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Nina’s Monthly Status Report, July 2024
by Nina 01 Aug '24

01 Aug '24

Hello! Below is my July’24 report! In July, I resolved 587 tickets: On Telegram (@TorProjectSupportBot) - 427 On RT (frontdesk@tpo) - 145 On WhatsApp (+447421000612) - 13 and on Signal (+17787431312) - 2. My main focus is to help Russian-speaking users get access to Tor. To do that I: 1. Share bridges and instructions. 2. Collect feedback. 3. Help with troubleshooting. 4. Monitor censorship events in the Central Asiacountries [1]. The increased internet censorship in Russia, in particular, the throttling of YouTube [2], led to an increase in the number of tickets at the end of the month. I continue to collect information on the bug with Tor Browser for Android (TBA) not working on Samsung devices [3]. In July'2024, Apple fulfilled the Roskomnadzor request to ban some VPN apps from the AppStore[4]. To prepare for their further actions, I checked the alternative ways to get and install Tor Browser for Android using F-Droid. I wrote updated instructions on how to do that. That helped to find an issue with Tor Browser for Android marked as an "anti-feature" app on the F-Droid app catalog[5] and how this make censored users life more difficult to get TBA. Also, I checked the sideloading options for iOS and Onion Browser, which are very difficult for regular users to follow. Also, I continue to reviewRussian translationsin weblate, which often helps to improve our user documentation[6]. [1] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/iss… [2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-25/youtube-throttled-in-rus… [3]https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/42714 [4] https://therecord.media/apple-app-store-russia-vpns [5] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/41161#n… [6] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/manual/-/issues/173 Thanks!

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PieroV's Monthly Status Report, July 2024
by Pier Angelo Vendrame 01 Aug '24

01 Aug '24

Hi everyone! Here is my status report for July 2024. I worked almost exclusively on the ESR transition also this month. I reviewed the rebased patchset more deeply to find potential runtime and logic errors caused by upstream changes or similar problems [0]. For example, upstream worked a lot on search engines, and the patch we had for providing our custom default selection broke as a result, and we had to re-implement it. Then, before the 14.0a1 release, I rebased Tor Browser and Mullvad Browser onto 128.0. After that, I switched to audits. During every ESR transition, we check all the bugs Mozilla closed to see if some need particular attention [1]. Until last year, this work was carried out only by a person. This year, we decided to spread it to all the team and have multiple persons review each Firefox version. I was assigned Firefox 116 to 119, and so far, I've reviewed 119+118 and started 117. Apart from that, I worked on the usual maintenance tasks: I rebased the 13.5 series onto 115.13.0esr for 13.5.1 at the beginning of the month, and yesterday, I rebased onto 115.14.0esr and 128.1.0esr for 13.5.2 and 14.0a2, respectively. Finally, I worked on sunsetting Windows 7 support on 14.0 [2], and I updated our pipeline to fetch Firefox's translations after they were moved to GitHub [3], as this blocked 13.5.1. Cheers, Pier [0] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/42616 [1] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/42757 [2] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/4… [3] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/4…

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