Coming three weeks after the previous Beta release, Elive 2.9.0 Beta is here to finally implement the promised Persistence feature, which lets users save their personal files, extra apps that they might install, login credentials, and various configuration files during a live session. The Persistence integration works only with USB sticks and includes some unique features too, among which we can mention guided setup, encryption support, automated cleanup of temporal files (only if the partition is full), saving of desktop settings in unique profiles for each PC, and last but not least statistics of usage.