[tor-project] cohosh's monthly status report, December 2024

[Cecylia Bocovich via tor-project <tor-project@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi! This is my status report for contract work done in December 2024.

# Snowflake

Last month I updated our builtin and suggested Snowflake bridge lines to 
remove old, nonfunctional STUN servers and add new ones that would 
ideally present significant trade-offs for censors that would try to 
block them.
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40304
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/449
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys-admin/-/merge_requests/32
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/merge_requests/1115

To help us get into a habit of doing this more often, I wrote an update 
script that can be run as a part of the newly documented Snowflake 
Release Process.
https://gitlab.torproject.org/cohosh/stun-torrc-check
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/wikis/Release-Procedure

My main focus of work on Snowflake at the moment is to improve the 
metrics we collect at the Snowflake broker for the purpose of detecting 
and learning about issues or circumvention events. To this end I did 
some planning and opened several issues for specific improvements that I 
will work on this month.
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40394
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40421
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40422

Then there were the usual reviews and project maintenance tasks.

# meek

In anticipation of the Azure edge shutdown this month, we've now 
migrated all of our domain fronted services off of Microsoft Azure. We 
updated our builtin bridge line to use CDN77
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/155
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/merge_requests/1122
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