[tor-announce] New Release: Tor Browser 16.0a3 (Android, Windows, macOS, Linux)

[Giorgio Maone via tor-announce <tor-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    Hi everyone,
    
    Tor Browser 16.0a3 has now been published for all platforms. For
    details please see our blog post:
    
    - https://blog.torproject.org/new-alpha-release-tor-browser-160a3/
    
    Changelog:

Tor Browser 16.0a3 - February 17 2026

All Platforms

• Updated Tor to 0.4.9.5
• Updated NoScript to 13.5.12.90301984
• Bug tor-browser#44562: Set the new online Suggest prefs to false
• Bug tor-browser#44571: Disable restrict_to_adults for potential fingerprintability
• Bug tor-browser#44619: Add custom logs to Tor logs
• Bug tor-browser#44625: metamask.io won't load on Safer security level
• Bug tor-browser#44626: Propagate WASM blocking to workers
• Bug tor-browser#44647: Clean up patch for SearchEngineSelector.sys.mjs.
• Bug tor-browser#44652: Backport fix for Firefox Bug 2014390
• Bug tor-browser-build#41713: Try to find a component for bugs found with commits in triage spreadsheets

Windows + macOS + Linux

• Bug tor-browser#43560: Add "UTC" to the end of the timestamp on tor logs (Desktop)
• Bug tor-browser#44459: Letterboxing content alignment setting is missing styling
• Bug tor-browser#44520: Make sure "Firefox labs" is hidden by default

Windows

• Bug tor-browser#44623: 16.0a2: about:preferences#privacy is empty

Linux

• Bug tor-browser#44050: Consider changing the domain in DBus interfaces

Android

• Bug tor-browser#43403: Add "UTC" to the end of the timestamp on tor logs (Android)
• Bug tor-browser#44057: Drop about:torconnect from android
• Bug tor-browser#44620: Move the Android IPC directory
• Bug tor-browser-build#28595: Remove the need to update var/gradle_dependencies_version

Build System

• All Platforms
  • Bug tor-browser-build#40338: Running make release multiple times fails
  • Bug tor-browser-build#41660: Add a Firefox target to build unpatched Firefox in tor-browser-build
  • Bug tor-browser-build#41693: Drop base-browser targets
  • Bug tor-browser-build#41720: cp -l in release/build fails when crossing file systems
  • Bug rbm#40093: Make it easy to get the sha256sum of an input_files file
  • Bug rbm#40103: Allow having multiple tmp_dir values
• Windows + Linux + Android
  • Updated Go to 1.25.7
• Android
  • Bug tor-browser-build#41719: Enable network when var/generate_gradle_dependencies_list is set in geckoview

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ma1
  

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