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 0.0.9.8, and the latest testing release is 0.1.0.3-rc. Tor should run on Linux, BSD, OS X, Win32, Solaris, and more.

General instructions for installing and configuring Tor are here.

See the developers page for instructions on fetching Tor from CVS.

Old releases are here.

Debian packages have been uploaded to the set of official unstable Debian packages. If you are running stable (woody) or testing (sarge), you must first add these lines to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://mirror.noreply.org/pub/tor stable main
deb-src http://mirror.noreply.org/pub/tor stable main

To install the packages, issue the following commands:

$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install tor

Packages for the development version of Tor are available as well. To install these, add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://mirror.noreply.org/pub/tor experimental main
deb-src http://mirror.noreply.org/pub/tor experimental main

Then issue the following commands:

$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install -t experimental tor

Packages for architectures other than i386 can be added on demand.

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

Gentoo: emerge tor (guide)

Other packages for other platforms are rumored to exist. If somebody sends details, we'll put links here.

Testing releases

2005-04-08: Tor 0.1.0.3-rc makes some performance improvements, makes Tor tolerate more clock skew, and fixes a bunch more bugs.

2005-04-01: Tor 0.1.0.2-rc makes reachability detection work better, and fixes some other problems.

2005-03-28: Tor 0.1.0.1-rc incorporates automatic reachability testing for servers (the first step to getting rid of the 'verified servers' notion), uses pthreads if available to reduce server memory footprint, uses libevent so we can use better polling interfaces when available, handles slow/busy hidden services better, supports https proxies for clients, and fleshes out our controller interface. It also fixes a bunch of minor but annoying bugs.

Stable releases

2005-04-07: Tor 0.0.9.8 has a workaround for a rare bug (reported by Alex de Joode) that makes servers stop processing new circuits.

2005-04-01: Tor 0.0.9.7 fixes another server race crash bug, and also fixes a bug where we would refuse to extend to an unknown server.

2005-03-24: Tor 0.0.9.6 fixes yet more server stability problems.

2005-02-22: Tor 0.0.9.5 fixes an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail, and cleans up a few other bugs.

2005-02-03: Tor 0.0.9.4 fixes a server bug that took down most of the network. It also makes us more robust to running out of file descriptors.

2005-01-21: Tor 0.0.9.3 improves cpu usage, works better when the network was offline and you try to use Tor, and makes hidden services less unbearable.

2005-01-04: Tor 0.0.9.2 fixes many more bugs.

2004-12-16: Tor 0.0.9.1 fixes a few minor bugs in 0.0.9.

2004-12-12: Tor 0.0.9 adds a win32 installer, better circuit building algorithms, bandwidth accounting and hibernation, more efficient directory fetching, and support for a separate Tor GUI controller program (once somebody writes one).

2004-10-14: Tor 0.0.8.1 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and has several other stability improvements.

2004-08-25: Tor 0.0.8 adds directory caching, on-demand connecting from ORs to ORs, bandwidth tracking, picks routers by bandwidth, handles firewalls better, handles dynamic IPs for servers, makes use of unverified servers in some path positions, and fixes many bugs.

You can read the ChangeLog for more details.

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