Tails 0.20 is out

by tails | August 9, 2013

Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 0.20, is out.

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

Changes

Notable user-visible changes include:

New features
- Install Linux kernel 3.10.3-1 from Debian unstable.
- Iceweasel 17.0.8esr + Torbrowser patches.
Bugfixes
- Prevent Iceweasel from displaying a warning when leaving HTTPS web sites.
- Make Iceweasel use the correct, localized search engine.
- Fix Git access to https:// repositories.
Minor improvements
- Install Dasher, a predictive text entry tool.
- Add a wrapper around TrueCrypt which displays a warning about it soon being deprecated in Tails.
- Remove Pidgin libraries for all protocols but IRC and Jabber/XMPP. Many of the other protocols Pidgin support are broken in Tails and haven't got any security auditting.
- Disable the pre-defined Pidgin accounts so they do not auto-connect on Pidgin start.
- Include information about Alsa in WhisperBack reports.
- Explicitly restrict access to ptrace. While this setting was enabled by default in Debian's Linux 3.9.6-1, it will later disabled in 3.9.7-1. It's unclear what will happen next, so let's explicitly enable it ourselves.
- Do not display dialog when a message is sent in Claws Mail.
- Sync iceweasel preferences with the Torbrowser's.
Localization
- Many translation updates all over the place.
- Merge all Tails-related POT files into one, and make use of intltoolize for better integration with Transifex.

See the online Changelog for technical details.

Known issue

No new known issue but longstanding known issues.

I want to try it / to upgrade!

See the Getting started 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 around September 19.

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. If you want to help, come talk to us!

Comments

Please note that the comment area below has been archived.

Tails' forum has been closed since the day the world learned about the Big Brother's surveillance program.

May I suggest that both Tor and Tails share a forum. The reason is whenever there is a new version of Tails, Tor will announce it at Tor's site.

I believe a forum has already been created for Tor users. It is at http://torforum.org. Tails' users should use it for their discussion.

As more and more people get to use Tor, they will start to use Tails and consequently have Tails' related questions.