On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Mike Perry <mikeperry@torproject.org> wrote:
OK. I've decided to go with "Release early, release often" on this one.

We have another build that should fix the New Identity issue:
https://people.torproject.org/~linus/builds/3.5-rc-1-build3/

Let me know if there are any other obvious problems. It would especially
be useful to know if
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10354 applies to the
Windows binaries, too.


Mike Perry:
> Hey everyone,
>
> We've got a tight schedule here to get a TBB based on FF24esr out soon,
> so quick smoke testing on this is appreciated, especially on Windows and
> Mac.
>
> The plan is to post this 3.5rc1 build on the blog tonight, and then post
> a 3.5 release later this week (Thursday or Friday, depending on issues).
> At that point, our 2.x series will be officially deprecated.
>
> This version should also fix the Nvidia crashes reported with Georg's
> build from Sunday, but it would be useful to have confirmation:
> https://people.torproject.org/~linus/builds/3.5-rc-1/

Testing: torbrowser-install-3.5-rc-1_en-US.exe (build 3)
Platform: Windows 7 64-bit

Bundle components:
Firefox 24.2.0 ESR
Torbutton 1.6.5.1
NoScript 2.6.8.7
HTTPS-Everywhere 3.4.4tbb

Behaviour:
- TBB Launches successfully - yes
- Browser toolbars and menus work, tab dragging works - yes

Functions:
- HTTP, HTTPS, .onion browsing - ok
- HTML5 videos work (http://youtube.com/)
- http://html5demos.com/web-socket - Not connected
- Tor SOCKS - ok
- New identity closes all tabs and removes all cookies - ok

Waiting for build 4 (localization issue).

Good luck.

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Sherief Alaa
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