Sebastian Hahn via tor-relays:
On 1. Jun 2026, at 20:19, nusenu via tor-relays <tor-relays@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi, relayor v26.2.0 is released. https://github.com/nusenu/ansible-relayor/releases/tag/v26.2.0 This release marks the end of "MyFamily" support in relayor. Since all supported tor versions support the Happy Family design there is no reason to continue supporting the old "MyFamily" method to declare relay families. relayor is an ansible role that helps you with automating tor relay operations https://github.com/nusenu/ansible-relayor#main-benefits-for-a-tor-relay-operator Changes since v26.1.0: - remove MyFamily support: The last tor version that required MyFamily (0.4.8.x) in addition to Happy Family support reached end-of-life on 2026-06-01 - use absolute filter name to fix error "No filter named 'ipaddr'" kind regards, nusenuHi nusenu, I am not a fan of breaking security for clients not running the latest supported release, while those clients continue to work on the network. I have started a discussion among dirauth operators on how to deal with relays who are actively harming outdated clients like that. I appreciate your eagerness to push forward, but would argue the harm caused by removing MyFamily across the board is greater than keeping it around for some time. There are already network team plans to break compatibility with an update which would actually mean old clients refuse to function, which IMO is much better than breaking security silently.
To add to that: there is a transition process as always when a Tor version goes EOL. We've been done that several times in the past and that should not be anything new. Moreover, as Sebastian indicated, we have this time a hard break for 0.4.8.x clients as well, which is publicly documented in Gitlab[1] and scheduled for 2026-09-01. By then 0.4.8.x relays will likely be blocked from the network as well. Thus, supporting MyFamily until then seems like a good choice to me to avoid at least confusion among relay operators, in particular as we link to your tool and talk about setting up MyFamily in the post-install section of our community portal.[2]
I'd suggest you reconsider just pulling the plug. Georg [1] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/team/-/work_items/460 [2] https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/post-install/
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