Tor Browser 7.0a4 is now available from the Tor Browser Project page and also from our distribution directory.

This will probably be the last alpha before the first stable release in the 7.0 series.

This release features a lot of improvements since the 7.0a3 release. Among other things Firefox has been updated to 52.1.1esr, fixing a security bug for Windows users (although by default Tor Browser users are not affected as WebGL is put behind click-to-play placeholders, thanks to NoScript). The canvas prompt is now shown again, the browser is not crashing anymore on about:addons with the security slider set to "high" and Selfrando has been integrated into the Linux 64bit build.

There are still some unresolved issues that we are working on getting fixed for the stable release. Among them, the browser is crashing (with e10s enabled) or the download is stalling (with e10s disabled) when opening/downloading files that need an external application to handle them (this is bug 21766 and bug 21886).

Note: comments were closed as we were upgrading our blog. They are now open.

Note for Linux users: You may get the error Directory /run/user/$uid/Tor does not exist after updating your browser. This is bug 22283. A workaround for this issue is to edit the file Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/torrc and remove the ControlPort and SocksPort lines.

The full changelog since Tor Browser 7.0a3 is: