In Q1 and Q2 the App's team will focus on improving the overall user experience of Tor Browser with ESR updates and connect assist for Android. In the secon
* Tor Browser Desktop UX
* Connect Assist & Connection Settings for Android
* Onion error reporting
* Tor Browser maintenance (bugs fixing, periodic rebases, etc
* NoScript maintenance and/or new features
* ESR Update starting on time
* Improve Browser from feedback from users
* "Tor VPN" implementation
* Improve QA process for To Browser
* Tor Browser refactoring
* Sustainable release process
* Automated testing system in place (esp for non-linux platforms)
- Improve Browser from feedback from users
- "Tor VPN" implementation
- Improve QA process for To Browser
- Sponsor work related to circumvent censorship
- Tor Browser refactoring
- start prototyping arti in android on Q2
- sustainable release process
- automated testing system in place (esp for non-linux platforms)
- ESR migration starting on time.
[Previous priorities](Previous-Priorities).
[Notes from session on priorities](Team-Meeting-Priorities-2023)
## Roadmap for Q1 and Q2 - January to June 2024
[Previous priorities](Previous-Priorities).
Sponsor 131
* Letterboxing/Betterboxing
* Installers for Windows/Linux
* Third party apps external links
* OpenH264 Build Reproducibility
Sponsor 96
* Tor Browser Desktop UX
## Roadmap for Q3 and Q4 - July to December 2024
## Roadmap for Q1 - January to March 2023
### Sponsor 9
- Work on improvements coming out of usability research
### Sponsor 96
- UX have usability testing running from February–Match for desktop, so expect amends.
- Webtunnel PT happening in Q1
### Sponsor 30
- Conjure PT integration in TB
### Sponsor 131
- Release private browser in March
- base browser + theming/branding,
- extensions
- installers/packages
- Modernize testsuites for TB:
- evaluating the test landscape, determining the tests that make sense and spending time on working on improving in this area.
- Privacy Browser needs tests too
- get ./mach tests working
- rlbox sandbox (the MR is ready for review already :))
- switch all the Android projects to the right SDK version, and avoid another 11.5.9
- or, even better, avoid another crash storm like 11.5.8!
- fix the crashes with assertions on
- last time we tried, Tor Browser was not runnable in debug mode because of some race with preferences
- start prototyping arti in android on Q2
- sustainable release process
- ESR migration starting on time.
Sponsor 101 - VPN
* Transitioning the product to the Application's team
Sponsor 131
* Priorities to be aligned
-[Previous roadmaps](Previous-Roadmaps).
## Active Sponsor Projects
* Sponsor 9 - [Usability and Community Intervention on Support for Democracy and Human Rights](https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/20)
* Sponsor 30 - [Empowering Communities in the Global South to Bypass Censorship](https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/trac/-/issues/31265)
* Sponsor 96 - [Rapid Expansion of Access to the Uncensored Internet through Tor in China, Hong Kong, & Tibet](https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24)
* Sponsor 101 - [Tor VPN Client for Android](https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/32)
* Sponsor 131 - [Refactoring of Tor Browser](https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/applications/-/milestones/8)
## Triaging Tickets
We are triaging tickets once a week (Gaba and Richard) .
We are triaging tickets once a week (Bella and Richard) .
The criteria to include tickets in a specific milestone are:
