Download Tor Browser 10.5

Version 10.5 of Tor Browser has been released. Tor stands for The Onion Router and is a network that can be used to surf the Internet fairly anonymously. All users’ tcp traffic is routed through various Tor routers, after which it is virtually impossible for the recipient to find out 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. The release notes for this release can be found below:

V2 Onion Services Deprecation

Ash we announced last year, v2 onion services will be completely unreachable once Tor Browser moves to Tor 0.4.6.x in October 2021. From now until then, Tor Browser will warn you when visiting a v2 onion site of its upcoming deprecation.

Snowflake is now available as a bridge

with snowflake, censored users can rely on proxies run by volunteers to connect to the internet. During Q1 this year, the UX team ran a survey on Tor Browser Alpha to better understand Snowflake’s user experience. The survey received 1,795 complete responses, of which 726 participants confirmed they use Snowflake as a pluggable transport. The majority of Snowflake users who completed the survey began using Tor Browser several times a week within the past year. 75% of users had a positive view of Snowflake, although many experienced connection troubles and slow speeds while browsing. These facts and the stable network of volunteers allow us to make it available on this release.
Read more about Snowflake’s stable release

Improving the user experience of connecting to Tor

Tor Launcher has acted as the options panel for advanced Tor network configurations over the years. It also serves as a control point for users who are in censored networks. The UX and the Anti-Censorship teams joined efforts to improve the connecting flow for Tor Browser users. This release is the first in the upcoming series of helping censored users seamlessly access the open internet by simplifying the connection flow, detecting censorship and providing bridges.
Read more about the new connection experience

Known Issues

Tor Browser 10.5 comes with a number of known issues:

• tpo/applications/tor-browser#40497
• tpo/applications/fenix#40176
• tpo/applications/fenix#40110
• tpo/applications/fenix#40172
• tpo/applications/fenix#40174
• tpo/applications/tor-browser#40242
• tpo/applications/fenix#40103
• tpo/applications/fenix#40115

The full changelog:All Platforms

• Update NoScript to 11.2.9
• Update Tor Launcher to 0.2.30
• translations update
• Bug 25483: Provide Snowflake based on Pion for Windows, macOS, and Linux
• Bug 33761: Remove unnecessary snowflake dependencies
• Bug 40064: Bump libevent to 2.1.12
• Bug 40137: Migrate https-everywhere storage to idb
• Bug 40261: Bump versions of snowflake and webrtc
• Bug 40263: Update domain front for Snowflake
• Bug 40302: Update version of snowflake
• Bug 40030: DuckDuckGo redirect to html doesn’t work

Windows + macOS + Linux

• Bug 27476: Implement about:torconnect captive portal within Tor Browser [tor-browser]
• Bug 32228: Bookmark TPO support domains in Tor Browser
• Bug 33803: Add a secondary nightly MAR signing key [tor-browser]
• Bug 33954: Consider different approach for Bug 2176
• Bug 34345: “Don’t Bootstrap” Startup Mode
• Bug 40011: Rename tor-browser-brand.ftl to brand.ftl
• Bug 40012: Fix about:tor not loading some images in 82
• Bug 40138: Move our primary nightly MAR signing key to tor browser
• Bug 40209: Implement Basic Crypto Safety
• Bug 40428: Correct minor Cryptocurrency warning string typo
• Bug 40429: Update Onboarding for 10.5
• Bug 40455: Block or recover background requests after bootstrap
• Bug 40456: Update the SecureDrop HTTPS-Everywhere update channel
• Bug 40475: Include clearing CORS preflight cache
• Bug 40478: Onion alias url rewrite is broken
• Bug 40484: Bootstrapping page show Quickstart text
• Bug 40490: BridgeDB bridge captcha selection is broken in alpha
• Bug 40495: Onion pattern is focusable by click on about:torconnect
• Bug 40499: Onion Alias ​​doesn’t work with TOR_SKIP_LAUNCH

android

• Bug 30318: Integrate snowflake into mobile Tor Browser
• Bug 40206: Disable the /etc/hosts parser
• Linux
  • Bug 40089: Remove CentOS 6 support for Tor Browser 10.5

Build System

• All Platforms
  • Update Go to 1.15.13
  • Bug 23631: Use rootless containers [tor-browser-build]
  • Bug 33693: Change snowflake and meek dummy address [tor-browser]
  • Bug 40016: getfpaths is not setting origin_project
  • Bug 40169: Update apt package cache after calling pre_pkginst, too
  • Bug 40194: Remove osname part in cbindgen filename
• Windows + OS X + Linux
  • Bug 40081: Build Mozilla code with –enable-rust-simd
  • Bug 40104: Use our TMPDIR when creating our .mar files
  • Bug 40133: Bump Rust version for ESR 78 to 1.43.0
  • Bug 40166: Update apt cache before calling pre_pgginst in container-image config
• android
  • Bug 28672: Android reproducible build of Snowflake
  • Bug 40313: Use apt-get to install openjdk-8 .deb files with their dependencies
• Windows
  • Bug 34360: Bump binutils to 2.35.1
  • Bug 40131: Remove unused binutils patches
• Linux
  • Bug 26238: Move to Debian Jessie for our Linux builds
  • Bug 31729: Support Wayland
  • Bug 40041: Remove CentOS 6 support for 10.5 series
  • Bug 40103: Add i386 pkg-config path for linux-i686
  • Bug 40112: Strip libstdc++ we ship
  • Bug 40118: Add missing libdrm dev package to firefox container
  • Bug 40235: Bump apt for Jessie containers