News | Qubes OS

XSAs 333, 334, 336, 338, 339, 342, and 344 do not affect the security of Qubes OS

2020-09-22 by Andrew David Wong in Security
QSB #059: Multiple Xen issues (XSA-337, XSA-340, XSA-343)

2020-09-22 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Get paid to support Qubes development through automated testing! (three-month contract)

2020-09-20 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
Qubes Canary #24

2020-09-10 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
XSA-335 does not affect the security of Qubes OS

2020-08-24 by Andrew David Wong in Security
New community forum for Qubes OS users!

2020-08-20 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
XSA-329 does not affect the security of Qubes OS

2020-07-16 by Andrew David Wong in Security
XSAs 317, 319, 327, and 328 do not affect the security of Qubes OS

2020-07-07 by Andrew David Wong in Security
QSB #058: Insufficient cache write-back under VT-d (XSA-321)

2020-07-07 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Fedora 32 TemplateVMs available

2020-06-30 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
Qubes Architecture Next Steps: The New Qrexec Policy System

2020-06-22 by Marek Marczykowski-Górecki, Marta Marczykowska-Górecka in Articles
QSB #057: Special Register Buffer speculative side channel (XSA-320)

2020-06-11 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Google Summer of Code & Season of Docs 2020

2020-05-23 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
Qubes wins MOSS Mission Partners award!

2020-05-22 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
Fedora 30 approaching EOL, Fedora 31 TemplateVM available, Fedora 32 TemplateVM in testing

2020-04-30 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
XSAs 313, 314, 316, and 318 do not affect the security of Qubes OS

2020-04-15 by Andrew David Wong in Security
Qubes Canary #23

2020-04-15 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Qubes Architecture Next Steps: The GUI Domain

2020-03-18 by Marek Marczykowski-Górecki, Marta Marczykowska-Górecka in Articles
XSA-315 does not affect the security of Qubes OS

2020-03-12 by Andrew David Wong in Security
NitroPad X230 passes hardware certification for Qubes 4.0!

2020-03-04 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
Qubes OS 4.0.3 has been released!

2020-01-23 by Andrew David Wong in Releases
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XSA-312 does not affect the security of Qubes OS

2020-01-15 by Andrew David Wong in Security
Qubes OS 4.0.3-rc1 has been released!

2020-01-15 by Andrew David Wong in Releases
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Qubes Canary #22

2020-01-15 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
[Updated] Qubes OS 4.0.2 has been released!

2020-01-02 by Andrew David Wong in Releases
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QSB #056: Insufficient anti-spoofing firewall rules

2019-12-25 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Qubes OS 4.0.2-rc3 has been released!

2019-12-13 by Andrew David Wong in Releases
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XSAs 307, 308, and 309 do not affect the security of Qubes OS

2019-12-11 by Andrew David Wong in Security
QSB #055: Issues with PV type change and handling IOMMU on AMD (XSA-310, XSA-311)

2019-12-11 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Fedora 29 has reached EOL

2019-11-29 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
QSB #054: Xen fix for XSA-302 found ineffective in Qubes configuration (XSA-306)

2019-11-26 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
XSA-304 does not affect the security of Qubes OS

2019-11-13 by Andrew David Wong in Security
QSB #053: TSX Asynchronous Abort speculative side channel (XSA-305)

2019-11-13 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Qubes OS 4.0.2-rc2 has been released!

2019-11-03 by Andrew David Wong in Releases
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XSAs 296, 298, 301, and 303 do not affect the security of Qubes OS

2019-10-31 by Andrew David Wong in Security
QSB #052: Xen issues affecting PCI passthrough and PV domains (XSA-299, XSA-302)

2019-10-31 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Qubes Canary #21

2019-10-13 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Upcoming Qubes presentations at Platform Security Summit 2019

2019-09-18 by Andrew David Wong in Talks
QSB #051: Insufficient validation of backup compression filter on restore

2019-09-10 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Announcing our 2019 Season of Docs project: Onboard with Qubes OS!

2019-08-07 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
QSB #050: Reinstalling a TemplateVM does not reset the private volume

2019-07-24 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Insurgo PrivacyBeast X230 Laptop meets and exceeds Qubes 4.0 hardware certification

2019-07-18 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
XSA-300 does not affect the security of Qubes OS

2019-07-09 by Andrew David Wong in Security
Qubes OS 4.0.2-rc1 has been released!

