Hi!
We are happy to announce that our first point release in our 8.0 series is ready for testing. Bundles can be found at:
https://people.torproject.org/~boklm/builds/8.0.1-build1/
We used the 8.0.1 release to ship the new stable Tor (0.3.4.8) which solves an annoying crash bug on older macOS systems (10.9.x).
We furthermore found a better solution to our User Agent treatment: on desktop platforms Tor Browser will send a Windows User Agent at the network level while still allowing to query the unspoofed User Agent with JavaScript. This takes concerns about any server passively logging the User Agent into account while still avoiding broken websites as good as we can.
Finally, we included a banner for signing up to Tor News which allows anyone to stay up-to-date about things going on in the Tor universe (which is, admittedly, sometimes hard to keep track of).
Below is the full changelog since 8.0:
Tor Browser 8.0.1 -- September 20 2018 * All platforms * Update Tor to 0.3.4.8 * Update Torbutton to 2.0.7 * Bug 27097: Tor News signup banner * Bug 27663: Add New Identity menuitem again * Bug 26624: Only block OBJECT on highest slider level * Bug 26555: Don't show IP address for meek or snowflake * Bug 27478: Torbutton icons for dark theme * Bug 27506+14520: Move status version to upper left corner for RTL locales * Bug 27427: Fix NoScript IPC for about:blank by whitelisting messages * Bug 27558: Update the link to "Your Guard note may not change" text * Translations update * Update Tor Launcher to 0.2.16.5 * Bug 27469: Adapt Moat URLs * Bug 25405: Cannot use Moat if a meek bridge is configured * Translations update * Clean-up * Update NoScript to 10.1.9.6 * Bug 27763: Restrict Torbutton signing exemption to mobile * Bug 26146: Spoof HTTP User-Agent header for desktop platforms * Bug 27543: QR code is broken on web.whatsapp.com * Bug 27264: Bookmark items are not visible on the boomark toolbar * Bug 27535: Enable TLS 1.3 draft version * OS X * Bug 27482: Fix crash during start-up on macOS 10.9.x systems * Linux * Bug 26556: Fix broken Tor Browser icon path on Linux
Georg