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

For most of the month, I kept working on the connection assist for Android. I wrote some quick styling for about:torconnect to make it appear like the native UI we are still implementing. I also wrote a gating mechanism Claire used to write an opt-in UI for the latest TBA alpha. While working on this, I also found that the Onion Location setting wasn't persisted [0], and I wrote a fix. All this work went into the 13.5a3 alpha. Richard wrote a great blog post [1] with more information about that.

In addition to that, I worked on quicker tasks, such as: - Preparing the 13.0.7 releases and rebasing the alpha branches. - Resizing all the wordmarks to the same size to address fingerprintability of nightly vs. alpha [2]. - Enabling GeckoDriver on all desktop platforms and including it in the released artifacts [3]. - Using LLD on all Linux platforms, re-enabling debug symbols for Linux i686 [4], and improving the format of our debug symbol archives [5]. - Use Go 1.20 on Windows to restore Windows 7 compatibility on pluggable transports [6].

Best, Pier

[0] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/42324 [1] https://blog.torproject.org/new-alpha-release-tor-browser-135a3/ [2] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/42319 [3] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/42337 [4] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/42146 [5] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/41... [6] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/42179