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Announcements

2019-11-29 Fedora 29 has reached EOL
2019-08-07 Announcing our 2019 Season of Docs project: Onboard with Qubes OS!
2019-07-18 Insurgo PrivacyBeast X230 Laptop meets and exceeds Qubes 4.0 hardware certification
2019-07-01 Whonix 15 has been released
2019-05-30 Fedora 30 TemplateVM available
2019-05-29 Fedora 28 has reached EOL
2019-04-30 Qubes OS accepted into 2019 Google Season of Docs. Technical writers, please apply!
2019-04-17 Qubes Tor onion services are available again!
2019-03-28 Qubes OS 3.2 has reached EOL
2019-03-24 Qubes Tor onion services will no longer be maintained
2019-02-20 Qubes OS 3.2 approaching EOL on 2019-03-28
2019-01-07 Fedora 29 TemplateVM available for Qubes 4.0
2018-11-30 Fedora 27 has reached EOL
2018-11-05 Qubes Security Team Update
2018-10-25 The Next Chapter: From the Endpoint to the Cloud
2018-10-25 Thank you, Joanna!
2018-10-05 Whonix support ending for Qubes 3.2
2018-09-13 Whonix version support policy
2018-08-24 Whonix 13 approaching EOL
2018-08-07 Whonix 14 has been released
2018-05-24 Partnering with the Freedom of the Press Foundation
2018-05-23 Fedora 26 and Debian 8 approaching EOL
2018-01-23 Qubes and Whonix now have next-generation Tor onion services!
2018-01-06 Fedora 26 TemplateVM Upgrade
2017-09-15 Thank You for Supporting Qubes!
2017-07-29 Recommended Fedora 25 TemplateVM Upgrade for Qubes 3.2
2017-07-08 Toward a Reasonably Secure Laptop
2017-06-05 Qubes OS Donation Update
2017-03-21 Xen Security Advisory (XSA) Tracker
2017-03-01 Qubes OS 3.1 reaches EOL on 2017-03-29
2017-02-27 Google Summer of Code 2017
2017-02-01 Introducing the new qubes-project mailing list
2016-11-19 The Qubes Project will be present at 33C3
2016-11-15 Fedora 24 template now available for Qubes 3.2
2016-10-28 Introducing the new qubes-announce read-only mailing list
2016-09-02 Qubes OS 3.0 reaches EOL on 2016-09-09
2016-09-02 Minimum requirements for Qubes OS 4.x and extended support for Qubes OS 3.2
2016-04-29 Joining the Qubes Team as Community Manager
2016-01-27 Qubes Windows Tools are now open source!
2016-01-14 Estimating Qubes OS user base
2015-12-09 Partnering with Purism and the first Qubes-certified laptop
2014-07-16 The Qubes website now uses a CA-signed SSL cert
2014-02-16 Qubes OS selected as a finalist of Access Innovation Prize 2014 for Endpoint Security Solution
2013-11-26 Windows 7 seamless GUI integration coming to Qubes OS!
2013-06-21 Qubes OS R3 Alpha preview: Odyssey HAL in action!
2012-11-16 Qubes Security Team has joined the Xen Security Pre-disclousre list
2012-03-03 Windows support coming to Qubes!
2010-09-28 ITL to hire Qubes OS developers

Articles

2018-09-11 Introducing the Qubes U2F Proxy
2018-01-22 Qubes Air: Generalizing the Qubes Architecture
2017-10-18 MSI support for PCI device pass-through with stub domains
2017-10-03 Introducing the Next Generation Qubes Core Stack
2017-06-27 Introducing the Qubes Admin API
2017-04-26 Compromise recovery in Qubes OS
2016-05-30 Security challenges for the Qubes build process
2015-12-14 Salt management stack in Qubes
2013-03-21 Introducing Qubes Odyssey Framework
2012-09-12 How is Qubes OS different from other approaches to desktop security?
2011-09-28 Playing with Qubes Networking for Fun and Profit
2011-03-13 Partitioning ones digital life into security domains

