || ||Collector was missing consensuses. They were recovered via recent relay consensus diffs. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2018-August/000869.html metrics-team thread] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2018-August/015850.html tor-relays thread] ||
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||2018-08-09 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 4C2E4FF8220FFFB4989564728701016DF705BCBF`, `geoip6-db-digest F3F5C576BF3E8D5FD9F6F33603D7BFD64DEAA8B5`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=fe19b40fe9e2f78caf6f58bb3cc627a6fbb0e2c5 commit] ||
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||2018-09-10 || || ||bridge ||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. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-0348-also-other-stable-updates-02917-03212-and-03310 blog post] ||
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||2018-09-11 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "September 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest C9118A0D763E069B890674A4D5000A3DB846746B`, `geoip6-db-digest 8A46B41B2AE16F3705C67DEECD20EAA50B043A51`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=19429fac23734070933591774d2436bf92896297 commit] ||
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||2018-09-15 ||2018-09-16 ||ae ||obfs4 ||Reported blocking of obfs4 in the UAE. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/27723 ticket] [https://bugs.torproject.org/27723#comment:4 comment] ||
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||2018-09-18 || || ||bridge ||Release of tor 0.3.5.1-alpha, containing a bug that makes idle bridges unuseful. || ||
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||2018-09-26 ||ongoing || ||fte ||Outage of default FTE bridge 128.105.214.162:8080. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/28521#comment:3 comment] ||
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||2018-09-26 ||ongoing || ||fte ||Outage of default FTE bridge 128.105.214.163:8080. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/28521#comment:3 comment] ||
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||2018-10-10 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 76907A8345DA84CC724CDD573B6E08F6A089FEEB`, `geoip6-db-digest 5852AB4D3A96D7526DD47D5573CB4FA32BE4ECEB`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=119df9c1c0781e379bc83e06b9c4cb6417b50a2f commit] ||
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||2018-10-25 ||2018-10-28 || ||relay ||Gap in observed number of relay users, caused by the estimated fraction of reporting relays exceeding 100%. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2018-November/000936.html metrics-team post] [https://bugs.torproject.org/28305 ticket] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2018-10-01&end=2018-11-01&country=all&events=off graph] [https://web.archive.org/web/20181104023227/https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2018-10-01&end=2018-11-01&country=all&events=off archived graph] ||
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||2018-11-11 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 603BE8A0CA1B7164D76DBC75A280C9CA0A556F65`, `geoip6-db-digest 1CEF662539C0D91EC07A7C5C13134E3317B451E4`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=5ba3d09a89502963029483422dc41abbd356cabb commit] ||
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||2018-11-16 15:11:28 ||2018-11-22 04:00:00 || ||snowflake ||A full disk stops the Snowflake bridge and fallback proxies from working. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/28390 ticket] ||
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||2018-11-19 ||2018-11-27 || || ||Slow-running processes on the metrics host cause an observed drop in the overall relay bandwidth graph. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2018-December/000971.html mailing list thread] ||
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||2018-11-26 ||2018-11-28 || || ||Outage of the onionperf-us instance, caused by a Greenhost east coast VPS migration. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2018-November/000967.html mailing list post] ||
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||2018-11-26 ||2018-11-28 || ||flashproxy ||Outage of the flash proxy badge hosting server, flashproxy.bamsoftware.com, caused by a Greenhost east coast VPS migration. || ||
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||2018-12-05 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "December 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 0684E08BDC01ABB41A717E9C55BDEB21531CFAC8`, `geoip6-db-digest AFFAD1475879D57B1C1EA119141EFA0E57547290`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=57798eb1cb7a5c6e5b5a82625d986757be569d75 commit] ||
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||2018-12-18 ||2018-12-21 ||ae ||<OR> ||Reported blocking of vanilla Tor in the UAE. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/27723#comment:16 comment] ||
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||2018-12-20 ||ongoing ||sd || ||Protests and social media blocks in Sudan. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2018-11-15&end=2019-01-15&country=sd&events=off relay graph] [https://www.accessnow.org/amid-countrywide-protest-sudan-shuts-down-social-media-on-mobile-networks/ Access Now post] [https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9964-cat_mouse_evading_the_censors_in_2018#t=1670 Psiphon users] ||
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||2019-01-07 07:00:00 ||2018-01-08 11:00:00 ||ga || ||Internet shutdown in Gabon following a coup attempt. ||[https://ooni.torproject.org/post/gabon-internet-disruption/ OONI report] [https://netblocks.org/reports/evidence-of-gabon-full-internet-shutdown-coup-attempt-dQ8oo18n NetBlocks report] ||
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||2019-01-07 || || ||bridge ||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. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/28717#comment:32 comment] [https://bugs.torproject.org/28912 ticket] [https://blog.torproject.org/new-releases-tor-0357-03410-and-03311 blog post] [https://bugs.torproject.org/29184 ticket] ||
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||2019-01-07 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 2B8A70B399CF8B471289A4DB52947DE965D8DE5F`, `geoip6-db-digest FEA33E6F398DF67252F41DDD3D010E69B33D544E`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=445d6750f79c266c0e21e7a31e6d5f872f8a4ec8 commit] ||
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||2019-02-07 23:45:00 || || ||snowflake ||Disabled the 3 proxy-go instances that were pointing at the former broker hosted on App Engine. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/29308#comment:4 comment] ||
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||2019-02-12 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest DDAA25B4425EAA45EE8E92A6531CD3246C8E989A`, `geoip6-db-digest 0368FA722D90026E60BD60A26F615791A7A53D21`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=a3f9ddcf033881ac78cda0aa7e6a9fd7195868cc commit] ||
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||2019-03-06 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "March 4 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 5B90C2F06292D8237A5C77E27ED4ABABF4AE0684`, `geoip6-db-digest E971FCA4A89F6C685928FF9371D1BF7A2484F4CA`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=2e74edb53ef9ac417d8424a0785af839f83791ca commit] ||
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||2019-03-22 06:25:54 ||2019-03-22 18:34:02 || ||snowflake ||Outage of the Snowflake broker, caused by a full disk. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/29861 ticket] ||
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||2019-04-03 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 62A97D4DEBF76A5CE5C232B95BBF05B191EB8AAA`, `geoip6-db-digest 66620E57A8427C53D6084B3229807DC320CDC3D0`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=54e249e269c63fd5f003dd8c15faa6a13902f8e4 commit] ||
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||2019-04-16 17:53:00 ||2019-04-16 22:23:00 || ||snowflake ||Outage of Snowflake fallback proxy-go instances, caused by a failure to restart after segregating old logs. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/30205 ticket] ||
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||2019-04-23 ||ongoing ||lk || ||Sri Lanka blocks Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube after bombings. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2019-03-15&end=2019-05-15&country=lk&events=off relay graph] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2019-03-15&end=2019-05-15&country=lk bridge graph] [https://gizmodo.com/sri-lanka-blocks-facebook-whatsapp-after-easter-bombin-1834199629 article] ||
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||2019-04-28 ||2019-04-29 ||bj || ||Social media blocking and Internet blackout during parliamentary elections in Benin. ||[https://ooni.io/post/2019-benin-social-media-blocking/#social-media-blocking OONI report] ||
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||2019-04-29 || || || ||Network equipment failure at site of op-ab OnionPerf instance ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/torperf.html?start=2019-04-25&end=2019-05-04&server=public&filesize=50kb performance graph] ||
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||~2019-05-01 || ||cn ||snowflake ||China blocks the default Snowflake proxies. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/30350 ticket] ||
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||2019-05-16 ||2019-06-23 ||ir ||relay ||Tor becomes directly accessible in Iran, leading to an explosion in relay users up to about 1.5 million, before being blocked again. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/30636 ticket] [https://bugs.torproject.org/30636#comment:25 comment about end] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2019-June/045221.html tor-talk thread] [https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/bw4byr/surge_in_users/ Reddit thread] [https://bugs.torproject.org/30636#comment:30 comment] [https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/c4lwdj/today_iran_government_blocked_tor_bootsraping_in/ Reddit thread] ||
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||2019-05-17 || || ||ipv4 ipv6 ||geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (`geoip-db-digest 35DFDA2D06D2A0467EF37D60A67B438B11952B74`, `geoip6-db-digest C0193A1D086819353FABBF70AADB15866B7B2525`). ||[https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/commit/?id=4e262196a88d2a7d3be059d075f53a6f182b2773 commit] ||
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||2019-05-22 10:18:01 || || ||fte ||Release of Tor Browser 9.0a1, removes support for FTE. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-90a1 blog post] [https://bugs.torproject.org/30319 ticket] ||
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||2019-05-28 || || || ||Failure of network equipment at site of op-ab OnionPerf instance (equipment now replaced) ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/torperf-failures.html?start=2019-05-23&end=2019-06-02&server=public&filesize=50kb onionperf timeouts graph] ||
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||2019-06-20 || || ||obfs4 ||A call to set up new obfs4 bridges is posted to the tor-relays mailing list. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2019-June/017419.html mailing list thread] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2019-July/017477.html thread continues] ||
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||2019-06-21 ||ongoing ||mm || ||Internet shutdown in parts of Myanmar. ||[https://reliefweb.int/report/myanmar/myanmar-end-internet-shutdown-rakhine-chin-states report] ||
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||2019-06-26 || || ||snowflake ||The Snowflake web browser extension for Firefox is published. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/30931#comment:10 comment] ||
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||2019-07-02 ||2019-08-26 ||ir ||<OR> relay bridge ||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 <OR> bridge users increase. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/30636 ticket] [https://bugs.torproject.org/30636#comment:31 comment] [https://bugs.torproject.org/30636#comment:32 comment] ||
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||2019-07-03 || || ||snowflake ||The Snowflake web browser extension for Chrome is published. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/30999#comment:5 comment] ||
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||2019-07-18 ||2019-08-07 02:50:00 ||kz || ||The Kazakh ISP KazTelecom does man-in-the-middle of TLS connections. ||[https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/6#issuecomment-519131315 Censored Planet report] [https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/6#issuecomment-519131315 post about end] ||
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||2019-07-23 || || ||snowflake ||The broker domain name snowflake-broker.bamsoftware.com is blocked by Google Safe Browsing, preventing the Snowflake web browser extension from working. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/31230 ticket] [https://bugs.torproject.org/31200?cversion=0&cnum_hist=3#comment:3 comment noting decrease in proxies] ||
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||2019-07-26 || || ||flashproxy snowflake ||Cupcake 2.0 is released, now working with Snowflake rather than flash proxy. ||[https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cupcake/dajjbehmbnbppjkcnpdkaniapgdppdnc Chrome Web Store page] ||
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||2019-07-26 || || ||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. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/31250#comment:6 comment] ||
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||2019-07-27 || || ||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. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/31250#comment:13 comment] ||
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||2019-07-27 15:53:00 || || ||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. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/31250#comment:16 comment] ||
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||2019-08-06 ||2019-08-09 01:00:00 || || ||Experiment to test the accuracy of relays' advertised bandwidth estimation. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2019-July/017535.html description of experiment] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2019-August/017599.html post announcing start] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2019-August/017617.html post announcing end] [https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth.html?start=2019-07-01&end=2019-09-01 advertised bandwidth graph] [https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth-flags.html?start=2019-07-01&end=2019-09-01 relay flags graph] ||
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||2019-10-01 || || ||snowflake ||Release of Tor Browser 9.0a7, the first release that has Snowflake for Windows. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-90a7 blog post] [https://bugs.torproject.org/25483 ticket] ||
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||2019-10-17 19:30:42 || || ||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. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/32128 ticket] [https://bugs.torproject.org/32231 ticket] ||
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||2019-10-28 || || ||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. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/32129#comment:5 comment] ||
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||2019-11-13 16:47:02 || || ||snowflake ||Restarted the broker with a new proxy–broker protocol. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/29207#comment:31 comment] ||
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||2019-11-13 18:48:28 || || ||snowflake ||Released version 0.1.0 of the Snowflake extension for Firefox and Chrome, using a new proxy–broker protocol. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/29207#comment:32 comment] ||
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||2019-11-14 20:22:29 || || ||snowflake ||Deployed webext-0.1.0 of the Snowflake proxy (which uses a new proxy–broker protocol) to snowflake.torproject.org. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/29207#comment:34 comment] ||
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||2019-11-14 21:23:00 || || ||snowflake ipv6 ||Changed DNS to point to the IPv6-enabled Snowflake broker. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/29258#comment:16 comment] ||
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||2019-11-16 ||2019-11-23 ||ir || ||Internet blackout in Iran. ||[https://ooni.org/post/2019-iran-internet-blackout/ report] [https://ntc.party/t/a-new-kind-of-censoship-in-iran/237 NTC thread] ||
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||2020-02-18 16:00:00 ||2020-02-18 19:15:30 || ||snowflake ||Outage of the Snowflake bridge caused by memory exhaustion. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/33364 ticket] ||
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||2020-02-22 23:51:15 || || ||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. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/33385#comment:3 comment] ||
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||2020-04-23 22:51:49 || || ||snowflake ||Redeployed the Snowflake bridge with support for non–Turbo Tunnel clients and KCP–Turbo Tunnel clients, removing support for QUIC–Turbo Tunnel clients. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/33745#comment:12 comment] ||
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||2020-05-22 19:51:29 || || ||snowflake ||Release of Tor Browser 9.5a13, the first release with Turbo Tunnel session persistence features for Snowflake. ||[https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-95a13 blog post] [https://bugs.torproject.org/34043 ticket] ||
