Re: [tor-dev] [tor-talk] heartbleed: ETA for tor release(s) that blacklist affected directory authority keys? (#11464)

[Nick Mathewson <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:28 AM, anonym <anonym@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 21/04/14 12:27, Nusenu wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> the code to blacklist heartbleed affected tor directory authority keys
>> has been merged about a week ago [1].
>>
>> Do you have an ETA on when you are going to release it (tor and TBB
>> packages)?
>
> As the release manager for the Tails 1.0 release I'm also interested in
> an ETA for this. Ideally the Tails image intended for the 1.0 release
> will be built on 2014-04-27 (so this is when we'll truly freeze the
> version of Tor), and released two days later. We Tails developers would
> find it sad if its core piece of software becomes out-dated immediately
> or even just shortly after that.
>
> Nick (or any one else in the loop), do you have any idea of timings for
> the next stable Tor release?

My goal is to get out a new alpha with the blacklist this week, and an
0.2.4 release by the end of the month.

This is a goal; I don't know if I'm going to be able to make it, and I
can't make mpromises there.

If you like, it could be entirely reasonable to backport the code in
question; the relevant commits are:

50ad3939242885b1a1a11688abd0c9756631747f
46cf63bb42f2818201bc0c39036f2c17e210fcdb
2ce0750d21d04c39a5a948b3d96203d8f68ae7ad
ef3d7f2f97caf961effd7935dd3231e6bba62ca5

best wishes,
-- 
Nick
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