Hi everyone! Here is my status report for April 2023.

At the beginning of the month, Mullvad Browser was released 🎉️! So, I answered several technical questions about it and reviewed some of the issues we received. I also solved some quick ones. Also, I rebased both Tor Browser and Mullvad Browser to 102.10esr and created the first 12.5 alpha branch for Mullvad Browser. I was the second builder for Tor Browser 12.5a5, which made us find another DMG reproducibility problem [0]. A merge request to fix it is pending review.

Another task was continuing with some Torbutton refactors. I want to move the code out of the big legacy commit and refactor it. I created a first merge request that targets the first 13.0 branch for the changes on the domain isolator/new circuit button [1]. However, I am pausing the refactor to focus again on upstreaming patches [2]. In a week, Firefox 115 is going to Nightly, and we are starting the ESR rebase for 13.0. This will give us two additional months to work on it, for a total of 5 months before 102 goes EOL. I think I will spend this month on this.

Finally, last week I was at the Costa Rica in-person meeting [3].

Best, Pier

[0] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/41737 [1] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/merge_requests/... [2] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40789 [3] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/team/-/wikis/2023-Tor-Meeting-Costa-Rica-W...