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''95th issue of Tor Weekly News. Covering what's happening from April 21st, 2015 to April 28th, 2015. To be released on April 29th, 2015.''
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'''Subject:''' Tor Weekly News — April 29th, 2015
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Welcome to the seventeenth issue in 2015 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly
-newsletter that covers what’s happening in the XXX Tor community.
+newsletter that covers what’s happening in the Tor community.
-Feature XXX
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+Tor Browser 4.5 is out
+----------------------
-Feature 1 with cited source [XXX]
+Mike Perry announced [XXX] the first stable release in Tor Browser’s 4.5
+series. This version includes numerous major new features and updates,
+and represents a significant advance in user-friendly security
+technology.
- [XXX]:
+The most visible new features have been covered in previous issues of
+Tor Weekly News. Tor Browser’s onion menu has been reorganized for
+ease of use, and now includes a diagram showing the locations and IP
+addresses of the relays that make up the Tor circuit used to access a
+website — one of the features most missed from the now-defunct Vidalia
+controller. The “security slider”, accessible in the onion menu’s
+“Privacy and Security Settings”, can be set at one of four levels
+depending on a user’s needs, disabling browser features which may give
+adversaries an opportunity to attack, at the cost of making some web
+pages less usable.
-Monthly status reports for XXX month 2015
------------------------------------------
+Tor Browser’s “first-party isolation” feature has been expanded: when
+you visit a website, all requests for the content on that domain name
+(including third-party elements like advertising beacons, analytics
+trackers, and content delivery networks) will be made over the same Tor
+circuit, and each domain name is restricted to its own Tor circuit,
+which is maintained for as long as the site is in active use. This
+makes an adversary’s tracking of a Tor user’s activity across different
+sites even harder than it was already, while ensuring that the usability
+of websites is not affected by sudden changes of exit relay.
-The wave of regular monthly reports from Tor project members for the
-month of XXX has begun. XXX released his report first [XXX], followed
-by reports from name 2 [XXX], name 3 [XXX], and name 4 [XXX].
+For full explanations of these and other features — including better
+desktop integration, a new search provider, improvements to the software
+signature process, and more — please see the team’s announcement. Users
+of what was the 4.5-alpha series will be prompted to update
+automatically by their Tor Browser, while users of the stable 4.0.8 will
+receive the same prompt in about a week’s time, “because [the] changes
+are significant”. And if you don’t already have a working copy of Tor
+Browser, head to the download page [XXX] to get started. Congratulations
+to the Tor Browser team on reaching this milestone!
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
+ [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-45-released
+ [XXX]: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html
Miscellaneous news
------------------
-Item 1 with cited source [XXX].
+Karsten Loesing announced [XXX] that the onionoo-announce mailing list
+will be shut down in favor of posting announcements about major Onionoo
+protocol updates to the tor-dev mailing list, “because each Tor mailing
+list makes it more difficult for new contributors to decide which of
+them to subscribe to”. If these announcements are relevant to your work,
+please be sure to subscribe to tor-dev — you can set your mail client to
+filter for the keyword “Onionoo” if you’d rather not receive other Tor
+development-related messages.
-Item 2 with cited source [XXX].
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/onionoo-announce/2015/000004.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
-Item 3 with cited source [XXX].
+Also in Onionoo news, Thomas White announced [XXX] that his mirror of the
+service is now also available at an onion address.
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-April/037619.html
-Tor help desk roundup
----------------------
+Lucas Erlacher announced [XXX] version 0.3.0 of OnionPy, “a pure-python
+OnionOO request wrapper that supports transparent caching”. The new
+release respects Onionoo’s “version” field in query responses.
-Summary of some questions sent to the Tor help desk.
-
-News from Tor StackExchange
----------------------------
-
-Text with cited source [XXX].
-
- [XXX]:
-
-Easy development tasks to get involved with
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-
-Text with cited source [XXX].
-
- [XXX]:
-
-This week in Tor history
-------------------------
-
-Text with cited source [XXX].
-
- [XXX]:
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-April/008755.html
Upcoming events
---------------
-Jul XX-XX | Event XXX brief description
- | Event City, Event Country
- | Event website URL
- |
-Jul XX-XX | Event XXX brief description
- | Event City, Event Country
- | Event website URL
+ May 03 19:00 UTC | Tails contributors meeting
+ | #tails-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ | https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-project/2015-April/000187.html
+ |
+ May 04 18:00 UTC | Tor Browser online meeting
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ May 04 18:00 UTC | OONI development meeting
+ | #ooni, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ May 05 18:00 UTC | little-t tor patch workshop
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
+ |
+ May 13 02:00 UTC | Pluggable transports/bridges meeting
+ | #tor-dev, irc.oftc.net
This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by XXX, XXX, and
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