Introduction[edit]

Whonix ™ needs more people to test new Whonix ™ security features.

Please contribute by becoming a tester. This is a volunteer task.

Whonix ™ is Freedom Software / Open Source. All existing ^[archive] and new security features and underlying concepts are available free of charge for any purpose, provided the respective license agreements are honored. Freedom Software ^[archive] licensed.

Testers only!

New Security Features Looking for Testers[edit]

The following security features are currently available in Whonix ™ but are still disabled by default. After potential bugs are ironed out, these features are planned for enabling by default in a future Whonix ™ upgrade and release. The ordering below reflects developer views on their "production-ready" status -- from most to least ready.

Upgrade Package Repository Testing[edit]

Whonix ™ requires a critical mass of users to properly test planned updates by enabling the stable-proposed-updates or testers repository. ^[1] Otherwise, bugs might go undiscovered and be inadvertently introduced into the stable repository.

To ensure a stable Whonix ™ system is available at all times, willing testers should:

Create new Whonix-Workstation ™ and Whonix-Gateway ™ TemplateVMs solely for testing.
Enable the stable-proposed-updates or testers repository via the Derivative Repository Tool.
Platform-specific advice:
- Non-Qubes-Whonix ™: Create a clean snapshot or use Multiple Whonix-Workstation ™ / Multiple Whonix-Gateway ™.
- Qubes-Whonix ™: Use Multiple TemplateVMs and separate sys-whonix-test and anon-whonix-test TemplateBasedVMs.

Then perform normal user activities.

Please only report bugs after first searching relevant Whonix ™ forums and developer portals for the problem. (Please use Search Engines and see Documentation First)

Additional Testing[edit]

The most active testers are recommended to:

Stay Tuned
Check forum tag testers-wanted, see: https://forums.whonix.org/tag/testers-wanted ^[archive]
- If a Whonix ™ release is still tagged testers-wanted, first check if there is already a corresponding Whonix ™ stable release of that version. To find out, check Stay Tuned. If there is already a release of that version, then no extra testing is required anymore. That would mean that removal of the testers-wanted forum tag has been forgotten.