Tor 0.2.8.7 Addresses an Important Bug Related to the ReachableAddresses Option

The Tor Project, through Nick Mathewson, is pleased to inform the Tor community about the release and general availability of yet another maintenance update to the Tor 0.2.8 stable series.

Tor 0.2.8.7 comes exactly twenty days after the release of Tor 0.2.8.6 to address an important issue that has been recently discovered in the ReachableAddresses option. Additionally, Tor 0.2.8.7 is retire the deprecated "Tonga" bridge authority and replace it with the much modern "Bifroest" bridge authority.

"Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting," says Nick Mathewson in the