remove Tor Browser version 7.5.5 from RecommendedTBBVersions

[adrelanos]

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".)

[boklm]

Yet on August 18, 2018 7.5.5 was still included in RecommendedTBBVersions. Why? Forgotten or is there a policy to it?

Sorry, it should have been removed a few hours after 7.5.6 was released, but it was forgotten. I have removed it now.

Could you please kindly explain the policy on when old versions are removed from RecommendedTBBVersions?

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 in 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".)

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