Tor Browser 15.0 Alpha 4 Released with Security Updates, Final Stable Version Expected in October
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Summary
Tor Browser 15.0a4 has been released as the latest alpha version, featuring important security updates to Firefox. This release is positioned as potentially the final alpha before the stable version launch planned for the last week of October. The Tor Project team is now focusing on quality assurance (QA) testing to ensure all features and scenarios work as expected before the stable release.
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· 4 pulledTor Browser 15.0a4 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory.
This version includes important security updates to Firefox.
If all goes as planned, this will be our last alpha release in the 15.0 series before it is promoted to stable in the last week of October.
Next week we will be focusing primarily on QA and ensuring all the various features and scenarios supported in Tor Browser still work as expected.
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