[tor-qa] Pre-build announcement for 3.6-beta-1

[tor-admin]

Could successfully reproduce tbb-3.6beta1-build1 for Linux, MacOS and Windows. 

user at host:~/make/tor-browser-bundle/gitian/3.6-beta-1$ sha256sum --check 
~/download/sha256sums.txt
TorBrowser-3.6-beta-1-osx32_ar.dmg: OK
TorBrowser-3.6-beta-1-osx32_de.dmg: OK
TorBrowser-3.6-beta-1-osx32_en-US.dmg: OK
TorBrowser-3.6-beta-1-osx32_es-ES.dmg: OK
TorBrowser-3.6-beta-1-osx32_fa.dmg: OK
TorBrowser-3.6-beta-1-osx32_fr.dmg: OK
TorBrowser-3.6-beta-1-osx32_it.dmg: OK
TorBrowser-3.6-beta-1-osx32_ko.dmg: OK
TorBrowser-3.6-beta-1-osx32_nl.dmg: OK
TorBrowser-3.6-beta-1-osx32_pl.dmg: OK
TorBrowser-3.6-beta-1-osx32_pt-PT.dmg: OK
TorBrowser-3.6-beta-1-osx32_ru.dmg: OK
TorBrowser-3.6-beta-1-osx32_vi.dmg: OK
TorBrowser-3.6-beta-1-osx32_zh-CN.dmg: OK
pluggable-transports-linux32-debug.zip: OK
pluggable-transports-linux64-debug.zip: OK
tor-browser-linux32-3.6-beta-1_ar.tar.xz: OK
tor-browser-linux32-3.6-beta-1_de.tar.xz: OK
tor-browser-linux32-3.6-beta-1_en-US.tar.xz: OK
tor-browser-linux32-3.6-beta-1_es-ES.tar.xz: OK
tor-browser-linux32-3.6-beta-1_fa.tar.xz: OK
tor-browser-linux32-3.6-beta-1_fr.tar.xz: OK
tor-browser-linux32-3.6-beta-1_it.tar.xz: OK
tor-browser-linux32-3.6-beta-1_ko.tar.xz: OK
tor-browser-linux32-3.6-beta-1_nl.tar.xz: OK
tor-browser-linux32-3.6-beta-1_pl.tar.xz: OK
tor-browser-linux32-3.6-beta-1_pt-PT.tar.xz: OK
tor-browser-linux32-3.6-beta-1_ru.tar.xz: OK
tor-browser-linux32-3.6-beta-1_vi.tar.xz: OK
tor-browser-linux32-3.6-beta-1_zh-CN.tar.xz: OK
tor-browser-linux32-debug.zip: OK
tor-browser-linux64-3.6-beta-1_ar.tar.xz: OK
tor-browser-linux64-3.6-beta-1_de.tar.xz: OK
tor-browser-linux64-3.6-beta-1_en-US.tar.xz: OK
tor-browser-linux64-3.6-beta-1_es-ES.tar.xz: OK
tor-browser-linux64-3.6-beta-1_fa.tar.xz: OK
tor-browser-linux64-3.6-beta-1_fr.tar.xz: OK
tor-browser-linux64-3.6-beta-1_it.tar.xz: OK
tor-browser-linux64-3.6-beta-1_ko.tar.xz: OK
tor-browser-linux64-3.6-beta-1_nl.tar.xz: OK
tor-browser-linux64-3.6-beta-1_pl.tar.xz: OK
tor-browser-linux64-3.6-beta-1_pt-PT.tar.xz: OK
tor-browser-linux64-3.6-beta-1_ru.tar.xz: OK
tor-browser-linux64-3.6-beta-1_vi.tar.xz: OK
tor-browser-linux64-3.6-beta-1_zh-CN.tar.xz: OK
tor-browser-linux64-debug.zip: OK
tor-linux32-debug.zip: OK
tor-linux64-debug.zip: OK
torbrowser-install-3.6-beta-1_ar.exe: OK
torbrowser-install-3.6-beta-1_de.exe: OK
torbrowser-install-3.6-beta-1_en-US.exe: OK
torbrowser-install-3.6-beta-1_es-ES.exe: OK
torbrowser-install-3.6-beta-1_fa.exe: OK
torbrowser-install-3.6-beta-1_fr.exe: OK
torbrowser-install-3.6-beta-1_it.exe: OK
torbrowser-install-3.6-beta-1_ko.exe: OK
torbrowser-install-3.6-beta-1_nl.exe: OK
torbrowser-install-3.6-beta-1_pl.exe: OK
torbrowser-install-3.6-beta-1_pt-PT.exe: OK
torbrowser-install-3.6-beta-1_ru.exe: OK
torbrowser-install-3.6-beta-1_vi.exe: OK
torbrowser-install-3.6-beta-1_zh-CN.exe: OK

On Saturday 08 March 2014 14:49:53 Mike Perry wrote:
> 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