Hi everyone!
Here comes the April report for the Tor Browser team (a bit late this time, but hey!). In that month we got Tor Browser 8.5a11[1] out which above all contains improvements for Tor Browser for Android stabilizing the alpha release and preparing for the first mobile stable one.
Unfortunately we did not manage to get Tor Browser 8.5 out in April, thus this will happen in May. However, we made progress on a number of other fronts: We got up to speed on our Sponsor 27 tasks and started investigating different options for reporting onion service errors back from tor to the browser[2][3] and we started to work on Snowflake integration into the mobile Tor Browser[4]. Both sponsor work will keep parts of the team busy in May as well. Moreover, we started to plan our upcoming Firefox 68 ESR transition work.
The full list of tickets closed by the Tor Browser team in April is accessible using the `TorBrowserTeam201904` keyword in our bug tracker.[5]
In May we'll finally release Tor Browser 8.5. That will not only be the first stable release for Android users but will have restored full accessibility support for Windows users, too[6]. Moreover, we hope as well to finish our Snowflake integration on Android to have additional capacity to work on the first big tasks for the Firefox 68 ESR transition: toolchain updates for all supported platforms[7] and rebasing our patches and upstreaming them if possible[8].
All tickets on our radar for this month can be seen with the `TorBrowserTeam201905` keyword in our bug tracker.[9]
Georg
[1] https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-85a11 [2] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/14389 [3] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/30382 [4] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/28672 [5] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=closed&keywords=~T... [6] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27503 [7] See: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/30320 and child tickets [8] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/30429 [9] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=!closed&keywords=~...