[tor-qa] Tor Browser 8.0a1 is ready for testing

[Georg Koppen]

Hi!

Tor Browser 8.0a1 is ready for testing. Bundles can be found on:

https://people.torproject.org/~gk/builds/8.0a1-build3/

Tor Browser 8.0a1 is the first alpha release in the 8.0 series. Apart
from the usual Firefox security updates we have included the new stable
Tor, 0.3.2.9, and updated Torbutton and Tor Launcher to the same version
Tor Browser 7.5 is about to ship.

We added a new MAR signing key following our plan to yearly rotate one
of our update signing keys and included a patch contributed by ffmancera
(thanks!) dealing with possible fingerprinting by checking video
decoding performance: before Tor Browser 8.0a1 users were getting videos
in a different format depending on the performance of the decoding.

On the build side it is noteworthy that starting with this alpha release
all bundles are built on some Debian version. If you notice some issues
on Windows (those bundles were built previously on Ubuntu Precise), let
us know.

The full changelog from 7.5a10 is:

Tor Browser 8.0a1 -- January 23 2018
 * All Platforms
   * Update Firefox to 52.6.0esr
   * Update Tor to 0.3.2.9
   * Update Torbutton to 1.9.8.5
     * Bug 21245: Add da translation to Torbutton and keep track of it
     * Bug 24702: Remove Mozilla text from banner
     * Translations update
   * Update Tor Launcher to 0.2.14.3
     * Translations update
   * Update HTTPS Everywhere to 2018.1.11
   * Bug 24756: Add noisebridge01 obfs4 bridge configuration
   * Bug 23916: Add new MAR signing key
   * Bug 22548: Firefox downgrades VP9 videos to VP8 for some users
 * Windows
   * Bug 24197: Fix win64 sandbox compile issues
 * Build System
   * Windows
     * Bug 18691: switch Windows builds from precise to jessie
   * Linux
     * Bug 23892: Include Firefox and Tor debug files in final build
directory
     * Bug 24842: include libasan.so.2 and libubsan.so.0 in debug builds

Georg

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