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List:       tails-news
Subject:    [amnesia-news] version 0.6
From:       rss () boum ! org (news)
Date:       2011-03-12 20:35:30
Message-ID: 20110312203506.5F9B8489274A () localhost
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The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 0.6, is out.

Please note Tails released images are now signed using a new [OpenPGP key][1].

Notable changes include:

  * Tor 0.2.1.26
  * Vidalia 0.2.10
  * New Linux kernel (2.6.32) supports a lot more hardware.
  * Newly supported wireless chipsets include RT2860, RTL8192, BCM4306/3, BCM4311, \
                BCM4312, BCM4318.
  * New bundled software: vector-based drawing (Inkscape), .po files editor (Poedit), \
                [Shamir's Secret Sharing][2] (gfshare and ssss).
  * New GnuPG package brings saner defaults and hkps:// support. It is now \
                pre-configured to use a hkps:// server over Tor.
  * Use (authenticated) [HTP][3] instead of [NTP][4]. Tor and Vidalia are now started \
                only once HTP is done. Desktop notifications explain what's \
                happening.
  * Warn the user when T(A)ILS is running inside a virtual machine.
  * Add a Nautilus shortcut to securely erase free space in a partition.
  * Preliminary Monkeysphere support: Iceweasel extension is installed, MSVA is \
                configured to use a hkps:// keyserver.
  * WhisperBack 1.3 lets the user optionally provide an email address and OpenPGP \
key.

A few bugs were fixed, including:

  * IPv6 communication with the outside is now really forbidden.
  * Torbutton 1.2.5-3 fixes the [exposure of a rare User-Agent][5].
  * Autostart Iceweasel with the GNOME session to workaround the "Iceweasel first \
                page is not loaded" bug.
  * The DNS cache now forgets automapped .onion's on Tor restart.

... and of course the usual bunch of software security updates.

See the [online Changelog][6] for details.

Were do we go from here?

  1. This release is likely to be the last one to be based on Debian Lenny. Further \
development will be based on the (to be released soon) next Debian stable release: \
Squeeze.  2. Have a look to our [roadmap][7] to learn more about our plans.

[Download it, seed it!][8]

   [1]: https://tails.boum.org/news/../GnuPG_key/index.en.html
   [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing
   [3]: https://tails.boum.org/news/../contribute/design/HTP/
   [4]: https://tails.boum.org/news/../contribute/design/NTP/
   [5]: https://tails.boum.org/news/../security/Iceweasel_exposes_a_rare_User-Agent/index.en.html
  [6]: http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=blob_plain;f=debian/changelog;hb=refs/tags/0.6
  [7]: https://tails.boum.org/news/../contribute/roadmap/
   [8]: https://tails.boum.org/news/../download/index.en.html

URL: https://tails.boum.org/news/version_0.6/


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