Tails 0.22 got released. Update as soon as possible.
Download it now but first, please consider testing the incremental upgrade.
Firefox got updated, so there’s the need to update TBB as well.
Download them for their official site.
The reasons to update are close to the ones from my previous notification about an update.
Tor Browser Bundle (2.3.25-15)
- Update Firefox to 17.0.11esr
- Update NoScript to 2.6.8.5
- Fix paths so Mac OS X 10.9 can find the geoip file. Patch by David Fifield.
(closes: #10092)
Tor Browser Bundle (2.4.18-rc-1)
- Update Tor to 0.2.4.18-rc
- Update Firefox to 17.0.11esr
- Update NoScript to 2.6.8.5
- Remove PDF.js since it is no longer supported in Firefox 17
- Fix paths so Mac OS X 10.9 can find the geoip file. Patch by David Fifield.
(closes: #10092)
The Pluggable Transports Bundles have been updated with Firefox 17.0.10ESR. (2.4.17-rc-1-pt1)
- Windows (sig)
- Mac OS X (sig)
- GNU/Linux 32-bit (sig)
- GNU/Linux 64-bit (sig)
Again, like last time, I’m falling out of the normal behavior to notify only about updates labeled ‘stable’ as the other is release is a release candidate (RC) and improves lots of things.
The browser is the same and how everything behaves from a user perspective is also the same. The release candidate improves the situation for the network itself and the responsiveness as experienced by the user. The only downside is that the RC is only available in English.
You can download your desired version of the TorBrowserBundle here. Look for “development releases” if you are interested in 2.4.17-RC-1.
Since I’m lagging behind at least two weeks with re-posting the Tor Weekly News I came to the conclusion to drop re-posting them entirely.
One of the reasons is that I’m lagging behind, but the most concerning fact is that it is not my own content and that the scope of my blog should not consider newsletters as activity. In my opinion it is better to have nothing for weeks, now we probably have months without content, than to re-post content that is not helpful to most people I had in mind. For those interested all Tor channels still have the newsletter available and I don’t think they are all censored and even if they are the newsletter was probably the last thing they were interested in.
The newsletters did not get much attention anyway.
I will however report, re-post or whatever major updates and other things of importance.
The latest Tor Newsletter. Read it…
There are new Pluggable Transports Tor Browser Bundles with Firefox 17.0.9esr. They are made from the Tor Browser Bundle release of September 20 and contain important security fixes.
- Windows (sig)
- Mac OS X (sig)
- GNU/Linux 32-bit (sig)
- GNU/Linux 64-bit (sig)
The bundles contain flash proxy and obfsproxy configured to run by default. If you want to use flash proxy, you will have to take the extra steps listed in the flash proxy howto.
These bundles contain the same hardcoded obfs2 bridge addresses as the previous bundles which may work for some jurisdictions but you are strongly advised to get new bridge addresses from BridgeDB.
Some news again. Read more…
Please note that the stable bundle has been updated and you are advised to upgrade as soon as you can.
Due to some network overload, which is caused by a botnet you may want to switch to the beta bundle, which contains a few changes to better cope with the load.
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Tor 0.2.4.19 has been released, change log
A new version of Tor has been released. Packages will have to be created.
The change log got published already, so I’ll copy it here and add comments to it.
Read the change log with me commenting on it.