release of a specialized distribution (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), based on the Debian package base, designed for anonymous internet access. Anonymous access in Tails is provided by the Tor system. All connections, except for traffic through the Tor network, are block by the packet filter by default. User data storage in persistent mode is encrypted. A prepared (1.1 GB), capable of running in Live mode.
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- Work has been done to improve the automatic update installation system. Previously, when updating a long-neglected system, a step-by-step update using intermediate releases was required (for example, when upgrading from Tails 3.12 to Tails 3.16, one had to first update to Tails 3.14, and then to 3.16). Starting with the Tails 4.2 release, it is now possible to perform a direct automatic upgrade to the latest version. Additionally, manual intervention during updates is only required when transitioning to a new major branch (for example, this will be necessary when moving to Tails 5.0 in 2021). Memory consumption during automatic updates has been reduced and the size of downloaded data optimized.
- Several new utilities have been included that may be useful for service users , allowing anonymous document transmission to publications and journalists. In particular, the package PDF Redact Tools for clearing metadata from PDF documents, OCR Tesseract for converting images to text, and FFmpeg for recording and converting audio and video have been included.
- Upon launching the KeePassX password manager, the database ~\/Persistent\/keepassx.kdbx is opened by default, but if this file is absent, it is excluded from the list of recently used databases.
- The Tor Browser has been updated to version 9.0.3, synchronized with the release of , which fixed , five of which could potentially lead to code execution when opening specially crafted pages.
- The email client Thunderbird has been updated to release 68.3.0, and the Linux kernel to version 5.3.15.
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