Download Tor Browser 13.0.8

Version 13.0.8 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. The changelog for this release can be found below.

New Release: Tor Browser 13.0.8 (Desktop)

This is an emergency desktop-only release which fixes a crash in pluggable transports for Windows 7 users. The most recent Go toolchain update seems to have finally broken Windows 7 support (see golang/go/#57003 for background). We have downgraded our lyrebird, conjure, and webtunnel pluggable transports to the 1.20 series and they should be working once more on older Windows systems. Unfortunately, the snowflake pluggable transport depends on the 1.21 series to work, so it will remain broken on these systems.

We highly encourage Tor Browser users who are still on Windows 7 or 8 to either upgrade their systems to a modern Linux distribution, or at least to a supported version of Windows (10 or higher). Tor Browser will necessarily have to drop support for Windows 7 and 8 after the ESR 128 transition next year, as Mozilla's minimum Windows operating system requirements is now Windows 10 or newer as or Firefox 116. The full changelog since Tor Browser 13.0.7 is:

Windows

• Bug tor-browser-build#41053: All PTs crash instantly in 13.0.7
• Bug tor browser#42179: PTs on Tor Browser 13 do not work with Windows 7

Linux

• Bug tor-browser-build#41050: Improve the disk leak sanitization on start-$browser

BuildSystem

• All Platforms
  • Bug tor-browser-build#41042: Add options to include updates in the changelog scripts
  • Bug tor-browser-build#41043: Create script to push build requests to Mullvad build servers