This is the first Necko newsletter. Highlights Valentin Gosu is now the module owner of libjar <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Modules/All#libjar>. Many thanks to Aaron Klotz for the great work maintaining this module in recent years. Kershaw Chang is now a peer of libjar.
Manuel Bucher has recently joined the team as a student worker based in Germany. Dragana refactored how necko drives TLS <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1382886> handshakes and improved the CPU usage during 0RTT Friends of the Necko team Glenn Strauss submitted a patch a while ago adding support for SHA-256 Digest authentication <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472823>. Because the code touched by the patch was quite old this caused us to do a refactoring of the authentication code to bring it closer to the Mozilla coding guidelines <https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/code-quality/coding-style/coding_style_cpp.html> and add better tests. Ping Chen (:rnons) fixed Bug 1717185 - TCPSocket.send incorrectly returns true because mBufferedAmount is not updated in time <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1717185> Project Updates - HTTPS RR - HTTPS RR <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/https_rr> shipped on release 92. - Socket process - Dana is working on bug 1712837 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1712837> to make OS client certificates work with the socket process. - Kershaw made websocket work with the socket process. See bug 1716566 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1716566>. - DNS over HTTPS - DoH shipped in Canada in Firefox 92 - Manuel is adding support for DNS padding <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1543811> to mitigate traffic analysis Nihanth is making our TRR implementation (Trusted-Recursive-Resolver) fall back to unencrypted DNS less often <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1714182> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "[email protected]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/d/msgid/dev-platform/CACQYfi%2Bv8MfMyBokNzQoRxg-V8r65%3DzUagxJZ_tQMHH4ag2Pow%40mail.gmail.com.
