1 tails (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
4 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.8.0esr-0+tails1~bpo70+1
5 (Firefox 24.8.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
6 Also import the Tor Browser profile at commit
7 271b64b889e5c549196c3ee91c888de88148560f from
8 ttp/tor-browser-24.8.0esr-3.x-1.
9 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.23-2~d70.wheezy+1 (fixes CVE-2014-5117).
10 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.14.1-1~deb7u+1.
11 - Upgrade Linux to 3.14.15-2 (fixes CVE-2014-3534, CVE-2014-4667
13 - Upgrade CUPS-based packages to 1.5.3-5+deb7u4 (fixes
14 CVE-2014-3537, CVE-2014-5029, CVE-2014-5030 and CVE-2014-5031).
15 - Upgrade libnss3 to 2:3.14.5-1+deb7u1 (fixes CVE-2013-1741,
16 CVE-2013-5606, CVE-2014-1491 and CVE-2014-1492).
17 - Upgrade openssl to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u12 (fixes CVE-2014-3505,
18 CVE-2014-3506, CVE-2014-3507, CVE-2014-3508, CVE-2014-3509,
19 CVE-2014-3510, CVE-2014-3511, CVE-2014-3512 and CVE-2014-5139).
20 - Upgrade krb5-based packages to 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u2 (fixes
21 CVE-2014-4341, CVE-2014-4342, CVE-2014-4343, CVE-2014-4344 and
23 - Upgrade libav-based packages to 6:0.8.15-1 (fixes CVE-2011-3934,
24 CVE-2011-3935, CVE-2011-3946, CVE-2013-0848, CVE-2013-0851,
25 CVE-2013-0852, CVE-2013-0860, CVE-2013-0868, CVE-2013-3672,
26 CVE-2013-3674 and CVE-2014-2263.
27 - Upgrade libgpgme11 to 1.2.0-1.4+deb7u1 (fixes CVE-2014-5117).
28 - Upgrade python-imaging to 1.1.7-4+deb7u1 (fixes CVE-2014-3589).
29 - Prevent dhclient from sending the hostname over the network
31 - Override the hostname provided by the DHCP server (Closes: #7769).
32 - Add an I2P boot parameter. Without adding "i2p" to the kernel
33 command line, I2P will not be accessible for the Live user.
34 - Stricter I2P firewall rules:
35 * deny I2P from accessing the LAN
36 * deny I2P from accessing the loopback device, except for select
38 * allow I2P access to the Internet
39 The ACCEPT rules will only be enabled when the string 'i2p' is
40 passed at the boot prompt. The rules which DENY or REJECT
41 access for the 'i2psvc' user will always be applied.
42 - Disable I2P plugins, since it doesn't make much sense without
43 persistence, and should eliminate some attack vectors.
44 - Disable I2P's BOB port. No maintained I2P application uses it.
47 - Fix condition clause in tails-security-check (Closes: #7657).
48 - Don't ship OpenJDK 6: I2P prefers v7, and we don't need both.
49 - Prevent Tails Installer from updating the system partition
50 properties on MBR partitions (Closes: #7716).
53 - Upgrade to Torbutton 1.6.12.1.
54 - Install gnome-user-guide (Closes: #7618).
55 - Install cups-pk-helper (Closes: #7636).
56 - Update the SquashFS sort file.
57 - Compress the SquashFS more aggressively (Closes: #7706).
58 - I2P: Keep POP3 email on server. The default in the I2P webmail
59 app was to keep mail on the server, but that setting was changed
60 recently. This configuration setting (susimail.config) will only
61 be copied over in I2P 0.9.14 and newer.
62 - Add a Close button to the Tails Installer launcher window.
65 - Migrate Vagrant basebox to Debian Wheezy (Closes #7133, #6736).
66 - Consistently use the same Debian mirror.
67 - Disable runtime APT proxy configuration when using APT in
68 binary_local-hooks (Closes: #7691).
70 * Automated test suite
71 - Automatically test hostname leaks (Closes: #7712).
72 - Move autotest live-config hook to be run last. This way we'll
73 notice if some earlier live-config hook cancels all hooks by
74 running the automated test suite since the remote shell won't be
76 - Test that the I2P boot parameter does what it's supposed to do
78 - Start applications by using the GNOME Applications menu instead
79 of the GNOME Run Dialog (Closes: #5550, #7060).
81 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:49:28 +0000
83 tails (1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
85 * Rebase on Debian Wheezy
86 - Upgrade literally thousands of packages.
87 - Migrate to GNOME3 fallback mode.
88 - Install LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice.
89 - Remove custom LSB logging: Wheezy has fancy colored init
94 - Replace the Windows XP camouflage with an experimental Windows 8
96 - Install Linux 3.14.12-1 from Debian unstable.
97 - Bring back VirtualBox guest modules, installed from Wheezy
98 backports. Full functionality is only available when using the
102 - Fix write access to boot medium via udisks (#6172).
103 - Don't allow the desktop user to pass arguments to
104 tails-upgrade-frontend (Closes: #7410).
105 - Make persistent file permissions safer (Closes #7443):
106 * Make the content of /etc/skel non-world-readable. Otherwise,
107 such files may be copied to /home/amnesia, and in turn to the
108 persistent volume, with unsafe permissions. That's no big deal
109 in /home/amnesia (that is itself not world-readable), *but*
110 the root of the persistent volume has to be world-readable.
111 * Have activate_custom_mounts create new directories with safe
113 * Set strict permissions on /home/amnesia (Closes: #7463).
114 * Fix permissions on persistent directories that were created
115 with unsafe permissions (Closes: #7458).
116 * Fix files ownership while copying persistence (Closes: #7216).
117 The previous instructions to copy the persistent data were
118 creating personal files that belong to root. I don't think
119 there is a way of preserving the original ownership using
120 Nautilus (unless doing a "move" instead of a "copy" but that's
121 not what we are trying to do here).
122 - Disable FoxyProxy's proxy:// protocol handler (Closes: #7479).
123 FoxyProxy adds the proxy:// protocol handler, which can be used
124 to configure the proxy via an URI. A malicious web page can
125 include (or a malicious exit node can inject) some JavaScript
126 code to visit such an URI and disable or otherwise change
127 Iceweasel's proxy settings. While using this to disable
128 proxying will be dealt with safely by our firewall, this could
129 be used to defeat stream isolation, although the user must be
130 tricked into accepting the new proxy settings.
131 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.7.0esr-0+tails1~bpo70+1
132 (Firefox 24.7.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
133 - Upgrade to Linux 3.14.12-1 (fixes CVE-2014-4699).
134 - Upgrade libav-based packages to 0.8.13-1 (fixes CVE-2014-4609).
135 - Upgrade to libxml2 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy1 (fixes CVE-2014-0191).
136 - Upgrade to dbus 1.6.8-1+deb7u3 (fixes CVE-2014-3477,
137 CVE-2014-3532 and CVE-2014-3533).
140 - Disable GNOME keyring's GnuPG functionality. (Closes: #7330) In
141 feature/regular-gnupg-agent, we installed the regular GnuPG
142 agent so that it is used instead of GNOME keyring's one. This is
143 not enough on Wheezy, so let's disable the starting of the "gpg"
144 component of GNOME keyring.
145 - Make sure /etc/default/locale exists, with a sensible default
146 value (Closes: #7333). Before Tails Greeter's PostLogin script
147 are run, /etc/default/locale does not exist on Wheezy. Our
148 tails-kexec initscript (and quite a few other scripts we run)
149 depends on this file to exist. So, let's make sure it exists,
150 with a sensible default value.
151 - Create the tails-persistence-setup user with the same UID/GID it
152 had on Tails/Squeeze. (Closes: #7343) Else, our various checks
153 for safe access rights on persistence.conf fail.
154 - Revert back to browsing the offline documentation using Iceweasel
155 instead of Yelp (Closes: #7390, #7285).
156 - Make the new NetworkManager configuration directory persistent,
157 when the old one was, but disable the old one (Closes: #7338).
158 - Before running tails-upgrade-frontend, chdir to a world-readable
159 place (Closes: #7641). In particular, Archive::Tar::Wrapper,
160 when called by tails-install-iuk, wants to chdir back to the
161 original cwd after it has chdir'd elsewhere to do its job.
164 - Install seahorse-nautilus, replacing seahorse-plugins (Closes #5516).
165 - Install hledger (custom backport, for now): our accountants need this.
166 - Install stable Scribus instead of scribus-ng.
167 - Install the printer driver for Epson Inkjet that use ESC/P-R.
168 - Install the BookletImposer PDF imposition toolkit. It's tiny,
169 and really helpful e.g. when producing booklets.
170 - Install gtkhash and nautilus-gtkhash (Closes #6763).
171 - Import new version of Tor Launcher:
172 · Now based on upstream Tor Launcher 0.2.5.4.
173 · Tor bug #11772: Proxy Type menu not set correctly
174 · Tor bug #11699: Change &#160 to   in network-settings.dtd
175 · Correctly handle startup paths that contain dot.
176 - Upgrade to Torbutton 1.6.9.0.
177 - Avoid shipping python2.6 in addition to python2.7.
178 - Don't install Gobby 0.4 anymore. Gobby 0.5 has been available in
179 Debian since Squeeze, now is a good time to drop the obsolete
181 - Require a bit less free memory before checking for upgrades with
182 Tails Upgrader. The general goal is to avoid displaying "Not
183 enough memory available to check for upgrades" too often due to
184 over-cautious memory requirements checked in the wrapper.
185 - Make Tails Greeter's help window resolution-aware. Previously it
186 used a static 800x600 which was problematic on lower resolutions,
187 and sub-optimal on higher resolutions. Now it adapts itself
188 according to the screen resolution.
189 - Whisperback now sanitizes attached logs better with respect to
190 DMI data, IPv6 addresses, and serial numbers (Closes #6797,
192 - Integrate the new logo in Tails Installer (Closes #7095)
193 - Also install linux-base and linux-compiler-gcc-4.8-x86 from
194 sid. This way, we can get rid of our linux-compiler-gcc-4.8-x86
195 3.12, and it makes things a bit more consistent.
196 - Include the syslinux binary, and its MBR, in the ISO filesystem.
197 This in turn allows Tails Installer to use this binary and MBR,
198 which is critical for avoiding problems (such as #7345) on
200 - Include syslinux.exe for win32 in utils/win32/ on the ISO
201 filesystem (Closes: #7425).
203 * Add consistent margins in GUI.
204 * Always reset the target drive's MBR, without asking for
205 confirmation, after installing or upgrading.
206 * Install the bootloader using the syslinux binary found on the
207 target device, once the Live OS has been extracted/copied
209 - Enable double-clicking to pick entries in the language or
210 keyboard layout lists in Tails Greeter.
211 - Install backport of shared-mime-info 1.3 (Closes: #7079).
212 - Make sanity-check prompts closable in Tails Persistence Setup
214 - Fix quick search in Tails Greeter's Other languages window
216 - Install systemd. It is not enabled by default, but having it
217 around will help doing the migration work.
218 - Enable AppArmor on the kernel command-line. This is a no-op
219 without the userspace tools and with no profile shipped, but it
220 will make it easier to fix this part of the situation.
223 - Bump Vagrant builder's memory for RAM builds. Wheezy requires
224 more space to build, and the resulting image is larger.
225 - Fix Vagrant compatibility issue. Some classes' methods/fields
226 have been renamed between Vagrant versions, so we need a simple
227 compatibility layer to support all versions. Without this, it's
228 not possible to issue e.g. a `build` command to an already
229 running (i.e. `vm:up`:ed) Vagrant instance.
230 - Move cpu and mem checks to the `build` task. Previously, when
231 they were checked in `vm:up` *only* when issued while the VM
232 already is up, so these checks weren't run if one issues a
233 `build` when the VM is off. Now we'll fail earlier with a more
234 informative error message, and it looks like a more logical home
236 - Fix buggy memory checks for RAM building. We have to take into
237 account which state the Vagrant VM is in for determining *where*
238 we check if enough memory is available for a RAM build. If it's
239 off, we check the host; if it's on we check the VM. Previously
240 we always checked the host, which doesn't make sense when the VM
243 * Automated test suite
244 - Bump the tester VM's RAM by 256 MiB. There is not enough free
245 RAM to run Tails Upgrader with just 1 GiB of RAM after the
247 - Always adjust OOM and memory overcommit settings. The kernel
248 freezes seem to also happen for the amd64 kernel when filling
250 - Add option to make Sikuli rety on FindFailed. This makes it
251 possible to update manu images for Sikuli in just *one* test
252 suite run, by continuously updating outdated pictures as we go.
253 - Actually run "Upgrade from ISO" from a USB drive running the old
254 version. That's what users do, and is buggy.
255 - Automatically test persistent directories permissions (Closes: #7560).
256 - Use read-write persistence when testing upgraded USB
257 installations. Otherwise e.g. the permission fixes won't get
258 applied, and the subsequent steps testing the permissions will
260 - Actually check that the ISO's Tails is installed. The step
261 "Tails is installed on USB drive $TARGET" only checks that the
262 *running* Tails is installed on $TARGET, which obviously fails
263 when doing an upgrade from ISO running an old Tails. That it
264 worked for the same scenario running the current Tails is just
266 - Use OpenJDK 7 to run our test suite (Closes #7175).
267 - Use qemu-system-x86_64 directly, instead of kvm, for running the
268 automated test suite (Closes: #7605).
270 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 20 Jul 2014 23:16:13 +0200
272 tails (1.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium
275 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.6.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1
276 (Firefox 24.6.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
277 Also import the Tor Browser profile at commit
278 90ba8fbaf6f23494f1a0e38d63153b3b7e65d3d3 from
279 ttp/tor-browser-24.6.0esr-3.x-1.
280 - Install Linux 3.14 from Debian unstable (fixes CVE-2014-3153 and
282 - Install openssl from Squeeze LTS (fixes CVE-2014-0076,
283 CVE-2014-0195, CVE-2014-0221, CVE-2014-3470 and CVE-2014-0224).
284 - Install GnuTLS from Squeeze LTS (fixes CVE-2014-3466.).
287 - Add Squeeze LTS APT sources. It has been given a low pinning
288 priority so explicit pinning must be used to actually install
290 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.22-1~d60.squeeze+1.
291 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.13-1~deb6u+1.
293 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 08 Jun 2014 19:14:00 +0200
295 tails (1.0) unstable; urgency=medium
298 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.5.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1
299 (Firefox 24.5.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
300 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.21-1+tails1~d60.squeeze+1:
301 * Based on 0.2.4.21-1~d60.squeeze+1.
302 * Backport the fix for Tor bug #11464. It adds client-side blacklists for
303 all Tor directory authority keys that was vulnerable to Heartbleed.
304 This protects clients in case attackers were able to compromise a
305 majority of the authority signing and identity keys.
308 - Disable inbound I2P connections. Tails already restricts incoming
309 connections, but this change tells I2P about it.
310 - Fix link to the system requirements documentation page in the Tails
311 Upgrader error shown when too little RAM is available.
314 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.12-2~deb6u+1.
315 - Import TorBrowser profile. This was forgotten in Tails 0.23 and even
316 though we didn't explicitly set those preferences in that release
317 they defaulted to the same values. This future-proofs us in case the
318 defaults would ever change.
319 - Import new custom version of tor-launcher:
320 * Based on upstream Tor Launcher 0.2.5.3.
321 * Improve how Tor Launcher handles incomplete translation.
322 (Tor bug #11483; more future-proof fix for Tails bug #6885)
323 * Remove the bridge settings prompt. (Tor bug #11482; closes Tails
325 * Always show bridge help button. (Tor bug #11484)
326 - Integrate the new Tails logo into various places:
329 * The "About Tails" dialog
332 - Use the stable APT suite when building from the stable Git branch
336 - Add test for the #7022 fix.
338 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 27 Apr 2014 19:34:01 +0200
340 tails (0.23) unstable; urgency=medium
343 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.4.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1
344 (Firefox 24.4.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
347 - Spoof the network interfaces' MAC address by default (Closes: #5421),
348 as designed on https://tails.boum.org/contribute/design/MAC_address/.
