New Release: Tor Browser 10.5a5 (Android Only)

Tor Browser 10.5a5 is now available from the Tor Browser Alpha download page and also from our distribution directory.

Note: This is an alpha release, an experimental version for users who want to help us test new features. For everyone else, we recommend downloading the latest stable release for Android instead.

This release updates Fenix to 84.0.0-beta.2. Additionally, we update Tor to 0.4.5.2-alpha and HTTPS Everywhere to 2020.11.17.

The full changelog since Tor Browser 10.5a4 is:

• Android
  • Update Fenix to 84.0.0-beta.2
  • Update HTTPS Everywhere to 2020.11.17
  • Update Tor to 0.4.5.2-alpha
  • Translations update
  • Bug 40159: Update snowflake to ece43cbf
  • Bug 40236: Rebase tor-browser patches to 84.0b1
  • Bug 40258: Rebase tor-browser patches to 84.0b7
  • Bug 40119: Rebase Fenix patches to Fenix 84 beta 2
  • Bug 40027: Rebase android-components patches for Fenix 84 beta 2 builds
• Build System
  • Android
    • Bug 40081: Build Mozilla code with --enable-rust-simd
    • Bug 40128: Allow updating Fenix allowed_addons.json
    • Bug 40140: Create own Gradle project
    • Bug 40147: Remove RANLIB workaround once we pick up 0.4.5.2-alpha
    • Bug 40155: Update toolchain for Fenix 84
    • Bug 40156: Update Fenix and dependencies to 84.0.0-beta2
    • Bug 40161: Pick up Go 1.15.5
    • Bug 40163: Bug 40163: Avoid checking hash of .pom files
    • Bug 40166: Update apt cache before calling pre_pkginst in container-image config
    • Bug 40171: Include all uniffi-rs artifacts into application-services