Tor Browser 8.0.3 is now available from the Tor Browser Project page [1]
and also from our distribution directory [2].
1: https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html
2: https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/8.0.3/
This release features important security updates [3] to Firefox.
3: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-27/
Tor Browser 8.0.3 includes newer NoScript and HTTPS Everywhere versions.
Moreover, it ships with a donation banner for our end of the year
campaign and includes another round of smaller fixes for Tor Browser 8
issues on Linux systems. We switched as well to a newer API for our
NoScript <-> Torbutton communication, which we need for the Security
Slider.
The full changelog since Tor Browser 8.0.2 is:
* All platforms
* Update Firefox to 60.3.0esr
* Update Torbutton to 2.0.8
* Bug 23925+27959: Donation banner for year end 2018 campaign
* Bug 24172: Donation banner clobbers Tor Browser version string
* Bug 27760: Use new NoScript API for IPC and fix about:blank issue
* Translations update
* Update HTTPS Everywhere to 2018.9.19
* Update NoScript to 10.1.9.9
* Linux
* Bug 27546: Fix vertical scrollbar behavior in Tor Browser 8 with Gtk3
* Bug 27552: Use bundled dir on CentOS/RHEL 6
Tor Browser 8.0.2 is now available from the Tor Browser Project page [1]
and also from our distribution directory [2].
1: https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html
2: https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/8.0.2/
This release features important security updates [3] to Firefox. We
picked up the necessary patches, but because we needed to start building
before Mozilla was ready with a first candidate build, we did not bump
the Firefox version to 60.2.2esr. Thus, users are fine with Tor Browser
8.0.2 even though the Firefox version is 60.2.1esr.
3: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-24/
_Known Issues_
We already collected a number of unresolved bugs since Tor Browser 7.5.6
and tagged them with our tbb-8.0-issues [4] keyword to keep them on our
radar. The most important current issues are:
4: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=!closed&keywords=…
* WebGL is broken [5] right now.
5: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27290
* Accessibility support is broken [6] on Windows. We are considering
options to address this issue right now.
6: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27503
* Tor Browser 8 is not starting anymore on some older Ubuntu/Mint Linux
systems [7]. We still have issues to reproduce this bug but hope we
can fix it in the next release.
7: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27508
* Tor Browser 8 is not starting anymore on CentOS 6 [8]. We have a
fix in our 8.5a2 release to give it a bit of testing. Users affected
by this bug may resort to that alpha version for now. We plan to
backport the patch in the next stable release.
8: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27552
* NoScript is not saving per-site permissions anymore [9]. We have a
potential patch for this bug in our 8.5a2 release as well and plan
to backport it, too, in the next stable release in case no issues
with it are found.
9: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27175
* While preparing the 8.0.2 release we encountered intermittent
reproducibility failures [10] for Linux (64bit) bundles.
10: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27937
The full changelog since Tor Browser 8.0.1 is:
* All platforms
* Update Firefox to 60.2.1esr
* Backport fix for Mozilla bug 1493900 and 1493903
* OS X
* Backport fix for Mozilla bug 1489785 for macOS 10.14 compatibility
