New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 14.5a3

system · February 11, 2025, 6:27pm

by morgan | February 11, 2025

Tor Browser 14.5a3 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory.

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

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If you find a bug or have a suggestion for how we could improve this release, please let us know.

Full changelog

The full changelog since Tor Browser 14.5a2 is:

All Platforms
- Bug tor-browser#41065: navigator.storage "best effort" + "persistent" leak partitionSize/totalSpace entropy
- Bug tor-browser#41921: Clean up initialisation and bridges conflict between TorSettings and TorConnect
- Bug tor-browser#43308: Only allow "about:" pages to have access to contentaccessible branding assets
- Bug tor-browser#43323: Expose a stable asset from chrome:// to identify Tor, Base, and Mullvad Browser
- Bug tor-browser#43449: Rebase Tor Browser alpha onto 128.7.0esr
- Bug tor-browser#43451: Backport security fixes from Firefox 135
- Bug tor-browser-build#41362: Remove meek azure from the builtin bridges
Windows + macOS + Linux
- Updated Firefox to 128.7.0esr
- Bug tor-browser#41831: Some .tor.onion sites are not displaying the underlying V3 onion address in alpha
- Bug tor-browser#43254: Cancel Moat requests when no longer needed
- Bug tor-browser#43386: Extension requests expose Firefox's minor version and custom app name
- Bug tor-browser#43398: tor-urlbar-button-plain hover styling is overwritten by tor-button rule
- Bug tor-browser#43406: 2 buttons displayed onion-available and connect when Tor daemon killed
- Bug tor-browser#43461: Drop our wordmark padding
- Bug tor-browser#43462: Use NetworkLinkService instead of Moat for the internet test
- Bug tor-browser#43466: Drop unnecessary CSS rules in branding aboutDialog.css
Windows
- Bug tor-browser#43402: set browser.startup.blankWindow false
macOS
- Bug tor-browser#43468: ScreenCaptureKit framework should be a weak link
Linux
- Bug tor-browser-build#41297: Add video codecs dependencies (recommends) on the Debian package
Android
- Updated GeckoView to 128.7.0esr
- Bug tor-browser#43198: Remove "Learn more" link from Android's no-internet error
- Bug tor-browser#43199: Bootstrapping bar needs a little TLC on Android (Part 1)
- Bug tor-browser#43222: All tor logs timestamps reset to current time when opening screen
- Bug tor-browser#43351: Don't force ALL CAPS for the fenix snackbar action button text
- Bug tor-browser#43359: Improper handling of TorBootstrapChangeListener with respect to system onDestroy() calls for HomeActivity
- Bug tor-browser#43360: Replace custom variable isBeingRecreated with built-in isFinishing function
- Bug tor-browser#43368: Add @Suppress for incorrect linting error "Overriding method should call super. onNewIntent"
Build System
- All Platforms
  - Updated Go to 1.22.12
  - Bug tor-browser-build#41281: Better dev defaults for fetch variable
  - Bug tor-browser-build#41324: Improve build signing ergonomics
  - Bug tor-browser-build#41345: Go autoupdates in 1.23 so add env var to prevent it in any step that has network access
  - Bug tor-browser-build#41357: keyring/anti-censorship.gpg is in GPG keybox database version 1 format
  - Bug tor-browser-build#41358: Update sign-tag script to handle rapid-release nightly branches
  - Bug rbm#40079: Make fetch: if_needed fetch existing branches
- Windows + macOS + Linux
  - Bug tor-browser-build#41356: Add redirects to make 14.0a4 a watershed
- macOS
  - Bug tor-browser-build#41350: Increase timeout in rcodesign-notary-submit

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.torproject.org/new-alpha-release-tor-browser-145a3