torbrowser-launcher/CHANGELOG.md

Tor Browser Launcher Changelog

0.3.1

• Ship with latest version of the Tor Browser Developers OpenPGP public key
• Fix bug where TBL window stays open after Tor Browser is launched

0.3.0

• Switched from python2 to python3
• Switched from gtk2 to Qt5
• Switched from twisted to requests/socks
• Use QThreads for async
• Removed modem sound
• Only refresh gpg keyring on verification error, instead of every time
• Updated AppArmor profiles
• Updated available languages, and fixed locale detection bug
• Fixed false signature verification error related to twisted

0.2.9

• Fixed crash issue related to Tor Browser 7.5 changing how the currently installed version number is stored
• Updated list of Tor Project dist mirrors
• Fixed edge case crash for when stdout isn't writable
• Updated AppStream metadata
• Updated AppArmor profiles

0.2.8

• Update URL to check for latest version, which changed in Tor Browser 7
• Automatically refresh GPG keyring, to prevent signature verification false positives
• Improve GnuPG code by using GPGME if available
• Updated AppArmor profiles
• Added Czech, Hungarian localization

0.2.7

• Updated Tor Browser signing key because they added a new subkey and verification was failing
• Updated AppArmor profiles
• Improved localization, and added Russian

0.2.6

• Fixed bug related to fallback to English feature that caused Settings to crash

0.2.5

• Fix issue where Tor Browser Launcher failed to launch if currently installed version of Tor Browser was too old
• If Tor Browser download isn't available in your language, fallback to English
• Avoid re-downloading tarball if it's already present
• Verify GnuPG importing keys using status-fd rather than exit codes
• Various AppArmor improvements
• Removed unused dependency

0.2.4

• Fix signature verification bypass attack, reported by Jann Horn (CVE-2016-3180)

0.2.3

• Removed certificate pinning to https://www.torproject.org to avoid issues with upcoming certificate change, and hard-coded minimum Tor Browser version in the release
• Fix issue with detecting language
• Make Tor SOCKS5 proxy configurable, for users not running on 9050
• Improved AppArmor profiles
• Added translations
• Switched from xpm icons to png icons
• Changed "Exit" button to "Cancel" button
• New package description

0.2.2

• Tor Browser Launcher no longer attempts to auto-update, now that Tor Browser has this feature
• System Tor is now an optional dependency
• Fix issue where downloads fail because of unicode URLs
• Removed window management code that stopped working many releases ago, and removed wmctrl dependency
• Removed test code that caused signature verification to happen at the wrong time

0.2.1

• Stop using RecommendedTBBVersions and start using more reliable "release" channel XML
• Converted settings file from pickle format to JSON
• Download tarball signatures to verify, rather than SHA256SUMS and signature
• Implemented IPolicyForHTTPS to prevent twisted-related crashes in Debian
• Some AppArmor fixes

0.2.0

• Fix critical bug with new location of start-tor-browser
• Silenced some AppArmor denied events from logs
• Print less console output
• Remove support for accepting links
• Added better support for updating over Tor in Fedora

0.1.9

• Added option to disable accepting links, to workaround Firefox/Tor Browser issue

0.1.8

• Added new Tor Browser signing key
• Fixed removing alpha/beta code due to change in RecommendedTBBVersions syntax
• Fixed opening links in TBB if you originally opened TBB without clicking a link

0.1.7

• You can now pass URLs into TBL, and set it as your default browser
• Hides TBL window before launching TBB
• Default mirror switched to https://dist.torproject.org/
• Added AppData file to look better in software centers
• Exclude AppArmor profiles in Ubuntu, where they're broken

0.1.6

• Updated licensing confusion to just be MIT in all locations
• Fixed bug related to TBB 4.0's new folder structure
• Updated .desktop files to comply with standards

0.1.5

• Split source code into several files
• Several AppArmor updates
• Prepare for upcoming RecommendedTBBVersion format change
• More verbose UI when updating
• No longer detaches start-tor-browser as separate process
• Temporarily disable AppArmor profiles in Ubuntu

0.1.4

• RecommendedTBBVersion URL change
• Many AppArmor improvements
• Allow installation into a virtualenv

0.1.3

• Force installing stable release if available in RecommendedTBBVersions
• Removed Mike Perry's signing key and added Erinn Clark's signing key
• Fixed AppArmor profiles (thanks to troubadoour)

0.1.2

• Updated Dutch translation
• Fixed bug with loading mirrors list
• Huge refactor of AppArmor profiles
• Added OnionShare support to AppArmor profiles
• Suppresses output from detached TBB process
• Uses freedesktop xdg-user-dirs instead of ~/.torbrowser
• Removed all signing keys except Mike Perry's
• Made tor and python-txsocksx dependencies to update over Tor by default

0.1.1

• Added TBL_SHARE support, to more easily develop without installing systemwide
• Modem sound and python-pygame dependency is now optional
• Support for updating TBB over Tor using a system Tor
• Removed support for stable/alpha preference, forces stable now
• Added French translations

0.1.0

• Added Polish translations
• Version 0.1.0 marks first version in Debian!
• Changed GPG release signing key from 5C17616361BD9F92422AC08BB4D25A1E99999697 to 0B1491929806596254700155FD720AD9EBA34B1C

0.0.9

• Fixed AppArmor rules that were broken in Ubuntu
• Added support for basic RPM packaging
• Removed un-used dependencies
• Fixed URLs to deal with TBB release filename changes

0.0.8

• Removed older code that's no longer used
• Updated list of Tor mirrors
• Replaced certificate for www.torproject.org post-heartbleed
• Fixed URLs to deal with TBB release filename changes

0.0.7

• Added AppArmor profiles for torbrowser-launcher and TBB
• Removed included libs in favor of adding new Debian package dependencies

0.0.6

• Fixed URLs to deal with changes in TBB releases for 3.x

0.0.5

• Updated paths because TBB 3.x changed directory structure
• mirrors.txt now has local version in /usr/local
• Updated TBB signature URL
• Made optional modem sound when launching Tor, because it's sooo slow :)
• Extra check to make sure the latest version is installed