Tor Browser 8.5a5 is now available from the Tor Browser Project page and also from our distribution directory.

Starting with this alpha release, we are releasing both the Android and desktop versions on the same day, with similar versioning schemes.

On the desktop side, we included a new Tor alpha version (0.3.5.5-alpha) to help with stabilizing the networking code. Furthermore, we managed to fix two longstanding first party isolation bugs: Both PDF range requests and saving links, images or similar resources using the context menu are now properly isolated to the URL bar domain.

On the Android side, we reached another milestone in our efforts to bring Tor Browser for Android into stable shape. From now on it is not necessary anymore to download Orbot in order to use Tor Browser. We implemented a similar solution to our desktop Tor Browser flavors by shipping and using Orbot in Tor Browser directly. We plan to refine our approach for an even smoother user exprience in the future, so stay tuned. Please note, this release is only supported on armv7 devices (most Android phones and tablets), but x86 devices are not supported (such as Chromebooks).

Additionally, we included the mobile build into our official Tor Browser build infrastructure. The build artifacts are not reproducible yet (although we are pretty close reaching that goal). But fixing that is one of the top priorities for our next big milestone for the Android app.

The full changelog since Tor Browser 8.5a4 is: