This is a new release of Orbot for Android 5.1 and lower, that has removed the required new permissions requested (along with the access to the advanced new HS hosting features). For Android 6+, these permissions are only requested when they are needed, and can be blocked by the user.
More discussion of this is posted here: https://lists.mayfirst.org/pipermail/guardian-dev/2017-June/005284.html
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two flavors: SDK16-22 with minimal permissions (no HS hosting features), and SDK23+ with runtime permission request for HS features
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updates to Tor 0.3.0.8 with important fix for Hidden Services TROVE-2017-004 bug:
https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/ChangeLog?id=d2839eeac95e7c6a3ba6944e27f4c28860f4a74d#n11 -
CHANGELOG Is here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/n8fr8/orbot/df29aaad8d281f9d6d7c08eff4486b43a11f1a44/CHANGELOG