Hi everyone,
We've had reports of increasing delivery failure rates at other
providers, particularly gmail, from multiple parties in the course of
the last few weeks / months.
It might be worth falling back to an alternative provider if you have
access to one, for your @torproject.org email, otherwise you might miss
some email. Inversely, if you have a hard requirement to reach
@gmail.com people right now, you may want to use another provider or use
a gmail account directly.
We're working on emergency mitigations for this problem. I should come
up with a proposal tomorrow and work should start next week.
In the meantime, status.torproject.org has been updated. Feel free to
circulate outside of this space, since many people here might not be
able to read this message in the first place, of course.
a.
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Antoine Beaupré
torproject.org system administration
Hi everyone,
Some of us have some conflicts this week so we'll push the weekly Tor Browser
meeting back to the 22nd at 1500 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC IRC.
best,
-Richard
Apologies for crossposting
Fellow translators: Tomorrow we hangout!
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Every 3rd Friday of the month the Tor L10n Team meets on the Localization Hangout,
from Noon UTC, on the #tor-l10n channel in OFTC and matrix
At 13 UTC we make a call on Big Blue Button.
Tomorrow we will be testing the new multilocale Tor Browser.
That's right: The same app for all locales!
The first multi-locale release of Tor Browser Alpha for desktop is out.
All supported languages are now included in a single bundle, and can be
changed without requiring additional downloads via the Language menu in
General settings.
Download: https://www.torproject.org/download/alpha/
What to test:
* Tor Browser Alpha should default to your system language on first launch
if it matches a language we support (list of languages supported:
https://support.torproject.org/tbb/tbb-37/ ).
* Changing language within about:preferences#general
* Any new bugs with localization in general.
For more information about the hangout, please see:
https://community.torproject.org/localization/hangouts/
Note: Tor Browser Alpha is an unstable version of Tor Browser and should not
be used for activities that could put you at risk. Instead, please limit your
use of alpha to preview new features, test their performance and provide
feedback before their release.
Tails report for September and October 2022
<https://tails.boum.org/news/report_2022_10/>
Highlights
Here's a glimpse at what happened in Tails in September and October.
Analyzing results of usability tests
We analyzed the results of the usability tests we did in São Paulo:
* first-time use
<https-everywhere://lists.autistici.org/message/20221012.181235.a673efeb.en.html>
* Tor Connection
<https://lists.autistici.org/message/20221012.140611.7e58f067.en.html>
Then we prioritized the issues identified there and planned to fix a
bunch of them in the next few months.
New features
Our developers brought 3 major new features to beta quality:
*
New Persistent Storage, completely redesigned and vastly more usable
*
Wayland and better Unsafe Browser, for better security in depth and
usability
*
QR code scanning for Tor bridges
We will only release these features officially in Tails 5.8 (December
2022), but you cantry them already in Tails 5.8~beta1
<https://tails.boum.org/news/test_5.8-beta1/>!
Donation campaign
We launched our end-of-year donation campaign.
Donations from passionate people like you are our most valuable source
of funding because they guarantee our independence. We are a very small
nonprofit and our yearly budget is ridiculously small compared to the
value of Tails.
Donate now <https://tails.boum.org/donate/index.en.html>to fight
surveillance and censorship!
Releases
Tails 5.5 was released on October 17
<https://tails.boum.org/news/version_5.5/index.en.html>, including:
*
Update/Thunderbird/to102.3.0
<https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/102.3.0/releasenotes/>.
/Thunderbird/102 is a major update withmany changes to the
navigation, folder icons, and address book
<https://blog.thunderbird.net/2022/06/thunderbird-102-released-a-serious-upg…>.
/Thunderbird/102 also includes important usability improvements to
the OpenPGP feature. When composing an email, you can now see
whether it will be encrypted or not. If encryption is impossible, a
key assistant helps you solve key issues.
Thunderbird composer window with encryption turned on and
notification about a missing key and how to resolve the issue.
*
Always ask to configure a screen locking password when pressing
Ctrl+L and no administration pasword was set. (#19090
<https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/19090>)
Tails 5.6 was released on October 25
<https://tails.boum.org/news/version_5.6/index.en.html>.
Metrics
Tails has been started more than 698 160 times in September, and 736 378
times in October. This makes 23 517 boots a day on average.
Hi!
We're happy to announce that the State of the Onion, a livestream event
highlighting updates from onion-world over the last year, is returning
this month! This year, we'll State of the Onion will be a two-part event:
- Wednesday, Nov 9, State of the Onion: the Tor Project @ 17:00-18:30
UTC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSyBZ7GIzJY
- Wednesday, Nov 16, State of the Onion: the Tor community @ 17:00-18:30
UTC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-7k0PjnBbk
Everyone is invited to hear news, accomplishments, challenges, and next
steps of all the Tor Project's teams + Tor community projects during
these live events.
More information about the Tor Project's event in
https://blog.torproject.org/state-of-the-onion-2022/
cheers,
gaba
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Greetings,
Network team will be releasing either Wednesday or Thursday (November 9th or
10th 2022) a new stable release from the 0.4.7.x series.
We've been working a lot on this stable version to add fixes to help against
the network denial of service. This is an important release that we hope will
help us fight this DoS better.
Upcoming versions:
- 0.4.7.11
@network-team: It is _now_ a good time to start reviewing changes/ files:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/tree/main/changes
Last, we've asked the dirauth to recommend this version few minutes ago. Keep
an eye out for the release announcement and a blog post about this new stable
version.
Cheers!
David
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