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Tor Browser 7.0.2 is Released

posted by takyon on Wednesday July 05 2017, @10:40PM   Printer-friendly
from the pray-the-NSA-away dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Tor Browser 7.0.2 is now available from the Tor Browser Project page and also from our distribution directory.

This release features an important security update to Tor.

We are updating Tor to version 0.3.0.9, fixing a path selection bug that would allow a client to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit relay. This release also updates HTTPS-Everywhere to 5.2.19.

Here is the full changelog since 7.0.1:

        All Platforms

                Update Tor to 0.3.0.9, fixing bug #22753
                Update HTTPS-Everywhere to 5.2.19

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  • (Score: 2) by MrGuy on Wednesday July 05 2017, @11:24PM (2 children)

    by MrGuy (1007) on Wednesday July 05 2017, @11:24PM (#535456)

    The last Tor release (7.0.1) came out June 13th, less than a month ago.

    This appears to be a minor bug fix version. Very little is changed that I see, just some security updates.

    Plus, given Tor now auto-notifies on updates, everyone who uses Tor probably knows about this. For people who don't use Tor, I doubt this bug fix release is what's going to put them over the edge.

    I know we're hurting a bit for stories, but this isn't exactly big news.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday July 05 2017, @11:54PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Wednesday July 05 2017, @11:54PM (#535463) Journal

    Too much politics or winning in the queue and if we're going to be slavish to anything, it might as well be Tor coverage. Relevant to anonymous cowards everywhere.

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  • (Score: 1) by peek on Thursday July 06 2017, @05:45PM

    by peek (5798) on Thursday July 06 2017, @05:45PM (#535795)

    > just some security updates

    Isn't that the entire point of using Tor Browser?

    Who cares about features, it's security that's THE consideration.

    Which makes one wonder about using Mozilla Firefox 52.2.0 as the current Tor Browser when the current release is 54.0.1 and there are known security flaws in 53 and 54
    https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox/#firefox54 [mozilla.org]