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||2016-02-24 || ||tm ||<OR> ||Large drop in direct users in Turkmenistan. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2015-11-01&end=2016-04-01&country=tm&events=off graph] ||
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||2016-07-21 ||2017-03-03 ||br ||meek ||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. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-combined.html?start=2016-06-01&end=2017-04-01&country=br graph] ||
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||2016-08-18 ||2016-08-29 ||ml || ||Sudden increase of direct and bridge users in Mali. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2016-03-01&end=2016-10-01&country=ml&events=off relay graph] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2016-03-01&end=2016-10-01&country=ml&events=off bridge graph] ||
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||2016-08-24 || ||cn ||<OR> ||Large decrease in users in China. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2016-07-30&end=2016-10-28&country=cn&events=off relay] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2016-07-30&end=2016-10-28&country=cn bridge] ||
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||2016-10-09 ||2016-10-25 ||il ||<OR> relay ||Direct users fluctuate wildly in Israel. Bridge users not affected. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2016-07-28&end=2016-10-26&country=il&events=off graph] ||
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||2017-01-15 ||2017-03-01 ||ae ||<OR> relay ||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. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-01-01&end=2017-06-01&country=ae&events=off graph] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2017-January/000284.html metrics-team thread] [https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/5pbukk/united_arab_emirates_went_from_10k_tor_users_to/ Reddit thread] [https://bugs.torproject.org/25137#comment:10 comment about botnet] ||
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||2017-02-06 ||~2017-08-01 ||ae ||obfs3 ||Increase in obfs3 users from the UAE, from 5K to 100K. Other transports not affected. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-transport.html?start=2017-01-01&end=2017-08-01&transport=obfs3&transport=obfs4&transport=meek&transport=%3COR%3E transport graph] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2017-01-01&end=2017-08-01&country=ae UAE bridge graph] [https://bugs.torproject.org/21345 ticket] ||
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||2017-02-09 ||~2017-08-01 ||in ||obfs3 ||Gradual but large increase of obfs3 users in India, followed by slow decay. Relay users and other transports seemingly not affected. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-combined.html?start=2016-11-01&end=2017-07-27&country=in graph] ||
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||2017-03-01 ||~2018-11-12 ||ae ||<OR> relay ||Another increase in relay users, slower and more sustained than the previous one. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2016-07-01&end=2019-01-01&country=ae&events=off graph] [https://bugs.torproject.org/28898#comment:2 ticket about end] ||
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||2017-04-05 ||2017-04-13 ||il ||<OR> relay ||Sudden increase of direct users in Israel. Bridge users not affected. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-02-22&end=2017-05-23&country=il&events=off relay graph] ||
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||2017-04-17 ||2017-04-23 ||il ||<OR> relay ||Another sudden increase of direct users in Israel. Bridge users not affected. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-02-22&end=2017-05-23&country=il&events=off relay graph] ||
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||2017-04-23 || ||tw ||<OR> relay ||Relay users triple and begin to fluctuate in Taiwan. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2017-May/043206.html tor-talk post] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-02-22&end=2017-05-24&country=tw&events=on graph] ||
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||2017-05-09 ||2017-05-12 ||mo ||<OR> relay ||Sudden temporary peak of 3k direct users in Macau. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2017-May/043206.html tor-talk post] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-02-22&end=2017-05-12&country=mo&events=on graph] ||
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||2017-05-10 || ||eg ||<OR> relay ||Drop in direct users from Egypt. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2017-May/043206.html tor-talk post] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-03-15&end=2017-06-13&country=eg&events=on graph] ||
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||2017-06-07 ||2017-12-14 ||br ||meek ||Sustained increase of meek users in Brazil, similar to the one that took place between 2016-07-21 and 2017-03-03. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-combined.html?start=2016-06-01&end=2018-01-15&country=br graph] ||
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||2017-06-13 || ||ch ||obfs4 ||Increase in obfs4 users in Switzerland, from 200 to 400. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2017-01-01&end=2017-08-14&country=ch bridge graph] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-combined.html?start=2017-01-01&end=2017-08-14&country=ch transport graph] ||
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||2017-06-14 ||2017-07-06 ||ml || ||Sudden increase of direct and bridge users in Mali. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-03-01&end=2017-09-01&country=ml&events=off relay graph] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2017-03-01&end=2017-09-01&country=ml&events=off bridge graph] ||
