Software Update: Tor Browser 8.0.5

Version 8.0.5 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 release notes for this release are as follows:

New Release Tor Browser 8.0.5

This new release updates Firefox to 60.5.0esr and Tor to the first stable release in the 0.3.5 series, 0.3.5.7. It contains a number of backports from the alpha series, most notably the proper first-party isolation of range requests when loading PDF documents.

We also updated NoScript and HTTPS Everywhere to their latest versions and removed our donation campaign related code.

The full changelog since Tor Browser 8.0.4 is:

• Update Firefox to 60.5.0esr
• Update Tor to 0.3.5.7
• Update Torbutton to 2.0.10
  • Bug 29035: Clean up our donation campaign and add newsletter sign-up link
  • Bug 27175: Add pref to allow users to persist custom noscript settings
• Update HTTPS Everywhere to 2019.1.7
• Update NoScript to 10.2.1
  • Bug 28873: Cascading of permissions is broken
  • Bug 28720: Some videos are blocked outright on higher security levels
• Bug 26540: Enabling pdfjs disableRange option prevents pdfs from loading
• Bug 28740: Adapt Windows navigator.platform value on 64-bit systems
• Bug 28695: Set default security.pki.name_matching_mode to enforce (3)