Software Update: Tor Browser 7.0.1

Version 7.0.1 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 is based on the Extended Support Release of Firefox version 52.2 and comes with the following notes:

Tor Browser 7.0.1 has been released
This release features important security updates to firefox. This is the first minor release in the 7.0 series, updating Firefox to 52.2.0esr, Tor to 0.3.0.8, and HTTPS-Everywhere to 5.2.18. Additionally, we worked around an annoying freezing of Tor Browser which is due to a NoScript bug and made the security slider window slightly larger. Here is the full changelog since 7.0:

All Platforms

• Update Firefox to 52.2.0esr
• Update Tor to 0.3.0.8
• Update Torbutton to 1.9.7.4
  • Bug 22542: Security Settings window too small on macOS 10.12
• Update HTTPS Everywhere to 5.2.18
• Bug 22362: NoScript’s XSS filter freezes the browser

OS X

• Bug 22558: Don’t update OS X 10.7.x and 10.8.x users to Tor Browser 7.0