1 tails (3.9.1) unstable; urgency=medium
4 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.0.2, based on Firefox 60.2.1 (Closes: #16017).
5 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 60.0-3~deb9u1.0tails2 (Closes: #15959). Also
6 imported the same security fixes that caused Tor Browser 8.0.2.
8 - Upgrade curl to 7.52.1-5+deb9u7 (DSA-4286).
9 - Upgrade Ghostscript to 9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u5 (DSA-4294).
10 - Upgrade libarchive-zip-perl to 1.59-1+deb9u1 (DSA-4300).
11 - Upgrade libkpathsea6 to 2016.20160513.41080.dfsg-2+deb9u1 (DSA-4299).
12 - Upgrade LittleCMS 2, aka. liblcms2-2, to 2.8-4+deb9u1 (DSA-4284).
13 - Upgrade Python 2.7 to 2.7.13-2+deb9u3 (DSA-4306).
14 - Upgrade Python 3.5 to 3.5.3-1+deb9u1 (DSA-4307).
17 - Make Thunderbird translated in non-English locales via
18 intl.locale.requested, which works correctly since 60.0-3
20 - Totem: backport AppArmor profile fix to allow opening the help
22 - Remove mutt, that was accidentally installed in 3.9 (Closes: #15904).
23 - Fix VeraCrypt volumes not being opened in GNOME Files (Closes: #15954).
24 - Fix displaying the "General" section in the Tor Browser preferences
26 - Fix APT pinning at Tails runtime for our custom APT repository
27 and for Debian backports (Closes: #15837, #15973).
29 * Minor improvements and updates
30 - Upgrade tor to 0.3.4.8-1~d90.stretch+1 (Closes: #15889).
32 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 03 Oct 2018 12:12:33 +0200
34 tails (3.9) unstable; urgency=medium
37 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.0 (Closes: #15803, #15907).
38 Notable user-visible changes and relevant details:
39 · Adjust to the fact Tor Browser 8.0a10 replaces firefox with a wrapper.
40 · Don't use the bundled copy of libstdc++.so.6, ours is recent enough.
41 · Drop obsolete Torbutton prefs (Closes: #15706).
42 · Switch back to 128px icons (Closes: #15081).
43 · AppArmor profile: take into account new Firefox binary path.
44 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 60.0 (Closes: #15792).
45 Notable user-visible changes and relevant details:
46 · AppArmor profile: patch to avoid conflicting x modifiers for ps(1).
47 - Upgrade tor to 0.3.4.7-rc (Closes: #15772).
50 - Upgrade Linux to 4.17.17-1 and intel-microcode to 3.20180807a.1
51 This fixes CVE-2018-3620 aka. Foreshadow aka. L1 Terminal Fault
53 - Upgrade OpenSSH to 1:7.4p1-10+deb9u4 (DSA-4280).
56 - Fix Totem on Intel graphics cards by inlining the backported mesa
57 and dri-enumerate abstractions into its AppArmor profile: they are needed
58 with recent Mesa and libdrm (Closes: #15821). Regression introduced
60 - Fix unlocking "hidden" TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt volumes via GNOME Shell
62 - Fix confusing error message when unlocking TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt volumes
64 - Revert to Stretch's X.Org nouveau video driver (Closes: #15833).
65 It seems that the regression brought by the upgraded one
66 is worse than the improvements reported after our call for testing.
67 Regression introduced in 3.9~rc1.
68 - Use the intel X.Org driver for Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620.
69 - Fix regressions introduced in 3.9~rc1 in/by Additional Software Packages:
70 · Don't break new empty persistence configuration files creation when
71 permissions are incorrect (Closes: #15802).
72 · Fix UX when the user has specified a distribution or version
73 for a given package in their live-additional-software.conf
75 · Don't show installation notifications on upgrade (Closes: #15879).
76 - Make more Additional Software Packages strings translatable in the
77 configuration dialog and PolicyKit messages.
79 * Minor improvements and updates
80 - Upgrade firmware-nonfree to 20180825-1.
81 - Update the deb.torproject.org APT repository signing key.
82 - Unlock VeraCrypt Volumes: add disclaimer (Closes: #15849).
85 - Update Thunderbird test suite for 60.0 (Closes: #15791).
86 - Fix various robustness issues.
87 - Make the Chutney nodes use a higher V3AuthVotingInterval to make client
88 bootstrap more robust (Closes: #15799).
89 - Update the Tor Launcher binary path.
90 - Adjust to the fact "New Circuit for this Site" is now in the site
91 information and not under the Torbutton anymore.
92 - Delete unused images.
94 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 04 Sep 2018 12:15:43 +0000
96 tails (3.9~rc1) unstable; urgency=medium
99 - Integrate the Additional Software Packages feature into the desktop
100 and revamp the interface of "Configure Persistent Volume".
101 - Support TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt encrypted volumes on the desktop.
102 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.0a9, based on Firefox 60 ESR (Closes: #15023).
103 Notable user-visible changes and relevant details:
104 · Drop search engine customization and stick to Tor Browser's defaults.
105 · Upgrade uBlock Origin to its WebExtension version and now rely
106 on the filter lists shipped in the Debian package.
107 · Tweak the number of web content processes to work better with 2 GiB
108 of RAM (Closes: #15716).
109 · Revamp how we're handling our custom prefs, drop obsolete ones,
110 reduce our delta with pristine Tor Browser.
111 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 60.0b10 (Closes: #15091). Notable details:
112 · Install Torbirdy 0.2.5 from stretch-backports and drop our patches
113 that were merged upstream.
114 · Enable the optional part of the fixes for EFAIL (Closes: #15602).
115 - Upgrade Linux to 4.17 (Closes: #15763).
116 - Upgrade tor to 0.3.4.6-rc (Closes: #15770).
117 - Upgrade to Debian Stretch 9.5.
120 - Upgrade CUPS to 2.2.1-8+deb9u2 (DSA-4243).
121 - Upgrade Exiv2 to 0.25-3.1+deb9u1 (DSA-4238).
122 - Upgrade FUSE to 2.9.7-1+deb9u1 (DSA-4257).
123 - Upgrade GDM to 3.22.3-3+deb9u2 (DSA-4270).
124 - Upgrade libsoup to 2.56.0-2+deb9u2 (DSA-4241).
125 - Upgrade Imagemagick to 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u5 (DSA-4245).
126 - Upgrade ffmpeg to 7:3.2.12-1~deb9u1 (DSA-4258, DSA-4249).
127 - Upgrade libmspack to 0.5-1+deb9u2 (DSA-4260).
128 - Upgrade Samba to 2:4.5.12+dfsg-2+deb9u3 (DSA-4271).
129 - Upgrade the Apache XML Security for C++ library to 1.7.3-4+deb9u1
133 - Don't display the Enigmail configuration wizard in every Tails session
134 (Closes: #15693, #15746). Fix against Tails 3.8.
135 - Make the torstatus GNOME Shell extension actually translatable
136 (Closes: #15715). Fix against the first Tails release that included
138 - Drop Icedove → Thunderbird migration code which started causing trouble.
140 · Link to upgrade documentation when upgrading (Closes: #7904).
141 · Show the reinstall option only when the device is big enough to make
142 a full reinstallation (Closes: #14810).
143 · Make the main window fit in a 600px-high screen (Closes: #14849).
144 · Show the correct device size in the reinstall confirmation dialog
146 - Tails Greeter: don't display file:/// URLs to users (Closes: #15582).
148 * Minor improvements and updates
149 - Install Mesa and libdrm* from stretch-backports and upgrade the Nouveau
150 X.Org video driver to 1.0.15. This improves support for some graphics
151 cards such as NVIDIA Pascal series (Closes: #14910)
152 - htpdate: improve diagnostics output when the date header can't be fetched.
153 - Onion Grater: support named AppArmor profiles.
154 - Update Onion Grater's config for new Tor Browser AppArmor profile name.
155 - Enable e10s in the Unsafe Browser.
156 - Delete all search plugins for the Unsafe Browser (Closes: #15708).
157 - Display a deprecation warning when starting Liferea (#11082).
158 - Upgrade VirtualBox guest modules to 5.2.16-dfsg-3~bpo9+2.
159 - Use Tor Browser for browsing the documentation even when offline
161 - Provide feedback while Tor Browser, "Tails documentation"
162 or "Report an error" are starting (Closes: #15101).
163 - WhisperBack: remove the right pane (Closes: #7180).
164 - tails-debugging-info: return machine-readable, structured data.
165 Adjust WhisperBack accordingly (Closes: #8514). This paves the way
166 towards more usable bug reports (#8722).
167 - Port lots of our Perl code to more lightweight libraries.
168 This decreases the amount of memory used by the persistence
169 configuration interface.
170 - Do not hide applications that require an admin password (Closes: #11013).
171 - Try unlocking every persistent volume when multiple ones are
172 available (Closes: #15653).
173 - Upgrade Electrum to 3.1.3-1~bpo9+1.
174 - Upgrade most firmware to 20180518-1.
175 - Upgrade Intel microcode to 3.20180703.2~bpo9+1.
176 - Upgrade AMD microcode to 3.20180524.1.
179 - Drop AppArmor feature set pinning: this is now done in Debian Stretch
181 - Remove the now unused deb.torproject.org sid APT source (Closes: #15638).
182 - Install OnionShare from our custom APT repo instead of from sid.
183 We've mistakenly tracked sid for a while and it has become a problem,
184 so stick to the version that works for us until Tails 4.0.
185 - Fix building the ISO on zfs by dropping the cache=none setting for
186 vmproxy's storage (Closes: #14404).
187 - Update the Vagrant basebox for any change under vagrant/.
188 Previously, some relevant changes were not effective until something under
189 vagrant/definitions/tails-builder/ was changed.
190 - Make intltool ignore .py files: `intltool-update --maintain` seems to be
191 buggy with .py files.
192 - Refresh our CUPS AppArmor profile patch to apply on 2.2.1-8+deb9u2.
193 - Make it more obvious that the .orig file check is fatal (Closes: #15727).
194 - Delete baseboxes once they're 6 months old instead of 4.
195 This is more in line with the delay between our major releases these days.
196 - Rename /usr/share/amnesia to /usr/share/tails. It was about time.
197 - Abort the build if /etc/{passwd,group} has changed (Closes: #15419).
198 Such changes can break Tails after an automatic upgrade was applied
199 so let's detect it ASAP. Consequently, ensure a few GIDs — that wanted
200 to play musical chairs — are the same as in Tails 3.8 (Closes: #15695).
201 - Don't fail the build if the APT lists don't include any package
202 whose name matches ^geoclue.
205 - Adjust to the new tails-persistence-setup API.
206 - Update the Tor Browser's AppArmor profile name.
207 - Re-enable the "I can print the current page […]" test.
208 - Update tests wrt. the fact tails-upgrade-frontend-wrapper was ported
209 to Python (Closes: #15379).
210 - Make a test more robust by waiting for the page to have loaded.
211 - Adjust to the fact the WhisperBack debugging info is now configured
212 in a machine-readable file.
213 - Remove test for tails-debugging-info, that has been a no-op for a while.
214 - Adjust for Tor Browser 8.
215 - Make the "I open the address" step more robust and accordingly
216 stop marking the tests that use it in the Unsafe Browser
217 as fragile (refs: #14771).
218 - De-duplicate a number of images of standard GTK+ 3 widgets.
219 - Make the audio and WebM tests more robust.
220 - Make the "I start the Tor Browser in offline mode" step more robust.
221 - Make the "AppArmor has (not )? denied" step more robust.
222 - Don't try and use XVFB_PID if it's not set (Closes: #15730).
223 - Adjust Pidgin test to use a certificate that's still in Debian
225 - Use a hopefully more reliable public GnuPG key and make tests
226 more robust against new subkeys being added (Closes: #15771).
227 - Stop hard-coding the list of RTL Tor Browser locales.
228 - Fix the "Unsafe Browser can be used in all languages supported in Tails"
229 test for locales that have a translated homepage (Closes: #11711).
230 - Take into account that apt(8) won't return when run in the remote shell
231 with the ASP hooks enabled.
233 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Thu, 16 Aug 2018 18:37:47 +0000
235 tails (3.8) unstable; urgency=medium
238 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.5.6 (MFSA 2018-17; Closes: #15683).
239 - Upgrade Enigmail to 2.0.7 (partly fixes #15602 aka. EFAIL).
240 - Upgrade libgcrypt to 1.7.6-2+deb9u3 (DSA-4231-1).
241 - Upgrade perl to 5.24.1-3+deb9u4 (DSA-4226-1).
244 - Thunderbird: fix importing public OpenPGP keys from email attachments
246 - Make the Unsafe Browser home page translatable again (Closes: #15461).
249 - Don't display the "Know your rights" message on Thunderbird first run.
250 - Move Thunderbird's default userChrome.css to /etc/thunderbird, just like
251 we do for Tor Browser, for easier upgrade handling.
253 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 25 Jun 2018 09:59:22 +0000
255 tails (3.7.1) unstable; urgency=medium
258 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.5.5 (MFSA 2018-14; closes: #15643).
259 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 52.8.0 (DSA-4209-1; Closes: #15607).
260 - Partially fixes EFAIL.
261 - Fixes importing OpenPGP keys from keyservers with Enigmail.
262 - Accordingly refresh our Thunderbird AppArmor profile patch.
263 - Upgrade cURL to 7.52.1-5+deb9u6 (DSA-4202-1).
264 - Upgrade GnuPG (modern) 2.1.18-8~deb9u2 (DSA-4222-1).
265 - Upgrade GnuPG (legacy) to 1.4.21-4+deb9u1 (DSA-4223-1).
266 - Upgrade Git to 1:2.11.0-3+deb9u3 (DSA-4212-1).
267 - Upgrade PackageKit to 1.1.5-2+deb9u1 (DSA-4207-1).
268 - Upgrade procps to 2:3.3.12-3+deb9u1 (DSA-4208-1).
269 - Upgrade wavpack to 5.0.0-2+deb9u2 (DSA-4197-1).
270 - Upgrade wget to 1.18-5+deb9u2 (DSA-4195-1).
271 - Upgrade xdg-utils to 1.1.1-1+deb9u1 (DSA-4211-1).
274 - Fix setting a screen locker password with non-ASCII characters
277 - Rename the WhisperBack launcher to "WhisperBack Error Reporting"
278 so that users have a better chance to understand what it does
280 - Ensure debugging info in Whisperback reports don't contain email
281 signature markers so that email clients forward it in full
283 - Wrap text written by the user to 70 chars (Closes: #11689).
286 - The "Tails documentation" desktop launcher now opens /doc instead of
287 the aging /getting_started that confused people during user testing
291 - Update to match "Tails documentation" behaviour change.
293 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 09 Jun 2018 19:53:51 +0000
295 tails (3.7) unstable; urgency=medium
298 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.5.4 (MFSA 2018-12, Closes: #15588).
299 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.1.0f-3+deb9u2 (DSA-4157).
300 - Upgrade Perl to 5.24.1-3+deb9u3 (DSA-4172).
301 - Upgrade Libre Office to 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u4 (DSA-4178).
302 - Upgrade libmad to 0.15.1b-8+deb9u1 (DSA-4192).
305 - Enable the removal of OpenPGP keyblock in Whisperback (closes: #7797).
306 - Show the logo in Whisperback's About menu (closes: #13198).
307 - Use the same font in all the Whisperback report (Closes: #11272).
308 - Update tails-bugs@tails.boum OpenPGP key (Closes: #15534).
311 - Stop installing python-qt4 and python-trezor (Closes: #15391).
312 - Make WhisperBack easier to find in the GNOME Overview (Closes: #13299).
314 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 08 May 2018 01:47:22 +0200
316 tails (3.6.2) unstable; urgency=medium
319 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.5.3 (MFSA 2018-10, Closes: #15459).
320 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 1:52.7.0-1~deb9u1.0tails1 (DSA-4155,
322 - Upgrade libicu to 57.1-6+deb9u2 (DSA-4150).
323 - Upgrade intel-microcode to 3.20180312.1~bpo9+1. Implements
324 IBRS/IBPB/STIPB support, Spectre-v2 mitigation for: Sandybridge,
325 Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake
329 - Tor Browser AppArmor profile:
330 * Grant the main Firefox process access to machine-id: needed for
331 IBus support (Closes: #15437).
332 * Allow access to extensions installed by the user such as Tails
333 Verification (Closes: #15434).
334 - Remove packages needed to support Video Acceleration API
335 (VA-API) because they breaks opening GNOME Settings and Totem in
336 Tails 3.6 on some computers (only NVIDIA for now but perhaps
337 other hardware is affected). (Closes: #15433, #15449)
338 - Upgrade Linux to 4.15.11-1 and bump the aufs submodule (Closes:
340 - tails-documentation script:
341 * open translated documentation page in Tor Browser when online
343 * use documented syntax for os.execv (Refs: #15332)
344 * re-add support for passing a HTML anchor as the second
346 - Fix issue where the tails-persistence-setup user's guid would be
347 changed when it was the uid that was intended (Closes: #15422).
349 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Thu, 29 Mar 2018 17:49:42 +0200
351 tails (3.6.1) unstable; urgency=medium
354 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.5.2 (MFSA 2018-08 i.e. CVE-2018-5146).
355 - Upgrade libvorbis to 1.3.5-4+deb9u2 (DSA 4140-1 aka. CVE-2018-5146).
356 - Upgrade curl to 7.52.1-5+deb9u5 (DSA 4136-1).
357 - Upgrade samba to 2:4.5.12+dfsg-2+deb9u2 (DSA 4135-1).
360 - Fix ISO build reproducibility (Closes: #15400)
361 - Disable Selfrando: Tor Browser upstream currently enables it only
362 in non-release builds
363 (https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24912#comment:8).
365 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2018 22:42:00 +0000
367 tails (3.6) unstable; urgency=medium
370 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.5.1.
371 - Upgrade Tor to 0.3.2.10. (Closes: #15158)
372 - Add ability to lock the screen. (Closes: #5684)
373 - Add initial support for Meek bridges. (Closes: #8243)
374 - Upgrade to Thunderbird 52.6.0. (Closes: #15298)
375 - Enable Thunderbird AppArmor profile. (Closes: 11973)
376 - Upgrade Linux to 4.15.0-1. (Closes: #15309).
377 - Upgrade systemd to 237.
378 - Upgrade Electrum to 3.0.6. (Closes: #15022)
379 - Upgrade the base system to the Debian Stretch 9.4 point-release
381 - Port a few shell scripts to Python thanks to GoodCrypto. (Closes: #11198)
384 - Upgrade Intel processor microcode firmware. (Closes: #15173).
385 - Upgrade poppler to 0.48.0-2+deb9u1. (CVE-2017-14929, CVE-2017-1000456)
386 - Upgrade tiff to 4.0.8-2+deb9u2 (CVE-2017-9935, CVE-2017-11335,
387 CVE-2017-12944, CVE-2017-13726, CVE-2017-13727, CVE-2017-18013)
388 - Upgrade ffmpeg to 7:3.2.10-1~deb9u1. (CVE-2017-17081)
389 - Upgrade libtasn1-6 to 4.10-1.1+deb9u1. (CVE-2017-10790, CVE-2018-6003)
390 - Upgrade Libre Office to 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u2. (CVE-2018-6871)
391 - Upgrade libvorbis to 1.3.5-4+deb9u1. (CVE-2017-14632, CVE-2017-14633)
392 - Upgrade gcc to 6.3.0-18+deb9u1.
393 - Upgrade util-linux to 2.29.2-1+deb9u1. (CVE-2018-7738)
394 - Upgrade isc-dhcp to 4.3.5-3+deb9u1 (CVE-2017-3144, CVE-2018-5732,
398 - Avoid noisy warning at boot time by creating tails-upgrade-frontend's
399 trusted GnuPG homedir with stricter permissions, then making it looser.
401 - Drop (broken) Thunderbird dedicated SocksPort. (Closes: #12460)
402 - Drop customized update-ca-certificates.service. (Closes: #14756)
403 - Update AppArmor cupsd profile. (Closes: #15029)
404 - Improve UX when GDM does not start. (Closes: #14521)
405 - Install packages needed to support Video Acceleration API.
407 - Upgrade aufs-dkms for Linux 4.15. (Closes: #15132).
408 - Ship pdf-redact-tools, thanks to dachary <loic@dachary.org>.
410 - Additional Software Packages: convert to python3 and PEP-8.
412 - Additional Software Packages: do not check for updates every time the
413 network gets reconnected. (Closes: #9819)
414 - Revert to xorg-xserver from Stretch. (Closes: #15232)
415 - Open Tails documentation in Tor Browser when online. (Closes: #15332)
416 - Disable Enigmail's Memory Hole feature. (Closes: #15201)
417 - Persistence Setup: stop depending on Synaptic. (Closes: #15263)
420 - Additional Software Packages: fix the "incomplete online upgrade
421 process" bug in offline mode (Closes: #14570)
422 - Additional Software Packages: do not block Desktop opening.
424 - Install OpenPGP Applet 1.1. (Closes: #6398).
425 - Repair rng-tools using a real start-stop-daemon program.
427 - Tails installer: fix bug with unicode status messages. (Closes: #15254)
430 - Abort if tails-custom-apt-sources failed.
431 - Abort the ISO build when DKMS modules are not built. (Closes: #14789).
432 - Improve how we track dependencies in build hooks. (Closes: #14818)
433 - Fix (potential) rare race condition during build.
434 - Ensure the SquashFS has /etc/hostname properly configured.
436 - Bump builder VM's RAM. (Closes: #15310)
439 - Log the list of systemd jobs when systemctl is-system-running fails.
441 - Allow more time for 'systemctl is-system-running' to succeed.
442 - Only support SikuliX, not Sikuli.
443 - Disable SPICE clipboard sharing.
444 - Don't flood the debug logger with the journal contents.
446 - Enter a name into the Thunderbird account configuration.
448 - Fix the "I do not see ..." step's case. (Closes: #14929)
449 - Mark scenarios that use the "The Report an Error launcher will…" step
450 as fragile (Closes: #15321)
451 - Test that Tor Browser opens docs when online. (Closes: #15332)
452 - Adapt test after warning moved to after Unsafe Browser verification
453 dialog. (Closes: #8775)
454 - Dogtailify electrum.feature.
455 - Add additional software packages feature. (Closes: #14572)
456 - Disable test that is broken due to a Tor Browser bug. (refs: #15336)
458 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 12 Mar 2018 21:28:29 +0100
460 tails (3.5) unstable; urgency=medium
463 - Upgrade amd64-microcode to 3.20171205.1, for the mitigation
464 against Spectre (CVE-2017-5715) (Closes: #15148).
465 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.5-build3 (Closes: #15197).
466 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 1:52.5.2-2~deb9u1.0tails1 (Closes: #15033)
467 - Upgrade gdk-pixbuf to 2.36.5-2+deb9u2.0tails1 (Closes: #15177).
468 - Upgrade bind9 to 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3+deb9u4.
469 - Upgrade libxml2 to 2.9.4+dfsg1-2.2+deb9u2.
472 - Upgrade Linux to 4.14.13, which is the first kernel that has the
473 "[x86] microcode/AMD: Add support for fam17h microcode loading"
474 commit, that's needed to load the AMD fam17h microcode for
475 mitigating the Spectre vulnerability (CVE-2017-5715).
478 - Drop Claws Mail persistence setting migration. Whenever
479 persistent Claws Mail setting is enabled, this creates an empty
480 ~/.icedove/ directory, that prevents Thunderbird from starting
482 - Don't prevent the GNOME Applications button from opening its menu if
483 time syncing resulted in a shift back in time (Closes: #14250).
484 - Tails Installer: when cloning Tails to another USB drive, check
485 if the target device has enough space *before* any destructive
486 actions are made (Closes: #14622).
487 - Tor Browser: make "Print to file" work again, for all locales
488 (Closes: #13403, #15024).
491 - Fix option passed to cmp: -q is not supported but --quiet is.
492 Spotted on feature/buster that's the first branch that exercises
493 this code, but there's no reason to fix it only there.
496 - Adapt tests for Tor Launcher 0.2.14.3, i.e. the one shipped with
497 Tor Browser 7.5 in Tails 3.5 (Closes: #15064).
498 - Add support for creating arbitrarily sized partitions.
499 - Add a "Try cloning Tails to a too small partition" scenario
500 (regression test for #14622).
502 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 23 Jan 2018 00:57:58 +0100
504 tails (3.4) unstable; urgency=medium
507 - Install Linux 4.14.0-3 from sid (Closes: #14976). This enables
508 the kernel-side mitigations for Meltdown.
509 - Upgrade curl to 7.52.1-5+deb9u3.
510 - Upgrade enigmail to 2:1.9.9-1~deb9u1.
511 - Upgrade gimp to 2.8.18-1+deb9u1.
512 - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u4.
513 - Upgrade libav (ffmpeg) to 7:3.2.9-1~deb9u1.
514 - Upgrade libxcursor to 1:1.1.14-1+deb9u1.
515 - Upgrade libxml-libxml-perl to 2.0128+dfsg-1+deb9u1.
516 - Upgrade poppler to 0.48.0-2+deb9u1.
517 - Upgrade rsync to 3.1.2-1 3.1.2-1+deb9u1.
518 - Upgrade samba to 2:4.5.12+dfsg-2+deb9u1.
519 - Upgrade sensible-utils to 0.0.9+deb9u1.
520 - Upgrade tor to 0.3.1.9-1~d90.stretch+1.
523 - Display TopIcons systray on the left of the system menu. This
524 fixes #14796 (on Buster, it is displayed in the middle of the
525 screen, on the left of the clock) and an annoying UX problem we
526 have on Stretch: OpenPGP applet is in the middle of icons that
527 share the exact same (modern, GNOME Shell-like) behaviour, which
528 is disturbing when opening one of the modern menus and moving
529 the mouse left/right to the others, because in the middle one
530 icon won't react as expected, and the nice blue bottom border
531 continuity is broken.
532 - Use the "intel" X.Org driver for integrated graphics in Intel
533 i5-7300HQ (Closes: #14990).
534 - Enable HashKnownHosts in the OpenSSH client (Closes: #14995).
535 Debian enables HashKnownHosts by default via /etc/ssh/ssh_config
536 for good reasons, let's not revert to the upstream default.
537 - Pin the AppArmor feature set to the Stretch's kernel one. Linux
538 4.14 brings new AppArmor mediation features and the policy
539 shipped in Stretch may not be ready for it. So let's disable
540 these new features to avoid breaking stuff: it's too hard to
541 check if all the policy for apps we ship (and that users install
542 themselves) has the right rules to cope with these new mediation
546 - Don't delete downloaded debs after install (Closes: #10958).
547 - Install xul-ext-ublock-origin from sid to make the dashboard
548 work again(Closes: #14993). Thanks to cacahuatl
549 <cacahuatl@autistici.org> for the patch!
550 - Additional software feature: use debconf priority critical to
551 prevent failure when installing packages otherwise requiring
552 manual configuration (Closes: #6038)
553 - Don't include anything under /lib/live/mount/medium/ in the
554 readahead list (Closes: #14964). This fixes the boot time
555 regression introduced in Tails 3.3.
558 - Display a more helpful error message when the 'origin' remote
559 does not point to the official Tails Git repository. This task
560 calls git_base_branch_head() which relies on the fact 'origin'
561 points to our official repo.
562 - Vagrant: never build the wiki early. This has caused several
563 issues throughout the years, the lastest instance being the
564 reopening of #14933. (Closes: #14933)
565 - Install libelf-dev during the time we need it for building DKMS modules.
566 - Make the DKMS build hook verbose, and display DKMS modules build
567 logs on failure. This hook is a recurring cause of headaches,
568 let's simplify debugging.
569 - Remove obsolete duplicate build of the virtualbox-guest DKMS
573 - Log the list of systemd jobs when systemctl is-system-running
574 fails (Closes: #14772). Listing the units is not enough: in most
575 cases I've seen, is-system-running returns "starting" which
576 means the job queue is not empty, and to debug that we need the
578 - Only support SikuliX; drop support for Sikuli.
579 - Disable SPICE clipboard sharing in the guest. It could only mess
580 things up, and in fact has confused me by suddenly setting my
581 *host's* clipboard to "ATTACK AT DAWN"... :)
582 - Decode Base64.decode64 return value appropriately; it returns
583 strings encoded in ASCII-8bit.
584 - Don't flood the debug logger with the journal contents.
585 - Handle case where $vm is undefined during an extremely early
587 - Allow more time for 'systemctl is-system-running' to
588 succeed. (Refs: #14772)
589 - Make Sikuli attempt to find replacements on FindFailed by
590 employing fuzz, or "lowering the similarity factor". The
591 replacements (if found) are saved among the artifacts, and
592 serves as potential drop-in-replacements for outdated
593 images. The main use case for this is when the font
594 configuration in Tails changes, which normally invalidates a
595 large part of our images given that our default high similarity
596 factor. We also add the `--fuzzy-image-matching` where the
597 replacements are used in case of FindFailed, so the tests can
598 proceed beyond the first FindFailed. The idea is that a full
599 test suite run will produce replacements for potentially *all*
601 - Fix our findAny() vs findfailed_hook. For findAny() it might be
602 expected that some images won't be found, so we shouldn't use
603 our findfailed_hook, which is about dealing with the situation
604 where images need to be updated.
605 - Make sure Pidgin's D-Bus policy changes are applied (Closes:
606 #15007). Without the HUP there's a race that we sometimes lose.
607 - Nump the Unsafe Browser's start page image (Closes: #15006).
608 - Hot-plug a 'pcnet' network device instead of 'virtio' on Sid,
609 since the latter is not detected on Sid (Closes: #14819).
611 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 08 Jan 2018 16:57:07 +0100
613 tails (3.3) unstable; urgency=medium
616 - Upgrade the base system to the Debian Stretch 9.2 point-release
617 which gives us tons of bugfixes (Closes: #14714).
618 - Install Linux 4.13.0-1 (Closes: #14789).
621 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 52.4.0 (Closes: #14963).
622 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.0.10 (Closes: #14940).
623 - Upgrade gdk-pixbuf to 2.36.5-2+deb9u1.0tails1 (Closes: #14729).
626 - Upgrade to Tor 0.3.1.8-2~d90.stretch+1, a new stable Tor series.
627 - tails-documentation: rewrite in Python + use WebKit for display
628 instead of the Tor Browser. Since Tor Browser 7.0.8 rendering of
629 local pages (like our docs) fail (#14962) so this is probably a
630 temporary workaround of that.
631 - Replace the Unsafe Browser's warning pages with static,
632 pure-HTML versions. This is truly a *temporary* workaround for
634 - Update deb.tails.boum.org APT repo key (Closes: #14927)
635 - Refresh Tor Browser AppArmor profile patch to apply on top of
636 torbrowser-launcher 0.2.8-4's (Closes: #14923).
637 - Drop obsolete manual enabling of AppArmor on the kernel
638 command-line: it's now enabled by default, so the (Tails -
639 Debian) delta gets smaller. :)
642 - Install Tails Installer 5.0.2. Fixes:
643 * Most notably, fix an issue preventing Tails Installer from
644 installing to drives containing a non-Tails partition that
645 (obviously) has affected a lot of users. (Closes: #14755).
646 * Fix an issue that made the resulting installations unbootable
647 if Tails Installer was using a too recent udisks2, e.g. the
648 one currently in Debian Sid (Closes: #14809).
649 * Code clean-ups (Closes: #14721, #14722, #14723).
650 - Fix UEFI boot for USB sticks installed with Universal USB
651 Installer (Closes: #8992).
652 - Force Tor Browser and Thunderbird to enable accessibility
653 support even if no a11y feature is enabled in GNOME yet (Closes:
655 - Mark our custom Desktop launchers as trusted (Closes: #14793,
657 - Add a systemd --user target for bits of GNOME
658 EarlyInitialization managed by systemd, and make the keyboard
659 layout configuration as part of it. This fixes an issue where
660 the layout chosen in the Greeter sometimes wasn't applied in the
661 GNOME session (Closes: #12543).
664 - auto/{build,clean,config}: run with `set -eu`.
665 - Add script to sanity check the website. Currently it ensures all
666 blog posts and security advisories have valid Ikiwiki 'meta
667 date' directives, since we depend on it for reproducibility.
668 Also make passing this sanity check a pre-condition for building
669 the website (Closes: #12726, #14767).
670 - Abort the ISO build when DKMS modules were not built.
671 - Take into account where DKMS modules get installed nowadays.
672 - auto/build: normalize file timestamps in wiki/src before
673 building. The copy of the website included in the ISO image has
674 "Posted" timestamps that apparently match when we cloned the Git
675 repository, which affects reproducibility. (Closes: #14933).
676 - Fix reproducibility of builds of topic branches that lag behind
677 their base branch with the mergebasebranch build option enabled.
678 Two otherwise identical merge commits done at different times
679 get different IDs, and we happen to embed in the ISO the ID of
680 the commit we're building from. (Closes: #14946)
683 - Bump timeout for "I can save the current page as", otherwise the
684 "The Tor Browser directory is usable" scenario fails randomly
685 when the system is under load.
686 - New scenario: installing Tails to an eligible drive with an
687 existing filesystem. This is a regression test for #14755.
688 - New scenario: re-installing over an existing Tails installation.
690 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 14 Nov 2017 04:53:27 +0100
692 tails (3.2) unstable; urgency=medium
695 - Upgrade Linux packages to the Debian kernel 4.12.0-2, based on
696 mainline Linux 4.12.12 (Closes: #11831, #12732, #14673).
699 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.0.6-build3 (Closes: #14696).
700 - Upgrade to Thunderbird 52.3.0 (Closes: #12639).
701 - Deny access to Pidgin's D-Bus service (Closes: #14612). That D-Bus
702 interface is dangerous because it allows _any_ application running
703 as `amnesia' that has access to the session bus to extract
704 basically any information from Pidgin and to reconfigure it:
705 https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/DbusHowto
706 - Block loading of Bluetooth kernel modules (Closes: #14655) and
707 block Bluetooth devices with rfkill (Closes: #14655).
708 - Add localhost.localdomain to the hosts file to prevent loopback
709 leaks to Tor circuits (Closes: #13574). Thanks to tailshark for
713 - Upgrade to Tails Installer 5.0.1 (Closes: #8859, #8860, #12707). This
714 version gets rid of the splash screen, detects when Tails is already
715 installed on the target device (and then proposes to upgrade),
716 and generally improves the UX. It also increases the Tails partition
717 size and refuses to install to devices smaller than 8 GB.
718 - Deprecate Thunderbird's preferences/0000tails.js (Closes: #12680).
719 - Install the BookletImposer PDF imposition toolkit (Closes: #12686).
721 * Fallback to ~/Tor Browser for uploads (Closes: #8917).
722 * Silence some common operations that always are denied and
723 otherwise would spam the journal (Closes: #14606)
724 - Shell library: remove now unused functions (Closes: #12685).
725 - Add pppoe to the installed packages (Closes #13463). Thanks to geb
727 - Replace syslinux:i386 with syslinux:amd64 in the ISO9660
728 filesystem (Closes: #13513).
729 - htpdate: fix date header regexp (Closes: #10495). It seems that
730 some servers (sometimes) do not send their headers with first
731 letter uppercased, hence a lot of failures to find the date in it.
732 - Install aufs-dkms from Debian unstable (Closes: #12732).
733 - Install vim-tiny instead of vim-nox (Closes: #12687). On Stretch,
734 vim-nox started pulling ruby and rake in the ISO. I think vim-tiny
735 would be good enough, and would save a few MiB in the ISO. Those
736 who use vim more intensively and want another flavour of vim are
737 likely to need persistence anyway, and can thus install a more
738 featureful vim with the additional software packages feature.
739 - Remove gksu and its and gconf's dependencies (Closes: #12738). We
740 use pkexec instead of gksudo. gksu is unmaintained, buggy
741 (e.g. #12000), and it is the only reason we ship GConf, which we
742 want to remove. The other removals are:
743 * libgnomevfs2-extra, which was previously used for SSH/FTP support in
744 Nautilus, but isn't needed for that any more.
745 * libgnome2-bin which provides gnome-open, which isn't required by
746 any application in Tails (as far as we know).
747 * Configurations and scripts that become obsolete because of these
749 - Refresh torbrowser-AppArmor-profile.patch to apply cleanly on top
750 of torbrowser-launcher 0.2.8-1 (Closes: #14602).
751 - Switch from Florence to GNOME's on-screen keyboard (Closes: #8281)
752 and incidentally improve accessibility in GTK+ 2.0 and Qt
753 applications. This drops Florence and the corresponding GNOME
755 - Make ./HACKING.mdwn a symlink again (Closes: #13600).
756 - Implement refresh-translations --force .
757 - Rework how we handle the individual POT files of our applications.
758 Comparing the new temporary POT files we generate with the
759 temporary POT files we generated last time (if ever, and if we
760 did, for which branch?) is not relevant; these POT files are only
761 used for merging into a new tails.pot and *that* one is relevant
762 to diff against the old tails.pot.
763 - Update the Tails signing key. (Closes: #11747)
765 * Ensure reproducible permissions for /etc/hostname (Closes:
767 * Patch desktop-file-utils to make its mimeinfo.cache reproducible
769 * Patch glib2.0 to make its giomodule.cache reproducible (Closes:
771 * Patch gdk-pixbuf to make its loaders.cache reproducible (Closes:
773 * Patch gtk2.0 and gtk3.0 to make their immodules.cache
774 reproducible (Closes: #13440).
775 * Remove GCconf: it is a source of non-determinism in the
776 filesystem (element order in /var/lib/gconf/defaults/%gconf-tree-*.xml)
777 which made Tails unreproducible.
778 * Ignore comment updates in POT files, which was a source of
779 non-determinism and therefore prevented Tails from being
780 reproducible (Closes: #12641).
782 * Increase mmap randomization to the maximum supported value
783 (Closes: #11840). This improves ASLR effectiveness, and makes
784 address-space fragmentation a bit worse.
785 * Stop explicitly enabling kaslr: it's enabled by default in
786 Debian, and this kernel parameter is not supported anymore.
787 * Disable kexec, to make our attack surface a bit smaller.
790 - Start Nautilus silently in the background when run as root
791 (Closes: #12034). Otherwise, after closing Nautilus one gets the
792 prompt back only after 5-15 seconds, which confuses users and makes
793 our doc more complicated than it should.
794 - Ensure pinentry-gtk2 run by Seahorse has the correct $DISPLAY set
798 - build-manifest-extra-packages.yml: remove squashfs-tools version
799 we don't use anymore (Closes: #12684). Apparently our
800 apt-get/debootstrap wrapper tricks are enough to detect the
801 version of squashfs-tools we actually install and use.
802 - Merge base branch earlier, i.e. in auto/config instead of
803 auto/build (Closes: #14459). Previously, a given build from a topic
804 branch would mix inconsistent versions of things.
805 - Fail builds started before SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (Closes:
806 #12352). Such builds would not be reproducible, and this is an
807 assumption (a reasonable one!) that we do all over the place, so
808 let's fail early. While we're at it, let's fail if
809 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is not set as well. Actually we would fail any
810 way if that was the case when reaching our
811 99-zzzzzz_reproducible-builds-post-processing build hook, but
815 - Test the GNOME Root Terminal.
816 - Take into account that Tails Installer 5.0.1 refuses to install
817 Tails to devices smaller than 8 GiB. It'll still allow *upgrading*
819 - Use 7200 MiB virtual USB drives when we really mean 8 GiB. In the
820 real world, USB sticks labeled "8 GB" can be much smaller, so
821 Tails Installer will accept anything that's at least 7200 MiB.
822 This commit makes us exercise something closer to what happens in
823 the real world, and incidentally it'll save storage space on our
824 isotesters and improve test suite performance a bit. :)
825 - Have unclutter poll every 0.1s instead of continuously. On current
826 sid, virt-viewer eats a full CPU and doesn't do its job when
827 "unclutter -idle 0" is running.
828 - Adapt tests for Tails Installer 5.0.1.
829 - Workaround Pidgin's DBus interface being blocked since we actually
830 depend on it for some tests.
831 - Test that Pidgin's DBus interface is blocked.
832 - Save more data on test suite failures (Refs: #13541):
833 * When Tor fails to bootstrap, save Tor logs and chutney nodes
835 * When Htpdate fails to synchronize the clock, save its logs.
836 * Always save the systemd journal on failure.
837 - When testing emergency shutdown, wait longer for Tails to tell
838 us it has finished wiping the memory. The goal here is to help
839 us understand whether (Refs: #13462) is a bug in the emergency
840 shutdown feature or in our test suite.
841 - Restart nautilus-desktop if Desktop icons are not visible
843 - Test suite: fix assert_raise() when using ruby-test-unit >=
844 3.2.5 (Closes: #14654). ruby-test-unit 3.2.5 added native Java
845 exception support for JRuby. The fact we defined the :Java
846 constant was enough to trigger that JRuby-specific code, which
848 - Test suite: take into account that click-to-play is not required
849 anymore for WebM videos in Tor Browser (Closes: #14586).
851 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:23:01 +0200
853 tails (3.1) unstable; urgency=medium
856 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.0.4-build1 (Closes: #13577).
857 - Upgrade Linux to 4.9.30-2+deb9u3.
858 - Upgrade libtiff to 4.0.8-2+deb9u1.
859 - Upgrade bind9 to 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3+deb9u2.
860 - Upgrate evince to 3.22.1-3+deb9u1.
861 - Upgrade imagemagick 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u1.
862 - Ensure Thunderbird cleans its temporary directory. (Closes: #13340).
865 - Patch gconf to produce reproducible XML output (refs: #12738). This is
866 the temporary solution for #12738 in Tails 3.1 which will be reverted
867 (and fixed permanently by removing gconf) in Tails 3.2.
868 - Apply Debian bts patch to cracklib to produce reproducible dictionnaries
870 - Upgrade to Debian 9.1 (Closes: #13178).
873 - Replace faulty URL in htpdate neutral pool (Closes: #13472).
874 - Keep installing a version of Enigmail compatible with Thunderbird 45.x
876 - Fix the time syncing and Tor notifications translations (Closes: #13437).
879 - Upgrade the Vagrant basebox for building ISO images to Stretch
881 - Fix on-disk build by bumping Vagrant build VM memory to 768M
883 - Fix rescue build option by exporting TAILS_BUILD_FAILURE_RESCUE
887 - mark gnome screenshot scenario as fragile (refs: #13458)
888 - mark UEFI scenario as fragile (refs: #13459).
890 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 05 Aug 2017 15:25:51 +0200
892 tails (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium
895 - Upgrade tor to 0.3.0.9-1~d90.stretch+1 (Closes: #13253).
896 - Upgrade Linux to 4.9.30-2+deb9u2.
897 - Upgrade libc to 2.24-11+deb9u1.
898 - Upgrade libexpat1 to 2.2.0-2+deb9u1.
899 - Upgrade libgcrypt20 to 1.7.6-2+deb9u1.
900 - Upgrade libgnutls30 to 3.5.8-5+deb9u1.
901 - Enable Debian security APT sources (Closes: #12309).
904 - Use a higher resolution image in Tails persistence setup
908 - Forcibly set $SSH_AUTH_SOCK before starting GNOME
909 Shell. Apparently, due to a race condition, GNOME keyring
910 sometimes fails to tell the session manager about the correct
911 SSH_AUTH_SOCK, and thus GNOME Terminal hasn't this variable set
912 and any ssh process started in there won't use the (perfectly
913 working) SSH agent (Closes: #12481).
914 - Fix issue that made Tails Installer rejects working USB drives,
915 pretending they're not "removable" (Closes: #12696).
916 - Make behavior of the power button and lid close actions in the Greeter
917 consistent with the regular GNOME session (Closes: #13000).
920 - Track the latest debian-security archive for the corresponding
921 APT sources, and not for the unrelated jessie-updates (Closes:
923 - Print APT sources used in the build VM, to help debugging issues
926 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 04 Jul 2017 15:59:18 +0200
928 tails (3.0) unstable; urgency=medium
931 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.0.1 (Closes: #12635, #12657).
