1 tails (5.14) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
3 * Dummy entry for next release.
5 -- boyska <boyska@riseup.net> Tue, 16 May 2023 16:19:06 +0200
7 tails (5.13) unstable; urgency=medium
9 * Resolve "Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.6, based on Firefox 102.11"
13 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.6, based on Firefox 102.11 (tails/tails#19621)
16 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
17 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.6-build1
19 * unsafe-browser: Explain why our use of flock is not vulnerable
23 - Unsafe Browser - Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) via symlink - Arbitrary File
24 Content Delete (tails/tails#19616)
27 - Use /run/lock instead of /var/lock
28 - unsafe-browser: Explain why our use of flock is not vulnerable
30 * Make curl use Tor (tails/tails!1123)
33 - Make curl work out of the box (tails/tails#19488)
36 - test that curl works out of the box
39 * udisks2: Use LUKS2 by default (tails/tails!1115)
42 - Persistent Storage: Use LUKS2 (tails/tails#15450)
45 - Test suite: Increase timeout for changing the LUKS passphrase
46 - Test suite: Check that Persistent Storage uses LUKS2
47 - Test suite: record old version when installing one to disk
48 - Test suite: move step definition to a more suitable place
49 - udisks2: Use LUKS2 by default
51 * tails-documentation: Check that joined path is below website path
55 - tails-documentation - Limited Path Traversal (tails/tails#19576)
58 - tails-documentation: Check that joined path is below website path
60 * Test suite: Don't check for "Display output is not active" screen
64 - Tests sometimes fail with "Display output is not active" after clicking login
65 button in Welcome Screen (tails/tails#19639)
68 - Test suite: Don't check for "Display output is not active" screen
69 - Test suite: Print step status
70 - Welcome Screen: Make error message more useful
72 * Remove our public calendar (tails/tails!1125)
77 - Remove our public calendar
79 * tps: Use argon2id (tails/tails!1120)
82 - Persistent Storage: Use argon2id (tails/tails#19633)
85 - Test suite: Check that Persistent Storage uses argon2id
86 - tps: Reduce the number of triggered udev events
87 - tps: Fix creation sometimes failing because udisks object is not ready
88 - tps: Fix `udevadm trigger --settle` sometimes blocking forever
89 - tps-frontend: Fix first job update sometimes ignored
90 - tps: Send only one PropertiesChanged signal per job update
91 - tps: Don't restrict CPU usage during Persistent Storage creation
92 - tps: Keep the system responsive while creating Persistent Storage
95 * tps: Fix stderr of failed commands not printed (tails/tails!1118)
98 - tps: Fix stderr of failed commands not printed
100 * Test suite: Avoid TCA scenario failing if the error panel is briefly shown
104 - Fix "Scenario: The same Tor configuration is applied when the network is
105 reconnected" failing (tails/tails#19591)
108 - Test suite: Avoid TCA scenario failing if the error panel is briefly shown
110 * tps: Fix InvalidBootDeviceError raised in finally block (tails/tails!1103)
113 - "Persistent Greeter options" test suite scenario always fails
115 - tps reports the need for "USB stick installed with a USB image or Tails
116 Installer" in unrelated failure modes (tails/tails#19588)
119 - tps: Fix InvalidBootDeviceError raised in finally block
120 - tps: Remove unused exception
122 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 15 May 2023 12:22:05 +0200
124 tails (5.12) unstable; urgency=medium
126 * Test suite: Try to catch another case of "Display output is not active"
130 - Test suite breakage when restoring an old Bullseye snapshot: "Guest disabled
131 display", "Display output is not active" (tails/tails#18953)
134 - Test suite: Try to catch another case of "Display output is not active"
136 * Test suite: Press escape to wake up the display (tails/tails!1089)
139 - Test suite breakage when restoring an old Bullseye snapshot: "Guest disabled
140 display", "Display output is not active" (tails/tails#18953)
143 - Test suite: Retry restoring snapshot 3 times
144 - Test suite: Press escape up wake up the display
146 * Upgrade to Linux 6.1.20-1 (stable branch) (tails/tails!1080)
149 - Upgrade to Linux 6.1.15 (tails/tails#19484)
150 - Upgrade to Linux 6.1.20+ (tails/tails#19556)
153 - Upgrade to Linux 6.1.20-1 from sid
155 * Upgrade to Linux 6.1.20-1 from sid (devel branch) (tails/tails!1079)
158 - Upgrade to Linux 6.1.20-1 from sid
160 * Add icon for tails-backup (tails/tails!1111)
163 - Have an icon for the backup utility (tails/tails#19363)
166 - Update icon for Persistent Storage settings
167 - Add icon for tails-backup
169 * Additional Software: Fix launched apps not accessible via Dogtail
173 - tca-portal, tails-additional-software: don't run apps as amnesia under the
174 scope of the (root) systemd service (tails/tails#19131)
175 - Additional Software is in English when launched from a notification
177 - tails-additional-software-config and gedit started from a notification are not
178 accessible ⇒ breaks test suite (tails/tails#19233)
181 - Additional Software: Make tails-additional-software-config D-Bus activatable
182 - Additional Software: Launch apps with gtk-launch
184 * Resolve "myspace.com has become incompatible with our htpdate setup"
188 - myspace.com has become incompatible with our htpdate setup (tails/tails#19561)
191 - test-iuk: list 1 package per line, for nicer future diffs
192 - test-iuk: make it breathe
193 - test-iuk: refuse running unless in a throw-away container
194 - convert shell script to set -eu
195 - move test-iuk to its own file
196 - refactor: put in its own file
198 - replace myspace.com with facebook.com
200 * Test suite: Fix step "persistent Greeter options were restored"
204 - "Persistent Greeter options" test suite scenario always fails
208 - Test suite: Avoid an unnecessary reboot
209 - Test suite: Make clicking "Connect to Tor" button more robust
210 - Test suite: Add alternative persian comma image
211 - Test suite: Fix step "persistent Greeter options were restored"
212 - Test suite: Translate Dogtail args to $lang_code
213 - Remote shell: Support setting environment variables in remote commands
214 - Test suite: Support configuring chutney start time
216 * tps: Fix hook execution with --profiling option (tails/tails!1112)
219 - tps: Fix hook execution with --profiling option
221 * Shell library: Validate LANG before using it (tails/tails!1110)
224 - Validate LANG in localization.sh (tails/tails#19576)
227 - Shell library: Validate LANG before using it
229 * Remove obsolete disabling of nf_conntrack_helper (tails/tails!1109)
232 - Update disabling of netfilter's automatic conntrack helper assignment
236 - Remove obsolete disabling of nf_conntrack_helper
238 * Test suite: Fix Electrum test (tails/tails!1105)
241 - Electrum test suite broken by !1010 (tails/tails#19589)
244 - Test suite: Fix Electrum test
246 * Test suite: Fix additional software scenario (tails/tails!1102)
249 - Test suite: Scenario "Recovering in offline mode after Additional Software
250 previously failed to upgrade and then succeed to upgrade when online" fails
254 - Remove @fragile tags that were only justified by #19233, which was solved via
256 - Test suite: Fix additional software scenario
258 * Additional Software: Use valid D-Bus name as app name (tails/tails!1099)
261 - `gtk-launch org.boum.tails.additional-software-config.desktop` is broken
265 - Design doc: update path
266 - Additional Software: Use valid D-Bus name as app name
268 * Test suite: allow the pattern to cover slightly less of the write cache
272 - Test Suite: Feature "System memory erasure on shutdown" is fragile
276 - Test suite: allow the pattern to cover even less of the write cache
277 - Test suite: allow the pattern to cover slightly less of the write cache
279 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.5 (tails/tails!1097)
282 - Upgrade to Tor Browser 12.0.5, based on Firefox 102.10 (tails/tails#19559)
285 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
286 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.5-build2
287 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.5-build1
289 * tps: Fix "python.UnknownError" returned for builtin errors (tails/tails!1095)
292 - Buggy error handling in tps: OSError is not a valid D-Bus name
296 - tps: Fix "python.UnknownError" returned for builtin errors
298 * Welcome Screen: Support login kernel command-line option (tails/tails!1093)
301 - Welcome Screen: Support login kernel command-line option
303 * Welcome Screen: Don't allow unlocking with empty passphrase by pressing Enter
307 - Welcome Screen: Don't allow unlocking with empty passphrase by pressing Enter
311 - Welcome Screen: Don't allow unlocking with empty passphrase by pressing Enter
313 * systemd: Use name in unit status messages (tails/tails!1088)
316 - systemd: Use name instead of description in unit status messages
320 - systemd: Use both name and description in unit status messages
322 * Display a diceware suggestion when creating the Persistent Storage
326 - Display a diceware suggestion when creating the Persistent Storage
330 - tps-frontend: Move passphrase suggestion code to passphrase_view.py
331 - tps-frontend: Fix local variable 'passphrase' might be referenced before
333 - tps-frontend: Increase spacing between suggested passphrase and refresh button
334 - tps-frontend: Add missing space to error message
335 - tps-frontend: Fix indentation
336 - tps-frontend: hide relevant UI elements when diceware fails
337 - tps-frontend: give attribute an expressive name
338 - Wait Bookworm to use the non-English wordlists
339 - Determine passphrase suggestion width automatically
340 - tps-frontend: Remove default passphrase suggestion
341 - tps-frontend: refactoring
342 - tps-frontend: hide 'for example' label when diceware suggestion fails
343 - tps-frontend: don't break when wordlist directory doesn't exist
344 - tps-frontend: Use a method to set a new passphrase hint
345 - tps-frontend: Log the exceptions caused by diceware suggestion
346 - tps-frontend: print stderr when diceware fails
347 - tps-frontend: use a wordlist in the currently configured language when
349 - tps-frontend: adjust passphrase view UI
350 - Display a diceware suggestion when creating the Persistent Storage
352 * Fix race when starting tails-ibus-proxy.service (tails/tails!1086)
355 - tails-dbus-proxy: Add missing PIDFile= property to systemd services
356 - tails-ibus-proxy: Busy wait on ibus-daemon
357 - tails-ibus-proxy: Fix missing whitespace (PEP-8)
358 - Fix race when starting tails-ibus-proxy.service
360 * Don't translate "known security vulnerabilities" (tails/tails!1081)
363 - Don't translate "known security vulnerabilities"
365 * Fix progress information inconsistencies when resuming an automatic upgrade
366 download (tails/tails!1071)
369 - Upgrader sometimes fails: Negative number not allowed in format_bytes at
370 /usr/local/share/perl/5.32.1/Tails/IUK/Role/FormatByte.pm line 45 (Fix progress
371 information inconsistencies when resuming an automatic upgrade download)
375 - Revert "Upgrader: Avoid display the progress dialog initial text"
377 - Make code style more consistent
379 - Upgrader: Avoid display the progress dialog initial text
380 - Tails::IUK::LWP::UserAgent::WithProgress: check if the temp file exists
381 - Tails::IUK::LWP::UserAgent::WithProgress: always display the total amount of
384 * Persistent Storage design docs (tails/tails!1035)
387 - Persistent Storage: Update design doc (tails/tails#19223)
390 - Remove XXX comments
391 - Remove glossary entry for tails-persistence-setup
392 - Link to contribute/Persistent_Storage in contribute.mdwn
393 - Persistent Storage design doc: Don't link to line numbers
394 - Revert "Rename persistence.mdwn -> Persistent_Storage.mdwn"
398 - Improve Persistent Storage contribute doc
399 - Rename persistence.mdwn -> Persistent_Storage.mdwn
400 - Move persistent-storage/HACKING.md to website
401 - Update Additional Software design doc
402 - Persistent Storage design doc: Add section on symlink attacks
403 - Improve Persistent Storage design doc
404 - better draft of Persistent Storage design docs
406 * tps: Fix activation of feature in inconsistent state (tails/tails!1010)
409 - Consider sync'ing data to disk after copying it to Persistent Storage when
410 activating a feature (tails/tails#19368)
411 - Seemingly spurious tps.configuration.mount.IsActiveException when deactivating
412 a Persistent Storage feature (tails/tails#19331)
413 - Delete corresponding data when a feature of the Persistent Storage is turned
414 off in the settings (tails/tails#8447)
415 - Switches of the new Persistent Storage are too slow to respond on some USB
416 sticks (tails/tails#19291)
417 - tps: Fix activation failing when in inconsistent state (tails/tails#19376)
420 - Test suite: Update string
421 - less ambiguous variable name
422 - libtps.sh: Print JSON output
423 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
424 - libtps.sh: Describe format returned by tps_get_features()
425 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
426 - Make code easier to review
427 - tps-frontend: Check if action row is defined
429 - Explain stacklevel option
430 - Use normal string instead of f-string
434 - tps: Delete feature data via `rm -rf`
435 - tps: Set HasData to True if we can't figure it out
436 - tps-frontend: Ensure that the delete data button has the correct visibility
437 - tps-frontend: Fix feature deactivated when IsActive changes to False
438 - tps: Ensure that all feature properties are refreshed
439 - Welcome Screen: Improve error message
440 - Test suite: Use tpscli instead of parsing persistence.conf
441 - Test suite: Fix "Given" used instead of "Then"
442 - Test suite: Improve scenario "Feature activation fails"
443 - Test suite: Use consistent wording
444 - tps: Support reloading the service
445 - Test suite: Improve comment and variable names
446 - Test suite: Add another check that tps feature is deactivated immediately
447 - Test suite: Use "active" instead of "enabled" for Persistent Storage
448 - Test suite: Add scenario "Feature activation fails"
449 - Welcome Screen: Show unlocked message when features failed to activate
450 - Integrate tps-frontend Python files into our l10n framework
451 - tps: Don't return an error in Unlock when features have unexpected state
453 - tps-frontend: Don't insert hyphens when breaking lines in the error message
454 - Test suite: Add scenario "Deleting data of a Persistent Storage feature"
455 - tps-frontend: Remove unused imports
456 - tps-frontend: Add accessible name to delete data button
457 - tps-frontend: Make title of error dialogs bold
458 - tps: Print stderr of failed commands in error messages
459 - Test suite: Improve Gherkin of "Activating and deactivating Persistent Storage
461 - tps: Strip the "GDBus.Error:" prefix from errors displayed to users
462 - tps: Check that enabling/disabling feature worked
463 - tps: Fix ActivationFailedError raised instead of DeactivationFailedError
464 - tps: Fix incorrect PropertiesChanged signal
465 - tps: Add behave test for deleting feature
466 - tps: Fix behave tests failing
467 - tps: Fix no PropertiesChanged emitted for HasData
468 - tps: Remove Error property
469 - tps-frontend: Use IsEnabled property
470 - tps: Don't raise AlreadyActivatedError and NotActivatedError
471 - tps: Fix race condition when adding/removing features from config file
472 - tps: Add new property Feature.IsEnabled
473 - Welcome Screen: Mention which features failed to activate
474 - tps-frontend: Move delete data button into first row
475 - tps-frontend: Remove separator between first and second row
476 - Welcome Screen: Document GtkInspector
478 - tps: Sync data copied to Persistent Storage
479 - tps: Improve error in Welcome Screen when features failed to activate
480 - tps-frontend: Show warning for features which failed to activate
481 - tps: Remove features which failed to activate
482 - tps: Store errors during service activation
483 - tps: Make error message label selectable
484 - tps-frontend: Use … instead of ... in button labels
485 - tps-frontend: Confirm data deletion
486 - tps: Treat Persistent directory with empty "Tor Browser" directory as empty
487 - tps: Fix "return" used instead of "raise"
489 - tps: Support deleting data
490 - tps-frontend: Show a spinner while activating/deactivating features
491 - tps-frontend: Hide persistent folder button when feature is inactive
492 - Also make on-deactived hooks work when run twice
493 - tps behave-tests: Test deactivating feature with inconsistent state
494 - tps: Make on-activated hooks work when run twice
495 - Fix shellcheck source comments
496 - tps: Fix deactivation of feature in inconsistent state
497 - tps behave-tests: Test activating feature with inconsistent state
498 - Revert "Don't try (and fail) to refresh features' IsActive when unlocking"
499 - tps: Fix activation of feature in inconsistent state
501 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2023 16:54:56 +0000
503 tails (5.11) unstable; urgency=medium
