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.
- Windows installer: 0.1.0.11 (sig), 0.1.1.2-alpha (sig). Be sure to read the Win32-specific instructions.
- Mac OS X installer: 0.1.0.11 (sig), 0.1.1.2-alpha (sig). Be sure to read the OS X specific instructions.
- Red Hat Linux package: 0.1.0.11 RPM (sig), 0.1.0.11 SRPM (sig), 0.1.1.2-alpha RPM (sig), 0.1.1.2-alpha SRPM (sig)
- Latest source tarballs: 0.1.0.11 (sig), 0.1.1.2-alpha (sig). You will need libevent. If you are brave enough to try building from source on Windows, you'll need libevent 1.0c or later.
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.
2005-04-23: 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.