Hi all :)
This is my monthly status report for May 2024 with the main relevant
activities I have done during the period.
## 0. Research
* Onion Plan:
* Lots of discussions during the Lisbon in-person meeting. Notes still being compiled.
## 1. Development
* Oniongroove:
* Released version 0.0.2:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/oniongroove/-/blob/main/do…
* Onionspray Log Parser:
* Released version v2.1.0:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onionspray-log-parser/-/bl…
## 2. Support
* Ongoing sponsored work with deployment, maintenance and monitoring of Onion
Services.
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Silvio Rhatto
pronouns he/him
Hi everyone!
Here is my status report for May 2024.
This month, Firefox 128, which will be the base of our 14.0, reached
nightly.
Therefore, we're releasing 13.5 soon (with the 115.12 ESR update unless
we find some last-minute problems) and then moving all our efforts to
the ESR transition.
So, in the past month, I partially worked on finishing some details for
the 13.5. The rest of the time, I continued uplifting our patches and
rebasing our patchset on Firefox's rapid release to ease the transition.
For the 13.5, I finished the work on the Mullvad Browser Windows
installer I started at the end of April [0]. We wanted to make the
installation UX as short as possible. Only one click: you confirm you
want to install the browser, and that's it 😄️. But if you want, you can
still customize the installation options.
When doing so, I discovered the welcome and the finish page of NSIS
installers are written with the Modern UI 2 tools you would also use for
custom pages. This made the task easier and less hacky, and the final
result is identical to what users are familiar with.
I also started implementing a localization pipeline that will be used by
Tor Browser's installer as well.
Then, I worked on Android localization. When we evaluated whether we
needed to enable multi-lingual GeckoView builds [1], we didn't realize
they were also required by the formatting APIs [2]. So, in practice, TBA
supported only formatting in en-US. Enabling multi-lingual builds solved
this issue.
We also noticed that region data was still leaked. Therefore, I wrote a
patch to make the Accepted-Language HTTP header match exactly the tag of
the active translation (when not using spoof English) [3].
As for the uplifting work, I finally managed to land a patch [4] I wrote
when we were moving from 91 to 102 🎉️. In addition, with the help of
Firefox devtools developers, I implemented some tests and uplifted the
patch not to persist the data about custom requests done in PBM [5].
This patch was initially developed by cypherpunks1, as well as the patch
to add the missing origin attributes to the reader mode [6] that I also
uplifted.
The patch for the placeholders of the datetime-local input [7] hasn't
landed yet, but at least I found why the tests were failing, and I
provided a new revision. I'm waiting for another review from upstream.
For the ESR rebases, I started a branch based on 127 and the branches
based on 128, even though it's still nightly.
I also started writing some reviewing guides (which gave me an
opportunity for additional self-reviews).
I found a very nice tool called "aha" [8] that converts ANSI escape
sequences to HTML. I'm using it to create HTML versions of range-diff,
on top of which I'm writing reports on why I needed to adapt our patches.
Finally, I did some of the usual maintenance and help for this month's
releases.
Cheers,
Pier
[0]
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/mullvad-browser/-/issues/200
[1]
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/4…
[2]
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/42552
[3]
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/42562
[4] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1787790
[5] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1892052
[6] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1892046
[7] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1880108
[8] https://github.com/theZiz/aha
