(Devs are in Iceland, post bundles.)
Here are experimental bundles featuring the meek transport. I'm
interested in hearing how well it works for you. You don't need to
configure a bridge address; just click Connect.
https://people.torproject.org/~dcf/pt-bundle/3.5.2.1-meek-1/
Here's some more on how it works. In short, your traffic gets routed
through a web service in a way that is hard to block. In my opinion,
this transport is turbo-sexy and is going to work for a lot of people.
But don't take my word for it, see for yourself.
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/meekhttps://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-January/006159.html
I've been using this transport for all my own Tor use for the last 10
days. It feels a little bit slower than ordinary Tor, but you can still
watch YouTube on it. On App Engine you pay for your bandwidth
($0.12/GB). There's $50 in the app account; so far it's cost $0.06. (You
get 1 GB free each day, and only twice I exceeded that.) Part of my
reason for exposing the transport to testers is to estimate how much it
will cost to operate on an ongoing basis. If it's successful here, next
we'll try tor-dev, then tor-talk, then the world.
This is the branch from which the bundles were built:
https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/dcf/tor-browser-bundle.git/shortlog/refs…https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/dcf/tor-browser-bundle.git/commitdiff/tb…
David Fifield
Please test these experimental bundles that have tor-fw-helper included.
You may know that flash proxy requires people to set up port forwarding
(https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/FlashProxyHowto).
tor-fw-helper is a tool that uses UPnP or NAT-PMP to forward a port
automatically. I'm interested in finding out how likely it is to work.
https://people.torproject.org/~dcf/pt-bundle/3.5.2-fwhelper-1/
The bundles are configured to run flash proxy and tor-fw-helper. You
just have to click "Connect" and wait up to 60 seconds. You don't have
to do any special tests; just see whether it bootstraps or not.
If you want to see more of what's going on, look at the file
flashproxy-client.log that will be created inside the bundle. When
tor-fw-helper fails, it looks like this:
2014-02-09 01:15:52 Running port forwarding command: ./tor-fw-helper -p 49334:49334
2014-02-09 01:16:00 tor-fw-helper: tor-fw-helper tcp-forward 49334 49334 FAIL All port forwarding backends (natpmp) failed.
2014-02-09 01:16:00 tor-fw-helper: E: upnpDiscover returned: NULL
2014-02-09 01:16:00 tor-fw-helper: V: natpmp initialized...
2014-02-09 01:16:00 tor-fw-helper: tor-fw-helper: 1 NAT traversal helper(s) loaded
2014-02-09 01:16:00 tor-fw-helper: E: readnatpmpresponseorretry failed -7
2014-02-09 01:16:00 tor-fw-helper: E: errno=61 'Connection refused'
2014-02-09 01:16:00 tor-fw-helper: E: NAT-PMP It appears that something went wrong: -7
2014-02-09 01:16:00 tor-fw-helper: tor-fw-helper: tor_fw_add_port backend natpmp returned: -7
2014-02-09 01:16:00 tor-fw-helper exited with status 1.
This is the branch from which the bundles are built. The second link
shows what's different in the branch relative to the TBB 3.5.2 release.
https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/dcf/tor-browser-bundle.git/shortlog/refs…https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/dcf/tor-browser-bundle.git/commitdiff/3.…
David Fifield
Ok, these builds should *really* fix that localization issue (turns out
the version string needs to remove the esr suffix, too):
https://people.torproject.org/~mikeperry/builds/3.5.2.1/
Windows testing is especially appreciated.
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Mike Perry
It turns out 3.5.2 had an issue where we did not pick up the proper
Firefox release version from Mozilla's new git mirror.
Unfortunately, Mozilla is no longer exporting release branches to this
mirror, which means all their "release" commits in the esr24 branch
still have a "pre" suffix on the Firefox version. This caused the 3.5.2
release to be incompatible with the 24.3.0esr langpacks (bug 10895), and
none of our non-English bundles were functional.
Here's the new build (please test non-english builds, they work for me
on Linux, but who knows about elsewhere):
https://people.torproject.org/~linus/builds/3.5.2.1/
Windows testing is also useful, because we merged a size reduction fix
in between this release and 3.5.2.
Here's the changelog:
* All Platforms
* Bug 10895: Fix broken localized bundles
* Windows:
* Bug 10323: Remove unneeded gcc/libstdc++ libraries from dist
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Mike Perry
On Sun, 9 Feb 2014 08:55:36 -0800
David Fifield <david(a)bamsoftware.com> wrote:
> Please test these experimental bundles that have tor-fw-helper
> included. You may know that flash proxy requires people to set up
> port forwarding
> (https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/FlashProxyHowto).
> tor-fw-helper is a tool that uses UPnP or NAT-PMP to forward a port
> automatically. I'm interested in finding out how likely it is to work.
>
> https://people.torproject.org/~dcf/pt-bundle/3.5.2-fwhelper-1/
>
I've suggested this bundle to several people who have trouble
connecting through obfs3, for whatever reason. One person, who
reportedly lives in a country where Tor is blocked, told me
that this bundle works great.
Candidate builds are at:
https://people.torproject.org/~linus/builds/3.5.2/
Additional signatures are at:
https://people.torproject.org/~gk/builds/3.5.2/sha256sums.txt.aschttps://people.torproject.org/~mikeperry/builds/3.5.2/sha256sums.txt.asc
This is a security release, and contains the new Firefox 24.3.0ESR
fixes.
We're especially looking for anyone on MacOS 10.9 report back. Someone
told me that they are experiencing intermittent crashes on 10.9 since
TBB 3.5 (TBB 3.0 was fine for them). They suspect Retina support in
FF24ESR to be the culprit, though official Firefox builds do not crash.
I have not experienced crashes on MacOS 10.6.
Here's the ChangeLog:
* Rebase Tor Browser to Firefox 24.3.0ESR
* Bug 10419: Block content window connections to localhost
* Update Torbutton to 1.6.0
* Bug 10800: Prevent findbox exception and popup in New Identity
* Bug 10640: Fix about:tor's update pointer position for RTL languages.
* Bug 10095: Fix some cases where resolution is not a multiple of 200x100
* Bug 10285: Clear site permissions on New Identity
* Bug 9738: Fix for auto-maximizing on browser start
* Bug 10682: Workaround to really disable updates for Torbutton
* Bug 10419: Don't allow connections to localhost if Torbutton is toggled
* Bug 10140: Move Japanese to extra locales (not part of TBB dist)
* Bug 10687: Add Basque (eu) to extra locales (not part of TBB dist)
* Update Tor Launcher to 0.2.4.4
* Bug 10682: Workaround to really disable updates for Tor Launcher
* Update NoScript to 2.6.8.13
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Mike Perry