505 * Upgrade Thunderbird to 102.9.0-1~deb11u1
507 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.4-build2 (tails/tails!1082)
510 - Upgrade to Tor Browser 12.0.4 based on Firefox 102.9 (tails/tails#19450)
513 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
514 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.4-build2
516 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.4-build1 (tails/tails!1078)
519 - Upgrade to Tor Browser 12.0.4 based on Firefox 102.9 (tails/tails#19450)
523 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
524 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.4-build1
526 * Fix root exporting unsafe env (tails/tails!1067)
529 - LPE via Environment Key Injection (tails/tails#19464)
532 - remove inaccurate type hint
533 - Revert "tails-additional-software: Fix string returned instead of int"
534 - tails-additional-software: Fix logging command
535 - tails-additional-software: Fix string returned instead of int
536 - tails-additional-software: Log stderr of the executed command to Journal
537 - tails-additional-software: Fix _ (gettext.gettext) not defined
538 - tails-additional-software: Add type hints
539 - tails-additional-software: Print logs of apt hooks to journal
540 - Remote shell: Don't capture stderr of "sh_spawn" commands
541 - tailslib: Make code easier to read
542 - Start tails-dump-user-env.service automatically again
543 - Revert "workaround failure"
544 - 10-tor.sh: Remove obsolete wait loops
545 - run-with-user-env: Depend on tails-dump-user-env.service
546 - run-with-env: Fix current environment not passed to the command
547 - tails-additional-software: Log stderr of the executed command
548 - let's use standard logging methods
549 - Remote shell: Fix some log output not printed to stderr
550 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
551 - Rename exec-with-env -> run-with-env
552 - INHERIT_FD is needed for connect-drop to work
553 - port exec-with-env to argparse
555 - Use exec in some places
556 - tails-dump-user-env.service: Be explicit about which users the service should
558 - userenv.py: Don't use current env in read_allowed_env_vars_from_file
559 - dump-user-env: Use logging module
560 - userenv.py: Fix all env vars from the current env passed
561 - exec-with-env: Move read_allowed_env_vars_from_file() to userenv.py
562 - exec-with-env: Only export allow-listed environment variables
563 - tailslib: Move NOSYMFOLLOW_MOUNTPOINT back to tps package
564 - exec-with-env: Fix error message
565 - dump-user-env: Fix error message
566 - dump-user-env: Don't set $EUID
567 - userenv.py: Log invalid environment variables
568 - dump-user-env: Only dump specific environment variables
569 - Remote shell: Remove unused imports
570 - Test Suite: Use "systemctl poweroff" instead of "poweroff"
571 - Remote shell: Don't fail if user env is not found
572 - Remote shell: Use user env in commands executed as root
573 - refactor: Rename loadenv-exec -> exec-with-env
574 - Run tails-additional-software-notify as amnesia with user env
575 - exec-with-user-env: Fix comment and add usage message
576 - refactor: Rename launch_x_application -> run_with_user_env
577 - refactor: Rename gnome-env -> user-env
578 - dump-user-env: Print error message when required variables could not be set
579 - tps-frontend-wrapper: Pass current user environment
580 - Reimplement loadenv-exec in Python
581 - Replace most usages of gnome_env in Python scripts
582 - netnsdrop.py: Remove unused argument user
583 - tails-additional-software-notify: Fix error when printing usage message
584 - tails-additional-software-notify: Fix unresolved reference '_'
585 - Replace systemctl-user with exec-in-gnome-env
586 - Avoid exporting gnome environment file in privileged processes
587 - Dump gnome-shell env as amnesia
588 - tails-notify-user: Use consistent indentation
589 - 20-time.sh: Don't export amnesia-controlled gnome env
590 - tailslib: Don't export gnome env
591 - Test suite: Fix unset environment variables evaluating to true
592 - tca-portal: Support setting debug log level via environment and kernel cmdline
594 * Sanitize input (tails/tails!1058)
597 - LPE via Environment Key Injection (tails/tails#19464)
600 - sanitize WAYLAND_DISPLAY
603 * Test new tps functionality (tails/tails!1052)
606 - Ensure Cucumber tests cover new tps functionality (tails/tails#19225)
609 - Quote variable used in shell command
610 - rubocop --auto-correct
611 - Test Suite: Improve Gherkin of "Creating a Persistent Storage" scenario
612 - Test Suite: Add scenario "Changing the Persistent Storage passphrase"
613 - Test Suite: Add scenario "Activating and deactivating Persistent Storage
615 - Test Suite: Add scenario "Creating a Persistent Storage"
617 * Test suite: Fix step "the clearnet user has not sent packets out to the
618 Internet" (tails/tails!1074)
621 - Test suite step "the clearnet user has not sent packets out to the Internet" is
622 now irrelevant to Unsafe Browser (tails/tails#19370)
626 - Test suite: Add anti test for packets sent by the Unsafe Browser
627 - Test suite: Fix step "the clearnet user has not sent packets out to the
630 * Remove custom window-center extension (tails/tails!1072)
633 - Consider replacing our custom window-center GNOME Shell extension with the
634 center-new-windows Mutter option (tails/tails#19489)
637 - Remove custom window-center extension
639 * 10-tor.sh: Add log output (tails/tails!1070)
642 - Remote shell: Improve log output
643 - 10-tor.sh: Add log output
645 * Use zram (tails/tails!1064)
648 - Consider using zram (tails/tails#5740)
651 - remove unused variable
652 - chdir / makes paths more predictable
653 - move swapon.tails in its own file
654 - 05-replace_swapon: Use exec to run the original swapon
655 - 05-replace_swapon: Improve device check
656 - 05-replace_swapon: Fail if any argument contains non-zram device
660 * Welcome Screen: UI changes (tails/tails!1063)
663 - Help new users understand better the encryption model (#18732)
664 - Test suite: Make output easier to search for
665 - Remote Shell: Automatically restart service when it fails
666 - Test Suite: Use Dogtail to check if the Greeter has started
667 - Test Suite: Avoid spamming log with stacktrace of the same error
668 - Test Suite: Fix failure because of outdated screenshot
669 - Test Suite: Use Dogtail to open GNOME Shell menus
670 - Test Suite: Use Dogtail for some Greeter steps
671 - Welcome Screen: Fix excessive height
672 - Welcome Screen: Replace passphrase entry placeholder with a label
673 - Welcome Screen: Align section header icons / link buttons
674 - Welcome Screen: Remove unnecessary GtkBox
675 - Welcome Screen: Update label
676 - Welcome Screen: Update string shown when Persistent Storage is unlocked
678 * Upgrade to Linux 6.1.12-1 from sid (stable branch) (tails/tails!1062)
681 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 6.1.7+ (tails/tails#19444)
684 - Test suite: disable bridge QR code automated tests
685 - Upgrade to Linux 6.1.12-1 from sid
687 * Welcome Screen: Don't allow unlocking with empty passphrase (tails/tails!1059)
690 - Disable "Unlock" button until a passphrase has been entered (tails/tails#19357)
693 - Welcome Screen: Don't allow unlocking with empty passphrase
695 * Upgrade to Linux 6.1.12-1 from sid (devel branch) (tails/tails!1055)
698 - Test suite: relax timeout
699 - Test suite: disable bridge QR code automated tests
700 - Upgrade to Linux 6.1.12-1 from sid
702 * tps: Fix strings not translatable (tails/tails!1053)
705 - Missing translations of UI strings about Persistent Storage (tails/tails#19415)
708 - tails-backup: Fix strings not translatable
709 - tps: Fix strings not translatable
711 * Set screencast feature to never stop automatically (#12723) (tails/tails!1049)
714 - Set screencast feature to never stop automatically (#12723)
716 * Avoid double negation (tails/tails!1048)
720 - Avoid double negation
722 * Unlock VeraCrypt Volumes: Use Gtk.show_uri_on_window to open directories
726 - Opening VeraCrypt volume spawns zombie process (tails/tails#19423)
729 - Unlock VeraCrypt Volumes: Use Gtk.show_uri_on_window to open directories
731 * Enable non-free-firmware archive area for distributions that support it
735 - devel FTBFS (tails/tails#19456)
736 - devel branch FTBFS: uBlock diff (tails/tails#19398)
737 - Enable non-free-firmware APT component (tails/tails#19411)
740 - fix FTBFS: patch wasnt applying
741 - Fix FTBFS by installing b43-fwcutter from bullseye instead of sid
742 - Bump the debian APT snapshot to one that supports the non-free-firmware archive
744 - Enable non-free-firmware archive area for distributions that support it
746 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2023 15:21:33 +0000
748 tails (5.10) unstable; urgency=medium
750 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.3-build1 (tails/tails!1046)
753 - Upgrade to Tor Browser based on Firefox 102.8 (tails/tails#19412)
756 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
757 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.3-build1
759 * Avoid symlink attack when writing amnesia owned file as root (tails/tails!1038)
761 Dennis Brinkrolf discovered a privilege escalation in Tails 5.9:
762 an adversary, who can already run arbitrary code as the amnesia user,
763 could escalate their privileges to reading arbitrary files on the
764 system. It might be possible to use this as part of an exploit chain
765 to gain full root privileges.
768 - Privilege escalation via Dotfiles, sudo, and gnome-shell-save-environment
772 - clarify/acknowledge security limitations
774 - Avoid symlink attack when writing amnesia owned file as root
776 * Stop some dbus proxies when they are unneeded (tails/tails!1019)
779 - Keyboard input sometimes not working in Tor Connection and Tor Browser
783 - Rewrite dbus proxy code
784 - Only run Tor Browser dbus proxy services when needed
785 - Only run Onion Circuits dbus proxy service when needed
786 - Automatically start dbus proxy service when Onion Circuits is started
787 - Automatically start dbus proxy service when Tor Browser is started
789 * tps: Treat unmounted partition as locked (tails/tails!1043)
792 - tps-frontend lets user activate features when the Persistent Storage LUKS was
793 not fully set up (tails/tails#19352)
796 - tps: Treat unmounted partition as locked
798 * Upgrader: don't crash when a download is interrupted and then resumed
802 - Upgrader: don't crash when a download is interrupted and then resumed
804 * tps: Bump the unlocking timeout to 120 seconds (tails/tails!1039)
807 - Persistent Storage fails to unlock: timeout (tails/tails#19432)
810 - tps: Bump the unlocking timeout to 120 seconds
812 * Test suite: adjust to updated Tor Browser localization in German
816 - Test suite step "the support documentation page opens in Tor Browser" is broken
817 in German (tails/tails#19419)
820 - Test suite: relax our expectations, again
821 - Test suite: adjust to updated Tor Browser localization in German
823 * Small fixes on Persistent Storage UI (tails/tails!1032)
828 - Update doc-source-relationships.yml
829 - Replace: 'doc/first_steps/persistence' with 'doc/persistent_storage'
831 - Avoid confusing future tense
836 - Improve error message
837 - Be more helpful in UI
839 * GitLab CI: remove lint-latest-po job (tails/tails!1031)
842 - Fix lint-latest-po (tails/tails#19378)
845 - GitLab CI: remove lint-latest-po job
847 * Welcome Screen: Avoid starting Persistent Storage app on each login
851 - Remove Welcome Screen persistent settings hack (tails/tails#19062)
852 - Persistent Storage settings always opened after login (tails/tails#19410)
855 - still renaming directories
856 - Improve comment documenting Welcome Screen settings design
857 - Rename Welcome Screen settings directories
858 - document Welcome Screen settings design
859 - Remove workaround for persistent Welcome Screen settings directory
860 - Welcome Screen: Avoid starting Persistent Storage app on each login
862 * Update our doc to the new Persistent Storage (tails/tails!1024)
866 - Remove old issue and work around
868 - Add a bit more doubt
869 - Add dummy changelog entry for 5.10.
870 - Remove UDFs for versions we'll never release
874 - This file is not about persistence anymore
875 - Update cross-references
878 - Update cross-references
880 - Give more visibility
881 - Reorder by importance
883 - Integrate FAQ into doc
885 - Remove Persistent Storage from installation doc
886 - Move last warning to a better place
888 - Remove useless warning
889 - Integrate warning in doc
892 - Layer the information
895 - Update list of features
896 - Rewrite in Markdown and improve style
898 - Update to new Persistent Storage
899 - Move instructions to use the Persistent Storage to a dedicated page
902 - Add subsections and TOC
903 - Reorder features as in new interface
904 - Update to new Persistent Storage
905 - Update to new Persistent Storage
906 - Rename as Markdown file
907 - Deduplicate content
909 - Add missing alt tags
910 - Update to new Persistent Storage
911 - Update doc to #19338
912 - Add missing alt tags
913 - Use more consistent terminology
918 - Rename more pages and images
919 - Merge inline in the only place where it was used
920 - Create a dedicated doc section about the Persistent Storage
921 - Deactivate trail plugin
922 - Remove CSS about traillink
923 - Remove traillink from templates
924 - Remove HTML tags in Markdown
925 - Remove traillink directives (#18951)
926 - Explain better how to exchange with another Linux
927 - Move long warning and FAQ to a dedicated page
928 - Improve warning on opening from another OS
929 - Remove unactionable warning
931 - Improve style guide
935 - Split Persistent Storage creation and configuration
937 * FIX Persistent Greeter options scenario (tails/tails!1021)
940 - "Persistent Greeter options" test case is broken (tails/tails#19397)
944 - login button in german, too
945 - fix more images for German greeter
946 - Fix test suite regexp
947 - new images for persistent language
948 - FIX Persistent Greeter options scenario
950 * No predictable names in /tmp (tails/tails!1018)
953 - Don't use predictable names in /tmp (tails/tails#19389)
956 - Don't use predictable names in /tmp
957 - Use service name without variables
959 * tps: Ask for confirmation when Persistent Storage exists but is not unlocked
963 - Confirm when starting without unlocking the Persistent Storage
967 - Test Suite: Check if the confirmation dialog is displayed
968 - Test suite: Fix "I log in to a new session" step failing
969 - tps: Ask for confirmation when Persistent Storage exists but is not unlocked
971 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 15 Feb 2023 09:44:33 +0000
973 tails (5.9) unstable; urgency=medium
975 * Update tor to 0.4.7.13 (tails/tails!1013)
978 - Upgrade to Tor 0.4.7.13 (tails/tails#19377)
981 - Update tor to 0.4.7.13
983 * Resolve "Upgrade to Tor Browser based on Firefox 102.7" (tails/tails!1012)
986 - Upgrade to Tor Browser based on Firefox 102.7 (tails/tails#19360)
989 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
990 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.2-build1
992 * tps: Increase timeout of activate call (tails/tails!1006)
995 - tps logs passphrase in cleartext in debug mode (tails/tails#19350)
996 - Persistent Storage fails to activate: timeout (tails/tails#19347)
999 - tps: Don't print status of NetworkManager.service to stdout
1000 - tps: Bump the activation timeout to 120 seconds
1001 - tps: Add log messages
1002 - tps: Log line which called executil helper functions
1004 * Troubleshooting mode: stop passing options that can only break stuff
1008 - Reconsider Troubleshooting Mode kernel command line wrt. Wayland
1012 - Troubleshooting mode (syslinux): stop passing options that can only break stuff
1013 - Troubleshooting mode (EFI): stop passing options that can only break stuff
1015 * Upgrade to Linux 6.0 (tails/tails!996)
1018 - Add randomize_kstack_offset=1 to boot parameters (tails/tails#19023)
1019 - Enable BPF JIT hardening (tails/tails#19345)
1020 - Upgrade to Linux 6.0 (tails/tails#18467)
1023 - Test suite: allow the pattern to cover slightly less of the write cache
1024 - Revert renaming of /etc/amnesia/version to /etc/tails/version
1025 - Move "set -eu" to a better location
1026 - Test suite: remove dead code
1027 - Test suite: drop check about tails-version output
1028 - Upgrade to Linux 6.0.12-1~bpo11+1
1029 - early_patch: implement the initramfs-tools' "prereqs" interface
1030 - initramfs: stop including SCSI drivers
1031 - initramfs: bring back including all DRM modules
1032 - Always log the size of the initramfs
1033 - initramfs: remove support for AFS and CIFS
1034 - initramfs: remove support for PCMCIA and parallel port
1035 - initramfs: don't include firmware for drivers we removed
1036 - initramfs: remove sunrpc support
1037 - initramfs: remove a bunch more SCSI drivers
1040 - Include fewer modules in the initramfs
1041 - Compress the initramfs with the most space-efficient XZ compression level
1042 - Simplify how we set initramfs compression algorithm
1043 - Hardening: turn on BPF JIT hardening, if the JIT is enabled.