2019-07-09 by Andrew David Wong in Releases
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Qubes Canary #20

2019-07-04 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Whonix 15 has been released

2019-07-01 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki to speak at Xen Developer and Design Summit 2019

2019-06-27 by Andrew David Wong in Talks
XSA-295 does not affect the security of Qubes OS

2019-06-13 by Andrew David Wong in Security
Fedora 30 TemplateVM available

2019-05-30 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
Fedora 28 has reached EOL

2019-05-29 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
QSB #049: Microarchitectural Data Sampling speculative side channel (XSA-297)

2019-05-15 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Qubes OS accepted into 2019 Google Season of Docs. Technical writers, please apply!

2019-04-30 by Michael Carbone in Announcements
Qubes Tor onion services are available again!

2019-04-17 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
Qubes Canary #19

2019-04-08 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Qubes OS 3.2 has reached EOL

2019-03-28 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements, Releases
Qubes Tor onion services will no longer be maintained

2019-03-24 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
XSAs 284, 290, 291, 293, and 294 do not affect the security of Qubes OS

2019-03-05 by Andrew David Wong in Security
QSB #048: Multiple Xen vulnerabilities

2019-03-05 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Qubes OS 3.2 approaching EOL on 2019-03-28

2019-02-20 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements, Releases
QSB #47: Insecure default DisposableVM networking configuration

2019-02-19 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
QSB #46: APT update mechanism vulnerability

2019-01-23 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
XSA-289 does not affect the security of Qubes OS

2019-01-21 by Andrew David Wong in Security
Qubes OS 4.0.1 has been released!

2019-01-09 by Marek Marczykowski-Górecki in Releases
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Qubes Canary #18

2019-01-08 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Fedora 29 TemplateVM available for Qubes 4.0

2019-01-07 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
Introduction to Qubes this Saturday at the 35th CCC in Leipzig

2018-12-27 by Andrew David Wong in Talks
Qubes OS 4.0.1-rc2 has been released!

2018-12-18 by Andrew David Wong in Releases
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QSB #45: Insecure default Salt configuration

2018-12-03 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Fedora 27 has reached EOL

2018-11-30 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
XSA-276, XSA-277, and XSA-279 do not affect the security of Qubes OS

2018-11-20 by Andrew David Wong in Security
QSB #44: Multiple Xen vulnerabilities (XSA-275, XSA-280)

2018-11-20 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Qubes OS 3.2.1 has been released!

2018-11-12 by Andrew David Wong in Releases
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XSA-282 does not affect the security of Qubes OS

2018-11-06 by Andrew David Wong in Security
Qubes Security Team Update

2018-11-05 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements, Security
Qubes OS 4.0.1-rc1 has been released!

2018-11-05 by Andrew David Wong in Releases
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The Next Chapter: From the Endpoint to the Cloud

2018-10-25 by Joanna Rutkowska in Announcements
Thank you, Joanna!

2018-10-25 by Marek Marczykowski-Górecki in Announcements
XSA-278 does not affect the security of Qubes OS

2018-10-24 by Andrew David Wong in Security
Qubes Canary #17

2018-10-15 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Whonix support ending for Qubes 3.2

2018-10-05 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
Qubes OS 3.2.1-rc1 has been released!

2018-10-05 by Andrew David Wong in Releases
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Whonix version support policy

2018-09-13 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
Introducing the Qubes U2F Proxy

2018-09-11 by Wojtek Porczyk in Articles, Security
QSB #43: L1 Terminal Fault speculative side channel (XSA-273)

2018-09-02 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Whonix 13 approaching EOL

2018-08-24 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
XSA-268, XSA-269, XSA-271, and XSA-272 do not affect the security of Qubes OS

2018-08-14 by Andrew David Wong in Security
QSB #42: Linux netback driver OOB access in hash handling (XSA-270)

2018-08-14 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Whonix 14 has been released

2018-08-07 by Patrick Schleizer in Announcements
[Video] Micah Lee presents Qubes OS at HOPE 2018

2018-08-03 by Andrew David Wong in Talks
XSA-274 does not affect the security of Qubes OS

2018-07-25 by Andrew David Wong in Security
XSA-264, XSA-265, and XSA-266 do not affect the security of Qubes OS

2018-06-27 by Andrew David Wong in Security
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki to speak at the Xen Developer and Design Summit 2018

