Download Tor Browser 12.5.3

Version 12.5.3 of Tor Browser has been released. Tor stands for The Onion Router and is a network that can be used to surf the Internet fairly anonymously. All users’ TCP traffic is routed through different Tor routers, after which it is virtually impossible for the recipient to find out who the original sender was. That information is still present within the Tor network, so that answers, of course also via the system of routers, ultimately arrive at the right place. The release notes for this release look like this:

New Release: Tor Browser 12.5.3

This release updates Firefox to 102.15.0esr, including bug fixes, stability improvements and important security updates. We also backported the Android specific security updates from Firefox 117. The full changelog since Tor Browser 12.5.2 is:

All Platforms

• Updated Translations
• Updated OpenSSL to 1.1.1v
• Bug tor browser#42033: Rebase the releases onto 102.15.0esr
• Bug tor browser#42053: Backport security fixes from Firefox 117 to ESR 102.15 – based Tor Browser

Windows + macOS + Linux

• Updated Firefox to 102.15.0esr

Android

• Updated GeckoView to 102.15.0esr

BuildSystem

• All Platforms
  • Updated Go to 1.20.7
  • Bug tor-browser-build#40740: Tor Browser for Android’s snowflake ClientTransportPlugin seems to be out of date
  • Bug tor-browser-build#40786: deploy_update_responses-*.sh requires +r permissions to run
  • Bug tor-browser-build#40905: Go vendor archives ignore the nightly version override on test builds
  • Bug tor-browser-build#40913: add boklm back to list of taggers in relevant projects
  • Bug tor-browser-build#40921: staticiforme-prepare-cdn-dist-upload uses hardcoded torbrowser path for .htacess file generation