Hi All!

In October the Tor Browser team made three releases: Tor Browser 7.0.7[1], 7.0.8[2], and 7.5a6[3].

Tor Browser 7.0.7 and 7.5a6 were mostly releases enhancing the stability of Tor Browser: they fixed crashes on macOS High Sierra[4] and when accessing Google Drive[5], and dealt with issues related to our external helper app handling (in the 7.0.7 case)[6]. Tor Browser 7.0.7 is moreover the first stable release that contains the Firefox content sandbox enabled for Linux users.[7]

Tor Browser 7.0.8 was a fix-up release to make our donation banner work correctly.[8]

Non-release related work saw much progress regarding our remaining Sponsor4 items: we are about to ship the long-awaited 64bit bundles for Windows in our alpha series[9] and the new Tor Launcher UI[10][11] will be ready as well to get wider testing in Tor Browser 7.5a8.

We spent almost a week together with other Tor folks in Montreal working on things face to face and creating the roadmaps for the next few months. Watch out on the tbb-dev or tor-project mailing list if you are interested, updates are coming soon.

The full list of tickets closed by the Tor Browser team in October is accessible using the `TorBrowserTeam201710` keyword in our bug tracker.[12]

This month we plan to finish most of our Sponsor4 deliverables, so this will be busy weeks for the whole team. Tickets for those deliverables can be easily found on Trac.[13]

We will start as well to integrate developers working with the mobile port of Tor Browser targeting Android devices. This will be our first step towards a mobile browser in feature-parity with the desktop version of Tor Browser, which is very exciting!

All tickets on our radar for this month can be seen with the `TorBrowserTeam201711` keyword in our bug tracker.[14]

Georg

[1] https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-707-released [2] https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-708-released [3] https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-75a6-released [4] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23807 [5] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23745 [6] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/22610 [7] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/22692 [8] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23949 [9] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/20636 [10] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23262 [11] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23261 [12] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=closed&keywords=~T... [13] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=accepted&status=as... [14] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=accepted&status=as...