1 tails (3.10) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
4 - Harden sudo config to avoid potential future privilege escalation
6 - Upgrade Linux to 4.18 and aufs to 4.18-20181008 (Closes: #15936).
7 - Upgrade the snapshot of the Debian archive to 2018100901 accordingly.
8 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.0.3-build1.
11 - Fix installation of mesa/stretch-backports by installing libwayland*
12 from stretch-backports (Closes: #15846).
13 - Tor Browser AppArmor profile patch: update to apply cleanly on top
14 of torbrowser-launcher 0.2.9-5.
15 - Additional Software: fix issues spotted during the code review
17 - Additional Software: fix persistence support (Closes: #15983).
18 - Improve button labels in confirmation dialogs of the Tails installer
20 - Hardcode User Agent in htpdate.user-agent (Closes: #15912), as the
21 Tor Browser doesn't expose it anymore.
22 - Fix encoding-related crashes in Tails Installer (Closes: #15166).
23 - Set the Firefox preferences to spoof English, to avoid leaking
24 information about locale settings (Closes: #16029).
25 - Update translations.
27 * Minor improvements and updates
28 - Add dmsetup and losetup output in whisperback reports to help debug
29 Veracrypt-related issues (Closes: #15966).
30 - Let AppArmor allow access to /usr/local/share/mime, reducing noise
31 in logs due to many DENIED entries (Closes: #15965).
32 - Use proper stem.connection module in onion-grater instead of trying
33 to read the auth cookie manually: that's fragile and breaks some use
34 cases (e.g. custom auth cookie).
37 - unlock_veracrypt_volumes: Improve internationalization support.
40 - Ensure the test suite doesn't break when changing the headline of
41 /home (Closes: #12156).
42 - Update test suite for updated button labels in confirmation dialogs
43 of the Tails installer (Closes: #11501).
45 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2018 15:50:55 +0200
47 tails (3.9.1) unstable; urgency=medium
50 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.0.2, based on Firefox 60.2.1 (Closes: #16017).
51 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 60.0-3~deb9u1.0tails2 (Closes: #15959). Also
52 imported the same security fixes that caused Tor Browser 8.0.2.
54 - Upgrade curl to 7.52.1-5+deb9u7 (DSA-4286).
55 - Upgrade Ghostscript to 9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u5 (DSA-4294).
56 - Upgrade libarchive-zip-perl to 1.59-1+deb9u1 (DSA-4300).
57 - Upgrade libkpathsea6 to 2016.20160513.41080.dfsg-2+deb9u1 (DSA-4299).
58 - Upgrade LittleCMS 2, aka. liblcms2-2, to 2.8-4+deb9u1 (DSA-4284).
59 - Upgrade Python 2.7 to 2.7.13-2+deb9u3 (DSA-4306).
60 - Upgrade Python 3.5 to 3.5.3-1+deb9u1 (DSA-4307).
63 - Make Thunderbird translated in non-English locales via
64 intl.locale.requested, which works correctly since 60.0-3
66 - Totem: backport AppArmor profile fix to allow opening the help
68 - Remove mutt, that was accidentally installed in 3.9 (Closes: #15904).
69 - Fix VeraCrypt volumes not being opened in GNOME Files (Closes: #15954).
70 - Fix displaying the "General" section in the Tor Browser preferences
72 - Fix APT pinning at Tails runtime for our custom APT repository
73 and for Debian backports (Closes: #15837, #15973).
75 * Minor improvements and updates
76 - Upgrade tor to 0.3.4.8-1~d90.stretch+1 (Closes: #15889).
78 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 03 Oct 2018 12:12:33 +0200
80 tails (3.9) unstable; urgency=medium
83 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.0 (Closes: #15803, #15907).
84 Notable user-visible changes and relevant details:
85 · Adjust to the fact Tor Browser 8.0a10 replaces firefox with a wrapper.
86 · Don't use the bundled copy of libstdc++.so.6, ours is recent enough.
87 · Drop obsolete Torbutton prefs (Closes: #15706).
88 · Switch back to 128px icons (Closes: #15081).
89 · AppArmor profile: take into account new Firefox binary path.
90 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 60.0 (Closes: #15792).
91 Notable user-visible changes and relevant details:
92 · AppArmor profile: patch to avoid conflicting x modifiers for ps(1).
93 - Upgrade tor to 0.3.4.7-rc (Closes: #15772).
96 - Upgrade Linux to 4.17.17-1 and intel-microcode to 3.20180807a.1
97 This fixes CVE-2018-3620 aka. Foreshadow aka. L1 Terminal Fault
99 - Upgrade OpenSSH to 1:7.4p1-10+deb9u4 (DSA-4280).
102 - Fix Totem on Intel graphics cards by inlining the backported mesa
103 and dri-enumerate abstractions into its AppArmor profile: they are needed
104 with recent Mesa and libdrm (Closes: #15821). Regression introduced
106 - Fix unlocking "hidden" TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt volumes via GNOME Shell
108 - Fix confusing error message when unlocking TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt volumes
110 - Revert to Stretch's X.Org nouveau video driver (Closes: #15833).
111 It seems that the regression brought by the upgraded one
112 is worse than the improvements reported after our call for testing.
113 Regression introduced in 3.9~rc1.
114 - Use the intel X.Org driver for Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620.
115 - Fix regressions introduced in 3.9~rc1 in/by Additional Software Packages:
116 · Don't break new empty persistence configuration files creation when
117 permissions are incorrect (Closes: #15802).
118 · Fix UX when the user has specified a distribution or version
119 for a given package in their live-additional-software.conf
121 · Don't show installation notifications on upgrade (Closes: #15879).
122 - Make more Additional Software Packages strings translatable in the
123 configuration dialog and PolicyKit messages.
125 * Minor improvements and updates
126 - Upgrade firmware-nonfree to 20180825-1.
127 - Update the deb.torproject.org APT repository signing key.
128 - Unlock VeraCrypt Volumes: add disclaimer (Closes: #15849).
131 - Update Thunderbird test suite for 60.0 (Closes: #15791).
132 - Fix various robustness issues.
133 - Make the Chutney nodes use a higher V3AuthVotingInterval to make client
134 bootstrap more robust (Closes: #15799).
135 - Update the Tor Launcher binary path.
136 - Adjust to the fact "New Circuit for this Site" is now in the site
137 information and not under the Torbutton anymore.
138 - Delete unused images.
140 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 04 Sep 2018 12:15:43 +0000
142 tails (3.9~rc1) unstable; urgency=medium
145 - Integrate the Additional Software Packages feature into the desktop
146 and revamp the interface of "Configure Persistent Volume".
147 - Support TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt encrypted volumes on the desktop.
148 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.0a9, based on Firefox 60 ESR (Closes: #15023).
149 Notable user-visible changes and relevant details:
150 · Drop search engine customization and stick to Tor Browser's defaults.
151 · Upgrade uBlock Origin to its WebExtension version and now rely
152 on the filter lists shipped in the Debian package.
153 · Tweak the number of web content processes to work better with 2 GiB
154 of RAM (Closes: #15716).
155 · Revamp how we're handling our custom prefs, drop obsolete ones,
156 reduce our delta with pristine Tor Browser.
157 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 60.0b10 (Closes: #15091). Notable details:
158 · Install Torbirdy 0.2.5 from stretch-backports and drop our patches
159 that were merged upstream.
160 · Enable the optional part of the fixes for EFAIL (Closes: #15602).
161 - Upgrade Linux to 4.17 (Closes: #15763).
162 - Upgrade tor to 0.3.4.6-rc (Closes: #15770).
163 - Upgrade to Debian Stretch 9.5.
166 - Upgrade CUPS to 2.2.1-8+deb9u2 (DSA-4243).
167 - Upgrade Exiv2 to 0.25-3.1+deb9u1 (DSA-4238).
168 - Upgrade FUSE to 2.9.7-1+deb9u1 (DSA-4257).
169 - Upgrade GDM to 3.22.3-3+deb9u2 (DSA-4270).
170 - Upgrade libsoup to 2.56.0-2+deb9u2 (DSA-4241).
171 - Upgrade Imagemagick to 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u5 (DSA-4245).
172 - Upgrade ffmpeg to 7:3.2.12-1~deb9u1 (DSA-4258, DSA-4249).
173 - Upgrade libmspack to 0.5-1+deb9u2 (DSA-4260).
174 - Upgrade Samba to 2:4.5.12+dfsg-2+deb9u3 (DSA-4271).
175 - Upgrade the Apache XML Security for C++ library to 1.7.3-4+deb9u1
179 - Don't display the Enigmail configuration wizard in every Tails session
180 (Closes: #15693, #15746). Fix against Tails 3.8.
181 - Make the torstatus GNOME Shell extension actually translatable
182 (Closes: #15715). Fix against the first Tails release that included
184 - Drop Icedove → Thunderbird migration code which started causing trouble.
186 · Link to upgrade documentation when upgrading (Closes: #7904).
187 · Show the reinstall option only when the device is big enough to make
188 a full reinstallation (Closes: #14810).
189 · Make the main window fit in a 600px-high screen (Closes: #14849).
190 · Show the correct device size in the reinstall confirmation dialog
192 - Tails Greeter: don't display file:/// URLs to users (Closes: #15582).
194 * Minor improvements and updates
195 - Install Mesa and libdrm* from stretch-backports and upgrade the Nouveau
196 X.Org video driver to 1.0.15. This improves support for some graphics
197 cards such as NVIDIA Pascal series (Closes: #14910)
198 - htpdate: improve diagnostics output when the date header can't be fetched.
199 - Onion Grater: support named AppArmor profiles.
200 - Update Onion Grater's config for new Tor Browser AppArmor profile name.
201 - Enable e10s in the Unsafe Browser.
202 - Delete all search plugins for the Unsafe Browser (Closes: #15708).
203 - Display a deprecation warning when starting Liferea (#11082).
204 - Upgrade VirtualBox guest modules to 5.2.16-dfsg-3~bpo9+2.
205 - Use Tor Browser for browsing the documentation even when offline
207 - Provide feedback while Tor Browser, "Tails documentation"
208 or "Report an error" are starting (Closes: #15101).
209 - WhisperBack: remove the right pane (Closes: #7180).
210 - tails-debugging-info: return machine-readable, structured data.
211 Adjust WhisperBack accordingly (Closes: #8514). This paves the way
212 towards more usable bug reports (#8722).
213 - Port lots of our Perl code to more lightweight libraries.
214 This decreases the amount of memory used by the persistence
215 configuration interface.
216 - Do not hide applications that require an admin password (Closes: #11013).
217 - Try unlocking every persistent volume when multiple ones are
218 available (Closes: #15653).
219 - Upgrade Electrum to 3.1.3-1~bpo9+1.
220 - Upgrade most firmware to 20180518-1.
221 - Upgrade Intel microcode to 3.20180703.2~bpo9+1.
222 - Upgrade AMD microcode to 3.20180524.1.
225 - Drop AppArmor feature set pinning: this is now done in Debian Stretch
227 - Remove the now unused deb.torproject.org sid APT source (Closes: #15638).
228 - Install OnionShare from our custom APT repo instead of from sid.
229 We've mistakenly tracked sid for a while and it has become a problem,
230 so stick to the version that works for us until Tails 4.0.
231 - Fix building the ISO on zfs by dropping the cache=none setting for
232 vmproxy's storage (Closes: #14404).
233 - Update the Vagrant basebox for any change under vagrant/.
234 Previously, some relevant changes were not effective until something under
235 vagrant/definitions/tails-builder/ was changed.
236 - Make intltool ignore .py files: `intltool-update --maintain` seems to be
237 buggy with .py files.
238 - Refresh our CUPS AppArmor profile patch to apply on 2.2.1-8+deb9u2.
239 - Make it more obvious that the .orig file check is fatal (Closes: #15727).
240 - Delete baseboxes once they're 6 months old instead of 4.
241 This is more in line with the delay between our major releases these days.
242 - Rename /usr/share/amnesia to /usr/share/tails. It was about time.
243 - Abort the build if /etc/{passwd,group} has changed (Closes: #15419).
244 Such changes can break Tails after an automatic upgrade was applied
245 so let's detect it ASAP. Consequently, ensure a few GIDs — that wanted
246 to play musical chairs — are the same as in Tails 3.8 (Closes: #15695).
247 - Don't fail the build if the APT lists don't include any package
248 whose name matches ^geoclue.
251 - Adjust to the new tails-persistence-setup API.
252 - Update the Tor Browser's AppArmor profile name.
253 - Re-enable the "I can print the current page […]" test.
254 - Update tests wrt. the fact tails-upgrade-frontend-wrapper was ported
255 to Python (Closes: #15379).
256 - Make a test more robust by waiting for the page to have loaded.
257 - Adjust to the fact the WhisperBack debugging info is now configured
258 in a machine-readable file.
259 - Remove test for tails-debugging-info, that has been a no-op for a while.
260 - Adjust for Tor Browser 8.
261 - Make the "I open the address" step more robust and accordingly
262 stop marking the tests that use it in the Unsafe Browser
263 as fragile (refs: #14771).
264 - De-duplicate a number of images of standard GTK+ 3 widgets.
265 - Make the audio and WebM tests more robust.
266 - Make the "I start the Tor Browser in offline mode" step more robust.
267 - Make the "AppArmor has (not )? denied" step more robust.
268 - Don't try and use XVFB_PID if it's not set (Closes: #15730).
269 - Adjust Pidgin test to use a certificate that's still in Debian
271 - Use a hopefully more reliable public GnuPG key and make tests
272 more robust against new subkeys being added (Closes: #15771).
273 - Stop hard-coding the list of RTL Tor Browser locales.
274 - Fix the "Unsafe Browser can be used in all languages supported in Tails"
275 test for locales that have a translated homepage (Closes: #11711).
276 - Take into account that apt(8) won't return when run in the remote shell
277 with the ASP hooks enabled.
279 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Thu, 16 Aug 2018 18:37:47 +0000
281 tails (3.8) unstable; urgency=medium
284 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.5.6 (MFSA 2018-17; Closes: #15683).
285 - Upgrade Enigmail to 2.0.7 (partly fixes #15602 aka. EFAIL).
286 - Upgrade libgcrypt to 1.7.6-2+deb9u3 (DSA-4231-1).
287 - Upgrade perl to 5.24.1-3+deb9u4 (DSA-4226-1).
290 - Thunderbird: fix importing public OpenPGP keys from email attachments
292 - Make the Unsafe Browser home page translatable again (Closes: #15461).
295 - Don't display the "Know your rights" message on Thunderbird first run.
296 - Move Thunderbird's default userChrome.css to /etc/thunderbird, just like
297 we do for Tor Browser, for easier upgrade handling.
299 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 25 Jun 2018 09:59:22 +0000
301 tails (3.7.1) unstable; urgency=medium
304 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.5.5 (MFSA 2018-14; closes: #15643).
305 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 52.8.0 (DSA-4209-1; Closes: #15607).
306 - Partially fixes EFAIL.
307 - Fixes importing OpenPGP keys from keyservers with Enigmail.
308 - Accordingly refresh our Thunderbird AppArmor profile patch.
309 - Upgrade cURL to 7.52.1-5+deb9u6 (DSA-4202-1).
310 - Upgrade GnuPG (modern) 2.1.18-8~deb9u2 (DSA-4222-1).
311 - Upgrade GnuPG (legacy) to 1.4.21-4+deb9u1 (DSA-4223-1).
312 - Upgrade Git to 1:2.11.0-3+deb9u3 (DSA-4212-1).
313 - Upgrade PackageKit to 1.1.5-2+deb9u1 (DSA-4207-1).
314 - Upgrade procps to 2:3.3.12-3+deb9u1 (DSA-4208-1).
315 - Upgrade wavpack to 5.0.0-2+deb9u2 (DSA-4197-1).
316 - Upgrade wget to 1.18-5+deb9u2 (DSA-4195-1).
317 - Upgrade xdg-utils to 1.1.1-1+deb9u1 (DSA-4211-1).
320 - Fix setting a screen locker password with non-ASCII characters
323 - Rename the WhisperBack launcher to "WhisperBack Error Reporting"
324 so that users have a better chance to understand what it does
326 - Ensure debugging info in Whisperback reports don't contain email
327 signature markers so that email clients forward it in full
329 - Wrap text written by the user to 70 chars (Closes: #11689).
332 - The "Tails documentation" desktop launcher now opens /doc instead of
333 the aging /getting_started that confused people during user testing
337 - Update to match "Tails documentation" behaviour change.
339 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 09 Jun 2018 19:53:51 +0000
341 tails (3.7) unstable; urgency=medium
344 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.5.4 (MFSA 2018-12, Closes: #15588).
345 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.1.0f-3+deb9u2 (DSA-4157).
346 - Upgrade Perl to 5.24.1-3+deb9u3 (DSA-4172).
347 - Upgrade Libre Office to 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u4 (DSA-4178).
348 - Upgrade libmad to 0.15.1b-8+deb9u1 (DSA-4192).
351 - Enable the removal of OpenPGP keyblock in Whisperback (closes: #7797).
352 - Show the logo in Whisperback's About menu (closes: #13198).
353 - Use the same font in all the Whisperback report (Closes: #11272).
354 - Update tails-bugs@tails.boum OpenPGP key (Closes: #15534).
357 - Stop installing python-qt4 and python-trezor (Closes: #15391).
358 - Make WhisperBack easier to find in the GNOME Overview (Closes: #13299).
360 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 08 May 2018 01:47:22 +0200
362 tails (3.6.2) unstable; urgency=medium
365 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.5.3 (MFSA 2018-10, Closes: #15459).
366 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 1:52.7.0-1~deb9u1.0tails1 (DSA-4155,
368 - Upgrade libicu to 57.1-6+deb9u2 (DSA-4150).
369 - Upgrade intel-microcode to 3.20180312.1~bpo9+1. Implements
370 IBRS/IBPB/STIPB support, Spectre-v2 mitigation for: Sandybridge,
371 Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake
375 - Tor Browser AppArmor profile:
376 * Grant the main Firefox process access to machine-id: needed for
377 IBus support (Closes: #15437).
378 * Allow access to extensions installed by the user such as Tails
379 Verification (Closes: #15434).
380 - Remove packages needed to support Video Acceleration API
381 (VA-API) because they breaks opening GNOME Settings and Totem in
382 Tails 3.6 on some computers (only NVIDIA for now but perhaps
383 other hardware is affected). (Closes: #15433, #15449)
384 - Upgrade Linux to 4.15.11-1 and bump the aufs submodule (Closes:
386 - tails-documentation script:
387 * open translated documentation page in Tor Browser when online
389 * use documented syntax for os.execv (Refs: #15332)
390 * re-add support for passing a HTML anchor as the second
392 - Fix issue where the tails-persistence-setup user's guid would be
393 changed when it was the uid that was intended (Closes: #15422).
395 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Thu, 29 Mar 2018 17:49:42 +0200
397 tails (3.6.1) unstable; urgency=medium
400 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.5.2 (MFSA 2018-08 i.e. CVE-2018-5146).
401 - Upgrade libvorbis to 1.3.5-4+deb9u2 (DSA 4140-1 aka. CVE-2018-5146).
402 - Upgrade curl to 7.52.1-5+deb9u5 (DSA 4136-1).
403 - Upgrade samba to 2:4.5.12+dfsg-2+deb9u2 (DSA 4135-1).
406 - Fix ISO build reproducibility (Closes: #15400)
407 - Disable Selfrando: Tor Browser upstream currently enables it only
408 in non-release builds
409 (https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24912#comment:8).
411 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2018 22:42:00 +0000
413 tails (3.6) unstable; urgency=medium
416 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.5.1.
417 - Upgrade Tor to 0.3.2.10. (Closes: #15158)
418 - Add ability to lock the screen. (Closes: #5684)
419 - Add initial support for Meek bridges. (Closes: #8243)
420 - Upgrade to Thunderbird 52.6.0. (Closes: #15298)
421 - Enable Thunderbird AppArmor profile. (Closes: 11973)
422 - Upgrade Linux to 4.15.0-1. (Closes: #15309).
423 - Upgrade systemd to 237.
424 - Upgrade Electrum to 3.0.6. (Closes: #15022)
425 - Upgrade the base system to the Debian Stretch 9.4 point-release
427 - Port a few shell scripts to Python thanks to GoodCrypto. (Closes: #11198)
430 - Upgrade Intel processor microcode firmware. (Closes: #15173).
431 - Upgrade poppler to 0.48.0-2+deb9u1. (CVE-2017-14929, CVE-2017-1000456)
432 - Upgrade tiff to 4.0.8-2+deb9u2 (CVE-2017-9935, CVE-2017-11335,
433 CVE-2017-12944, CVE-2017-13726, CVE-2017-13727, CVE-2017-18013)
434 - Upgrade ffmpeg to 7:3.2.10-1~deb9u1. (CVE-2017-17081)
435 - Upgrade libtasn1-6 to 4.10-1.1+deb9u1. (CVE-2017-10790, CVE-2018-6003)
436 - Upgrade Libre Office to 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u2. (CVE-2018-6871)
437 - Upgrade libvorbis to 1.3.5-4+deb9u1. (CVE-2017-14632, CVE-2017-14633)
438 - Upgrade gcc to 6.3.0-18+deb9u1.
439 - Upgrade util-linux to 2.29.2-1+deb9u1. (CVE-2018-7738)
440 - Upgrade isc-dhcp to 4.3.5-3+deb9u1 (CVE-2017-3144, CVE-2018-5732,
444 - Avoid noisy warning at boot time by creating tails-upgrade-frontend's
445 trusted GnuPG homedir with stricter permissions, then making it looser.
447 - Drop (broken) Thunderbird dedicated SocksPort. (Closes: #12460)
448 - Drop customized update-ca-certificates.service. (Closes: #14756)
449 - Update AppArmor cupsd profile. (Closes: #15029)
450 - Improve UX when GDM does not start. (Closes: #14521)
451 - Install packages needed to support Video Acceleration API.
453 - Upgrade aufs-dkms for Linux 4.15. (Closes: #15132).
454 - Ship pdf-redact-tools, thanks to dachary <loic@dachary.org>.
456 - Additional Software Packages: convert to python3 and PEP-8.
458 - Additional Software Packages: do not check for updates every time the
459 network gets reconnected. (Closes: #9819)
460 - Revert to xorg-xserver from Stretch. (Closes: #15232)
461 - Open Tails documentation in Tor Browser when online. (Closes: #15332)
462 - Disable Enigmail's Memory Hole feature. (Closes: #15201)
463 - Persistence Setup: stop depending on Synaptic. (Closes: #15263)
466 - Additional Software Packages: fix the "incomplete online upgrade
467 process" bug in offline mode (Closes: #14570)
468 - Additional Software Packages: do not block Desktop opening.
470 - Install OpenPGP Applet 1.1. (Closes: #6398).
471 - Repair rng-tools using a real start-stop-daemon program.
473 - Tails installer: fix bug with unicode status messages. (Closes: #15254)
476 - Abort if tails-custom-apt-sources failed.
477 - Abort the ISO build when DKMS modules are not built. (Closes: #14789).
478 - Improve how we track dependencies in build hooks. (Closes: #14818)
479 - Fix (potential) rare race condition during build.
480 - Ensure the SquashFS has /etc/hostname properly configured.
482 - Bump builder VM's RAM. (Closes: #15310)
485 - Log the list of systemd jobs when systemctl is-system-running fails.
487 - Allow more time for 'systemctl is-system-running' to succeed.
488 - Only support SikuliX, not Sikuli.
489 - Disable SPICE clipboard sharing.
490 - Don't flood the debug logger with the journal contents.
492 - Enter a name into the Thunderbird account configuration.
494 - Fix the "I do not see ..." step's case. (Closes: #14929)
495 - Mark scenarios that use the "The Report an Error launcher will…" step
496 as fragile (Closes: #15321)
497 - Test that Tor Browser opens docs when online. (Closes: #15332)
498 - Adapt test after warning moved to after Unsafe Browser verification
499 dialog. (Closes: #8775)
500 - Dogtailify electrum.feature.
501 - Add additional software packages feature. (Closes: #14572)
502 - Disable test that is broken due to a Tor Browser bug. (refs: #15336)
504 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 12 Mar 2018 21:28:29 +0100
506 tails (3.5) unstable; urgency=medium
509 - Upgrade amd64-microcode to 3.20171205.1, for the mitigation
510 against Spectre (CVE-2017-5715) (Closes: #15148).
511 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.5-build3 (Closes: #15197).
512 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 1:52.5.2-2~deb9u1.0tails1 (Closes: #15033)
513 - Upgrade gdk-pixbuf to 2.36.5-2+deb9u2.0tails1 (Closes: #15177).
514 - Upgrade bind9 to 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3+deb9u4.
515 - Upgrade libxml2 to 2.9.4+dfsg1-2.2+deb9u2.
518 - Upgrade Linux to 4.14.13, which is the first kernel that has the
519 "[x86] microcode/AMD: Add support for fam17h microcode loading"
520 commit, that's needed to load the AMD fam17h microcode for
521 mitigating the Spectre vulnerability (CVE-2017-5715).
524 - Drop Claws Mail persistence setting migration. Whenever
525 persistent Claws Mail setting is enabled, this creates an empty
526 ~/.icedove/ directory, that prevents Thunderbird from starting
528 - Don't prevent the GNOME Applications button from opening its menu if
529 time syncing resulted in a shift back in time (Closes: #14250).
530 - Tails Installer: when cloning Tails to another USB drive, check
531 if the target device has enough space *before* any destructive
532 actions are made (Closes: #14622).
533 - Tor Browser: make "Print to file" work again, for all locales
534 (Closes: #13403, #15024).
537 - Fix option passed to cmp: -q is not supported but --quiet is.
538 Spotted on feature/buster that's the first branch that exercises
539 this code, but there's no reason to fix it only there.
542 - Adapt tests for Tor Launcher 0.2.14.3, i.e. the one shipped with
543 Tor Browser 7.5 in Tails 3.5 (Closes: #15064).
544 - Add support for creating arbitrarily sized partitions.
545 - Add a "Try cloning Tails to a too small partition" scenario
546 (regression test for #14622).
548 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 23 Jan 2018 00:57:58 +0100
550 tails (3.4) unstable; urgency=medium
553 - Install Linux 4.14.0-3 from sid (Closes: #14976). This enables
554 the kernel-side mitigations for Meltdown.
555 - Upgrade curl to 7.52.1-5+deb9u3.
556 - Upgrade enigmail to 2:1.9.9-1~deb9u1.
557 - Upgrade gimp to 2.8.18-1+deb9u1.
558 - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u4.
559 - Upgrade libav (ffmpeg) to 7:3.2.9-1~deb9u1.
560 - Upgrade libxcursor to 1:1.1.14-1+deb9u1.
561 - Upgrade libxml-libxml-perl to 2.0128+dfsg-1+deb9u1.
562 - Upgrade poppler to 0.48.0-2+deb9u1.
563 - Upgrade rsync to 3.1.2-1 3.1.2-1+deb9u1.
564 - Upgrade samba to 2:4.5.12+dfsg-2+deb9u1.
565 - Upgrade sensible-utils to 0.0.9+deb9u1.
566 - Upgrade tor to 0.3.1.9-1~d90.stretch+1.
569 - Display TopIcons systray on the left of the system menu. This
570 fixes #14796 (on Buster, it is displayed in the middle of the
571 screen, on the left of the clock) and an annoying UX problem we
572 have on Stretch: OpenPGP applet is in the middle of icons that
573 share the exact same (modern, GNOME Shell-like) behaviour, which
574 is disturbing when opening one of the modern menus and moving
575 the mouse left/right to the others, because in the middle one
576 icon won't react as expected, and the nice blue bottom border
577 continuity is broken.
578 - Use the "intel" X.Org driver for integrated graphics in Intel
579 i5-7300HQ (Closes: #14990).
580 - Enable HashKnownHosts in the OpenSSH client (Closes: #14995).
581 Debian enables HashKnownHosts by default via /etc/ssh/ssh_config
582 for good reasons, let's not revert to the upstream default.
583 - Pin the AppArmor feature set to the Stretch's kernel one. Linux
584 4.14 brings new AppArmor mediation features and the policy
585 shipped in Stretch may not be ready for it. So let's disable
586 these new features to avoid breaking stuff: it's too hard to
587 check if all the policy for apps we ship (and that users install
588 themselves) has the right rules to cope with these new mediation
592 - Don't delete downloaded debs after install (Closes: #10958).
593 - Install xul-ext-ublock-origin from sid to make the dashboard
594 work again(Closes: #14993). Thanks to cacahuatl
595 <cacahuatl@autistici.org> for the patch!
596 - Additional software feature: use debconf priority critical to
597 prevent failure when installing packages otherwise requiring
598 manual configuration (Closes: #6038)
599 - Don't include anything under /lib/live/mount/medium/ in the
600 readahead list (Closes: #14964). This fixes the boot time
601 regression introduced in Tails 3.3.
604 - Display a more helpful error message when the 'origin' remote
605 does not point to the official Tails Git repository. This task
606 calls git_base_branch_head() which relies on the fact 'origin'
607 points to our official repo.
608 - Vagrant: never build the wiki early. This has caused several
609 issues throughout the years, the lastest instance being the
610 reopening of #14933. (Closes: #14933)
611 - Install libelf-dev during the time we need it for building DKMS modules.
612 - Make the DKMS build hook verbose, and display DKMS modules build
613 logs on failure. This hook is a recurring cause of headaches,
614 let's simplify debugging.
615 - Remove obsolete duplicate build of the virtualbox-guest DKMS
619 - Log the list of systemd jobs when systemctl is-system-running
620 fails (Closes: #14772). Listing the units is not enough: in most
621 cases I've seen, is-system-running returns "starting" which
622 means the job queue is not empty, and to debug that we need the
624 - Only support SikuliX; drop support for Sikuli.
625 - Disable SPICE clipboard sharing in the guest. It could only mess
626 things up, and in fact has confused me by suddenly setting my
627 *host's* clipboard to "ATTACK AT DAWN"... :)
628 - Decode Base64.decode64 return value appropriately; it returns
629 strings encoded in ASCII-8bit.
630 - Don't flood the debug logger with the journal contents.
631 - Handle case where $vm is undefined during an extremely early
633 - Allow more time for 'systemctl is-system-running' to
634 succeed. (Refs: #14772)
635 - Make Sikuli attempt to find replacements on FindFailed by
636 employing fuzz, or "lowering the similarity factor". The
637 replacements (if found) are saved among the artifacts, and
638 serves as potential drop-in-replacements for outdated
639 images. The main use case for this is when the font
640 configuration in Tails changes, which normally invalidates a
641 large part of our images given that our default high similarity
642 factor. We also add the `--fuzzy-image-matching` where the
643 replacements are used in case of FindFailed, so the tests can
644 proceed beyond the first FindFailed. The idea is that a full
645 test suite run will produce replacements for potentially *all*
647 - Fix our findAny() vs findfailed_hook. For findAny() it might be
648 expected that some images won't be found, so we shouldn't use
649 our findfailed_hook, which is about dealing with the situation
650 where images need to be updated.
651 - Make sure Pidgin's D-Bus policy changes are applied (Closes:
652 #15007). Without the HUP there's a race that we sometimes lose.
653 - Nump the Unsafe Browser's start page image (Closes: #15006).
654 - Hot-plug a 'pcnet' network device instead of 'virtio' on Sid,
655 since the latter is not detected on Sid (Closes: #14819).
657 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 08 Jan 2018 16:57:07 +0100
659 tails (3.3) unstable; urgency=medium
662 - Upgrade the base system to the Debian Stretch 9.2 point-release
663 which gives us tons of bugfixes (Closes: #14714).
664 - Install Linux 4.13.0-1 (Closes: #14789).
667 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 52.4.0 (Closes: #14963).
668 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.0.10 (Closes: #14940).
669 - Upgrade gdk-pixbuf to 2.36.5-2+deb9u1.0tails1 (Closes: #14729).
672 - Upgrade to Tor 0.3.1.8-2~d90.stretch+1, a new stable Tor series.
673 - tails-documentation: rewrite in Python + use WebKit for display
674 instead of the Tor Browser. Since Tor Browser 7.0.8 rendering of
675 local pages (like our docs) fail (#14962) so this is probably a
676 temporary workaround of that.
677 - Replace the Unsafe Browser's warning pages with static,
678 pure-HTML versions. This is truly a *temporary* workaround for
680 - Update deb.tails.boum.org APT repo key (Closes: #14927)
681 - Refresh Tor Browser AppArmor profile patch to apply on top of
682 torbrowser-launcher 0.2.8-4's (Closes: #14923).
683 - Drop obsolete manual enabling of AppArmor on the kernel
684 command-line: it's now enabled by default, so the (Tails -
685 Debian) delta gets smaller. :)
688 - Install Tails Installer 5.0.2. Fixes:
689 * Most notably, fix an issue preventing Tails Installer from
690 installing to drives containing a non-Tails partition that
691 (obviously) has affected a lot of users. (Closes: #14755).
692 * Fix an issue that made the resulting installations unbootable
693 if Tails Installer was using a too recent udisks2, e.g. the
694 one currently in Debian Sid (Closes: #14809).
695 * Code clean-ups (Closes: #14721, #14722, #14723).
696 - Fix UEFI boot for USB sticks installed with Universal USB
697 Installer (Closes: #8992).
698 - Force Tor Browser and Thunderbird to enable accessibility
699 support even if no a11y feature is enabled in GNOME yet (Closes:
701 - Mark our custom Desktop launchers as trusted (Closes: #14793,
703 - Add a systemd --user target for bits of GNOME
704 EarlyInitialization managed by systemd, and make the keyboard
705 layout configuration as part of it. This fixes an issue where
706 the layout chosen in the Greeter sometimes wasn't applied in the
707 GNOME session (Closes: #12543).
710 - auto/{build,clean,config}: run with `set -eu`.
711 - Add script to sanity check the website. Currently it ensures all
712 blog posts and security advisories have valid Ikiwiki 'meta
713 date' directives, since we depend on it for reproducibility.
714 Also make passing this sanity check a pre-condition for building
715 the website (Closes: #12726, #14767).
716 - Abort the ISO build when DKMS modules were not built.
717 - Take into account where DKMS modules get installed nowadays.
718 - auto/build: normalize file timestamps in wiki/src before
719 building. The copy of the website included in the ISO image has
720 "Posted" timestamps that apparently match when we cloned the Git
721 repository, which affects reproducibility. (Closes: #14933).
722 - Fix reproducibility of builds of topic branches that lag behind
723 their base branch with the mergebasebranch build option enabled.
724 Two otherwise identical merge commits done at different times
725 get different IDs, and we happen to embed in the ISO the ID of
726 the commit we're building from. (Closes: #14946)
729 - Bump timeout for "I can save the current page as", otherwise the
730 "The Tor Browser directory is usable" scenario fails randomly
731 when the system is under load.
732 - New scenario: installing Tails to an eligible drive with an
733 existing filesystem. This is a regression test for #14755.
734 - New scenario: re-installing over an existing Tails installation.
736 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 14 Nov 2017 04:53:27 +0100
738 tails (3.2) unstable; urgency=medium
741 - Upgrade Linux packages to the Debian kernel 4.12.0-2, based on
742 mainline Linux 4.12.12 (Closes: #11831, #12732, #14673).
745 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.0.6-build3 (Closes: #14696).
746 - Upgrade to Thunderbird 52.3.0 (Closes: #12639).
747 - Deny access to Pidgin's D-Bus service (Closes: #14612). That D-Bus
748 interface is dangerous because it allows _any_ application running
749 as `amnesia' that has access to the session bus to extract
750 basically any information from Pidgin and to reconfigure it:
751 https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/DbusHowto
752 - Block loading of Bluetooth kernel modules (Closes: #14655) and
753 block Bluetooth devices with rfkill (Closes: #14655).
754 - Add localhost.localdomain to the hosts file to prevent loopback
755 leaks to Tor circuits (Closes: #13574). Thanks to tailshark for
759 - Upgrade to Tails Installer 5.0.1 (Closes: #8859, #8860, #12707). This
760 version gets rid of the splash screen, detects when Tails is already
761 installed on the target device (and then proposes to upgrade),
762 and generally improves the UX. It also increases the Tails partition
763 size and refuses to install to devices smaller than 8 GB.
764 - Deprecate Thunderbird's preferences/0000tails.js (Closes: #12680).
765 - Install the BookletImposer PDF imposition toolkit (Closes: #12686).
767 * Fallback to ~/Tor Browser for uploads (Closes: #8917).
768 * Silence some common operations that always are denied and
769 otherwise would spam the journal (Closes: #14606)
770 - Shell library: remove now unused functions (Closes: #12685).
771 - Add pppoe to the installed packages (Closes #13463). Thanks to geb
773 - Replace syslinux:i386 with syslinux:amd64 in the ISO9660
774 filesystem (Closes: #13513).
775 - htpdate: fix date header regexp (Closes: #10495). It seems that
776 some servers (sometimes) do not send their headers with first
777 letter uppercased, hence a lot of failures to find the date in it.
778 - Install aufs-dkms from Debian unstable (Closes: #12732).
779 - Install vim-tiny instead of vim-nox (Closes: #12687). On Stretch,
780 vim-nox started pulling ruby and rake in the ISO. I think vim-tiny
781 would be good enough, and would save a few MiB in the ISO. Those
782 who use vim more intensively and want another flavour of vim are
783 likely to need persistence anyway, and can thus install a more
784 featureful vim with the additional software packages feature.
785 - Remove gksu and its and gconf's dependencies (Closes: #12738). We
786 use pkexec instead of gksudo. gksu is unmaintained, buggy
787 (e.g. #12000), and it is the only reason we ship GConf, which we
788 want to remove. The other removals are:
789 * libgnomevfs2-extra, which was previously used for SSH/FTP support in
790 Nautilus, but isn't needed for that any more.
791 * libgnome2-bin which provides gnome-open, which isn't required by
792 any application in Tails (as far as we know).
793 * Configurations and scripts that become obsolete because of these
795 - Refresh torbrowser-AppArmor-profile.patch to apply cleanly on top
796 of torbrowser-launcher 0.2.8-1 (Closes: #14602).
797 - Switch from Florence to GNOME's on-screen keyboard (Closes: #8281)
798 and incidentally improve accessibility in GTK+ 2.0 and Qt
799 applications. This drops Florence and the corresponding GNOME
801 - Make ./HACKING.mdwn a symlink again (Closes: #13600).
802 - Implement refresh-translations --force .
803 - Rework how we handle the individual POT files of our applications.
804 Comparing the new temporary POT files we generate with the
805 temporary POT files we generated last time (if ever, and if we
806 did, for which branch?) is not relevant; these POT files are only
807 used for merging into a new tails.pot and *that* one is relevant
808 to diff against the old tails.pot.
809 - Update the Tails signing key. (Closes: #11747)
811 * Ensure reproducible permissions for /etc/hostname (Closes:
813 * Patch desktop-file-utils to make its mimeinfo.cache reproducible
815 * Patch glib2.0 to make its giomodule.cache reproducible (Closes:
817 * Patch gdk-pixbuf to make its loaders.cache reproducible (Closes:
819 * Patch gtk2.0 and gtk3.0 to make their immodules.cache
820 reproducible (Closes: #13440).
821 * Remove GCconf: it is a source of non-determinism in the
822 filesystem (element order in /var/lib/gconf/defaults/%gconf-tree-*.xml)
823 which made Tails unreproducible.
824 * Ignore comment updates in POT files, which was a source of
825 non-determinism and therefore prevented Tails from being
826 reproducible (Closes: #12641).
828 * Increase mmap randomization to the maximum supported value
829 (Closes: #11840). This improves ASLR effectiveness, and makes
830 address-space fragmentation a bit worse.
831 * Stop explicitly enabling kaslr: it's enabled by default in
832 Debian, and this kernel parameter is not supported anymore.
833 * Disable kexec, to make our attack surface a bit smaller.
836 - Start Nautilus silently in the background when run as root
837 (Closes: #12034). Otherwise, after closing Nautilus one gets the
838 prompt back only after 5-15 seconds, which confuses users and makes
839 our doc more complicated than it should.
840 - Ensure pinentry-gtk2 run by Seahorse has the correct $DISPLAY set
844 - build-manifest-extra-packages.yml: remove squashfs-tools version
845 we don't use anymore (Closes: #12684). Apparently our
846 apt-get/debootstrap wrapper tricks are enough to detect the
847 version of squashfs-tools we actually install and use.
848 - Merge base branch earlier, i.e. in auto/config instead of
849 auto/build (Closes: #14459). Previously, a given build from a topic
850 branch would mix inconsistent versions of things.
851 - Fail builds started before SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (Closes:
852 #12352). Such builds would not be reproducible, and this is an
853 assumption (a reasonable one!) that we do all over the place, so
854 let's fail early. While we're at it, let's fail if
855 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is not set as well. Actually we would fail any
856 way if that was the case when reaching our
857 99-zzzzzz_reproducible-builds-post-processing build hook, but
861 - Test the GNOME Root Terminal.
862 - Take into account that Tails Installer 5.0.1 refuses to install
863 Tails to devices smaller than 8 GiB. It'll still allow *upgrading*
865 - Use 7200 MiB virtual USB drives when we really mean 8 GiB. In the
866 real world, USB sticks labeled "8 GB" can be much smaller, so
867 Tails Installer will accept anything that's at least 7200 MiB.
868 This commit makes us exercise something closer to what happens in
869 the real world, and incidentally it'll save storage space on our
870 isotesters and improve test suite performance a bit. :)
871 - Have unclutter poll every 0.1s instead of continuously. On current
872 sid, virt-viewer eats a full CPU and doesn't do its job when
873 "unclutter -idle 0" is running.
874 - Adapt tests for Tails Installer 5.0.1.
875 - Workaround Pidgin's DBus interface being blocked since we actually
876 depend on it for some tests.
877 - Test that Pidgin's DBus interface is blocked.
878 - Save more data on test suite failures (Refs: #13541):
879 * When Tor fails to bootstrap, save Tor logs and chutney nodes
881 * When Htpdate fails to synchronize the clock, save its logs.
882 * Always save the systemd journal on failure.
883 - When testing emergency shutdown, wait longer for Tails to tell
884 us it has finished wiping the memory. The goal here is to help
885 us understand whether (Refs: #13462) is a bug in the emergency
886 shutdown feature or in our test suite.
887 - Restart nautilus-desktop if Desktop icons are not visible
889 - Test suite: fix assert_raise() when using ruby-test-unit >=
890 3.2.5 (Closes: #14654). ruby-test-unit 3.2.5 added native Java
891 exception support for JRuby. The fact we defined the :Java
892 constant was enough to trigger that JRuby-specific code, which
894 - Test suite: take into account that click-to-play is not required
895 anymore for WebM videos in Tor Browser (Closes: #14586).
897 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:23:01 +0200
899 tails (3.1) unstable; urgency=medium
902 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.0.4-build1 (Closes: #13577).
903 - Upgrade Linux to 4.9.30-2+deb9u3.
904 - Upgrade libtiff to 4.0.8-2+deb9u1.
905 - Upgrade bind9 to 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3+deb9u2.
906 - Upgrate evince to 3.22.1-3+deb9u1.
907 - Upgrade imagemagick 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u1.
908 - Ensure Thunderbird cleans its temporary directory. (Closes: #13340).
911 - Patch gconf to produce reproducible XML output (refs: #12738). This is
912 the temporary solution for #12738 in Tails 3.1 which will be reverted
913 (and fixed permanently by removing gconf) in Tails 3.2.
914 - Apply Debian bts patch to cracklib to produce reproducible dictionnaries
916 - Upgrade to Debian 9.1 (Closes: #13178).
919 - Replace faulty URL in htpdate neutral pool (Closes: #13472).
920 - Keep installing a version of Enigmail compatible with Thunderbird 45.x
922 - Fix the time syncing and Tor notifications translations (Closes: #13437).
925 - Upgrade the Vagrant basebox for building ISO images to Stretch
927 - Fix on-disk build by bumping Vagrant build VM memory to 768M
929 - Fix rescue build option by exporting TAILS_BUILD_FAILURE_RESCUE
933 - mark gnome screenshot scenario as fragile (refs: #13458)
934 - mark UEFI scenario as fragile (refs: #13459).
936 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 05 Aug 2017 15:25:51 +0200
938 tails (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium
941 - Upgrade tor to 0.3.0.9-1~d90.stretch+1 (Closes: #13253).
942 - Upgrade Linux to 4.9.30-2+deb9u2.
