Georg Koppen:
Hello!
In case it affects you as you are still running your relay or bridge on Tor 0.4.5.x: the 0.4.5 series is going EOL on *2023-02-15* (roughly in 3 weeks from now).
That's currently still 760 relays, which means roughly 7% of the advertised bandwidth of the network
Alright, it's time now to reject the remaining relays on 0.4.5 at least (bridges, due to their scarcity, are allowed a bit longer on 0.4.5). We cut the number down to 344 relays affected, which translates to roughly 2% of the advertised bandwidth of the network. That's still sad but in line with results we had in past EOL rejection rounds.
So, if you see a sharp drop of relays in the network in the next couple of hours then it's likely due to that mass-rejection.
The fingerprints affected are linked to, as usual, from our EOL rejection wiki page.[1]
Thanks,
Georg
[1] Relay EOL policy · Wiki · The Tor Project / Network Health / Team · GitLab