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

[Sherief Alaa]

On 11/04/2014 05:26 PM, Georg Koppen wrote:
> Sherief Alaa:
>>
>>
>> On 11/04/2014 02:01 PM, Georg Koppen wrote:
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>> Here's my initial testing results:
>> 1) #8641 seems to be disabled, correct?
> 
> No. When I am clicking on the Torbutton icon the circuit is shown for
> the respective site.

See attached.

>> 2) Because #9387's strings aren't translated yet, the whole Prefrences
>> window is filled with an error (I checked the Arabic version - it will
>> likely be the same for all untranslated languages).
>> 3) When using the security slider at "High" it doesn't change of
>> NoScript's icon nor its menu selection options giving the user false
>> information about the current configuration of the addon.
> 
> Hmm.. seems we need some reloading here. Opening a new tab is changing
> the icon.

Yup. You're right.

-- 
Sherief Alaa
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