1044 - Fix headings levels
1045 - Hardening: randomize kernel stack offset on syscall entry
1046 - initrd: install privacy screen provider drivers
1047 - Upgrade to Linux 6.0.3-1~bpo11+1 from bullseye-backports
1048 - Enable bullseye-backports APT source
1049 - Rename config/amnesia to config/variables
1050 - Rename /etc/amnesia to /etc/tails
1051 - Deprecate /usr/share/doc/amnesia/
1052 - The thing is called Tails
1053 - Drop support for config/amnesia.local
1055 - Rename $AMNESIA_* variables
1056 - Remove unused variables
1058 * Tor Connection: Hide "Fix clock", "Proxy", and "Captive Portal" when time sync
1059 was successful already (tails/tails!986)
1062 - Add label to bridge line on the error screen (tails/tails#19332)
1063 - Hide "Fix clock", "Proxy", and "Captive Portal" when time sync was successful
1064 already (tails/tails#19171)
1067 - Make it easier to reason about state transitions
1068 - Tor Connection: simplify test
1069 - Tor Connection: improve phrasing
1070 - Tor Connection: make phrasing consistent
1071 - Tor Connection: tell the user when we know their network is blocking access to
1073 - Tor Connection: explain what bridges are on the error screen
1074 - Tor Connection: rename "Bridge by email" section on the error screen
1075 - Tor Connection: add label to bridge line on the error screen too
1076 - Tor Connection: fix alignment of "Send an empty email" string
1077 - Tor Connection: Hide "Fix clock", "Proxy", and "Captive Portal" when time sync
1078 was successful already
1079 - Name widgets so we can act on them
1080 - Tor Connection: make log message somewhat clearer
1081 - Tor Connection: remember the result of tails-get-network-time
1083 * tps: Fix handling of symlink bindings (tails/tails!1009)
1086 - Persistent Storage sometimes fails to activate Dotfiles (tails/tails#19346)
1089 - tps behave-tests: Support passing flags to behave
1090 - tps behave-tests: Test source directory with symlink
1091 - tps behave-tests: Add README
1092 - tps: Fix BEHAVE_DEBUG_ON_ERROR feature of the behave tests
1093 - tps: Improve log messages
1094 - tps-frontend: Improve log and error messages
1095 - tps-frontend: Fix log level of message
1096 - tps: Fix activation of symlink bindings failing
1097 - tps: Fix log message
1098 - tps: Improve error message
1099 - tps: Fix Activate call failing with spurious error
1100 - tps: More useful error message
1102 * tps: Don't log parameters which can contain secrets (tails/tails!1005)
1105 - tps logs passphrase in cleartext in debug mode (tails/tails#19350)
1108 - tps: Don't log parameters which can contain secrets
1110 * Do not hide the GTK3 “application menu” button in title bars (tails/tails!1004)
1113 - Cannot access GTK3 application menus in Tails 5.8 / Wayland (tails/tails#19371)
1116 - Do not hide the GTK3 “application menu” button in title bars
1118 * Fix Tor Browser homepage localization when started from Tor Connection
1122 - Tor Browser homepage is not localized when started from Tor Connection
1128 - Fix Tor Browser homepage localization when started from Tor Connection
1130 * Update tails@ key (tails/tails!1001)
1133 - Test suite: ensure OpenPGP keys test is run when the only change on the branch
1137 * Pull non-website PO files from Weblate (tails/tails!1000)
1140 - Pull non-website PO files from Weblate (tails/tails#19322)
1143 - import-translations: remove obsolete reference to Transifex
1144 - import-translations: drop support for excluding languages
1145 - generate-languages-list: workaround the fact we can't distinguish reviewed
1146 translations from non-reviewed ones
1147 - Pull non-website PO files from Weblate
1149 * Make a few user-facing strings localizable (tails/tails!998)
1152 - Not localized (internationalized) strings (tails/tails#19349)
1155 - Integrate the Welcome Screen's main_window.py into our l10n framework
1157 - Make a few user-facing strings localizable
1159 * Autocorrect Rubocop violations (tails/tails!997)
1163 - Test suite: run rubocop --autocorrect
1165 * Improve wording of backup utility (tails/tails!995)
1168 - Improve wording of backup utility (tails/tails#19348)
1171 - Test suite: adjust to new UI wording
1172 - Use more consistent wording
1176 * Fix newly discovered shellcheck violations (tails/tails!994)
1179 - Fix "lb build" exit code reporting
1180 - Add missing quotes
1182 * Remove scrollbar in Favorites (tails/tails!992)
1185 - Need to scroll to see all Favorites (tails/tails#19338)
1188 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
1189 - Test suite: fix "the screen keyboard works in Tor Browser"
1191 - Test suite: remove dead code
1192 - Test suite: retry opening new tab
1193 - Test suite: ensure Tor Browser has loaded the home page before we continue
1194 - Test suite: spam Tor Browser less intensively
1195 - Test suite: remove unused code
1196 - Test suite: start Tor Browser and Thunderbird by typing their name
1197 - Test suite: fix typo in comment
1198 - Remove scrollbar in Favorites
1200 * Remove dead code about TAILS_WIKI_SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES (tails/tails!991)
1203 - WhisperBack: don't try to include non-existing tails-greeter.errors file
1204 - WhisperBack: don't try to include non-existing xorg.conf
1205 - Remove l10n plumbing for WhisperBack configuration file
1206 - Remove obsolete .xsessionrc
1208 - WhisperBack config: remove dead code
1210 * Test suite: fix Unsafe Browser localization test in French (tails/tails!988)
1213 - Test suite: fix Unsafe Browser localization test in French
1215 * Revert "Run Qt applications as native Wayland by default" (tails/tails!987)
1218 - Remove obsolete config/chroot_local-includes/usr/share/live/config/xserver-
1219 xorg/*.ids (tails/tails#19330)
1220 - Qt AppImages broken on Tails 5.8 (tails/tails#19326)
1221 - Clipboard encryption/decryption with Kleopatra is broken on Wayland
1223 - can't paste into unlock password field in KeepassXC in Tails 5.8
1227 - Remove obsolete per-device X.Org driver override via live-config
1228 - Revert "Don't run OnionShare as a native Wayland app"
1229 - Revert "Run Qt applications as native Wayland by default"
1231 * Remove the warning dialog when starting the Unsafe Browser (tails/tails!985)
1234 - Explain better the Unsafe Browser from Tor Connection (tails/tails#19168)
1237 - Test suite: adjust to removed warning dialog
1238 - Remove the warning dialog when starting the Unsafe Browser
1240 * Make the Upgrader use the mirror redirector (tails/tails!983)
1243 - Upgrader: use dedicated SocksPort with no stream isolation
1244 - Test suite: remove test whose cost/benefit has become very high
1245 - Test suite: apply user-facing terminology
1246 - Design doc: remove outdated details
1247 - Remove now unused mirror-pool-dispatcher submodule
1248 - Design doc: update what the fallback DNS pool is used for
1249 - Drop dead code, obsolete dependencies, and obsolete tweaks
1250 - Upgrader: Drop the "replace URL with a random one from the mirror pool JSON"
1251 and "fallback to DNS pool" mechanisms
1252 - Upgrader: bring back explanation when impossible to do an incremental upgrade
1253 - IUK test suite: adjust to 888b78811bcd156284d01a063d448f6bd693db22
1254 - Design doc: use new download URI in example UDFs
1255 - Generate UDFs that point to the mirror redirector for ISO and IUK downloads
1257 * Welcome Screen: restore ability to login with default settings by pressing
1258 "Enter" (tails/tails!982)
1261 - Login with default settings now requires pressing "Enter" twice in the Welcome
1262 Screen (tails/tails#19323)
1265 - Welcome Screen: restore ability to login with default settings by pressing
1268 * switch Persistent Storage icon to SVG (tails/tails!980)
1271 - Replace Persistent Storage icon with SVG version (tails/tails#19316)
1274 - Also use the SVG icon in the Welcome Screen
1275 - Switch Persistent Storage icon to SVG
1277 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:53:31 +0100
1279 tails (5.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1281 * Upgrade Thunderbird to 102.6.0-1~deb11u1
1283 * Fix FTBFS: refresh patch (tails/tails!965)
1288 - Fix FTBFS: refresh patch
1290 * Update tor browser to 12.0.1 (tails/tails!979)
1295 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
1296 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.1-build1
1298 * Enable bullseye-proposed-updates (to test Bullseye 11.6 before it's released),
1299 upgrade to Linux 5.10.158 (tails/tails!975)
1301 Closes #19301, #19293
1304 - After disabling the Tor Configuration persistence feature, only start Tor
1305 Connection if we're connected to a local network
1306 - Also consider the Linux kernel from bullseye-updates
1307 - Install the Linux kernel from bullseye-proposed-updates, if that suite is
1309 - Test suite: remove unused image
1310 - Upgrade to Linux 5.10.158-1
1311 - Enable bullseye-proposed-updates, to test Bullseye 11.6 before it's released
1312 - Bump snapshot of the Debian archive to 2022121302, so we can use proposed-
1313 updates for Bullseye 11.6
1315 * Test suite: make keyboard input more reliable (tails/tails!971)
1318 - Test suite: increase sleep time at the end of Screen#type
1319 - Test suite: correct comment
1320 - Test suite: keep keys pressed for 40 ms
1321 - Test suite: improve comment
1322 - Test suite: keep keys pressed for 20 ms instead of 10 ms
1323 - Test suite: update comment
1325 * Fix Dotfiles access for non-root users (tails/tails!968)
1330 - Fix dotfiles access for non-root users
1332 * Adapt to Wayland our error reporting mechanism when GDM fails to start
1338 - resorting to X.Org → crash → better UX!
1339 - Adapt to Wayland our error reporting mechanism when GDM fails to start
1341 * Switch from bullseye-proposed-updates to Bullseye 11.6 (tails/tails!978)
1346 - Revert "Enable bullseye-proposed-updates, to test Bullseye 11.6 before it's
1348 - Bump APT snapshots
1350 * Tor Connection UI improvements (tails/tails!977)
1352 Closes #19238, #19256, #19169, #19172
1355 - Tor Connection: fix window size
1356 - Fix links from Tor Connection to the offline documentation
1357 - Tor Connection: fix typo in string
1358 - Tor Connection: display QR code scanning error below the scanning button
1359 - Add label to bridge line
1361 * Persistent Storage: use new icon (tails/tails!976)
1364 - Use the new Persistent Storage icon on the Welcome Screen when the Persistent
1365 Storage does not exist yet
1366 - Persistent Storage: use new icon
1368 * Allow persisting bridge scanned from QR code, take 1 (tails/tails!973)
1373 - Allow persisting bridge scanned from QR code, take 1
1375 * Update tor to 0.4.7.12 (tails/tails!972)
1380 - Update tor to 0.4.7.12
1382 * fix window centering (tails/tails!970)
1387 - Ensure extension description matches what it actually does
1388 - gdm-tails is a GDM session, with extension support
1389 - more comments to clarify subtleties
1390 - check which session we're in is more to the point
1392 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
1393 - stop "when it's done" , not predefined time
1394 - window-centering only runs in GDM
1396 - rounding is needed to avoid false moves
1397 - better comments and log messages
1398 - Revert "avoid useless CPU work"
1399 - avoid useless CPU work
1400 - extensions are disabled in GDM: workaround
1401 - window centering in Greeter
1403 * Remove static suggestion of diceware passphrase (tails/tails!969)
1408 - Remove static suggestion of diceware passphrase
1410 * Allow disabling the Unsafe Browser (tails/tails!967)
1415 - fix "I disable the Unsafe Browser" in corner cases
1416 - adapt Greeter options persistence
1417 - fix test suite for new wording
1418 - Adjust to the Unsafe Browser being disabled by default
1420 - Enable Unsafe Browser by default
1421 - Revert "Welcome Screen: always enable the Unsafe Browser and make the setting
1424 * Misc Persistent Storage fixes for 5.8 (tails/tails!966)
1426 Closes #19220, #19279, #19280, #19148, #19294
1429 - Don't run OnionShare as a native Wayland app
1430 - Run Qt applications as native Wayland by default
1431 - Allow running Qt applications as native Wayland
1432 - Remove Dasher (broken on Wayland)
1433 - Tell the user what's going on while deleting Persistent Storage
1434 - When Persistent Storage is unlocked, instruct how to delete it
1435 - Persistent Storage: add missing link to doc on the features screen
1437 * FIX --disable-chutney (tails/tails!961)
1440 - FIX --disable-chutney
1442 * Tor Connection: select "Ask for a bridge by email" by default when "Hiding"
1448 - Make it easier to scan a QR code
1449 - Tor Connection: select "Ask for a bridge by email" by default when "Hiding"
1451 * Tor Connection: display percentage on the connection progress bar
1455 - Tor Connection: display percentage on the connection progress bar
1457 * TPS explanation strings, and more (tails/tails!947)
1462 - remove vague comment
1465 - explanation strings for relevant TPS features
1467 * Additional Software: ensure APT is not broken after being interrupted
1473 - Additional Software: ensure APT is not broken after being interrupted
1475 * Test suite: relax our expectations for coverage of the known pattern in memory
1479 - Test suite: relax our expectations for coverage of the known pattern in memory
1481 * create persistent storage from the greeter (tails/tails!922)
1486 - change wording following the new style
1487 - comment to explain flag files
1489 - Apply 3 suggestion(s) to 3 file(s)
1491 - greeter test suite code refactor
1492 - checking early is useless and ineffective
1493 - FIX look at the actual value
1494 - big code refactoring
1495 - actually handle button
1496 - better size and margins for padlock
1497 - make label the same in glade and python
1498 - remove suggested-action
1499 - Reorder in greeter
1500 - Better real estate use
1501 - draft: automated tests
1502 - "don't create" is not a suggested-action
1503 - Clearer state management in UI
1504 - actually start persistent storage setup
1505 - draft: create persistent storage from greeter
1507 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0 (tails/tails!921)
1509 Closes #19135, #19085
1512 - Test suite: bump timeout
1513 - Make code more readable
1514 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
1515 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0
1516 - Test suite: fix "Downloading files with the Tor Browser" scenario with Tor
1517 Browser 12 on Wayland
1518 - Test suite: improve comment phrasing
1519 - Test suite: only compute keymap once in Screen#press
1520 - Test suite (mouse_location): remove unused method parameters
1521 - Fix buggy (invisible) conflict resolution from rebase
1522 - Turn off shellcheck false positive
1523 - Drop obsolete mentions of $TBB_EXT
1524 - Drop import of library that's not needed anymore
1525 - Update handling of Tor Browser locales
1526 - Fix location for Burmese
1527 - Declare newly added Tor Browser locales
1528 - Don't try to install non-existing langpacks
1529 - Tor Browser update process: there's no langpacks anymore
1530 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
1531 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0a5
1532 - Upgrade Tor Browser to nightly.2022.11.22
1533 - Thunderbird: avoid proxy bypass, same as Tor Browser
1534 - Test suite: Unsafe Browser has no bookmarks at all anymore
1535 - Unsafe Browser: delete default bookmarks
1536 - Test suite: update expected images
1537 - Test suite: update expected images
1538 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0a4
1539 - Thunderbird: replace network.security.ports.banned pref with
1540 network.proxy.allow_hijacking_localhost
1541 - Tor Browser: remove network.security.ports.banned pref, which does more harm
1543 - Update AppArmor policy for Tor Browser 12
1544 - Test suite: update expected images for Tor Browser 12
1545 - Test suite: update expected Unsafe Browser images for Tor Browser 12
1547 - Remove unused variable
1548 - Test suite: update expected images for Tor Browser 12
1549 - Test suite: remove obsolete complexity
1550 - Test suite: update for new "New Identity" UX in Tor Browser 12
1551 - Test suite: spam Tor Browser less intensively
1552 - Test suite: refactoring (DRY)
1553 - Test suite: update expected image
1554 - Test suite: spam Tor Browser less intensively
1555 - Test suite: add support for Tor Browser nightly builds
1558 - Drop unused flexibility
1559 - Remove obsolete variable
1560 - Adjust to multilingual Tor Browser tarball
1561 - Adjust to script being renamed upstream
1562 - Upgrade Tor Browser to nightly.2022.10.19
1563 - Tor Browser upgrade doc: support nightly builds, assume multilingual tarball
1564 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0a3
1565 - Unsafe Browser: also apply branding to brand.properties
1566 - Fix grammar in comment
1567 - Unsafe Browser: don't ask confirmation when quitting with CTRL+q
1568 - Test suite: update Unsafe Browser images
1569 - Test suite: add expected unused Tor Browser library
1570 - Test suite: adjust to Tor Browser 12's (Firefox 102) new download flow
1571 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0a2
1574 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 19 Dec 2022 09:43:26 +0000
1576 tails (5.8~beta1) unstable; urgency=medium
1578 * Rewrite the Persistent Storage settings in Python (tails/tails!897)
1580 Closes: #17803, #15142, #11529, #15827, #7002, #18008, #17331, #7503, #19130, #16061, #15313
1583 - Change test case to reflect what we wanted
1584 - Really disable broken Thunderbird test
1585 - fix reload-connections hook during greeter
1586 - clarify Mount.__str__ from persistence.conf format
1587 - one more type hint
1588 - remove a (never used) systemd alias
1589 - symlink_to ignores the second argument.
