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Arti 1.6.0 released: Circuit padding, side-channel attack mitigations, OpenTelemetry, and more.

Started by LibertyExchange · Oct 8, 2025

#3563
Arti 1.6.0 has released with a major security fix.

If you're using it, update and rebuild.

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gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/tree/arti-v1.6.0


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eweiibe6tdjsdprb4px6rqrzzcsi22m4koia44kc5pcjr7nec2rlxyad.onion/tpo/core/arti/-/tree/arti-v1.6.0


Breaking changes

  • Arti now requires Rust 1.85.1 or later.


!! Security fixes !!


Arti now requires tracing-subscriber v0.3.20 due to upstream security issue RUSTSEC-2025-0055.
It is unlikely that this would have been exploitable in Arti running with the default configuration, but a detailed analysis was not performed.


Major features

  • Arti now includes experimental circuit padding support, based on the maybenot library (this defense will help resist traffic and protocol fingerprinting attacks).
  • Arti now has mitigations for DropMark side-channel attacks for flow control (enabled with the flowctl-cc feature flag).
  • Arti now has a "arti keys check-integrity command" to check the validity of stored keys.
  • Arti now has experimental support for exporting debugging information via OpenTelemetry.