Versie 3.5 is uitgekomen van de Tor Browser Bundle. Tor staat voor The Onion Router en is een netwerk dat gebruikt kan worden om anoniem over het internet te surfen. Al het tcp-verkeer van gebruikers wordt langs verschillende Tor-routers geleid, waarna het voor de ontvanger niet meer mogelijk is om na te gaan wie de oorspronkelijke verzender was. Binnen het Tor-netwerk is die informatie nog wel aanwezig, zodat antwoorden - uiteraard ook weer via het stelsel van routers - uiteindelijk weer op de juiste plek aankomen. Met versie 3.5 wordt er nu officieel afscheid genomen van de 2.x-serie. De release notes voor deze uitgave kunnen hieronder worden gevonden.
Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 is released
The 2.x stable series of the Tor Browser Bundle has officially been deprecated, and all users are encouraged to upgrade to the 3.5 series. For now, the Pluggable Transports-capable TBB is still a separate package, maintained by David Fifield. Download them here. We hope to have combined packages available in a beta soon. For people already using TBB 3.5rc1, the changes are not substantial, and are included below.
However, for users of TBB 2.x and 3.0, this release includes important security updates to Firefox. All users are strongly encouraged to update immediately, as we will not be making further releases in the 2.x or 3.0 series.
In terms of user-facing changes from TBB 2.x, the 3.x series primarily features the replacement of Vidalia with a Firefox-based Tor controller called Tor Launcher. This has resulted in a vast decrease in startup times, and a vast increase in usability. We have also begun work on an FAQ page to handle common questions arising from this transition.
The complete changelog for the 3.x series describes the changes since 2.x.
The set of changes since the 3.5rc1 release is:
- Update Tor to 0.2.4.19
- Update Tor Launcher to 0.2.4.2
- Bug 10382: Fix a Tor Launcher hang on TBB exit
- Update Torbutton to 1.6.5.2
- Misc: Switch update download URL back to download-easy