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   3 [[!meta title="Call for testing: 0.17~rc1"]]
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   5 <p>You can help Tails! The <em>first</em> release candidate for the upcoming
   6 version 0.17 is out. Please test it and see if all works for you.</p>
   7
   8 [[!toc levels=1]]
   9
  10 <h1>How to test Tails 0.17~rc1?</h1>
  11
  12 <ol>
  13   <li>
  14     <p>
  15       <strong>Keep in mind that this is a test image.</strong> We have made sure
  16       that it is not broken in an obvious way, but it might still contain
  17       undiscovered issues.
  18     </p>
  19   </li>
  20   <li>
  21     <p>Download the ISO image and its signature:</p>
  22     <p>
  23       <a class="download-file"
  24          href=""
  25       >Tails 0.17~rc1 ISO image</a>
  26     </p>
  27     <p>
  28       <a class="download-signature"
  29          href="http://dl.amnesia.boum.org/tails/testing/tails-i386-0.17-rc1/tails-i386-0.17-rc1.iso.pgp"
  30       >Tails 0.17~rc1 signature</a>
  31     </p>
  32   </li>
  33   <li>
  34     <p>
  35       Verify the ISO image.
  36     </p>
  37   </li>
  38   <li>
  39     <p>
  40       Have a look at the list of <a href="#known_issues">known issues
  41       of this release</a> and the list of [[longstanding known
  42       issues|support/known_issues]].
  43     </p>
  44   </li>
  45   <li>
  46     <p>
  47       Test wildly!
  48     </p>
  49   </li>
  50 </ol>
  51
  52 <p>If you find anything that is not working as it should, please [[report to
  53 us|doc/first_steps/bug_reporting]]! Bonus points if you check that it is not a
  54 <a href="#known_issues">known issue of this release</a> or a
  55 [[longstanding known issue|support/known_issues]].</p>
  56
  57 <h1>What's new since 0.16?</h1>
  58
  59 <ul>
  60   <li>New features
  61      <ul>
  62        <li>Install the KeePassX password manager.</li>
  63      </ul>
  64   </li>
  65   <li>Iceweasel
  66      <ul>
  67        <li>Ugrade to Iceweasel 17.0.2esr-1+tails2~bpo60+1.</li>
  68        <li>Install xul-ext-adblock-plus from squeeze-backports.</li>
  69        <li>Do not allow listing all available fonts.</li>
  70        <li>Fix default spellchecker.</li>
  71        <li>Disable the add-ons automatic update feature.</li>
  72        <li>Remove NoScript click-to-play confirmation.</li>
  73        <li>Sync some prefs set by Torbutton, to be ready when it stops setting these.</li>
  74        <li>Disable navigation timing.</li>
  75        <li>Disable SPDY.</li>
  76        <li>More aggressive iceweasel HTTP pipelining settings.</li>
  77        <li>Enable WebGL (as click-to-play only).</li>
  78        <li>Disable network.http.connection-retry-timeout.</li>
  79        <li>Disable full path information for plugins.</li>
  80        <li>Remove NoScript blocks of WebFonts.</li>
  81        <li>Disable DOM storage in Torbutton.</li>
  82        <li>Synchronize iceweasel's general.useragent.override with TBB based on FF17.</li>
  83        <li>Explicitly disable AdBlock Plus "correct typos" feature.</li>
  84      </ul>
  85   </li>
  86   <li>Minor improvements
  87      <ul>
  88        <li>Upgrade to live-boot 3.0~b11-1 and live-config 3.0.12-1.</li>
  89        <li>Check for errors when sourcing live-boot files, e.g. to detect when they have been renamed upstream.</li>
  90        <li>Avoid doubled "quiet" kernel command-line parameter.</li>
  91     </ul>
  92   </li>
  93   <li>Bugfixes
  94     <ul>
  95        <li>Use the regular GnuPG agent + pinentry-gtk2 instead of Seahorse as a GnuPG agent. This fixes usage of OpenPGP in Claws Mail, and brings support for OpenPGP smartcards.</li>
  96        <li>Enable I2P hidden mode. Else, killing I2P ungracefully is bad for the I2P network.</li>
  97        <li>live-persist: move error() function before the first potential usecase.</li>
  98     </ul>
  99   </li>
 100   <li>Hardware support
 101     <ul>
 102        <li>Install recent Intel and AMD microcode.</li>
 103        <li>Install firmware loader for Qualcomm Gobi USB chipsets.</li>
 104        <li>Upgrade barry to 0.18.3-5~bpo60+1.</li>
 105     </ul>
 106   </li>
 107   <li>Build system
 108     <ul>
 109        <li>Remove APT local cache.</li>
 110     </ul>
 111   </li>
 112 </ul>
 113
 114 <h1><a id="known_issues"></a>Known issues in 0.17~rc1</h1>
 115
 116 <ul>
 117   <li>
 118      Disabling DOM storage in the Tails web browser makes is appear slightly
 119      differently from the alpha Torbrowser (based on Firefox 17). This will be
 120      fixed in a future version once we [[!tails_ticket 5425 desc="use the same
 121      DOM storage patches and settings"]] as the Torbrowser.
 122   </li>
 123 </ul>