Hello!

We are happy to announce the first Tor Browser 10.5 release candidate for wider testing. Packages can be found at:

https://people.torproject.org/~sysrqb/builds/10.5-build1/

Tor Browser 10.5 is the first stable version of the 10.5-series. Tor Browser 10.5 features a new about:torconnect screen for starting tor (disabled via the TOR_USE_LEGACY_LAUNCHER environment variable), the snowflake pluggable transport, and numerous bug fixes.

The full changelog since Tor Browser 10.0.18 is: * All Platforms * Update NoScript to 11.2.9 * Update Tor Launcher to 0.2.29 * Translations update * Bug 25483: Provide Snowflake based on Pion for Windows, macOS, and Linux * Bug 33761: Remove unnecessary snowflake dependencies * Bug 40064: Bump libevent to 2.1.12 [tor-browser-build] * Bug 40137: Migrate https-everywhere storage to idb [tor-browser] * Bug 40261: Bump versions of snowflake and webrtc [tor-browser-build] * Bug 40263: Update domain front for Snowflake [tor-browser-build] * Bug 40302: Update version of snowflake [tor-browser-build] * Bug 40030: DuckDuckGo redirect to html doesn't work [torbutton] * Windows + OS X + Linux * Bug 27476: Implement about:torconnect captive portal within Tor Browser [tor-browser] * Bug 32228: Bookmark TPO support domains in Tor Browser * Bug 33803: Add a secondary nightly MAR signing key [tor-browser] * Bug 33954: Consider different approach for Bug 2176 * Bug 34345: "Don't Bootstrap" Startup Mode * Bug 40011: Rename tor-browser-brand.ftl to brand.ftl [torbutton] * Bug 40012: Fix about:tor not loading some images in 82 [torbutton] * Bug 40138: Move our primary nightly MAR signing key to tor-browser [tor-browser-build] * Bug 40428: Correct minor Cryptocurrency warning string typo [tor-browser] * Bug 40429: Update Onboarding for 10.5 [tor-browser] * Bug 40455: Block or recover background requests after bootstrap [tor-browser] * Bug 40456: Update the SecureDrop HTTPS-Everywhere update channel [tor-browser] * Bug 40475: Include clearing CORS preflight cache [tor-browser] * Bug 40478: Onion alias url rewrite is broken [tor-browser] * Bug 40484: Bootstrapping page show Quickstart text [tor-browser] * Bug 40490: BridgeDB bridge captcha selection is broken in alpha [tor-browser] * Bug 40495: Onion pattern is focusable by click on about:torconnect [tor-browser] * Bug 40499: Onion Alias doesn't work with TOR_SKIP_LAUNCH [tor-browser] * Android * Bug 30318: Integrate snowflake into mobile Tor Browser * Bug 40206: Disable the /etc/hosts parser [tor-browser] * Linux * Bug 40089: Remove CentOS 6 support for Tor Browser 10.5 [tor-browser] * Build System * All Platforms * Update Go to 1.15.13 * Bug 23631: Use rootless containers [tor-browser-build] * Bug 33693: Change snowflake and meek dummy address [tor-browser] * Bug 40016: getfpaths is not setting origin_project [rbm] * Bug 40169: Update apt package cache after calling pre_pkginst, too [tor-browser-build] * Bug 40194: Remove osname part in cbindgen filename [tor-browser-build] * Windows + OS X + Linux * Bug 40081: Build Mozilla code with --enable-rust-simd [tor-browser-build] * Bug 40104: Use our TMPDIR when creating our .mar files [tor-browser-build] * Bug 40133: Bump Rust version for ESR 78 to 1.43.0 [tor-browser-build] * Bug 40166: Update apt cache before calling pre_pkginst in container-image config [tor-browser-build] * Android * Bug 28672: Android reproducible build of Snowflake * Bug 40313: Use apt-get to install openjdk-8 .deb files with their dependencies [tor-browser-build] * Windows * Bug 34360: Bump binutils to 2.35.1 * Bug 40131: Remove unused binutils patches [tor-browser-build] * Linux * Bug 26238: Move to Debian Jessie for our Linux builds * Bug 31729: Support Wayland * Bug 40041: Remove CentOS 6 support for 10.5 series [tor-browser-build] * Bug 40103: Add i386 pkg-config path for linux-i686 [tor-browser-build] * Bug 40112: Strip libstdc++ we ship [tor-browser-build] * Bug 40118: Add missing libdrm dev package to firefox container [tor-browser-build] * Bug 40235: Bump apt for Jessie containers [tor-browser-build]