Hi!
Tor Browser 8.0a10 is ready for testing. It's the second alpha release based on Firefox ESR 60 and bundles can be found at:
https://people.torproject.org/~boklm/builds/8.0a10-build5/
Please give those bundles a try if you can!
Tor Browser 8.0a10 contains a number of improvements and bug fixes. Most notably it contains large parts of the user onboarding and a revamped start page, which we developed together with the UX team (special thanks to Mark and Kathy for the implementation on short notice). Addtionally, the meek pluggable transport should be fully functional now and we audited and enabled HTTP2 which should give performance improvements on many websites.
For Windows users we worked around a bug in mingw-w64 which affected updates on Windows (64bit) resulting in intermittent update failures. Moreove, we finally enabled hardware acceleration for improved browser rendering performance after applying a fix for a long-standing bug, which often caused crashes on Windows systems with graphics cards, e.g. from Nvidia.
The Tor version we ship is now 0.3.4.6-rc and it would be a good time now to report client issues, noticed with this release candidate or previous alpha releases, in case they did not get fixed so far.
The full changelog since 8.0a9 is:
Tor Browser 8.0a10 -- August 20 2018 * All platforms * Update Tor to 0.3.4.6-rc * Update Torbutton to 2.0.2 * Bug 26960: Implement new about:tor start page * Bug 26961: Implement new user onboarding * Bug 26321: Move 'New Identity', 'New Circuit' to File, hamburger menus * Bug 26590: Use new svg.disabled pref in security slider * Bug 26655: Adjust color and size of onion button * Bug 26500: Reposition circuit display relay icon for RTL locales * Bug 26409: Remove spoofed locale implementation * Bug 26189: Remove content-policy.js * Bug 27129: Add locales ca, ga, id, is, nb * Translations update * Update Tor Launcher to 0.2.16.2 * Bug 26985: Help button icons missing * Bug 25509: Improve the proxy help text * Bug 27129: Add locales ca, ga, id, is, nb * Translations update * Update NoScript to 10.1.8.16 * Update meek to 0.31 * Bug 26477: Make meek extension compatible with ESR 60 * Bug 27082: Enable a limited UITour for user onboarding * Bug 26961: New user onboarding * Bug 14952: Enable HTTP2 and AltSvc * Bug 25735: Tor Browser stalls while loading Facebook login page * Bug 17252: Enable TLS session identifiers with first-party isolation * Bug 26353: Prevent speculative connects that violate first-party isolation * Bug 24056: Use en-US strings in HTML forms if locale is spoofed to english * Bug 26456: HTTP .onion sites inherit previous page's certificate information * Bug 26321: Move 'New Identity', 'New Circuit' to File, hamburger menus * Bug 26833: Backport Mozilla's bug 1473247 * Bug 26628: Backport Mozilla's bug 1470156 * Bug 26237: Clean up toolbar for ESR60-based Tor Browser * Bug 26519: Avoid Firefox icons in ESR60 * Bug 26039: Load our preferences that modify extensions (fixup) * Bug 26515: Update Tor Browser blog post URLs * Bug 27129: Add locales ca, ga, id, is, nb * Bug 26216: Fix broken MAR file generation * Bug 26409: Remove spoofed locale implementation * Bug 26603: Remove obsolete HTTP pipelining preferences * Windows * Bug 26514: Fix intermittent updater failures on Win64 (Error 19) * Bug 26874: Fix UNC path restrictions failure in Tor Browser 8.0a9 * Bug 12968: Enable HEASLR in Windows x86_64 builds * Bug 9145: Fix broken hardware acceleration * Update tbb-windows-installer to 0.4 * Bug 26355: Update tbb-windows-installer to check for Windows7+ * Bug 26355: Require Windows7+ for updates to Tor Browser 8 * OS X * Bug 26795: Bump snowflake to 6077141f4a for bug 25600 * Linux * Bug 25485: Unbreak Tor Browser on systems with newer libstdc++ * Bug 20866: Fix OpenGL software rendering on systems with newer libstdc++ * Bug 26951+18022: Fix execdesktop argument passing * Bug 26795: Bump snowflake to 6077141f4a for bug 25600 * Build System * All * Bug 26410: Stop using old MAR format in the alpha series * Bug 27020: RBM build fails with runc version 1.0.1 * Bug 26949: Use GitHub repository for STIX * Bug 26773: Add --verbose to the ./mach build flag for firefox * Bug 26569: Redirect pre-8.0a9 alpha users to a separate update directory * Bug 26319: Don't package up Tor Browser in the `mach package` step * OS X * Bug 26489: Fix .app directory name in tools/dmg2mar * Windows * Bug 27152: Use mozilla/fxc2.git for the fxc2 repository
Georg