Reject relays running Tor 0.4.7.x
Similar to previous tickets (e.g. #40480 (closed), #40559 (closed), #40664 (closed) and #40760 (closed)) tor should reject EOL versions of tor at the directory authority level.
According to my understanding of https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/team/-/wikis/NetworkTeam/SupportPolicy#types-of-releases (as read 2023-12-03T18:00 UTC), the tor version 0.4.7.x
shall be considered End of Life (EOL)
three months after the version 0.4.8.x
was released or when the Tor Browser upgraded to this new stable release.
- Tor version 0.4.8 was made stable on August 16th, 2023 according to https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/team/-/wikis/NetworkTeam/CoreTorReleases, which is now more than three months ago.
- The stable Tor Browser upgraded to use Tor version 0.4.8 back in October, according to https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-130/.
Therefor it is now about time to start work to deprecate the EOL tor version 0.4.7.x (and update the wiki page for CoreTorReleases).