Tor Browser 6.5 Gets First Point Release to Support Tor 0.2.9.10, OpenSSL 1.0.2k

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

The Tor Project announced the immediate availability of the first point release of the Tor Browser 6.5 stable branch of the open-source, Firefox-based anonymity web browser with enhanced security and privacy features based on Tor.

Tor Browser 6.5.1 appears to be a minor release in the 6.5 series, adding support for the latest technologies, including the Tor 0.2.9.10 anonymous network, OpenSSL 1.0.2k, HTTPS-Everywhere 5.2.11, Torbutton 1.9.6.14, as well as all the security updates that Mozilla patched in the recently released Firefox 45.8.0 ESR web browser.

“This release features important security updates to Firefox,” reads the announcement. “In Tor Browser 6.5 we introduced filtering of content requests to resource:// and chrome:// URIs in order to neuter a fingerprinting vector. This change however breaks the Session Manager addon.”

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