349 - Rework the way to configure how Tor connects to the network
350 (bridges, proxy, fascist firewall): add an option to Tails Greeter,
351 start Tor Launcher when needed (Closes: #5920, #5343).
354 - Additional software: do not crash when persistence is disabled
356 - Upgrade Pidgin to 2.10.9, that fixes some regressions introduced
357 in the 2.10.8 security update (Closes: #6661).
358 - Wait for Tor to have fully bootstrapped, plus a bit more time,
359 before checking for upgrades (Closes: #6728) and unfixed known
361 - Disable the Intel Management Engine Interface driver (Closes: #6460).
362 We don't need it in Tails, it might be dangerous, and it causes bugs
363 on various hardware such as systems that reboot when asked to shut down
364 - Add a launcher for the Tails documentation. This makes it available
365 in Windows Camouflage mode (Closes: #5374, #6767).
366 - Remove the obsolete wikileaks.de account from Pidgin (Closes: #6807).
369 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.21-1~d60.squeeze+1.
370 - Upgrade obfsproxy to 0.2.6-2~~squeeze+1.
371 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.11-1deb6u1.
372 - Install 64-bit kernel instead of the 686-pae one (Closes: #5456).
373 This is a necessary first step towards UEFI boot support.
374 - Install Monkeysign (in a not-so-functional shape yet).
375 - Disable the autologin text consoles (Closes: #5588). This was one of
376 the blockers before a screen saver can be installed
377 in a meaningful way (#5684).
378 - Don't localize the text consoles anymore: it is broken on Wheezy,
379 the intended users can as well use loadkeys, and we now do not have
380 to trust setupcon to be safe for being run as root by the desktop user.
381 - Make it possible to manually start IBus.
382 - Reintroduce the possibility to switch identities in the Tor Browser,
383 using a filtering proxy in front of the Tor ControlPort to avoid giving
384 full control over Tor to the desktop user (Closes: #6383).
385 - Incremental upgrades improvements:
386 · Drop the Tails Upgrader launcher, to limit users' confusion
388 · Lock down sudo credentials a bit.
389 · Hide debugging information (Closes: #6505).
390 · Include ~/.xsession-errors in WhisperBack bug reports.
391 This captures the Tails Upgrader errors and debugging information.
392 · Report more precisely why an incremental upgrade cannot be done
394 · Various user interface and phrasing improvements.
395 - Don't install the Cookie Monster browser extension (Closes: #6790).
396 - Add a browser bookmark pointing to Tor's Stack Exchange (Closes: #6632).
397 - Remove the preconfigured #tor channel from the Pidgin: apparently,
398 too many Tails users go ask Tails questions there, without making
399 it clear that they are running Tails, hence creating a user-support
400 nightmare (Closes: #6679).
401 - Use (most of) Tor Browser's mozconfig (Closes: #6474).
402 - Rebase the browser on top of iceweasel 24.3.0esr-1, to get
403 the certificate authorities added by Debian back (Closes: #6704).
404 - Give access to the relevant documentation pages from Tails Greeter.
405 - Hide Tails Greeter's password mismatch warning when entry is changed.
406 - Persistent Volume Assistant:
407 · Take into account our installer is now called Tails Installer.
408 · Optimize window height (Closes: #5458).
409 · Display device paths in a more user-friendly way (Closes: #5311).
412 - Ease updating POT and PO files at release time, and importing translations
413 from Transifex (Closes: #6288, #6207).
414 - Drop custom poedit backport, install it from squeeze-backports-sloppy.
415 - Make ISO and IUK smaller (Closes: #6390, #6425):
416 · Exclude more files from being included in the ISO.
417 · Remove *.pyc later so that they are not recreated.
418 · Truncate log files later so that they are not filled again.
419 · At ISO build time, set mtime to the epoch for large files whose content
420 generally does not change between releases. This forces rsync
421 to compare the actual content of these files, when preparing an IUK,
422 instead of blindly adding it to the IUK merely because the mtime
423 has changed, while the content is the same.
424 - Make local hooks logging consistent.
427 - Migrate from JRuby to native Ruby + rjb.
428 - The test suite can now be run on Debian Wheezy + backports.
429 - Fix buggy "persistence is not enabled" step (Closes: #5465).
430 - Use IPv6 private address as of RFC 4193 for the test suite's virtual
431 network. Otherwise dnsmasq from Wheezy complains, as it is not capable
432 of handling public IPv6 addresses.
433 - Delete volumes after each scenario unless tagged @keep_volumes.
434 - Add an anti-test to make sure the memory erasure test works fine.
435 - A *lot* of bugfixes, simplifications and robustness improvements.
437 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 18 Mar 2014 00:58:50 +0100
439 tails (0.22.1) unstable; urgency=medium
442 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.3.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+2
443 (Firefox 24.3.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
444 - Upgrade NSS to 3.14.5-1~bpo60+1.
445 - Upgrade Pidgin to 2.10.8.
446 - Workaround browser size fingerprinting issue by using small icons
447 in the web browser's navigation toolbar (Closes: #6377).
448 We're actually hit by Tor#9268, and this is the best workaround gk
449 and I were able to find when discussing this on Tor#10095.
452 - Check for upgrades availability using Tails Upgrader, and propose
453 to apply an incremental upgrade whenever possible (Closes: #6014).
454 · Run tails-update-frontend at session login time.
455 · Have tails-security-check only report unfixed security issues.
456 · Greatly improve the Tails Upgrader UI and strings phrasing.
457 · Enable startup notification for Tails Upgrader.
458 - Install Linux 3.12 (3.12.6-2) from Debian testing. Unfortunately,
459 this breaks the memory wipe feature on some hardware (#6460), but
460 it fixes quite a few security issues, and improves hardware support.
461 - Update the build system to be compatible with Vagrant 1.2 and 1.3,
462 in addition to the already supported versions (Closes: #6221).
463 Thanks to David Isaac Wolinsky <isaac.wolinsky@gmail.com>.
466 - Do not start IBus for languages that don't need it. This fixes
467 the keybindings problems introduced in 0.22 (Closes: #6478).
468 Thanks to WinterFairy.
469 - Disable network.proxy.socks_remote_dns in the Unsafe Browser.
470 Bugfix against 0.22 (Closes: #6479).
471 - Fetch Tor Browser User-Agent from its own prefs, rather than from
472 the obsolete Torbutton ones. Bugfix against 0.22 (Closes: #6477).
473 - Upgrade Vagrant basebox to include up-to-date Debian archive keys
474 (Closes: #6515, #6527).
475 - Do not use a non-working proxy for downloading the Vagrant basebox
477 - Use IE's icon in Windows camouflage mode.
478 Bugfix against 0.22 (Closes: #6536).
479 - Support "upgrading" a partial Tails installation (Closes: #6438)
480 and fix missing confirmation dialog in Tails Installer (Closes: #6437).
481 Thanks to Andres Gomez Ramirez <andres.gomez@cern.ch>.
482 - Fix browser homepage in Spanish locales (Closes: #6612).
485 - Tor 0.2.4 is stable! Adapt APT sources accordingly.
486 - Update Tor Browser to 24.2.0esr-1+tails1, that uses its own NSS
487 library instead of the system one.
488 - Update Torbutton to 1.6.5.3.
489 - Do not start Tor Browser automatically, but notify when Tor is ready.
490 Warn the user when they attempt to start Tor Browser before Tor is ready.
491 - Import Tor Browser profile at
492 3ed5d9511e783deb86835803a6f40e7d5a182a12 from ttp/tor-browser-24.2.0esr-1.
493 - Use http.debian.net for Vagrant builds, instead of the mostly broken
494 (and soon obsolete) cdn.debian.net.
495 - Phrasing and UI improvements in tails-upgrade-frontend.
496 - Style and robustness improvements in tails-security-check.
497 - Make room for upcoming UEFI support in Tails Installer.
499 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:08:13 +0100
501 tails (0.22) unstable; urgency=medium
505 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 24.2.0esr that fixes a few serious security issues.
506 - Stop migrating persistence configuration and access rights. Instead,
507 disable all persistence configuration files if the mountpoint has wrong
508 access rights (Closes: #6413).
509 - Upgrade to NSS 3.15.3 that fixes a few serious security issues affecting
510 the browser, such as CVE-2013-1741, CVE-2013-5605 and CVE-2013-5606.
513 - Switch to Iceweasel 24 (Closes: #6370).
514 · Resync' (most) Iceweasel prefs with TBB 3.0-beta-1 and get rid
515 of many obsolete or default settings.
516 · Disable WebRTC (Closes: #6468).
517 · Import TorBrowser profile at commit
518 51bf06502c46ee6c1f587459e8370aef11a3422d from the tor-browser-24.2.0esr-1
519 branch at https://git.torproject.org/tor-browser.git.
520 - Switch to Torbutton 1.6.5 (Closes: #6371).
521 · Prevent Torbutton from asking users to "upgrade TBB".
522 · Use the same Tor SOCKS port as the TBB (9151) for our web browser.
523 This should be enough to avoid being affected by Tor#8511.
524 · Disable Torbutton 1.6's check for Tor.
525 Unfortunately, the new check.torproject.org breaks the remote Tor
526 check. We cannot use the local Tor check with the control port. So,
527 the shortest and sanest path to fixing the check issue, because the
528 remote Tor check is broken" seems to simply disable this check.
529 Patch submitted upstream as Tor#10216.
530 - Prepare incremental upgrades to be the next default way to upgrade Tails,
531 on point-releases at least.
534 - Deny X authentication only after Vidalia exits (Closes: #6389).
535 - Disable DPMS screen blanking (Closes: #5617).
536 - Fix checking of the persistent volume's ACL.
537 - Sanitize more IP and MAC addresses in bug reports (Closes: #6391).
538 - Do not fail USB upgrade when the "tmp" directory exists on the
540 - Tails Installer: list devices with isohybrid Tails installed
544 - Create a configuration file for additional software if needed
546 - Translations all over the place.
547 - Enable favicons in Iceweasel.
548 - Do not propose to make permanent NoScript exceptions.
549 In Tails, every such thing is temporary, so better only display the menu
550 entry that's about temporarily allowing something.
551 - Clearer warning when deleting persistent volume (thanks to Andres Gomez
552 Ramirez <andres.gomez@cern.ch> for the patch).
553 - Make wording in Tails Installer more consistent.
556 * Use IBus instead of SCIM (Closes: #5624, #6206).
557 It makes it possible to input passwords in pinentry for at least Japanese,
558 Chinese and Korean languages.
559 * Add an import-translation script.
560 This automates the importation process of completed translations
562 * Always list optimal keyboard layout in the greeter (Closes: #5741).
563 * Fix on-the-fly translation of the greeter in various languages
567 * Update I2P to 0.9.8.1 (Closes: #6080, #5889).
568 * Improve I2P configuration:
569 - Disable IPv6 support in a nicer way.
570 - Disable i2cp (allows java clients to communicate from outside the JVM). If
571 this is unset an exception for port 7654 would need to be added to ferm.
572 - Disable "in-network" updates (this is also done in the regular I2P
574 - Disable the outproxies. Access to the Internet is already routed through
575 Tor so these are unnecessary. If end-users have a good reason to go
576 through one of the I2P outproxies they can turn them back on.
577 * Add a couple of default I2P IRC channels to Pidgin.
578 * Allow access to the local 'eepsite' through FoxyProxy.
579 * Add firewall exceptions for the standard I2P ports.
581 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 30 Nov 2013 16:47:18 +0100
583 tails (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
586 - Don't grant access to the Tor control port for the desktop user
587 (amnesia). Else, an attacker able to run arbitrary code as this user
588 could obtain the public IP with a get_info command.
589 · Vidalia is now run as a dedicated user.
590 · Remove the amnesia user from the debian-tor group.
591 · Remove the Vidalia launcher in the Applications menu.
592 The Vidalia instance it starts is useless, since it can't connect
593 to the Tor control port.
594 - Don't allow the desktop user to directly change persistence settings.
595 Else, an attacker able to run arbitrary code as this user could
596 leverage this feature to gain persistent root access, as long as
597 persistence is enabled.
598 · Fully rework the persistent filesystem and files ownership
600 · Run the Persistent Volume Assistant as a dedicated user, that is
601 granted the relevant udisks and filesystem -level credentials.
602 · At persistence activation time, don't trust existing persistence
603 configuration files, migrate to the new ownership and permissions,
604 migrate every known-safe existing settings and backup what's left.
605 Warn the user when not all persistence settings could be migrated.
606 · Persistent Volume Assistant uses the new ownership and permissions
607 scheme when initializing a new persistent volume, and refuses to
608 read persistence.conf if it, or the parent directory, hasn't the
609 expected permissions.
610 · Make boot medium 'system internal' for udisks with bilibop.
611 Once Tails is based on Wheezy, this will further complete the
612 protection (see #6172 for details).
613 - Update Iceweasel to 17.0.10esr-0+tails2~bpo60+1.
614 - Update Torbutton to 1.5.2-2, including a patch cherry-picked from
615 upstream to make window resizing closer to what the design says.
618 - Add a persistence preset for printing settings (Closes: #5686).
619 Reload CUPS configuration after persistence activation.
620 - Support SD card connected through a SDIO host adapter (Closes: #6324).
621 · Rebrand Tails USB installer to Tails installer.
622 · Display devices brand, model and size in the Installer
624 · Ask for confirmation before installing Tails onto a device
626 · Add support for SDIO and MMC block devices to the Tails Installer
627 (Closes: #5744) and the Persistent Volume Assistant (Closes: #6325).
628 · Arm the udev watchdog when booted from SD (plugged in SDIO) too
632 - Provide a consistent path to the persistent volume mountpoint
634 - Add a KeePassX launcher to the top GNOME panel (Closes: #6290).
635 - Rework bug reporting workflow: point the desktop launcher to
636 the troubleshooting page.
637 - Make /home world-readable at build time, regardless of the Git
638 working copy permissions. This makes the build process more robust
639 against strict umasks.
640 - Add signing capabilities to the tails-build script (Closes: #6267).
641 This is in turn used to sign ISO images built by our Jenkins setup
643 - Simplify the ikiwiki setup and make more pages translatable.
644 - Exclude the version string in GnuPG's ASCII armored output.
645 - Prefer stronger ciphers (AES256,AES192,AES,CAST5) when encrypting
647 - Use the same custom Startpage search URL than the TBB.
648 This apparently disables the new broken "family" filter.
649 - Update AdBlock Plus patterns.
650 - Install Linux from Debian testing.
651 (That is, the same version that was shipped in 0.20.1.)
654 - Look for "/tmp/.X11-unix/X${1#:}" too when detecting displays in use.
655 - Adapt tests to match the Control Port access security fix:
656 · Take into account that the amnesia user isn't part of the debian-tor
658 · Run as root the checks to see if a process is running: this
659 is required to see other users' processes.
661 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2013 23:42:46 +0200
663 tails (0.20.1) unstable; urgency=low
666 - Install Tor 0.2.4.17-rc-1~d60.squeeze+1 from the Tor project's repository.
667 - Install Iceweasel 17.0.9esr with Torbrowser patches.
668 - Install Linux kernel 3.10-3 (version 3.10.11-1) from sid.
671 - Remount persistence devices read-only at shutdown/reboot time
673 - Greeter: display a warning icon on admin password mismatch and on
674 persistence unlocking failure. Thanks to Andres Gomez Ramirez
675 <andres.gomez@cern.ch> for the fix!
676 - Don't torsocksify Pidgin.
677 Instead we disable Pidgin's GNOME integration to get the "Global proxy
678 configuration", which we set to use Tor. This fixes the I2P IRC account.
679 - Additional software: fix typo in notification.
680 - Allow installing "Priority: standard" packages that we do not install
681 by default: remove them late in the build process instead of assigning
682 them a -1 APT pinning level.
685 - Update AdBlock Plus patterns.
686 - Use more unique ISO file name when building from Jenkins.
687 - Additional software: point to the system log on upgrade failure.
