Once most exit nodes are upgraded to the new version 0.4.7, the Tor Project will release a new stable version of the Tor Browser with congestion control accordingly, and users should be able to experience the performance improvements. In addition, users of the Brave browser, which supports Tor, should also benefit from this improvement.

On March 18, the Tor Project's official blog published an article, "Tor in the News in 2021", summarizing news coverage of Tor in 2021. "ODN" has reprinted the article below.

In its announcement, Tor officials thanked the cryptocurrency community for its strong support and said that through donations, Tor has made great strides to successfully deal with the Russian blockade and is also playing an important role in improving cryptocurrency privacy.

U.S.-based Tor Project and Russian digital rights protection group RosKomSvoboda will appeal the recent decision to block their main website, TorProject.org, as well as key nodes, in court in Russia.

In 2022 the Tor Project will improve the Tor daemon code, improve congestion control on the Tor network, further improve the user experience, and will also work to improve the experience for mobile users.

The Tor Project has announced that it will offer hoodies, T-shirts and stickers to encourage Tor relay maintainers to get the number of bridge servers back up.

Since updating to Tor 0.4.6.8, the v2 Onion service is no longer available in the Tor Browser and users will receive an "Invalid Onion Site Address" error.

Updates to Tor Browser version 10.5 focus on improving the process for users when they first connect to Tor, as well as making Tor launch automatically by removing the Tor Launcher UI and relying on a better UI embedded in the browser's home screen to provide visual feedback for subsequent use.

In October 2021, we will release new Tor client stable versions for all supported series that will disable v2.

The funding will go toward developer salaries as they develop Arti.