Tor Browser 5.5, the first stable release in the 5.5 series, is now available from the Tor Browser Project page and also from our distribution directory.

This release features important security updates to Firefox.

On the privacy front we finally provide a defense against font enumeration attacks which we developed over the last weeks and months. While there is still room for improvement, it closes an important gap in our fingerprinting defenses. Additionally, we isolate Shared Workers to the first-party domain now and further improved our keyboard fingerprinting defense.

We made also progress on the usability side. First, by providing Tor Browser in another locale, Japanese. Additionally, by showing the changes in the new Tor Browser version immediately after an update and polishing our about:tor appearance. Last but not least we changed the search bar URL for the DuckDuckGo search engine to its onion URL.

Here is the full changelog since 5.0.7:

Tor Browser 5.5 -- January 27 2016