688 - Set SOCKS5_USER and SOCKS5_PASSWORD in the connect-socks wrapper (used
689 by Git). Else, Tor 0.2.4's IsolateSOCKSAuth and connect-proxy
690 sometimes play together in some way that makes connect-proxy ask for
691 a password to connect to the SocksPort. SOCKS5_USER and
692 SOCKS5_PASSWORD are passed through unchanged if they were manually set
694 - Use our custom connect-socks wrapper for SSH. Else, Tor 0.2.4's
695 IsolateSOCKSAuth and connect-proxy sometimes play together in some way
696 that makes connect-proxy ask for a password to connect to the
697 SocksPort. Note that connect-socks uses the default SocksPort too, so
698 no change here wrt. our connection isolation design.
701 - Import new translations from Transifex.
704 - Fix old ISO checking for consistent error reporting.
705 - Remove custom persistence test from manual test suite.
706 It was removed for the GUI in t-p-s 0.33.
708 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2013 15:49:36 +0200
710 tails (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
713 - Install Linux kernel 3.10.3-1 from Debian unstable.
714 - Iceweasel 17.0.8esr + Torbrowser patches.
717 - Prevent Iceweasel from displaying a warning when leaving HTTPS web sites.
718 - Make Iceweasel use the correct, localized search engine.
719 - Fix Git access to https:// repositories.
722 - Install Dasher, a predictive text entry tool.
723 - Add a wrapper around TrueCrypt which displays a warning about it soon
724 being deprecated in Tails.
725 - Remove Pidgin libraries for all protocols but IRC and Jabber/XMPP.
726 Many of the other protocols Pidgin support are broken in Tails and
727 haven't got any security auditting.
728 - Disable the pre-defined Pidgin accounts so they do not auto-connect
730 - Include information about Alsa in WhisperBack reports.
731 - Explicitly restrict access to ptrace. While this setting was enabled
732 by default in Debian's Linux 3.9.6-1, it will later disabled in 3.9.7-1.
733 It's unclear what will happen next, so let's explicitly enable it ourselves.
734 - Do not display dialog when a message is sent in Claws Mail.
735 - Sync iceweasel preferences with the Torbrowser's.
738 - Many translation updates all over the place.
739 - Merge all Tails-related POT files into one, and make use of intltoolize
740 for better integration with Transifex.
742 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:19:57 +0200
744 tails (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
747 - Install Linux kernel 3.9.5-1 from Debian unstable.
748 Features of particular interest for Tails are the Yama LSM
749 (ptrace scope restrictions) and improved hardware support.
750 As a corollary, install initramfs-tools from there too.
751 - Iceweasel 17.0.7esr + Torbrowser patches.
752 - Unblock Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, WWAN and WiMAX; block every other type of
753 wireless device. Next steps are described on the
754 todo/protect_against_external_bus_memory_forensics ticket.
757 - Fix write access to boot medium at the block device level,
758 by installing bilibop-udev. Thanks to quidame for his support.
759 - tails-greeter l10n-related fixes, thanks to winterfairy:
760 · Fix so translations is applied on password mismatch messages.
761 · Separate forward and login buttons and make them translatable.
762 - Fix link to documentation when no sudo password is set.
763 - gpgApplet: partial fix for clipboard emptying after a wrong passphrase
765 - Workaround aufs bug in Unsafe Browser script.
768 - Drop GNOME proxy settings: we did not find any use of it we were keen
769 to support, other than two programs (Seahorse, Pidgin) that are now run
771 - Format newly created persistent volumes as ext4.
772 - GnuPG: don't connect to the keyserver specified by the key owner.
773 This feature opens the door to a variety of subtle attacks.
774 - GnuPG: locate keys only from local keyrings.
775 This is probably the default, but better safe than sorry.
776 - Install virt-what from Wheezy.
777 The version from Squeeze does not detect at least Parallels for Mac v.8.
778 - Upgrade live-boot and live-config to the 3.0.x final version from Wheezy.
779 · Remove /live and /lib/live/image compatibility symlinks.
780 · Add /live/overlay -> /lib/live/mount/overlay symlink.
781 The live-boot changes (commit d2b2a461) brought to fix Debian bug
782 #696495 revert some of our previous changes (commit 77dab1cb), and as
783 a result, at the time live-persist runs, no tmpfs is mounted on
784 /live/overlay, which breaks the aufs mount. So, let's just ensure
785 /live/overlay points to a tmpfs.
786 · Really disable policykit and sudo live-config hooks.
787 ... by making it believe they've already been run.
788 This workarounds new live-config's default behavior.
791 - Many translation updates all over the place.
794 - Re-enable previously disabled boot device permissions test.
796 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:36:20 +0200
798 tails (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
801 - Support obfs3 bridges.
802 - Automatically install a custom list of additional packages chosen by
803 the user at the beginning of every working session, and upgrade them
804 once a network connection is established (technology preview).
807 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.6esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1.
808 - Update Torbrowser patches to current maint-2.4 branch (567682b).
809 - Isolate DOM storage to first party URI, and enable DOM storage:
810 don't set dom.storage.enabled anymore, and set Torbutton's
811 disable_domstorage to false.
812 - Isolate the image cache per url bar domain.
813 - Torbutton 1.5.2, and various prefs hacks to fix breakage:
814 · Add .saved version of the Torbutton preferences the TBB also sets.
815 · Set TOR_SOCKS_HOST and TOR_SOCKS_PORT.
816 · Move some prefs (network.proxy.*, extensions.autoDisableScopes,
817 extensions.foxyproxy.last-version) to user.js.
818 Else, with Torbutton 1.5.x, these ones are not taken into account.
819 · Set network.proxy.socks_version.
820 Else we get the meaningless user_pref("network.proxy.socks_version", 9063);
821 in prefs.js after the initial startup.
822 · Set extensions.foxyproxy.socks_remote_dns to true.
823 Else, it overrides the various ways we set network.proxy.socks_remote_dns,
824 which in turn makes Torbutton think it should start in non-Tor mode.
825 · Also pass the TOR_SOCKS_* environment variables to iceweasel when
826 generating the profile: Torbutton behaves differently depending on
827 these variables, so we don't want the initial profile generation to be
828 done without them. In practice, this has no implication that we could
829 see right now, but better safe than sorry.
830 · Import all version overrides from the TBB prefs.
831 Else, the User-Agent sent in the HTTP headers is fine, but real
832 values leak with JavaScript, as demonstrated by ip-check's "Browser
834 · Move a bunch of settings to user_pref(), that are not applied otherwise.
835 For some, this fixes a regression in 0.18~rc1.
836 For other, the bug was already present in Tails 0.17.2.
837 - HTTPS Everywhere 3.2.
838 - Update prefs to match the TBB's, fix bugs, and take advantage of the latest
840 · Increase pipeline randomization.
841 · Fix @font-face handling of local() fonts.
842 Also disable fallback font rendering.
843 · Explicitly disable SPDY v2 and v3.
844 · Update http pipelining prefs.
845 - Make prefs organization closer to the TBB's:
846 · Remove Torbutton prefs that we set at their default value.
847 · Import Torbutton preferences from the TBB.
848 · Organize iceweasel config files in sections the same way as the TBB.
850 · Don't set extensions.torbutton.clear_cookies nor
851 extensions.torbutton.saved.share_proxy_settings:
852 we don't care about toggling anymore.
853 · Don't set extensions.torbutton.saved.download_retention nor
854 extensions.torbutton.saved.search_suggest:
855 these settings are not used in Torbutton anymore.
856 - Update unsafe browser prefs mangling accordingly.
857 - Move network.protocol-handler.warn-external.* to user_pref().
858 Else they're not applied.
859 These prefs are actually ignored by Firefox these days -- the TBB
860 design doc reads "They are set still anyway out of respect for the
861 dead". Let's go on doing the same.
862 - Update extensions.adblockplus.currentVersion.
863 - Fetch xul-ext-https-everywhere (3.2-2) and xul-ext-noscript (2.6.6.1-1)
864 from Debian unstable. They were uploaded there, and accordingly removed
868 - Linux 3.2.41-2+deb7u2.
869 - Fixed swapped filenames of tails-{reboot,shutdown}.desktop.
870 Thanks to Mikko Harhanen for the patch.
871 - Only add ClientTransportPlugin to torrc when bridge mode is enabled.
872 This should bring back support for proxies of type other than obfsproxy.
875 - Set kernel.dmesg_restrict=1, and make /proc/<pid>/ invisible
876 and restricted for other users. It makes it slightly harder for an attacker
877 to gather information that may allow them to escalate privileges.
878 - Install gnome-screenshot.
879 - Don't disable IPv6 on all network interfaces anymore.
880 It turns out the IPv6 leaks we wanted to fix actually don't exist.
881 - Add a "About Tails" launcher in the System menu.
882 - Install GNOME accessibility themes.
883 - Use 'Getting started...' as the homepage for Tails documentation button.
884 - Stop relying on the obsolete /live/image compatibility symlink.
885 - Disable audio preview in Nautilus.
886 - Wheezy was released => Squeeze is now oldstable.
887 - Pick Tor from deb.torproject.org regardless of the release name they
888 advertise. At some point we needed it, their APT repository still thought
889 that stable == Squeeze.
890 - Add Wheezy APT sources.
891 - Install Linux and related packages from Wheezy.
892 Debian sid just got Linux 3.8, and we don't want to switch to a new kernel
894 - Fetch laptop-mode-tools from Wheezy.
895 Wheezy has the version we've been installing in 0.18~rc1,
896 while a newer one was uploaded to sid in the meantime.
897 - Fetch a few packages from Wheezy instead of unstable.
898 Namely: spice-vdagent, libregexp-common-perl, macchanger, service-wrapper,
899 libservice-wrapper-java and libservice-wrapper-jni.
900 Wheezy has the versions we've been installing for a while, so let's
901 avoid having unstable push a newer one to us uselessly at some point.
902 Note that at the time of this writing, the versions in sid and in Wheezy
903 are the same, so this commit is effectively a no-op as of today: it is
904 merely a safeguard for the future.
907 - Many translation updates all over the place.
910 - Make Vagrant's build-tails script support Jenkins too.
913 - Fix Unsafe Browser test broken by hidepid.
915 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 13 May 2013 22:17:38 +0200
917 tails (0.17.2) unstable; urgency=low
920 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.5esr-0+tails2~bpo60+1.
921 - Stop displaying obsolete context menu entries ("Open Tor URL" and friends).
924 - Update Linux to 3.2.41-2
927 - Use more reliable OpenPGP keyservers:
928 · use the hkps pool in GnuPG (and import their SSL CA)
929 · use hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net in Seahorse (as it does not support
931 - Keep udisks users (GNOME Disk Utility, tails-persistence-setup, etc.)
932 from resetting the system partition's attributes when manipulating the
933 partition table. To this end, backport the relevant bugfix from Wheezy
934 into parted 2.3-5+tails1. This allowed to remove the sgdisk-based
935 workaround in tais-persistence-setup, and to stop installing
936 python-parted. All this is a first needed step to fix
937 todo/make_system_disk_read-only in a future release.
940 - Disable NoScript's HTML5 media click-to-play for better user experience.
943 - Tails USB installer: update translations for French, German, Spanish,
944 Finnish, Greek, Italian, Latvian, Dutch, Polish and Chinese.
945 - Tails Greeter: update translations for Farsi, Chinese, French;
946 new translations: Finnish, Norwegian Bokmål, Galician.
947 - tails-persistence-setup: update Farsi and Chinese translations;
948 import new translations for Finnish and Swedish.
949 - WhisperBack: update translations for Arabic, French, German, Greek,
950 Spanish, Korean, Polish, Russian. New translations: Finnish, Chinese.
953 - Add automated testing framework (Sikuli, Cucumber, libvirt -based)
954 with a bunch of tests.
956 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:17:26 +0200
958 tails (0.17.1) unstable; urgency=low
961 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.4esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1.
964 - Update Linux to 3.2.39-2.
965 It includes the drm and agp subsystems from Linux 3.4.29.
966 - Don't install xserver-xorg-video-rendition backport.
967 xserver-xorg-video-rendition has been removed from squeeze-backports
968 due to an upstream tarball mismatch discover when merging backports
969 into the main Debian archive, and xserver-xorg-video-all still depends
970 on it, so we explicitly install all drivers from -all but -rendition
971 as a (hopefully temporary) workaround.
974 - Remove Indymedia IRC account, until we ship a version of Pidgin
975 with SASL support, that is when Tails is based on Wheezy.
978 - Don't ship the wiki's todo and bugs on ISO images.
980 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:54:11 +0100
982 tails (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
985 - Install the KeePassX password manager, with a configuration and
986 documentation that makes it easy to persist the password database.
989 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.3esr-1+tails1~bpo60+1.
990 - Install xul-ext-adblock-plus from squeeze-backports.
991 - Do not allow listing all available fonts.
992 Set browser.display.max_font_attempts and browser.display.max_font_count
993 to enable the Torbrowser Limit-the-number-of-fonts-per-document patch.
994 - Set default spellchecker dictionary to English (USA),
995 and localize it according to locale with our custom branding extension.
996 - Disable the add-ons automatic update feature.
997 - Make the generated profile world-readable.
998 - Remove NoScript click-to-play confirmation.
999 - Sync some prefs set by Torbutton, to be ready when it stops setting these.
1000 - Disable navigation timing.
1001 - Disable SPDY. It stores state and may have keepalive issues.
1002 - More aggressive iceweasel HTTP pipelining settings.
1003 - Enable WebGL (as click-to-play only).
1004 - Disable network.http.connection-retry-timeout.
1005 - Disable full path information for plugins.
1006 - Remove NoScript blocks of WebFonts.
1007 - Disable DOM storage in Torbutton.
1008 Since we don't apply the 0026-Isolate-DOM-storage-to-first-party-URI.patch
1009 Torbrowser patch yet, and still disable DOM storage, we need to tell
1010 Torbutton not to use it.
1011 - Synchronize iceweasel's general.useragent.override with TBB based on FF17.
1012 The User-Agent settings are not kept up-to-date anymore in Torbutton, so
1013 we have to keep in sync manually with TBB's settings.
1014 - Remove obsolete APT pining for Torbutton.
1015 It's not maintained in Debian anymore, so we now fetch it from our own
1017 - Fetch FoxyProxy from Debian experimental and libnspr4-0d from
1018 squeeze-backports, for compatibility with Iceweasel 17.
1019 - Rebase bookmarks file on top of the default iceweasel 17 one.
1020 - Explicitly disable AdBlock Plus "correct typos" feature.
1021 This feature connects to http://urlfixer.org/.
1022 It is disabled by default in 2.2-1, but let's be careful.
1024 * Minor improvements
1025 - Upgrade to live-boot 3.0~b11-1 and live-config 3.0.12-1.
1026 Accordingly update the 9980-permissions hook, live-persist,
1027 unsafe-browser and boot-profile.
1028 Add compatibility symlinks from /live to /lib/live, and from /live/image
1029 to /lib/live/mount/medium, to ease the transition.
1030 - Check for errors when sourcing live-boot files, e.g. to detect when
1031 they have been renamed upstream.
1032 - Don't add "quiet" to the kernel command-line ourselves.
1033 Else, it appears twice as live-build's lb_binary_syslinux adds it too.
1034 Historically, we've been adding it ourselves on top of that because
1035 lb_binary_yaboot does not add it, but since we gave up the PowerPC support
1036 attempt, we're now only interested in syslinux, so let's make it easier
1037 for the general case, e.g. when one wants to remove the "quiet" parameter
1038 as suggested by our "Tails does not start" debugging documentation.
1039 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.4.
1042 - Many bugfixes brought by the Debian Squeeze 6.0.7 point-release.
1043 - Use the regular GnuPG agent + pinentry-gtk2 instead of Seahorse
1044 as a GnuPG agent. This fixes usage of OpenPGP in Claws Mail,
1045 and brings support for OpenPGP smartcards.
1046 - Enable I2P hidden mode.
1047 Else, killing I2P ungracefully is bad for the I2P network.
1048 - live-persist: move error() function before the first potential usecase.
1049 - Add missing executable bit on restart-tor and restart-vidalia.
1050 - Add shutdown and reboot launchers to the menu.
1051 This workarounds the lack of a shutdown helper applet in camouflage mode.
1052 - Remove Pidgin's MXit and Sametime support.
