[tor-reports] May 2016 Report for the Tor Browser Team

[Georg Koppen]

Hi,

In May we made 1 release: 6.0[1].

Tor Browser 6.0 is the first stable release in the 6.0 series which
brings our users finally an ESR45 based Tor Browser. Compared to Tor
Browser 6.0a5 this release fixes again a number of issues related to the
major Firefox upgrade. Most notably we fixed broken search engines in
localized builds[2] and made the transition to OS X bundles that are
code-signed smoother[3][4].

As indicated above code-signing on OS X has finally arrived in the
stable series[5]. This has been a long-wanted and much needed feature
and we are looking forward to providing a seamless Tor Browser
experience on OS X from now on as well.

Apart from getting Tor Browser 6.0 into a stable shape we worked on
preparing the first point releases in the 6.0 stable and 6.5 alpha
series which are due June 7/8. The full list of tickets closed by us in
May is accessible using the TorBrowserTeam201605 tag in our bug tracker[6].

For June, as already mentioned, we plan to get a new stable version
(6.0.1) and a new alpha version (6.5a1) out. Moreover, we'll start
focusing on remaining deliverables in our SponsorU contract.

The full list of tickets the Tor Browser team plans to work on in June
can be seen with the TorBrowserTeam201606 tag on our bug tracker[7].

Georg

[1] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-60-released
[2] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18915
[3] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18947
[4] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18904
[5] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6540
[6]
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=closed&keywords=~TorBrowserTeam201605
[7]
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?keywords=~TorBrowserTeam201606

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