Onion v2 Deprecated (Question)

[ayeinls]

Hello, when I trim my onion address from 54 characters to 16 I cannot access them from tor browser anymore, it says connection timed out, I read this article https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline
and it seems that pretty soon v2 onion address won't be supported.
Is it a problem for onioncat?
My goal is to access my hidden service from an ipv6 on the "Clearnet", using onioncat as a gateway is it possible?
Thank you for your answers.

[rahra]

Onioncat supports V3 as well although it is not so neat as with V2.
Please read this article, it explains HOWTO V3:
https://www.onioncat.org/2019/08/onioncat-and-tor-hidden-services-v3/

[rahra]

I finally "released" OnionCat4 which comes with major improvements in respect to HSv3.
Read this article for details:
https://github.com/rahra/onioncat/blob/master/doc/INTRO_TO_ONIONCAT4.txt