Ubuntu bionic LTS freezes this month and currently contains Tor 0.3.2.x
Their release schedule says that it will be a 5 year LTS, so supported until April 2023: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases
Bionic is on track to include Tor 0.3.2.10: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic/+source/tor
But Tor 0.3.2.x is scheduled to end-of-life in late 2018: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/CoreTorReleases#Listofreleases
So we are on track for 4.5 years of sadness for ubuntu users.
I see three possible paths forward:
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Inform Ubuntu but accept that they will stick to Tor 0.3.2, and plan to just have a miserable passive-aggressive existence with Ubuntu users for the coming years. :(
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Ask Ubuntu to switch back to Tor 0.2.9 (our LTS), which will be supported through the end of 2019. It is plausible that we would opt to continue supporting 0.2.9 for a while more after that too, depending on when our next LTS appears. (I believe our plan is to choose our next LTS based on Debian's schedule.)
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Make a deal with Ubuntu where they ship either 0.3.2 or 0.2.9 for now, but when our next LTS appears, they'll update to it. In the past we tried such a thing and it didn't go as smoothly as either side would have liked, but that doesn't mean the idea itself is a bad one.
I think we should work towards achieving option 2 or option 3, since option 1 would be unfortunate.