[tor-qa] Tor Browser 7.0a1 is ready for testing

[Georg Koppen]

Greetings all!

we have a candidate build for Tor Browser 7.0a1 that could need some
testing. Bundles can be found on:

https://people.torproject.org/~gk/builds/7.0a1-build1/

Tor Browser 7.0a1 is the first alpha in the 7.0 series. Apart form the
usual Firefox update (to 45.7.0 ESR) it contains the first alpha in the
tor 0.3.0 series (0.3.0.1-alpha) and an updated HTTPS-Everywhere (5.2.9)
+ NoScript (2.9.5.3).

Tor Browser 7.0a1 is the first alpha allowing Linux users to test
Snowflake, a new, WebRTC-based pluggable transport. Additionally, we
include bug fixes both to our sandboxing solutions for Linux
(sandboxed-tor-browser 0.0.3) and macOS. For Windows users we plugged a
timezone leak that got introduced by enabling ICU in Firefox when
switching to ESR 45.

The full changelog since 6.5a6 is:

Tor Browser 7.0a1 -- January 25 2017
 * All Platforms
   * Update Firefox to 45.7.0esr
   * Tor to 0.3.0.1-alpha
   * Update Torbutton to 1.9.7
     * Bug 19898: Use DuckDuckGo on about:tor
     * Bug 21091: Hide the update check menu entry when running under
the sandbox
     * Bug 21243: Add links to es, fr, and pt Tor Browser manual
     * Bug 21194: Show snowflake in the circuit display
     * Bug 21131: Remove 2016 donation banner
     * Translation updates
   * Update HTTPS-Everywhere to 5.2.9
   * Update NoScript to 2.9.5.3
   * Bug 20471: Allow javascript: links from HTTPS first party pages
   * Bug 20651: DuckDuckGo does not work with JavaScript disabled
   * Bug 20589: Add new MAR signing key
 * Windows
   * Bug 20981: On Windows, check TZ for timezone first
 * OS X
   * Bug 20989: Browser sandbox profile is too restrictive on OSX 10.12.2
 * Linux
   * Update sandboxed-tor-browser to 0.0.3
   * Bug 20735: Add snowflake pluggable transport to alpha Linux builds
 * Build system
   * All platforms
     * Bug 20927: Upgrade Go to 1.7.4
   * Linux
     * Bug 21103: Update descriptors for sandboxed-tor-browser 0.0.3

Georg

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