14 DAY TRIAL // The developers of the Tails amnesic incognito live system announced the availability of the third Beta release of the upcoming major Tails 3.0 operating system, which will be based on the soon-to-be-released Debian GNU/Linux 9 "Stretch" OS.
Filled with a bunch of important security fixes, Tails 3.0 Beta 3 is here about one week after the release of the second Beta milestone. It includes all the updates that have been released upstream in the Debian Testing repositories, which will soon become Debian GNU/Linux 9 "Stretch."
However, the Tails Greeter appears to be the component that received the most attention in this new Beta release, as it comes with a bunch of new keyboard shortcuts, namely Ctrl+Shift+N for accessing the TOR network settings, Ctrl+Shift+M for accessing the MAC spoofing settings, and Ctrl+Shift+A for setting an administrator password.
Additionally, users will be able to use the Alt key to access the accelerators in the main window, and it looks like it finally makes the "Formats" settings work as designed. Other than that, Tails 3.0 Beta 3 removes support for the I2P anonymizing network, as promised by the Tails devs when they announced the release of Tails 2.11.
The X11 guest utilities for VirtualBox are now present
Those of you who want to use Tails on a virtual machine created with the popular VirtualBox virtualization software from Oracle will be happy to learn that the Tails 3.0 Beta 3 release re-introduces the X11 guest utilities that should make the clipboard sharing and shared folders features work again.
This Beta of Tails 3.0 also comes with an updated graphics stack based on the latest X.Org Server display server using the modesetting driver by default, which should improve support for some Intel GPUs. It also automates the migration of KeePassX databases from the Tails 2.x series for the new format used by KeePassX 2.0.x.
Check out the full changelog if you're interested in all the bug fixes implemented in this Beta of Tails 3.0, and don't hesitate to download the Live ISO images from our website if you want an early taste. Keep in mind that some know issues remain in the Beta 3 milestone, so study them on the release notes before testing.