Tor integration in Whonix

Development
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See updating documentation:

(Whonix is based on Kicksecure.)

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[tor-announce] Tor stable release 0.4.5.16 and 0.4.7.13

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Above is now in the stable-proposed-updates and testers repository.

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In Debian 12 bookworm, Whonix can switch

  • from: the currently used “Versions are downloaded from deb.torproject.org, verified to work, and then migrated to deb.whonix.org”
  • to: “Use the Tor LTS version from the official Debian package repository: packages.debian.org.”

This is because while The Tor Project is working on Arti, no major new releases for the old C programming language based Tor package are to be expected.

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This is now in the stable repository.

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[FAILED] to start Anonymizing overlay network for TCP - Tor fails to start a few times before succeeding to start

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Whonix 17 (Debian bookworm based) will switch back to acquire Tor from the usual packages.debian.org.

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1. Use the Tor LTS version from the official Debian package repository: packages.debian.org

Updated Tor integration in Whonix ™ Development Notes chapter Tor Version in Whonix wiki just now.

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ship systemd-tmpfiles /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tor.conf to fix permission issues

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3 posts were merged into an existing topic: Do Whonix users stand out without Conflux?

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Tor 0.4.8.9-1~d12.bookworm+1 (from deb.torproject.org) is now in the Whonix 17 testers repository.

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Just testers? Looks like it’s available to all channels now or do you mean something else?

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Tor 0.4.8.9-1~d12.bookworm+1 (from deb.torproject.org ) is now in all Whonix 17 repositories.

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Unfortunately the vanguards bug was not fixed.

~~ Do Whonix users stand out without Conflux? - #13 by Patrick ~~

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Reverted as per:

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4 posts were split to a new topic: Tor version 0.4.7.16 in Whonix 17 is now considered obsolete. Any action required?

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Just now got upgraded by debian:

[workstation user ~]% apt policy tor    
tor:
  Installed: 0.4.8.10-1~bpo12+1
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That is backports. You can see all versions here.

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=tor

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yep, so users of whonix will get this upgrade becaue BP repo is enabled by default.

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Nope. Packages from backports are only installed if explicitly requested by using -t --target-release. Otherwise would be a too much with many backports updates all the time.

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