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Tor Browser 5.5.5 is released (April 26th, 2016)

Accepted submission by Anonymous Coward at 2016-04-26 18:26:46
Security

= Announcement:
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-555-released [torproject.org]

= Download:
https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html [torproject.org]
https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/5.5.5/ [torproject.org]

"Tor Browser 5.5.5 is now available from the Tor Browser Project page and also from our distribution directory.

This release features import security updates to Firefox.

This release updates Firefox to 38.8.0esr. Additionally, we bump NoScript
to version 2.9.0.11 and HTTPS-Everywhere to 5.1.6.

Moreover, we don't advertise our help desk anymore as we are currently
restructuring our user support."

Here is the full changelog since 5.5.4:

= Tor Browser 5.5.5 -- April 26 2016

= All Platforms

- Update Firefox to 38.8.0esr
- Update Tor Launcher to 0.2.7.9
- Bug 10534: Don't advertise the help desk directly anymore[1]
- Translation updates
- Update HTTPS-Everywhere to 5.1.6
- Update NoScript to 2.9.0.11
- Bug 18726: Add new default obfs4 bridge (GreenBelt)[2]

[1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10534 [torproject.org]
[2] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18726 [torproject.org]


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