FYI -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Tails - News <[email protected]> Reply-to: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [amnesia-news] Tails 0.11 is out Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:23:45 -0000
Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 0.11, is out.
All users must upgrade as soon as possible.
# Changes
Notable user-visible changes include:
* Tails Greeter, the login screen which obsoletes the language selection boot
menu. Tails Greeter also adds some new options:
* Activating persistence (see below).
* Setting a sudo password. Unlike earlier Tails releases, full sudo access
via an empty password is not available any more. In fact, full sudo access is
disabled per default, but can be enabled by setting this password. See [the
documentation][1] for details.
* Tails USB installer. This graphical user interface mostly obsoletes our old
instructions of cat'ing the .iso directly onto a block device. All of the USB
drive must be dedicated to Tails; a bit of extra space is reserved so that
future Tails releases will fit when upgrading, and the rest can be used for
persistence (see below) or manually formatted if the user so wishes. See [the
USB installation documentation][2] for details.
* Persistence can optionally be used when running Tails from a USB drive.
Application configurations and arbitrary directories can be made persistent.
See [the persistence documentation][3] for details.
* iceweasel
* Install iceweasel 10.0.4esr-1 (Extended Support Release).
* Search plugins: replace Debian-provided DuckDuckGo search plugin with the
"HTML SSL" one; add ixquick.com; remove Scroogle.
* Enable TLS false start.
* Vidalia: upgrade to 0.2.17-1+tails1
* Internationalization:
* Install all available iceweasel l10n packages.
* Add fonts for Hebrew, Thai, Khmer, Lao and Korean languages.
* Add bidi support.
* Don't purge locales anymore.
* Don't remove any Scribus translations anymore.
* Hardware support
* Linux 3.2.15-1 (linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64).
* Fix low sound level on MacBook5,2.
* Disable laptop-mode-tools automatic modules. This modules set often needs
some amount of hardware-specific tweaking to work properly. This makes them
rather not well suited for a Live system.
* Software
* Install GNOME keyring.
* Install the Traverso multitrack audio recorder and editor.
* Miscellaneous
* NetworkManager is now started at PostLogin time by tails-greeter, rather
than as a system service.
* Pidgin: don't use the OFTC hidden service anymore. It proved to be quite
unreliable, being sometimes down for days.
* Do not display storage volumes on Desktop. This workarounds a usability
issue when persistence is enabled, and paves the way towards GNOME3's empty
Desktop.
* Don't build hybrid ISO images anymore. They boot less reliably on a
variety of hardware, and are made less useful by us shipping a USB installer
from now on.
Plus the usual bunch of minor bug reports and improvements.
See the [online Changelog][4] for technical details.
# I want to try it / to upgrade!
See the [Getting started][5] page.
# A glimpse towards the future
Were do we go from here? Have a look to our [roadmap][6] to see where we are
heading to.
Would you want to help? As explained in our ["how to contribute"
documentation][7], here are many ways **you** can contribute to Tails: no need
to be a hardcore developer.
[1]:
https://tails.boum.org/news/../doc/first_steps/startup_options/index.en.html#tails_greeter
[2]:
https://tails.boum.org/news/../doc/first_steps/usb_installation/index.en.html
[3]: https://tails.boum.org/news/../doc/first_steps/persistence/index.en.html
[4]:
http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=blob_plain;f=debian/changelog;hb=refs/tags/0.11
[5]: https://tails.boum.org/news/../getting_started/index.en.html
[6]: https://tails.boum.org/news/../contribute/roadmap/
[7]: https://tails.boum.org/news/../contribute/index.en.html
URL: https://tails.boum.org/news/version_0.11/
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