tor v3.x in xenial?

Question

just saw the latest posts on the torproject blog, i see tor v3.x is out, but after running apt-get update there isn't a tor update?

> apt-cache policy tor
tor:
  Installed: 0.2.9.10-1~xenial+1
  Candidate: 0.2.9.10-1~xenial+1
  Version table:
 *** 0.2.9.10-1~xenial+1 1001
       1001 tor+http://sdscoq7snqtznauu.onion/torproject.org xenial/main amd64 Packages
    100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.2.7.6-1ubuntu1 500
    500 tor+http://xx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages

when i view the repo in the browser i can see there was an update on the 26th:

http://sdscoq7snqtznauu.onion/torproject.org/dists/xenial/main/

am i missing something? why isn't v3 an update candidate?

Answer 1

As I understand it:

• 0.2.9.10 is the current stable release and will be what remains in stable releases.
• 0.3.x is the new stable and will be what it is included in the next stable Debian release (stretch) when it moves from testing to stable.

I wouldn't expect to see it hit Ubuntu or Debian repos until strech becomes stable and jessie becomes oldstable.