[tor-announce] Tor Browser 8.5.4 is released

Nicolas Vigier boklm at mars-attacks.org
Wed Jul 10 16:19:31 UTC 2019


Tor Browser 8.5.4 is now available from the Tor Browser Download page [1]
and also from our distribution directory [2].

    1: https://www.torproject.org/download/
    2: https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/8.5.4/

Tor Browser 8.5.4 contains updates to a number of its components. Above
all, we include Firefox 60.8.0esr which contains important security
fixes [3]. Moreover, after some testing in the alpha series, we start
shipping Tor 0.4.0.5 [4] and update OpenSSL to 1.0.2s for the desktop
platforms.

    3: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-22/
    4: https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-0405

Finally, we add a fundraising banner to help us getting more donations.
Please donate [5] if you can!

    5: https://donate.torproject.org/

The full changelog since Tor Browser 8.5.3 is:

 * All platforms
   * Update Firefox to 60.8.0esr
   * Update Torbutton to 2.1.12
     * Bug 30577: Add Fundraising Banner
     * Bug 31041: Stop syncing network.cookie.lifetimePolicy
     * Translations update
   * Update HTTPS Everywhere to 2019.6.27
   * Bug 31055+31058: Remove four default bridges
   * Bug 30712: Backport fix for Mozilla's bug 1552993
   * Bug 30849: Backport fixes for Mozilla's bug 1552627 and 1549833
 * Windows + OS X + Linux
   * Update Tor to 0.4.0.5
   * Update OpenSSL to 1.0.2s
   * Bug 29045: Ensure that tor does not start up in dormant mode
 * OS X
   * Bug 30631: Blurry Tor Browser icon on macOS app switcher
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