On 10/31/14 11:48 PM, Mike Perry wrote:
Hey everyone,
I think it is probably most wise to release 4.0.1 without an in-browser update or update notification, or at best, only an update for Windows users.
If we do want to update only the Windows users, what's the best way to do that? Is it even a good idea, given that we're aware that it may actually break things for some of them due to https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/13594?
Right now, I am thinking the circumstances mean "no update" for this reason, but if anyone disagrees, feel free to say so.
Unfortunately 13594 is a bit of an unknown as far as how many Windows users are affected. Kathy and I tried to come up with a fix over the past couple of days, but we ran out of time.
The only thing that is confusing about not advertising an update is that people may wonder why they are not able to update to the latest version (4.0.1) from within the browser. But we have dealt with that problem in the past with Tor Browser non-security critical updates.
To avoid advertising an update, I think we will need to tweak the .htaccess file that boklm's script generates.