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These estimates are derived from the number of directory requests counted on directory authorities and mirrors. Relays resolve client IP addresses to country codes, so that graphs are available for most countries. Furthermore, it is possible to display indications of censorship events as obtained from an anomaly-based censorship-detection system (for more details, see this technical report). For further details check the documentation on Reproducible Metrics. Start date: [2019-01-01] End date: [2023-07-02] Source: [Germany ] Show possible censorship events if available: [Off ] [Update graph] Download graph as PNG or PDF. Download data as CSV. Learn more about the CSV data format or how to reproduce the graph data. Related events The following events have been manually collected in the metrics-timeline Git repository and might be related to the displayed graph. Dates Places/ Description and Links Protocols 2022-02-28 Bridges BridgeDB moves to an rdsys backend. announcement issue 2022-02-18 snowflake Outage of the Snowflake bridge. mailing list post 2022-02-01 Tor 0.3.5 reaches end of life. mailing list post Switched the snowflake bridge from a load-balanced staging server back to the now 2022-01-31 snowflake load-balanced production server. Debugged connection problems until 2022-01-31 19:52:04. issue comment comment Switched the snowflake-server (at the time 2022-01-28 snowflake running on a load-balanced staging server) for a version with CPU profiling. comment Switched the snowflake bridge to a temporary 2022-01-25 snowflake load-balanced staging server. Debugged connection problems until 2022-01-25 18:47:00. issue comment post comment Increased capacity of the mapping to client IP 2022-01-07 snowflake addresses on the snowflake bridge. issue deployment comment 2021-12-29 snowflake Outage of the snowflake bridge. comment alert Rebooted the Snowflake bridge to increase the 2021-12-22 snowflake number of CPUs from 4 to 8. issue Release of Tor Browser 11.5a1, with an altered 2021-12-14 snowflake DTLS fingerprint in Snowflake to counteract blocking in Russia. blog post issue NTC post Release of Tor Browser 11.0.2, containing a new 2021-12-08 obfs4 default obfs4 bridge "deusexmachina". blog post issue 2021-11-17 Run a Tor Bridge campaign, offers rewards for to obfs4 running obfs4 bridges. 2022-02-02 blog post about start blog post about end 2021-11-08 Removal of roughly 600 "KAX17" non-exit relays. mailing list post relay graph article Release of Tor Browser 11.0. Final deprecation 2021-11-08 onion of v2 onion services. blog post deprecation timeline graph 2021-09-22 Experiment to investigate the accuracy of to relays' advertised bandwidth. 2021-10-07 status.torproject.org mailing list post advertised bandwidth graph 2021-08-27 Experiment to investigate the accuracy of to relays' advertised bandwidth. 2021-09-08 status.torproject.org mailing list post advertised bandwidth graph geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "IPFire Project Thu, 12 Aug 2021 05:51:15 GMT" (geoip-db-digest 2021-08-12 ipv4 ipv6 B3A9770171D3060502B7F13C0618BE109B92DF6C, geoip6-db-digest 410B70763FC675B3622264FAA0FC67B78FDE30C2). commit Release of Tor Browser 10.5, first stable 2021-07-06 snowflake release that includes Snowflake. blog post 2021-06-15 snowflake Snowflake bridge down for scheduled upgrade. comment 2021-06-12 Outage of Snowflake bridge. to snowflake issue 2021-06-13 2021-06-10 Experiment to test latencies between relays. to present status.torproject.org post announcing start geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "IPFire Project Thu, 10 Jun 2021 05:17:29 GMT" (geoip-db-digest 2021-06-10 ipv4 ipv6 900E9BD6C8B8679A1539F7F316974E86618038B2, geoip6-db-digest 456BCA0796A27F8C80674EE89B1323F8310BED39). commit Experiment to test the accuracy of relays' 2021-05-17 advertised bandwidth estimation. to status.torproject.org post announcing start 2021-06-05 post announcing end advertised bandwidth graph relay flags graph 2021-05-14 meek The number of meek users temporarily drops to < to Unknown 10. 2021-05-18 graph 2021-05-12 Error in stats collection at the Snowflake to snowflake bridge; user count is erroneously zero. 2021-06-21 merge request comment on start comment on end user count graph geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "IPFire Project Fri, 07 May 2021 05:18:14 GMT" (geoip-db-digest 2021-05-07 ipv4 ipv6 AE864EA783E3776E4950859B5B35F412977F876F, geoip6-db-digest 7008D77E958D919E432AAE7F5C2002B14604FFFE). commit 2021-05-03 snowflake Outage of snowflake bridge. comment geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "IPFire Project Tue, 13 Apr 2021 05:11:07 GMT" (geoip-db-digest 2021-04-13 ipv4 ipv6 D63E30D25E7767178177C53A0248083011B4202A, geoip6-db-digest 891E8F6FBC7973144E335F0D815B5AF6B6DDF74B). commit Release of tor 0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, and 0.4.5.7. 