[tor-announce] Tor Browser 5.5.5 is released

Nicolas Vigier boklm at torproject.org
Wed Apr 27 21:50:29 UTC 2016


Tor Browser 5.5.5 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/5.5.5/

This release features important security updates [3] to Firefox.

    3: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/#firefoxesr38.8

This release updates Firefox to 38.8.0esr. Additionally, we bump NoScript
to version 2.9.0.11 and HTTPS-Everywhere to 5.1.6.

Moreover, we don't advertise our help desk anymore as we are currently
restructuring our user support.

Here is the full changelog since 5.5.4:

Tor Browser 5.5.5 -- April 26 2016
 * All Platforms
   * Update Firefox to 38.8.0esr
   * Update Tor Launcher to 0.2.7.9
     * Bug 10534: Don't advertise the help desk directly anymore
     * Translation updates
   * Update HTTPS-Everywhere to 5.1.6
   * Update NoScript to 2.9.0.11
   * Bug 18726: Add new default obfs4 bridge (GreenBelt)

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