Hi everyone! Here is my status report for April 2022.

As anticipated last month, I continued working on the about:torconnect page and on about:preferences#connection. We have merged the first revision, which you can find on the latest alphas of Tor Browser 11.5! Any feedback is more than welcome 😄️. But we have not stopped there, and we prepared a second iteration, which is being reviewed [1].

Apart from this, I have worked on Tor Browser for Android for the rest of the month. We really had a lot of trouble with the rebase to Geckoview/Android Components/Fenix v99. You can read the whole story on tor-browser-build#40446 [2]. It should solve the crash that some users reported to us. We are sorry it took us so long to fix them. I have also already rebased everything for a v99-base stable of Tor Browser for Android 11.0, and I hope to begin its preparation soon. However, Firefox 100 is coming soon. Therefore, I worked for a v100-based TBA in April last week [3]. In addition to the updates, my working branch makes the QA-signed build compatible with Android R+ [4].

Thanks, Pier

[1] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/merge_requests/... [2] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/40... [3] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/40... [4] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/fenix/-/issues/40202