Changes

Notable user-visible changes include:

Security fixes
- Upgrade to Iceweasel 24.2.0esr that fixes a few serious security issues.
- Stop migrating persistence configuration and access rights. Instead, disable all persistence configuration files if the mountpoint has wrong access rights.
- Upgrade to NSS 3.15.3 that fixes a few serious security issues affecting the browser.
Major improvements
- Switch to Iceweasel 24.2.0esr and Torbutton 1.6.5.
- Incremental upgrades are ready for beta-testing.
Bugfixes
- Fix Vidalia startup.
- Disable DPMS screen blanking.
- Fix checking of the persistent volume's ACL.
- Sanitize more IP and MAC addresses in bug reports.
- Do not fail USB upgrade when the "tmp" directory exists on the destination device.
Minor improvements
- Clearer warning when deleting the persistent volume.
- Use IBus instead of SCIM.
- Always list optimal keyboard layout in the greeter.
- Fix on-the-fly translation of the greeter in various languages.
- Update I2P to 0.9.8.1 and rework its configuration.

See the online Changelog for technical details.

Known issues

The Unsafe Browser cannot connect to the Internet (#6479). This can be workaround'ed by setting network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to false on the about:config web page.
Keyboard shortcuts use QWERTY mapping instead of AZERTY on French keyboard (#6478). This may impact other keyboard layouts as well.
TorBrowser takes too long to shutdown (#6480).
TorBrowser proposes to share the microphone with websites (#6481).
htpdate uses a different User-Agent than the Tor Browser (#6477).
The included Linux 3.10-3 (version 3.10.11-1) kernel has a few known security issues.
Longstanding known issues.

Go to the install page but first, please consider testing the incremental upgrade.

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

The next Tails release is scheduled for January 21.

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