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 development release is 0.1.0.9-rc, and the latest stable release is 0.0.9.9. Tor should run on Linux, BSD, OS X, Win32, Solaris, and more.

General instructions for installing and configuring Tor are here. This FAQ entry explains how to verify package signatures.

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 (sid) and testing (etch) Debian packages. If you are running stable (sarge) or oldstable (woody), you must first add these lines to /etc/apt/sources.list:

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:

Then issue the following commands:

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

or just

$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install tor

depending on which of those lines you added.

Packages for architectures other than i386 can be built from the sources above quite easily. Pester weasel if he hasn't documented it yet.

A guide to chrooting is available in the Wiki.

FreeBSD: ports are obsolete, please install from source.

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.

Mirrors

If you are running a mirror please email tor-webmaster@freehaven.net and we'll add it to the list.

Swedish Linux Society (ftp | http)
Meulie.net (http)

Testing releases

2005-06-09: Tor 0.1.0.9-rc fixes some memory bloating, disables threads on Solaris, and includes some important security fixes for Win32.

2005-05-23: Tor 0.1.0.8-rc makes Tor no longer induce kernel panics on OS X 10.3.9, disables threading on OpenBSD, and fixes other odds and ends.

2005-05-17: Tor 0.1.0.7-rc fixes an install problem with OS X on Tiger, and finds and links and runs libevent much better on weird platforms.

2005-05-14: Tor 0.1.0.6-rc fixes the last known major bugs: we don't use threading on netbsd now, and the new libevent detects and disables the broken kqueue that ships with OS X 10.4.0.

2005-04-27: Tor 0.1.0.5-rc has a few stability fixes (in particular, libevent 1.0d has a serious crash bug, so now we incorporate libevent 1.0e), add https authenticator support, and some performance improvements.

2005-04-23: Tor 0.1.0.4-rc fixes some more stability problems, including a bug that's been taking down a lot of servers suddenly.

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

2005-04-23: Tor 0.0.9.9 has a fix for an assert trigger that happens when servers get weird TLS certs from clients.

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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