It is still based on the Debian GNU/Linux 7 Wheezy

Mar 31, 2015 21:51 GMT  ·  By

The famous Tails amnesic incognito Live CD operating system that has been used by Edward Snowden to stay invisible online and browse websites anonymously, has been updated on March 30 to version 1.3.2 with a number of improvements and security fixes.

Tails 1.3.2 is the second maintenance release of Tails 1.3 and it upgrades the TOR Browser Bundle component to version 4.0.6, which is based on the Firefox 31.6.0 ESR (Extended Support Release) web browser from Mozilla, as well as the OpenSSL component to version 1.0.1e from Debian 7 Wheezy.

Among the bugs fixed in Tails 1.3.2, we can mention two issues with the Tails installer, one that caused devices with less than 3.5GB of storage to be ignored, and another one related to the removal of disk drives from the device list when they are unplugged. In addition, tails-spoof-mac has been modified to correctly log macchanger exit codes.

Several other minor improvements have been implemented in Tails 1.3.2

In addition to the above, Tails 1.3.2 fixes an issue with the Florence virtual keyboard, which was unstable on touchpads if the syndaemon was forced to always use the ‘-t’ option, disabling scrolling and tapping, as well as stopping any mouse movements. It adds support for client-mode ScrambleSuit via obfs4proxy 0.0.4, and addresses a Vidalia issue with Windows Camouflage.

The "Add-ons" entry has been removed from the Tools menu of the I2P Browser, and the "Take a Tour" and "Keyboard Shortcuts" items were disabled. Several other minor improvements and new tests have been implemented in this release as well, so we recommended taking a look at the release notes for more details.

Tails 1.3.2 is quite an important milestone, which means that users are urged to upgrade to this release as soon as possible, or download the newly released Live CD ISO image right now from Softpedia.