943 - Upgrade libc to 2.24-11+deb9u1.
944 - Upgrade libexpat1 to 2.2.0-2+deb9u1.
945 - Upgrade libgcrypt20 to 1.7.6-2+deb9u1.
946 - Upgrade libgnutls30 to 3.5.8-5+deb9u1.
947 - Enable Debian security APT sources (Closes: #12309).
950 - Use a higher resolution image in Tails persistence setup
954 - Forcibly set $SSH_AUTH_SOCK before starting GNOME
955 Shell. Apparently, due to a race condition, GNOME keyring
956 sometimes fails to tell the session manager about the correct
957 SSH_AUTH_SOCK, and thus GNOME Terminal hasn't this variable set
958 and any ssh process started in there won't use the (perfectly
959 working) SSH agent (Closes: #12481).
960 - Fix issue that made Tails Installer rejects working USB drives,
961 pretending they're not "removable" (Closes: #12696).
962 - Make behavior of the power button and lid close actions in the Greeter
963 consistent with the regular GNOME session (Closes: #13000).
966 - Track the latest debian-security archive for the corresponding
967 APT sources, and not for the unrelated jessie-updates (Closes:
969 - Print APT sources used in the build VM, to help debugging issues
972 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 04 Jul 2017 15:59:18 +0200
974 tails (3.0) unstable; urgency=medium
977 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.0.1 (Closes: #12635, #12657).
978 - Upgrade to a new snapshot of the Debian and Torproject
979 APT repositories: respectively 2017060904 and 2017060903
983 - Tor Browser: enable Electrolysis (e10s), i.e. render content in a separate
984 child process, which will allow to improve performance and security
985 further along the road. This required us to drop our branding add-on
986 and re-implement its functionality in our Tor Browser wrapper
988 - Clean obsolete cached packages when using the Additional Software Packages
989 feature (Closes: #12400).
990 - Improve KeePassX database migration handling (Closes: #12375).
991 - Upgrade OnionShare to 0.9.2, from Debian sid as it has been removed
992 from Stretch (Closes: #12610).
993 - Upgrade Tor to 0.3.0.8 (Closes: #12656).
994 - Drop obsolete bilibop patch, that was applied in 0.5.2.1.
995 - Include disk space usage information in the WhisperBack bug reports.
996 - Reorder technical details in WhisperBack bug reports in way that makes
997 more sense when reading them.
998 - Convert lc.py to Python 3.
999 - Simplify some Python code thanks to subprocess.check_ouput.
1000 - Set the initial keyboard focus on the "Start Tails" button
1001 in Tails Greeter (Closes: #12509).
1002 - Convert Tails Greeter's Debian packaging to current best practices.
1005 - Fix persistent Thunderbird configuration migration when there is
1006 a mimeTypes.rdf, that doesn't contain any associations to "icedove"
1007 or "/usr/bin/iceweasel" (Closes: #12580).
1008 - Fix persistent browser bookmarks, by generating them from an sqlite dump
1010 - Use the "intel" X.Org driver for Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor
1011 x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Integrated Graphics Controller.
1012 - `exec' from our Thunderbird wrapper so it doesn't remain running.
1013 - Tails Installer: don't allow installing on non-removable drives
1015 - Fetch the torbrowser-launcher sources from Debian sid:
1016 it's been removed from Debian testing.
1017 Refresh torbrowser-AppArmor-profile.patch accordingly.
1018 - Unsafe Browser: remove the search bar, that's currently buggy
1019 and its presence only encourages unsupported usage (Closes: #12573).
1020 - Unsafe Browser: disable searching in the address bar. It can result
1021 in leaking hostnames and credentials to the default search
1022 engine operator (Closes: #12540).
1023 - Make our omni.ja modifications reproducible (Closes: #12620).
1024 - Generate the fontconfig cache in a reproducible manner (Closes: #12567).
1025 - Don't include torrents/rss.html in the ISO. It's not generated
1026 in a deterministic manner and is worthless in the ISO (Closes: #12619).
1027 - Improve the language → default keyboard layout mapping
1028 in Tails Greeter (Closes: #12547).
1029 - Don't close Tails Greeter's main window when Alt-F4 is pressed
1033 - Run emergency_shutdown.feature after usb_*.feature, to reduce disk
1034 space requirements (Closes: #12565).
1035 - Deal with server messages in Pidgin.
1036 - Improve Pidgin connectivity check robustness.
1037 - Flag the Synaptic test as fragile (i.e. #12586).
1038 - Optimization: only test once that Tails, booted on DVD, eventually
1039 shuts down after wiping memory.
1040 - Move tests about the shutdown applet to a dedicated feature,
1041 as they have nothing to do with Tails' "emergency" shutdown feature.
1042 - Adapt the network connectivity check to Stretch, and improve it to check
1043 both link and IP connectivity (Closes: #12602).
1044 - Apply a fix from upstream Git to mutter, to fix some of its interactions
1045 with dogtail (Closes: #11718).
1046 - Mark "Scenario: Watching a WebM video" as fragile (i.e. #10442).
1049 - Set create_box -e, to make the vagrant box generation a bit more robust.
1051 - Install kernel from backports and Tails build deps before performing
1052 APT upgrade, to avoid useless bandwidth usage (Closes: #12529).
1053 - Update submodules after merging the base branch (Closes: #12556).
1054 - Rakefile: fix date comparison in basebox:clean_old (Closes: #12575).
1055 - Rakefile: have basebox:clean_old delete baseboxes more than 4 months old
1057 - Also check for fuzzy patches' .orig files at the end of our build hooks,
1058 so we detect any fuzzy patches applied by hooks (Closes: #12617).
1059 - Remove .orig files for patches we allow to be fuzzy.
1060 - Don't pre-build the wiki when mergebasebranch is enabled.
1061 When pre-building the wiki, we modify the PO files which results in a
1062 conflict from the base branch merge in case it modifies the same
1063 files, which breaks the build (Closes: #12611).
1064 - Rakefile: add a task that removes all tails-builder-* libvirt volumes
1067 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 10 Jun 2017 14:39:10 +0000
1069 tails (3.0~rc1) unstable; urgency=medium
1072 - Install Thunderbird 1:45.8.0-3+tails2 and handle the Icedove → Thunderbird
1073 migration, including wrt. persistent data (Closes: #11712, #12242).
1074 This package also has the patch from
1075 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1281959 applied,
1076 to ease future integration of the Thunderbird AppArmor profile.
1077 Also, drop the Claws → Icedove migration path.
1078 - Upgrade to a new snapshot of the Debian and Torproject
1079 APT repositories: 2017051803 (Closes: #12554).
1080 - Upgrade Linux packages to the Debian kernel 4.9.0-3, based on
1081 mainline Linux 4.9.25.
1082 - Replace the kexec-based memory erasure feature with the Linux kernel's
1083 memory poisoning (Closes: #12354, #12428). The kexec-based implementation
1084 was not reliable enough and provided a poor UX. Instead, we now return
1085 to the initramfs on shutdown and unmount all filesystems there, so their
1086 content and corresponding caches are erased.
1087 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.0a4 based on Firefox 52.1.1esr (Closes:
1089 * Unfortunately e10s (multi-process Firefox) is disabled (#12569).
1090 * Unfortunately persistent bookmarks created for the first time
1091 in Tails 3.0~rc1 is broken (#12568).
1092 * Adds exceptions for the extensions Tails installs on top of
1093 the vanilla Tor Browser (Closes: #11419).
1094 - Upgrade tor to 0.3.0.7-1 (Closes: #12485) and log both to the
1095 usual file and the journal (Closes: #12412).
1096 - Merge the code that makes Tails almost build reproducibly (Refs:
1097 #5630); we still have issues with the fontconfig cache (Refs:
1100 * Minor improvements
1101 - Add a HACKING document for new code contributors (Closes:
1103 - Rename tor-controlport-filter to onion-grater (Closes: #12394)
1104 and import patches killing the delta against Whonix version
1106 - Improve onion-grater; thanks to Joy SN <joysn1980@yahoo.com>
1107 for the original patches (Closes: #12173):
1108 · add --listen-interface
1109 · make stdout/stderr unbuffered to ensure Python exceptions are logged
1110 · use yaml.safe_load()
1111 - Improve KeePassX database migration handling (refs: #12375).
1112 - Electrum: set coin selection strategy to 'Privacy' (Closes: #12177).
1113 - Allow Onion Circuits to access /proc/pid/status.
1114 - Make gdm-shell-tails.desktop more similar to the one shipped
1115 in gnome-shell 3.22.3-3 (refs: #12364).
1116 - Greeter: have the help window point to updated documentation,
1117 use WebKit2 instead of the deprecated WebKit, and hide the sidebar
1119 - Use exec to start KeePassX, i.e. avoid leaving the wrapper running.
1122 - Install xserver-xorg-legacy, to fix support for various graphics
1123 adapters that still don't work with rootless X.Org (Closes: #12542).
1124 - Use the "intel" X.Org driver for Intel Q35 and Intel Atom
1125 D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx graphics controllers (refs: #12219).
1126 - Give UEFI bootloaders upper-case filenames (Closes: #12511).
1127 Some UEFI firmware, such as the one in the ThinkPad X220, only recognize
1128 them if they have an upper-case name.
1129 - KeePassX: enable "Automatically save after each change" again,
1130 like we did in Tails 2.x (fixes a regression introduced
1132 - Install packages needed by the "Test speakers" functionality
1134 - Fix automatic upgrades when one is already applied (Closed:
1136 - When generating the network device blacklist, also blacklist
1137 network drivers from the staging directory (Closes: #12362).
1138 - htpdate pool: replace www.sarava.org with leap.se. The former
1139 has been down for a while and it's not clear when it's going to
1140 be stable again. The latter should be reliable.
1143 - Check that dirmngr used the configured keyserver (Closes: #12371).
1144 - Sanity check that Chutney starts all nodes in the network.
1145 - Disable the Sandbox option for all nodes, until Tor#21943
1146 is fixed (Closes: #12512).
1147 - Wait for the desktop icons to be displayed in the "Tails desktop is ready"
1148 step. Let's not try interacting with the desktop earlier.
1149 - Add tests for memory erasure on "normal" shutdown (refs: #12428).
1150 - Add tests for memory erasure on "emergency" shutdown, and run some
1151 with network enabled (refs: #12354).
1152 - Have eject_cdrom run eject(1) like it used to do in the past.
1153 Otherwise the machine is immediately halted and we cannot test
1154 whether memory has been erased.
1155 - Pass mount_USB_drive structured data instead of free-form text.
1156 - Test that MAC spoofing and "Disable network" works for
1157 hotplugged networking devices (Refs: #12362).
1160 - Generate the Vagrant base box locally as part of the build process,
1161 instead of downloading it: one less binary blob as input in the build
1162 process (refs: #12409).
1163 - Use Vagrant for builds on Jenkins too (Closes: #11972).
1164 - Tell build script to be more verbose.
1165 - Respect the 'ARTIFACTS' environment variable if set.
1166 - Add a second disk to handle the apt-cacher-ng cache, and store
1167 the corresponding logs in there (Closes: #11979).
1168 - Use APT snapshots in Vagrant build VMs, create/use a basebox that matches
1169 the branch/tag/commit being tested, and provision a new VM for each build
1170 (Closes: #11980, #11981).
1171 - Ship all build dependencies in the Vagrant basebox, to save some
1172 time when building ISOs.
1173 - Make basebox generation compatible with both GnuPG 1.x and 2.x.
1174 - Set LC_ALL=C, mostly to suppress some warnings.
1175 - Support forcing VM cleanup before/after build.
1176 - Add tasks for cleaning up old or all base boxes (refs: #12409).
1177 - Add build option useful for debugging build failures.
1178 - Remove obsolete build options.
1179 - Make auto/scripts/utils.sh more reusable, use it in Rakefile,
1180 auto/build and setup-tails-builder.
1181 - Add an option controlling whether to merge the base branch.
1182 - Add "rake test" target and import logics from puppet-tails'
1183 wrap_test_suite script.
1184 - Build Tails as a release simply when HEAD is tagged, i.e. we do not
1185 require building from a detached head any more.
1186 - Sanity check compression choice when building a release.
1187 - Use the host's resolv.conf when building the Vagrant base box.
1188 Since systemd-networkd is used to manage resolv.conf inside the base box,
1189 and it hasn't been initialized yet (we are not booting it, just chrooting
1190 into it) DNS is broken otherwise.
1191 - Release process: "release" a new base box when freezing.
1192 - Chown/scp artifacts with a single command to limit overhead and warnings
1193 noise caused by repeated SSH calls.
1194 - Add a build options to use a custom CPU model, and custom
1195 machine type, for reproducibility testing (refs: #12345).
1196 - Add support for installing Tor Browser nightly builds.
1198 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 20 May 2017 16:48:45 +0200
1200 tails (3.0~beta4) unstable; urgency=medium
1203 - All changes brought by Tails 2.12.
1204 - Upgrade to a new snapshot of the Debian and Torproject
1205 APT repositories (2017041704).
1207 * Security improvements
1208 - Enable the buddy page allocator free poisoning (Closes: #12089).
1209 - Enable slub/slab allocator free poisoning (Closes: #12090).
1210 - Create IUKs (automatic upgrades) in a reproducible manner
1213 * Minor improvements
1214 - Firewall: forbid the _apt user to talk to DNS ports. APT works very well
1215 without DNS access since we only have Onion APT sources, so let's silence
1217 - Replace Pidgin's "systray" icon with the guifications plugin
1218 (Closes: #11741). We're trying to remove as much as we can from
1219 the set of icons managed by TopIcons extension flavours, in the hope
1220 it's enough to cancel the problems we've seen with them (#10576, #11737).
1221 - Disable apt-daily.timer, that can only cause problems in our context
1223 - Do not let pppd-dns manage /etc/resolv.conf (Closes: #12401).
1224 - Ensure rootless X.Org can access /dev/fb0 when started by GDM.
1225 - Include the amdgpu module in the initramfs (refs: #12218).
1226 - Tails Greeter: don't mention 'firewall' anymore (#12382).
1227 - Tails Greeter: avoid the popover menu for Formats being cut,
1228 in most cases (Closes: #12249).
1229 - Tails Greeter: disable the screensaver (Closes: #12370).
1230 - Tails Greeter: fix behavior when pressing Enter in the language selection
1231 menu (Closes: #12359).
1234 - Install speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng to fix the Orca screen reader
1236 - Install xserver-xorg-video-intel and use it on a few graphics adapters
1237 that are not supported correctly by the modesetting driver (refs: #12219).
1238 More PCI IDs will be added as new affected hardware is reported.
1241 - Run on a Q35 2.8 machine (Closes: #11605).
1242 - Deprecate xtightvncviewer in favor of tigervnc-viewer.
1243 - Test the Unsafe Browser in 3 random supported languages, not all.
1244 This should be enough to identify most future regressions in this area,
1245 and will be much faster than testing them all.
1246 - Pidgin tests: switch to an image that doesn't depend on the
1247 topic of tails@conference.riseup.net.
1248 - Fix a problematic use of try_for.
1249 - Fix VM.select_virtual_desktop() and VM.do_focus().
1250 - Random Gherkin improvements.
1251 - Fix a focus issue for GNOME Terminal vs. Tails Installer.
1252 - Adjust to kernel memory poisoning being enabled, which breaks the way
1253 we used to test memory erasure (refs: #12354):
1254 · Drop "no memory erasure" and "memory erasure" tests, that can't work
1256 · Test erasure of memory freed by a killed userspace process.
1257 · Test that memory poisoning applies to unmounted tmpfs.
1258 · Test that memory poisoning applies to read and write cache
1259 for unmounted vfat and LUKS-encrypted ext4.
1260 · Run erase_memory a bit later, it requires less disk space nowadays.
1262 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2017 13:01:25 +0000
1264 tails (2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1267 - Completely remove I2P. :( We have decided to remove I2P (see
1268 #11276) due to our failure of finding someone interested in
1269 maintaining it in Tails (Closes: #12263).
1270 - Upgrade the Linux kernel to 4.9.13-1~bpo8+1 (Closes: #12122).
1273 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.5.2 based on Firefox 45.9. (Closes:
1275 - Mount a dedicated filesystem on /var/tmp, to mitigate the
1276 hardlinks permissions open by the user-tmp abstraction. See
1277 https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/9949#note-23 for details
1279 - Protect against CVE-2017-2636 by disabling the n-hdlc kernel
1280 module (Closes: #12315).
1281 - Ensure /etc/resolv.conf is owned by root:root in the SquashFS.
1282 lb_chroot_resolv will "cp -a" it from the source tree, so it
1283 inherits its ownership from the whoever cloned the Git
1284 repository. This has two problems. First, this results in unsafe
1285 permissions on this file (e.g. a Vagrant build results in the
1286 'amnesia' user having write access to it).
1287 - Upgrade libjasper1 to 1.900.1-debian1-2.4+deb8u3
1288 - Upgrade gstreamer and its plugins to 1.4.4-2+deb8u1.
1289 - Upgrade eject to 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13.1+deb8u1.
1290 - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u8.
1291 - Upgrade pidgin to 2.11.0-0+deb8u2.
1292 - Upgrade samba to 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u5.
1295 * Minor improvements
1296 - Don't add the live user to the "audio" group. This should not be
1297 needed on a modern Linux desktop system anymore (Closes:
1299 - Install virtualbox-* 5.1.14-dfsg-3~bpo8+1 from our custom APT
1300 repository (Closes: #12307).
1301 - Install virtualbox-guest-* from sid. The version currently in
1302 jessie-backports is not compatible with Linux 4.9, and there's
1303 basically no chance that it gets updated (the maintainer asked
1304 for them to be *removed* from jessie-backports) (Closes:
1306 - Pull ttdnsd from our custom APT repository. It's gone from the
1307 TorProject one. We removed ttdnsd on feature/stretch already, so
1308 we'll need to pull it from our custom APT repository only for
1310 - Clean up libdvd-pkg build files, again. This cleanup operation
1311 was mistakenly removed in commit c4e8744 (Closes: #11273).
1312 - Install gnome-sound-recorder (Closes #10950). Thanks to Austin
1313 English <austinenglish@gmail.com> for the patch!
1314 - Stop restarting tor if bootstrapping stalls. It seems tor might
1315 have fixed the issues we used (see: #10238, #9516) to experience
1316 with the bootstrap process stalling and requiring a restart to
1317 kickstart it (Closes: #12411).
1318 - tor.sh: communicate via the UNIX socket instead of TCP port.
1319 This makes the library usable when run inside systemd units that
1320 have `PrivateNetwork=yes` set.
1321 - Get tor's bootstrap progress via GETINFO instead of log
1323 - Upgrade tor to 0.2.9.10-1~d80.jessie+1
1326 - mirror-pool-dispatcher: bump maximum expected mirrors.json size
1327 to 32 KiB. This fixes an error where Tails Upgrader would
1328 complain with "cannot choose a download server" (Closes:
1332 - Retry curl and APT operations up to 20 times to make the ISO
1333 build more robust wrt. unreliable Internet connectivity. Thanks
1334 to Arnaud <arnaud@preev.io> for the patch!
1335 - Install ikiwiki from jessie-backports, instead of our patched
1336 one. Our changes were merged in 3.20161219, and jessie-backports
1337 now has 3.20170111~bpo8+1 (Closes: #12051).
1338 - Fix FTBFS when installing a .deb via config/chroot_local-packages
1339 by being more flexible when matching local packages in the apt
1340 list file (Closes: #12374). Thanks to Arnaud <arnaud@preev.io>
1342 - auto/build: support Stretch's GnuPG v2 keyring filename.
1345 - Try possible fix for #11508. IPv6Packet:s' source is accessed by
1346 `.ipv6_saddr`, not `ip_saddr` (that's for IPv4Packet). So, let's
1347 just try and see which one of the two each packet has, because
1348 one of them must be there! Also, given that UDPPacket can be
1349 either IPv4 or IPv6 it seems safest to try to parse each packet
1350 as IPv6Packet first -- that way we keep looking at transport
1351 layer protocols for IPv4 only, and treat everything IPv6 as the
1352 same, which makes sense, since we should block all IPv6, so
1353 everything should be treated the same at all times.
1354 - Changes due to #12411:
1355 * Raise special exception for Tor bootstrap failures.
1356 * Remove obsolete debug logging now that we don't log anything
1357 interesting for `restart-tor` any more.
1359 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2017 17:41:46 +0200
1361 tails (3.0~beta3) unstable; urgency=medium
1363 * Major new features and changes
1364 - Make the "Formats" settings in Tails Greeter take effect (Closes: #12079,
1365 new feature that was broken since it was introduced in 3.0~alpha1).
1366 - Upgrade to a new snapshot of the Debian and Torproject
1367 APT repositories (2017031702).
1370 - Stop including I2P: we decided (#11276) to remove I2P, due to our failure
1371 at finding someone to maintain it in Tails (Closes: #12263).
1374 - Upgrade MAT to 0.6.1-4: fixes silent failure of the Nautilus
1375 contextual menu extension.
1376 - Ensure /etc/resolv.conf is owned by root:root in the SquashFS
1378 - Protect against CVE-2017-2636 by disabling the n-hdlc kernel module
1381 * Minor improvements
1382 - Reintroduce the X11 guest utilities for VirtualBox (regression
1383 introduced in 3.0~beta2).
1384 - Upgrade X.Org server and the modesetting driver (hopefully helps
1386 - Automate the migration from KeePassX databases generated on Tails 2.x
1387 to the format required by KeePassX 2.0.x (Closes: #10956, #12369).
1388 - Add keyboard shortcuts in Tails Greeter (Closes: #12186, #12063).
1389 - Install dbus-user-session (regression introduced in 3.0~beta2).
1390 - Manage temporary directories in a declarative way (tmpfiles.d).
1391 - Replace references to the /var/run compatibility symlink
1392 with the canonical /run.
1393 - Update our Torbirdy patchset to the latest one sent upstream.
1394 - Install mesa-utils, so that Qt 5 can detect whether software based
1395 rendering is needed.
1396 - Have Tails Greeter honor the "debug" kernel command-line option,
1397 for easier debugging (Closes: #12373).
1398 - Refactor Tails Greeter to reduce code duplication (Closes: #12247).
1401 - Fix sizing of zenity dialogs (Closes: #12313, regression introduced
1403 - Fix confusing, spurious error messages in command-line applications
1404 wrapped with torsocks:
1405 · Ship a /etc/mailname file with content "localhost".
1406 Otherwise something (Git? libc6?) tries to resolve the "amnesia" host
1407 name, which fails, and a confusing error message is displayed
1408 (Closes: #12205, regression introduced in 3.0~alpha1).
1409 · Have torsocks allow UDP connections to the loopback interface,
1410 with AllowOutboundLocalhost 2 (Closes: #11736).
1413 - Improve debugging info logging for PacketFu parsing issues,
1414 and implement a plausible fix (refs: #11508).
1415 - Try to make "double-click on desktop launcher" more reliable.
1416 - Fix selection of ISO in Tails Installer.
1417 - Re-enable the GnuPG tests that require a keyserver, pointing them
1418 to an Onion service we run on Chutney, that redirects all TCP traffic
1419 to a real, clearnet keyserver (Closes: #12211).
1420 - Implement a workaround for checking the configured keyserver in GnuPG,
1421 until a better fix is implemented (refs: #12371).
1422 - Fix the "Report an Error launcher" scenario in German.
1425 - Retry curl and APT operations up to 20 times to make the ISO build
1426 more robust wrt. unreliable Internet connectivity.
1427 Thanks to Arnaud <arnaud@preev.io> for the patch!
1428 - Install ikiwiki from jessie-backports, instead of our patched one
1430 - Clean up libdvd-pkg build files, again (Closes: #11273).
1431 - Rakefile: fix TAILS_OFFLINE_BUILD exported variable name.
1432 - Adjust apt-mirror to support branches based on feature/stretch
1433 that don't use frozen APT snapshots.
1435 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 19 Mar 2017 15:10:28 +0100
1437 tails (3.0~beta2) unstable; urgency=medium
1439 * All changes brought by Tails 2.11, except:
1440 - the test suite changes, that are not all compatible with this branch;
1441 - the "Tails 3.0 will require a 64-bit processor" notification:
1442 this advance warning is not useful on a release series
1445 * Major new features and changes
1446 - Upgrade to a new snapshot of the Debian APT repositories (2017030802),
1447 and of the Torproject ones (2017030801).
1448 - Upgrade Linux to 4.9.0-2 (version 4.9.13-1).
1450 * Minor improvements
1451 - Improve GNOME Shell Window List styling. (Closes: #12233)
1454 - Make it possible to start graphical applications in the Root Terminal.
1458 - Improve robustness when dealing with notifications. (Closes: #11464)
1459 - Bump timeout when waiting for 'Tor is ready' notification.
1460 - Fix the incremental upgrade test.
1461 - Drop a few obsolete test cases, update a number of images.
1462 - Adapt firewall leak test to new DHCP source IP address.
1463 - Adjust Seahorse and Enigmail tests to the keyserver that is now used.
1465 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 08 Mar 2017 16:29:44 +0000
1467 tails (2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1470 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.5.1 based on Firefox 45.8. (Closes:
1472 - Fix CVE-2017-6074 (local root privilege escalation) by disabling
1473 the 'dccp' module. (Closes: #12280)
1474 - Disable kernel modules for some uncommon network protocol. These
1475 are the ones recommended by CIS. (Part of: #6457)
1476 - Disable modules we blacklist for security reasons. Blacklisted
1477 (via `blacklist MODULENAME`) modules are only blocked from being
1478 loaded during the boot process, but are still loadable with an
1479 explicit `modprobe MODULENAME`, and (worse!) via kernel module
1481 - Upgrade linux-image-4.8.0-0.bpo.2-686-unsigned to 4.8.15-2~bpo8+2.
1482 - Upgrade bind9 to 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u10.
1483 - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u7.
1484 - Upgrade libevent-2.0-5 to 2.0.21-stable-2+deb8u1.
1485 - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u9.
1486 - Upgrade libjasper1 to 1.900.1-debian1-2.4+deb8u2.
1487 - Upgrade liblcms2-2 to 2.6-3+deb8u1.
1488 - Upgrade libxpm4 to 1:3.5.12-0+deb8u1.
1489 - Upgrade login to 1:4.2-3+deb8u3.
1490 - Upgrade ntfs-3g to 1:2014.2.15AR.2-1+deb8u3.
1491 - Upgrade openjdk-7-jre to 7u121-2.6.8-2~deb8u1.
1492 - Upgrade openssl to 1.0.1t-1+deb8u6.
1493 - Upgrade tcpdump to 4.9.0-1~deb8u1.
1494 - Upgrade vim to 2:7.4.488-7+deb8u2.
1495 - Upgrade libreoffice to 1:4.3.3-2+deb8u6.
1497 * Minor improvements
1498 - import-translations: also import PO files for French from
1499 Transifex. The translation team for French switched to Transifex
1500 even for our custom programs:
1501 https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-l10n/2016-November/004312.html
1502 - Notify the user, if running on a 32-bit processor, that it won't
1503 be supported in Tails 3.0 anymore. (Closes: #12193)
1504 - Notify I2P users that I2P will be removed in Tails
1505 2.12. (Closes: #12271)
1508 - Disable -proposed-updates at boot time. If a Debian point
1509 release happens right after a freeze but we have decided to
1510 enable it before the freeze to get (at least most of) it, then
1511 we get in the situation where -proposed-updates is enabled in
1512 the final release, which we don't want. We only want it enabled
1513 at build time. (Closes: #12169)
1514 - Ferm: Use the variable when referring to the Live user. The
1515 firewall will fail to start during early boot otherwise since
1516 the "amnesia" user hasn't been created yet. (Closes: #12208)
1517 - Tor Browser: Don't show offline warning when opening local
1518 documentation. (Closes: #12269)
1519 - tails-virt-notify-user: use the tails-documentation helper to
1520 improve UX when one is not connected to Tor yet, and display
1521 localized doc when available.
1522 - Fix rare issue causing automatic upgrades to not apply properly
1523 (Closes: #8449, and hopefully #11839 as well):
1524 * Allow the tails-install-iuk user to run "/usr/bin/nocache
1526 * Install tails-iuk 2.8, which will use nocache for various file
1527 operations, and sync writes to the installation medium.
1528 - Install Linux 4.8.15 to prevent GNOME from freezing with Intel
1529 GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics. (Closes: #12217, but fixes tons
1530 of other small bugs)
1533 - Add 'offline' option, making it possible to build Tails offline
1534 (if all needed resources are present in your cache). (Closes:
1538 - Encapsulate exec_helper's class to not "pollute" the global
1539 namespace with all our helpers. This is an example of how we can
1541 - Extend remote shell with *safe* file operations. Now we can
1542 read/write/append *any* characters without worrying that it will
1543 do crazy things by being passed through the shell, as was the
1544 case before. This commit also:
1545 * adds some better reporting of errors happening on the server
1546 side by communicating back the exception thrown.
1547 * removes the `user` parameter from the VM.file_* methods. They
1548 were not used, any way, and simply do not feel like they
1549 fit. I think the only reason we had it initially was because
1550 it was implemented via the command interface, where a user
1551 concept makes a lot of sense.
1552 - debug_log() Dogtail script content on failure.
1553 - Add a very precise timestamp to each debug_log().
1554 - Make robust_notification_wait() ensure the applet is closed. In
1555 robust_notification_wait() when we close the notification
1556 applet, other windows may change position, creating a racy
1557 situation for any immediately following action aimed at one such
1558 window. (Closes: #10381)
1559 - Fix I2P's Pidgin test. The initial conversation (that determines
1560 the title of the conversation window) is now made by a different
1561 IRC service than before.
1562 - Use lossless compression for the VNC viewer with --view.
1563 Otherwise the VNC viewer is not a good place to extract test
1564 suite images from, at least with xtigervncviewer.
1565 - Add optional pause() notification feature to the test suite. It
1566 will run a user-configurable arbitrary shell command when
1567 pause() is called, e.g. on failure when --interactive-debugging
1568 is used. This is pretty useful when multitasking with long test
1569 suite runs, so you immediately are notified when a test fails
1570 (or when you reached a temporary pause() breakpoint). (Closes:
1572 - Add the possibility to run Python code in a persistent session
1573 in the remote shell and use this for Dogtail to significantly
1574 improve its performance by saving state and reusing it between
1575 commands. This changes the semantics of the creation of Dogtail
1576 objects. Previously they just created the code that then would
1577 be run once an actionable method was called (.wait, .click etc),
1578 but now it works like in Python, that Dogtail will try to find
1579 the graphical element upon object creation. (Closes: #12059)
1580 - Test that we don't ship any -proposed-updates APT sources.
1582 - Make force_new_tor_circuit() respect NEWNYM rate limiting.
1583 - Add retry magic for lost click when opening Tails' documentation
1584 from the desktop launcher. (Closes: #12131)
1586 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 06 Mar 2017 17:14:52 +0100
1588 tails (3.0~beta1) experimental; urgency=medium
1590 * All changes brought by Tails 2.7.1, 2.9.1 and 2.10.
1592 * Major new features and changes
1593 - Redesigned Tails Greeter.
1594 - Upgrade to a new snapshot (2017013002) of the Debian and Torproject
1596 - Upgrade Linux to 4.9.0-1.
1599 - Reject packets sent on the LAN to the NetBIOS name service
1601 - Seahorse: use the Tor OnionBalance hidden service pool,
1602 which provides transport encryption and authentication of the keyserver.
1604 * Minor improvements
1605 - Include adwaita-qt* and enable it by default, so that Qt applications
1606 integrate nicely into a GNOME environment (Closes: #11790).
1607 - Add support for the TREZOR hardware wallet in Electrum (Closes: #10964).
1608 - AppArmor: allow all programs to read /etc/tor/torsocks.conf via
1609 abstractions/base, to ease maintenance.
1610 - Don't (try to) bind the Power button to the shutdown action
1612 - Enable natural scrolling (Closes: #11969).
1613 - Update uBlock Origin patterns + settings file.
1614 - live-persist: remove Squeeze → Wheezy migration code.
1615 - Update pre-existing persistent GnuPG configuration on login
1617 - Upgrader: use the alpha channel when the next version will be an
1618 alpha, beta, or RC. This will allow users of 3.0~betaN to upgrade to
1619 the next beta or RC, without having to type any command-line
1623 - Fix "upgrade from ISO" when run from a 32-bit system,
1624 such as Tails 2.x (Closes: #11873).
1625 - Fix ability to read videos over HTTPS with Totem (Closes: #11963).
1626 - Re-introduce default directories in $HOME, which fixes
1627 Spice file transfers (Closes: #11968).
1628 - Re-enable tap-to-click (Closes: #11993).
1629 - Lower systemd's DefaultTimeoutStopSec, to get rid of a long delay
1630 before memory wiping starts. This also prevents shutdown from ever
1631 being blocked by any buggy service that takes a while to stop
1633 - Drop Jessie APT sources.
1634 - Re-add VirtualBox DKMS modules.
1635 - Fix GnuPG communication with keyservers, by using the Tor OnionBalance
1636 hidden service pool (Closes: #12202).
1637 - Fix Enigmail communication with keyservers, by teaching Torbirdy
1638 not to break it (Closes: #11948):
1639 · Patch Torbirdy to allow not breaking keyserver communication when
1640 using GnuPG v2.1+, and to use a better default keyserver.
1641 · Torbirdy: enable the new behaviour made possible by the aforementioned
1642 patch (extensions.enigmail.already_torified).
1643 · Torbirdy: drop our custom keyserver configuration, since the
1644 aforementioned patch makes it the default.
1647 - Don't install gnome-system-log anymore (Closes: #12133).
1648 It's deprecated in GNOME, and mostly useless anyway as it's not
1649 Journal-aware. It's replacement (gnome-logs) is not usable
1650 enough in the context of Tails, and most users who can read logs
1651 should manage to do it with journalctl, so don't install it either.
1652 - Drop multiarch handling: Tails 3.0 will be amd64-only (Closes: #11961).
1655 - Disable eatmydata usage and caching: in current Stretch, debootstrap fails
1656 if we use eatmydata + the operation mode picked by live-build when caching
1657 is enabled (Closes: #12052).
1658 - Bump disk space (and memory for in-RAM builds) requirements.
1659 - Follow replacement of python-reportbug with python3-reportbug.
1660 - Don't try to deinstall packages that are unknown on Stretch.
1661 - Move AppArmor aliases to a dedicated file, and include it.
1662 This will avoid maintaining these settings as a patch.
1663 - Don't attempt to remove the usr.bin.chromium-browser AppArmor profile:
1664 it's not shipped in Debian anymore.
1667 - Add optional pause() notification (Closes: #12175).
1668 - Make the remote shell's file operations robust (Closes: #11887).
1669 - Update a number of test cases for Stretch, sometimes by converting
1671 - Drop usage and tests of read-only persistence.
1672 We won't have this option anymore, and it's not even sure we'll
1673 reintroduce it (Refs: #12093, Closes: #12055).
1674 - Adjust CONFIGURED_KEYSERVER_HOSTNAME to match current settings.
1675 - Test suite: clean up disks between features.
1677 * Adjustments for Debian 9 (Stretch) with no or very little user-visible impact
1678 - Adjust dpkg-divert path: it has moved.
1679 - Replace xfonts-wqy with fonts-wqy-microhei + fonts-wqy-zenhei.
1680 The former was removed from Debian testing, and the latter are recommended
1681 by task-chinese-s-desktop and task-chinese-t-desktop.
1682 - Install virtualbox* from sid.
1683 It was removed from testing due to https://bugs.debian.org/794466.
1684 - Drop deprecated settings from org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/power.
1685 - Update settings name in org/gnome/desktop/peripherals/touchpad, and drop
1687 - Adjust to changed Liferea's .desktop filename.
1688 - Also torify Liferea when started via its (new) D-Bus service.
1689 - Install hunspell-pt-br instead of hunspell-pt-pt.
1690 Tor Browser 6.5 moved from pt-PT to pt-BR, which is fine vs
1691 spellcheckers in Jessie since its hunspell-pt provides both -pt and
1692 -br, but in Stretch they are separate packages.
1693 - AppArmor: adjust usr.sbin.cupsd profile so it loads successfully
1695 - Migrate from netstat to ss.
1696 - Update extensions.enigmail.configuredVersion.
1697 - Remove the jessie-proposed-updates APT sources.
1699 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 01 Feb 2017 19:23:03 +0000
1701 tails (2.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1703 * Major new features and changes
1704 - Upgrade the Linux kernel to 4.8.0-0.bpo.2 (Closes: #11886).
1705 - Install OnionShare from jessie-backports. Also install
1706 python3-stem from jessie-backports to allow the use of ephemeral
1707 onion services (Closes: #7870).
1708 - Completely rewrite tor-controlport-filter. Now we can safely
1709 support OnionShare, Tor Browser's per-tab circuit view and
1712 * Handle multiple sessions simultaneously.
1713 * Separate data (filters) from code.
1714 * Use python3-stem to allow our filter to be a lot more
1715 oblivious of the control language (Closes: #6788).
1716 * Allow restricting STREAM events to only those generated by the
1717 subscribed client application.
1718 * Allow rewriting commands and responses arbitrarily.
1719 * Make tor-controlport-filter reusable for others by e.g. making
1720 it possible to pass the listen port, and Tor control
1721 cookie/socket paths as arguments (Closes: #6742). We hear
1722 Whonix plan to use it! :)
1723 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.9.9-1~d80.jessie+1, the new stable series
1727 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.5 based on Firefox 45.7 (Closes: #12159)
1728 - Upgrade Icedove to 1:45.6.0-1~deb8u1+tail1s.
1729 - Upgrade bind9-packages to 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u9.
1730 - Upgrade pcscd to 1.8.13-1+deb8u1.
1731 - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u8.
1732 - Upgrade libxml2 to 2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u4.
1733 - Upgrade tor to 0.2.9.9-1~d80.jessie+1.
1734 - Upgrade samba-libs to 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u2.
1736 * Minor improvements
1737 - Enable and use the Debian Jessie proposed-updates APT
1738 repository, anticipating on the Jessie 8.7 point-release
1740 - Enable the per-tab circuit view in Tor Browser (Closes: #9365).
1741 - Change syslinux menu entries from "Live" to "Tails" (Closes:
1742 #11975). Also replace the confusing "failsafe" wording with
1743 "Troubleshooting Mode" (Closes: #11365).
1744 - Make OnionCircuits use the filtered control port (Closes:
1746 - Make tor-launcher use the filtered control port.
1747 - Run OnionCircuits directly as the Live user, instead of a
1748 separate user. This will make it compatible with the Orca screen
1749 reader (Closes: #11197).
1750 - Run tor-controlport-filter on port 9051, and the unfiltered one
1751 on 9052. This simplifies client configurations and assumptions
1752 made in many applications that use Tor's ControlPort. It's the
1753 exception that we connect to the unfiltered version, so this
1754 seems like the more sane approach.
1755 - Remove tor-arm (Nyx) (Closes: #9811).
1756 - Remove AddTrust_External_Root.pem from our website CA bundle. We
1757 now only use Let's Encrypt (Closes: #11811).
1758 - Configure APT to use Debian's Onion services instead of the
1759 clearnet ones (Closes: #11556).
1760 - Replaced AdBlock Plus with uBlock Origin (Closes: #9833). This
1761 incidentally also makes our filter lists lighter by
1762 de-duplicating common patterns among the EasyList filters
1763 (Closes: #6908). Thanks to spriver for this first major code
1765 - Install OpenPGP Applet 1.0 (and libgtk3-simplelist-perl) from
1766 Jessie backports (Closes: #11899).
1767 - Add support for exFAT (Closes: #9659).
1768 - Disable unprivileged BPF. Since upgrading to kernel 4.6,
1769 unprivileged users can use the bpf() syscall, which is a
1770 security concern, even with JIT disabled. So we disable that.
1771 This feature wasn't available before Linux 4.6, so disabling it
1772 should not cause any regressions (Closes: #11827).
1773 - Add and enable AppArmor profiles for OnionCircuits and OnoinShare.
1774 - Raise the maximum number of loop devices to 32 (Closes: #12065).
1775 - Drop kernel.dmesg_restrict customization: it's enabled by
1776 default since 4.8.4-1~exp1 (Closes: #11886).
1777 - Upgrade Electrum to 2.7.9-1.
1778 - Make the Electrum proxy configuration apply after upgrading to
1779 2.7.9-1. These changes incidentally makes Electrum behave nicer:
1780 users will now not be presented the network configuration part
1781 of the setup wizard -- a server will be picked randomly, and
1782 Electrum will auto-connect. The automated test suite is adjusted
1783 accordingly (Closes: #12140).
1784 - Remove unused Browser profile seed file localstore.rdf which was
1785 made obsolete in Firefox 34.
1786 - Tor Browser: switch from pt-PT to pt-BR langpack. The upstream
1787 Tor Browser did this in version 6.5 (Refs: #12159).
1791 * use gdm-password instead of gdm-autologin, to fix switching to
1792 the VT where the desktop session lives on Stretch (Closes:
1794 * Fix more options scrolledwindow size in Stretch (Closes:
1796 - Tails Installer: remove unused code warning about missing
1797 extlinux in Tails Installer (Closes: #11196).
1798 - Update APT pinning to cover all binary packages built from
1799 src:mesa so we ensure installing mesa from jessie-backports
1801 - Install xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu. This should help supporting
1802 newer AMD graphics adapters. (Closes #11850)
1803 - Fix firewall startup during early boot, by referring to the
1804 "amnesia" user via its UID (Closes: #7018).
1805 - Include all amd64-microcodes.
1806 - refresh-translations: ignore
1807 config/chroot_local-includes/usr/share/doc/tails/website/.
1808 Otherwise, if the website has been built already, PO tools
1809 complain that there are files with translatable strings in
1810 there, which are not listed in POTFILES.in.
1811 - Make uBlock Origin's button appear on first run. Otherwise it
1812 will only appear on browser runs after the first one. This bug
1813 also affected Adblock Plus (Closes: #12145).
1816 - Be more careful when unmounting the tmpfs used as workspace
1817 during builds, fixing an issue that made Jenkins' ISO builders
1818 prone to failures (Closes: #12009).
1819 - Upgrade the Vagrant basebox to 20170105. The only big change is
1820 that we now install the backported kernel in the builder VM, to
1821 make building possible on Debian Sid (Closes: #12081).
1822 - Ensure the VirtualBox guest DKMS modules are built for the
1823 kernel we want them for. In some situations, depending on the
1824 version of the running kernel, the modules would not be built
1825 for the 686 kernel, which is the one that needs the VirtualBox
1826 guest modules. This commit ensures the VirtualBox guest modules
1827 are built and installed regardless of the how the build
1828 environment looks like (Closes: #12139).
1831 - Replace the filesystem shares support with a helper for easily
1832 sharing files from the host to the guest using virtual disks
1834 - Do not test sending email when testing POP3. We cannot clean
1835 that email up (easily) since when we use POP3 deletions won't
1836 affect the remote inbox, only our local one, resulting in the
1837 quota being reached eventually (Closes: #12006).
1838 - Have APT tests configure APT to use non-onion sources. Our test
1839 suite uses Chutney to create a virtual, private Tor network, and
1840 thus doesn't support connections to Onion services running in
1841 the real Tor network (Refs: #11556).
1842 - Allow connections to Tor's control port during stream isolation
1843 tests, but only for those applications where we expect that.
1844 - Fix Electrum tests after upgrading to 2.7.9-1.
1845 - Make encryption.feature pass for Tails 2.10~rc1.
1846 - Adapt tests after the Donation campaign was disabled (Refs:
1848 - Fix 'The "Tails documentation" link on the Desktop works'
1849 scenario. The TailsOfflineDocHomepage.png image doesn't match
1850 what we see any more (I have no clue why), so let's use Dogtail
1851 and solve this once and for all, hopefully.
1852 - Work around Tails freezing during memory wiping. These
1853 workarounds should be reverted once #11786 is fixed
1854 properly. (Refs: #10776, #11786)
1855 - Support both xtigervncviewer and xtightvncviewer for --view.
1856 xtightvncviewer is a transitional package in Sid, which depends
1857 on tigervnc-viewer (which ships xtigervncviewer), so by keeping
1858 the dep and supporting both binaries, --view will work on both
1859 Sid and Jessie (Closes: #12129).
1860 - Test suite: bump image after upgrading to Tor Browser 6.5 (Refs:
1862 - Add debugging info for when PacketFu misbehaves, and be more
1863 careful when to save pcap artifacts (Refs: #11508).
