December 2013 - tor-qa - lists.torproject.org

TBB 3.5.1 available
by Mike Perry 28 Dec '13

28 Dec '13

The changelog for this is fairly small, but we did enable accessibility support (screen readers, etc for vision impared) for Windows. Testing of these features on Windows is especially useful for this reason: https://people.torproject.org/~mikeperry/builds/3.5.1/ Changelog: * All Platforms * Bug 10447: Remove SocksListenAddress to allow multiple socks ports. * Bug 10464: Remove addons.mozilla.org from NoScript whitelist * Update Torbutton to 1.6.5.3 * Bug 9486: Clear NoScript Temporary Permissions on New Identity * Update Tor to 0.2.4.20 * Windows * Bug 9259: Enable Accessibility support in Firefox build -- Mike Perry

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Vidalia standalone bundles for testing (TBB 3.x "mod")
by Erinn Clark 19 Dec '13

19 Dec '13

Hi everyone! We are accelerating the stable release of the TBB 3.x series because Firefox 17 ESR is no longer supported. In order to do this we need to make sure we have some standalone Vidalia bundles that people can plug in so they are not too disoriented by the change. A lot of us have been using the 3.x series for a while, but plenty of people have not, and we don't want to upset them. I have spent the evening trying to get together a functional batch. I have the first pass available, with some known problems. Linux is able to display the relay map and show your hops, but I haven't been able to make it work on Windows or OSX yet. I would appreciate anyone figuring out what that issue might be, but I will also look into it more tomorrow. I assume it is not finding the geoip file correctly. Here's how to test these: 1. Download 2. Extract *into your TBB 3.x directory*. This is important. They may work outside of it, but it depends a lot on your system libs. I am sure they will work *in* it and that is how they are "designed" right now (though longer-term that will not be the case). If they work outside of your TBB 3.x directory that is merely surprisingly good news. (But try it anyway, for fun.) 3. Run the start vidalia script. On Windows, this is Start Vidalia.exe. On OSX and Linux it is start-vidalia.sh. 4. Let me know what happens! Packages: https://people.torproject.org/~erinn/qa/vidalia-standalone-1/ sha256sums: https://people.torproject.org/~erinn/qa/vidalia-standalone-1/sha256sums-vid… Turnaround: Let's try to make this a relatively active discussion in the next day or so; I know everyone is antsy to get 3.x stable, but there is still much to do to make the release happen smoothly. If you want to submit patches to me, my repo thus far (it is a MESS but it is also almost 3am; forgive me, git gods) is here: https://gitweb.torproject.org/erinn/torbrowser.git/shortlog/refs/heads/main… or: git clone -b maint-2.4 https://git.torproject.org/erinn/torbrowser.git Thanks everyone! Erinn

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TBB 3.5 build3 ready
by Mike Perry 18 Dec '13

18 Dec '13

Please test it at: https://people.torproject.org/~mikeperry/builds/3.5/ Not much has changed since 3.5rc1 a few days ago. Just a couple updates to Torbutton and Tor Launcher: * All Platforms * Update Tor to 0.2.4.19 * Update Tor Launcher to 0.2.4.2 * Bug 10382: Fix a Tor Launcher hang on TBB exit * Update Torbutton to 1.6.5.2 * Misc: Switch update download URL back to download-easy -- Mike Perry

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Re: [tor-qa] Vidalia standalone bundles for testing (TBB 3.x "mod")
by matt＠pagan.io 17 Dec '13

17 Dec '13

> Hi everyone! > > We are accelerating the stable release of the TBB 3.x series because Firefox 17 > ESR is no longer supported. In order to do this we need to make sure we have > some standalone Vidalia bundles that people can plug in so they are not too > disoriented by the change. A lot of us have been using the 3.x series for a > while, but plenty of people have not, and we don't want to upset them. > > I have spent the evening trying to get together a functional batch. I have the > first pass available, with some known problems. Linux is able to display the > relay map and show your hops, but I haven't been able to make it work on > Windows or OSX yet. I would appreciate anyone figuring out what that issue > might be, but I will also look into it more tomorrow. I assume it is not > finding the geoip file correctly. > > Here's how to test these: > > 1. Download > > 2. Extract *into your TBB 3.x directory*. This is important. They may work > outside of it, but it depends a lot on your system libs. I am sure they will > work *in* it and that is how they are "designed" right now (though longer-term > that will not be the case). If they work outside of your TBB 3.x directory that > is merely surprisingly good news. (But try it anyway, for fun.) > > 3. Run the start vidalia script. On Windows, this is Start Vidalia.exe. On OSX > and Linux it is start-vidalia.sh. > > 4. Let me know what happens! > The 32-bit linux version worked fine for me on Crunchbang 11 with TBB 3.5. The exit button only closes Vidalia and is not connected to Tor Browser, which makes sense, but might confuse some users. Another surprise was that there are no notices in the Advanced message log, even though the basic message log lets me know that the Tor Software is Running and I am Connected to the Tor Network. I started Vidalia after starting Tor Browser, so of course it doesn't have the bootstrapping messages (new notices do show up there), but it took me a second to realize that. None of these are issues only notes.

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TBB 3.5rc1 try #5
by Mike Perry 12 Dec '13

12 Dec '13

Ok everyone, we've got another build for TBB 3.5rc1. You know what they say: 5th time's a charm! Please test this. The New Identity and localization bugs should both be fixed, though reports from Windows and Mac will be helpful: https://people.torproject.org/~linus/builds/3.5-rc-1-build5/ Again, barring issues the plan is to get this on the blog in a few hours, and if there's not a riot in the comments there, we'll turn around and release 3.5-stable a couple days after that. Thanks! -- Mike Perry

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Testing needed for 3.5rc1 (just a few hours)
by Mike Perry 11 Dec '13

11 Dec '13

Hey everyone, We've got a tight schedule here to get a TBB based on FF24esr out soon, so quick smoke testing on this is appreciated, especially on Windows and Mac. The plan is to post this 3.5rc1 build on the blog tonight, and then post a 3.5 release later this week (Thursday or Friday, depending on issues). At that point, our 2.x series will be officially deprecated. This version should also fix the Nvidia crashes reported with Georg's build from Sunday, but it would be useful to have confirmation: https://people.torproject.org/~linus/builds/3.5-rc-1/ Thanks! -- Mike Perry

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Windows builds for TBB3.5 (FF24-esr) need testing (esp on WinXP)
by Mike Perry 09 Dec '13

09 Dec '13

If anyone has access to a Windows XP install, could you please try running the builds from ticket https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10252? Specifically: https://people.torproject.org/~gk/testbuilds/torbrowser-install-3.5-alpha-1… https://people.torproject.org/~gk/testbuilds/torbrowser-install-3.5-alpha-1… Any reports from other versions of Windows is also useful, of course. -- Mike Perry

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New Tor 0.2.4.18-rc packages
by Erinn Clark 02 Dec '13

02 Dec '13

Hello again everyone! Thanks for testing the stable TBBs. I have the new RC packages of the 2.4.x series of TBB as well as Vidalia bundles etc with the latest Tor. Packages: https://people.torproject.org/~erinn/qa/alpha/2.4.18-rc-1/ sha256sums: https://people.torproject.org/~erinn/qa/alpha/2.4.18-rc-1/sha256sums-2.4.18… Turnaround: 24h Thanks! Erinn

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