Tor: Packages and source
Tor is distributed as Free Software under the 3-clause BSD license.
You can get the latest release from the download directory. The latest stable release is 0.1.0.14, and the latest development release is 0.1.1.5-alpha. To keep informed of security advisories and new stable releases, subscribe to the or-announce mailing list:
Tor should run on Linux, BSD, OS X, Windows, Solaris, and more.
- Windows installer: 0.1.0.14 (sig), 0.1.1.5-alpha (sig). Be sure to read the Win32 Tor instructions.
- Mac OS X installer: 0.1.0.14 (sig), 0.1.1.5-alpha (sig). Be sure to read the OS X Tor instructions.
- Debian packages: apt-get install tor (guide for Sarge and experimental Tor versions)
- Red Hat Linux package: 0.1.0.14 RPM (sig), 0.1.0.14 SRPM (sig), 0.1.1.5-alpha RPM (sig), 0.1.1.5-alpha SRPM (sig)
- Gentoo: emerge tor (guide)
- FreeBSD: portinstall -s security/tor
- OpenBSD: cd /usr/ports/net/tor && make && make install (guide to chrooting)
- NetBSD: cd /usr/pkgsrc/net/tor && make install
- Latest source tarballs: 0.1.0.14 (sig), 0.1.1.5-alpha (sig)
Instructions for setting up Tor on Linux/BSD/Unix are here. This FAQ entry explains how to verify package signatures.
See the developers page for instructions on fetching Tor from CVS.
Mirrors
If you are running a mirror, please email tor-webmaster@freehaven.net and we'll add it to the list.
Ghirai.com (http)
Meulie.net (http)
Stevens Institute of Technology (ftp)
Swedish Linux Society (ftp
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Testing releases
2005-08-08: Tor 0.1.1.5-alpha includes the critical security fix from 0.1.0.14.
2005-08-04: Tor 0.1.1.4-alpha includes the critical security fix from 0.1.0.13.
2005-07-25: Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha fixes a crash bug with hidden services, an assert trigger in the controller, and a few other controller bugs.
2005-07-14: Tor 0.1.1.2-alpha fixes a seg fault in the controller handling, plus a few other bugs.
2005-06-28: Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha has a revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather than binary.
Stable releases
2005-08-08: Tor 0.1.0.14 fixes the second half of a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes. All clients should upgrade immediately!
2005-08-04: Tor 0.1.0.13 fixes a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
2005-07-18: Tor 0.1.0.12 fixes an assert bug that was taking down some clients and servers in rare cases.
2005-06-30: Tor 0.1.0.11 fixes a security problem where servers would disregard their exit policies in some circumstances.
2005-04-23: Tor 0.0.9.10 has backports for some important security bugs. It is available for people who can't upgrade to Tor 0.1.0.x yet.
You can read the ChangeLog for more details.