Wasabi Wallet - Total Privacy For Bitcoin

[Kruw]

That's insane. So it means not only do users have to update their Tor Browsers (which was never really a problem since the browser auto-updates itself), but every onionsite, relay and headless connector have to manually update to or compile a new Tor version. What was the reason for the mandatory upgrade? Surely, it must have been some vulnerability?

There was no vulnerability announced (yet), here is the thread where Tor contributors discussed the rollout plan: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/team/-/work_items/460

[satscraper]

Surely, it must have been some vulnerability?

Not really. This is simply because Tor is in the final stage of its multi-year migration path from the C Tor codebase to new codebase^{called Arti}, which was clearly explained in their June ^23rd release. So Wasabi must follow this path in order not to lose connectivity to the network.