0.19 released

[Libor Polčák]

Hello,

As discussed in this mailing list and also on our meetings, we released 
MV3-compatible JShelter, see https://jshelter.org/mv3-jshelter-debut/. Giorgio, 
thank you very much for the hard work and also for publishing in the Chrome Web 
Store. First users started to use 0.19 in Chrome on July 29th. We got back the 
featured badge. Looking at the statistics of daily users and users with active 
JShelter, it looks like the late publication did not have any (significant) 
impact.

I also tested Firefox and the new version looks well so I published 0.19 on AMO 
and merged the mv3 branch to main.

The new version in AMO is already available to the users too.

Regarding statistics, north hemisphere summer is connected to lower number of 
users but we are on a little bit higher number of users in Chrome and a little 
bit lower number of users in Firefox compared to the same season last year. One 
peculiarity caught my eyes in AMO though. Over than 10% of users are reported 
to use an unknown version of the extension.I looks like until the end of 
November 2023, there were only a few daily users with unknown JShelter version. 
Then, the number of such users went up to about 60 at the start of March and 
oscillates around that number with a peak of about 75 users at the start of 
June (the start of the holiday season). I am not sure how to interpret these 
users. Possibly, these might be users compiling their own JShelter. But it can 
also be a sign of something strange or even malicious happening.

Best wishes,

Libor