Press

2016-12-17 [Video] Interview about Qubes OS on The New Screen Savers
2016-11-09 Article about Qubes OS 3.2 on LWN.net by Nate Drake
2016-05-27 Article about Qubes OS in *Linux Journal*
2016-04-11 Article about Qubes OS in *DistroWatch*
2016-04-06 Article about Qubes OS in *LinuxInsider*
2016-03-12 [Video] Logan CIJ 2016: Future of OS (Qubes, Subgraph, and Tails)
2015-12-14 Article about Qubes OS in *Ars Technica*
2015-10-08 Article about Qubes OS in *fossBytes*
2015-10-06 Article about Qubes OS in *The Hacker News*
2015-10-05 Article about Qubes OS in *Motherboard*
2014-11-20 Article about Qubes OS in *Wired*
2014-04-12 Article about Qubes OS by the Freedom of the Press Foundation
2014-03-28 Article about Qubes OS in *The Economist*

Releases

2020-01-23 Qubes OS 4.0.3 has been released!
2020-01-15 Qubes OS 4.0.3-rc1 has been released!
2020-01-02 [Updated] Qubes OS 4.0.2 has been released!
2019-12-13 Qubes OS 4.0.2-rc3 has been released!
2019-11-03 Qubes OS 4.0.2-rc2 has been released!
2019-07-09 Qubes OS 4.0.2-rc1 has been released!
2019-03-28 Qubes OS 3.2 has reached EOL
2019-02-20 Qubes OS 3.2 approaching EOL on 2019-03-28
2019-01-09 Qubes OS 4.0.1 has been released!
2018-12-18 Qubes OS 4.0.1-rc2 has been released!
2018-11-12 Qubes OS 3.2.1 has been released!
2018-11-05 Qubes OS 4.0.1-rc1 has been released!
2018-10-05 Qubes OS 3.2.1-rc1 has been released!
2018-03-28 Qubes OS 4.0 has been released!
2018-03-06 Qubes OS 4.0-rc5 has been released!
2018-01-31 Qubes OS 4.0-rc4 has been released!
2017-11-27 Qubes OS 4.0-rc3 has been released!
2017-10-23 Qubes OS 4.0-rc2 has been released!
2017-07-31 Qubes OS 4.0-rc1 has been released!
2017-03-01 Qubes OS 3.1 reaches EOL on 2017-03-29
2016-09-29 Qubes OS 3.2 has been released!
2016-09-02 Qubes OS 3.0 reaches EOL on 2016-09-09
2016-09-02 Minimum requirements for Qubes OS 4.x and extended support for Qubes OS 3.2
2016-08-31 Qubes OS 3.2 rc3 has been released!
2016-07-28 Qubes OS 3.2 rc2 has been released!
2016-06-18 Qubes OS 3.2 rc1 has been released!
2016-03-09 Qubes OS 3.1 has been released!
2016-02-24 Qubes OS 3.1 rc3 has been released!
2016-01-12 Qubes OS 3.1 rc2 has been released!
2015-12-08 Qubes OS 3.1 rc1 has been released!
2015-10-01 Qubes OS 3.0 has been released!
2015-09-16 Qubes OS 3.0 rc3 has been released!
2015-08-10 Qubes OS 3.0 rc2 LiveUSB (alpha) has been released!
2015-07-31 Qubes OS 3.0 rc2 has been released!
2015-04-23 Qubes OS 3.0 rc1 has been released!
2014-09-26 Qubes OS R2 has been released
2014-08-06 Qubes OS R2 rc2 has been released!
2014-02-21 Qubes OS R2 rc1 has been released!
2013-12-11 Qubes OS R2 Beta 3 has been released!
2013-02-28 Qubes 2 Beta 2 has been released!
2012-12-14 Qubes 2 Beta 1 has been released!
2012-09-03 Qubes 1 has been released!
2012-02-06 Qubes 1 Beta 3 has been released!
2011-09-19 Qubes Beta 2 has been released
2011-04-11 Qubes Beta 1 has been released
2010-10-06 Qubes Alpha 3 is out!
2010-07-10 Qubes Alpha 2 has been released!
2010-04-07 Initial public release

