[graphical gui] Whonix Setup Wizard / Anon Connection Wizard - Technical Discussion

Patrick Schleizer:

iry:

The first released tor version with %include feature is
0.3.1.1-alpha. When adding a %include line to /etc/tor/torrc but
the Tor version is below it, Tor will stop working, which is a severe
issue.

I have no idea when 0.3.1.1-alpha will become stable (and did not
find any document on Tor life cycles) . Therefore, if
0.3.1.1-alpha still not become stable when Whonix14 is released,
there are two ways to prevent anon-connection-wizard to add
%include line to /etc/tor/torrc:

  1. Just do not include anon-connection-wizard into Whonix14 until
    the feature is included into stable Tor; 2. merge this commit:

temporarily disable &include line feature in /etc/tor/torrc · irykoon/anon-connection-wizard@cf30fb1 · GitHub

What do you think, @Patrick ?

It’s not a single line change.

It needs all of this probably.

Adds torrc.d directory support · Jigsaw52/debian-tor@da6af2d · GitHub

When we get close to Whonix 14 release, I think it would be better to
forward port what Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha does.

Since there is a lot work left until Whonix 14, I guess chances are we
are in time for 0.3.1.1 getting stable (or we’ll add the beta or even
alpha if that isn’t too crazy)
Hi @Patrick !

Thank you for your answer!

I have found the core Tor
release

wiki page, which indicates that Tor 0.3.1 stable will be released Sep
5th. I guess there is no need to worry about this problem anymore.

Lesson I learned: If there is no document of a project available on a
search engine, always check documents on the official site carefully
before assuming it is not documented. :slight_smile:

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