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   3 [[!meta title="Call for testing: 0.13~rc1"]]
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   5 <p>You can help Tails! The <em>first</em> release candidate for the upcoming version 0.13
   6 is out. Please test it and see if all works for you.</p>
   7
   8 <h1>How to test Tails 0.13~rc1?</h1>
   9
  10 <ol>
  11   <li>
  12     <p>
  13       <strong>Keep in mind that this is a test image.</strong> We have made sure
  14       that it is not broken in an obvious way, but it might still contain
  15       undiscovered issues.
  16     </p>
  17   </li>
  18   <li>
  19     <p>Download the ISO image and its signature:</p>
  20     <p>
  21       <a class="download-file"
  22          href=""
  23       >Tails 0.13~rc1 ISO image</a>
  24     </p>
  25     <p>
  26       <a class="download-signature"
  27          href="http://dl.amnesia.boum.org/tails/testing/tails-i386-0.13~rc1/tails-i386-0.13~rc1.iso.pgp"
  28       >Tails 0.13~rc1 signature</a>
  29     </p>
  30   </li>
  31   <li>
  32     <p>
  33       Verify the ISO image.
  34     </p>
  35   </li>
  36   <li>
  37     <p>
  38       Have a look at the list of [[issues that we already know about|support/known_issues]].
  39     </p>
  40   </li>
  41   <li>
  42     <p>
  43       Test wildly!
  44     </p>
  45   </li>
  46 </ol>
  47
  48 <p>If you find anything that is not working as it should, please [[report to
  49 us|doc/first_steps/bug_reporting]]! Bonus points if you check that it is not an
  50 [[already known problem|support/known_issues]].</p>
  51
  52 <h1>What's new since 0.12.1?</h1>
  53
  54 <ul>
  55   <li>Major new features
  56     <ul>
  57     <li>Use white-list/principle of least privelege approach for local services.
  58     Only users that need a certain local (i.e. hosted on loopback) service
  59     (according to our use cases) are granted access to it by our firewall;
  60     all other users are denied access.</li>
  61     <li>Ship a first version of the incremental update system. Updates are not
  62     currently triggered automatically, but this will allow tests to be done
  63     on larger scales.</li>
  64     </ul>
  65   </li>
  66
  67   <li>Minor improvements
  68     <ul>
  69     <li>Enable four workspaces in the Windows XP camouflage. This allows
  70     users to quickly switch to a more innocent looking workspace in case
  71     they are working on sensitive data and attract unwanted attention.
  72     The workspace switcher applet isn't there, though, since there's no
  73     such thing in Windows XP, so switching is only possible via keyboard
  74     shortcuts.</li>
  75     <li>Ship with precompiled locales instead of generating them upon login.</li>
  76     <li>Add support for wireless regulation.</li>
  77     <li>Use color for Git output, not intended for machine consumption,
  78     written to the terminal.</li>
  79     <li>Have ttdnsd use OpenDNS. Using Google's DNS servers was very
  80     glitchy, and rarely succeeded when it should. It can probably be
  81     attributed to Google's DNS, which is known to take issue with Tor
  82     exits.</li>
  83     <li>Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.6, with many UI improvements and new translations.</li>
  84     <li>Include GDM logs and dmidecode informations in the reports.</li>
  85     <li>Allow to modify language and layout in the "Advanced options" screen
  86     of the greeter.</li>
  87     <li>GnuPG: bump cert-digest-algo to SHA512.</li>
  88     </ul>
  89   </li>
  90
  91   <li>Bugfixes
  92     <ul>
  93     <li>Make Claws Mail save local/POP emails in its dot-directory. The
  94     default is to save them at <code>~/Mail</code>, which isn't included in our
  95     current Claws Mail persistence preset.</li>
  96     <li>Fix the System Monitor applet.</li>
  97     <li>Remove broken ttdnsd from the default DNS resolution loop.</li>
  98     <li>Hide the <code>TailsData</code> partition in desktop applications.</li>
  99     <li>Ship unrar-free again, so that the GNOME archive manager knows about
 100     it.</li>
 101     <li>Ship with an empty whitelist for Noscript.</li>
 102     <li>Disable FoxyProxy's advertisement on proxy error page.</li>
 103     </ul>
 104   </li>
 105
 106   <li>Iceweasel
 107     <ul>
 108     <li>Upgrade iceweasel to 10.0.6esr-1 (Extended Support Release) and install it
 109     and its dependencies from squeeze-backports.</li>
 110     </ul>
 111   </li>
 112
 113   <li>Hardware support
 114     <ul>
 115     <li>Upgrade Linux to 3.2.23-1.</li>
 116     </ul>
 117   </li>
 118
 119   <li>Software
 120     <ul>
 121     <li>Update i2p to version 0.9.1.</li>
 122     </ul>
 123   </li>
 124
 125   <li>Build system
 126     <ul>
 127     <li>vagrant: Install Ikiwiki from Debian unstable. The 'mirrorlist'
 128     patches have finally been merged in upstream Ikiwiki. So instead of
 129     building Ikiwiki by hand, we can now install the package directly
 130     from Debian unstable.</li>
 131     <li>Do not build the ikiwiki forum on the bundled static website copy.</li>
 132     </ul>
 133   </li>
 134 </ul>