932 - Upgrade to a new snapshot of the Debian and Torproject
933 APT repositories: respectively 2017060904 and 2017060903
937 - Tor Browser: enable Electrolysis (e10s), i.e. render content in a separate
938 child process, which will allow to improve performance and security
939 further along the road. This required us to drop our branding add-on
940 and re-implement its functionality in our Tor Browser wrapper
942 - Clean obsolete cached packages when using the Additional Software Packages
943 feature (Closes: #12400).
944 - Improve KeePassX database migration handling (Closes: #12375).
945 - Upgrade OnionShare to 0.9.2, from Debian sid as it has been removed
946 from Stretch (Closes: #12610).
947 - Upgrade Tor to 0.3.0.8 (Closes: #12656).
948 - Drop obsolete bilibop patch, that was applied in 0.5.2.1.
949 - Include disk space usage information in the WhisperBack bug reports.
950 - Reorder technical details in WhisperBack bug reports in way that makes
951 more sense when reading them.
952 - Convert lc.py to Python 3.
953 - Simplify some Python code thanks to subprocess.check_ouput.
954 - Set the initial keyboard focus on the "Start Tails" button
955 in Tails Greeter (Closes: #12509).
956 - Convert Tails Greeter's Debian packaging to current best practices.
959 - Fix persistent Thunderbird configuration migration when there is
960 a mimeTypes.rdf, that doesn't contain any associations to "icedove"
961 or "/usr/bin/iceweasel" (Closes: #12580).
962 - Fix persistent browser bookmarks, by generating them from an sqlite dump
964 - Use the "intel" X.Org driver for Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor
965 x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Integrated Graphics Controller.
966 - `exec' from our Thunderbird wrapper so it doesn't remain running.
967 - Tails Installer: don't allow installing on non-removable drives
969 - Fetch the torbrowser-launcher sources from Debian sid:
970 it's been removed from Debian testing.
971 Refresh torbrowser-AppArmor-profile.patch accordingly.
972 - Unsafe Browser: remove the search bar, that's currently buggy
973 and its presence only encourages unsupported usage (Closes: #12573).
974 - Unsafe Browser: disable searching in the address bar. It can result
975 in leaking hostnames and credentials to the default search
976 engine operator (Closes: #12540).
977 - Make our omni.ja modifications reproducible (Closes: #12620).
978 - Generate the fontconfig cache in a reproducible manner (Closes: #12567).
979 - Don't include torrents/rss.html in the ISO. It's not generated
980 in a deterministic manner and is worthless in the ISO (Closes: #12619).
981 - Improve the language → default keyboard layout mapping
982 in Tails Greeter (Closes: #12547).
983 - Don't close Tails Greeter's main window when Alt-F4 is pressed
987 - Run emergency_shutdown.feature after usb_*.feature, to reduce disk
988 space requirements (Closes: #12565).
989 - Deal with server messages in Pidgin.
990 - Improve Pidgin connectivity check robustness.
991 - Flag the Synaptic test as fragile (i.e. #12586).
992 - Optimization: only test once that Tails, booted on DVD, eventually
993 shuts down after wiping memory.
994 - Move tests about the shutdown applet to a dedicated feature,
995 as they have nothing to do with Tails' "emergency" shutdown feature.
996 - Adapt the network connectivity check to Stretch, and improve it to check
997 both link and IP connectivity (Closes: #12602).
998 - Apply a fix from upstream Git to mutter, to fix some of its interactions
999 with dogtail (Closes: #11718).
1000 - Mark "Scenario: Watching a WebM video" as fragile (i.e. #10442).
1003 - Set create_box -e, to make the vagrant box generation a bit more robust.
1005 - Install kernel from backports and Tails build deps before performing
1006 APT upgrade, to avoid useless bandwidth usage (Closes: #12529).
1007 - Update submodules after merging the base branch (Closes: #12556).
1008 - Rakefile: fix date comparison in basebox:clean_old (Closes: #12575).
1009 - Rakefile: have basebox:clean_old delete baseboxes more than 4 months old
1011 - Also check for fuzzy patches' .orig files at the end of our build hooks,
1012 so we detect any fuzzy patches applied by hooks (Closes: #12617).
1013 - Remove .orig files for patches we allow to be fuzzy.
1014 - Don't pre-build the wiki when mergebasebranch is enabled.
1015 When pre-building the wiki, we modify the PO files which results in a
1016 conflict from the base branch merge in case it modifies the same
1017 files, which breaks the build (Closes: #12611).
1018 - Rakefile: add a task that removes all tails-builder-* libvirt volumes
1021 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 10 Jun 2017 14:39:10 +0000
1023 tails (3.0~rc1) unstable; urgency=medium
1026 - Install Thunderbird 1:45.8.0-3+tails2 and handle the Icedove → Thunderbird
1027 migration, including wrt. persistent data (Closes: #11712, #12242).
1028 This package also has the patch from
1029 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1281959 applied,
1030 to ease future integration of the Thunderbird AppArmor profile.
1031 Also, drop the Claws → Icedove migration path.
1032 - Upgrade to a new snapshot of the Debian and Torproject
1033 APT repositories: 2017051803 (Closes: #12554).
1034 - Upgrade Linux packages to the Debian kernel 4.9.0-3, based on
1035 mainline Linux 4.9.25.
1036 - Replace the kexec-based memory erasure feature with the Linux kernel's
1037 memory poisoning (Closes: #12354, #12428). The kexec-based implementation
1038 was not reliable enough and provided a poor UX. Instead, we now return
1039 to the initramfs on shutdown and unmount all filesystems there, so their
1040 content and corresponding caches are erased.
1041 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.0a4 based on Firefox 52.1.1esr (Closes:
1043 * Unfortunately e10s (multi-process Firefox) is disabled (#12569).
1044 * Unfortunately persistent bookmarks created for the first time
1045 in Tails 3.0~rc1 is broken (#12568).
1046 * Adds exceptions for the extensions Tails installs on top of
1047 the vanilla Tor Browser (Closes: #11419).
1048 - Upgrade tor to 0.3.0.7-1 (Closes: #12485) and log both to the
1049 usual file and the journal (Closes: #12412).
1050 - Merge the code that makes Tails almost build reproducibly (Refs:
1051 #5630); we still have issues with the fontconfig cache (Refs:
1054 * Minor improvements
1055 - Add a HACKING document for new code contributors (Closes:
1057 - Rename tor-controlport-filter to onion-grater (Closes: #12394)
1058 and import patches killing the delta against Whonix version
1060 - Improve onion-grater; thanks to Joy SN <joysn1980@yahoo.com>
1061 for the original patches (Closes: #12173):
1062 · add --listen-interface
1063 · make stdout/stderr unbuffered to ensure Python exceptions are logged
1064 · use yaml.safe_load()
1065 - Improve KeePassX database migration handling (refs: #12375).
1066 - Electrum: set coin selection strategy to 'Privacy' (Closes: #12177).
1067 - Allow Onion Circuits to access /proc/pid/status.
1068 - Make gdm-shell-tails.desktop more similar to the one shipped
1069 in gnome-shell 3.22.3-3 (refs: #12364).
1070 - Greeter: have the help window point to updated documentation,
1071 use WebKit2 instead of the deprecated WebKit, and hide the sidebar
1073 - Use exec to start KeePassX, i.e. avoid leaving the wrapper running.
1076 - Install xserver-xorg-legacy, to fix support for various graphics
1077 adapters that still don't work with rootless X.Org (Closes: #12542).
1078 - Use the "intel" X.Org driver for Intel Q35 and Intel Atom
1079 D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx graphics controllers (refs: #12219).
1080 - Give UEFI bootloaders upper-case filenames (Closes: #12511).
1081 Some UEFI firmware, such as the one in the ThinkPad X220, only recognize
1082 them if they have an upper-case name.
1083 - KeePassX: enable "Automatically save after each change" again,
1084 like we did in Tails 2.x (fixes a regression introduced
1086 - Install packages needed by the "Test speakers" functionality
1088 - Fix automatic upgrades when one is already applied (Closed:
1090 - When generating the network device blacklist, also blacklist
1091 network drivers from the staging directory (Closes: #12362).
1092 - htpdate pool: replace www.sarava.org with leap.se. The former
1093 has been down for a while and it's not clear when it's going to
1094 be stable again. The latter should be reliable.
1097 - Check that dirmngr used the configured keyserver (Closes: #12371).
1098 - Sanity check that Chutney starts all nodes in the network.
1099 - Disable the Sandbox option for all nodes, until Tor#21943
1100 is fixed (Closes: #12512).
1101 - Wait for the desktop icons to be displayed in the "Tails desktop is ready"
1102 step. Let's not try interacting with the desktop earlier.
1103 - Add tests for memory erasure on "normal" shutdown (refs: #12428).
1104 - Add tests for memory erasure on "emergency" shutdown, and run some
1105 with network enabled (refs: #12354).
1106 - Have eject_cdrom run eject(1) like it used to do in the past.
1107 Otherwise the machine is immediately halted and we cannot test
1108 whether memory has been erased.
1109 - Pass mount_USB_drive structured data instead of free-form text.
1110 - Test that MAC spoofing and "Disable network" works for
1111 hotplugged networking devices (Refs: #12362).
1114 - Generate the Vagrant base box locally as part of the build process,
1115 instead of downloading it: one less binary blob as input in the build
1116 process (refs: #12409).
1117 - Use Vagrant for builds on Jenkins too (Closes: #11972).
1118 - Tell build script to be more verbose.
1119 - Respect the 'ARTIFACTS' environment variable if set.
1120 - Add a second disk to handle the apt-cacher-ng cache, and store
1121 the corresponding logs in there (Closes: #11979).
1122 - Use APT snapshots in Vagrant build VMs, create/use a basebox that matches
1123 the branch/tag/commit being tested, and provision a new VM for each build
1124 (Closes: #11980, #11981).
1125 - Ship all build dependencies in the Vagrant basebox, to save some
1126 time when building ISOs.
1127 - Make basebox generation compatible with both GnuPG 1.x and 2.x.
1128 - Set LC_ALL=C, mostly to suppress some warnings.
1129 - Support forcing VM cleanup before/after build.
1130 - Add tasks for cleaning up old or all base boxes (refs: #12409).
1131 - Add build option useful for debugging build failures.
1132 - Remove obsolete build options.
1133 - Make auto/scripts/utils.sh more reusable, use it in Rakefile,
1134 auto/build and setup-tails-builder.
1135 - Add an option controlling whether to merge the base branch.
1136 - Add "rake test" target and import logics from puppet-tails'
1137 wrap_test_suite script.
1138 - Build Tails as a release simply when HEAD is tagged, i.e. we do not
1139 require building from a detached head any more.
1140 - Sanity check compression choice when building a release.
1141 - Use the host's resolv.conf when building the Vagrant base box.
1142 Since systemd-networkd is used to manage resolv.conf inside the base box,
1143 and it hasn't been initialized yet (we are not booting it, just chrooting
1144 into it) DNS is broken otherwise.
1145 - Release process: "release" a new base box when freezing.
1146 - Chown/scp artifacts with a single command to limit overhead and warnings
1147 noise caused by repeated SSH calls.
1148 - Add a build options to use a custom CPU model, and custom
1149 machine type, for reproducibility testing (refs: #12345).
1150 - Add support for installing Tor Browser nightly builds.
1152 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 20 May 2017 16:48:45 +0200
1154 tails (3.0~beta4) unstable; urgency=medium
1157 - All changes brought by Tails 2.12.
1158 - Upgrade to a new snapshot of the Debian and Torproject
1159 APT repositories (2017041704).
1161 * Security improvements
1162 - Enable the buddy page allocator free poisoning (Closes: #12089).
1163 - Enable slub/slab allocator free poisoning (Closes: #12090).
1164 - Create IUKs (automatic upgrades) in a reproducible manner
1167 * Minor improvements
1168 - Firewall: forbid the _apt user to talk to DNS ports. APT works very well
1169 without DNS access since we only have Onion APT sources, so let's silence
1171 - Replace Pidgin's "systray" icon with the guifications plugin
1172 (Closes: #11741). We're trying to remove as much as we can from
1173 the set of icons managed by TopIcons extension flavours, in the hope
1174 it's enough to cancel the problems we've seen with them (#10576, #11737).
1175 - Disable apt-daily.timer, that can only cause problems in our context
1177 - Do not let pppd-dns manage /etc/resolv.conf (Closes: #12401).
1178 - Ensure rootless X.Org can access /dev/fb0 when started by GDM.
1179 - Include the amdgpu module in the initramfs (refs: #12218).
1180 - Tails Greeter: don't mention 'firewall' anymore (#12382).
1181 - Tails Greeter: avoid the popover menu for Formats being cut,
1182 in most cases (Closes: #12249).
1183 - Tails Greeter: disable the screensaver (Closes: #12370).
1184 - Tails Greeter: fix behavior when pressing Enter in the language selection
1185 menu (Closes: #12359).
1188 - Install speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng to fix the Orca screen reader
1190 - Install xserver-xorg-video-intel and use it on a few graphics adapters
1191 that are not supported correctly by the modesetting driver (refs: #12219).
1192 More PCI IDs will be added as new affected hardware is reported.
1195 - Run on a Q35 2.8 machine (Closes: #11605).
1196 - Deprecate xtightvncviewer in favor of tigervnc-viewer.
1197 - Test the Unsafe Browser in 3 random supported languages, not all.
1198 This should be enough to identify most future regressions in this area,
1199 and will be much faster than testing them all.
1200 - Pidgin tests: switch to an image that doesn't depend on the
1201 topic of tails@conference.riseup.net.
1202 - Fix a problematic use of try_for.
1203 - Fix VM.select_virtual_desktop() and VM.do_focus().
1204 - Random Gherkin improvements.
1205 - Fix a focus issue for GNOME Terminal vs. Tails Installer.
1206 - Adjust to kernel memory poisoning being enabled, which breaks the way
1207 we used to test memory erasure (refs: #12354):
1208 · Drop "no memory erasure" and "memory erasure" tests, that can't work
1210 · Test erasure of memory freed by a killed userspace process.
1211 · Test that memory poisoning applies to unmounted tmpfs.
1212 · Test that memory poisoning applies to read and write cache
1213 for unmounted vfat and LUKS-encrypted ext4.
1214 · Run erase_memory a bit later, it requires less disk space nowadays.
1216 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2017 13:01:25 +0000
1218 tails (2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1221 - Completely remove I2P. :( We have decided to remove I2P (see
1222 #11276) due to our failure of finding someone interested in
1223 maintaining it in Tails (Closes: #12263).
1224 - Upgrade the Linux kernel to 4.9.13-1~bpo8+1 (Closes: #12122).
1227 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.5.2 based on Firefox 45.9. (Closes:
1229 - Mount a dedicated filesystem on /var/tmp, to mitigate the
1230 hardlinks permissions open by the user-tmp abstraction. See
1231 https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/9949#note-23 for details
1233 - Protect against CVE-2017-2636 by disabling the n-hdlc kernel
1234 module (Closes: #12315).
1235 - Ensure /etc/resolv.conf is owned by root:root in the SquashFS.
1236 lb_chroot_resolv will "cp -a" it from the source tree, so it
1237 inherits its ownership from the whoever cloned the Git
1238 repository. This has two problems. First, this results in unsafe
1239 permissions on this file (e.g. a Vagrant build results in the
1240 'amnesia' user having write access to it).
1241 - Upgrade libjasper1 to 1.900.1-debian1-2.4+deb8u3
1242 - Upgrade gstreamer and its plugins to 1.4.4-2+deb8u1.
1243 - Upgrade eject to 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13.1+deb8u1.
1244 - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u8.
1245 - Upgrade pidgin to 2.11.0-0+deb8u2.
1246 - Upgrade samba to 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u5.
1249 * Minor improvements
1250 - Don't add the live user to the "audio" group. This should not be
1251 needed on a modern Linux desktop system anymore (Closes:
1253 - Install virtualbox-* 5.1.14-dfsg-3~bpo8+1 from our custom APT
1254 repository (Closes: #12307).
1255 - Install virtualbox-guest-* from sid. The version currently in
1256 jessie-backports is not compatible with Linux 4.9, and there's
1257 basically no chance that it gets updated (the maintainer asked
1258 for them to be *removed* from jessie-backports) (Closes:
1260 - Pull ttdnsd from our custom APT repository. It's gone from the
1261 TorProject one. We removed ttdnsd on feature/stretch already, so
1262 we'll need to pull it from our custom APT repository only for
1264 - Clean up libdvd-pkg build files, again. This cleanup operation
1265 was mistakenly removed in commit c4e8744 (Closes: #11273).
1266 - Install gnome-sound-recorder (Closes #10950). Thanks to Austin
1267 English <austinenglish@gmail.com> for the patch!
1268 - Stop restarting tor if bootstrapping stalls. It seems tor might
1269 have fixed the issues we used (see: #10238, #9516) to experience
1270 with the bootstrap process stalling and requiring a restart to
1271 kickstart it (Closes: #12411).
1272 - tor.sh: communicate via the UNIX socket instead of TCP port.
1273 This makes the library usable when run inside systemd units that
1274 have `PrivateNetwork=yes` set.
1275 - Get tor's bootstrap progress via GETINFO instead of log
1277 - Upgrade tor to 0.2.9.10-1~d80.jessie+1
1280 - mirror-pool-dispatcher: bump maximum expected mirrors.json size
1281 to 32 KiB. This fixes an error where Tails Upgrader would
1282 complain with "cannot choose a download server" (Closes:
1286 - Retry curl and APT operations up to 20 times to make the ISO
1287 build more robust wrt. unreliable Internet connectivity. Thanks
1288 to Arnaud <arnaud@preev.io> for the patch!
1289 - Install ikiwiki from jessie-backports, instead of our patched
1290 one. Our changes were merged in 3.20161219, and jessie-backports
1291 now has 3.20170111~bpo8+1 (Closes: #12051).
1292 - Fix FTBFS when installing a .deb via config/chroot_local-packages
1293 by being more flexible when matching local packages in the apt
1294 list file (Closes: #12374). Thanks to Arnaud <arnaud@preev.io>
1296 - auto/build: support Stretch's GnuPG v2 keyring filename.
1299 - Try possible fix for #11508. IPv6Packet:s' source is accessed by
1300 `.ipv6_saddr`, not `ip_saddr` (that's for IPv4Packet). So, let's
1301 just try and see which one of the two each packet has, because
1302 one of them must be there! Also, given that UDPPacket can be
1303 either IPv4 or IPv6 it seems safest to try to parse each packet
1304 as IPv6Packet first -- that way we keep looking at transport
1305 layer protocols for IPv4 only, and treat everything IPv6 as the
1306 same, which makes sense, since we should block all IPv6, so
1307 everything should be treated the same at all times.
1308 - Changes due to #12411:
1309 * Raise special exception for Tor bootstrap failures.
1310 * Remove obsolete debug logging now that we don't log anything
1311 interesting for `restart-tor` any more.
1313 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2017 17:41:46 +0200
1315 tails (3.0~beta3) unstable; urgency=medium
1317 * Major new features and changes
1318 - Make the "Formats" settings in Tails Greeter take effect (Closes: #12079,
1319 new feature that was broken since it was introduced in 3.0~alpha1).
1320 - Upgrade to a new snapshot of the Debian and Torproject
1321 APT repositories (2017031702).
1324 - Stop including I2P: we decided (#11276) to remove I2P, due to our failure
1325 at finding someone to maintain it in Tails (Closes: #12263).
1328 - Upgrade MAT to 0.6.1-4: fixes silent failure of the Nautilus
1329 contextual menu extension.
1330 - Ensure /etc/resolv.conf is owned by root:root in the SquashFS
1332 - Protect against CVE-2017-2636 by disabling the n-hdlc kernel module
1335 * Minor improvements
1336 - Reintroduce the X11 guest utilities for VirtualBox (regression
1337 introduced in 3.0~beta2).
1338 - Upgrade X.Org server and the modesetting driver (hopefully helps
1340 - Automate the migration from KeePassX databases generated on Tails 2.x
1341 to the format required by KeePassX 2.0.x (Closes: #10956, #12369).
1342 - Add keyboard shortcuts in Tails Greeter (Closes: #12186, #12063).
1343 - Install dbus-user-session (regression introduced in 3.0~beta2).
1344 - Manage temporary directories in a declarative way (tmpfiles.d).
1345 - Replace references to the /var/run compatibility symlink
1346 with the canonical /run.
1347 - Update our Torbirdy patchset to the latest one sent upstream.
1348 - Install mesa-utils, so that Qt 5 can detect whether software based
1349 rendering is needed.
1350 - Have Tails Greeter honor the "debug" kernel command-line option,
1351 for easier debugging (Closes: #12373).
1352 - Refactor Tails Greeter to reduce code duplication (Closes: #12247).
1355 - Fix sizing of zenity dialogs (Closes: #12313, regression introduced
1357 - Fix confusing, spurious error messages in command-line applications
1358 wrapped with torsocks:
1359 · Ship a /etc/mailname file with content "localhost".
1360 Otherwise something (Git? libc6?) tries to resolve the "amnesia" host
1361 name, which fails, and a confusing error message is displayed
1362 (Closes: #12205, regression introduced in 3.0~alpha1).
1363 · Have torsocks allow UDP connections to the loopback interface,
1364 with AllowOutboundLocalhost 2 (Closes: #11736).
1367 - Improve debugging info logging for PacketFu parsing issues,
1368 and implement a plausible fix (refs: #11508).
1369 - Try to make "double-click on desktop launcher" more reliable.
1370 - Fix selection of ISO in Tails Installer.
1371 - Re-enable the GnuPG tests that require a keyserver, pointing them
1372 to an Onion service we run on Chutney, that redirects all TCP traffic
1373 to a real, clearnet keyserver (Closes: #12211).
1374 - Implement a workaround for checking the configured keyserver in GnuPG,
1375 until a better fix is implemented (refs: #12371).
1376 - Fix the "Report an Error launcher" scenario in German.
1379 - Retry curl and APT operations up to 20 times to make the ISO build
1380 more robust wrt. unreliable Internet connectivity.
1381 Thanks to Arnaud <arnaud@preev.io> for the patch!
1382 - Install ikiwiki from jessie-backports, instead of our patched one
1384 - Clean up libdvd-pkg build files, again (Closes: #11273).
1385 - Rakefile: fix TAILS_OFFLINE_BUILD exported variable name.
1386 - Adjust apt-mirror to support branches based on feature/stretch
1387 that don't use frozen APT snapshots.
1389 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 19 Mar 2017 15:10:28 +0100
1391 tails (3.0~beta2) unstable; urgency=medium
1393 * All changes brought by Tails 2.11, except:
1394 - the test suite changes, that are not all compatible with this branch;
1395 - the "Tails 3.0 will require a 64-bit processor" notification:
1396 this advance warning is not useful on a release series
1399 * Major new features and changes
1400 - Upgrade to a new snapshot of the Debian APT repositories (2017030802),
1401 and of the Torproject ones (2017030801).
1402 - Upgrade Linux to 4.9.0-2 (version 4.9.13-1).
1404 * Minor improvements
1405 - Improve GNOME Shell Window List styling. (Closes: #12233)
1408 - Make it possible to start graphical applications in the Root Terminal.
1412 - Improve robustness when dealing with notifications. (Closes: #11464)
1413 - Bump timeout when waiting for 'Tor is ready' notification.
1414 - Fix the incremental upgrade test.
1415 - Drop a few obsolete test cases, update a number of images.
1416 - Adapt firewall leak test to new DHCP source IP address.
1417 - Adjust Seahorse and Enigmail tests to the keyserver that is now used.
1419 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 08 Mar 2017 16:29:44 +0000
1421 tails (2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1424 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.5.1 based on Firefox 45.8. (Closes:
1426 - Fix CVE-2017-6074 (local root privilege escalation) by disabling
1427 the 'dccp' module. (Closes: #12280)
1428 - Disable kernel modules for some uncommon network protocol. These
1429 are the ones recommended by CIS. (Part of: #6457)
1430 - Disable modules we blacklist for security reasons. Blacklisted
1431 (via `blacklist MODULENAME`) modules are only blocked from being
1432 loaded during the boot process, but are still loadable with an
1433 explicit `modprobe MODULENAME`, and (worse!) via kernel module
1435 - Upgrade linux-image-4.8.0-0.bpo.2-686-unsigned to 4.8.15-2~bpo8+2.
1436 - Upgrade bind9 to 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u10.
1437 - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u7.
1438 - Upgrade libevent-2.0-5 to 2.0.21-stable-2+deb8u1.
1439 - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u9.
1440 - Upgrade libjasper1 to 1.900.1-debian1-2.4+deb8u2.
1441 - Upgrade liblcms2-2 to 2.6-3+deb8u1.
1442 - Upgrade libxpm4 to 1:3.5.12-0+deb8u1.
1443 - Upgrade login to 1:4.2-3+deb8u3.
1444 - Upgrade ntfs-3g to 1:2014.2.15AR.2-1+deb8u3.
1445 - Upgrade openjdk-7-jre to 7u121-2.6.8-2~deb8u1.
1446 - Upgrade openssl to 1.0.1t-1+deb8u6.
1447 - Upgrade tcpdump to 4.9.0-1~deb8u1.
1448 - Upgrade vim to 2:7.4.488-7+deb8u2.
1449 - Upgrade libreoffice to 1:4.3.3-2+deb8u6.
1451 * Minor improvements
1452 - import-translations: also import PO files for French from
1453 Transifex. The translation team for French switched to Transifex
1454 even for our custom programs:
1455 https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-l10n/2016-November/004312.html
1456 - Notify the user, if running on a 32-bit processor, that it won't
1457 be supported in Tails 3.0 anymore. (Closes: #12193)
1458 - Notify I2P users that I2P will be removed in Tails
1459 2.12. (Closes: #12271)
1462 - Disable -proposed-updates at boot time. If a Debian point
1463 release happens right after a freeze but we have decided to
1464 enable it before the freeze to get (at least most of) it, then
1465 we get in the situation where -proposed-updates is enabled in
1466 the final release, which we don't want. We only want it enabled
1467 at build time. (Closes: #12169)
1468 - Ferm: Use the variable when referring to the Live user. The
1469 firewall will fail to start during early boot otherwise since
1470 the "amnesia" user hasn't been created yet. (Closes: #12208)
1471 - Tor Browser: Don't show offline warning when opening local
1472 documentation. (Closes: #12269)
1473 - tails-virt-notify-user: use the tails-documentation helper to
1474 improve UX when one is not connected to Tor yet, and display
1475 localized doc when available.
1476 - Fix rare issue causing automatic upgrades to not apply properly
1477 (Closes: #8449, and hopefully #11839 as well):
1478 * Allow the tails-install-iuk user to run "/usr/bin/nocache
1480 * Install tails-iuk 2.8, which will use nocache for various file
1481 operations, and sync writes to the installation medium.
1482 - Install Linux 4.8.15 to prevent GNOME from freezing with Intel
1483 GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics. (Closes: #12217, but fixes tons
1484 of other small bugs)
1487 - Add 'offline' option, making it possible to build Tails offline
1488 (if all needed resources are present in your cache). (Closes:
1492 - Encapsulate exec_helper's class to not "pollute" the global
1493 namespace with all our helpers. This is an example of how we can
1495 - Extend remote shell with *safe* file operations. Now we can
1496 read/write/append *any* characters without worrying that it will
1497 do crazy things by being passed through the shell, as was the
1498 case before. This commit also:
1499 * adds some better reporting of errors happening on the server
1500 side by communicating back the exception thrown.
1501 * removes the `user` parameter from the VM.file_* methods. They
1502 were not used, any way, and simply do not feel like they
1503 fit. I think the only reason we had it initially was because
1504 it was implemented via the command interface, where a user
1505 concept makes a lot of sense.
1506 - debug_log() Dogtail script content on failure.
1507 - Add a very precise timestamp to each debug_log().
1508 - Make robust_notification_wait() ensure the applet is closed. In
1509 robust_notification_wait() when we close the notification
1510 applet, other windows may change position, creating a racy
1511 situation for any immediately following action aimed at one such
1512 window. (Closes: #10381)
1513 - Fix I2P's Pidgin test. The initial conversation (that determines
1514 the title of the conversation window) is now made by a different
1515 IRC service than before.
1516 - Use lossless compression for the VNC viewer with --view.
1517 Otherwise the VNC viewer is not a good place to extract test
1518 suite images from, at least with xtigervncviewer.
1519 - Add optional pause() notification feature to the test suite. It
1520 will run a user-configurable arbitrary shell command when
1521 pause() is called, e.g. on failure when --interactive-debugging
1522 is used. This is pretty useful when multitasking with long test
1523 suite runs, so you immediately are notified when a test fails
1524 (or when you reached a temporary pause() breakpoint). (Closes:
1526 - Add the possibility to run Python code in a persistent session
1527 in the remote shell and use this for Dogtail to significantly
1528 improve its performance by saving state and reusing it between
1529 commands. This changes the semantics of the creation of Dogtail
1530 objects. Previously they just created the code that then would
1531 be run once an actionable method was called (.wait, .click etc),
1532 but now it works like in Python, that Dogtail will try to find
1533 the graphical element upon object creation. (Closes: #12059)
1534 - Test that we don't ship any -proposed-updates APT sources.
1536 - Make force_new_tor_circuit() respect NEWNYM rate limiting.
1537 - Add retry magic for lost click when opening Tails' documentation
1538 from the desktop launcher. (Closes: #12131)
1540 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 06 Mar 2017 17:14:52 +0100
1542 tails (3.0~beta1) experimental; urgency=medium
1544 * All changes brought by Tails 2.7.1, 2.9.1 and 2.10.
1546 * Major new features and changes
1547 - Redesigned Tails Greeter.
1548 - Upgrade to a new snapshot (2017013002) of the Debian and Torproject
1550 - Upgrade Linux to 4.9.0-1.
1553 - Reject packets sent on the LAN to the NetBIOS name service
1555 - Seahorse: use the Tor OnionBalance hidden service pool,
1556 which provides transport encryption and authentication of the keyserver.
1558 * Minor improvements
1559 - Include adwaita-qt* and enable it by default, so that Qt applications
1560 integrate nicely into a GNOME environment (Closes: #11790).
1561 - Add support for the TREZOR hardware wallet in Electrum (Closes: #10964).
1562 - AppArmor: allow all programs to read /etc/tor/torsocks.conf via
1563 abstractions/base, to ease maintenance.
1564 - Don't (try to) bind the Power button to the shutdown action
1566 - Enable natural scrolling (Closes: #11969).
1567 - Update uBlock Origin patterns + settings file.
1568 - live-persist: remove Squeeze → Wheezy migration code.
1569 - Update pre-existing persistent GnuPG configuration on login
1571 - Upgrader: use the alpha channel when the next version will be an
1572 alpha, beta, or RC. This will allow users of 3.0~betaN to upgrade to
1573 the next beta or RC, without having to type any command-line
1577 - Fix "upgrade from ISO" when run from a 32-bit system,
1578 such as Tails 2.x (Closes: #11873).
1579 - Fix ability to read videos over HTTPS with Totem (Closes: #11963).
1580 - Re-introduce default directories in $HOME, which fixes
1581 Spice file transfers (Closes: #11968).
1582 - Re-enable tap-to-click (Closes: #11993).
1583 - Lower systemd's DefaultTimeoutStopSec, to get rid of a long delay
1584 before memory wiping starts. This also prevents shutdown from ever
1585 being blocked by any buggy service that takes a while to stop
1587 - Drop Jessie APT sources.
1588 - Re-add VirtualBox DKMS modules.
1589 - Fix GnuPG communication with keyservers, by using the Tor OnionBalance
1590 hidden service pool (Closes: #12202).
1591 - Fix Enigmail communication with keyservers, by teaching Torbirdy
1592 not to break it (Closes: #11948):
1593 · Patch Torbirdy to allow not breaking keyserver communication when
1594 using GnuPG v2.1+, and to use a better default keyserver.
1595 · Torbirdy: enable the new behaviour made possible by the aforementioned
1596 patch (extensions.enigmail.already_torified).
1597 · Torbirdy: drop our custom keyserver configuration, since the
1598 aforementioned patch makes it the default.
1601 - Don't install gnome-system-log anymore (Closes: #12133).
1602 It's deprecated in GNOME, and mostly useless anyway as it's not
1603 Journal-aware. It's replacement (gnome-logs) is not usable
1604 enough in the context of Tails, and most users who can read logs
1605 should manage to do it with journalctl, so don't install it either.
1606 - Drop multiarch handling: Tails 3.0 will be amd64-only (Closes: #11961).
1609 - Disable eatmydata usage and caching: in current Stretch, debootstrap fails
1610 if we use eatmydata + the operation mode picked by live-build when caching
1611 is enabled (Closes: #12052).
1612 - Bump disk space (and memory for in-RAM builds) requirements.
1613 - Follow replacement of python-reportbug with python3-reportbug.
1614 - Don't try to deinstall packages that are unknown on Stretch.
1615 - Move AppArmor aliases to a dedicated file, and include it.
1616 This will avoid maintaining these settings as a patch.
1617 - Don't attempt to remove the usr.bin.chromium-browser AppArmor profile:
1618 it's not shipped in Debian anymore.
1621 - Add optional pause() notification (Closes: #12175).
1622 - Make the remote shell's file operations robust (Closes: #11887).
1623 - Update a number of test cases for Stretch, sometimes by converting
1625 - Drop usage and tests of read-only persistence.
1626 We won't have this option anymore, and it's not even sure we'll
1627 reintroduce it (Refs: #12093, Closes: #12055).
1628 - Adjust CONFIGURED_KEYSERVER_HOSTNAME to match current settings.
1629 - Test suite: clean up disks between features.
1631 * Adjustments for Debian 9 (Stretch) with no or very little user-visible impact
1632 - Adjust dpkg-divert path: it has moved.
1633 - Replace xfonts-wqy with fonts-wqy-microhei + fonts-wqy-zenhei.
1634 The former was removed from Debian testing, and the latter are recommended
1635 by task-chinese-s-desktop and task-chinese-t-desktop.
1636 - Install virtualbox* from sid.
1637 It was removed from testing due to https://bugs.debian.org/794466.
1638 - Drop deprecated settings from org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/power.
1639 - Update settings name in org/gnome/desktop/peripherals/touchpad, and drop
1641 - Adjust to changed Liferea's .desktop filename.
1642 - Also torify Liferea when started via its (new) D-Bus service.
1643 - Install hunspell-pt-br instead of hunspell-pt-pt.
1644 Tor Browser 6.5 moved from pt-PT to pt-BR, which is fine vs
1645 spellcheckers in Jessie since its hunspell-pt provides both -pt and
1646 -br, but in Stretch they are separate packages.
1647 - AppArmor: adjust usr.sbin.cupsd profile so it loads successfully
1649 - Migrate from netstat to ss.
1650 - Update extensions.enigmail.configuredVersion.
1651 - Remove the jessie-proposed-updates APT sources.
1653 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 01 Feb 2017 19:23:03 +0000
1655 tails (2.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1657 * Major new features and changes
1658 - Upgrade the Linux kernel to 4.8.0-0.bpo.2 (Closes: #11886).
1659 - Install OnionShare from jessie-backports. Also install
1660 python3-stem from jessie-backports to allow the use of ephemeral
1661 onion services (Closes: #7870).
1662 - Completely rewrite tor-controlport-filter. Now we can safely
1663 support OnionShare, Tor Browser's per-tab circuit view and
1666 * Handle multiple sessions simultaneously.
1667 * Separate data (filters) from code.
1668 * Use python3-stem to allow our filter to be a lot more
1669 oblivious of the control language (Closes: #6788).
1670 * Allow restricting STREAM events to only those generated by the
1671 subscribed client application.
1672 * Allow rewriting commands and responses arbitrarily.
1673 * Make tor-controlport-filter reusable for others by e.g. making
1674 it possible to pass the listen port, and Tor control
1675 cookie/socket paths as arguments (Closes: #6742). We hear
1676 Whonix plan to use it! :)
1677 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.9.9-1~d80.jessie+1, the new stable series
1681 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.5 based on Firefox 45.7 (Closes: #12159)
1682 - Upgrade Icedove to 1:45.6.0-1~deb8u1+tail1s.
1683 - Upgrade bind9-packages to 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u9.
1684 - Upgrade pcscd to 1.8.13-1+deb8u1.
1685 - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u8.
1686 - Upgrade libxml2 to 2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u4.
1687 - Upgrade tor to 0.2.9.9-1~d80.jessie+1.
1688 - Upgrade samba-libs to 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u2.
1690 * Minor improvements
1691 - Enable and use the Debian Jessie proposed-updates APT
1692 repository, anticipating on the Jessie 8.7 point-release
1694 - Enable the per-tab circuit view in Tor Browser (Closes: #9365).
1695 - Change syslinux menu entries from "Live" to "Tails" (Closes:
1696 #11975). Also replace the confusing "failsafe" wording with
1697 "Troubleshooting Mode" (Closes: #11365).
1698 - Make OnionCircuits use the filtered control port (Closes:
1700 - Make tor-launcher use the filtered control port.
1701 - Run OnionCircuits directly as the Live user, instead of a
1702 separate user. This will make it compatible with the Orca screen
1703 reader (Closes: #11197).
1704 - Run tor-controlport-filter on port 9051, and the unfiltered one
1705 on 9052. This simplifies client configurations and assumptions
1706 made in many applications that use Tor's ControlPort. It's the
1707 exception that we connect to the unfiltered version, so this
1708 seems like the more sane approach.
1709 - Remove tor-arm (Nyx) (Closes: #9811).
1710 - Remove AddTrust_External_Root.pem from our website CA bundle. We
1711 now only use Let's Encrypt (Closes: #11811).
1712 - Configure APT to use Debian's Onion services instead of the
1713 clearnet ones (Closes: #11556).
1714 - Replaced AdBlock Plus with uBlock Origin (Closes: #9833). This
1715 incidentally also makes our filter lists lighter by
1716 de-duplicating common patterns among the EasyList filters
1717 (Closes: #6908). Thanks to spriver for this first major code
1719 - Install OpenPGP Applet 1.0 (and libgtk3-simplelist-perl) from
1720 Jessie backports (Closes: #11899).
1721 - Add support for exFAT (Closes: #9659).
1722 - Disable unprivileged BPF. Since upgrading to kernel 4.6,
1723 unprivileged users can use the bpf() syscall, which is a
1724 security concern, even with JIT disabled. So we disable that.
1725 This feature wasn't available before Linux 4.6, so disabling it
1726 should not cause any regressions (Closes: #11827).
1727 - Add and enable AppArmor profiles for OnionCircuits and OnoinShare.
1728 - Raise the maximum number of loop devices to 32 (Closes: #12065).
1729 - Drop kernel.dmesg_restrict customization: it's enabled by
1730 default since 4.8.4-1~exp1 (Closes: #11886).
1731 - Upgrade Electrum to 2.7.9-1.
1732 - Make the Electrum proxy configuration apply after upgrading to
1733 2.7.9-1. These changes incidentally makes Electrum behave nicer:
1734 users will now not be presented the network configuration part
1735 of the setup wizard -- a server will be picked randomly, and
1736 Electrum will auto-connect. The automated test suite is adjusted
1737 accordingly (Closes: #12140).
1738 - Remove unused Browser profile seed file localstore.rdf which was
1739 made obsolete in Firefox 34.
1740 - Tor Browser: switch from pt-PT to pt-BR langpack. The upstream
1741 Tor Browser did this in version 6.5 (Refs: #12159).
1745 * use gdm-password instead of gdm-autologin, to fix switching to
1746 the VT where the desktop session lives on Stretch (Closes:
1748 * Fix more options scrolledwindow size in Stretch (Closes:
1750 - Tails Installer: remove unused code warning about missing
1751 extlinux in Tails Installer (Closes: #11196).
1752 - Update APT pinning to cover all binary packages built from
1753 src:mesa so we ensure installing mesa from jessie-backports
1755 - Install xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu. This should help supporting
1756 newer AMD graphics adapters. (Closes #11850)
1757 - Fix firewall startup during early boot, by referring to the
1758 "amnesia" user via its UID (Closes: #7018).
1759 - Include all amd64-microcodes.
1760 - refresh-translations: ignore
1761 config/chroot_local-includes/usr/share/doc/tails/website/.
1762 Otherwise, if the website has been built already, PO tools
1763 complain that there are files with translatable strings in
1764 there, which are not listed in POTFILES.in.
1765 - Make uBlock Origin's button appear on first run. Otherwise it
1766 will only appear on browser runs after the first one. This bug
1767 also affected Adblock Plus (Closes: #12145).
1770 - Be more careful when unmounting the tmpfs used as workspace
1771 during builds, fixing an issue that made Jenkins' ISO builders
1772 prone to failures (Closes: #12009).
1773 - Upgrade the Vagrant basebox to 20170105. The only big change is
1774 that we now install the backported kernel in the builder VM, to
1775 make building possible on Debian Sid (Closes: #12081).
1776 - Ensure the VirtualBox guest DKMS modules are built for the
1777 kernel we want them for. In some situations, depending on the
1778 version of the running kernel, the modules would not be built
1779 for the 686 kernel, which is the one that needs the VirtualBox
1780 guest modules. This commit ensures the VirtualBox guest modules
1781 are built and installed regardless of the how the build
1782 environment looks like (Closes: #12139).
1785 - Replace the filesystem shares support with a helper for easily
1786 sharing files from the host to the guest using virtual disks
1788 - Do not test sending email when testing POP3. We cannot clean
1789 that email up (easily) since when we use POP3 deletions won't
1790 affect the remote inbox, only our local one, resulting in the
1791 quota being reached eventually (Closes: #12006).
1792 - Have APT tests configure APT to use non-onion sources. Our test
1793 suite uses Chutney to create a virtual, private Tor network, and
1794 thus doesn't support connections to Onion services running in
1795 the real Tor network (Refs: #11556).
1796 - Allow connections to Tor's control port during stream isolation
1797 tests, but only for those applications where we expect that.
1798 - Fix Electrum tests after upgrading to 2.7.9-1.
1799 - Make encryption.feature pass for Tails 2.10~rc1.
1800 - Adapt tests after the Donation campaign was disabled (Refs:
1802 - Fix 'The "Tails documentation" link on the Desktop works'
1803 scenario. The TailsOfflineDocHomepage.png image doesn't match
1804 what we see any more (I have no clue why), so let's use Dogtail
1805 and solve this once and for all, hopefully.
1806 - Work around Tails freezing during memory wiping. These
1807 workarounds should be reverted once #11786 is fixed
1808 properly. (Refs: #10776, #11786)
1809 - Support both xtigervncviewer and xtightvncviewer for --view.
1810 xtightvncviewer is a transitional package in Sid, which depends
1811 on tigervnc-viewer (which ships xtigervncviewer), so by keeping
1812 the dep and supporting both binaries, --view will work on both
1813 Sid and Jessie (Closes: #12129).
1814 - Test suite: bump image after upgrading to Tor Browser 6.5 (Refs:
1816 - Add debugging info for when PacketFu misbehaves, and be more
1817 careful when to save pcap artifacts (Refs: #11508).
1819 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2017 11:38:37 +0100
1821 tails (2.9.1) unstable; urgency=medium
1824 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.0.8 based on Firefox 45.6. If you pay
1825 close attention you'll see that we import -build1 but there was
1826 a -build2. The only change is Tor Button 1.9.5.13 which makes
1827 some changes to the donation campaign banner in `about:tor`,
1828 which we safely can skip. (Closes: #12028)
1829 - Upgrade Icedove to 45.5.1-1~deb8u1+tails1. (Closes: #12029)
1830 - Upgrade APT-related packages to 1.0.9.8.4.
1832 * Minor improvements
1833 - Switch to DuckDuckGo as the default search engine in the tor
1834 Browser. This is what Tor Browser has, and Disconnect.me (the
1835 previous default) has been re-directing to DDG for some time,
1836 which has been confusing users. In addition, we localize the DDG
1837 user interface for the locales with availablelangpacks. (Closes:
1839 - Improve the display name for the Wikipedia search plugin.
1840 - Enable contrib and non-free for our own APT repos.
1841 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.8.10. (Closes: #12015)
1842 - Upgrade obfs4proxy to 0.0.7-1~tpo1.
1845 - AppArmor Totem profile: add permissions needed to avoid warning
1846 on startup. (Closes: #11984)
1847 - Upgrade the VirtualBox Guest additions and modules to version
1848 5.1.8. This should prevent Xorg from crashing unless the video
1849 memory for the VMs are significantly bumped. (Closes: #11965)
1850 Users will still have to enable I/O APIC due to a bug in Linux.
1851 - Drop unwanted search plugins from the Tor Browser langpacks.
