Hi everyone,

Tor Browser 16.0a4 has now been published for all platforms. For details please see our blog post:

- https://blog.torproject.org/new-alpha-release-tor-browser-160a4/

Changelog:

All Platforms

Updated NoScript to 13.6.6.90401984
Updated zlib to 1.3.2
Bug tor-browser#44663: NoScript behavior on “Safer” security level prevents integrity checks for dynamically loaded javascript
Bug tor-browser#44675: Restore "BB 43850: Modify the Contrast Control settings for RFP" dropped during the 148.0a1 rebase
Bug tor-browser#44679: Review Mozilla 2006066: Credit cards autofill settings are not visible
Bug tor-browser#44680: Properly handle subdocuments created by data: URLs
Bug tor-browser#44687: Security level requires a restart in a new profile after 148 update
Bug tor-browser#44689: Forwardport tor-browser#44668 from legacy to alpha: Set detailsURL in update XML to be useful for 13.5 users
Bug tor-browser#44701: Unexpected change to netwerk/url-classifier/components.conf
Bug tor-browser#44706: creating a new profiles causes crash ENOTTY
Bug tor-browser-build#41738: Allow to specify an unsupportedURL on update responses

Windows + macOS + Linux

Updated Firefox to 148.0a1
Bug tor-browser#42664: Use mozilla token sizes in CSS
Bug tor-browser#44634: Review Mozilla 2006250: add ai window about:preferences section within ai features
Bug tor-browser#44682: Wrong pid in the exit log
Bug tor-browser#44709: Hide the AI settings panel
Bug tor-browser#44710: Hide about:preferences#translations
Bug tor-browser#44713: The about dialog is missing some padding in 148.0a1
Bug tor-browser#44717: Search suggestion settings are visible in 148

Windows + Linux

Bug tor-browser-build#40892: Move torrc-defaults, geoip and geoip6 on Windows and Linux

Windows

Bug tor-browser#44461: Window controls are missing on Windows
Bug tor-browser#44633: Move D3D11 function from local webrtc changes to tbb webrtc patches

Linux

Android

Updated GeckoView to 148.0a1
Bug tor-browser#43349: Add user feedback for when Tor connects (Android)
Bug tor-browser#43909: Review Mozilla: TBD: new Android tab-strip feature
Bug tor-browser#44226: Disable all link sharing functionality
Bug tor-browser#44274: Review Mozilla 1986534: Disable screenshots in PBM
Bug tor-browser#44469: Fix branding on Android RR
Bug tor-browser#44506: Remove more sync from 147
Bug tor-browser#44582: Fix or remove new settings search functionality on Android
Bug tor-browser#44661: Restore or fix new rebase-148 uses of moz assets instead of TB ones
Bug tor-browser#44718: Fix splash screen branding and other issues in RR
Bug tor-browser#44721: Android build failure in nightlyOssLicensesTask: missing dependencies.json file

Build System

All Platforms
- Bug tor-browser-build#41690: Merge list_toolchain_updates-firefox-* commands into one
- Bug tor-browser-build#41725: Update toolchains for Firefox 148
- Bug tor-browser-build#41726: Check in list_toolchain_updates that the sha512sum we have for the macOS SDK is the same as Mozilla
- Bug tor-browser-build#41727: Split the list_toolchain_updates_checks script in two
- Bug tor-browser-build#41728: Update projects/application-services/list_toolchain_updates_checks to check nss sha256sum
Windows + macOS + Linux
- Bug tor-browser#44406: Fix CSS linting issues introduced by 146
Windows + Linux + Android
- Updated Go to 1.25.8
Android
- Bug tor-browser-build#41736: Add generate_gradle_dependencies_list-$project makefile targets
- Bug tor-browser-build#41737: Remove comment from gen-gradle-deps-file.py saying var/gradle_dependencies_version should be updated
- Bug tor-browser-build#41743: Make an error if gradle-dependencies-list is missing in the input files
- Bug tor-browser-build#41744: Reduce duplication between projects/geckoview/build and projects/geckoview/build_apk
- Bug tor-browser-build#41745: Add .sh file extension to included build_* scripts in projects/geckoview
- Bug tor-browser-build#41751: Fix the NDK path

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ma1