14 DAY TRIAL // The Tor Project, through Mike Perry, had the pleasure of announcing the immediate availability for download of the sixth maintenance release of the Tor Browser Bundle 4.0 software for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
According to the release notes, TOR Browser 4.0.6 is now based on the upstream Mozilla Firefox 31.6.0 ESR (Extended Support Release) web browser, updates the OpenSSL component to version 1.0.1m, as well as the meek tool to version 0.16.
“A new release for the stable Tor Browser is available from the Tor Browser Project page and also from our distribution directory,” says Mike Perry. “Tor Browser 4.0.6 is based on Firefox ESR 31.6.0, which features important security updates to Firefox.”
This is the last version of Tor Browser that support Mac OS X 32-bit
The release announcement for Tor Browser Bundle 4.0.6 also contains an important note for users of the Mac OS X operating system, as this is the last release of the web browser that will run on 32-bit version of OS X.
While those who run Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) or later will be automatically switched to the 64-bit version of the upcoming Tor Browser 4.5, which is set to be released sometime this month, users of Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7 will have to manually update. The transition is expected to be as smooth as possible.
Download Tor Browser Bundle 4.0.6 for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows right now from Softpedia. The Tor Project also released the fifth Alpha release of the forthcoming Tor Browser Bundle 4.5 web browser, the next major release of the software, which includes a great number of new features, numerous bugfixes, as well as countless improvements.