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Tor 0 2 8 6 released with major update

Tor 0 2 8 6 released with major update Tor 0.2.8.6 has been released and it comes with a large number of improvements, changes and fixes. Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series. The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance, completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance improvements throughout the program. This release continues to improve the coverage of Tors test suite. Tor 0.2.8.6 Changelog New system requirements: Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t" type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no longer runs with, these versions. Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 o...