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: Set the new online Suggest prefs to false
Bug tor-browser#44571: Disable restrict_to_adults for potential fingerprintability
Bug tor-browser#44619: Add custom logs to Tor logs
Bug tor-browser#44625: metamask.io won't load on Safer security level
Bug tor-browser#44626: Propagate WASM blocking to workers
Bug tor-browser#44647: Clean up patch for SearchEngineSelector.sys.mjs.
Bug tor-browser#44652: Backport fix for Firefox Bug 2014390
Bug tor-browser-build#41713: Try to find a component for bugs found with commits in triage spreadsheets

Windows + macOS + Linux

Bug tor-browser#43560: Add "UTC" to the end of the timestamp on tor logs (Desktop)
Bug tor-browser#44459: Letterboxing content alignment setting is missing styling
Bug tor-browser#44520: Make sure "Firefox labs" is hidden by default

Windows

Linux

Android

Bug tor-browser#43403: Add "UTC" to the end of the timestamp on tor logs (Android)
Bug tor-browser#44057: Drop about:torconnect from android
Bug tor-browser#44620: Move the Android IPC directory
Bug tor-browser-build#28595: Remove the need to update var/gradle_dependencies_version

Build System

All Platforms
- Bug tor-browser-build#40338: Running make release multiple times fails
- Bug tor-browser-build#41660: Add a Firefox target to build unpatched Firefox in tor-browser-build
- Bug tor-browser-build#41693: Drop base-browser targets
- Bug tor-browser-build#41720: cp -l in release/build fails when crossing file systems
- Bug rbm#40093: Make it easy to get the sha256sum of an input_files file
- Bug rbm#40103: Allow having multiple tmp_dir values
Windows + Linux + Android
- Updated Go to 1.25.7
Android
- Bug tor-browser-build#41719: Enable network when var/generate_gradle_dependencies_list is set in geckoview

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ma1