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

[Sherief Alaa]

On 11/04/2014 06:20 PM, Georg Koppen wrote:
> 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.
> 
> This might actually be due to things like
> 
> [11-04 16:06:43] Torbutton WARN: TypeError: s is undefined
> [11-04 16:16:42] Torbutton WARN: TypeError: statusMaps[i] is undefined
> 
> I see in the browser console a lot.

I bumped the loglevel of both torlauncher and torbutton to 0 and nothing
shows up at the browser console, what's going on? (also on windows and
linux).

-- 
Sherief Alaa
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