1865 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2017 11:38:37 +0100
1867 tails (2.9.1) unstable; urgency=medium
1870 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.0.8 based on Firefox 45.6. If you pay
1871 close attention you'll see that we import -build1 but there was
1872 a -build2. The only change is Tor Button 1.9.5.13 which makes
1873 some changes to the donation campaign banner in `about:tor`,
1874 which we safely can skip. (Closes: #12028)
1875 - Upgrade Icedove to 45.5.1-1~deb8u1+tails1. (Closes: #12029)
1876 - Upgrade APT-related packages to 1.0.9.8.4.
1878 * Minor improvements
1879 - Switch to DuckDuckGo as the default search engine in the tor
1880 Browser. This is what Tor Browser has, and Disconnect.me (the
1881 previous default) has been re-directing to DDG for some time,
1882 which has been confusing users. In addition, we localize the DDG
1883 user interface for the locales with availablelangpacks. (Closes:
1885 - Improve the display name for the Wikipedia search plugin.
1886 - Enable contrib and non-free for our own APT repos.
1887 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.8.10. (Closes: #12015)
1888 - Upgrade obfs4proxy to 0.0.7-1~tpo1.
1891 - AppArmor Totem profile: add permissions needed to avoid warning
1892 on startup. (Closes: #11984)
1893 - Upgrade the VirtualBox Guest additions and modules to version
1894 5.1.8. This should prevent Xorg from crashing unless the video
1895 memory for the VMs are significantly bumped. (Closes: #11965)
1896 Users will still have to enable I/O APIC due to a bug in Linux.
1897 - Drop unwanted search plugins from the Tor Browser langpacks.
1898 Otherwise they are only removed from English locales. Note that
1899 the langpacks contain copies of the English plugins, not
1900 localized versions, so we actually lose nothing.
1903 - Add support for SikuliX, which recently hit Debian Unstable,
1904 while still supporting Sikuli for Jessie users. (Closes: #11991)
1905 - Fix some instances where we were trying to use the mouse outside
1906 of the Sikuli screen.
1907 - Use "TorBirdy" instead of "amnesia branding" as the "anchor"
1908 addon. I.e. the addon that we use to find the other ones. The
1909 "amnesia branding" addon has been removed, so we must use
1910 something else. (Fixup: #11906)
1911 - Dogtailify "the support documentation page opens in Tor Browser"
1912 step. We previously relied on Sikuli, and the image was made
1913 outdated thanks to our donation campaign. No more! (Closes:
1915 - Resolve dl.amnesia.boum.org instead of picking a static address.
1916 Just hours after updating the dustri.org IP address, its web
1917 server went down => test suite failures. Let's make this test as
1918 robust as actually downloading the Tails ISO image -- if that
1919 fails, we probably have more serious problems on our hands than
1920 a failing test suite. (Closes: #11960)
1921 - Switch MAT scenario from testing PDFs to PNGs. Also add
1922 anti-test and test using using a tool *different* from MAT, the
1923 tool being tested here. (Closes: #11901)
1925 -- Tails Developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:19:16 +0100
1927 tails (2.7.1) unstable; urgency=medium
1930 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.0.7 (build3) based on Firefox 45.5.1.
1931 - Upgrade gstreamer0.10-based packages to 0.10.31-3+nmu4+deb8u2.
1932 - Upgrade imagemagick-based packages to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u6.
1933 - Upgrade libicu52 to 52.1-8+deb8u4.
1934 - Upgrade vim-based packages to 2:7.4.488-7+deb8u1.
1936 * Minor improvements
1937 - Reserve 64 MiB for the kernel and 128 MiB for privileged
1938 processes before the memory is wiped. We hope that this might
1939 help (but not solve, sadly) some crashes experienced while
1943 - Make the wiki shipped inside Tails build deterministically
1945 * Enable ikiwiki's "deterministic" option, and require it when
1947 * Use our custom backport of discount (2.2.1-1~bpo8+1~0.tails1),
1948 to fix reproducibility issues (Debian#782315). This can be
1949 dropped once our ISO builders use Stretch.
1950 * Install ikiwiki from our builder-jessie APT suite, to make the
1951 pagestats plugin output deterministic.
1952 - refresh-translations: don't update PO files unless something
1953 other than POT-Creation-Date was changed. (Closes: #11967)
1954 - Fix Vagrant's is_release? check. Per auto/build, we consider it
1955 a release when we build from detached head, and HEAD is tagged.
1956 - Enforce `cleanall` when building a release. I.e. don't allow the
1957 user supplied options to override this behaviour. This is
1958 important since Vagrant caches wiki builds, and we do not want
1959 leftovers from a previous builds ending up in a release. Also,
1960 this is required for making Tails images build reproducibly.
1961 - Make the build system's `cleanall` option really clean
1962 everything. At the moment it doesn't clean the cached wiki
1963 build (which basically was its only job).
1964 - import-package: support contrib and non-free sections.
1967 - Wait a bit between opening the shutdown applet menu, and
1968 clicking one of its widgets. (Closes: #11616).
1969 - Adapt Icedove test after removing the amnesia branding add-on.
1971 - Replace --pause-on-fail with --interactive-debugging. It does
1972 the same thing, but also offers an interactive Ruby shell, via
1973 pry, with the Cucumber world context.
1975 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:27:37 +0100
1977 tails (3.0~alpha1) experimental; urgency=medium
1979 * Major new features and changes
1980 - Upgrade to a snapshot of Debian 9 (Stretch) from 2016-11-15.
1981 - Switch userpace from 32-bit to 64-bit (Closes: #8183), and accordingly:
1982 · Memory erasure: drop the "one instance of sdmem per 2 GiB of RAM" tweak,
1983 that is not needed on x86-64.
1984 · Display a "sorry!" message when trying to boot on a 32-bit BIOS system
1986 - Switch GNOME Shell to its default black theme (Closes: #11789).
1988 * Minor improvements
1989 - Install the cirrus and modesetting X.Org drivers (Closes: #10962).
1990 - Install the 'amdgpu' driver for the AMD Radeon cards (refs: #11850).
1991 - Stop disabling kernel modesetting for QXL (refs: #11518).
1992 - Replace TopIcons with gnome-shell-extension-top-icons-plus.
1993 The former causes plenty of trouble and is apparently abandoned
1994 upstream. The latter is actively maintained upstream, and packaged
1995 in Debian. (refs: #10576)
1996 - Use torsocks to torify Git, and drop tsocks entirely. tsocks has been
1997 unmaintained for years in Debian, and was removed from testing
1998 for a while (Closes: #10955).
1999 - Replace Florence's "systray" icon with the Florence Indicator GNOME Shell
2000 extension (refs: #8312). And then, don't automatically start Florence:
2001 the Florence Indicator GNOME Shell extension will start it the first time
2002 one tries to display it. This should save a tiny bit of RAM.
2003 - Harden AppArmor Totem profiles.
2004 - Switch to the Debian-packaged aufs kernel module (Closes: #11829).
2005 - Configure the firewall to not allow root to connect to Tor at all,
2006 which is possible now that APT uses a dedicated user for network
2008 - Fix firewall startup during early boot, by referring to the "amnesia"
2009 user via its UID (refs: #7018).
2010 - Install hunspell dictionaries instead of myspell ones, for a few more
2011 languages: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Russian. Only Farsi keeps
2012 using a myspell dictionary for now.
2015 - Stop installing BookletImposer PDF imposition toolkit.
2016 It's unmaintained upstream and thus won't be part of Debian Stretch.
2017 - Stop installing ekeyd: it's unmaintained, very rarely used, poorly
2018 designed (dedicated daemon), and security sensitive (Closes: #7687).
2019 - Stop shipping ttdnsd. It was only useful for developers and power-users
2020 who can install it themselves as needed. It's been unmaintained upstream
2021 for many years. It's very buggy so we had to remove it from the DNS
2022 resolution loop years ago. It's not in Debian. And it's one of the only
2023 two bits of Tails that still relied on tsocks, that is RC-buggy,
2024 unmaintained in Debian, and not in Stretch at the moment. So it has
2025 become clear that the cost of keeping ttdnsd now outweighs the benefits
2026 it brought (refs: #10959).
2029 - Bump disk space (and memory for in-RAM builds) requirements.
2030 - Support new live-config configuration directory naming, again and again.
2031 - Use the lowest compression level for the SquashFS when compressing it
2032 with gzip. This makes our development builds faster, and the resulting
2033 ISO image only a little bit bigger (Closes: #9788).
2034 - Configure initramfs compression later, to make the build faster.
2037 - Various refactoring while we were at it.
2038 - Port tests to Dogtail: installation, upgrade, notification detection,
2039 Synaptic, Gobby, and some of Tor Browser.
2040 - Workaround GNOME Shell being buggy for Dogtail (refs: #11718).
2041 - Update a bunch of test suite images for Stretch.
2042 - Mark created disk as temporary when we don't need to keep it around.
2043 - Simplify adding NetworkManager connections, and rely more on the defaults.
2044 Not providing the complete configuration file makes us test something
2045 closer to what happens when a user adds a Wi-Fi connection themselves.
2046 - Adjust the minimum allowed memory pattern coverage before wiping.
2047 - Always sync the time from the host when restoring from a snapshot.
2048 Previously we wouldn't do it when the network was plugged but Tor wasn't
2049 running, which can cause issues if we *then* start Tor since the time
2051 - Adjust to the fact that we now support running as a 64-bit guest
2052 in VirtualBox, and simplify code since we now include a 64-bit userland.
2053 - Improve how we restart Tor/I2P after restoring from a snapshot.
2054 - Adjust PolicyKit tests for Stretch.
2055 - Work around Tails stopping on shut down due to #11730.
2056 This should be reverted once #11730 is fixed properly.
2057 - Update the screenshot scenario.
2058 - Fix pcap file saving on MAC spoofing failure (Closes: #11698).
2059 - Test that notifications are actually shown.
2060 - Drop obsolete workaround for Florence sometimes not being hidden
2061 on startup (#11398).
2062 - Avoid remote shell deadlock.
2063 - Install at-spi2-core from Debian Sid.
2064 With the current version in Stretch, at-spi-bus-launcher crashes on
2065 start, breaking parts of GNOME's accessibility, and Dogtail.
2066 For details, see https://bugs.debian.org/840618.
2067 - Check that the MAC address is spoofed for manually added persistent
2068 NetworkManager connections created on Jessie and Stretch (refs: #11931).
2069 - Use nc.traditional in tests that rely on its behaviour.
2070 - Adjust expected notification text to cope with #11941.
2072 * Adjustments for Debian 9 (Stretch) with no or very little user-visible impact
2073 - Adjust APT sources and pinning for Stretch.
2074 - Don't install gnome-media, which is not part of testing/sid anymore.
2075 We already install the only bits it was providing or depending on.
2076 - Don't install gnome-themes: it's gone in Stretch.
2077 - Stop installing GStreamer 0.10 explicitly: it won't be in Stretch,
2078 and some bits are gone already.
2079 - Refresh and unfuzzy patches for Stretch. Replace some of them with
2080 programmatic patching, as patches break the build whenever
2082 - Drop start_AppArmor_earlier.diff: on Stretch, AppArmor starts much earlier
2084 - Accept iceweasel-l10n-* that don't provide any search engine:
2085 on Stretch, at least iceweasel-l10n-ar_1%3a43.0.4-1_all.deb doesn't.
2086 - Stop deleting 75-persistent-net-generator.rules: obsolete in Stretch.
2087 It was removed in systemd (220-7).
2088 - Tell live-boot we're still using aufs: recent live-boot defaults
2089 to overlayfs, which we don't use yet.
2090 - Don't remove imagemagick in 11-localize_browser: cups-filters depends on it
2092 - Explicitly install bc: needed by our 2010-pidgin live-config hook.
2093 - Remove gcc-4.9-base and gcc-5 via a chroot hook, taking into account
2094 that GCC 5 is the default on Stretch.
2095 - Switch to openjdk-8-jre: openjdk-7-jre is not in Stretch anymore.
2096 - gcalctool was renamed to gnome-calculator.
2097 - Don't try to delete non-existing AppArmor profile for ntpd: it was moved
2098 to the ntp package in Stretch.
2099 - Build DKMS modules with GCC 5: Stretch hasn't 4.8 anymore.
2100 - Don't try to reload or disable an initscript that we don't patch,
2101 and that doesn't exist anymore.
2102 - Support the case when /usr/src/libdvd-pkg does not exist.
2103 Apparently this can happen on Stretch.
2104 - Adjust to the move of /etc/gnome/defaults.list in Stretch
2106 - Stop installing xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse. It's obsolete and conflicts
2107 with recent kernels: https://bugs.debian.org/831420
2108 - Install open-vm-tools from sid: it's been removed from testing.
2109 - Install the gobby package, instead of the (now gone) transitional
2111 - apparmor-adjust-tor-profile.diff: drop bits that are useless, and
2112 prevent Tor from starting, on Stretch.
2113 - Tor Daemon Status: declare compatibility with GNOME Shell 3.20.
2114 - Shutdown helper: declare compatibility with GNOME Shell 3.20.
2115 - Drop 43-adjust_path_to_ibus-unikey_binaries hook: it was a workaround
2116 for a bug (Debian#714932) that was fixed.
2117 - Use netcat-openbsd instead of connect-proxy for torifying SSH.
2118 connect-proxy seems barely maintained in Debian and was removed from
2119 testing due to https://bugs.debian.org/830423.
2120 - Don't disable gdomap service: we don't include it anymore.
2121 unar in Jessie depended on gnustep-base-runtime (that ships gdomap),
2122 but this is not the case in Stretch anymore.
2123 - Install system-config-printer-common instead of system-config-printer,
2124 and drop customization that were needed only for the latter:
2125 system-config-printer (1.5.7-2) extracts into a new -common package
2126 the bits needed by gnome-control-center (Closes: #11505).
2127 - Adjust haveged AppArmor profile to work with Linux 4.x on Stretch.
2128 - cupsd AppArmor profile: update list of backends, and add aufs-specific
2129 tweak that Stretch needs (refs: #11699).
2130 - Revert to GNOME's default font antialiasing/hinting.
2131 We fixed on rgba/slight when converting some manual fontconfig stuff
2132 to GNOME's layer on top of it, but at least from a fresh Stretch
2133 install (2016-08-24) we got grayscale/slight. It could be that some
2134 auto-detection is involved, so the values would be different depending
2135 on the actual hardware. Any way, let's try to decrease our delta here.
2136 - Adjust haveged arguments customization for Stretch (Closes: 11522).
2137 - Display the date in the desktop top bar, as we did in Jessie and older.
2139 - Drop patch to keep haveged, saned, spice-vdagent and laptop-mode running
2140 on shutdown. These patches are no-ops on Stretch, where these services
2141 have native systemd unit files. It's not worth porting these patches:
2142 saned is socket-activated so in most cases it does not have to be shut
2143 down, and we expect that the other ones can be stopped pretty quickly.
2144 Let's bring back this kind of optimization if, and only if, we identify
2145 an actual problem to fix in this area :)
2146 - Don't delete downloaded debs after install: apt(8) >= 1.2~exp1 deletes
2147 them by default, which is not nice for users who use it to preseed
2148 their persistent APT cache. (Closes: #10958)
2149 - Hide "OpenJDK Java 8 Policy Tool" from the Applications menu.
2150 - Don't ship GCC 6: we don't ship compilers in Tails usually.
2151 - Don't ship gcc-5-base: on Stretch we ship gcc-6-base instead.
2152 - Don't start shipping libdvdcss2-dbgsym nor paxctld.
2153 - Adjust default web browser customization: GNOME in Debian now defaults
2154 to Firefox ESR (refs: #11440).
2155 - Install libreoffice-gtk3: on Stretch this is needed to have Gtk+ 3 widgets
2156 and a Gtk/GNOMEish print dialog.
2157 - Explicitly install gtk2-engines-pixbuf, as it's not pulled automatically
2158 on Stretch, and it's needed to theme GTK+ 2 applications in a nice way
2160 - AppArmor gnome abstraction: allow reading /etc/xdg/*-mimeapps.list
2162 - Drop obsolete disabling of GNOME Keyring's GnuPG agent feature.
2163 That feature was removed upstream.
2164 - Explicitly select pinentry-gtk2 as our preferred pinentry program.
2165 On Stretch, gnome-keyring depends on pinentry-gnome3, and then that one
2166 is selected by default. It does not feel worth it to introduce a hackish
2167 solution such as a fake pinentry-gnome3 package, so let's ignore it and
2168 just make sure we are using the pinentry program we prefer
2170 - Drop keep_memlockd_on_shutdown.diff: it's been a no-op since Tails 2.0
2172 - Drop custom NetworkManager plugin configuration: these tweaks are not
2173 needed on Stretch anymore.
2174 - Disable new style network interface naming scheme.
2175 It has little value for a live system, so let's stick to what we are
2176 used to, and avoid having to adjust code/config/test suite
2178 - Drop obsolete NM configuration wrt. sending hostname in DHCP requests
2180 - Update APT pinning to cover all binary packages built from src:mesa
2182 - Don't try to install gnupg-curl: it doesn't exist anymore in Stretch.
2183 - Install seahorse-nautilus from sid. It's been removed from testing.
2184 - Drop workaround for Debian bug #645466, that was fixed in 2014
2186 - Allow the "_apt" user to use Tor: in Stretch, APT network operations
2187 are performed with the "_apt" user and not root.
2188 - Make sure that 'localhost' points to the IPv4 loopback address.
2189 - Make desktop launchers executable (Closes: #11927).
2190 - Disable Wayland usage in GDM (Closes: #11923).
2191 - Fix AppArmor profile for gst-plugin-scanner (Closes: #11928).
2192 - Change Nautilus' default zoom level to 'small' (Closes: #11716).
2193 The icons in GNOME Files and on the desktop are too huge otherwise. With
2194 this new setting, they are similar in size to what we had in Jessie.
2195 - Fix broken symlink preventing Enigmail from being enabled.
2196 - Configure NetworkManager to not touch MAC addresses (refs: #11931).
2197 Its default behaviour on Debian Stretch is to reset the MAC address to the
2198 permanent one, and we did not make up our mind yet wrt. replacing
2199 our custom MAC spoofing system with NM's own one (refs: #11293).
2200 - Patch NetworkManager so that it does not leak the hostname in DHCP
2201 requests (Closes: #11720).
2202 - Deal with the fact that the NetworkManager dispatcher scripts are now
2203 sometimes called with an empty first argument (Closes: #11938).
2204 - Upgrade to GnuPG 2.1.15-9, and accordingly:
2205 · Remove the CA certificate for sks-keyservers.net, that we installed
2206 in the system-wide CAs directory: it is now included in the dirmngr
2207 package. Stop trusting it for non-GnuPG operations.
2208 · Make dirmngr use the sks-keyservers.net CA certificate from Debian.
2209 · Move keyserver proxy configuration to dirmngr.conf, and drop the
2210 keyserver-options that are obsolete or now the default.
2212 -- intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2016 16:19:21 +0000
2214 tails (2.7) unstable; urgency=medium
2217 - Upgrade to Linux 4.7. (Closes: #11885, #11818)
2218 - Upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.9. (Closes: #11832, #11891)
2219 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.0.6 based on Firefox 45.5. (Closes: #11910)
2220 - Upgrade Icedove to 1:45.4.0-1~deb8u1+tails1. (Closes: #11854,
2222 - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u5.
2223 - Upgrade openssl to 1.0.1t-1+deb8u5.
2224 - Upgrade libarchive to 3.1.2-11+deb8u3.
2225 - Upgrade bind9 to 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u8.
2226 - Upgrade libav to 6:11.8-1~deb8u1.
2227 - Upgrade ghostscript to 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u3.
2228 - Upgrade c-ares to 1.10.0-2+deb8u1.
2229 - Upgrade nspr to 2:4.12-1+debu8u1.
2230 - Upgrade nss to 2:3.26-1+debu8u1.
2231 - Upgrade tar to 1.27.1-2+deb8u1.
2232 - Upgrade curl to 7.38.0-4+deb8u5.
2233 - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u7.
2234 - Upgrade opendjk-7 to 7u111-2.6.7-2~deb8u1.
2235 - Upgrade mat to 0.5.2-3+deb8u1.
2236 - Upgrade libxslt to 1.1.28-2+deb8u2.
2237 - Upgrade pillow to 2.6.1-2+deb8u3.
2239 * Minor improvements
2240 - Ship Let's encrypt intermediate certificate to prepare the
2241 the next certificate renewal of our website. Also unify the
2242 way our upgrades and security checkers verify this SSL
2243 certificate using our dedicated perl lib code. (Closes: #11810)
2246 - Fix multiarch support in Synaptic. (Closes: #11820)
2247 - Set default spelling language to en_US in Icedove. (Closes: #11037)
2250 - Disable debootstrap merged-usr option. (Closes: #11903)
2253 - Add test for incremental upgrades. (Closes: #6309)
2254 - Add tests for Icedove. (Closes: #6304)
2255 - Decrease timeout to Tails Greeter to speed up testing of branches
2256 where it is broken. (Closes: #11449)
2257 - Add a ID field to the remote shell responses to filter out
2258 unrelated ones. (Closes: #11846)
2259 - Reliabily wait for the Greeter PostLogin script. (Closes: #5666)
2260 - Reliabily type the kernel command line in the prompt at the boot
2261 menu to ensure the remote shell is started. (Closes: #10777)
2262 - Remove DVDROM device when not used, to workaround QEMU/Libvirt
2263 compatibility issue. (Closes: #11874)
2265 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2016 14:46:04 +0100
2267 tails (2.6) unstable; urgency=medium
2269 * Major new features and changes
2270 - Install Tor 0.2.8.7. (Closes: #11351)
2271 - Enable kASLR in the Linux kernel. (Closes: #11281)
2272 - Upgrade Icedove to 1:45.2.0-1~deb8u1+tails1: (Closes: #11714)
2273 · Drop auto-fetched configurations using Oauth2. They do not
2274 work together with Torbirdy since it disables needed
2275 functionality (like JavaScript and cookies) in the embedded
2276 browser. This should make auto-configuration work for GMail
2277 again, for instance. (Closes: ##11536)
2278 · Pin Icedove to be installed from our APT repo. Debian's
2279 Icedove packages still do not have our secure Icedove
2280 autoconfig wizard patches applied, so installing them would be
2281 a serious security regression. (Closes: #11613)
2282 · Add missing icedove-l10n-* packages to our custom APT
2283 repository (Closes: #11550)
2284 - Upgrade to Linux 4.6: (Closes: #10298)
2285 · Install the 686 kernel flavour instead of the obsolete 586
2287 · APT, dpkg: add amd64 architecture. The amd64 kernel flavour is
2288 not built anymore for the i386 architecture, so we need to use
2290 · Build and install the out-of-tree aufs4 module. (Closes: #10298)
2291 · Disable kernel modesetting for QXL: it's not compatible with
2292 Jessie's QXL X.Org driver.
2295 - Hopefully fixed an issue which would sometimes make the Greeter
2296 ignore the "disable networking" or "bridge mode"
2297 options. (Closes: #11593)
2299 * Minor improvements
2300 - Install firmware-intel-sound and firmware-ti-connectivity. This
2301 adds support for some sound cards and Wi-Fi adapters. (Closes:
2303 - Install OpenPGP Applet from Debian. (Closes: #10190)
2304 - Port the "About Tails" dialog to python3.
2305 - Run our initramfs memory erasure hook earlier (Closes:
2306 #10733). The goal here is to:
2307 · save a few seconds on shutdown (it might matter especially for
2309 · work in a less heavily multitasking / event-driven
2310 environment, for more robust operation.
2311 - Install rngd, and make rng-tools initscript return success when
2312 it can't find any hardware RNG device. Most Tails systems around
2313 probably have no such device, and we don't want systemd to
2314 believe they failed to boot properly. (Closes: #5650)
2315 - Don't force using the vboxvideo X.Org driver. According to our
2316 tests, this forced setting is:
2317 · harmful: it breaks X startup when the vboxvideo *kernel*
2319 · useless: X.Org now autodetects the vboxvideo X.Org driver and
2320 uses it when running in VirtualBox and the vboxvideo kernel
2322 - Port boot-profile to python3 (Closes: #10083). Thanks to
2323 heartsucker <heartsucker@autistici.org> for the patch!
2324 - Include /proc/cmdline and the content of persistent APT sources
2325 in WhisperBack bug reports. (Closes: #11675, #11635)
2326 - Disable non-free APT sources at boot time. (Closes: #10130)
2327 - Have a dedicated page for the homepage of Tor Browser in
2328 Tails. (Closes: # 11725)
2329 - Only build the VirtualBox kernel modules for the 32-bit kernel.
2330 It's both hard and useless to build it for 64-bit in the current
2331 state of things, as long as we're shipping a 32-bit userspace.
2332 Also, install virtualbox-* from jessie-backports, since the
2333 version in Jessie is not compatible with Linux 4.x.
2336 - Don't install+remove dpatch during the build. It's not been
2337 needed in this hook for ages.
2338 - Bump BUILD_SPACE_REQUIREMENT: at least one of us needed that to
2339 build feature/10298-linux-4.x-aufs with the gzipcomp option.
2342 - Send Tails Installer's debug log to the Cucumber debug log on
2343 failure. This is meant to debug #10720 since I can't
2344 reproduce it locally.
2345 - Give the system under testing 2 vCPUs. (Closes: #6729)
2346 - Split scenarios from checks.feature. (Closes: #5707)
2347 - Add retry-logic to the Synaptic tests. (Closes: #10412, #10441,
2349 - Run usb_upgrade.feature earlier, when there is enough free disk
2350 space left. (Closes: #11582)
2351 - Use more recent virtual hardware in the system under test,
2352 i.e. USB 3.0 (nec-xhci) on a pc-i440fx-2.5 machine. Switching
2353 USB controllers has helped with problems we see on Jenkins when
2354 booting from USB (#11588). Also, there are chances that more
2355 recent virtual hardware sees more testing these days, so it
2356 sounds potentially useful to "upgrade".
2357 - Add support for Cucumber 2.4. (Closes: #11690)
2358 - Always write {pretty,debug} logs and JSON output to the artifact
2360 - Disable info level logging on Chutney nodes to save disk
2361 space. For our network all these add up to > 1 GiB and we didn't
2362 take this into account when budgeting RAM to the isotesters on
2365 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 20 Sep 2016 04:16:33 +0200
2367 tails (2.5) unstable; urgency=medium
2369 * Major new features and changes
2370 - Upgrade Icedove to 1:45.1.0-1~deb8u1+tails2. (Closes: #11530)
2371 · Fix long delay causing bad UX in the autoconfig wizard,
2372 when it does not manage to guess proper settings on some domains.
2374 · Better support sending email through some ISPs, such as Riseup.
2376 · Fix spurious error message when creating an account and providing
2377 its password. (Closes: #11550)
2380 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.0.3 based on Firefox 45.3. (Closes: #11611)
2381 - Upgrade GIMP to 2.8.14-1+deb8u1.
2382 - Upgrade libav to 6:11.7-1~deb8u1.
2383 - Upgrade expat to 2.1.0-6+deb8u3.
2384 - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u6.
2385 - Upgrade libmodule-build-perl to 0.421000-2+deb8u1.
2386 - Upgrade perl to 5.20.2-3+deb8u6.
2387 - Upgrade Pidgin to 2.11.0-0+deb8u1.
2388 - Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:4.3.3-2+deb8u5.
2389 - Upgrade libxslt1.1 to 1.1.28-2+deb8u1.
2390 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt25-2+deb8u3.
2391 - Upgrade OpenSSH to 1:6.7p1-5+deb8u3.
2392 - Upgrade p7zip to 9.20.1~dfsg.1-4.1+deb8u2.
2394 * Minor improvements
2395 - htpdate: replace obsolete and unreliable URIs in HTP pools, and decrease
2396 timeout for HTTP operations for more robust time synchronization.
2398 - Hide settings panel for the Online Accounts component of GNOME,
2399 that we don't support. (Closes: #11545)
2400 - Vastly improve graphics performance in KVM guest with QXL driver.
2402 - Fix graphics artifacts in Tor Browser in KVM guest with QXL driver.
2406 - Wrap Pidgin in a more maintainable way. (Closes: #11567)
2409 - Add a test scenario for the persistence "dotfiles" feature.
2411 - Improve robustness of most APT, Git, SFTP and SSH scenarios,
2412 enough to enable them on Jenkins. (Closes: #10444, #10496, #10498)
2413 - Improve robustness of checking for persistence partition. (Closes: #11558)
2414 - Treat Tails booting from /dev/sda as OK, to support all cases
2415 including a weird one caused by hybrid ISO images. (Closes: #10504)
2416 - Bump a bunch of timeouts to cope with the occasional slowness on Jenkins.
2417 - Only query A records when exercising DNS lookups, to improve robustness.
2419 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 31 Jul 2016 16:50:35 +0000
2421 tails (2.4) unstable; urgency=medium
2423 * Major new features and changes
2424 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.0.1 based on Firefox 45.2. (Closes:
2426 - Enable Icedove's automatic configuration wizard. We patch the
2427 wizard to only use secure protocols when probing, and only
2428 accept secure protocols, while keeping the improvements done by
2429 TorBirdy in its own non-automatic configuration wizard. (Closes:
2433 - Upgrade bsdtar and libarchive13 to 3.1.2-11+deb8u1.
2434 - Upgrade icedove to 38.8.0-1~deb8u1+tails3.
2435 - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u3.
2436 - Upgrade libexpat1 to 2.1.0-6+deb8u2.
2437 - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u3.
2438 - Upgrade gdk-pixbuf-based packages to 2.31.1-2+deb8u5.
2439 - Upgrade libidn11 to 1.29-1+deb8u1.
2440 - Upgrade libndp0 to 1.4-2+deb8u1.
2441 - Upgrade poppler-based packages to 0.26.5-2+deb8u1.
2442 - Upgrade librsvg2-2 to 2.40.5-1+deb8u2.
2443 - Upgrade libsmbclient to 2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u3.
2444 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1k-3+deb8u5.
2445 - Upgrade libtasn1-6 to 4.2-3+deb8u2.
2446 - Upgrade libxml2 to 2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u2.
2447 - Upgrade openjdk-7-jre to 7u101-2.6.6-1~deb8u1.
2450 - Enable Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery for IPv4. If any
2451 system on the path to the remote host has a MTU smaller than the
2452 standard Ethernet one, then Tails will receive an ICMP packet
2453 asking it to send smaller packets. Our firewall will drop such
2454 ICMP packets to the floor, and then the TCP connection won't
2455 work properly. This can happen to any TCP connection, but so far
2456 it's been reported as breaking obfs4 for actual users. Thanks to
2457 Yawning for the help! (Closes: #9268)
2458 - Make Tails Upgrader ship other locales than English. (Closes:
2460 - Make it possible to add local USB printers again. Bugfix on
2461 Tails 2.0. (Closes #10965).
2463 * Minor improvements
2464 - Remove custom SSH ciphers and MACs settings. (Closes: #7315)
2465 - Bring back "minimize" and "maximize" buttons in titlebars by
2466 default. (Closes: #11270)
2467 - Icedove improvements:
2468 * Stop patching in our default into Torbirdy. We've upstreamed
2469 some parts, and the rest we set with pref branch overrides in
2470 /etc/xul-ext/torbirdy.js. (Closes: #10905)
2471 * Use hkps keyserver in Enigmail. (Closes: #10906)
2472 * Default to POP if persistence is enabled, IMAP is
2473 not. (Closes: #10574)
2474 * Disable remote email account creation in Icedove. (Closes:
2476 - Firewall hardening (Closes: #11391):
2477 * Don't accept RELATED packets. This enables quite a lot of code
2478 in the kernel that we don't need. Let's reduce the attack
2480 * Restrict debian-tor user to NEW TCP syn packets. It doesn't
2481 need to do more, so let's do a little bit of security in
2483 * Disable netfilter's nf_conntrack_helper.
2484 * Fix disabling of automatic conntrack helper assignment.
2486 * Set various kernel boot options: slab_nomerge slub_debug=FZ
2487 mce=0 vsyscall=none. (Closes: #11143)
2488 * Remove the kernel .map files. These are only useful for kernel
2489 debugging and slightly make things easier for malware, perhaps
2490 and otherwise just occupy disk space. Also stop exposing
2491 kernel memory addresses through /proc etc. (Closes: #10951)
2492 - Drop zenity hacks to "focus" the negative answer. Jessie's
2493 zenity introduced the --default-cancel option, finally!
2495 - Drop useless APT pinning for Linux.
2496 - Remove gnome-tweak-tool. (Closes: #11237)
2497 - Install python-dogtail, to enable accessibility technologies in
2498 our automated test suite (see below). (Part of: #10721)
2499 - Install libdrm and mesa from jessie-backports. (Closes: #11303)
2500 - Remove hledger. (Closes: #11346)
2501 - Don't pre-configure the #tails chan on the default OFTC account.
2503 - Install onioncircuits from jessie-backports. (Closes: #11443)
2504 - Remove nmh. (Closes: #10477)
2505 - Drop Debian experimental APT source: we don't use it.
2506 - Use APT codenames (e.g. "stretch") instead of suites, to be
2507 compatible with our tagged APT snapshots.
2508 - Drop module-assistant hook and its cleanup. We've not been using
2510 - Remove 'Reboot' and 'Power Off' entries from Applications →
2511 System Tools. (Closes: #11075)
2512 - Pin our custom APT repo to the same level as Debian ones, and
2513 explicitly pin higher the packages we want to pull from our custom
2514 APT repo, when needed.
2515 - config/chroot_local-hooks/59-libdvd-pkg: verify libdvdcss
2516 package installation. (Closes: #11420)
2517 - Make Tails Upgrader use our new mirror pool design. (Closes:
2519 - Drop custom OpenSSH client ciphers and MACs settings. We did a
2520 pretty bad job at maintaining them compared to the Debian
2521 upstream. (Closes: #7315)
2522 - Install jessie-backports version of all binary packages built
2523 from src:hplip. This adds support for quite a few new
2525 - Install printer-driver-postscript-hp, which adds support for
2529 - Use a freezable APT repo when building Tails. This is a first
2530 step towards reproducible builds, and improves our QA and
2531 development processes by making our builds more predictable. For
2532 details, see: https://tails.boum.org/contribute/APT_repository/
2533 - There has been a massive amount of improvements to the
2534 Vagrant-based build system, and now it could be considered the
2535 de-facto build system for Tails! Improvements and fixes include:
2536 * Migrate Vagrant to use libvirt/KVM instead of
2537 Virtualbox. (Closes: #6354)
2538 * Make apt-get stuff non-interactive while provisioning.
2539 Because there is no interaction, so that will results in
2541 * Bump disk space (=> RAM for RAM builds) needed to build with
2542 Vagrant. Since the Jessie migration it seems impossible to
2543 keep this low enough to fit in 8 GiB or RAM. For this reason
2544 we also drop the space optimization where we build inside a
2545 crazy aufs stack; now we just build in a tmpfs.
2546 * Clean up apt-cacher-ng cache on vm:provision to save disk
2547 space on the builder.
2548 * Add convenient Rake task for SSH:ing into the builder VM:
2550 * Add rake task for generating a new Vagrant base box.
2551 * Automatically provision the VM on build to keep things up-to-date.
2552 * Don't enable extproxy unless explicitly given as an
2553 option. Previously it would automatically be enabled when
2554 `http_proxy` is set in the environment, unlike what is
2555 documented. This will hopefully lead to fewer surprises for users
2556 who e.g. point http_proxy to a torified polipo, or similar.
2557 * Re-fetch tags when running build-tails with Vagrant. That
2558 should fix an annoyance related to #7182 that I frequently
2559 encounter: when I, as the RM, rebuild the release image the
2560 second time from the force-updated tag, the build system would
2561 not have the force-updated tag. (Closes: #7182)
2562 * Make sure we use the intended locale in the Tails builder VM.
2563 Since we communicate via SSH, and e.g. Debian forward the
2564 locale env vars by default, we have to take some steps
2565 ensuring we do not do that.
2566 - Pull monkeysphere from stretch to avoid failing to install under
2567 eatmydata. Patch submitted by Cyril Brulebois <cyril@debamax.com>.
2570 - Add wrapper around dogtail (inside Tails) for "remote" usage in
2571 the automated test suite. This provides a simple interface for
2572 generating dogtail python code, sending it to the guest, and
2573 executing it, and should allow us to write more robust tests
2574 leveraging assistive technologies. (Closes: #10721)
2575 - A few previously sikuli-based tests has been migrated to use
2576 dogtail instead, e.g. GNOME Applications menu interaction.
2577 - Add a test for re-configuring an existing persistent volume.
2578 This is a regression test for #10809. (Closes: #10834)
2579 - Use a simulated Tor network provided by Chutney in the automated
2580 test suite. The main motivation here is improved robustness --
2581 since the "Tor network" we now use will exit from the host
2582 running the automated test suite, we won't have to deal with Tor
2583 network blocking, or unreliable circuits. Performance should
2584 also be improved. (Closes: #9521)
2585 - Drop the usage of Tor Check in our tests. It doesn't make sense
2586 now when we use Chutney since that always means it will report
2587 that Tor is not being used.
2588 - Stop testing obsolete pluggable transports.
2589 - Completely rewrite the firewall leak detector to something more
2590 flexible and expressive.
2591 - Run tcpdump with --immediate-mode for the network sniffer. With
2592 this option, "packets are delivered to tcpdump as soon as they
2593 arrive, rather than being buffered for efficiency" which is
2594 required to make the sniffing work reliable the way we use it.
2595 - Remove most scenarios testing "tordate". It just isn't working
2596 well in Tails, so we shouldn't expect the tests to actually work
2597 all of the time. (Closes: #10440)
2598 - Close Pidgin before we inspect or persist its accounts.xml.
2599 I've seen a case when that file is _not_ saved (and thus, not
2600 persisted) if we shut down the system while Pidgin is still
2601 running. (Closes: #11413)
2602 - Close the GNOME Notification bar by pressing ESC, instead of
2603 opening the Applications menu. The Applications menu often
2604 covers other elements that we're looking for on the
2605 screen. (Closes #11401)
2606 - Hide Florence keyboard window when it doesn't vanish by itself
2607 (Closes: #11398) and wait a bit less for Florence to disappear
2610 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 06 Jun 2016 20:10:56 +0200
2612 tails (2.3) unstable; urgency=medium
2615 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.5. (Fixes: #11362)
2616 - Upgrade icedove to 38.7.0-1~deb8u1
2617 - Upgrade git to 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u2
2618 - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u1
2619 - Upgrade pidgin-otr to 4.0.1-1+deb8u1
2620 - Upgrade srtp to 1.4.5~20130609~dfsg-1.1+deb8u1
2621 - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u1
2622 - Upgrade samba to 2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u2
2623 - Upgrade openssh to 1:6.7p1-5+deb8u2
2626 - Refresh Tor Browser's AppArmor profile patch against the one from
2627 torbrowser-launcher 0.2.4-1. (Fixes: #11264)
2628 - Pull monkeysphere from stretch to avoid failing to install under
2629 eatmydata. (Fixes: #11170)
2630 - Start gpg-agent with no-grab option due to issues with pinentry and
2631 GNOME's top bar. (Fixes: #11038)
2632 - Tails Installer: Update error message to match new name of 'Clone
2633 & Install'. (Fixes: #11238)
2635 * Cope with a missing geoipdb. (Fixes: #11203)
2636 * Make both panes of the window scrollable. (Fixes #11192)
2637 - WhisperBack: Workaround socks bug. When the Tor fails to connect to
2638 the host, WisperBack used to display a ValueError. This is caused by
2639 a socks bug that is solved in upstream's master but not in Tails.
2640 This commit workarounds this bug Unclear error message in WhisperBack
2641 when failing to connect to the server. (Fixes: #11136)
2643 * Minor improvements
2644 - Upgrade to Debian 8.4, a Debian point release with many minor upgrades
2645 and fixes to various packages . (Fixes: #11232)
2646 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.25. (Fixes: #11363)
2647 - Pin pinentry-gtk2 to jessie-backports. The new version allows pasting
2648 passwords from the clipboard. (Fixes: #11239)
2649 - config/chroot_local-hooks/59-libdvd-pkg: cleanup /usr/src/libdvd-pkg.
2651 - Make the Tor Status "disconnected" icon more contrasted with the
2652 "connected" one. (Fixes: #11199)
2655 - Add UTF-8 support to OTR Bot. (Fixes: #10866)
2656 - Don't explicitly depend on openjdk-7-jre or any JRE for that
2657 matter. Sikuli will pull in a suitable one, so depending on one
2658 ourselves is only risks causing trouble. (Fixes: #11335)
2660 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 25 Apr 2016 14:12:22 +0200
2662 tails (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=medium
2665 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.4. (Closes: #11254)
2666 - Upgrade bind9-related packages to 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u6
2667 - Upgrade libotr to 4.1.0-2+deb8u1
2668 - Upgrade samba-related packages to 2:4.1.17+dfsg-2+deb8u2.
2669 - Upgrade libgraphite2 to 1.3.6-1~deb8u1.
2671 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Thu, 17 Mar 2016 15:03:52 +0100
2673 tails (2.2) unstable; urgency=medium
2675 * Major new features and changes
2676 - Replace Vidalia (which has been unmaintained for years) with:
2678 * the Tor Status GNOME Shell extension, which adds a System Status
2679 icon indicating whether Tor is ready or not.
2680 * Onion Circuits, a simple Tor circuit monitoring tool.
2683 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.3 (Closes: #11189).
2684 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u4.
2685 - Upgrade cpio to 2.11+dfsg-4.1+deb8u1.
2686 - Upgrade glibc to 2.19-18+deb8u3.
2687 - Upgrade libav to 6:11.6-1~deb8u1.
2688 - Upgrade libgraphite2 to 1.3.5-1~deb8u1.
2689 - Upgrade libjasper1 to 1.900.1-debian1-2.4+deb8u1.
2690 - Upgrade libreoffice to 4.3.3-2+deb8u3.
2691 - Upgrade libssh2 to 1.4.3-4.1+deb8u1.
2692 - Upgrade openssl to 1.0.1k-3+deb8u4.
2693 - Upgrade perl to 5.20.2-3+deb8u4.
2694 - Upgrade python-imaging, python-pil to 2.6.1-2 2.6.1-2+deb8u2.
2697 - Hide "Laptop Mode Tools Configuration" menu entry. We don't
2698 support configuring l-m-t in Tails, and it doesn't work out of
2699 the box. (Closes: #11074)
2701 * Actually write a string when saving bug report to
2702 disk. (Closes: #11133)
2703 * Add missing argument to OpenPGP dialog so the optional OpenPGP
2704 key can be added again. (Closes: #11033)
2706 * Minor improvements
2707 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.24-1~deb8u+1.
2708 - Add support for viewing DRM protected DVD videos using
2709 libdvdcss2. Patch series submitted by Austin English
2710 <austinenglish@gmail.com>. (Closes: #7674)
2711 - Automatically save KeePassX database after every change by default.
2713 - Implement Tor stream isolation for WhisperBack
2714 - Delete unused tor-tsocks-mua.conf previously used by Claws
2715 Mail. (Closes: #10904)
2716 - Add set -u to all gettext:ized shell scripts. In gettext-base <
2717 1.8.2, like the one we had in Wheezy, gettext.sh references the
2718 environment variable ZSH_VERSION, which we do not set. This has
2719 prevented us from doing `set -u` without various hacks. (Closes:
2721 - Also set -e in some shell scripts which lacked it for no good
2723 - Make Git verify the integrity of transferred objects. (Closes:
2725 - Remove LAlt+Shift and LShift+RShift keyboard layout toggling
2726 shortcuts. (Closes: #10913, #11042)
2729 - Reorder the execution of feature to decrease peak disk
2730 usage. (Closes: #10503)
2731 - Paste into the GTK file chooser, instead of typing. (Closes:
2733 - Pidgin: wait a bit for text to have stopped scrolling before we
2734 click on it. (Closes: #10783)
2735 - Fix step that runs commands in GNOME Terminal, that was broken
2736 on Jessie when a Terminal is running already. (Closes: #11176)
2737 - Let ruby-rjb guess JAVA_HOME instead fixing on one jvm
2738 version. (Closes: #11190)
2741 - Upgrade build system to Debian Jessie. This includes migrating to a
2742 new Vagrant basebox based on Debian Jessie.
