_{“When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.” -Futurama}

After five years Nyx (previously known as arm) has gotten a long belated update. Under the covers our whole codebase has been rewritten from the ground up, but for users changes are subtle…

• New website
• Python 3.x support.
• Bandwidth graph now prepopulates when you start up, so you have a graph right away.
• Connections are now available without toggling DisableDebuggerAttachment in your torrc.
• Support for showing IPv6 connections.
• Dialog for picking tor events to log, rather than an arcane letter flag input.
• Improved efficiency of log deduplication by multiple orders of magnitude. As such verbose logs no longer peg your CPU.
• Richer control interpreter, including a python prompt like IDLE.
• Removed features that frequently confused users such as the relay setup wizard and torrc validation.
• Modernized dependencies, replacing TorCtl with Stem.

Hand-in-hand with Nyx I’m also pleased to announce Stem 1.6! A full year of improvements including descriptor creation support, ed25519 certificates, sizable performance tuning, and much, much more.

So how do I get started?

It’s easy! Just configure tor to accept a controller…

% cat ~/.tor/torrc
ControlPort 9051
CookieAuthentication 1

… install Nyx…

% sudo pip install nyx

… and run!

% nyx