[tor-qa] Tor Browser 6.0a1 is ready for testing

[Georg Koppen]

Hi,

the first Tor Browser alpha in our 6.0 series is ready for testing.
Bundles can be found on:

https://people.torproject.org/~boklm/builds/6.0a1-build1/

This release features an update to Firefox ESR 38.6.0 and a new NoScript
version (2.9.0.2). Moreover, we fixed issues in our feature showing the
local changelog after an update, in our defense against keyboard
fingerprinting and related to our circuit display.

Things in this release that could need some testing are our setup wizard
flow improvements and our Linux bundles in general as we switched to
Debian Wheezy for building them.

The full changelog since 5.5a6 is:

Tor Browser 6.0a1-hardened -- January 27 2016
 * All Platforms
   * Update Firefox to 38.6.0esr
   * Update NoScript to 2.9.0.2
   * Update Torbutton to 1.9.5
     * Bug 16990: Show circuit display for connections using multi-party
channels
     * Bug 18019: Avoid empty prompt shown after non-en-US update
     * Bug 18004: Remove Tor fundraising donation banner
     * Code cleanup
     * Translation updates
   * Update Tor Launcher to 0.2.8.2
     * Bug 18113: Randomly permutate available default bridges of chosen
type
     * Bug 11773: Setup wizard UI flow improvements
     * Translation updates
   * Bug 17428: Remove Flashproxy
   * Bug 18115+18102+18071+18091: Update/add new obfs4 bridge
   * Bug 18072: Change recommended pluggable transport type to obfs4
   * Bug 18008: Create a new MAR Signing key and bake it into Tor Browser
   * Bug 16322: Use onion address for DuckDuckGo search engine
   * Bug 17917: Changelog after update is empty if JS is disabled
   * Bug 17790: Map the proper SHIFT characters to the digit keys (fix
of #15646)
 * Build System
   * Linux
     * Bug 15578: Switch to Debian Wheezy guest VMs (10.04 LTS is EOL)

Georg

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