Hello!

We are happy to announce the Tor Browser 11.0a9! This is the first alpha release based on Firefox 91esr.

Packages are available on the Tor Browser download page [0] and from the distribution directory [1]. We have a relatively short amount of time for stablizing this version, so please help us identify critical issues [2].

0. https://www.torproject.org/download/alpha/ 1. https://dist.torproject.org/torbrowser/11.0a9/ 2. https://support.torproject.org/misc/bug-or-feedback/

Tor Browser 11.0a9 updates Firefox to 91.2.0esr.

The full changelog since Tor Browser 11.0a7 is: * Windows + OS X + Linux * Update Firefox to 91.2.0esr * Update Tor to 0.4.7.1-alpha * Bug 40004: Convert tl-protocol to async. [tor-launcher] * Bug 40012: Watch all requested tor events [tor-launcher] * Bug 40027: Make torbutton_send_ctrl_cmd async [torbutton] * Bug 40042: Add missing parameter of createTransport [torbutton] * Bug 40043: Delete all plugin-related protections [torbutton] * Bug 40045: Teach the controller about status_client [torbutton] * Bug 40046: Support arbitrary watch events [torbutton] * Bug 40047: New string for Security Level panel [torbutton] * Bug 40048: Protonify Circuit Display Panel [torbutton] * Bug 40600: Multiple pages as home page unreliable in 11.0a4 [tor-browser] * Bug 40616: UX: multiple about:torconnect [tor-browser] * Bug 40624: TorConnect banner always visible in about:preferences#tor even after bootstrap [tor-browser] * Bug 40626: Update Security Level styling to match Proton UI [tor-browser] * Bug 40628: Checkbox wrong color in about:torconnect in dark mode theme [tor-browser] * Bug 40630: Update New Identity and New Circuit icons [tor-browser] * Bug 40631: site identity icons are not being displayed properly [tor-browser] * Bug 40632: Proton'ify Circuit Display Panel [tor-browser] * Bug 40634: Style updates for Onion Error Pages [tor-browser] * Bug 40636: Fix about:torconnect 'Connect' border radius in about:preferences#tor [tor-browser] * Build System * Windows + OS X + Linux * Update Go to 1.16.9 * Bug 40048: Remove projects/clang-source [tor-browser-build] * Bug 40347: Make the list of toolchain updates needed for firefox91 [tor-browser-build] * Bug 40363: Change bsaes git url [tor-browser-build] * Windows + Linux * Bug 40357: Update binutils to 2.35.2 [tor-browser-build] * Windows * Bug 28240: switch from SJLJ exception handling to Dwarf2 in mingw for win32 [tor-browser-build] * Bug 40306: Update Windows toolchain to switch to mozilla91 [tor-browser-build] * Bug 40376: Use python3 for running pe_checksum_fix.py [tor-browser-build] * OS X * Bug 40307: Update macOS toolchain to switch to mozilla91 [tor-browser-build] * Linux * Bug 40222: Bump GCC to 10.3.0 for Linux [tor-browser-build] * Bug 40305: Update Linux toolchain to switch to mozilla91 [tor-browser-build] * Bug 40353: Temporarily disable rlbox for linux builds [tor-browser-build]