1 [[!meta date="Fri, 30 Mar 2018 17:00:00 +0000"]]
2 [[!pagetemplate template="news.tmpl"]]
3 [[!meta title="Tails 3.6.2 is out"]]
6 This release fixes [[several security
7 issues|security/Numerous_security_holes_in_3.6.1]] and users should
8 upgrade as soon as possible.
14 ## Upgrades and changes
16 - Update *Tor Browser* to 7.5.3.
18 - Update *Thunderbird* to 52.7.0.
20 - Update *Intel microcode* to 3.20180312.1, which adds Spectre variant
21 2 mitigation for most common Intel processors.
23 - Upgrade *Linux* to 4.15.11-1.
27 - Make input of Japanese and Korean characters in Tor Browser work
30 - Fix Tor Browser so add-ons installed by users work again, such as
33 For more details, read our [[!tails_gitweb debian/changelog desc="changelog"]].
35 <a id="known-issues"></a>
37 See the list of [[long-standing issues|support/known_issues]].
41 - To install, follow our [[installation instructions|install]].
43 - To upgrade, automatic upgrades are available from 3.6 and 3.6.1 to
46 If you cannot do an automatic upgrade or if you fail to start after an
47 automatic upgrade, please try to do a [[manual upgrade|doc/upgrade#manual]].
49 If you are doing a manual upgrade from Tails 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, or 3.5, it is only possible to select an
50 ISO image when running Tails in English. For other languages, the
51 file chooser button remains inactive:
53 [[!img news/version_3.5/broken-file-chooser.png link="no"]]
55 To do a manual upgrade from Tails 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, or 3.5, you can either:
57 - Restart Tails in English.
59 - Start <span class="application">Tails Installer</span> in
60 English from the command line:
62 <pre>LANG=en_US tails-installer</pre>
64 - [[Download Tails 3.6.2.|install/download]]
68 Tails 3.7 is [[scheduled|contribute/calendar]] for May 8.
70 Have a look at our [[!tails_roadmap]] to see where we are heading to.
72 We need your help and there are many ways to [[contribute to
73 Tails|contribute]] (<a href="https://tails.boum.org/donate/?r=3.6.2">donating</a> is only one of
74 them). Come [[talk to us|about/contact#tails-dev]]!