Download Tor Browser 12.0.5

Version 12.0.5 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 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 12.0.5

This release updates Firefox to 102.10.0esr, including bug fixes, stability improvements and important security updates. We also backported the Android specific security updates from Firefox 112. We use this opportunity to update various components of Tor Browser as well.

Build-Signing Infrastructure Updates

We are in the process of updating our build signing infrastructure, and unfortunately are unable to ship code-signed 12.0.5 installers for Windows systems currently. Therefore we will not be providing full Window installers for this release. However, automatic build-to-build upgrades should continue to work as expected. Everything should be back to normal for the 12.0.6 release next month! The full changelog since Tor Browser 12.0.4 is:

All Platforms

• Updated Translations
• Updated NoScript to 11.4.21
• Updated Go to 11.9.8
• Bug tor browser#41688: Rebase Tor Browser Stable to 102.10.0esr

Windows + macOS + Linux

• Updated Firefox to 102.10esr
• Bug tor browser#41526: “Cancel” button when establishing a connection should be gray

Android

• Updated GeckoView to 102.10esr
• Bug tor browser#41724: Backport Android-specific security fixes from Firefox 112 to ESR 102.10-based Tor Browser

BuildSystem

• Windows
  • Bug tor-browser-build#40822: The Tor Browser installer doesn’t run with mandatory ASLR on (0xc000007b)
• Linux
  • Bug tor-browser-build#40828: Use http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/ for jessie
  • Bug tor-browser-build#40835: Update faketime URLs in projects/container-image/config