[tor-qa] Tor Browser 4.5-alpha-1 is ready for testing

[Georg Koppen]

Sherief Alaa:
> 
> 
> On 11/04/2014 02:01 PM, Georg Koppen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> we are happy to announce the first alpha in the 4.5 series. It contains
>> a bunch of new things most notably the isolation of browser streams by
>> URL bar domain, the obfs4 pluggable transport, a tor based on the 0.2.6
>> series, 64bit only OS X bundles, a first implementation of the security
>> slider and a backport of the certificate pinning functionality.
>> Furthermore, it includes updates, bugfixes and minor new features. The
>> bundles can be found at:
>>
>> https://people.torproject.org/~mikeperry/builds/4.5-alpha-1/
>>
>> a signed SHA256 sums file is in
>>
>> https://people.torproject.org/~gk/builds/4.5-alpha-1/
>>
>> Feedback and bug reports are greatly appreciated.
>>
>> The full changelog is:
>>
>> Tor Browser 4.5-alpha-1 -- Nov 3 2014
>>  * All Platforms
>>    * Bug 3455: Patch Firefox SOCKS and proxy filters to allow user+pass
>> isolation
>>    * Bug 11955: Backport HTTPS Certificate Pinning patches from Firefox 32
>>    * Bug 13019: Make JS engine use English locale if a pref is set by
>> Torbutton
>>    * Bug 13301: Prevent extensions incompatibility error after upgrades
>>    * Bug 13460: Fix MSVC compilation issue
>>    * Update Tor to 0.2.6.0-alpha
>>    * Update NoScript to 2.6.9.3
>>    * Update Torbutton to 1.8.0.1
>>      * Bug 9387: Provide a "Security Slider" for vulnerability surface
>> reduction
>>      * Bug 13019: Synchronize locale spoofing pref with our Firefox patch
>>      * Bug 3455: Use SOCKS user+pass to isolate all requests from the
>> same url domain
>>      * Bug 8641: Create browser UI to indicate current tab's Tor circuit IPs
>>      * Bug 13651: Prevent circuit-status related UI hang.
>>    * Bug 13586: Make meek use TLS session tickets (to look like stock
>> Firefox).
>>    * Include obfs4proxy pluggable transport
>>  * Windows
>>    * Bug 13443: Re-enable DirectShow; fix crash with mingw patch.
>>    * Bug 13091: Make app name "Tor Browser" instead of "Tor"
>>  * Mac
>>    * Bug 10138: Switch to 64bit builds for MacOS
>>
>> Georg
>>
> 
> Here's my initial testing results:
> 1) #8641 seems to be disabled, correct?

No. When I am clicking on the Torbutton icon the circuit is shown for
the respective site.

> 2) Because #9387's strings aren't translated yet, the whole Prefrences
> window is filled with an error (I checked the Arabic version - it will
> likely be the same for all untranslated languages).
> 3) When using the security slider at "High" it doesn't change of
> NoScript's icon nor its menu selection options giving the user false
> information about the current configuration of the addon.

Hmm.. seems we need some reloading here. Opening a new tab is changing
the icon.

Georg


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