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   1 [[!meta date="2012-12-14 23:45:60 +0200"]]
   2 [[!meta title="Call for testing: 0.16~rc1"]]
   3
   4 <p>You can help Tails! The <em>first</em> release candidate for the upcoming
   5 version 0.16 is out. Please test it and see if all works for you.</p>
   6
   7 [[!toc levels=1]]
   8
   9 <h1>How to test Tails 0.16~rc1?</h1>
  10
  11 <ol>
  12   <li>
  13     <p>
  14       <strong>Keep in mind that this is a test image.</strong> We have made sure
  15       that it is not broken in an obvious way, but it might still contain
  16       undiscovered issues.
  17     </p>
  18   </li>
  19   <li>
  20     <p>Download the ISO image and its signature:</p>
  21     <p>
  22       <a class="download-file"
  23          href="http://dl.amnesia.boum.org/tails/testing/tails-i386-0.16-rc1/tails-i386-0.16~rc1.iso"
  24       >Tails 0.16~rc1 ISO image</a>
  25     </p>
  26     <p>
  27       <a class="download-signature"
  28          href="http://dl.amnesia.boum.org/tails/testing/tails-i386-0.16-rc1/tails-i386-0.16~rc1.iso.pgp"
  29       >Tails 0.16~rc1 signature</a>
  30     </p>
  31   </li>
  32   <li>
  33     <p>
  34       [[Verify the ISO image|download#index3h1]].
  35     </p>
  36   </li>
  37   <li>
  38     <p>
  39       Have a look at the list of <a href="#known_issues">known issues
  40       of this release</a> and the list of [[longstanding known
  41       issues|support/known_issues]].
  42     </p>
  43   </li>
  44   <li>
  45     <p>
  46       Test wildly!
  47     </p>
  48   </li>
  49 </ol>
  50
  51 <p>If you find anything that is not working as it should, please [[report to
  52 us|doc/first_steps/bug_reporting]]! Bonus points if you check that it is not a
  53 <a href="#known_issues">known issue of this release</a> or a
  54 [[longstanding known issue|support/known_issues]].</p>
  55
  56 <h1>What's new since 0.15?</h1>
  57
  58 <ul>
  59   <li>Minor improvements
  60      <ul>
  61         <li>Replace the too-easy-to-misclick shutdown button with a better
  62           "Shutdown Helper" Gnome applet.</li>
  63         <li>Display <code>~/Persistent</code> in GNOME Places and GtkFileChooser
  64         if it is mounted.</li>
  65         <li>Set Unsafe Browser's window title to "Unsafe Browser".</li>
  66         <li>Install ekeyd to support the EntropyKey.</li>
  67         <li>Install font for Sinhala.</li>
  68         <li>Update Poedit to 1.5.4.</li>
  69         <li>Kill Vidalia when restarting Tor.</li>
  70         <li>Hide the persistence setup launchers in kiosk mode.</li>
  71     </ul>
  72   </li>
  73   <li>Bugfixes
  74     <ul>
  75         <li>Disable IPv6 on all network interfaces.</li>
  76         <li>Don't look for persistence volume on internal disks.</li>
  77         <li>Fix SCIM in the autostarted web browser</li>
  78         <li>Talk of DVD, not of CD, in the shutdown messages.</li>
  79         <li>Make tordate work in bridge mode with an incorrect clock.</li>
  80     </ul>
  81   </li>
  82   <li>iceweasel
  83     <ul>
  84         <li>Set iceweasel homepage to the news section on the Tails
  85         website.</li>
  86         <li>Hide the iceweasel add-on bar by default.</li>
  87         <li>Don't hide the AdBlock-Plus button in the add-on bar anymore.</li>
  88         <li>Do not install a placeholder (fake) FireGPG iceweasel extension
  89         anymore.</li>
  90         <li>Don't install xul-ext-monkeysphere anymore.</li>
  91     </ul>
  92   </li>
  93   <li>Build system
  94     <ul>
  95         <li>Install the "standard" task with tasksel regardless of the build
  96         system being used.</li>
  97         <li>Install p7zip-full explicitly.</li>
  98         <li>Remove useless pinning of libvpx0.</li>
  99         <li>Remove <code>config/chroot_local-packages/</code> from
 100         <code>.gitignore</code>.</li>
 101         <li>Make it clearer what can and cannot be done in terms of local packages.</li>
 102     </ul>
 103   </li>
 104 </ul>
 105
 106 <h1><a id="known_issues"></a>Known issues in 0.16~rc1</h1>
 107
 108 <p>None.</p>