New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 12.5a1 (Android, Windows, macOS, Linux)

Tor Browser 12.5a1 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory.

Tor Browser 12.5a1 updates Firefox on Android, Windows, macOS, and Linux to 102.6.0esr.

We use this opportunity to update various other components of Tor Browser as well:

• tor 0.4.7.12
• go 1.19.4

This version includes important security updates to Firefox and GeckoView. There were no Android-specific security updates to backport from the Firefox 108 release.

The full changelog since Tor Browser 12.0a5 is:

• All Platforms
  • Updated tor to 0.4.7.12
  • Bug tor-browser-build#40711: Review and expand the stakeholders we communicate major changes to
  • Bug tor-browser#41478: Drop the torbutton submodule in 12.5
  • Bug tor-browser#41514: eslint broken since migrating torbutton
• Windows + macOS + Linux
  • Updated Firefox to 102.6esr
  • Bug tor-browser#26504: about:preferences shows Firefox's version instead of Tor Browser's
  • Bug tor-browser#32308: Stop inner letterbox jiggling as border is dragged
  • Bug tor-browser#40347: URL bar lock icon says connection is not secure when on "view-source:[...].onion" URLs
  • Bug tor-browser-build#40678: Force all 11.5 users to update through 11.5.8 before 12.0
  • Bug tor-browser#41375: Clean unused strings
  • Bug tor-browser#41435: Add a Tor Browser migration function
  • Bug tor-browser#41448: User danger style for primary button in new identity modal
  • Bug tor-browser#41483: Tor Browser says Firefox timed out, confusing users
  • Bug tor-browser#41503: Disable restart in case of reboot and restore in case of crash
  • Bug tor-browser#41520: Regression: rearranging bookmarks / place items by drag & drop doesn't work anymore
  • Bug tor-browser#41524: about:tbupdate needs UTF-8
  • Bug tor-browser#41525: Drop locales from torbutton, since we will inject them in tor-browser-build
• macOS + Linux
  • Bug tor-browser#41519: TOR_SOCKS_IPC_PATH environment variable not honored
• Windows
  • Bug tor-browser-build#40708: tor.exe in tor-expert-bundle not writing stdout even when run from cmd.exe
• macOS
  • Bug tor-browser-build#40716: Unable to update to 12.0.1 on Apple Silicon-based Mac
• Android
  • Updated GeckoView to 102.6esr
  • Bug tor-browser#41001: Remove remaining security slider code
• Build System
  • All Platforms
    • Updated Go to 1.19.4
    • Bug tor-browser-build#40645: Verify we no longer depend on any signed tags from sysrqb and gk, and remove them from torbutton.gpg
    • Bug tor-browser-build#40679: Use the latest translations for nightly builds
    • Bug tor-browser-build#40681: Run apt-get clean, after installing packages in projects/container-image/config
    • Bug tor-browser-build#40683: Install more packages in the default containers to reduce the number of custom containers
    • Bug tor-browser-build#40689: Update Ubuntu version from projects/mmdebstrap-image/config to 22.04.1
    • Bug tor-browser-build#40717: Create a script to prepare changelogs
  • Windows + macOS + Linux
    • Bug tor-browser-build#40707: Update update_responses_config.yml to allow 11.5.8 to update to whatever latest is
    • Bug tor-browser-build#40713: Use the new tor-browser l10n branch in Firefox
  • Linux + Android
    • Bug tor-browser-build#40653: Build compiler-rt with runtimes instead of the main LLVM build
  • macOS
    • Bug tor-browser-build#40694: aarch64 tor-expert-bundle for macOS is not exported as part of the browser build
    • Bug tor-browser-build#40704: Building nightly macos incrementals fails
  • Linux
    • Bug tor-browser-build#40693: Can't build container-image in main
  • Android
    • Bug tor-browser-build#40702: Nightly builds fails with "error: pathspec 'tor-browser-102.5.0esr-12.0-2' did not match any file(s) known to git"