Security

2020-01-15 XSA-312 does not affect the security of Qubes OS
2020-01-15 Qubes Canary #22
2019-12-25 QSB #056: Insufficient anti-spoofing firewall rules
2019-12-11 XSAs 307, 308, and 309 do not affect the security of Qubes OS
2019-12-11 QSB #055: Issues with PV type change and handling IOMMU on AMD (XSA-310, XSA-311)
2019-11-26 QSB #054: Xen fix for XSA-302 found ineffective in Qubes configuration (XSA-306)
2019-11-13 XSA-304 does not affect the security of Qubes OS
2019-11-13 QSB #053: TSX Asynchronous Abort speculative side channel (XSA-305)
2019-10-31 XSAs 296, 298, 301, and 303 do not affect the security of Qubes OS
2019-10-31 QSB #052: Xen issues affecting PCI passthrough and PV domains (XSA-299, XSA-302)
2019-10-13 Qubes Canary #21
2019-09-10 QSB #051: Insufficient validation of backup compression filter on restore
2019-07-24 QSB #050: Reinstalling a TemplateVM does not reset the private volume
2019-07-09 XSA-300 does not affect the security of Qubes OS
2019-07-04 Qubes Canary #20
2019-06-13 XSA-295 does not affect the security of Qubes OS
2019-05-15 QSB #049: Microarchitectural Data Sampling speculative side channel (XSA-297)
2019-04-08 Qubes Canary #19
2019-03-05 XSAs 284, 290, 291, 293, and 294 do not affect the security of Qubes OS
2019-03-05 QSB #048: Multiple Xen vulnerabilities
2019-02-19 QSB #47: Insecure default DisposableVM networking configuration
2019-01-23 QSB #46: APT update mechanism vulnerability
2019-01-21 XSA-289 does not affect the security of Qubes OS
2019-01-08 Qubes Canary #18
2018-12-03 QSB #45: Insecure default Salt configuration
2018-11-20 XSA-276, XSA-277, and XSA-279 do not affect the security of Qubes OS
2018-11-20 QSB #44: Multiple Xen vulnerabilities (XSA-275, XSA-280)
2018-11-06 XSA-282 does not affect the security of Qubes OS
2018-11-05 Qubes Security Team Update
2018-10-24 XSA-278 does not affect the security of Qubes OS
2018-10-15 Qubes Canary #17
2018-09-11 Introducing the Qubes U2F Proxy
2018-09-02 QSB #43: L1 Terminal Fault speculative side channel (XSA-273)
2018-08-14 XSA-268, XSA-269, XSA-271, and XSA-272 do not affect the security of Qubes OS
2018-08-14 QSB #42: Linux netback driver OOB access in hash handling (XSA-270)
2018-07-25 XSA-274 does not affect the security of Qubes OS
2018-06-27 XSA-264, XSA-265, and XSA-266 do not affect the security of Qubes OS
2018-06-14 Qubes Canary #16
2018-06-13 QSB #41: Speculative register leakage from lazy FPU context switching (XSA-267)
2018-06-13 Update for QSB #40: Information leaks due to processor speculative store bypass (XSA-263)
2018-05-24 QSB #40: Information leaks due to processor speculative store bypass (XSA-263)
2018-05-08 QSB #39: Xen vulnerability (XSA-260) and GUI daemon issue
2018-04-25 XSA-258 and XSA-259 do not affect the security of Qubes OS
2018-03-15 Update for QSB #37: Information leaks due to processor speculative execution bugs (XSA-254, Meltdown & Spectre)
2018-03-15 Qubes Canary #15
2018-02-27 XSA-252, XSA-255, and XSA-256 do not affect the security of Qubes OS
2018-02-20 QSB #38: Qrexec policy bypass and possible information leak
2018-01-24 Update for QSB #37: Information leaks due to processor speculative execution bugs (XSA-254, Meltdown & Spectre)
2018-01-11 QSB #37: Information leaks due to processor speculative execution bugs (XSA-254, Meltdown & Spectre)
2018-01-04 Announcement regarding XSA-254 (Meltdown and Spectre attacks)
2018-01-04 XSA-253 does not affect the security of Qubes OS
2017-12-12 XSA-248 through XSA-251 do not affect the security of Qubes OS
2017-12-11 Qubes Canary #14
2017-11-28 QSB #36: Xen hypervisor issue in populate-on-demand code (XSA-247)
2017-10-25 QSB #35: Xen hypervisor issue related to grant tables (XSA-236)
2017-10-18 MSI support for PCI device pass-through with stub domains
2017-10-12 QSB #34: GUI issue and Xen vulnerabilities (XSA-237 through XSA-244)
2017-10-03 Introducing the Next Generation Qubes Core Stack
2017-09-28 XSA-245 does not affect the security of Qubes OS
2017-09-12 QSB #33: Xen hypervisor (XSA-231 through XSA-234)
2017-09-12 Qubes Canary #13
2017-08-23 XSA-235 does not affect the security of Qubes OS
2017-08-15 QSB #32: Xen hypervisor and Linux kernel vulnerabilities (XSA-226 through XSA-230)
2017-06-27 Introducing the Qubes Admin API
2017-06-20 QSB #31: Xen hypervisor vulnerabilities with unresearched impact (XSA 216-224)
2017-06-05 Qubes Canary #12
2017-05-02 QSB #30: Critical Xen bugs related to PV memory virtualization (XSA-213, XSA-214)
2017-04-26 Compromise recovery in Qubes OS
2017-04-04 QSB #29: Critical Xen bug in PV memory virtualization code (XSA-212)
2017-03-28 XSA-206 does not affect the security of Qubes OS
2017-03-07 Qubes Canary #11
2016-12-19 Qubes Security Bulletin (QSB) #28: Debian update mechanism vulnerability
2016-12-13 Qubes Canary #10
2016-11-22 Qubes Security Bulletin #27: Xen 64-bit bit test instruction emulation broken (XSA 195)
2016-05-30 Security challenges for the Qubes build process
2012-11-16 Qubes Security Team has joined the Xen Security Pre-disclousre list

