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Tails 1.3 is out

Posted February 24th, 2015 by tails
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Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 1.3, is out.

This release fixes numerous security issues and all users must upgrade as soon as possible.

New features

  • Electrum is an easy to use bitcoin wallet. You can use the Bitcoin Client persistence feature to store your Electrum configuration and wallet.

  • The Tor Browser has additional operating system and data security. This security restricts reads and writes to a limited number of folders. Learn how to manipulate files with the new Tor Browser.

  • The obfs4 pluggable transport is now available to connect to Tor bridges. Pluggable transports transform the Tor traffic between the client and the bridge to help disguise Tor traffic from censors.

  • Keyringer lets you manage and share secrets using OpenPGP and Git from the command line.

Upgrades and changes

  • The Mac and Linux manual installation processes no longer require the isohybrid command. Removing the isohybrid command simplifies the installation.
  • The tap-to-click and two-finger scrolling trackpad settings are now enabled by default. This should be more intuitive for Mac users.
  • The Ibus Vietnamese input method is now supported.
  • Improved support for OpenPGP smartcards through the installation of GnuPG 2.

There are numerous other changes that may not be apparent in the daily operation of a typical user. Technical details of all the changes are listed in the Changelog.

Known issues

See the current list of known issues.

Download or upgrade

Go to the download page.

What's coming up?

The next Tails release is scheduled for April 7.

Have a look to our roadmap to see where we are heading to.

Do you want to help? There are many ways you can contribute to Tails. If you want to help, come talk to us!

Support and feedback

For support and feedback, visit the Support section on the Tails website.

Tails 1.2.1 is out

Posted December 3rd, 2014 by tails
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Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 1.2.1, is out.

This release fixes numerous security issues and all users must upgrade as soon as possible.

Changes

Notable user-visible changes include:

  • Security fixes
    • Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-1.
    • Install Tor Browser 4.0.2 (based on Firefox 31.3.0esr).
  • Bugfixes
    • Restore mouse scrolling in KVM/Spice (ticket #7426).
    • Suppress excessive (and leaky!) Torbutton logging (ticket #8160).
    • Don't break the Unsafe and I2P Browsers after installing incremental upgrades (ticket #8152, ticket #8158).
    • External links in various applications should now open properly in the Tor Browser (ticket #8153, ticket #8186).
    • Fix clearsigning of text including non-ASCII characters in gpgApplet (ticket #7968).
  • Minor improvements
    • Upgrade I2P to 0.9.17-1~deb7u+1.
    • Make GnuPG configuration closer to the best practices (ticket #7512).
    • Remove TrueCrypt support and document how to open TrueCrypt volumes using cryptsetup (ticket #5373).

See the online Changelog for technical details.

Known issues

  • Users of the GnuPG keyrings and configuration persistence feature should follow some manual steps after upgrading a Tails USB stick or SD card installation to Tails 1.2.1.
  • Longstanding known issues.

I want to try it or to upgrade!

Go to the download page.

As no software is ever perfect, we maintain a list of problems that affects the last release of Tails.

What's coming up?

The next Tails release is scheduled for January 14.

Have a look at our roadmap to see where we are heading to.

Do you want to help? There are many ways you can contribute to Tails. If you want to help, come talk to us!

Support and feedback

For support and feedback, visit the Support section on the Tails website.

Tails 1.2 is out

Posted October 16th, 2014 by tails
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Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 1.2, is out.

This release fixes numerous security issues and all users must upgrade as soon as possible.

Changes

Notable user-visible changes include:

  • Major new features
    • Install (most of) the Tor Browser, replacing our previous Iceweasel-based browser. The version installed is from TBB 4.0 and is based on Firefox 31.2.0esr. This fixes the POODLE vulnerability.
    • Upgrade Tor to 0.2.5.8-rc.
    • Confine several important applications with AppArmor.
  • Bugfixes
    • Install Linux 3.16-3 (version 3.16.5-1).
  • Minor improvements
    • Upgrade I2P to 0.9.15, and isolate I2P traffic from the Tor Browser by adding a dedicated I2P Browser. Also, start I2P automatically upon network connection, when the i2p boot option is added.
    • Make it clear that TrueCrypt will be removed in Tails 1.2.1 (ticket #7739), and document how to open TrueCrypt volumes with cryptsetup.
    • Enable VirtualBox guest additions by default (ticket #5730). In particular this enables VirtualBox's display management service.
    • Make the OTR status in Pidgin clearer thanks to the formatting toolbar (ticket #7356).
    • Upgrade syslinux to 6.03-pre20, which should fix UEFI boot on some hardware.

See the online Changelog for technical details.

Known issues

I want to try it or to upgrade!

Go to the download page.