2021-03-16 ipv4 ipv6 Changes the source of geolocation databases from Maxmind to IPFire. blog post announcement ticket commit geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "IPFire Project Fri, 12 Mar 2021 05:05:24 GMT" (geoip-db-digest 2021-03-12 ipv4 ipv6 7EFC262380D93924340A0000DF78EC4DD3BFC0E5, geoip6-db-digest B53EF6F829B6A1B1DD242835B6A23580178FBE13). commit Fire in the OVHcloud data centers located in 2021-03-10 Strasbourg takes about 48 relays offline in AS16276. OVHcloud advisory Twitter thread 2021-03-09 flashproxy Decommissioned flash proxy badge server, flashproxy.bamsoftware.com. Decommissioned flash proxy facilitator: server, 2021-03-08 flashproxy flashproxy-reg-email poller, and flashproxy-reg-appspot app. 2021-03-08 snowflake Outage of the Snowflake bridge. ticket Deployed version 0.5.3 of the Snowflake 2021-01-27 snowflake WebExtension, with improvements to NAT handling. archive ticket comment Release of Tor Browser 10.5a8, which fixes the 2021-01-26 Bridges bug preventing the use of default bridges. blog post issue Release of Tor Browser 10.5a7, which has a bug 2021-01-20 Bridges preventing the use of default bridges. blog post issue issue 2021-01-17 Decrease in measured Snowflake users. May have to snowflake been caused by a drop of NAT-unrestricted 2021-01-21 Unknown proxies. mailing list thread comment Large amounts of traffic at directory authorities disrupts consensus, which causes v3 2021-01-10 onion services to stop working because of a to onion bug. Tor 0.3.5.13, 0.4.3.8, and 0.4.4.7 have a 2021-02-03 fix for the bug. ticket blog post onion service traffic graph Tor blog post Tor Browser blog post status.torproject.org Changed the DNS records for snowflake.freehaven.net and snowflake-broker.bamsoftware.com to be CNAME 2021-01-07 snowflake records for the corresponding torproject.net domains, rather than bamsoftware.com, in order to avoid malware warnings. ticket DDoS attack on Greenhost, where the Snowflake 2020-12-17 broker and bridge and onionperf instances are to snowflake hosted. 2020-12-20 2020-12-17 status 2020-12-20 status anti-censorship-team thread An update to an Azure CDN edge server TLS certificate causes an outage of meek and Moat. 2020-12-05 It is fixed by the release of Tor Browser to meek moat 10.0.6, which updates the built-in public key 2020-12-09 pinning of obfs4proxy. ticket blog post meek graph BridgeDB graph certificate transparency 2020-11-08 Outage of the snowflake bridge to snowflake ticket 2020-11-09 Deployed version 0.4.2 of the Snowflake 2020-10-05 snowflake WebExtension, with better counting of clients. archive comment 2020-08-31 obfs4 Shutdown of default obfs4 bridge frosty. ticket Deployed version 0.4.1 of the Snowflake 2020-08-13 snowflake WebExtension, with NAT type detection in the browser. archive comment Deployed NAT-aware matching at the Snowflake 2020-07-06 snowflake broker. comment Release of Tor Browser 10.0a1, the first 2020-06-02 snowflake release with Snowflake for Android. blog post ticket Release of Tor Browser 9.5a13, the first 2020-05-22 snowflake release with Turbo Tunnel session persistence features for Snowflake. blog post ticket Redeployed the Snowflake bridge with support for non-Turbo Tunnel clients and KCP-Turbo 2020-04-23 snowflake Tunnel clients, removing support for QUIC-Turbo Tunnel clients. comment Made the Snowflake bridge stop reporting client IP addresses of 0.0.0.0. This also affects log 2020-02-22 snowflake messages that report how many client connections had an attached IP address. comment Deployed a Turbo Tunnel-capable Snowflake 2020-02-19 snowflake bridge. comment Outage of the Snowflake bridge caused by memory 2020-02-18 snowflake exhaustion. ticket geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest 2019-12-06 ipv4 ipv6 4974C4F1F6842975999D0774F2636F383312EA2D, geoip6-db-digest 2046D67D7BBE67AFF12E1CEDD9F9083AB5E3DFAC). commit ipv6 Changed DNS to point to the IPv6-enabled 2019-11-14 snowflake Snowflake broker. comment Deployed webext-0.1.0 of the Snowflake proxy 2019-11-14 snowflake (which uses a new proxy-broker protocol) to snowflake.torproject.org. comment Released version 0.1.0 of the Snowflake 2019-11-13 snowflake extension for Firefox and Chrome, using a new proxy-broker protocol. comment Restarted the broker with a new proxy-broker 2019-11-13 snowflake protocol. comment geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "November 6 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest 2019-11-09 ipv4 ipv6 967E4D14ADF0C9439C31FB7B666537A0551C1E6A, geoip6-db-digest