🔵 Time to update: Tor Browser 11.0.13 is now available. This release brings congestion control to stable. You asked for a faster Tor—now, it's here! You should see significant browsing and download speed improvements in Tor Browser 11.0.13.
Congestion control eliminates the speed limit of current Tor and reduces latency by minimizing queue lengths at relays. Congestion control brings significant performance improvements and increased utilization of our network capacity. Learn more: https://blog.torproject.org/congestion-contrl-047/
@torproject This is excellent news! These changes seem to elicit some pretty dramatic network capacity improvements.
Lower latency and higher Tor bandwidth could lead to increased adoption so it will be interesting to see how the Tor network changes in the long term due to these improvements.