1590 - sort hook execution
1593 - Reset Tor configuration when deactivating the corresponding Persistent Storage
1595 - Don't install/upgrade Additional Software unless the corresponding persistent
1596 directories are mounted
1597 - Don't try to create Persistent Storage when the system partition is not called
1599 - Don't try to create Persistent Storage on non-GPT device
1600 - Persistent Storage creation: use UI strings from the design
1601 - Add ssh as a conflict app for the SSH client feature
1602 - Move "Tor Browser Bookmarks" to Applications section of Persistent Storage
1604 - Save with Glade 3.40.0
1605 - Reload NetworkManager connections when activating/deactivating the
1606 corresponding Persistent Storage feature
1607 - tps-frontend: fix icons path
1608 - Stop setting custom permissions on /var/lib/live/config
1609 - WhisperBack: don't include obsolete file in the attached technical info
1610 - CUPS: update configuration files as soon as possible
1611 - Restart CUPS after enabling/disabling the Printers persistent storage feature
1612 - Remove incorrect comment
1613 - Remove function that's not used anymore
1614 - tails-additional-software-config: adjust to new Persistent Storage
1616 - Refactoring: move method to library
1617 - Revert "Test suite: workaround regression in Additional Software"
1618 - tails-additional-software: don't wait for tps-frontend to complete before
1619 writing contents to live-additional-software.conf
1621 - launch_x_application: drop feature we don't need anymore
1622 - Add exceptions for Bandit false positives
1623 - Use long option name
1624 - Harden sudo configuration
1625 - Revert "Test suite: add temporary workaround for tps buggy user story wrt.
1627 - Fix the user story for Dotfiles
1629 - tps: document behavior that can be surprising
1630 - TCA: fix setup of persistent bridge switch widget
1631 - Remove unused script and service
1632 - Test suite: remove obsolete workaround
1633 - TCA: drop useless code
1634 - TCA: fix localization of window title
1635 - Remove unused copied'n'pasted constant
1636 - TCA: mediate reading/writing from/to tca.conf via tca-portal
1637 - Update logger's name: "tor-launcher" does not mean anything in this context
1639 - Remove unused import
1640 - TCA: remove unused import
1641 - TCA: fix type of argument
1642 - Don't allow deleting an unlocked Persistent Storage
1643 - Drop incomplete attempt to support unlocking Persistent Storage after login
1644 - Unsafe Browser: adjust to the removal of persistence_is_enabled in tails-
1647 - Remove useless customization
1648 - Fix typo in docstring
1649 - Add Synaptic, apt-get, and dpkg as conflicting apps for the Additional Software
1650 persistent storage feature
1651 - Remove "XXX" comment: this is about further improving a feature that was not
1652 even planned in the design
1653 - Remove "XXX" comment: already tracked on the issue
1655 - Remove "XXX" comment: moved to the issue
1657 - Fix variable type mismatch
1658 - Remove "XXX" comment: moved to the issue
1659 - Remove "XXX" comment
1661 - Remove "XXX" comment: let's not translate stuff that the user has no chance to
1663 - Remove "XXX" comment: moved to the issue
1664 - Test suite: fix Gherkin When/Then semantics
1665 - Test suite: fix backup scenario
1666 - Remove unused import
1667 - Test suite: refactoring (extract code to method)
1668 - Revert "Test suite: adjust for increased TimeoutStopsec= (refs: #17278)"
1669 - Test suite: check earlier that Additional Software is correctly configured
1670 - Test suite: workaround regression in Additional Software
1671 - Test suite: minor refactoring
1672 - Additional Software: add more accurate wait loop
1674 - Additional Software: don't run tps a second time
1675 - Additional Software: drop unsupported and now useless options
1676 - mypy: enable a few more checks
1677 - mypy: ignore gi and gi.repository
1678 - Help mypy discover our Python libraries
1680 - Fix comment phrasing
1681 - Fix activating Additional Software with an unlocked persistent storage
1682 - Test suite: use shortcut
1683 - Test suite: continue adapting to new UI
1684 - Remove obsolete scripts
1685 - Test suite: drop the Persistent Storage configuration file unit tests
1687 - Ignore flake8 false positives
1688 - tps test suite: make config_file_test support the case when udisks is not
1690 - Fix typo in comment
1691 - GitLab CI: drop test-persistent-storage-behave
1692 - Fix tps behave tests when a dedicated filesystem is mounted on /tmp
1693 - Add support for debug output without a debugger installed
1697 - Test suite: finish adapting "I delete the persistent partition" to new UI
1698 - Use string from the design
1699 - Fix inverted boolean logic
1700 - Fix typo in comment
1701 - Make it possible to run config_file_test.py without a tails-persistent-storage
1703 - Revert "tps: Change owner of persistence.conf to root"
1704 - Move class docstring where it belongs
1705 - Fix typo in comment
1706 - Test suite: don't test for persistence.conf.bak existence
1707 - Test suite: run the persistence storage behave and config file unit tests
1708 - GitLab CI: add missing dependencies
1709 - GitLab CI: run persistent storage tests in separate jobs
1710 - tps test suite: use larger filesystem to that mke2fs can create a Journal
1711 - Fix typo in comment
1712 - Declare mount flags used by the tps test suite
1713 - tps test suite: use the same mount flags as production
1714 - Sort ExecStartPre before ExecStart, just like their execution order
1715 - Maintain directories with systemd-tmpfiles
1716 - Forbid usage as non-amnesia: this would break stuff
1717 - Simplify code and make bookmark removal an atomic operation
1718 - Do all GNOME bookmarks changes as the amnesia user
1719 - Use canonical directory location
1720 - Protect grep command against special regexp chars
1721 - Revert incomplete split of the Welcome Screen persistence feature
1722 - Welcome Screen: don't allow login until we're fully done activating the
1724 - Remove unused import
1725 - Welcome Screen: point to new issue that tracks a cleanup that's now possible
1726 - Remove unused imports
1728 - Remove unused import
1729 - Don't let tempfile try to delete file that we just renamed
1730 - Don't try (and fail) to refresh features' IsActive when unlocking
1731 - Use different variables names when we're using them to store different data
1733 - Fix comment grammar and clarify
1734 - Test suite: add temporary workaround for tps buggy user story wrt. dotfiles
1735 - Add shellcheck exception
1736 - Test suite: actually enable all persistence presets.
1737 - tps: Remove config file backup functionality
1738 - tps: Make writes to the configuration file atomic
1739 - tps: Fix "invalid boot device" message not shown
1740 - tps: Fix state handling
1741 - tps: Handle expected error that deletion fails because device is busy
1742 - tps: Don't unmount with force
1743 - Remove unused IncorrectOwnerException and IncorrectOwnerError
1744 - Rename test directory
1745 - tps: Remove the obsolete mount test
1746 - GitLab CI: Run the tps config file test
1747 - tps: Fix config file test
1748 - tps: Change owner of persistence.conf to root
1749 - tps: Deactivate features before deleting
1750 - Test suite: start porting to new implementation of Persistent Storage
1751 - Test suite: update referenced class name
1752 - tps: Don't make the tps service exit when closing the app
1753 - tps: Add button to open tails-additional-software-config
1754 - tps: Add labelled-by property to list boxes in features_view.ui
1756 - tps: Print debug log messages when running behave tests
1757 - tps: Make features view accessible to screen readers
1758 - tps: Format features_view.ui with glade
1759 - tps: Use connect-drop
1760 - connect-drop: Avoid opening an additional file descriptor
1761 - actually authenticate to dbus
1762 - Test suite: remove obsolete images
1763 - Persistent Storage frontend: add accessibility relationships
1764 - connect-drop: fix style
1765 - connect-drop: --dbus has help line
1766 - connect-drop: option groups
1767 - connect-drop --env-keep
1768 - connect-drop is now DBus-aware
1769 - WIP: Update Persistent Storage design document
1770 - Update Persistent Storage design document
1771 - tps: Add basic support for custom features
1772 - Clarify branded names
1773 - tps: Add some accessibility information
1774 - tps: Improve layout
1775 - Set executable bit on unlock-veracrypt-volumes
1776 - tps: Use tails-documentation to open doc links
1777 - tps: Add a HACKING.md
1778 - tps: Try again using get_block_for_dev
1779 - tps: Add Tor Configuration feature
1780 - tps: Remove Language and Region feature
1781 - tps: Start implementing language and region feature
1782 - Rewrite Persistent Storage settings in Python (refs: #17803)
1784 * Tor bridges QR code scanning (tails/tails!874)
1789 - match labels between code and tests
1790 - do whatever dogtail wants
1791 - fix labeling in tca
1792 - Test suite: update to new string
1793 - Apply GNOME style guide
1794 - Implement sajolida's new design for bridges input on the error screen
1795 - Polish new bridge input UI
1796 - infobar works in error page, too
1798 - MessageDialog → InfoBar
1799 - scanning QR from error page is tested, too
1800 - test suite refactoring
1801 - adapt QR code automated test to new mockup
1802 - using QR code sets state
1803 - the new mockup now seems to behave
1804 - scan qrcode: new mockup
1805 - change wording for QR code errors
1806 - Test suite: ensure we see the QR code on the screen
1807 - run_test_suite: check recently added dependencies
1808 - WIP: Test suite: add test for QR code scanning feature in Tor Connection
1809 - Reference issue that has more details instead of a commit that lacks context
1810 - Don't load library that we don't use anymore
1811 - show no dialog if the user closes zbarcam
1812 - Ignore zbarcam output if it arrives too late
1813 - Add the v4l2loopback kernel module
1814 - improve labels before UX does :)
1815 - Tor Connection: disable the "Scan a QR code" button until "Enter a bridge that
1816 you already know" is selected
1817 - gettext for dialog
1818 - implement Scan QR code from error step, too
1819 - better error handling
1820 - QR code content is parsed/validated
1821 - doctests for parse_qr_content
1822 - Convert the contents of the QR code into bridge lines
1823 - clicking on "Scan QR code" does something...
1824 - glade: clicked callback + naming convention
1825 - Tor Connection: add button to scan QR code
1826 - scanning Tor bridges QR codes: building blocks
1828 * Migrate from X.Org to Wayland (tails/tails!838)
1830 Closes: #12213, #19042, #14623, #15635, #19008, #16795, #18020, #17284, #5422, #9767, #7502, #18339
1833 - Test suite: don't expect the application title seen on the accessibility bus to
1835 - Glade: AtkObject::accessible-role properties should not be translatable
1836 - Test suite: fix clearing notifications
1837 - FIX sandbox check for some parts of the test suite
1838 - Test suite: simplify
1839 - workaround an a11y bug preventing test suite
1840 - one more test suite fix
1841 - Test suite: migrate to input techniques that work on Wayland
1842 - TPS is on Wayland, a11y, ibus...
1843 - remove unused import
1845 - more explicit block clearnet → internal services
1846 - FIX proxy test for unsafebrowser
1847 - Really disable broken Thunderbird test
1848 - no incoming connections to UnsafeBrowser
1849 - tails-add-session-firewall-rune work without --apply
1851 - Test suite: make test work in non-English locales
1852 - Test suite: rename step to match what it currently checks
1853 - Fix typos in comment
1854 - Test suite: remove workaround
1855 - Test suite: fix race condition
1856 - Test suite: add missing space between words in error message
1857 - Extract Python code to an external script
1859 - Drop unnecessary /g regexp modifiers
1860 - Use extended regexps
1861 - Don't install unneeded systemd-container
1863 - Remove obsolete comment
1864 - Fix typo in comment
1866 - Improve user-facing string
1867 - Use install(1) instead of mkdir + chown
1868 - Make variable name correctly reflect its value
1869 - Make variable name correctly reflect its value
1870 - Add missing word in error message
1871 - Test suite: drop unnecessary step
1872 - Test suite: move and warn about xdotool using code
1873 - Fix a bunch of issues identified by shellcheck
1874 - Unsafe Browser: drop workarounds.
