Re: [tor-relays] Ext Relay Operators: Please Upgrade to 0.4.7.7!

On Wednesday, May 4, 2022 11:31:05 PM CEST Mike Perry wrote:

Tor 0.4.7.7-stable contains a very important performance improvement, called Congestion Control.

You can read more about this improvement here: https://blog.torproject.org/congestion-contrl-047/

The TL;DR is that users of Tor 0.4.7 will experience faster performance when using Exits or Onion Services that have upgraded to 0.4.7.

Is that why the advertised bandwidth jumps well over 100 MB for some relays? On April 25, for some, it went up steeply. Some have even overtaken XOR, the fastest exit so far. Or is a bwauth on steroid? https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/flag:exit%20

by the way: Buster also has a kernel upgrade. Upgrade Tor and reboot go well together.