1852 Otherwise they are only removed from English locales. Note that
1853 the langpacks contain copies of the English plugins, not
1854 localized versions, so we actually lose nothing.
1857 - Add support for SikuliX, which recently hit Debian Unstable,
1858 while still supporting Sikuli for Jessie users. (Closes: #11991)
1859 - Fix some instances where we were trying to use the mouse outside
1860 of the Sikuli screen.
1861 - Use "TorBirdy" instead of "amnesia branding" as the "anchor"
1862 addon. I.e. the addon that we use to find the other ones. The
1863 "amnesia branding" addon has been removed, so we must use
1864 something else. (Fixup: #11906)
1865 - Dogtailify "the support documentation page opens in Tor Browser"
1866 step. We previously relied on Sikuli, and the image was made
1867 outdated thanks to our donation campaign. No more! (Closes:
1869 - Resolve dl.amnesia.boum.org instead of picking a static address.
1870 Just hours after updating the dustri.org IP address, its web
1871 server went down => test suite failures. Let's make this test as
1872 robust as actually downloading the Tails ISO image -- if that
1873 fails, we probably have more serious problems on our hands than
1874 a failing test suite. (Closes: #11960)
1875 - Switch MAT scenario from testing PDFs to PNGs. Also add
1876 anti-test and test using using a tool *different* from MAT, the
1877 tool being tested here. (Closes: #11901)
1879 -- Tails Developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:19:16 +0100
1881 tails (2.7.1) unstable; urgency=medium
1884 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.0.7 (build3) based on Firefox 45.5.1.
1885 - Upgrade gstreamer0.10-based packages to 0.10.31-3+nmu4+deb8u2.
1886 - Upgrade imagemagick-based packages to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u6.
1887 - Upgrade libicu52 to 52.1-8+deb8u4.
1888 - Upgrade vim-based packages to 2:7.4.488-7+deb8u1.
1890 * Minor improvements
1891 - Reserve 64 MiB for the kernel and 128 MiB for privileged
1892 processes before the memory is wiped. We hope that this might
1893 help (but not solve, sadly) some crashes experienced while
1897 - Make the wiki shipped inside Tails build deterministically
1899 * Enable ikiwiki's "deterministic" option, and require it when
1901 * Use our custom backport of discount (2.2.1-1~bpo8+1~0.tails1),
1902 to fix reproducibility issues (Debian#782315). This can be
1903 dropped once our ISO builders use Stretch.
1904 * Install ikiwiki from our builder-jessie APT suite, to make the
1905 pagestats plugin output deterministic.
1906 - refresh-translations: don't update PO files unless something
1907 other than POT-Creation-Date was changed. (Closes: #11967)
1908 - Fix Vagrant's is_release? check. Per auto/build, we consider it
1909 a release when we build from detached head, and HEAD is tagged.
1910 - Enforce `cleanall` when building a release. I.e. don't allow the
1911 user supplied options to override this behaviour. This is
1912 important since Vagrant caches wiki builds, and we do not want
1913 leftovers from a previous builds ending up in a release. Also,
1914 this is required for making Tails images build reproducibly.
1915 - Make the build system's `cleanall` option really clean
1916 everything. At the moment it doesn't clean the cached wiki
1917 build (which basically was its only job).
1918 - import-package: support contrib and non-free sections.
1921 - Wait a bit between opening the shutdown applet menu, and
1922 clicking one of its widgets. (Closes: #11616).
1923 - Adapt Icedove test after removing the amnesia branding add-on.
1925 - Replace --pause-on-fail with --interactive-debugging. It does
1926 the same thing, but also offers an interactive Ruby shell, via
1927 pry, with the Cucumber world context.
1929 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:27:37 +0100
1931 tails (3.0~alpha1) experimental; urgency=medium
1933 * Major new features and changes
1934 - Upgrade to a snapshot of Debian 9 (Stretch) from 2016-11-15.
1935 - Switch userpace from 32-bit to 64-bit (Closes: #8183), and accordingly:
1936 · Memory erasure: drop the "one instance of sdmem per 2 GiB of RAM" tweak,
1937 that is not needed on x86-64.
1938 · Display a "sorry!" message when trying to boot on a 32-bit BIOS system
1940 - Switch GNOME Shell to its default black theme (Closes: #11789).
1942 * Minor improvements
1943 - Install the cirrus and modesetting X.Org drivers (Closes: #10962).
1944 - Install the 'amdgpu' driver for the AMD Radeon cards (refs: #11850).
1945 - Stop disabling kernel modesetting for QXL (refs: #11518).
1946 - Replace TopIcons with gnome-shell-extension-top-icons-plus.
1947 The former causes plenty of trouble and is apparently abandoned
1948 upstream. The latter is actively maintained upstream, and packaged
1949 in Debian. (refs: #10576)
1950 - Use torsocks to torify Git, and drop tsocks entirely. tsocks has been
1951 unmaintained for years in Debian, and was removed from testing
1952 for a while (Closes: #10955).
1953 - Replace Florence's "systray" icon with the Florence Indicator GNOME Shell
1954 extension (refs: #8312). And then, don't automatically start Florence:
1955 the Florence Indicator GNOME Shell extension will start it the first time
1956 one tries to display it. This should save a tiny bit of RAM.
1957 - Harden AppArmor Totem profiles.
1958 - Switch to the Debian-packaged aufs kernel module (Closes: #11829).
1959 - Configure the firewall to not allow root to connect to Tor at all,
1960 which is possible now that APT uses a dedicated user for network
1962 - Fix firewall startup during early boot, by referring to the "amnesia"
1963 user via its UID (refs: #7018).
1964 - Install hunspell dictionaries instead of myspell ones, for a few more
1965 languages: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Russian. Only Farsi keeps
1966 using a myspell dictionary for now.
1969 - Stop installing BookletImposer PDF imposition toolkit.
1970 It's unmaintained upstream and thus won't be part of Debian Stretch.
1971 - Stop installing ekeyd: it's unmaintained, very rarely used, poorly
1972 designed (dedicated daemon), and security sensitive (Closes: #7687).
1973 - Stop shipping ttdnsd. It was only useful for developers and power-users
1974 who can install it themselves as needed. It's been unmaintained upstream
1975 for many years. It's very buggy so we had to remove it from the DNS
1976 resolution loop years ago. It's not in Debian. And it's one of the only
1977 two bits of Tails that still relied on tsocks, that is RC-buggy,
1978 unmaintained in Debian, and not in Stretch at the moment. So it has
1979 become clear that the cost of keeping ttdnsd now outweighs the benefits
1980 it brought (refs: #10959).
1983 - Bump disk space (and memory for in-RAM builds) requirements.
1984 - Support new live-config configuration directory naming, again and again.
1985 - Use the lowest compression level for the SquashFS when compressing it
1986 with gzip. This makes our development builds faster, and the resulting
1987 ISO image only a little bit bigger (Closes: #9788).
1988 - Configure initramfs compression later, to make the build faster.
1991 - Various refactoring while we were at it.
1992 - Port tests to Dogtail: installation, upgrade, notification detection,
1993 Synaptic, Gobby, and some of Tor Browser.
1994 - Workaround GNOME Shell being buggy for Dogtail (refs: #11718).
1995 - Update a bunch of test suite images for Stretch.
1996 - Mark created disk as temporary when we don't need to keep it around.
1997 - Simplify adding NetworkManager connections, and rely more on the defaults.
1998 Not providing the complete configuration file makes us test something
1999 closer to what happens when a user adds a Wi-Fi connection themselves.
2000 - Adjust the minimum allowed memory pattern coverage before wiping.
2001 - Always sync the time from the host when restoring from a snapshot.
2002 Previously we wouldn't do it when the network was plugged but Tor wasn't
2003 running, which can cause issues if we *then* start Tor since the time
2005 - Adjust to the fact that we now support running as a 64-bit guest
2006 in VirtualBox, and simplify code since we now include a 64-bit userland.
2007 - Improve how we restart Tor/I2P after restoring from a snapshot.
2008 - Adjust PolicyKit tests for Stretch.
2009 - Work around Tails stopping on shut down due to #11730.
2010 This should be reverted once #11730 is fixed properly.
2011 - Update the screenshot scenario.
2012 - Fix pcap file saving on MAC spoofing failure (Closes: #11698).
2013 - Test that notifications are actually shown.
2014 - Drop obsolete workaround for Florence sometimes not being hidden
2015 on startup (#11398).
2016 - Avoid remote shell deadlock.
2017 - Install at-spi2-core from Debian Sid.
2018 With the current version in Stretch, at-spi-bus-launcher crashes on
2019 start, breaking parts of GNOME's accessibility, and Dogtail.
2020 For details, see https://bugs.debian.org/840618.
2021 - Check that the MAC address is spoofed for manually added persistent
2022 NetworkManager connections created on Jessie and Stretch (refs: #11931).
2023 - Use nc.traditional in tests that rely on its behaviour.
2024 - Adjust expected notification text to cope with #11941.
2026 * Adjustments for Debian 9 (Stretch) with no or very little user-visible impact
2027 - Adjust APT sources and pinning for Stretch.
2028 - Don't install gnome-media, which is not part of testing/sid anymore.
2029 We already install the only bits it was providing or depending on.
2030 - Don't install gnome-themes: it's gone in Stretch.
2031 - Stop installing GStreamer 0.10 explicitly: it won't be in Stretch,
2032 and some bits are gone already.
2033 - Refresh and unfuzzy patches for Stretch. Replace some of them with
2034 programmatic patching, as patches break the build whenever
2036 - Drop start_AppArmor_earlier.diff: on Stretch, AppArmor starts much earlier
2038 - Accept iceweasel-l10n-* that don't provide any search engine:
2039 on Stretch, at least iceweasel-l10n-ar_1%3a43.0.4-1_all.deb doesn't.
2040 - Stop deleting 75-persistent-net-generator.rules: obsolete in Stretch.
2041 It was removed in systemd (220-7).
2042 - Tell live-boot we're still using aufs: recent live-boot defaults
2043 to overlayfs, which we don't use yet.
2044 - Don't remove imagemagick in 11-localize_browser: cups-filters depends on it
2046 - Explicitly install bc: needed by our 2010-pidgin live-config hook.
2047 - Remove gcc-4.9-base and gcc-5 via a chroot hook, taking into account
2048 that GCC 5 is the default on Stretch.
2049 - Switch to openjdk-8-jre: openjdk-7-jre is not in Stretch anymore.
2050 - gcalctool was renamed to gnome-calculator.
2051 - Don't try to delete non-existing AppArmor profile for ntpd: it was moved
2052 to the ntp package in Stretch.
2053 - Build DKMS modules with GCC 5: Stretch hasn't 4.8 anymore.
2054 - Don't try to reload or disable an initscript that we don't patch,
2055 and that doesn't exist anymore.
2056 - Support the case when /usr/src/libdvd-pkg does not exist.
2057 Apparently this can happen on Stretch.
2058 - Adjust to the move of /etc/gnome/defaults.list in Stretch
2060 - Stop installing xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse. It's obsolete and conflicts
2061 with recent kernels: https://bugs.debian.org/831420
2062 - Install open-vm-tools from sid: it's been removed from testing.
2063 - Install the gobby package, instead of the (now gone) transitional
2065 - apparmor-adjust-tor-profile.diff: drop bits that are useless, and
2066 prevent Tor from starting, on Stretch.
2067 - Tor Daemon Status: declare compatibility with GNOME Shell 3.20.
2068 - Shutdown helper: declare compatibility with GNOME Shell 3.20.
2069 - Drop 43-adjust_path_to_ibus-unikey_binaries hook: it was a workaround
2070 for a bug (Debian#714932) that was fixed.
2071 - Use netcat-openbsd instead of connect-proxy for torifying SSH.
2072 connect-proxy seems barely maintained in Debian and was removed from
2073 testing due to https://bugs.debian.org/830423.
2074 - Don't disable gdomap service: we don't include it anymore.
2075 unar in Jessie depended on gnustep-base-runtime (that ships gdomap),
2076 but this is not the case in Stretch anymore.
2077 - Install system-config-printer-common instead of system-config-printer,
2078 and drop customization that were needed only for the latter:
2079 system-config-printer (1.5.7-2) extracts into a new -common package
2080 the bits needed by gnome-control-center (Closes: #11505).
2081 - Adjust haveged AppArmor profile to work with Linux 4.x on Stretch.
2082 - cupsd AppArmor profile: update list of backends, and add aufs-specific
2083 tweak that Stretch needs (refs: #11699).
2084 - Revert to GNOME's default font antialiasing/hinting.
2085 We fixed on rgba/slight when converting some manual fontconfig stuff
2086 to GNOME's layer on top of it, but at least from a fresh Stretch
2087 install (2016-08-24) we got grayscale/slight. It could be that some
2088 auto-detection is involved, so the values would be different depending
2089 on the actual hardware. Any way, let's try to decrease our delta here.
2090 - Adjust haveged arguments customization for Stretch (Closes: 11522).
2091 - Display the date in the desktop top bar, as we did in Jessie and older.
2093 - Drop patch to keep haveged, saned, spice-vdagent and laptop-mode running
2094 on shutdown. These patches are no-ops on Stretch, where these services
2095 have native systemd unit files. It's not worth porting these patches:
2096 saned is socket-activated so in most cases it does not have to be shut
2097 down, and we expect that the other ones can be stopped pretty quickly.
2098 Let's bring back this kind of optimization if, and only if, we identify
2099 an actual problem to fix in this area :)
2100 - Don't delete downloaded debs after install: apt(8) >= 1.2~exp1 deletes
2101 them by default, which is not nice for users who use it to preseed
2102 their persistent APT cache. (Closes: #10958)
2103 - Hide "OpenJDK Java 8 Policy Tool" from the Applications menu.
2104 - Don't ship GCC 6: we don't ship compilers in Tails usually.
2105 - Don't ship gcc-5-base: on Stretch we ship gcc-6-base instead.
2106 - Don't start shipping libdvdcss2-dbgsym nor paxctld.
2107 - Adjust default web browser customization: GNOME in Debian now defaults
2108 to Firefox ESR (refs: #11440).
2109 - Install libreoffice-gtk3: on Stretch this is needed to have Gtk+ 3 widgets
2110 and a Gtk/GNOMEish print dialog.
2111 - Explicitly install gtk2-engines-pixbuf, as it's not pulled automatically
2112 on Stretch, and it's needed to theme GTK+ 2 applications in a nice way
2114 - AppArmor gnome abstraction: allow reading /etc/xdg/*-mimeapps.list
2116 - Drop obsolete disabling of GNOME Keyring's GnuPG agent feature.
2117 That feature was removed upstream.
2118 - Explicitly select pinentry-gtk2 as our preferred pinentry program.
2119 On Stretch, gnome-keyring depends on pinentry-gnome3, and then that one
2120 is selected by default. It does not feel worth it to introduce a hackish
2121 solution such as a fake pinentry-gnome3 package, so let's ignore it and
2122 just make sure we are using the pinentry program we prefer
2124 - Drop keep_memlockd_on_shutdown.diff: it's been a no-op since Tails 2.0
2126 - Drop custom NetworkManager plugin configuration: these tweaks are not
2127 needed on Stretch anymore.
2128 - Disable new style network interface naming scheme.
2129 It has little value for a live system, so let's stick to what we are
2130 used to, and avoid having to adjust code/config/test suite
2132 - Drop obsolete NM configuration wrt. sending hostname in DHCP requests
2134 - Update APT pinning to cover all binary packages built from src:mesa
2136 - Don't try to install gnupg-curl: it doesn't exist anymore in Stretch.
2137 - Install seahorse-nautilus from sid. It's been removed from testing.
2138 - Drop workaround for Debian bug #645466, that was fixed in 2014
2140 - Allow the "_apt" user to use Tor: in Stretch, APT network operations
2141 are performed with the "_apt" user and not root.
2142 - Make sure that 'localhost' points to the IPv4 loopback address.
2143 - Make desktop launchers executable (Closes: #11927).
2144 - Disable Wayland usage in GDM (Closes: #11923).
2145 - Fix AppArmor profile for gst-plugin-scanner (Closes: #11928).
2146 - Change Nautilus' default zoom level to 'small' (Closes: #11716).
2147 The icons in GNOME Files and on the desktop are too huge otherwise. With
2148 this new setting, they are similar in size to what we had in Jessie.
2149 - Fix broken symlink preventing Enigmail from being enabled.
2150 - Configure NetworkManager to not touch MAC addresses (refs: #11931).
2151 Its default behaviour on Debian Stretch is to reset the MAC address to the
2152 permanent one, and we did not make up our mind yet wrt. replacing
2153 our custom MAC spoofing system with NM's own one (refs: #11293).
2154 - Patch NetworkManager so that it does not leak the hostname in DHCP
2155 requests (Closes: #11720).
2156 - Deal with the fact that the NetworkManager dispatcher scripts are now
2157 sometimes called with an empty first argument (Closes: #11938).
2158 - Upgrade to GnuPG 2.1.15-9, and accordingly:
2159 · Remove the CA certificate for sks-keyservers.net, that we installed
2160 in the system-wide CAs directory: it is now included in the dirmngr
2161 package. Stop trusting it for non-GnuPG operations.
2162 · Make dirmngr use the sks-keyservers.net CA certificate from Debian.
2163 · Move keyserver proxy configuration to dirmngr.conf, and drop the
2164 keyserver-options that are obsolete or now the default.
2166 -- intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2016 16:19:21 +0000
2168 tails (2.7) unstable; urgency=medium
2171 - Upgrade to Linux 4.7. (Closes: #11885, #11818)
2172 - Upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.9. (Closes: #11832, #11891)
2173 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.0.6 based on Firefox 45.5. (Closes: #11910)
2174 - Upgrade Icedove to 1:45.4.0-1~deb8u1+tails1. (Closes: #11854,
2176 - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u5.
2177 - Upgrade openssl to 1.0.1t-1+deb8u5.
2178 - Upgrade libarchive to 3.1.2-11+deb8u3.
2179 - Upgrade bind9 to 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u8.
2180 - Upgrade libav to 6:11.8-1~deb8u1.
2181 - Upgrade ghostscript to 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u3.
2182 - Upgrade c-ares to 1.10.0-2+deb8u1.
2183 - Upgrade nspr to 2:4.12-1+debu8u1.
2184 - Upgrade nss to 2:3.26-1+debu8u1.
2185 - Upgrade tar to 1.27.1-2+deb8u1.
2186 - Upgrade curl to 7.38.0-4+deb8u5.
2187 - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u7.
2188 - Upgrade opendjk-7 to 7u111-2.6.7-2~deb8u1.
2189 - Upgrade mat to 0.5.2-3+deb8u1.
2190 - Upgrade libxslt to 1.1.28-2+deb8u2.
2191 - Upgrade pillow to 2.6.1-2+deb8u3.
2193 * Minor improvements
2194 - Ship Let's encrypt intermediate certificate to prepare the
2195 the next certificate renewal of our website. Also unify the
2196 way our upgrades and security checkers verify this SSL
2197 certificate using our dedicated perl lib code. (Closes: #11810)
2200 - Fix multiarch support in Synaptic. (Closes: #11820)
2201 - Set default spelling language to en_US in Icedove. (Closes: #11037)
2204 - Disable debootstrap merged-usr option. (Closes: #11903)
2207 - Add test for incremental upgrades. (Closes: #6309)
2208 - Add tests for Icedove. (Closes: #6304)
2209 - Decrease timeout to Tails Greeter to speed up testing of branches
2210 where it is broken. (Closes: #11449)
2211 - Add a ID field to the remote shell responses to filter out
2212 unrelated ones. (Closes: #11846)
2213 - Reliabily wait for the Greeter PostLogin script. (Closes: #5666)
2214 - Reliabily type the kernel command line in the prompt at the boot
2215 menu to ensure the remote shell is started. (Closes: #10777)
2216 - Remove DVDROM device when not used, to workaround QEMU/Libvirt
2217 compatibility issue. (Closes: #11874)
2219 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2016 14:46:04 +0100
2221 tails (2.6) unstable; urgency=medium
2223 * Major new features and changes
2224 - Install Tor 0.2.8.7. (Closes: #11351)
2225 - Enable kASLR in the Linux kernel. (Closes: #11281)
2226 - Upgrade Icedove to 1:45.2.0-1~deb8u1+tails1: (Closes: #11714)
2227 · Drop auto-fetched configurations using Oauth2. They do not
2228 work together with Torbirdy since it disables needed
2229 functionality (like JavaScript and cookies) in the embedded
2230 browser. This should make auto-configuration work for GMail
2231 again, for instance. (Closes: ##11536)
2232 · Pin Icedove to be installed from our APT repo. Debian's
2233 Icedove packages still do not have our secure Icedove
2234 autoconfig wizard patches applied, so installing them would be
2235 a serious security regression. (Closes: #11613)
2236 · Add missing icedove-l10n-* packages to our custom APT
2237 repository (Closes: #11550)
2238 - Upgrade to Linux 4.6: (Closes: #10298)
2239 · Install the 686 kernel flavour instead of the obsolete 586
2241 · APT, dpkg: add amd64 architecture. The amd64 kernel flavour is
2242 not built anymore for the i386 architecture, so we need to use
2244 · Build and install the out-of-tree aufs4 module. (Closes: #10298)
2245 · Disable kernel modesetting for QXL: it's not compatible with
2246 Jessie's QXL X.Org driver.
2249 - Hopefully fixed an issue which would sometimes make the Greeter
2250 ignore the "disable networking" or "bridge mode"
2251 options. (Closes: #11593)
2253 * Minor improvements
2254 - Install firmware-intel-sound and firmware-ti-connectivity. This
2255 adds support for some sound cards and Wi-Fi adapters. (Closes:
2257 - Install OpenPGP Applet from Debian. (Closes: #10190)
2258 - Port the "About Tails" dialog to python3.
2259 - Run our initramfs memory erasure hook earlier (Closes:
2260 #10733). The goal here is to:
2261 · save a few seconds on shutdown (it might matter especially for
2263 · work in a less heavily multitasking / event-driven
2264 environment, for more robust operation.
2265 - Install rngd, and make rng-tools initscript return success when
2266 it can't find any hardware RNG device. Most Tails systems around
2267 probably have no such device, and we don't want systemd to
2268 believe they failed to boot properly. (Closes: #5650)
2269 - Don't force using the vboxvideo X.Org driver. According to our
2270 tests, this forced setting is:
2271 · harmful: it breaks X startup when the vboxvideo *kernel*
2273 · useless: X.Org now autodetects the vboxvideo X.Org driver and
2274 uses it when running in VirtualBox and the vboxvideo kernel
2276 - Port boot-profile to python3 (Closes: #10083). Thanks to
2277 heartsucker <heartsucker@autistici.org> for the patch!
2278 - Include /proc/cmdline and the content of persistent APT sources
2279 in WhisperBack bug reports. (Closes: #11675, #11635)
2280 - Disable non-free APT sources at boot time. (Closes: #10130)
2281 - Have a dedicated page for the homepage of Tor Browser in
2282 Tails. (Closes: # 11725)
2283 - Only build the VirtualBox kernel modules for the 32-bit kernel.
2284 It's both hard and useless to build it for 64-bit in the current
2285 state of things, as long as we're shipping a 32-bit userspace.
2286 Also, install virtualbox-* from jessie-backports, since the
2287 version in Jessie is not compatible with Linux 4.x.
2290 - Don't install+remove dpatch during the build. It's not been
2291 needed in this hook for ages.
2292 - Bump BUILD_SPACE_REQUIREMENT: at least one of us needed that to
2293 build feature/10298-linux-4.x-aufs with the gzipcomp option.
2296 - Send Tails Installer's debug log to the Cucumber debug log on
2297 failure. This is meant to debug #10720 since I can't
2298 reproduce it locally.
2299 - Give the system under testing 2 vCPUs. (Closes: #6729)
2300 - Split scenarios from checks.feature. (Closes: #5707)
2301 - Add retry-logic to the Synaptic tests. (Closes: #10412, #10441,
2303 - Run usb_upgrade.feature earlier, when there is enough free disk
2304 space left. (Closes: #11582)
2305 - Use more recent virtual hardware in the system under test,
2306 i.e. USB 3.0 (nec-xhci) on a pc-i440fx-2.5 machine. Switching
2307 USB controllers has helped with problems we see on Jenkins when
2308 booting from USB (#11588). Also, there are chances that more
2309 recent virtual hardware sees more testing these days, so it
2310 sounds potentially useful to "upgrade".
2311 - Add support for Cucumber 2.4. (Closes: #11690)
2312 - Always write {pretty,debug} logs and JSON output to the artifact
2314 - Disable info level logging on Chutney nodes to save disk
2315 space. For our network all these add up to > 1 GiB and we didn't
2316 take this into account when budgeting RAM to the isotesters on
2319 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 20 Sep 2016 04:16:33 +0200
2321 tails (2.5) unstable; urgency=medium
2323 * Major new features and changes
2324 - Upgrade Icedove to 1:45.1.0-1~deb8u1+tails2. (Closes: #11530)
2325 · Fix long delay causing bad UX in the autoconfig wizard,
2326 when it does not manage to guess proper settings on some domains.
2328 · Better support sending email through some ISPs, such as Riseup.
2330 · Fix spurious error message when creating an account and providing
2331 its password. (Closes: #11550)
2334 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.0.3 based on Firefox 45.3. (Closes: #11611)
2335 - Upgrade GIMP to 2.8.14-1+deb8u1.
2336 - Upgrade libav to 6:11.7-1~deb8u1.
2337 - Upgrade expat to 2.1.0-6+deb8u3.
2338 - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u6.
2339 - Upgrade libmodule-build-perl to 0.421000-2+deb8u1.
2340 - Upgrade perl to 5.20.2-3+deb8u6.
2341 - Upgrade Pidgin to 2.11.0-0+deb8u1.
2342 - Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:4.3.3-2+deb8u5.
2343 - Upgrade libxslt1.1 to 1.1.28-2+deb8u1.
2344 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt25-2+deb8u3.
2345 - Upgrade OpenSSH to 1:6.7p1-5+deb8u3.
2346 - Upgrade p7zip to 9.20.1~dfsg.1-4.1+deb8u2.
2348 * Minor improvements
2349 - htpdate: replace obsolete and unreliable URIs in HTP pools, and decrease
2350 timeout for HTTP operations for more robust time synchronization.
2352 - Hide settings panel for the Online Accounts component of GNOME,
2353 that we don't support. (Closes: #11545)
2354 - Vastly improve graphics performance in KVM guest with QXL driver.
2356 - Fix graphics artifacts in Tor Browser in KVM guest with QXL driver.
2360 - Wrap Pidgin in a more maintainable way. (Closes: #11567)
2363 - Add a test scenario for the persistence "dotfiles" feature.
2365 - Improve robustness of most APT, Git, SFTP and SSH scenarios,
2366 enough to enable them on Jenkins. (Closes: #10444, #10496, #10498)
2367 - Improve robustness of checking for persistence partition. (Closes: #11558)
2368 - Treat Tails booting from /dev/sda as OK, to support all cases
2369 including a weird one caused by hybrid ISO images. (Closes: #10504)
2370 - Bump a bunch of timeouts to cope with the occasional slowness on Jenkins.
2371 - Only query A records when exercising DNS lookups, to improve robustness.
2373 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 31 Jul 2016 16:50:35 +0000
2375 tails (2.4) unstable; urgency=medium
2377 * Major new features and changes
2378 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.0.1 based on Firefox 45.2. (Closes:
2380 - Enable Icedove's automatic configuration wizard. We patch the
2381 wizard to only use secure protocols when probing, and only
2382 accept secure protocols, while keeping the improvements done by
2383 TorBirdy in its own non-automatic configuration wizard. (Closes:
2387 - Upgrade bsdtar and libarchive13 to 3.1.2-11+deb8u1.
2388 - Upgrade icedove to 38.8.0-1~deb8u1+tails3.
2389 - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u3.
2390 - Upgrade libexpat1 to 2.1.0-6+deb8u2.
2391 - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u3.
2392 - Upgrade gdk-pixbuf-based packages to 2.31.1-2+deb8u5.
2393 - Upgrade libidn11 to 1.29-1+deb8u1.
2394 - Upgrade libndp0 to 1.4-2+deb8u1.
2395 - Upgrade poppler-based packages to 0.26.5-2+deb8u1.
2396 - Upgrade librsvg2-2 to 2.40.5-1+deb8u2.
2397 - Upgrade libsmbclient to 2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u3.
2398 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1k-3+deb8u5.
2399 - Upgrade libtasn1-6 to 4.2-3+deb8u2.
2400 - Upgrade libxml2 to 2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u2.
2401 - Upgrade openjdk-7-jre to 7u101-2.6.6-1~deb8u1.
2404 - Enable Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery for IPv4. If any
2405 system on the path to the remote host has a MTU smaller than the
2406 standard Ethernet one, then Tails will receive an ICMP packet
2407 asking it to send smaller packets. Our firewall will drop such
2408 ICMP packets to the floor, and then the TCP connection won't
2409 work properly. This can happen to any TCP connection, but so far
2410 it's been reported as breaking obfs4 for actual users. Thanks to
2411 Yawning for the help! (Closes: #9268)
2412 - Make Tails Upgrader ship other locales than English. (Closes:
2414 - Make it possible to add local USB printers again. Bugfix on
2415 Tails 2.0. (Closes #10965).
2417 * Minor improvements
2418 - Remove custom SSH ciphers and MACs settings. (Closes: #7315)
2419 - Bring back "minimize" and "maximize" buttons in titlebars by
2420 default. (Closes: #11270)
2421 - Icedove improvements:
2422 * Stop patching in our default into Torbirdy. We've upstreamed
2423 some parts, and the rest we set with pref branch overrides in
2424 /etc/xul-ext/torbirdy.js. (Closes: #10905)
2425 * Use hkps keyserver in Enigmail. (Closes: #10906)
2426 * Default to POP if persistence is enabled, IMAP is
2427 not. (Closes: #10574)
2428 * Disable remote email account creation in Icedove. (Closes:
2430 - Firewall hardening (Closes: #11391):
2431 * Don't accept RELATED packets. This enables quite a lot of code
2432 in the kernel that we don't need. Let's reduce the attack
2434 * Restrict debian-tor user to NEW TCP syn packets. It doesn't
2435 need to do more, so let's do a little bit of security in
2437 * Disable netfilter's nf_conntrack_helper.
2438 * Fix disabling of automatic conntrack helper assignment.
2440 * Set various kernel boot options: slab_nomerge slub_debug=FZ
2441 mce=0 vsyscall=none. (Closes: #11143)
2442 * Remove the kernel .map files. These are only useful for kernel
2443 debugging and slightly make things easier for malware, perhaps
2444 and otherwise just occupy disk space. Also stop exposing
2445 kernel memory addresses through /proc etc. (Closes: #10951)
2446 - Drop zenity hacks to "focus" the negative answer. Jessie's
2447 zenity introduced the --default-cancel option, finally!
2449 - Drop useless APT pinning for Linux.
2450 - Remove gnome-tweak-tool. (Closes: #11237)
2451 - Install python-dogtail, to enable accessibility technologies in
2452 our automated test suite (see below). (Part of: #10721)
2453 - Install libdrm and mesa from jessie-backports. (Closes: #11303)
2454 - Remove hledger. (Closes: #11346)
2455 - Don't pre-configure the #tails chan on the default OFTC account.
2457 - Install onioncircuits from jessie-backports. (Closes: #11443)
2458 - Remove nmh. (Closes: #10477)
2459 - Drop Debian experimental APT source: we don't use it.
2460 - Use APT codenames (e.g. "stretch") instead of suites, to be
2461 compatible with our tagged APT snapshots.
2462 - Drop module-assistant hook and its cleanup. We've not been using
2464 - Remove 'Reboot' and 'Power Off' entries from Applications →
2465 System Tools. (Closes: #11075)
2466 - Pin our custom APT repo to the same level as Debian ones, and
2467 explicitly pin higher the packages we want to pull from our custom
2468 APT repo, when needed.
2469 - config/chroot_local-hooks/59-libdvd-pkg: verify libdvdcss
2470 package installation. (Closes: #11420)
2471 - Make Tails Upgrader use our new mirror pool design. (Closes:
2473 - Drop custom OpenSSH client ciphers and MACs settings. We did a
2474 pretty bad job at maintaining them compared to the Debian
2475 upstream. (Closes: #7315)
2476 - Install jessie-backports version of all binary packages built
2477 from src:hplip. This adds support for quite a few new
2479 - Install printer-driver-postscript-hp, which adds support for
2483 - Use a freezable APT repo when building Tails. This is a first
2484 step towards reproducible builds, and improves our QA and
2485 development processes by making our builds more predictable. For
2486 details, see: https://tails.boum.org/contribute/APT_repository/
2487 - There has been a massive amount of improvements to the
2488 Vagrant-based build system, and now it could be considered the
2489 de-facto build system for Tails! Improvements and fixes include:
2490 * Migrate Vagrant to use libvirt/KVM instead of
2491 Virtualbox. (Closes: #6354)
2492 * Make apt-get stuff non-interactive while provisioning.
2493 Because there is no interaction, so that will results in
2495 * Bump disk space (=> RAM for RAM builds) needed to build with
2496 Vagrant. Since the Jessie migration it seems impossible to
2497 keep this low enough to fit in 8 GiB or RAM. For this reason
2498 we also drop the space optimization where we build inside a
2499 crazy aufs stack; now we just build in a tmpfs.
2500 * Clean up apt-cacher-ng cache on vm:provision to save disk
2501 space on the builder.
2502 * Add convenient Rake task for SSH:ing into the builder VM:
2504 * Add rake task for generating a new Vagrant base box.
2505 * Automatically provision the VM on build to keep things up-to-date.
2506 * Don't enable extproxy unless explicitly given as an
2507 option. Previously it would automatically be enabled when
2508 `http_proxy` is set in the environment, unlike what is
2509 documented. This will hopefully lead to fewer surprises for users
2510 who e.g. point http_proxy to a torified polipo, or similar.
2511 * Re-fetch tags when running build-tails with Vagrant. That
2512 should fix an annoyance related to #7182 that I frequently
2513 encounter: when I, as the RM, rebuild the release image the
2514 second time from the force-updated tag, the build system would
2515 not have the force-updated tag. (Closes: #7182)
2516 * Make sure we use the intended locale in the Tails builder VM.
2517 Since we communicate via SSH, and e.g. Debian forward the
2518 locale env vars by default, we have to take some steps
2519 ensuring we do not do that.
2520 - Pull monkeysphere from stretch to avoid failing to install under
2521 eatmydata. Patch submitted by Cyril Brulebois <cyril@debamax.com>.
2524 - Add wrapper around dogtail (inside Tails) for "remote" usage in
2525 the automated test suite. This provides a simple interface for
2526 generating dogtail python code, sending it to the guest, and
2527 executing it, and should allow us to write more robust tests
2528 leveraging assistive technologies. (Closes: #10721)
2529 - A few previously sikuli-based tests has been migrated to use
2530 dogtail instead, e.g. GNOME Applications menu interaction.
2531 - Add a test for re-configuring an existing persistent volume.
2532 This is a regression test for #10809. (Closes: #10834)
2533 - Use a simulated Tor network provided by Chutney in the automated
2534 test suite. The main motivation here is improved robustness --
2535 since the "Tor network" we now use will exit from the host
2536 running the automated test suite, we won't have to deal with Tor
2537 network blocking, or unreliable circuits. Performance should
2538 also be improved. (Closes: #9521)
2539 - Drop the usage of Tor Check in our tests. It doesn't make sense
2540 now when we use Chutney since that always means it will report
2541 that Tor is not being used.
2542 - Stop testing obsolete pluggable transports.
2543 - Completely rewrite the firewall leak detector to something more
2544 flexible and expressive.
2545 - Run tcpdump with --immediate-mode for the network sniffer. With
2546 this option, "packets are delivered to tcpdump as soon as they
2547 arrive, rather than being buffered for efficiency" which is
2548 required to make the sniffing work reliable the way we use it.
2549 - Remove most scenarios testing "tordate". It just isn't working
2550 well in Tails, so we shouldn't expect the tests to actually work
2551 all of the time. (Closes: #10440)
2552 - Close Pidgin before we inspect or persist its accounts.xml.
2553 I've seen a case when that file is _not_ saved (and thus, not
2554 persisted) if we shut down the system while Pidgin is still
2555 running. (Closes: #11413)
2556 - Close the GNOME Notification bar by pressing ESC, instead of
2557 opening the Applications menu. The Applications menu often
2558 covers other elements that we're looking for on the
2559 screen. (Closes #11401)
2560 - Hide Florence keyboard window when it doesn't vanish by itself
2561 (Closes: #11398) and wait a bit less for Florence to disappear
2564 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 06 Jun 2016 20:10:56 +0200
2566 tails (2.3) unstable; urgency=medium
2569 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.5. (Fixes: #11362)
2570 - Upgrade icedove to 38.7.0-1~deb8u1
2571 - Upgrade git to 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u2
2572 - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u1
2573 - Upgrade pidgin-otr to 4.0.1-1+deb8u1
2574 - Upgrade srtp to 1.4.5~20130609~dfsg-1.1+deb8u1
2575 - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u1
2576 - Upgrade samba to 2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u2
2577 - Upgrade openssh to 1:6.7p1-5+deb8u2
2580 - Refresh Tor Browser's AppArmor profile patch against the one from
2581 torbrowser-launcher 0.2.4-1. (Fixes: #11264)
2582 - Pull monkeysphere from stretch to avoid failing to install under
2583 eatmydata. (Fixes: #11170)
2584 - Start gpg-agent with no-grab option due to issues with pinentry and
2585 GNOME's top bar. (Fixes: #11038)
2586 - Tails Installer: Update error message to match new name of 'Clone
2587 & Install'. (Fixes: #11238)
2589 * Cope with a missing geoipdb. (Fixes: #11203)
2590 * Make both panes of the window scrollable. (Fixes #11192)
2591 - WhisperBack: Workaround socks bug. When the Tor fails to connect to
2592 the host, WisperBack used to display a ValueError. This is caused by
2593 a socks bug that is solved in upstream's master but not in Tails.
2594 This commit workarounds this bug Unclear error message in WhisperBack
2595 when failing to connect to the server. (Fixes: #11136)
2597 * Minor improvements
2598 - Upgrade to Debian 8.4, a Debian point release with many minor upgrades
2599 and fixes to various packages . (Fixes: #11232)
2600 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.25. (Fixes: #11363)
2601 - Pin pinentry-gtk2 to jessie-backports. The new version allows pasting
2602 passwords from the clipboard. (Fixes: #11239)
2603 - config/chroot_local-hooks/59-libdvd-pkg: cleanup /usr/src/libdvd-pkg.
2605 - Make the Tor Status "disconnected" icon more contrasted with the
2606 "connected" one. (Fixes: #11199)
2609 - Add UTF-8 support to OTR Bot. (Fixes: #10866)
2610 - Don't explicitly depend on openjdk-7-jre or any JRE for that
2611 matter. Sikuli will pull in a suitable one, so depending on one
2612 ourselves is only risks causing trouble. (Fixes: #11335)
2614 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 25 Apr 2016 14:12:22 +0200
2616 tails (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=medium
2619 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.4. (Closes: #11254)
2620 - Upgrade bind9-related packages to 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u6
2621 - Upgrade libotr to 4.1.0-2+deb8u1
2622 - Upgrade samba-related packages to 2:4.1.17+dfsg-2+deb8u2.
2623 - Upgrade libgraphite2 to 1.3.6-1~deb8u1.
2625 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Thu, 17 Mar 2016 15:03:52 +0100
2627 tails (2.2) unstable; urgency=medium
2629 * Major new features and changes
2630 - Replace Vidalia (which has been unmaintained for years) with:
2632 * the Tor Status GNOME Shell extension, which adds a System Status
2633 icon indicating whether Tor is ready or not.
2634 * Onion Circuits, a simple Tor circuit monitoring tool.
2637 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.3 (Closes: #11189).
2638 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u4.
2639 - Upgrade cpio to 2.11+dfsg-4.1+deb8u1.
2640 - Upgrade glibc to 2.19-18+deb8u3.
2641 - Upgrade libav to 6:11.6-1~deb8u1.
2642 - Upgrade libgraphite2 to 1.3.5-1~deb8u1.
2643 - Upgrade libjasper1 to 1.900.1-debian1-2.4+deb8u1.
2644 - Upgrade libreoffice to 4.3.3-2+deb8u3.
2645 - Upgrade libssh2 to 1.4.3-4.1+deb8u1.
2646 - Upgrade openssl to 1.0.1k-3+deb8u4.
2647 - Upgrade perl to 5.20.2-3+deb8u4.
2648 - Upgrade python-imaging, python-pil to 2.6.1-2 2.6.1-2+deb8u2.
2651 - Hide "Laptop Mode Tools Configuration" menu entry. We don't
2652 support configuring l-m-t in Tails, and it doesn't work out of
2653 the box. (Closes: #11074)
2655 * Actually write a string when saving bug report to
2656 disk. (Closes: #11133)
2657 * Add missing argument to OpenPGP dialog so the optional OpenPGP
2658 key can be added again. (Closes: #11033)
2660 * Minor improvements
2661 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.24-1~deb8u+1.
2662 - Add support for viewing DRM protected DVD videos using
2663 libdvdcss2. Patch series submitted by Austin English
2664 <austinenglish@gmail.com>. (Closes: #7674)
2665 - Automatically save KeePassX database after every change by default.
2667 - Implement Tor stream isolation for WhisperBack
2668 - Delete unused tor-tsocks-mua.conf previously used by Claws
2669 Mail. (Closes: #10904)
2670 - Add set -u to all gettext:ized shell scripts. In gettext-base <
2671 1.8.2, like the one we had in Wheezy, gettext.sh references the
2672 environment variable ZSH_VERSION, which we do not set. This has
2673 prevented us from doing `set -u` without various hacks. (Closes:
2675 - Also set -e in some shell scripts which lacked it for no good
2677 - Make Git verify the integrity of transferred objects. (Closes:
2679 - Remove LAlt+Shift and LShift+RShift keyboard layout toggling
2680 shortcuts. (Closes: #10913, #11042)
2683 - Reorder the execution of feature to decrease peak disk
2684 usage. (Closes: #10503)
2685 - Paste into the GTK file chooser, instead of typing. (Closes:
2687 - Pidgin: wait a bit for text to have stopped scrolling before we
2688 click on it. (Closes: #10783)
2689 - Fix step that runs commands in GNOME Terminal, that was broken
2690 on Jessie when a Terminal is running already. (Closes: #11176)
2691 - Let ruby-rjb guess JAVA_HOME instead fixing on one jvm
2692 version. (Closes: #11190)
2695 - Upgrade build system to Debian Jessie. This includes migrating to a
2696 new Vagrant basebox based on Debian Jessie.
2697 - Rakefile: print git status when there are uncommitted
2698 changes. Patch submitted by Austin English
2699 <austinenglish@gmail.com>. (Closes: #11108)
2700 - .gitignore: add .rake_tasks~. Patch submitted by Austin English
2701 <austinenglish@gmail.com>. (Closes: #11134)
2702 - config/amnesia: use --show-field over sed filtering. Patch
2703 submitted by Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>.
2704 - Umount and clean up leftover temporary directories from old
2705 builds. (Closes: #10772)
2707 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 07 Mar 2016 18:09:50 +0100
2709 tails (2.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium
2711 * Major new features and changes
2712 - Enable the Tor Browser's font fingerprinting protection
2713 (Closes: #11000). We do it for all browsers (including
2714 the Unsafe Browser and I2P Browser mainly to avoid making our
2715 automated test suite overly complex. This implied to set an appropriate
2716 working directory when launching the Tor Browser, to accommodate for
2717 the assumptions it makes about this.
2720 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.2 (Closes: #11105).
2723 - Repair 32-bit UEFI support (Closes: #11007); bugfix on 2.0.
2724 - Add libgnome2-bin to installed packages list to provide gnome-open,
2725 which fixes URL handling at least in KeePassX, Electrum and Icedove
2726 (Closes: #11031); bugfix on 2.0. Thanks to segfault for the patch!