1053 ... at least until CVE-2013-0273, CVE-2013-0272 and CVE-2013-0271 are
1054 fixed in Debian stable. While we're at it, don't force file removal in
1055 these "set -e" build scripts: fail hard, instead of silently ignoring
1056 the fact that files may have moved or disappeared.
1059 - Install recent Intel and AMD microcode from squeeze-backports,
1060 explicitly excluding the iucode-tool package that's not a good idea
1062 - Install firmware loader for Qualcomm Gobi USB chipsets.
1063 This is needed to have various mobile broadband chipsets work.
1064 - Upgrade barry to 0.18.3-5~bpo60+1.
1065 This much improved new version supports more hardware & ISP,
1066 and does not display dozens of spurious error messages at boot time.
1069 - Remove APT local cache (/Var/cache/apt/{,src}pkgcache.bin).
1071 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:37:57 +0100
1073 tails (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * Minor improvements
1076 - Replace the too-easy-to-misclick shutdown button with a better
1077 "Shutdown Helper" Gnome applet.
1078 - Display ~/Persistent in GNOME Places and GtkFileChooser if it is mounted.
1079 - Set Unsafe Browser's window title to "Unsafe Browser".
1080 - Install ekeyd to support the EntropyKey.
1081 - Install font for Sinhala.
1082 - Update Poedit to 1.5.4.
1083 - Kill Vidalia when restarting Tor.
1084 Doing this as early as possible exposes Vidalia's "broken onion" icon
1086 - Hide the persistence setup launchers in kiosk mode.
1087 - Add a shell library for Tor functions.
1088 These are shared among multiple of our scripts.
1089 - Install dictionaries for supported languages.
1090 Install hunspell dictionaries when possible,
1091 fall back on myspell ones else.
1094 - Disable IPv6 on all network interfaces.
1095 This is a workaround for the IPv6 link-local multicast leak that was recently
1096 discovered. Tails has no local service that listens on IPv6, so there should be
1097 no regression, hopefully, unless one wants to play with OnionCat and VoIP,
1098 but those of us should know how to workaround this anyway.
1099 - live-persist: Fix variable mismatch, fixing probe white-list.
1100 Tails may previously have been able to list GPT partitions labelled
1101 "TailsData" on hard drives (!) as valid persistence volumes...
1102 - live-persist: Fix --media option when no devices are attached.
1103 Earlier, if it was set to e.g. 'removable-usb' and no USB storage was
1104 connected, $whitelistdev would be empty, which is interpreted like
1105 all devices are ok by the rest of the code.
1106 - Fix SCIM in the autostarted web browser: save IM environment variables
1107 to a file during Desktop session startup, and export them into the
1108 autostarted browser's environment.
1109 - Talk of DVD, not of CD, in the shutdown messages.
1110 - Make tordate work in bridge mode with an incorrect clock.
1111 When using a bridge Tor reports TLS cert lifetime errors (e.g. when
1112 the system clock is way off) with severity "info", but when no bridge
1113 is used the severity is "warn". tordate/20-time.sh depends on grepping
1114 these error messages, so we termporarily increase Tor's logging
1115 severity when using bridge mode. If we don't do this tordate will
1116 sleep forever, leaving Tor in a non-working state.
1117 · White-list root to use Tor's ControlPort.
1118 · Add logging for is_clock_way_off().
1119 · Remove Tor's log before time syncing.
1120 We depend on grepping stuff from the Tor log (especially for
1121 tordate/20-time.sh), so deleting it seems like a Good Thing(TM).
1122 · Stop Tor before messing with its log or data dir.
1123 - live-persist: limit searched devices the same way as live-boot.
1124 If no --media argument is specified, use live-boot's
1125 "(live-media|bootfrom)=removable(|-usb)" argument to limit devices
1126 searched for a persistent volume.
1127 - tails-greeter: do not pass media=removable to live-persist.
1128 Now that we have autodetection with kernel command-line,
1129 it should not be needed anymore.
1130 - Start memlockd after configuring it,
1131 instead of starting it before and restarting it after.
1132 This avoids running memlockd twice, and prevents other possibly
1133 surprising race-conditions.
1134 As a consequence, also have tails-sdmem-on-media-removal start after the
1135 memlockd service *and* tails-reconfigure-memlockd: to start the watchdog,
1136 we need memlockd to be properly configured *and* running.
1139 - Set iceweasel homepage to the news section on the Tails website.
1140 ... using the localized one when possible.
1141 - Hide the iceweasel add-on bar by default.
1142 Now that we don't want to ship the Monkeysphere addon anymore,
1143 that was the only one displayed in there, we can as well hide the whole bar.
1144 - Don't hide the AdBlock-Plus button in the add-on bar anymore. Now that
1145 we hide the whole addon bar, we can get rid of this old
1147 - Do not install a placeholder (fake) FireGPG iceweasel extension anymore.
1148 It was shipped from 0.10 (early 2012) to 0.15 (late November),
1149 so the migration period should be over now.
1150 - Don't install xul-ext-monkeysphere anymore.
1151 The implication of the current keyserver policy are not well
1152 understood, Monkeysphere is little used in Tails, and we're not sure
1153 anymore it would be our first bet for the web browser profile with no
1154 CA. Let's keep the various configuration bits (e.g. FoxyProxy,
1155 patching MSVA), though, so that advanced users who are used to have
1156 Monkeysphere in Tails just have to install the package.
1159 - Install the "standard" task with tasksel for better consistency in the
1160 Tails ISO images built in various environments.
1161 - Install p7zip-full. It's a dep by file-roller, but we explicily use it
1162 elsewhere, and it's better to be safe than sorry.
1163 - Remove pinning of libvpx0 to sid.
1164 This package is part of Squeeze, and not from testing/sid.
1165 We have been shipping the version from Squeeze for a while.
1166 - Remove config/chroot_local-packages/ from .gitignore.
1167 The documented way for "external" contributors to add custom packages
1168 is to put them in chroot_local-packages, and once we pull we import
1169 any such package into our APT repo and rewrite the
1170 history appropriately.
1171 Also, the ability to add packages in there and not see them in "git
1172 status" makes it very easy to build tainted ISO images with
1173 non-standard packages, which makes some of us fear can lead to hard to
1175 - Make it clearer what can and cannot be done in terms of local packages.
1177 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:47:42 +0100
1179 tails (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * Major new features
1182 - Persistence for browser bookmarks.
1183 - Support for obfsproxy bridges.
1185 * Minor improvements
1186 - Add the Hangul (Korean) Input Method Engine for SCIM.
1187 - Add vendor-specific dpkg origin information. This makes dpkg-vendor
1188 return correct information.
1189 - Install pcscd and libccid from squeeze-backports. This is needed to
1190 support, to some extent, some OpenPGP SmartCard readers.
1191 - Install HPIJS PPD files and the IJS driver (hpijs).
1192 This adds support for some printers, such as Xerox DocumentCenter400.
1193 - Optimize fonts display for LCD.
1194 - Update TrueCrypt to version 7.1a.
1197 - Do not use pdnsd anymore. It has been orphaned in Debian, has quite
1198 some bugs in there, and apparently Tor's DNSPort's own caching is
1200 - Remove useless iceweasel cookies exceptions. They are useless as
1201 per-session cookies are allowed.
1202 - Do not run setupcon on X. This call is only needed on the Linux
1203 console, no need to annoy the user with a weird "Press enter to
1204 activate this console" when the open a root shell in a GNOME
1206 - Allow the tails-iuk-get-target-file user to connect to the SOCKSPort
1207 dedicated for Tails-specific software.
1208 - Fix gpgApplet menu display in Windows camouflage mode.
1209 - Fix Tor reaching an inactive state if it's restarted in "bridge mode",
1210 e.g. during the time sync' process.
1213 - Update iceweasel to 10.0.11esr-1+tails1.
1214 - User profile is now generated at build time in order to support persistent
1216 - Update HTTPS Everywhere to version 3.0.4.
1217 - Update NoScript to version 2.6.
1218 - Fix bookmark to I2P router console.
1219 - Re-enable Monkeysphere extension to connect to the validation agent.
1222 - The Tails USB installer, tails-persistence-setup and tails-greeter
1223 are now translated into Bulgarian.
1224 - Update Chinese translation for tails-greeter.
1225 - Update Euskadi translation for WhisperBack.
1228 - Custom packages are now retrieved from Tails APT repository instead
1229 of bloating the Git repository.
1230 - Allow '~' in wiki filenames. This makes it possible to ship
1231 update-description files for release candidates.
1232 - Document how to create incremental update kit.
1233 - Handle release candidates when generating custom APT sources.
1234 - Remove pinning for xul-ext-adblock-plus.
1235 It is obsolete since we've added this package to our APT repository.
1237 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:59:17 +0100
1239 tails (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * Major new features
1242 - Enable Tor stream isolation; several new SocksPorts with
1243 appropriate Isolate* options have been added for different use
1244 cases (i.e. applications). All application's have been
1245 reconfigured to use these new SocksPorts, which should increase
1246 anonymity by making it more difficulte to correlate traffic from
1247 different applications or "online identities".
1248 - The web browser now has the anonymity enhancing patches from the
1250 - gpgApplet can now handle public-key cryptography.
1251 - Install an additional, PAE-enabled kernel with NX-bit
1252 support. This kernel is auto-selected when the hardware supports
1254 * provide executable space protection, preventing certain types of
1255 buffer overflows from being exploitable.
1256 * enable more than 4 GiB of system memory.
1257 * make all processors/cores available, including their
1258 power-saving functionality.
1259 - Add a persistence preset for NetworkManager connections.
1261 * Minor improvements
1262 - On kexec reboot, make the boot quiet only if debug=wipemem was not
1264 - Update torproject.org's APT repo key.
1265 - Update the embedded Tails signing key.
1266 - Use symlinks instead of duplicating localized searchplugins.
1267 - Rewrite Tails firewall using ferm. Tails firewall was written in
1268 very unsophisticated iptables-save/restore format. As more feature
1269 creeped in, it started to be quite unreadable.
1270 - Optimize VirtualBox modules build at runtime to avoid installing the
1271 userspace utils N times.
1272 - Drop most of Vidalia's configuration. Our custom lines just caused
1273 trouble (with multiple SocksPorts) and the default works well.
1274 - Blacklist PC speaker module. On some computers, having the pcspkr
1275 module loaded means loud beeps at bootup, shutdown and when using
1276 the console. As it draws useless attention to Tails users, it is
1277 better to prevent Linux from loading it by default.
1278 - Remove all addons from the Unsafe Browser. No addons are essential
1279 for the Unsafe Browser's intent. If anything they will modify the
1280 network fingerprint compared to a normal Iceweasel install, which
1282 - Prevent some unwanted packages to be installed at all, rather than
1283 uninstalling them later. This should speed up the build a bit.
1284 - Add a symlink from /etc/live/config to /etc/live/config.d. This
1285 makes the system compatible with live-config 3.0.4-1, without
1286 breaking backward compatibility with various parts of the system
1287 that use the old path.
1288 - Do not run unecessary scripts during shutdown sequence, to make
1290 - Make live-persist deal with persistent ~/.gconf subdirs so that
1291 any options saved therein actually get persistent.
1292 - Prevent memlockd unload on shutdown, to make sure that all
1293 necessary tools for memory wiping are available when the new
1295 - Patch initscripts headers instead of fiddling with update-rc.d. We
1296 now let insserv figure out the correct ordering for the services
1297 during startup and shutdown, i.e. use dependency-based boot
1299 - Remove the last absolute path in our isolinux config, which makes
1300 it easier to migrate from isolinux to syslinux (just rename the
1301 directory), and hence might make it easier for 3rd party USB
1302 installers (like the Universal USB Installer) to support Tails.
1305 - Include `seq` in the ramdisk environment: it is used to wipe more
1306 memory. This fixes the long-standing bug about Tails not cleaning
1307 all memory on shutdown.
1308 - Fix Yelp crashing on internal links
1309 - Allow amnesia user to use Tor's TransPort. This firewall exception
1310 is necessary for applications that doesn't have in-built SOCKS
1311 support and cannot use torsocks. One such example is Claws Mail,
1312 which uses tsocks since torsocks makes it leak the hostname. This
1313 exception, together with Tor's automatic .onion mapping makes
1314 Claws Mail able to use hidden service mail providers again.
1315 - Force threads locking support in Python DBus binding. Without this
1316 liveusb-creator doesn't work with a PAE-enabled kernel.
1317 - Fix localized search plugins for 'es' and 'pt'
1318 - Fix live-boot's readahead, which caused an unnecessary pause
1320 - Factorize GCC wanted / available version numbers in VirtualBox
1321 modules building hook. This, incidentally, fixes a bug caused by
1322 duplication and not updating all instances.
1323 - Fix tordate vs. Tor 0.2.3.x. Since 0.2.3.x Tor doesn't download a
1324 consensus for clocks that are more than 30 days in the past or 2
1325 days in the future (see commits f4c1fa2 and 87622e4 in Tor's git
1326 repo). For such clock skews we set the time to the Tor authority's
1327 cert's valid-after date to ensure that a consensus can be
1331 - Update to version 0.2.3.24-rc-1~~squeeze+1, a new major
1332 version. It's not a stable release, but we have been assured by
1333 the Tor developers that this is the right move.
1334 - Stop setting custom value for the Tor LongLivedPorts
1335 setting. Gobby's port was upstreamed in Tor 0.2.3.x.
1338 - Update to 10.0.10esr-1+tails1, which has all the anonymity enhancing
1339 patches from the TorBrowser applied.
1340 - Install iceweasel from our own repo, http://deb.tails.boum.org.
1341 - Fix Iceweasel's file associations. No more should you be suggested
1342 to open a PDF in the GIMP.
1345 - Use curl instead of wget, and add a --proxy option passed through
1347 - Remove the --fullrequest option, we don't need it anymore.
1348 - Remove --dns-timeout option, we don't need it anymore.
1349 - Change --proxy handling to support Debian Squeeze's curl.
1350 - Clarify what happens if --proxy is not used.
1351 - Compute the median of the diffs more correctly.
1354 - Update Linux to 3.2.32-1.
1357 - Update vidalia to 0.2.20-1+tails1.
1358 - Update bundled WhisperBack package to 1.6.2:
1359 * Raise the socket library timeout to 120 seconds
1360 * Use smtplib's timeout parameter
1361 * Fix error output when calling send a 2nd time
1362 - Update liveusb-creator to 3.11.6-3.
1363 - Update i2p to 0.9.2.
1364 - Update tails-persistence-setup to 0.20-1, which should make it
1365 possible to install Tails on large (>= 32 GiB) USB drives.
1366 - Install console-setup and keyboard-configuration from unstable
1367 (required by new initramfs-tools).
1368 - Update tails-greeter to 0.7.3:
1369 * Import pt_BR translation.
1370 * Let langpanel usable during option selection stage
1371 * Print less debugging messages by default
1372 (below are changes in tails-greeter 0.7.2:)
1373 * Use correct test operators.
1374 * Generate language codes of available locales at package build
1376 * Read list of language codes from where we have saved it at
1378 * Drop tails-lang-helper, not used anymore.
1379 * Do not compile locales at login time anymore. Tails now ships
1381 - Import live-config{,-sysvinit} 3.0.8-1. live-config >= 3.0.9-1
1382 has basically nothing useful for us, and it migrates to new paths
1383 brought by live-boot 3.0~b7, which we're not ready for yet (see:
1384 todo/newer_live-boot).
1387 - Fix Tails specific Iceweasel localization for pt-BR
1388 - Add Japanese input system: scim-anthy.
1389 - whisperback is now also translated into German, Hebrew, Hungarian,
1391 - tails-persistence-setup is now also translated into Arabic.
1392 - tails-greeter is now also translated into Arabic, Hebrew, Basque,
1393 Hungarian, Italian and Chinese.
1396 - Catch more errors in during build time:
1397 - Ensure that all local hooks start with 'set -e'.
1398 - Fail hard if adduser fails in local hooks.
1399 - Fail hard if 'rm' fails in local hooks.
