Hi everyone, Tor Browser 16.0a3 has now been published for all platforms. For details please see our blog post: - https://blog.torproject.org/new-alpha-release-tor-browser-160a3/ Changelog: Tor Browser 16.0a3 - February 17 2026 # All Platforms * Updated Tor to 0.4.9.5 * Updated NoScript to 13.5.12.90301984 * Bug tor-browser#44562 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/44562>: Set the new online Suggest prefs to false * Bug tor-browser#44571 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/44571>: Disable restrict_to_adults for potential fingerprintability * Bug tor-browser#44619 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/44619>: Add custom logs to Tor logs * Bug tor-browser#44625 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/44625>: metamask.io won't load on Safer security level * Bug tor-browser#44626 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/44626>: Propagate WASM blocking to workers * Bug tor-browser#44647 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/44647>: Clean up patch for |SearchEngineSelector.sys.mjs|. * Bug tor-browser#44652 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/44652>: Backport fix for Firefox Bug 2014390 * Bug tor-browser-build#41713 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/41713>: Try to find a component for bugs found with commits in triage spreadsheets # Windows + macOS + Linux * Bug tor-browser#43560 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/43560>: Add "UTC" to the end of the timestamp on tor logs (Desktop) * Bug tor-browser#44459 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/44459>: Letterboxing content alignment setting is missing styling * Bug tor-browser#44520 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/44520>: Make sure "Firefox labs" is hidden by default # Windows * Bug tor-browser#44623 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/44623>: 16.0a2: about:preferences#privacy is empty # Linux * Bug tor-browser#44050 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/44050>: Consider changing the domain in DBus interfaces # Android * Bug tor-browser#43403 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/43403>: Add "UTC" to the end of the timestamp on tor logs (Android) * Bug tor-browser#44057 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/44057>: Drop about:torconnect from android * Bug tor-browser#44620 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/44620>: Move the Android IPC directory * Bug tor-browser-build#28595 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/28595>: Remove the need to update var/gradle_dependencies_version # Build System * All Platforms o Bug tor-browser-build#40338 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/40338>: Running |make release| multiple times fails o Bug tor-browser-build#41660 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/41660>: Add a Firefox target to build unpatched Firefox in tor-browser-build o Bug tor-browser-build#41693 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/41693>: Drop base-browser targets o Bug tor-browser-build#41720 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/41720>: cp -l in release/build fails when crossing file systems o Bug rbm#40093 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/rbm/-/issues/40093>: Make it easy to get the sha256sum of an input_files file o Bug rbm#40103 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/rbm/-/issues/40103>: Allow having multiple tmp_dir values * Windows + Linux + Android o Updated Go to 1.25.7 * Android o Bug tor-browser-build#41719 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/41719>: Enable network when var/generate_gradle_dependencies_list is set in geckoview -- ma1