2743 - Rakefile: print git status when there are uncommitted
2744 changes. Patch submitted by Austin English
2745 <austinenglish@gmail.com>. (Closes: #11108)
2746 - .gitignore: add .rake_tasks~. Patch submitted by Austin English
2747 <austinenglish@gmail.com>. (Closes: #11134)
2748 - config/amnesia: use --show-field over sed filtering. Patch
2749 submitted by Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>.
2750 - Umount and clean up leftover temporary directories from old
2751 builds. (Closes: #10772)
2753 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 07 Mar 2016 18:09:50 +0100
2755 tails (2.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium
2757 * Major new features and changes
2758 - Enable the Tor Browser's font fingerprinting protection
2759 (Closes: #11000). We do it for all browsers (including
2760 the Unsafe Browser and I2P Browser mainly to avoid making our
2761 automated test suite overly complex. This implied to set an appropriate
2762 working directory when launching the Tor Browser, to accommodate for
2763 the assumptions it makes about this.
2766 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.2 (Closes: #11105).
2769 - Repair 32-bit UEFI support (Closes: #11007); bugfix on 2.0.
2770 - Add libgnome2-bin to installed packages list to provide gnome-open,
2771 which fixes URL handling at least in KeePassX, Electrum and Icedove
2772 (Closes: #11031); bugfix on 2.0. Thanks to segfault for the patch!
2774 * Minor improvements
2775 - Refactor and de-duplicate the chrooted browsers' configuration:
2776 prefs.js, userChrome.css (Closes: #9896).
2777 - Make the -profile Tor Launcher workaround simpler (Closes: #7943).
2778 - Move Torbutton environment configuration to the tor-browser script,
2779 instead of polluting the default system environment with it.
2780 - Refresh patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile
2782 - Propagate Tor Launcher options via the wrapper.
2783 - Move tor-launcher script to /usr/local/bin.
2784 - Move tor-launcher-standalone to /usr/local/lib.
2785 - Move Tor Launcher env configuration closer to the place where it is used,
2786 for simplicity's sake.
2789 - Mass update browser and Tor Launcher related images due to font change,
2790 caused by Tor Browser 5.5's font fingerprinting protection
2791 (Closes: #11097). And then, use separate PrintToFile.png for the browsers,
2792 and Evince, since it cannot be shared anymore.
2793 - Adjust to the refactored chrooted browsers configuration handling.
2794 - Test that Tor Launcher uses the correct Tor Browser libraries.
2795 - Allow more slack when verifying that the date that was set.
2796 - Bump a bit the timeout used when waiting for the remote shell.
2797 - Bump timeout for the process to disappear, when closing Evince.
2798 - Bump timeout when saving persistence configuration.
2799 - Bump timeout for bootstrapping I2P.
2802 - Remove no longer relevant places.sqlite cleanup procedure.
2804 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Fri, 12 Feb 2016 13:00:15 +0000
2806 tails (2.0) unstable; urgency=medium
2808 * Major new features and changes
2809 - Upgrade to Debian 8 (Jessie).
2810 - Migrate to GNOME Shell in Classic mode.
2811 - Use systemd as PID 1, and convert all custom initscripts to systemd units.
2812 - Remove the Windows camouflage feature: our call for help to port
2813 it to GNOME Shell (issued in January, 2015) was unsuccessful.
2814 - Remove Claws Mail: Icedove is now the default email client
2816 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5 (Closes: #10858, #10983).
2819 - Minimally sandbox many services with systemd's namespacing features.
2820 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u3.
2821 - Upgrade Git to 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u1.
2822 - Upgrade Perl to 5.20.2-3+deb8u3.
2823 - Upgrade bind9-related packages to 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u5.
2824 - Upgrade FUSE to 2.9.3-15+deb8u2.
2825 - Upgrade isc-dhcp-client tot 4.3.1-6+deb8u2.
2826 - Upgrade libpng12-0 to 1.2.50-2+deb8u2.
2827 - Upgrade OpenSSH client to 1:6.7p1-5+deb8u1.
2830 - Restore the logo in the "About Tails" dialog.
2831 - Don't tell the user that "Tor is ready" before htpdate is done
2833 - Upgrader wrapper: make the check for free memory more accurate
2834 (Closes: #10540, #8263).
2835 - Allow the desktop user, when active, to configure printers;
2836 fixes regression introduced in Tails 1.1 (Closes: #8443).
2837 - Close Vidalia before we restart Tor. Otherwise Vidalia will be running
2838 and showing errors while we make sure that Tor bootstraps, which could
2840 - Allow Totem to read DVDs, by installing apparmor-profiles-extra
2841 from jessie-backports (Closes: #9990).
2842 - Make memory erasure on shutdown more robust (Closes: #9707, #10487):
2843 · don't forcefully overcommit memory
2844 · don't kill the allocating task
2845 · make sure the kernel doesn't starve from memory
2846 · make parallel sdmem handling faster and more robust
2847 - Don't offer the option, in Tor Browser, to open a downloaded file with
2848 an external application (Closes: #9285). Our AppArmor confinement was
2849 blocking most such actions anyway, resulting in poor UX; bugfix on 1.3.
2850 Accordingly, remove the now-obsolete exception we had in the Tor
2851 Browser AppArmor profile, that allowed executing seahorse-tool.
2852 - Fix performance issue in Tails Upgrader, that made it very slow to apply
2853 an automatic upgrade; bugfix on 1.7 (Closes: #10757).
2854 - Use our wrapper script to start Icedove from the GNOME menus.
2855 - Make it possible to localize our Icedove wrapper script.
2856 - List Icedove persistence option in the same position where Claws Mail
2857 used to be, in the persistent volume assistant (Closes: #10832).
2858 - Fix Electrum by installing the version from Debian Testing
2859 (Closes: #10754). We need version >=2.5.4-2, see #9713;
2860 bugfix on 2.0~beta1. And, explicitly install python-qt4 to enable
2861 Electrum's GUI: it's a Recommends, and we're not pulling it ourselves
2862 via other means anymore.
2863 - Restore default file associations (Closes: #10798);
2864 bugfix on 2.0~beta1.
2865 - Update 'nopersistent' boot parameter to 'nopersistence'; bugfix on 0.12
2866 (Closes: #10831). Thanks to live-media=removable, this had no security
2868 - Repair dotfiles persistence feature, by adding a symlink from
2869 /lib/live/mount/persistence to /live/persistence; bugfix on 2.0~beta1
2871 - Fix ability to re-configure an existing persistent volume using
2872 the GUI; bugfix on 2.0~beta1 (Closes: #10809).
2873 - Associate armored OpenPGP public keys named *.key with Seahorse,
2874 to workaround https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93656;
2875 bugfix on 1.1 (Closes: #10889).
2876 - Update the list of enabled GNOME Shell extensions, which might fix
2877 the "GNOME Shell sometimes leaves Classic mode" bug seen in 2.0~beta1:
2878 · Remove obsolete "Alternative Status Menu", that is not shipped
2880 · Explicitly enable the GNOME Shell extensions that build
2882 - Make _get_tg_setting() compatible with set -u (Closes: #10785).
2883 - laptop-mode-tools: don't control autosuspend. Some USB input
2884 devices don't support autosuspend. This change might help fix
2885 #10850, but even if it doesn't, it makes sense to me that we
2886 don't let laptop-mode-tools fiddle with this on a Live system
2887 (Closes (for now): #10850).
2889 * Minor improvements
2890 - Remove obsolete code from various places.
2892 · hide all windows while logging in
2893 · resize and re-position the panel when the screen size grows
2894 · PostLogin: log into the Journal instead of a dedicated log file
2895 · use localectl to set the system locale and keyboard mapping
2896 · delete the Live user's password if no administration password is set
2898 · port to GDBus greeter interface, and adjust to other GDM
2901 · port to UDisks2, and from Qt4 to GTK3
2902 · adapt to work on other GNU/Linux operating systems than Tails
2903 · clean up enough upstream code and packaging bits to make it
2904 deserve being uploaded to Debian
2905 · rename everything from liveusb-creator to tails-installer
2906 - Port tails-perl5lib to GTK3 and UDisks2. In passing, do some minor
2907 refactoring and a GUI improvement.
2908 - Persistent Volume Assistant:
2909 · port to GTK3 and UDisks2
2910 · handle errors when deleting persistent volume (Closes: #8435)
2911 · remove obsolete workarounds
2912 - Don't install UDisks v1.
2913 - Adapt custom udev and polkit rules to UDisks v2 (Closes: #9054, #9270).
2914 - Adjust import-translations' post-import step for Tails Installer,
2915 to match how its i18n system works nowadays.
2916 - Use socket activation for CUPS, to save some boot time.
2917 - Set memlockd.service's OOMScoreAdjust to -1000.
2918 - Don't bother creating /var/lib/live in tails-detect-virtualization.
2919 If it does not exist at this point, we have bigger and more
2920 noticeable problems.
2921 - Simplify the virtualization detection & reporting system, and do it
2922 as a non-root user with systemd-detect-virt rather than virt-what.
2923 - Replace rsyslog with the systemd Journal (Closes: #8320), and adjust
2924 WhisperBack's logs handling accordingly.
2925 - Drop tails-save-im-environment.
2926 It's not been used since we stopped automatically starting the web browser.
2927 - Add a hook that aborts the build if any *.orig file is found. Such files
2928 appear mainly when a patch of ours is fuzzy. In most cases they are no big
2929 deal, but in some cases they end up being taken into account
2931 - Replace the tor+http shim with apt-transport-tor (Closes: #8198).
2932 - Install gnome-tweak-tool.
2933 - Don't bother testing if we're using dependency based boot.
2934 - Drop workaround to start spice-vdagent in GDM (Closes: #8025).
2935 This has been fixed in Jessie proper.
2936 - Don't install ipheth-utils anymore. It seems to be obsolete
2937 in current desktop environments.
2938 - Stop installing the buggy unrar-free, superseded in Jessie (Closes: #5838)
2939 - Drop all custom fontconfig configuration, and configure fonts rendering
2941 - Drop zenity patch (zenity-fix-whitespacing-box-sizes.diff),
2942 that was applied upstream.
2943 - Install libnet-dbus-perl (currently 1.1.0) from jessie-backports,
2944 it brings new features we need.
2945 - Have the security check and the upgrader wait for Tor having bootstrapped
2946 with systemd unit ordering.
2947 - Get rid of tails-security-check's wrapper.
2948 Its only purpose was to wait for Tor to have bootstrapped,
2949 which is now done via systemd.
2950 - Don't allow the amnesia and tails-upgrade-frontend users to run
2951 tor-has-bootstrapped as root with sudo. They don't need it anymore,
2952 thanks to using systemd for starting relevant units only once Tor
2954 - Install python-nautilus, that enables MAT's context menu item in Nautilus.
2956 - Configure GDM with a snippet file instead of patching its
2957 greeter.dconf-defaults.
2959 · port to Python 3 and GObject Introspection (Closes: #7755)
2960 · migrate from the gnutls module to the ssl one
2961 · use PGP/MIME for better attachments handling
2962 · migrate from the gnupginterface module to the gnupg one
2963 · natively support SOCKS ⇒ don't wrap with torsocks anymore
2965 · don't try to include the obsolete .xession-errors in bug reports
2967 - chroot-browser.sh: don't use static DISPLAY.
2968 - Simplify debugging:
2969 · don't hide the emergency shutdown's stdout
2970 · tails-unblock-network: trace commands so that they end up in the Journal
2971 - Configure the console codeset at ISO build time, instead of setting it
2972 to a constant via the Greeter's PostLogin.default.
2973 - Order the AppArmor policy compiling in a way that is less of a blocker
2975 - Include the major KMS modules in the initramfs. This helps seamless
2976 transition to X.Org when booting, and back to text mode on shutdown,
2977 can help for proper graphics hardware reinitialization post-kexec,
2978 and should improve GNOME Shell support in some virtual machines.
2979 - Always show the Universal Access menu icon in the GNOME panel.
2980 - Drop notification for not-migrated-yet persistence configuration,
2981 and persistence settings disabled due to wrong access rights.
2982 That migration happened more two years ago.
2983 - Remove the restricted network detector, that has been broken for too long;
2984 see #10560 for next steps (Closes: #8328).
2985 - Remove unsupported, never completed kiosk mode support.
2986 - clock_gettime_monotonic: use Perl's own function to get the integer part,
2987 instead of forking out to sed.
2988 - Don't (try to) disable lvm2 initscripts anymore. Both the original reason
2989 and the implementation are obsolete on Jessie.
2990 - Lower potential for confusion (#8443), by removing system-config-printer.
2991 One GUI to configure printers is enough (Closes: #8505).
2992 - Add "set -u" to tails-unblock-network.
2993 - Add a systemd target whose completion indicates that Tor has bootstrapped,
2994 and use it everywhere sensible (Closes: #9393).
2995 - Disable udev's 75-persistent-net-generator.rules, to preventing races
2996 between MAC spoofing and interface naming.
2997 - Replace patch against NetworkManager.conf with drop-in files.
2998 - Replace resolvconf with simpler NetworkManager and dhclient configuration.
3000 - Replace patching of the gdomap, i2p, hdparm, tor and ttdnsd initscripts
3001 with 'systemctl disable' (Closes: #9881).
3002 - Replace patches that wrapped apps with torsocks with dynamic patching with
3003 a hook, to ease maintenance. Also, patch D-Bus services as needed
3005 - Notify the user if running Tails inside non-free virtualization software
3006 that does not try to hide its nature (Closes: #5315).
3007 Thanks to Austin English <austinenglish@gmail.com> for the patch.
3008 - Declare htpdate.service as being needed for time-sync.target, to ensure
3009 that "services where correct time is essential should be ordered after
3011 - Convert some of the X session startup programs to `systemd --user' units.
3012 - Let the Pidgin wrapper pass through additional command-line arguments
3014 - Move out of the $PATH a bunch of programs that users should generally
3015 not run directly: connect-socks, end-profile, getTorBrowserUserAgent,
3016 generate-tor-browser-profile, kill-boot-profile, tails-spoof-mac,
3017 tails-set-wireless-devices-state, tails-configure-keyboard,
3018 do_not_ever_run_me, boot-profile, tails-unblock-network,
3019 tor-controlport-filter, tails-virt-notify-user, tails-htp-notify-user,
3020 udev-watchdog-wrapper (Closes: #10658)
3021 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.23-2~deb8u+1.
3022 - Disable I2P's time syncing support.
3023 - Install Torbirdy from official Jessie backports, instead of from
3024 our own APT repository (Closes: #10804).
3025 - Make GNOME Disks' passphrase strength checking new feature work,
3026 by installing cracklib-runtime (Closes: #10862).
3027 - Add support for Japanese in Tor Browser.
3028 - Install xserver-xorg-video-intel from Jessie Backports (currently:
3029 2.99.917-2~bpo8+1). This adds support for recent chips such as
3030 Intel Broadwell's HD Graphics (Closes: #10841).
3031 - Improve a little bit post-Greeter network unblocking:
3032 · Sleep a bit longer between deleting the blacklist, and triggering udev;
3033 this might help cure #9012.
3034 · Increase logging, so that we get more information next time someone
3036 · Touch /etc/modprobe.d/ after deleting the blacklist; this might help,
3037 in case all this is caused by some aufs bug.
3038 - Enable and use the Debian jessie-proposed-updates APT repository,
3039 anticipating on the Jessie 8.3 point-release (Closes: #10897).
3040 - Upgrade most firmware packages to 20160110-1.
3041 - Upgrade Intel CPU microcodes to 3.20151106.1~deb8u1.
3042 - Disable IPv6 for the default wired connection, so that
3043 NetworkManager does not spam the logs with IPv6 router
3044 solicitation failure. Note that this does not fix the problem
3045 for other connections (Partially closes: #10939).
3048 - Adapt to the new desktop environment and applications' look.
3049 - Adapt new changed nmcli syntax and output.
3050 - New NetworkManager connection files must be manually loaded in Jessie.
3051 - Adapt to new pkexec behavior.
3052 - Adapt to how we now disable networking.
3053 - Use sysctl instead of echo:ing into /proc/sys.
3054 - Use oom_score_adj instead of the older oom_adj.
3055 - Adapt everything depending on logs to the use of the Journal.
3056 - Port to UDisks v2.
3057 - Check that the system partition is an EFI System Partition.
3058 - Add ldlinux.c32 to the list of bootloader files that are expected
3059 to be modified when we run syslinux (Closes: #9053).
3060 - Use apt(8) instead of apt-get(8).
3061 - Don't hide the cursor after opening the GNOME apps menu.
3062 - Convert the remote shell to into a systemd native service and a Python 3,
3063 script that uses the sd_notify facility (Closes: #9057). Also, set its
3064 OOM score adjustment value via its unit file, and not from the test suite.
3065 - Adjust to match where screenshots are saved nowadays.
3066 - Check that all system units have started (Closes: #8262)
3067 - Simplify the "too small device" test.
3068 - Spawn `poweroff' and `halt' in the background, and don't wait for them
3069 to return: anything else would be racy vs. the remote shell's stopping.
3070 - Bump video memory allocated to the system under test, to fix out of video
3072 - When configuring the CPU to lack PAE support, use a qemu32 CPU instead
3073 of a Pentium one: the latter makes GNOME Shell crash.
3074 See #8778 for details about how Mesa's CPU features detection has
3075 room for improvement.
3076 - Adjust free(1) output parsing for Jessie.
3077 - vm-execute: rename --type option to --spawn.
3078 - Add method to set the X.Org clipboard, and install its dependency
3080 - Paste URLs in one go, to work around issue with lost key presses
3081 in the browser (Closes: #10467).
3082 - Reliably wait for Synaptic's search button to fade in.
3083 - Take into account that the sticky bit is not set on block devices
3085 - Ensure that we can use a NetworkManager connection stored in persistence
3087 - Use a stricter regexp when extracting logs for dropped packets.
3088 - Clone the host CPU for the test suite guests (Closes: #8778).
3089 - Run ping as root (aufs does not support file capabilities so we don't
3090 get cap_net_raw+ep, and if built on a filesystem that does support
3091 file capabilities, then /bin/ping is not setupd root).
3092 - Escape regexp special characters when constructing the firewall log
3093 parsing regexp, and pass -P to grep, since Ruby uses PCRE.
3094 - Adjust is_persistent?() helper to findmnt changes in Jessie.
3095 - Rework in depth how we measure pattern coverage in memory, with more
3096 reliable Linux OOM and VM settings, fundamental improvements
3097 in what exactly we measure, and custom OOM adjutments for fillram
3098 processes (Closes: #9705).
3099 - Use blkid instead of parted to determine the filesystem type.
3100 - Use --kiosk mode instead of --fullscreen in virt-viewer, to remove
3101 the tiny border of the in-viewer menu.
3102 - Remove now redundant desktop screenshot directory scenario.
3103 - Adapt GNOME notification handling for Debian Jessie (Closes: #8782)
3104 - Disable screen blanking in the automated test suite, which occasionally
3105 breaks some test cases (Closes: #10403).
3106 - Move upgrade scenarios to the feature dedicated to them.
3107 - Don't make libvirt storage volumes executable.
3108 - Refactor the PAUSE_ON_FAIL functionality, so that we can use `pause()`
3109 as a breakpoint when debugging.
3110 - Drop non-essential Totem test that is mostly a duplicate, and too painful
3111 to be worth automating on Jessie.
3112 - Retry Totem HTTPS test with a new Tor circuit on failure.
3113 - Replace iptables status regexp-based parser with a new XML-based
3114 status analyzer: the previous implementation could not be adjusted
3115 to the new ip6tables' output (Closes: #9704).
3116 - Don't reboot in one instance when it is not needed.
3117 - Optimize memory erasure anti-test: block the boot to save CPU on the host.
3118 - Update I2P tests for Jessie, and generally make them more robust.
3119 - Update Electrum tests for 2.5.4-2 (Closes: #10758).
3120 - Add workaround for libvirt vs. guestfs permissions issue, to allow
3121 running the test suite on current Debian sid.
3122 - Fix buggy code, that happened to work by mistake, in the Seahorse
3123 test cases; bugfix on 1.8.
3124 - Update test suite images due to CSS change on Tails' website.
3125 - Adapt Tor Browser tests to work with the 5.5 series.
3126 - Automatically test downloading files in Tor Browser.
3127 - Remove obsolete scenario, that tested opening a downloaded file with
3128 an external application, which we do not support anymore.
3129 - Improve robustness of the "Tails OpenPGP keys" scenario (Closes: #10378).
3130 - Automatically test the "Diable all networking" feature (Closes: #10430).
3131 - Automatically test that SSH works over LAN (Closes: #9087).
3132 - Bump some statuc sleeps to fix a few race conditions (Closes: #5330).
3133 - Automatically test that an emergency shutdown triggers on boot
3134 medium removal (Closes: #5472).
3135 - Make the AppArmor checks actually detect errors (Closes: #10926).
3138 - Bump amount of disk space needed to build Tails with Vagrant.
3139 The addition of the Japanese Tor Browser tarball made us reach
3140 the limit of the previous value.
3142 * Adjustments for Debian 8 (Jessie) with no or very little user-visible impact
3143 - Free the fixed UIDs/GIDs we need before creating the corresponding users.
3144 - Replace the real gnome-backgrounds with a fake, equivs generated one
3145 (Closes: #8055). Jessie's gnome-shell depends on gnome-backgrounds,
3146 which is too fat to ship considering we're not using it.
3147 - AppArmor: adjust CUPS profile to support our Live system environment
3149 · Mangle lib/live/mount/overlay/... as usual for aufs.
3150 · Pass the the attach_disconnected flag, that's needed for compatibility
3152 - Make sure we don't ship geoclue* (Closes: #7949).
3153 - Drop deprecated GDM configuration file.
3154 - Don't add the Live user to the deprecated 'fuse' group.
3155 - Drop hidepid mount option for /proc (Closes: #8256). In its current,
3156 simplistic form it cannot be supported by systemd.
3157 - Don't manually load acpi-cpufreq at boot time. It fails to load
3158 whenever no device it supports is present, which makes the
3159 systemd-modules-load.service fail. These days, the kernel
3160 should just automatically load such modules when they are needed.
3161 - Drop sysvinit-specific (sensigs.omit.d) tweaks for memlockd.
3162 - Disable the GDM unit file's Restart=always, that breaks our "emergency
3163 shutdown on boot medium removal" feature.
3164 - Update the implementation of the memory erasure on shutdown feature:
3165 · check for rebooting state using systemctl, instead of the obsolete
3166 $RUNLEVEL (Closes: #8306)
3167 · the kexec-load initscript normally silently exits unless systemd is
3168 currently running a reboot job. This is not the case when the emergency
3169 shutdown has been triggered, so we removed this check
3170 · migrate tails-kexec to the /lib/systemd/system-shutdown/ facility
3171 · don't (try to) switch to tty1 on emergency shutdown: it apparently
3172 requires data that we haven't locked into memory, and then it blocks
3173 the whole emergency shutdown process
3174 - Display a slightly darker version of the desktop wallpaper on the screen
3175 saver, instead of the default flashy "Debian 8" branding (Closes: #9038).
3176 - Disable software autorun from external media.
3177 - Disable a few unneeded D-Bus services. Some of these services are
3178 automatically started (via D-Bus activation) when GNOME Shell tries
3179 to use them. The only "use" I've seen for them, except eating
3180 precious RAM, is to display "No appointment today" in the calendar pop-up.
3182 - Prevent NetworkManager services from starting at boot time
3183 (Closes: #8313). We start them ourselves after changing the MAC address.
3184 - Unfuzzy all patches (Closes: #8268) and drop a few obsolete ones.
3185 - Adapt IBus configuration for Jessie (Closes: #8270), i.e. merge the two
3186 places where we configure keyboard layout and input methods: both are now
3187 configured in the same place in Jessie's GNOME.
3188 - Migrate panel launchers to the favorite apps list (Closes: #7992).
3189 - Drop pre-GNOME Shell menu tweaks.
3190 - Hide "Log out" button in the GNOME Shell menu (Closes: #8364).
3191 - Add a custom shutdown-helper GNOME Shell extension (Closes: #8302, #5684
3192 and #5878) that removes the press-Alt-to-turn-shutdown-button-into-Suspend
3193 functionality from the GNOME user menu, and makes Restart and Shutdown
3194 immediate, without further user interaction. Accordingly remove our custom
3195 Shutdown Helper panel applet (#8302).
3196 - Drop GNOME Panel configuration, now deprecated.
3197 - Disable GNOME Shell's screen lock feature.
3198 We're not there yet (see #5684).
3199 - Disable GNOME Shell screen locker's user switch feature.
3200 - Explicitly install libany-moose-perl (Closes: #8051).
3201 It's needed by our OpenPGP applet. On Wheezy, this package was pulled
3202 by some other dependency. This is not the case anymore on Jessie.
3203 - Don't install notification-daemon nor gnome-mag: GNOME Shell has taken
3204 over this functionality (Closes: #7481).
3205 - Don't install ntfsprogs: superseded on Jessie.
3206 - Don't install barry-util: not part of Jessie.
3207 - Link udev-watchdog dynamically, and lock it plus its dependencies
3209 - Migrate from gdm-simple-greeter to a custom gdm-tails session
3211 - Update Plymouth installation and configuration:
3212 · install the plymouth packages via chroot_local-hooks: lb 2.x's "standard"
3213 packages list pulls console-common in, which plymouth now conflicts with
3214 · don't patch the plymouth initscript anymore, that was superseded
3215 by native systemd unit files
3216 · mask the plymouth-{halt,kexec,poweroff,reboot,shutdown} services,
3217 to prevent them from occupying the active TTY with an (empty) splash
3218 screen on shutdown/reboot, that would hide the messages we want to show
3219 to the user via tails-kexec (Closes: #9032)
3220 - Migrate GNOME keyboard layout settings from libgnomekbd to input-sources
3222 - Explicitly install syslinux-efi, that we need and is not automatically
3223 pulled by anything else anymore.
3224 - Workaround #7248 for GDM: use a solid blue background picture,
3225 instead of a solid color fill, in the Greeter session.
3226 - De-install gcc-4.8-base and gcc-4.9 at the end of the ISO build process.
3227 - Revert the "Wrap syndaemon to always use -t" Wheezy-specific workaround.
3228 - htpdate: run date(1) in a Jessie-compatible (and nicer) way.
3229 - Remove obsolete dconf screenshot settings and the corresponding test.
3230 - Drop our patched python-dbus{,-dev} package (Closes: #9177).
3231 - live-persist: stop overriding live-boot's functions, we now have
3232 a recent enough blkid.
3233 - Adjust sdmem initramfs bits for Jessie:
3234 · Directly call poweroff instead of halt -p.
3235 · Don't pass -n to poweroff and reboot, it's not supported anymore.
3236 - Wrap text in the Unsafe Browser startup warning dialog
3237 (Jessie's zenity does not wrap it itself).
3238 - Associate application/pgp-keys with Seahorse's "Import Key" application
3240 - Install topIcons GNOME Shell extension (v28), to work around the fact
3241 that a few of the applets we use hijack the notification area.
3242 - "cd /" to fix permissions issue at tails-persistence-setup startup
3244 - Install gstreamer1.0-libav, so that Totem can play H264-encoded videos.
3245 - Adjust APT sources configuration:
3246 · remove explicit jessie and jessie-updates sources:
3247 automatically added by live-build
3248 · add Debian testing
3249 · add jessie-backports
3250 - Firewall: white-list access to the accessibility daemon (Closes: #8075).
3251 - Adjust to changed desktop notification behavior and supported feature set
3253 · pass the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS used by the GNOME session
3255 · update waiting for a notification handler: gnome-panel and nm-applet
3256 are obsolete, GNOME Shell is now providing this facility, so instead
3257 wait for a process that starts once GNOME Shell is ready, namely
3258 ibus-daemon (Closes: #8685)
3259 · port tails-warn-about-disabled-persistence and tails-virt-notify-user
3260 to notification actions (instead of hyperlinks), and make the latter
3261 transient; to this end, add support to Desktop::Notify for "hints"
3262 and notification actions
3263 · tails-security-check: use a dialog box instead of desktop notifications
3264 · MAC spoofing failure notification: remove the link to the documentation;
3265 it was broken on Tails/Wheezy already, see #10559 for next steps
3266 - Don't explicitly install gnome-panel nor gnome-menus, so that they go away
3267 whenever the Greeter does not pull them in anymore.
3268 - Install gkbd-capplet, that provides gkbd-keyboard-display (Closes: #8363).
3269 - Install Tor 0.2.7 from deb.torproject.org: we don't need to rebuild it
3270 ourselves for seccomp support anymore.
3271 - Wrap Seahorse with torsocks when it is started as a D-Bus service too
3273 - Rename the AppArmor profile for Tor, so it applies to the system-wide
3274 Tor service we run (Closes: #10528).
3275 - Essentially revert ALSA state handling to how it was pre-Jessie, so that
3276 mixer levels are unmuted and sanitized at boot time (Closes: #7591).
3277 - Pass --yes to apt-get when installing imagemagick.
3278 - Make removable devices, that we support installing Tails to, user writable:
3279 Tails Installer requires raw block device access to such devices
3280 (Closes: #8273). Similarly, allow the amnesia user, when active, to open
3281 non-system devices for writing with udisks2. This is roughly udisks2's
3282 equivalent of having direct write access to raw block storage devices.
3283 Here too, Tails Installer uses this functionality.
3284 - Disable networkd to prevent any risk of DNS leaks it might cause; and
3285 disable timesyncd, as we have our own time synchronization mechanism.
3286 They are not enabled by default in Jessie, but may be in Stretch,
3287 so let's be explicit about it.
3288 - Mask hwclock-save.service, to avoid sync'ing the system clock
3289 to the hardware clock on shutdown (Closes: #9363).
3290 - apparmor-adjust-cupsd-profile.diff: adjust to parse fine on Jessie
3292 - Explicitly use tor@default.service when it's the one we mean.
3293 - Refactor GNOME/X env exporting to Tails' shell library, and grab
3294 more of useful bits of the desktop session environment.
3295 Then, use the result in the test suite's remote shell.
3296 - Stop tweaking /etc/modules. It's 2015, the kernel should load these things
3297 automatically (Closes: #10609).
3298 - Have systemd hardening let Tor modify its configuration (needed by Tor
3299 Launcher), and start obfs4proy (Closes: #10696, #10724).
3300 - Bump extensions.adblockplus.currentVersion and
3301 extensions.enigmail.configuredVersion to match what we currently get
3303 - I2P: switch from 'service' to 'systemctl' where possible.
3305 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:06:33 +0100
3307 tails (1.8.2) unstable; urgency=medium
3310 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.7.
3311 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u2.
3312 - Upgrade foomatic-filters to 4.0.17-1+deb7u1.
3313 - Upgrade git to 1:1.7.10.4-1+wheezy2.
3314 - Upgrade Icedove to 38.5.0-1~deb7u1.
3315 - Upgrade libxml2-related packages to 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy5.
3316 - Upgrade OpenSSL-related packages to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u19.
3317 - Upgrade libsmbclient to 2:3.6.6-6+deb7u6.
3319 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 09 Jan 2016 16:27:27 +0100
3321 tails (1.8.1) unstable; urgency=medium
3324 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.6.
3325 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u1
3326 - Upgrade gdkpixbuf to 2.26.1-1+deb7u3
3327 - Upgrade bind9 tools to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u8
3330 - Fix time synchronization in bridge mode by refreshing our patch
3331 against Tor's AppArmor profile.
3333 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Fri, 18 Dec 2015 19:05:18 +0000
3335 tails (1.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3338 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.7.6-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.
3339 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.5. (Closes: #10751)
3340 - Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u5.
3341 - Upgrade krb5-based packages to 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u6.
3342 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u6.
3343 - Upgrade wpasupplicant to 1.0-3+deb7u3.
3344 - Upgrade libpng12-0 to 1.2.49-1+deb7u1.
3345 - Upgrade openjdk-7 to 7u91-2.6.3-1~deb7u1.
3346 - Upgrade libnspr4 to 2:4.9.2-1+deb7u3
3347 - Upgrade dpkg to 1.16.17.
3348 - Upgrade gnutls26 to 2.12.20-8+deb7u4.
3349 - Upgrade Icedove to 1:38.0.1-1~deb7u1.
3350 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u18.
3353 - Upgrade to Electrum 2.5.4-2~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Now Electrum
3354 should work again. Note that the documentation has not been
3355 adapted to the slight changes in the Electrum account setup
3358 * Minor improvements
3359 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.23-2~deb7u+1.
3360 - Rebase our patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile on top
3361 of the one shipped in torbrowser-launcher 0.2.1-2.
3362 - Warn if the claws-mail persistence is enabled and contains a
3363 Claws Mail configuration when starting icedove. (Closes: #10458)
3364 - Replace the Claws Mail GNOME launcher with Icedove. (Closes:
3366 - Remove the Claws Mail persistence feature from the Persistence
3367 Assistant. (Closes: #10742)
3370 - Simplify ISO image naming rules by using the base rule we use
3371 for Jenkins all the time, except when building from a tag
3372 (i.e. building a release). (Closes: #10349)
3375 - Lower the waiting time for USB installation in the test suite.
3376 So far we were waiting up to one hour, which is just the same as
3377 our Jenkins inactivity timeout, so in practice when Tails
3378 Installer fails and displays an error message, instead of
3379 reporting that the job failed (which is the point of the
3380 exercise) we abort the job due to this timeout which
3381 communicates less clearly that there's probably a bug. (Closes:
3383 - Remove the check for the sound icon in the systray in the
3384 Windows Camouflage tests. (Closes: #10493)
3385 - Retry running whois when "LIMIT EXCEEDED" is in its output for
3386 increased robustness. (Closes: #10523)
3387 - Make Seahorse tests more robust. (Closes: #9095, #10501)
3388 - Make the handling of Pidgin's account manager more robust.
3391 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 14 Dec 2015 23:07:19 +0100
3393 tails (1.7) unstable; urgency=medium
3395 * Major new features and changes
3396 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.4. (Closes: #10456)
3397 - Add a technology preview of the Icedove Email client (a
3398 rebranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird), including OpenPGP
3399 support via the Enigmail add-on, general security and anonymity
3400 improvements via the Torbirdy add-on, and complete persistence
3401 support (which will be enabled automatically if you already have
3402 Claws Mail persistence enabled). Icedove will replace Claws Mail
3403 as the supported email client in Tails in a future
3404 release. (Closes: #6151, #9498, #10285)
3405 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.7.4-rc-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Among the many
3406 improvement of this new Tor major release, the new
3407 KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option allows us to drop the
3408 bug15482.patch patch (taken from the Tor Browse bundle) that
3409 enabled similar (but inferior) functionality for *all*
3410 SocksPort:s -- now the same circuit is only kept alive for
3411 extended periods for the SocksPort used by the Tor
3412 Browser. (Closes: #10194, #10308)
3413 - Add an option to Tails Greeter which disables networking
3414 completely. This is useful when intending to use Tails for
3415 offline work only. (Closes: #6811)
3418 - Fix CVE-2015-7665, which could lead to a network interface's IP
3419 address being exposed through wget. (Closes: #10364)
3420 - Prevent a symlink attack on ~/.xsession-errors via
3421 tails-debugging-info which could be used by the amnesia user to
3422 read the contents of any file, no matter the
3423 permissions. (Closes: #10333)
3424 - Upgrade libfreetype6 to 2.4.9-1.1+deb7u2.
3425 - Upgrade gdk-pixbuf packages to 2.26.1-1+deb7u2.
3426 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u5.
3427 - Upgrade openjdk-7 packages to 7u85-2.6.1-6~deb7u1.
3428 - Upgrade unzip to 6.0-8+deb7u4.
3431 - Add a temporary workaround for an issue in our code which checks
3432 whether i2p has bootstrapped, which (due to some recent change
3433 in either I2P or Java) could make it appear it had finished
3434 prematurely. (Closes: #10185)
3435 - Fix a logical bug in the persistence preset migration code while
3436 real-only persistence is enabled. (Closes: #10431)
3438 * Minor improvements
3439 - Rework the wordings of the various installation and upgrade
3440 options available in Tails installer in Wheezy. (Closes: #9672)
3441 - Restart Tor if bootstrapping stalls for too long when not using
3442 pluggable transports. (Closes: #9516)
3443 - Install firmware-amd-graphics, and firmware-misc-nonfree instead
3444 of firmware-ralink-nonfree, both from Debian Sid.
3445 - Update the Tails signing key. (Closes: #10012)
3446 - Update the Tails APT repo signing key. (Closes: #10419)
3447 - Install the nmh package. (Closes: #10457)
3448 - Explicitly run "sync" at the end of the Tails Upgrader's upgrade
3449 process, and pass the "sync" option when remounting the system
3450 partition as read-write. This might help with some issues we've
3451 seen, such as #10239, and possibly for #8449 as well.
3454 - Add initial automated tests for Icedove. (Closes: #10332)
3455 - Add automated tests of the MAC spoofing feature. (Closes: #6302)
3456 - Drop the concept of "background snapshots" and introduce a general
3457 system for generating snapshots that can be shared between
3458 features. This removes all silly hacks we previously used to
3459 "skip" steps, and greatly improves performance and reliability
3460 of the whole test suite. (Closes: #6094, #8008)
3461 - Flush to the log file in debug_log() so the debugging info can
3462 be viewed in real time when monitoring the debug log
3463 file. (Closes: #10323)
3464 - Force UTF-8 locale in automated test suite. Ruby will default to
3465 the system locale, and if it is non-UTF-8, some String-methods
3466 will fail when operating on non-ASCII strings. (Closes: #10359)
3467 - Escape regexp used to match nick in CTCP replies. Our Pidgin
3468 nick's have a 10% chance to include a ^, which will break that
3469 regexp. We need to escape all characters in the nick. (Closes:
3471 - Extract TBB languages from the Tails source code. This will
3472 ensure that valid locales are tested. As an added bonus, the
3473 code is greatly simplified. (Closes: #9897)
3474 - Automatically test that tails-debugging-info is not susceptible
3475 to the type of symlink attacks fixed by #10333.
3476 - Save all test suite artifacts in a dedicated directory with more
3477 useful infromation encoded in the path. This makes it easier to
3478 see which artifacts belongs to which failed scenario and which
3479 run. (Closes: #10151)
3480 - Log all useful information via Cucumber's formatters instead of
3481 printing to stderr, which is not included when logging to file
3482 via `--out`. (Closes: #10342)
3483 - Continue running the automated test suite's vnc server even if
3484 the client disconnects. (Closes: #10345)
3485 - Add more automatic tests for I2P. (Closes: #6406)
3486 - Bump the Tor circuit retry count to 10. (Closes: #10375)
3487 - Clean up dependencies: (Closes: #10208)
3492 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 03 Nov 2015 01:09:41 +0100
3494 tails (1.6) unstable; urgency=medium
3497 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.3. (Closes: #10223)
3498 - Upgrade bind9-based packages to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u7.
3499 - Upgrade liblcms1 to 1.19.dfsg2-1.2+deb7u1.
3500 - Upgrade libldap-2.4-2 to 2.4.31-2+deb7u1.
3501 - Upgrade libslp1 to 1.2.1-9+deb7u1.
3502 - Upgrade ssl-cert to 1.0.32+deb7u1.
3505 - Fix a corner case for the MAC spoofing panic mode. If panic mode
3506 failed to disable the specific device that couldn't be spoofed
3507 (by unloading the module) we disable networking. Previously we
3508 only stopped NetworkManager. The problem is that NM isn't even
3509 started at this time, but will specifically be started when
3510 we're done with MAC spoofing. Therefore, let's completely
3511 disable NetworkManager so it cannot possibly be
3512 started. (Closes: #10160)
3513 - Avoid use of uninitialized value in restricted-network-detector.
3514 If NetworkManager decides that a wireless connection has timed
3515 out before "supplicant connection state" has occued, our idea of
3516 the state is `undef`, so it cannot be used in a string
3517 comparison. Hence, let's initialize the state to the empty
3518 string instead of `undef`. Also fix the state
3519 recording. Apparently NetworkManager can say a few different
3520 things when it logs the device state transitions. (Closes:
3523 * Minor improvements
3524 - Remove workaround for localizing search engine plugins. The
3525 workaround has recently become unnecessary, possibly due to the
3526 changes made for the seach bar after the Tor Browser was rebased
3527 on Firefox 38esr. (Closes: #9146)
3528 - Refer to the I2P Browser in the I2P notifications. Instead of
3529 some obscure links that won't work in the Tor Browser, where
3530 users likely will try them, and which I believe will open them
3531 by default. (Closes: #10182)
3532 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.22. Also set the I2P apparmor profile to
3533 enforce mode. (Closes: #9830)
3536 - Test that udev-watchdog is monitoring the correct device when
3537 booted from USB. (Closes: #9890)
3538 - Remove unused 'gksu' step. This causes a false-positive to be
3539 found for #5330. (Closes: #9877)
3540 - Make --capture capture individual videos for failed scenarios
3541 only, and --capture-all to capture videos for all scenarios.
3543 - Use the more efficient x264 encoding when capturing videos using
3544 the --capture* options. (Closes: #10001)
3545 - Make --old-iso default to --iso if omitted. Using the same ISO
3546 for the USB upgrade tests most often still does what we want,
3547 e.g. test that the current version of Tails being tested has a
3548 working Tails installer. Hence this seems like a reasonable
3549 default. (Closes: #10147)
3550 - Avoid nested FindFailed exceptions in waitAny()/findAny(), and
3551 throw a new dedicated FindAnyFailed exception if these fail
3552 instead. Rjb::throw doesn't block Ruby's execution until the
3553 Java exception has been received by Ruby, so strange things can
3554 happen and we must avoid it. (Closes: #9633)
3555 - Fix the Download Management page in our browsers. Without the
3556 browser.download.panel.shown pref set, the progress being made
3557 will not update until after the browser has been restarted.
3559 - Add a 'pretty_debug' (with an alias: 'debug') Cucumber formatter
3560 that deals with debugging instead of printing it to STDERR via
3561 the `--debug` option (which now has been removed). This gives us
3562 the full flexibility of Cucumber's formatter system, e.g. one
3563 easy-to-read formatter can print to the terminal, while we get
3564 the full debug log printed to a file. (Closes: #9491)
3565 - Import logging module in otr-bot.py. Our otr-bot.py does not use
3566 logging but the jabberbot library makes logging calls, causing a
3567 one-off message “No handlers could be found for logger
3568 "jabberbot"” to be printed to the console. This commit
3569 effectively prevents logging/outputting anything to the terminal
3570 which is at a level lower than CRITICAL. (Closes: 9375)
3571 - Force new Tor circuit and reload web site on browser
3572 timeouts. (Closes: #10116)
3573 - Focus Pidgin's buddy list before trying to access the tools
3574 menu. (Closes: #10217)
3575 - Optimize IRC test using waitAny. If connecting to IRC fails,
3576 such as when OFTC is blocking Tor, waiting 60 seconds to connect
3577 while a a Reconnect button is visible is sub-optimal. It would
3578 be better to try forcing a new Tor circuit and clicking the
3579 reconnect button. (Closes: #9653)
3580 - Wait for (and focus if necessary) Pidgin's Certificate windows.
3583 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 20 Sep 2015 17:47:26 +0000
3585 tails (1.5.1) unstable; urgency=medium
3588 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.2. (Closes: #10112)
3589 - Upgrade gdk-pixbuf packages to 2.26.1-1+deb7u1.
3590 - Upgrade libnss3 to 2:3.14.5-1+deb7u5.
3593 - Refresh Tor Browser AppArmor profile patch. The old one doesn't
3594 apply on top of testing's torbrowser-launcher anymore.
3597 - Make sure Jenkins creates new jobs to build the testing branch
3598 after freezes. (Closes: #9925)
3600 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Fri, 28 Aug 2015 01:52:14 +0200
3602 tails (1.5) unstable; urgency=medium
3604 * Major new features and changes
3605 - Move LAN web browsing from Tor Browser to the Unsafe Browser,
3606 and forbid access to the LAN from the former. (Closes: #7976)
3607 - Install a 32-bit GRUB EFI boot loader. This at least works
3608 on some Intel Baytrail systems. (Closes: #8471)
3611 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0, and integrate it:
3612 · Disable Tiles in all browsers' new tab page.
3613 · Don't use geo-specific search engine prefs in our browsers.
