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## What is the status of Arti today?
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As of mid-June 2021: Arti ready for developers to play around with, but it is
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not yet ready for general use. Arti can run as a simple Tor client and
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send anonymized traffic over the network; it has no support for running as a
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relay or for using onion services.
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As of March 2022: Arti is ready for experimental use by developers
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interesting in embedding Tor support in their projects. Arti can run as
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a simple Tor client and send anonymized traffic over the network, but it
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has no support for running as a relay or for using onion services.
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Before Arti is ready for production use, we need to make sure that it
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has all the important security features from the C Tor implementation; we
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need to improve its performance; and we need to improve its APIs based
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on user requirements. We hope to have this done for our
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[our 1.0.0 milestone](https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/milestones/8#tab-issues) in September 2022.
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(After that, our 1.1 milestone will focus on anticensorship work,
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and 1.2 will focus on support for onion services.)
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## Should I use Arti?
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As of mid-October 2021: only if you are interested in helping us find bugs!
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As of March 2022: You should only use Arti as a client if you are
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interesting in helping us experiment and find bugs.
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If you are interested in shipping Arti as part of your own application,
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you should start experimenting with it _now_, so that you can let us
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know what features and APIs are missing for you, and we have a chance to
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add them.
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## Will Arti replace the C Tor implementation?
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Eventually, yes. But it will take a _lot_ of work.
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We plan to maintain and support the C Tor implementation until Arti is a
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viable replacement for the vast majority of use cases. We estimate that
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this will take us several more years, at the least. Even then, we plan
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to continue supporting the C Tor implementation for some while, to give
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people time to switch.
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