[[!meta date="Sat Mar 23 11:23:45 2013"]]
[[!meta title="Tails 0.17.1 is out"]]
[[!tag announce]]

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

All users must upgrade as soon as possible.

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# 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](https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/plain/debian/changelog?id=0.17.1)
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]] page.

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

# 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 [[!tails_roadmap]] to see where we are heading to.

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