Arti is our ongoing project to create a next-generationTor implementation in Rust.We're happy to announce the latest release, Arti 1.6.0.Arti 1.6.0 brings experimental support for circuit padding,mitigations for DropMark side channel attacks,improvements to congestion control,a new arti keys check-integrity command,and experimental support for exporting debugging information via OpenTelemetry.It also includes behind-the-scenes work towards enabling Arti to act as a directory authority, a directory mirror, and a relay.Arti 1.6.0 increases our MSRV (Minimum Supported Rust Version)to 1.85.1, in accordance with our MSRV policy.For full details on what we've done, including API changes, and for informationabout many more minor and less visible changes, please see theCHANGELOG.For more information on using Arti, see our top-level README, and thedocumentation for the arti binary.Thanks to everybody who's contributed to this release, including5225225, Aiden McClelland, disha, hashcatHitman, hjrgrn, Niel Duysters,Tobias Pulls, Tobias Stoeckmann, and trinity-1686a.Also, our deep thanks to our sponsors for funding the development of Arti! announcements releases