3614 · Hide Tools -> Set Up Sync, Tools -> Apps (that links to the Firefox
3615 Marketplace), and the "Share this page" button in the Tool bar.
3616 · Generate localized Wikipedia search engine plugin icons so the
3617 English and localized versions can be distinguished in the new
3618 search bar. (Closes: #9955)
3619 - Fix panic mode on MAC spoofing failure. (Closes: #9531)
3620 - Deny Tor Browser access to global tmp directories with AppArmor,
3621 and give it its own $TMPDIR. (Closes: #9558)
3622 - Tails Installer: don't use a predictable file name for the subprocess
3623 error log. (Closes: #9349)
3624 - Pidgin AppArmor profile: disable the launchpad-integration abstraction,
3625 which is too wide-open.
3626 - Use aliases so that our AppArmor policy applies to
3627 /lib/live/mount/overlay/ and /lib/live/mount/rootfs/*.squashfs/ as well as
3628 it applies to /. And accordingly:
3629 · Upgrade AppArmor packages to 2.9.0-3~bpo70+1.
3630 · Install rsyslog from wheezy-backports, since the version from Wheezy
3631 conflicts with AppArmor 2.9.
3632 · Stop installing systemd for now: the migration work is being done in
3633 the feature/jessie branch, and it conflicts with rsyslog from
3635 · Drop apparmor-adjust-user-tmp-abstraction.diff: obsoleted.
3636 · apparmor-adjust-tor-profile.diff: simplify and de-duplicate rules.
3637 · Take into account aufs whiteouts in the system_tor profile.
3638 · Adjust the Vidalia profile to take into account Live-specific paths.
3639 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u3.
3640 - Upgrade bind9-host, dnsutils and friends to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u6.
3641 - Upgrade cups-filters to 1.0.18-2.1+deb7u2.
3642 - Upgrade ghostscript to 9.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u2.
3643 - Upgrade libexpat1 to 2.1.0-1+deb7u2.
3644 - Upgrade libicu48 to 4.8.1.1-12+deb7u3.
3645 - Upgrade libwmf0.2-7 to 0.2.8.4-10.3+deb7u1.
3646 - Upgrade openjdk-7 to 7u79-2.5.6-1~deb7u1.
3649 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.6.10-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.
3651 * Minor improvements
3652 - Tails Installer: let the user know when it has rejected a candidate
3653 destination device because it is too small. (Closes: #9130)
3654 - Tails Installer: prevent users from trying to "upgrade" a device
3655 that contains no Tails, or that was not installed with Tails Installer.
3657 - Install libotr5 and pidgin-otr 4.x from wheezy-backports. This adds
3658 support for the OTRv3 protocol and for multiple concurrent connections
3659 to the same account. (Closes: #9513)
3660 - Skip warning dialog when starting Tor Browser while being offline,
3661 in case it is already running. Thanks to Austin English for the patch!
3663 - Install the apparmor-profiles package (Closes: #9539), but don't ship
3664 a bunch of AppArmor profiles we don't use, to avoid increasing
3665 boot time. (Closes: #9757)
3666 - Ship a /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home.d/tails snippet, instead
3667 of patching /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home.
3668 - live-boot: don't mount tmpfs twice on /live/overlay, so that the one which
3669 is actually used as the read-write branch of the root filesystem's union
3670 mount, is visible. As a consequence:
3671 · One can now inspect how much space is used, at a given time, in the
3672 read-write branch of the root filesystem's union mount.
3673 · We can make sure our AppArmor policy works fine when that filesystem
3674 is visible, which is safer in case e.g. live-boot's behavior changes
3675 under our feet in the future... or in case these "hidden" files are
3676 actually accessible somehow already.
3679 - Add our jenkins-tools repository as a Git submodule, and replace
3680 check_po.sh with a symlink pointing to the same script in that submodule.
3681 Adjust the automated test suite accordingly. (Closes: #9567)
3682 - Bump amount of RAM needed for Vagrant RAM builds to 7.5 GiB. In
3683 particular the inclusion of the Tor Browser 5.0 series has recently
3684 increased the amount of space needed to build Tails. (Closes: #9901)
3687 - Test that the Tor Browser cannot access LAN resources.
3688 - Test that the Unsafe Browser can access the LAN.
3689 - Installer: test new behavior when trying to upgrade an empty device, and
3690 when attempting to upgrade a non-Tails FAT partition on GPT; also, take
3691 into account that all unsupported upgrade scenarios now trigger
3693 - Request a new Tor circuit and re-run the Seahorse and GnuPG CLI tests
3694 on failure. (Closes: #9518, #9709)
3695 - run_test_suite: remove control chars from log file even when cucumber
3696 exits with non-zero. (Closes: #9376)
3697 - Add compatibility with cucumber 2.0 and Debian Stretch. (Closes: #9667)
3698 - Use custom exception when 'execute_successfully' fails.
3699 - Retry looking up whois info on transient failure. (Closes: #9668)
3700 - Retry wget on transient failure. (Closes: #9715)
3701 - Test that Tor Browser cannot access files in /tmp.
3702 - Allow running the test suite without ntp installed. There are other means
3703 to have an accurate host system clock, e.g. systemd-timesyncd and tlsdate.
3705 - Bump timeout in the Totem feature.
3706 - Grep memory dump using the --text option. This is necessary with recent
3707 versions of grep, such as the one in current Debian sid, otherwise it
3708 will count only one occurrence of the pattern we're looking for.
3710 - Include execute_successfully's error in the exception, instead
3711 of writing it to stdout via puts. (Closes: #9795)
3712 - Test that udev-watchdog is actually monitoring the correct device.
3714 - IUK: workaround weird Archive::Tar behaviour on current sid.
3715 - Test the SocksPort:s given in torrc in the Unsafe Browser.
3716 This way we don't get any sneaky errors in case we change them and
3717 forget to update this test.
3718 - Directly verify AppArmor blocking of the Tor Browser by looking in
3719 the audit log: Firefox 38 does no longer provide any graphical feedback
3720 when the kernel blocks its access to files the user wants to access.
3721 - Update browser-related automated test suite images, and workaround
3722 weirdness introduced by the new Tor Browser fonts.
3723 - Test that Pidgin, Tor Browser, Totem and Evince cannot access ~/.gnupg
3724 via alternate, live-boot generated paths.
3725 - Adjust tests to cope with our new AppArmor aliases.
3726 - Bump memory allocated to the system under test to 2 GB. (Closes: #9883)
3728 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 10 Aug 2015 19:12:58 +0200
3730 tails (1.4.1) unstable; urgency=medium
3733 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.5.3, based on Firefox 31.8.0 ESR. (Closes: #9649)
3734 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.6.9-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails2, which includes a circuit
3735 isolation bugfix. (Closes: #9560)
3736 - AppArmor: deny Tor Browser access to the list of recently used files.
3738 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u17.
3739 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1.
3740 - Upgrade CUPS to 1.5.3-5+deb7u6.
3741 - Upgrade FUSE to 2.9.0-2+deb7u2.
3742 - Upgrade libsqlite3-0 to 3.7.13-1+deb7u2.
3743 - Upgrade ntfs-3g and ntfsprogs to 1:2012.1.15AR.5-2.1+deb7u2.
3744 - Upgrade p7zip-full to 9.20.1~dfsg.1-4+deb7u1.
3747 - Fix automatic upgrades in Windows Camouflage mode. (Closes: #9413)
3748 - Don't ship the snakeoil SSL key pair generated by ssl-cert in the ISO.
3750 - Partially fix the truncated notifications issue. (#7249)
3752 * Minor improvements
3753 - Disable the hwclock.sh initscript at reboot/shutdown time.
3754 This is an additional safety measure to ensure that the hardware clock
3755 is not modified. (Closes: #9364)
3756 - Stop shipping /var/cache/man/*, to make ISOs and IUKs smaller.
3758 - Update torbrowser-AppArmor-profile.patch to apply cleanly on top of the
3759 profile shipped with torbrowser-launcher 0.2.0-1.
3760 - Add the jessie/updates APT repo and set appropriate pinning.
3761 - Upgrade Electrum to 1.9.8-4~bpo70+1.
3762 - Upgrade kernel firmware packages to 0.44.
3765 - Install the Linux kernel from Debian Jessie. (Closes: #9341)
3766 - Remove files that are not under version control when building in Jenkins.
3768 - Don't modify files in the source tree before having possibly merged
3769 the base branch into it. (Closes: #9406)
3770 - Make it so eatmydata is actually used during a greater part of the build
3771 process. This includes using eatmydata from wheezy-backports.
3772 (Closes: #9419, #9523)
3773 - release script: adjust to support current Debian sid.
3776 - Test the system clock sanity check we do at boot. (Closes: #9377)
3777 - Remove the impossible "Clock way in the past" scenarios.
3778 Thanks to config/chroot_local-includes/lib/live/config/0001-sane-clock,
3779 these scenarios cannot happen, and since we test that it works they
3780 can be safely removed.
3781 - Test that the hardware clock is not modified at shutdown. (Closes: #9557)
3782 - Pidgin: retry looking for the roadmap URL in the topic.
3783 - Avoid showing Pidgin's tooltips during test, potentially confusing Sikuli.
3785 - Test all OpenPGP keys shipped with Tails. (Closes: #9402)
3786 - Check that notification-daemon is running when looking for notifications
3787 fails. (Closes: #9332)
3788 - Allow using the cucumber formatters however we want. (Closes: #9424)
3789 - Enable Spice in the guest, and blacklist the psmouse kernel module,
3790 to help with lost mouse events. (Closes: #9425)
3791 - Automate testing Torbutton's 'New Identity' feature. (Closes: #9286)
3792 - Test that Seahorse is configured to use the correct keyserver.
3794 - Always export TMPDIR back to the test suite's shell environment.
3796 - Make OpenPGP tests more reliable:
3797 · Retry accessing the OpenPGP applet menus on failure. (Closes: #9355)
3798 · Retry accessing menus in Seahorse on failure. (Closes: #9344)
3799 - Focus the Pidgin conversation window before any attempt to interact
3800 with it. (Closes: #9317)
3801 - Use convertkey from the (backported to Jessie) Debian package,
3802 instead of our own copy of that script. (Closes: #9066)
3803 - Make the memory erasure tests more robust (Closes: #9329):
3804 · Bump /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes when running fillram.
3805 · Actually set oom_adj for the remote shell when running fillram.
3806 · Try to be more sure that we OOM kill fillram.
3807 · Run fillram as non-root.
3808 - Only try to build the storage pool if TailsToasterStorage isn't found.
3811 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 28 Jun 2015 19:46:25 +0200
3813 tails (1.4) unstable; urgency=medium
3815 * Major new features
3816 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.5.1, based on Firefox 31.7.0 ESR, which
3817 introduces many major new features for usability, security and
3818 privacy. Unfortunately its per-tab circuit view did not make it
3819 into Tails yet since it requires exposing more Tor state to the
3820 user running the Tor Browser than we are currently comfortable
3821 with. (Closes: #9031, #9369)
3822 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.6.7-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails2. Like in the Tor
3823 bundled with the Tor Browser, we patch it so that circuits used
3824 for SOCKSAuth streams have their lifetime increased indefinitely
3825 while in active use. This currently only affects the Tor Browser
3826 in Tails, and should improve the experience on certain web sites
3827 that otherwise would switch language or log you out every ten
3828 minutes or so when Tor switches circuit. (Closes: #7934)
3831 - tor-browser wrapper script: avoid offering avenues to arbitrary
3832 code execution to e.g. an exploited Pidgin. AppArmor Ux rules
3833 don't sanitize $PATH, which can lead to an exploited application
3834 (that's allowed to run this script unconfined, e.g. Pidgin)
3835 having this script run arbitrary code, violating that
3836 application's confinement. Let's prevent that by setting PATH to
3837 a list of directories where only root can write. (Closes: #9370)
3838 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt9-3.
3839 - Upgrade curl to 7.26.0-1+wheezy13.
3840 - Upgrade dpkg to 1.16.16.
3841 - Upgrade gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad to 0.10.23-7.1+deb7u2.
3842 - Upgrade libgd2-xpm to 2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-6.1+deb7u1.
3843 - Upgrade openldap to 2.4.31-2.
3844 - Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u4.
3845 - Upgrade libruby1.9.1 to 1.9.3.194-8.1+deb7u5.
3846 - Upgrade libtasn1-3 to 2.13-2+deb7u2.
3847 - Upgrade libx11 to 2:1.5.0-1+deb7u2.
3848 - Upgrade libxml-libxml-perl to 2.0001+dfsg-1+deb7u1.
3849 - Upgrade libxml2 to 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy4.
3850 - Upgrade OpenJDK to 7u79-2.5.5-1~deb7u1.
3851 - Upgrade ppp to 2.4.5-5.1+deb7u2.
3854 - Disable security warnings when connecting to POP3 and IMAP ports.
3856 - Make the Windows 8 browser theme compatible with the Unsafe and I2P
3857 browsers. (Closes: #9138)
3858 - Hide Torbutton's "Tor Network Settings..." context menu entry.
3860 - Upgrade the syslinux packages to support booting Tails on
3861 Chromebook C720-2800. (Closes: #9044)
3862 - Enable localization in Tails Upgrader. (Closes: #9190)
3863 - Make sure the system clock isn't before the build date during
3864 early boot. Our live-config hook that imports our signing keys
3865 depend on that the system clock isn't before the date when the
3866 keys where created. (Closes: #9149)
3867 - Set GNOME's OpenPGP keys via desktop.gnome.crypto.pgp to prevent
3868 us from getting GNOME's default keyserver in addition to our
3869 own. (Closes: #9233)
3870 - Prevent Firefox from crashing when Orca is enabled: grant
3871 it access to assistive technologies in its Apparmor
3872 profile. (Closes: #9261)
3873 - Add Jessie APT source. (Closes: #9278)
3874 - Fix set_simple_config_key(). If the key already existed in the
3875 config file before the call, all other lines would be removed
3876 due to the sed option -n and p combo. (Closes: #9122)
3877 - Remove illegal instance of local outside of function definition.
3878 Together with `set -e` that error has prevented this script from
3879 restarting Vidalia, like it should. (Closes: #9328)
3881 * Minor improvements
3882 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.19-3~deb7u+1.
3883 - Install Tor Browser's bundled Torbutton instead of custom .deb.
3884 As of Torbutton 1.9.1.0 everything we need has been upstreamed.
3885 - Install Tor Browser's bundled Tor Launcher instead of our
3886 in-tree version. With Tor 0.2.6.x our custom patches for the
3887 ClientTransportPlugin hacks are not needed any more. (Closes:
3889 - Don't install msmtp and mutt. (Closes: #8727)
3890 - Install fonts-linuxlibertine for improved Vietnamese support in
3891 LibreOffice. (Closes: #8996)
3892 - Remove obsoletete #i2p-help IRC channel from the Pidgin
3893 configuration (Closes: #9137)
3894 - Add Gedit shortcut to gpgApplet's context menu. Thanks to Ivan
3895 Bliminse for the patch. (Closes: #9069).
3896 - Install printer-driver-gutenprint to support more printer
3897 models. (Closes: #8994).
3898 - Install paperkey for off-line OpenPGP key backup. (Closes: #8957)
3899 - Hide the Tor logo in Tor Launcher. (Closes: #8696)
3900 - Remove useless log() instance in tails-unblock-network. (Closes:
3902 - Install cdrdao: this enables Brasero to burn combined data/audio
3903 CDs and to do byte-to-byte disc copy.
3904 - Hide access to the Add-ons manager in the Unsafe Browser. It's
3905 currently broken (#9307) but we any way do not want users to
3906 install add-ons in the Unsafe Browser. (Closes: #9305)
3907 - Disable warnings on StartTLS for POP3 and IMAP (Will-fix: #9327)
3908 The default value of this option activates warnings on ports
3909 23,109,110,143. This commit disables the warnings for POP3 and
3910 IMAP as these could be equally used in encrypted StartTLS
3911 connections. (Closes: #9327)
3912 - Completely rework how we localize our browser by generating our
3913 branding add-on, and search plugins programatically. This
3914 improves the localization for the ar, es, fa, ko, nl, pl, ru,
3915 tr, vi and zh_CN locales by localizing the Startpage and
3916 Disconnect.me search plugins. Following Tor Browser 4.5's recent
3917 switch, we now use Disconnect.me as the default search
3918 engine. (Closes: #9309)
3919 * Actively set Google as the Unsafe Browser's default search
3923 - Encode in Git which APT suites to include when building Tails.
3925 - Clean up the list of packages we install. (Closes: #6073)
3926 - Run auto/{build,clean,config} under `set -x' for improved
3928 - Zero-pad our ISO images so their size is divisible by 2048.
3929 The data part of an ISO image's sectors is 2048 bytes, which
3930 implies that ISO images should always have a size divisible
3931 by 2048. Some applications, e.g. VirtualBox, use this as a sanity
3932 check, treating ISO images for which this isn't true as garbage.
3933 Our isohybrid post-processing does not ensure this,
3934 however. Also Output ISO size before/after isohybrid'ing and
3935 truncate'ing it. This will help detect if/when truncate is
3936 needed at all, so that we can report back to syslinux
3937 maintainers more useful information. (Closes: #8891)
3938 - Vagrant: raise apt-cacher-ng's ExTreshold preference to 50. The
3939 goal here is to avoid Tor Browser tarballs being deleted by
3940 apt-cacher-ng's daily expiration cronjob: they're not listed in
3941 any APT repo's index file, so acng will be quite eager to clean
3945 - Bring dependency checks up-to-date (Closes: #8988).
3946 - Adapt test suite to be run on Debian Jessie, which includes
3947 removing various Wheezy-specific workarounds, adding a few
3948 specific to Jessie, migrating from ffmpeg to libav, and
3949 more. (Closes: #8165)
3950 - Test that MAT can see that a PDF is dirty (Closes: #9136).
3951 - Allow throwing Timeout::Error in try_for() blocks, as well as
3952 nested try_for() (Closes: #9189, #9290).
3953 - Read test suite configuration files from the features/config/local.d
3954 directory. (Closes: #9220)
3955 - Kill virt-viewer with SIGTERM, not SIGINT, to prevent hordes of
3956 zombie processes from appearing. (Closes: #9139)
3957 - Kill Xvfb with SIGTERM, not SIGKILL, on test suite exit to allow
3958 it to properly clean up. (Closes: #8707)
3959 - Split SSH & SFTP configs in the test suite. (Closes: #9257)
3960 - Improve how we start subprocesses in the test suite, mostly by
3961 bypassing the shell for greater security and robustness (Closes:
3963 - Add Electrum test feature. (Closes #8963)
3964 - Test that Tails Installer detects when USB devices are
3965 removed. (Closes: #9131)
3966 - Test Tails Installer with devices which are too small. (Closes:
3968 - Test that the Report an Error launcher works in German. (Closes:
3970 - Verify that no extensions are installed in the Unsafe Browser
3971 using about:support instead of about:addons, which is broken
3972 (#9307). (Closes: #9306)
3973 - Retry GNOME application menu actions when they glitch. The
3974 GNOME application menus seem to have issues with clicks or
3975 hovering actions not registering, and hence sometimes submenus
3976 are not opened when they should, and sometimes clicks on the
3977 final application shortcut are lost. There seems to be a
3978 correlation between this and CPU load on the host running the
3979 test suite. We workaround this by simply re-trying the last
3980 action when it seems to fail. (Closes: #8928)
3981 - Work around Seahorse GUI glitchiness (Closes: #9343):
3982 * When Seahorse appears to be frozen--apparently due to network
3983 issues--it can often be worked around by refreshing the screen
3984 or activating a new window.
3985 * Open Seahorse's preferences dialog using the mouse.
3986 * Access menu entries with the mouse.
3987 - Wait for systray icons to finish loading before interacting with
3988 the systray. (Closes: #9258)
3989 - Test suite configuration: generalize local.d support to *.d. We
3990 now load features/config/*.d/*.yml.
3991 - Use code blocks in "After Scenario" hooks. This is much simpler
3992 to use (and more readable!) compared to hooking functions and
3993 arguments like we used to do.
3994 - Create filesystem share sources in the temporary directory and
3995 make them world-readable. (Closes: #8950)
3997 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 11 May 2015 16:45:04 +0200
3999 tails (1.3.2) unstable; urgency=medium
4002 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.0.6, based on Firefox 31.6.0 ESR.
4003 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u16.
4006 - Make Florence usable with touchpads by forcing syndaemon to
4007 always use the `-t` option, which only disables tapping and
4008 scrolling and not mouse movements (Closes: #9011).
4009 - Make tails-spoof-mac log the correct macchanger exit code on
4010 failure (Closes: #8687).
4012 · Ignore devices with less than 3.5 GB of storage since they
4013 do not fit a Tails installation (Closes: #6538).
4014 · Remove devices from the device list as they are unplugged
4017 * Minor improvements
4018 - Install obfs4proxy 0.0.4-1~tpo1, which adds support for
4019 client-mode ScrambleSuit.
4020 - Don't start Vidalia if Windows Camouflage is enabled. (Closes:
4023 · Remove "Add-ons" from the Tools menu, and hide "Keyboard
4024 Shortcuts" and "Take a Tour" since they point to resources on
4025 the open Internet (Closes: #7970).
4026 · Hide TorButton button from the customize toolbar options, and
4027 remove configs whose only purpose was to make Torbutton "green"
4032 · Test non-LAN SSH, and SFTP via GNOME's "Connect to Server"
4034 · Verify that Tails' Tor binary has the expected Tor authorities
4035 hard coded (Closes: #8960).
4037 · Programmatically determine the supported languages when testing
4038 the Unsafe Browser (Closes: #8918).
4039 · Rename --temp-dir to --tmpdir and make it behave more like
4040 mktemp, and honour TMPDIR if set in the environment. (Closes:
4043 · Make --temp-dir (now --tmpdir) actually work.
4045 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 30 Mar 2015 16:54:20 +0200
4047 tails (1.3.1) unstable; urgency=medium
4050 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.0.5, based on Firefox 31.5.3 ESR. This addresses:
4051 · https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-28/
4052 · https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-29/
4053 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt7-1.
4054 - Upgrade libxfont to 1:1.4.5-5.
4055 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u15.
4056 - Upgrade tcpdump to 4.3.0-1+deb7u2.
4057 - Upgrade bsdtar to 3.0.4-3+wheezy1.
4058 - Upgrade CUPS to 1.5.3-5+deb7u5.
4059 - Upgrade file and libmagic to 5.11-2+deb7u8.
4060 - Upgrade GnuPG to 1.4.12-7+deb7u7.
4061 - Upgrade libarchive to 3.0.4-3+wheezy1.
4062 - Upgrade libav to 6:0.8.17-1.
4063 - Upgrade FreeType 2 to 2.4.9-1.1+deb7u1.
4064 - Upgrade libgcrypt11 1.5.0-5+deb7u3.
4065 - Upgrade libgnutls26 to 2.12.20-8+deb7u3.
4066 - Upgrade libgtk2-perl to 2:1.244-1+deb7u1.
4067 - Upgrade ICU to 4.8.1.1-12+deb7u2.
4068 - Upgrade NSS to 2:3.14.5-1+deb7u4.
4069 - Upgrade libssh2 to 1.4.2-1.1+deb7u1.
4072 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.5.11-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Changes include:
4073 · Directory authority changes.
4074 · Fix assertion errors that may trigger under high DNS load.
4075 · No longer break on HUP with seccomp2 enabled.
4076 · and more - please consult the upstream changelog.
4077 - Upgrade Tor Launcher to 0.2.7.2, and update the test suite accordingly
4078 (Closes: #8964, #6985). Changes include:
4079 · Ask about bridges before proxy in wizard.
4080 · Hide logo if TOR_HIDE_BROWSER_LOGO set.
4081 · Remove firewall prompt from wizard.
4082 · Feedback when “Copy Tor Log” is clicked.
4083 · Improve behavior if tor exits.
4084 · Add option to hide TBB's logo
4085 · Change "Tor Browser Bundle" to "Tor Browser"
4086 · Update translations from Transifex.
4087 - Fix the Tor Launcher killer. (Closes: #9067)
4088 - Allow Seahorse to communicate with keyservers when run from Tails
4089 OpenPGP Applet. (Closes: #6394)
4090 - SSH client: don't proxy connections to 172.17.* to 172.31.*.
4092 - Repair config/chroot_local-packages feature, that was broken in Tails 1.3
4093 by 19-install-tor-browser-AppArmor-profile. (Closes: #8910)
4094 - language_statistics.sh: count original words instead of translated words.
4095 Otherwise we get >100% translation if translated strings are longer than
4096 original strings. (Closes: #9016)
4098 * Minor improvements
4099 - Only ship the new Tails signing key, and have Tails Upgrader stop trusting
4100 the old one. Update the documentation and test suite accordingly.
4101 (Closes: #8735, #8736, #8882, #8769, #8951)
4102 - Polish and harden a bit the WhisperBack configuration (Closes: #8991):
4103 · Only allow the `amnesia' user to run tails-debugging info as root
4105 · Fix spelling and grammar mistakes, improve phrasing a bit.
4106 · Quote variables consistently.
4110 · Chatting over XMPP in Pidgin, both peer-to-peer and in a multi-user
4111 chatroom. (Closes: #8002)
4112 · Chatting with OTR enabled over XMPP in Pidgin. (Closes: #8001)
4113 · Check that Pidgin only responds to the expected CTCP requests.
4115 · Fetching keys using Seahorse started via the OpenPGP Applet.
4116 · Sync'ing keys using Seahorse.
4118 · Fix a race condition between the remote shell's and Tails Greeter's
4119 startup, by making sure the remote shell is ready before we start
4120 GDM. (Closes: #8941)
4121 · Kill virt-viewer properly. (Closes: #9070)
4122 · Make sure the display is stopped on destroy_and_undefine().
4123 Where we had it earlier, it could be skipped if anything else in the
4124 block threw an exception.
4125 · Fix wrong use of "$@". (Closes: #9071)
4126 · Enable the pipefail option in run_test_suite.
4127 · Improve the GNOME screenshot test's robustness. (Closes: #8952)
4129 · turn the focus_pidgin_window() helper into a more generic
4130 VM.focus_xorg_window() one.
4131 · Reorganize the Display class.
4132 · Use clearer method to check process status in the Display class.
4133 - New developer-oriented features:
4134 · Add a --log-to-file option to run_test_suite. (Closes: #8894)
4135 · Add helpers for generating random strings.
4136 · Make it possible to hook arbitrary calls on scenario end. This is useful
4137 for dynamically adding cleanup functions, instead of having
4138 to explicitly deal with them in some After hook.
4140 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 23 Mar 2015 12:34:56 +0000
4142 tails (1.3) unstable; urgency=medium
4144 * Major new features
4145 - Produce the Tails image in hybrid mode (again) so that the same
4146 image can be installed both on DVD *and* "hard disks" like USB
4147 storage and similar. (Closes: #8510)
4148 - Confine the Tor Browser using AppArmor. (Closes: #5525)
4149 - Install the Electrum bitcoin client from wheezy-backports, and
4150 add a persistence preset for the Live user's bitcoin wallet. If
4151 electrum is started without the persistence preset enabled, a
4152 warning is shown. (Closes: #6739)
4155 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.0.4 (based on Firefox 31.5.0esr)
4159 - Have tor_bootstrap_progress echo 0 if no matching log line is
4160 found. (Closes: #8257)
4161 - Always pass arguments through wrappers (connect-socks, totem,
4162 wget, whois) with "$@". $* doesn't handle arguments with
4163 e.g. embedded spaces correctly. (Closes: #8603, #8830)
4164 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt4-3.
4166 * Minor improvements
4167 - Install a custom-built Tor package with Seccomp enabled;
4168 enable the Seccomp sandbox when no pluggable transport is used.
4170 - Install obfs4proxy instead of obfsproxy, which adds support for
4171 the obfs4 Tor pluggable transport. (Closes: #7980)
4172 - Install GnuPG v2 and associated tools from wheezy-backports,
4173 primarily for its improved support for OpenPGP smartcards. It
4174 lives side-by-side with GnuPG v1, which still is the
4175 default. (Closes: #6241)
4176 - Install ibus-unikey, a Vietnamese input method for IBus. (Closes:
4178 - Install torsocks (2.x) from wheezy-backports. (Closes: #8220)
4179 - Install keyringer from Debian Jessie. (Closes: #7752)
4180 - Install pulseaudio-utils.
4181 - Remove all traces of Polipo: we don't use it anymore. This
4182 closes #5379 and #6115 because:
4183 * Have APT directly use the Tor SOCKS proxy. (Closes: #8194)
4184 * Wrap wget with torsocks. (Closes: #6623)
4185 * Wrap Totem to torify it with torsocks. (Closes: #8219)
4186 * Torify Git with tsocks, instead of setting GIT_PROXY_COMMAND.
4188 - Use torsocks for whois and Gobby, instead of torify.
4189 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.18-1~deb7u+1.
4190 - Refactor the Unsafe and I2P browser code into a common shell
4191 library. A lot of duplicated code is now shared, and the code
4192 has been cleaned up and made more reliable. Several
4193 optimizations of memory usage and startup time were also
4194 implemented. (Closes: #7951)
4195 - Invert Exit and About in gpgApplet context menu. This is a
4196 short-term workaround for making it harder to exit the
4197 application by mistake (e.g. a double right-click). (Closes:
4199 - Implement new touchpad settings. This enables tap-to-click,
4200 2-fingers scrolling, and disable while typing. We don't enable
4201 reverse scrolling nor horizontal scrolling. (Closes: #7779)
4202 - Include the mount(8) output and live-additional-software.conf in
4203 WhisperBack bug reports (Closes: #8719, #8491).
4204 - Reduce brightness and saturation of background color. (Closes:
4206 - Have ALSA output sound via PulseAudio by default. This gives us
4207 centralized sound volume controls, and... allows to easily, and
4208 automatically, test that audio output works from Tor Browser,
4209 thanks to the PulseAudio integration into the GNOME sound
4211 - Import the new Tails signing key, which we will use for Tails
4212 1.3.1, and have Tails Upgrader trust both it and the "old"
4213 (current) Tails signing key. (Closes: #8732)
4214 - tails-security-check: error out when passed an invalid CA file.
4215 Unfortunately, the underlying HTTPS stack we use here fails open
4216 in those case, so we have to check it ourselves. Currently, we
4217 check that the file exists, is readable, is a plain file and is
4218 not empty. Also support specifying the CA file via an
4219 environment variable. This will ease development and bug-fixing
4221 - Fix racy code in Tails Installer that sometimes made the
4222 automated test suite stall for scenarios installing Tails
4223 to USB disks. (Closes: #6092)
4224 - Make it possible to use Tails Upgrader to upgrade a Tails
4225 installation that has cruft files on the system partition.
4229 - Install syslinux-utils from our builder-wheezy APT repository in
4230 Vagrant. We need version 6.03~pre20 to make the Tails ISO image
4232 - Update deb.tails.boum.org apt repo signing key. (Closes: #8747)
4233 - Revert "Workaround build failure in lb_source, after creating
4234 the ISO." This is not needed anymore given the move to the Tor
4235 SOCKS proxy. (Closes: #5307)
4236 - Remove the bootstrap stage usage option and disable all
4237 live-build caching in Vagrant. It introduces complexity and
4238 potential for strange build inconsistencies for a meager
4239 reduction in build time. (Closes: #8725)
4240 - Hardcode the mirrors used at build and boot time in auto/config.
4241 Our stuff will be more consistent, easier to reproduce, and our
4242 QA process will be more reliable if we all use the same mirrors
4243 at build time as the ones we configure in the ISO. E.g. we won't
4244 have issues such as #8715 again. (Closes: #8726)
4245 - Don't attempt to retrieve source packages from local-packages so
4246 local packages can be installed via
4247 config/chroot_local-packages. (Closes: #8756)
4248 - Use our own Tor Browser archive when building an ISO. (Closes:
4252 - Use libguestfs instead of parted when creating partitions and
4253 filsystems, and to check that only the expected files
4254 persist. We also switch to qcow2 as the default disk image
4255 format everywhere to reduce disk usage, enable us to use
4256 snapshots that includes the disks (in the future), and to use
4257 the same steps for creating disks in all tests. (Closes: #8673)
4258 - Automatically test that Tails ignores persistence volumes stored
4259 on non-removable media, and doesn't enable swaps. (Closes:
4261 - Actually make sure that Tails can boot from live systems stored
4262 on a hard drive. Running the 'I start Tails from DVD ...' step
4263 will override the earlier 'the computer is set to boot from ide
4264 drive "live_hd"' step, so let's make the "from DVD" part
4265 optional; it will be the default any way.
4266 - Make it possible to use an old iso with different persistence
4267 presets. (Closes: #8091)
4268 - Hide the cursor between steps when navigating the GNOME
4269 applications menu. This makes it a bit more robust, again:
4270 sometimes the cursor is partially hiding the menu entry we're
4271 looking for, hence preventing Sikuli from finding it (in
4272 particular when it's "Accessories", since we've just clicked on
4273 "Applications" which is nearby). (Closes: #8875)
4274 - Ensure that the test will fail if "apt-get X" commands fail.
4275 - Test 'Tor is ready' notification in a separate scenario. (Closes:
4277 - Add automated tests for torified wget and whois. This should
4278 help us identify future regressions such as #8603 in their
4280 - Add automated test for opening an URL from Pidgin.
4281 - And add automated tests for the Tor Browser's AppArmor
4283 - Test that "Report an Error Launcher" opens the support
4285 - Test that the Unsafe Browser:
4286 * starts in various locales.
4287 * complains when DNS isn't configured.
4288 * tears down its chroot on shutdown.
4289 * runs as the correct user.
4290 * has no plugins or add-ons installed.
4291 * has no unexpected bookmarks.
4292 * has no proxy configured.
4293 - Bump the "I2P router console is ready" timeout in its test to
4294 deal with slow Internet connections.
4295 - Make the automatic tests of gpgApplet more robust by relying
4296 more on graphical elements instead of keyboard shortcuts and
4297 static sleep():s. (Closes: #5632)
4298 - Make sure that enough disk space is available when creating
4299 virtual storage media. (Closes: #8907)
4300 - Test that the Unsafe Browser doesn't generate any non-user
4301 initiated traffic, and in particular that it doesn't check for
4302 upgrades, which is a regression test for #8694. (Closes: #8702)
4303 - Various robustness improvements to the Synaptic tests. (Closes:
4305 - Automatically test Git. (Closes: #6307)
4306 - Automatically test GNOME Screenshot, which is a regression test
4307 for #8087. (Closes: #8688)
4308 - Fix a quoting issue with `tails_persistence_enabled?`. (Closes:
4310 - Introduce an improved configuration system that also can store
4311 local secrets, like user credentials needed for some
4312 tests. (Closes: #6301, #8188)
4313 - Actually verify that we successfully set the time in our time
4314 syncing tests. (Closes: #5836)
4315 - Automatically test Tor. This includes normal functionality and
4316 the use pluggable transports, that our Tor enforcement is
4317 effective (e.g. only the Tor network or configured bridges are
4318 contacted) and that our stream isolation configuration is
4319 working. (Closes: #5644, #6305, #7821)
4321 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 23 Feb 2015 17:14:00 +0100
4323 tails (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=medium
4326 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt2-1.
4327 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.0.3 (based on Firefox 31.4.0esr)
4329 - Fail safe by entering panic mode if macchanger exits with an
4330 error, since in this situation we have to treat the
4331 driver/device state as undefined. Also, we previously just
4332 exited the script in this case, not triggering the panic mode
4333 and potentially leaking the real MAC address (Closes: #8571).
4334 - Disable upgrade checking in the Unsafe Browser. Until now the
4335 Unsafe Browser has checked for upgrades of the Tor Browser in
4336 the clear (Closes: #8694).
4339 - Fix startup of the Unsafe Browser in some locales (Closes: #8693).
4340 - Wait for notification-daemon to run before showing the MAC
4341 spoofing panic mode notifications. Without this, the "Network
4342 card disabled" notification is sometimes lost when MAC spoofing
4343 fails. Unfortunately this only improves the situation, but
4344 doesn't fix it completely (see #8685).
4345 - Log that we're going to stop NetworkManager before trying to do
4346 it in the MAC spoofing scripts. Without this we wouldn't get the
4347 log message in case stopping NetworkManager fails (thanks to
4349 - Set GNOME Screenshot preferences to save the screenshots in
4350 /home/amnesia (Closes: #8087).
4351 - Do not suspend to RAM when closing the lid on battery power
4353 - Properly update the Tails Installer's status when plugging in a
4354 USB drive after it has started (Closes: #8353).
4355 - Make rsync compare file contents by using --checksum for more
4356 reliable generation of the squashfs filesystem in
4357 IUKs. Previously it used the default, which is checking
4358 timestamps and file size, but that doesn't play well with the
4359 Tor browser files, that have a fixed mtime, which could result
4360 in updated files not ending up in the IUK.
4362 * Minor improvements
4363 - Finish migrating tails-security-check's and tails-iuk's pinning
4364 to our website's new X.509 certificate authority (Closes: #8404).
4367 - Update to Vagrant build box tails-builder-20141201. The only
4368 change is the removal of a reference to an ISO image which
4369 doesn't exist (except on the system that generated the build
4370 box) which causes an error for some users (Closes: #7644).
4371 - Generate the list of packages used during build, after building
4372 with Jenkins (Closes: #8518). This allows tracking their status
4373 on the Debian reproducible build front:
4374 https://reproducible.debian.net/index_pkg_sets.html#tails
4376 * Automated test suite
4377 - Check PO files with i18nspector (Closes: #8359).
4378 - Fix the expected image of a check.tp.o failure. Previously we
4379 looked for the "Sorry. You are not using Tor." text, but it
4380 seems it recently changed enough for Sikuli to not find it. To
4381 prevent future errors of the same kind we'll look for the
4382 crossed-over onion icon instead (Closes: #8533).
4383 - Bump timeout when waiting for Tor to re-bootstrap. We have a
4384 dreaded issue with timeouts that are multiple of 2 minutes, and
4385 then Tor succeeds soon after, so in order to allow for this
4386 timeout to be reached twice, and then possibly succeed, let's
4387 use N*2 minutes + 30 seconds, with N=2.
4389 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 14 Jan 2015 16:12:26 +0100
4391 tails (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=medium
4394 - Create a CA bundle for Tails Upgrader at ISO build time, and
4395 patch Tails Upgrader to use it. Specifically this will make it
4396 possible to check for Tails upgrades after our website changes
4397 certificate around the 2014 to 2015 transition (Partially fixes
4400 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 15 Dec 2014 10:05:17 +0100
4402 tails (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4405 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.0-4, i.e. 3.16.7-1.
4406 - Install Tor Browser 4.0.2 (based on Firefox 31.3.0esr).
4409 - Install syslinux-utils, to get isohybrid back (Closes: #8155).
4410 - Update xserver-xorg-input-evdev to 1:2.7.0-1+tails1 which
4411 includes a patch that restores mouse scrolling in KVM/Spice
4413 - Set Torbutton logging preferences to the defaults (Closes:
4414 #8160). With the default settings, no site-specific information is
4416 - Use the correct stack of rootfs:s for the chroot browsers (Closes:
4417 #8152, #8158). After installing incremental upgrades Tails' root
4418 filesystem consists of a stack squashfs:s, not only
4419 filesystem.squashfs. When not stacking them correct we may end up
4420 using the Tor Browser (Firefox) from an older version of Tails, or
4421 with no Tor Browser at all, as in the upgrade from Tails 1.1.2 to
4422 1.2, when we migrated from Iceweasel to the Tor Browser. Based on
4423 a patch contributed by sanic.
4424 - Use the Tor Browser for MIME type that GNOME associates with
4425 Iceweasel (Closes: #8153). Open URLs from Claws Mail, KeePassX
4426 etc. should be possible again.
4427 - Update patch to include all Intel CPU microcodes (Closes: #8189).
4428 - AppArmor: allow Pidgin to run Tor Browser unconfined, with
4429 scrubbed environment (Closes: #8186). Links opened in Pidgin are
4430 now handled by the Tor Browser.
4431 - Install all localized Iceweasel search plugins (Closes: #8139).
4432 - When generating the boot profile, ignore directories in
4433 process_IN_ACCESS as well (Closes: #7925). This allows ut to
4434 update the squashfs-ordering again in Tails 1.2.1.
4435 - gpgApplet: Don't pass already encoded data to GTK2 (Closes:
4436 #7968). It's now possible to clearsign text including non-ASCII
4438 - Do not run the PulseAudio initscript, neither at startup nor
4439 shutdown (Closes: #8082).
4441 * Minor improvements
4442 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.17-1~deb7u+1.
4443 - Make GnuPG configuration closer to the best practices one
4445 - Have GnuPG directly use the Tor SOCKS port (Closes: #7416).
4446 - Remove TrueCrypt support and documentat how to open TrueCrypt
4447 volumes using cryptsetup (Closes: #5373).
4448 - Install hopenpgp-tools from Debian Jessie.
4451 - Add gettext >= 0.18.3 as a Tails build dependency. We need it for
4452 xgettext JavaScript support in feature/jessie.
4454 * Automated test suite
4455 - Don't click to open a sub-menu in the GNOME applications menu
4457 - When testing the Windows camouflage, look for individual systray
4458 applets, to avoid relying on their ordering (Closes: #8059).
4459 - Focus the Pidgin Buddy List before looking for something
4460 happening in it (Closes: #8161).
4461 - Remove workaround for showing the TBB's menu bar (Closes #8028).
4463 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 02 Dec 2014 11:34:03 +0100
4465 tails (1.2) unstable; urgency=medium
4467 * Major new features
4468 - Migrate from Iceweasel to the Tor Browser from the Tor Browser
4469 Bundle 4.0 (based on Firefox 31.2.0esr). This fixes the POODLE
4471 The installation in Tails is made global (multi-profile), uses
4472 the system-wide Tor instance, disables the Tor Browser updater,
4473 and keeps the desired deviations previously present in Iceweasel,
4474 e.g. we install the AdBlock Plus add-on, but not Tor Launcher (since
4475 we run it as a standalone XUL application), among other things.
4476 - Install AppArmor's userspace tools and apparmor-profiles-extra
4477 from Wheezy Backports, and enable the AppArmor Linux Security
4478 Module. This adds Mandatory Access Control for several critical
4479 applications in Tails, including Tor, Vidalia, Pidgin, Evince
4481 - Isolate I2P traffic from the Tor Browser by adding a dedicated
4482 I2P Browser. It is set up similarly to the Unsafe Browser,
4483 but further disables features that are irrelevant for I2P, like
4484 search plugins and the AdBlock Plus addon, while keeping Tor Browser
4485 security features like the NoScript and Torbutton addons.
4486 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.5.8-rc-1~d70.wheezy+1.
4489 - Disable TCP timestamps (Closes: #6579).
4492 - Remove expired Pidgin certificates (Closes: #7730).
4493 - Use sudo instead of gksudo for running tails-upgrade-frontend to
4494 make stderr more easily accessible (Closes: #7431).
4495 - Run tails-persistence-setup with sudo instead of gksudo to make
4496 stderr more easily accessible, and allow the desktop user to
4497 pass the --verbose parameter (Closes: #7623).
4498 - Disable CUPS in the Unsafe Browser. This will prevent the
4499 browser from hanging for several minutes when accidentally
4500 pressing CTRL+P or trying to go to File -> Print (Closes: #7771).
4502 * Minor improvements
4503 - Install Linux 3.16-3 (version 3.16.5-1) from Debian
4504 unstable (Closes: #7886, #8100).
4505 - Transition away from TrueCrypt: install cryptsetup and friends
4506 from wheezy-backports (Closes: #5932), and make it clear that
4507 TrueCrypt will be removed in Tails 1.2.1 (Closes: #7739).
4508 - Install Monkeysign dependencies for qrcodes scanning.
4509 - Upgrade syslinux to 3:6.03~pre20+dfsg-2~bpo70+1, and install
4510 the new syslinux-efi package.
4511 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.15-1~deb7u+1
4512 - Enable Wheezy proposed-updates APT repository and setup APT
4513 pinnings to install packages from it.
4514 - Enable Tor's syscall sandbox. This feature (new in 0.2.5.x)
4515 should make Tor a bit harder to exploit. It is only be enabled
4516 when when no special Tor configuration is requested in Tails
4517 Greeter due to incompatibility with pluggable transports.
4518 - Start I2P automatically when the network connects via a
4519 NetworkManager hook, and "i2p" is present on the kernel command
4520 line. The router console is no longer opened automatically, but
4521 can be accessed through the I2P Browser (Closes: #7732).
4522 - Simplify the IPv6 ferm rules (Closes: #7668).