1875 - Test suite: clarify/simplify code
1876 - Test suite: fix recovery
1877 - Test suite: fix robustness issue
1878 - Test suite: verify that browser address bar images exist
1879 - Test suite: adjust path
1880 - Test suite: fix sanity check
1881 - Test suite: drop comment
1882 - Unsafe Browser: move code
1883 - Unsafe Browser: drop unnecessary mount for container
1884 - Test suite: adapt firewall sanity check to the clearnet network namespace
1885 - Test suite: adapt test after dropping the greeter's Unsafe Browser setting
1886 - Test suite: adapt regex to new command line
1887 - Test suite: deal with Unsafe Browser permission error
1888 - Test suite: export Unsafe Browser bookmarks into an accessible directory
1889 - Unsafe Browser: allow access to /etc/hosts in AppArmor profile
1890 - Test suite: use correct step
1891 - Welcome Screen: really hide the "Add" button for obsolete settings
1892 - Welcome Screen: always enable the Unsafe Browser and make the setting obsolete
1893 - Revert "Unsafe Browser: prevent accidental/malicious operation under Xorg"
1894 - Unsafe Browser: further isolate from the root filesystem
1895 - Unsafe Browser: drop duplicated mount
1896 - Fix incorrect merge conflict resolution.
1897 - Unsafe Browser: expose the real /home
1898 - Unsafe Browser: confine with AppArmor
1899 - Unsafe Browser: prevent accidental/malicious operation under Xorg
1900 - Unsafe Browser: work around issue with ibus/a11y proxy stopping
1901 - Make necessary firewall rules in tails-create-netns persist throughout the
1903 - Unsafe Browser: migrate to tails-create-netns
1904 - Unsafe Browser: run as native Wayland application
1905 - Unsafe Browser: start with tailslib.netnsdrop.run_in_netns()
1906 - Add missing double quotes
1907 - Use $() to get a command's output, not backticks
1908 - Add missing double quotes
1909 - Drop unused argument
1910 - Disable shellcheck false positive
1911 - Test suite: work around the Screen Keyboard not appearing as it should on
1913 - Patch Thunderbird AppArmor profile so it works in Wayland.
1914 - Thunderbird: enable Wayland support
1915 - Test suite: fix a bunch of incorrect/buggy Dogtail click actions
1916 - Tor Browser: enable Wayland support
1917 - Test suite: fix a bunch of incorrect Dogtail "click" actions
1918 - Test suite: make test more robust.
1919 - Unsafe Browser: enable ibus and accessibility!
1920 - Test suite: actually disable TOR_TRANSPROXY for the Unsafe Browser
1921 - Test suite: optimization
1922 - Test suite: fix chroot vs pmap mismatch.
1923 - Test suite: fix Dogtail for non-amneisia users
1924 - Test suite vs Wayland: fix another issue when clicking crashes accessibility
1925 - Remote shell: get the GNOME environment from the python library instead
1926 - Fix environment so accessibility is working with launch_x_application()
1927 - Test suite vs Wayland: deal with several issues when installing packages in
1929 - Test suite: deal with XWayland vs Dogtail issue for synaptic run as root
1930 - Test suite: enable the accessibility toolkit for the root user
1931 - Remote shell: set XAUTHORITY, which isn't set by export_gnome_env() any more
1932 - Wayland vs export_gnome_env(): drop variables not dumped into /run/gnome-shell-
1934 - Test suite: deal with Wayland vs Dogtail issue
1935 - Test suite: deal with GNOME notification buttons being unclickable through
1937 - Test suite: work around another instance where Dogtail breaks after clicking a
1939 - Test suite: use correct activation for some particular push buttons.
1940 - Test suite: deal with Wayland vs Dogtail issue.
1941 - Test suite: some radio buttons want 'click', some want 'select'.
1942 - Test suite: work around AT-SPI action bug
1943 - Test suite: apparently some buttons want "click" while others want "press"
1944 - Test suite: fix Electrum test vs Wayland migration.
1945 - Test suite: use appropriate Dogtail actions for push/radio buttons.
1946 - Test suite: use better image when waiting for snapshots to be restored fully.
1947 - Unsafe Browser: hook zenity dialogs to at-spi bus.
1948 - stop installing xorg packages
1949 - Test suite: handle Unsafe Browser exiting with an error code after being
1951 - Test suite: adapt Unsafe Browser tests since migrating to Wayland.
1952 - Test suite: adapt to Wayland
1953 - Test suite: adapt to Wayland
1954 - Revert "Remove unused exec_unconfined_firefox()."
1955 - Update GNOME Shell user service name for Wayland
1956 - Test suite: migrate more tests to input techniques that work on Wayland
1957 - Remote shell: ensure $DISPLAY is set
1958 - Test suite: don't import dogtail.rawinput that can't work on Wayland
1959 - Test suite: generate methods with meta-programming
1960 - Test suite: migrate to input techniques that work on Wayland
1961 - Test suite: remove X.Org-specific workaround
1962 - Fix typo in comment
1963 - Test suite: click in a way that works on Wayland
1964 - Test suite: remove unused method that's broken on Wayland
1965 - Unsafe Browser: set up networking via a new namespace.
1966 - Revert "Unsafe Browser: crappy attempt to sort of get networking up."
1967 - Unsafe Browser: crappy attempt to sort of get networking up.
1968 - Unsafe Browser: bind-mount resolv.conf as read-only.
1969 - Unsafe Browser: experiment for running as the amnesia user.
1970 - Stop disabling Wayland in GDM (refs: #12213).
1971 - Revert "Use X.Org in amnesia's GNOME session (refs: #12213)."
1973 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 02 Nov 2022 09:47:35 +0000
1975 tails (5.7) unstable; urgency=medium
1977 * fix FTBFS: don't remove, just hold (tails/tails!960)
1980 - Tails FTBFS: grub-pc is not configured (tails/tails#19290)
1983 - don't remove, just hold
1985 * Resolve "Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.5.8" (tails/tails!962)
1988 - Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.5.8 (tails/tails#19295)
1991 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
1992 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.5.8-build1
1994 * Add Metadata Cleaner (#18101) (tails/tails!959)
1997 - Mention MAT and metadata on /about (tails/tails#19206)
1998 - Add Metadata Cleaner (tails/tails#18101)
2001 - Mention Metadata Cleaner from /about (#19206)
2002 - Document Metadata Cleaner (#18101)
2003 - Add Metadata Cleaner (#18101)
2005 * WhisperBack debugging info: have df ignore filesystems of type fuse.portal
2009 - Can't start WhisperBack when /root/.cache/doc is mounted (tails/tails#19282)
2012 - WhisperBack debugging info: have df ignore filesystems of type fuse.portal
2014 * Update htpdate pool: secure.flickr.com → flickr.com (tails/tails!954)
2017 - Update htpdate pool: secure.flickr.com → flickr.com
2019 * Update tor to 0.4.7.11 (tails/tails!953)
2022 - Upgrade to tor 0.4.7.11 (tails/tails#19276)
2025 - Update tor to 0.4.7.11
2027 * Remove broken pdf-redact-tools (tails/tails!950)
2030 - pdf-redact-tools broken (tails/tails#19250)
2033 - Remove broken pdf-redact-tools
2035 * Resolve "Explain better the Unsafe Browser from Tor Connection"
2039 - Test suite: update wrt. new UI strings
2040 - Insist on signing in, then closing (#19168)
2041 - Be more clear (#19168)
2043 * Remove (easier) and (safer) label from consent question (#19166)
2047 - Remove (easier) and (safer) label from consent question (tails/tails#19166)
2050 - Test suite: update wrt. new UI strings
2051 - Remove (easier) and (safer) label from consent question (#19166)
2053 * fix snakeoil certificates in Thunderbird test suite (tails/tails!943)
2056 - Fix and re-enable "I can send emails, and receive emails over IMAP" automated
2057 test: Certificate handling on Jenkins needs updating for Thunderbird 102
2061 - add snakeoil to thunderbird using certutil
2062 - reneable test by default
2063 - Revert "Really disable broken Thunderbird test"
2065 * extend validity time check for OpenPGP keys (tails/tails!939)
2068 - Extend period for "The included OpenPGP keys are up-to-date"
2072 - extend validity time check for OpenPGP keys
2074 * Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive (tails/tails!938)
2077 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
2079 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 21 Nov 2022 11:13:06 +0100
2081 tails (5.6) unstable; urgency=medium
2083 * Upgrade Linux to 5.10.149 (tails/tails!935)
2086 - Fix beacown (tails/tails#19210)
2089 - Release process: bring back test that we can run locally, but not on Jenkins
2090 - Really disable broken Thunderbird test
2091 - Upgrade Linux to 5.10.149-1
2093 * Disable broken Thunderbird test (tails/tails!934)
2096 - Disable broken Thunderbird test
2098 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.5.5 (tails/tails!936)
2101 - Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.5.5 (ESR 91.13 + ESR 102.4 backports)
2105 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.5.5
2107 * post-release misc updates (tails/tails!932)
2110 - easier transmission-remote instructions
2111 - avoid re-downloading if restarting
2112 - better instructions for automated test suite
2114 * Thunderbird: remove obsolete oauth2 pref (tails/tails!929)
2117 - Thunderbird: remove obsolete oauth2 pref
2119 * Upgrader: when a manual upgrade is needed, point to the news & manual upgrade
2120 doc without specifying a (probably incorrect) version (tails/tails!915)
2123 - Tails Upgrader recommends manual upgrades to deprecated versions
2127 - Make /latest inline the translated version of the release notes
2128 - Rewrite in Markdown
2129 - Move latest release notes out of /news
2131 - Point to release notes of latest version only
2132 - Upgrader: when a manual upgrade is needed, point to the news & manual upgrade
2133 doc without specifying a version
2135 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 24 Oct 2022 08:06:36 +0000
2137 tails (5.5) unstable; urgency=medium
2139 * Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.5.4 (ESR 91.13 + ESR 102.3 backports)
2143 - Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.5.4 (ESR 91.13 + ESR 102.3 backports)
2147 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
2148 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.5.4-build2
2150 * Upgrade to Thunderbird 102 (tails/tails!928)
2153 - Upgrade to Thunderbird 102 (tails/tails#19156)
2156 - adapt test suite to new UI
2157 - JS hardening in Thunderbird
2159 - Update Thunderbird patches from
2160 tails/thunderbird@4efe2ce285c552c1808120d54a11f4be9e57527f
2161 - Update Thunderbird patches from
2162 tails/thunderbird@4efe2ce285c552c1808120d54a11f4be9e57527f
2163 - Thunderbird patches update doc: update examples
2164 - Thunderbird patches update doc: push upstream tags too
2165 - Thunderbird patches update doc: document how to verify
2166 - Thunderbird patches update doc: add missing commit and push steps
2167 - Thunderbird patches update doc: don't suggest we're still trying to upstream
2169 - Thunderbird patches update doc: adjust to Bullseye
2172 * import-translations: use new remote (tails/tails!927)
2175 - App translations supported by Tor Project moving from Transifex to weblate
2179 - import-translations: drop support for standalone WhisperBack project
2180 - import-translations: use new remote
2182 * GitLab CI: ensure all website core pages exist (tails/tails!926)
2185 - Make code more readable
2186 - GitLab CI: ensure all website core pages exist
2188 * GitLab CI: build our website on master and branches targeting master
2192 - GitLab CI: build our website on master and branches targeting master
2193 - build-website: remove check now done in GitLab CI
2195 * Test suite: remove Cucumber test scenarios and build website checks that are
2196 now covered by GitLab CI (tails/tails!923)
2199 - Remove Cucumber test scenarios that are now covered by GitLab CI
2203 - build-website: remove check now done in GitLab CI
2204 - Test suite: remove Cucumber test scenarios that are now covered by GitLab CI
2206 * Upgrade to Bullseye 11.5 and Linux 5.10.140 (tails/tails!920)
2209 - Upgrade Linux to 5.10.140 (tails/tails#19127)
2210 - Upgrade to Bullseye 11.5 (tails/tails#19082)
2213 - Test suite: relax timeouts
2214 - Test suite: bump timeout
2216 - Upgrade to Bullseye 11.5 and Linux 5.10.140
2218 * Test suite: fix virt-viewer active?() check to work with all versions
2222 - virt-viewer 11.0 breaks our test suite (tails/tails#19064)
2225 - Test suite: fix virt-viewer active?() check to work with all versions
2227 * Fix screen lock keyboard shortcut (tails/tails!918)
2230 - Super+L sometimes starts the screensaver when it should ask for a screen lock
2231 password (tails/tails#19090)
2234 - Fix screen lock keyboard shortcut
2236 * Test suite: make localized Unsafe Browser tests faster and easier to maintain
2240 - Localized Unsafe Browser tests are slow and hard to maintain
2244 - Test suite: add comment
2245 - Make Gherkin scenario outline placeholder more descriptive
2246 - Test suite: make localized Unsafe Browser tests faster and easier to maintain
2247 - Test suite: remove dead code
2249 * Add standard fields to /etc/os-release (tails/tails!914)
2252 - Add standard fields to /etc/os-release
2254 * Build system: make our website cache volume smaller (tails/tails!913)
2257 - Build system: make our website cache volume smaller
2259 * Use "torsocks --isolate" everywhere we use torsocks (tails/tails!912)
2262 - Use "torsocks --isolate" everywhere we use torsocks
2264 * Fix devel FTBFS with uBlock 1.44.0+dfsg-1 (tails/tails!910)
2269 * Post-release doc updates (tails/tails!907)
2272 - call for testers has meaningful date
2273 - warning: tb-build-05 not serving files over HTTP
2274 - cleanup script that waits for new TBB release
2276 * GitLab CI: run the Bandit security oriented static analyzer for Python
2280 - Check re.match's return value in a way that always returns a boolean
2281 - Add typing information
2282 - GitLab CI: also check shell and Python files that have no shebang
2283 - GitLab CI: run the Bandit security oriented static analyzer for Python
2284 - Lint comments format
2285 - Ignore Bandit false positives
2286 - Remove obsolete Emacs "coding: UTF-8" configuration
2287 - WhisperBack: only load global configuration file
2288 - Add configuration for the Bandit security oriented static analyzer for Python
2290 * Make it easy to re-run failed test suite scenarios (tails/tails!901)
2293 - run_test_suite wrapper that retries failed tests (tails/tails#19072)
2296 - RM tip: run all test scenarios
2297 - RM tip: multiple test suite runs overnight
2298 - set rerun file from ruby
2300 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Thu, 13 Oct 2022 11:55:08 +0200
2302 tails (5.4) unstable; urgency=medium
2304 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.5.2 (tails/tails!908)
2307 - Upgrade to Tor Browser based on 91.13 (tails/tails#19073)
2310 - automatic redirect to HTTPS, here we meet again
2311 - Upgrade Tor Browser to UNVERIFIED 11.5.2-build1
2313 * Upgrade Linux packages to 5.10.0-17, currently at version 5.10.136
2317 - Handle CVE-2022-2585 (POSIX CPU timer UAF) (tails/tails#19081)
2320 - Upgrade Linux packages to 5.10.0-17, currnetly at version 5.10.136
2322 * Disable HTTPS-only mode in Unsafe Browser (tails/tails!906)
2325 - Disable HTTPS-only mode in Unsafe Browser (tails/tails#19095)
2328 - disable HTTPS-only mode for unsafe browser
2330 * Upgrade tor to 0.4.7.10 (tails/tails!903)
2333 - Upgrade to tor 0.4.7.10 (tails/tails#19083)
2336 - Don't mention irrelevant implementation detail
2337 - Avoid initially pushed branch failing its pipeline
2338 - Drop obsolete step
2339 - Upgrade tor to 0.4.7.10
2341 * Resolve "Some time sync related automated tests fail when run on a system whose
2342 system clock is not in UTC" (tails/tails!902)
2345 - Some time sync related automated tests fail when run on a system whose system
2346 clock is not in UTC (tails/tails#19070)
2349 - uses UTC time even on non-UTC systems
2351 * Misc kernel hardening (tails/tails!899)
2354 - Kernel hardening: restricts loading TTY line disciplines (tails/tails#18302)
2355 - Enable page allocator freelist randomization (tails/tails#18886)
2356 - Consider dropping slub_debug=P and page_poison=1 options and let init_on_free
2357 wipe slab and page allocations (tails/tails#18858)
2360 - Kernel hardening: restricts loading TTY line disciplines
2361 - Kernel: enable page allocator freelist randomization
2362 - Remove obsolete kernel command line options
2364 * Actually stop NetworkManager before applying an upgrade (tails/tails!896)
2367 - Remove obsolete comment
2368 - Use systemctl(1) instead of service(8)
2369 - Actually stop NetworkManager before applying an upgrade
2371 * Test suite: fix Unsafe Browser localization tests (tails/tails!867)
2374 - testing unsafebrowser is more deterministic
2375 - add spanish start page image for unsafe browser
2376 - add portuguese start page image for unsafe browser
2377 - debug unsafe browser errors
2379 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2022 13:18:27 +0200
2381 tails (5.3.1) unstable; urgency=medium
2383 * Upgrade Linux to 5.10.127-2 (DSA-5191)
2384 * Upgrade Thunderbird to 91.12.0 (DSA-5195)
2386 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 01 Aug 2022 23:19:49 +0000
2388 tails (5.3) unstable; urgency=medium
2390 * Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.5.1, bring back uBlock, and fix the Unsafe Browser's
2391 window title (tails/tails!894)
2394 - uBlock is not enabled in Tor Browser (tails/tails#19059)
2395 - Upgrade to Tor Browser based on ESR 91.12 (tails/tails#19058)
2396 - Window title of Unsafe Browser reads "Tor Browser" (tails/tails#18603)
2399 - Tor Browser: use the system's libstdc++.so.6 like upstream would on a Bullseye
2401 - update-acng-config: get ready for 6.x
2402 - Remove hack that's not needed on Bullseye anymore
2404 - Make cp behavior deterministic
2405 - htpdate pool 2: replace fragile thepiratebay.org with www.gnome.org
2406 - Bring back code needed to install uBlock
2407 - Create directory before copying into it
2408 - Browsers: also pass --name to Firefox
2409 - Reformat code: make room for more options and nicer Git diffs
2410 - Unsafe Browser: also set brandProductName to "Unsafe Browser", for consistency
2411 - Unsafe Browser: set the branding in the file that's actually used in current
2413 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
2414 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.5.1-build1
2416 * Test suite: misc. improvements (tails/tails!892)
2419 - Test suite sometimes fails to find a picture (e.g. TailsGreeterLoginButton.png)
2420 while it's present on screen (tails/tails#19044)
2423 - Test suite: also display stdout on vmcommand failure
2424 - Test suite: bump timeout
2425 - Test suite: fix typo in comment
2426 - Welcome Screen: remove unused import
2427 - Test suite: point to relevant issue
2428 - Test suite: wait more for some images
2429 - Test suite: have Screen#find wait longer
2430 - Test suite: add debug logging to investigate #19044
2431 - Test suite: fix variable name
2432 - Test suite: give some time to the persistence passphrase widget to get focus
2433 - Use named constants instead of magic numbers
2434 - Don't catch unrelated IndexError exceptions
2436 - Remove unused import
2437 - Test suite: fix, improve, and update comments
2438 - Test suite: set the time in the guest using timedatectl
2439 - Make host_to_guest_time_sync raise an exception on failure
2442 * Upgrade to Debian Bullseye 11.4, Linux 5.10.127, and Network Manager 1.30.6
2446 - Upgrade to Debian Bullseye 11.4 (tails/tails#19046)
2450 - Update Vagrant box to Debian Bullseye 11.4
2451 - Enable the 19046-bullseye-11.4-force-all-tests APT overlay (refs: #19046).
