[tor-project] PieroV's Monthly Status Report, September 2023

[Pier Angelo Vendrame]

Hi everyone!
Here is my status report for September 2023.

This month, I continued working on the refactoring of the Tor 
integration in Tor Browser and finally merged the merge requested with 
the biggest changes [0]. During the month, I also fixed some bugs it 
caused and improved the compatibility with the external Tor daemons.

Then, I worked on some audits for the 102 to 115 transition. In 
particular, I reviewed our profiles [1].
Some other tasks included swapping a few branding assets, such as the 
About dialog wordmark and the Windows installer icons.
I also fixed the reproducibility bug with generated headers on Windows 
[2] and upstreamed the patch to Firefox.

During September, we had two emergency releases. I helped with the 
stable channel: I prepared and built both 12.5.4 and 12.5.6. For 13.0a4, 
I only rebased it on top of Firefox 115.2.1.

Finally, I worked on enabling system-wide installs for Mullvad Browser. 
However, it's a work in progress as it requires some non-trivial changes 
to the updater.

Best,
Pier

[0] 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/merge_requests/721
[1] 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/41496
[2] 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/41995