Hi!
Tor Browser 8.0a1 is ready for testing. Bundles can be found on:
https://people.torproject.org/~gk/builds/8.0a1-build3/
Tor Browser 8.0a1 is the first alpha release in the 8.0 series. Apart from the usual Firefox security updates we have included the new stable Tor, 0.3.2.9, and updated Torbutton and Tor Launcher to the same version Tor Browser 7.5 is about to ship.
We added a new MAR signing key following our plan to yearly rotate one of our update signing keys and included a patch contributed by ffmancera (thanks!) dealing with possible fingerprinting by checking video decoding performance: before Tor Browser 8.0a1 users were getting videos in a different format depending on the performance of the decoding.
On the build side it is noteworthy that starting with this alpha release all bundles are built on some Debian version. If you notice some issues on Windows (those bundles were built previously on Ubuntu Precise), let us know.
The full changelog from 7.5a10 is:
Tor Browser 8.0a1 -- January 23 2018 * All Platforms * Update Firefox to 52.6.0esr * Update Tor to 0.3.2.9 * Update Torbutton to 1.9.8.5 * Bug 21245: Add da translation to Torbutton and keep track of it * Bug 24702: Remove Mozilla text from banner * Translations update * Update Tor Launcher to 0.2.14.3 * Translations update * Update HTTPS Everywhere to 2018.1.11 * Bug 24756: Add noisebridge01 obfs4 bridge configuration * Bug 23916: Add new MAR signing key * Bug 22548: Firefox downgrades VP9 videos to VP8 for some users * Windows * Bug 24197: Fix win64 sandbox compile issues * Build System * Windows * Bug 18691: switch Windows builds from precise to jessie * Linux * Bug 23892: Include Firefox and Tor debug files in final build directory * Bug 24842: include libasan.so.2 and libubsan.so.0 in debug builds
Georg
On 1/20/18 4:21 PM, Georg Koppen wrote:
Hi!
Tor Browser 8.0a1 is ready for testing. Bundles can be found on:
https://people.torproject.org/~gk/builds/8.0a1-build3/
Tor Browser 8.0a1 is the first alpha release in the 8.0 series. Apart from the usual Firefox security updates we have included the new stable Tor, 0.3.2.9, and updated Torbutton and Tor Launcher to the same version Tor Browser 7.5 is about to ship.
We added a new MAR signing key following our plan to yearly rotate one of our update signing keys and included a patch contributed by ffmancera (thanks!) dealing with possible fingerprinting by checking video decoding performance: before Tor Browser 8.0a1 users were getting videos in a different format depending on the performance of the decoding.
On the build side it is noteworthy that starting with this alpha release all bundles are built on some Debian version. If you notice some issues on Windows (those bundles were built previously on Ubuntu Precise), let us know. ...
I did some testing of the updater on macOS using my own staging server. I did not find any problems with 7.5a10 to 8.0a1 incremental or full updates. I also tested an "in place" update of 8.0a1 to 8.0a1 just to make sure the new updater is working and that there is no problem with the MAR signing key.
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