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   1 [[!meta date="2013-04-04 10:45:00"]]
   2 [[!meta title="Call for testing: 0.17.2~rc1"]]
   3
   4 <p>You can help Tails! The first (and hopefully only) release candidate for the
   5 upcoming version 0.17.2 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 0.17.2~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-i386-0.17.2-rc1/tails-i386-0.17.2-rc1.iso"
  24       >Tails 0.17.2~rc1 ISO image</a>
  25     </p>
  26     <p>
  27       <a class="download-signature"
  28          href="http://dl.amnesia.boum.org/tails/testing/tails-i386-0.17.2-rc1/tails-i386-0.17.2-rc1.iso.pgp"
  29       >Tails 0.17.2~rc1 signature</a>
  30     </p>
  31   </li>
  32   <li>
  33     <p>
  34       [[Verify the ISO image|download#verify]].
  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 0.17.1?</h1>
  57
  58 <ul>
  59
  60 <li>Iceweasel</li>
  61 <ul>
  62         <li><p>Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.5esr-0+tails2~bpo60+1.</p></li>
  63         <li><p>Stop displaying obsolete context menu entries ("Open Tor URL" and
  64         friends).</p></li>
  65 </ul>
  66
  67 <li>Hardware support</li>
  68 <ul>
  69 <li><p>Update Linux to 3.2.41-2</p></li>
  70 </ul>
  71
  72 <li>Bugfixes</li>
  73 <ul>
  74 <li>Use more reliable OpenPGP keyservers: use the hkps pool in GnuPG (and import
  75 their SSL CA); use hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net in Seahorse (as it does not
  76 support hkps yet)</li>
  77 <li><p>Keep udisks users (GNOME Disk Utility, tails-persistence-setup, etc.)
  78 from resetting the system partition's attributes when manipulating the
  79 partition table. To this end, backport the relevant bugfix from Wheezy
  80 into parted 2.3-5+tails1. This allowed to remove the sgdisk-based
  81 workaround in tais-persistence-setup, and to stop installing
  82 python-parted. All this is a first needed step to fix
  83 [[!tails_todo make_system_disk_read-only]] in a future release.</p></li>
  84 </ul>
  85
  86 <li><p>Minor improvements</p></li>
  87 <ul>
  88 <li><p>Disable NoScript's HTML5 media click-to-play for better user
  89 experience.</p></li>
  90 </ul>
  91
  92 <li><p>Localization</p></li>
  93 <ul>
  94 <li>Tails USB installer: update translations for French, German, Spanish,
  95 Finnish, Greek, Italian, Latvian, Dutch, Polish and Chinese.</li>
  96 <li>Tails Greeter: update translations for Farsi, Chinese, French;
  97 new translations: Finnish, Norwegian Bokmål, Galician.</li>
  98 <li>tails-persistence-setup: update Farsi and Chinese translations;
  99 import new translations for Finnish and Swedish.</li>
 100 <li><p>WhisperBack: update translations for Arabic, French, German, Greek,
 101 Spanish, Korean, Polish, Russian. New translations: Finnish, Chinese.</p></li>
 102 </ul>
 103
 104 <li><p>Build process</p></li>
 105 <ul>
 106 <li><p>Add automated testing framework (Sikuli, Cucumber, libvirt -based)
 107 with a bunch of tests.</p></li>
 108 </ul>
 109 </ul>
 110
 111 <h1><a id="known_issues"></a>Known issues in 0.17.2~rc1</h1>
 112
 113 <p>No regression is known yet.</p>