Wednesday, 24 January 2018
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The privacy-oriented Linux distribution, Tails, has been updated with a new kernel to mitigate against Spectre. Tails 3.5 also comes with Tor Browser 7.5, a major upgrade in itself which includes some interface changes to make it more usable. There are also a plethora of smaller changes included in too.

Another major aspect is the inclusion of Tor Browser 7.5. It brings a new welcome screen which makes creating a Tor bridge or a local proxy connection more straightforward and is also built in a reproducible builds environment, this will allow the security conscious to test whether their Tor Browser has been compiled from a legitimate source and has not been tampered with in some way.
Some other small changes in the release include:
- Update Thunderbird to 52.5.
- Fix printing to a PDF in Tor Browser. (#13403 and #15024)
- Fix the opening of the Applications menu when the time synchronization changed the clock in the past. (#14250)
- Fix the opening of the documentation included in Tails for many non-English languages. (#15160)
- Fix translations of the time synchronization and "Tor is ready" notifications. (#13437)
- Remove the code to migrate from Claws Mail that was preventing Thunderbird to start in some cases. (#12734)
There’s still a known issue lingering from the previous release which says there’s a kernel bug during the bootup. Tails says this is nothing to worry about, despite being alarming, and are looking to fix it in an upcoming release.
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