[TWN team] Recent changes to the wiki pages

Lunar lunar at torproject.org
Sun Aug 17 15:40:05 UTC 2014


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version 20
Author: harmony
Date:   2014-08-17T14:54:49+00:00

   it was last month

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 to one of them, and “as this issue is only a DoS”, it is not considered
 a critical security update. This release also brings Tor Browser users
 the fixes that give log warnings about the RELAY_EARLY traffic
-confirmation attack explained earlier this month [XXX]. Please be sure
-to upgrade as soon as possible.
+confirmation attack explained last month [XXX]. Please be sure to
+upgrade as soon as possible.
 
 Alongside this stable release, the first alpha version of Tor Browser
 4.0 is now available. Among the most exciting new features of this

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Author: harmony
Date:   2014-08-17T14:52:35+00:00

   write tor browser item

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 Welcome to the thirty-third issue of Tor Weekly News in 2014, the weekly
 newsletter that covers what is happening in the XXX Tor community.
 
-Feature XXX
------------
+Tor Browser 3.6.4 and 4.0-alpha-1 are out
+-----------------------------------------
 
-Feature 1 with cited source [XXX]
+Erinn Clark took to the Tor Blog [XXX] to announce two new releases by
+the Tor Browser team. The stable version (3.6.4) contains fixes for
+several new OpenSSL bugs, although since Tor should only be vulnerable
+to one of them, and “as this issue is only a DoS”, it is not considered
+a critical security update. This release also brings Tor Browser users
+the fixes that give log warnings about the RELAY_EARLY traffic
+confirmation attack explained earlier this month [XXX]. Please be sure
+to upgrade as soon as possible.
 
- [XXX]:
+Alongside this stable release, the first alpha version of Tor Browser
+4.0 is now available. Among the most exciting new features of this
+series is the inclusion of the meek [XXX] pluggable transport. In
+contrast to the bridge-based transports already available in Tor
+Browser, meek relies on a principle of “too big to block”, as its
+creator David Fifield explained: “instead of going through a bridge
+with a secret address, you go through a known domain (www.google.com
+for example) that the censor will be reluctant to block. You don’t need
+to look up any bridge addresses before you get started” [XXX]. meek
+currently supports two “front domains”, Google and Amazon Web Services;
+it may therefore be especially useful for users behind extremely
+restrictive national or local firewalls. David posted a fuller
+explanation of meek, and how to configure it, in a separate blog
+post [XXX].
+
+This alpha release also “paves the way to [the] upcoming autoupdater by
+reorganizing the directory structure of the browser”, as Erinn wrote.
+This means that users upgrading from any previous Tor Browser series
+cannot extract the new version over their existing Tor Browser folder,
+or it will not work.
+
+You can consult the full list of changes and bugfixes for both versions
+in Erinn’s post, and download the new releases themselves from the Tor
+website [XXX].
+
+ [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-364-and-40-alpha-1-are-released
+ [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-security-advisory-relay-early-traffic-confirmation-attack
+ [XXX]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/meek
+ [XXX]: XXX will link when I find out how to reference specific blog comments
+ [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/how-use-%E2%80%9Cmeek%E2%80%9D-pluggable-transport
+ [XXX]: https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/
 
 Monthly status reports for XXX month 2014
 -----------------------------------------
@@ -101,7 +138,6 @@
   * ''I (dcf) didn't see this one, so I can't say anything about it.''\\
     [https://defcon.org/html/defcon-22/dc-22-speakers.html#Metacortex Touring the Darkside of the Internet. An Introduction to Tor, Darknets, and Bitcoin] by Metacortex and Grifter.
 * What's in a fake Tor Browser http://dustri.org/b/torbundlebrowserorg.html
-* Tor Browser 3.6.4 and 4.0-alpha-1 https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-364-and-40-alpha-1-are-released
 * Guard nodes and network down events https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-August/007346.html
 * Next OONI meeting https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-August/007347.html
 * gabelmoo and tor26 have stopped acting as Naming Directory Authorities https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-August/007348.html letter for users https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-August/034380.html ''should be a feature''
@@ -113,4 +149,3 @@
   - wfpadtools https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-August/000623.html
   - ahmia https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2014-August/000624.html
 * Next Tails contributor meeting https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-project/2014-August/000016.html
-* How to use meek https://blog.torproject.org/blog/how-use-%E2%80%9Cmeek%E2%80%9D-pluggable-transport



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