Software Update: Tor Browser 9.0.6

Version 9.0.6 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 changelog for this release looks like this:

New Release: Tor Browser 9.0.6

This release features important security updates to firefox. This release updates Firefox to 68.6.0esr and NoScript to 11.0.15.

note: We are aware of a bug that allows javascript execution on the Safest security level (in some situations). We are working on a fix for this. If you require that javascript is blocked, then you may completely disable it by:

• Open about:config
• Search for: javascript.enabled
• If the “Value” column says “false”, then javascript is already disabled.
• If the “Value” column says “true”, then either right-click and select “Toggle” such that it is now disabled or double-click on the row and it will be disabled.

The full changelog since Tor Browser 9.0.5 is:

All Platforms

• Update Firefox to 68.6.0esr
• Bump NoScript to 11.0.15
  • Bug 33430: Disable downloadable fonts on Safest security level

Build System

• Windows
  • Bug 33535: Patch openssl to use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH for copyright year