Tails 4.17 Anonymous OS Released with Automatic File System Repair During Boot

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Marius Nestor
Mar 23, 2021

Tails 4.17 is here with some great improvements, including automatic repair of the file system used for upgrades during boot by cleaning up old automatic upgrade files that were left on the drive after a manual system upgrade, which blocked automatic upgrades from functioning properly. Also, Tails now automatically resumes the download whenever an upgrade fails and the Tails Upgrader utility is now more resilient to broken mirrors. As with all new Tails releases, Tails 4.17 ships with the latest and greatest Tor technologies used to enable anonymous communication inside the system. Included in this release are the Tor Browser 10.0.14 anonymous web browser and Tor 0.4.5.7 anonymous client/server implementation.

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Marius Nestor

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