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 …
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* Update Tor to 0.2.4.20
* Windows
* Bug 9259: Enable Accessibility support in Firefox build
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Mike Perry
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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, …
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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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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
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Mike Perry
> 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 …
[View More]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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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!
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Mike Perry
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 …
[View More]confirmation:
https://people.torproject.org/~linus/builds/3.5-rc-1/
Thanks!
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Mike Perry
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