Talks

2019-09-18 Upcoming Qubes presentations at Platform Security Summit 2019
2019-06-27 Marek Marczykowski-Górecki to speak at Xen Developer and Design Summit 2019
2018-12-27 Introduction to Qubes this Saturday at the 35th CCC in Leipzig
2018-08-03 [Video] Micah Lee presents Qubes OS at HOPE 2018
2018-06-17 Marek Marczykowski-Górecki to speak at the Xen Developer and Design Summit 2018
2017-12-11 Joanna Rutkowska gives keynote 'Security through Distrusting' at Black Hat Europe 2017
2017-09-13 Joanna Rutkowska: Reasonably Secure Computing in the Decentralized World
2016-10-11 Marek Marczykowski-Górecki to present at the Security PWNing Conference 2016
2016-08-10 [Video] Marek Marczykowski-Górecki: Improving client systems security with Qubes OS (RMLL 2016)
2016-07-04 Marek Marczykowski-Górecki presents at RMLL 2016
2015-12-27 [Video] Joanna Rutkowska: Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops
2015-12-08 [Video] Joanna Rutkowska, Next Generation Threats 2015
2014-08-19 LinuxCon EU 2014 slides
2014-07-03 ITL presents on Qubes OS at LinuxCon Europe
2010-04-16 Joanna Rutkowska speaks about Qubes at Campus Party EU

Windows

2016-01-27 Qubes Windows Tools are now open source!
2013-11-26 Windows 7 seamless GUI integration coming to Qubes OS!
2012-12-14 Qubes 2 Beta 1 has been released!
2012-03-03 Windows support coming to Qubes!