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feat:3514: Update orbotservice to 17.5.0-RC2

Guillaume Jacquart requested to merge 3514-upgrade_orbotservice into main

Description

AdvancedPrivacy embeds orbotservice version orbot-17.2.1-2. This version as been released by the Tor project ealry 2024. The tor project recently (2025-07-16) released the version 17.3.2-RC-1-tor-0.4.8.12 on the Play Store, which is one year old also. We choose to jump to the latest version the Tor project released on their github repository : 17.5.0-RC-2 .

Orbotservice code have been copied, and our patches apploed in orbotservice repository, this MR integrates it in AdvancedPrivacy.

A bug with similar pattern as reported by users as also been fixed (bad language code formatting issue):

photo_2025-08-05_12-28-40

Tests

Ipscrambling related testcases.

Issues

https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/os/backlog/-/issues/3514

10 commandments of code review

👪 ❤️ https://gitlab.e.foundation/groups/e/-/wikis/contribute/development-processes/code-review-guidelines

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Dependency Updates

    • Switched to more specific JSON serialization and core pcap libraries and standardized many dependency versions via a centralized catalog.
    • Upgraded Orbotservice and related libraries.
  • Documentation

    • Fixed typos and updated instructions to reflect the new dependency management workflow.
  • Chores

    • Removed obsolete build configuration files and updated subproject references.
  • Style

    • Reformatted code for readability without functional changes.
Edited by CodeRabbitAI

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