Hi all :)
This is my monthly status report for August 2024 with the main relevant activities I have done, was involved or are related to my work during the period.
# Things I've done
## Notes from the Lisbon meeting
Finally sorted and edited notes from the Lisbon Meeting!
I would like to thank Rasmus Dahlberg for his impressive note taking skills!
Public notes are available here:
* Onion Plan: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/team/-/wikis/Meetings/2024/Lisbon/onion-pl...
* ACME for Onions: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/team/-/wikis/Meetings/2024/Lisbon/update-o...
* Self-authenticated certificates for Onion Services: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/team/-/wikis/Meetings/2024/Lisbon/self-aut...
## Onion Services and Mixed content handling
Did some security evaluation for Tor Browser about upcoming changes on mixed content handling on upstream Firefox: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/43013
## Onion Discovery
Updated some documents related to Onion Discovery:
* Onion Association page: https://onionservices.torproject.org/research/proposals/usability/discovery/...
* Specs for DNS-based .onion records: https://onionservices.torproject.org/research/appendixes/dns/
## Onionbalance
Onionbalance documentation was migrated to Onion MkDocs and included in the Ecosystem:
* New URL: https://onionservices.torproject.org/apps/base/onionbalance/
* Related issues: * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onionbalance/-/issues/28 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/ecosystem/-/issues/2
## House keeping
* Created monthly scheduled builds for all major projects at https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services
* Created monthly scheduled builds for documentation generators such as Onion MkDocs, Onion TeX Slim and Onion Reveal: * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/onion-mkdocs/ * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/onion-reveal/ * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/onion-tex-slim
* Invited the Renovate Bot (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/renovate-cron) to help keeping some more projects.
## Support
* Ongoing sponsored work with deployment, maintenance and monitoring of Onion Services.
# Other news from the Onionspace
* The ACME for Onions (https://acmeforonions.org/) Internet Draft is going through the Last Call on the IETF working group!
Current status available at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-acme-onion/history/