1400 - vagrant: Ensure we have the set of Perl packages needed by our
1402 - vagrant: Configure live-build to ship with ftp.us.debian.org.
1403 Using cdn.debian.net leads to bad interactions with Tor.
1404 - vagrant: Don't use gzip compression when building from a tag, i.e.
1406 - vagrant: Optionally use bootstrap stage cache for faster builds
1407 via the 'cache' build option.
1408 - vagrant: Make sure release builds are clean, i.e. they don't use
1409 any potentially dangerous build options.
1410 - vagrant: Disable live-build package caching. This build system is
1411 meant to use an external caching proxy, so live-build's cache just
1412 wastes RAM (for in-memory builds) or disk space.
1413 - vagrant: use aufs magic instead of copying source into tmpfs.
1414 This reduces the amount of RAM required for building Tails in.
1415 - vagrant: Allow in-memory builds when a VM with enough memory is
1418 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:34:56 +0000
1420 tails (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * Major new features
1423 - Use white-list/principle of least privelege approach for local services.
1424 Only users that need a certain local (i.e. hosted on loopback) service
1425 (according to our use cases) are granted access to it by our firewall;
1426 all other users are denied access.
1427 - Ship a first version of the incremental update system. Updates are not
1428 currently triggered automatically, but this will allow tests to be done
1431 * Minor improvements
1432 - Enable four workspaces in the Windows XP camouflage. This allows
1433 users to quickly switch to a more innocent looking workspace in case
1434 they are working on sensitive data and attract unwanted attention.
1435 The workspace switcher applet isn't there, though, since there's no
1436 such thing in Windows XP, so switching is only possible via keyboard
1438 - Ship with precompiled locales instead of generating them upon login.
1439 - Add support for wireless regulation.
1440 - Use color for Git output, not intended for machine consumption,
1441 written to the terminal.
1442 - Have ttdnsd use OpenDNS. Using Google's DNS servers was very
1443 glitchy, and rarely succeeded when it should. It can probably be
1444 attributed to Google's DNS, which is known to take issue with Tor
1446 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.6, with many UI improvements and new translations.
1447 - Include GDM logs and dmidecode informations in the reports.
1448 - Allow to modify language and layout in the "Advanced options" screen
1450 - GnuPG: bump cert-digest-algo to SHA512.
1451 - Update torproject.org's APT repo key.
1454 - Make Claws Mail save local/POP emails in its dot-directory. The
1455 default is to save them at ~/Mail, which isn't included in our
1456 current Claws Mail persistence preset.
1457 - Fix the System Monitor applet.
1458 - Remove broken ttdnsd from the default DNS resolution loop.
1459 - Hide the 'TailsData' partition in desktop applications.
1460 - Ship unrar-free again, so that the GNOME archive manager knows about
1462 - Ship with an empty whitelist for Noscript.
1463 - Disable FoxyProxy's advertisement on proxy error page.
1464 - Fix slow browsing experience for offline documentation.
1465 - Raise the socket timeout to 120 seconds in WhisperBack.
1466 - Enable the ikiwiki trail plugin for the locally built wiki too.
1469 - Upgrade iceweasel to 10.0.6esr-1 (Extended Support Release) and install it
1470 and its dependencies from squeeze-backports.
1473 - Upgrade Linux to 3.2.23-1.
1476 - Update tor to version 0.2.2.39.
1477 - Update Iceweasel to version 10.0.7esr-2.
1478 - Update i2p to version 0.9.1.
1481 - vagrant: Install Ikiwiki from Debian unstable. The 'mirrorlist'
1482 patches have finally been merged in upstream Ikiwiki. So instead of
1483 building Ikiwiki by hand, we can now install the package directly
1484 from Debian unstable.
1485 - Do not build the ikiwiki forum on the bundled static website copy.
1487 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:19:25 +0200
1489 tails (0.12.1) unstable; urgency=low
1491 This is a brown paper bag release to fix two major problems introduced in
1495 - Upgrade Torbutton to 1.4.6.
1496 - Upgrade AdBlock Plus to 2.1.
1497 - Update AdBlock Plus patterns.
1500 - Upgrade Linux to 3.2.21-3 (linux-image-3.2.0-3-486).
1503 - Install MAT from Debian backports, drop custom package.
1504 - Install python-pdfrw to re-add PDF support to the MAT.
1505 - Upgrade tails-greeter to 0.7.1, which fixes the race condition that
1506 broke administration password and locale settings on some systems.
1509 - Remove the Tails specific plymouth theme. The theme interfers heavily with
1510 the boot process on some hardware.
1512 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:06:03 +0200
1514 tails (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * Major new features
1517 - Add the Unsafe Web Browser, which has direct access to the Internet and
1518 can be used to login to captive portals.
1519 - The (previously experimental, now deemed stable) Windows camouflage can now
1520 be enabled via a check box in Tails greeter.
1523 - Upgrade to 0.2.2.37-1~~squeeze+1.
1526 - Upgrade iceweasel to 10.0.5esr-1 (Extended Support Release) and install it
1527 and its dependencies from squeeze-backports.
1528 - Add a bookmark for the offline Tails documentation.
1529 - Update AdBlock patterns.
1532 - Allow using larger USB drives by increasing the mkfs timeout to 10 minutes.
1533 - Tell the user what's going on when the Tails boot device cannot be found.
1536 - Upgrade Linux to 3.2.20-1 (linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64).
1540 - Install torsocks. Note that this makes `torify' use `torsocks' instead of
1541 `tsocks'. The `tsocks' binary is dropped to avoid problems, but remaining
1542 files (the library) are kept since ttdnsd depends on them.
1543 - Fetch live-config-sysvinit from sid so that it matches live-config version.
1544 - Update virtualbox backports to 4.1.10-dfsg-1~bpo60+1.
1545 - Install pciutils (needed by virtualbox-guest-utils).
1546 - Install mousetweaks. This is needed to use the mouse accessibility settings
1547 in System -> Preferences -> Mouse -> Accessibility.
1548 - Install the "hardlink" files deduplicator.
1549 - Do not install cryptkeeper anymore. See todo/remove_cryptkeeper for reason.
1550 Users of cryptkeeper are encouraged to install cryptkeeper via `apt-get
1551 update; apt-get install --yes cryptkeeper`, open their volume and move
1552 their to Tails' built-in persistence instead, as a one-time migration.
1553 - Upgrade I2P to version 0.9.
1554 - Don't install GParted. GNOME Disk Utility has been on par with GParted
1555 since Squeeze was released.
1556 - Upgrade live-boot to 3.0~a27-1+tails2~1.gbp319fe6.
1557 - Upgrade live-config to 3.0~a39-1 and install it from Debian experimental.
1558 - Upgrade tails-greeter to 0.7.
1559 - Upgrade tails-persistence-setup to 0.17-1.
1560 - Install libyaml-libyaml-perl.
1561 - Upgrade MAT, the metadata anonymisation toolkit, 0.3.2-1~bpo60+1.
1562 - Fetch python-pdfrw from backports, drop custom package.
1564 * Internationalization
1565 - The Tails website and documentation now has a (partial) Portuguese
1569 - Tails can now be built without using a HTTP proxy.
1570 - Tails can now easily be built by using Vagrant. See the updated
1571 contribute/build page for instructions.
1574 - Remove obsolete noswap boot parameter. live-boot now handles swap on an
1576 - The squashfs.sort files generated with boot-profile should now be ok which
1577 makes the generate images boot noticeably faster on optical media. See
1578 bugs/weird_squashfs.sort_entries for more information.
1579 - Set Tails specific syslinux and plymouth themes.
1580 - Add NVidia KMS video drivers to the initrd in order to show our shiny new
1581 plymouth theme on more systems.
1583 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:37:00 +0200
1585 tails (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * Major new features
1588 - Do not grant the desktop user root credentials by default.
1589 - A graphical boot menu (tails-greeter 0.6.3) allows choosing among
1590 many languages, and setting an optional sudoer password.
1591 - Support opt-in targeted persistence
1592 · tails-persistence-setup 0.14-1
1593 · live-boot 3.0~a25-1+tails1~5.gbp48d06c
1594 · live-config 3.0~a35-1
1595 - USB installer: liveusb-creator 3.11.6-1
1598 - Install iceweasel 10.0.4esr-1 (Extended Support Release).
1599 Let's stop tracking a too fast moving target.
1600 Debian Wheezy will ship ESR versions.
1601 - Install needed dependencies from squeeze-backports.
1604 bing appeared due to our upgrading iceweasel.
1605 Removing it makes things consistent with the way they have been
1606 until now, that is: let's keep only the general search engines
1607 we've been asked to add, plus Google, and a few specialized ones.
1608 · Replace Debian-provided DuckDuckGo search plugin with the "HTML SSL"
1609 one, version 20110219. This is the non-JavaScript, SSL, POST flavour.
1611 · Install localized search engines in the correct place.
1612 No need to copy them around at boot time anymore.
1613 · Remove Scroogle. RIP.
1614 - Enable TLS false start, like the TBB does since December.
1615 - Adblock Plus: don't count and save filter hits, supress first run dialog.
1616 - Install neither the GreaseMonkey add-on, nor any GreaseMonkey script.
1617 YouTube's HTML5 opt-in program is over.
1618 HTML5 video support is now autodetected and used.
1621 - Upgrade to 0.2.17-1+tails1: drop Do-not-warn-about-Tor-version.patch,
1623 - Set SkipVersionCheck=true.
1624 Thanks to chiiph for implementing this upstream (needs Vidalia 0.2.16+).
1626 * Internationalization
1627 - Install all available iceweasel l10n packages.
1628 - Remove syslinux language choosing menu.
1629 tails-greeter allows choosing a non-English language.
1630 - Add fonts for Hebrew, Thai, Khmer, Lao and Korean languages.
1632 - Setup text console at profile time.
1633 Context: Tails runs with text console autologin on.
1634 These consoles now wait, using a "Press enter to activate this console"
1635 message, for the user. When they press enter in there, they should have chosen
1636 their preferred keyboard layout in tails-greeter by now. Then, we run setupcon.
1637 As a result, the resulting shell is properly localized, and setupcon
1638 sets the correct keyboard layout, both according to the preferences expressed by
1639 the user in tails-greeter.
1640 - Don't use localepurge, don't remove any Scribus translations anymore,
1641 don't localize environment at live-config time:
1642 tails-greeter allows us to support many, many more languages.
1645 - Linux 3.2.15-1 (linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64).
1646 - Fix low sound level on MacBook5,2.
1647 - Disable laptop-mode-tools automatic modules. This modules set often
1648 needs some amount of hardware-specific tweaking to work properly.
1649 This makes them rather not well suited for a Live system.
1652 - Install GNOME keyring.
1653 This is needed so that NetworkManager remembers the WEP/WPA secrets
1654 for the time of a Tails session. Initialize GNOME keyring at user
1656 - Install usbutils to have the lsusb command.
1657 - Install the Traverso multitrack audio recorder and editor.
1660 - GNOME Terminal: keep 8192 scrollback lines instead of the smallish
1662 - Replaced tails-wifi initscript with laptop-mode-tools matching feature.
1663 - Disable gdomap service.
1664 - Fetch klibc-utils and libklibc from sid.
1665 The last initramfs-tools depends on these.
1666 - Set root password to "root" if debug=root is passed on the
1667 kernel cmdline. Allow setting root password on kernel cmdline via
1668 rootpw=. Looks like we implemented this feature twice.
1669 - Append a space on the kernel command line. This eases manually adding
1671 - Rename sudoers.d snippets to match naming scheme.
1672 Sudo credentials that shall be unconditionally granted to the Tails
1673 default user are named zzz_*, to make sure they are applied.
1674 - WhisperBack: also include /var/log/live-persist and
1675 /var/lib/gdm3/tails.persistence.
1676 - Add a wrapper to torify whois.
1677 - Rework the VirtualBox guest modules building hook to support
1679 - Consistently wait for nm-applet when waiting for user session to come up.
1680 Waiting for gnome-panel or notification-daemon worked worse.
1681 - Don't start the NetworkManager system service via init.
1682 Some Tails NM hooks need the user to be logged in to run properly.
1683 That's why tails-greeter starts NetworkManager at PostLogin time.
1684 - Also lock /bin/echo into memory. For some reason, kexec-load needs it.
1685 - Pidgin: don't use the OFTC hidden service anymore.
1686 It proved to be quite unreliable, being sometimes down for days.
1687 - Do not display storage volumes on Desktop, by disabling
1688 /apps/nautilus/desktop/volumes_visible GConf entry. Enabling that
1689 GConf setting avoids displaying the bind-mounted persistent
1690 directories on the Desktop, and reduces user confusion. It also is
1691 a first step towards a bigger UI change: GNOME3 does not manage the
1692 Desktop anymore, so volume icons and other Desktop icons are meant to
1693 disappear anyway. It implies we'll have to move all Desktop icons
1694 elsewhere. Let's start this move now: this will smooth the UI change
1695 Wheezy will carry for our users, by applying some of it progressively.
1698 - Don't build hybrid ISO images anymore. They boot less reliably on
1699 a variety of hardware, and are made less useful by us shipping
1700 a USB installer from now on.
1701 - Append .conf to live-config configuration filenames:
1702 live-config >3.0~a36-1 only takes into account files named *.conf
1703 in there. Accordingly update scripts that source these files.
1704 - Remove long-obsolete home-refresh script and its configuration.
1706 * Virtualization support
1707 - Support Spice and QXL: install the Spice agent from Debian sid,
1708 install xserver-xorg-video-qxl from squeeze-backports.
1710 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:54:00 +0200
1712 tails (0.10.2) unstable; urgency=low
1715 - Update to 10.0.2-1.
1716 - Disable HTTPS-Everywhere's SSL Observatory (plus first-run pop-up).
1717 - Revert "FoxyProxy: don't enclose regexps between ^ and $."
1718 Currently "http://www.i2p2.de" (and everything similar) is captured by
1719 the I2P filter, which is incorrect. It seems isMultiLine="false" does
1720 *not* make RE into ^RE$ any longer.
1721 - Remove file:// from NoScript's exception lists.
1722 This will fix the JavaScript toggles in the local copy of the documentation.
1723 - Update AdBlock patterns.
1726 - Upgrade I2P to 0.8.13.
1727 - Install libvpx0 from sid.
1728 - Fetch klibc-utils and libklibc from sid.
1729 The last initramfs-tools depends on these.
1732 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.2.7-1.
1733 - Install firmware-libertas.
1734 This adds support for wireless network cards with Marvell Libertas
1735 8xxx chips supported by the libertas_cs, libertas_sdio, libertas_spi,
1736 libertas_tf_usb, mwl8k and usb8xxx drivers.
1739 - Revert "Set time to middle of [valid-after, fresh-until] from consensus."
1740 This reverts commit 18d23a500b9412b4b0fbe4e38a9398eb1a3eadef.
1741 With this vmid clocks that are E minutes back in time may cause issues
1742 (temporary Tor outages) after consensus updates that happen at the
1743 (60-E):th minute or later during any hour. Full analysis:
1744 https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2012-January/000873.html
1745 - Add the default user to the vboxsf group.
1746 This will allow the user to get full access to automounted VirtualBox
1747 shared folders as they are mounted with guid vboxsf and rwx group
1750 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:26:21 +0100
1752 tails (0.10.1) unstable; urgency=low
1755 - Make Startpage the default web search engine. Scroogle does not look
1756 reliable enough these days.
1759 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.5.1 (update link to bug reporting documentation).
1760 - Update MAT to 0.2.2-2~bpo60+1 (fixes a critical bug in the GUI).
1763 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.2.1-2
1765 * Time synchronization
1766 Serious rework that should fix most, if not all, of the infamous
1767 time-sync' related bugs some Tails users have experienced recently.
1768 - Make htpdate more resilient by using three server pools, and
1769 allowing some failure ratio.
1770 - Set time from Tor's unverified-consensus if needed.
1771 - Set time to middle of [valid-after, fresh-until] from consensus.
1772 - Many robustness, performance and fingerprinting-resistance improvements.
1773 - Display time-sync' notification much earlier.
