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New Tor Browser Bundles (security release)

The Tor Browser Bundles have been updated with a very important security fix.

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New Tor Browser Bundles for Mac OS X

We recently switched our build machine to Lion (OS X 10.7) which had some unintended effects on the Firefox/TorBrowser build.

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Tor Browser Bundle, Mac OSX and 10.5.8

We're aware that the Tor Browser version 2.2.35-8 doesn't work on OS X 10.5.8.

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New Tor Browser Bundles released (take two)

We have some more new Tor Browser Bundles out. This is an upgrade to Firefox 3.6.12 which fixes a critical bug and OS X users' Torbutton will now show up.

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Mac OS X Vidalia Bundle with 0.2.2.17-alpha out

Vidalia 0.2.10 changed the way we deal with the geoip databases by dropping the remote geoip lookups.

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New Tor Browser Bundles released

We have some new Tor Browser Bundles out. The main notable upgrades for these are Firefox 3.6.11 and Pidgin 2.7.4 in the Windows IM bundle.

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Apple workaround for openssl issues on OS X 10.5 and 10.6

Apple responded to my bug report about a broken openssl. I've since built test packages for OS X 10.5 and 10.6 users. Their response is:

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Vidalia bundle, OSX and Qt bugs

It appears Qt-4.3.3 has a bug that is causing Vidalia to crash when the list of Tor no

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New Alpha Release: Tor 0.4.7.1-alpha

There's a new alpha release available for download. If you build Tor from source, you can download the source code for 0.4.7.1-alpha from the download page on the website. Packages should be available over the coming weeks, with a new alpha Tor Browser release likely some time next week.

Remember, this is an alpha release: you should only run this if you'd like to find and report more bugs than usual.

This version is the first alpha release of the 0.4.7.x series. One major feature is Vanguards Lite, from proposal 333, to help mitigate guard discovery attacks against onion services. It also includes numerous bugfixes.

Changes in version 0.4.7.1-alpha - 2021-09-17

Major features (Proposal 332, onion services, guard selection algorithm):
- Clients and onion services now choose four long-lived "layer 2" guard relays for use as the middle hop in all onion circuits. These relays are kept in place for a randomized duration averaging 1 week. This mitigates guard discovery attacks against clients and short-lived onion services such as OnionShare. Long-lived onion services that need high security should still use the Vanguards addon (https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/vanguards). Closes ticket 40363; implements proposal 333.
Minor features (bridge testing support):
- Let external bridge reachability testing tools discard cached bridge descriptors when setting new bridges, so they can be sure to get a clean reachability test. Implements ticket 40209.