As we discussed at the dev meeting, we're going to try doing pre-build announcements of releases, to give people time to be aware that we will need some testing help soon, and so that interested people can try building a given tag early, to verify reproducibility.
Tag tbb-3.6beta1-build1 (fb9453c51306ad39d261617e2cb3ba8e18368574) was just pushed to https://git.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-bundle.git.
It should once again be possible to build from non-KVM/VT machines that only support LXC (by setting the USE_LXC=1 environment variable before build).
'make beta' is the command you want to build this tag, run from the gitian subdirectory in a tor-browser-bundle.git checkout.
Once we get confirmation on reproducibility (earlier commits were fine, so we should be good), we'll begin testing. Probably Monday/Tuesday.
Here's the Changelog (changes from 3.5.2.1):
Tor Browser Bundle 3.6-beta-1 * All Platforms * Include Pluggable Transports by default: * Obfsproxy3 0.2.4, Flashproxy 1.6, and FTE 0.2.6 are now included * Update Tor Launcher to 0.2.5.0 * Bug 10418: Provide UI configuration for Pluggable Transports * Bug 10604: Allow Tor status & error messages to be translated * Bug 10894: Make bridge UI clear that helpdesk is a last resort for bridges * Bug 10610: Clarify wizard UI text describing obstacles/blocking * Bug 11074: Support Tails use case (XULRunner and optional customizations) * Update Torbutton to 1.6.7.0: * Bug 9901: Fix browser freeze due to content type sniffing * Bug 10611: Add Swedish (sv) to extra locales to update * Update NoScript to 2.6.8.17 * Update Tor to 0.2.4.21 * Backport Pending Tor Patches: * Bug 5018: Don't launch Pluggable Transport helpers if not in use * Bug 11069: Detect and report Pluggable Transport bootstrap failures * Bug 10237: Disable the media cache to prevent disk leaks for videos * Bug 10703: Force the default charset to avoid locale fingerprinting * Bug 10104: Update gitian to fix LXC build issues (for non-KVM/VT builders) * Mac: * Bug 4271: Use DMG instead of ZIP for Mac packages * Linux: * Bug 9533: Fix keyboard input on Ubuntu 13.10 * Bug 9896: Provide debug symbols for Tor Browser binary * Bug 10472: Pass arguments to the browser from Linux startup script