2728 * Minor improvements
2729 - Refactor and de-duplicate the chrooted browsers' configuration:
2730 prefs.js, userChrome.css (Closes: #9896).
2731 - Make the -profile Tor Launcher workaround simpler (Closes: #7943).
2732 - Move Torbutton environment configuration to the tor-browser script,
2733 instead of polluting the default system environment with it.
2734 - Refresh patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile
2736 - Propagate Tor Launcher options via the wrapper.
2737 - Move tor-launcher script to /usr/local/bin.
2738 - Move tor-launcher-standalone to /usr/local/lib.
2739 - Move Tor Launcher env configuration closer to the place where it is used,
2740 for simplicity's sake.
2743 - Mass update browser and Tor Launcher related images due to font change,
2744 caused by Tor Browser 5.5's font fingerprinting protection
2745 (Closes: #11097). And then, use separate PrintToFile.png for the browsers,
2746 and Evince, since it cannot be shared anymore.
2747 - Adjust to the refactored chrooted browsers configuration handling.
2748 - Test that Tor Launcher uses the correct Tor Browser libraries.
2749 - Allow more slack when verifying that the date that was set.
2750 - Bump a bit the timeout used when waiting for the remote shell.
2751 - Bump timeout for the process to disappear, when closing Evince.
2752 - Bump timeout when saving persistence configuration.
2753 - Bump timeout for bootstrapping I2P.
2756 - Remove no longer relevant places.sqlite cleanup procedure.
2758 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Fri, 12 Feb 2016 13:00:15 +0000
2760 tails (2.0) unstable; urgency=medium
2762 * Major new features and changes
2763 - Upgrade to Debian 8 (Jessie).
2764 - Migrate to GNOME Shell in Classic mode.
2765 - Use systemd as PID 1, and convert all custom initscripts to systemd units.
2766 - Remove the Windows camouflage feature: our call for help to port
2767 it to GNOME Shell (issued in January, 2015) was unsuccessful.
2768 - Remove Claws Mail: Icedove is now the default email client
2770 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5 (Closes: #10858, #10983).
2773 - Minimally sandbox many services with systemd's namespacing features.
2774 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u3.
2775 - Upgrade Git to 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u1.
2776 - Upgrade Perl to 5.20.2-3+deb8u3.
2777 - Upgrade bind9-related packages to 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u5.
2778 - Upgrade FUSE to 2.9.3-15+deb8u2.
2779 - Upgrade isc-dhcp-client tot 4.3.1-6+deb8u2.
2780 - Upgrade libpng12-0 to 1.2.50-2+deb8u2.
2781 - Upgrade OpenSSH client to 1:6.7p1-5+deb8u1.
2784 - Restore the logo in the "About Tails" dialog.
2785 - Don't tell the user that "Tor is ready" before htpdate is done
2787 - Upgrader wrapper: make the check for free memory more accurate
2788 (Closes: #10540, #8263).
2789 - Allow the desktop user, when active, to configure printers;
2790 fixes regression introduced in Tails 1.1 (Closes: #8443).
2791 - Close Vidalia before we restart Tor. Otherwise Vidalia will be running
2792 and showing errors while we make sure that Tor bootstraps, which could
2794 - Allow Totem to read DVDs, by installing apparmor-profiles-extra
2795 from jessie-backports (Closes: #9990).
2796 - Make memory erasure on shutdown more robust (Closes: #9707, #10487):
2797 · don't forcefully overcommit memory
2798 · don't kill the allocating task
2799 · make sure the kernel doesn't starve from memory
2800 · make parallel sdmem handling faster and more robust
2801 - Don't offer the option, in Tor Browser, to open a downloaded file with
2802 an external application (Closes: #9285). Our AppArmor confinement was
2803 blocking most such actions anyway, resulting in poor UX; bugfix on 1.3.
2804 Accordingly, remove the now-obsolete exception we had in the Tor
2805 Browser AppArmor profile, that allowed executing seahorse-tool.
2806 - Fix performance issue in Tails Upgrader, that made it very slow to apply
2807 an automatic upgrade; bugfix on 1.7 (Closes: #10757).
2808 - Use our wrapper script to start Icedove from the GNOME menus.
2809 - Make it possible to localize our Icedove wrapper script.
2810 - List Icedove persistence option in the same position where Claws Mail
2811 used to be, in the persistent volume assistant (Closes: #10832).
2812 - Fix Electrum by installing the version from Debian Testing
2813 (Closes: #10754). We need version >=2.5.4-2, see #9713;
2814 bugfix on 2.0~beta1. And, explicitly install python-qt4 to enable
2815 Electrum's GUI: it's a Recommends, and we're not pulling it ourselves
2816 via other means anymore.
2817 - Restore default file associations (Closes: #10798);
2818 bugfix on 2.0~beta1.
2819 - Update 'nopersistent' boot parameter to 'nopersistence'; bugfix on 0.12
2820 (Closes: #10831). Thanks to live-media=removable, this had no security
2822 - Repair dotfiles persistence feature, by adding a symlink from
2823 /lib/live/mount/persistence to /live/persistence; bugfix on 2.0~beta1
2825 - Fix ability to re-configure an existing persistent volume using
2826 the GUI; bugfix on 2.0~beta1 (Closes: #10809).
2827 - Associate armored OpenPGP public keys named *.key with Seahorse,
2828 to workaround https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93656;
2829 bugfix on 1.1 (Closes: #10889).
2830 - Update the list of enabled GNOME Shell extensions, which might fix
2831 the "GNOME Shell sometimes leaves Classic mode" bug seen in 2.0~beta1:
2832 · Remove obsolete "Alternative Status Menu", that is not shipped
2834 · Explicitly enable the GNOME Shell extensions that build
2836 - Make _get_tg_setting() compatible with set -u (Closes: #10785).
2837 - laptop-mode-tools: don't control autosuspend. Some USB input
2838 devices don't support autosuspend. This change might help fix
2839 #10850, but even if it doesn't, it makes sense to me that we
2840 don't let laptop-mode-tools fiddle with this on a Live system
2841 (Closes (for now): #10850).
2843 * Minor improvements
2844 - Remove obsolete code from various places.
2846 · hide all windows while logging in
2847 · resize and re-position the panel when the screen size grows
2848 · PostLogin: log into the Journal instead of a dedicated log file
2849 · use localectl to set the system locale and keyboard mapping
2850 · delete the Live user's password if no administration password is set
2852 · port to GDBus greeter interface, and adjust to other GDM
2855 · port to UDisks2, and from Qt4 to GTK3
2856 · adapt to work on other GNU/Linux operating systems than Tails
2857 · clean up enough upstream code and packaging bits to make it
2858 deserve being uploaded to Debian
2859 · rename everything from liveusb-creator to tails-installer
2860 - Port tails-perl5lib to GTK3 and UDisks2. In passing, do some minor
2861 refactoring and a GUI improvement.
2862 - Persistent Volume Assistant:
2863 · port to GTK3 and UDisks2
2864 · handle errors when deleting persistent volume (Closes: #8435)
2865 · remove obsolete workarounds
2866 - Don't install UDisks v1.
2867 - Adapt custom udev and polkit rules to UDisks v2 (Closes: #9054, #9270).
2868 - Adjust import-translations' post-import step for Tails Installer,
2869 to match how its i18n system works nowadays.
2870 - Use socket activation for CUPS, to save some boot time.
2871 - Set memlockd.service's OOMScoreAdjust to -1000.
2872 - Don't bother creating /var/lib/live in tails-detect-virtualization.
2873 If it does not exist at this point, we have bigger and more
2874 noticeable problems.
2875 - Simplify the virtualization detection & reporting system, and do it
2876 as a non-root user with systemd-detect-virt rather than virt-what.
2877 - Replace rsyslog with the systemd Journal (Closes: #8320), and adjust
2878 WhisperBack's logs handling accordingly.
2879 - Drop tails-save-im-environment.
2880 It's not been used since we stopped automatically starting the web browser.
2881 - Add a hook that aborts the build if any *.orig file is found. Such files
2882 appear mainly when a patch of ours is fuzzy. In most cases they are no big
2883 deal, but in some cases they end up being taken into account
2885 - Replace the tor+http shim with apt-transport-tor (Closes: #8198).
2886 - Install gnome-tweak-tool.
2887 - Don't bother testing if we're using dependency based boot.
2888 - Drop workaround to start spice-vdagent in GDM (Closes: #8025).
2889 This has been fixed in Jessie proper.
2890 - Don't install ipheth-utils anymore. It seems to be obsolete
2891 in current desktop environments.
2892 - Stop installing the buggy unrar-free, superseded in Jessie (Closes: #5838)
2893 - Drop all custom fontconfig configuration, and configure fonts rendering
2895 - Drop zenity patch (zenity-fix-whitespacing-box-sizes.diff),
2896 that was applied upstream.
2897 - Install libnet-dbus-perl (currently 1.1.0) from jessie-backports,
2898 it brings new features we need.
2899 - Have the security check and the upgrader wait for Tor having bootstrapped
2900 with systemd unit ordering.
2901 - Get rid of tails-security-check's wrapper.
2902 Its only purpose was to wait for Tor to have bootstrapped,
2903 which is now done via systemd.
2904 - Don't allow the amnesia and tails-upgrade-frontend users to run
2905 tor-has-bootstrapped as root with sudo. They don't need it anymore,
2906 thanks to using systemd for starting relevant units only once Tor
2908 - Install python-nautilus, that enables MAT's context menu item in Nautilus.
2910 - Configure GDM with a snippet file instead of patching its
2911 greeter.dconf-defaults.
2913 · port to Python 3 and GObject Introspection (Closes: #7755)
2914 · migrate from the gnutls module to the ssl one
2915 · use PGP/MIME for better attachments handling
2916 · migrate from the gnupginterface module to the gnupg one
2917 · natively support SOCKS ⇒ don't wrap with torsocks anymore
2919 · don't try to include the obsolete .xession-errors in bug reports
2921 - chroot-browser.sh: don't use static DISPLAY.
2922 - Simplify debugging:
2923 · don't hide the emergency shutdown's stdout
2924 · tails-unblock-network: trace commands so that they end up in the Journal
2925 - Configure the console codeset at ISO build time, instead of setting it
2926 to a constant via the Greeter's PostLogin.default.
2927 - Order the AppArmor policy compiling in a way that is less of a blocker
2929 - Include the major KMS modules in the initramfs. This helps seamless
2930 transition to X.Org when booting, and back to text mode on shutdown,
2931 can help for proper graphics hardware reinitialization post-kexec,
2932 and should improve GNOME Shell support in some virtual machines.
2933 - Always show the Universal Access menu icon in the GNOME panel.
2934 - Drop notification for not-migrated-yet persistence configuration,
2935 and persistence settings disabled due to wrong access rights.
2936 That migration happened more two years ago.
2937 - Remove the restricted network detector, that has been broken for too long;
2938 see #10560 for next steps (Closes: #8328).
2939 - Remove unsupported, never completed kiosk mode support.
2940 - clock_gettime_monotonic: use Perl's own function to get the integer part,
2941 instead of forking out to sed.
2942 - Don't (try to) disable lvm2 initscripts anymore. Both the original reason
2943 and the implementation are obsolete on Jessie.
2944 - Lower potential for confusion (#8443), by removing system-config-printer.
2945 One GUI to configure printers is enough (Closes: #8505).
2946 - Add "set -u" to tails-unblock-network.
2947 - Add a systemd target whose completion indicates that Tor has bootstrapped,
2948 and use it everywhere sensible (Closes: #9393).
2949 - Disable udev's 75-persistent-net-generator.rules, to preventing races
2950 between MAC spoofing and interface naming.
2951 - Replace patch against NetworkManager.conf with drop-in files.
2952 - Replace resolvconf with simpler NetworkManager and dhclient configuration.
2954 - Replace patching of the gdomap, i2p, hdparm, tor and ttdnsd initscripts
2955 with 'systemctl disable' (Closes: #9881).
2956 - Replace patches that wrapped apps with torsocks with dynamic patching with
2957 a hook, to ease maintenance. Also, patch D-Bus services as needed
2959 - Notify the user if running Tails inside non-free virtualization software
2960 that does not try to hide its nature (Closes: #5315).
2961 Thanks to Austin English <austinenglish@gmail.com> for the patch.
2962 - Declare htpdate.service as being needed for time-sync.target, to ensure
2963 that "services where correct time is essential should be ordered after
2965 - Convert some of the X session startup programs to `systemd --user' units.
2966 - Let the Pidgin wrapper pass through additional command-line arguments
2968 - Move out of the $PATH a bunch of programs that users should generally
2969 not run directly: connect-socks, end-profile, getTorBrowserUserAgent,
2970 generate-tor-browser-profile, kill-boot-profile, tails-spoof-mac,
2971 tails-set-wireless-devices-state, tails-configure-keyboard,
2972 do_not_ever_run_me, boot-profile, tails-unblock-network,
2973 tor-controlport-filter, tails-virt-notify-user, tails-htp-notify-user,
2974 udev-watchdog-wrapper (Closes: #10658)
2975 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.23-2~deb8u+1.
2976 - Disable I2P's time syncing support.
2977 - Install Torbirdy from official Jessie backports, instead of from
2978 our own APT repository (Closes: #10804).
2979 - Make GNOME Disks' passphrase strength checking new feature work,
2980 by installing cracklib-runtime (Closes: #10862).
2981 - Add support for Japanese in Tor Browser.
2982 - Install xserver-xorg-video-intel from Jessie Backports (currently:
2983 2.99.917-2~bpo8+1). This adds support for recent chips such as
2984 Intel Broadwell's HD Graphics (Closes: #10841).
2985 - Improve a little bit post-Greeter network unblocking:
2986 · Sleep a bit longer between deleting the blacklist, and triggering udev;
2987 this might help cure #9012.
2988 · Increase logging, so that we get more information next time someone
2990 · Touch /etc/modprobe.d/ after deleting the blacklist; this might help,
2991 in case all this is caused by some aufs bug.
2992 - Enable and use the Debian jessie-proposed-updates APT repository,
2993 anticipating on the Jessie 8.3 point-release (Closes: #10897).
2994 - Upgrade most firmware packages to 20160110-1.
2995 - Upgrade Intel CPU microcodes to 3.20151106.1~deb8u1.
2996 - Disable IPv6 for the default wired connection, so that
2997 NetworkManager does not spam the logs with IPv6 router
2998 solicitation failure. Note that this does not fix the problem
2999 for other connections (Partially closes: #10939).
3002 - Adapt to the new desktop environment and applications' look.
3003 - Adapt new changed nmcli syntax and output.
3004 - New NetworkManager connection files must be manually loaded in Jessie.
3005 - Adapt to new pkexec behavior.
3006 - Adapt to how we now disable networking.
3007 - Use sysctl instead of echo:ing into /proc/sys.
3008 - Use oom_score_adj instead of the older oom_adj.
3009 - Adapt everything depending on logs to the use of the Journal.
3010 - Port to UDisks v2.
3011 - Check that the system partition is an EFI System Partition.
3012 - Add ldlinux.c32 to the list of bootloader files that are expected
3013 to be modified when we run syslinux (Closes: #9053).
3014 - Use apt(8) instead of apt-get(8).
3015 - Don't hide the cursor after opening the GNOME apps menu.
3016 - Convert the remote shell to into a systemd native service and a Python 3,
3017 script that uses the sd_notify facility (Closes: #9057). Also, set its
3018 OOM score adjustment value via its unit file, and not from the test suite.
3019 - Adjust to match where screenshots are saved nowadays.
3020 - Check that all system units have started (Closes: #8262)
3021 - Simplify the "too small device" test.
3022 - Spawn `poweroff' and `halt' in the background, and don't wait for them
3023 to return: anything else would be racy vs. the remote shell's stopping.
3024 - Bump video memory allocated to the system under test, to fix out of video
3026 - When configuring the CPU to lack PAE support, use a qemu32 CPU instead
3027 of a Pentium one: the latter makes GNOME Shell crash.
3028 See #8778 for details about how Mesa's CPU features detection has
3029 room for improvement.
3030 - Adjust free(1) output parsing for Jessie.
3031 - vm-execute: rename --type option to --spawn.
3032 - Add method to set the X.Org clipboard, and install its dependency
3034 - Paste URLs in one go, to work around issue with lost key presses
3035 in the browser (Closes: #10467).
3036 - Reliably wait for Synaptic's search button to fade in.
3037 - Take into account that the sticky bit is not set on block devices
3039 - Ensure that we can use a NetworkManager connection stored in persistence
3041 - Use a stricter regexp when extracting logs for dropped packets.
3042 - Clone the host CPU for the test suite guests (Closes: #8778).
3043 - Run ping as root (aufs does not support file capabilities so we don't
3044 get cap_net_raw+ep, and if built on a filesystem that does support
3045 file capabilities, then /bin/ping is not setupd root).
3046 - Escape regexp special characters when constructing the firewall log
3047 parsing regexp, and pass -P to grep, since Ruby uses PCRE.
3048 - Adjust is_persistent?() helper to findmnt changes in Jessie.
3049 - Rework in depth how we measure pattern coverage in memory, with more
3050 reliable Linux OOM and VM settings, fundamental improvements
3051 in what exactly we measure, and custom OOM adjutments for fillram
3052 processes (Closes: #9705).
3053 - Use blkid instead of parted to determine the filesystem type.
3054 - Use --kiosk mode instead of --fullscreen in virt-viewer, to remove
3055 the tiny border of the in-viewer menu.
3056 - Remove now redundant desktop screenshot directory scenario.
3057 - Adapt GNOME notification handling for Debian Jessie (Closes: #8782)
3058 - Disable screen blanking in the automated test suite, which occasionally
3059 breaks some test cases (Closes: #10403).
3060 - Move upgrade scenarios to the feature dedicated to them.
3061 - Don't make libvirt storage volumes executable.
3062 - Refactor the PAUSE_ON_FAIL functionality, so that we can use `pause()`
3063 as a breakpoint when debugging.
3064 - Drop non-essential Totem test that is mostly a duplicate, and too painful
3065 to be worth automating on Jessie.
3066 - Retry Totem HTTPS test with a new Tor circuit on failure.
3067 - Replace iptables status regexp-based parser with a new XML-based
3068 status analyzer: the previous implementation could not be adjusted
3069 to the new ip6tables' output (Closes: #9704).
3070 - Don't reboot in one instance when it is not needed.
3071 - Optimize memory erasure anti-test: block the boot to save CPU on the host.
3072 - Update I2P tests for Jessie, and generally make them more robust.
3073 - Update Electrum tests for 2.5.4-2 (Closes: #10758).
3074 - Add workaround for libvirt vs. guestfs permissions issue, to allow
3075 running the test suite on current Debian sid.
3076 - Fix buggy code, that happened to work by mistake, in the Seahorse
3077 test cases; bugfix on 1.8.
3078 - Update test suite images due to CSS change on Tails' website.
3079 - Adapt Tor Browser tests to work with the 5.5 series.
3080 - Automatically test downloading files in Tor Browser.
3081 - Remove obsolete scenario, that tested opening a downloaded file with
3082 an external application, which we do not support anymore.
3083 - Improve robustness of the "Tails OpenPGP keys" scenario (Closes: #10378).
3084 - Automatically test the "Diable all networking" feature (Closes: #10430).
3085 - Automatically test that SSH works over LAN (Closes: #9087).
3086 - Bump some statuc sleeps to fix a few race conditions (Closes: #5330).
3087 - Automatically test that an emergency shutdown triggers on boot
3088 medium removal (Closes: #5472).
3089 - Make the AppArmor checks actually detect errors (Closes: #10926).
3092 - Bump amount of disk space needed to build Tails with Vagrant.
3093 The addition of the Japanese Tor Browser tarball made us reach
3094 the limit of the previous value.
3096 * Adjustments for Debian 8 (Jessie) with no or very little user-visible impact
3097 - Free the fixed UIDs/GIDs we need before creating the corresponding users.
3098 - Replace the real gnome-backgrounds with a fake, equivs generated one
3099 (Closes: #8055). Jessie's gnome-shell depends on gnome-backgrounds,
3100 which is too fat to ship considering we're not using it.
3101 - AppArmor: adjust CUPS profile to support our Live system environment
3103 · Mangle lib/live/mount/overlay/... as usual for aufs.
3104 · Pass the the attach_disconnected flag, that's needed for compatibility
3106 - Make sure we don't ship geoclue* (Closes: #7949).
3107 - Drop deprecated GDM configuration file.
3108 - Don't add the Live user to the deprecated 'fuse' group.
3109 - Drop hidepid mount option for /proc (Closes: #8256). In its current,
3110 simplistic form it cannot be supported by systemd.
3111 - Don't manually load acpi-cpufreq at boot time. It fails to load
3112 whenever no device it supports is present, which makes the
3113 systemd-modules-load.service fail. These days, the kernel
3114 should just automatically load such modules when they are needed.
3115 - Drop sysvinit-specific (sensigs.omit.d) tweaks for memlockd.
3116 - Disable the GDM unit file's Restart=always, that breaks our "emergency
3117 shutdown on boot medium removal" feature.
3118 - Update the implementation of the memory erasure on shutdown feature:
3119 · check for rebooting state using systemctl, instead of the obsolete
3120 $RUNLEVEL (Closes: #8306)
3121 · the kexec-load initscript normally silently exits unless systemd is
3122 currently running a reboot job. This is not the case when the emergency
3123 shutdown has been triggered, so we removed this check
3124 · migrate tails-kexec to the /lib/systemd/system-shutdown/ facility
3125 · don't (try to) switch to tty1 on emergency shutdown: it apparently
3126 requires data that we haven't locked into memory, and then it blocks
3127 the whole emergency shutdown process
3128 - Display a slightly darker version of the desktop wallpaper on the screen
3129 saver, instead of the default flashy "Debian 8" branding (Closes: #9038).
3130 - Disable software autorun from external media.
3131 - Disable a few unneeded D-Bus services. Some of these services are
3132 automatically started (via D-Bus activation) when GNOME Shell tries
3133 to use them. The only "use" I've seen for them, except eating
3134 precious RAM, is to display "No appointment today" in the calendar pop-up.
3136 - Prevent NetworkManager services from starting at boot time
3137 (Closes: #8313). We start them ourselves after changing the MAC address.
3138 - Unfuzzy all patches (Closes: #8268) and drop a few obsolete ones.
3139 - Adapt IBus configuration for Jessie (Closes: #8270), i.e. merge the two
3140 places where we configure keyboard layout and input methods: both are now
3141 configured in the same place in Jessie's GNOME.
3142 - Migrate panel launchers to the favorite apps list (Closes: #7992).
3143 - Drop pre-GNOME Shell menu tweaks.
3144 - Hide "Log out" button in the GNOME Shell menu (Closes: #8364).
3145 - Add a custom shutdown-helper GNOME Shell extension (Closes: #8302, #5684
3146 and #5878) that removes the press-Alt-to-turn-shutdown-button-into-Suspend
3147 functionality from the GNOME user menu, and makes Restart and Shutdown
3148 immediate, without further user interaction. Accordingly remove our custom
3149 Shutdown Helper panel applet (#8302).
3150 - Drop GNOME Panel configuration, now deprecated.
3151 - Disable GNOME Shell's screen lock feature.
3152 We're not there yet (see #5684).
3153 - Disable GNOME Shell screen locker's user switch feature.
3154 - Explicitly install libany-moose-perl (Closes: #8051).
3155 It's needed by our OpenPGP applet. On Wheezy, this package was pulled
3156 by some other dependency. This is not the case anymore on Jessie.
3157 - Don't install notification-daemon nor gnome-mag: GNOME Shell has taken
3158 over this functionality (Closes: #7481).
3159 - Don't install ntfsprogs: superseded on Jessie.
3160 - Don't install barry-util: not part of Jessie.
3161 - Link udev-watchdog dynamically, and lock it plus its dependencies
3163 - Migrate from gdm-simple-greeter to a custom gdm-tails session
3165 - Update Plymouth installation and configuration:
3166 · install the plymouth packages via chroot_local-hooks: lb 2.x's "standard"
3167 packages list pulls console-common in, which plymouth now conflicts with
3168 · don't patch the plymouth initscript anymore, that was superseded
3169 by native systemd unit files
3170 · mask the plymouth-{halt,kexec,poweroff,reboot,shutdown} services,
3171 to prevent them from occupying the active TTY with an (empty) splash
3172 screen on shutdown/reboot, that would hide the messages we want to show
3173 to the user via tails-kexec (Closes: #9032)
3174 - Migrate GNOME keyboard layout settings from libgnomekbd to input-sources
3176 - Explicitly install syslinux-efi, that we need and is not automatically
3177 pulled by anything else anymore.
3178 - Workaround #7248 for GDM: use a solid blue background picture,
3179 instead of a solid color fill, in the Greeter session.
3180 - De-install gcc-4.8-base and gcc-4.9 at the end of the ISO build process.
3181 - Revert the "Wrap syndaemon to always use -t" Wheezy-specific workaround.
3182 - htpdate: run date(1) in a Jessie-compatible (and nicer) way.
3183 - Remove obsolete dconf screenshot settings and the corresponding test.
3184 - Drop our patched python-dbus{,-dev} package (Closes: #9177).
3185 - live-persist: stop overriding live-boot's functions, we now have
3186 a recent enough blkid.
3187 - Adjust sdmem initramfs bits for Jessie:
3188 · Directly call poweroff instead of halt -p.
3189 · Don't pass -n to poweroff and reboot, it's not supported anymore.
3190 - Wrap text in the Unsafe Browser startup warning dialog
3191 (Jessie's zenity does not wrap it itself).
3192 - Associate application/pgp-keys with Seahorse's "Import Key" application
3194 - Install topIcons GNOME Shell extension (v28), to work around the fact
3195 that a few of the applets we use hijack the notification area.
3196 - "cd /" to fix permissions issue at tails-persistence-setup startup
3198 - Install gstreamer1.0-libav, so that Totem can play H264-encoded videos.
3199 - Adjust APT sources configuration:
3200 · remove explicit jessie and jessie-updates sources:
3201 automatically added by live-build
3202 · add Debian testing
3203 · add jessie-backports
3204 - Firewall: white-list access to the accessibility daemon (Closes: #8075).
3205 - Adjust to changed desktop notification behavior and supported feature set
3207 · pass the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS used by the GNOME session
3209 · update waiting for a notification handler: gnome-panel and nm-applet
3210 are obsolete, GNOME Shell is now providing this facility, so instead
3211 wait for a process that starts once GNOME Shell is ready, namely
3212 ibus-daemon (Closes: #8685)
3213 · port tails-warn-about-disabled-persistence and tails-virt-notify-user
3214 to notification actions (instead of hyperlinks), and make the latter
3215 transient; to this end, add support to Desktop::Notify for "hints"
3216 and notification actions
3217 · tails-security-check: use a dialog box instead of desktop notifications
3218 · MAC spoofing failure notification: remove the link to the documentation;
3219 it was broken on Tails/Wheezy already, see #10559 for next steps
3220 - Don't explicitly install gnome-panel nor gnome-menus, so that they go away
3221 whenever the Greeter does not pull them in anymore.
3222 - Install gkbd-capplet, that provides gkbd-keyboard-display (Closes: #8363).
3223 - Install Tor 0.2.7 from deb.torproject.org: we don't need to rebuild it
3224 ourselves for seccomp support anymore.
3225 - Wrap Seahorse with torsocks when it is started as a D-Bus service too
3227 - Rename the AppArmor profile for Tor, so it applies to the system-wide
3228 Tor service we run (Closes: #10528).
3229 - Essentially revert ALSA state handling to how it was pre-Jessie, so that
3230 mixer levels are unmuted and sanitized at boot time (Closes: #7591).
3231 - Pass --yes to apt-get when installing imagemagick.
3232 - Make removable devices, that we support installing Tails to, user writable:
3233 Tails Installer requires raw block device access to such devices
3234 (Closes: #8273). Similarly, allow the amnesia user, when active, to open
3235 non-system devices for writing with udisks2. This is roughly udisks2's
3236 equivalent of having direct write access to raw block storage devices.
3237 Here too, Tails Installer uses this functionality.
3238 - Disable networkd to prevent any risk of DNS leaks it might cause; and
3239 disable timesyncd, as we have our own time synchronization mechanism.
3240 They are not enabled by default in Jessie, but may be in Stretch,
3241 so let's be explicit about it.
3242 - Mask hwclock-save.service, to avoid sync'ing the system clock
3243 to the hardware clock on shutdown (Closes: #9363).
3244 - apparmor-adjust-cupsd-profile.diff: adjust to parse fine on Jessie
3246 - Explicitly use tor@default.service when it's the one we mean.
3247 - Refactor GNOME/X env exporting to Tails' shell library, and grab
3248 more of useful bits of the desktop session environment.
3249 Then, use the result in the test suite's remote shell.
3250 - Stop tweaking /etc/modules. It's 2015, the kernel should load these things
3251 automatically (Closes: #10609).
3252 - Have systemd hardening let Tor modify its configuration (needed by Tor
3253 Launcher), and start obfs4proy (Closes: #10696, #10724).
3254 - Bump extensions.adblockplus.currentVersion and
3255 extensions.enigmail.configuredVersion to match what we currently get
3257 - I2P: switch from 'service' to 'systemctl' where possible.
3259 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:06:33 +0100
3261 tails (1.8.2) unstable; urgency=medium
3264 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.7.
3265 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u2.
3266 - Upgrade foomatic-filters to 4.0.17-1+deb7u1.
3267 - Upgrade git to 1:1.7.10.4-1+wheezy2.
3268 - Upgrade Icedove to 38.5.0-1~deb7u1.
3269 - Upgrade libxml2-related packages to 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy5.
3270 - Upgrade OpenSSL-related packages to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u19.
3271 - Upgrade libsmbclient to 2:3.6.6-6+deb7u6.
3273 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 09 Jan 2016 16:27:27 +0100
3275 tails (1.8.1) unstable; urgency=medium
3278 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.6.
3279 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u1
3280 - Upgrade gdkpixbuf to 2.26.1-1+deb7u3
3281 - Upgrade bind9 tools to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u8
3284 - Fix time synchronization in bridge mode by refreshing our patch
3285 against Tor's AppArmor profile.
3287 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Fri, 18 Dec 2015 19:05:18 +0000
3289 tails (1.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3292 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.7.6-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.
3293 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.5. (Closes: #10751)
3294 - Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u5.
3295 - Upgrade krb5-based packages to 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u6.
3296 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u6.
3297 - Upgrade wpasupplicant to 1.0-3+deb7u3.
3298 - Upgrade libpng12-0 to 1.2.49-1+deb7u1.
3299 - Upgrade openjdk-7 to 7u91-2.6.3-1~deb7u1.
3300 - Upgrade libnspr4 to 2:4.9.2-1+deb7u3
3301 - Upgrade dpkg to 1.16.17.
3302 - Upgrade gnutls26 to 2.12.20-8+deb7u4.
3303 - Upgrade Icedove to 1:38.0.1-1~deb7u1.
3304 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u18.
3307 - Upgrade to Electrum 2.5.4-2~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Now Electrum
3308 should work again. Note that the documentation has not been
3309 adapted to the slight changes in the Electrum account setup
3312 * Minor improvements
3313 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.23-2~deb7u+1.
3314 - Rebase our patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile on top
3315 of the one shipped in torbrowser-launcher 0.2.1-2.
3316 - Warn if the claws-mail persistence is enabled and contains a
3317 Claws Mail configuration when starting icedove. (Closes: #10458)
3318 - Replace the Claws Mail GNOME launcher with Icedove. (Closes:
3320 - Remove the Claws Mail persistence feature from the Persistence
3321 Assistant. (Closes: #10742)
3324 - Simplify ISO image naming rules by using the base rule we use
3325 for Jenkins all the time, except when building from a tag
3326 (i.e. building a release). (Closes: #10349)
3329 - Lower the waiting time for USB installation in the test suite.
3330 So far we were waiting up to one hour, which is just the same as
3331 our Jenkins inactivity timeout, so in practice when Tails
3332 Installer fails and displays an error message, instead of
3333 reporting that the job failed (which is the point of the
3334 exercise) we abort the job due to this timeout which
3335 communicates less clearly that there's probably a bug. (Closes:
3337 - Remove the check for the sound icon in the systray in the
3338 Windows Camouflage tests. (Closes: #10493)
3339 - Retry running whois when "LIMIT EXCEEDED" is in its output for
3340 increased robustness. (Closes: #10523)
3341 - Make Seahorse tests more robust. (Closes: #9095, #10501)
3342 - Make the handling of Pidgin's account manager more robust.
3345 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 14 Dec 2015 23:07:19 +0100
3347 tails (1.7) unstable; urgency=medium
3349 * Major new features and changes
3350 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.4. (Closes: #10456)
3351 - Add a technology preview of the Icedove Email client (a
3352 rebranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird), including OpenPGP
3353 support via the Enigmail add-on, general security and anonymity
3354 improvements via the Torbirdy add-on, and complete persistence
3355 support (which will be enabled automatically if you already have
3356 Claws Mail persistence enabled). Icedove will replace Claws Mail
3357 as the supported email client in Tails in a future
3358 release. (Closes: #6151, #9498, #10285)
3359 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.7.4-rc-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Among the many
3360 improvement of this new Tor major release, the new
3361 KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option allows us to drop the
3362 bug15482.patch patch (taken from the Tor Browse bundle) that
3363 enabled similar (but inferior) functionality for *all*
3364 SocksPort:s -- now the same circuit is only kept alive for
3365 extended periods for the SocksPort used by the Tor
3366 Browser. (Closes: #10194, #10308)
3367 - Add an option to Tails Greeter which disables networking
3368 completely. This is useful when intending to use Tails for
3369 offline work only. (Closes: #6811)
3372 - Fix CVE-2015-7665, which could lead to a network interface's IP
3373 address being exposed through wget. (Closes: #10364)
3374 - Prevent a symlink attack on ~/.xsession-errors via
3375 tails-debugging-info which could be used by the amnesia user to
3376 read the contents of any file, no matter the
3377 permissions. (Closes: #10333)
3378 - Upgrade libfreetype6 to 2.4.9-1.1+deb7u2.
3379 - Upgrade gdk-pixbuf packages to 2.26.1-1+deb7u2.
3380 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u5.
3381 - Upgrade openjdk-7 packages to 7u85-2.6.1-6~deb7u1.
3382 - Upgrade unzip to 6.0-8+deb7u4.
3385 - Add a temporary workaround for an issue in our code which checks
3386 whether i2p has bootstrapped, which (due to some recent change
3387 in either I2P or Java) could make it appear it had finished
3388 prematurely. (Closes: #10185)
3389 - Fix a logical bug in the persistence preset migration code while
3390 real-only persistence is enabled. (Closes: #10431)
3392 * Minor improvements
3393 - Rework the wordings of the various installation and upgrade
3394 options available in Tails installer in Wheezy. (Closes: #9672)
3395 - Restart Tor if bootstrapping stalls for too long when not using
3396 pluggable transports. (Closes: #9516)
3397 - Install firmware-amd-graphics, and firmware-misc-nonfree instead
3398 of firmware-ralink-nonfree, both from Debian Sid.
3399 - Update the Tails signing key. (Closes: #10012)
3400 - Update the Tails APT repo signing key. (Closes: #10419)
3401 - Install the nmh package. (Closes: #10457)
3402 - Explicitly run "sync" at the end of the Tails Upgrader's upgrade
3403 process, and pass the "sync" option when remounting the system
3404 partition as read-write. This might help with some issues we've
3405 seen, such as #10239, and possibly for #8449 as well.
3408 - Add initial automated tests for Icedove. (Closes: #10332)
3409 - Add automated tests of the MAC spoofing feature. (Closes: #6302)
3410 - Drop the concept of "background snapshots" and introduce a general
3411 system for generating snapshots that can be shared between
3412 features. This removes all silly hacks we previously used to
3413 "skip" steps, and greatly improves performance and reliability
3414 of the whole test suite. (Closes: #6094, #8008)
3415 - Flush to the log file in debug_log() so the debugging info can
3416 be viewed in real time when monitoring the debug log
3417 file. (Closes: #10323)
3418 - Force UTF-8 locale in automated test suite. Ruby will default to
3419 the system locale, and if it is non-UTF-8, some String-methods
3420 will fail when operating on non-ASCII strings. (Closes: #10359)
3421 - Escape regexp used to match nick in CTCP replies. Our Pidgin
3422 nick's have a 10% chance to include a ^, which will break that
3423 regexp. We need to escape all characters in the nick. (Closes:
3425 - Extract TBB languages from the Tails source code. This will
3426 ensure that valid locales are tested. As an added bonus, the
3427 code is greatly simplified. (Closes: #9897)
3428 - Automatically test that tails-debugging-info is not susceptible
3429 to the type of symlink attacks fixed by #10333.
3430 - Save all test suite artifacts in a dedicated directory with more
3431 useful infromation encoded in the path. This makes it easier to
3432 see which artifacts belongs to which failed scenario and which
3433 run. (Closes: #10151)
3434 - Log all useful information via Cucumber's formatters instead of
3435 printing to stderr, which is not included when logging to file
3436 via `--out`. (Closes: #10342)
3437 - Continue running the automated test suite's vnc server even if
3438 the client disconnects. (Closes: #10345)
3439 - Add more automatic tests for I2P. (Closes: #6406)
3440 - Bump the Tor circuit retry count to 10. (Closes: #10375)
3441 - Clean up dependencies: (Closes: #10208)
3446 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 03 Nov 2015 01:09:41 +0100
3448 tails (1.6) unstable; urgency=medium
3451 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.3. (Closes: #10223)
3452 - Upgrade bind9-based packages to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u7.
3453 - Upgrade liblcms1 to 1.19.dfsg2-1.2+deb7u1.
3454 - Upgrade libldap-2.4-2 to 2.4.31-2+deb7u1.
3455 - Upgrade libslp1 to 1.2.1-9+deb7u1.
3456 - Upgrade ssl-cert to 1.0.32+deb7u1.
3459 - Fix a corner case for the MAC spoofing panic mode. If panic mode
3460 failed to disable the specific device that couldn't be spoofed
3461 (by unloading the module) we disable networking. Previously we
3462 only stopped NetworkManager. The problem is that NM isn't even
3463 started at this time, but will specifically be started when
3464 we're done with MAC spoofing. Therefore, let's completely
3465 disable NetworkManager so it cannot possibly be
3466 started. (Closes: #10160)
3467 - Avoid use of uninitialized value in restricted-network-detector.
3468 If NetworkManager decides that a wireless connection has timed
3469 out before "supplicant connection state" has occued, our idea of
3470 the state is `undef`, so it cannot be used in a string
3471 comparison. Hence, let's initialize the state to the empty
3472 string instead of `undef`. Also fix the state
3473 recording. Apparently NetworkManager can say a few different
3474 things when it logs the device state transitions. (Closes:
3477 * Minor improvements
3478 - Remove workaround for localizing search engine plugins. The
3479 workaround has recently become unnecessary, possibly due to the
3480 changes made for the seach bar after the Tor Browser was rebased
3481 on Firefox 38esr. (Closes: #9146)
3482 - Refer to the I2P Browser in the I2P notifications. Instead of
3483 some obscure links that won't work in the Tor Browser, where
3484 users likely will try them, and which I believe will open them
3485 by default. (Closes: #10182)
3486 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.22. Also set the I2P apparmor profile to
3487 enforce mode. (Closes: #9830)
3490 - Test that udev-watchdog is monitoring the correct device when
3491 booted from USB. (Closes: #9890)
3492 - Remove unused 'gksu' step. This causes a false-positive to be
3493 found for #5330. (Closes: #9877)
3494 - Make --capture capture individual videos for failed scenarios
3495 only, and --capture-all to capture videos for all scenarios.
3497 - Use the more efficient x264 encoding when capturing videos using
3498 the --capture* options. (Closes: #10001)
3499 - Make --old-iso default to --iso if omitted. Using the same ISO
3500 for the USB upgrade tests most often still does what we want,
3501 e.g. test that the current version of Tails being tested has a
3502 working Tails installer. Hence this seems like a reasonable
3503 default. (Closes: #10147)
3504 - Avoid nested FindFailed exceptions in waitAny()/findAny(), and
3505 throw a new dedicated FindAnyFailed exception if these fail
3506 instead. Rjb::throw doesn't block Ruby's execution until the
3507 Java exception has been received by Ruby, so strange things can
3508 happen and we must avoid it. (Closes: #9633)
3509 - Fix the Download Management page in our browsers. Without the
3510 browser.download.panel.shown pref set, the progress being made
3511 will not update until after the browser has been restarted.
3513 - Add a 'pretty_debug' (with an alias: 'debug') Cucumber formatter
3514 that deals with debugging instead of printing it to STDERR via
3515 the `--debug` option (which now has been removed). This gives us
3516 the full flexibility of Cucumber's formatter system, e.g. one
3517 easy-to-read formatter can print to the terminal, while we get
3518 the full debug log printed to a file. (Closes: #9491)
3519 - Import logging module in otr-bot.py. Our otr-bot.py does not use
3520 logging but the jabberbot library makes logging calls, causing a
3521 one-off message “No handlers could be found for logger
3522 "jabberbot"” to be printed to the console. This commit
3523 effectively prevents logging/outputting anything to the terminal
3524 which is at a level lower than CRITICAL. (Closes: 9375)
3525 - Force new Tor circuit and reload web site on browser
3526 timeouts. (Closes: #10116)
3527 - Focus Pidgin's buddy list before trying to access the tools
3528 menu. (Closes: #10217)
3529 - Optimize IRC test using waitAny. If connecting to IRC fails,
3530 such as when OFTC is blocking Tor, waiting 60 seconds to connect
3531 while a a Reconnect button is visible is sub-optimal. It would
3532 be better to try forcing a new Tor circuit and clicking the
3533 reconnect button. (Closes: #9653)
3534 - Wait for (and focus if necessary) Pidgin's Certificate windows.
3537 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 20 Sep 2015 17:47:26 +0000
3539 tails (1.5.1) unstable; urgency=medium
3542 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.2. (Closes: #10112)
3543 - Upgrade gdk-pixbuf packages to 2.26.1-1+deb7u1.
3544 - Upgrade libnss3 to 2:3.14.5-1+deb7u5.
3547 - Refresh Tor Browser AppArmor profile patch. The old one doesn't
3548 apply on top of testing's torbrowser-launcher anymore.
3551 - Make sure Jenkins creates new jobs to build the testing branch
3552 after freezes. (Closes: #9925)
3554 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Fri, 28 Aug 2015 01:52:14 +0200
3556 tails (1.5) unstable; urgency=medium
3558 * Major new features and changes
3559 - Move LAN web browsing from Tor Browser to the Unsafe Browser,
3560 and forbid access to the LAN from the former. (Closes: #7976)
3561 - Install a 32-bit GRUB EFI boot loader. This at least works
3562 on some Intel Baytrail systems. (Closes: #8471)
3565 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0, and integrate it:
3566 · Disable Tiles in all browsers' new tab page.
3567 · Don't use geo-specific search engine prefs in our browsers.
3568 · Hide Tools -> Set Up Sync, Tools -> Apps (that links to the Firefox
3569 Marketplace), and the "Share this page" button in the Tool bar.
3570 · Generate localized Wikipedia search engine plugin icons so the
3571 English and localized versions can be distinguished in the new
3572 search bar. (Closes: #9955)
3573 - Fix panic mode on MAC spoofing failure. (Closes: #9531)
3574 - Deny Tor Browser access to global tmp directories with AppArmor,
3575 and give it its own $TMPDIR. (Closes: #9558)
3576 - Tails Installer: don't use a predictable file name for the subprocess
3577 error log. (Closes: #9349)
3578 - Pidgin AppArmor profile: disable the launchpad-integration abstraction,
3579 which is too wide-open.
3580 - Use aliases so that our AppArmor policy applies to
3581 /lib/live/mount/overlay/ and /lib/live/mount/rootfs/*.squashfs/ as well as
3582 it applies to /. And accordingly:
3583 · Upgrade AppArmor packages to 2.9.0-3~bpo70+1.
3584 · Install rsyslog from wheezy-backports, since the version from Wheezy
3585 conflicts with AppArmor 2.9.
3586 · Stop installing systemd for now: the migration work is being done in
3587 the feature/jessie branch, and it conflicts with rsyslog from
3589 · Drop apparmor-adjust-user-tmp-abstraction.diff: obsoleted.
3590 · apparmor-adjust-tor-profile.diff: simplify and de-duplicate rules.
3591 · Take into account aufs whiteouts in the system_tor profile.
3592 · Adjust the Vidalia profile to take into account Live-specific paths.
3593 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u3.
3594 - Upgrade bind9-host, dnsutils and friends to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u6.
3595 - Upgrade cups-filters to 1.0.18-2.1+deb7u2.
3596 - Upgrade ghostscript to 9.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u2.
3597 - Upgrade libexpat1 to 2.1.0-1+deb7u2.
3598 - Upgrade libicu48 to 4.8.1.1-12+deb7u3.
3599 - Upgrade libwmf0.2-7 to 0.2.8.4-10.3+deb7u1.
3600 - Upgrade openjdk-7 to 7u79-2.5.6-1~deb7u1.
3603 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.6.10-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.
3605 * Minor improvements
3606 - Tails Installer: let the user know when it has rejected a candidate
3607 destination device because it is too small. (Closes: #9130)
3608 - Tails Installer: prevent users from trying to "upgrade" a device
3609 that contains no Tails, or that was not installed with Tails Installer.
3611 - Install libotr5 and pidgin-otr 4.x from wheezy-backports. This adds
3612 support for the OTRv3 protocol and for multiple concurrent connections
3613 to the same account. (Closes: #9513)
3614 - Skip warning dialog when starting Tor Browser while being offline,
3615 in case it is already running. Thanks to Austin English for the patch!
3617 - Install the apparmor-profiles package (Closes: #9539), but don't ship
3618 a bunch of AppArmor profiles we don't use, to avoid increasing
3619 boot time. (Closes: #9757)
3620 - Ship a /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home.d/tails snippet, instead
3621 of patching /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home.
3622 - live-boot: don't mount tmpfs twice on /live/overlay, so that the one which
3623 is actually used as the read-write branch of the root filesystem's union
3624 mount, is visible. As a consequence:
3625 · One can now inspect how much space is used, at a given time, in the
3626 read-write branch of the root filesystem's union mount.
3627 · We can make sure our AppArmor policy works fine when that filesystem
3628 is visible, which is safer in case e.g. live-boot's behavior changes
3629 under our feet in the future... or in case these "hidden" files are
3630 actually accessible somehow already.
3633 - Add our jenkins-tools repository as a Git submodule, and replace
3634 check_po.sh with a symlink pointing to the same script in that submodule.
3635 Adjust the automated test suite accordingly. (Closes: #9567)
3636 - Bump amount of RAM needed for Vagrant RAM builds to 7.5 GiB. In
3637 particular the inclusion of the Tor Browser 5.0 series has recently
3638 increased the amount of space needed to build Tails. (Closes: #9901)
3641 - Test that the Tor Browser cannot access LAN resources.
3642 - Test that the Unsafe Browser can access the LAN.
3643 - Installer: test new behavior when trying to upgrade an empty device, and
3644 when attempting to upgrade a non-Tails FAT partition on GPT; also, take
3645 into account that all unsupported upgrade scenarios now trigger
3647 - Request a new Tor circuit and re-run the Seahorse and GnuPG CLI tests
3648 on failure. (Closes: #9518, #9709)
3649 - run_test_suite: remove control chars from log file even when cucumber
3650 exits with non-zero. (Closes: #9376)
3651 - Add compatibility with cucumber 2.0 and Debian Stretch. (Closes: #9667)
3652 - Use custom exception when 'execute_successfully' fails.
3653 - Retry looking up whois info on transient failure. (Closes: #9668)
3654 - Retry wget on transient failure. (Closes: #9715)
3655 - Test that Tor Browser cannot access files in /tmp.
3656 - Allow running the test suite without ntp installed. There are other means
3657 to have an accurate host system clock, e.g. systemd-timesyncd and tlsdate.
3659 - Bump timeout in the Totem feature.
3660 - Grep memory dump using the --text option. This is necessary with recent
3661 versions of grep, such as the one in current Debian sid, otherwise it
3662 will count only one occurrence of the pattern we're looking for.
3664 - Include execute_successfully's error in the exception, instead
3665 of writing it to stdout via puts. (Closes: #9795)
3666 - Test that udev-watchdog is actually monitoring the correct device.
3668 - IUK: workaround weird Archive::Tar behaviour on current sid.
3669 - Test the SocksPort:s given in torrc in the Unsafe Browser.
3670 This way we don't get any sneaky errors in case we change them and
3671 forget to update this test.
3672 - Directly verify AppArmor blocking of the Tor Browser by looking in
3673 the audit log: Firefox 38 does no longer provide any graphical feedback
3674 when the kernel blocks its access to files the user wants to access.
3675 - Update browser-related automated test suite images, and workaround
3676 weirdness introduced by the new Tor Browser fonts.
3677 - Test that Pidgin, Tor Browser, Totem and Evince cannot access ~/.gnupg
3678 via alternate, live-boot generated paths.
3679 - Adjust tests to cope with our new AppArmor aliases.
3680 - Bump memory allocated to the system under test to 2 GB. (Closes: #9883)
3682 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 10 Aug 2015 19:12:58 +0200
3684 tails (1.4.1) unstable; urgency=medium
3687 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.5.3, based on Firefox 31.8.0 ESR. (Closes: #9649)
3688 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.6.9-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails2, which includes a circuit
3689 isolation bugfix. (Closes: #9560)
3690 - AppArmor: deny Tor Browser access to the list of recently used files.
3692 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u17.
3693 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1.
3694 - Upgrade CUPS to 1.5.3-5+deb7u6.
3695 - Upgrade FUSE to 2.9.0-2+deb7u2.
3696 - Upgrade libsqlite3-0 to 3.7.13-1+deb7u2.
3697 - Upgrade ntfs-3g and ntfsprogs to 1:2012.1.15AR.5-2.1+deb7u2.
3698 - Upgrade p7zip-full to 9.20.1~dfsg.1-4+deb7u1.
3701 - Fix automatic upgrades in Windows Camouflage mode. (Closes: #9413)
3702 - Don't ship the snakeoil SSL key pair generated by ssl-cert in the ISO.
3704 - Partially fix the truncated notifications issue. (#7249)
3706 * Minor improvements
3707 - Disable the hwclock.sh initscript at reboot/shutdown time.
3708 This is an additional safety measure to ensure that the hardware clock
3709 is not modified. (Closes: #9364)
3710 - Stop shipping /var/cache/man/*, to make ISOs and IUKs smaller.
3712 - Update torbrowser-AppArmor-profile.patch to apply cleanly on top of the
3713 profile shipped with torbrowser-launcher 0.2.0-1.
3714 - Add the jessie/updates APT repo and set appropriate pinning.
3715 - Upgrade Electrum to 1.9.8-4~bpo70+1.
3716 - Upgrade kernel firmware packages to 0.44.
3719 - Install the Linux kernel from Debian Jessie. (Closes: #9341)
3720 - Remove files that are not under version control when building in Jenkins.
3722 - Don't modify files in the source tree before having possibly merged
3723 the base branch into it. (Closes: #9406)
3724 - Make it so eatmydata is actually used during a greater part of the build
3725 process. This includes using eatmydata from wheezy-backports.
3726 (Closes: #9419, #9523)
3727 - release script: adjust to support current Debian sid.
3730 - Test the system clock sanity check we do at boot. (Closes: #9377)
3731 - Remove the impossible "Clock way in the past" scenarios.
3732 Thanks to config/chroot_local-includes/lib/live/config/0001-sane-clock,
3733 these scenarios cannot happen, and since we test that it works they
3734 can be safely removed.
3735 - Test that the hardware clock is not modified at shutdown. (Closes: #9557)
3736 - Pidgin: retry looking for the roadmap URL in the topic.
3737 - Avoid showing Pidgin's tooltips during test, potentially confusing Sikuli.
3739 - Test all OpenPGP keys shipped with Tails. (Closes: #9402)
3740 - Check that notification-daemon is running when looking for notifications
3741 fails. (Closes: #9332)
3742 - Allow using the cucumber formatters however we want. (Closes: #9424)
3743 - Enable Spice in the guest, and blacklist the psmouse kernel module,
3744 to help with lost mouse events. (Closes: #9425)
3745 - Automate testing Torbutton's 'New Identity' feature. (Closes: #9286)
3746 - Test that Seahorse is configured to use the correct keyserver.
3748 - Always export TMPDIR back to the test suite's shell environment.
3750 - Make OpenPGP tests more reliable:
3751 · Retry accessing the OpenPGP applet menus on failure. (Closes: #9355)
3752 · Retry accessing menus in Seahorse on failure. (Closes: #9344)
3753 - Focus the Pidgin conversation window before any attempt to interact
3754 with it. (Closes: #9317)
3755 - Use convertkey from the (backported to Jessie) Debian package,
3756 instead of our own copy of that script. (Closes: #9066)
3757 - Make the memory erasure tests more robust (Closes: #9329):
3758 · Bump /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes when running fillram.
3759 · Actually set oom_adj for the remote shell when running fillram.
3760 · Try to be more sure that we OOM kill fillram.
3761 · Run fillram as non-root.
3762 - Only try to build the storage pool if TailsToasterStorage isn't found.
3765 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 28 Jun 2015 19:46:25 +0200
3767 tails (1.4) unstable; urgency=medium
3769 * Major new features
3770 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.5.1, based on Firefox 31.7.0 ESR, which
3771 introduces many major new features for usability, security and
3772 privacy. Unfortunately its per-tab circuit view did not make it
3773 into Tails yet since it requires exposing more Tor state to the
3774 user running the Tor Browser than we are currently comfortable
3775 with. (Closes: #9031, #9369)
3776 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.6.7-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails2. Like in the Tor
3777 bundled with the Tor Browser, we patch it so that circuits used
3778 for SOCKSAuth streams have their lifetime increased indefinitely
3779 while in active use. This currently only affects the Tor Browser
3780 in Tails, and should improve the experience on certain web sites
3781 that otherwise would switch language or log you out every ten
3782 minutes or so when Tor switches circuit. (Closes: #7934)
3785 - tor-browser wrapper script: avoid offering avenues to arbitrary
3786 code execution to e.g. an exploited Pidgin. AppArmor Ux rules
3787 don't sanitize $PATH, which can lead to an exploited application
3788 (that's allowed to run this script unconfined, e.g. Pidgin)
3789 having this script run arbitrary code, violating that
3790 application's confinement. Let's prevent that by setting PATH to
3791 a list of directories where only root can write. (Closes: #9370)
3792 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt9-3.
3793 - Upgrade curl to 7.26.0-1+wheezy13.
3794 - Upgrade dpkg to 1.16.16.
3795 - Upgrade gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad to 0.10.23-7.1+deb7u2.
3796 - Upgrade libgd2-xpm to 2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-6.1+deb7u1.
3797 - Upgrade openldap to 2.4.31-2.
3798 - Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u4.
3799 - Upgrade libruby1.9.1 to 1.9.3.194-8.1+deb7u5.
3800 - Upgrade libtasn1-3 to 2.13-2+deb7u2.
3801 - Upgrade libx11 to 2:1.5.0-1+deb7u2.
3802 - Upgrade libxml-libxml-perl to 2.0001+dfsg-1+deb7u1.
3803 - Upgrade libxml2 to 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy4.
3804 - Upgrade OpenJDK to 7u79-2.5.5-1~deb7u1.
3805 - Upgrade ppp to 2.4.5-5.1+deb7u2.
3808 - Disable security warnings when connecting to POP3 and IMAP ports.
3810 - Make the Windows 8 browser theme compatible with the Unsafe and I2P
3811 browsers. (Closes: #9138)
3812 - Hide Torbutton's "Tor Network Settings..." context menu entry.
3814 - Upgrade the syslinux packages to support booting Tails on
3815 Chromebook C720-2800. (Closes: #9044)
3816 - Enable localization in Tails Upgrader. (Closes: #9190)
3817 - Make sure the system clock isn't before the build date during
3818 early boot. Our live-config hook that imports our signing keys
3819 depend on that the system clock isn't before the date when the
3820 keys where created. (Closes: #9149)
3821 - Set GNOME's OpenPGP keys via desktop.gnome.crypto.pgp to prevent
3822 us from getting GNOME's default keyserver in addition to our
3823 own. (Closes: #9233)
3824 - Prevent Firefox from crashing when Orca is enabled: grant
3825 it access to assistive technologies in its Apparmor
3826 profile. (Closes: #9261)
3827 - Add Jessie APT source. (Closes: #9278)
3828 - Fix set_simple_config_key(). If the key already existed in the
3829 config file before the call, all other lines would be removed
3830 due to the sed option -n and p combo. (Closes: #9122)
3831 - Remove illegal instance of local outside of function definition.
3832 Together with `set -e` that error has prevented this script from
3833 restarting Vidalia, like it should. (Closes: #9328)
3835 * Minor improvements
3836 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.19-3~deb7u+1.
3837 - Install Tor Browser's bundled Torbutton instead of custom .deb.
3838 As of Torbutton 1.9.1.0 everything we need has been upstreamed.
3839 - Install Tor Browser's bundled Tor Launcher instead of our
3840 in-tree version. With Tor 0.2.6.x our custom patches for the
3841 ClientTransportPlugin hacks are not needed any more. (Closes:
3843 - Don't install msmtp and mutt. (Closes: #8727)
3844 - Install fonts-linuxlibertine for improved Vietnamese support in
3845 LibreOffice. (Closes: #8996)
3846 - Remove obsoletete #i2p-help IRC channel from the Pidgin
3847 configuration (Closes: #9137)
3848 - Add Gedit shortcut to gpgApplet's context menu. Thanks to Ivan
3849 Bliminse for the patch. (Closes: #9069).
3850 - Install printer-driver-gutenprint to support more printer
3851 models. (Closes: #8994).
3852 - Install paperkey for off-line OpenPGP key backup. (Closes: #8957)
3853 - Hide the Tor logo in Tor Launcher. (Closes: #8696)
3854 - Remove useless log() instance in tails-unblock-network. (Closes:
3856 - Install cdrdao: this enables Brasero to burn combined data/audio
3857 CDs and to do byte-to-byte disc copy.
3858 - Hide access to the Add-ons manager in the Unsafe Browser. It's
3859 currently broken (#9307) but we any way do not want users to
3860 install add-ons in the Unsafe Browser. (Closes: #9305)
3861 - Disable warnings on StartTLS for POP3 and IMAP (Will-fix: #9327)
3862 The default value of this option activates warnings on ports
3863 23,109,110,143. This commit disables the warnings for POP3 and
3864 IMAP as these could be equally used in encrypted StartTLS
3865 connections. (Closes: #9327)
3866 - Completely rework how we localize our browser by generating our
3867 branding add-on, and search plugins programatically. This
3868 improves the localization for the ar, es, fa, ko, nl, pl, ru,
3869 tr, vi and zh_CN locales by localizing the Startpage and
3870 Disconnect.me search plugins. Following Tor Browser 4.5's recent
3871 switch, we now use Disconnect.me as the default search
3872 engine. (Closes: #9309)
3873 * Actively set Google as the Unsafe Browser's default search
3877 - Encode in Git which APT suites to include when building Tails.
3879 - Clean up the list of packages we install. (Closes: #6073)
3880 - Run auto/{build,clean,config} under `set -x' for improved
3882 - Zero-pad our ISO images so their size is divisible by 2048.
3883 The data part of an ISO image's sectors is 2048 bytes, which
3884 implies that ISO images should always have a size divisible
3885 by 2048. Some applications, e.g. VirtualBox, use this as a sanity
3886 check, treating ISO images for which this isn't true as garbage.
3887 Our isohybrid post-processing does not ensure this,
3888 however. Also Output ISO size before/after isohybrid'ing and
3889 truncate'ing it. This will help detect if/when truncate is
3890 needed at all, so that we can report back to syslinux
3891 maintainers more useful information. (Closes: #8891)
3892 - Vagrant: raise apt-cacher-ng's ExTreshold preference to 50. The
3893 goal here is to avoid Tor Browser tarballs being deleted by
3894 apt-cacher-ng's daily expiration cronjob: they're not listed in
3895 any APT repo's index file, so acng will be quite eager to clean
3899 - Bring dependency checks up-to-date (Closes: #8988).
3900 - Adapt test suite to be run on Debian Jessie, which includes
3901 removing various Wheezy-specific workarounds, adding a few
3902 specific to Jessie, migrating from ffmpeg to libav, and
3903 more. (Closes: #8165)
3904 - Test that MAT can see that a PDF is dirty (Closes: #9136).
3905 - Allow throwing Timeout::Error in try_for() blocks, as well as
3906 nested try_for() (Closes: #9189, #9290).
3907 - Read test suite configuration files from the features/config/local.d
3908 directory. (Closes: #9220)
3909 - Kill virt-viewer with SIGTERM, not SIGINT, to prevent hordes of
3910 zombie processes from appearing. (Closes: #9139)
3911 - Kill Xvfb with SIGTERM, not SIGKILL, on test suite exit to allow
3912 it to properly clean up. (Closes: #8707)
3913 - Split SSH & SFTP configs in the test suite. (Closes: #9257)
3914 - Improve how we start subprocesses in the test suite, mostly by
3915 bypassing the shell for greater security and robustness (Closes:
3917 - Add Electrum test feature. (Closes #8963)
3918 - Test that Tails Installer detects when USB devices are
3919 removed. (Closes: #9131)
3920 - Test Tails Installer with devices which are too small. (Closes:
3922 - Test that the Report an Error launcher works in German. (Closes:
3924 - Verify that no extensions are installed in the Unsafe Browser
3925 using about:support instead of about:addons, which is broken
3926 (#9307). (Closes: #9306)
3927 - Retry GNOME application menu actions when they glitch. The
3928 GNOME application menus seem to have issues with clicks or
3929 hovering actions not registering, and hence sometimes submenus
3930 are not opened when they should, and sometimes clicks on the
3931 final application shortcut are lost. There seems to be a
3932 correlation between this and CPU load on the host running the
3933 test suite. We workaround this by simply re-trying the last
3934 action when it seems to fail. (Closes: #8928)
3935 - Work around Seahorse GUI glitchiness (Closes: #9343):
3936 * When Seahorse appears to be frozen--apparently due to network
3937 issues--it can often be worked around by refreshing the screen
3938 or activating a new window.
3939 * Open Seahorse's preferences dialog using the mouse.
3940 * Access menu entries with the mouse.
3941 - Wait for systray icons to finish loading before interacting with
3942 the systray. (Closes: #9258)
3943 - Test suite configuration: generalize local.d support to *.d. We
3944 now load features/config/*.d/*.yml.
3945 - Use code blocks in "After Scenario" hooks. This is much simpler
3946 to use (and more readable!) compared to hooking functions and
3947 arguments like we used to do.
3948 - Create filesystem share sources in the temporary directory and
3949 make them world-readable. (Closes: #8950)
3951 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 11 May 2015 16:45:04 +0200
3953 tails (1.3.2) unstable; urgency=medium
3956 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.0.6, based on Firefox 31.6.0 ESR.
3957 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u16.
3960 - Make Florence usable with touchpads by forcing syndaemon to
3961 always use the `-t` option, which only disables tapping and
3962 scrolling and not mouse movements (Closes: #9011).
3963 - Make tails-spoof-mac log the correct macchanger exit code on
3964 failure (Closes: #8687).
3966 · Ignore devices with less than 3.5 GB of storage since they
3967 do not fit a Tails installation (Closes: #6538).
3968 · Remove devices from the device list as they are unplugged
3971 * Minor improvements
3972 - Install obfs4proxy 0.0.4-1~tpo1, which adds support for
3973 client-mode ScrambleSuit.
3974 - Don't start Vidalia if Windows Camouflage is enabled. (Closes:
3977 · Remove "Add-ons" from the Tools menu, and hide "Keyboard
3978 Shortcuts" and "Take a Tour" since they point to resources on
3979 the open Internet (Closes: #7970).
3980 · Hide TorButton button from the customize toolbar options, and
3981 remove configs whose only purpose was to make Torbutton "green"
3986 · Test non-LAN SSH, and SFTP via GNOME's "Connect to Server"
3988 · Verify that Tails' Tor binary has the expected Tor authorities
3989 hard coded (Closes: #8960).
3991 · Programmatically determine the supported languages when testing
3992 the Unsafe Browser (Closes: #8918).
3993 · Rename --temp-dir to --tmpdir and make it behave more like
3994 mktemp, and honour TMPDIR if set in the environment. (Closes:
3997 · Make --temp-dir (now --tmpdir) actually work.
3999 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 30 Mar 2015 16:54:20 +0200
4001 tails (1.3.1) unstable; urgency=medium
4004 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.0.5, based on Firefox 31.5.3 ESR. This addresses:
4005 · https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-28/
4006 · https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-29/
4007 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt7-1.
4008 - Upgrade libxfont to 1:1.4.5-5.
4009 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u15.
4010 - Upgrade tcpdump to 4.3.0-1+deb7u2.
4011 - Upgrade bsdtar to 3.0.4-3+wheezy1.
4012 - Upgrade CUPS to 1.5.3-5+deb7u5.
4013 - Upgrade file and libmagic to 5.11-2+deb7u8.
4014 - Upgrade GnuPG to 1.4.12-7+deb7u7.
4015 - Upgrade libarchive to 3.0.4-3+wheezy1.
4016 - Upgrade libav to 6:0.8.17-1.
4017 - Upgrade FreeType 2 to 2.4.9-1.1+deb7u1.
4018 - Upgrade libgcrypt11 1.5.0-5+deb7u3.
4019 - Upgrade libgnutls26 to 2.12.20-8+deb7u3.
4020 - Upgrade libgtk2-perl to 2:1.244-1+deb7u1.
4021 - Upgrade ICU to 4.8.1.1-12+deb7u2.
4022 - Upgrade NSS to 2:3.14.5-1+deb7u4.
4023 - Upgrade libssh2 to 1.4.2-1.1+deb7u1.
4026 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.5.11-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Changes include:
4027 · Directory authority changes.
4028 · Fix assertion errors that may trigger under high DNS load.
4029 · No longer break on HUP with seccomp2 enabled.
4030 · and more - please consult the upstream changelog.
4031 - Upgrade Tor Launcher to 0.2.7.2, and update the test suite accordingly
4032 (Closes: #8964, #6985). Changes include:
4033 · Ask about bridges before proxy in wizard.
4034 · Hide logo if TOR_HIDE_BROWSER_LOGO set.
4035 · Remove firewall prompt from wizard.
4036 · Feedback when “Copy Tor Log” is clicked.
4037 · Improve behavior if tor exits.
4038 · Add option to hide TBB's logo
4039 · Change "Tor Browser Bundle" to "Tor Browser"
4040 · Update translations from Transifex.
4041 - Fix the Tor Launcher killer. (Closes: #9067)
4042 - Allow Seahorse to communicate with keyservers when run from Tails
4043 OpenPGP Applet. (Closes: #6394)
4044 - SSH client: don't proxy connections to 172.17.* to 172.31.*.
4046 - Repair config/chroot_local-packages feature, that was broken in Tails 1.3
4047 by 19-install-tor-browser-AppArmor-profile. (Closes: #8910)
4048 - language_statistics.sh: count original words instead of translated words.
4049 Otherwise we get >100% translation if translated strings are longer than
4050 original strings. (Closes: #9016)
4052 * Minor improvements
4053 - Only ship the new Tails signing key, and have Tails Upgrader stop trusting
4054 the old one. Update the documentation and test suite accordingly.
4055 (Closes: #8735, #8736, #8882, #8769, #8951)
4056 - Polish and harden a bit the WhisperBack configuration (Closes: #8991):
4057 · Only allow the `amnesia' user to run tails-debugging info as root
4059 · Fix spelling and grammar mistakes, improve phrasing a bit.
4060 · Quote variables consistently.
4064 · Chatting over XMPP in Pidgin, both peer-to-peer and in a multi-user
4065 chatroom. (Closes: #8002)
4066 · Chatting with OTR enabled over XMPP in Pidgin. (Closes: #8001)
4067 · Check that Pidgin only responds to the expected CTCP requests.
4069 · Fetching keys using Seahorse started via the OpenPGP Applet.
4070 · Sync'ing keys using Seahorse.
4072 · Fix a race condition between the remote shell's and Tails Greeter's
4073 startup, by making sure the remote shell is ready before we start
4074 GDM. (Closes: #8941)
4075 · Kill virt-viewer properly. (Closes: #9070)
4076 · Make sure the display is stopped on destroy_and_undefine().
4077 Where we had it earlier, it could be skipped if anything else in the
4078 block threw an exception.
4079 · Fix wrong use of "$@". (Closes: #9071)
4080 · Enable the pipefail option in run_test_suite.
4081 · Improve the GNOME screenshot test's robustness. (Closes: #8952)
4083 · turn the focus_pidgin_window() helper into a more generic
4084 VM.focus_xorg_window() one.
4085 · Reorganize the Display class.
4086 · Use clearer method to check process status in the Display class.
4087 - New developer-oriented features:
4088 · Add a --log-to-file option to run_test_suite. (Closes: #8894)
4089 · Add helpers for generating random strings.
4090 · Make it possible to hook arbitrary calls on scenario end. This is useful
4091 for dynamically adding cleanup functions, instead of having
4092 to explicitly deal with them in some After hook.
4094 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 23 Mar 2015 12:34:56 +0000
4096 tails (1.3) unstable; urgency=medium
4098 * Major new features
4099 - Produce the Tails image in hybrid mode (again) so that the same
4100 image can be installed both on DVD *and* "hard disks" like USB
4101 storage and similar. (Closes: #8510)
4102 - Confine the Tor Browser using AppArmor. (Closes: #5525)
4103 - Install the Electrum bitcoin client from wheezy-backports, and
4104 add a persistence preset for the Live user's bitcoin wallet. If
4105 electrum is started without the persistence preset enabled, a
4106 warning is shown. (Closes: #6739)
4109 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.0.4 (based on Firefox 31.5.0esr)
4113 - Have tor_bootstrap_progress echo 0 if no matching log line is
4114 found. (Closes: #8257)
4115 - Always pass arguments through wrappers (connect-socks, totem,
4116 wget, whois) with "$@". $* doesn't handle arguments with
4117 e.g. embedded spaces correctly. (Closes: #8603, #8830)
4118 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt4-3.
4120 * Minor improvements
4121 - Install a custom-built Tor package with Seccomp enabled;
4122 enable the Seccomp sandbox when no pluggable transport is used.
4124 - Install obfs4proxy instead of obfsproxy, which adds support for
4125 the obfs4 Tor pluggable transport. (Closes: #7980)
4126 - Install GnuPG v2 and associated tools from wheezy-backports,
4127 primarily for its improved support for OpenPGP smartcards. It
4128 lives side-by-side with GnuPG v1, which still is the
4129 default. (Closes: #6241)
4130 - Install ibus-unikey, a Vietnamese input method for IBus. (Closes:
4132 - Install torsocks (2.x) from wheezy-backports. (Closes: #8220)
4133 - Install keyringer from Debian Jessie. (Closes: #7752)
4134 - Install pulseaudio-utils.
4135 - Remove all traces of Polipo: we don't use it anymore. This
4136 closes #5379 and #6115 because:
4137 * Have APT directly use the Tor SOCKS proxy. (Closes: #8194)
4138 * Wrap wget with torsocks. (Closes: #6623)
4139 * Wrap Totem to torify it with torsocks. (Closes: #8219)
4140 * Torify Git with tsocks, instead of setting GIT_PROXY_COMMAND.
4142 - Use torsocks for whois and Gobby, instead of torify.
4143 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.18-1~deb7u+1.
4144 - Refactor the Unsafe and I2P browser code into a common shell
4145 library. A lot of duplicated code is now shared, and the code
4146 has been cleaned up and made more reliable. Several
4147 optimizations of memory usage and startup time were also
4148 implemented. (Closes: #7951)
4149 - Invert Exit and About in gpgApplet context menu. This is a
4150 short-term workaround for making it harder to exit the
4151 application by mistake (e.g. a double right-click). (Closes:
4153 - Implement new touchpad settings. This enables tap-to-click,
4154 2-fingers scrolling, and disable while typing. We don't enable
4155 reverse scrolling nor horizontal scrolling. (Closes: #7779)
4156 - Include the mount(8) output and live-additional-software.conf in
4157 WhisperBack bug reports (Closes: #8719, #8491).
4158 - Reduce brightness and saturation of background color. (Closes:
4160 - Have ALSA output sound via PulseAudio by default. This gives us
4161 centralized sound volume controls, and... allows to easily, and
4162 automatically, test that audio output works from Tor Browser,
4163 thanks to the PulseAudio integration into the GNOME sound
4165 - Import the new Tails signing key, which we will use for Tails
4166 1.3.1, and have Tails Upgrader trust both it and the "old"
4167 (current) Tails signing key. (Closes: #8732)
4168 - tails-security-check: error out when passed an invalid CA file.
4169 Unfortunately, the underlying HTTPS stack we use here fails open
4170 in those case, so we have to check it ourselves. Currently, we
4171 check that the file exists, is readable, is a plain file and is
4172 not empty. Also support specifying the CA file via an
4173 environment variable. This will ease development and bug-fixing
4175 - Fix racy code in Tails Installer that sometimes made the
4176 automated test suite stall for scenarios installing Tails
4177 to USB disks. (Closes: #6092)
4178 - Make it possible to use Tails Upgrader to upgrade a Tails
4179 installation that has cruft files on the system partition.
4183 - Install syslinux-utils from our builder-wheezy APT repository in
4184 Vagrant. We need version 6.03~pre20 to make the Tails ISO image
4186 - Update deb.tails.boum.org apt repo signing key. (Closes: #8747)
4187 - Revert "Workaround build failure in lb_source, after creating
4188 the ISO." This is not needed anymore given the move to the Tor
4189 SOCKS proxy. (Closes: #5307)
4190 - Remove the bootstrap stage usage option and disable all
4191 live-build caching in Vagrant. It introduces complexity and
4192 potential for strange build inconsistencies for a meager
4193 reduction in build time. (Closes: #8725)
4194 - Hardcode the mirrors used at build and boot time in auto/config.
4195 Our stuff will be more consistent, easier to reproduce, and our
4196 QA process will be more reliable if we all use the same mirrors
4197 at build time as the ones we configure in the ISO. E.g. we won't
4198 have issues such as #8715 again. (Closes: #8726)
4199 - Don't attempt to retrieve source packages from local-packages so
4200 local packages can be installed via
4201 config/chroot_local-packages. (Closes: #8756)
4202 - Use our own Tor Browser archive when building an ISO. (Closes:
4206 - Use libguestfs instead of parted when creating partitions and
4207 filsystems, and to check that only the expected files
4208 persist. We also switch to qcow2 as the default disk image
4209 format everywhere to reduce disk usage, enable us to use
4210 snapshots that includes the disks (in the future), and to use
4211 the same steps for creating disks in all tests. (Closes: #8673)
4212 - Automatically test that Tails ignores persistence volumes stored
4213 on non-removable media, and doesn't enable swaps. (Closes:
4215 - Actually make sure that Tails can boot from live systems stored
4216 on a hard drive. Running the 'I start Tails from DVD ...' step
4217 will override the earlier 'the computer is set to boot from ide
4218 drive "live_hd"' step, so let's make the "from DVD" part
4219 optional; it will be the default any way.
4220 - Make it possible to use an old iso with different persistence
4221 presets. (Closes: #8091)
4222 - Hide the cursor between steps when navigating the GNOME
4223 applications menu. This makes it a bit more robust, again:
4224 sometimes the cursor is partially hiding the menu entry we're
4225 looking for, hence preventing Sikuli from finding it (in
4226 particular when it's "Accessories", since we've just clicked on
4227 "Applications" which is nearby). (Closes: #8875)
4228 - Ensure that the test will fail if "apt-get X" commands fail.
4229 - Test 'Tor is ready' notification in a separate scenario. (Closes:
4231 - Add automated tests for torified wget and whois. This should
4232 help us identify future regressions such as #8603 in their
4234 - Add automated test for opening an URL from Pidgin.
4235 - And add automated tests for the Tor Browser's AppArmor
4237 - Test that "Report an Error Launcher" opens the support
4239 - Test that the Unsafe Browser:
4240 * starts in various locales.
4241 * complains when DNS isn't configured.
4242 * tears down its chroot on shutdown.
4243 * runs as the correct user.
4244 * has no plugins or add-ons installed.
4245 * has no unexpected bookmarks.
4246 * has no proxy configured.
4247 - Bump the "I2P router console is ready" timeout in its test to
4248 deal with slow Internet connections.
4249 - Make the automatic tests of gpgApplet more robust by relying
4250 more on graphical elements instead of keyboard shortcuts and
4251 static sleep():s. (Closes: #5632)
4252 - Make sure that enough disk space is available when creating
4253 virtual storage media. (Closes: #8907)
4254 - Test that the Unsafe Browser doesn't generate any non-user
4255 initiated traffic, and in particular that it doesn't check for
4256 upgrades, which is a regression test for #8694. (Closes: #8702)
4257 - Various robustness improvements to the Synaptic tests. (Closes:
4259 - Automatically test Git. (Closes: #6307)
4260 - Automatically test GNOME Screenshot, which is a regression test
4261 for #8087. (Closes: #8688)
4262 - Fix a quoting issue with `tails_persistence_enabled?`. (Closes:
4264 - Introduce an improved configuration system that also can store
4265 local secrets, like user credentials needed for some
4266 tests. (Closes: #6301, #8188)
4267 - Actually verify that we successfully set the time in our time
4268 syncing tests. (Closes: #5836)
4269 - Automatically test Tor. This includes normal functionality and
4270 the use pluggable transports, that our Tor enforcement is
4271 effective (e.g. only the Tor network or configured bridges are
4272 contacted) and that our stream isolation configuration is
4273 working. (Closes: #5644, #6305, #7821)
4275 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 23 Feb 2015 17:14:00 +0100
4277 tails (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=medium
4280 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt2-1.
4281 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.0.3 (based on Firefox 31.4.0esr)
4283 - Fail safe by entering panic mode if macchanger exits with an
4284 error, since in this situation we have to treat the
4285 driver/device state as undefined. Also, we previously just
4286 exited the script in this case, not triggering the panic mode
4287 and potentially leaking the real MAC address (Closes: #8571).
4288 - Disable upgrade checking in the Unsafe Browser. Until now the
4289 Unsafe Browser has checked for upgrades of the Tor Browser in
4290 the clear (Closes: #8694).
4293 - Fix startup of the Unsafe Browser in some locales (Closes: #8693).
4294 - Wait for notification-daemon to run before showing the MAC
4295 spoofing panic mode notifications. Without this, the "Network
4296 card disabled" notification is sometimes lost when MAC spoofing
4297 fails. Unfortunately this only improves the situation, but
4298 doesn't fix it completely (see #8685).
4299 - Log that we're going to stop NetworkManager before trying to do
4300 it in the MAC spoofing scripts. Without this we wouldn't get the
4301 log message in case stopping NetworkManager fails (thanks to
4303 - Set GNOME Screenshot preferences to save the screenshots in
4304 /home/amnesia (Closes: #8087).
4305 - Do not suspend to RAM when closing the lid on battery power
4307 - Properly update the Tails Installer's status when plugging in a
4308 USB drive after it has started (Closes: #8353).
4309 - Make rsync compare file contents by using --checksum for more
4310 reliable generation of the squashfs filesystem in
4311 IUKs. Previously it used the default, which is checking
4312 timestamps and file size, but that doesn't play well with the
4313 Tor browser files, that have a fixed mtime, which could result
4314 in updated files not ending up in the IUK.
4316 * Minor improvements
4317 - Finish migrating tails-security-check's and tails-iuk's pinning
4318 to our website's new X.509 certificate authority (Closes: #8404).
4321 - Update to Vagrant build box tails-builder-20141201. The only
4322 change is the removal of a reference to an ISO image which
4323 doesn't exist (except on the system that generated the build
4324 box) which causes an error for some users (Closes: #7644).
4325 - Generate the list of packages used during build, after building
4326 with Jenkins (Closes: #8518). This allows tracking their status
4327 on the Debian reproducible build front:
4328 https://reproducible.debian.net/index_pkg_sets.html#tails
4330 * Automated test suite
4331 - Check PO files with i18nspector (Closes: #8359).
4332 - Fix the expected image of a check.tp.o failure. Previously we
4333 looked for the "Sorry. You are not using Tor." text, but it
4334 seems it recently changed enough for Sikuli to not find it. To
4335 prevent future errors of the same kind we'll look for the
4336 crossed-over onion icon instead (Closes: #8533).
4337 - Bump timeout when waiting for Tor to re-bootstrap. We have a
4338 dreaded issue with timeouts that are multiple of 2 minutes, and
4339 then Tor succeeds soon after, so in order to allow for this
4340 timeout to be reached twice, and then possibly succeed, let's
4341 use N*2 minutes + 30 seconds, with N=2.
4343 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 14 Jan 2015 16:12:26 +0100
4345 tails (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=medium
4348 - Create a CA bundle for Tails Upgrader at ISO build time, and
4349 patch Tails Upgrader to use it. Specifically this will make it
4350 possible to check for Tails upgrades after our website changes
4351 certificate around the 2014 to 2015 transition (Partially fixes
4354 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 15 Dec 2014 10:05:17 +0100
4356 tails (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4359 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.0-4, i.e. 3.16.7-1.
4360 - Install Tor Browser 4.0.2 (based on Firefox 31.3.0esr).
4363 - Install syslinux-utils, to get isohybrid back (Closes: #8155).
4364 - Update xserver-xorg-input-evdev to 1:2.7.0-1+tails1 which
4365 includes a patch that restores mouse scrolling in KVM/Spice
4367 - Set Torbutton logging preferences to the defaults (Closes:
4368 #8160). With the default settings, no site-specific information is
4370 - Use the correct stack of rootfs:s for the chroot browsers (Closes:
4371 #8152, #8158). After installing incremental upgrades Tails' root
4372 filesystem consists of a stack squashfs:s, not only
4373 filesystem.squashfs. When not stacking them correct we may end up
4374 using the Tor Browser (Firefox) from an older version of Tails, or
4375 with no Tor Browser at all, as in the upgrade from Tails 1.1.2 to
4376 1.2, when we migrated from Iceweasel to the Tor Browser. Based on
4377 a patch contributed by sanic.
4378 - Use the Tor Browser for MIME type that GNOME associates with
4379 Iceweasel (Closes: #8153). Open URLs from Claws Mail, KeePassX
4380 etc. should be possible again.
4381 - Update patch to include all Intel CPU microcodes (Closes: #8189).
4382 - AppArmor: allow Pidgin to run Tor Browser unconfined, with
4383 scrubbed environment (Closes: #8186). Links opened in Pidgin are
4384 now handled by the Tor Browser.
4385 - Install all localized Iceweasel search plugins (Closes: #8139).
4386 - When generating the boot profile, ignore directories in
4387 process_IN_ACCESS as well (Closes: #7925). This allows ut to
4388 update the squashfs-ordering again in Tails 1.2.1.
4389 - gpgApplet: Don't pass already encoded data to GTK2 (Closes:
4390 #7968). It's now possible to clearsign text including non-ASCII
4392 - Do not run the PulseAudio initscript, neither at startup nor
4393 shutdown (Closes: #8082).
4395 * Minor improvements
4396 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.17-1~deb7u+1.
4397 - Make GnuPG configuration closer to the best practices one
4399 - Have GnuPG directly use the Tor SOCKS port (Closes: #7416).
4400 - Remove TrueCrypt support and documentat how to open TrueCrypt
4401 volumes using cryptsetup (Closes: #5373).
4402 - Install hopenpgp-tools from Debian Jessie.
4405 - Add gettext >= 0.18.3 as a Tails build dependency. We need it for
4406 xgettext JavaScript support in feature/jessie.
4408 * Automated test suite
4409 - Don't click to open a sub-menu in the GNOME applications menu
4411 - When testing the Windows camouflage, look for individual systray
4412 applets, to avoid relying on their ordering (Closes: #8059).
4413 - Focus the Pidgin Buddy List before looking for something
4414 happening in it (Closes: #8161).
4415 - Remove workaround for showing the TBB's menu bar (Closes #8028).
4417 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 02 Dec 2014 11:34:03 +0100
4419 tails (1.2) unstable; urgency=medium
4421 * Major new features
4422 - Migrate from Iceweasel to the Tor Browser from the Tor Browser
4423 Bundle 4.0 (based on Firefox 31.2.0esr). This fixes the POODLE
4425 The installation in Tails is made global (multi-profile), uses
4426 the system-wide Tor instance, disables the Tor Browser updater,
4427 and keeps the desired deviations previously present in Iceweasel,
4428 e.g. we install the AdBlock Plus add-on, but not Tor Launcher (since
4429 we run it as a standalone XUL application), among other things.
4430 - Install AppArmor's userspace tools and apparmor-profiles-extra
4431 from Wheezy Backports, and enable the AppArmor Linux Security
4432 Module. This adds Mandatory Access Control for several critical
4433 applications in Tails, including Tor, Vidalia, Pidgin, Evince
4435 - Isolate I2P traffic from the Tor Browser by adding a dedicated
4436 I2P Browser. It is set up similarly to the Unsafe Browser,
4437 but further disables features that are irrelevant for I2P, like
4438 search plugins and the AdBlock Plus addon, while keeping Tor Browser
4439 security features like the NoScript and Torbutton addons.
4440 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.5.8-rc-1~d70.wheezy+1.
4443 - Disable TCP timestamps (Closes: #6579).
4446 - Remove expired Pidgin certificates (Closes: #7730).
4447 - Use sudo instead of gksudo for running tails-upgrade-frontend to
4448 make stderr more easily accessible (Closes: #7431).
4449 - Run tails-persistence-setup with sudo instead of gksudo to make
4450 stderr more easily accessible, and allow the desktop user to
4451 pass the --verbose parameter (Closes: #7623).
4452 - Disable CUPS in the Unsafe Browser. This will prevent the
4453 browser from hanging for several minutes when accidentally
4454 pressing CTRL+P or trying to go to File -> Print (Closes: #7771).
4456 * Minor improvements
4457 - Install Linux 3.16-3 (version 3.16.5-1) from Debian
4458 unstable (Closes: #7886, #8100).
4459 - Transition away from TrueCrypt: install cryptsetup and friends
4460 from wheezy-backports (Closes: #5932), and make it clear that
4461 TrueCrypt will be removed in Tails 1.2.1 (Closes: #7739).
4462 - Install Monkeysign dependencies for qrcodes scanning.
4463 - Upgrade syslinux to 3:6.03~pre20+dfsg-2~bpo70+1, and install
4464 the new syslinux-efi package.
4465 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.15-1~deb7u+1
4466 - Enable Wheezy proposed-updates APT repository and setup APT
4467 pinnings to install packages from it.
4468 - Enable Tor's syscall sandbox. This feature (new in 0.2.5.x)
4469 should make Tor a bit harder to exploit. It is only be enabled
4470 when when no special Tor configuration is requested in Tails
4471 Greeter due to incompatibility with pluggable transports.
4472 - Start I2P automatically when the network connects via a
4473 NetworkManager hook, and "i2p" is present on the kernel command
4474 line. The router console is no longer opened automatically, but
4475 can be accessed through the I2P Browser (Closes: #7732).
4476 - Simplify the IPv6 ferm rules (Closes: #7668).
4477 - Include persistence.conf in WhisperBack reports (Closes: #7461)
4478 - Pin packages from testing to 500, so that they can be upgraded.
4479 - Don't set Torbutton environment vars globally (Closes: #5648).
4480 - Enable VirtualBox guest additions by default (Closes: #5730). In
4481 particular this enables VirtualBox's display management service.
4482 - In the Unsafe Browser, hide option for "Tor Browser Health
4483 report", and the "Get Addons" section in the Addon manager
4485 - Show Pidgin's formatting toolbar (Closes: #7356). Having the
4486 formatting toolbar displayed in Pidgin makes the OTR status more
4487 explicit by displaying it with words.
