Hello!

We are happy to announce the first Tor Browser 11.5a1 release candidate for wider testing. Packages can be found at:

https://people.torproject.org/~boklm/builds/11.5a1-build2/

Tor Browser 11.5a1 updates Firefox to 91.4.0esr and includes bugfixes and stability improvements. In particular, it should fix the crashes a lot of our Windows users have been seeing lately.

The full changelog since Tor Browser 11.0a10 is: * Windows + OS X + Linux * Update Firefox to 91.4.0esr * Tor Launcher 0.2.32 * Bug 40059: YEC activist sign empty in about:tor on RTL locales [torbutton] * Bug 40386: Add new default obfs4 bridge "deusexmachina" [tor-browser-build] * Bug 40393: Point to a forked version of pion/dtls with fingerprinting fix [tor-browser-build] * Bug 40394: Bump version of Snowflake to 221f1c41 [tor-browser-build] * Bug 40438: Add Blockchair as a search engine [tor-browser] * Bug 40646: Revert tor-browser#40475 and inherit upstream fix [tor-browser] * Bug 40680: Prepare update to localized assets for YEC [tor-browser] * Bug 40682: Disable network.proxy.allow_bypass [tor-browser] * Bug 40684: Misc UI bug fixes in 11.0a10 [tor-browser] * Bug 40686: Update Onboarding link for 11.0 [tor-browser] * Bug 40689: Change Blockchair Search provider's HTTP method [tor-browser] * Bug 40690: Browser chrome breaks when private browsing mode is turned off [tor-browser] * Bug 40691: Make quickstart checkbox gray when "off" on about:torconnect [tor-browser] * Bug 40698: Addon menus missing content in TB11 [tor-browser] * Bug 40700: Switch Firefox recommendations off by default [tor-browser] * Bug 40705: "visit our website" link on about:tbupdate pointing to different locations [tor-browser] * Bug 40706: Fix issue in HTTPS-Everywhere WASM [tor-browser] * Bug 40714: Next button closes "How do circuits work?" onboarding tour [tor-browser] * Bug 40718: Application Menu items should be sentence case [tor-browser] * Bug 40721: Tabs crashing on certain pages in TB11 on Win 10 [tor-browser] * Bug 40725: about:torconnect missing identity block content on TB11 [tor-browser] * Translations update * Linux * Bug 40318: Remove check for DISPLAY env var in start-tor-browser [tor-browser-build] * Bug 40387: Remove some fonts on Linux [tor-browser-build]

Georg