[tor-relays] Happy Family Roadmap for ansible-relayor/CIISS/OrNetStats

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Hi,

since David mentiond that there will be the first tor 0.4.9 stable release this week
and ahf also mentioned [1] ansible-relayor in the context of the MyFamily successor Happy Family
I want to give you a short roadmap in the context of relayor/CIISS/OrNetStats:

* first stable tor 0.4.9.x release (likely in the coming days)
* after tor 0.4.9 reaches deb.torproject.org and FreeBSD packages:
  * ansible-relayor will require tor version >= 0.4.9 and enable Happy Family by default in addition to MyFamily
* after the first tor browser release with tor 0.4.9 for all platforms:
  * MyFamily support will be removed from ansible-relayor
* CIISS version 3 is released: MyFamily is replaced with the Happy Family system
  * operators will have to update their proofs
* we wait for happy family support in onionoo [2]
* OrNetStats will implement and verify proofs according to CIISS version 3

[1] Upcoming Stabilization of Tor 0.4.9.x - tor-relays - lists.torproject.org
[2] add FamilyIDs to details document (#40051) · Issues · The Tor Project / Network Health / Metrics / Onionoo · GitLab

kind regards,
nusenu

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Very nice, thank you. Hopefully, this will make the transition go even snappier.

Cheers,
Alex

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On 11/02/2026 00.18, nusenu via tor-relays wrote:

* first stable tor 0.4.9.x release (likely in the coming days)
* after tor 0.4.9 reaches deb.torproject.org and FreeBSD packages:
  * ansible-relayor will require tor version >= 0.4.9 and enable Happy Family by default in addition to MyFamily

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* after the first tor browser release with tor 0.4.9 for all platforms:
* MyFamily support will be removed from ansible-relayor

I also filed this related issue so tor client versions that do not support the Happy Family design
and are at risk because some relay operators are to large for MyFamily get a warning in their logs:

* Stop recommending tor client versions that do not support Happy Families

* we wait for happy family support in onionoo [2]
[2] add FamilyIDs to details document (#40051) · Issues · The Tor Project / Network Health / Metrics / Onionoo · GitLab

Hiro, do you have an ETA for this, now that dir auths have done their part?

kind regards,
nusenu

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