4489 * Automated test suite
4490 - Add --pause-on-fail to ease VM state debugging when tests
4492 - Add execute_successfully() and assert_vmcommand_success() for
4493 added robustness when executing some command in the testing VM.
4494 - Use Test::Unit::Assertions instead of our home-made assert().
4495 - Add test for persistent browser bookmarks.
4496 - Add basic tests for Pidgin, Totem and Evince, including their
4497 AppArmor enforcement.
4498 - Factorize some common step pattern into single steps.
4499 - Factorize running a command in GNOME Terminal.
4500 - Add common steps to copy a file and test for its existence.
4501 - Add a wait_and_double_click Sikuli helper method.
4502 - Add a VM.file_content method, to avoid repeating ourselves, and
4503 use it whenever easily doable.
4504 - Drop test that diffs syslinux' exithelp.cfg: we don't ship this
4506 - In the Unsafe Browser tests, rely on subtle timing less (Closes:
4508 - Use the same logic to determine when Tor is working in the test
4509 suite as in Tails itself. The idea is to avoid spamming the Tor
4510 control port during bootstrap, since we've seen problems with
4513 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:34:50 +0200
4515 tails (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=medium
4518 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.8.0esr-0+tails3~bpo70+1
4519 (fixes Mozilla#1064636).
4520 - Install Linux 3.16-1 from sid (Closes: #7886).
4521 - Upgrade file to 5.11-2+deb7u5 (fixes CVE-2014-0207,
4522 CVE-2014-0237, CVE-2014-0238, CVE-2014-3478, CVE-2014-3479,
4523 CVE-2014-3480, CVE-2014-3487, CVE-2014-3538 and CVE-2014-3587).
4524 - Upgrade curl to 7.26.0-1+wheezy10 (fixes CVE-2014-3613 and
4526 - Upgrade bind9-based packages to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u2
4527 (fixes CVE-2014-0591).
4528 - Upgrade gnupg to 1.4.12-7+deb7u6 (fixes CVE-2014-5270).
4529 - Upgrade apt to 0.9.7.9+deb7u5 (fixes CVE-2014-0487,
4530 CVE-2014-0488, CVE-2014-0489, CVE-2014-0490, and
4532 - Upgrade dbus to 1.6.8-1+deb7u4 (fixes CVE-2014-3635,
4533 CVE-2014-3636, CVE-2014-3637, CVE-2014-3638 and CVE-2014-3639).
4534 - Upgrade libav-based pacakges to 6:0.8.16-1 (fixes
4536 - Upgrade bash to 4.2+dfsg-0.1+deb7u1 (fixes CVE-2014-6271).
4538 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 23 Sep 2014 23:01:40 -0700
4540 tails (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
4543 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.8.0esr-0+tails1~bpo70+1
4544 (Firefox 24.8.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
4545 Also import the Tor Browser profile at commit
4546 271b64b889e5c549196c3ee91c888de88148560f from
4547 ttp/tor-browser-24.8.0esr-3.x-1.
4548 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.23-2~d70.wheezy+1 (fixes CVE-2014-5117).
4549 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.14.1-1~deb7u+1.
4550 - Upgrade Linux to 3.14.15-2 (fixes CVE-2014-3534, CVE-2014-4667
4552 - Upgrade CUPS-based packages to 1.5.3-5+deb7u4 (fixes
4553 CVE-2014-3537, CVE-2014-5029, CVE-2014-5030 and CVE-2014-5031).
4554 - Upgrade libnss3 to 2:3.14.5-1+deb7u1 (fixes CVE-2013-1741,
4555 CVE-2013-5606, CVE-2014-1491 and CVE-2014-1492).
4556 - Upgrade openssl to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u12 (fixes CVE-2014-3505,
4557 CVE-2014-3506, CVE-2014-3507, CVE-2014-3508, CVE-2014-3509,
4558 CVE-2014-3510, CVE-2014-3511, CVE-2014-3512 and CVE-2014-5139).
4559 - Upgrade krb5-based packages to 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u2 (fixes
4560 CVE-2014-4341, CVE-2014-4342, CVE-2014-4343, CVE-2014-4344 and
4562 - Upgrade libav-based packages to 6:0.8.15-1 (fixes CVE-2011-3934,
4563 CVE-2011-3935, CVE-2011-3946, CVE-2013-0848, CVE-2013-0851,
4564 CVE-2013-0852, CVE-2013-0860, CVE-2013-0868, CVE-2013-3672,
4565 CVE-2013-3674 and CVE-2014-2263.
4566 - Upgrade libgpgme11 to 1.2.0-1.4+deb7u1 (fixes CVE-2014-5117).
4567 - Upgrade python-imaging to 1.1.7-4+deb7u1 (fixes CVE-2014-3589).
4568 - Prevent dhclient from sending the hostname over the network
4570 - Override the hostname provided by the DHCP server (Closes: #7769).
4571 - Add an I2P boot parameter. Without adding "i2p" to the kernel
4572 command line, I2P will not be accessible for the Live user.
4573 - Stricter I2P firewall rules:
4574 * deny I2P from accessing the LAN
4575 * deny I2P from accessing the loopback device, except for select
4576 whitelisted services
4577 * allow I2P access to the Internet
4578 The ACCEPT rules will only be enabled when the string 'i2p' is
4579 passed at the boot prompt. The rules which DENY or REJECT
4580 access for the 'i2psvc' user will always be applied.
4581 - Disable I2P plugins, since it doesn't make much sense without
4582 persistence, and should eliminate some attack vectors.
4583 - Disable I2P's BOB port. No maintained I2P application uses it.
4586 - Fix condition clause in tails-security-check (Closes: #7657).
4587 - Don't ship OpenJDK 6: I2P prefers v7, and we don't need both.
4588 - Prevent Tails Installer from updating the system partition
4589 properties on MBR partitions (Closes: #7716).
4591 * Minor improvements
4592 - Upgrade to Torbutton 1.6.12.1.
4593 - Install gnome-user-guide (Closes: #7618).
4594 - Install cups-pk-helper (Closes: #7636).
4595 - Update the SquashFS sort file.
4596 - Compress the SquashFS more aggressively (Closes: #7706).
4597 - I2P: Keep POP3 email on server. The default in the I2P webmail
4598 app was to keep mail on the server, but that setting was changed
4599 recently. This configuration setting (susimail.config) will only
4600 be copied over in I2P 0.9.14 and newer.
4601 - Add a Close button to the Tails Installer launcher window.
4604 - Migrate Vagrant basebox to Debian Wheezy (Closes #7133, #6736).
4605 - Consistently use the same Debian mirror.
4606 - Disable runtime APT proxy configuration when using APT in
4607 binary_local-hooks (Closes: #7691).
4609 * Automated test suite
4610 - Automatically test hostname leaks (Closes: #7712).
4611 - Move autotest live-config hook to be run last. This way we'll
4612 notice if some earlier live-config hook cancels all hooks by
4613 running the automated test suite since the remote shell won't be
4614 running in that case.
4615 - Test that the I2P boot parameter does what it's supposed to do
4617 - Start applications by using the GNOME Applications menu instead
4618 of the GNOME Run Dialog (Closes: #5550, #7060).
4620 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:49:28 +0000
4622 tails (1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
4624 * Rebase on Debian Wheezy
4625 - Upgrade literally thousands of packages.
4626 - Migrate to GNOME3 fallback mode.
4627 - Install LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice.
4628 - Remove custom LSB logging: Wheezy has fancy colored init
4631 * Major new features
4632 - UEFI boot support.
4633 - Replace the Windows XP camouflage with an experimental Windows 8
4635 - Install Linux 3.14.12-1 from Debian unstable.
4636 - Bring back VirtualBox guest modules, installed from Wheezy
4637 backports. Full functionality is only available when using the
4641 - Fix write access to boot medium via udisks (#6172).
4642 - Don't allow the desktop user to pass arguments to
4643 tails-upgrade-frontend (Closes: #7410).
4644 - Make persistent file permissions safer (Closes #7443):
4645 * Make the content of /etc/skel non-world-readable. Otherwise,
4646 such files may be copied to /home/amnesia, and in turn to the
4647 persistent volume, with unsafe permissions. That's no big deal
4648 in /home/amnesia (that is itself not world-readable), *but*
4649 the root of the persistent volume has to be world-readable.
4650 * Have activate_custom_mounts create new directories with safe
4652 * Set strict permissions on /home/amnesia (Closes: #7463).
4653 * Fix permissions on persistent directories that were created
4654 with unsafe permissions (Closes: #7458).
4655 * Fix files ownership while copying persistence (Closes: #7216).
4656 The previous instructions to copy the persistent data were
4657 creating personal files that belong to root. I don't think
4658 there is a way of preserving the original ownership using
4659 Nautilus (unless doing a "move" instead of a "copy" but that's
4660 not what we are trying to do here).
4661 - Disable FoxyProxy's proxy:// protocol handler (Closes: #7479).
4662 FoxyProxy adds the proxy:// protocol handler, which can be used
4663 to configure the proxy via an URI. A malicious web page can
4664 include (or a malicious exit node can inject) some JavaScript
4665 code to visit such an URI and disable or otherwise change
4666 Iceweasel's proxy settings. While using this to disable
4667 proxying will be dealt with safely by our firewall, this could
4668 be used to defeat stream isolation, although the user must be
4669 tricked into accepting the new proxy settings.
4670 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.7.0esr-0+tails1~bpo70+1
4671 (Firefox 24.7.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
4672 - Upgrade to Linux 3.14.12-1 (fixes CVE-2014-4699).
4673 - Upgrade libav-based packages to 0.8.13-1 (fixes CVE-2014-4609).
4674 - Upgrade to libxml2 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy1 (fixes CVE-2014-0191).
4675 - Upgrade to dbus 1.6.8-1+deb7u3 (fixes CVE-2014-3477,
4676 CVE-2014-3532 and CVE-2014-3533).
4679 - Disable GNOME keyring's GnuPG functionality. (Closes: #7330) In
4680 feature/regular-gnupg-agent, we installed the regular GnuPG
4681 agent so that it is used instead of GNOME keyring's one. This is
4682 not enough on Wheezy, so let's disable the starting of the "gpg"
4683 component of GNOME keyring.
4684 - Make sure /etc/default/locale exists, with a sensible default
4685 value (Closes: #7333). Before Tails Greeter's PostLogin script
4686 are run, /etc/default/locale does not exist on Wheezy. Our
4687 tails-kexec initscript (and quite a few other scripts we run)
4688 depends on this file to exist. So, let's make sure it exists,
4689 with a sensible default value.
4690 - Create the tails-persistence-setup user with the same UID/GID it
4691 had on Tails/Squeeze. (Closes: #7343) Else, our various checks
4692 for safe access rights on persistence.conf fail.
4693 - Revert back to browsing the offline documentation using Iceweasel
4694 instead of Yelp (Closes: #7390, #7285).
4695 - Make the new NetworkManager configuration directory persistent,
4696 when the old one was, but disable the old one (Closes: #7338).
4697 - Before running tails-upgrade-frontend, chdir to a world-readable
4698 place (Closes: #7641). In particular, Archive::Tar::Wrapper,
4699 when called by tails-install-iuk, wants to chdir back to the
4700 original cwd after it has chdir'd elsewhere to do its job.
4702 * Minor improvements
4703 - Install seahorse-nautilus, replacing seahorse-plugins (Closes #5516).
4704 - Install hledger (custom backport, for now): our accountants need this.
4705 - Install stable Scribus instead of scribus-ng.
4706 - Install the printer driver for Epson Inkjet that use ESC/P-R.
4707 - Install the BookletImposer PDF imposition toolkit. It's tiny,
4708 and really helpful e.g. when producing booklets.
4709 - Install gtkhash and nautilus-gtkhash (Closes #6763).
4710 - Import new version of Tor Launcher:
4711 · Now based on upstream Tor Launcher 0.2.5.4.
4712 · Tor bug #11772: Proxy Type menu not set correctly
4713 · Tor bug #11699: Change &#160 to   in network-settings.dtd
4714 · Correctly handle startup paths that contain dot.
4715 - Upgrade to Torbutton 1.6.9.0.
4716 - Avoid shipping python2.6 in addition to python2.7.
4717 - Don't install Gobby 0.4 anymore. Gobby 0.5 has been available in
4718 Debian since Squeeze, now is a good time to drop the obsolete
4720 - Require a bit less free memory before checking for upgrades with
4721 Tails Upgrader. The general goal is to avoid displaying "Not
4722 enough memory available to check for upgrades" too often due to
4723 over-cautious memory requirements checked in the wrapper.
4724 - Make Tails Greeter's help window resolution-aware. Previously it
4725 used a static 800x600 which was problematic on lower resolutions,
4726 and sub-optimal on higher resolutions. Now it adapts itself
4727 according to the screen resolution.
4728 - Whisperback now sanitizes attached logs better with respect to
4729 DMI data, IPv6 addresses, and serial numbers (Closes #6797,
4731 - Integrate the new logo in Tails Installer (Closes #7095)
4732 - Also install linux-base and linux-compiler-gcc-4.8-x86 from
4733 sid. This way, we can get rid of our linux-compiler-gcc-4.8-x86
4734 3.12, and it makes things a bit more consistent.
4735 - Include the syslinux binary, and its MBR, in the ISO filesystem.
4736 This in turn allows Tails Installer to use this binary and MBR,
4737 which is critical for avoiding problems (such as #7345) on
4739 - Include syslinux.exe for win32 in utils/win32/ on the ISO
4740 filesystem (Closes: #7425).
4742 * Add consistent margins in GUI.
4743 * Always reset the target drive's MBR, without asking for
4744 confirmation, after installing or upgrading.
4745 * Install the bootloader using the syslinux binary found on the
4746 target device, once the Live OS has been extracted/copied
4748 - Enable double-clicking to pick entries in the language or
4749 keyboard layout lists in Tails Greeter.
4750 - Install backport of shared-mime-info 1.3 (Closes: #7079).
4751 - Make sanity-check prompts closable in Tails Persistence Setup
4753 - Fix quick search in Tails Greeter's Other languages window
4755 - Install systemd. It is not enabled by default, but having it
4756 around will help doing the migration work.
4757 - Enable AppArmor on the kernel command-line. This is a no-op
4758 without the userspace tools and with no profile shipped, but it
4759 will make it easier to fix this part of the situation.
4762 - Bump Vagrant builder's memory for RAM builds. Wheezy requires
4763 more space to build, and the resulting image is larger.
4764 - Fix Vagrant compatibility issue. Some classes' methods/fields
4765 have been renamed between Vagrant versions, so we need a simple
4766 compatibility layer to support all versions. Without this, it's
4767 not possible to issue e.g. a `build` command to an already
4768 running (i.e. `vm:up`:ed) Vagrant instance.
4769 - Move cpu and mem checks to the `build` task. Previously, when
4770 they were checked in `vm:up` *only* when issued while the VM
4771 already is up, so these checks weren't run if one issues a
4772 `build` when the VM is off. Now we'll fail earlier with a more
4773 informative error message, and it looks like a more logical home
4775 - Fix buggy memory checks for RAM building. We have to take into
4776 account which state the Vagrant VM is in for determining *where*
4777 we check if enough memory is available for a RAM build. If it's
4778 off, we check the host; if it's on we check the VM. Previously
4779 we always checked the host, which doesn't make sense when the VM
4782 * Automated test suite
4783 - Bump the tester VM's RAM by 256 MiB. There is not enough free
4784 RAM to run Tails Upgrader with just 1 GiB of RAM after the
4785 migration to Wheezy.
4786 - Always adjust OOM and memory overcommit settings. The kernel
4787 freezes seem to also happen for the amd64 kernel when filling
4789 - Add option to make Sikuli rety on FindFailed. This makes it
4790 possible to update manu images for Sikuli in just *one* test
4791 suite run, by continuously updating outdated pictures as we go.
4792 - Actually run "Upgrade from ISO" from a USB drive running the old
4793 version. That's what users do, and is buggy.
4794 - Automatically test persistent directories permissions (Closes: #7560).
4795 - Use read-write persistence when testing upgraded USB
4796 installations. Otherwise e.g. the permission fixes won't get
4797 applied, and the subsequent steps testing the permissions will
4799 - Actually check that the ISO's Tails is installed. The step
4800 "Tails is installed on USB drive $TARGET" only checks that the
4801 *running* Tails is installed on $TARGET, which obviously fails
4802 when doing an upgrade from ISO running an old Tails. That it
4803 worked for the same scenario running the current Tails is just
4805 - Use OpenJDK 7 to run our test suite (Closes #7175).
4806 - Use qemu-system-x86_64 directly, instead of kvm, for running the
4807 automated test suite (Closes: #7605).
4809 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 20 Jul 2014 23:16:13 +0200
4811 tails (1.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium
4814 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.6.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1
4815 (Firefox 24.6.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
4816 Also import the Tor Browser profile at commit
4817 90ba8fbaf6f23494f1a0e38d63153b3b7e65d3d3 from
4818 ttp/tor-browser-24.6.0esr-3.x-1.
4819 - Install Linux 3.14 from Debian unstable (fixes CVE-2014-3153 and
4821 - Install openssl from Squeeze LTS (fixes CVE-2014-0076,
4822 CVE-2014-0195, CVE-2014-0221, CVE-2014-3470 and CVE-2014-0224).
4823 - Install GnuTLS from Squeeze LTS (fixes CVE-2014-3466.).
4825 * Minor improvements
4826 - Add Squeeze LTS APT sources. It has been given a low pinning
4827 priority so explicit pinning must be used to actually install
4829 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.22-1~d60.squeeze+1.
4830 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.13-1~deb6u+1.
4832 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 08 Jun 2014 19:14:00 +0200
4834 tails (1.0) unstable; urgency=medium
4837 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.5.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1
4838 (Firefox 24.5.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
4839 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.21-1+tails1~d60.squeeze+1:
4840 * Based on 0.2.4.21-1~d60.squeeze+1.
4841 * Backport the fix for Tor bug #11464. It adds client-side blacklists for
4842 all Tor directory authority keys that was vulnerable to Heartbleed.
4843 This protects clients in case attackers were able to compromise a
4844 majority of the authority signing and identity keys.
4847 - Disable inbound I2P connections. Tails already restricts incoming
4848 connections, but this change tells I2P about it.
4849 - Fix link to the system requirements documentation page in the Tails
4850 Upgrader error shown when too little RAM is available.
4852 * Minor improvements
4853 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.12-2~deb6u+1.
4854 - Import TorBrowser profile. This was forgotten in Tails 0.23 and even
4855 though we didn't explicitly set those preferences in that release
4856 they defaulted to the same values. This future-proofs us in case the
4857 defaults would ever change.
4858 - Import new custom version of tor-launcher:
4859 * Based on upstream Tor Launcher 0.2.5.3.
4860 * Improve how Tor Launcher handles incomplete translation.
4861 (Tor bug #11483; more future-proof fix for Tails bug #6885)
4862 * Remove the bridge settings prompt. (Tor bug #11482; closes Tails
4864 * Always show bridge help button. (Tor bug #11484)
4865 - Integrate the new Tails logo into various places:
4868 * The "About Tails" dialog
4871 - Use the stable APT suite when building from the stable Git branch
4875 - Add test for the #7022 fix.
4877 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 27 Apr 2014 19:34:01 +0200
4879 tails (0.23) unstable; urgency=medium
4882 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.4.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1
4883 (Firefox 24.4.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
4885 * Major new features
4886 - Spoof the network interfaces' MAC address by default (Closes: #5421),
4887 as designed on https://tails.boum.org/contribute/design/MAC_address/.
4888 - Rework the way to configure how Tor connects to the network
4889 (bridges, proxy, fascist firewall): add an option to Tails Greeter,
4890 start Tor Launcher when needed (Closes: #5920, #5343).
4893 - Additional software: do not crash when persistence is disabled
4895 - Upgrade Pidgin to 2.10.9, that fixes some regressions introduced
4896 in the 2.10.8 security update (Closes: #6661).
4897 - Wait for Tor to have fully bootstrapped, plus a bit more time,
4898 before checking for upgrades (Closes: #6728) and unfixed known
4900 - Disable the Intel Management Engine Interface driver (Closes: #6460).
4901 We don't need it in Tails, it might be dangerous, and it causes bugs
4902 on various hardware such as systems that reboot when asked to shut down
4903 - Add a launcher for the Tails documentation. This makes it available
4904 in Windows Camouflage mode (Closes: #5374, #6767).
4905 - Remove the obsolete wikileaks.de account from Pidgin (Closes: #6807).
4907 * Minor improvements
4908 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.21-1~d60.squeeze+1.
4909 - Upgrade obfsproxy to 0.2.6-2~~squeeze+1.
4910 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.11-1deb6u1.
4911 - Install 64-bit kernel instead of the 686-pae one (Closes: #5456).
4912 This is a necessary first step towards UEFI boot support.
4913 - Install Monkeysign (in a not-so-functional shape yet).
4914 - Disable the autologin text consoles (Closes: #5588). This was one of
4915 the blockers before a screen saver can be installed
4916 in a meaningful way (#5684).
4917 - Don't localize the text consoles anymore: it is broken on Wheezy,
4918 the intended users can as well use loadkeys, and we now do not have
4919 to trust setupcon to be safe for being run as root by the desktop user.
4920 - Make it possible to manually start IBus.
4921 - Reintroduce the possibility to switch identities in the Tor Browser,
4922 using a filtering proxy in front of the Tor ControlPort to avoid giving
4923 full control over Tor to the desktop user (Closes: #6383).
4924 - Incremental upgrades improvements:
4925 · Drop the Tails Upgrader launcher, to limit users' confusion
4927 · Lock down sudo credentials a bit.
4928 · Hide debugging information (Closes: #6505).
4929 · Include ~/.xsession-errors in WhisperBack bug reports.
4930 This captures the Tails Upgrader errors and debugging information.
4931 · Report more precisely why an incremental upgrade cannot be done
4933 · Various user interface and phrasing improvements.
4934 - Don't install the Cookie Monster browser extension (Closes: #6790).
4935 - Add a browser bookmark pointing to Tor's Stack Exchange (Closes: #6632).
4936 - Remove the preconfigured #tor channel from the Pidgin: apparently,
4937 too many Tails users go ask Tails questions there, without making
4938 it clear that they are running Tails, hence creating a user-support
4939 nightmare (Closes: #6679).
4940 - Use (most of) Tor Browser's mozconfig (Closes: #6474).
4941 - Rebase the browser on top of iceweasel 24.3.0esr-1, to get
4942 the certificate authorities added by Debian back (Closes: #6704).
4943 - Give access to the relevant documentation pages from Tails Greeter.
4944 - Hide Tails Greeter's password mismatch warning when entry is changed.
4945 - Persistent Volume Assistant:
4946 · Take into account our installer is now called Tails Installer.
4947 · Optimize window height (Closes: #5458).
4948 · Display device paths in a more user-friendly way (Closes: #5311).
4951 - Ease updating POT and PO files at release time, and importing translations
4952 from Transifex (Closes: #6288, #6207).
4953 - Drop custom poedit backport, install it from squeeze-backports-sloppy.
4954 - Make ISO and IUK smaller (Closes: #6390, #6425):
4955 · Exclude more files from being included in the ISO.
4956 · Remove *.pyc later so that they are not recreated.
4957 · Truncate log files later so that they are not filled again.
4958 · At ISO build time, set mtime to the epoch for large files whose content
4959 generally does not change between releases. This forces rsync
4960 to compare the actual content of these files, when preparing an IUK,
4961 instead of blindly adding it to the IUK merely because the mtime
4962 has changed, while the content is the same.
4963 - Make local hooks logging consistent.
4966 - Migrate from JRuby to native Ruby + rjb.
4967 - The test suite can now be run on Debian Wheezy + backports.
4968 - Fix buggy "persistence is not enabled" step (Closes: #5465).
4969 - Use IPv6 private address as of RFC 4193 for the test suite's virtual
4970 network. Otherwise dnsmasq from Wheezy complains, as it is not capable
4971 of handling public IPv6 addresses.
4972 - Delete volumes after each scenario unless tagged @keep_volumes.
4973 - Add an anti-test to make sure the memory erasure test works fine.
4974 - A *lot* of bugfixes, simplifications and robustness improvements.
4976 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 18 Mar 2014 00:58:50 +0100
4978 tails (0.22.1) unstable; urgency=medium
4981 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.3.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+2
4982 (Firefox 24.3.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
4983 - Upgrade NSS to 3.14.5-1~bpo60+1.
4984 - Upgrade Pidgin to 2.10.8.
4985 - Workaround browser size fingerprinting issue by using small icons
4986 in the web browser's navigation toolbar (Closes: #6377).
4987 We're actually hit by Tor#9268, and this is the best workaround gk
4988 and I were able to find when discussing this on Tor#10095.
4990 * Major new features
4991 - Check for upgrades availability using Tails Upgrader, and propose
4992 to apply an incremental upgrade whenever possible (Closes: #6014).
4993 · Run tails-update-frontend at session login time.
4994 · Have tails-security-check only report unfixed security issues.
4995 · Greatly improve the Tails Upgrader UI and strings phrasing.
4996 · Enable startup notification for Tails Upgrader.
4997 - Install Linux 3.12 (3.12.6-2) from Debian testing. Unfortunately,
4998 this breaks the memory wipe feature on some hardware (#6460), but
4999 it fixes quite a few security issues, and improves hardware support.
5000 - Update the build system to be compatible with Vagrant 1.2 and 1.3,
5001 in addition to the already supported versions (Closes: #6221).
5002 Thanks to David Isaac Wolinsky <isaac.wolinsky@gmail.com>.
5005 - Do not start IBus for languages that don't need it. This fixes
5006 the keybindings problems introduced in 0.22 (Closes: #6478).
5007 Thanks to WinterFairy.
5008 - Disable network.proxy.socks_remote_dns in the Unsafe Browser.
5009 Bugfix against 0.22 (Closes: #6479).
5010 - Fetch Tor Browser User-Agent from its own prefs, rather than from
5011 the obsolete Torbutton ones. Bugfix against 0.22 (Closes: #6477).
5012 - Upgrade Vagrant basebox to include up-to-date Debian archive keys
5013 (Closes: #6515, #6527).
5014 - Do not use a non-working proxy for downloading the Vagrant basebox
5016 - Use IE's icon in Windows camouflage mode.
5017 Bugfix against 0.22 (Closes: #6536).
5018 - Support "upgrading" a partial Tails installation (Closes: #6438)
5019 and fix missing confirmation dialog in Tails Installer (Closes: #6437).
5020 Thanks to Andres Gomez Ramirez <andres.gomez@cern.ch>.
5021 - Fix browser homepage in Spanish locales (Closes: #6612).
5023 * Minor improvements
5024 - Tor 0.2.4 is stable! Adapt APT sources accordingly.
5025 - Update Tor Browser to 24.2.0esr-1+tails1, that uses its own NSS
5026 library instead of the system one.
5027 - Update Torbutton to 1.6.5.3.
5028 - Do not start Tor Browser automatically, but notify when Tor is ready.
5029 Warn the user when they attempt to start Tor Browser before Tor is ready.
5030 - Import Tor Browser profile at
5031 3ed5d9511e783deb86835803a6f40e7d5a182a12 from ttp/tor-browser-24.2.0esr-1.
5032 - Use http.debian.net for Vagrant builds, instead of the mostly broken
5033 (and soon obsolete) cdn.debian.net.
5034 - Phrasing and UI improvements in tails-upgrade-frontend.
5035 - Style and robustness improvements in tails-security-check.
5036 - Make room for upcoming UEFI support in Tails Installer.
5038 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:08:13 +0100
5040 tails (0.22) unstable; urgency=medium
5044 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 24.2.0esr that fixes a few serious security issues.
5045 - Stop migrating persistence configuration and access rights. Instead,
5046 disable all persistence configuration files if the mountpoint has wrong
5047 access rights (Closes: #6413).
5048 - Upgrade to NSS 3.15.3 that fixes a few serious security issues affecting
5049 the browser, such as CVE-2013-1741, CVE-2013-5605 and CVE-2013-5606.
5051 * Major improvements
5052 - Switch to Iceweasel 24 (Closes: #6370).
5053 · Resync' (most) Iceweasel prefs with TBB 3.0-beta-1 and get rid
5054 of many obsolete or default settings.
5055 · Disable WebRTC (Closes: #6468).
5056 · Import TorBrowser profile at commit
5057 51bf06502c46ee6c1f587459e8370aef11a3422d from the tor-browser-24.2.0esr-1
5058 branch at https://git.torproject.org/tor-browser.git.
5059 - Switch to Torbutton 1.6.5 (Closes: #6371).
5060 · Prevent Torbutton from asking users to "upgrade TBB".
5061 · Use the same Tor SOCKS port as the TBB (9151) for our web browser.
5062 This should be enough to avoid being affected by Tor#8511.
5063 · Disable Torbutton 1.6's check for Tor.
5064 Unfortunately, the new check.torproject.org breaks the remote Tor
5065 check. We cannot use the local Tor check with the control port. So,
5066 the shortest and sanest path to fixing the check issue, because the
5067 remote Tor check is broken" seems to simply disable this check.
5068 Patch submitted upstream as Tor#10216.
5069 - Prepare incremental upgrades to be the next default way to upgrade Tails,
5070 on point-releases at least.
5073 - Deny X authentication only after Vidalia exits (Closes: #6389).
5074 - Disable DPMS screen blanking (Closes: #5617).
5075 - Fix checking of the persistent volume's ACL.
5076 - Sanitize more IP and MAC addresses in bug reports (Closes: #6391).
5077 - Do not fail USB upgrade when the "tmp" directory exists on the
5079 - Tails Installer: list devices with isohybrid Tails installed
5082 * Minor improvements
5083 - Create a configuration file for additional software if needed
5085 - Translations all over the place.
5086 - Enable favicons in Iceweasel.
5087 - Do not propose to make permanent NoScript exceptions.
5088 In Tails, every such thing is temporary, so better only display the menu
5089 entry that's about temporarily allowing something.
5090 - Clearer warning when deleting persistent volume (thanks to Andres Gomez
5091 Ramirez <andres.gomez@cern.ch> for the patch).
5092 - Make wording in Tails Installer more consistent.
5095 * Use IBus instead of SCIM (Closes: #5624, #6206).
5096 It makes it possible to input passwords in pinentry for at least Japanese,
5097 Chinese and Korean languages.
5098 * Add an import-translation script.
5099 This automates the importation process of completed translations
5101 * Always list optimal keyboard layout in the greeter (Closes: #5741).
5102 * Fix on-the-fly translation of the greeter in various languages
5106 * Update I2P to 0.9.8.1 (Closes: #6080, #5889).
5107 * Improve I2P configuration:
5108 - Disable IPv6 support in a nicer way.
5109 - Disable i2cp (allows java clients to communicate from outside the JVM). If
5110 this is unset an exception for port 7654 would need to be added to ferm.
5111 - Disable "in-network" updates (this is also done in the regular I2P
5113 - Disable the outproxies. Access to the Internet is already routed through
5114 Tor so these are unnecessary. If end-users have a good reason to go
5115 through one of the I2P outproxies they can turn them back on.
5116 * Add a couple of default I2P IRC channels to Pidgin.
5117 * Allow access to the local 'eepsite' through FoxyProxy.
5118 * Add firewall exceptions for the standard I2P ports.
5120 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 30 Nov 2013 16:47:18 +0100
5122 tails (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5125 - Don't grant access to the Tor control port for the desktop user
5126 (amnesia). Else, an attacker able to run arbitrary code as this user
5127 could obtain the public IP with a get_info command.
5128 · Vidalia is now run as a dedicated user.
5129 · Remove the amnesia user from the debian-tor group.
5130 · Remove the Vidalia launcher in the Applications menu.
5131 The Vidalia instance it starts is useless, since it can't connect
5132 to the Tor control port.
5133 - Don't allow the desktop user to directly change persistence settings.
5134 Else, an attacker able to run arbitrary code as this user could
5135 leverage this feature to gain persistent root access, as long as
5136 persistence is enabled.
5137 · Fully rework the persistent filesystem and files ownership
5139 · Run the Persistent Volume Assistant as a dedicated user, that is
5140 granted the relevant udisks and filesystem -level credentials.
5141 · At persistence activation time, don't trust existing persistence
5142 configuration files, migrate to the new ownership and permissions,
5143 migrate every known-safe existing settings and backup what's left.
5144 Warn the user when not all persistence settings could be migrated.
5145 · Persistent Volume Assistant uses the new ownership and permissions
5146 scheme when initializing a new persistent volume, and refuses to
5147 read persistence.conf if it, or the parent directory, hasn't the
5148 expected permissions.
5149 · Make boot medium 'system internal' for udisks with bilibop.
5150 Once Tails is based on Wheezy, this will further complete the
5151 protection (see #6172 for details).
5152 - Update Iceweasel to 17.0.10esr-0+tails2~bpo60+1.
5153 - Update Torbutton to 1.5.2-2, including a patch cherry-picked from
5154 upstream to make window resizing closer to what the design says.
5156 * Major new features
5157 - Add a persistence preset for printing settings (Closes: #5686).
5158 Reload CUPS configuration after persistence activation.
5159 - Support SD card connected through a SDIO host adapter (Closes: #6324).
5160 · Rebrand Tails USB installer to Tails installer.
5161 · Display devices brand, model and size in the Installer
5163 · Ask for confirmation before installing Tails onto a device
5165 · Add support for SDIO and MMC block devices to the Tails Installer
5166 (Closes: #5744) and the Persistent Volume Assistant (Closes: #6325).
5167 · Arm the udev watchdog when booted from SD (plugged in SDIO) too
5170 * Minor improvements
5171 - Provide a consistent path to the persistent volume mountpoint
5173 - Add a KeePassX launcher to the top GNOME panel (Closes: #6290).
5174 - Rework bug reporting workflow: point the desktop launcher to
5175 the troubleshooting page.
5176 - Make /home world-readable at build time, regardless of the Git
5177 working copy permissions. This makes the build process more robust
5178 against strict umasks.
5179 - Add signing capabilities to the tails-build script (Closes: #6267).
5180 This is in turn used to sign ISO images built by our Jenkins setup
5182 - Simplify the ikiwiki setup and make more pages translatable.
5183 - Exclude the version string in GnuPG's ASCII armored output.
5184 - Prefer stronger ciphers (AES256,AES192,AES,CAST5) when encrypting
5186 - Use the same custom Startpage search URL than the TBB.
5187 This apparently disables the new broken "family" filter.
5188 - Update AdBlock Plus patterns.
5189 - Install Linux from Debian testing.
5190 (That is, the same version that was shipped in 0.20.1.)
5193 - Look for "/tmp/.X11-unix/X${1#:}" too when detecting displays in use.
5194 - Adapt tests to match the Control Port access security fix:
5195 · Take into account that the amnesia user isn't part of the debian-tor
5197 · Run as root the checks to see if a process is running: this
5198 is required to see other users' processes.
5200 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2013 23:42:46 +0200
5202 tails (0.20.1) unstable; urgency=low
5204 * Major new features
5205 - Install Tor 0.2.4.17-rc-1~d60.squeeze+1 from the Tor project's repository.
5206 - Install Iceweasel 17.0.9esr with Torbrowser patches.
5207 - Install Linux kernel 3.10-3 (version 3.10.11-1) from sid.
5210 - Remount persistence devices read-only at shutdown/reboot time
5212 - Greeter: display a warning icon on admin password mismatch and on
5213 persistence unlocking failure. Thanks to Andres Gomez Ramirez
5214 <andres.gomez@cern.ch> for the fix!
5215 - Don't torsocksify Pidgin.
5216 Instead we disable Pidgin's GNOME integration to get the "Global proxy
5217 configuration", which we set to use Tor. This fixes the I2P IRC account.
5218 - Additional software: fix typo in notification.
5219 - Allow installing "Priority: standard" packages that we do not install
5220 by default: remove them late in the build process instead of assigning
5221 them a -1 APT pinning level.
5223 * Minor improvements
5224 - Update AdBlock Plus patterns.
5225 - Use more unique ISO file name when building from Jenkins.
5226 - Additional software: point to the system log on upgrade failure.
5227 - Set SOCKS5_USER and SOCKS5_PASSWORD in the connect-socks wrapper (used
5228 by Git). Else, Tor 0.2.4's IsolateSOCKSAuth and connect-proxy
5229 sometimes play together in some way that makes connect-proxy ask for
5230 a password to connect to the SocksPort. SOCKS5_USER and
5231 SOCKS5_PASSWORD are passed through unchanged if they were manually set
5232 by the user already.
5233 - Use our custom connect-socks wrapper for SSH. Else, Tor 0.2.4's
5234 IsolateSOCKSAuth and connect-proxy sometimes play together in some way
5235 that makes connect-proxy ask for a password to connect to the
5236 SocksPort. Note that connect-socks uses the default SocksPort too, so
5237 no change here wrt. our connection isolation design.
5240 - Import new translations from Transifex.
5243 - Fix old ISO checking for consistent error reporting.
5244 - Remove custom persistence test from manual test suite.
5245 It was removed for the GUI in t-p-s 0.33.
5247 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2013 15:49:36 +0200
5249 tails (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5251 * Major new features
5252 - Install Linux kernel 3.10.3-1 from Debian unstable.
5253 - Iceweasel 17.0.8esr + Torbrowser patches.
5256 - Prevent Iceweasel from displaying a warning when leaving HTTPS web sites.
5257 - Make Iceweasel use the correct, localized search engine.
5258 - Fix Git access to https:// repositories.
5260 * Minor improvements
5261 - Install Dasher, a predictive text entry tool.
5262 - Add a wrapper around TrueCrypt which displays a warning about it soon
5263 being deprecated in Tails.
5264 - Remove Pidgin libraries for all protocols but IRC and Jabber/XMPP.
5265 Many of the other protocols Pidgin support are broken in Tails and
5266 haven't got any security auditting.
5267 - Disable the pre-defined Pidgin accounts so they do not auto-connect
5269 - Include information about Alsa in WhisperBack reports.
5270 - Explicitly restrict access to ptrace. While this setting was enabled
5271 by default in Debian's Linux 3.9.6-1, it will later disabled in 3.9.7-1.
5272 It's unclear what will happen next, so let's explicitly enable it ourselves.
5273 - Do not display dialog when a message is sent in Claws Mail.
5274 - Sync iceweasel preferences with the Torbrowser's.
5277 - Many translation updates all over the place.
5278 - Merge all Tails-related POT files into one, and make use of intltoolize
5279 for better integration with Transifex.
5281 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:19:57 +0200
5283 tails (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5285 * Major new features
5286 - Install Linux kernel 3.9.5-1 from Debian unstable.
5287 Features of particular interest for Tails are the Yama LSM
5288 (ptrace scope restrictions) and improved hardware support.
5289 As a corollary, install initramfs-tools from there too.
5290 - Iceweasel 17.0.7esr + Torbrowser patches.
5291 - Unblock Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, WWAN and WiMAX; block every other type of
5292 wireless device. Next steps are described on the
5293 todo/protect_against_external_bus_memory_forensics ticket.
5296 - Fix write access to boot medium at the block device level,
5297 by installing bilibop-udev. Thanks to quidame for his support.
5298 - tails-greeter l10n-related fixes, thanks to winterfairy:
5299 · Fix so translations is applied on password mismatch messages.
5300 · Separate forward and login buttons and make them translatable.
5301 - Fix link to documentation when no sudo password is set.
5302 - gpgApplet: partial fix for clipboard emptying after a wrong passphrase
5304 - Workaround aufs bug in Unsafe Browser script.
5306 * Minor improvements
5307 - Drop GNOME proxy settings: we did not find any use of it we were keen
5308 to support, other than two programs (Seahorse, Pidgin) that are now run
5310 - Format newly created persistent volumes as ext4.
5311 - GnuPG: don't connect to the keyserver specified by the key owner.
5312 This feature opens the door to a variety of subtle attacks.
5313 - GnuPG: locate keys only from local keyrings.
5314 This is probably the default, but better safe than sorry.
5315 - Install virt-what from Wheezy.
5316 The version from Squeeze does not detect at least Parallels for Mac v.8.
5317 - Upgrade live-boot and live-config to the 3.0.x final version from Wheezy.
5318 · Remove /live and /lib/live/image compatibility symlinks.
5319 · Add /live/overlay -> /lib/live/mount/overlay symlink.
5320 The live-boot changes (commit d2b2a461) brought to fix Debian bug
5321 #696495 revert some of our previous changes (commit 77dab1cb), and as
5322 a result, at the time live-persist runs, no tmpfs is mounted on
5323 /live/overlay, which breaks the aufs mount. So, let's just ensure
5324 /live/overlay points to a tmpfs.
5325 · Really disable policykit and sudo live-config hooks.
5326 ... by making it believe they've already been run.
5327 This workarounds new live-config's default behavior.
5330 - Many translation updates all over the place.
5333 - Re-enable previously disabled boot device permissions test.
5335 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:36:20 +0200
5337 tails (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5340 - Support obfs3 bridges.
5341 - Automatically install a custom list of additional packages chosen by
5342 the user at the beginning of every working session, and upgrade them
5343 once a network connection is established (technology preview).
5346 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.6esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1.
5347 - Update Torbrowser patches to current maint-2.4 branch (567682b).
5348 - Isolate DOM storage to first party URI, and enable DOM storage:
5349 don't set dom.storage.enabled anymore, and set Torbutton's
5350 disable_domstorage to false.
5351 - Isolate the image cache per url bar domain.
5352 - Torbutton 1.5.2, and various prefs hacks to fix breakage:
5353 · Add .saved version of the Torbutton preferences the TBB also sets.
5354 · Set TOR_SOCKS_HOST and TOR_SOCKS_PORT.
5355 · Move some prefs (network.proxy.*, extensions.autoDisableScopes,
5356 extensions.foxyproxy.last-version) to user.js.
5357 Else, with Torbutton 1.5.x, these ones are not taken into account.
5358 · Set network.proxy.socks_version.
5359 Else we get the meaningless user_pref("network.proxy.socks_version", 9063);
5360 in prefs.js after the initial startup.
5361 · Set extensions.foxyproxy.socks_remote_dns to true.
5362 Else, it overrides the various ways we set network.proxy.socks_remote_dns,
5363 which in turn makes Torbutton think it should start in non-Tor mode.
5364 · Also pass the TOR_SOCKS_* environment variables to iceweasel when
5365 generating the profile: Torbutton behaves differently depending on
5366 these variables, so we don't want the initial profile generation to be
5367 done without them. In practice, this has no implication that we could
5368 see right now, but better safe than sorry.
5369 · Import all version overrides from the TBB prefs.
5370 Else, the User-Agent sent in the HTTP headers is fine, but real
5371 values leak with JavaScript, as demonstrated by ip-check's "Browser
5373 · Move a bunch of settings to user_pref(), that are not applied otherwise.
5374 For some, this fixes a regression in 0.18~rc1.
5375 For other, the bug was already present in Tails 0.17.2.
5376 - HTTPS Everywhere 3.2.
5377 - Update prefs to match the TBB's, fix bugs, and take advantage of the latest
5379 · Increase pipeline randomization.
5380 · Fix @font-face handling of local() fonts.
5381 Also disable fallback font rendering.
5382 · Explicitly disable SPDY v2 and v3.
5383 · Update http pipelining prefs.
5384 - Make prefs organization closer to the TBB's:
5385 · Remove Torbutton prefs that we set at their default value.
5386 · Import Torbutton preferences from the TBB.
5387 · Organize iceweasel config files in sections the same way as the TBB.
5389 · Don't set extensions.torbutton.clear_cookies nor
5390 extensions.torbutton.saved.share_proxy_settings:
5391 we don't care about toggling anymore.
5392 · Don't set extensions.torbutton.saved.download_retention nor
5393 extensions.torbutton.saved.search_suggest:
5394 these settings are not used in Torbutton anymore.
5395 - Update unsafe browser prefs mangling accordingly.
5396 - Move network.protocol-handler.warn-external.* to user_pref().
5397 Else they're not applied.
5398 These prefs are actually ignored by Firefox these days -- the TBB
5399 design doc reads "They are set still anyway out of respect for the
5400 dead". Let's go on doing the same.
5401 - Update extensions.adblockplus.currentVersion.
