Hi everyone!
2019 started with two releases for the Tor Browser team, Tor Browser 8.0.5[1] and 8.5a7[2]. Both contain security fixes to Firefox and ship updated Tor versions (0.3.5.7 and 0.4.0.1-alpha, respectively).
The alpha release, moreover, contains our new logo for the alpha channel (thanks to Antonela and Richard for driving this!) and a number of fixes to crashes noticed in previous releases.[3][4][5]
Apart from working on those releases we moved forward with our work on the next Tor Browser for Android milestone, TBA-a3. All tickets tracked for this task can be found under the `TBA-a3` keyword.[6] For the desktop side we made further progress in our security settings redesign[7] and started to move to a new toolchain for Windows, which is now clang-based[8].
The full list of tickets closed by the Tor Browser team in January is accessible using the `TorBrowserTeam201901` keyword in our bug tracker.[9]
In February we plan to release another alpha containing in partiulcar the latest improvements for mobile users and to start addressing the remaining blockers for a Tor Browser 8.5 stable release. We'll work further on our toolchain improvements (the mingw-w64/clang-based toolchain and building 32bit Linux bundles on 64bit machines[10]) and on our Tor Launcher and Torbutton integration into the browser code itself.[11][12]
All tickets on our radar for this month can be seen with the `TorBrowserTeam201902` keyword in our bug tracker.[13]
Georg
[1] https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-805 [2] https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-85a7 [3] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/28705 [4] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27531 [5] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/28874 [6] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=!closed&keywords=~... [7] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25658 [8] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/28716 [9] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=closed&keywords=~T... [10] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26323 [11] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/28044 [12] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10760 [13] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=accepted&status=as...