[tor-qa] Tor Browser 11.5 (Android/Windows/macOS/Linux) is ready for testing

Richard Pospesel pospeselr at riseup.net
Sat Jul 9 17:13:09 UTC 2022


Hello!

Tor Browser 11.5 candidate packages are available here:

- https://tb-build-05.torproject.org/~richard/builds/release/unsigned/11.5-build1/

Important features in the 11.5 stable release (desktop only, android only a minor bump):

- new semi-automatic censorship-circumvention flow in about:torconnect
- https-only mode enabled by default
- https-everywhere extension removed
- new about:rulesets page which replaces *.tor.onion functionality previously provided by 
https-everywhere
- reworked about:preferences#connection UX (formerly about:preferences#tor)
- qr codes to share bridge strings
- integrated the tor-browser manual into the browser itself (about:manual)
- a lots of minor fixes!

Here's the full changelog since 11.0.15:

Tor Browser 11.5 - July 7 2022
  * All Platforms
    * Update OpenSSL to 1.1.1q
  * Windows + OS X + Linux
    * Update Firefox to 91.11.0esr
    * Update Tor-Launcher to 0.2.37
    * Update Translations
    * Bug 11698: Incorporate Tor Browser Manual pages into Tor Browser [tor-browser]
    * Bug 19850: Disable Plaintext HTTP Clearnet Connections [tor-browser]
    * Bug 30589: Allowed fonts to render a bunch of missing scripts [tor-browser]
    * Bug 40458: Implement about:rulesets https-everywhere replacement [tor-browser]
    * Bug 40527: Remove https-everywhere from tor-browser alpha desktop [tor-browser-build]
    * Bug 40562: Reorganize patchset [tor-browser]
    * Bug 40598: Remove legacy settings read from TorSettings module [tor-browser]
    * Bug 40645: Migrate Moat APIs to Moat.jsm module [tor-browser]
    * Bug 40684: Misc UI bug fixes [tor-browser]
    * Bug 40773: Update the about:torconnect frontend page to match additional UI flows [tor-browser]
    * Bug 40774: Update about:preferences page to match new UI designs [tor-browser]
    * Bug 40775: about:ion should not be labeled as a Tor Browser page [tor-browser]
    * Bug 40793: moved Tor configuration options from old-configure.in to moz.configure [tor-browser]
    * Bug 40825: Redirect HTTPS-Only error page when not connected [tor-browser]
    * Bug 40912: Hide screenshots menu since we don't support it [tor-browser]
    * Bug 40916: Remove the browser.download.panel.shown preference [tor-browser]
    * Bug 40923: Consume country code to improve error report [tor-browser]
    * Bug 40966: Render emojis in bridgemoji with SVG files, and added emojii descriptions [tor-browser]
    * Bug 41011: Make sure the Tor Connection status is shown only in about:preferences#connection 
[tor-browser]
    * Bug 41023: Update manual URLs [tor-browser]
    * Bug 41035: OnionAliasService should use threadsafe ISupports [tor-browser]
    * Bug 41036: Add a preference to disable Onion Aliases [tor-browser]
    * Bug 41037: Fixed the connection preferences on the onboarding [tor-browser]
    * Bug 41039: Set 'startHidden' flag on tor process in tor-launcher [tor-browser]
  * OS X
    * Bug 40797: font-family: monospace renders incorrectly on macOS [tor-browser]
    * Bug 41004: Bundled fonts are not picked up on macOS [tor-browser]
  * Linux
    * Bug 41015: Add --name parameter to correctly setup WM_CLASS when running as native Wayland 
client [tor-browser]
    * Bug 41043: Hardcode the UI font on Linux [tor-browser]
  * Android
    * Update Fenix to 99.0.0b3
  * Build System
    * All Platforms
      * Bug 40288: Bump mmdebstrap version to 0.8.6 [tor-browser-build]
      * Bug 40426: Update Ubuntu base image to 22.04 [tor-browser-build]
      * Bug 40516: Remove aguestuser from tb_builders and torbutton.gpg [tor-browser-build]
      * Bug 40519: Add Alexis' latest PGP key to https-everywhere key ring [tor-browser-build]
    * Android
      * Update Go to 1.18.3
      * Bug 40433: Bump LLVM to 13.0.1 for android builds [tor-browser-build]
      * Bug 40470: Fix zlib build issue for android [tor-browser-build]
      * Bug 40485: Resolve Android reproducibility issues [tor-browser-build]
    * Windows + OS X + Linux
      * Bug 34451: Include Tor Browser Manual in packages during build [tor-browser-build]
      * Bug 40525: Update the mozconfig for tor-browser-91.9-11.5-2 [tor-browser-build]

best,
-Richard
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