On Tuesday, May 10, 2022 4:55:57 PM CEST Ladar Levison via tor-relays wrote:
Anyone know when the EPEL TOR packages will updated? The EL 8 repos only offer 0.4.5.11. EL 9 is only a little newer with RPMs for TOR 0.4.6.8. Fedora 35 and 36 (with the latter launching today) have only been updated to 0.4.6.9. As of now, it appears that only Fedora 37 has been updated to 0.4.7.7.
I don't know the philosophy of Fedora/EPEL (CentOS/RHEL). In general, no configuration-breaking software is installed on productive systems. With debian, once the release is frozen and stable, there are _no_ upgrades. This is the main reason for the stable archive! There are only updates, security updates in the 'stable main' archive Some new features are offered in backports if they don't break configs of stable packages. There are very few upgrades (virus scanners and timezone data) in stable-updates, formerly volatile.
Therefore, Tor upgrades with new features must be installed from the Tor project repro. EPEL (CentOS/RHEL) may have a similar policy and you must grab packages from the Tor project if you want to upgrade.