[Tails-dev] Tor Browser 6.5.1 is ready for testing

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Autore: Georg Koppen
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Oggetto: [Tails-dev] Tor Browser 6.5.1 is ready for testing
Hi!

We are happy to accounce that Tor Browser 6.5.1 is ready for testing.
Bundles can be found on:

https://people.torproject.org/~gk/builds/6.5.1-build2/

This is the first minor release in the 6.5 series and it mainly contains
updates to several of our Tor Browser components: Firefox got updated to
45.8.0esr, Tor to 0.2.9.10, OpenSSL to 1.0.1k, and HTTPS-Everywhere to
5.2.11.

The update to 45.8.0esr made it necessary to rewrite the backported
Mozilla patch that hardened the JavaScript JIT by enforcing W^X on all
pages. Please test the release candidate with that in mind and report
back in case crashes or other issues with that patch in particular show up.

Additionally, we updated the bridges we ship with Tor Browser and fixed
some regressions that came with our last release.

The full changelog since Tor Browser 6.5 is:

Tor Browser 6.5.1 -- March 6 2017
 * All Platforms
   * Update Firefox to 45.8.0esr
   * Tor to 0.2.9.10
   * OpenSSL to 1.0.2k
   * Update Torbutton to 1.9.6.14
     * Bug 21396: Allow leaking of resource/chrome URIs (off by default)
     * Bug 21574: Add link for zh manual and create manual links dynamically
     * Bug 21330: Non-usable scrollbar appears in tor browser security
settings
     * Translation updates
   * Update HTTPS-Everywhere to 5.2.11
   * Bug 21514: Restore W^X JIT implementation removed from ESR45
   * Bug 21536: Remove scramblesuit bridge
   * Bug 21342: Move meek-azure to the meek.azureedge.net backend and
cymrubridge02 bridge
 * Linux
   * Bug 21326: Update the "Using a system-installed Tor" section in
start script


Georg