2452 - Upgrade to Linux 5.10.0-16 (currently at 5.10.127-1)
2453 - Upgrade to Debian Bullseye 11.4
2455 * Upgrade mat2 to 0.12.1-2+deb11u1
2457 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 25 Jul 2022 13:45:07 +0200
2459 tails (5.2) unstable; urgency=medium
2461 * Upgrade Thunderbird to 91.11.0
2463 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.5 (tails/tails!889)
2466 - Upgrade to Tor Browser based on Firefox 91.11 (tails/tails#19029)
2469 - more bumping tor browser
2470 - bump torbrowser images
2472 - manual bump TorBrowserOverviewIcon.png
2473 - some more image bumping
2474 - l10n screenshot updated
2475 - bump duckduckgo prompt image
2476 - adapt tor browser screenshot
2477 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
2478 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.5
2479 - Revert "NIGHTLY ONLY! REMOVE ME!"
2480 - clean nightly dirt
2481 - install langpacks for nightlies, too (if possible)
2482 - NIGHTLY ONLY! REMOVE ME!
2483 - Revert "disable OnionAliases for Unsafe Browser"
2484 - use new TBB setting to disable onionrewrites altogether
2485 - take tbb 11.5 from nightlies
2486 - disable OnionAliases for Unsafe Browser
2487 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.5a13-build2
2489 * Adapt release process to new Tor blog platform (tails/tails!887)
2492 - Change release process details for blog.torproject.org (tails/tails#18963)
2496 - Release process: suggest publishing a Tor blog even for bugfix releases
2497 - Release process: improve Tor blog post instructions
2498 - generate-Tor-blog-post: use actual template and also generate the Lektor header
2499 - generate-Tor-blog-post: refactor (extract code to function)
2500 - generate-Tor-blog-post: remove inline images too
2501 - Release process: adapt the Tor blog post process to Lektor
2502 - generate-Tor-blog-post: fix ikiwiki command
2504 * GitLab CI: clean up and refactor https-get-expired jobs (tails/tails!884)
2507 - GitLab CI: force running jobs when updating .gitlab-ci.yml
2508 - GitLab CI: factorize
2509 - GitLab CI: install golang in the same way we do during a Tails build
2510 - GitLab CI: remove duplicate call to "apt-get update"
2511 - GitLab CI: drop obsolete pinning to Buster
2513 * Git: ignore the early_patch= (aka. --early-patch) hook (tails/tails!882)
2516 - Git: ignore the early_patch= (aka. --early-patch) hook
2518 * Resolve "IUK test suite: features/frontend is broken (tails-transform-mirror-
2519 url fails)" (tails/tails!880)
2522 - IUK test suite: features/frontend is broken (tails-transform-mirror-url fails)
2526 - IUk test suite: Set Torsocks to allow outbound connections to the loopback
2528 - IUK test suite: Add test file
2529 - IUK test suite: disable certificate verification
2531 * Test suite: fix copying a new directory with late patch (tails/tails!877)
2534 - Test suite: fix copying a new directory with late patch
2536 * Resolve "Test "The included APT repository keys are up-to-date" does not check
2537 subkeys" (tails/tails!876)
2540 - Test "The included APT repository keys are up-to-date" does not check subkeys
2544 - check we have at least one *relevant* subkey
2545 - gpg checks deeper: both master keys and subkeys
2547 - Revert "Revert "check APT subkeys, too""
2549 * Test suite: misc bugfixes (tails/tails!872)
2552 - Test suite: also set the guest's time when connected to the LAN but not to Tor
2553 - Test suite: move sleep where it was supposed to be
2555 * workaround persistent Tor bridges bug (tails/tails!870)
2558 - Tor Bridges persistence sometimes fails to save bridges during initial setup on
2559 Bullseye, at least in our test suite (tails/tails#18926)
2562 - workaround for bug only present in test suite
2564 * check APT subkeys, too (tails/tails!869)
2567 - Test "The included APT repository keys are up-to-date" does not check subkeys
2571 - check APT subkeys, too
2573 * Set Samba workgroup used by GTK applications to "localhost" (tails/tails!865)
2576 - Several applications ask Tor to resolve the "workgroup" hostname
2580 - Set Samba workgroup used by GTK applications to "localhost"
2582 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 11 Jul 2022 08:13:08 +0000
2584 tails (5.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
2586 * Upgrade Linux to 5.10.120-1 and tor to 0.4.7.8 (tails/tails!863)
2589 - Upgrade to tor 0.4.7.8 (tails/tails#19035)
2590 - Upgrade Linux to 5.10.120-1 (tails/tails#19036)
2593 - Upgrade Linux kernel packages to 5.10.0-15 (currently at version 5.10.120-1)
2594 - Upgrade to tor 0.4.7.8
2596 * Upgrade to Thunderbird 91.10.0
2598 * Fix htpdate pool: https://www.mozilla.org returns incorrects Date header
2602 - Fix htpdate pool: https://www.mozilla.org returns incorrects Date header
2606 - Fix htpdate pool: https://www.mozilla.org returns incorrects Date header
2608 * Test suite: update the set of @fragile tags (tails/tails!862)
2611 - "Persistent browser bookmarks" is fragile (tails/tails#11585)
2612 - "The persistent Tor Browser directory is usable" test suite scenario is fragile
2614 - The "is properly stream isolated" test suite mechanism is fragile
2616 - Step "a screenshot is saved to the live user's Pictures directory" is fragile
2618 - "I can view and print a PDF file" scenarios are fragile (tails/tails#10994)
2619 - Memory erasure on boot medium removal is fragile (tails/tails#13462)
2620 - Test suite: update the set of @fragile tags (tails/tails#19007)
2623 - add @fragile tags when it's useful
2624 - Remove many @feature tags
2626 * follow up again on tca audit: clarify comments (tails/tails!860)
2629 - Audit tca-portal (tails/tails#18374)
2632 - acknowledge jvoisin's comments
2634 * Test suite: exercise the screen keyboard with a key that won't auto-complete
2638 - "the screen keyboard works in Tor Browser" fails in Arabic (tails/tails#19013)
2641 - Test suite: exercise the screen keyboard with a key that won't auto-complete
2643 * GitLab CI: improve jobs rules (tails/tails!856)
2646 - GitLab CI: don't run code tests on the master branch
2647 - GitLab CI: also run https-get-expired* jobs when we modify our htpdate
2649 - GitLab CI: only run https-get-expired when relevant
2651 * Inline strtobool function (tails/tails!855)
2654 - Inline strtobool function
2656 * Test suite: improve robustness (tails/tails!851)
2659 - Developers need to apply workaround in order to build Tails during the release
2660 process (tails/tails#18998)
2661 - Test scenario "htpdate is using the Tails-specific SocksPort" is broken
2665 - Test suite: avoid missed clicks retry when opening the calendar & notifications
2667 - Test suite: give the Upgrader time to fill the zenity dialog
2668 - Test suite: give the Greeter some time to re-enable the login button
2669 - Fix building from dev branches during the release process
2670 - Test suite: don't reset virtual X display between clients
2671 - Test suite: hopefully increase chances we catch the process we want
2673 - Test suite: ensure we write every line extracted from "ss -taupen" as soon as
2675 - Test suite: migrate from service(8) to directly using systemctl
2676 - Test suite: adapt to new HTTPS client used by htpdate
2677 - Test suite: make setting up a Pidgin account more robust
2678 - Test suite: make interaction with GNOME Disks title bar buttons more robust
2679 - Test suite: make copying'n'pasting into a Terminal more robust
2681 * Have a better footer (tails/tails!756)
2684 - Translate a couple strings to check sidebar2 vs. PO plugin
2687 - Link to accessibility from footer
2688 - Rescue translations
2691 - Use sidebar2 to replace translation hacks in templates
2692 - Integrate sidebar2 in the local build
2693 - Add missing ARIA label
2694 - Make the label bold
2695 - Improve the appeal to the newsletter (#16888)
2696 - Translate footer into Spanish
2698 - Move jobs from top navigation to footer
2699 - Use more consistent margin system
2700 - Have a better footer (#17699)
2701 - Create dedicated page for testimonials
2702 - Don't use all capitals (#16137)
2704 * early-patch: live-patch at initramfs's time (tails/tails!696)
2708 - Fix documentation wrt. the name of the option actually passed
2709 - Document --late-patch
2710 - more documentation
2711 - works even if hook fails
2712 - early_patch from test suite umounts immediately
2713 - pass 9p fs to TailsToaster: --early-patch works
2714 - live-patch → late-patch
2715 - early-live-patch → early-patch
2716 - Test suite: make EARLY_LIVE_PATCH a boolean
2717 - Disable obsolete shellcheck override
2718 - Don't enable live_patch by default
2719 - Make headings levels consistent with the rest of our website
2721 - Apply 4 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
2722 - run_test_suite --early-live-patch
2723 - developer documentation for live_patch
2724 - live_patch: early-patching system
2726 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 22 Jun 2022 11:31:52 +0000
2728 tails (5.1) unstable; urgency=medium
2730 * Upgrade to Thunderbird 91.9.0
2732 * Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.0.14 based on Firefox 91.10 (tails/tails!852)
2735 - Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.0.14 based on Firefox 91.10 (tails/tails#18979)
2738 - htpdate: replace tachanka.org with www.autistici.org
2739 - Mark security advisory against 5.0 as fixed
2740 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
2741 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0.14-build1
2743 * Resolve "displayed_time_str fails in test suite" (tails/tails!839)
2746 - displayed_time_str fails in test suite (tails/tails#18991)
2749 - Ignore advisories when looking for displayed time
2752 * FIX Clock disappearing when the user sets UTC as their local timezone
2756 - Clock disappears from the GNOME top bar after "Fix the clock" and choosing UTC
2757 timezone (tails/tails#18993)
2760 - safety net for future problems
2761 - handle UTC special-case
2763 * Test suite: workaround lost and duplicate key presses by pasting long strings
2764 instead of typing them (tails/tails!821)
2767 - Test suite: merge step used only by another step into its caller
2768 - Test suite: paste long strings instead of typing them
2769 - Test suite: drop useless step
2770 - Test suite: refactor (extract code to method)
2772 * Test suite: Make opening GNOME menus more robust (tails/tails!816)
2775 - Opening GNOME menus in the test suite on Bullseye is very fragile
2779 - Test suite: try harder to open GNOME menus
2780 - Test suite: drop unnecessary delay
2781 - Test suite: use Dogtail to check presence of GNOME bookmarks
2782 - Test suite: use Dogtail to open the GNOME menus
2783 - Test suite: wait for the desktop to be visible before we interact with it after
2784 restoring a snapshot
2787 * Upgrade to Linux 5.10.113-1 (DSA 5127-1) (tails/tails!813)
2790 - Upgrade Linux to 5.10.113-1 (DSA 5127-1) (tails/tails#18962)
2793 - Upgrade to Linux 5.10.113-1 (DSA 5127-1)
2795 * Make console-setup.service startup non-racy (tails/tails!811)
2798 - console-setup.service fails sometimes, which breaks "Tor is ready" in test
2799 suite (tails/tails#18636)
2802 - Make console-setup.service startup non-racy
2804 * Test suite: support running on Ruby 3.0 (tails/tails!810)
2807 - Test suite misbehaves on Ruby 3.0, e.g. "the Tor Connection Assistant connects
2808 to Tor" step always incorrectly fails (tails/tails#18904)
2811 - Test suite: ensure we don't try to click the "Restore Disk Image" button before
2813 - Test suite: support Bookworm host system's improved UEFI graphics
2814 - Test suite: enable Ruby deprecation warnings
2815 - Test suite: adjust to separation of positional and keyword arguments in Ruby
2817 - Test suite: update button label for Bullseye
2818 - Remove duplicate word in comment
2819 - Test suite: drop workaround for Ruby < 2.7
2820 - Test suite: migrate from deprecated luks_open and luks_close to
2821 cryptsetup_{open,close}
2823 * test https-get-expired with sid's Go (tails/tails!849)
2826 - GitLab CI: only run https-get-expired-sid job when relevant
2827 - GitLab CI: factorize
2828 - GitLab CI: test https-get-expired with sid's Go on a sid image
2829 - also test https-get-expired with sid's golang
2831 * Vagrant: install ikiwiki that fixes #18992 (tails/tails!847)
2834 - ikiwiki generates buggy PO files with po4a 0.62 (tails/tails#18992)
2837 - Vagrant: stop using the obsolete builder-jessie APT suite
2838 - Vagrant: install ikiwiki that fixes #18992
2840 * tca-portal: stricter validation (tails/tails!846)
2843 - test: right length, valid for date(1), but invalid format
2844 - drop test case for "minutes" timespec
2845 - be more explicit about the format we want
2846 - seconds always included
2847 - stricter validation for SetTimeCommand
2849 * ignore advisories + better debug (tails/tails!845)
2855 * Test suite: fix regression when testing Tor Connection in non-English locale
2859 - Test suite: fix regression when testing Tor Connection in non-English locale
2861 * FIX sharing via onionshare from nautilus (tails/tails!840)
2864 - "Share via OnionShare" does nothing (tails/tails#18990)
2867 - FIX sharing via onionshare from nautilus
2869 * lint_po: ignore unknown-message-flag errors (tails/tails!836)
2872 - lint_po: ignore unknown-message-flag errors
2874 * Don't enable "configure a bridge" just because the user looked at the hide mode
2878 - “Configure a Bridge” is enabled when rolling back from hiding Tor
2882 - regression test for #18546
2883 - enable easymode-bridges only in easy mode
2885 * Vagrant build box: upgrade to po4a 0.62-1 (tails/tails!834)
2888 - Vagrant build box: drop APT configuration for Buster
2889 - Vagrant build box: upgrade to po4a 0.62-1
2891 * Installer: create system partition 2 MiB from the beginning of the drive
2895 - Installer: create system partition 2 MiB from the beginning of the drive
2897 * Various Tor Connection UX improvements (tails/tails!831)
2900 - Tor Connection: Give the same instructions on both bridge screens
2902 - Always tell whether bridges are used in the success screen (tails/tails#18547)
2906 - Test suite: update expected images
2907 - Make phrasing consistent
2909 - refactor: properties allow our code to be clearer
2910 - bridges: same instructions on both screens
2911 - Success message conditional to bridges
2913 * Rewrite the home pages of the Unsafe Browser + Have different homes for the
2914 Unsafe Browser depending on whether we're connected to Tor already
2918 - Have different homes for the Unsafe Browser depending on whether we're
2919 connected to Tor already (tails/tails#18601)
2920 - Rewrite the home pages of the Unsafe Browser (tails/tails#18602)
2929 - Add illustration by Andrés
2930 - Test suite: remove obsolete localized images
2931 - Test suite: update expected image
2932 - Test suite: add missing @doc tag
2933 - FIX wrong path was checked
2934 - Clarify that the image is an example
2935 - Clarify use of CSS (Take 2)
2936 - Unsafe browser: home page if non connected to Tor
2937 - Clarify use of CSS
2940 - Write a dedicated page for captive portals
2941 - Improve instructions
2942 - Give examples of websites to use
2943 - Use our own image and remove the login and password
2946 * Test suite: misc. robustness improvements (tails/tails!827)
2949 - Tests for backup are fragile (tails/tails#18727)
2952 - Test suite: add localized expected image for Unsafe Browser start page in pt_BR
2953 - Test suite: enable debug logging for Screen#wait
2954 - Test suite: Fix frequent "cannot find TailsGreeterLoginButton.png" failures
2955 - Test suite: update expected image for Bullseye
2956 - Test suite: give the XMPP server some time to create the room
2957 - Test suite: update expected Pidgin images
2958 - Test suite: fix error message
2959 - Test suite: Improve error reporting
2960 - Test suite: Fix clock upper bound calculation
2961 - Test suite: refactoring (save value to variable)
2962 - Test suite: Drop most debugging info for issue that does not happen anymore
2963 - Test suite: Drop spurious verb in debug log
2964 - Revert "Mark test scenario as fragile"
2965 - Test suite (backup): Wait for Zenity to have filled its widgets with the
2968 * Upgrade apt-cacher-ng to bullseye-backports - fixes issue #18931
2972 - rake build fails - apt-get works erratically ( 502 connection closed
2973 [IP:127.0.0.1:3142] ) - No build artifacts were found! (tails/tails#18931)
2976 - Upgrade apt-cacher-ng to bullseye-backports.
