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Re: [tor-dev] Onion Service v2 Deprecation Timeline



Roger Dingledine:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 12:34:17PM -0400, David Goulet wrote:
>>   1) September 15th, 2020
>>      0.4.4.x: Tor will start warning onion service operators and clients that
>>               v2 is deprecated and will be obsolete in version 0.4.6
> 
> Thanks David. "Late 2020" is also a good timeframe for Tor Browser to
> learn how to warn users when they visit a v2 onion service.
> 
> That is, we can't just change the underlying Tor proxy program to write
> warnings in a log file. We need to improve the user flow for popular
> Tor-using apps, starting with Tor Browser and maybe continuing to other
> common Tor-using apps we appreciate such as Brave.
> 
> I recognize that the Tor Browser dev team has their hands full with
> keeping up with Mozilla's changes while trying to improve things for
> mobile while having not enough funded developers for those tasks. All
> the more reason to highlight this need early, and to do as much of the
> supporting design/planning/strategy work as we can in other teams like
> the UX team.

I just Created

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40001

(via email, yes, you don't need to click around anymore in a GUI to do
this kind of thing ;)).

Georg

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