[guardian-dev] Heads up: Orfox "RIP" EOL is coming, moving to TBA!

Tim Schwartz tim at timschwartz.org
Tue Sep 3 04:33:21 EDT 2019


Is there a sunset plan for Orbot or will that continue to go on?

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> On 3 Sep 2019, at 09:52, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:
> 
> 
> Congrats!  The perfect end to the Orfox project: its now merged into
> offical Tor Browser.
> 
> This test case sounds like a great thing to run on one of those device
> testing services: install the last working version of Orfox, then update
> it with that one.
> 
> .hc
> 
> Nathan of Guardian:
>> We will be officially announcing the end of Orfox this week, by
>> releasing a final update to the 1.2 million active users of Orfox on
>> Google Play and F-Droid. We haven't kept Orfox up to date with Firefox
>> or Tor Browser fixes, so we must bring it to a forced end. Besides, TBA
>> is looking good and working great, so anyone who wants Tor Browser on
>> Android should use it.
>> 
>> This "OrfoxRIP" app will replace the existing Orfox app:
>> https://github.com/guardianproject/Orfox/releases/tag/Orfox-Final-RIP-v16
>> 
>> If you have Orfox still installed, please try installing it over what
>> you have, and let me know if you have any issues.
>> 
>> Download the APK:
>> https://github.com/guardianproject/Orfox/releases/download/Orfox-Final-RIP-v16/Orfox-Final-RIP-v16.apk
>> 
>> Otherwise, you can see the discussion and design work on this ticket:
>> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/29955
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> +n
>> 
>> 
>> 
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