Arti 0.0.3 is released: Configuration, predictive circuits, and more!
Arti is our ongoing project to create a working embeddable Tor client in Rust. It’s nowhere near ready to replace the main Tor implementation in C, but we believe that it’s the future.
We're working towards our 0.1.0 milestone in early March, where our main current priorities are stabilizing our APIs, and resolving issues that prevent integration. We're planning to do releases every month or so until we get to that milestone.
Our biggest API change is that we've completely revamped our configuration system to allow changing configuration values from Rust, while the TorClient instance is running.
In the background, we've also implemented a system for “preemptive circuit construction.” Based on which ports you've used in the recent past, it predicts which circuits you'll likely need in the future, and constructs them in advance to lower your circuit latency.
There are also a bunch of smaller features, bugfixes, and infrastructure improvements; see the changelog for a more complete list.
