[tor-qa] Tor Browser 4.5-alpha-1 is ready for testing

[Mike Perry]

We have another build that should address the localization issues we
found with the security slider, as well as a couple of issues with the
circuit status UI and a pinning issue from upstream. Updated builds are
here:

https://people.torproject.org/~mikeperry/builds/4.5-alpha-1/

Georg Koppen:
> Hi,
> 
> we are happy to announce the first alpha in the 4.5 series. It contains
> a bunch of new things most notably the isolation of browser streams by
> URL bar domain, the obfs4 pluggable transport, a tor based on the 0.2.6
> series, 64bit only OS X bundles, a first implementation of the security
> slider and a backport of the certificate pinning functionality.
> Furthermore, it includes updates, bugfixes and minor new features. The
> bundles can be found at:
> 
> https://people.torproject.org/~mikeperry/builds/4.5-alpha-1/
> 
> a signed SHA256 sums file is in
> 
> https://people.torproject.org/~gk/builds/4.5-alpha-1/
> 
> Feedback and bug reports are greatly appreciated.
> 
> The full changelog is:
> 
> Tor Browser 4.5-alpha-1 -- Nov 3 2014
>  * All Platforms
>    * Bug 3455: Patch Firefox SOCKS and proxy filters to allow user+pass
> isolation
>    * Bug 11955: Backport HTTPS Certificate Pinning patches from Firefox 32
>    * Bug 13019: Make JS engine use English locale if a pref is set by
> Torbutton
>    * Bug 13301: Prevent extensions incompatibility error after upgrades
>    * Bug 13460: Fix MSVC compilation issue
>    * Update Tor to 0.2.6.0-alpha
>    * Update NoScript to 2.6.9.3
>    * Update Torbutton to 1.8.0.1
>      * Bug 9387: Provide a "Security Slider" for vulnerability surface
> reduction
>      * Bug 13019: Synchronize locale spoofing pref with our Firefox patch
>      * Bug 3455: Use SOCKS user+pass to isolate all requests from the
> same url domain
>      * Bug 8641: Create browser UI to indicate current tab's Tor circuit IPs
>      * Bug 13651: Prevent circuit-status related UI hang.
>    * Bug 13586: Make meek use TLS session tickets (to look like stock
> Firefox).
>    * Include obfs4proxy pluggable transport
>  * Windows
>    * Bug 13443: Re-enable DirectShow; fix crash with mingw patch.
>    * Bug 13091: Make app name "Tor Browser" instead of "Tor"
>  * Mac
>    * Bug 10138: Switch to 64bit builds for MacOS
> 
> Georg
> 



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Mike Perry
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