BD6E89A28801FA447693EDEC6D47ECCA03B8CD20). commit Version 0.0.13 of the Snowflake extension is released, decreasing the poll frequency to once 2019-10-28 snowflake every 300 s. The standalone proxy-go instances still poll once every 5 s. comment Pointed snowflake-broker.torproject.net (one of three domain names for the Snowflake broker) to a new broker instance set up with IPv6. Metrics 2019-10-17 snowflake unintentionally start being collected from the new instance, instead of the old instance that was still in use. ticket ticket geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "October 1 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest 2019-10-02 ipv4 ipv6 34ABC09019FAB09BA3083B3663EC0B807FC16151, geoip6-db-digest F4D3BEC6294DF7FAEAEE5966CC6706CF91CE9BC4). commit Release of Tor Browser 9.0a7, the first release 2019-10-01 snowflake that has Snowflake for Windows. blog post ticket Experiment to test the accuracy of relays' 2019-08-06 advertised bandwidth estimation. to description of experiment post announcing start 2019-08-09 post announcing end advertised bandwidth graph relay flags graph The Snowflake proxy hosted at snowflake.torproject.org is updated, changing 2019-07-27 snowflake domains from bamsoftware.com to freehaven.net in order to work around the Google Safe Browsing block. comment Version 0.0.7 of the Snowflake extension for Chrome is released, changing domains from 2019-07-27 snowflake bamsoftware.com to freehaven.net in order to work around the Google Safe Browsing block. comment flashproxy Cupcake 2.0 is released, now working with 2019-07-26 snowflake Snowflake rather than flash proxy. Chrome Web Store page Version 0.0.8 of the Snowflake extension for Firefox is released, changing domains from 2019-07-26 snowflake bamsoftware.com to freehaven.net in order to work around the Google Safe Browsing block. comment The broker domain name snowflake-broker.bamsoftware.com is blocked by 2019-07-23 snowflake Google Safe Browsing, preventing the Snowflake web browser extension from working. ticket comment noting decrease in proxies The Snowflake web browser extension for Chrome 2019-07-03 snowflake is published. comment The Snowflake web browser extension for Firefox 2019-06-26 snowflake is published. comment A call to set up new obfs4 bridges is posted to 2019-06-20 obfs4 the tor-relays mailing list. mailing list thread thread continues geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest 2019-06-11 ipv4 ipv6 A131E1F283F4AD307248B03A70B0413E81ADF2A4, geoip6-db-digest 0EFF3EE1E22927EC9A77BFFAFD703F3A5B32FA79). commit Failure of network equipment at site of op-ab 2019-05-28 OnionPerf instance (equipment now replaced) onionperf timeouts graph Release of Tor Browser 9.0a1, removes support 2019-05-22 fte for FTE. blog post ticket geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest 2019-05-17 ipv4 ipv6 35DFDA2D06D2A0467EF37D60A67B438B11952B74, geoip6-db-digest C0193A1D086819353FABBF70AADB15866B7B2525). commit Network equipment failure at site of op-ab 2019-04-29 OnionPerf instance performance graph 2019-04-17 Unknown Tor browser update pings roughly double. graph metrics-team thread Outage of Snowflake fallback proxy-go 2019-04-16 snowflake instances, caused by a failure to restart after segregating old logs. ticket geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest 2019-04-03 ipv4 ipv6 62A97D4DEBF76A5CE5C232B95BBF05B191EB8AAA, geoip6-db-digest 66620E57A8427C53D6084B3229807DC320CDC3D0). commit Outage of the Snowflake broker, caused by a 2019-03-22 snowflake full disk. ticket geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "March 4 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest 2019-03-06 ipv4 ipv6 5B90C2F06292D8237A5C77E27ED4ABABF4AE0684, geoip6-db-digest E971FCA4A89F6C685928FF9371D1BF7A2484F4CA). commit geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest 2019-02-12 ipv4 ipv6 DDAA25B4425EAA45EE8E92A6531CD3246C8E989A, geoip6-db-digest 0368FA722D90026E60BD60A26F615791A7A53D21). commit Disabled the 3 proxy-go instances that were 2019-02-07 snowflake pointing at the former broker hosted on App Engine. comment Release of tor 0.3.5.7, 0.3.4.10, and 0.3.3.11. 2019-01-07 Bridges Fixes the bug, present since 0.3.5.1-alpha/ 0.3.4.1-alpha, of idle bridges being unuseful. comment ticket blog post ticket geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest 2019-01-07 ipv4 ipv6 2B8A70B399CF8B471289A4DB52947DE965D8DE5F, geoip6-db-digest FEA33E6F398DF67252F41DDD3D010E69B33D544E). commit 2018-07-20 onion The number of v2 onion services increases from to Unknown 70k to 100k. 2019-05-02 comment (c) 2009-2023 The Tor Project Contact This material is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. CNS-0959138. 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