2018-06-17 by Andrew David Wong in Talks
Qubes Canary #16

2018-06-14 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
QSB #41: Speculative register leakage from lazy FPU context switching (XSA-267)

2018-06-13 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Update for QSB #40: Information leaks due to processor speculative store bypass (XSA-263)

2018-06-13 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
QSB #40: Information leaks due to processor speculative store bypass (XSA-263)

2018-05-24 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Partnering with the Freedom of the Press Foundation

2018-05-24 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
Fedora 26 and Debian 8 approaching EOL

2018-05-23 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
QSB #39: Xen vulnerability (XSA-260) and GUI daemon issue

2018-05-08 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
XSA-258 and XSA-259 do not affect the security of Qubes OS

2018-04-25 by Andrew David Wong in Security
Qubes OS 4.0 has been released!

2018-03-28 by Andrew David Wong in Releases
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Update for QSB #37: Information leaks due to processor speculative execution bugs (XSA-254, Meltdown & Spectre)

2018-03-15 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Qubes Canary #15

2018-03-15 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Qubes OS 4.0-rc5 has been released!

2018-03-06 by Andrew David Wong in Releases
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XSA-252, XSA-255, and XSA-256 do not affect the security of Qubes OS

2018-02-27 by Andrew David Wong in Security
QSB #38: Qrexec policy bypass and possible information leak

2018-02-20 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Qubes OS 4.0-rc4 has been released!

2018-01-31 by Andrew David Wong in Releases
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Update for QSB #37: Information leaks due to processor speculative execution bugs (XSA-254, Meltdown & Spectre)

2018-01-24 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Qubes and Whonix now have next-generation Tor onion services!

2018-01-23 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
Qubes Air: Generalizing the Qubes Architecture

2018-01-22 by Joanna Rutkowska in Articles
QSB #37: Information leaks due to processor speculative execution bugs (XSA-254, Meltdown & Spectre)

2018-01-11 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Fedora 26 TemplateVM Upgrade

2018-01-06 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
Announcement regarding XSA-254 (Meltdown and Spectre attacks)

2018-01-04 by Andrew David Wong in Security
XSA-253 does not affect the security of Qubes OS

2018-01-04 by Andrew David Wong in Security
XSA-248 through XSA-251 do not affect the security of Qubes OS

2017-12-12 by Andrew David Wong in Security
Joanna Rutkowska gives keynote 'Security through Distrusting' at Black Hat Europe 2017

2017-12-11 by Andrew David Wong in Talks
Qubes Canary #14

2017-12-11 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
QSB #36: Xen hypervisor issue in populate-on-demand code (XSA-247)

2017-11-28 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Qubes OS 4.0-rc3 has been released!

2017-11-27 by Andrew David Wong in Releases
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QSB #35: Xen hypervisor issue related to grant tables (XSA-236)

2017-10-25 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Qubes OS 4.0-rc2 has been released!

2017-10-23 by Marek Marczykowski-Górecki in Releases
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MSI support for PCI device pass-through with stub domains

2017-10-18 by Simon Gaiser (aka HW42) in Articles, Security
QSB #34: GUI issue and Xen vulnerabilities (XSA-237 through XSA-244)

2017-10-12 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Introducing the Next Generation Qubes Core Stack

2017-10-03 by Joanna Rutkowska in Articles, Security
XSA-245 does not affect the security of Qubes OS

2017-09-28 by Andrew David Wong in Security
Thank You for Supporting Qubes!

2017-09-15 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
Joanna Rutkowska: Reasonably Secure Computing in the Decentralized World

2017-09-13 by Andrew David Wong in Talks
QSB #33: Xen hypervisor (XSA-231 through XSA-234)

2017-09-12 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Qubes Canary #13

2017-09-12 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
XSA-235 does not affect the security of Qubes OS

2017-08-23 by Andrew David Wong in Security
QSB #32: Xen hypervisor and Linux kernel vulnerabilities (XSA-226 through XSA-230)

2017-08-15 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Qubes OS 4.0-rc1 has been released!