2978 * Disable search providers in the Activities Overview: Calculator, Nautilus,
2979 Terminal (tails/tails!824)
2982 - Disable some GNOME Overview search providers (tails/tails#18952)
2985 - Disable search providers in the Activities Overview: Calculator, Contacts,
2986 Documents, Nautilus, Terminal
2988 * Test suite: ignore failures to destroy a stopped domain (tails/tails!822)
2991 - Scenario: "Upgrading an old Tails USB installation from another Tails USB
2992 drive" after-hook is racy (tails/tails#18972)
2995 - Test suite: ignore failures to destroy a stopped domain
2997 * Associate OpenPGP-encrypted files with Kleopatra (tails/tails!820)
3000 - Tails 5 does not decrypt .gpg files when double-clicking them
3004 - Associate OpenPGP-encrypted files with Kleopatra
3006 * safely get gnome_env_vars (tails/tails!819)
3009 - clarify about which environment is being dumped
3011 - Fix typo in comment
3012 - comments clarify why we think we are safe
3014 - gnome_env_vars look at the gnome-shell env dump
3015 - gnome-shell dumps its conf in a root-owned file
3017 * Avoid user confusion wrt. name of the default KeePassXC database
3021 - KeePassXC offers to rename the default database on non-English locales
3025 - Silence false positive
3026 - Drop obsolete reason
3027 - Don't allow translating Passwords.kdbx
3029 * Use Bullseye debootstrap configuration (tails/tails!817)
3032 - Use Bullseye debootstrap configuration
3034 * FIX IUK verification when we have 2 series at the same time (tails/tails!815)
3037 - bin/copy-iuks-to-rsync-server-and-verify failing because of old releases
3041 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
3042 - document how the RM should use this command
3043 - don't fail when 404s have been ignored
3044 - proper exit code on failure
3045 - refactor --ignore-404
3048 - 404s found -> non-zero exit code
3049 - --ignore-404 and --dry-run
3051 * Fix FTBFS with uBlock 1.42 (tails/tails!814)
3056 * Upgrade to tor 0.4.7.7 (tails/tails!812)
3059 - Upgrade to tor 0.4.7.x (tails/tails#18932)
3062 - Upgrade to tor 0.4.7.7
3064 * Add translation files for Qt5 (#18958) (tails/tails!808)
3067 - Translations of basic Qt5 strings are missing (tails/tails#18958)
3070 - Add translation files for Qt
3072 * Make news/version_3* non-translatable (#16758) (tails/tails!805)
3075 - Make news/version_3* non-translatable (#16758)
3077 * Add Kleopatra to the Favorites (tails/tails!802)
3080 - Test suite: make expected image a tiny bit smaller
3081 - Add Kleopatra to the Favorites submenu
3083 * Test suite: drop pre-Bullseye compatibility (tails/tails!789)
3086 - Test suite: drop workaround for Ruby < 2.7
3087 - Test suite: migrate from deprecated luks_open and luks_close to
3088 cryptsetup_{open,close}
3090 * Add to confirm before restarting (#18912) (tails/tails!782)
3093 - New dialog when Unsafe Browser is not enabled makes it too easy to lose work
3097 - Make code more readable
3098 - Make function's responsibility tighter to simplify its code
3099 - Handle new code branch that was forgotten
3100 - Fix local variables declaration
3101 - Use 'Cancel' as default button (#18912)
3102 - 'Cancel' is more standard
3103 - Add to confirm before restarting (#18912)
3105 * Display time in the timezone that the user has chosen in Tor Connection
3109 - Display time in the timezone that the user has chosen in Tor Connection
3113 - Design doc: Explain security trade-off
3114 - Test suite: Explain that Asia/Shanghai == +08:00
3115 - tails-get-date: use Python instead of date(1)
3116 - Fix typo in error message
3117 - Test suite: ensure the displayed clock is in the user's timezone
3118 - Test suite: remove workaround
3119 - Test suite: refactor (extract code do method)
3120 - Test suite: be more defensive to give better error output
3121 - Test suite: send debug info to the debug log
3122 - Test suite: make step name clearer
3123 - Design doc: mention timezone status and plans
3124 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
3125 - Fix typo in comment
3128 - Remove unnecessary comma
3129 - try to fix the vertical misalignment
3131 - Link back to main page
3132 - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/time%20zone
3133 - Move FAQ to a dedicated page
3135 - Don't potentially overwrite TZ key in dict with environment's value.
3136 - Cleanup dead code, fix formatting.
3137 - Consistently display GMT instead of UTC.
3138 - Use the same time format as GNOME's clock.
3139 - use date to format the date
3140 - date@ extension does The Right Thing
3141 - DRAFT: display time in local timezone
3143 * Follow-up on "Audit tca-portal" (tails/tails!723)
3146 - useless shellcheck directive
3147 - Apply 2 suggestion(s) to 2 file(s)
3148 - Fix typo in comment
3149 - clarify how we believe pgrep --ns 1 will help us
3150 - PersistenceSetupCommand: gnome_env_vars not needed
3151 - export_gnome_env hardening
3152 - some more validation when setting system time
3153 - gnome.py executes later; required for testing
3154 - add some doctests to tca-portal
3155 - more tuples, less lists
3156 - clarify: we are fine with the TOCTOU
3157 - --systemd-socket is exclusive with --listen
3158 - be more explicit about stdout/stderr handling
3159 - clarify handle_* comments
3160 - clarify what is the role of handle_line
3161 - anchor SetTimeCommand regexp
3162 - clarify comment about validate_args
3163 - use full path to commands whenever possible
3165 * Automatic time sync before connecting to Tor in automatic mode
3169 - Mitigate attack by active network adversary on automated time sync + replayed
3170 Tor consensus (tails/tails#18830)
3171 - Automatic time sync before connecting to Tor in automatic mode
3175 - Test suite: rename step to make it closer to what a user would do
3176 - use the non-deprecated version of "Tor is ready"
3178 - Add missing word in comment
3179 - Update comment: this now build reproducibly
3181 - fix undefined local variable
3182 - tails-get-network-time better syslog
3183 - tails-get-network-time has timeout
3184 - refactor old test case based on new functions
3185 - new test: time sync times out
3186 - tor connection runs even if timesync fails
3188 - some info is shown during network time sync
3190 - wait for time to be retrieved before starting Tor
3191 - use APT preferences, not --target-release
3192 - gitlab tests run with the correct Go version
3193 - public key type check
3194 - Explain why these if statements don't apply to us
3196 - Design doc: 2 out of 3 is enough since we're using the median
3198 - test all urls in htpdate.pools
3199 - https-get-expired gets more testing
3200 - https-get-expired: explain how this compares to Go implementation
3201 - Test suite: explain why scenarios pass in a somewhat surprisingly manner
3204 - Design doc: explain why we accept a risk
3205 - Design doc: improve phrasing
3206 - Design doc: drop conditional
3207 - Design doc: explain why we're protected
3208 - Design doc: clarify phrasing
3209 - Update design doc: this is not a problem anymore
3210 - reproducibility: clean cache after compiling
3212 - htpdate performs the median
3213 - design doc: explain https-get-expired
3215 - Pick Go from buster-backports
3216 - try to make go build reproducible: -trimpath
3217 - Test suite: mark fragile scenario as such
3218 - https-get-expired: CI tests now
3219 - test https-get-expired building
3220 - https-get-expired gains -proxy option
3221 - port htpdate to https-get-expired
3222 - https-get-expired: more similar to htpdate's curl
3223 - https-get-expired output headers, not body
3224 - fix go compilation
3225 - add https-get-expired: will need for time sync
3226 - "date in past" check is more robust
3227 - sanity check: the new date cannot be in the past
3228 - unsafe browser is checked for tor leaks
3229 - UnsafeBrowser correctly detects if we're online
3230 - checking DisableNetowrk is #18293-aware
3231 - Merge the new scenario with the old one
3232 - FIX restore: some snapshot has network but no Tor
3233 - UnsafeBrowser tests don't need Tor; scenarios--
3234 - FIX we don't even need to check Tor
3235 - Test suite: clarify what we're actually testing
3239 - Update doc to automatic time sync (#18717)
3240 - Improve structure of design doc
3242 - Design doc: copy more detailed explanation from the blueprint
3243 - Design doc: improve structure
3244 - Design doc: document new automatic time sync mechanism
3245 - Remove very old explanation
3246 - wording: we're looking for unneeded *exceptions*
3247 - Apply 5 suggestion(s) to 2 file(s)
3248 - FIX test case: allow it to use time sync
3249 - "flow through" supports fake connectivity check
3250 - FIX globally setting allowed DNS queries
3251 - refactor check for leaks
3252 - debugging leaks is easier
3253 - fix DNS query for easy mode
3254 - test suite self-correction warning
3255 - dns queries are allowed only when needed
3256 - +debug "traffic has only flowed through"
3257 - break the "Tor is ready" step in two
3259 - easy-mode allowed_hosts are set in tca_configure
3260 - explicitly allow connectivity check in many tests
3261 - fix time sync error simulation
3262 - fix exception wording
3263 - use DNS inspection to check for leaks
3264 - the FirewallHelper is DNS-aware
3266 - test "traffic only flows through" supports timesync
3267 - Add tests for time sync before Tor connects
3268 - Improve TCA test suite code
3269 - add vm script to upload/download files
3270 - tails-get-network-time: don't assume anything about body encoding
3271 - Raise exception instance, not class
3273 - tails-get-network-time: emulate NetworkManager's behavior more closely
3274 - Move hard-coded string to constant
3276 - tails-get-network-time: refactor
3278 - tails-get-network-time: migrate to pycurl, to make our fingerprint closer to
3280 - Store the network time server in a configuration file
3281 - Move code to main() function
3282 - Test suite: adjust to new automatic time sync feature
3283 - Test suite: drop workaround
3284 - Tor Connection: in automatic mode, set the system time from the network
3285 - tca-portal: implement a new get-network-time command
3286 - tca-portal: include stdout in responses
3288 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 04 Jun 2022 08:11:47 +0000
3290 tails (5.0) unstable; urgency=medium
3292 * Upgrade Thunderbird to 91.8
3294 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0.11 (based on esr91.9) (tails/tails!804)
3297 - Test suite: update expected image
3298 - Test suite: update expected web page title
3299 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
3300 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0.11-build1
3302 * Fix Additional Software test suite on Bullseye (tails/tails!794)
3305 - Test suite: use popularity-contest as a test package instead of sslh
3307 * Fix devel branch FTBFS (tails/tails!773)
3310 - Preserve UIDs/GIDs stability
3311 - Refresh list of standard packages
3313 * Drop obsolete patch (tails/tails!690)
3316 - Drop obsolete patch
3318 * all languages are listed (tails/tails!683)
3321 - all formats are shown
3322 - translations appear again in Greeter
3323 - when native l10n is not available, use english
3324 - all languages are listed
3326 * Fix the Tails Installer in bullseye (tails/tails!679)
3329 - retry has shorter sleep times
3330 - FIX self.sleep never existed
3331 - retry getting udisks object upon failure
3332 - don't rescan devices: we already know!
3333 - partition_device returns a UDI
3334 - refactor detect_supported_drives
3335 - retrying getting system partition helps
3336 - race conditions? let's increase sleep time!