4523 - Include persistence.conf in WhisperBack reports (Closes: #7461)
4524 - Pin packages from testing to 500, so that they can be upgraded.
4525 - Don't set Torbutton environment vars globally (Closes: #5648).
4526 - Enable VirtualBox guest additions by default (Closes: #5730). In
4527 particular this enables VirtualBox's display management service.
4528 - In the Unsafe Browser, hide option for "Tor Browser Health
4529 report", and the "Get Addons" section in the Addon manager
4531 - Show Pidgin's formatting toolbar (Closes: #7356). Having the
4532 formatting toolbar displayed in Pidgin makes the OTR status more
4533 explicit by displaying it with words.
4535 * Automated test suite
4536 - Add --pause-on-fail to ease VM state debugging when tests
4538 - Add execute_successfully() and assert_vmcommand_success() for
4539 added robustness when executing some command in the testing VM.
4540 - Use Test::Unit::Assertions instead of our home-made assert().
4541 - Add test for persistent browser bookmarks.
4542 - Add basic tests for Pidgin, Totem and Evince, including their
4543 AppArmor enforcement.
4544 - Factorize some common step pattern into single steps.
4545 - Factorize running a command in GNOME Terminal.
4546 - Add common steps to copy a file and test for its existence.
4547 - Add a wait_and_double_click Sikuli helper method.
4548 - Add a VM.file_content method, to avoid repeating ourselves, and
4549 use it whenever easily doable.
4550 - Drop test that diffs syslinux' exithelp.cfg: we don't ship this
4552 - In the Unsafe Browser tests, rely on subtle timing less (Closes:
4554 - Use the same logic to determine when Tor is working in the test
4555 suite as in Tails itself. The idea is to avoid spamming the Tor
4556 control port during bootstrap, since we've seen problems with
4559 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:34:50 +0200
4561 tails (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=medium
4564 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.8.0esr-0+tails3~bpo70+1
4565 (fixes Mozilla#1064636).
4566 - Install Linux 3.16-1 from sid (Closes: #7886).
4567 - Upgrade file to 5.11-2+deb7u5 (fixes CVE-2014-0207,
4568 CVE-2014-0237, CVE-2014-0238, CVE-2014-3478, CVE-2014-3479,
4569 CVE-2014-3480, CVE-2014-3487, CVE-2014-3538 and CVE-2014-3587).
4570 - Upgrade curl to 7.26.0-1+wheezy10 (fixes CVE-2014-3613 and
4572 - Upgrade bind9-based packages to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u2
4573 (fixes CVE-2014-0591).
4574 - Upgrade gnupg to 1.4.12-7+deb7u6 (fixes CVE-2014-5270).
4575 - Upgrade apt to 0.9.7.9+deb7u5 (fixes CVE-2014-0487,
4576 CVE-2014-0488, CVE-2014-0489, CVE-2014-0490, and
4578 - Upgrade dbus to 1.6.8-1+deb7u4 (fixes CVE-2014-3635,
4579 CVE-2014-3636, CVE-2014-3637, CVE-2014-3638 and CVE-2014-3639).
4580 - Upgrade libav-based pacakges to 6:0.8.16-1 (fixes
4582 - Upgrade bash to 4.2+dfsg-0.1+deb7u1 (fixes CVE-2014-6271).
4584 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 23 Sep 2014 23:01:40 -0700
4586 tails (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
4589 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.8.0esr-0+tails1~bpo70+1
4590 (Firefox 24.8.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
4591 Also import the Tor Browser profile at commit
4592 271b64b889e5c549196c3ee91c888de88148560f from
4593 ttp/tor-browser-24.8.0esr-3.x-1.
4594 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.23-2~d70.wheezy+1 (fixes CVE-2014-5117).
4595 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.14.1-1~deb7u+1.
4596 - Upgrade Linux to 3.14.15-2 (fixes CVE-2014-3534, CVE-2014-4667
4598 - Upgrade CUPS-based packages to 1.5.3-5+deb7u4 (fixes
4599 CVE-2014-3537, CVE-2014-5029, CVE-2014-5030 and CVE-2014-5031).
4600 - Upgrade libnss3 to 2:3.14.5-1+deb7u1 (fixes CVE-2013-1741,
4601 CVE-2013-5606, CVE-2014-1491 and CVE-2014-1492).
4602 - Upgrade openssl to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u12 (fixes CVE-2014-3505,
4603 CVE-2014-3506, CVE-2014-3507, CVE-2014-3508, CVE-2014-3509,
4604 CVE-2014-3510, CVE-2014-3511, CVE-2014-3512 and CVE-2014-5139).
4605 - Upgrade krb5-based packages to 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u2 (fixes
4606 CVE-2014-4341, CVE-2014-4342, CVE-2014-4343, CVE-2014-4344 and
4608 - Upgrade libav-based packages to 6:0.8.15-1 (fixes CVE-2011-3934,
4609 CVE-2011-3935, CVE-2011-3946, CVE-2013-0848, CVE-2013-0851,
4610 CVE-2013-0852, CVE-2013-0860, CVE-2013-0868, CVE-2013-3672,
4611 CVE-2013-3674 and CVE-2014-2263.
4612 - Upgrade libgpgme11 to 1.2.0-1.4+deb7u1 (fixes CVE-2014-5117).
4613 - Upgrade python-imaging to 1.1.7-4+deb7u1 (fixes CVE-2014-3589).
4614 - Prevent dhclient from sending the hostname over the network
4616 - Override the hostname provided by the DHCP server (Closes: #7769).
4617 - Add an I2P boot parameter. Without adding "i2p" to the kernel
4618 command line, I2P will not be accessible for the Live user.
4619 - Stricter I2P firewall rules:
4620 * deny I2P from accessing the LAN
4621 * deny I2P from accessing the loopback device, except for select
4622 whitelisted services
4623 * allow I2P access to the Internet
4624 The ACCEPT rules will only be enabled when the string 'i2p' is
4625 passed at the boot prompt. The rules which DENY or REJECT
4626 access for the 'i2psvc' user will always be applied.
4627 - Disable I2P plugins, since it doesn't make much sense without
4628 persistence, and should eliminate some attack vectors.
4629 - Disable I2P's BOB port. No maintained I2P application uses it.
4632 - Fix condition clause in tails-security-check (Closes: #7657).
4633 - Don't ship OpenJDK 6: I2P prefers v7, and we don't need both.
4634 - Prevent Tails Installer from updating the system partition
4635 properties on MBR partitions (Closes: #7716).
4637 * Minor improvements
4638 - Upgrade to Torbutton 1.6.12.1.
4639 - Install gnome-user-guide (Closes: #7618).
4640 - Install cups-pk-helper (Closes: #7636).
4641 - Update the SquashFS sort file.
4642 - Compress the SquashFS more aggressively (Closes: #7706).
4643 - I2P: Keep POP3 email on server. The default in the I2P webmail
4644 app was to keep mail on the server, but that setting was changed
4645 recently. This configuration setting (susimail.config) will only
4646 be copied over in I2P 0.9.14 and newer.
4647 - Add a Close button to the Tails Installer launcher window.
4650 - Migrate Vagrant basebox to Debian Wheezy (Closes #7133, #6736).
4651 - Consistently use the same Debian mirror.
4652 - Disable runtime APT proxy configuration when using APT in
4653 binary_local-hooks (Closes: #7691).
4655 * Automated test suite
4656 - Automatically test hostname leaks (Closes: #7712).
4657 - Move autotest live-config hook to be run last. This way we'll
4658 notice if some earlier live-config hook cancels all hooks by
4659 running the automated test suite since the remote shell won't be
4660 running in that case.
4661 - Test that the I2P boot parameter does what it's supposed to do
4663 - Start applications by using the GNOME Applications menu instead
4664 of the GNOME Run Dialog (Closes: #5550, #7060).
4666 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:49:28 +0000
4668 tails (1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
4670 * Rebase on Debian Wheezy
4671 - Upgrade literally thousands of packages.
4672 - Migrate to GNOME3 fallback mode.
4673 - Install LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice.
4674 - Remove custom LSB logging: Wheezy has fancy colored init
4677 * Major new features
4678 - UEFI boot support.
4679 - Replace the Windows XP camouflage with an experimental Windows 8
4681 - Install Linux 3.14.12-1 from Debian unstable.
4682 - Bring back VirtualBox guest modules, installed from Wheezy
4683 backports. Full functionality is only available when using the
4687 - Fix write access to boot medium via udisks (#6172).
4688 - Don't allow the desktop user to pass arguments to
4689 tails-upgrade-frontend (Closes: #7410).
4690 - Make persistent file permissions safer (Closes #7443):
4691 * Make the content of /etc/skel non-world-readable. Otherwise,
4692 such files may be copied to /home/amnesia, and in turn to the
4693 persistent volume, with unsafe permissions. That's no big deal
4694 in /home/amnesia (that is itself not world-readable), *but*
4695 the root of the persistent volume has to be world-readable.
4696 * Have activate_custom_mounts create new directories with safe
4698 * Set strict permissions on /home/amnesia (Closes: #7463).
4699 * Fix permissions on persistent directories that were created
4700 with unsafe permissions (Closes: #7458).
4701 * Fix files ownership while copying persistence (Closes: #7216).
4702 The previous instructions to copy the persistent data were
4703 creating personal files that belong to root. I don't think
4704 there is a way of preserving the original ownership using
4705 Nautilus (unless doing a "move" instead of a "copy" but that's
4706 not what we are trying to do here).
4707 - Disable FoxyProxy's proxy:// protocol handler (Closes: #7479).
4708 FoxyProxy adds the proxy:// protocol handler, which can be used
4709 to configure the proxy via an URI. A malicious web page can
4710 include (or a malicious exit node can inject) some JavaScript
4711 code to visit such an URI and disable or otherwise change
4712 Iceweasel's proxy settings. While using this to disable
4713 proxying will be dealt with safely by our firewall, this could
4714 be used to defeat stream isolation, although the user must be
4715 tricked into accepting the new proxy settings.
4716 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.7.0esr-0+tails1~bpo70+1
4717 (Firefox 24.7.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
4718 - Upgrade to Linux 3.14.12-1 (fixes CVE-2014-4699).
4719 - Upgrade libav-based packages to 0.8.13-1 (fixes CVE-2014-4609).
4720 - Upgrade to libxml2 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy1 (fixes CVE-2014-0191).
4721 - Upgrade to dbus 1.6.8-1+deb7u3 (fixes CVE-2014-3477,
4722 CVE-2014-3532 and CVE-2014-3533).
4725 - Disable GNOME keyring's GnuPG functionality. (Closes: #7330) In
4726 feature/regular-gnupg-agent, we installed the regular GnuPG
4727 agent so that it is used instead of GNOME keyring's one. This is
4728 not enough on Wheezy, so let's disable the starting of the "gpg"
4729 component of GNOME keyring.
4730 - Make sure /etc/default/locale exists, with a sensible default
4731 value (Closes: #7333). Before Tails Greeter's PostLogin script
4732 are run, /etc/default/locale does not exist on Wheezy. Our
4733 tails-kexec initscript (and quite a few other scripts we run)
4734 depends on this file to exist. So, let's make sure it exists,
4735 with a sensible default value.
4736 - Create the tails-persistence-setup user with the same UID/GID it
4737 had on Tails/Squeeze. (Closes: #7343) Else, our various checks
4738 for safe access rights on persistence.conf fail.
4739 - Revert back to browsing the offline documentation using Iceweasel
4740 instead of Yelp (Closes: #7390, #7285).
4741 - Make the new NetworkManager configuration directory persistent,
4742 when the old one was, but disable the old one (Closes: #7338).
4743 - Before running tails-upgrade-frontend, chdir to a world-readable
4744 place (Closes: #7641). In particular, Archive::Tar::Wrapper,
4745 when called by tails-install-iuk, wants to chdir back to the
4746 original cwd after it has chdir'd elsewhere to do its job.
4748 * Minor improvements
4749 - Install seahorse-nautilus, replacing seahorse-plugins (Closes #5516).
4750 - Install hledger (custom backport, for now): our accountants need this.
4751 - Install stable Scribus instead of scribus-ng.
4752 - Install the printer driver for Epson Inkjet that use ESC/P-R.
4753 - Install the BookletImposer PDF imposition toolkit. It's tiny,
4754 and really helpful e.g. when producing booklets.
4755 - Install gtkhash and nautilus-gtkhash (Closes #6763).
4756 - Import new version of Tor Launcher:
4757 · Now based on upstream Tor Launcher 0.2.5.4.
4758 · Tor bug #11772: Proxy Type menu not set correctly
4759 · Tor bug #11699: Change &#160 to   in network-settings.dtd
4760 · Correctly handle startup paths that contain dot.
4761 - Upgrade to Torbutton 1.6.9.0.
4762 - Avoid shipping python2.6 in addition to python2.7.
4763 - Don't install Gobby 0.4 anymore. Gobby 0.5 has been available in
4764 Debian since Squeeze, now is a good time to drop the obsolete
4766 - Require a bit less free memory before checking for upgrades with
4767 Tails Upgrader. The general goal is to avoid displaying "Not
4768 enough memory available to check for upgrades" too often due to
4769 over-cautious memory requirements checked in the wrapper.
4770 - Make Tails Greeter's help window resolution-aware. Previously it
4771 used a static 800x600 which was problematic on lower resolutions,
4772 and sub-optimal on higher resolutions. Now it adapts itself
4773 according to the screen resolution.
4774 - Whisperback now sanitizes attached logs better with respect to
4775 DMI data, IPv6 addresses, and serial numbers (Closes #6797,
4777 - Integrate the new logo in Tails Installer (Closes #7095)
4778 - Also install linux-base and linux-compiler-gcc-4.8-x86 from
4779 sid. This way, we can get rid of our linux-compiler-gcc-4.8-x86
4780 3.12, and it makes things a bit more consistent.
4781 - Include the syslinux binary, and its MBR, in the ISO filesystem.
4782 This in turn allows Tails Installer to use this binary and MBR,
4783 which is critical for avoiding problems (such as #7345) on
4785 - Include syslinux.exe for win32 in utils/win32/ on the ISO
4786 filesystem (Closes: #7425).
4788 * Add consistent margins in GUI.
4789 * Always reset the target drive's MBR, without asking for
4790 confirmation, after installing or upgrading.
4791 * Install the bootloader using the syslinux binary found on the
4792 target device, once the Live OS has been extracted/copied
4794 - Enable double-clicking to pick entries in the language or
4795 keyboard layout lists in Tails Greeter.
4796 - Install backport of shared-mime-info 1.3 (Closes: #7079).
4797 - Make sanity-check prompts closable in Tails Persistence Setup
4799 - Fix quick search in Tails Greeter's Other languages window
4801 - Install systemd. It is not enabled by default, but having it
4802 around will help doing the migration work.
4803 - Enable AppArmor on the kernel command-line. This is a no-op
4804 without the userspace tools and with no profile shipped, but it
4805 will make it easier to fix this part of the situation.
4808 - Bump Vagrant builder's memory for RAM builds. Wheezy requires
4809 more space to build, and the resulting image is larger.
4810 - Fix Vagrant compatibility issue. Some classes' methods/fields
4811 have been renamed between Vagrant versions, so we need a simple
4812 compatibility layer to support all versions. Without this, it's
4813 not possible to issue e.g. a `build` command to an already
4814 running (i.e. `vm:up`:ed) Vagrant instance.
4815 - Move cpu and mem checks to the `build` task. Previously, when
4816 they were checked in `vm:up` *only* when issued while the VM
4817 already is up, so these checks weren't run if one issues a
4818 `build` when the VM is off. Now we'll fail earlier with a more
4819 informative error message, and it looks like a more logical home
4821 - Fix buggy memory checks for RAM building. We have to take into
4822 account which state the Vagrant VM is in for determining *where*
4823 we check if enough memory is available for a RAM build. If it's
4824 off, we check the host; if it's on we check the VM. Previously
4825 we always checked the host, which doesn't make sense when the VM
4828 * Automated test suite
4829 - Bump the tester VM's RAM by 256 MiB. There is not enough free
4830 RAM to run Tails Upgrader with just 1 GiB of RAM after the
4831 migration to Wheezy.
4832 - Always adjust OOM and memory overcommit settings. The kernel
4833 freezes seem to also happen for the amd64 kernel when filling
4835 - Add option to make Sikuli rety on FindFailed. This makes it
4836 possible to update manu images for Sikuli in just *one* test
4837 suite run, by continuously updating outdated pictures as we go.
4838 - Actually run "Upgrade from ISO" from a USB drive running the old
4839 version. That's what users do, and is buggy.
4840 - Automatically test persistent directories permissions (Closes: #7560).
4841 - Use read-write persistence when testing upgraded USB
4842 installations. Otherwise e.g. the permission fixes won't get
4843 applied, and the subsequent steps testing the permissions will
4845 - Actually check that the ISO's Tails is installed. The step
4846 "Tails is installed on USB drive $TARGET" only checks that the
4847 *running* Tails is installed on $TARGET, which obviously fails
4848 when doing an upgrade from ISO running an old Tails. That it
4849 worked for the same scenario running the current Tails is just
4851 - Use OpenJDK 7 to run our test suite (Closes #7175).
4852 - Use qemu-system-x86_64 directly, instead of kvm, for running the
4853 automated test suite (Closes: #7605).
4855 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 20 Jul 2014 23:16:13 +0200
4857 tails (1.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium
4860 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.6.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1
4861 (Firefox 24.6.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
4862 Also import the Tor Browser profile at commit
4863 90ba8fbaf6f23494f1a0e38d63153b3b7e65d3d3 from
4864 ttp/tor-browser-24.6.0esr-3.x-1.
4865 - Install Linux 3.14 from Debian unstable (fixes CVE-2014-3153 and
4867 - Install openssl from Squeeze LTS (fixes CVE-2014-0076,
4868 CVE-2014-0195, CVE-2014-0221, CVE-2014-3470 and CVE-2014-0224).
4869 - Install GnuTLS from Squeeze LTS (fixes CVE-2014-3466.).
4871 * Minor improvements
4872 - Add Squeeze LTS APT sources. It has been given a low pinning
4873 priority so explicit pinning must be used to actually install
4875 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.22-1~d60.squeeze+1.
4876 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.13-1~deb6u+1.
4878 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 08 Jun 2014 19:14:00 +0200
4880 tails (1.0) unstable; urgency=medium
4883 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.5.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1
4884 (Firefox 24.5.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
4885 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.21-1+tails1~d60.squeeze+1:
4886 * Based on 0.2.4.21-1~d60.squeeze+1.
4887 * Backport the fix for Tor bug #11464. It adds client-side blacklists for
4888 all Tor directory authority keys that was vulnerable to Heartbleed.
4889 This protects clients in case attackers were able to compromise a
4890 majority of the authority signing and identity keys.
4893 - Disable inbound I2P connections. Tails already restricts incoming
4894 connections, but this change tells I2P about it.
4895 - Fix link to the system requirements documentation page in the Tails
4896 Upgrader error shown when too little RAM is available.
4898 * Minor improvements
4899 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.12-2~deb6u+1.
4900 - Import TorBrowser profile. This was forgotten in Tails 0.23 and even
4901 though we didn't explicitly set those preferences in that release
4902 they defaulted to the same values. This future-proofs us in case the
4903 defaults would ever change.
4904 - Import new custom version of tor-launcher:
4905 * Based on upstream Tor Launcher 0.2.5.3.
4906 * Improve how Tor Launcher handles incomplete translation.
4907 (Tor bug #11483; more future-proof fix for Tails bug #6885)
4908 * Remove the bridge settings prompt. (Tor bug #11482; closes Tails
4910 * Always show bridge help button. (Tor bug #11484)
4911 - Integrate the new Tails logo into various places:
4914 * The "About Tails" dialog
4917 - Use the stable APT suite when building from the stable Git branch
4921 - Add test for the #7022 fix.
4923 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 27 Apr 2014 19:34:01 +0200
4925 tails (0.23) unstable; urgency=medium
4928 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.4.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1
4929 (Firefox 24.4.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
4931 * Major new features
4932 - Spoof the network interfaces' MAC address by default (Closes: #5421),
4933 as designed on https://tails.boum.org/contribute/design/MAC_address/.
4934 - Rework the way to configure how Tor connects to the network
4935 (bridges, proxy, fascist firewall): add an option to Tails Greeter,
4936 start Tor Launcher when needed (Closes: #5920, #5343).
4939 - Additional software: do not crash when persistence is disabled
4941 - Upgrade Pidgin to 2.10.9, that fixes some regressions introduced
4942 in the 2.10.8 security update (Closes: #6661).
4943 - Wait for Tor to have fully bootstrapped, plus a bit more time,
4944 before checking for upgrades (Closes: #6728) and unfixed known
4946 - Disable the Intel Management Engine Interface driver (Closes: #6460).
4947 We don't need it in Tails, it might be dangerous, and it causes bugs
4948 on various hardware such as systems that reboot when asked to shut down
4949 - Add a launcher for the Tails documentation. This makes it available
4950 in Windows Camouflage mode (Closes: #5374, #6767).
4951 - Remove the obsolete wikileaks.de account from Pidgin (Closes: #6807).
4953 * Minor improvements
4954 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.21-1~d60.squeeze+1.
4955 - Upgrade obfsproxy to 0.2.6-2~~squeeze+1.
4956 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.11-1deb6u1.
4957 - Install 64-bit kernel instead of the 686-pae one (Closes: #5456).
4958 This is a necessary first step towards UEFI boot support.
4959 - Install Monkeysign (in a not-so-functional shape yet).
4960 - Disable the autologin text consoles (Closes: #5588). This was one of
4961 the blockers before a screen saver can be installed
4962 in a meaningful way (#5684).
4963 - Don't localize the text consoles anymore: it is broken on Wheezy,
4964 the intended users can as well use loadkeys, and we now do not have
4965 to trust setupcon to be safe for being run as root by the desktop user.
4966 - Make it possible to manually start IBus.
4967 - Reintroduce the possibility to switch identities in the Tor Browser,
4968 using a filtering proxy in front of the Tor ControlPort to avoid giving
4969 full control over Tor to the desktop user (Closes: #6383).
4970 - Incremental upgrades improvements:
4971 · Drop the Tails Upgrader launcher, to limit users' confusion
4973 · Lock down sudo credentials a bit.
4974 · Hide debugging information (Closes: #6505).
4975 · Include ~/.xsession-errors in WhisperBack bug reports.
4976 This captures the Tails Upgrader errors and debugging information.
4977 · Report more precisely why an incremental upgrade cannot be done
4979 · Various user interface and phrasing improvements.
4980 - Don't install the Cookie Monster browser extension (Closes: #6790).
4981 - Add a browser bookmark pointing to Tor's Stack Exchange (Closes: #6632).
4982 - Remove the preconfigured #tor channel from the Pidgin: apparently,
4983 too many Tails users go ask Tails questions there, without making
4984 it clear that they are running Tails, hence creating a user-support
4985 nightmare (Closes: #6679).
4986 - Use (most of) Tor Browser's mozconfig (Closes: #6474).
4987 - Rebase the browser on top of iceweasel 24.3.0esr-1, to get
4988 the certificate authorities added by Debian back (Closes: #6704).
4989 - Give access to the relevant documentation pages from Tails Greeter.
4990 - Hide Tails Greeter's password mismatch warning when entry is changed.
4991 - Persistent Volume Assistant:
4992 · Take into account our installer is now called Tails Installer.
4993 · Optimize window height (Closes: #5458).
4994 · Display device paths in a more user-friendly way (Closes: #5311).
4997 - Ease updating POT and PO files at release time, and importing translations
4998 from Transifex (Closes: #6288, #6207).
4999 - Drop custom poedit backport, install it from squeeze-backports-sloppy.
5000 - Make ISO and IUK smaller (Closes: #6390, #6425):
5001 · Exclude more files from being included in the ISO.
5002 · Remove *.pyc later so that they are not recreated.
5003 · Truncate log files later so that they are not filled again.
5004 · At ISO build time, set mtime to the epoch for large files whose content
5005 generally does not change between releases. This forces rsync
5006 to compare the actual content of these files, when preparing an IUK,
5007 instead of blindly adding it to the IUK merely because the mtime
5008 has changed, while the content is the same.
5009 - Make local hooks logging consistent.
5012 - Migrate from JRuby to native Ruby + rjb.
5013 - The test suite can now be run on Debian Wheezy + backports.
5014 - Fix buggy "persistence is not enabled" step (Closes: #5465).
5015 - Use IPv6 private address as of RFC 4193 for the test suite's virtual
5016 network. Otherwise dnsmasq from Wheezy complains, as it is not capable
5017 of handling public IPv6 addresses.
5018 - Delete volumes after each scenario unless tagged @keep_volumes.
5019 - Add an anti-test to make sure the memory erasure test works fine.
5020 - A *lot* of bugfixes, simplifications and robustness improvements.
5022 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 18 Mar 2014 00:58:50 +0100
5024 tails (0.22.1) unstable; urgency=medium
5027 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.3.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+2
5028 (Firefox 24.3.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
5029 - Upgrade NSS to 3.14.5-1~bpo60+1.
5030 - Upgrade Pidgin to 2.10.8.
5031 - Workaround browser size fingerprinting issue by using small icons
5032 in the web browser's navigation toolbar (Closes: #6377).
5033 We're actually hit by Tor#9268, and this is the best workaround gk
5034 and I were able to find when discussing this on Tor#10095.
5036 * Major new features
5037 - Check for upgrades availability using Tails Upgrader, and propose
5038 to apply an incremental upgrade whenever possible (Closes: #6014).
5039 · Run tails-update-frontend at session login time.
5040 · Have tails-security-check only report unfixed security issues.
5041 · Greatly improve the Tails Upgrader UI and strings phrasing.
5042 · Enable startup notification for Tails Upgrader.
5043 - Install Linux 3.12 (3.12.6-2) from Debian testing. Unfortunately,
5044 this breaks the memory wipe feature on some hardware (#6460), but
5045 it fixes quite a few security issues, and improves hardware support.
5046 - Update the build system to be compatible with Vagrant 1.2 and 1.3,
5047 in addition to the already supported versions (Closes: #6221).
5048 Thanks to David Isaac Wolinsky <isaac.wolinsky@gmail.com>.
5051 - Do not start IBus for languages that don't need it. This fixes
5052 the keybindings problems introduced in 0.22 (Closes: #6478).
5053 Thanks to WinterFairy.
5054 - Disable network.proxy.socks_remote_dns in the Unsafe Browser.
5055 Bugfix against 0.22 (Closes: #6479).
5056 - Fetch Tor Browser User-Agent from its own prefs, rather than from
5057 the obsolete Torbutton ones. Bugfix against 0.22 (Closes: #6477).
5058 - Upgrade Vagrant basebox to include up-to-date Debian archive keys
5059 (Closes: #6515, #6527).
5060 - Do not use a non-working proxy for downloading the Vagrant basebox
5062 - Use IE's icon in Windows camouflage mode.
5063 Bugfix against 0.22 (Closes: #6536).
5064 - Support "upgrading" a partial Tails installation (Closes: #6438)
5065 and fix missing confirmation dialog in Tails Installer (Closes: #6437).
5066 Thanks to Andres Gomez Ramirez <andres.gomez@cern.ch>.
5067 - Fix browser homepage in Spanish locales (Closes: #6612).
5069 * Minor improvements
5070 - Tor 0.2.4 is stable! Adapt APT sources accordingly.
5071 - Update Tor Browser to 24.2.0esr-1+tails1, that uses its own NSS
5072 library instead of the system one.
5073 - Update Torbutton to 1.6.5.3.
5074 - Do not start Tor Browser automatically, but notify when Tor is ready.
5075 Warn the user when they attempt to start Tor Browser before Tor is ready.
5076 - Import Tor Browser profile at
5077 3ed5d9511e783deb86835803a6f40e7d5a182a12 from ttp/tor-browser-24.2.0esr-1.
5078 - Use http.debian.net for Vagrant builds, instead of the mostly broken
5079 (and soon obsolete) cdn.debian.net.
5080 - Phrasing and UI improvements in tails-upgrade-frontend.
5081 - Style and robustness improvements in tails-security-check.
5082 - Make room for upcoming UEFI support in Tails Installer.
5084 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:08:13 +0100
5086 tails (0.22) unstable; urgency=medium
5090 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 24.2.0esr that fixes a few serious security issues.
5091 - Stop migrating persistence configuration and access rights. Instead,
5092 disable all persistence configuration files if the mountpoint has wrong
5093 access rights (Closes: #6413).
5094 - Upgrade to NSS 3.15.3 that fixes a few serious security issues affecting
5095 the browser, such as CVE-2013-1741, CVE-2013-5605 and CVE-2013-5606.
5097 * Major improvements
5098 - Switch to Iceweasel 24 (Closes: #6370).
5099 · Resync' (most) Iceweasel prefs with TBB 3.0-beta-1 and get rid
5100 of many obsolete or default settings.
5101 · Disable WebRTC (Closes: #6468).
5102 · Import TorBrowser profile at commit
5103 51bf06502c46ee6c1f587459e8370aef11a3422d from the tor-browser-24.2.0esr-1
5104 branch at https://git.torproject.org/tor-browser.git.
5105 - Switch to Torbutton 1.6.5 (Closes: #6371).
5106 · Prevent Torbutton from asking users to "upgrade TBB".
5107 · Use the same Tor SOCKS port as the TBB (9151) for our web browser.
5108 This should be enough to avoid being affected by Tor#8511.
5109 · Disable Torbutton 1.6's check for Tor.
5110 Unfortunately, the new check.torproject.org breaks the remote Tor
5111 check. We cannot use the local Tor check with the control port. So,
5112 the shortest and sanest path to fixing the check issue, because the
5113 remote Tor check is broken" seems to simply disable this check.
5114 Patch submitted upstream as Tor#10216.
5115 - Prepare incremental upgrades to be the next default way to upgrade Tails,
5116 on point-releases at least.
5119 - Deny X authentication only after Vidalia exits (Closes: #6389).
5120 - Disable DPMS screen blanking (Closes: #5617).
5121 - Fix checking of the persistent volume's ACL.
5122 - Sanitize more IP and MAC addresses in bug reports (Closes: #6391).
5123 - Do not fail USB upgrade when the "tmp" directory exists on the
5125 - Tails Installer: list devices with isohybrid Tails installed
5128 * Minor improvements
5129 - Create a configuration file for additional software if needed
5131 - Translations all over the place.
5132 - Enable favicons in Iceweasel.
5133 - Do not propose to make permanent NoScript exceptions.
5134 In Tails, every such thing is temporary, so better only display the menu
5135 entry that's about temporarily allowing something.
5136 - Clearer warning when deleting persistent volume (thanks to Andres Gomez
5137 Ramirez <andres.gomez@cern.ch> for the patch).
5138 - Make wording in Tails Installer more consistent.
5141 * Use IBus instead of SCIM (Closes: #5624, #6206).
5142 It makes it possible to input passwords in pinentry for at least Japanese,
5143 Chinese and Korean languages.
5144 * Add an import-translation script.
5145 This automates the importation process of completed translations
5147 * Always list optimal keyboard layout in the greeter (Closes: #5741).
5148 * Fix on-the-fly translation of the greeter in various languages
5152 * Update I2P to 0.9.8.1 (Closes: #6080, #5889).
5153 * Improve I2P configuration:
5154 - Disable IPv6 support in a nicer way.
5155 - Disable i2cp (allows java clients to communicate from outside the JVM). If
5156 this is unset an exception for port 7654 would need to be added to ferm.
5157 - Disable "in-network" updates (this is also done in the regular I2P
5159 - Disable the outproxies. Access to the Internet is already routed through
5160 Tor so these are unnecessary. If end-users have a good reason to go
5161 through one of the I2P outproxies they can turn them back on.
5162 * Add a couple of default I2P IRC channels to Pidgin.
5163 * Allow access to the local 'eepsite' through FoxyProxy.
5164 * Add firewall exceptions for the standard I2P ports.
5166 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 30 Nov 2013 16:47:18 +0100
5168 tails (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5171 - Don't grant access to the Tor control port for the desktop user
5172 (amnesia). Else, an attacker able to run arbitrary code as this user
5173 could obtain the public IP with a get_info command.
5174 · Vidalia is now run as a dedicated user.
5175 · Remove the amnesia user from the debian-tor group.
5176 · Remove the Vidalia launcher in the Applications menu.
5177 The Vidalia instance it starts is useless, since it can't connect
5178 to the Tor control port.
5179 - Don't allow the desktop user to directly change persistence settings.
5180 Else, an attacker able to run arbitrary code as this user could
5181 leverage this feature to gain persistent root access, as long as
5182 persistence is enabled.
5183 · Fully rework the persistent filesystem and files ownership
5185 · Run the Persistent Volume Assistant as a dedicated user, that is
5186 granted the relevant udisks and filesystem -level credentials.
5187 · At persistence activation time, don't trust existing persistence
5188 configuration files, migrate to the new ownership and permissions,
5189 migrate every known-safe existing settings and backup what's left.
5190 Warn the user when not all persistence settings could be migrated.
5191 · Persistent Volume Assistant uses the new ownership and permissions
5192 scheme when initializing a new persistent volume, and refuses to
5193 read persistence.conf if it, or the parent directory, hasn't the
5194 expected permissions.
5195 · Make boot medium 'system internal' for udisks with bilibop.
5196 Once Tails is based on Wheezy, this will further complete the
5197 protection (see #6172 for details).
5198 - Update Iceweasel to 17.0.10esr-0+tails2~bpo60+1.
5199 - Update Torbutton to 1.5.2-2, including a patch cherry-picked from
5200 upstream to make window resizing closer to what the design says.
5202 * Major new features
5203 - Add a persistence preset for printing settings (Closes: #5686).
5204 Reload CUPS configuration after persistence activation.
5205 - Support SD card connected through a SDIO host adapter (Closes: #6324).
5206 · Rebrand Tails USB installer to Tails installer.
5207 · Display devices brand, model and size in the Installer
5209 · Ask for confirmation before installing Tails onto a device
5211 · Add support for SDIO and MMC block devices to the Tails Installer
5212 (Closes: #5744) and the Persistent Volume Assistant (Closes: #6325).
5213 · Arm the udev watchdog when booted from SD (plugged in SDIO) too
5216 * Minor improvements
5217 - Provide a consistent path to the persistent volume mountpoint
5219 - Add a KeePassX launcher to the top GNOME panel (Closes: #6290).
5220 - Rework bug reporting workflow: point the desktop launcher to
5221 the troubleshooting page.
5222 - Make /home world-readable at build time, regardless of the Git
5223 working copy permissions. This makes the build process more robust
5224 against strict umasks.
5225 - Add signing capabilities to the tails-build script (Closes: #6267).
5226 This is in turn used to sign ISO images built by our Jenkins setup
5228 - Simplify the ikiwiki setup and make more pages translatable.
5229 - Exclude the version string in GnuPG's ASCII armored output.
5230 - Prefer stronger ciphers (AES256,AES192,AES,CAST5) when encrypting
5232 - Use the same custom Startpage search URL than the TBB.
5233 This apparently disables the new broken "family" filter.
5234 - Update AdBlock Plus patterns.
5235 - Install Linux from Debian testing.
5236 (That is, the same version that was shipped in 0.20.1.)
5239 - Look for "/tmp/.X11-unix/X${1#:}" too when detecting displays in use.
5240 - Adapt tests to match the Control Port access security fix:
5241 · Take into account that the amnesia user isn't part of the debian-tor
5243 · Run as root the checks to see if a process is running: this
5244 is required to see other users' processes.
5246 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2013 23:42:46 +0200
5248 tails (0.20.1) unstable; urgency=low
5250 * Major new features
5251 - Install Tor 0.2.4.17-rc-1~d60.squeeze+1 from the Tor project's repository.
5252 - Install Iceweasel 17.0.9esr with Torbrowser patches.
5253 - Install Linux kernel 3.10-3 (version 3.10.11-1) from sid.
5256 - Remount persistence devices read-only at shutdown/reboot time
5258 - Greeter: display a warning icon on admin password mismatch and on
5259 persistence unlocking failure. Thanks to Andres Gomez Ramirez
5260 <andres.gomez@cern.ch> for the fix!
5261 - Don't torsocksify Pidgin.
5262 Instead we disable Pidgin's GNOME integration to get the "Global proxy
5263 configuration", which we set to use Tor. This fixes the I2P IRC account.
5264 - Additional software: fix typo in notification.
5265 - Allow installing "Priority: standard" packages that we do not install
5266 by default: remove them late in the build process instead of assigning
5267 them a -1 APT pinning level.
5269 * Minor improvements
5270 - Update AdBlock Plus patterns.
5271 - Use more unique ISO file name when building from Jenkins.
5272 - Additional software: point to the system log on upgrade failure.
5273 - Set SOCKS5_USER and SOCKS5_PASSWORD in the connect-socks wrapper (used
5274 by Git). Else, Tor 0.2.4's IsolateSOCKSAuth and connect-proxy
5275 sometimes play together in some way that makes connect-proxy ask for
5276 a password to connect to the SocksPort. SOCKS5_USER and
5277 SOCKS5_PASSWORD are passed through unchanged if they were manually set
5278 by the user already.
5279 - Use our custom connect-socks wrapper for SSH. Else, Tor 0.2.4's
5280 IsolateSOCKSAuth and connect-proxy sometimes play together in some way
5281 that makes connect-proxy ask for a password to connect to the
5282 SocksPort. Note that connect-socks uses the default SocksPort too, so
5283 no change here wrt. our connection isolation design.
5286 - Import new translations from Transifex.
5289 - Fix old ISO checking for consistent error reporting.
5290 - Remove custom persistence test from manual test suite.
5291 It was removed for the GUI in t-p-s 0.33.
5293 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2013 15:49:36 +0200
5295 tails (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5297 * Major new features
5298 - Install Linux kernel 3.10.3-1 from Debian unstable.
5299 - Iceweasel 17.0.8esr + Torbrowser patches.
5302 - Prevent Iceweasel from displaying a warning when leaving HTTPS web sites.
5303 - Make Iceweasel use the correct, localized search engine.
5304 - Fix Git access to https:// repositories.
5306 * Minor improvements
5307 - Install Dasher, a predictive text entry tool.
5308 - Add a wrapper around TrueCrypt which displays a warning about it soon
5309 being deprecated in Tails.
5310 - Remove Pidgin libraries for all protocols but IRC and Jabber/XMPP.
5311 Many of the other protocols Pidgin support are broken in Tails and
5312 haven't got any security auditting.
5313 - Disable the pre-defined Pidgin accounts so they do not auto-connect
5315 - Include information about Alsa in WhisperBack reports.
5316 - Explicitly restrict access to ptrace. While this setting was enabled
5317 by default in Debian's Linux 3.9.6-1, it will later disabled in 3.9.7-1.
5318 It's unclear what will happen next, so let's explicitly enable it ourselves.
5319 - Do not display dialog when a message is sent in Claws Mail.
5320 - Sync iceweasel preferences with the Torbrowser's.
5323 - Many translation updates all over the place.
5324 - Merge all Tails-related POT files into one, and make use of intltoolize
5325 for better integration with Transifex.
5327 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:19:57 +0200
5329 tails (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5331 * Major new features
5332 - Install Linux kernel 3.9.5-1 from Debian unstable.
5333 Features of particular interest for Tails are the Yama LSM
5334 (ptrace scope restrictions) and improved hardware support.
5335 As a corollary, install initramfs-tools from there too.
5336 - Iceweasel 17.0.7esr + Torbrowser patches.
5337 - Unblock Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, WWAN and WiMAX; block every other type of
5338 wireless device. Next steps are described on the
5339 todo/protect_against_external_bus_memory_forensics ticket.
5342 - Fix write access to boot medium at the block device level,
5343 by installing bilibop-udev. Thanks to quidame for his support.
5344 - tails-greeter l10n-related fixes, thanks to winterfairy:
5345 · Fix so translations is applied on password mismatch messages.
5346 · Separate forward and login buttons and make them translatable.
5347 - Fix link to documentation when no sudo password is set.
5348 - gpgApplet: partial fix for clipboard emptying after a wrong passphrase
5350 - Workaround aufs bug in Unsafe Browser script.
5352 * Minor improvements
5353 - Drop GNOME proxy settings: we did not find any use of it we were keen
5354 to support, other than two programs (Seahorse, Pidgin) that are now run
5356 - Format newly created persistent volumes as ext4.
5357 - GnuPG: don't connect to the keyserver specified by the key owner.
5358 This feature opens the door to a variety of subtle attacks.
5359 - GnuPG: locate keys only from local keyrings.
5360 This is probably the default, but better safe than sorry.
5361 - Install virt-what from Wheezy.
5362 The version from Squeeze does not detect at least Parallels for Mac v.8.
5363 - Upgrade live-boot and live-config to the 3.0.x final version from Wheezy.
5364 · Remove /live and /lib/live/image compatibility symlinks.
5365 · Add /live/overlay -> /lib/live/mount/overlay symlink.
5366 The live-boot changes (commit d2b2a461) brought to fix Debian bug
5367 #696495 revert some of our previous changes (commit 77dab1cb), and as
5368 a result, at the time live-persist runs, no tmpfs is mounted on
5369 /live/overlay, which breaks the aufs mount. So, let's just ensure
5370 /live/overlay points to a tmpfs.
5371 · Really disable policykit and sudo live-config hooks.
5372 ... by making it believe they've already been run.
5373 This workarounds new live-config's default behavior.
5376 - Many translation updates all over the place.
5379 - Re-enable previously disabled boot device permissions test.
5381 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:36:20 +0200
5383 tails (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5386 - Support obfs3 bridges.
5387 - Automatically install a custom list of additional packages chosen by
5388 the user at the beginning of every working session, and upgrade them
5389 once a network connection is established (technology preview).
5392 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.6esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1.
5393 - Update Torbrowser patches to current maint-2.4 branch (567682b).
5394 - Isolate DOM storage to first party URI, and enable DOM storage:
5395 don't set dom.storage.enabled anymore, and set Torbutton's
5396 disable_domstorage to false.
5397 - Isolate the image cache per url bar domain.
5398 - Torbutton 1.5.2, and various prefs hacks to fix breakage:
5399 · Add .saved version of the Torbutton preferences the TBB also sets.
5400 · Set TOR_SOCKS_HOST and TOR_SOCKS_PORT.
5401 · Move some prefs (network.proxy.*, extensions.autoDisableScopes,
5402 extensions.foxyproxy.last-version) to user.js.
5403 Else, with Torbutton 1.5.x, these ones are not taken into account.
5404 · Set network.proxy.socks_version.
5405 Else we get the meaningless user_pref("network.proxy.socks_version", 9063);
5406 in prefs.js after the initial startup.
5407 · Set extensions.foxyproxy.socks_remote_dns to true.
5408 Else, it overrides the various ways we set network.proxy.socks_remote_dns,
5409 which in turn makes Torbutton think it should start in non-Tor mode.
5410 · Also pass the TOR_SOCKS_* environment variables to iceweasel when
5411 generating the profile: Torbutton behaves differently depending on
5412 these variables, so we don't want the initial profile generation to be
5413 done without them. In practice, this has no implication that we could
5414 see right now, but better safe than sorry.
5415 · Import all version overrides from the TBB prefs.
5416 Else, the User-Agent sent in the HTTP headers is fine, but real
5417 values leak with JavaScript, as demonstrated by ip-check's "Browser
5419 · Move a bunch of settings to user_pref(), that are not applied otherwise.
5420 For some, this fixes a regression in 0.18~rc1.
5421 For other, the bug was already present in Tails 0.17.2.
5422 - HTTPS Everywhere 3.2.
5423 - Update prefs to match the TBB's, fix bugs, and take advantage of the latest
5425 · Increase pipeline randomization.
5426 · Fix @font-face handling of local() fonts.
5427 Also disable fallback font rendering.
5428 · Explicitly disable SPDY v2 and v3.
5429 · Update http pipelining prefs.
5430 - Make prefs organization closer to the TBB's:
5431 · Remove Torbutton prefs that we set at their default value.
5432 · Import Torbutton preferences from the TBB.
5433 · Organize iceweasel config files in sections the same way as the TBB.
5435 · Don't set extensions.torbutton.clear_cookies nor
5436 extensions.torbutton.saved.share_proxy_settings:
5437 we don't care about toggling anymore.
5438 · Don't set extensions.torbutton.saved.download_retention nor
5439 extensions.torbutton.saved.search_suggest:
5440 these settings are not used in Torbutton anymore.
