Favorite For over a decade, BridgeDB was the reluctant champion helping users bypass censorship and connect to the open web. Released more than 11 years ago as a prototype, the bridge distribution mechanism surpassed its original lifespan, honorably serving the Tor community. However, as censorship techniques evolved, BridgeDB became overburdened with the many updates necessary…
Favorite Arti is our ongoing project to create a next-generation Tor client in Rust. Now we’re announcing the latest release, Arti 1.3.1. This release continues development on Arti Relay and the RPC subsystem, and adds the initial scaffolding for service-side proof-of-work support. It also contains a number of bugfixes, cleanups, as well as improvements to…
Favorite Recent reports from Tor users in Russia indicate an escalation in online censorship with the goal of blocking access to Tor and other circumvention tools. This new wave includes attempts to block Tor bridges and pluggable transports developed by the Tor Project, removal of circumvention apps from stores, and targeting popular hosting providers, shrinking…
Favorite Changes and updates Update Tor Browser to 14.0.3. Update Thunderbird from 115.16.0 to 128.4.3. Fixed problems Fix support for Trezor hardware wallets in Electrum. (#20138) Fix an issue that prevented the Tails desktop to open with fewer memory. (#20631) Disable saving telemetry data in Thunderbird. (#20661) For more details, read our changelog. Get Tails…
Favorite Oftentimes we share stories about journalists, activists, whistleblowers, and people in authoritarian governments using Tor to speak truth to power without risking their lives. These are meaningful examples of the importance of Tor—but it’s important to remember that everyone, everywhere has the right to speak, browse and search with freedom and with privacy. That’s…
Favorite Tor Browser 14.0.3 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory. This version includes important security updates to Firefox. Send us your feedback If you find a bug or have a suggestion for how we could improve this release, please let us know. Full changelog The full…
Favorite Tor Browser 14.5a1 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory. This version includes important security updates to Firefox. We would like to thank the following community members for their contribution to this release: NoisyCoil for several patches allowing us to create aarch64 Linux builds of our…
Favorite Last week we released Arti 1.3.0, the latest version of our rewrite of Tor in Rust. One new feature in this release is memory quota tracking. Tracking and restricting memory for queued data The memory quota tracking feature allows you to restrict the amount of memory used by an Arti process. In particular, it…
Favorite Tor Browser 14.0.2 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory. This version fixes a tor crash bug on macOS when attempting to visit onion sites with PoW protections enabled (tor-browser#43245) Send us your feedback If you find a bug or have a suggestion for how we…
Favorite At the end of October, Tor directory authorities, relay operators, and even the Tor Project sysadmin team received multiple abuse complaints from their providers about port scanning. These complaints were traced back to a coordinated IP spoofing attack, where an attacker spoofed non-exit relays and other Tor-related IPs to trigger abuse reports aimed at…
