Software Update: Tor Browser 5.5.3

Version 5.5.3 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 various Tor routers, after which it is virtually impossible for the receiver to trace who the original sender was. This information is still present within the Tor network, so that answers, of course also via the system of routers, eventually arrive at the right place. This release includes updates to several external modules and fixes some issues.

Tor Browser 5.5.3 has been released
This release bumps the versions of several of our external components: Firefox to 38.7.0esr, OpenSSL to 1.0.1s, NoScript to 2.9.0.4 and HTTPS-Everywhere to 5.1.4. Additionally, we fixed long-standing bugs in our Tor circuit display and window resizing code, and improved the usability of our font fingerprinting defense further. The full changelog since 5.5.2 is:

All Platforms

• Update Firefox to 38.7.0esr
• Update OpenSSL to 1.0.1s
• Update NoScript to 2.9.0.4
• Update HTTPS Everywhere to 5.1.4
• Update Torbutton to 1.9.4.4
  • Bug 16990: Don’t mishandle multiline commands
  • Bug 18144: about:tor update arrow position is wrong
  • Bug 16725: Allow resizing with non-default homepage
  • Translation updates
• Bug 18030: Isolate favicon requests on Page Info dialog
• Bug 18297: Use separate Noto JP,KR,SC,TC fonts
• Bug 18170: Make sure the homepage is shown after an update as well

Windows

• Bug 18292: Disable staged updates on Windows