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 0.1.0.11, and the latest development release is 0.1.1.2-alpha. Tor should run on Linux, BSD, OS X, Windows, 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: apt-get install tor (guide for Sarge and experimental Tor versions)

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.


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

2005-06-28: Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha has a revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather than binary.


Stable releases

2005-06-30: Tor 0.1.0.11 fixes a security problem where servers would disregard their exit policies in some circumstances.

2005-06-12: Tor 0.1.0.10 features cleanup on Windows, including making NT services work; many performance improvements, including libevent to use poll/epoll/kqueue when available, and pthreads and better buffer management to avoid so much memory bloat; better performance and reliability for hidden services; automated self-reachability testing by servers; http and https proxy support for clients; and much more support for the Tor controller protocol.

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.

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