Download Tor Browser Bundle 3.5

Version 3.5 has been released of the Tor Browser Bundle. Tor stands for The Onion Router and is a network that can be used to surf the internet anonymously. All users’ tcp traffic is routed through different Tor routers, after which it is no longer possible for the recipient to determine who the original sender was. This information is still present within the Tor network, so that answers – of course also via the system of routers – eventually arrive at the right place. With version 3.5, the 2.x series is now officially said goodbye. The release notes for this release can be found below.

Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 has been released

The 2.x stable series of the Tor Browser Bundle has officially been deprecated, and all users are encouraged to upgrade to the 3.5 series. For now, the Pluggable Transports-capable TBB is still a separate package, maintained by David Fifield. Download them here. We hope to have combined packages available in a beta soon. For people already using TBB 3.5rc1, the changes are not substantial, and are included below.

However, for users of TBB 2.x and 3.0, this release includes important security updates to Firefox. All users are strongly encouraged to update immediately, as we will not be making further releases in the 2.x or 3.0 series.

In terms of user-facing changes from TBB 2.x, the 3.x series primarily features the replacement of Vidalia with a Firefox-based Tor controller called Tor Launcher. This has resulted in a vast decrease in startup times, and a vast increase in usability. We have also started work on an FAQ page to handle common questions arising from this transition.

the complete changelog for the 3.x series describes the changes since 2.x.

The set of changes since the 3.5rc1 release is:

• Update Tor to 0.2.4.19
• Update Tor Launcher to 0.2.4.2
  • Bug 10382: Fix a Tor Launcher hang on TBB exit
• Update Torbutton to 1.6.5.2
  • Misc: Switch update download URL back to download-easy