5441 - Update unsafe browser prefs mangling accordingly.
5442 - Move network.protocol-handler.warn-external.* to user_pref().
5443 Else they're not applied.
5444 These prefs are actually ignored by Firefox these days -- the TBB
5445 design doc reads "They are set still anyway out of respect for the
5446 dead". Let's go on doing the same.
5447 - Update extensions.adblockplus.currentVersion.
5448 - Fetch xul-ext-https-everywhere (3.2-2) and xul-ext-noscript (2.6.6.1-1)
5449 from Debian unstable. They were uploaded there, and accordingly removed
5453 - Linux 3.2.41-2+deb7u2.
5454 - Fixed swapped filenames of tails-{reboot,shutdown}.desktop.
5455 Thanks to Mikko Harhanen for the patch.
5456 - Only add ClientTransportPlugin to torrc when bridge mode is enabled.
5457 This should bring back support for proxies of type other than obfsproxy.
5459 * Minor improvements
5460 - Set kernel.dmesg_restrict=1, and make /proc/<pid>/ invisible
5461 and restricted for other users. It makes it slightly harder for an attacker
5462 to gather information that may allow them to escalate privileges.
5463 - Install gnome-screenshot.
5464 - Don't disable IPv6 on all network interfaces anymore.
5465 It turns out the IPv6 leaks we wanted to fix actually don't exist.
5466 - Add a "About Tails" launcher in the System menu.
5467 - Install GNOME accessibility themes.
5468 - Use 'Getting started...' as the homepage for Tails documentation button.
5469 - Stop relying on the obsolete /live/image compatibility symlink.
5470 - Disable audio preview in Nautilus.
5471 - Wheezy was released => Squeeze is now oldstable.
5472 - Pick Tor from deb.torproject.org regardless of the release name they
5473 advertise. At some point we needed it, their APT repository still thought
5474 that stable == Squeeze.
5475 - Add Wheezy APT sources.
5476 - Install Linux and related packages from Wheezy.
5477 Debian sid just got Linux 3.8, and we don't want to switch to a new kernel
5479 - Fetch laptop-mode-tools from Wheezy.
5480 Wheezy has the version we've been installing in 0.18~rc1,
5481 while a newer one was uploaded to sid in the meantime.
5482 - Fetch a few packages from Wheezy instead of unstable.
5483 Namely: spice-vdagent, libregexp-common-perl, macchanger, service-wrapper,
5484 libservice-wrapper-java and libservice-wrapper-jni.
5485 Wheezy has the versions we've been installing for a while, so let's
5486 avoid having unstable push a newer one to us uselessly at some point.
5487 Note that at the time of this writing, the versions in sid and in Wheezy
5488 are the same, so this commit is effectively a no-op as of today: it is
5489 merely a safeguard for the future.
5492 - Many translation updates all over the place.
5495 - Make Vagrant's build-tails script support Jenkins too.
5498 - Fix Unsafe Browser test broken by hidepid.
5500 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 13 May 2013 22:17:38 +0200
5502 tails (0.17.2) unstable; urgency=low
5505 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.5esr-0+tails2~bpo60+1.
5506 - Stop displaying obsolete context menu entries ("Open Tor URL" and friends).
5509 - Update Linux to 3.2.41-2
5512 - Use more reliable OpenPGP keyservers:
5513 · use the hkps pool in GnuPG (and import their SSL CA)
5514 · use hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net in Seahorse (as it does not support
5516 - Keep udisks users (GNOME Disk Utility, tails-persistence-setup, etc.)
5517 from resetting the system partition's attributes when manipulating the
5518 partition table. To this end, backport the relevant bugfix from Wheezy
5519 into parted 2.3-5+tails1. This allowed to remove the sgdisk-based
5520 workaround in tais-persistence-setup, and to stop installing
5521 python-parted. All this is a first needed step to fix
5522 todo/make_system_disk_read-only in a future release.
5524 * Minor improvements
5525 - Disable NoScript's HTML5 media click-to-play for better user experience.
5528 - Tails USB installer: update translations for French, German, Spanish,
5529 Finnish, Greek, Italian, Latvian, Dutch, Polish and Chinese.
5530 - Tails Greeter: update translations for Farsi, Chinese, French;
5531 new translations: Finnish, Norwegian Bokmål, Galician.
5532 - tails-persistence-setup: update Farsi and Chinese translations;
5533 import new translations for Finnish and Swedish.
5534 - WhisperBack: update translations for Arabic, French, German, Greek,
5535 Spanish, Korean, Polish, Russian. New translations: Finnish, Chinese.
5538 - Add automated testing framework (Sikuli, Cucumber, libvirt -based)
5539 with a bunch of tests.
5541 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:17:26 +0200
5543 tails (0.17.1) unstable; urgency=low
5546 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.4esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1.
5549 - Update Linux to 3.2.39-2.
5550 It includes the drm and agp subsystems from Linux 3.4.29.
5551 - Don't install xserver-xorg-video-rendition backport.
5552 xserver-xorg-video-rendition has been removed from squeeze-backports
5553 due to an upstream tarball mismatch discover when merging backports
5554 into the main Debian archive, and xserver-xorg-video-all still depends
5555 on it, so we explicitly install all drivers from -all but -rendition
5556 as a (hopefully temporary) workaround.
5558 * Minor improvements
5559 - Remove Indymedia IRC account, until we ship a version of Pidgin
5560 with SASL support, that is when Tails is based on Wheezy.
5563 - Don't ship the wiki's todo and bugs on ISO images.
5565 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:54:11 +0100
5567 tails (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5570 - Install the KeePassX password manager, with a configuration and
5571 documentation that makes it easy to persist the password database.
5574 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.3esr-1+tails1~bpo60+1.
5575 - Install xul-ext-adblock-plus from squeeze-backports.
5576 - Do not allow listing all available fonts.
5577 Set browser.display.max_font_attempts and browser.display.max_font_count
5578 to enable the Torbrowser Limit-the-number-of-fonts-per-document patch.
5579 - Set default spellchecker dictionary to English (USA),
5580 and localize it according to locale with our custom branding extension.
5581 - Disable the add-ons automatic update feature.
5582 - Make the generated profile world-readable.
5583 - Remove NoScript click-to-play confirmation.
5584 - Sync some prefs set by Torbutton, to be ready when it stops setting these.
5585 - Disable navigation timing.
5586 - Disable SPDY. It stores state and may have keepalive issues.
5587 - More aggressive iceweasel HTTP pipelining settings.
5588 - Enable WebGL (as click-to-play only).
5589 - Disable network.http.connection-retry-timeout.
5590 - Disable full path information for plugins.
5591 - Remove NoScript blocks of WebFonts.
5592 - Disable DOM storage in Torbutton.
5593 Since we don't apply the 0026-Isolate-DOM-storage-to-first-party-URI.patch
5594 Torbrowser patch yet, and still disable DOM storage, we need to tell
5595 Torbutton not to use it.
5596 - Synchronize iceweasel's general.useragent.override with TBB based on FF17.
5597 The User-Agent settings are not kept up-to-date anymore in Torbutton, so
5598 we have to keep in sync manually with TBB's settings.
5599 - Remove obsolete APT pining for Torbutton.
5600 It's not maintained in Debian anymore, so we now fetch it from our own
5602 - Fetch FoxyProxy from Debian experimental and libnspr4-0d from
5603 squeeze-backports, for compatibility with Iceweasel 17.
5604 - Rebase bookmarks file on top of the default iceweasel 17 one.
5605 - Explicitly disable AdBlock Plus "correct typos" feature.
5606 This feature connects to http://urlfixer.org/.
5607 It is disabled by default in 2.2-1, but let's be careful.
5609 * Minor improvements
5610 - Upgrade to live-boot 3.0~b11-1 and live-config 3.0.12-1.
5611 Accordingly update the 9980-permissions hook, live-persist,
5612 unsafe-browser and boot-profile.
5613 Add compatibility symlinks from /live to /lib/live, and from /live/image
5614 to /lib/live/mount/medium, to ease the transition.
5615 - Check for errors when sourcing live-boot files, e.g. to detect when
5616 they have been renamed upstream.
5617 - Don't add "quiet" to the kernel command-line ourselves.
5618 Else, it appears twice as live-build's lb_binary_syslinux adds it too.
5619 Historically, we've been adding it ourselves on top of that because
5620 lb_binary_yaboot does not add it, but since we gave up the PowerPC support
5621 attempt, we're now only interested in syslinux, so let's make it easier
5622 for the general case, e.g. when one wants to remove the "quiet" parameter
5623 as suggested by our "Tails does not start" debugging documentation.
5624 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.4.
5627 - Many bugfixes brought by the Debian Squeeze 6.0.7 point-release.
5628 - Use the regular GnuPG agent + pinentry-gtk2 instead of Seahorse
5629 as a GnuPG agent. This fixes usage of OpenPGP in Claws Mail,
5630 and brings support for OpenPGP smartcards.
5631 - Enable I2P hidden mode.
5632 Else, killing I2P ungracefully is bad for the I2P network.
5633 - live-persist: move error() function before the first potential usecase.
5634 - Add missing executable bit on restart-tor and restart-vidalia.
5635 - Add shutdown and reboot launchers to the menu.
5636 This workarounds the lack of a shutdown helper applet in camouflage mode.
5637 - Remove Pidgin's MXit and Sametime support.
5638 ... at least until CVE-2013-0273, CVE-2013-0272 and CVE-2013-0271 are
5639 fixed in Debian stable. While we're at it, don't force file removal in
5640 these "set -e" build scripts: fail hard, instead of silently ignoring
5641 the fact that files may have moved or disappeared.
5644 - Install recent Intel and AMD microcode from squeeze-backports,
5645 explicitly excluding the iucode-tool package that's not a good idea
5647 - Install firmware loader for Qualcomm Gobi USB chipsets.
5648 This is needed to have various mobile broadband chipsets work.
5649 - Upgrade barry to 0.18.3-5~bpo60+1.
5650 This much improved new version supports more hardware & ISP,
5651 and does not display dozens of spurious error messages at boot time.
5654 - Remove APT local cache (/Var/cache/apt/{,src}pkgcache.bin).
5656 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:37:57 +0100
5658 tails (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5660 * Minor improvements
5661 - Replace the too-easy-to-misclick shutdown button with a better
5662 "Shutdown Helper" Gnome applet.
5663 - Display ~/Persistent in GNOME Places and GtkFileChooser if it is mounted.
5664 - Set Unsafe Browser's window title to "Unsafe Browser".
5665 - Install ekeyd to support the EntropyKey.
5666 - Install font for Sinhala.
5667 - Update Poedit to 1.5.4.
5668 - Kill Vidalia when restarting Tor.
5669 Doing this as early as possible exposes Vidalia's "broken onion" icon
5671 - Hide the persistence setup launchers in kiosk mode.
5672 - Add a shell library for Tor functions.
5673 These are shared among multiple of our scripts.
5674 - Install dictionaries for supported languages.
5675 Install hunspell dictionaries when possible,
5676 fall back on myspell ones else.
5679 - Disable IPv6 on all network interfaces.
5680 This is a workaround for the IPv6 link-local multicast leak that was recently
5681 discovered. Tails has no local service that listens on IPv6, so there should be
5682 no regression, hopefully, unless one wants to play with OnionCat and VoIP,
5683 but those of us should know how to workaround this anyway.
5684 - live-persist: Fix variable mismatch, fixing probe white-list.
5685 Tails may previously have been able to list GPT partitions labelled
5686 "TailsData" on hard drives (!) as valid persistence volumes...
5687 - live-persist: Fix --media option when no devices are attached.
5688 Earlier, if it was set to e.g. 'removable-usb' and no USB storage was
5689 connected, $whitelistdev would be empty, which is interpreted like
5690 all devices are ok by the rest of the code.
5691 - Fix SCIM in the autostarted web browser: save IM environment variables
5692 to a file during Desktop session startup, and export them into the
5693 autostarted browser's environment.
5694 - Talk of DVD, not of CD, in the shutdown messages.
5695 - Make tordate work in bridge mode with an incorrect clock.
5696 When using a bridge Tor reports TLS cert lifetime errors (e.g. when
5697 the system clock is way off) with severity "info", but when no bridge
5698 is used the severity is "warn". tordate/20-time.sh depends on grepping
5699 these error messages, so we termporarily increase Tor's logging
5700 severity when using bridge mode. If we don't do this tordate will
5701 sleep forever, leaving Tor in a non-working state.
5702 · White-list root to use Tor's ControlPort.
5703 · Add logging for is_clock_way_off().
5704 · Remove Tor's log before time syncing.
5705 We depend on grepping stuff from the Tor log (especially for
5706 tordate/20-time.sh), so deleting it seems like a Good Thing(TM).
5707 · Stop Tor before messing with its log or data dir.
5708 - live-persist: limit searched devices the same way as live-boot.
5709 If no --media argument is specified, use live-boot's
5710 "(live-media|bootfrom)=removable(|-usb)" argument to limit devices
5711 searched for a persistent volume.
5712 - tails-greeter: do not pass media=removable to live-persist.
5713 Now that we have autodetection with kernel command-line,
5714 it should not be needed anymore.
5715 - Start memlockd after configuring it,
5716 instead of starting it before and restarting it after.
5717 This avoids running memlockd twice, and prevents other possibly
5718 surprising race-conditions.
5719 As a consequence, also have tails-sdmem-on-media-removal start after the
5720 memlockd service *and* tails-reconfigure-memlockd: to start the watchdog,
5721 we need memlockd to be properly configured *and* running.
5724 - Set iceweasel homepage to the news section on the Tails website.
5725 ... using the localized one when possible.
5726 - Hide the iceweasel add-on bar by default.
5727 Now that we don't want to ship the Monkeysphere addon anymore,
5728 that was the only one displayed in there, we can as well hide the whole bar.
5729 - Don't hide the AdBlock-Plus button in the add-on bar anymore. Now that
5730 we hide the whole addon bar, we can get rid of this old
5732 - Do not install a placeholder (fake) FireGPG iceweasel extension anymore.
5733 It was shipped from 0.10 (early 2012) to 0.15 (late November),
5734 so the migration period should be over now.
5735 - Don't install xul-ext-monkeysphere anymore.
5736 The implication of the current keyserver policy are not well
5737 understood, Monkeysphere is little used in Tails, and we're not sure
5738 anymore it would be our first bet for the web browser profile with no
5739 CA. Let's keep the various configuration bits (e.g. FoxyProxy,
5740 patching MSVA), though, so that advanced users who are used to have
5741 Monkeysphere in Tails just have to install the package.
5744 - Install the "standard" task with tasksel for better consistency in the
5745 Tails ISO images built in various environments.
5746 - Install p7zip-full. It's a dep by file-roller, but we explicily use it
5747 elsewhere, and it's better to be safe than sorry.
5748 - Remove pinning of libvpx0 to sid.
5749 This package is part of Squeeze, and not from testing/sid.
5750 We have been shipping the version from Squeeze for a while.
5751 - Remove config/chroot_local-packages/ from .gitignore.
5752 The documented way for "external" contributors to add custom packages
5753 is to put them in chroot_local-packages, and once we pull we import
5754 any such package into our APT repo and rewrite the
5755 history appropriately.
5756 Also, the ability to add packages in there and not see them in "git
5757 status" makes it very easy to build tainted ISO images with
5758 non-standard packages, which makes some of us fear can lead to hard to
5760 - Make it clearer what can and cannot be done in terms of local packages.
5762 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:47:42 +0100
5764 tails (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5766 * Major new features
5767 - Persistence for browser bookmarks.
5768 - Support for obfsproxy bridges.
5770 * Minor improvements
5771 - Add the Hangul (Korean) Input Method Engine for SCIM.
5772 - Add vendor-specific dpkg origin information. This makes dpkg-vendor
5773 return correct information.
5774 - Install pcscd and libccid from squeeze-backports. This is needed to
5775 support, to some extent, some OpenPGP SmartCard readers.
5776 - Install HPIJS PPD files and the IJS driver (hpijs).
5777 This adds support for some printers, such as Xerox DocumentCenter400.
5778 - Optimize fonts display for LCD.
5779 - Update TrueCrypt to version 7.1a.
5782 - Do not use pdnsd anymore. It has been orphaned in Debian, has quite
5783 some bugs in there, and apparently Tor's DNSPort's own caching is
5785 - Remove useless iceweasel cookies exceptions. They are useless as
5786 per-session cookies are allowed.
5787 - Do not run setupcon on X. This call is only needed on the Linux
5788 console, no need to annoy the user with a weird "Press enter to
5789 activate this console" when the open a root shell in a GNOME
5791 - Allow the tails-iuk-get-target-file user to connect to the SOCKSPort
5792 dedicated for Tails-specific software.
5793 - Fix gpgApplet menu display in Windows camouflage mode.
5794 - Fix Tor reaching an inactive state if it's restarted in "bridge mode",
5795 e.g. during the time sync' process.
5798 - Update iceweasel to 10.0.11esr-1+tails1.
5799 - User profile is now generated at build time in order to support persistent
5801 - Update HTTPS Everywhere to version 3.0.4.
5802 - Update NoScript to version 2.6.
5803 - Fix bookmark to I2P router console.
5804 - Re-enable Monkeysphere extension to connect to the validation agent.
5807 - The Tails USB installer, tails-persistence-setup and tails-greeter
5808 are now translated into Bulgarian.
5809 - Update Chinese translation for tails-greeter.
5810 - Update Euskadi translation for WhisperBack.
5813 - Custom packages are now retrieved from Tails APT repository instead
5814 of bloating the Git repository.
5815 - Allow '~' in wiki filenames. This makes it possible to ship
5816 update-description files for release candidates.
5817 - Document how to create incremental update kit.
5818 - Handle release candidates when generating custom APT sources.
5819 - Remove pinning for xul-ext-adblock-plus.
5820 It is obsolete since we've added this package to our APT repository.
5822 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:59:17 +0100
5824 tails (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5826 * Major new features
5827 - Enable Tor stream isolation; several new SocksPorts with
5828 appropriate Isolate* options have been added for different use
5829 cases (i.e. applications). All application's have been
5830 reconfigured to use these new SocksPorts, which should increase
5831 anonymity by making it more difficulte to correlate traffic from
5832 different applications or "online identities".
5833 - The web browser now has the anonymity enhancing patches from the
5835 - gpgApplet can now handle public-key cryptography.
5836 - Install an additional, PAE-enabled kernel with NX-bit
5837 support. This kernel is auto-selected when the hardware supports
5839 * provide executable space protection, preventing certain types of
5840 buffer overflows from being exploitable.
5841 * enable more than 4 GiB of system memory.
5842 * make all processors/cores available, including their
5843 power-saving functionality.
5844 - Add a persistence preset for NetworkManager connections.
5846 * Minor improvements
5847 - On kexec reboot, make the boot quiet only if debug=wipemem was not
5849 - Update torproject.org's APT repo key.
5850 - Update the embedded Tails signing key.
5851 - Use symlinks instead of duplicating localized searchplugins.
5852 - Rewrite Tails firewall using ferm. Tails firewall was written in
5853 very unsophisticated iptables-save/restore format. As more feature
5854 creeped in, it started to be quite unreadable.
5855 - Optimize VirtualBox modules build at runtime to avoid installing the
5856 userspace utils N times.
5857 - Drop most of Vidalia's configuration. Our custom lines just caused
5858 trouble (with multiple SocksPorts) and the default works well.
5859 - Blacklist PC speaker module. On some computers, having the pcspkr
5860 module loaded means loud beeps at bootup, shutdown and when using
5861 the console. As it draws useless attention to Tails users, it is
5862 better to prevent Linux from loading it by default.
5863 - Remove all addons from the Unsafe Browser. No addons are essential
5864 for the Unsafe Browser's intent. If anything they will modify the
5865 network fingerprint compared to a normal Iceweasel install, which
5867 - Prevent some unwanted packages to be installed at all, rather than
5868 uninstalling them later. This should speed up the build a bit.
5869 - Add a symlink from /etc/live/config to /etc/live/config.d. This
5870 makes the system compatible with live-config 3.0.4-1, without
5871 breaking backward compatibility with various parts of the system
5872 that use the old path.
5873 - Do not run unecessary scripts during shutdown sequence, to make
5875 - Make live-persist deal with persistent ~/.gconf subdirs so that
5876 any options saved therein actually get persistent.
5877 - Prevent memlockd unload on shutdown, to make sure that all
5878 necessary tools for memory wiping are available when the new
5880 - Patch initscripts headers instead of fiddling with update-rc.d. We
5881 now let insserv figure out the correct ordering for the services
5882 during startup and shutdown, i.e. use dependency-based boot
5884 - Remove the last absolute path in our isolinux config, which makes
5885 it easier to migrate from isolinux to syslinux (just rename the
5886 directory), and hence might make it easier for 3rd party USB
5887 installers (like the Universal USB Installer) to support Tails.
5890 - Include `seq` in the ramdisk environment: it is used to wipe more
5891 memory. This fixes the long-standing bug about Tails not cleaning
5892 all memory on shutdown.
5893 - Fix Yelp crashing on internal links
5894 - Allow amnesia user to use Tor's TransPort. This firewall exception
5895 is necessary for applications that doesn't have in-built SOCKS
5896 support and cannot use torsocks. One such example is Claws Mail,
5897 which uses tsocks since torsocks makes it leak the hostname. This
5898 exception, together with Tor's automatic .onion mapping makes
5899 Claws Mail able to use hidden service mail providers again.
5900 - Force threads locking support in Python DBus binding. Without this
5901 liveusb-creator doesn't work with a PAE-enabled kernel.
5902 - Fix localized search plugins for 'es' and 'pt'
5903 - Fix live-boot's readahead, which caused an unnecessary pause
5905 - Factorize GCC wanted / available version numbers in VirtualBox
5906 modules building hook. This, incidentally, fixes a bug caused by
5907 duplication and not updating all instances.
5908 - Fix tordate vs. Tor 0.2.3.x. Since 0.2.3.x Tor doesn't download a
5909 consensus for clocks that are more than 30 days in the past or 2
5910 days in the future (see commits f4c1fa2 and 87622e4 in Tor's git
5911 repo). For such clock skews we set the time to the Tor authority's
5912 cert's valid-after date to ensure that a consensus can be
5916 - Update to version 0.2.3.24-rc-1~~squeeze+1, a new major
5917 version. It's not a stable release, but we have been assured by
5918 the Tor developers that this is the right move.
5919 - Stop setting custom value for the Tor LongLivedPorts
5920 setting. Gobby's port was upstreamed in Tor 0.2.3.x.
5923 - Update to 10.0.10esr-1+tails1, which has all the anonymity enhancing
5924 patches from the TorBrowser applied.
5925 - Install iceweasel from our own repo, http://deb.tails.boum.org.
5926 - Fix Iceweasel's file associations. No more should you be suggested
5927 to open a PDF in the GIMP.
5930 - Use curl instead of wget, and add a --proxy option passed through
5932 - Remove the --fullrequest option, we don't need it anymore.
5933 - Remove --dns-timeout option, we don't need it anymore.
5934 - Change --proxy handling to support Debian Squeeze's curl.
5935 - Clarify what happens if --proxy is not used.
5936 - Compute the median of the diffs more correctly.
5939 - Update Linux to 3.2.32-1.
5942 - Update vidalia to 0.2.20-1+tails1.
5943 - Update bundled WhisperBack package to 1.6.2:
5944 * Raise the socket library timeout to 120 seconds
5945 * Use smtplib's timeout parameter
5946 * Fix error output when calling send a 2nd time
5947 - Update liveusb-creator to 3.11.6-3.
5948 - Update i2p to 0.9.2.
5949 - Update tails-persistence-setup to 0.20-1, which should make it
5950 possible to install Tails on large (>= 32 GiB) USB drives.
5951 - Install console-setup and keyboard-configuration from unstable
5952 (required by new initramfs-tools).
5953 - Update tails-greeter to 0.7.3:
5954 * Import pt_BR translation.
5955 * Let langpanel usable during option selection stage
5956 * Print less debugging messages by default
5957 (below are changes in tails-greeter 0.7.2:)
5958 * Use correct test operators.
5959 * Generate language codes of available locales at package build
5961 * Read list of language codes from where we have saved it at
5963 * Drop tails-lang-helper, not used anymore.
5964 * Do not compile locales at login time anymore. Tails now ships
5966 - Import live-config{,-sysvinit} 3.0.8-1. live-config >= 3.0.9-1
5967 has basically nothing useful for us, and it migrates to new paths
5968 brought by live-boot 3.0~b7, which we're not ready for yet (see:
5969 todo/newer_live-boot).
5972 - Fix Tails specific Iceweasel localization for pt-BR
5973 - Add Japanese input system: scim-anthy.
5974 - whisperback is now also translated into German, Hebrew, Hungarian,
5976 - tails-persistence-setup is now also translated into Arabic.
5977 - tails-greeter is now also translated into Arabic, Hebrew, Basque,
5978 Hungarian, Italian and Chinese.
5981 - Catch more errors in during build time:
5982 - Ensure that all local hooks start with 'set -e'.
5983 - Fail hard if adduser fails in local hooks.
5984 - Fail hard if 'rm' fails in local hooks.
5985 - vagrant: Ensure we have the set of Perl packages needed by our
5987 - vagrant: Configure live-build to ship with ftp.us.debian.org.
5988 Using cdn.debian.net leads to bad interactions with Tor.
5989 - vagrant: Don't use gzip compression when building from a tag, i.e.
5991 - vagrant: Optionally use bootstrap stage cache for faster builds
5992 via the 'cache' build option.
5993 - vagrant: Make sure release builds are clean, i.e. they don't use
5994 any potentially dangerous build options.
5995 - vagrant: Disable live-build package caching. This build system is
5996 meant to use an external caching proxy, so live-build's cache just
5997 wastes RAM (for in-memory builds) or disk space.
5998 - vagrant: use aufs magic instead of copying source into tmpfs.
5999 This reduces the amount of RAM required for building Tails in.
6000 - vagrant: Allow in-memory builds when a VM with enough memory is
6003 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:34:56 +0000
6005 tails (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6007 * Major new features
6008 - Use white-list/principle of least privelege approach for local services.
6009 Only users that need a certain local (i.e. hosted on loopback) service
6010 (according to our use cases) are granted access to it by our firewall;
6011 all other users are denied access.
6012 - Ship a first version of the incremental update system. Updates are not
6013 currently triggered automatically, but this will allow tests to be done
6016 * Minor improvements
6017 - Enable four workspaces in the Windows XP camouflage. This allows
6018 users to quickly switch to a more innocent looking workspace in case
6019 they are working on sensitive data and attract unwanted attention.
6020 The workspace switcher applet isn't there, though, since there's no
6021 such thing in Windows XP, so switching is only possible via keyboard
6023 - Ship with precompiled locales instead of generating them upon login.
6024 - Add support for wireless regulation.
6025 - Use color for Git output, not intended for machine consumption,
6026 written to the terminal.
6027 - Have ttdnsd use OpenDNS. Using Google's DNS servers was very
6028 glitchy, and rarely succeeded when it should. It can probably be
6029 attributed to Google's DNS, which is known to take issue with Tor
6031 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.6, with many UI improvements and new translations.
6032 - Include GDM logs and dmidecode informations in the reports.
6033 - Allow to modify language and layout in the "Advanced options" screen
6035 - GnuPG: bump cert-digest-algo to SHA512.
6036 - Update torproject.org's APT repo key.
6039 - Make Claws Mail save local/POP emails in its dot-directory. The
6040 default is to save them at ~/Mail, which isn't included in our
6041 current Claws Mail persistence preset.
6042 - Fix the System Monitor applet.
6043 - Remove broken ttdnsd from the default DNS resolution loop.
6044 - Hide the 'TailsData' partition in desktop applications.
6045 - Ship unrar-free again, so that the GNOME archive manager knows about
6047 - Ship with an empty whitelist for Noscript.
6048 - Disable FoxyProxy's advertisement on proxy error page.
6049 - Fix slow browsing experience for offline documentation.
6050 - Raise the socket timeout to 120 seconds in WhisperBack.
6051 - Enable the ikiwiki trail plugin for the locally built wiki too.
6054 - Upgrade iceweasel to 10.0.6esr-1 (Extended Support Release) and install it
6055 and its dependencies from squeeze-backports.
6058 - Upgrade Linux to 3.2.23-1.
6061 - Update tor to version 0.2.2.39.
6062 - Update Iceweasel to version 10.0.7esr-2.
6063 - Update i2p to version 0.9.1.
6066 - vagrant: Install Ikiwiki from Debian unstable. The 'mirrorlist'
6067 patches have finally been merged in upstream Ikiwiki. So instead of
6068 building Ikiwiki by hand, we can now install the package directly
6069 from Debian unstable.
6070 - Do not build the ikiwiki forum on the bundled static website copy.
6072 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:19:25 +0200
6074 tails (0.12.1) unstable; urgency=low
6076 This is a brown paper bag release to fix two major problems introduced in
6080 - Upgrade Torbutton to 1.4.6.
6081 - Upgrade AdBlock Plus to 2.1.
6082 - Update AdBlock Plus patterns.
6085 - Upgrade Linux to 3.2.21-3 (linux-image-3.2.0-3-486).
6088 - Install MAT from Debian backports, drop custom package.
6089 - Install python-pdfrw to re-add PDF support to the MAT.
6090 - Upgrade tails-greeter to 0.7.1, which fixes the race condition that
6091 broke administration password and locale settings on some systems.
6094 - Remove the Tails specific plymouth theme. The theme interfers heavily with
6095 the boot process on some hardware.
6097 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:06:03 +0200
6099 tails (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6101 * Major new features
6102 - Add the Unsafe Web Browser, which has direct access to the Internet and
6103 can be used to login to captive portals.
6104 - The (previously experimental, now deemed stable) Windows camouflage can now
6105 be enabled via a check box in Tails greeter.
6108 - Upgrade to 0.2.2.37-1~~squeeze+1.
6111 - Upgrade iceweasel to 10.0.5esr-1 (Extended Support Release) and install it
6112 and its dependencies from squeeze-backports.
6113 - Add a bookmark for the offline Tails documentation.
6114 - Update AdBlock patterns.
6117 - Allow using larger USB drives by increasing the mkfs timeout to 10 minutes.
6118 - Tell the user what's going on when the Tails boot device cannot be found.
6121 - Upgrade Linux to 3.2.20-1 (linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64).
6125 - Install torsocks. Note that this makes `torify' use `torsocks' instead of
6126 `tsocks'. The `tsocks' binary is dropped to avoid problems, but remaining
6127 files (the library) are kept since ttdnsd depends on them.
6128 - Fetch live-config-sysvinit from sid so that it matches live-config version.
6129 - Update virtualbox backports to 4.1.10-dfsg-1~bpo60+1.
6130 - Install pciutils (needed by virtualbox-guest-utils).
6131 - Install mousetweaks. This is needed to use the mouse accessibility settings
6132 in System -> Preferences -> Mouse -> Accessibility.
6133 - Install the "hardlink" files deduplicator.
6134 - Do not install cryptkeeper anymore. See todo/remove_cryptkeeper for reason.
6135 Users of cryptkeeper are encouraged to install cryptkeeper via `apt-get
6136 update; apt-get install --yes cryptkeeper`, open their volume and move
6137 their to Tails' built-in persistence instead, as a one-time migration.
6138 - Upgrade I2P to version 0.9.
6139 - Don't install GParted. GNOME Disk Utility has been on par with GParted
6140 since Squeeze was released.
6141 - Upgrade live-boot to 3.0~a27-1+tails2~1.gbp319fe6.
6142 - Upgrade live-config to 3.0~a39-1 and install it from Debian experimental.
6143 - Upgrade tails-greeter to 0.7.
6144 - Upgrade tails-persistence-setup to 0.17-1.
6145 - Install libyaml-libyaml-perl.
6146 - Upgrade MAT, the metadata anonymisation toolkit, 0.3.2-1~bpo60+1.
6147 - Fetch python-pdfrw from backports, drop custom package.
6149 * Internationalization
6150 - The Tails website and documentation now has a (partial) Portuguese
6154 - Tails can now be built without using a HTTP proxy.
6155 - Tails can now easily be built by using Vagrant. See the updated
6156 contribute/build page for instructions.
6159 - Remove obsolete noswap boot parameter. live-boot now handles swap on an
6161 - The squashfs.sort files generated with boot-profile should now be ok which
6162 makes the generate images boot noticeably faster on optical media. See
6163 bugs/weird_squashfs.sort_entries for more information.
6164 - Set Tails specific syslinux and plymouth themes.
6165 - Add NVidia KMS video drivers to the initrd in order to show our shiny new
6166 plymouth theme on more systems.
6168 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:37:00 +0200
6170 tails (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6172 * Major new features
6173 - Do not grant the desktop user root credentials by default.
6174 - A graphical boot menu (tails-greeter 0.6.3) allows choosing among
6175 many languages, and setting an optional sudoer password.
6176 - Support opt-in targeted persistence
6177 · tails-persistence-setup 0.14-1
6178 · live-boot 3.0~a25-1+tails1~5.gbp48d06c
6179 · live-config 3.0~a35-1
6180 - USB installer: liveusb-creator 3.11.6-1
6183 - Install iceweasel 10.0.4esr-1 (Extended Support Release).
6184 Let's stop tracking a too fast moving target.
6185 Debian Wheezy will ship ESR versions.
6186 - Install needed dependencies from squeeze-backports.
6189 bing appeared due to our upgrading iceweasel.
6190 Removing it makes things consistent with the way they have been
6191 until now, that is: let's keep only the general search engines
6192 we've been asked to add, plus Google, and a few specialized ones.
6193 · Replace Debian-provided DuckDuckGo search plugin with the "HTML SSL"
6194 one, version 20110219. This is the non-JavaScript, SSL, POST flavour.
6196 · Install localized search engines in the correct place.
6197 No need to copy them around at boot time anymore.
6198 · Remove Scroogle. RIP.
6199 - Enable TLS false start, like the TBB does since December.
6200 - Adblock Plus: don't count and save filter hits, supress first run dialog.
6201 - Install neither the GreaseMonkey add-on, nor any GreaseMonkey script.
6202 YouTube's HTML5 opt-in program is over.
6203 HTML5 video support is now autodetected and used.
6206 - Upgrade to 0.2.17-1+tails1: drop Do-not-warn-about-Tor-version.patch,
6208 - Set SkipVersionCheck=true.
6209 Thanks to chiiph for implementing this upstream (needs Vidalia 0.2.16+).
6211 * Internationalization
6212 - Install all available iceweasel l10n packages.
6213 - Remove syslinux language choosing menu.
6214 tails-greeter allows choosing a non-English language.
6215 - Add fonts for Hebrew, Thai, Khmer, Lao and Korean languages.
6217 - Setup text console at profile time.
6218 Context: Tails runs with text console autologin on.
6219 These consoles now wait, using a "Press enter to activate this console"
6220 message, for the user. When they press enter in there, they should have chosen
6221 their preferred keyboard layout in tails-greeter by now. Then, we run setupcon.
6222 As a result, the resulting shell is properly localized, and setupcon
6223 sets the correct keyboard layout, both according to the preferences expressed by
6224 the user in tails-greeter.
6225 - Don't use localepurge, don't remove any Scribus translations anymore,
6226 don't localize environment at live-config time:
6227 tails-greeter allows us to support many, many more languages.
6230 - Linux 3.2.15-1 (linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64).
6231 - Fix low sound level on MacBook5,2.
6232 - Disable laptop-mode-tools automatic modules. This modules set often
6233 needs some amount of hardware-specific tweaking to work properly.
6234 This makes them rather not well suited for a Live system.
6237 - Install GNOME keyring.
6238 This is needed so that NetworkManager remembers the WEP/WPA secrets
6239 for the time of a Tails session. Initialize GNOME keyring at user
6241 - Install usbutils to have the lsusb command.
6242 - Install the Traverso multitrack audio recorder and editor.
6245 - GNOME Terminal: keep 8192 scrollback lines instead of the smallish
6247 - Replaced tails-wifi initscript with laptop-mode-tools matching feature.
6248 - Disable gdomap service.
6249 - Fetch klibc-utils and libklibc from sid.
6250 The last initramfs-tools depends on these.
6251 - Set root password to "root" if debug=root is passed on the
6252 kernel cmdline. Allow setting root password on kernel cmdline via
6253 rootpw=. Looks like we implemented this feature twice.
6254 - Append a space on the kernel command line. This eases manually adding
6256 - Rename sudoers.d snippets to match naming scheme.
6257 Sudo credentials that shall be unconditionally granted to the Tails
6258 default user are named zzz_*, to make sure they are applied.
6259 - WhisperBack: also include /var/log/live-persist and
6260 /var/lib/gdm3/tails.persistence.
6261 - Add a wrapper to torify whois.
6262 - Rework the VirtualBox guest modules building hook to support
6264 - Consistently wait for nm-applet when waiting for user session to come up.
6265 Waiting for gnome-panel or notification-daemon worked worse.
6266 - Don't start the NetworkManager system service via init.
6267 Some Tails NM hooks need the user to be logged in to run properly.
6268 That's why tails-greeter starts NetworkManager at PostLogin time.
6269 - Also lock /bin/echo into memory. For some reason, kexec-load needs it.
6270 - Pidgin: don't use the OFTC hidden service anymore.
6271 It proved to be quite unreliable, being sometimes down for days.
6272 - Do not display storage volumes on Desktop, by disabling
6273 /apps/nautilus/desktop/volumes_visible GConf entry. Enabling that
6274 GConf setting avoids displaying the bind-mounted persistent
6275 directories on the Desktop, and reduces user confusion. It also is
6276 a first step towards a bigger UI change: GNOME3 does not manage the
6277 Desktop anymore, so volume icons and other Desktop icons are meant to
6278 disappear anyway. It implies we'll have to move all Desktop icons
6279 elsewhere. Let's start this move now: this will smooth the UI change
6280 Wheezy will carry for our users, by applying some of it progressively.
6283 - Don't build hybrid ISO images anymore. They boot less reliably on
6284 a variety of hardware, and are made less useful by us shipping
6285 a USB installer from now on.
6286 - Append .conf to live-config configuration filenames:
6287 live-config >3.0~a36-1 only takes into account files named *.conf
6288 in there. Accordingly update scripts that source these files.
6289 - Remove long-obsolete home-refresh script and its configuration.
6291 * Virtualization support
6292 - Support Spice and QXL: install the Spice agent from Debian sid,
6293 install xserver-xorg-video-qxl from squeeze-backports.
6295 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:54:00 +0200
6297 tails (0.10.2) unstable; urgency=low
6300 - Update to 10.0.2-1.
6301 - Disable HTTPS-Everywhere's SSL Observatory (plus first-run pop-up).
6302 - Revert "FoxyProxy: don't enclose regexps between ^ and $."
6303 Currently "http://www.i2p2.de" (and everything similar) is captured by
6304 the I2P filter, which is incorrect. It seems isMultiLine="false" does
6305 *not* make RE into ^RE$ any longer.
6306 - Remove file:// from NoScript's exception lists.
6307 This will fix the JavaScript toggles in the local copy of the documentation.
6308 - Update AdBlock patterns.
6311 - Upgrade I2P to 0.8.13.
6312 - Install libvpx0 from sid.
6313 - Fetch klibc-utils and libklibc from sid.
6314 The last initramfs-tools depends on these.
6317 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.2.7-1.
6318 - Install firmware-libertas.
6319 This adds support for wireless network cards with Marvell Libertas
6320 8xxx chips supported by the libertas_cs, libertas_sdio, libertas_spi,
6321 libertas_tf_usb, mwl8k and usb8xxx drivers.
6324 - Revert "Set time to middle of [valid-after, fresh-until] from consensus."
6325 This reverts commit 18d23a500b9412b4b0fbe4e38a9398eb1a3eadef.
6326 With this vmid clocks that are E minutes back in time may cause issues
6327 (temporary Tor outages) after consensus updates that happen at the
6328 (60-E):th minute or later during any hour. Full analysis:
6329 https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2012-January/000873.html
6330 - Add the default user to the vboxsf group.
6331 This will allow the user to get full access to automounted VirtualBox
6332 shared folders as they are mounted with guid vboxsf and rwx group
6335 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:26:21 +0100
6337 tails (0.10.1) unstable; urgency=low
6340 - Make Startpage the default web search engine. Scroogle does not look
6341 reliable enough these days.
6344 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.5.1 (update link to bug reporting documentation).
6345 - Update MAT to 0.2.2-2~bpo60+1 (fixes a critical bug in the GUI).
6348 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.2.1-2
6350 * Time synchronization
6351 Serious rework that should fix most, if not all, of the infamous
6352 time-sync' related bugs some Tails users have experienced recently.
6353 - Make htpdate more resilient by using three server pools, and
6354 allowing some failure ratio.
6355 - Set time from Tor's unverified-consensus if needed.
6356 - Set time to middle of [valid-after, fresh-until] from consensus.
6357 - Many robustness, performance and fingerprinting-resistance improvements.
6358 - Display time-sync' notification much earlier.
6361 - Fix access to "dumb" git:// protocol by using a connect-socks wrapper
6362 as GIT_PROXY_COMMAND.
6363 - SSH client: fix access to SSH servers on the Internet by correcting
6364 Host / ProxyCommand usage.
6365 - Pidgin: use OFTC hidden service to workaround Tor blocking.
6366 - Claws Mail: disable draft autosaving.
6367 When composing PGP encrypted email, drafts are saved back to
6368 the server in plaintext. This includes both autosaved and manually
6370 - tails-security-check-wrapper: avoid eating all memory when offline.
6372 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:00:31 +0100
6374 tails (0.10) unstable; urgency=low
6376 * Tor: upgrade to 0.2.2.35-1.
6379 - Install Iceweasel 9.0 from the Debian Mozilla team's APT repository.
6380 - Update Torbutton to 1.4.5.1-1.
6381 - Support viewing any YouTube video that is available in HTML5 format:
6382 install xul-ext-greasemonkey and the "Permanently Enable HTML5 on
6383 YouTube" GreaseMonkey script.
6384 - Stop using Polipo in Iceweasel. Its SOCKS support was fixed.
6385 - Install from Debian sid the iceweasel extensions we ship,
6386 for compatibility with FF9.
6387 - Use Scroogle (any languages) instead of Scroogle (English only) when
6388 booted in English. Many users choose English because their own
6389 language is not supported yet; let's not hide them search results in
6391 - Install Iceweasel language packs from Debian unstable:
6392 unfortunately they are not shipped on the mozilla.debian.net repository.
6393 - Install the NoScript Firefox extension; configure it the same way as
6395 - Disable third-party cookies.
6396 They can be used to track users, which is bad. Besides, this is what
6397 TBB has been doing for years.
6398 - FoxyProxy: allow direct connections to RFC1918 IPs.
6400 * Do not transparent proxy outgoing Internet connections through Tor.
6401 - Torify the SSH client using connect-proxy to all IPs but RFC1918 ones.
6402 - Torify APT using Polipo HTTP.
6403 - Torify wget in wgetrc.
6404 - Torify gobby clients using torsocks. It does not support proxies yet.
6405 - Torify tails-security-check using LWP::UserAgent's SOCKS proxy support.
6406 - Fix enabling of GNOME's HTTP proxy.
6409 - Upgrade Vidalia to 0.2.15-1+tails1.
6410 · New upstream release.
6411 · Do not warn about Tor version.
6412 - Upgrade MAT to 0.2.2-1~bpo60+1.
6413 - Upgrade VirtualBox guest software to 4.1.6-dfsg-2~bpo60+1,
6414 built against the ABI of X.Org backports.
6415 - Upgrade I2P to 0.8.11 using KillYourTV's Squeeze packages;
6416 additionally, fix its start script that was broken by the tordate merge.
6417 - Install unar (The Unarchiver) instead of the non-free unrar.
6418 - Install Nautilus Wipe instead of custom Nautilus scripts.
6421 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.1.6-1.
6422 - Upgrade to X.Org from squeeze-backports.
6423 - Install more, and more recent b43 firmwares.
6424 - Upgrade barry to 0.15-1.2~bpo60+1.
6426 * Internationalization
6427 - Add basic language support for Russian, Farsi and Vietnamese.
6428 - Install some Indic fonts.
6429 - Install some Russian fonts.
6430 - Add Alt+Shift shortcut to switch keyboard layout.
6433 - Support booting in "Windows XP -like camouflage mode":
6434 · Install homebrewn local .debs for a Windows XP look-alike Gnome theme.
6435 · Add the "Windows XP Bliss" desktop wallpaper.
