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V2 Onion Services deprecation →

v2 Onion Services

If you are an onion site administrator, you must upgrade to v3 onion services as soon as possible.

As we announced last year, v2 onion services will be deprecated and obsolete in Tor 0.4.6.x. As of April 2021, Tor Browser Alpha uses this version of Tor and v2 addresses no longer work in this and future versions of Tor Browser Alpha.

When Tor Browser stable moves to Tor 0.4.6.x in October 2021, v2 onion addresses will be completely unreachable.

Why are we deprecating v2 onion services? Safety.…


Tor Network   (?) Core services that are integral to the Tor Network.
v3 Onion Services   (?) Third generation onion services – running private services (e.g. websites) that are only accessible through the Tor network. Operational
v2 Onion Services   (?) Second generation onion services – running private services (e.g. websites) that are only accessible through the Tor network. Maintenance
Directory Authorities   (?) Special-purpose relays that maintain a list of currently-running relays and periodically publish a consensus together. Operational
Network Experiments   (?) Experiments running on the Tor network. Active
Tor Project websites   (?) Official websites and services hosted and maintained by the Tor Project.
torproject.org   (?) Our official website and its associated portals (e.g. community.torproject.org). Operational
Tor Check   (?) The check.torproject.org website, used to confirm you're connected to the Tor Network. Operational
metrics.torproject.org   (?) The metrics.torproject.org website, used to easily access metrics related to Tor. Operational
Internal systems   (?) Tools and services that help us collaborate with one another, managed by the Tor Project System Administration Team (TPA).
GitLab   (?) Our code-review, bug tracking, and collaboration platform of choice (gitlab.torproject.org). Operational
Gitolite   (?) An access control layer on top of git, used to provide read/write access. Operational
Email   (?) General email delivery from within the Tor Project. Operational
Mailing lists   (?) Our public and private mailing lists (lists.torproject.org) powered by Mailman, the GNU Mailing List Manager. Operational

Incident history


2021 (4)

June 3, 2021 at 8:00 AM

Disruption of Metrics website and relay search

Resolved after 272h 0m of downtime
May 6, 2021 at 4:45 PM

V2 Onion Services deprecation

◆ This issue is not resolved yet
January 27, 2021 at 11:00 PM

Disruption of v3 onion services and consensus building

Resolved after 30h 30m of downtime
January 25, 2021 at 9:40 PM

Email delivery problems to Google

Resolved in under a minute