Tor Browser 6.0.8 Lands with Important Security Updates, Tor 0.2.8.11 Support

Tor Project, the non-profit organization behind the widely-used Tor anonymous network and related product, announced the release of Tor Browser 6.0.8 stable build and the sixth Alpha of the upcoming Tor Browser 6.5.

Tor Browser 6.0.8 is here exactly two weeks after the November 30, 2016, release of Tor Browser 6.0.7, and rebases the Tor-enabled anonymous web browser on the latest Mozilla Firefox 45.6.0 ESR (Extended Support Release) browser, thus fixing a bunch of important security vulnerabilities discovered lately by upstream.

“This release features important security updates to Firefox. Besides updating Firefox to 45.6.0esr which is fixing important security bugs we ship the latest Tor stable version, 0.2.8.11. HTTPS-Everywhere is updated as well (to 5.2.8) and we make improvements to our default obfs4 bridges,” reads the release announcement page.

Now with Tor 0.2.8.11, Torbutton 1… (read more)

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