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||2017-07-01 || ||ae ||<OR> relay ||Sudden drop in relay users. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-01-01&end=2017-09-01&country=ae&events=off graph] ||
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||2017-07-15 ||2017-07-22 ||sc ||<OR> relay ||Increase of relay users in the Seychelles, from 400 to 6000. Bridge users not affected. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-05-16&end=2017-08-14&country=sc&events=off relay graph] ||
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||2017-07-31 ||2017-08-17 ||at ||<OR> relay ||Fluctuations of relay users in Austria. Bridge users not affected. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-05-16&end=2017-09-15&country=at&events=off relay graph] ||
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||2017-07-31 ||2017-08-28 || || ||Directory authorities using 2× bandwidth. ||[https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-August/012389.html mailing list post for start] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-September/012445.html mailing list post for end] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-September/012446.html post suggesting link to nl, ro, lt, sc increases] ||
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||2017-07-31 ||2017-10-07 ||nl ||<OR> relay ||Increase of relay users in the Netherlands, from 50k to 100k. Stopped at the same time as increases in Romania, Lithuania, and the Seychelles. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-07-01&end=2017-10-15&country=nl&events=off relay graph] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-September/012446.html post suggesting link to 2× dirauth bandwidth] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2017-August/000428.html post about start] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2017-October/000502.html post about end] ||
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||2017-07-31 ||2017-10-07 ||ro ||<OR> relay ||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. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-05-16&end=2017-10-15&country=ro&events=off relay graph] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-September/012446.html post suggesting link to 2× dirauth bandwidth] ||
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||2017-08-02 ||2017-10-07 ||lt ||<OR> relay ||Increase of relay users in Lithuania, from 2k to 70k. Stopped at the same time as increases in the Nethernlands, Romania, and the Seychelles. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-07-01&end=2017-10-15&country=lt&events=off relay graph] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-September/012446.html post suggesting link to 2× dirauth bandwidth] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2017-August/000428.html post about start] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2017-October/000502.html post about end] ||
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||2017-08-06 ||2017-10-07 ||sc ||<OR> relay ||Further increase of relay users in the Seychelles, from 5k to 100k. Stopped at the same time as increases in the Netherlands, Romania, and Lithuania. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-07-01&end=2017-10-15&country=sc&events=off relay graph] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-September/012446.html post suggesting link to 2× dirauth bandwidth] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2017-August/000428.html post about start] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2017-October/000502.html post about end] ||
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||2017-08-14 || || ||ipv6 obfs4 ||Jump in IPv6 users of the [https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/D9C805C955CB124D188C0D44F271E9BE57DE2109 Lisbeth] default obfs4 bridge. ||[https://bugs.torproject.org/22429#comment:7 comment] ||
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||2017-08-15 || ||hk ||<OR> relay ||Triple increase in direct Tor users in Hong Kong. Bridge users not affected. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-06-01&end=2017-08-30&country=hk&events=off relay graph] ||
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||2017-08-23 || ||kr ||<OR> relay ||Increase of users in South Korea, relay only. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-06-01&end=2017-12-01&country=kr graph] ||
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||2017-08-27 ||2017-08-29 ||eg tr ||<OR> relay ||Short-lived, simultaneous spike in direct users in Egypt and Turkey. Bridge users not affected. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-07-01&end=2017-09-15&country=eg&events=off eg graph] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-07-01&end=2017-09-15&country=tr&events=off tr graph] ||
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||2017-09-02 ||2017-09-21 || ||obfs4 ||About a 35% increase in obfs4 users before returning to normal. Happened in many countries. Other transports do not have it. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-transport.html?start=2017-07-15&end=2017-11-09&transport=obfs3&transport=obfs4&transport=meek&transport=%3COR%3E graph] ||
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||2017-09-26 ||2017-10-22 ||de ||<OR> relay ||Steady increase of relay users in Germany, from 180k to around 500k. It would increase further starting 2017-12-10. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-08-15&end=2017-12-01&country=de&events=off de graph] [https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/7b53kq/direct_users_from_germany_go_from_200k_to_500k_in/ Reddit thread] [https://bugs.torproject.org/24669 ticket] ||
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||2017-10-07 ||2017-12-20 ||ro ||<OR> relay ||Surge of relay users in Romania, from 10k to around 90k, which later subsided. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-08-09&end=2018-01-15&country=ro&events=off graph] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2017-October/000502.html metrics-team thread] ||
