Opened 16 months ago
Closed 16 months ago
#27193 closed defect (fixed)
remove Tor Browser version 7.5.5 from RecommendedTBBVersions
Reported by: | adrelanos | Owned by: | tbb-team |
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Priority: | Medium | Milestone: | |
Component: | Applications/Tor Browser | Version: | |
Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | |
Cc: | whonix-devel@… | Actual Points: | |
Parent ID: | Points: | ||
Reviewer: | Sponsor: |
Description
External applications such as tb-updater and torbrowser-downloader parse, depend on RecommendedTBBVersions being up to date.
7.5.6
was released June 26, 2018.
Yet on August 18, 2018 7.5.5
was still included in RecommendedTBBVersions. Why? Forgotten or is there a policy to it?
Could you please kindly explain the policy on when old versions are removed from RecommendedTBBVersions?
I am asking, so tb-updater parsing code can be updated accordingly. (At the moment it's "suggest the lowest version number among them otherwise it might be an alpha/beta version".)
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Sorry, it should have been removed a few hours after
7.5.6
was released, but it was forgotten. I have removed it now.When a new version fixing some security issues is released, we remove the old one from
RecommendedTBBVersions
, after 12-24h to give time for people to update before showing a warning. When the new version is not a security update, we keep both versions inRecommendedTBBVersions
.A more reliable way to find what is the current version is to look at
appVersion
in this URL (if you can parse xml):https://aus1.torproject.org/torbrowser/update_3/release/Linux_x86_64-gcc3/x/en-US
Or
version
in this one:https://aus1.torproject.org/torbrowser/update_3/release/downloads.json