[tor-talk] Fwd: Orbot v15.1.2 released

[Dash Four]

Apologies for replying to this so late, but I've had a lot on my plate recently...

I was finally able to test the newest version (below) with my set up (I use customised firewall/transproxy settings and a vpn - all outside orbot).

The good news is that version now works with no major problems, though I still found a couple of issues:

1. Why is it that the app upgrade wipes out the entire app_bin directory? No need for that. The upgrade wiped out app_bin, along with the files I've had in that 
directory (files I added independently of the orbot installation), e.g. up-to-date geoip files (not the ones provided with orbot).

2. My custom settings had a separate GeoIP statements which were added by orbot. That's wrong. Either leave my torrc.custom file alone and don't mess with it, 
or properly replace the statements used in that file.

3. How can I compile, or at least obtain a tor binary independently of the orbot installation? The reason I ask this is because the tor binary provided with the 
latest version is 0.2.7.5 which is not even the latest stable, let alone the one I wish to use (0.2.8.0-alpha).

4. Minor nitpick - the notification icon provided with orbot is bloody hideous! It looks like a circled blob and you hardly notice the arrows when orbot is 
used. Can you not provide something like the onion on torproject.org, but with two vertical arrows (similar to the wifi notification icon)?

Nathan Freitas wrote:
> We are now using obfs4proxy to support both obfs4 and meek connectivity
> using the new "meek_lite" feature provided by Yawning. It is working
> great, and Bridges+VPN support now works back to Android 4.1. This is
> also reduced the distribution binary size of Orbot from 14MB to 11MB.
> 
> ----- Original message -----
> From: Nathan of Guardian <nathan at guardianproject.info>
> To: guardian-dev at lists.mayfirst.org
> Subject: Orbot v15.1.2 released
> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:13:12 -0500
> 
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> /** 15.1.2 / 24-February-2016 / 204733a245d6c06fa73301134e2f107c0c4564b8
> **/
> 
> APK: https://guardianproject.info/releases/Orbot-v15.1.2.apk
> SIG: https://guardianproject.info/releases/Orbot-v15.1.2.apk.asc
> 
> ... and up on FDroid, Play, etc shortly
> 
> 5785593 move to using meek_lite mode from obfs4client and update/improve
> proxying code
> 66a5b7a remove meek-client and use obfs4 meek_lite mode instead
> f9f33a1 set this to Android 16 SDK for PIE executable We'll use a
> different build for non-PIE < Android-16
> e9d28a4 handle NPE better for dev.gp.info #6686 in some cases the
> connection becomes null while you are interacting with it
> 9a8e4dd update to orbot ant build version
> 80e8c47 peg to last ant compat release
> 5eb628b bridges dedicated to GeorgeTorwell
> c8584f6 update superuser commands library
> 3cc2439 update license to include badvpn
> 9c82aa8 fix escaping of apostro
> eba95b2 update strings and descs from transifex (somehow french got left
> out before!)
> 8047ec6 update the log
> 
> - - --
>   Nathan of Guardian
>   nathan at guardianproject.info
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