Software Update: Tor Browser 7.0.4

Version 7.0.4 of Tor Browser has been released as a successor to version 7.0.2. 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 52.3 and comes with the following notes:

Tor Browser 7.0.4 has been released

This release features important security updates to firefox.

A lot of Tor Browser components have been updated in this release. Apart from the usual Firefox update (to 52.3.0esr) we include a new Tor stable release (0.3.0.10) + an updated HTTPS-Everywhere (5.2.21) and NoScript (5.0.8.1).

In this new release we continue to fix regressions that happened due to the transition to Firefox 52. Most notably, we avoid the scary warnings popping up when entering passwords on .onion sites without a TLS certificate (bug 21321). Handling of our default start page (about:tor) has improved, too, so that using the searchbox on it is working again and it does no longer need enhanced privileges in order to function.

The full changelog since Tor Browser 7.0.2 (for Linux since Tor Browser 7.0.3) is:

All Platforms

• Update Firefox to 52.3.0esr
• Update Tor to 0.3.0.10
• Update Torbutton to 1.9.7.5
  • Bug 21999: Fix display of language prompt in non-en-US locales
  • Bug 18193: Don’t let about:tor have chrome privileges
  • Bug 22535: Search on about:tor discards search query
  • Bug 21948: Going back to about:tor page gives “Address isn’t valid” error
  • Code clean up
  • translations update
• Update Tor Launcher to 0.2.12.3
  • Bug 22592: Default bridge settings are not removed
  • translations update
• Update HTTPS Everywhere to 5.2.21
• Update NoScript to 5.0.8.1
  • Bug 22362: Remove workaround for XSS related browser freezing
  • Bug 22067: NoScript Click-to-Play bypass with embedded videos and audio
• Bug 21321: Exempt .onions from HTTP related security warnings
• Bug 22073: Disable GetAddons option on addons page
• Bug 22884: Fix broken about:tor page on higher security levels

Windows

• Bug 22829: Remove default obfs4 bridge riemann.
• Bug 21617: Fix single RWX page on Windows (included in 52.3.0esr)

OS X

• Bug 22829: Remove default obfs4 bridge riemann.