|2023-12-08||||Release of tor 0.4.8.10. Fixes TROVE-2023-007 affecting exit relays with Conflux. Fixes the bug that caused incorrect counting of pluggable transport users.|[announcement](https://forum.torproject.org/t/security-release-0-4-8-10/10536)||
|2023-11-21 04:15:16|||snowflake|Restarted the snowflake-02 bridge for a performance enhancement.|[comment](https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/154#note_2967886)||
|2023-11-21 04:10:46|||snowflake|Restarted the snowflake-01 bridge for a performance enhancement.|[comment](https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/154#note_2967886)||
|2023-11-16|||relay|Removal of about 1,000 "ATOR" relays.|[blog post](https://blog.torproject.org/tor-network-community-health-update/)[blog post](https://kubieziel.de/blog/archives/1697-Tor-entfernt-1000-Server-aus-dem-Netz.html) [graph](https://metrics.torproject.org/networksize.html?start=2023-10-15&end=2023-12-15)||
|2023-09-19|2023-09-25|az||Blocking of Google Play Store in Azerbaijan.|[tweet](https://twitter.com/OpenObservatory/status/1704475063867642269)||
|2023-09-04|2023-09-09|us|relay|Unexplained spike in relay users from the US.|[issue](https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/analysis/-/issues/62)|X|
|2023-08-27 17:45:33|2023-08-30 12:30:14||snowflake|Outage of the snowflake-02 bridge caused by a temporary network disconnection at the network host. Client polls at the broker increase and traffic is diverted to snowflake-01.|[mailing list post](https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2023-September/000311.html)[article](https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/teaching-learning/2023/08/30/university-michigan-halts-internet-during-first) [status page](https://web.archive.org/web/20230905230409/https://umich.edu/announcements/)||
|2023-08-23|ongoing||bridge|Release of tor 0.4.8.4, with new Conflux and anti-DoS proof-of-work features. A bug causes misattribution of about half of pluggable transport users to the plain Tor protocol in bridges that upgrade to this version.|[issue](https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/issues/40871)[issue](https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/metrics/website/-/issues/40102#note_2953006)||
|2023-08-23|2023-12-08||bridge|A bug in tor 0.4.8.4 causes misattribution of about half of pluggable transport users to the plain Tor protocol in bridges that upgrade to this version. The bug is fixed in tor 0.4.8.10.|[issue](https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/issues/40871)[issue](https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/metrics/website/-/issues/40102#note_2953006) [merge request](https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/merge_requests/776)||
|2023-08-23||||Release of tor 0.4.8.4, with new Conflux and anti-DoS proof-of-work features.|[announcement](https://forum.torproject.org/t/stable-release-0-4-8-4/8884)||
|2023-08-08|ongoing|jo||Blocking of Grindr in Jordan.|[OONI report](https://ooni.org/post/2023-jordan-blocks-grindr/)||
|2023-08-05|ongoing|iq||Blocking of Telegram in Iraq.|[Kentik report](https://www.kentik.com/blog/iraq-blocks-telegram-leaks-blackhole-bgp-routes/)||
|2023-08-03||tm|meek snowflake|Make meek the first choice in Connection Assist for Turkmenistan, and changed the meek front domain.|[merge request](https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys-admin/-/merge_requests/16)||