By Larry Cafiero
Marcus Nestor of 9 to 5 Linux reported on Thursday that Tails 7.10 was released a month after Tails 7.9, with a couple of improvements.
“Tails 7.10 has been released today as the latest version of this Debian-based distribution designed to protect you against surveillance and censorship by leveraging the Tor anonymous network,” the article states.
The article continues saying that Tails 7.9, “which only updated to Tor Browser 15.0.16 and some firmware packages, the Tails 7.10 release is a bigger one, introducing a new shutdown procedure, the one from the Gnome desktop environment, which is slower but better prevents data loss. The previous, faster emergency shutdown can still be used.”
The Tails team was quoted in the article: “For example, the Power Off confirmation dialog informs you if an application needs to be closed or an open document needs to be saved before shutting down . . . Even without confirming or saving the open documents, Tails will shut down after 60 seconds.”
In other improvements in the new version, “Tails 7.10 also replaces GNOME Videos with Celluloid as the default video player app, updates the Tor Browser to version 15.0.19, updates some firmware packages to improve support for newer hardware graphics, Wi-Fi, and so on, and fixes various bugs,” the article states.
New Cosmic desktop version released
Michael Larabel at Phoronix reported on Wednesday that the System76 developers have released a new version of their Cosmic desktop environment.
“System76 developers today released Cosmic Epoch 1.4 as the newest stable release to their Rust-based desktop environment,” the article states.
According to the article, “Cosmic Epoch 1.4 brings a wide variety of fixes, cosmic-sound-theme packaging, translation updates, and some minor feature work to different COSMIC components too.”
The article continues to say that the Cosmic Compositor “has seen a number of fixes for input and window handling, improving screen edge pointer accuracy with fractional scaling, and more. COSMIC Panel has seen crash fixes.”
And that’s all for today. Don’t forget: Distro of the Week appears Wednesday – and it’s always a good one on hand – and Bits and Bobs will return on Monday.