[tor-qa] Pre-build announcement #2 for 3.6-beta-1

[tor-admin]

Hi,

Are there test cases available that describe how a new build should be 
tested? 

Regards,

Torland

On Saturday 15 March 2014 20:18:00 Mike Perry wrote:
> Ok, Firefox 24.4.0esr was just tagged, so we're going to do another
> build based on that.
> 
> Tag tbb-3.6beta1-build2 (e8b437c91d9a41b7c0517c6239edc7c947451dfc) was
> just pushed to https://git.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-
bundle.git.
> 
> It should once again be possible to build from non-KVM/VT machines that 
only
> support LXC (by setting the USE_LXC=1 environment variable before
> build).
> 
> 'make beta' is the command you want to build this tag, run from the
> gitian subdirectory in a tor-browser-bundle.git checkout on an Ubuntu
> machine. Further build instructions are at:
> https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-
bundle.git/blob/HEAD:/git
> ian/README.build
> 
> Once we get confirmation on reproducibility (earlier commits were fine,
> so we should be good), we'll begin testing.
> 
> Here's the new changelog:
> 
> Tor Browser Bundle 3.6-beta-1
>  * All Platforms
>    * Update Firefox to 24.4.0esr
>    * Include Pluggable Transports by default:
>      * Obfsproxy3 0.2.4, Flashproxy 1.6, and FTE 0.2.6 are now included
>    * Update Tor Launcher to 0.2.5.1
>      * Bug 10418: Provide UI configuration for Pluggable Transports
>      * Bug 10604: Allow Tor status & error messages to be translated
>      * Bug 10894: Make bridge UI clear that helpdesk is a last resort 
for
>                   bridges
>      * Bug 10610: Clarify wizard UI text describing obstacles/blocking
>      * Bug 11074: Support Tails use case (XULRunner and optional
>                   customizations)
>    * Update Torbutton to 1.6.7.0:
>      * Bug 9901: Fix browser freeze due to content type sniffing
>      * Bug 10611: Add Swedish (sv) to extra locales to update
>    * Update NoScript to 2.6.8.17
>    * Update Tor to 0.2.4.21
>    * Backport Pending Tor Patches:
>      * Bug 5018: Don't launch Pluggable Transport helpers if not in use
>      * Bug 9229: Eliminate 60 second stall during bootstrap with some 
PTs
>      * Bug 11069: Detect and report Pluggable Transport bootstrap 
failures
>      * Bug 11156: Prevent spurious warning about missing pluggable
> transports * Bug 10237: Disable the media cache to prevent disk leaks 
for
> videos * Bug 10703: Force the default charset to avoid locale
> fingerprinting * Bug 10104: Update gitian to fix LXC build issues (for
> non-KVM/VT builders) * Mac:
>    * Bug 4271: Use DMG instead of ZIP for Mac packages
>  * Linux:
>    * Bug 9533: Fix keyboard input on Ubuntu 13.10
>    * Bug 9896: Provide debug symbols for Tor Browser binary
>    * Bug 10472: Pass arguments to the browser from Linux startup script