Privacy and Anonymity oriented Live Operating System Tails 3.9 Released

Tails is a live operating system aims at privacy and anonymity, you can use the live operating system on any computer from a USB stick or a DVD.

Talis version 3.9

The release fixed number of security issues and contains two new additional features.

Additional Software

Tails 3.9 enables you to install additional software automatically when starting Talis, you can also select the application needs to be installed only one time or every time when system start’sup.

Applications ▸ System Tool ▸ Additional Software.

Veracypt Integration

Now you can unlock VeraCrypt volume in Tails

Applications ▸ System Tool ▸ Unlock VeraCrypt Volumes.

Important Upgrades

Improved configuration of the persistent storage.
Tor Browser 8.0
Thunderbird version 60
Tor 0.3.4.7-RC
Electrum 3.1.3.
Linux to 4.17 which fixes the Foreshadow attack.
Intel and AMD microcode firmware to address Spectre and Meltdown.

How to get Tails 3.9

Automatic upgrades Available from 3.7.1, 3.8, and 3.9~rc1 to 3.9.

If you cannot do an automatic upgrade or if Tails fails to start after an automatic upgrade, please try to do a manual upgrade.

Download Tails 3.9.

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