6436 · Added a script that's sets up Gnome to look like Microsoft Windows XP.
6437 · Add Windows XP "camouflage" icons for some programs.
6438 · Make Iceweasel use the IE icon when Windows XP camouflage is enabled.
6439 · Add special launcher icons for the Windows XP theme so that they're
6441 - Decrease Florence focus zoom to 1.2.
6442 - Do not fetch APT translation files. Running apt-get update is heavy enough.
6443 - Add MSN support thanks to msn-pecan.
6444 - Add custom SSH client configuration:
6445 · Prefer strong ciphers and MACs.
6446 · Enable maximum compression level.
6447 · Explicitly disable X11 forwarding.
6448 · Connect as root by default, to prevent fingerprinting when username
6450 - Replace flawed FireGPG with a home-made GnuPG encryption applet;
6451 install a feature-stripped FireGPG that redirects users to
6452 the documentation, and don't run Seahorse applet anymore.
6453 - Enable Seahorse's GnuPG agent.
6454 - Blank screen when lid is closed, rather than shutting down the system.
6455 The shutdown "feature" has caused data losses for too many people, it seems.
6456 There are many other ways a Tails system can be shut down in a hurry
6458 - Import Tails signing key into the keyring.
6459 - Fix bug in the Pidgin nick generation that resulted in the nick
6460 "XXX_NICK_XXX" once out of twenty.
6461 - Pre-configure the #tor IRC discussion channel in Pidgin.
6462 - Fix "technology preview" of bridge support: it was broken by tordate merge.
6463 - Install dependencies of our USB installer to ease its development.
6464 - Make vidalia NM hook sleep only if Vidalia is already running.
6465 - Reintroduce the htpdate notification, telling users when it's safe
6466 to use Tor Hidden Services.
6467 - htpdate: omit -f argument to not download full pages.
6468 - htpdate: write success file even when not within {min,max}adjust.
6469 Otherwise htpdate will not "succeed" when the time diff is 0 (i.e.
6470 the clock was already correct) so the success file cannot be used
6471 as an indicator that the system time now is correct, which arguably
6472 is its most important purpose.
6475 - Name built images according to git tag.
6477 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:56:38 +0100
6479 tails (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6482 - Upgrade to 0.2.2.34 (fixes CVE-2011-2768, CVE-2011-2769).
6485 - Upgrade to 3.5.16-11 (fixes CVE-2011-3647, CVE-2011-3648, CVE-2011-3650).
6486 - Upgrade FireGPG to 0.8-1+tails2: notify users that the FireGPG Text
6487 Editor is the only safe place for performing cryptographic operations,
6488 and make it impossible to do otherwise. Other ways open up several
6489 severe attacks through JavaScript (e.g. leaking plaintext when
6490 decrypting, signing messages written by the attacker).
6491 - Install Cookie Monster extension instead of CS Lite.
6492 - Always ask where to save files.
6493 - Upgrade Torbutton to 1.4.4.1-1, which includes support for the in-browser
6494 "New identity" feature.
6497 - Install MAT, the metadata anonymisation toolkit.
6498 - Upgrade TrueCrypt to 7.1.
6499 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.5~rc1 (leads the user by the hand if an error
6500 occurs while sending the bugreport, proposes to save it after 2 faild
6501 attempts, numerous bugfixes).
6502 - Linux: upgrade to linux-image-3.0.0-2-486 (version 3.0.0-6); fixes
6503 a great number of bugs and security issues.
6506 - Fully rework date and time setting system.
6507 - Remove the htp user firewall exception.
6508 - Saner keyboard layouts for Arabic and Russian.
6509 - Use Plymouth text-only splash screen at boot time.
6510 - Color the init scripts output.
6511 - Suppress Tor's warning about applications doing their own DNS lookups.
6512 This is totally safe due to our Tor enforcement.
6513 - Disable hdparm boot-time service.
6514 We only want hdparm so that laptop-mode-tools can use it.
6515 - Run Claws Mail using torify.
6516 It's not as good as if Claws Mail supported SOCKS proxies itself,
6517 but still better than relying on the transparent netfilter torification.
6518 - Install HPLIP and hpcups for better printing support.
6520 * Erase memory at shutdown
6521 - Run many sdmem instances at once.
6522 In hope of erasing more memory until we come up with a proper fix for
6523 [[bugs/sdmem_does_not_clear_all_memory]].
6524 - Kill gdm3 instead of using its initscript on brutal shutdown.
6525 - Use absolute path to eject for more robust memory wipe on boot medium removal.
6528 - Exclude kernel and initramfs from being put into the SquashFS.
6529 Those files are already shipped where they are needed, that is in the ISO
6530 filesystem. Adapt kexec and memlockd bits.
6531 - Do not ship the GNOME icon theme cache.
6532 - Do not ship .pyc files.
6533 - Do not ship NEWS.Debian.gz files.
6536 - Re-implement hook that modifies syslinux config to make future
6539 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:26:38 +0100
6541 tails (0.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
6544 - Update to 3.5.16-10 (fixes DSA-2313-1).
6545 - FireGPG: force crypto action results to appear in a new window, otherwise
6546 JavaScript can steal decrypted plaintext. Advice: always use FireGPG's
6547 text editor when writing text you want to encrypt. If you write it in a
6548 textbox the plaintext can be stolen through JavaScript before it is
6549 encrypted in the same way.
6550 - Update HTTPS Everywhere extension to 1.0.3-1.
6551 - Stop using the small version of the Tor check page. The small version
6552 incorrectly tells Tails users to upgrade their Torbrowser, which has
6553 confused some users.
6556 - Update Linux to 3.0.0-2 (fixes DSA-2310-1, CVE-2011-2905, CVE-2011-2909,
6557 CVE-2011-2723, CVE-2011-2699, CVE-2011-1162, CVE-2011-1161).
6558 - Update usb-modeswitch to 1.1.9-2~bpo60+1 and usb-modeswitch-data to
6559 20110805-1~bpo60+1 from Debian backports. This adds support for a few
6560 devices such as Pantech UMW190 CDMA modem.
6561 - Install libregexp-common-perl 2011041701-3 from Debian unstable. This
6562 fixes the bug: [[bugs/msva_does_not_use_configured_keyserver]].
6563 - Install hdparm so the hard drives can be spinned down in order to save
6565 - Install barry-util for better BlackBerry integration.
6566 - Debian security upgrades: OpenOffice.org (DSA-2315-1), openjdk-6
6567 (DSA-2311-1), policykit-1 (DSA-2319-1)
6569 * Protecting against memory recovery
6570 - Set more appropriate Linux VM config before wiping memory. These
6571 parameters should make the wipe process more robust and efficient.
6573 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:31:18 +0200
6575 tails (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6577 * Rebase on the Debian Squeeze 6.0.2.1 point-release.
6580 - Update to 0.2.2.33-1.
6581 - Disabled ControlPort in favour of ControlSocket.
6582 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to Tor's LongLivedPorts list.
6586 - Start script now depends on HTP since I2P breaks if the clock jumps or is
6587 too skewed during bootstrap.
6590 - Update to 3.5.16-9 (fixes CVE-2011-2374, CVE-2011-2376, CVE-2011-2365,
6591 CVE-2011-2373, CVE-2011-2371, CVE-2011-0083, CVE-2011-2363, CVE-2011-0085,
6592 CVE-2011-2362, CVE-2011-2982, CVE-2011-2981, CVE-2011-2378, CVE-2011-2984,
6594 - Enable HTTP pipelining (like TBB).
6595 - Update HTTPS Everywhere extension to 1.0.1-1 from Debian unstable.
6596 - Suppress FoxyProxy update prompts.
6597 - Prevent FoxyProxy from "phoning home" after a detected upgrade.
6598 - Fixed a bunch of buggy regular expressions in FoxyProxy's configuration.
6599 See [[bugs/exploitable_typo_in_url_regex?]] for details. Note that none of
6600 these issues are critical due to the transparent proxy.
6601 - Add DuckDuckGo SSL search engine.
6604 - Update to torbutton 1.4.3-1 from Debian unstable.
6605 - Don't show Torbutton status in the status bar as it's now displayed in the
6609 - More random looking nicks in pidgin.
6610 - Add IRC account on chat.wikileaks.de:9999.
6613 - Upgrade htpdate script (taken from Git 7797fe9) that allows setting wget's
6614 --dns-timeout option.
6617 - Update Linux to 3.0.0-1. -686 is now deprecated in favour of -486 and
6618 -686-pae; the world is not ready for -pae yet, so we now ship -486.
6619 - Update OpenSSL to 0.9.8o-4squeeze2 (fixes CVE-2011-1945 (revoke
6620 compromised DigiNotar certificates), CVE-2011-1945).
6621 - Update Vidalia to 0.2.14-1+tails1 custom package.
6622 - Install accessibility tools:
6623 - gnome-mag: screen magnifier
6624 - gnome-orca: text-to-speech
6625 - Replace the onBoard virtual keyboard with Florence.
6626 - Install the PiTIVi non-linear audio/video editor.
6631 * Arbitrary DNS queries
6632 - Tor can not handle all types of DNS queries, so if the Tor resolver fails
6633 we fallback to ttdnsd. This is now possible with Tor 0.2.2.x, since we
6634 fixed Tor bug #3369.
6637 - Install ipheth-utils for iPhone tethering.
6638 - Install xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse (for mouse integration with the host OS
6640 - Install virtualbox-ose 4.x guest packages from Debian backports.
6643 - Switch gpg to use keys.indymedia.org's hidden service, without SSL.
6644 The keys.indymedia.org SSL certificate is now self-signed. The hidden
6645 service gives a good enough way to authenticate the server and encrypts
6646 the connection, and just removes the certificates management issue.
6647 - The squashfs is now compressed using XZ which reduces the image size quite
6649 - Remove Windows autorun.bat and autorun.inf. These files did open a static
6650 copy of our website, which is not accessible any longer.
6653 - Use the Git branch instead of the Debian version into the built image's
6655 - Allow replacing efficient XZ compression with quicker gzip.
6656 - Build and install documentation into the chroot (-> filesystem.squashfs).
6657 Rationale: our static website cannot be copied to a FAT32 filesystem due
6658 to filenames being too long. This means the documentation cannot be
6659 browsed offline from outside Tails. However, our installer creates GPT
6660 hidden partitions, so the doc would not be browseable from outside Tails
6661 anyway. The only usecase we really break by doing so is browsing the
6662 documentation while running a non-Tails system, from a Tails CD.
6664 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 09 Sep 2011 11:31:18 +0200
6666 tails (0.7.2) unstable; urgency=high
6669 - Disable Torbutton's external application launch warning.
6670 ... which advises using Tails. Tails *is* running Tails.
6671 - FoxyProxy: install from Debian instead of the older one we previously
6675 - haveged: install an official Debian backport instead of a custom backport.
6676 - unrar: install the version from Debian's non-free repository.
6677 Users report unrar-free does not work well enough.
6679 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:34:56 +0200
6681 tails (0.7.1) unstable; urgency=high
6683 * Vidalia: new 0.2.12-2+tails1 custom package.
6686 - Don't show Foxyproxy's status / icon in FF statusbar to prevent users
6687 from accidentaly / unconsciously put their anonymity at risk.
6688 - "amnesia branding" extension: bump Iceweasel compatibility to 4.0 to ease
6689 development of future releases.
6692 - Upgrade Linux kernel to Debian's 2.6.32-33: fixes tons of bugs,
6693 including the infamous missing mouse cursor one. Oh, and it closes
6694 a few security holes at well.
6695 - Install unrar-free.
6696 - Do not install pppoeconf (superseeded by NetworkManager).
6697 - Upgrade macchanger to Debian testing package to ease development of
6698 future Tails releases.
6699 - Debian security upgrades: x11-xserver-utils (DSA-2213-1), isc-dhcp
6700 (DSA-2216-1), libmodplug (DSA-2226-1), openjdk-6 (DSA-2224-1).
6702 * Protecting against memory recovery
6703 - Add Italian translation for tails-kexec. Thanks to Marco A. Calamari.
6704 - Make it clear what it may mean if the system does not power off
6706 - Use kexec's --reset-vga option that might fix display corruption issues
6709 * WhisperBack (encrypted bug reporting software)
6710 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.4.1:
6711 localizes the documentation wiki's URL,
6712 uses WebKit to display the bug reporting help page,
6713 now is usable on really small screens.
6714 - Extract wiki's supported languages at build time, save this
6715 information to /etc/amnesia/environment, source this file into the
6716 Live user's environment so that WhisperBack 1.4+ can make good use
6720 - Fix boot in Chinese.
6721 - Install mobile-broadband-provider-info for better 3G support.
6722 - Add back GNOME system icons to menus.
6723 - tails-security-check: avoid generating double-slashes in the Atom
6725 - Remove "vga=788" boot parameter which breaks the boot on some hardware.
6726 - Remove now useless "splash" boot parameter.
6727 - Fix a bunch of i386-isms.
6728 - Pass the noswap option to the kernel. This does not change actual Tails
6729 behaviour but prevents users from unnecessarily worrying because of
6730 the "Activating swap" boot message.
6731 - Make use of check.torproject.org's Arabic version.
6734 - Enable squeeze-backports. It is now ready and will be used soon.
6735 - Install eatmydata in the chroot.
6736 - Convert ikiwiki setup files to YAML.
6738 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:14:53 +0200
6740 tails (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6743 - Install foomatic-filters-ppds to support more printers.
6744 - Give the default user the right to manage printers.
6747 - Deinstall unwanted packages newly pulled by recent live-build.
6749 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:58:51 +0200
6751 tails (0.7~rc2) unstable; urgency=low
6753 ** SNAPSHOT build @824f39248a08f9e190146980fb1eb0e55d483d71 **
6755 * Rebase on Debian Squeeze 6.0.1 point-release.
6757 * Vidalia: new 0.2.10-3+tails5 custom package..
6760 - Install usb-modeswitch and modemmanager to support mobile broadband
6761 devices such as 3G USB dongles. Thanks to Marco A. Calamari for the
6765 - Website relocated to https://tails.boum.org/ => adapt various places.
6766 - Configure keyboard layout accordingly to the chosen language for
6767 Italian and Portuguese.
6769 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:44:25 +0100
6771 tails (0.7~rc1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
6773 ** SNAPSHOT build @98987f111fc097a699b526eeaef46bc75be5290a **
6775 * Rebase on Debian Squeeze.
6777 * T(A)ILS has been renamed to Tails.
6779 * Protecting against memory recovery
6780 New, safer way to wipe memory on shutdown which is now also used when
6781 the boot media is physically removed.
6784 - Update to 0.2.1.30-1.
6787 - Add HTTPS Everywhere 0.9.4 extension.
6788 - Better preserve Anonymity Set: spoof US English Browser and timezone
6789 the same way as the Tor Browser Bundle, disable favicons and picture
6791 - Install AdBlock Plus extension from Debian.
6792 - Add Tor-related bookmarks.
6793 - Support FTP, thanks to FoxyProxy.
6794 - Update AdBlock patterns.
6795 - Disable geolocation and the offline cache.
6798 - Update Vidalia to 0.2.10-3+tails4.
6799 - Install gnome-disk-utility (Palimpsest) and Seahorse plugins.
6800 - Add opt-in i2p support with Iceweasel integration through FoxyProxy.
6801 - onBoard: fix "really quits when clicking the close window icon" bug.
6802 - Optionally install TrueCrypt at boot time.
6803 - Install laptop-mode-tools for better use of battery-powered hardware.
6804 - Replace xsane with simple-scan which is part of GNOME and way easier
6806 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.3.1 (bugfixes, French translation).
6807 - Install scribus-ng instead of scribus. It is far less buggy in Squeeze.
6810 - Drop incoming packets by default.
6811 - Forbid queries to DNS resolvers on the LAN.
6812 - Set output policy to drop (defense-in-depth).
6815 - Install Atheros and Broadcom wireless firmwares.
6816 - Install libsane-hpaio and sane-utils, respectively needed for
6817 multi-function peripherals and some SCSI scanners.
6819 * live-boot 2.0.15-1+tails1.35f1a14
6820 - Cherry-pick our fromiso= bugfixes from upstream 3.x branch.
6823 - Many tiny user interface improvements.
6824 - More robust HTP time synchronization wrt. network failures.
6825 Also, display the logs when the clock synchronization fails.
6826 - Disable GNOME automatic media mounting and opening to protect against
6827 a class of attacks that was recently put under the spotlights.
6828 Also, this feature was breaking the "no trace is left on local
6829 storage devices unless explicitly asked" part of Tails specification.
6830 - Make configuration more similar to the Tor Browser Bundle's one.
6831 - GnuPG: default to stronger digest algorithms.
6832 - Many more or less proper hacks to get the built image size under 700MB.
6833 - Compress the initramfs using LZMA for faster boot.
6836 - Run lb build inside eatmydata fsync-less environment to greatly improve
6839 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:52:19 +0100
6841 tails (0.6.2) unstable; urgency=high
6843 * Tor: upgrade to 0.2.1.29 (fixes CVE-2011-0427).
6845 - Upgrade Linux kernel, dpkg, libc6, NSS, OpenSSL, libxml2 (fixes various
6847 - Upgrade Claws Mail to 3.7.6 (new backport).
6848 - Install Liferea, tcpdump and tcpflow.
6849 * Seahorse: use hkp:// transport as it does not support hkps://.
6850 * FireGPG: use hkps:// to connect to the configured keyserver.
6851 * Build system: take note of the Debian Live tools versions being used
6852 to make next point-release process faster.
6853 * APT: don't ship package indices.
6855 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:59:43 +0100
6857 tails (0.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
6859 * Tor: upgrade to 0.1.28 (fixes CVE-2010-1676)
6860 * Software: upgrade NSS, Xulrunner, glibc (fixes various security issues)
6861 * FireGPG: use the same keyserver as the one configured in gpg.conf.
6862 * Seahorse: use same keyserver as in gpg.conf.
6863 * HTP: display the logs when the clock synchronization fails.
6864 * Update HTP configuration: www.google.com now redirects to
6865 encrypted.google.com.
6866 * Use the light version of the "Are you using Tor?" webpage.
6867 * Update AdBlock patterns.
6869 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 24 Dec 2010 13:28:29 +0100
6871 tails (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6875 * New OpenPGP signing-only key. Details are on the website:
6876 https://amnesia.boum.org/GnuPG_key/
6879 - Fixed torbutton has migrated to testing, remove custom package.
6882 - Query ssl.scroogle.org instead of lists.debian.org.
6883 - Don't run when the interface that has gone up is the loopback one.
6886 - Add shortcut to securely erase free space in a partition.
6887 - The nautilus-wipe shortcut user interface is now translatable.
6890 - Really fix virtualization warning display.
6891 - More accurate APT pinning.
6892 - Disable Debian sid APT source again since a fixed live-config has
6893 migrated to Squeeze since then.
6895 * live-boot: upgrade to 2.0.8-1+tails1.13926a
6896 - Sometimes fixes the smem at shutdown bug.
6897 - Now possible to create a second partition on the USB stick T(A)ILS is
6901 - Support RT2860 wireless chipsets by installing firmware-ralink from
6903 - Install firmware-linux-nonfree from backports.
6904 - Fix b43 wireless chipsets by having b43-fwcutter extract firmwares at
6908 - Install live-build and live-helper from Squeeze.
6909 - Update SquashFS sort file.
6911 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:53:17 +0200
6913 tails (0.6~rc3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
6915 ** SNAPSHOT build @a3ebb6c775d83d1a1448bc917a9f0995df93e44d **
6918 - Autostart Iceweasel with the GNOME session. This workarounds the
6919 "Iceweasel first page is not loaded" bug.
6922 - Upgrade htpdate script (taken from Git 7797fe9).
6925 - Disable ssh-agent auto-starting with X session: gnome-keyring is
6927 - Fix virtualization warning display.
6928 - Boot profile hook: write desktop file to /etc/skel.
6931 - Convert build system to live-build 2.0.1.
6932 - APT: fetch live-build and live-helper from Debian Live snapshots.
6933 - Remove dependency on live-build functions in chroot_local-hooks.
6934 This makes the build environment more robust and less dependent on
6935 live-build internals.
6936 - Remove hand-made rcS.d/S41tails-wifi: a hook now does this.
6937 - Measure time used by the lh build command.
6938 - Fix boot profile hook.
6939 - Boot profiling: wait a bit more: the current list does not include
6942 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 02 Oct 2010 23:06:46 +0200
6944 tails (0.6~rc2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
6946 ** SNAPSHOT build @c0ca0760ff577a1e797cdddf0e95c5d62a986ec8 **
6949 - Refreshed AdBlock patterns (20100926).
6950 - Set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true (untested yet)
6951 - Torbutton: install patched 1.2.5-1+tails1 to fix the User-Agent bug,
6952 disable extensions.torbutton.spoof_english again.
6955 - WhisperBack: upgrade to 1.3~beta3 (main change: let the user provide
6956 optional email address and OpenPGP key).
6958 - Update haveged backport to 0.9-3~amnesia+lenny1.
6959 - Update live-boot custom packages (2.0.6-1+tails1.6797e8): fixes bugs
6960 in persistency and smem-on-shutdown.
6961 - Update custom htpdate script. Taken from commit d778a6094cb3 in our
6962 custom Git repository: fixes setting of date/time.
6965 - Bugfix: failed builds are now (hopefully) detected.
6966 - Fix permissions on files in /etc/apt/ that are preserved in the image.
6967 - Install version 2.0~a21-1 of live-build and live-helper in the image.
6968 We are too late in the release process to upgrade to current Squeeze
6969 version (2.0~a29-1).
6972 - Pidgin/OTR: disable the automatic OTR initiation and OTR requirement.
6974 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:23:17 +0200
6976 tails (0.6~1.gbpef2878) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
6978 ** SNAPSHOT build @ef28782a0bf58004397b5fd303f938cc7d11ddaa **
6981 - Use a 2.6.32 kernel: linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.5-686 (2.6.32-23~bpo50+1)
6982 from backports.org. This should support far more hardware and
6983 especially a lot of wireless adapters.
6984 - Add firmware for RTL8192 wireless adapters.
6985 - Enable power management on all wireless interfaces on boot.
6990 - Install gfshare and ssss: two complementary implementations
6991 of Shamir's Secret Sharing.
6992 - Install tor-geoipdb.
6993 - Remove dialog, mc and xterm.
6996 - Set extensions.torbutton.spoof_english to its default true value
6997 in order to workaround a security issue:
6998 https://amnesia.boum.org/security/Iceweasel_exposes_a_rare_User-Agent/
7001 - Install the Iceweasel extension.
7002 - Use a hkps:// keyserver.
7005 - Install gnupg from backports.org so that hkps:// is supported.
7006 - Use a hkps:// keyserver.
7007 - Proxy traffic via polipo.
7008 - Prefer up-to-date digests and ciphers.
7010 * Vidalia: rebased our custom package against 0.2.10.
7013 - Built images are now named like this:
7014 tails-i386-lenny-0.5-20100925.iso
7015 - Use live-helper support for isohybrid options instead of doing the
7016 conversion ourselves. The default binary image type we build is now
7018 - Remove .deb built by m-a after they have been installed.
7019 - Setup custom GConf settings at build time rather than at boot time.
7020 - Move $HOME files to /etc/skel and let adduser deal with permissions.
7021 - Convert to live-boot / live-config / live-build 2.x branches.
7022 - Replaced our custom live-initramfs with a custom live-boot package;
7023 included version is 2.0.5-1+tails2.6797e8 from our Git repository:
7024 git clone git://git.immerda.ch/tails_live-boot.git
7025 - Install live-config* from the live-snapshots Lenny repository.
7026 Rationale: live-config binary packages differ depending on the target
7027 distribution, so that using Squeeze's live-config does not produce
7028 fully-working Lenny images.
7029 - Rename custom scripts, packages lists and syslinux menu entries from
7030 the amnesia-* namespace to the tails-* one.
7033 - Use (authenticated) HTP instead of NTP.
7034 - The htpdate script that is used comes from commit 43f5f83c0 in our
7035 custom repository: git://git.immerda.ch/tails_htp.git
7036 - Start Tor and Vidalia only once HTP is done.
7039 - Fix IPv6 firewall restore file. It was previously not used at all.
7040 - Use ftp.us.debian.org instead of the buggy GeoIP-powered
7042 - Gedit: don't autocreate backup copies.
7043 - Build images with syslinux>=4.01 that has better isohybrid support.
7044 - amnesia-security-check: got rid of the dependency on File::Slurp.
7045 - Take into account the migration of backports.org to backports.debian.org.
7046 - Make GnuPG key import errors fatal on boot.
7047 - Warn the user when T(A)ILS is running inside a virtual machine.
7048 - DNS cache: forget automapped .onion:s on Tor restart.
7050 * Documentation: imported Incognito's walkthrough, converted to
7051 Markdown, started the needed adaptation work.
7053 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 26 Sep 2010 11:06:50 +0200
7055 tails (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
7057 * The project has merged efforts with Incognito.
7058 It is now to be called "The (Amnesic) Incognito Live System".
7062 - Created the amnesia-news mailing-list.
7063 - Added a forum to the website.
7064 - Created a chatroom on IRC: #tails on irc.oftc.net
7067 - Workaround nasty NetworkManager vs. Tor bug that often
7068 prevented the system to connect to the Tor network: restart Tor and Vidalia
7069 when a network interface goes up.
7070 - onBoard now autodetects the keyboard layout... at least once some
7071 keys have been pressed.
7072 - New windows don't open in background anymore, thanks to
7074 - Memory wiping at shutdown is now lightning fast, and does not prevent
7075 the computer to halt anymore.
7076 - GNOME panel icons are right-aligned again.
7077 - Fixed permissions on APT config files.
7078 - Repaired mouse integration when running inside VirtualBox.
7081 - Torbutton: redirect to Scroogle when presented a Google captcha.
7082 - Revamped bookmarks
7083 . moved T(A)ILS own website to the personal toolbar
7084 . moved webmail links (that are expected to be more than 3 soon)
7085 to a dedicated folder.
7086 - Don't show AdBlock Plus icon in the toolbar.
7087 - Adblock Plus: updated patterns, configured to only update subscriptions
7088 once a year. Which means never, hopefully, as users do update their
7089 Live system on a regular basis, don't they?
7091 * Vidalia: rebased our custom package against 0.2.8.
7094 - Install Claws Mail from backports.org to use the X.509 CA
7095 certificates provided by Debian.
7096 - Enable PGP modules with basic configuration:
7097 . Automatically check signatures.
7098 . Use gpg-agent to manage passwords.
7099 . Display warning on start-up if GnuPG doesn't work.
7100 - Set the IO timeout to 120s (i.e. the double of the default 60s).
7103 - Automatically connect to irc.oftc.net with a randomized nickname,
7104 so as not to advertize the use of T(A)ILS; this nickname is made of:
7105 . a random firstname picked from the 2000 most registered by the U.S.
7106 social security administration in the 70s;
7107 . two random digits.
7108 Good old irc.indymedia.org is still configured - with same nickname -
7109 but is not enabled by default anymore.
7110 - Disabled MSN support, that is far too often affected by security flaws.
7112 * Build $HOME programmatically
7113 - Migrated all GConf settings, including the GNOME panel configuration,
7114 to XML files that are loaded at boot time.
7115 - Configure iceweasel profile skeleton in /etc/iceweasel.
7116 A brand new profile is setup from this skeleton once iceweasel is
7118 . build sqlite files at build time from plain SQL.
7119 . FireGPG: hard-code current firegpg version at build time to prevent
7120 the extension to think it was just updated.
7121 . stop shipping binary NSS files. These were here only to
7122 install CaCert's certificate, that is actually shipped by Debian's
7126 - Updated Debian Live snapshots APT repository URL.
7127 - Purge all devel packages at the end of the chroot configuration.
7128 - Make sure the hook that fixes permissions runs last.
7129 - Remove unwanted Iceweasel search plugins at build time.
7132 - Added a progress bar for boot time file readahead.
7133 - Readahead more (~37MB) stuff in foreground at boot time.
7134 - Make the APT pinning persist in the Live image.
7135 - localepurge: keep locales for all supported languages,
7136 don't bother when installing new packages.
7137 - Removed syslinux help menu: these help pages are either buggy or
7138 not understandable by non-geeks.
7139 - Fixed Windows autorun.
7140 - Disable a few live-initramfs scripts to improve boot time.
7141 - Firewall: forbid any IPv6 communication with the outside.
7142 - Virtualization support: install open-vm-tools.
7143 - WhisperBack: updated to 1.2.1, add a random bug ID to the sent
7145 - Prompt for CD removal on shutdown, not for USB device.
7147 * live-initramfs: new package built from our Git (e2890a04ff) repository.
7148 - Merged upstream changes up to 1.177.2-1.
7149 - New noprompt=usb feature.
7150 - Fix buggy memory wiping and shutdown.
7151 - Really reboot when asked, rather than shutting down the system.
7154 - Upgraded to a new custom, patched package (0.93.0-0ubuntu4~amnesia1).
7155 - Added an entry in the Applications menu.
7158 - Install vim-nox with basic configuration
7160 - Install monkeysphere and msva-perl
7161 - Replaced randomsound with haveged as an additional source of entropy.
7164 - Build ralink rt2570 wifi modules.
7165 - Build rt2860 wifi modules from Squeeze. This supports the RT2860
7166 wireless adapter, found particularly in the ASUS EeePC model 901
7168 - Build broadcom-sta-source wifi modules.
7169 - Bugfix: cpufreq modules were not properly added to /etc/modules.
7170 - Use 800x600 mode on boot rather than 1024x768 for compatibility
7171 with smaller displays.
7173 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:14:13 +0200
7175 amnesia (0.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
7177 New release, mainly aimed at fixing live-initramfs security issue
7178 (Debian bug #568750), with an additional set of small enhancements as
7181 * live-initramfs: new custom package built from our own live-initramfs
7182 Git repository (commit 8b96e5a6cf8abc)
7183 - based on new 1.173.1-1 upstream release
7184 - fixed live-media=removable behaviour so that filesystem images found
7185 on non-removable storage are really never used (Debian bug #568750)
7187 * Vidalia: bring back our UI customizations (0.2.7-1~lenny+amnesia1)
7189 * APT: consistently use the GeoIP-powered cdn.debian.net
7191 * Software: make room so that {alpha, future} Squeeze images fit on
7193 - only install OpenOffice.org's calc, draw, impress, math and writer
7195 - removed OpenOffice.org's English hyphenation and thesaurus
7196 - removed hunspell, wonder why it was ever added
7199 - explicitly disable persistence, better safe than sorry
7200 - removed compulsory 15s timeout, live-initramfs knows how to wait for
7201 the Live media to be ready
7203 * Build system: don't cache rootfs anymore
7205 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:28:16 +0100
7207 amnesia (0.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
7209 * Brown paper bag bugfix release: have amnesia-security-check use
7210 entries publication time, rather than update time... else tagging
7211 a security issue as fixed, after releasing a new version, make this
7212 issue be announced to every user of this new, fixed version.
7214 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:58:41 +0100
7216 amnesia (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
7218 * We now only build and ship "Hybrid" ISO images, which can be either
7219 burnt on CD-ROM or dd'd to a USB stick or hard disk.
7221 * l10n: we now build and ship multilingual images; initially supported
7222 (or rather wanna-be-supported) languages are: ar, zh, de, en, fr, it,
7224 - install Iceweasel's and OpenOffice.org's l10n packages for every
7226 - stop installing localized help for OpenOffice.org, we can't afford it
7227 for enough languages
7228 - when possible, Iceweasel's homepage and default search engine are localized
7229 - added Iceweasel's "any language" Scroogle SSL search engine
7230 - when the documentation icon is clicked, display the local wiki in
7231 currently used language, if available
7232 - the Nautilus wipe script is now translatable
7233 - added gnome-keyboard-applet to the Gnome panel
7236 - replaced Icedove with claws mail, in a bit rough way; see
7237 https://amnesia.boum.org/todo/replace_icedove_with_claws/ for best
7238 practices and configuration advices
7239 - virtual keyboard: install onBoard instead of kvkbd
7240 - Tor controller: install Vidalia instead of TorK
7241 - install only chosen parts of Gnome, rather than gnome-desktop-environment
7242 - do not install xdialog, which is unused and not in Squeeze
7243 - stop installing grub as it breaks Squeeze builds (see Debian bug #467620)
7244 - install live-helper from snapshots repository into the Live image
7247 - do not install the NoScript extension anymore: it is not strictly
7248 necessary but bloodily annoying
7250 * Provide WhisperBack 1.2 for anonymous, GnuPG-encrypted bug reporting.
7251 - added dependency on python-gnutls
7252 - install the SMTP hidden relay's certificate
7254 * amnesia-security-check: new program that tells users that the amnesia
7255 version they are running is affected by security flaws, and which ones
7256 they are; this program is run at Gnome session startup, after sleeping
7257 2 minutes to let Tor a chance to initialize.
7260 - uses the Desktop Notifications framework
7261 - fetches the security atom feed from the wiki
7262 - verifies the server certificate against its known CA
7263 - tries fetching the localized feed; if it fails, fetch the default
7266 * live-initramfs: new custom package built from our own live-initramfs
7267 Git repository (commit 40e957c4b89099e06421)
7268 - at shutdown time, ask the user to unplug the CD / USB stick, then run
7269 smem, wait for it to finish, then attempt to immediately halt
7272 - bumped dependency on live-helper to >= 2.0a6 and adapted our config
7273 - generate hybrid ISO images by default, when installed syslinux is
7275 - stop trying to support building several images in a row, it is still
7276 broken and less needed now that we ship hybrid ISO images
7277 - scripts/config: specify distribution when initializing defaults
7278 - updated Debian Live APT repository's signing key
7281 - disable virtualbox packages installing and module building on !i386
7282 && !amd64, as PowerPC is not a supported guest architecture
7283 - built and imported tor_0.2.1.20-1~~lenny+1_powerpc.deb
7286 - rough beginnings of a scratch Squeeze branch, currently unsupported
7287 - install gobby-infinote
7290 - updated GnuPG key with up-to-date signatures
7291 - more improvements on boot time from CD
7292 - enhanced the wipe in Nautilus UI (now asks for confirmation and
7293 reports success or failure)
7294 - removed the "restart Tor" launcher from the Gnome panel
7296 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:28:04 +0100
7298 amnesia (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
7300 * software: removed openvpn, added
7306 - lvm2 (with disabled initscript as it slows-down too much the boot in certain
7308 - NetworkManager 0.7 (from backports.org) to support non-DHCP networking
7310 - randomsound to enhance the kernel's random pool
7312 - install the latest stable release from deb.torproject.org
7313 - ifupdown script now uses SIGHUP signal rather than a whole tor
7314 restart, so that in the middle of it vidalia won't start it's own
7316 - configure Gnome proxy to use Tor
7318 - adblockplus: upgraded to 1.0.2
7319 - adblockplus: subscribe to US and DE EasyList extensions, updated patterns
7320 - firegpg is now installed from Debian Squeeze rather than manually; current
7321 version is then 0.7.10
7322 - firegpg: use better keyserver ... namely pool.sks-keyservers.net
7323 - added bookmark to Amnesia's own website
7324 - use a custom "amnesiabranding" extension to localize the default search
7325 engine and homepage depending on the current locale
7326 - updated noscript whitelist
7327 - disable overriden homepage redirect on iceweasel upgrade
7329 - nicer default configuration with verified irc.indymedia.org's SSL cert
7330 - do not parse incoming messages for formatting
7331 - hide formatting toolbar
7332 * hardware compatibility
7334 - beginning of support for the ppc architecture
7335 - load acpi-cpufreq, cpufreq_ondemand and cpufreq_powersave kernel
7337 * live-initramfs: custom, updated package based on upstream's 1.157.4-1, built
7338 from commit b0a4265f9f30bad945da of amnesia's custom live-initramfs Git
7340 - securely erases RAM on shutdown using smem
7341 - fixes the noprompt bug when running from USB
7342 - disables local swap partitions usage, wrongly enabled by upstream
7343 * fully support for running as a guest system in VirtualBox
7344 - install guest utils and X11 drivers
7345 - build virtualbox-ose kernel modules at image build time
7347 - new (translatable) wiki, using ikiwiki, with integrated bugs and todo
7348 tracking system a static version of the wiki is included in generated
7349 images and linked from the Desktop
7351 - adapt for live-helper 2.0, and depend on it
7352 - get amnesia version from debian/changelog
7353 - include the full version in ISO volume name
7354 - save .list, .packages and .buildlog
7355 - scripts/clean: cleanup any created dir in binary_local-includes
7356 - updated Debian Live snapshot packages repository URL and signing key
7357 - remove duplicated apt/preferences file, the live-helper bug has been
7359 * l10n: beginning of support for --language=en
7361 - improved boot time on CD by ordering files in the squashfs in the order they
7362 are used during boot
7363 - added a amnesia-version script to built images, that outputs the current
7365 - added a amnesia-debug script that prepares a tarball with information that
7366 could be useful for developpers
7367 - updated Amnesia GnuPG key to a new 4096R one
7368 - set time with NTP when a network interface is brought up
7369 - import amnesia's GnuPG pubkey into the live session user's keyring
7370 - do not ask DHCP for a specific hostname
7371 - install localepurge, only keep en, fr, de and es locales, which reduces the
7372 generated images' size by 100MB
7373 - added a hook to replace /sbin/swapon with a script that only runs
7375 - moved networking hooks responsibility from ifupdown to NetworkManager
7377 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:17:08 +0100
7379 amnesia (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7381 * imported /home/amnesia, then:
7382 - more user-friendly shell, umask 077
7383 - updated panel, added launcher to restart Tor
7384 - mv $HOME/bin/* /usr/local/bin/
7385 - removed metacity sessions
7386 - removed gstreamer's registry, better keep this dynamically updated
7387 - rm .qt/qt_plugins_3.3rc, better keep this dynamically updated
7388 - removed .gnome/gnome-vfs/.trash_entry_cache
7389 - removed kconf_update log
7390 - removed and excluded Epiphany configuration (not installed)
7393 - enable caching in RAM
7394 - explicitly disable ssl v2, and enable ssl v3 + tls
7395 - removed prefs for the non-installed webdeveloper
7396 - removed the SSL Blacklist extension (not so useful, licensing issues)
7397 - deep profile directory cleanup
7398 - extensions cleanup: prefer Debian-packaged ones, cleanly reinstalled
7399 AddBlock Plus and CS Lite to allow upgrading them
7400 - updated pluginreg.dat and localstore.rdf
7401 - moved some settings to user.js
7402 - made cookie/JavaScript whitelists more consistent
7403 - force httpS on whitelisted sites
7404 - NoScript: marked google and gmail as untrusted
7405 - some user interface tweaks, mainly for NoScript
7406 - FireGPG: disable the buggy auto-detection feature, the link to firegpg's
7407 homepage in generated pgp messages and the GMail interface (which won't
7408 work without JavaScript anyway)
7409 - updated blocklist.xml
7410 - removed and excluded a bunch of files in the profile directory
7411 * icedove: clean the profile directory up just like we did for iceweasel
7412 * software: install msmtp and mutt
7414 - use rsync rather than tar
7417 - reviewed pidgin-otr security (see TODO)
7419 - stop calling home-refresh in lh_build
7420 - include home-refresh in generated images
7422 - fix permissions on local includes at build time
7423 - updated scripts/{build,clean} wrt. new $HOME handling
7424 - scripts/{build,config}: stop guessing BASEDIR, we must be run from
7425 the root of the source directory anyway
7426 - stop storing /etc/amnesia/version in Git, delete it at clean time
7428 - converted Changelog to the Debian format and location, updated
7429 build scripts accordingly
7430 - added a README symlink at the root of the source directory
7431 - basic debian/ directory (not working for building packages yet,
7432 but at least we can now use git-dch)
7433 - added debian/gbp.conf with our custom options for git-dch
7434 - config/amnesia: introduce new $AMNESIA_DEV_* variables to be used
7435 by developpers' scripts
7436 - added ./release script: a wrapper around git-dch, git-commit and git-tag
7438 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:42:03 +0200
7440 amnesia (0.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
7442 * Forked Privatix 9.03.15, by Markus Mandalka:
7443 http://mandalka.name/privatix/index.html.en
7444 Everything has since been rewritten or so heavily changed that nothing
7445 remains from the original code... apart of a bunch of Gnome settings.
7447 - install a bunch of non-free wifi firmwares
7448 - install xsane and add the live user to the scanner group
7449 - install aircrack-ng
7450 - install xserver-xorg-video-geode on i386 (eCafe support)
7451 - install xserver-xorg-video-all
7452 - install firmware-linux from backports.org
7453 - install system-config-printer
7454 - added instructions in README.eCAFE to support the Hercules eCAFE EC-800
7457 - configure pinning to support installing chosen packages from
7458 squeeze; the APT source for testing is hardcoded in chroot_sources/,
7459 since there is no way to use $LH_CHROOT_MIRROR in chroot_local-hooks
7460 - give backports.org priority 200, so that we track upgrades of packages
7461 installed from there
7462 * release: include the Changelog and TODO in the generated images,
7463 in the /usr/share/doc/amnesia/ directory
7464 * software: install gnomebaker when building Gnome-based live OS, to
7465 easily clone myself when running from CD
7467 - build i386 images when the build host is amd64
7468 - added a version file: /etc/amnesia/version
7469 - use snapshot live-* packages inside the images
7470 - setup timezone depending on the chosen build locale
7471 - rely on standard live-initramfs adduser to do our user setup
7472 (including sudo vs. Gnome/KDE, etc.)
7473 - stop "supporting" KDE
7474 - allow building several images at once
7475 - migrated most of lh_config invocations to scripts/config
7476 - append "noprompt" so that halting/rebooting work with splashy
7477 - moved our own variables to config/amnesia, using the namespace
7480 - default search engine is now Scroogle SSL, configured to search pages
7481 in French language; the English one is also installed
7482 - never ask to save passwords or forms content
7483 - configured the torbutton extension to use polipo
7484 - installed the CACert root certificate
7485 - installed the SSL Blacklist extension and the blacklist data
7486 - installed the FireGPG extension
7487 - installed the CS Lite extension
7488 - installed the NoScript extension
7489 - NoScript, CS Lite: replaced the default whitelists with a list of
7490 trusted, non-commercial Internet Service Providers
7491 - configure extensions (add to prefs.js):
7492 user_pref("extensions.torbutton.startup", true);
7493 user_pref("extensions.torbutton.startup_state", 1);
7494 user_pref("extensions.torbutton.tor_enabled", true);
7495 user_pref("noscript.notify.hide", true);
7496 user_pref("capability.policy.maonoscript.sites", "about:
7497 about:blank about:certerror about:config about:credits
7498 about:neterror about:plugins about:privatebrowsing
7499 about:sessionrestore chrome: resource:");
7500 user_pref("extensions.firegpg.no_updates", true);
7501 - install the NoScript plugin from Debian squeeze
7502 - delete urlclassifier3.sqlite on $HOME refresh: as we disabled
7503 "safebrowsing", this huge file is of no use
7504 - torbutton: install newer version from Squeeze
7505 * linux: removed non-686 kernel flavours when building i386 images
7506 * compatibility: append "live-media=removable live-media-timeout=15", to
7507 prevent blindly booting another debian-live installed on the hard disk
7511 - cryptkeeper: Gnome system tray applet to encrypt files with EncFS
7512 - kvkbd: virtual keyboard (installed from backports.org)
7513 - sshfs (and added live user to the fuse group)
7514 - less, secure-delete, wipe, seahorse, sshfs, ntfs-3g
7517 - enable the transparent proxy, the DNS resolver, and the control port
7518 - save authentication cookie to /tmp/control_auth_cookie, so that the
7519 live user can use Tork and co.
7520 - autostart Tork with Gnome
7521 - Tork: installed, disabled most notifications and startup tips
7522 - added a restart tor hook to if-up.d (used by Network Manager as well),
7523 so that Tor does work immediately even if the network cable was
7524 plugged late in/after the boot process
7526 - added a nautilus-script to wipe files and directories
7527 - bash with working completion for the live user
7528 * polipo: install and configure this HTTP proxy to forward requests
7530 * DNS: install and configure pdnsd to forward any DNS request through
7532 * firewall: force every outgoing TCP connection through the Tor
7533 transparent proxy, discard any outgoing UDP connection
7535 - set syslinux timeout to 4 seconds
7536 - use splashy for more user-friendly boot/halt sequences
7538 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:09:15 +0200