Tor Project, the non-profit organization behind the widely-used Tor anonymous network and related product, announced the release of Tor Browser 6.0.8 stable build and the sixth Alpha of the upcoming Tor Browser 6.5.
Tor Browser 6.0.8 is here exactly two weeks after the November 30, 2016, release of Tor Browser 6.0.7, and rebases the Tor-enabled anonymous web browser on the latest Mozilla Firefox 45.6.0 ESR (Extended Support Release) browser, thus fixing a bunch of important security vulnerabilities discovered lately by upstream.
“This release features important security updates to Firefox. Besides updating Firefox to 45.6.0esr which is fixing important security bugs we ship the latest Tor stable version, 0.2.8.11. HTTPS-Everywhere is updated as well (to 5.2.8) and we make improvements to our default obfs4 bridges,” reads the release announcement page.
Now with Tor 0.2.8.11, Torbutton 1.9.5.13, and HTTPS Everywhere 5.2.8
Also new in the Tor Browser 6.0.8 web browser release is support for the latest Tor 0.2.8.11 anonymous network client/server implementation, Torbutton 1.9.5.13 tool for application-level security and privacy concerns in Firefox, as well as HTTPS-Everywhere 5.2.8 cross-platform browser extension for encrypted communications.
A handful of bug fixes are also implemented in Tor Browser, among which we can mention support for using non-HTML and HTML search engine URLs for the DuckDuckGo search plugin, activation of iat-mode for certain obfs4 Tor bridges, improvements to the Donation banner, and some more fixes for obfs4 bridges.
For the curious of you, we’ve attached the full list of changes injected into the new Tor Browser 6.0.8 maintenance update, which you can download right now for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating system from our website. There, you’ll also find the Tor Browser 6.5 Alpha 6 development release, for testing purposes, of course.
