Tor Project : Browser 7.0a1 is released

Tor Browser 7.0a1 is now available from the Tor Browser Project page and also from our distribution directory.

This release features important security updates to Firefox.

Tor Browser 7.0a1 is the first alpha in the 7.0 series. Apart from the usual Firefox update (to 45.7.0 ESR) it contains the first alpha in the tor 0.3.0 series (0.3.0.1-alpha) and an updated HTTPS-Everywhere (5.2.9) + NoScript (2.9.5.3).

Tor Browser 7.0a1 is the first alpha allowing Linux users to test Snowflake, a new WebRTC-based pluggable transport. Additionally, we include bug fixes both to our sandboxing solutions for Linux (sandboxed-tor-browser 0.0.3) and macOS. For Windows users we plugged a timezone leak that got introduced by enabling ICU in Firefox when switching to ESR 45.

The full changelog since 6.5a6 is:

• All Platforms
  • Update Firefox to 45.7.0esr
  • Tor to 0.3.0.2-alpha
  • Update Torbutton to 1.9.7
    • Bug 19898 : Use DuckDuckGo on about:tor
    • Bug 21091: Hide the update check menu entry when running under the sandbox
    • Bug 21243: Add links to es, fr, and pt Tor Browser manual
    • Bug 21194: Show snowflake in the circuit display
    • Bug 21131 : Remove 2016 donation banner
    • Translation updates
  • Update HTTPS-Everywhere to 5.2.9
  • Update NoScript to 2.9.5.3
  • Bug 2047 1: Allow javascript: links from HTTPS first party pages
  • Bug 206 51: DuckDuckGo does not work with JavaScript disabled
  • Bug 20 589: Add new MAR signing key
• Windows
  • Bug 2 0981: On Windows, check TZ for timezone first
• OS X
  • Bug 20989: Browser sandbox profile is too restrictive on OSX 10.12.2
• Linux
  • Update sandboxed-tor-browser to 0.0.3
  • Bug 20735: Add snowflake pluggable transport to alpha Linux builds
• Build system
  • All platforms
  • Linux
    • Bu g 21103: Update descriptors for sandboxed-tor-browser 0.0.3