New Release: Tails 7.5

New Release: Tails 7.5

Favorite Changes and updates Update Tor Browser to 15.0.7. Simplify the home page of Tor Browser. Update the Tor client to 0.4.9.5. Update Thunderbird to 140.7.1. Install Thunderbird as additional software to improve its security, if you have both the Thunderbird Email Client and Additional Software features of the Persistent Storage turned on. Until Tails…

Keeping track of decisions using the ADR model

Keeping track of decisions using the ADR model

Favorite In the Tor Project system Administrator’s team (colloquially known as TPA), we’ve recently changed how we take decisions, which means you’ll get clearer communications from us about upcoming changes or targeted questions about a proposal. Note that this change only affects the TPA team. At Tor, each team has its own way of coordinating…

New Release: Tails 7.4.2

New Release: Tails 7.4.2

Favorite This release is an emergency release to fix critical security vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. Changes and updates Update the Linux kernel to 6.12.69, which fixes DSA 6126-1, multiple security vulnerabilities that could allow an application in Tails to gain administration privileges. For example, if an attacker was able to exploit other unknown security…

Arti 2.0.0 released: Relay, directory authority, and RPC development.

Arti 2.0.0 released: Relay, directory authority, and RPC development.

Favorite Arti is our ongoing project to create a next-generation Tor implementation in Rust. We’re happy to announce the latest release, Arti 2.0.0. While “2.0” may sound like an exciting release number, it’s actually fairly mundane. Semver requires us to bump our major version number when making breaking changes, and we had a couple breaking…

New Release: Tails 7.4.1

New Release: Tails 7.4.1

Favorite This release is an emergency release to fix critical security vulnerabilities in OpenSSL, a network encryption library used by Tor. Changes and updates Included software Update the OpenSSL library to 3.5.4, which fixes DSA 6113-1, a set of vulnerabilities that could be critical. Using this set of vulnerabilities, an malicious Tor relay might be…

New Release: Tor Browser 15.0.5

New Release: Tor Browser 15.0.5

Favorite Tor Browser 15.0.5 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory. Vietnamese Text Vandalism A few days ago, one of our community members reported that some of the Vietnamese text translations in Tor Browser Android had been vandalised by a malicious contributor. Unfortunately, this mis-translated text ended…