New Update Tor Browser available for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android

Browser 13.5.6
Oct 1, 2024
All Platforms:
  • Updated NoScript to 11.4.40
  • Bug tor-browser#42832: Download spam prevention should not affect browser extensions
  • Bug tor-browser#43167: Rebase Tor Browser Stable onto 115.16.0esr
  • Bug tor-browser#43173: Backport security fixes from Firefox 131
Windows + macOS + Linux:
  • Updated Firefox to 115.16.0esr
  • Bug tor-browser#42737: Drop the hash check on updates
  • Bug tor-browser#43098: YEC 2024 Takeover for Desktop Stable
Windows + macOS:
  • Bug tor-browser#42747: Windows 7/8 and macOS 10.12-10.14 Legacy/Maintenance
 

New Release: Tor Browser 13.5.7​

Tor Browser 13.5.7 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory.

This version includes important security updates to Firefox:
Users should update immediately.
 

New Release: Tor Browser 13.5.8 (Android only)​

Tor Browser 13.5.8 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory.

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

This is an unplanned release which backports the remaining Android-specific security fixes from Firefox 131 to Tor Browser 13.5. This is due to a release-process failure on our part during the 13.5.7 release.
 

New Release: Tor Browser 14.0​

Tor Browser 14.0 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and our distribution directory. This is our first stable release based on Firefox ESR 128, incorporating a year's worth of changes shipped upstream in Firefox. As part of this process we've also completed our annual ESR transition audit, where we reviewed and addressed over 200 Bugzilla issues for changes in Firefox that may negatively affect the privacy and security of Tor Browser users. Our final reports from this audit are now available in the tor-browser-spec repository on our Gitlab instance.

Firefox's design also continues to evolve, and the ESR transition is our opportunity to update Tor Browser to reflect the most recent patterns and styles used in Firefox. For example, eagle-eyed Tor Browser users will notice updates to Tor Browser's typography that we've inherited from Firefox, including heavier headings and changes to line heights intended to improve font compatibility and accessibility.

In addition to the ESR, we overcame many other technical challenges that you can read more about in Morgan's series of blog posts chronicling the team's progress with Tor Browser Alpha, including: unifying Tor Browser for Android's codebase into a monorepo, addressing reproducibility issues in our Android APK generation, reducing Android's APK size for x86 and x86_64 platforms, and changes to how we spoof Tor Browser's user agent, to name a few. This release also includes a series of improvements to the usability and compatibility of our fingerprinting protections without compromising their effectiveness, allowing us to enable useful features like picture-in-picture, screenshots and more.
 
Tor Browser 14.0.1 for Windows, macOS, Linux
Tor Browser 14.0.1 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory.

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

Known Issues​

The tor daemon for aarch64 macOS (M1 and friends) will crash when visiting some onion-service sites, resulting in an inoperable Tor Browser (you can restart Tor Browser to work around this for now, but the particular failing onion-service sites will be inaccessible until we develop a fix). This issue is being tracked in tor-browser#43245
 
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Tor Browser 14.0.3 for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android
Tor Browser 14.0.3 - November 25 2024
* All Platforms
* Bug 43306: Rebase Tor Browser Stable onto 128.5.0esr [tor-browser]
* Bug 43313: Backport security fixes from Firefox 133 [tor-browser]
* Windows + macOS + Linux
* Updated Firefox to 128.5.0esr
* macOS
* Bug 43165: Disable Microsoft SSO on macOS [MozBug 1768724] [tor-browser]
* Android
* Updated GeckoView to 128.5.0esr
* Build System
* All Platforms
* Updated Go to 1.22.9
* Bug 40996: Do not version the .nobackup files [tor-browser-build]
* Bug 41284: Update relprep.py script to not synchronise changelogs between channels [tor-browser-build]
* Bug 41300: Add bea, clairehurst, and jwilde to tb_builders [tor-browser-build]
Source: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/a...ts/browser/Bundle-Data/Docs-TBB/ChangeLog.txt

 
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Tor Browser 14.0.8 (Windows only)
Tor Browser 14.0.8, a Windows only emergency release, is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory.

This version includes very urgent security updates to Firefox for Windows.

We advise Windows users to update immediately.
 

Tor Browser 14.5​

Tor Browser 14.5 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and distribution directory. This release marks the introduction of Connection Assist to Android, empowering mobile users who are subjected to strict censorship to unblock Tor at the press of a button. In addition, the Belarusian, Bulgarian and Portuguese (Portugal) languages are now available across all platforms.

What's new?​

Connection Assist for Android​

Tor aspires to connect as many people to the free and open internet as possible. But what happens if the Tor network itself is blocked in your country, by your ISP, or on your local network? The answer lies in bridges: a type of relay that's hidden from censors using various techniques we collectively call Pluggable Transports. However, censors may have found and blocked certain bridges already, and what works for one country or network may not work for another. This means that the process to find a working bridge to unblock Tor required some trial and error, and placed an undue burden on users who are subjected to strict censorship.

To simplify this process and help more users connect to Tor, we released Connection Assist for Linux, macOS and Windows in Tor Browser 11.5. Subsequently, should Tor Browser fail to establish a direct connection to the Tor network, Connection Assist will offer to find and try bridges for you. But before this feature could be made available on Android, we had to embark on a multi-year effort to refactor our tor integration across each platform first. This project has now reached an important milestone, and we're proud to announce the release of Connection Assist for Android today.