tor browser bundle

On August 21st we released Tor Browser Bundle1.0.10 for GNU/Linux. It includes a number of updates, the largest one being a switch to Firefox 3.6.8. The rest are:

• Update Tor to 0.2.2.15-alpha
• Update Firefox to 3.6.8 (Mozilla is not doing security and stability updates for 3.5.x after August 2010)
• Update NoScript to 2.0.2.3
• Update BetterPrivacy to 1.48.3
• Update HTTPS Everywhere to 0.2.2

New releases read more »

• On July 4th, we released Tor Browser Bundle 1.3.7 for Microsoft Windows. This is a security update for Firefox and Pidgin. The changes are: update to Firefox 3.5.10 and Pidgin Instant Messenger 2.7.1r2 to fix some security issues.
• On July 6th, we released Tor Browser Bundle 1.0.8 for GNU/Linux distributions. This fixes a number of security issues with included software. The updates include:
  • Update libpng to 1.4.3 (see CVE-2010-1205)
  • Update Firefox to 3.5.10
  • Update HTTPS Everywhere to 0.2.1

On July 22, we released the latest version of the Tor Browser Bundle for Windows. It contains updates to Firefox and Pidgin to address security issues.

The bundles can be found at https://www.torproject.org/torbrowser/

The full changelog is:

version 1.3.8: Released 2010-07-22
update Firefox to 3.5.11

version 1.3.9: Released 2010-07-22
update Pidgin to 2.7.2

On July 4th, we released Tor Browser Bundle 1.3.7 for Microsoft Windows. This is merely a security update release for Firefox and Pidgin. You can download this at https://torproject.org/torbrowser.

The only changes are:

• update to Firefox 3.5.10 to fix some security issues
• update to Pidgin 2.7.1r2 to fix some security issues

On May 26, Tor Browser Bundle for Microsoft Windows is updated to include the newer Vidalia 0.2.9. This fixes some issues with character set handling, and adds Vietnamese as a new language.

On May 31, we released Tor Browser Bundle for Linux 1.0.6. It contains the following updates:

• Add arch to tarball name so there's no collision
• Add libpng for Arch Linux
• Add HTTPS Everywhere extension
• Update Qt to 4.6.2
• Update Vidalia to 0.2.9
• Update NoScript to 1.9.9.80

On June 1st, we released Tor Browser Bundle for Linux 1.0.7. It uses an older glibc for better compatibility with older linux distributions.

New releases

• On April 24, we released Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha. This version addresses the recent connection and memory overload problems we’ve been seeing on relays, especially relays with their DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off because it used too many resources, give this release a try.

  o Major bugfixes:
  - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
  now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
  for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
  TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
  unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
  up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
  and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
  their directory fetches over TLS).

  o Minor features: read more »

On December 31, 2009, I released the latest in the Tor Browser Bundle series, 1.3.0. The version bump from 1.2.10 to 1.3.0 is due to the change to Firefox 3.5.6 (from Firefox 3.0.15).

You can get the latest TBB in 12 languages at https://www.torproject.org/torbrowser/

Torbutton 1.2.4 fixes a number of privacy and anonymity issues with the Firefox 3.5.x code base.

The official changelog is:

- upgrade Firefox to 3.5.6
- update Pidgin to 2.6.4
- update Torbutton to 1.2.4

Feel free to file bugs at
https://bugs.torproject.org/flyspray/index.php?tasks=all&project=4.

The original announcement is at http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jan-2010/msg00037.html

On November 20, we released an updated Tor Browser Bundle, version 1.2.10, which includes:

• updated Vidalia to 0.2.6
• updated Pidgin to 2.6.3
• updated Tor to 0.2.1.20
• updated Firefox to 3.0.15
• updated OpenSSL to 0.9.8l
• updated libevent to 1.4.13

You can download the updated version at https://www.torproject.org/torbrowser/

Thanks to Rob at Freedom House for putting together some videos about how to get, install, and use Tor, Tor Browser Bundle, and Bridges.

• Installing and Using Tor, http://tinyvid.tv/show/3lejztnthk2tm
• Installing and Using the Tor Browser Bundle, http://tinyvid.tv/show/b0e2hzylie8r
• Installing and Using Bridges with Tor, http://tinyvid.tv/show/3uiwckrlqynqv

Freedom House has put together other videos on various tools to use to stay secure online at, http://www.youtube.com/freedom4internet.

Check them out and leave constructive feedback. I'm sure Rob will appreciate help with translating these videos as well.

Tor Browser Bundle 1.2.9 is released today. It updates Firefox and Pidgin Instant Messaging client to address the security issues in the older versions, and includes the latest and greatest Vidalia.

TBB can be downloaded from https://www.torproject.org/torbrowser.

The details of the changes are:

• update Vidalia to 0.2.4
• update Qt to 4.5.2
• update Pidgin to 2.6.2
• update Firefox to 3.0.14