[tails-news] Tails 0.17.1 is out

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Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 0.17.1, is out.

All users must upgrade as soon as possible.

# Changes

Notable user-visible changes include:

* Iceweasel

    * Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.4esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1.


* Hardware support

    * Update Linux to 3.2.39-2, that It includes better support for graphics adapter, backported from Linux 3.4.29.
    * Temporarily drop the Rendition display driver.


* Bugfixes

    * Remove Indymedia IRC account, until we ship a version of Pidgin with SASL support.


See the [online Changelog][1] for technical details.

# Known issue

The VirtualBox support in Tails 0.17.1 is not as good as it could be.

# I want to try it / to upgrade!

See the [Getting started][2] page.

As no software is ever perfect, we maintain a list of [problems that affects the last release of Tails][3].

# What's coming up?

The next Tails release (0.17.2) is scheduled for April 9. It will be a minor, bugfix only one.

Have a look to our [roadmap][4] to see where we are heading to.

Would you want to help? As explained in our ["how to contribute" documentation][5], there are many ways **you** can contribute to Tails. If you want to help, come talk to us!

[1]: http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=blob_plain;f=debian/changelog;hb=refs/tags/0.17.1
[2]: https://tails.boum.org/news/../getting_started/index.en.html
[3]: https://tails.boum.org/news/../support/known_issues/index.en.html
[4]: https://tails.boum.org/contribute/roadmap/
[5]: https://tails.boum.org/news/../contribute/index.en.html

URL: https://tails.boum.org/news/version_0.17.1/index.en.html