by boklm | March 13, 2025
Tor Browser 14.5a4 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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Full changelog
The full changelog since Tor Browser 14.5a3 is:
- All Platforms
- Updated OpenSSL to 3.0.16
- Bug tor-browser#43446: Change the Tor Browser name between releases
- Bug tor-browser#43463: Include moat circumvention countries in the build (tor-browser part)
- Bug tor-browser#43487: Rebase Tor Browser Alpha onto 128.8.0esr
- Bug tor-browser#43529: AutoBootstrapAttempt cancel does not await BootstrapAttempt.cancel
- Bug tor-browser#43524: Enable new locales: be, bg and pt-PT
- Bug tor-browser#43551: Backport Mozilla Bug 1924070 - modify H.264 extradata to match sample conversion code....
- Windows + macOS + Linux
- Updated Firefox to 128.8.0esr
- Bug tor-browser#40473: Tor logs do not update in about:preferences#tor as new logs come in
- Bug tor-browser#43205: newwin / letterboxing rounding with subpixels is off
- Bug tor-browser#43328: Improve tor log dialog
- Bug tor-browser#43465: Show the urlbar Connect button during a bootstrap or final error
- Bug tor-browser#43469: Rename "Quickstart" toggle as "Connect automatically" (Desktop)
- Bug tor-browser#43502: Move openTorConnect and getRedirectUrl to TorConnectParent
- Bug tor-browser#43504: Implement User Survey UX (Desktop)
- Bug tor-browser#43547: Cannot remove the final bridge
- Linux
- Bug tor-browser#30970: Different window borders in XFCE can lead to different, not rounded window sizes
- Android
- Updated GeckoView to 128.8.0esr
- Updated Zstandard to 1.5.7
- Bug tor-browser#43329: Remove remaining traces of the old Bootstrap on Android
- Bug tor-browser#43408: Access TorConnect.quickstart separately from TorSettings.getSettings on Android
- Bug tor-browser#43480: Split up TorConnectionAssistViewModel for better readibility and performance.
- Bug tor-browser#43498: Uplift tor-browser#43129: about:neterror cannot display SVG on Android with Security Level Safest
- Bug tor-browser#43528: Improper handling of TorBootstrapChangeListener in HomeActivity
- Build System
- All Platforms
- Updated Go to 1.23.7
- Bug tor-browser-build#41040: Add configuration to rbm.conf to select channel and platforms
- Bug tor-browser-build#41121: Use the official Go binaries for bootstrapping
- Bug tor-browser-build#41372: Handle branding names in tor-browser-build
- Bug tor-browser-build#41379: Include moat circumvention countries in the build (tor-browser-build part)
- Bug tor-browser-build#41380: Update kick-devmole script to use Mullvad's new GitHub action
- Bug tor-browser-build#41381: Usability improvements for the browser commit tagging script
- Bug tor-browser-build#41382: Replace gitlab templates ReleasePrep label references with Apps::Type::ReleasePreparation
- Bug tor-browser-build#41383: Add clairehurst to list of accepted firefox/geckoview signers
- Bug tor-browser-build#41384: OpenSSL hash files have changed format
- Bug tor-browser-build#41389: Remove need to update set-config.tbb-version
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Bug rbm#40082: With
fetch: if_needed, rbm is doing a git fetch when it shouldn't, when using a fixed commit
- Windows + macOS + Linux
- Bug tor-browser-build#40799: Remove legacy locale iteration in build and signing scripts
- Bug tor-browser-build#41363: Change update-response generation script to create one commit per OS+arch tuple
- Bug tor-browser-build#41374: Remove support for migrate_archs and migrate_langs in update_responses
- Windows + Linux + Android
- Bug tor-browser-build#41386: Upgrade Go to 1.23 for Windows, Linux, and Android
- Linux
- Bug tor-browser-build#41337: Remove libstdc++ from Linux tor-expert-bundle
- Android
- Bug tor-browser#42669: Remove dependency on Application-Services
- Bug tor-browser#43518: Verify existence of localProperties.dependencySubstitutions.geckoviewTopsrcdir before substituting
- Bug tor-browser-build#41387: Fix Golang toolchain breakage for lyrebird: linkname
- All Platforms
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.torproject.org/new-alpha-release-tor-browser-145a4