Tor Browser starting with 12.0a4 alpha (and 12.0 release in a few months) will be a multi-locale bundle. However, there is some good news at the end. Well that’s all very sad and definitely sounds a lot like developer whinging. So we’ve been reluctant to further complicate this process by adding more platforms that only a minority of users care about. Simply adding another platform adds a significant amount of cost in terms of time, developer effort, hosting, etc. Then it takes just over another work-day to do all of the uploading, signing, downloading, uploading, incremental generation, incremental signing, downloading, uploading, and finally publishing. We also have to generate incrementals (for build-to-build updates) for each package, and we have to sign each installation package and incremental.Īs a result, it takes about a work-day to build (and verify reproducibility of) a release, on top of actually prepping it (rebasing, backporting, updating build configs, changelogs, etc). This means that every time we build tor-browser for a platform, we effectively have to package it 36 times which takes a significant amount of time.
TOR BROWSER DEBIAN SERIES
We currently support 36 locales in the 11.5 stable series, and 37 locales in 12.0 alpha series (Ukrainian recently added). So what’s the hold up? We have the MRs just merge them already! GitLab ) and and Linux ppc ( Add linux-ppc64le target (!391).The Tor Project / Applications / tor-browser-build.There are pending merge requests to add support for Linux arm ( Draft: Bug 32355 v3: Tor Browser for Linux/ARMv7 (x86_64 build arch) (!492)
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So there are a few reasons why we’ve been reluctant to support non x86/amd64 builds.įor one, the majority of users out there are not on ARM based hardware.įor two, more platforms means more opportunities for platform-specific bugs means more need for devs and hardware.įor three, more supported platforms means more builds to build, sign, upload, and host.Ĭurrently we support Windows (x86 and amd64), Linux (x86 and amd64) and macOS (x86_64). Tor Browser/Applications Team dev-lead here to give you a hopefully satisfying answer and something to look forward to
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