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Orbot for Android v17.9.4 BETA 1 (tor 0.4.9.6.2)

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@n8fr8 n8fr8 released this 05 May 21:16
· 205 commits to master since this release
17.9.4-BETA-1-tor-0.4.9.6.2

Release

Build / tooling

  • Bumped to Gradle 9.5.0 and Android Gradle Plugin 9.2.0 (earlier 9.1.0 → 9.1.1) (3cc66c8, 57e0d1d, 12d757f)
  • Latest Kotlin + navigation-fragment-ktx patch (5d17726)
  • Fastlane gem updated to 2.233.0; Screengrab tweaks for new AGP test APK path (473f83a, b870ce3)
  • Reproducible geoip.jar via Python's zipfile so the artifact only changes when tor's geoip data does (6decfeb), plus a regression fix on it (6bdc098)
  • Re-enabled versionCode auto-increment for releases (a3678ca)
  • Dropped unused deps (Volley, junit.jupiter, leftover gradle deps); Orbot now an application module only, not an android library (32634ff, dcb3751, 9c6a706)

Features / fixes

  • IPv6 bridge regex fix — allows [ and ] so webtunnel addr= works (#1672, 6f08189)
  • Listens to STATUS_CLIENT tor events for the new bootstrap fix (b84d090)
  • IPtProxy 5.4.1 with natTypeUpdated event for Kindness mode (2db4fa4, b070bf1)
  • Kindness UI redesign with simpler layouts (044c520)
  • AndroidManifest cleanup — suppress foreground/VPN service policy warnings, data-extraction config for Play (a70aa5a)
  • Restored accidentally removed LocalBroadcastManager dep (0e82e1d)

Suggested apps

  • Added Accrescent app store, Molly (hardened Signal fork), and Vanadium (GrapheneOS browser); fixed Vanadium app ID (a3da57e, f227f4b)

Localization

  • Lots of Weblate updates: Tamil, Catalan, Albanian, Chinese (Trad/Simp), Polish, Turkish, Italian, Portuguese (BR), Korean, Irish, Japanese, Arabic, Indonesian, English (UK)
  • Japanese fastlane locale moved to plain ja for website integration (1793950)