Tails staat voor "The amnesic incognito live system" en is een live Linux-distributie die zich richt op privacy en anonimiteit. Als basis maakt het gebruikt van Debian GNU/Linux en het voegt daar een Gnome-omgeving met Tor, Tor Browser, Pidgin, Thunderbird, Electrum, LibreOffice, GPG en KeePassXC aan toe. Voor meer informatie verwijzen we naar deze pagina. Het ontwikkelteam heeft al weer enkele dagen geleden versie 4.0 uitgebracht met de volgende aankondiging:
Tails 4.0 is out
We are especially proud to present you Tails 4.0, the first version of Tails based on Debian 10 (Buster). It brings new versions of most of the software included in Tails and some important usability and performance improvements. Tails 4.0 introduces more changes than any other version since years.
This release also fixes many security issues. You should upgrade as soon as possible.
Major changes to included softwareUsability improvements to Tails Greeter
- Replace KeePassX with KeePassXC, which is more actively developed.
- Update OnionShare from 0.9.2 to 1.3.2, which includes a lot of usability improvements.
- Update Tor Browser to 9.0.
- Update MAT from 0.6.1 to 0.8.0
- Update Linux to 5.3.2. This should also improve the support for newer hardware (graphics, Wi-Fi, etc.).
- Update Electrum from 3.2.3 to 3.3.8. Electrum works again in Tails.
- Update Enigmail to 2.0.12 and gnupg to 2.2.12, which mitigate OpenPGP certificate flooding.
- Upgrade most other software, for example:
- Audacity from 2.1.2 to 2.2.2
- GIMP from 2.8.18 to 2.10.8
- Inkscape from 0.92.1 to 0.92.4
- LibreOffice from 5.2.7 to 6.1.5
- git from 2.11.0 to 2.20.1
- Tor to 0.4.1.6
- Remove Scribus. You can install Scribus again using the Additional Software feature.
We improved various aspects of the usability of Tails Greeter, especially for non-English users:Performance and usability improvements
- To make it easier to select a language, we curated the list of proposed languages by removing the ones that had too little translations to be useful. We also clarified how Chinese is listed by having different entries for simplified and traditional Chinese.
- We simplified the list of keyboard layouts.
- We fixed the Formats setting, which was not being applied.
- We prevented additional settings to be applied when clicking on Cancel or Back.
- We fixed the opening of help pages in other languages than English, when available.
New documentation pages
- Tails 4.0 starts 20% faster.
- Tails 4.0 requires about 250 MB less of RAM.
- Tails 4.0 is 47 MB smaller to download than Tails 3.16, despite all these changes.
- Add support for Thunderbolt devices.
- The screen keyboard is easier to use.
- Make it possible to show the password of the persistent storage when creating one.
- Add support for USB tethering from iPhone.
Other changes
- How to securely erasing an entire device, including USB sticks and SSDs.
- How to backup your persistent volume.
Fixed problems
- Use the default bookmarks from Tor Browser instead of our own default bookmarks. (#15895)
- Remove the Home launcher from the desktop. (#16799)
- Remove the default accounts in Pidgin. (#16744)
- Allow opening persistent volumes from other Tails USB sticks. (#16789)
- Fix the delivery of WhisperBack reports. (#17110)
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