Hi friends,

Here's what the anti-censorship team has accomplished in February 2020:

Snowflake =========

* Did a trial deployment of Tor Browser with Snowflake and Turbo Tunnel. This branch of development enables Snowflake to work for a long time, by migrating across temporary proxies. https://bugs.torproject.org/33336 https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2020-February/045499.html One known major usability bug remains: https://bugs.torproject.org/33519

* Update webextension and webpage with new translations.

* Debugged some pion library performance issues. https://bugs.torproject.org/33211

* Worked on a throughput check for Snowflake proxies. https://bugs.torproject.org/32938

GetTor ======

* Fixed broken localisation for some locales. https://bugs.torproject.org/33002

* Fixed the email rate-limiter and delete old requests. https://bugs.torproject.org/33123

* Added database tests for GetTor and fixed the database handling code. https://bugs.torproject.org/33191

* Worked on fix to ignore quoted help text in GetTor emails. https://bugs.torproject.org/33343

BridgeDB ========

* We finally finished porting BridgeDB to Python 3.

* Did another analysis round to better understand how our new CAPTCHAs affected users: https://bugs.torproject.org/24607#comment:17

* Updated BridgeDB's documentation. https://bugs.torproject.org/31427

* Made some progress towards an easier-to-understand email response. https://bugs.torproject.org/30941

* Retired obfs3, ScrambleSuit, and FTE from BridgeDB. https://bugs.torproject.org/33299

* Refactored a Python script that will help us test BridgeDB's email distributor using Nagios. https://bugs.torproject.org/12802

Miscellaneous =============

* Created a preliminary process for the distribution of private bridges to NGOs. https://bugs.torproject.org/31872

* Fixed a synchronisation issue in bridgestrap and wrote unit tests for it.

* Made some progress towards building docker images for architectures other than amd64. https://bugs.torproject.org/33088

* Started using Debian "slim" to reduce the size of our obfs4 docker image. The size went from approximately 120 MB to 70 MB. https://bugs.torproject.org/32860

* Created a pull request that adds our latest default bridges to OONI. https://github.com/ooni/sysadmin/pull/424 https://github.com/ooni/spec/pull/177

Outreach ========

* Wrote a blog post introducing BridgeDB version 0.9.3. https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-bridgedb-093

* Wrapped up our bridge campaign retrospective. https://bugs.torproject.org/33007