El Tor project today announced the launch and general availability of Tor Browser 11.5, as the latest stable version of this open source web browser for anonymous internet browsing, built on top of Tor and Mozilla Firefox. It's been a year since the release of Tor Browser 10.5, which introduced support for Wayland, improved UX for connecting with Tor, as well as better support for users under censorship, and now Tor Browser 11.5 is here with another exciting new feature and improvements. Tor Browser 11.5 builds on the features introduced with Tor Browser 10.5, and adds automatic censorship detection and circumvention through a new feature called Connection Assist, which automatically applies the best bridge settings for your location in order to to bypass censorship on the Tor network.
"ConnectionAssist" it works by searching for and downloading an up-to-date list of country-specific options that try to exploit your location (with your consent). You get to do this without having to connect to the Tor network first," the developers explain. Another major change is a revamped Tor network option, now called the Connect option. Highlights are simplified Bridge options, new Bridge tabs with new options to share Bridges via unique QR codes, the ability to view your connection status as last known, as well as a option to test an Internet connection without Tor, as well as new settings for the connection helper function, seen above.
Tor Browser 11.5 also comes with the HTTPS-Only mode enabled by default to improve security, removal of the use of the HTTPS-Everywhere plugin, improved font support with a number of packaged Noto fonts, support for OpenSSL 1.1.1q, the Tor Launcher 0.2.37, and a number of bug fixes. mistakes. Under the hood, this version is built on top of Mozilla Firefox 91.11.0 ESR. You can download Tor Browser 11.5 now from the official site, as binary files for GNU/Linux, macOS and Windows 64-bit systems. Tor Browser for Android has also been updated, you can install it from here.