Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 1.1.1, is out.

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

  1. Changes
  2. Known issues
  3. I want to try it or to upgrade!
  4. What's coming up?

Changes

Notable user-visible changes include:

  • Security fixes

    • Upgrade the web browser to 24.8.0esr-0+tails1~bpo70+1 (Firefox 24.8.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
    • Add an I2P boot parameter. Without adding "i2p" to the kernel command line, I2P will not be accessible for the Live user. I2P was also upgraded to 0.9.14.1-1~deb7u+1, and stricter firewall rules are applied to it, among other security enhancements.
    • Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.23-2~d70.wheezy+1 (fixes CVE-2014-5117).
    • Upgrade Linux to 3.14.15-2 (fixes CVE-2014-3534, CVE-2014-4667 and CVE-2014-4943).
    • Prevent dhclient from sending the hostname over the network (#7688).
    • Override the hostname provided by the DHCP server (#7769).

  • Bugfixes

    • Don't ship OpenJDK 6: I2P prefers v7, and we don't need both (#7807).
    • Prevent Tails Installer from updating the system partition properties on MBR partitions (#7716).

  • Minor improvements

    • Upgrade to Torbutton 1.6.12.1.
    • Install gnome-user-guide (#7618).
    • Install cups-pk-helper (#7636).
    • Update the SquashFS sort file, which should speed up boot from DVD (#6372).
    • Compress the SquashFS more aggressively (#7706) which should make the Tails ISO image smaller.

See the online Changelog for technical details.

Known issues

Longstanding known issues.

I want to try it or to upgrade!

Go to the install 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 October 14.

Do you want to help? There are many ways you can contribute to Tails. If you want to help, come talk to us!