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

Tim Schwartz tim at timschwartz.org
Mon Sep 9 02:05:58 EDT 2019


Awesome 👏 - thanks for the confirmation!


> On 3 Sep 2019, at 10:58, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:
> 
> 
> Orbot will go on!  Tor Browser will never provide all the services that
> Orbot does, like VPN mode.  We are working on smoothing out all of the
> various Tor integrations so they work nicely together, including Tor
> Browser, Orbot, Briar, etc.  I'm currently creating a "TorService" app
> that will be as simple as possible and only provide tor daemon as a
> service to other apps.
> 
> .hc
> 
> Tim Schwartz:
>> Is there a sunset plan for Orbot or will that continue to go on?
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> 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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