5402 - Fetch xul-ext-https-everywhere (3.2-2) and xul-ext-noscript (2.6.6.1-1)
5403 from Debian unstable. They were uploaded there, and accordingly removed
5407 - Linux 3.2.41-2+deb7u2.
5408 - Fixed swapped filenames of tails-{reboot,shutdown}.desktop.
5409 Thanks to Mikko Harhanen for the patch.
5410 - Only add ClientTransportPlugin to torrc when bridge mode is enabled.
5411 This should bring back support for proxies of type other than obfsproxy.
5413 * Minor improvements
5414 - Set kernel.dmesg_restrict=1, and make /proc/<pid>/ invisible
5415 and restricted for other users. It makes it slightly harder for an attacker
5416 to gather information that may allow them to escalate privileges.
5417 - Install gnome-screenshot.
5418 - Don't disable IPv6 on all network interfaces anymore.
5419 It turns out the IPv6 leaks we wanted to fix actually don't exist.
5420 - Add a "About Tails" launcher in the System menu.
5421 - Install GNOME accessibility themes.
5422 - Use 'Getting started...' as the homepage for Tails documentation button.
5423 - Stop relying on the obsolete /live/image compatibility symlink.
5424 - Disable audio preview in Nautilus.
5425 - Wheezy was released => Squeeze is now oldstable.
5426 - Pick Tor from deb.torproject.org regardless of the release name they
5427 advertise. At some point we needed it, their APT repository still thought
5428 that stable == Squeeze.
5429 - Add Wheezy APT sources.
5430 - Install Linux and related packages from Wheezy.
5431 Debian sid just got Linux 3.8, and we don't want to switch to a new kernel
5433 - Fetch laptop-mode-tools from Wheezy.
5434 Wheezy has the version we've been installing in 0.18~rc1,
5435 while a newer one was uploaded to sid in the meantime.
5436 - Fetch a few packages from Wheezy instead of unstable.
5437 Namely: spice-vdagent, libregexp-common-perl, macchanger, service-wrapper,
5438 libservice-wrapper-java and libservice-wrapper-jni.
5439 Wheezy has the versions we've been installing for a while, so let's
5440 avoid having unstable push a newer one to us uselessly at some point.
5441 Note that at the time of this writing, the versions in sid and in Wheezy
5442 are the same, so this commit is effectively a no-op as of today: it is
5443 merely a safeguard for the future.
5446 - Many translation updates all over the place.
5449 - Make Vagrant's build-tails script support Jenkins too.
5452 - Fix Unsafe Browser test broken by hidepid.
5454 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 13 May 2013 22:17:38 +0200
5456 tails (0.17.2) unstable; urgency=low
5459 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.5esr-0+tails2~bpo60+1.
5460 - Stop displaying obsolete context menu entries ("Open Tor URL" and friends).
5463 - Update Linux to 3.2.41-2
5466 - Use more reliable OpenPGP keyservers:
5467 · use the hkps pool in GnuPG (and import their SSL CA)
5468 · use hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net in Seahorse (as it does not support
5470 - Keep udisks users (GNOME Disk Utility, tails-persistence-setup, etc.)
5471 from resetting the system partition's attributes when manipulating the
5472 partition table. To this end, backport the relevant bugfix from Wheezy
5473 into parted 2.3-5+tails1. This allowed to remove the sgdisk-based
5474 workaround in tais-persistence-setup, and to stop installing
5475 python-parted. All this is a first needed step to fix
5476 todo/make_system_disk_read-only in a future release.
5478 * Minor improvements
5479 - Disable NoScript's HTML5 media click-to-play for better user experience.
5482 - Tails USB installer: update translations for French, German, Spanish,
5483 Finnish, Greek, Italian, Latvian, Dutch, Polish and Chinese.
5484 - Tails Greeter: update translations for Farsi, Chinese, French;
5485 new translations: Finnish, Norwegian Bokmål, Galician.
5486 - tails-persistence-setup: update Farsi and Chinese translations;
5487 import new translations for Finnish and Swedish.
5488 - WhisperBack: update translations for Arabic, French, German, Greek,
5489 Spanish, Korean, Polish, Russian. New translations: Finnish, Chinese.
5492 - Add automated testing framework (Sikuli, Cucumber, libvirt -based)
5493 with a bunch of tests.
5495 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:17:26 +0200
5497 tails (0.17.1) unstable; urgency=low
5500 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.4esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1.
5503 - Update Linux to 3.2.39-2.
5504 It includes the drm and agp subsystems from Linux 3.4.29.
5505 - Don't install xserver-xorg-video-rendition backport.
5506 xserver-xorg-video-rendition has been removed from squeeze-backports
5507 due to an upstream tarball mismatch discover when merging backports
5508 into the main Debian archive, and xserver-xorg-video-all still depends
5509 on it, so we explicitly install all drivers from -all but -rendition
5510 as a (hopefully temporary) workaround.
5512 * Minor improvements
5513 - Remove Indymedia IRC account, until we ship a version of Pidgin
5514 with SASL support, that is when Tails is based on Wheezy.
5517 - Don't ship the wiki's todo and bugs on ISO images.
5519 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:54:11 +0100
5521 tails (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5524 - Install the KeePassX password manager, with a configuration and
5525 documentation that makes it easy to persist the password database.
5528 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.3esr-1+tails1~bpo60+1.
5529 - Install xul-ext-adblock-plus from squeeze-backports.
5530 - Do not allow listing all available fonts.
5531 Set browser.display.max_font_attempts and browser.display.max_font_count
5532 to enable the Torbrowser Limit-the-number-of-fonts-per-document patch.
5533 - Set default spellchecker dictionary to English (USA),
5534 and localize it according to locale with our custom branding extension.
5535 - Disable the add-ons automatic update feature.
5536 - Make the generated profile world-readable.
5537 - Remove NoScript click-to-play confirmation.
5538 - Sync some prefs set by Torbutton, to be ready when it stops setting these.
5539 - Disable navigation timing.
5540 - Disable SPDY. It stores state and may have keepalive issues.
5541 - More aggressive iceweasel HTTP pipelining settings.
5542 - Enable WebGL (as click-to-play only).
5543 - Disable network.http.connection-retry-timeout.
5544 - Disable full path information for plugins.
5545 - Remove NoScript blocks of WebFonts.
5546 - Disable DOM storage in Torbutton.
5547 Since we don't apply the 0026-Isolate-DOM-storage-to-first-party-URI.patch
5548 Torbrowser patch yet, and still disable DOM storage, we need to tell
5549 Torbutton not to use it.
5550 - Synchronize iceweasel's general.useragent.override with TBB based on FF17.
5551 The User-Agent settings are not kept up-to-date anymore in Torbutton, so
5552 we have to keep in sync manually with TBB's settings.
5553 - Remove obsolete APT pining for Torbutton.
5554 It's not maintained in Debian anymore, so we now fetch it from our own
5556 - Fetch FoxyProxy from Debian experimental and libnspr4-0d from
5557 squeeze-backports, for compatibility with Iceweasel 17.
5558 - Rebase bookmarks file on top of the default iceweasel 17 one.
5559 - Explicitly disable AdBlock Plus "correct typos" feature.
5560 This feature connects to http://urlfixer.org/.
5561 It is disabled by default in 2.2-1, but let's be careful.
5563 * Minor improvements
5564 - Upgrade to live-boot 3.0~b11-1 and live-config 3.0.12-1.
5565 Accordingly update the 9980-permissions hook, live-persist,
5566 unsafe-browser and boot-profile.
5567 Add compatibility symlinks from /live to /lib/live, and from /live/image
5568 to /lib/live/mount/medium, to ease the transition.
5569 - Check for errors when sourcing live-boot files, e.g. to detect when
5570 they have been renamed upstream.
5571 - Don't add "quiet" to the kernel command-line ourselves.
5572 Else, it appears twice as live-build's lb_binary_syslinux adds it too.
5573 Historically, we've been adding it ourselves on top of that because
5574 lb_binary_yaboot does not add it, but since we gave up the PowerPC support
5575 attempt, we're now only interested in syslinux, so let's make it easier
5576 for the general case, e.g. when one wants to remove the "quiet" parameter
5577 as suggested by our "Tails does not start" debugging documentation.
5578 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.4.
5581 - Many bugfixes brought by the Debian Squeeze 6.0.7 point-release.
5582 - Use the regular GnuPG agent + pinentry-gtk2 instead of Seahorse
5583 as a GnuPG agent. This fixes usage of OpenPGP in Claws Mail,
5584 and brings support for OpenPGP smartcards.
5585 - Enable I2P hidden mode.
5586 Else, killing I2P ungracefully is bad for the I2P network.
5587 - live-persist: move error() function before the first potential usecase.
5588 - Add missing executable bit on restart-tor and restart-vidalia.
5589 - Add shutdown and reboot launchers to the menu.
5590 This workarounds the lack of a shutdown helper applet in camouflage mode.
5591 - Remove Pidgin's MXit and Sametime support.
5592 ... at least until CVE-2013-0273, CVE-2013-0272 and CVE-2013-0271 are
5593 fixed in Debian stable. While we're at it, don't force file removal in
5594 these "set -e" build scripts: fail hard, instead of silently ignoring
5595 the fact that files may have moved or disappeared.
5598 - Install recent Intel and AMD microcode from squeeze-backports,
5599 explicitly excluding the iucode-tool package that's not a good idea
5601 - Install firmware loader for Qualcomm Gobi USB chipsets.
5602 This is needed to have various mobile broadband chipsets work.
5603 - Upgrade barry to 0.18.3-5~bpo60+1.
5604 This much improved new version supports more hardware & ISP,
5605 and does not display dozens of spurious error messages at boot time.
5608 - Remove APT local cache (/Var/cache/apt/{,src}pkgcache.bin).
5610 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:37:57 +0100
5612 tails (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5614 * Minor improvements
5615 - Replace the too-easy-to-misclick shutdown button with a better
5616 "Shutdown Helper" Gnome applet.
5617 - Display ~/Persistent in GNOME Places and GtkFileChooser if it is mounted.
5618 - Set Unsafe Browser's window title to "Unsafe Browser".
5619 - Install ekeyd to support the EntropyKey.
5620 - Install font for Sinhala.
5621 - Update Poedit to 1.5.4.
5622 - Kill Vidalia when restarting Tor.
5623 Doing this as early as possible exposes Vidalia's "broken onion" icon
5625 - Hide the persistence setup launchers in kiosk mode.
5626 - Add a shell library for Tor functions.
5627 These are shared among multiple of our scripts.
5628 - Install dictionaries for supported languages.
5629 Install hunspell dictionaries when possible,
5630 fall back on myspell ones else.
5633 - Disable IPv6 on all network interfaces.
5634 This is a workaround for the IPv6 link-local multicast leak that was recently
5635 discovered. Tails has no local service that listens on IPv6, so there should be
5636 no regression, hopefully, unless one wants to play with OnionCat and VoIP,
5637 but those of us should know how to workaround this anyway.
5638 - live-persist: Fix variable mismatch, fixing probe white-list.
5639 Tails may previously have been able to list GPT partitions labelled
5640 "TailsData" on hard drives (!) as valid persistence volumes...
5641 - live-persist: Fix --media option when no devices are attached.
5642 Earlier, if it was set to e.g. 'removable-usb' and no USB storage was
5643 connected, $whitelistdev would be empty, which is interpreted like
5644 all devices are ok by the rest of the code.
5645 - Fix SCIM in the autostarted web browser: save IM environment variables
5646 to a file during Desktop session startup, and export them into the
5647 autostarted browser's environment.
5648 - Talk of DVD, not of CD, in the shutdown messages.
5649 - Make tordate work in bridge mode with an incorrect clock.
5650 When using a bridge Tor reports TLS cert lifetime errors (e.g. when
5651 the system clock is way off) with severity "info", but when no bridge
5652 is used the severity is "warn". tordate/20-time.sh depends on grepping
5653 these error messages, so we termporarily increase Tor's logging
5654 severity when using bridge mode. If we don't do this tordate will
5655 sleep forever, leaving Tor in a non-working state.
5656 · White-list root to use Tor's ControlPort.
5657 · Add logging for is_clock_way_off().
5658 · Remove Tor's log before time syncing.
5659 We depend on grepping stuff from the Tor log (especially for
5660 tordate/20-time.sh), so deleting it seems like a Good Thing(TM).
5661 · Stop Tor before messing with its log or data dir.
5662 - live-persist: limit searched devices the same way as live-boot.
5663 If no --media argument is specified, use live-boot's
5664 "(live-media|bootfrom)=removable(|-usb)" argument to limit devices
5665 searched for a persistent volume.
5666 - tails-greeter: do not pass media=removable to live-persist.
5667 Now that we have autodetection with kernel command-line,
5668 it should not be needed anymore.
5669 - Start memlockd after configuring it,
5670 instead of starting it before and restarting it after.
5671 This avoids running memlockd twice, and prevents other possibly
5672 surprising race-conditions.
5673 As a consequence, also have tails-sdmem-on-media-removal start after the
5674 memlockd service *and* tails-reconfigure-memlockd: to start the watchdog,
5675 we need memlockd to be properly configured *and* running.
5678 - Set iceweasel homepage to the news section on the Tails website.
5679 ... using the localized one when possible.
5680 - Hide the iceweasel add-on bar by default.
5681 Now that we don't want to ship the Monkeysphere addon anymore,
5682 that was the only one displayed in there, we can as well hide the whole bar.
5683 - Don't hide the AdBlock-Plus button in the add-on bar anymore. Now that
5684 we hide the whole addon bar, we can get rid of this old
5686 - Do not install a placeholder (fake) FireGPG iceweasel extension anymore.
5687 It was shipped from 0.10 (early 2012) to 0.15 (late November),
5688 so the migration period should be over now.
5689 - Don't install xul-ext-monkeysphere anymore.
5690 The implication of the current keyserver policy are not well
5691 understood, Monkeysphere is little used in Tails, and we're not sure
5692 anymore it would be our first bet for the web browser profile with no
5693 CA. Let's keep the various configuration bits (e.g. FoxyProxy,
5694 patching MSVA), though, so that advanced users who are used to have
5695 Monkeysphere in Tails just have to install the package.
5698 - Install the "standard" task with tasksel for better consistency in the
5699 Tails ISO images built in various environments.
5700 - Install p7zip-full. It's a dep by file-roller, but we explicily use it
5701 elsewhere, and it's better to be safe than sorry.
5702 - Remove pinning of libvpx0 to sid.
5703 This package is part of Squeeze, and not from testing/sid.
5704 We have been shipping the version from Squeeze for a while.
5705 - Remove config/chroot_local-packages/ from .gitignore.
5706 The documented way for "external" contributors to add custom packages
5707 is to put them in chroot_local-packages, and once we pull we import
5708 any such package into our APT repo and rewrite the
5709 history appropriately.
5710 Also, the ability to add packages in there and not see them in "git
5711 status" makes it very easy to build tainted ISO images with
5712 non-standard packages, which makes some of us fear can lead to hard to
5714 - Make it clearer what can and cannot be done in terms of local packages.
5716 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:47:42 +0100
5718 tails (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5720 * Major new features
5721 - Persistence for browser bookmarks.
5722 - Support for obfsproxy bridges.
5724 * Minor improvements
5725 - Add the Hangul (Korean) Input Method Engine for SCIM.
5726 - Add vendor-specific dpkg origin information. This makes dpkg-vendor
5727 return correct information.
5728 - Install pcscd and libccid from squeeze-backports. This is needed to
5729 support, to some extent, some OpenPGP SmartCard readers.
5730 - Install HPIJS PPD files and the IJS driver (hpijs).
5731 This adds support for some printers, such as Xerox DocumentCenter400.
5732 - Optimize fonts display for LCD.
5733 - Update TrueCrypt to version 7.1a.
5736 - Do not use pdnsd anymore. It has been orphaned in Debian, has quite
5737 some bugs in there, and apparently Tor's DNSPort's own caching is
5739 - Remove useless iceweasel cookies exceptions. They are useless as
5740 per-session cookies are allowed.
5741 - Do not run setupcon on X. This call is only needed on the Linux
5742 console, no need to annoy the user with a weird "Press enter to
5743 activate this console" when the open a root shell in a GNOME
5745 - Allow the tails-iuk-get-target-file user to connect to the SOCKSPort
5746 dedicated for Tails-specific software.
5747 - Fix gpgApplet menu display in Windows camouflage mode.
5748 - Fix Tor reaching an inactive state if it's restarted in "bridge mode",
5749 e.g. during the time sync' process.
5752 - Update iceweasel to 10.0.11esr-1+tails1.
5753 - User profile is now generated at build time in order to support persistent
5755 - Update HTTPS Everywhere to version 3.0.4.
5756 - Update NoScript to version 2.6.
5757 - Fix bookmark to I2P router console.
5758 - Re-enable Monkeysphere extension to connect to the validation agent.
5761 - The Tails USB installer, tails-persistence-setup and tails-greeter
5762 are now translated into Bulgarian.
5763 - Update Chinese translation for tails-greeter.
5764 - Update Euskadi translation for WhisperBack.
5767 - Custom packages are now retrieved from Tails APT repository instead
5768 of bloating the Git repository.
5769 - Allow '~' in wiki filenames. This makes it possible to ship
5770 update-description files for release candidates.
5771 - Document how to create incremental update kit.
5772 - Handle release candidates when generating custom APT sources.
5773 - Remove pinning for xul-ext-adblock-plus.
5774 It is obsolete since we've added this package to our APT repository.
5776 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:59:17 +0100
5778 tails (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5780 * Major new features
5781 - Enable Tor stream isolation; several new SocksPorts with
5782 appropriate Isolate* options have been added for different use
5783 cases (i.e. applications). All application's have been
5784 reconfigured to use these new SocksPorts, which should increase
5785 anonymity by making it more difficulte to correlate traffic from
5786 different applications or "online identities".
5787 - The web browser now has the anonymity enhancing patches from the
5789 - gpgApplet can now handle public-key cryptography.
5790 - Install an additional, PAE-enabled kernel with NX-bit
5791 support. This kernel is auto-selected when the hardware supports
5793 * provide executable space protection, preventing certain types of
5794 buffer overflows from being exploitable.
5795 * enable more than 4 GiB of system memory.
5796 * make all processors/cores available, including their
5797 power-saving functionality.
5798 - Add a persistence preset for NetworkManager connections.
5800 * Minor improvements
5801 - On kexec reboot, make the boot quiet only if debug=wipemem was not
5803 - Update torproject.org's APT repo key.
5804 - Update the embedded Tails signing key.
5805 - Use symlinks instead of duplicating localized searchplugins.
5806 - Rewrite Tails firewall using ferm. Tails firewall was written in
5807 very unsophisticated iptables-save/restore format. As more feature
5808 creeped in, it started to be quite unreadable.
5809 - Optimize VirtualBox modules build at runtime to avoid installing the
5810 userspace utils N times.
5811 - Drop most of Vidalia's configuration. Our custom lines just caused
5812 trouble (with multiple SocksPorts) and the default works well.
5813 - Blacklist PC speaker module. On some computers, having the pcspkr
5814 module loaded means loud beeps at bootup, shutdown and when using
5815 the console. As it draws useless attention to Tails users, it is
5816 better to prevent Linux from loading it by default.
5817 - Remove all addons from the Unsafe Browser. No addons are essential
5818 for the Unsafe Browser's intent. If anything they will modify the
5819 network fingerprint compared to a normal Iceweasel install, which
5821 - Prevent some unwanted packages to be installed at all, rather than
5822 uninstalling them later. This should speed up the build a bit.
5823 - Add a symlink from /etc/live/config to /etc/live/config.d. This
5824 makes the system compatible with live-config 3.0.4-1, without
5825 breaking backward compatibility with various parts of the system
5826 that use the old path.
5827 - Do not run unecessary scripts during shutdown sequence, to make
5829 - Make live-persist deal with persistent ~/.gconf subdirs so that
5830 any options saved therein actually get persistent.
5831 - Prevent memlockd unload on shutdown, to make sure that all
5832 necessary tools for memory wiping are available when the new
5834 - Patch initscripts headers instead of fiddling with update-rc.d. We
5835 now let insserv figure out the correct ordering for the services
5836 during startup and shutdown, i.e. use dependency-based boot
5838 - Remove the last absolute path in our isolinux config, which makes
5839 it easier to migrate from isolinux to syslinux (just rename the
5840 directory), and hence might make it easier for 3rd party USB
5841 installers (like the Universal USB Installer) to support Tails.
5844 - Include `seq` in the ramdisk environment: it is used to wipe more
5845 memory. This fixes the long-standing bug about Tails not cleaning
5846 all memory on shutdown.
5847 - Fix Yelp crashing on internal links
5848 - Allow amnesia user to use Tor's TransPort. This firewall exception
5849 is necessary for applications that doesn't have in-built SOCKS
5850 support and cannot use torsocks. One such example is Claws Mail,
5851 which uses tsocks since torsocks makes it leak the hostname. This
5852 exception, together with Tor's automatic .onion mapping makes
5853 Claws Mail able to use hidden service mail providers again.
5854 - Force threads locking support in Python DBus binding. Without this
5855 liveusb-creator doesn't work with a PAE-enabled kernel.
5856 - Fix localized search plugins for 'es' and 'pt'
5857 - Fix live-boot's readahead, which caused an unnecessary pause
5859 - Factorize GCC wanted / available version numbers in VirtualBox
5860 modules building hook. This, incidentally, fixes a bug caused by
5861 duplication and not updating all instances.
5862 - Fix tordate vs. Tor 0.2.3.x. Since 0.2.3.x Tor doesn't download a
5863 consensus for clocks that are more than 30 days in the past or 2
5864 days in the future (see commits f4c1fa2 and 87622e4 in Tor's git
5865 repo). For such clock skews we set the time to the Tor authority's
5866 cert's valid-after date to ensure that a consensus can be
5870 - Update to version 0.2.3.24-rc-1~~squeeze+1, a new major
5871 version. It's not a stable release, but we have been assured by
5872 the Tor developers that this is the right move.
5873 - Stop setting custom value for the Tor LongLivedPorts
5874 setting. Gobby's port was upstreamed in Tor 0.2.3.x.
5877 - Update to 10.0.10esr-1+tails1, which has all the anonymity enhancing
5878 patches from the TorBrowser applied.
5879 - Install iceweasel from our own repo, http://deb.tails.boum.org.
5880 - Fix Iceweasel's file associations. No more should you be suggested
5881 to open a PDF in the GIMP.
5884 - Use curl instead of wget, and add a --proxy option passed through
5886 - Remove the --fullrequest option, we don't need it anymore.
5887 - Remove --dns-timeout option, we don't need it anymore.
5888 - Change --proxy handling to support Debian Squeeze's curl.
5889 - Clarify what happens if --proxy is not used.
5890 - Compute the median of the diffs more correctly.
5893 - Update Linux to 3.2.32-1.
5896 - Update vidalia to 0.2.20-1+tails1.
5897 - Update bundled WhisperBack package to 1.6.2:
5898 * Raise the socket library timeout to 120 seconds
5899 * Use smtplib's timeout parameter
5900 * Fix error output when calling send a 2nd time
5901 - Update liveusb-creator to 3.11.6-3.
5902 - Update i2p to 0.9.2.
5903 - Update tails-persistence-setup to 0.20-1, which should make it
5904 possible to install Tails on large (>= 32 GiB) USB drives.
5905 - Install console-setup and keyboard-configuration from unstable
5906 (required by new initramfs-tools).
5907 - Update tails-greeter to 0.7.3:
5908 * Import pt_BR translation.
5909 * Let langpanel usable during option selection stage
5910 * Print less debugging messages by default
5911 (below are changes in tails-greeter 0.7.2:)
5912 * Use correct test operators.
5913 * Generate language codes of available locales at package build
5915 * Read list of language codes from where we have saved it at
5917 * Drop tails-lang-helper, not used anymore.
5918 * Do not compile locales at login time anymore. Tails now ships
5920 - Import live-config{,-sysvinit} 3.0.8-1. live-config >= 3.0.9-1
5921 has basically nothing useful for us, and it migrates to new paths
5922 brought by live-boot 3.0~b7, which we're not ready for yet (see:
5923 todo/newer_live-boot).
5926 - Fix Tails specific Iceweasel localization for pt-BR
5927 - Add Japanese input system: scim-anthy.
5928 - whisperback is now also translated into German, Hebrew, Hungarian,
5930 - tails-persistence-setup is now also translated into Arabic.
5931 - tails-greeter is now also translated into Arabic, Hebrew, Basque,
5932 Hungarian, Italian and Chinese.
5935 - Catch more errors in during build time:
5936 - Ensure that all local hooks start with 'set -e'.
5937 - Fail hard if adduser fails in local hooks.
5938 - Fail hard if 'rm' fails in local hooks.
5939 - vagrant: Ensure we have the set of Perl packages needed by our
5941 - vagrant: Configure live-build to ship with ftp.us.debian.org.
5942 Using cdn.debian.net leads to bad interactions with Tor.
5943 - vagrant: Don't use gzip compression when building from a tag, i.e.
5945 - vagrant: Optionally use bootstrap stage cache for faster builds
5946 via the 'cache' build option.
5947 - vagrant: Make sure release builds are clean, i.e. they don't use
5948 any potentially dangerous build options.
5949 - vagrant: Disable live-build package caching. This build system is
5950 meant to use an external caching proxy, so live-build's cache just
5951 wastes RAM (for in-memory builds) or disk space.
5952 - vagrant: use aufs magic instead of copying source into tmpfs.
5953 This reduces the amount of RAM required for building Tails in.
5954 - vagrant: Allow in-memory builds when a VM with enough memory is
5957 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:34:56 +0000
5959 tails (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5961 * Major new features
5962 - Use white-list/principle of least privelege approach for local services.
5963 Only users that need a certain local (i.e. hosted on loopback) service
5964 (according to our use cases) are granted access to it by our firewall;
5965 all other users are denied access.
5966 - Ship a first version of the incremental update system. Updates are not
5967 currently triggered automatically, but this will allow tests to be done
5970 * Minor improvements
5971 - Enable four workspaces in the Windows XP camouflage. This allows
5972 users to quickly switch to a more innocent looking workspace in case
5973 they are working on sensitive data and attract unwanted attention.
5974 The workspace switcher applet isn't there, though, since there's no
5975 such thing in Windows XP, so switching is only possible via keyboard
5977 - Ship with precompiled locales instead of generating them upon login.
5978 - Add support for wireless regulation.
5979 - Use color for Git output, not intended for machine consumption,
5980 written to the terminal.
5981 - Have ttdnsd use OpenDNS. Using Google's DNS servers was very
5982 glitchy, and rarely succeeded when it should. It can probably be
5983 attributed to Google's DNS, which is known to take issue with Tor
5985 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.6, with many UI improvements and new translations.
5986 - Include GDM logs and dmidecode informations in the reports.
5987 - Allow to modify language and layout in the "Advanced options" screen
5989 - GnuPG: bump cert-digest-algo to SHA512.
5990 - Update torproject.org's APT repo key.
5993 - Make Claws Mail save local/POP emails in its dot-directory. The
5994 default is to save them at ~/Mail, which isn't included in our
5995 current Claws Mail persistence preset.
5996 - Fix the System Monitor applet.
5997 - Remove broken ttdnsd from the default DNS resolution loop.
5998 - Hide the 'TailsData' partition in desktop applications.
5999 - Ship unrar-free again, so that the GNOME archive manager knows about
6001 - Ship with an empty whitelist for Noscript.
6002 - Disable FoxyProxy's advertisement on proxy error page.
6003 - Fix slow browsing experience for offline documentation.
6004 - Raise the socket timeout to 120 seconds in WhisperBack.
6005 - Enable the ikiwiki trail plugin for the locally built wiki too.
6008 - Upgrade iceweasel to 10.0.6esr-1 (Extended Support Release) and install it
6009 and its dependencies from squeeze-backports.
6012 - Upgrade Linux to 3.2.23-1.
6015 - Update tor to version 0.2.2.39.
6016 - Update Iceweasel to version 10.0.7esr-2.
6017 - Update i2p to version 0.9.1.
6020 - vagrant: Install Ikiwiki from Debian unstable. The 'mirrorlist'
6021 patches have finally been merged in upstream Ikiwiki. So instead of
6022 building Ikiwiki by hand, we can now install the package directly
6023 from Debian unstable.
6024 - Do not build the ikiwiki forum on the bundled static website copy.
6026 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:19:25 +0200
6028 tails (0.12.1) unstable; urgency=low
6030 This is a brown paper bag release to fix two major problems introduced in
6034 - Upgrade Torbutton to 1.4.6.
6035 - Upgrade AdBlock Plus to 2.1.
6036 - Update AdBlock Plus patterns.
6039 - Upgrade Linux to 3.2.21-3 (linux-image-3.2.0-3-486).
6042 - Install MAT from Debian backports, drop custom package.
6043 - Install python-pdfrw to re-add PDF support to the MAT.
6044 - Upgrade tails-greeter to 0.7.1, which fixes the race condition that
6045 broke administration password and locale settings on some systems.
6048 - Remove the Tails specific plymouth theme. The theme interfers heavily with
6049 the boot process on some hardware.
6051 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:06:03 +0200
6053 tails (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6055 * Major new features
6056 - Add the Unsafe Web Browser, which has direct access to the Internet and
6057 can be used to login to captive portals.
6058 - The (previously experimental, now deemed stable) Windows camouflage can now
6059 be enabled via a check box in Tails greeter.
6062 - Upgrade to 0.2.2.37-1~~squeeze+1.
6065 - Upgrade iceweasel to 10.0.5esr-1 (Extended Support Release) and install it
6066 and its dependencies from squeeze-backports.
6067 - Add a bookmark for the offline Tails documentation.
6068 - Update AdBlock patterns.
6071 - Allow using larger USB drives by increasing the mkfs timeout to 10 minutes.
6072 - Tell the user what's going on when the Tails boot device cannot be found.
6075 - Upgrade Linux to 3.2.20-1 (linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64).
6079 - Install torsocks. Note that this makes `torify' use `torsocks' instead of
6080 `tsocks'. The `tsocks' binary is dropped to avoid problems, but remaining
6081 files (the library) are kept since ttdnsd depends on them.
6082 - Fetch live-config-sysvinit from sid so that it matches live-config version.
6083 - Update virtualbox backports to 4.1.10-dfsg-1~bpo60+1.
6084 - Install pciutils (needed by virtualbox-guest-utils).
6085 - Install mousetweaks. This is needed to use the mouse accessibility settings
6086 in System -> Preferences -> Mouse -> Accessibility.
6087 - Install the "hardlink" files deduplicator.
6088 - Do not install cryptkeeper anymore. See todo/remove_cryptkeeper for reason.
6089 Users of cryptkeeper are encouraged to install cryptkeeper via `apt-get
6090 update; apt-get install --yes cryptkeeper`, open their volume and move
6091 their to Tails' built-in persistence instead, as a one-time migration.
6092 - Upgrade I2P to version 0.9.
6093 - Don't install GParted. GNOME Disk Utility has been on par with GParted
6094 since Squeeze was released.
6095 - Upgrade live-boot to 3.0~a27-1+tails2~1.gbp319fe6.
6096 - Upgrade live-config to 3.0~a39-1 and install it from Debian experimental.
6097 - Upgrade tails-greeter to 0.7.
6098 - Upgrade tails-persistence-setup to 0.17-1.
6099 - Install libyaml-libyaml-perl.
6100 - Upgrade MAT, the metadata anonymisation toolkit, 0.3.2-1~bpo60+1.
6101 - Fetch python-pdfrw from backports, drop custom package.
6103 * Internationalization
6104 - The Tails website and documentation now has a (partial) Portuguese
6108 - Tails can now be built without using a HTTP proxy.
6109 - Tails can now easily be built by using Vagrant. See the updated
6110 contribute/build page for instructions.
6113 - Remove obsolete noswap boot parameter. live-boot now handles swap on an
6115 - The squashfs.sort files generated with boot-profile should now be ok which
6116 makes the generate images boot noticeably faster on optical media. See
6117 bugs/weird_squashfs.sort_entries for more information.
6118 - Set Tails specific syslinux and plymouth themes.
6119 - Add NVidia KMS video drivers to the initrd in order to show our shiny new
6120 plymouth theme on more systems.
6122 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:37:00 +0200
6124 tails (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6126 * Major new features
6127 - Do not grant the desktop user root credentials by default.
6128 - A graphical boot menu (tails-greeter 0.6.3) allows choosing among
6129 many languages, and setting an optional sudoer password.
6130 - Support opt-in targeted persistence
6131 · tails-persistence-setup 0.14-1
6132 · live-boot 3.0~a25-1+tails1~5.gbp48d06c
6133 · live-config 3.0~a35-1
6134 - USB installer: liveusb-creator 3.11.6-1
6137 - Install iceweasel 10.0.4esr-1 (Extended Support Release).
6138 Let's stop tracking a too fast moving target.
6139 Debian Wheezy will ship ESR versions.
6140 - Install needed dependencies from squeeze-backports.
6143 bing appeared due to our upgrading iceweasel.
6144 Removing it makes things consistent with the way they have been
6145 until now, that is: let's keep only the general search engines
6146 we've been asked to add, plus Google, and a few specialized ones.
6147 · Replace Debian-provided DuckDuckGo search plugin with the "HTML SSL"
6148 one, version 20110219. This is the non-JavaScript, SSL, POST flavour.
6150 · Install localized search engines in the correct place.
6151 No need to copy them around at boot time anymore.
6152 · Remove Scroogle. RIP.
6153 - Enable TLS false start, like the TBB does since December.
6154 - Adblock Plus: don't count and save filter hits, supress first run dialog.
6155 - Install neither the GreaseMonkey add-on, nor any GreaseMonkey script.
6156 YouTube's HTML5 opt-in program is over.
6157 HTML5 video support is now autodetected and used.
6160 - Upgrade to 0.2.17-1+tails1: drop Do-not-warn-about-Tor-version.patch,
6162 - Set SkipVersionCheck=true.
6163 Thanks to chiiph for implementing this upstream (needs Vidalia 0.2.16+).
6165 * Internationalization
6166 - Install all available iceweasel l10n packages.
6167 - Remove syslinux language choosing menu.
6168 tails-greeter allows choosing a non-English language.
6169 - Add fonts for Hebrew, Thai, Khmer, Lao and Korean languages.
6171 - Setup text console at profile time.
6172 Context: Tails runs with text console autologin on.
6173 These consoles now wait, using a "Press enter to activate this console"
6174 message, for the user. When they press enter in there, they should have chosen
6175 their preferred keyboard layout in tails-greeter by now. Then, we run setupcon.
6176 As a result, the resulting shell is properly localized, and setupcon
6177 sets the correct keyboard layout, both according to the preferences expressed by
6178 the user in tails-greeter.
6179 - Don't use localepurge, don't remove any Scribus translations anymore,
6180 don't localize environment at live-config time:
6181 tails-greeter allows us to support many, many more languages.
6184 - Linux 3.2.15-1 (linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64).
6185 - Fix low sound level on MacBook5,2.
6186 - Disable laptop-mode-tools automatic modules. This modules set often
6187 needs some amount of hardware-specific tweaking to work properly.
6188 This makes them rather not well suited for a Live system.
6191 - Install GNOME keyring.
6192 This is needed so that NetworkManager remembers the WEP/WPA secrets
6193 for the time of a Tails session. Initialize GNOME keyring at user
6195 - Install usbutils to have the lsusb command.
6196 - Install the Traverso multitrack audio recorder and editor.
6199 - GNOME Terminal: keep 8192 scrollback lines instead of the smallish
6201 - Replaced tails-wifi initscript with laptop-mode-tools matching feature.
6202 - Disable gdomap service.
6203 - Fetch klibc-utils and libklibc from sid.
6204 The last initramfs-tools depends on these.
6205 - Set root password to "root" if debug=root is passed on the
6206 kernel cmdline. Allow setting root password on kernel cmdline via
6207 rootpw=. Looks like we implemented this feature twice.
6208 - Append a space on the kernel command line. This eases manually adding
6210 - Rename sudoers.d snippets to match naming scheme.
6211 Sudo credentials that shall be unconditionally granted to the Tails
6212 default user are named zzz_*, to make sure they are applied.
6213 - WhisperBack: also include /var/log/live-persist and
6214 /var/lib/gdm3/tails.persistence.
6215 - Add a wrapper to torify whois.
6216 - Rework the VirtualBox guest modules building hook to support
6218 - Consistently wait for nm-applet when waiting for user session to come up.
6219 Waiting for gnome-panel or notification-daemon worked worse.
6220 - Don't start the NetworkManager system service via init.
6221 Some Tails NM hooks need the user to be logged in to run properly.
6222 That's why tails-greeter starts NetworkManager at PostLogin time.
6223 - Also lock /bin/echo into memory. For some reason, kexec-load needs it.
6224 - Pidgin: don't use the OFTC hidden service anymore.
6225 It proved to be quite unreliable, being sometimes down for days.
6226 - Do not display storage volumes on Desktop, by disabling
6227 /apps/nautilus/desktop/volumes_visible GConf entry. Enabling that
6228 GConf setting avoids displaying the bind-mounted persistent
6229 directories on the Desktop, and reduces user confusion. It also is
6230 a first step towards a bigger UI change: GNOME3 does not manage the
6231 Desktop anymore, so volume icons and other Desktop icons are meant to
6232 disappear anyway. It implies we'll have to move all Desktop icons
6233 elsewhere. Let's start this move now: this will smooth the UI change
6234 Wheezy will carry for our users, by applying some of it progressively.
6237 - Don't build hybrid ISO images anymore. They boot less reliably on
6238 a variety of hardware, and are made less useful by us shipping
6239 a USB installer from now on.
6240 - Append .conf to live-config configuration filenames:
6241 live-config >3.0~a36-1 only takes into account files named *.conf
6242 in there. Accordingly update scripts that source these files.
6243 - Remove long-obsolete home-refresh script and its configuration.
6245 * Virtualization support
6246 - Support Spice and QXL: install the Spice agent from Debian sid,
6247 install xserver-xorg-video-qxl from squeeze-backports.
6249 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:54:00 +0200
6251 tails (0.10.2) unstable; urgency=low
6254 - Update to 10.0.2-1.
6255 - Disable HTTPS-Everywhere's SSL Observatory (plus first-run pop-up).
6256 - Revert "FoxyProxy: don't enclose regexps between ^ and $."
6257 Currently "http://www.i2p2.de" (and everything similar) is captured by
6258 the I2P filter, which is incorrect. It seems isMultiLine="false" does
6259 *not* make RE into ^RE$ any longer.
6260 - Remove file:// from NoScript's exception lists.
6261 This will fix the JavaScript toggles in the local copy of the documentation.
6262 - Update AdBlock patterns.
6265 - Upgrade I2P to 0.8.13.
6266 - Install libvpx0 from sid.
6267 - Fetch klibc-utils and libklibc from sid.
6268 The last initramfs-tools depends on these.
6271 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.2.7-1.
6272 - Install firmware-libertas.
6273 This adds support for wireless network cards with Marvell Libertas
6274 8xxx chips supported by the libertas_cs, libertas_sdio, libertas_spi,
6275 libertas_tf_usb, mwl8k and usb8xxx drivers.
6278 - Revert "Set time to middle of [valid-after, fresh-until] from consensus."
6279 This reverts commit 18d23a500b9412b4b0fbe4e38a9398eb1a3eadef.
6280 With this vmid clocks that are E minutes back in time may cause issues
6281 (temporary Tor outages) after consensus updates that happen at the
6282 (60-E):th minute or later during any hour. Full analysis:
6283 https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2012-January/000873.html
6284 - Add the default user to the vboxsf group.
6285 This will allow the user to get full access to automounted VirtualBox
6286 shared folders as they are mounted with guid vboxsf and rwx group
6289 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:26:21 +0100
6291 tails (0.10.1) unstable; urgency=low
6294 - Make Startpage the default web search engine. Scroogle does not look
6295 reliable enough these days.
6298 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.5.1 (update link to bug reporting documentation).
6299 - Update MAT to 0.2.2-2~bpo60+1 (fixes a critical bug in the GUI).
6302 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.2.1-2
6304 * Time synchronization
6305 Serious rework that should fix most, if not all, of the infamous
6306 time-sync' related bugs some Tails users have experienced recently.
6307 - Make htpdate more resilient by using three server pools, and
6308 allowing some failure ratio.
6309 - Set time from Tor's unverified-consensus if needed.
6310 - Set time to middle of [valid-after, fresh-until] from consensus.
6311 - Many robustness, performance and fingerprinting-resistance improvements.
6312 - Display time-sync' notification much earlier.
6315 - Fix access to "dumb" git:// protocol by using a connect-socks wrapper
6316 as GIT_PROXY_COMMAND.
6317 - SSH client: fix access to SSH servers on the Internet by correcting
6318 Host / ProxyCommand usage.
6319 - Pidgin: use OFTC hidden service to workaround Tor blocking.
6320 - Claws Mail: disable draft autosaving.
6321 When composing PGP encrypted email, drafts are saved back to
6322 the server in plaintext. This includes both autosaved and manually
6324 - tails-security-check-wrapper: avoid eating all memory when offline.
6326 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:00:31 +0100
6328 tails (0.10) unstable; urgency=low
6330 * Tor: upgrade to 0.2.2.35-1.
6333 - Install Iceweasel 9.0 from the Debian Mozilla team's APT repository.
6334 - Update Torbutton to 1.4.5.1-1.
6335 - Support viewing any YouTube video that is available in HTML5 format:
6336 install xul-ext-greasemonkey and the "Permanently Enable HTML5 on
6337 YouTube" GreaseMonkey script.
6338 - Stop using Polipo in Iceweasel. Its SOCKS support was fixed.
6339 - Install from Debian sid the iceweasel extensions we ship,
6340 for compatibility with FF9.
6341 - Use Scroogle (any languages) instead of Scroogle (English only) when
6342 booted in English. Many users choose English because their own
6343 language is not supported yet; let's not hide them search results in
6345 - Install Iceweasel language packs from Debian unstable:
6346 unfortunately they are not shipped on the mozilla.debian.net repository.
6347 - Install the NoScript Firefox extension; configure it the same way as
6349 - Disable third-party cookies.
6350 They can be used to track users, which is bad. Besides, this is what
6351 TBB has been doing for years.
6352 - FoxyProxy: allow direct connections to RFC1918 IPs.
6354 * Do not transparent proxy outgoing Internet connections through Tor.
6355 - Torify the SSH client using connect-proxy to all IPs but RFC1918 ones.
6356 - Torify APT using Polipo HTTP.
6357 - Torify wget in wgetrc.
6358 - Torify gobby clients using torsocks. It does not support proxies yet.
6359 - Torify tails-security-check using LWP::UserAgent's SOCKS proxy support.
6360 - Fix enabling of GNOME's HTTP proxy.
6363 - Upgrade Vidalia to 0.2.15-1+tails1.
6364 · New upstream release.
6365 · Do not warn about Tor version.
6366 - Upgrade MAT to 0.2.2-1~bpo60+1.
6367 - Upgrade VirtualBox guest software to 4.1.6-dfsg-2~bpo60+1,
6368 built against the ABI of X.Org backports.
6369 - Upgrade I2P to 0.8.11 using KillYourTV's Squeeze packages;
6370 additionally, fix its start script that was broken by the tordate merge.
6371 - Install unar (The Unarchiver) instead of the non-free unrar.
6372 - Install Nautilus Wipe instead of custom Nautilus scripts.
6375 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.1.6-1.
6376 - Upgrade to X.Org from squeeze-backports.
6377 - Install more, and more recent b43 firmwares.
6378 - Upgrade barry to 0.15-1.2~bpo60+1.
6380 * Internationalization
6381 - Add basic language support for Russian, Farsi and Vietnamese.
6382 - Install some Indic fonts.
6383 - Install some Russian fonts.
6384 - Add Alt+Shift shortcut to switch keyboard layout.
6387 - Support booting in "Windows XP -like camouflage mode":
6388 · Install homebrewn local .debs for a Windows XP look-alike Gnome theme.
6389 · Add the "Windows XP Bliss" desktop wallpaper.
6390 · Added a script that's sets up Gnome to look like Microsoft Windows XP.
6391 · Add Windows XP "camouflage" icons for some programs.
6392 · Make Iceweasel use the IE icon when Windows XP camouflage is enabled.
