[tor-qa] Tor Browser 4.5-alpha-1 is ready for testing

[Georg Koppen]

Hi,

we are happy to announce the first alpha in the 4.5 series. It contains
a bunch of new things most notably the isolation of browser streams by
URL bar domain, the obfs4 pluggable transport, a tor based on the 0.2.6
series, 64bit only OS X bundles, a first implementation of the security
slider and a backport of the certificate pinning functionality.
Furthermore, it includes updates, bugfixes and minor new features. The
bundles can be found at:

https://people.torproject.org/~mikeperry/builds/4.5-alpha-1/

a signed SHA256 sums file is in

https://people.torproject.org/~gk/builds/4.5-alpha-1/

Feedback and bug reports are greatly appreciated.

The full changelog is:

Tor Browser 4.5-alpha-1 -- Nov 3 2014
 * All Platforms
   * Bug 3455: Patch Firefox SOCKS and proxy filters to allow user+pass
isolation
   * Bug 11955: Backport HTTPS Certificate Pinning patches from Firefox 32
   * Bug 13019: Make JS engine use English locale if a pref is set by
Torbutton
   * Bug 13301: Prevent extensions incompatibility error after upgrades
   * Bug 13460: Fix MSVC compilation issue
   * Update Tor to 0.2.6.0-alpha
   * Update NoScript to 2.6.9.3
   * Update Torbutton to 1.8.0.1
     * Bug 9387: Provide a "Security Slider" for vulnerability surface
reduction
     * Bug 13019: Synchronize locale spoofing pref with our Firefox patch
     * Bug 3455: Use SOCKS user+pass to isolate all requests from the
same url domain
     * Bug 8641: Create browser UI to indicate current tab's Tor circuit IPs
     * Bug 13651: Prevent circuit-status related UI hang.
   * Bug 13586: Make meek use TLS session tickets (to look like stock
Firefox).
   * Include obfs4proxy pluggable transport
 * Windows
   * Bug 13443: Re-enable DirectShow; fix crash with mingw patch.
   * Bug 13091: Make app name "Tor Browser" instead of "Tor"
 * Mac
   * Bug 10138: Switch to 64bit builds for MacOS

Georg

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