Software Update: Tor Browser 5.5.4

Version 5.5.4 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. The changelog for this release looks like this:

Tor Browser 5.5.4 has been released
This release updates firefox to 38.7.1. Mozilla decided to disable the Graphite library in this release and we are taking the same action: irrespective of the security slider settings the Graphite library won’t be used for rendering fonts in Tor Browser 5.5.4. The Graphite font rendering library was already disabled for users on the security level “High” or “Medium-High”.

The full changelog since 5.5.3 is:

• Update Firefox to 38.7.1esr
• Update Torbutton to 1.9.4.5
  • Bug 18557: Exempt Graphite from the Security Slider (Firefox disables Graphite by default)
• Bug 18536: Make Mosaddegh and MaBishomarim available on port 80 and 443