6393 · Add special launcher icons for the Windows XP theme so that they're
6395 - Decrease Florence focus zoom to 1.2.
6396 - Do not fetch APT translation files. Running apt-get update is heavy enough.
6397 - Add MSN support thanks to msn-pecan.
6398 - Add custom SSH client configuration:
6399 · Prefer strong ciphers and MACs.
6400 · Enable maximum compression level.
6401 · Explicitly disable X11 forwarding.
6402 · Connect as root by default, to prevent fingerprinting when username
6404 - Replace flawed FireGPG with a home-made GnuPG encryption applet;
6405 install a feature-stripped FireGPG that redirects users to
6406 the documentation, and don't run Seahorse applet anymore.
6407 - Enable Seahorse's GnuPG agent.
6408 - Blank screen when lid is closed, rather than shutting down the system.
6409 The shutdown "feature" has caused data losses for too many people, it seems.
6410 There are many other ways a Tails system can be shut down in a hurry
6412 - Import Tails signing key into the keyring.
6413 - Fix bug in the Pidgin nick generation that resulted in the nick
6414 "XXX_NICK_XXX" once out of twenty.
6415 - Pre-configure the #tor IRC discussion channel in Pidgin.
6416 - Fix "technology preview" of bridge support: it was broken by tordate merge.
6417 - Install dependencies of our USB installer to ease its development.
6418 - Make vidalia NM hook sleep only if Vidalia is already running.
6419 - Reintroduce the htpdate notification, telling users when it's safe
6420 to use Tor Hidden Services.
6421 - htpdate: omit -f argument to not download full pages.
6422 - htpdate: write success file even when not within {min,max}adjust.
6423 Otherwise htpdate will not "succeed" when the time diff is 0 (i.e.
6424 the clock was already correct) so the success file cannot be used
6425 as an indicator that the system time now is correct, which arguably
6426 is its most important purpose.
6429 - Name built images according to git tag.
6431 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:56:38 +0100
6433 tails (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6436 - Upgrade to 0.2.2.34 (fixes CVE-2011-2768, CVE-2011-2769).
6439 - Upgrade to 3.5.16-11 (fixes CVE-2011-3647, CVE-2011-3648, CVE-2011-3650).
6440 - Upgrade FireGPG to 0.8-1+tails2: notify users that the FireGPG Text
6441 Editor is the only safe place for performing cryptographic operations,
6442 and make it impossible to do otherwise. Other ways open up several
6443 severe attacks through JavaScript (e.g. leaking plaintext when
6444 decrypting, signing messages written by the attacker).
6445 - Install Cookie Monster extension instead of CS Lite.
6446 - Always ask where to save files.
6447 - Upgrade Torbutton to 1.4.4.1-1, which includes support for the in-browser
6448 "New identity" feature.
6451 - Install MAT, the metadata anonymisation toolkit.
6452 - Upgrade TrueCrypt to 7.1.
6453 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.5~rc1 (leads the user by the hand if an error
6454 occurs while sending the bugreport, proposes to save it after 2 faild
6455 attempts, numerous bugfixes).
6456 - Linux: upgrade to linux-image-3.0.0-2-486 (version 3.0.0-6); fixes
6457 a great number of bugs and security issues.
6460 - Fully rework date and time setting system.
6461 - Remove the htp user firewall exception.
6462 - Saner keyboard layouts for Arabic and Russian.
6463 - Use Plymouth text-only splash screen at boot time.
6464 - Color the init scripts output.
6465 - Suppress Tor's warning about applications doing their own DNS lookups.
6466 This is totally safe due to our Tor enforcement.
6467 - Disable hdparm boot-time service.
6468 We only want hdparm so that laptop-mode-tools can use it.
6469 - Run Claws Mail using torify.
6470 It's not as good as if Claws Mail supported SOCKS proxies itself,
6471 but still better than relying on the transparent netfilter torification.
6472 - Install HPLIP and hpcups for better printing support.
6474 * Erase memory at shutdown
6475 - Run many sdmem instances at once.
6476 In hope of erasing more memory until we come up with a proper fix for
6477 [[bugs/sdmem_does_not_clear_all_memory]].
6478 - Kill gdm3 instead of using its initscript on brutal shutdown.
6479 - Use absolute path to eject for more robust memory wipe on boot medium removal.
6482 - Exclude kernel and initramfs from being put into the SquashFS.
6483 Those files are already shipped where they are needed, that is in the ISO
6484 filesystem. Adapt kexec and memlockd bits.
6485 - Do not ship the GNOME icon theme cache.
6486 - Do not ship .pyc files.
6487 - Do not ship NEWS.Debian.gz files.
6490 - Re-implement hook that modifies syslinux config to make future
6493 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:26:38 +0100
6495 tails (0.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
6498 - Update to 3.5.16-10 (fixes DSA-2313-1).
6499 - FireGPG: force crypto action results to appear in a new window, otherwise
6500 JavaScript can steal decrypted plaintext. Advice: always use FireGPG's
6501 text editor when writing text you want to encrypt. If you write it in a
6502 textbox the plaintext can be stolen through JavaScript before it is
6503 encrypted in the same way.
6504 - Update HTTPS Everywhere extension to 1.0.3-1.
6505 - Stop using the small version of the Tor check page. The small version
6506 incorrectly tells Tails users to upgrade their Torbrowser, which has
6507 confused some users.
6510 - Update Linux to 3.0.0-2 (fixes DSA-2310-1, CVE-2011-2905, CVE-2011-2909,
6511 CVE-2011-2723, CVE-2011-2699, CVE-2011-1162, CVE-2011-1161).
6512 - Update usb-modeswitch to 1.1.9-2~bpo60+1 and usb-modeswitch-data to
6513 20110805-1~bpo60+1 from Debian backports. This adds support for a few
6514 devices such as Pantech UMW190 CDMA modem.
6515 - Install libregexp-common-perl 2011041701-3 from Debian unstable. This
6516 fixes the bug: [[bugs/msva_does_not_use_configured_keyserver]].
6517 - Install hdparm so the hard drives can be spinned down in order to save
6519 - Install barry-util for better BlackBerry integration.
6520 - Debian security upgrades: OpenOffice.org (DSA-2315-1), openjdk-6
6521 (DSA-2311-1), policykit-1 (DSA-2319-1)
6523 * Protecting against memory recovery
6524 - Set more appropriate Linux VM config before wiping memory. These
6525 parameters should make the wipe process more robust and efficient.
6527 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:31:18 +0200
6529 tails (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6531 * Rebase on the Debian Squeeze 6.0.2.1 point-release.
6534 - Update to 0.2.2.33-1.
6535 - Disabled ControlPort in favour of ControlSocket.
6536 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to Tor's LongLivedPorts list.
6540 - Start script now depends on HTP since I2P breaks if the clock jumps or is
6541 too skewed during bootstrap.
6544 - Update to 3.5.16-9 (fixes CVE-2011-2374, CVE-2011-2376, CVE-2011-2365,
6545 CVE-2011-2373, CVE-2011-2371, CVE-2011-0083, CVE-2011-2363, CVE-2011-0085,
6546 CVE-2011-2362, CVE-2011-2982, CVE-2011-2981, CVE-2011-2378, CVE-2011-2984,
6548 - Enable HTTP pipelining (like TBB).
6549 - Update HTTPS Everywhere extension to 1.0.1-1 from Debian unstable.
6550 - Suppress FoxyProxy update prompts.
6551 - Prevent FoxyProxy from "phoning home" after a detected upgrade.
6552 - Fixed a bunch of buggy regular expressions in FoxyProxy's configuration.
6553 See [[bugs/exploitable_typo_in_url_regex?]] for details. Note that none of
6554 these issues are critical due to the transparent proxy.
6555 - Add DuckDuckGo SSL search engine.
6558 - Update to torbutton 1.4.3-1 from Debian unstable.
6559 - Don't show Torbutton status in the status bar as it's now displayed in the
6563 - More random looking nicks in pidgin.
6564 - Add IRC account on chat.wikileaks.de:9999.
6567 - Upgrade htpdate script (taken from Git 7797fe9) that allows setting wget's
6568 --dns-timeout option.
6571 - Update Linux to 3.0.0-1. -686 is now deprecated in favour of -486 and
6572 -686-pae; the world is not ready for -pae yet, so we now ship -486.
6573 - Update OpenSSL to 0.9.8o-4squeeze2 (fixes CVE-2011-1945 (revoke
6574 compromised DigiNotar certificates), CVE-2011-1945).
6575 - Update Vidalia to 0.2.14-1+tails1 custom package.
6576 - Install accessibility tools:
6577 - gnome-mag: screen magnifier
6578 - gnome-orca: text-to-speech
6579 - Replace the onBoard virtual keyboard with Florence.
6580 - Install the PiTIVi non-linear audio/video editor.
6585 * Arbitrary DNS queries
6586 - Tor can not handle all types of DNS queries, so if the Tor resolver fails
6587 we fallback to ttdnsd. This is now possible with Tor 0.2.2.x, since we
6588 fixed Tor bug #3369.
6591 - Install ipheth-utils for iPhone tethering.
6592 - Install xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse (for mouse integration with the host OS
6594 - Install virtualbox-ose 4.x guest packages from Debian backports.
6597 - Switch gpg to use keys.indymedia.org's hidden service, without SSL.
6598 The keys.indymedia.org SSL certificate is now self-signed. The hidden
6599 service gives a good enough way to authenticate the server and encrypts
6600 the connection, and just removes the certificates management issue.
6601 - The squashfs is now compressed using XZ which reduces the image size quite
6603 - Remove Windows autorun.bat and autorun.inf. These files did open a static
6604 copy of our website, which is not accessible any longer.
6607 - Use the Git branch instead of the Debian version into the built image's
6609 - Allow replacing efficient XZ compression with quicker gzip.
6610 - Build and install documentation into the chroot (-> filesystem.squashfs).
6611 Rationale: our static website cannot be copied to a FAT32 filesystem due
6612 to filenames being too long. This means the documentation cannot be
6613 browsed offline from outside Tails. However, our installer creates GPT
6614 hidden partitions, so the doc would not be browseable from outside Tails
6615 anyway. The only usecase we really break by doing so is browsing the
6616 documentation while running a non-Tails system, from a Tails CD.
6618 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 09 Sep 2011 11:31:18 +0200
6620 tails (0.7.2) unstable; urgency=high
6623 - Disable Torbutton's external application launch warning.
6624 ... which advises using Tails. Tails *is* running Tails.
6625 - FoxyProxy: install from Debian instead of the older one we previously
6629 - haveged: install an official Debian backport instead of a custom backport.
6630 - unrar: install the version from Debian's non-free repository.
6631 Users report unrar-free does not work well enough.
6633 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:34:56 +0200
6635 tails (0.7.1) unstable; urgency=high
6637 * Vidalia: new 0.2.12-2+tails1 custom package.
6640 - Don't show Foxyproxy's status / icon in FF statusbar to prevent users
6641 from accidentaly / unconsciously put their anonymity at risk.
6642 - "amnesia branding" extension: bump Iceweasel compatibility to 4.0 to ease
6643 development of future releases.
6646 - Upgrade Linux kernel to Debian's 2.6.32-33: fixes tons of bugs,
6647 including the infamous missing mouse cursor one. Oh, and it closes
6648 a few security holes at well.
6649 - Install unrar-free.
6650 - Do not install pppoeconf (superseeded by NetworkManager).
6651 - Upgrade macchanger to Debian testing package to ease development of
6652 future Tails releases.
6653 - Debian security upgrades: x11-xserver-utils (DSA-2213-1), isc-dhcp
6654 (DSA-2216-1), libmodplug (DSA-2226-1), openjdk-6 (DSA-2224-1).
6656 * Protecting against memory recovery
6657 - Add Italian translation for tails-kexec. Thanks to Marco A. Calamari.
6658 - Make it clear what it may mean if the system does not power off
6660 - Use kexec's --reset-vga option that might fix display corruption issues
6663 * WhisperBack (encrypted bug reporting software)
6664 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.4.1:
6665 localizes the documentation wiki's URL,
6666 uses WebKit to display the bug reporting help page,
6667 now is usable on really small screens.
6668 - Extract wiki's supported languages at build time, save this
6669 information to /etc/amnesia/environment, source this file into the
6670 Live user's environment so that WhisperBack 1.4+ can make good use
6674 - Fix boot in Chinese.
6675 - Install mobile-broadband-provider-info for better 3G support.
6676 - Add back GNOME system icons to menus.
6677 - tails-security-check: avoid generating double-slashes in the Atom
6679 - Remove "vga=788" boot parameter which breaks the boot on some hardware.
6680 - Remove now useless "splash" boot parameter.
6681 - Fix a bunch of i386-isms.
6682 - Pass the noswap option to the kernel. This does not change actual Tails
6683 behaviour but prevents users from unnecessarily worrying because of
6684 the "Activating swap" boot message.
6685 - Make use of check.torproject.org's Arabic version.
6688 - Enable squeeze-backports. It is now ready and will be used soon.
6689 - Install eatmydata in the chroot.
6690 - Convert ikiwiki setup files to YAML.
6692 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:14:53 +0200
6694 tails (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6697 - Install foomatic-filters-ppds to support more printers.
6698 - Give the default user the right to manage printers.
6701 - Deinstall unwanted packages newly pulled by recent live-build.
6703 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:58:51 +0200
6705 tails (0.7~rc2) unstable; urgency=low
6707 ** SNAPSHOT build @824f39248a08f9e190146980fb1eb0e55d483d71 **
6709 * Rebase on Debian Squeeze 6.0.1 point-release.
6711 * Vidalia: new 0.2.10-3+tails5 custom package..
6714 - Install usb-modeswitch and modemmanager to support mobile broadband
6715 devices such as 3G USB dongles. Thanks to Marco A. Calamari for the
6719 - Website relocated to https://tails.boum.org/ => adapt various places.
6720 - Configure keyboard layout accordingly to the chosen language for
6721 Italian and Portuguese.
6723 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:44:25 +0100
6725 tails (0.7~rc1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
6727 ** SNAPSHOT build @98987f111fc097a699b526eeaef46bc75be5290a **
6729 * Rebase on Debian Squeeze.
6731 * T(A)ILS has been renamed to Tails.
6733 * Protecting against memory recovery
6734 New, safer way to wipe memory on shutdown which is now also used when
6735 the boot media is physically removed.
6738 - Update to 0.2.1.30-1.
6741 - Add HTTPS Everywhere 0.9.4 extension.
6742 - Better preserve Anonymity Set: spoof US English Browser and timezone
6743 the same way as the Tor Browser Bundle, disable favicons and picture
6745 - Install AdBlock Plus extension from Debian.
6746 - Add Tor-related bookmarks.
6747 - Support FTP, thanks to FoxyProxy.
6748 - Update AdBlock patterns.
6749 - Disable geolocation and the offline cache.
6752 - Update Vidalia to 0.2.10-3+tails4.
6753 - Install gnome-disk-utility (Palimpsest) and Seahorse plugins.
6754 - Add opt-in i2p support with Iceweasel integration through FoxyProxy.
6755 - onBoard: fix "really quits when clicking the close window icon" bug.
6756 - Optionally install TrueCrypt at boot time.
6757 - Install laptop-mode-tools for better use of battery-powered hardware.
6758 - Replace xsane with simple-scan which is part of GNOME and way easier
6760 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.3.1 (bugfixes, French translation).
6761 - Install scribus-ng instead of scribus. It is far less buggy in Squeeze.
6764 - Drop incoming packets by default.
6765 - Forbid queries to DNS resolvers on the LAN.
6766 - Set output policy to drop (defense-in-depth).
6769 - Install Atheros and Broadcom wireless firmwares.
6770 - Install libsane-hpaio and sane-utils, respectively needed for
6771 multi-function peripherals and some SCSI scanners.
6773 * live-boot 2.0.15-1+tails1.35f1a14
6774 - Cherry-pick our fromiso= bugfixes from upstream 3.x branch.
6777 - Many tiny user interface improvements.
6778 - More robust HTP time synchronization wrt. network failures.
6779 Also, display the logs when the clock synchronization fails.
6780 - Disable GNOME automatic media mounting and opening to protect against
6781 a class of attacks that was recently put under the spotlights.
6782 Also, this feature was breaking the "no trace is left on local
6783 storage devices unless explicitly asked" part of Tails specification.
6784 - Make configuration more similar to the Tor Browser Bundle's one.
6785 - GnuPG: default to stronger digest algorithms.
6786 - Many more or less proper hacks to get the built image size under 700MB.
6787 - Compress the initramfs using LZMA for faster boot.
6790 - Run lb build inside eatmydata fsync-less environment to greatly improve
6793 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:52:19 +0100
6795 tails (0.6.2) unstable; urgency=high
6797 * Tor: upgrade to 0.2.1.29 (fixes CVE-2011-0427).
6799 - Upgrade Linux kernel, dpkg, libc6, NSS, OpenSSL, libxml2 (fixes various
6801 - Upgrade Claws Mail to 3.7.6 (new backport).
6802 - Install Liferea, tcpdump and tcpflow.
6803 * Seahorse: use hkp:// transport as it does not support hkps://.
6804 * FireGPG: use hkps:// to connect to the configured keyserver.
6805 * Build system: take note of the Debian Live tools versions being used
6806 to make next point-release process faster.
6807 * APT: don't ship package indices.
6809 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:59:43 +0100
6811 tails (0.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
6813 * Tor: upgrade to 0.1.28 (fixes CVE-2010-1676)
6814 * Software: upgrade NSS, Xulrunner, glibc (fixes various security issues)
6815 * FireGPG: use the same keyserver as the one configured in gpg.conf.
6816 * Seahorse: use same keyserver as in gpg.conf.
6817 * HTP: display the logs when the clock synchronization fails.
6818 * Update HTP configuration: www.google.com now redirects to
6819 encrypted.google.com.
6820 * Use the light version of the "Are you using Tor?" webpage.
6821 * Update AdBlock patterns.
6823 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 24 Dec 2010 13:28:29 +0100
6825 tails (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6829 * New OpenPGP signing-only key. Details are on the website:
6830 https://amnesia.boum.org/GnuPG_key/
6833 - Fixed torbutton has migrated to testing, remove custom package.
6836 - Query ssl.scroogle.org instead of lists.debian.org.
6837 - Don't run when the interface that has gone up is the loopback one.
6840 - Add shortcut to securely erase free space in a partition.
6841 - The nautilus-wipe shortcut user interface is now translatable.
6844 - Really fix virtualization warning display.
6845 - More accurate APT pinning.
6846 - Disable Debian sid APT source again since a fixed live-config has
6847 migrated to Squeeze since then.
6849 * live-boot: upgrade to 2.0.8-1+tails1.13926a
6850 - Sometimes fixes the smem at shutdown bug.
6851 - Now possible to create a second partition on the USB stick T(A)ILS is
6855 - Support RT2860 wireless chipsets by installing firmware-ralink from
6857 - Install firmware-linux-nonfree from backports.
6858 - Fix b43 wireless chipsets by having b43-fwcutter extract firmwares at
6862 - Install live-build and live-helper from Squeeze.
6863 - Update SquashFS sort file.
6865 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:53:17 +0200
6867 tails (0.6~rc3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
6869 ** SNAPSHOT build @a3ebb6c775d83d1a1448bc917a9f0995df93e44d **
6872 - Autostart Iceweasel with the GNOME session. This workarounds the
6873 "Iceweasel first page is not loaded" bug.
6876 - Upgrade htpdate script (taken from Git 7797fe9).
6879 - Disable ssh-agent auto-starting with X session: gnome-keyring is
6881 - Fix virtualization warning display.
6882 - Boot profile hook: write desktop file to /etc/skel.
6885 - Convert build system to live-build 2.0.1.
6886 - APT: fetch live-build and live-helper from Debian Live snapshots.
6887 - Remove dependency on live-build functions in chroot_local-hooks.
6888 This makes the build environment more robust and less dependent on
6889 live-build internals.
6890 - Remove hand-made rcS.d/S41tails-wifi: a hook now does this.
6891 - Measure time used by the lh build command.
6892 - Fix boot profile hook.
6893 - Boot profiling: wait a bit more: the current list does not include
6896 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 02 Oct 2010 23:06:46 +0200
6898 tails (0.6~rc2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
6900 ** SNAPSHOT build @c0ca0760ff577a1e797cdddf0e95c5d62a986ec8 **
6903 - Refreshed AdBlock patterns (20100926).
6904 - Set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true (untested yet)
6905 - Torbutton: install patched 1.2.5-1+tails1 to fix the User-Agent bug,
6906 disable extensions.torbutton.spoof_english again.
6909 - WhisperBack: upgrade to 1.3~beta3 (main change: let the user provide
6910 optional email address and OpenPGP key).
6912 - Update haveged backport to 0.9-3~amnesia+lenny1.
6913 - Update live-boot custom packages (2.0.6-1+tails1.6797e8): fixes bugs
6914 in persistency and smem-on-shutdown.
6915 - Update custom htpdate script. Taken from commit d778a6094cb3 in our
6916 custom Git repository: fixes setting of date/time.
6919 - Bugfix: failed builds are now (hopefully) detected.
6920 - Fix permissions on files in /etc/apt/ that are preserved in the image.
6921 - Install version 2.0~a21-1 of live-build and live-helper in the image.
6922 We are too late in the release process to upgrade to current Squeeze
6923 version (2.0~a29-1).
6926 - Pidgin/OTR: disable the automatic OTR initiation and OTR requirement.
6928 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:23:17 +0200
6930 tails (0.6~1.gbpef2878) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
6932 ** SNAPSHOT build @ef28782a0bf58004397b5fd303f938cc7d11ddaa **
6935 - Use a 2.6.32 kernel: linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.5-686 (2.6.32-23~bpo50+1)
6936 from backports.org. This should support far more hardware and
6937 especially a lot of wireless adapters.
6938 - Add firmware for RTL8192 wireless adapters.
6939 - Enable power management on all wireless interfaces on boot.
6944 - Install gfshare and ssss: two complementary implementations
6945 of Shamir's Secret Sharing.
6946 - Install tor-geoipdb.
6947 - Remove dialog, mc and xterm.
6950 - Set extensions.torbutton.spoof_english to its default true value
6951 in order to workaround a security issue:
6952 https://amnesia.boum.org/security/Iceweasel_exposes_a_rare_User-Agent/
6955 - Install the Iceweasel extension.
6956 - Use a hkps:// keyserver.
6959 - Install gnupg from backports.org so that hkps:// is supported.
6960 - Use a hkps:// keyserver.
6961 - Proxy traffic via polipo.
6962 - Prefer up-to-date digests and ciphers.
6964 * Vidalia: rebased our custom package against 0.2.10.
6967 - Built images are now named like this:
6968 tails-i386-lenny-0.5-20100925.iso
6969 - Use live-helper support for isohybrid options instead of doing the
6970 conversion ourselves. The default binary image type we build is now
6972 - Remove .deb built by m-a after they have been installed.
6973 - Setup custom GConf settings at build time rather than at boot time.
6974 - Move $HOME files to /etc/skel and let adduser deal with permissions.
6975 - Convert to live-boot / live-config / live-build 2.x branches.
6976 - Replaced our custom live-initramfs with a custom live-boot package;
6977 included version is 2.0.5-1+tails2.6797e8 from our Git repository:
6978 git clone git://git.immerda.ch/tails_live-boot.git
6979 - Install live-config* from the live-snapshots Lenny repository.
6980 Rationale: live-config binary packages differ depending on the target
6981 distribution, so that using Squeeze's live-config does not produce
6982 fully-working Lenny images.
6983 - Rename custom scripts, packages lists and syslinux menu entries from
6984 the amnesia-* namespace to the tails-* one.
6987 - Use (authenticated) HTP instead of NTP.
6988 - The htpdate script that is used comes from commit 43f5f83c0 in our
6989 custom repository: git://git.immerda.ch/tails_htp.git
6990 - Start Tor and Vidalia only once HTP is done.
6993 - Fix IPv6 firewall restore file. It was previously not used at all.
6994 - Use ftp.us.debian.org instead of the buggy GeoIP-powered
6996 - Gedit: don't autocreate backup copies.
6997 - Build images with syslinux>=4.01 that has better isohybrid support.
6998 - amnesia-security-check: got rid of the dependency on File::Slurp.
6999 - Take into account the migration of backports.org to backports.debian.org.
7000 - Make GnuPG key import errors fatal on boot.
7001 - Warn the user when T(A)ILS is running inside a virtual machine.
7002 - DNS cache: forget automapped .onion:s on Tor restart.
7004 * Documentation: imported Incognito's walkthrough, converted to
7005 Markdown, started the needed adaptation work.
7007 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 26 Sep 2010 11:06:50 +0200
7009 tails (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
7011 * The project has merged efforts with Incognito.
7012 It is now to be called "The (Amnesic) Incognito Live System".
7016 - Created the amnesia-news mailing-list.
7017 - Added a forum to the website.
7018 - Created a chatroom on IRC: #tails on irc.oftc.net
7021 - Workaround nasty NetworkManager vs. Tor bug that often
7022 prevented the system to connect to the Tor network: restart Tor and Vidalia
7023 when a network interface goes up.
7024 - onBoard now autodetects the keyboard layout... at least once some
7025 keys have been pressed.
7026 - New windows don't open in background anymore, thanks to
7028 - Memory wiping at shutdown is now lightning fast, and does not prevent
7029 the computer to halt anymore.
7030 - GNOME panel icons are right-aligned again.
7031 - Fixed permissions on APT config files.
7032 - Repaired mouse integration when running inside VirtualBox.
7035 - Torbutton: redirect to Scroogle when presented a Google captcha.
7036 - Revamped bookmarks
7037 . moved T(A)ILS own website to the personal toolbar
7038 . moved webmail links (that are expected to be more than 3 soon)
7039 to a dedicated folder.
7040 - Don't show AdBlock Plus icon in the toolbar.
7041 - Adblock Plus: updated patterns, configured to only update subscriptions
7042 once a year. Which means never, hopefully, as users do update their
7043 Live system on a regular basis, don't they?
7045 * Vidalia: rebased our custom package against 0.2.8.
7048 - Install Claws Mail from backports.org to use the X.509 CA
7049 certificates provided by Debian.
7050 - Enable PGP modules with basic configuration:
7051 . Automatically check signatures.
7052 . Use gpg-agent to manage passwords.
7053 . Display warning on start-up if GnuPG doesn't work.
7054 - Set the IO timeout to 120s (i.e. the double of the default 60s).
7057 - Automatically connect to irc.oftc.net with a randomized nickname,
7058 so as not to advertize the use of T(A)ILS; this nickname is made of:
7059 . a random firstname picked from the 2000 most registered by the U.S.
7060 social security administration in the 70s;
7061 . two random digits.
7062 Good old irc.indymedia.org is still configured - with same nickname -
7063 but is not enabled by default anymore.
7064 - Disabled MSN support, that is far too often affected by security flaws.
7066 * Build $HOME programmatically
7067 - Migrated all GConf settings, including the GNOME panel configuration,
7068 to XML files that are loaded at boot time.
7069 - Configure iceweasel profile skeleton in /etc/iceweasel.
7070 A brand new profile is setup from this skeleton once iceweasel is
7072 . build sqlite files at build time from plain SQL.
7073 . FireGPG: hard-code current firegpg version at build time to prevent
7074 the extension to think it was just updated.
7075 . stop shipping binary NSS files. These were here only to
7076 install CaCert's certificate, that is actually shipped by Debian's
7080 - Updated Debian Live snapshots APT repository URL.
7081 - Purge all devel packages at the end of the chroot configuration.
7082 - Make sure the hook that fixes permissions runs last.
7083 - Remove unwanted Iceweasel search plugins at build time.
7086 - Added a progress bar for boot time file readahead.
7087 - Readahead more (~37MB) stuff in foreground at boot time.
7088 - Make the APT pinning persist in the Live image.
7089 - localepurge: keep locales for all supported languages,
7090 don't bother when installing new packages.
7091 - Removed syslinux help menu: these help pages are either buggy or
7092 not understandable by non-geeks.
7093 - Fixed Windows autorun.
7094 - Disable a few live-initramfs scripts to improve boot time.
7095 - Firewall: forbid any IPv6 communication with the outside.
7096 - Virtualization support: install open-vm-tools.
7097 - WhisperBack: updated to 1.2.1, add a random bug ID to the sent
7099 - Prompt for CD removal on shutdown, not for USB device.
7101 * live-initramfs: new package built from our Git (e2890a04ff) repository.
7102 - Merged upstream changes up to 1.177.2-1.
7103 - New noprompt=usb feature.
7104 - Fix buggy memory wiping and shutdown.
7105 - Really reboot when asked, rather than shutting down the system.
7108 - Upgraded to a new custom, patched package (0.93.0-0ubuntu4~amnesia1).
7109 - Added an entry in the Applications menu.
7112 - Install vim-nox with basic configuration
7114 - Install monkeysphere and msva-perl
7115 - Replaced randomsound with haveged as an additional source of entropy.
7118 - Build ralink rt2570 wifi modules.
7119 - Build rt2860 wifi modules from Squeeze. This supports the RT2860
7120 wireless adapter, found particularly in the ASUS EeePC model 901
7122 - Build broadcom-sta-source wifi modules.
7123 - Bugfix: cpufreq modules were not properly added to /etc/modules.
7124 - Use 800x600 mode on boot rather than 1024x768 for compatibility
7125 with smaller displays.
7127 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:14:13 +0200
7129 amnesia (0.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
7131 New release, mainly aimed at fixing live-initramfs security issue
7132 (Debian bug #568750), with an additional set of small enhancements as
7135 * live-initramfs: new custom package built from our own live-initramfs
7136 Git repository (commit 8b96e5a6cf8abc)
7137 - based on new 1.173.1-1 upstream release
7138 - fixed live-media=removable behaviour so that filesystem images found
7139 on non-removable storage are really never used (Debian bug #568750)
7141 * Vidalia: bring back our UI customizations (0.2.7-1~lenny+amnesia1)
7143 * APT: consistently use the GeoIP-powered cdn.debian.net
7145 * Software: make room so that {alpha, future} Squeeze images fit on
7147 - only install OpenOffice.org's calc, draw, impress, math and writer
7149 - removed OpenOffice.org's English hyphenation and thesaurus
7150 - removed hunspell, wonder why it was ever added
7153 - explicitly disable persistence, better safe than sorry
7154 - removed compulsory 15s timeout, live-initramfs knows how to wait for
7155 the Live media to be ready
7157 * Build system: don't cache rootfs anymore
7159 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:28:16 +0100
7161 amnesia (0.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
7163 * Brown paper bag bugfix release: have amnesia-security-check use
7164 entries publication time, rather than update time... else tagging
7165 a security issue as fixed, after releasing a new version, make this
7166 issue be announced to every user of this new, fixed version.
7168 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:58:41 +0100
7170 amnesia (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
7172 * We now only build and ship "Hybrid" ISO images, which can be either
7173 burnt on CD-ROM or dd'd to a USB stick or hard disk.
7175 * l10n: we now build and ship multilingual images; initially supported
7176 (or rather wanna-be-supported) languages are: ar, zh, de, en, fr, it,
7178 - install Iceweasel's and OpenOffice.org's l10n packages for every
7180 - stop installing localized help for OpenOffice.org, we can't afford it
7181 for enough languages
7182 - when possible, Iceweasel's homepage and default search engine are localized
7183 - added Iceweasel's "any language" Scroogle SSL search engine
7184 - when the documentation icon is clicked, display the local wiki in
7185 currently used language, if available
7186 - the Nautilus wipe script is now translatable
7187 - added gnome-keyboard-applet to the Gnome panel
7190 - replaced Icedove with claws mail, in a bit rough way; see
7191 https://amnesia.boum.org/todo/replace_icedove_with_claws/ for best
7192 practices and configuration advices
7193 - virtual keyboard: install onBoard instead of kvkbd
7194 - Tor controller: install Vidalia instead of TorK
7195 - install only chosen parts of Gnome, rather than gnome-desktop-environment
7196 - do not install xdialog, which is unused and not in Squeeze
7197 - stop installing grub as it breaks Squeeze builds (see Debian bug #467620)
7198 - install live-helper from snapshots repository into the Live image
7201 - do not install the NoScript extension anymore: it is not strictly
7202 necessary but bloodily annoying
7204 * Provide WhisperBack 1.2 for anonymous, GnuPG-encrypted bug reporting.
7205 - added dependency on python-gnutls
7206 - install the SMTP hidden relay's certificate
7208 * amnesia-security-check: new program that tells users that the amnesia
7209 version they are running is affected by security flaws, and which ones
7210 they are; this program is run at Gnome session startup, after sleeping
7211 2 minutes to let Tor a chance to initialize.
7214 - uses the Desktop Notifications framework
7215 - fetches the security atom feed from the wiki
7216 - verifies the server certificate against its known CA
7217 - tries fetching the localized feed; if it fails, fetch the default
7220 * live-initramfs: new custom package built from our own live-initramfs
7221 Git repository (commit 40e957c4b89099e06421)
7222 - at shutdown time, ask the user to unplug the CD / USB stick, then run
7223 smem, wait for it to finish, then attempt to immediately halt
7226 - bumped dependency on live-helper to >= 2.0a6 and adapted our config
7227 - generate hybrid ISO images by default, when installed syslinux is
7229 - stop trying to support building several images in a row, it is still
7230 broken and less needed now that we ship hybrid ISO images
7231 - scripts/config: specify distribution when initializing defaults
7232 - updated Debian Live APT repository's signing key
7235 - disable virtualbox packages installing and module building on !i386
7236 && !amd64, as PowerPC is not a supported guest architecture
7237 - built and imported tor_0.2.1.20-1~~lenny+1_powerpc.deb
7240 - rough beginnings of a scratch Squeeze branch, currently unsupported
7241 - install gobby-infinote
7244 - updated GnuPG key with up-to-date signatures
7245 - more improvements on boot time from CD
7246 - enhanced the wipe in Nautilus UI (now asks for confirmation and
7247 reports success or failure)
7248 - removed the "restart Tor" launcher from the Gnome panel
7250 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:28:04 +0100
7252 amnesia (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
7254 * software: removed openvpn, added
7260 - lvm2 (with disabled initscript as it slows-down too much the boot in certain
7262 - NetworkManager 0.7 (from backports.org) to support non-DHCP networking
7264 - randomsound to enhance the kernel's random pool
7266 - install the latest stable release from deb.torproject.org
7267 - ifupdown script now uses SIGHUP signal rather than a whole tor
7268 restart, so that in the middle of it vidalia won't start it's own
7270 - configure Gnome proxy to use Tor
7272 - adblockplus: upgraded to 1.0.2
7273 - adblockplus: subscribe to US and DE EasyList extensions, updated patterns
7274 - firegpg is now installed from Debian Squeeze rather than manually; current
7275 version is then 0.7.10
7276 - firegpg: use better keyserver ... namely pool.sks-keyservers.net
7277 - added bookmark to Amnesia's own website
7278 - use a custom "amnesiabranding" extension to localize the default search
7279 engine and homepage depending on the current locale
7280 - updated noscript whitelist
7281 - disable overriden homepage redirect on iceweasel upgrade
7283 - nicer default configuration with verified irc.indymedia.org's SSL cert
7284 - do not parse incoming messages for formatting
7285 - hide formatting toolbar
7286 * hardware compatibility
7288 - beginning of support for the ppc architecture
7289 - load acpi-cpufreq, cpufreq_ondemand and cpufreq_powersave kernel
7291 * live-initramfs: custom, updated package based on upstream's 1.157.4-1, built
7292 from commit b0a4265f9f30bad945da of amnesia's custom live-initramfs Git
7294 - securely erases RAM on shutdown using smem
7295 - fixes the noprompt bug when running from USB
7296 - disables local swap partitions usage, wrongly enabled by upstream
7297 * fully support for running as a guest system in VirtualBox
7298 - install guest utils and X11 drivers
7299 - build virtualbox-ose kernel modules at image build time
7301 - new (translatable) wiki, using ikiwiki, with integrated bugs and todo
7302 tracking system a static version of the wiki is included in generated
7303 images and linked from the Desktop
7305 - adapt for live-helper 2.0, and depend on it
7306 - get amnesia version from debian/changelog
7307 - include the full version in ISO volume name
7308 - save .list, .packages and .buildlog
7309 - scripts/clean: cleanup any created dir in binary_local-includes
7310 - updated Debian Live snapshot packages repository URL and signing key
7311 - remove duplicated apt/preferences file, the live-helper bug has been
7313 * l10n: beginning of support for --language=en
7315 - improved boot time on CD by ordering files in the squashfs in the order they
7316 are used during boot
7317 - added a amnesia-version script to built images, that outputs the current
7319 - added a amnesia-debug script that prepares a tarball with information that
7320 could be useful for developpers
7321 - updated Amnesia GnuPG key to a new 4096R one
7322 - set time with NTP when a network interface is brought up
7323 - import amnesia's GnuPG pubkey into the live session user's keyring
7324 - do not ask DHCP for a specific hostname
7325 - install localepurge, only keep en, fr, de and es locales, which reduces the
7326 generated images' size by 100MB
7327 - added a hook to replace /sbin/swapon with a script that only runs
7329 - moved networking hooks responsibility from ifupdown to NetworkManager
7331 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:17:08 +0100
7333 amnesia (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7335 * imported /home/amnesia, then:
7336 - more user-friendly shell, umask 077
7337 - updated panel, added launcher to restart Tor
7338 - mv $HOME/bin/* /usr/local/bin/
7339 - removed metacity sessions
7340 - removed gstreamer's registry, better keep this dynamically updated
7341 - rm .qt/qt_plugins_3.3rc, better keep this dynamically updated
7342 - removed .gnome/gnome-vfs/.trash_entry_cache
7343 - removed kconf_update log
7344 - removed and excluded Epiphany configuration (not installed)
7347 - enable caching in RAM
7348 - explicitly disable ssl v2, and enable ssl v3 + tls
7349 - removed prefs for the non-installed webdeveloper
7350 - removed the SSL Blacklist extension (not so useful, licensing issues)
7351 - deep profile directory cleanup
7352 - extensions cleanup: prefer Debian-packaged ones, cleanly reinstalled
7353 AddBlock Plus and CS Lite to allow upgrading them
7354 - updated pluginreg.dat and localstore.rdf
7355 - moved some settings to user.js
7356 - made cookie/JavaScript whitelists more consistent
7357 - force httpS on whitelisted sites
7358 - NoScript: marked google and gmail as untrusted
7359 - some user interface tweaks, mainly for NoScript
7360 - FireGPG: disable the buggy auto-detection feature, the link to firegpg's
7361 homepage in generated pgp messages and the GMail interface (which won't
7362 work without JavaScript anyway)
7363 - updated blocklist.xml
7364 - removed and excluded a bunch of files in the profile directory
7365 * icedove: clean the profile directory up just like we did for iceweasel
7366 * software: install msmtp and mutt
7368 - use rsync rather than tar
7371 - reviewed pidgin-otr security (see TODO)
7373 - stop calling home-refresh in lh_build
7374 - include home-refresh in generated images
7376 - fix permissions on local includes at build time
7377 - updated scripts/{build,clean} wrt. new $HOME handling
7378 - scripts/{build,config}: stop guessing BASEDIR, we must be run from
7379 the root of the source directory anyway
7380 - stop storing /etc/amnesia/version in Git, delete it at clean time
7382 - converted Changelog to the Debian format and location, updated
7383 build scripts accordingly
7384 - added a README symlink at the root of the source directory
7385 - basic debian/ directory (not working for building packages yet,
7386 but at least we can now use git-dch)
7387 - added debian/gbp.conf with our custom options for git-dch
7388 - config/amnesia: introduce new $AMNESIA_DEV_* variables to be used
7389 by developpers' scripts
7390 - added ./release script: a wrapper around git-dch, git-commit and git-tag
7392 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:42:03 +0200
7394 amnesia (0.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
7396 * Forked Privatix 9.03.15, by Markus Mandalka:
7397 http://mandalka.name/privatix/index.html.en
7398 Everything has since been rewritten or so heavily changed that nothing
7399 remains from the original code... apart of a bunch of Gnome settings.
7401 - install a bunch of non-free wifi firmwares
7402 - install xsane and add the live user to the scanner group
7403 - install aircrack-ng
7404 - install xserver-xorg-video-geode on i386 (eCafe support)
7405 - install xserver-xorg-video-all
7406 - install firmware-linux from backports.org
7407 - install system-config-printer
7408 - added instructions in README.eCAFE to support the Hercules eCAFE EC-800
7411 - configure pinning to support installing chosen packages from
7412 squeeze; the APT source for testing is hardcoded in chroot_sources/,
7413 since there is no way to use $LH_CHROOT_MIRROR in chroot_local-hooks
7414 - give backports.org priority 200, so that we track upgrades of packages
7415 installed from there
7416 * release: include the Changelog and TODO in the generated images,
7417 in the /usr/share/doc/amnesia/ directory
7418 * software: install gnomebaker when building Gnome-based live OS, to
7419 easily clone myself when running from CD
7421 - build i386 images when the build host is amd64
7422 - added a version file: /etc/amnesia/version
7423 - use snapshot live-* packages inside the images
7424 - setup timezone depending on the chosen build locale
7425 - rely on standard live-initramfs adduser to do our user setup
7426 (including sudo vs. Gnome/KDE, etc.)
7427 - stop "supporting" KDE
7428 - allow building several images at once
7429 - migrated most of lh_config invocations to scripts/config
7430 - append "noprompt" so that halting/rebooting work with splashy
7431 - moved our own variables to config/amnesia, using the namespace
7434 - default search engine is now Scroogle SSL, configured to search pages
7435 in French language; the English one is also installed
7436 - never ask to save passwords or forms content
7437 - configured the torbutton extension to use polipo
7438 - installed the CACert root certificate
7439 - installed the SSL Blacklist extension and the blacklist data
7440 - installed the FireGPG extension
7441 - installed the CS Lite extension
7442 - installed the NoScript extension
7443 - NoScript, CS Lite: replaced the default whitelists with a list of
7444 trusted, non-commercial Internet Service Providers
7445 - configure extensions (add to prefs.js):
7446 user_pref("extensions.torbutton.startup", true);
7447 user_pref("extensions.torbutton.startup_state", 1);
7448 user_pref("extensions.torbutton.tor_enabled", true);
7449 user_pref("noscript.notify.hide", true);
7450 user_pref("capability.policy.maonoscript.sites", "about:
7451 about:blank about:certerror about:config about:credits
7452 about:neterror about:plugins about:privatebrowsing
7453 about:sessionrestore chrome: resource:");
7454 user_pref("extensions.firegpg.no_updates", true);
7455 - install the NoScript plugin from Debian squeeze
7456 - delete urlclassifier3.sqlite on $HOME refresh: as we disabled
7457 "safebrowsing", this huge file is of no use
7458 - torbutton: install newer version from Squeeze
7459 * linux: removed non-686 kernel flavours when building i386 images
7460 * compatibility: append "live-media=removable live-media-timeout=15", to
7461 prevent blindly booting another debian-live installed on the hard disk
7465 - cryptkeeper: Gnome system tray applet to encrypt files with EncFS
7466 - kvkbd: virtual keyboard (installed from backports.org)
7467 - sshfs (and added live user to the fuse group)
7468 - less, secure-delete, wipe, seahorse, sshfs, ntfs-3g
7471 - enable the transparent proxy, the DNS resolver, and the control port
7472 - save authentication cookie to /tmp/control_auth_cookie, so that the
7473 live user can use Tork and co.
7474 - autostart Tork with Gnome
7475 - Tork: installed, disabled most notifications and startup tips
7476 - added a restart tor hook to if-up.d (used by Network Manager as well),
7477 so that Tor does work immediately even if the network cable was
7478 plugged late in/after the boot process
7480 - added a nautilus-script to wipe files and directories
7481 - bash with working completion for the live user
7482 * polipo: install and configure this HTTP proxy to forward requests
7484 * DNS: install and configure pdnsd to forward any DNS request through
7486 * firewall: force every outgoing TCP connection through the Tor
7487 transparent proxy, discard any outgoing UDP connection
7489 - set syslinux timeout to 4 seconds
7490 - use splashy for more user-friendly boot/halt sequences
7492 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:09:15 +0200