1776 - Fix access to "dumb" git:// protocol by using a connect-socks wrapper
1777 as GIT_PROXY_COMMAND.
1778 - SSH client: fix access to SSH servers on the Internet by correcting
1779 Host / ProxyCommand usage.
1780 - Pidgin: use OFTC hidden service to workaround Tor blocking.
1781 - Claws Mail: disable draft autosaving.
1782 When composing PGP encrypted email, drafts are saved back to
1783 the server in plaintext. This includes both autosaved and manually
1785 - tails-security-check-wrapper: avoid eating all memory when offline.
1787 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:00:31 +0100
1789 tails (0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * Tor: upgrade to 0.2.2.35-1.
1794 - Install Iceweasel 9.0 from the Debian Mozilla team's APT repository.
1795 - Update Torbutton to 1.4.5.1-1.
1796 - Support viewing any YouTube video that is available in HTML5 format:
1797 install xul-ext-greasemonkey and the "Permanently Enable HTML5 on
1798 YouTube" GreaseMonkey script.
1799 - Stop using Polipo in Iceweasel. Its SOCKS support was fixed.
1800 - Install from Debian sid the iceweasel extensions we ship,
1801 for compatibility with FF9.
1802 - Use Scroogle (any languages) instead of Scroogle (English only) when
1803 booted in English. Many users choose English because their own
1804 language is not supported yet; let's not hide them search results in
1806 - Install Iceweasel language packs from Debian unstable:
1807 unfortunately they are not shipped on the mozilla.debian.net repository.
1808 - Install the NoScript Firefox extension; configure it the same way as
1810 - Disable third-party cookies.
1811 They can be used to track users, which is bad. Besides, this is what
1812 TBB has been doing for years.
1813 - FoxyProxy: allow direct connections to RFC1918 IPs.
1815 * Do not transparent proxy outgoing Internet connections through Tor.
1816 - Torify the SSH client using connect-proxy to all IPs but RFC1918 ones.
1817 - Torify APT using Polipo HTTP.
1818 - Torify wget in wgetrc.
1819 - Torify gobby clients using torsocks. It does not support proxies yet.
1820 - Torify tails-security-check using LWP::UserAgent's SOCKS proxy support.
1821 - Fix enabling of GNOME's HTTP proxy.
1824 - Upgrade Vidalia to 0.2.15-1+tails1.
1825 · New upstream release.
1826 · Do not warn about Tor version.
1827 - Upgrade MAT to 0.2.2-1~bpo60+1.
1828 - Upgrade VirtualBox guest software to 4.1.6-dfsg-2~bpo60+1,
1829 built against the ABI of X.Org backports.
1830 - Upgrade I2P to 0.8.11 using KillYourTV's Squeeze packages;
1831 additionally, fix its start script that was broken by the tordate merge.
1832 - Install unar (The Unarchiver) instead of the non-free unrar.
1833 - Install Nautilus Wipe instead of custom Nautilus scripts.
1836 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.1.6-1.
1837 - Upgrade to X.Org from squeeze-backports.
1838 - Install more, and more recent b43 firmwares.
1839 - Upgrade barry to 0.15-1.2~bpo60+1.
1841 * Internationalization
1842 - Add basic language support for Russian, Farsi and Vietnamese.
1843 - Install some Indic fonts.
1844 - Install some Russian fonts.
1845 - Add Alt+Shift shortcut to switch keyboard layout.
1848 - Support booting in "Windows XP -like camouflage mode":
1849 · Install homebrewn local .debs for a Windows XP look-alike Gnome theme.
1850 · Add the "Windows XP Bliss" desktop wallpaper.
1851 · Added a script that's sets up Gnome to look like Microsoft Windows XP.
1852 · Add Windows XP "camouflage" icons for some programs.
1853 · Make Iceweasel use the IE icon when Windows XP camouflage is enabled.
1854 · Add special launcher icons for the Windows XP theme so that they're
1856 - Decrease Florence focus zoom to 1.2.
1857 - Do not fetch APT translation files. Running apt-get update is heavy enough.
1858 - Add MSN support thanks to msn-pecan.
1859 - Add custom SSH client configuration:
1860 · Prefer strong ciphers and MACs.
1861 · Enable maximum compression level.
1862 · Explicitly disable X11 forwarding.
1863 · Connect as root by default, to prevent fingerprinting when username
1865 - Replace flawed FireGPG with a home-made GnuPG encryption applet;
1866 install a feature-stripped FireGPG that redirects users to
1867 the documentation, and don't run Seahorse applet anymore.
1868 - Enable Seahorse's GnuPG agent.
1869 - Blank screen when lid is closed, rather than shutting down the system.
1870 The shutdown "feature" has caused data losses for too many people, it seems.
1871 There are many other ways a Tails system can be shut down in a hurry
1873 - Import Tails signing key into the keyring.
1874 - Fix bug in the Pidgin nick generation that resulted in the nick
1875 "XXX_NICK_XXX" once out of twenty.
1876 - Pre-configure the #tor IRC discussion channel in Pidgin.
1877 - Fix "technology preview" of bridge support: it was broken by tordate merge.
1878 - Install dependencies of our USB installer to ease its development.
1879 - Make vidalia NM hook sleep only if Vidalia is already running.
1880 - Reintroduce the htpdate notification, telling users when it's safe
1881 to use Tor Hidden Services.
1882 - htpdate: omit -f argument to not download full pages.
1883 - htpdate: write success file even when not within {min,max}adjust.
1884 Otherwise htpdate will not "succeed" when the time diff is 0 (i.e.
1885 the clock was already correct) so the success file cannot be used
1886 as an indicator that the system time now is correct, which arguably
1887 is its most important purpose.
1890 - Name built images according to git tag.
1892 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:56:38 +0100
1894 tails (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1897 - Upgrade to 0.2.2.34 (fixes CVE-2011-2768, CVE-2011-2769).
1900 - Upgrade to 3.5.16-11 (fixes CVE-2011-3647, CVE-2011-3648, CVE-2011-3650).
1901 - Upgrade FireGPG to 0.8-1+tails2: notify users that the FireGPG Text
1902 Editor is the only safe place for performing cryptographic operations,
1903 and make it impossible to do otherwise. Other ways open up several
1904 severe attacks through JavaScript (e.g. leaking plaintext when
1905 decrypting, signing messages written by the attacker).
1906 - Install Cookie Monster extension instead of CS Lite.
1907 - Always ask where to save files.
1908 - Upgrade Torbutton to 1.4.4.1-1, which includes support for the in-browser
1909 "New identity" feature.
1912 - Install MAT, the metadata anonymisation toolkit.
1913 - Upgrade TrueCrypt to 7.1.
1914 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.5~rc1 (leads the user by the hand if an error
1915 occurs while sending the bugreport, proposes to save it after 2 faild
1916 attempts, numerous bugfixes).
1917 - Linux: upgrade to linux-image-3.0.0-2-486 (version 3.0.0-6); fixes
1918 a great number of bugs and security issues.
1921 - Fully rework date and time setting system.
1922 - Remove the htp user firewall exception.
1923 - Saner keyboard layouts for Arabic and Russian.
1924 - Use Plymouth text-only splash screen at boot time.
1925 - Color the init scripts output.
1926 - Suppress Tor's warning about applications doing their own DNS lookups.
1927 This is totally safe due to our Tor enforcement.
1928 - Disable hdparm boot-time service.
1929 We only want hdparm so that laptop-mode-tools can use it.
1930 - Run Claws Mail using torify.
1931 It's not as good as if Claws Mail supported SOCKS proxies itself,
1932 but still better than relying on the transparent netfilter torification.
1933 - Install HPLIP and hpcups for better printing support.
1935 * Erase memory at shutdown
1936 - Run many sdmem instances at once.
1937 In hope of erasing more memory until we come up with a proper fix for
1938 [[bugs/sdmem_does_not_clear_all_memory]].
1939 - Kill gdm3 instead of using its initscript on brutal shutdown.
1940 - Use absolute path to eject for more robust memory wipe on boot medium removal.
1943 - Exclude kernel and initramfs from being put into the SquashFS.
1944 Those files are already shipped where they are needed, that is in the ISO
1945 filesystem. Adapt kexec and memlockd bits.
1946 - Do not ship the GNOME icon theme cache.
1947 - Do not ship .pyc files.
1948 - Do not ship NEWS.Debian.gz files.
1951 - Re-implement hook that modifies syslinux config to make future
1954 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:26:38 +0100
1956 tails (0.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1959 - Update to 3.5.16-10 (fixes DSA-2313-1).
1960 - FireGPG: force crypto action results to appear in a new window, otherwise
1961 JavaScript can steal decrypted plaintext. Advice: always use FireGPG's
1962 text editor when writing text you want to encrypt. If you write it in a
1963 textbox the plaintext can be stolen through JavaScript before it is
1964 encrypted in the same way.
1965 - Update HTTPS Everywhere extension to 1.0.3-1.
1966 - Stop using the small version of the Tor check page. The small version
1967 incorrectly tells Tails users to upgrade their Torbrowser, which has
1968 confused some users.
1971 - Update Linux to 3.0.0-2 (fixes DSA-2310-1, CVE-2011-2905, CVE-2011-2909,
1972 CVE-2011-2723, CVE-2011-2699, CVE-2011-1162, CVE-2011-1161).
1973 - Update usb-modeswitch to 1.1.9-2~bpo60+1 and usb-modeswitch-data to
1974 20110805-1~bpo60+1 from Debian backports. This adds support for a few
1975 devices such as Pantech UMW190 CDMA modem.
1976 - Install libregexp-common-perl 2011041701-3 from Debian unstable. This
1977 fixes the bug: [[bugs/msva_does_not_use_configured_keyserver]].
1978 - Install hdparm so the hard drives can be spinned down in order to save
1980 - Install barry-util for better BlackBerry integration.
1981 - Debian security upgrades: OpenOffice.org (DSA-2315-1), openjdk-6
1982 (DSA-2311-1), policykit-1 (DSA-2319-1)
1984 * Protecting against memory recovery
1985 - Set more appropriate Linux VM config before wiping memory. These
1986 parameters should make the wipe process more robust and efficient.
1988 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:31:18 +0200
1990 tails (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * Rebase on the Debian Squeeze 6.0.2.1 point-release.
1995 - Update to 0.2.2.33-1.
1996 - Disabled ControlPort in favour of ControlSocket.
1997 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to Tor's LongLivedPorts list.
2001 - Start script now depends on HTP since I2P breaks if the clock jumps or is
2002 too skewed during bootstrap.
2005 - Update to 3.5.16-9 (fixes CVE-2011-2374, CVE-2011-2376, CVE-2011-2365,
2006 CVE-2011-2373, CVE-2011-2371, CVE-2011-0083, CVE-2011-2363, CVE-2011-0085,
2007 CVE-2011-2362, CVE-2011-2982, CVE-2011-2981, CVE-2011-2378, CVE-2011-2984,
2009 - Enable HTTP pipelining (like TBB).
2010 - Update HTTPS Everywhere extension to 1.0.1-1 from Debian unstable.
2011 - Suppress FoxyProxy update prompts.
2012 - Prevent FoxyProxy from "phoning home" after a detected upgrade.
2013 - Fixed a bunch of buggy regular expressions in FoxyProxy's configuration.
2014 See [[bugs/exploitable_typo_in_url_regex?]] for details. Note that none of
2015 these issues are critical due to the transparent proxy.
2016 - Add DuckDuckGo SSL search engine.
2019 - Update to torbutton 1.4.3-1 from Debian unstable.
2020 - Don't show Torbutton status in the status bar as it's now displayed in the
2024 - More random looking nicks in pidgin.
2025 - Add IRC account on chat.wikileaks.de:9999.
2028 - Upgrade htpdate script (taken from Git 7797fe9) that allows setting wget's
2029 --dns-timeout option.
2032 - Update Linux to 3.0.0-1. -686 is now deprecated in favour of -486 and
2033 -686-pae; the world is not ready for -pae yet, so we now ship -486.
2034 - Update OpenSSL to 0.9.8o-4squeeze2 (fixes CVE-2011-1945 (revoke
2035 compromised DigiNotar certificates), CVE-2011-1945).
2036 - Update Vidalia to 0.2.14-1+tails1 custom package.
2037 - Install accessibility tools:
2038 - gnome-mag: screen magnifier
2039 - gnome-orca: text-to-speech
2040 - Replace the onBoard virtual keyboard with Florence.
2041 - Install the PiTIVi non-linear audio/video editor.
2046 * Arbitrary DNS queries
2047 - Tor can not handle all types of DNS queries, so if the Tor resolver fails
2048 we fallback to ttdnsd. This is now possible with Tor 0.2.2.x, since we
2049 fixed Tor bug #3369.
2052 - Install ipheth-utils for iPhone tethering.
2053 - Install xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse (for mouse integration with the host OS
2055 - Install virtualbox-ose 4.x guest packages from Debian backports.
2058 - Switch gpg to use keys.indymedia.org's hidden service, without SSL.
2059 The keys.indymedia.org SSL certificate is now self-signed. The hidden
2060 service gives a good enough way to authenticate the server and encrypts
2061 the connection, and just removes the certificates management issue.
2062 - The squashfs is now compressed using XZ which reduces the image size quite
2064 - Remove Windows autorun.bat and autorun.inf. These files did open a static
2065 copy of our website, which is not accessible any longer.
2068 - Use the Git branch instead of the Debian version into the built image's
2070 - Allow replacing efficient XZ compression with quicker gzip.
2071 - Build and install documentation into the chroot (-> filesystem.squashfs).
2072 Rationale: our static website cannot be copied to a FAT32 filesystem due
2073 to filenames being too long. This means the documentation cannot be
2074 browsed offline from outside Tails. However, our installer creates GPT
2075 hidden partitions, so the doc would not be browseable from outside Tails
2076 anyway. The only usecase we really break by doing so is browsing the
2077 documentation while running a non-Tails system, from a Tails CD.
2079 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 09 Sep 2011 11:31:18 +0200
2081 tails (0.7.2) unstable; urgency=high
2084 - Disable Torbutton's external application launch warning.
2085 ... which advises using Tails. Tails *is* running Tails.
2086 - FoxyProxy: install from Debian instead of the older one we previously
2090 - haveged: install an official Debian backport instead of a custom backport.
2091 - unrar: install the version from Debian's non-free repository.
2092 Users report unrar-free does not work well enough.
2094 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:34:56 +0200
2096 tails (0.7.1) unstable; urgency=high
2098 * Vidalia: new 0.2.12-2+tails1 custom package.
2101 - Don't show Foxyproxy's status / icon in FF statusbar to prevent users
2102 from accidentaly / unconsciously put their anonymity at risk.
2103 - "amnesia branding" extension: bump Iceweasel compatibility to 4.0 to ease
2104 development of future releases.
2107 - Upgrade Linux kernel to Debian's 2.6.32-33: fixes tons of bugs,
2108 including the infamous missing mouse cursor one. Oh, and it closes
2109 a few security holes at well.
2110 - Install unrar-free.
2111 - Do not install pppoeconf (superseeded by NetworkManager).
2112 - Upgrade macchanger to Debian testing package to ease development of
2113 future Tails releases.
2114 - Debian security upgrades: x11-xserver-utils (DSA-2213-1), isc-dhcp
2115 (DSA-2216-1), libmodplug (DSA-2226-1), openjdk-6 (DSA-2224-1).
2117 * Protecting against memory recovery
2118 - Add Italian translation for tails-kexec. Thanks to Marco A. Calamari.
2119 - Make it clear what it may mean if the system does not power off
2121 - Use kexec's --reset-vga option that might fix display corruption issues
2124 * WhisperBack (encrypted bug reporting software)
2125 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.4.1:
2126 localizes the documentation wiki's URL,
2127 uses WebKit to display the bug reporting help page,
2128 now is usable on really small screens.
2129 - Extract wiki's supported languages at build time, save this
2130 information to /etc/amnesia/environment, source this file into the
2131 Live user's environment so that WhisperBack 1.4+ can make good use
2135 - Fix boot in Chinese.
2136 - Install mobile-broadband-provider-info for better 3G support.
2137 - Add back GNOME system icons to menus.
