Georg Koppen:
Hi,
we are excited to announce the first stable version in the 4.5 series being ready for testing. It will be the next alpha as well. Bundles can be found on
https://people.torproject.org/~mikeperry/builds/4.5-build4/
Compared to 4.5a5 we were able to put another couple of important usability fixes into this release. We improved HTTP connection handling, the HTTP authentication experience and fixed the TLS connection display, to name a few. Moreover, we neutered Blob URIs to a great deal which can get used to track users across domains and, finally, brought all Tor Browser components up-to-date.
The complete changelog since 4.5a5 is:
Tor Browser 4.5 -- Apr 28 2015
- All Platforms
- Update Tor to 0.2.6.7 with additional patches:
- Update NoScript to 2.6.9.22
- Update HTTPS-Everywhere to 5.0.2
- Update meek to 0.17
- Update obfs4proxy to 0.0.5
- Update Tor Launcher to 0.2.7.4
- Update Torbutton to 1.9.2.1
** I attempted to update using tor-browser-linux64-4.5a5-4.5_en-US.incremental.mar and ended up with the following errors:
ERROR: There must be at least one signature. ERROR: Not all signatures were verified. ERROR: There must be at least one signature. ERROR: Not all signatures were verified.
and so downloaded the full version instead. I haven't tried the MAR update before with the 4.5 series, but followed the same process as with the 4.0 series. **
** HTTPS-Everywhere is v 5.0.3, not 5.0.2 Torbutton is v 1.9.2.0, not 1.9.2.1 **
Testing: tor-browser-linux64-4.5_en-US.tar.xz Platform: Debian 7.8 Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU B950 @ 2.10GHz
Tor *v0.2.6.7* (git-ac600bec40c14864) Libevent 2.0.21-stable OpenSSL 1.0.1m Zlib 1.2.7 Firefox: 31.6.0 (Tor Browser 4.5)
TBB Launches successfully: yes Connects to the Tor network: yes
All extensions are present and functional: yes - HTTPS-Everywhere *5.0.3* - NoScript *2.6.9.22* - TorButton *1.9.2.0* - TorLauncher *0.2.7.4*
WebBrowsing works as expected - HTTP, HTTPS, .onion browsing works - HTML5 videos work (http://videojs.com/) - http://ip-check.info/?lang=en - ok - https://panopticlick.eff.org/ - one in 584,881 browsers, 19.16 bits of identifying information
SOCKS/external apps (Torsocks) work as expected: yes