On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 7:17 AM, Patrick Schleizer < [email protected]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > After more than two years of development, the Whonix Project is proud > to announce the release of Whonix 14. > > Whonix 14 is based on the Debian stretch (Debian 9) distribution which > was released in June 2017. This means users have access to many new > software packages in concert with existing packages such as a modern > branch of GNuPG, and more. [1][2][3] > > **Major Changes and New Features** > > Whonix 14 contains extensive security and usability improvements, new > features and bug fixes. For a detailed description of these and other > changes, please refer to the official release notes. [4] > > * Rebased Whonix on **Debian stretch** (Debian 9). > * Whonix 14 is **64-bit** (amd64) only - 32-bit (i386) images will no > longer be built and made available for download. [5] > * The new **Anon Connection Wizard** [6] feature in Whonix simplifies > connections to the Tor network via a Tor bridge and/or a proxy. > * The Tor pluggable transport **meek_lite** [7] is now supported, > making it much easier to connect to the Tor network in heavily > censored areas, like China. [8] > * **Onioncircuits** are installed by default in Whonix. [9] > * Tails' **onion-grater** program has been implemented to enable > **OnionShare, Ricochet and Zeronet** compatibility with Whonix. [10] > * **Onion sources** are now preferred for Whonix updates/upgrades for > greater security. > * Reduced the size of the default, binary Whonix images by > approximately **35 per cent** using zerofree. [11] [12] > * **Updated Tor** to version 3.3.7 (stable) release to enable full v3 > onion functionality for both hosting of onion services and access to > v3 onion addresses in Tor Browser. > * Created the **grub-live package** [13] which can run Whonix as a > **live system** on non-Qubes-Whonix platforms. [14] > * Corrected and hardened various **AppArmor profiles** to ensure the > correct functioning of Tor Browser, obfsproxy and other applications. > > > **Known Issues** > > * Desktop shortcuts are no longer available in non-Qubes-Whonix. > * OnionShare is not installed by default in Whonix 14 as it is not in > the stretch repository. [15] It can still be manually installed by > following the Whonix wiki instructions [16] or building it from source > code. [17] > * Enabling seccomp (Sandbox 1) in /usr/local/etc/torrc.d/50_user.conf > causes the Tor process to crash if a Tor version lower than 0.3.3 is > used. [18] [19] > > > While there may be other issues that exist in this declared stable > release, every effort has been made to address major known problems. > > Please report any other issues to us in the forums, after first > searching for whether it is already known. > > https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Known_Issues > > **Download Whonix 14** > > Whonix is cross-platform and can be installed on the Windows, macOS, > Linux or Qubes operating systems. Choose your operating system from > the link below and follow the instructions to install it. > > https://www.whonix.org/download/ > > Many thanks, so, following this link, the command sudo qubesctl state.sls qvm.anon-whonix should download Whonix 14, correct? But the same link tells that this would download templates whonix-gw and whonix-ws. But these are the same names of the old templates. So am I expected to rename the old templates before calling the above command? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/CAPzH-qAnPW1OJB5eZ9_FoQNhxugToJ9t%3DigBtFzZyBG0pronGw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