2138 - tails-security-check: avoid generating double-slashes in the Atom
2140 - Remove "vga=788" boot parameter which breaks the boot on some hardware.
2141 - Remove now useless "splash" boot parameter.
2142 - Fix a bunch of i386-isms.
2143 - Pass the noswap option to the kernel. This does not change actual Tails
2144 behaviour but prevents users from unnecessarily worrying because of
2145 the "Activating swap" boot message.
2146 - Make use of check.torproject.org's Arabic version.
2149 - Enable squeeze-backports. It is now ready and will be used soon.
2150 - Install eatmydata in the chroot.
2151 - Convert ikiwiki setup files to YAML.
2153 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:14:53 +0200
2155 tails (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2158 - Install foomatic-filters-ppds to support more printers.
2159 - Give the default user the right to manage printers.
2162 - Deinstall unwanted packages newly pulled by recent live-build.
2164 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:58:51 +0200
2166 tails (0.7~rc2) unstable; urgency=low
2168 ** SNAPSHOT build @824f39248a08f9e190146980fb1eb0e55d483d71 **
2170 * Rebase on Debian Squeeze 6.0.1 point-release.
2172 * Vidalia: new 0.2.10-3+tails5 custom package..
2175 - Install usb-modeswitch and modemmanager to support mobile broadband
2176 devices such as 3G USB dongles. Thanks to Marco A. Calamari for the
2180 - Website relocated to https://tails.boum.org/ => adapt various places.
2181 - Configure keyboard layout accordingly to the chosen language for
2182 Italian and Portuguese.
2184 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:44:25 +0100
2186 tails (0.7~rc1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
2188 ** SNAPSHOT build @98987f111fc097a699b526eeaef46bc75be5290a **
2190 * Rebase on Debian Squeeze.
2192 * T(A)ILS has been renamed to Tails.
2194 * Protecting against memory recovery
2195 New, safer way to wipe memory on shutdown which is now also used when
2196 the boot media is physically removed.
2199 - Update to 0.2.1.30-1.
2202 - Add HTTPS Everywhere 0.9.4 extension.
2203 - Better preserve Anonymity Set: spoof US English Browser and timezone
2204 the same way as the Tor Browser Bundle, disable favicons and picture
2206 - Install AdBlock Plus extension from Debian.
2207 - Add Tor-related bookmarks.
2208 - Support FTP, thanks to FoxyProxy.
2209 - Update AdBlock patterns.
2210 - Disable geolocation and the offline cache.
2213 - Update Vidalia to 0.2.10-3+tails4.
2214 - Install gnome-disk-utility (Palimpsest) and Seahorse plugins.
2215 - Add opt-in i2p support with Iceweasel integration through FoxyProxy.
2216 - onBoard: fix "really quits when clicking the close window icon" bug.
2217 - Optionally install TrueCrypt at boot time.
2218 - Install laptop-mode-tools for better use of battery-powered hardware.
2219 - Replace xsane with simple-scan which is part of GNOME and way easier
2221 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.3.1 (bugfixes, French translation).
2222 - Install scribus-ng instead of scribus. It is far less buggy in Squeeze.
2225 - Drop incoming packets by default.
2226 - Forbid queries to DNS resolvers on the LAN.
2227 - Set output policy to drop (defense-in-depth).
2230 - Install Atheros and Broadcom wireless firmwares.
2231 - Install libsane-hpaio and sane-utils, respectively needed for
2232 multi-function peripherals and some SCSI scanners.
2234 * live-boot 2.0.15-1+tails1.35f1a14
2235 - Cherry-pick our fromiso= bugfixes from upstream 3.x branch.
2238 - Many tiny user interface improvements.
2239 - More robust HTP time synchronization wrt. network failures.
2240 Also, display the logs when the clock synchronization fails.
2241 - Disable GNOME automatic media mounting and opening to protect against
2242 a class of attacks that was recently put under the spotlights.
2243 Also, this feature was breaking the "no trace is left on local
2244 storage devices unless explicitly asked" part of Tails specification.
2245 - Make configuration more similar to the Tor Browser Bundle's one.
2246 - GnuPG: default to stronger digest algorithms.
2247 - Many more or less proper hacks to get the built image size under 700MB.
2248 - Compress the initramfs using LZMA for faster boot.
2251 - Run lb build inside eatmydata fsync-less environment to greatly improve
2254 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:52:19 +0100
2256 tails (0.6.2) unstable; urgency=high
2258 * Tor: upgrade to 0.2.1.29 (fixes CVE-2011-0427).
2260 - Upgrade Linux kernel, dpkg, libc6, NSS, OpenSSL, libxml2 (fixes various
2262 - Upgrade Claws Mail to 3.7.6 (new backport).
2263 - Install Liferea, tcpdump and tcpflow.
2264 * Seahorse: use hkp:// transport as it does not support hkps://.
2265 * FireGPG: use hkps:// to connect to the configured keyserver.
2266 * Build system: take note of the Debian Live tools versions being used
2267 to make next point-release process faster.
2268 * APT: don't ship package indices.
2270 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:59:43 +0100
2272 tails (0.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * Tor: upgrade to 0.1.28 (fixes CVE-2010-1676)
2275 * Software: upgrade NSS, Xulrunner, glibc (fixes various security issues)
2276 * FireGPG: use the same keyserver as the one configured in gpg.conf.
2277 * Seahorse: use same keyserver as in gpg.conf.
2278 * HTP: display the logs when the clock synchronization fails.
2279 * Update HTP configuration: www.google.com now redirects to
2280 encrypted.google.com.
2281 * Use the light version of the "Are you using Tor?" webpage.
2282 * Update AdBlock patterns.
2284 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 24 Dec 2010 13:28:29 +0100
2286 tails (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * New OpenPGP signing-only key. Details are on the website:
2291 https://amnesia.boum.org/GnuPG_key/
2294 - Fixed torbutton has migrated to testing, remove custom package.
2297 - Query ssl.scroogle.org instead of lists.debian.org.
2298 - Don't run when the interface that has gone up is the loopback one.
2301 - Add shortcut to securely erase free space in a partition.
2302 - The nautilus-wipe shortcut user interface is now translatable.
2305 - Really fix virtualization warning display.
2306 - More accurate APT pinning.
2307 - Disable Debian sid APT source again since a fixed live-config has
2308 migrated to Squeeze since then.
2310 * live-boot: upgrade to 2.0.8-1+tails1.13926a
2311 - Sometimes fixes the smem at shutdown bug.
2312 - Now possible to create a second partition on the USB stick T(A)ILS is
2316 - Support RT2860 wireless chipsets by installing firmware-ralink from
2318 - Install firmware-linux-nonfree from backports.
2319 - Fix b43 wireless chipsets by having b43-fwcutter extract firmwares at
2323 - Install live-build and live-helper from Squeeze.
2324 - Update SquashFS sort file.
2326 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:53:17 +0200
2328 tails (0.6~rc3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
2330 ** SNAPSHOT build @a3ebb6c775d83d1a1448bc917a9f0995df93e44d **
2333 - Autostart Iceweasel with the GNOME session. This workarounds the
2334 "Iceweasel first page is not loaded" bug.
2337 - Upgrade htpdate script (taken from Git 7797fe9).
2340 - Disable ssh-agent auto-starting with X session: gnome-keyring is
2342 - Fix virtualization warning display.
2343 - Boot profile hook: write desktop file to /etc/skel.
2346 - Convert build system to live-build 2.0.1.
2347 - APT: fetch live-build and live-helper from Debian Live snapshots.
2348 - Remove dependency on live-build functions in chroot_local-hooks.
2349 This makes the build environment more robust and less dependent on
2350 live-build internals.
2351 - Remove hand-made rcS.d/S41tails-wifi: a hook now does this.
2352 - Measure time used by the lh build command.
2353 - Fix boot profile hook.
2354 - Boot profiling: wait a bit more: the current list does not include
2357 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 02 Oct 2010 23:06:46 +0200
2359 tails (0.6~rc2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
2361 ** SNAPSHOT build @c0ca0760ff577a1e797cdddf0e95c5d62a986ec8 **
2364 - Refreshed AdBlock patterns (20100926).
2365 - Set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true (untested yet)
2366 - Torbutton: install patched 1.2.5-1+tails1 to fix the User-Agent bug,
2367 disable extensions.torbutton.spoof_english again.
2370 - WhisperBack: upgrade to 1.3~beta3 (main change: let the user provide
2371 optional email address and OpenPGP key).
2373 - Update haveged backport to 0.9-3~amnesia+lenny1.
2374 - Update live-boot custom packages (2.0.6-1+tails1.6797e8): fixes bugs
2375 in persistency and smem-on-shutdown.
2376 - Update custom htpdate script. Taken from commit d778a6094cb3 in our
2377 custom Git repository: fixes setting of date/time.
2380 - Bugfix: failed builds are now (hopefully) detected.
2381 - Fix permissions on files in /etc/apt/ that are preserved in the image.
2382 - Install version 2.0~a21-1 of live-build and live-helper in the image.
2383 We are too late in the release process to upgrade to current Squeeze
2384 version (2.0~a29-1).
2387 - Pidgin/OTR: disable the automatic OTR initiation and OTR requirement.
2389 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:23:17 +0200
2391 tails (0.6~1.gbpef2878) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
2393 ** SNAPSHOT build @ef28782a0bf58004397b5fd303f938cc7d11ddaa **
2396 - Use a 2.6.32 kernel: linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.5-686 (2.6.32-23~bpo50+1)
2397 from backports.org. This should support far more hardware and
2398 especially a lot of wireless adapters.
2399 - Add firmware for RTL8192 wireless adapters.
2400 - Enable power management on all wireless interfaces on boot.
2405 - Install gfshare and ssss: two complementary implementations
2406 of Shamir's Secret Sharing.
2407 - Install tor-geoipdb.
2408 - Remove dialog, mc and xterm.
2411 - Set extensions.torbutton.spoof_english to its default true value
2412 in order to workaround a security issue:
2413 https://amnesia.boum.org/security/Iceweasel_exposes_a_rare_User-Agent/
2416 - Install the Iceweasel extension.
2417 - Use a hkps:// keyserver.
2420 - Install gnupg from backports.org so that hkps:// is supported.
2421 - Use a hkps:// keyserver.
2422 - Proxy traffic via polipo.
2423 - Prefer up-to-date digests and ciphers.
2425 * Vidalia: rebased our custom package against 0.2.10.
2428 - Built images are now named like this:
2429 tails-i386-lenny-0.5-20100925.iso
2430 - Use live-helper support for isohybrid options instead of doing the
2431 conversion ourselves. The default binary image type we build is now
2433 - Remove .deb built by m-a after they have been installed.
2434 - Setup custom GConf settings at build time rather than at boot time.
2435 - Move $HOME files to /etc/skel and let adduser deal with permissions.
2436 - Convert to live-boot / live-config / live-build 2.x branches.
2437 - Replaced our custom live-initramfs with a custom live-boot package;
2438 included version is 2.0.5-1+tails2.6797e8 from our Git repository:
2439 git clone git://git.immerda.ch/tails_live-boot.git
2440 - Install live-config* from the live-snapshots Lenny repository.
2441 Rationale: live-config binary packages differ depending on the target
2442 distribution, so that using Squeeze's live-config does not produce
2443 fully-working Lenny images.
2444 - Rename custom scripts, packages lists and syslinux menu entries from
2445 the amnesia-* namespace to the tails-* one.
2448 - Use (authenticated) HTP instead of NTP.
2449 - The htpdate script that is used comes from commit 43f5f83c0 in our
2450 custom repository: git://git.immerda.ch/tails_htp.git
2451 - Start Tor and Vidalia only once HTP is done.
2454 - Fix IPv6 firewall restore file. It was previously not used at all.
2455 - Use ftp.us.debian.org instead of the buggy GeoIP-powered
2457 - Gedit: don't autocreate backup copies.
2458 - Build images with syslinux>=4.01 that has better isohybrid support.
2459 - amnesia-security-check: got rid of the dependency on File::Slurp.
2460 - Take into account the migration of backports.org to backports.debian.org.
2461 - Make GnuPG key import errors fatal on boot.
2462 - Warn the user when T(A)ILS is running inside a virtual machine.
2463 - DNS cache: forget automapped .onion:s on Tor restart.
2465 * Documentation: imported Incognito's walkthrough, converted to
2466 Markdown, started the needed adaptation work.
2468 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 26 Sep 2010 11:06:50 +0200
2470 tails (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * The project has merged efforts with Incognito.
2473 It is now to be called "The (Amnesic) Incognito Live System".
2477 - Created the amnesia-news mailing-list.
2478 - Added a forum to the website.
2479 - Created a chatroom on IRC: #tails on irc.oftc.net
2482 - Workaround nasty NetworkManager vs. Tor bug that often
2483 prevented the system to connect to the Tor network: restart Tor and Vidalia
2484 when a network interface goes up.
2485 - onBoard now autodetects the keyboard layout... at least once some
2486 keys have been pressed.
2487 - New windows don't open in background anymore, thanks to
2489 - Memory wiping at shutdown is now lightning fast, and does not prevent
2490 the computer to halt anymore.
2491 - GNOME panel icons are right-aligned again.
2492 - Fixed permissions on APT config files.
2493 - Repaired mouse integration when running inside VirtualBox.
2496 - Torbutton: redirect to Scroogle when presented a Google captcha.
2497 - Revamped bookmarks
2498 . moved T(A)ILS own website to the personal toolbar
2499 . moved webmail links (that are expected to be more than 3 soon)
2500 to a dedicated folder.
2501 - Don't show AdBlock Plus icon in the toolbar.
2502 - Adblock Plus: updated patterns, configured to only update subscriptions
2503 once a year. Which means never, hopefully, as users do update their
2504 Live system on a regular basis, don't they?
2506 * Vidalia: rebased our custom package against 0.2.8.
2509 - Install Claws Mail from backports.org to use the X.509 CA
2510 certificates provided by Debian.
2511 - Enable PGP modules with basic configuration:
2512 . Automatically check signatures.
2513 . Use gpg-agent to manage passwords.
2514 . Display warning on start-up if GnuPG doesn't work.
2515 - Set the IO timeout to 120s (i.e. the double of the default 60s).
2518 - Automatically connect to irc.oftc.net with a randomized nickname,
2519 so as not to advertize the use of T(A)ILS; this nickname is made of:
2520 . a random firstname picked from the 2000 most registered by the U.S.
2521 social security administration in the 70s;
2522 . two random digits.
2523 Good old irc.indymedia.org is still configured - with same nickname -
2524 but is not enabled by default anymore.
2525 - Disabled MSN support, that is far too often affected by security flaws.
2527 * Build $HOME programmatically
2528 - Migrated all GConf settings, including the GNOME panel configuration,
2529 to XML files that are loaded at boot time.
2530 - Configure iceweasel profile skeleton in /etc/iceweasel.
2531 A brand new profile is setup from this skeleton once iceweasel is
2533 . build sqlite files at build time from plain SQL.
2534 . FireGPG: hard-code current firegpg version at build time to prevent
2535 the extension to think it was just updated.
2536 . stop shipping binary NSS files. These were here only to
2537 install CaCert's certificate, that is actually shipped by Debian's
2541 - Updated Debian Live snapshots APT repository URL.
2542 - Purge all devel packages at the end of the chroot configuration.
2543 - Make sure the hook that fixes permissions runs last.
2544 - Remove unwanted Iceweasel search plugins at build time.
2547 - Added a progress bar for boot time file readahead.
2548 - Readahead more (~37MB) stuff in foreground at boot time.
2549 - Make the APT pinning persist in the Live image.
2550 - localepurge: keep locales for all supported languages,
2551 don't bother when installing new packages.
2552 - Removed syslinux help menu: these help pages are either buggy or
2553 not understandable by non-geeks.
2554 - Fixed Windows autorun.
2555 - Disable a few live-initramfs scripts to improve boot time.
2556 - Firewall: forbid any IPv6 communication with the outside.
2557 - Virtualization support: install open-vm-tools.
2558 - WhisperBack: updated to 1.2.1, add a random bug ID to the sent
2560 - Prompt for CD removal on shutdown, not for USB device.
