Hi!

September was the month of the releases for the Tor Browser team. As said in our previous monthly report we got our Tor Browser 8.0[1], Tor Browser 8.5a1[2], and Tor Browser for Android 1.0a1[3] out. However, then we needed to pick up 2 security releases done by Mozilla which resulted in Tor Browser 8.0.1[4], Tor Browser 8.0.2[5], Tor Browser 8.5a2[6], and Tor Browser 8.5a3[7].

Apart from closing security holes in Firefox, with the release of Tor Browser 8.0.1 and 8.5a2 we took the opportunity to fix the most pressing issues encountered during our Tor Browser 8.0 rollout. Those included a crash during start-up on older macOS systems (10.9.x)[8] and a suboptimal solution to our user agent treatment[9]. Remaining issues are still tracked with the `tbb-8.0-issues` keyword.[10]

Tor Browser 8.0.2 and 8.5a3 only closed Firefox security holes.[11] This was the first time we needed to do security releases during a dev meeting which was... exciting. Many thanks to boklm who did the heavy-lifting here.

Besides working on those releases we nailed down our future plans towards a stable Tor Browser for Android[12], prepared our dev meeting and met face to face in Mexico.

The full list of tickets closed by the Tor Browser team in September is accessible using the `TorBrowserTeam201809` keyword in our bug tracker.[13]

For October we plan to finish our roadmap for the coming 6 months[14] and try to make solid progress towards our second alpha release for Tor Browser for Android, which is plan in early November. At the end of October another round of desktop releases is planned to pick up the latest batch of Firefox security patches and more fixes for Tor Browser 8 related issues.

All tickets on our radar for this month can be seen with the `TorBrowserTeam201810` keyword in our bug tracker.[15]

Georg

[1] https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-80 [2] https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-85a1 [3] https://blog.torproject.org/new-alpha-release-tor-browser-android [4] https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-801 [5] https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-802 [6] https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-85a2 [7] https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-85a3 [8] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27482 [9] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26146 [10] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=accepted&status=as... [11] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-24/ [12] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tbb-dev/2018-September/000910.html [13] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=closed&keywords=~T... [14] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tbb-dev/2018-October/000916.html [15] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=accepted&status=as...