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271 words by gman999 written on 2015–10–26, last edit: 2017–09–03, tags: openbsd, tor-browser
The Tor BSD Diversity Project TDP is proud to announce the release of Tor Browser TB version 5. .3 for OpenBSD.
TDP is an effort to extend the use of the BSD Unixes into the Tor ecosystem from the desktop to the network. … read more
149 words by gman999 written on 2015–10–31, last edit: 2017–09–03, tags: openbsd, tor-browser
The upstream code from the Tor Project and above them Mozilla are moving targets we contend with each release. Then there is the ultimate moving target: the incessant war between surveillance and anonymity censorship and circumvention. Finally there is the operating system as a moving target all Tor Browser porters face. … read more
123 words by gman999 written on 2015–11–11, last edit: 2017–09–03, tags: openbsd, porting, tor-browser
The a href “http://mirrors.nycbug.org/pub/snapshots/packages/amd64/” Tor Browser 5. .3 packages were updated again due to the need for icu4c version 56.1. Both devel/nspr and textproc/icu4c are updated in the OpenBSD ports tree and the TB packages have been rebuilt for them. Be sure to make sure packages or ports are updated before installing. If the host is updated there’s no need to use our devel/nspr or textproc/icu4c packages. … read more
540 words by gman999 written on 2016–01–02, last edit: 2017–09–03, tags: project, stats, tor-browser
We are still moving along.
Attila began working on the next Tor Browser release yesterday.
Dirty Statistics are still being updated and tweaked. More reports are in the pipeline. … read more
256 words by gman999 written on 2016–02–16, last edit: 2017–09–03, tags: openbsd, tor-browser
The progress we’ve made over the past five days was exhausting yet exciting.
Some very significant steps were made with Tor Browser. A revised 5.5 release does not contain the start-tor-browser script any longer all the necessary setup steps are now done with Javascript including the profile setup. The Firefox add-ons are now dumped into the profile as files such as https-everywhere eff.org.xpi instead of being extracted into directories. Additionally we are now building an i386 version of TB. … read more
204 words by gman999 written on 2016–02–21, last edit: 2017–09–03, tags: openbsd, tor-browser
Yesterday the OpenBSD snapshots updated to 1881 for amd64 and 16 9 for i386. TB is working fine on both.
Meanwhile the TB packages were updated. First we implemented a meta TB package as per landry ’s comments. Note that the start-tor-browser script was also deprecated recently. All the sloppy setup gook was replaced by neater Firefox hacks. … read more
388 words by gman999 written on 2016–02–05, last edit: 2017–09–03, tags: openbsd, tor-browser
I just merged 5.5 onto master and tagged it. This release was much easier after the work on 5. .6 which has us using mozilla.port.mk instead of a bunch of cut-and-paste adapted from same. This makes things a lot easier moving forward. So far 5.5 on amd64 is looking good. … read more
408 words by gman999 written on 2016–03–31, last edit: 2017–09–03, tags: openbsd, tor-browser
As of last week’s OpenBSD’s i386 and amd64 snapshots TB 5.5 is no longer working.
We are looking to start building the Tor Project’s most recent TB soon. Spending time on TB 5.5 is fruitless when 5.5.4 is the current TP release. … read more
17 words by gman999 written on 2016–03–13, last edit: 2017–09–03, tags: openbsd, tor-browser
TB 5.5 is working fine with the newest OpenBSD snapshots:
amd64 is 189 i386 is 1618 … read more
21 words by gman999 written on 2016–03–10, last edit: 2017–09–03, tags: openbsd, tor-browser
Tor Browser 5.5 is still working with the newest OpenBSD snapshots which is 1638 for i386 and 1918 for amd64. … read more
229 words by gman999 written on 2016–06–29, last edit: 2017–09–03, tags: meetconf, openbsd, project, tor-browser
This blog remained silent over the past several months despite a flurry of very significant TDP activities.
The accomplishments are not reducible to a single blog entry but here are summaries of the more interesting:
There was continued development and the release of several Tor Browser versions. Packages for 6. and 6. .2 the current version were produced. The OpenBSD packages for both amd64 and i386 are available at http://mirror.nycbug.org/pub/snapshots/packages/{amd64 i386}. With feedback from the OpenBSD ports mailing list another version of TB 6. .2 is in the works. … read more
86 words by gman999 written on 2016–10–05, last edit: 2017–09–03, tags: openbsd, testing, tor-browser
The release of TB 6. .5 has been worked and reworked and submitted to the OpenBSD ports list.
If you’re an OpenBSD user running amd64 snapshots and you want more operating system on the Tor network you should be testing it. As always consider this release without warranties and a serious infraction to your online anonymity … read more
63 words by attila written on 2016–11–13, last edit: 2017–09–03, tags: milestones, openbsd, ports, tor-browser
It was a long haul but the Tor Browser ports were finally accepted into the OpenBSD ports tree today.
A huge thanks to landry semarie danj mmcc and all the other ports people who made this possible with their critiques … read more
395 words by gman999 written on 2017–08–27, last edit: 2017–09–03, tags: openbsd, ports, tbb, tor-browser
Earlier today Tor Browser 7. .4 was committed to OpenBSD’s -current ports.
On some levels it’s a non-spectacular event. We build the packages test those packages rebuild retest and then Attila submits the diff to OpenBSD’s ports list. Sometimes I retest from source or packages … read more
170 words by attila written on 2017–09–27, last edit: 2017–10–10, tags: openbsd, ports, tbb, tor-browser
Tor Browser 7. .5 was committed yesterday into OpenBSD’s -current ports. It hasn’t show up as a package yet but should soon.
At the moment the i386 port is building from an updated ports tree. Usually if a port compiles correctly on amd64 it compiles fine … read more
77 words by attila written on 2018–04–26, last edit: 2018–04–26, tags: openbsd, ports, tbb, tor-browser
Tor Browser 7.5.3 was committed on the 24th. It hasn’t shown up as a package yet for -current but it’s just a matter of time. Many thanks to sthen for doing this
I’ve also posted a proposed patch to backport 7.5.3 to OpenBSD 6.3-stable. I’ll do my best to keep up on … read more
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