Hi,

We have released new versions of collector, onionoo and the metrics website this week. You might have noticed the changes already if you use these systems (changelog below).

In collector we stopped sanitizing contact info for bridges (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/metrics/collector/-/issues/20983).

In onionoo and the website you will notice some bridges might have a new parameter, called blocklist.

Some context: bridgedb has a mechanism to not distribute certain bridges in certain country/location. If we find a bridge has been blocked in a country we can use this mechanism to not distribute it in that location. We are now exposing this information in the bridge page on relay-search.

The blocklist is also exposed in the bridge-pool-assignments, as:

02l463ff20f55qyddec130419b7t3y98de0f7c18 https transport=obfs4 ip=4 blocklist=ru

If some or any of your bridges do not have the blocklist parameter this means your bridge is not being blocked, i.e. is being served to all locations.

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/metrics/collector/-/issues/40019

Changelog

Collector version 1.18.2 - 2022-03-31

* Medium changes

- Stop sanitizing contact info for bridges.

Source: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/metrics/collector/-/tags/collector-1.18.2

Archive: https://dist.torproject.org/collector/1.18.2/

Onionoo version 8.3-1.30.0 - 2022-03-31

* Medium changes:

- Add support for the blocklist param in the bridge poll assignment from

bridgedb.

* Minor changes: