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[tor-dev] Re: Upcoming C-tor security release - 0.4.9.12



On Thu, Sep 03, 2026 at 09:11:01AM -0400, David Goulet via tor-dev wrote:
> Greetings everyone!
> 
> Next Tuesday, September 8th, we will do a C-tor release (0.4.9.12) containing
> fixes for a set of high severity issues.
> 
> And then, as a heads up, C-tor will likely enter a release cadence every 2-3
> weeks for the foreseeable coming month(s) as we continue to fix more and more
> security issues we received from this new reality that we happen to all be in
> where LLMs are in an echo chamber stuck in a tight loop over our C code ;).

Hey David,

Is the 2-3 week cadence a permanent change? If so, that might pose a
problem for operating system vendors with slow package building
servers. For example, it usually takes 2-4 weeks to build the
HardenedBSD package repositories. (4 weeks if starting the build from
scratch, 2-ish weeks for the average incremental build.)

And then there's the matter of deploying the updated versions in our
infrastructure. A lot of work between building packages and deploying
them in our own infrastructure.

As a resource-constrained downstream, I'm not entirely sure if we can
keep up with that kind of cadence. I'm hoping it's just temporary
while security issues get triaged and worked through.

Thanks,

-- 
Shawn Webb
Cofounder / Security Engineer
HardenedBSD

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