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||2017-10-30 ||2017-11-06 ||zm ||<OR> relay ||Short-lived tripling of relay users in Zambia. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-08-01&end=2017-12-15&country=zm&events=off graph] ||
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||2017-12-10 ||2018-02-01 ||de ||<OR> relay ||Further, slow increase of relay users in Germany, from 500k to over 1.5M. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-11-01&end=2018-01-15&country=de&events=off graph] [https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/7ldrox/tor_usage_in_germany_what_happend/ Reddit thread] [https://bugs.torproject.org/24669 ticket] ||
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||2017-12-12 ||2018-01-10 ||fr ||<OR> relay ||Temporary tripling of relay users in France. Bridges not affected. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-10-01&end=2018-03-01&country=fr&events=off graph] ||
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||2017-12-16 ||2017-12-17 || ||bridge ||Drop in the number of measured bridges. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/networksize.html?start=2017-07-01&end=2018-01-01 graph] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2018-March/000713.html mailing list post] ||
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||2018-02-01 ||2018-02-05 ||ir ||meek ||Drop of meek users in Iran; other transports not affected. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-combined.html?start=2018-01-14&end=2018-03-15&country=ir graph] ||
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||2018-03-05 ||2018-03-08 ||de ||<OR> relay ||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 [https://metrics.torproject.org/torperf.html?start=2017-12-10&end=2018-03-10&source=all&server=onion&filesize=5mb graph]; see this [https://metrics.torproject.org/connbidirect.html graph] as well. More datapoints: DDoS of the network happened [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2017-December/001604.html around the time] that saw an increase in the number of relay users in Germany, see entry above or [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-12-11&end=2017-12-22&country=de&events=off graph]) ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-11-10&end=2018-03-10&country=de&events=off graph] [https://bugs.torproject.org/24669 ticket] ||
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||2018-05-22 ||2018-06-08 ||iq ||obfs4 ||Increase in obfs4 users in Iraq, followed by a slow decrease. No matching change in relay users or other transports. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2018-04-01&end=2018-08-01&country=iq bridge graph] ||
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||2018-05-23 ||ongoing || ||bridge ||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: [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2018-04-01&end=2018-07-01&country=bd Bangladesh] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2018-04-01&end=2018-07-01&country=cl Chile] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2018-04-01&end=2018-07-01&country=id Indonesia] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2018-04-01&end=2018-07-01&country=ma Morocco] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2018-04-01&end=2018-07-01&country=ve Venezuela]. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2018-03-01&end=2018-07-01&country=all&events=off relay graph] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2018-03-01&end=2018-07-01&country=all bridge graph] ||
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||2018-06-10 ||2018-07-11 ||tr ||relay ||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. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2018-05-01&end=2018-09-15&country=tr relay graph] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2018-05-01&end=2018-09-15&country=tr bridge graph] [https://bugs.torproject.org/21014#comment:19 comment] ||
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||2018-07-28 ||ongoing ||tr ||relay ||Another jump of relay users in Turkey, from 5k to about 30k. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2018-05-01&end=2018-09-15&country=tr relay graph] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2018-05-01&end=2018-09-15&country=tr bridge graph] ||
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||2019-02-16 ||ongoing ||by ||relay ||Increase of relay users in Belarus. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2018-07-01&end=2019-06-01&country=by&events=off graph] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2019-May/001064.html mailing list post] ||
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||2019-04-17 || || || ||Tor browser update pings roughly double. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/webstats-tb-platform.html?start=2019-04-01&end=2019-05-01 graph] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2019-May/001053.html metrics-team thread] ||
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||2019-04-27 ||ongoing ||ru ||relay ||Relay users increase by about 100K, in an apparent weekly cycle. Bridge users are not similarly affected. ||[https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2019-03-01&end=2019-06-15&country=ru relay graph] [https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2019-03-01&end=2019-06-15&country=ru bridge graph] [https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2019-June/045221.html tor-talk thread] [https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/bw4byr/surge_in_users/ Reddit thread] ||
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||2019-10-03 ||ongoing || cn ||bridge || New default bridge, 193.11.166.194, is already blocked by the GFW – two days after the [https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-90a7 Tor Browser alpha release] that shipped with it. The block may have happened sooner, though. We only tested the bridge just now. || [https://bugs.torproject.org/31164 new default bridge] || |
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