As no software is ever perfect, we maintain a list of problems that affects the last release of Tails.

What's coming up?

The next Tails release is scheduled for November 25.

Have a look to our roadmap to see where we are heading to.

Do you want to help? There are many ways you can contribute to Tails. If you want to help, come talk
to us!

Support and feedback

For support and feedback, visit the Support section on the Tails website.

Tails 1.1.2 is out

Posted September 25th, 2014 by tails
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Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 1.1.2, is out.

This release fixes numerous security issues and all users must upgrade as soon as possible.

We prepared this release mainly to fix a serious flaw in the Network Security Services (NSS) library used by Firefox and other products allows attackers to create forged RSA certificates.

Before this release, users on a compromised network could be directed to sites using a fraudulent certificate and mistake them for legitimate sites. This could deceive them into revealing personal information such as usernames and passwords. It may also deceive users into downloading malware if they believe it’s coming from a trusted site.

Changes

Notable user-visible changes include:

  • Security fixes
    • Upgrade the web browser to 24.8.0esr-0+tails3~bpo70+1
    • Install Linux 3.16-1
    • Numerous other software upgrades that fix security issues: GnuPG, APT, DBus, Bash, and packages built from the bind9 and libav source packages

See the online Changelog for technical details.

Known issues

Longstanding known issues.

I want to try it or to upgrade!

Go to the download page.

As no software is ever perfect, we maintain a list of problems that affects the last release of Tails.

What's coming up?

The next Tails release is scheduled for October 14.

Have a look to our roadmap to see where we are heading to.

Do you want to help? There are many ways you can contribute to Tails. If you want to help, come talk to us!

Support and feedback

For support and feedback, visit the Support section on the Tails website.

Tails 1.1.1 is out

Posted September 2nd, 2014 by tails
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Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 1.1.1, is out.

All users must upgrade as soon as possible: this release fixes numerous security issues.

Download it now.

Changes

Notable user-visible changes include:

  • Security fixes
    • Upgrade the web browser to 24.8.0esr-0+tails1~bpo70+1 (Firefox 24.8.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
    • Add an I2P boot parameter. Without adding "i2p" to the kernel command line, I2P will not be accessible for the Live user. I2P was also upgraded to 0.9.14.1-1~deb7u+1, and stricter firewall rules are applied to it, among other security enhancements.
    • Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.23-2~d70.wheezy+1 (fixes CVE-2014-5117).
    • Upgrade Linux to 3.14.15-2 (fixes CVE-2014-3534, CVE-2014-4667 and CVE-2014-4943).
    • Prevent dhclient from sending the hostname over the network (ticket #7688).
    • Override the hostname provided by the DHCP server (ticket #7769).
  • Bugfixes
    • Don't ship OpenJDK 6: I2P prefers v7, and we don't need both (ticket #7807).
    • Prevent Tails Installer from updating the system partition properties on MBR partitions (ticket #7716).
  • Minor improvements
    • Upgrade to Torbutton 1.6.12.1.
    • Install gnome-user-guide (ticket #7618).
    • Install cups-pk-helper (ticket #7636).
    • Update the SquashFS sort file, which should speed up boot from DVD (ticket #6372).
    • Compress the SquashFS more aggressively (ticket #7706) which should make the Tails ISO image smaller.

See the online Changelog for technical details.

Known issues

Longstanding known issues.

I want to try it or to upgrade!

Go to the download page.

What's coming up?

The next Tails release is scheduled for October 14.

Have a look to our roadmap to see where we are heading to.

Do you want to help? There are many ways you can contribute to Tails. If you want to help, come talk to us!

Support and feedback

For support and feedback, visit the Support section on the Tails website.

Tails 1.1 is out

Posted July 22nd, 2014 by tails
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Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 1.1, is out.

All users must upgrade as soon as possible: this release fixes numerous security issues.

Changes

Notable user-visible changes include:

  • Rebase on Debian Wheezy
    • Upgrade literally thousands of packages.
    • Migrate to GNOME3 fallback mode.
    • Install LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice.
  • Major new features
    • UEFI boot support, which should make Tails boot on modern hardware and Mac computers.
    • Replace the Windows XP camouflage with a Windows 8 camouflage.
    • Bring back VirtualBox guest modules, installed from Wheezy backports. Full functionality is only available when using the 32-bit kernel.
  • Security fixes
    • Fix write access to boot medium via udisks (ticket #6172).
    • Upgrade the web browser to 24.7.0esr-0+tails1~bpo70+1 (Firefox 24.7.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
    • Upgrade to Linux 3.14.12-1 (fixes CVE-2014-4699).
    • Make persistent file permissions safer (ticket #7443).
  • Bugfixes
    • Fix quick search in Tails Greeter's Other languages window (Closes: ticket #5387)
  • Minor improvements
    • Don't install Gobby 0.4 anymore. Gobby 0.5 has been available in Debian since Squeeze, now is a good time to drop the obsolete 0.4 implementation.
    • Require a bit less free memory before checking for upgrades with Tails Upgrader. The general goal is to avoid displaying "Not enough memory available to check for upgrades" too often due to over-cautious memory requirements checked in the wrapper.
    • Whisperback now sanitizes attached logs better with respect to DMI data, IPv6 addresses, and serial numbers (ticket #6797, ticket #6798, ticket #6804).
    • Install the BookletImposer PDF imposition toolkit.

