(Earlier reply has somehow vanished...)
On Mon, 08 Jan 2018 00:49:16 +0000, teor wrote: ...
When there are multiple supported tor versions, which one should be stable? At the moment, we support 0.2.5 and 0.2.9 as long-term support, and 0.3.0 and 0.3.1 as regular releases.
The newest/highest, probably. Essentially the one also proclaimed as stable on the source download page.
Should stable be 0.3.1 (and change to 0.3.2 next week)?
Yes.
Do you want a long-term support branch as well?
No. I just need one version to build a relay.
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If you want something that's easier to scrape, and signed, check for new source releases at:
Scraping would be a fallback.
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$ curl http://197.231.221.211:9030/tor/status-vote/current/consensus-microdesc | grep server-versions | tr "," "\n" | tail -1 0.3.2.8-rc
Basically current would be the highest non-rc on the list, and alpha would be the -rc (or current if no -rc present).
Andreas