2017-07-31 by Joanna Rutkowska in Releases
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Recommended Fedora 25 TemplateVM Upgrade for Qubes 3.2

2017-07-29 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
Toward a Reasonably Secure Laptop

2017-07-08 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
Introducing the Qubes Admin API

2017-06-27 by Joanna Rutkowska in Articles, Security
QSB #31: Xen hypervisor vulnerabilities with unresearched impact (XSA 216-224)

2017-06-20 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Qubes OS Donation Update

2017-06-05 by The Qubes OS Team in Announcements
Qubes Canary #12

2017-06-05 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
QSB #30: Critical Xen bugs related to PV memory virtualization (XSA-213, XSA-214)

2017-05-02 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Compromise recovery in Qubes OS

2017-04-26 by Joanna Rutkowska in Articles, Security
QSB #29: Critical Xen bug in PV memory virtualization code (XSA-212)

2017-04-04 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
XSA-206 does not affect the security of Qubes OS

2017-03-28 by Andrew David Wong in Security
Xen Security Advisory (XSA) Tracker

2017-03-21 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
Qubes Canary #11

2017-03-07 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Qubes OS 3.1 reaches EOL on 2017-03-29

2017-03-01 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements, Releases
Google Summer of Code 2017

2017-02-27 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
Introducing the new qubes-project mailing list

2017-02-01 by Michael Carbone in Announcements
Qubes Security Bulletin (QSB) #28: Debian update mechanism vulnerability

2016-12-19 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
[Video] Interview about Qubes OS on The New Screen Savers

2016-12-17 by Andrew David Wong in Press
Qubes Canary #10

2016-12-13 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
Qubes OS Begins Commercialization and Community Funding Efforts

2016-11-30 by Joanna Rutkowska in Announcements
Qubes Security Bulletin #27: Xen 64-bit bit test instruction emulation broken (XSA 195)

2016-11-22 by The Qubes OS Team in Security
The Qubes Project will be present at 33C3

2016-11-19 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
Fedora 24 template now available for Qubes 3.2

2016-11-15 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
Article about Qubes OS 3.2 on LWN.net by Nate Drake

2016-11-09 by Andrew David Wong in Press
Introducing the new qubes-announce read-only mailing list

2016-10-28 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki to present at the Security PWNing Conference 2016

2016-10-11 by Andrew David Wong in Talks
Qubes OS 3.2 has been released!

2016-09-29 by Joanna Rutkowska in Releases
Qubes OS 3.0 reaches EOL on 2016-09-09

2016-09-02 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements, Releases
Minimum requirements for Qubes OS 4.x and extended support for Qubes OS 3.2

2016-09-02 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements, Releases
Qubes OS 3.2 rc3 has been released!

2016-08-31 by Marek Marczykowski-Górecki in Releases
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[Video] Marek Marczykowski-Górecki: Improving client systems security with Qubes OS (RMLL 2016)

2016-08-10 by Andrew David Wong in Talks
Qubes OS 3.2 rc2 has been released!

2016-07-28 by Andrew David Wong in Releases
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Updated requirements for Qubes-certified hardware

2016-07-21 by Joanna Rutkowska in Announcements
The Qubes Project announces a decentralized bitcoin fund

2016-07-13 by Joanna Rutkowska in Announcements
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki presents at RMLL 2016

2016-07-04 by Andrew David Wong in Talks
Qubes OS 3.2 rc1 has been released!

2016-06-18 by Marek Marczykowski-Górecki in Releases
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Security challenges for the Qubes build process

2016-05-30 by Joanna Rutkowska in Articles, Security
Article about Qubes OS in *Linux Journal*

2016-05-27 by Qubes OS in Press
Joining the Qubes Team as Community Manager

2016-04-29 by Andrew David Wong in Announcements
Article about Qubes OS in *DistroWatch*

2016-04-11 by Qubes OS in Press
Article about Qubes OS in *LinuxInsider*

2016-04-06 by Qubes OS in Press
[Video] Logan CIJ 2016: Future of OS (Qubes, Subgraph, and Tails)

2016-03-12 by Qubes OS in Press
Qubes OS 3.1 has been released!

2016-03-09 by Joanna Rutkowska in Releases
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Qubes OS 3.1 rc3 has been released!

2016-02-24 by Marek Marczykowski-Górecki in Releases
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Qubes Windows Tools are now open source!

2016-01-27 by Rafał Wojdyła in Announcements, Windows
Estimating Qubes OS user base

2016-01-14 by Wojtek Porczyk in Announcements
Qubes OS 3.1 rc2 has been released!

2016-01-12 by Marek Marczykowski-Górecki in Releases
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[Video] Joanna Rutkowska: Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops

2015-12-27 by Qubes OS in Talks
Salt management stack in Qubes

2015-12-14 by Marek Marczykowski-Górecki in Articles
Article about Qubes OS in *Ars Technica*

2015-12-14 by Qubes OS in Press
Partnering with Purism and the first Qubes-certified laptop

2015-12-09 by Michael Carbone in Announcements
Qubes OS 3.1 rc1 has been released!

2015-12-08 by Marek Marczykowski-Górecki in Releases
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[Video] Joanna Rutkowska, Next Generation Threats 2015

2015-12-08 by Qubes OS in Talks
Article about Qubes OS in *fossBytes*

2015-10-08 by Qubes OS in Press
Article about Qubes OS in *The Hacker News*

2015-10-06 by Qubes OS in Press
Article about Qubes OS in *Motherboard*

2015-10-05 by Qubes OS in Press
Qubes OS 3.0 has been released!

2015-10-01 by Joanna Rutkowska in Releases
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Qubes OS 3.0 rc3 has been released!

2015-09-16 by Qubes OS in Releases
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Qubes OS 3.0 rc2 LiveUSB (alpha) has been released!

2015-08-10 by Qubes OS in Releases
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Qubes OS 3.0 rc2 has been released!

2015-07-31 by Qubes OS in Releases
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Qubes OS 3.0 rc1 has been released!

2015-04-23 by Joanna Rutkowska in Releases
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Article about Qubes OS in *Wired*

2014-11-20 by Qubes OS in Press
Qubes OS R2 has been released

2014-09-26 by Joanna Rutkowska in Releases
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LinuxCon EU 2014 slides

2014-08-19 by Qubes OS in Talks
Qubes OS R2 rc2 has been released!

2014-08-06 by Joanna Rutkowska in Releases
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The Qubes website now uses a CA-signed SSL cert

2014-07-16 by Joanna Rutkowska in Announcements
ITL presents on Qubes OS at LinuxCon Europe

2014-07-03 by Qubes OS in Talks
Article about Qubes OS by the Freedom of the Press Foundation

2014-04-12 by Qubes OS in Press
Article about Qubes OS in *The Economist*

2014-03-28 by Qubes OS in Press
Qubes OS R2 rc1 has been released!

2014-02-21 by Joanna Rutkowska in Releases
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Qubes OS selected as a finalist of Access Innovation Prize 2014 for Endpoint Security Solution

2014-02-16 by Qubes OS in Announcements
Qubes OS R2 Beta 3 has been released!

2013-12-11 by Joanna Rutkowska in Releases
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Windows 7 seamless GUI integration coming to Qubes OS!

2013-11-26 by Joanna Rutkowska in Announcements, Windows
Qubes OS R3 Alpha preview: Odyssey HAL in action!

2013-06-21 by Joanna Rutkowska in Announcements
Introducing Qubes Odyssey Framework

2013-03-21 by Joanna Rutkowska in Articles
Qubes 2 Beta 2 has been released!

2013-02-28 by Joanna Rutkowska in Releases
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Qubes 2 Beta 1 has been released!

2012-12-14 by Joanna Rutkowska in Releases, Windows
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Qubes Security Team has joined the Xen Security Pre-disclousre list

2012-11-16 by Joanna Rutkowska in Announcements, Security
How is Qubes OS different from other approaches to desktop security?

2012-09-12 by Joanna Rutkowska in Articles
Qubes 1 has been released!

2012-09-03 by Joanna Rutkowska in Releases
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Windows support coming to Qubes!

2012-03-03 by Joanna Rutkowska in Announcements, Windows
Qubes 1 Beta 3 has been released!

2012-02-06 by Joanna Rutkowska in Releases
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Playing with Qubes Networking for Fun and Profit

2011-09-28 by Joanna Rutkowska in Articles
Qubes Beta 2 has been released

2011-09-19 by Joanna Rutkowska in Releases
Qubes Beta 1 has been released

2011-04-11 by Joanna Rutkowska in Releases
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Partitioning ones digital life into security domains

2011-03-13 by Joanna Rutkowska in Articles
Qubes Alpha 3 is out!

2010-10-06 by Joanna Rutkowska in Releases
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ITL to hire Qubes OS developers

2010-09-28 by Joanna Rutkowska in Announcements
Qubes Alpha 2 has been released!

2010-07-10 by Joanna Rutkowska in Releases
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Joanna Rutkowska speaks about Qubes at Campus Party EU

2010-04-16 by Qubes OS in Talks
Initial public release

2010-04-07 by Joanna Rutkowska in Releases
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