See the online Changelog for technical details.

Known issues

I want to try it or to upgrade!

Go to the download page.

Note that for this release there are some special actions needed when upgrading from ISO and automatically upgrading from Tails 1.1~rc1.

What's coming up?

The next Tails release is scheduled for September 2.

Have a look to our roadmap to see where we are heading to.

Would you want to help? There are many ways you can contribute to Tails. If you want to help, come talk to us!

Support and feedback

For support and feedback, visit the Support section on the Tails website.

Tails 1.0.1 is out

Posted June 10th, 2014 by tails
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Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 1.0.1, is out.

All users must upgrade as soon as possible: this release fixes numerous security issues.

Changes

Notable user-visible changes include:

  • Security fixes
    • Upgrade the web browser to 24.6.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1 (Firefox 24.6.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
    • Install Linux 3.14 from Debian unstable (fixes CVE-2014-3153 and others).
    • Install openssl from Squeeze LTS (fixes CVE-2014-0076, CVE-2014-0195, CVE-2014-0221, CVE-2014-3470 and CVE-2014-0224).
    • Install GnuTLS from Squeeze LTS (fixes CVE-2014-3466).
  • Minor improvements
    • Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.22-1~d60.squeeze+1.
    • Upgrade I2P to 0.9.13-1~deb6u+1.

See the online Changelog for technical details.

Known issues

I want to try it or to upgrade!

Go to the download page.

As no software is ever perfect, we maintain a list of problems that affects the last release of Tails.

What's coming up?

The next Tails release is scheduled for July 22.

Have a look to our roadmap to see where we are heading to.

Would you want to help? There are many ways you can contribute to Tails. If you want to help, come talk to us!

Support and feedback
For support and feedback, visit the Support section on the Tails website.

Tails 1.0 is out

Posted April 29th, 2014 by tails
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Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 1.0, is out.

All users must upgrade as soon as possible: this release fixes numerous security issues.

For more information about what the 1.0 release means for Tails, and about its future, see the full announcement.

Changes

Notable user-visible changes include:

  • Security fixes
    • Upgrade the web browser to 24.5.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1 (Firefox 24.5.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
    • Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.21-1+tails1~d60.squeeze+1:
      • Based on 0.2.4.21-1~d60.squeeze+1.
      • Backport the fix for bug #11464 on Tor Project's Trac. It adds client-side blacklists for all Tor directory authority keys that was vulnerable to Heartbleed. This protects clients in case attackers were able to compromise a majority of the authority signing and identity keys.
  • Bugfixes
    • Disable inbound I2P connections. Tails already restricts incoming connections, but this change tells I2P about it.
    • Fix link to the system requirements documentation page in the Tails Upgrader error shown when too little RAM is available.
  • Minor improvements
    • Upgrade I2P to 0.9.12-2~deb6u+1.
    • Import TorBrowser profile. This was forgotten in Tails 0.23 and even though we didn't explicitly set those preferences in that release they defaulted to the same values. This future-proofs us in case the defaults would ever change.
    • Import new custom version of Tor Launcher:
    • Integrate the new Tails logo into various places:
      • The website
      • The boot splash
      • The "About Tails" dialog

See the online Changelog for technical details.

Known issues

I want to try it or to upgrade!

Go to the download page.

As no software is ever perfect, we maintain a list of problems that affects the last release of Tails.

What's coming up?

The next Tails release is scheduled for June 10.

Have a look to our roadmap to see where we are heading to.

Would you want to help? There are many ways you can contribute to Tails. If you want to help, come talk to us!

Support and feedback

For support and feedback, visit the Support section on the Tails website.

Tails 0.23 is out

Posted March 19th, 2014 by tails
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Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 0.23, is out.

All users must upgrade as soon as possible: this release fixes numerous security issues.

