Software Update: Tor Browser 7.0.10

Version 7.0.10 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 recipient 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 release notes for this release are as follows:

Tor Browser 7.0.10 has been released
This release features important security updates to Firefox.It updates Firefox to version 52.5.0esr and Tor to version version 0.3.1.8, the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series. In addition to that we updated the HTTPS Everywhere and NoScript extensions we ship. For Windows users we backported patches from the alpha series that update the msvcr100.dll runtime library we include and which should make Tor Browser more robust against crashes due to misbehvaing third party software.

The full changelog since Tor Browser 7.0.9 (7.0.8 for Windows) is:

All Platforms

• Update Firefox to 52.5.0esr
• Update Tor to 0.3.1.8
• Update Torbutton to 1.9.7.10
  • Bug 23997: Add link to Tor Browser manual for de, nl, tr, vi
  • translations update
• Update HTTPS-Everywhere to 2017.10.30
  • Bug 24178: Use make.sh for building HTTPS-Everywhere
• Update NoScript to 5.1.5
  • Bug 23968: NoScript icon jumps to the right after update

Windows

• Bug 23582: Enable the Windows DLL blocklist for mingw-w64 builds
• Bug 23396: Update the msvcr100.dll we ship
• Bug 24052: Block file:// redirects early