Whonix Anonymous Operating System Version 8 Released!

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Whonix is an operating system focused on anonymity, privacy and

security. It’s based on the Tor anonymity network, Debian GNU/Linux and

security by isolation. DNS leaks are impossible, and not even malware

with root privileges can find out the user’s real IP.

Whonix consists of two parts: One solely runs Tor and acts as a gateway,

which we call Whonix-Gateway. The other, which we call

Whonix-Workstation, is on a completely isolated network. Only

connections through Tor are possible.

Download Whonix for VirtualBox

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Download

Download Whonxi for KVM / Qemu

Experimental. See below.

Users of Whonix 7 and below

There is no upgrade path from Whonix 7 to Whonix 8, sorry. You

have to manually download new Whonix images.

Call for Help

– If you know shell scripting (/bin/bash) and linux sysadmin, please

join us! There are plenty of ways to make Whonix safer.

– We are also looking for a download mirros.

– For https://www.whonix.org we need some help with css, html,

mediawiki, wordpress, webdesign.

Download Whonix for KVM / Qemu

Entirely untested! This is only useful if you have a developers mindset!

This is the first time .qcow2 images are available (as .tar.gz, qcow2

image must be unpacked):

http://sourceforge.net/projects/whonix/files/current/8/

We have unfinished(!) instructions for KVM:

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/KVM

There are still a few blockers before using Whonix with KVM can be

considered sane:

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Dev/KVM

Please help out solving them. Whonix also needs a maintainer to

support using Whonix with KVM.

If you want to upgrade existing Whonix version using Whonix’s APT repository

Sorry, upgrading from existing Whonix version (0.5.6, 7, etc.) to Whonix

8 is not be possible.

Updating from the previous testers-only version 7.7.8.6 or 7.7.9.8

should be possible when you have Whonix’s (stable) APT repository

enabled. See:

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Whonix-APT-Repository

(Whonix 7.7.9.8 is the same version as Whonix 8, just a different

version number.)

If you want to upgrade existing Whonix version from source code

Sorry, upgrading from existing Whonix version (0.5.6, 7, etc.) to Whonix

8 is not be possible.

Updating from the previous testers-only version 7.7.8.6 or 7.7.9.8

should be possible, see:

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Dev/BuildDocumentation_8_deb

(Whonix 7.7.9.8 is the same version as Whonix 8, just a different

version number.)

If you want to build images from source code

See https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Dev/BuildDocumentation.

Physical Isolation users

See https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Physical_Isolation.

Changelog between Whonix 7 and Whonix 8

See https://www.whonix.org/pipermail/whonix-devel/2014-February/000142.html.

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