Relay Families are Tor’s way of grouping together relays run by the same operator,
providing security and operational transparency.
But the current 20-year-old design bloats directory info
and becomes a maintenance headache as families grow.
Tor 0.4.9 (currently in alpha) introduces cryptographic family certificates
to help save up to 50% of the bandwidth cost for
initial connections to the Tor network.
Here's how it works, and what you can do to speed up the transition.
Tor Browser 14.5 is now available, introducing Connection Assist to Android for the first time, and including the Belarusian, Bulgarian and Portuguese (Portugal) languages for all platforms.
Today, we are releasing 6.14.1 instead of 6.14 because we discovered an
important issue while testing 6.14 on Tuesday and had to start the release
process again to fix it.