CrAKeN Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 Tails 3.0 The developers of the Tails amnesic incognito live system, also known as the anonymous operating system, were proud to announce today the release and immediate availability of Tails 3.0. Tails 3.0 is a major update that's based entirely on the repositories of the soon-to-be-released Debian GNU/Linux 9 "Stretch" operating system. It's also the first version of the operating system to be launched approximately at the same time as a new major release of Debian GNU/Linux. "Debian 9 (Stretch) will be released on June 17. It is the first time that we are releasing a new version of Tails almost at the same time as the version of Debian it is based upon. This was an important objective for us as it is beneficial to both our users and users of Debian in general," said the devs. What's new in Tails 3.0 Prominent new features of Tails 3.0 include an entirely new startup and shutdown experience, providing users with a revamped Tails Greeter dialog during first boot, which lets them configure various important areas of the operating system before they're ready to use it, as well as freed memory poisoning feature during shutdowns. As reported in our news articles during its development cycle, Tails 3.0 is using the GNOME 3 desktop environment by default with a modern and discrete dark theme. Another interesting feature of Tails 3.0 is that this is the first release of the OS to work only on 64-bit computers. Therefore, 32-bit PCs are no longer supported. Under the hood, Tails 3.0 comes with numerous up-to-date components, including Tor Browser 7.0, KeePassX 2.0.3, LibreOffice 5.2.6, Inkscape 0.92.1, Audacity 2.1.2, Enigmail 1.9.6, MAT 0.6.1, Dasher 5.0, and Git 2.11.0. Other than that, there are a few minor UI changes that might interest some users, so check the full release notes for details. Some known issues also appear to be present in this major release (also noted in the announcement - link above) so make sure that you are aware of them before downloading and using Tails 3.0 to surf the Web anonymously and stay hidden from government's prying eyes. Files has been redesigned Pidgin tray icon was removed Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.lemane Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 Tails 3.0 is out torrent link https://tails.boum.org/torrents/files/tails-amd64-3.0.torrent direct link https://tails.bgadmin.com/tails/stable/tails-amd64-3.0/tails-amd64-3.0.iso We are especially proud to present you Tails 3.0, the first version of Tails based on Debian 9 (Stretch). It brings a completely new startup and shutdown experience, a lot of polishing to the desktop, security improvements in depth, and major upgrades to a lot of the included software. Debian 9 (Stretch) will be released on June 17. It is the first time that we are releasing a new version of Tails almost at the same time as the version of Debian it is based upon. This was an important objective for us as it is beneficial to both our users and users of Debian in general and strengthens our relationship with upstream: Our users can benefit from the cool changes in Debian earlier. We can detect and fix issues in the new version of Debian while it is still in development so that our work also benefits Debian earlier. This release also fixes many security issues and users should upgrade as soon as possible. Changes Known issues Get Tails 3.0 What's coming up? Changes New features NEW STARTUP AND SHUTDOWN EXPERIENCE Tails Greeter, the application to configure Tails at startup, has been completely redesigned for ease of use: All options are available from a single window. Language and region settings are displayed first to benefit our international audience. Accessibility features can be enabled from the start. This has been a long process, started three years ago with the UX team of NUMA Parisand lead only by volunteers. Join us on [email protected] to participate in future designs! The shutdown experience has also been redesigned in order to be: More reliable. It was crashing on various computers with unpredictable results. More discrete. The screen is now totally black to look less suspicious. Technically speaking, it is now using the freed memory poisoning feature of the Linux kernel. POLISHING THE DESKTOP We switched to the default black theme of GNOME which has a more modern and discrete look: Tails 3.0 benefits from many other small improvements to the GNOME desktop: Files has been redesigned to reduce clutter and make the interface easier to use. Several new features have been added, such as the ability to rename multiple files at the same time and the ability to extract compressed files without needing a separate application. The notification area has been improved to allow easy access to previous notifications. Notification popups have also been repositioned to make them more noticeable. Shortcut windows have been added to help you discover keyboard shortcuts in GNOME applications. For example, press Ctrl+F1 in Files to display its shortcut window. SECURITY IMPROVEMENTS IN DEPTH Tails 3.0 works on 64-bit computers only and not on 32-bit computers anymore. Dropping hardware support, even for a small portion of our user base, is always a hard decision to make but being 64-bit only has important security and reliability benefits. For example, to protect against some types of security exploits, support for the NX bit is compulsory and most binaries are hardened with PIE which allows ASLR. Check if your computer is 64-bit or 32-bit. Update Tor Browser to 7.0 (based on Firefox 52 ESR) which is multiprocess and paves the way to content sandboxing. This should make it harder to exploit security vulnerabilities in the browser. MAJOR UPGRADES TO INCLUDED SOFTWARE Most included software has been upgraded in Debian 9, for example: KeePassX from 0.4.3 to 2.0.3 Your password database will be migrated automatically to the new format of KeePassX 2. LibreOffice from 4.3.3 to 5.2.6 Inkscape from 0.48.5 to 0.92.1 Audacity from 2.0.6 to 2.1.2 Enigmail from 1.8.2 to 1.9.6 MAT from 0.5.2 to 0.6.1 Dasher from 4.11 to 5.0 git from 2.1.4 to 2.11.0 Upgrades and changes The Pidgin tray icon was removed from the top navigation bar and replaced by popup notifications. Icedove was renamed as Thunderbird, its original name, inheriting this change from Debian. The search box and the search feature of the address bar of the Unsafe Browser were removed. (#12540) The read-only option of the persistent storage was removed. It was used by very few users, created confusion, and lead to unexpected issues. (#12093) Fixed problems The new X.Org display server in Tails 3.0 should work on more newer graphical hardware. UEFI boot has been fixed on some machines (ThinkPad X220). MAC spoofing has been fixed on some network interfaces (TP-Link WN725N). (#12362) For more details, read our changelog. Known issues Tails fails to start on some computers with Intel graphical hardware. Some users have reported problems during the migration from Icedove to Thunderbird, in particular that Thunderbird doesn't start. If this happens to you, please send us a WhisperBack report without restarting Tails. See the list of long-standing issues. Get Tails 3.0 To install, follow our installation instructions. To upgrade, all users have to do a manual upgrade. Download Tails 3.0. What's coming up? Tails 3.1 is scheduled for August 8. Have a look at our roadmap to see where we are heading to. We need your help and there are many ways to contribute to Tails (donating is only one of them). Come talk to us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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