Download Tor Browser 12.0.1

Version 12.0.1 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 different Tor routers, after which it is virtually impossible for the recipient to find out who the original sender was. That information is still present within the Tor network, so that answers, of course also via the system of routers, ultimately arrive at the right place. Version 12 is based on Firefox ESR 102, while version 11 was still ESR 91. The release notes for this release look like this:

Tor Browser 12.0.1

This release updates Firefox to 102.6, including bug fixes, stability improvements and important security updates. We’ve fixed a regression in our drag and drop protection, whose hardening disrupted some interface interactions, and most notably rearranging bookmarks by dragging them around. We’d like to thank poncho for fixing another regression causing the TOR_SOCKS_IPC_PATH environment variable to be ignored. The full changelog since Tor Browser 12.0 is:

Windows + macOS + Linux

• Updated Firefox to 102.6esr
• Bug tor browser#41519: TOR_SOCKS_IPC_PATH environment variable not honored
• Bug tor browser#41520: Regression: rearranging bookmarks / place items by drag & drop doesn’t work anymore

Android

• Updated GeckoView to 102.6esr

BuildSystem

• All Platforms
  • Updated Go to 1.19.4
  • Bug tor-browser-build#40653: Build compiler-rt with runtimes instead of the main LLVM build
  • Bug tor-browser-build#40681: Run apt-get clean, after installing packages in projects/container-image/config
  • Bug tor-browser-build#40683: Install more packages in the default containers to reduce the number of custom containers
  • Bug tor-browser-build#40693: Can’t build container image in main
  • Bug tor-browser-build#40705: Add empty commit mentioning that gitolite repo is no longer updated

Windows

• Bug tor-browser-build#40708: tor.exe in tor-expert-bundle not writing stdout even when run from cmd.exe

Linux

• Bug tor-browser-build#40689: Update Ubuntu version from projects/mmdebstrap-image/config to 22.04.1