Changes

Notable user-visible changes include:

  • Security fixes
    • Upgrade the web browser to 24.4.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1 (Firefox
      24.4.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
  • Major new features
  • Bugfixes
    • Additional software: do not crash when persistence is disabled.
    • Upgrade Pidgin to 2.10.9, that fixes some regressions introduced in the 2.10.8 security update.
    • Wait for Tor to have fully bootstrapped, plus a bit more time, before checking for upgrades and unfixed known security issues.
    • Disable the Intel Management Engine Interface driver. We don't need it in Tails, it might be dangerous, and it causes bugs on various hardware such as systems that reboot when asked to shut down.
    • Add a launcher for the Tails documentation. This makes it available in Windows Camouflage mode.
    • Remove the obsolete wikileaks.de account from Pidgin.
  • Minor improvements
    • Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.21-1~d60.squeeze+1.
    • Upgrade obfsproxy to 0.2.6-2~~squeeze+1.
    • Upgrade I2P to 0.9.11-1deb6u1.
    • Install 64-bit kernel instead of the 686-pae one. This is a necessary first step towards UEFI boot support.
    • Install Monkeysign (in a not-so-functional shape yet).
    • Disable the autologin text consoles. This was one of the blockers before a screen saver can be installed in a meaningful way.
    • Don't localize the text consoles anymore: it is broken on Wheezy, the intended users can as well use loadkeys, and we now do not have to trust setupcon to be safe for being run as root by the desktop user.
    • Make it possible to manually start IBus.
    • Reintroduce the possibility to switch identities in the Tor Browser, using a filtering proxy in front of the Tor ControlPort to avoid giving full control over Tor to the desktop user.
    • Incremental upgrades improvements:
      • Drop the Tails Upgrader launcher, to limit users' confusion.
      • Lock down sudo credentials a bit.
      • Hide debugging information.
      • Include ~/.xsession-errors in WhisperBack bug reports. This captures the Tails Upgrader errors and debugging information.
      • Report more precisely why an incremental upgrade cannot be done.
      • Various user interface and phrasing improvements.
    • Don't install the Cookie Monster browser extension.
    • Add a browser bookmark pointing to Tor's Stack Exchange.
    • Remove the preconfigured #tor channel from the Pidgin: apparently, too many Tails users go ask Tails questions there, without making it clear that they are running Tails, hence creating a user-support nightmare.
    • Use (most of) Tor Browser's mozconfig.
    • Rebase the browser on top of iceweasel 24.3.0esr-1, to get the certificate authorities added by Debian back.
    • Give access to the relevant documentation pages from Tails Greeter.
    • Hide Tails Greeter's password mismatch warning when entry is changed.
    • Persistent Volume Assistant:
      • Take into account our installer is now called Tails Installer.
      • Optimize window height.
      • Display device paths in a more user-friendly way.

See the online Changelog for technical details.

Known issues

I want to try it or to upgrade!

Go to the download page.

As no software is ever perfect, we maintain a list of problems that affects the last release of Tails.

What's coming up?

The next Tails release is scheduled for April 29.

Have a look to our roadmap to see where we are heading to.

Would you want to help? There are many ways you can contribute to Tails. If you want to help, come talk to us!

Support and feedback

For support and feedback, visit the Support section on the Tails website.

Tails 0.22.1 is out

Posted February 9th, 2014 by tails
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Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 0.22.1, is out.

All users must upgrade as soon as possible: this release fixes numerous security issues.

Changes

Notable user-visible changes include:

  • Security fixes
    • Upgrade the web browser to 24.3.0esr, that fixes a few serious security issues.
    • Upgrade the system NSS to 3.14.5, that fixes a few serious security issues.
    • Workaround a browser size fingerprinting issue by using small icons in the web browser's navigation toolbar.
    • Upgrade Pidgin to 2.10.8, that fixes a number of serious security issues.
  • Major improvements
    • Check for upgrades availability using Tails Upgrader, and propose to apply an incremental upgrade whenever possible.
    • Install Linux 3.12 (3.12.6-2).
  • Bugfixes
    • Fix the keybindings problem introduced in 0.22.
    • Fix the Unsafe Browser problem introduced in 0.22.
    • Use IE's icon in Windows camouflage mode.
    • Handle some corner cases better in Tails Installer.
    • Use the correct browser homepage in Spanish locales.
  • Minor improvements
    • Update Torbutton to 1.6.5.3.
    • Do not start Tor Browser automatically, but notify when Tor
      is ready.
    • Import latest Tor Browser prefs.
    • Many user interface improvements in Tails Upgrader.

See the online Changelog for technical details.

Known issues

I want to try it or to upgrade!

Go to the download page.

As no software is ever perfect, we maintain a list of problems that affects the last release of Tails.

What's coming up?

The next Tails release is scheduled for March 18.

Have a look to our roadmap to see where we are heading to.

Would you want to help? There are many ways you can contribute to Tails. If you want to help, come talk to us!

Support and feedback

For support and feedback, visit the Support section on the Tails website.

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