2562 * live-initramfs: new package built from our Git (e2890a04ff) repository.
2563 - Merged upstream changes up to 1.177.2-1.
2564 - New noprompt=usb feature.
2565 - Fix buggy memory wiping and shutdown.
2566 - Really reboot when asked, rather than shutting down the system.
2569 - Upgraded to a new custom, patched package (0.93.0-0ubuntu4~amnesia1).
2570 - Added an entry in the Applications menu.
2573 - Install vim-nox with basic configuration
2575 - Install monkeysphere and msva-perl
2576 - Replaced randomsound with haveged as an additional source of entropy.
2579 - Build ralink rt2570 wifi modules.
2580 - Build rt2860 wifi modules from Squeeze. This supports the RT2860
2581 wireless adapter, found particularly in the ASUS EeePC model 901
2583 - Build broadcom-sta-source wifi modules.
2584 - Bugfix: cpufreq modules were not properly added to /etc/modules.
2585 - Use 800x600 mode on boot rather than 1024x768 for compatibility
2586 with smaller displays.
2588 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:14:13 +0200
2590 amnesia (0.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2592 New release, mainly aimed at fixing live-initramfs security issue
2593 (Debian bug #568750), with an additional set of small enhancements as
2596 * live-initramfs: new custom package built from our own live-initramfs
2597 Git repository (commit 8b96e5a6cf8abc)
2598 - based on new 1.173.1-1 upstream release
2599 - fixed live-media=removable behaviour so that filesystem images found
2600 on non-removable storage are really never used (Debian bug #568750)
2602 * Vidalia: bring back our UI customizations (0.2.7-1~lenny+amnesia1)
2604 * APT: consistently use the GeoIP-powered cdn.debian.net
2606 * Software: make room so that {alpha, future} Squeeze images fit on
2608 - only install OpenOffice.org's calc, draw, impress, math and writer
2610 - removed OpenOffice.org's English hyphenation and thesaurus
2611 - removed hunspell, wonder why it was ever added
2614 - explicitly disable persistence, better safe than sorry
2615 - removed compulsory 15s timeout, live-initramfs knows how to wait for
2616 the Live media to be ready
2618 * Build system: don't cache rootfs anymore
2620 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:28:16 +0100
2622 amnesia (0.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * Brown paper bag bugfix release: have amnesia-security-check use
2625 entries publication time, rather than update time... else tagging
2626 a security issue as fixed, after releasing a new version, make this
2627 issue be announced to every user of this new, fixed version.
2629 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:58:41 +0100
2631 amnesia (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * We now only build and ship "Hybrid" ISO images, which can be either
2634 burnt on CD-ROM or dd'd to a USB stick or hard disk.
2636 * l10n: we now build and ship multilingual images; initially supported
2637 (or rather wanna-be-supported) languages are: ar, zh, de, en, fr, it,
2639 - install Iceweasel's and OpenOffice.org's l10n packages for every
2641 - stop installing localized help for OpenOffice.org, we can't afford it
2642 for enough languages
2643 - when possible, Iceweasel's homepage and default search engine are localized
2644 - added Iceweasel's "any language" Scroogle SSL search engine
2645 - when the documentation icon is clicked, display the local wiki in
2646 currently used language, if available
2647 - the Nautilus wipe script is now translatable
2648 - added gnome-keyboard-applet to the Gnome panel
2651 - replaced Icedove with claws mail, in a bit rough way; see
2652 https://amnesia.boum.org/todo/replace_icedove_with_claws/ for best
2653 practices and configuration advices
2654 - virtual keyboard: install onBoard instead of kvkbd
2655 - Tor controller: install Vidalia instead of TorK
2656 - install only chosen parts of Gnome, rather than gnome-desktop-environment
2657 - do not install xdialog, which is unused and not in Squeeze
2658 - stop installing grub as it breaks Squeeze builds (see Debian bug #467620)
2659 - install live-helper from snapshots repository into the Live image
2662 - do not install the NoScript extension anymore: it is not strictly
2663 necessary but bloodily annoying
2665 * Provide WhisperBack 1.2 for anonymous, GnuPG-encrypted bug reporting.
2666 - added dependency on python-gnutls
2667 - install the SMTP hidden relay's certificate
2669 * amnesia-security-check: new program that tells users that the amnesia
2670 version they are running is affected by security flaws, and which ones
2671 they are; this program is run at Gnome session startup, after sleeping
2672 2 minutes to let Tor a chance to initialize.
2675 - uses the Desktop Notifications framework
2676 - fetches the security atom feed from the wiki
2677 - verifies the server certificate against its known CA
2678 - tries fetching the localized feed; if it fails, fetch the default
2681 * live-initramfs: new custom package built from our own live-initramfs
2682 Git repository (commit 40e957c4b89099e06421)
2683 - at shutdown time, ask the user to unplug the CD / USB stick, then run
2684 smem, wait for it to finish, then attempt to immediately halt
2687 - bumped dependency on live-helper to >= 2.0a6 and adapted our config
2688 - generate hybrid ISO images by default, when installed syslinux is
2690 - stop trying to support building several images in a row, it is still
2691 broken and less needed now that we ship hybrid ISO images
2692 - scripts/config: specify distribution when initializing defaults
2693 - updated Debian Live APT repository's signing key
2696 - disable virtualbox packages installing and module building on !i386
2697 && !amd64, as PowerPC is not a supported guest architecture
2698 - built and imported tor_0.2.1.20-1~~lenny+1_powerpc.deb
2701 - rough beginnings of a scratch Squeeze branch, currently unsupported
2702 - install gobby-infinote
2705 - updated GnuPG key with up-to-date signatures
2706 - more improvements on boot time from CD
2707 - enhanced the wipe in Nautilus UI (now asks for confirmation and
2708 reports success or failure)
2709 - removed the "restart Tor" launcher from the Gnome panel
2711 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:28:04 +0100
2713 amnesia (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * software: removed openvpn, added
2721 - lvm2 (with disabled initscript as it slows-down too much the boot in certain
2723 - NetworkManager 0.7 (from backports.org) to support non-DHCP networking
2725 - randomsound to enhance the kernel's random pool
2727 - install the latest stable release from deb.torproject.org
2728 - ifupdown script now uses SIGHUP signal rather than a whole tor
2729 restart, so that in the middle of it vidalia won't start it's own
2731 - configure Gnome proxy to use Tor
2733 - adblockplus: upgraded to 1.0.2
2734 - adblockplus: subscribe to US and DE EasyList extensions, updated patterns
2735 - firegpg is now installed from Debian Squeeze rather than manually; current
2736 version is then 0.7.10
2737 - firegpg: use better keyserver ... namely pool.sks-keyservers.net
2738 - added bookmark to Amnesia's own website
2739 - use a custom "amnesiabranding" extension to localize the default search
2740 engine and homepage depending on the current locale
2741 - updated noscript whitelist
2742 - disable overriden homepage redirect on iceweasel upgrade
2744 - nicer default configuration with verified irc.indymedia.org's SSL cert
2745 - do not parse incoming messages for formatting
2746 - hide formatting toolbar
2747 * hardware compatibility
2749 - beginning of support for the ppc architecture
2750 - load acpi-cpufreq, cpufreq_ondemand and cpufreq_powersave kernel
2752 * live-initramfs: custom, updated package based on upstream's 1.157.4-1, built
2753 from commit b0a4265f9f30bad945da of amnesia's custom live-initramfs Git
2755 - securely erases RAM on shutdown using smem
2756 - fixes the noprompt bug when running from USB
2757 - disables local swap partitions usage, wrongly enabled by upstream
2758 * fully support for running as a guest system in VirtualBox
2759 - install guest utils and X11 drivers
2760 - build virtualbox-ose kernel modules at image build time
2762 - new (translatable) wiki, using ikiwiki, with integrated bugs and todo
2763 tracking system a static version of the wiki is included in generated
2764 images and linked from the Desktop
2766 - adapt for live-helper 2.0, and depend on it
2767 - get amnesia version from debian/changelog
2768 - include the full version in ISO volume name
2769 - save .list, .packages and .buildlog
2770 - scripts/clean: cleanup any created dir in binary_local-includes
2771 - updated Debian Live snapshot packages repository URL and signing key
2772 - remove duplicated apt/preferences file, the live-helper bug has been
2774 * l10n: beginning of support for --language=en
2776 - improved boot time on CD by ordering files in the squashfs in the order they
2777 are used during boot
2778 - added a amnesia-version script to built images, that outputs the current
2780 - added a amnesia-debug script that prepares a tarball with information that
2781 could be useful for developpers
2782 - updated Amnesia GnuPG key to a new 4096R one
2783 - set time with NTP when a network interface is brought up
2784 - import amnesia's GnuPG pubkey into the live session user's keyring
2785 - do not ask DHCP for a specific hostname
2786 - install localepurge, only keep en, fr, de and es locales, which reduces the
2787 generated images' size by 100MB
2788 - added a hook to replace /sbin/swapon with a script that only runs
2790 - moved networking hooks responsibility from ifupdown to NetworkManager
2792 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:17:08 +0100
2794 amnesia (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * imported /home/amnesia, then:
2797 - more user-friendly shell, umask 077
2798 - updated panel, added launcher to restart Tor
2799 - mv $HOME/bin/* /usr/local/bin/
2800 - removed metacity sessions
2801 - removed gstreamer's registry, better keep this dynamically updated
2802 - rm .qt/qt_plugins_3.3rc, better keep this dynamically updated
2803 - removed .gnome/gnome-vfs/.trash_entry_cache
2804 - removed kconf_update log
2805 - removed and excluded Epiphany configuration (not installed)
2808 - enable caching in RAM
2809 - explicitly disable ssl v2, and enable ssl v3 + tls
2810 - removed prefs for the non-installed webdeveloper
2811 - removed the SSL Blacklist extension (not so useful, licensing issues)
2812 - deep profile directory cleanup
2813 - extensions cleanup: prefer Debian-packaged ones, cleanly reinstalled
2814 AddBlock Plus and CS Lite to allow upgrading them
2815 - updated pluginreg.dat and localstore.rdf
2816 - moved some settings to user.js
2817 - made cookie/JavaScript whitelists more consistent
2818 - force httpS on whitelisted sites
2819 - NoScript: marked google and gmail as untrusted
2820 - some user interface tweaks, mainly for NoScript
2821 - FireGPG: disable the buggy auto-detection feature, the link to firegpg's
2822 homepage in generated pgp messages and the GMail interface (which won't
2823 work without JavaScript anyway)
2824 - updated blocklist.xml
2825 - removed and excluded a bunch of files in the profile directory
2826 * icedove: clean the profile directory up just like we did for iceweasel
2827 * software: install msmtp and mutt
2829 - use rsync rather than tar
2832 - reviewed pidgin-otr security (see TODO)
2834 - stop calling home-refresh in lh_build
2835 - include home-refresh in generated images
2837 - fix permissions on local includes at build time
2838 - updated scripts/{build,clean} wrt. new $HOME handling
2839 - scripts/{build,config}: stop guessing BASEDIR, we must be run from
2840 the root of the source directory anyway
2841 - stop storing /etc/amnesia/version in Git, delete it at clean time
2843 - converted Changelog to the Debian format and location, updated
2844 build scripts accordingly
2845 - added a README symlink at the root of the source directory
2846 - basic debian/ directory (not working for building packages yet,
2847 but at least we can now use git-dch)
2848 - added debian/gbp.conf with our custom options for git-dch
2849 - config/amnesia: introduce new $AMNESIA_DEV_* variables to be used
2850 by developpers' scripts
2851 - added ./release script: a wrapper around git-dch, git-commit and git-tag
2853 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:42:03 +0200
2855 amnesia (0.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
2857 * Forked Privatix 9.03.15, by Markus Mandalka:
2858 http://mandalka.name/privatix/index.html.en
2859 Everything has since been rewritten or so heavily changed that nothing
2860 remains from the original code... apart of a bunch of Gnome settings.
2862 - install a bunch of non-free wifi firmwares
2863 - install xsane and add the live user to the scanner group
2864 - install aircrack-ng
2865 - install xserver-xorg-video-geode on i386 (eCafe support)
2866 - install xserver-xorg-video-all
2867 - install firmware-linux from backports.org
2868 - install system-config-printer
2869 - added instructions in README.eCAFE to support the Hercules eCAFE EC-800
2872 - configure pinning to support installing chosen packages from
2873 squeeze; the APT source for testing is hardcoded in chroot_sources/,
2874 since there is no way to use $LH_CHROOT_MIRROR in chroot_local-hooks
2875 - give backports.org priority 200, so that we track upgrades of packages
2876 installed from there
2877 * release: include the Changelog and TODO in the generated images,
2878 in the /usr/share/doc/amnesia/ directory
2879 * software: install gnomebaker when building Gnome-based live OS, to
2880 easily clone myself when running from CD
2882 - build i386 images when the build host is amd64
2883 - added a version file: /etc/amnesia/version
2884 - use snapshot live-* packages inside the images
2885 - setup timezone depending on the chosen build locale
2886 - rely on standard live-initramfs adduser to do our user setup
2887 (including sudo vs. Gnome/KDE, etc.)
2888 - stop "supporting" KDE
2889 - allow building several images at once
2890 - migrated most of lh_config invocations to scripts/config
2891 - append "noprompt" so that halting/rebooting work with splashy
2892 - moved our own variables to config/amnesia, using the namespace
2895 - default search engine is now Scroogle SSL, configured to search pages
2896 in French language; the English one is also installed
2897 - never ask to save passwords or forms content
2898 - configured the torbutton extension to use polipo
2899 - installed the CACert root certificate
2900 - installed the SSL Blacklist extension and the blacklist data
2901 - installed the FireGPG extension
2902 - installed the CS Lite extension
2903 - installed the NoScript extension
2904 - NoScript, CS Lite: replaced the default whitelists with a list of
2905 trusted, non-commercial Internet Service Providers
2906 - configure extensions (add to prefs.js):
2907 user_pref("extensions.torbutton.startup", true);
2908 user_pref("extensions.torbutton.startup_state", 1);
2909 user_pref("extensions.torbutton.tor_enabled", true);
2910 user_pref("noscript.notify.hide", true);
2911 user_pref("capability.policy.maonoscript.sites", "about:
2912 about:blank about:certerror about:config about:credits
2913 about:neterror about:plugins about:privatebrowsing
2914 about:sessionrestore chrome: resource:");
2915 user_pref("extensions.firegpg.no_updates", true);
2916 - install the NoScript plugin from Debian squeeze
2917 - delete urlclassifier3.sqlite on $HOME refresh: as we disabled
2918 "safebrowsing", this huge file is of no use
2919 - torbutton: install newer version from Squeeze
2920 * linux: removed non-686 kernel flavours when building i386 images
2921 * compatibility: append "live-media=removable live-media-timeout=15", to
2922 prevent blindly booting another debian-live installed on the hard disk
2926 - cryptkeeper: Gnome system tray applet to encrypt files with EncFS
2927 - kvkbd: virtual keyboard (installed from backports.org)
2928 - sshfs (and added live user to the fuse group)
2929 - less, secure-delete, wipe, seahorse, sshfs, ntfs-3g
2932 - enable the transparent proxy, the DNS resolver, and the control port
2933 - save authentication cookie to /tmp/control_auth_cookie, so that the
2934 live user can use Tork and co.
2935 - autostart Tork with Gnome
2936 - Tork: installed, disabled most notifications and startup tips
2937 - added a restart tor hook to if-up.d (used by Network Manager as well),
2938 so that Tor does work immediately even if the network cable was
2939 plugged late in/after the boot process
2941 - added a nautilus-script to wipe files and directories
2942 - bash with working completion for the live user
2943 * polipo: install and configure this HTTP proxy to forward requests
2945 * DNS: install and configure pdnsd to forward any DNS request through
2947 * firewall: force every outgoing TCP connection through the Tor
2948 transparent proxy, discard any outgoing UDP connection
2950 - set syslinux timeout to 4 seconds
2951 - use splashy for more user-friendly boot/halt sequences
2953 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:09:15 +0200