Tor 0.2.9 Is Just Around the Corner as 0.2.8.10 Fixes Memory Leak in OpenSSL 1.1

The past weekend also brought in new stable and development builds of the Tor anonymity network project, versioned 0.2.8.10, as the most advanced version out there, and 0.2.9.6 RC (Release Candidate).

While the Tor 0.2.8.10 maintenance update is here to fix a couple of major bugs discovered on the Tor 0.2.8.1 Alpha build, which had an impact on client's reliability and performance across all supported platforms, it also adds workarounds for a memory leak with the OpenSSL 1.1 library when attempting to encode public keys, and a bug in the macOS Sierra 10.12 SDK.

"When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would potentially wait a very long time," reads the release notes. "Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately when they arrive,...