3338 * Document Kleopatra (tails/tails!803)
3347 - Mention Kleopatra in the Persistent Storage settings
3348 - Remove not-so-useful note
3349 - Document Kleopatra (Closes: #18933)
3350 - Remove Seahorse from the doc
3351 - Remove screenshots that need updating
3352 - Remove OpenPGP Applet from the doc
3353 - Patch screenshots for the removal of the OpenPGP Applet
3355 * Fix opening links and attachments from Thunderbird, disable LibreOffice tip of
3356 the day (tails/tails!793)
3359 - AppArmor Thunderbird profile: allow executing /bin/dash with inherited policy
3360 - Disable LibreOffice's tip of the day
3362 * fix whisperback sending error (tails/tails!787)
3365 - Thread.isAlive -> is_alive
3367 * Fix Scenario: Upgrading an old Tails USB installation from another Tails USB
3368 drive (tails/tails!765)
3371 - apparently fix tails/tails#18840
3372 - send tails installer log to syslog
3374 * Additional Software: synchronize APT data when needed directly from t-p-s
3378 - Test suite: restart Tails in the same way we expect the user to
3379 - Test suite: don't exit the persistence wizard once done, make saving settings
3381 - Test suite: refactoring (convert step to method)
3382 - Additional Software: synchronize APT data when needed directly from t-p-s
3383 - Remove XXX:Bullseye: this is not going to happen
3385 * Persistence: enable Additional Software by default (tails/tails!800)
3388 - Persistence Setup: adjust test suite to Additional Software being enabled by
3390 - Persistence: enable Additional Software by default
3392 * Let the user know they should wait while we are copying Additional Software to
3393 a new Persistent Storage (tails/tails!799)
3396 - Use phrasing proposed by sajolida
3397 - t-p-s: ensure the GUI is updated while we synchronize data to the new
3399 - Persistence setup: forbid clicking "Restart Now" twice in a row
3400 - Test suite: save a file listing of /var/cache/apt when a Additional Software
3402 - Let the user know they should wait while we are copying Additional Software
3403 data to a new Persistent Storage
3405 * htpdate.service is always started (tails/tails!796)
3408 - be more explicit about what we are testing
3409 - htpdate is started every time
3410 - some tests can be excluded from feature branches
3411 - add regression test for #18868
3412 - start htpdate.service earlier
3414 * Replace Seahorse and OpenPGP Applet with Kleopatra (tails/tails!792)
3417 - Ensure Seahorse icons are present when running the persistence-setup test suite
3418 - Persistent Storage: re-add custom icons for the GnuPG and SSH Client features
3419 - FT role definition: remove seahorse-nautilus
3420 - Contributors & design doc: drop OpenPGP Applet
3421 - Remove the topIcons GNOME Shell extension
3422 - Test suite: remove OpenPGP Applet tests, and the code & images they used
3423 - Re-add and update explanation for disabling ssh-agent
3424 - Remove broken patch
3425 - Remove Gettext stuff for Seahorse
3426 - Remove hooks about Seahorse and OpenPGP Applet
3427 - Replace our PGP tools with Kleopatra
3429 * Fix Bullseye-based Tails booting 20% slower than 4.x (tails/tails!791)
3432 - Freeze the AppArmor kernel feature set too
3434 * Stop trusting our old APT signing key (tails/tails!788)
3437 - Bump APT snapshots to versions signed with our new key
3438 - Test suite: stop ignoring our old APT key
3439 - Stop trusting our old APT signing key
3441 * Update live-build to include the local packages fix. (tails/tails!776)
3444 - Update live-build to include the local packages fix.
3446 * Tails Installer: retry getting partition table (tails/tails!767)
3449 - retry getting partition table
3451 * Update gdm-tails.json for Bullseye (tails/tails!689)
3454 - Add pointer accessibility support to gdm-tails.json
3455 - gdm-tails.json: remove panelStyle
3457 * Update VeraCrypt test suite for Bullseye (tails/tails!686)
3460 - Test suite: trim expected image to account for GNOME mounted volume
3462 - Give exchange USB drive more space
3463 - Test suite: update to new GNOME Disks UI
3464 - Test suite: update Nautilus application name
3465 - Test suite: update expected picture
3467 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 02 May 2022 12:03:37 +0200
3469 tails (5.0~beta1) unstable; urgency=medium
3471 * Upgrade to Debian 11 (Bullseye).
3472 - Fixes opening a Veracrypt volume with a long passphrase (tails#17474)
3473 - NetworkManager now uses its internal DHCP client
3475 - Software upgrades:
3478 - bookletimposer 0.3
3482 - NetworkManager 1.30.0
3485 - Thunderbird 91.7.0-2~deb11u1
3488 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0.10-build1 (tails#777)
3490 * Enable driverless printing and scanning (tails#18521)
3492 * Fix locales translation in the Welcome Screen (tails#18199, tails/tails!683)
3495 - all formats are shown
3496 - translations appear again in Greeter
3497 - when native l10n is not available, use english
3498 - all languages are listed
3500 * Drop hack to kill GDM on login, not necessary anymore on Bullseye (tails#17952)
3502 * Have tor log to the Journal (tails#18842)
3504 * Have NetworkManager and MAC spoofing ignore veth* network interfaces (tails#18443)
3506 * Drop deprecated printer-driver-hpijs (tails#18225)
3508 * Fix devel branch FTBFS (tails/tails!773)
3511 - Preserve UIDs/GIDs stability
3512 - Refresh list of standard packages
3514 * Drop obsolete patch (tails/tails!690)
3517 - Drop obsolete patch
3519 * Fix the Tails Installer in bullseye (tails/tails!679)
3522 - retry has shorter sleep times
3523 - FIX self.sleep never existed
3524 - retry getting udisks object upon failure
3525 - don't rescan devices: we already know!
3526 - partition_device returns a UDI
3527 - refactor detect_supported_drives
3528 - retrying getting system partition helps
3529 - race conditions? let's increase sleep time!
3531 * Fix Scenario: Upgrading an old Tails USB installation from another Tails USB
3532 drive (tails/tails!765)
3535 - apparently fix tails/tails#18840
3536 - send tails installer log to syslog
3538 * Additional Software: synchronize APT data when needed directly from t-p-s
3542 - Test suite: restart Tails in the same way we expect the user to
3543 - Test suite: don't exit the persistence wizard once done, make saving settings
3545 - Test suite: refactoring (convert step to method)
3546 - Additional Software: synchronize APT data when needed directly from t-p-s
3547 - Remove XXX:Bullseye: this is not going to happen
3549 * Update gdm-tails.json for Bullseye (tails/tails!689)
3552 - Add pointer accessibility support to gdm-tails.json
3553 - gdm-tails.json: remove panelStyle
3555 * Update VeraCrypt test suite for Bullseye (tails/tails!686)
3558 - Test suite: trim expected image to account for GNOME mounted volume
3560 - Give exchange USB drive more space
3561 - Test suite: update to new GNOME Disks UI
3562 - Test suite: update Nautilus application name
3563 - Test suite: update expected picture
3565 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 04 Apr 2022 09:25:25 +0000
3567 tails (4.29) unstable; urgency=medium
3569 * Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.0.x based on Firefox 91.8 (tails/tails!777)
3572 - Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.0.x based on Firefox 91.8 (tails/tails#18874)
3575 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
3576 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0.10-build1
3578 * Upgrade Thunderbird to 91.7
3580 * Upgrade to obfs4proxy 0.0.12 (Elligator2 bug) (tails/tails!728)
3583 - Fix bug in obfs4proxy (Elligator2), upgrading to 0.0.12+ (tails/tails#18800)
3586 - Revert "Downgrade obfs4proxy to 0.0.12-dev from the Tor Browser 11.0.4 tarball"
3588 * htpdate: log to stdout even when a log file is specified (tails/tails!772)
3591 - htpdate: also log to the Journal (tails/tails#18895)
3594 - htpdate: log to stdout even when a log file is specified
3596 * Upgrade to Buster 10.12 and Linux 5.10.103-1 (tails/tails!771)
3599 - Upgrade to Buster 10.12 (tails/tails#18885)
3600 - Upgrade Linux to 5.10.103-1 (DSA-5095-1) (tails/tails#18877)
3603 - Drop unused KERNEL_SOURCE_VERSION variable
3604 - Upgrade to Buster 10.12 and Linux 5.10.106-1
3606 * Test suite: drop OTR tests (tails/tails!769)
3609 - "Pidgin automatically generates an OTR key" test suite step fails when host
3610 system is Bullseye (tails/tails#18866)
3613 - Test suite: rename otr-bot to xmpp-bot
3614 - Test suite: drop support for OTR
3615 - Test suite: drop OTR tests
3617 * Provide HTTPS link when JavaScript is disabled (#18559) (tails/tails!755)
3620 - Update release process
3622 - Provide HTTPS link when JavaScript is disabled (#18559)
3624 * Clarify purpose and timeline (tails/tails!744)
3627 - Add link to release notes on GitLab
3628 - Include technical writers in the procedure
3631 - Remember Technical Writers where to find the latest stable
3632 - Clarify purpose and timeline
3634 * Upgrade zlib1g to 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1+deb10u1 (DSA-5111-1)
3637 * doc updates after releasing 4.28 (tails/tails!742)
3640 - Use expected location of release notes
3641 - Easier technical-writers notification
3642 - clean RCs from rsync.lizard: command
3643 - twitter: less brain usage, more commands
3644 - clicking links is easier than thinking
3645 - RM: please communicate before clocking off
3646 - more parallelization: do tests while IUKs are building
3647 - lesson learned: read DSA mailing list
3648 - be sure you are on the right branch
3649 - importing PO often fails: let's explain why
3650 - check iuks/v2 exists: scripted
3652 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 04 Apr 2022 13:21:09 +0200
3654 tails (4.28) unstable; urgency=medium
3656 * Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.0.7-build2 based on Firefox 91.7 (tails/tails!741)
3659 - Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.0.7 based on Firefox 91.7 (tails/tails#18853)
3662 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
3663 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0.7-build2
3665 * Upgrade to Thunderbird 91.6.1
3667 * Upgrade to tor 0.4.6.10 (tails/tails!737)
3670 - Upgrade to tor 0.4.6.10 (tails/tails#18835)
3673 - Upgrade to tor 0.4.6.10 (Closes #18835)
3675 * Enable obfs4proxy logging (tails/tails!734)
3678 - save obfs4proxy logs into artifacts
3679 - enable obfs4proxy debug logging
3680 - "obfs4proxy managed" is an option from the past
3682 * minor fixes to custom-apt-cruft-check (tails/tails!733)
3685 - custom-apt-cruft-check: output nicer Markdown
3686 - Give method a name closer to what it wraps
3688 - fix wrong variable name
3692 * Test suite: collect logs of tor & friends when we timed out waiting for TCA to
3693 connect (tails/tails!732)
3696 - Test suite does not save tor log on "Timed out while waiting for TCA to connect
3697 to Tor (Timeout::Error)" (tails/tails#18850)
3700 - Apply 2 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
3701 - Test suite: collect logs of tor & friends when we timed out waiting for TCA to
3704 * Test suite: ignore old APT repository signing key (tails/tails!731)
3707 - Test suite: ignore expiration date of 221F9A3C6FA3E09E182E060BC7988EA7A358D82E
3711 - Test suite: ignore old APT repository signing key
3713 * Test suite can test on the real Tor network (tails/tails!725)
3716 - Test behavior on the real Tor network (tails/tails#18847)
3719 - move Jenkins-only code in the appropriate section
3720 - better debug message
3721 - shell oneliner converted to ruby
3722 - Configure simulated Tor network: step -> function
3723 - rubocop is happier
3724 - Test suite: don't try to save chutney data when it does not exist
3725 - add at least one relevant scenario
3726 - if +real-Tor, select relevant scenarios
3727 - test suite runs with real Tor, if +real-Tor
3728 - "default bridges" honors --disable-chutney
3729 - Check adapted to --disable-chutney
3730 - run_test_suite --disable-chutney
3731 - chutney-specific conf moved into appropriate step
3733 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 07 Mar 2022 18:16:01 +0100
3735 tails (4.27) unstable; urgency=medium
3737 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0.6-build1, based on Firefox 91.6 (tails!724)
3739 Closes issues: tails#18799
3741 This upgrades obfs4proxy to the version shipped with Tor Browser 11.0.4
3742 (0.0.11 + a few commits).
3744 * Upgrade to Linux 5.10.92 (tails/tails!721)
3747 - devel branch FTBFS with webext-ublock-origin-firefox 1.39.0+dfsg-2
3749 - Upgrade Linux to 5.10.92+ (DSA 5050-1) (tails/tails#18805)
3752 - Refresh uBlock Origin patch
3753 - Dropping VirtualBox guest support for now
3754 - Bump APT snapshot of the Debian archive to 2022012801
3755 - Upgrade to Linux 5.10.0-11 (currently at version 5.10.92-1)
3757 * Upgrade to Thunderbird 91 (tails/tails!720)
3760 - Upgrade to Thunderbird 91 (tails/tails#18069)
3763 - Test suite: update expected images for Thunderbird 91
3764 - Test suite: adjust to Thunderbird 91 UI
3765 - Test suite: drop dead code
3766 - Test suite: lint (thanks Rubocop)
3767 - Test suite: refactor (extract code to method) to solve Rubocop error
3769 - Update path mangling in Thunderbird patches for v91
3770 - Update Thunderbird patches from
3771 tails/thunderbird@bef716a60762b743dce1f48c37a64a99a0707b21
3772 - Upgrade to Thunderbird 91
3774 * Insist on Tor Browser being offline (#18584) (tails/tails!711)
3777 - Change buttons to [Start Tor Browser Offline] [Open Tor Connection] when
3778 starting Tor Browser while not connected to tor (tails/tails#18584)
3781 - Insist on Tor Browser being offline (#18584)
3783 * Install obfs4proxy from the Tor Browser tarball (tails/tails!716)
3786 - Briefly document what config/equivs is for
3787 - Install our dummy obfs4proxy package
3788 - Enable the 18800-obfs4proxy-from-tor-browser-tarball APT overlay (refs:
3790 - Add equivs configuration for our new obfs4proxy dummy package
3791 - AppArmor: allow access that obfs4proxy 0.0.11 needs
3792 - Install obfs4proxy from the Tor Browser tarball
3795 * Test suite: update expected button label (tails/tails!718)
3798 - Test suite: update expected button label
3800 * Re-generate our test IUKs using gensquashfs (tails/tails!715)
3803 - Re-generate our test IUKs using gensquashfs (tails/tails#18654)
3806 - Test suite: use test IUKs generated with gensquashfs
3807 - Release process: never delete test IUKs generated with gensquashfs
3808 - Give new, unique names to test IUKs generated with gensquashfs
3810 * Add generated tails-backup.desktop to .gitignore (tails/tails!714)
3813 - Add generated tails-backup.desktop to .gitignore
3815 * simplify workflow when adding an APT overlay (tails/tails!708)
3818 - waiting now uses a proper tool
3819 - add-APT-overlay can wait for suite creation
3821 * Resolve "Tests for backup are fragile" (tails/tails!706)
3824 - Tests for backup are fragile (tails/tails#18727)
3827 - try to make backup tool test more resilient
3829 * fix wi-fi settings from Tor Connection (tails/tails!692)
3832 - Fix Wi-Fi settings when open from Tor Connection (tails/tails#18587)
3835 - Fix Wi-Fi settings from Tor Connection
3837 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:50:41 +0000
3839 tails (4.26) unstable; urgency=medium
3841 * Resolve "All branches FTBFS since Thunderbird 91 was uploaded"
3845 - All branches FTBFS since Thunderbird 91 was uploaded (tails/tails#18789)
3848 - pin thunderbird l10n packages, too
3849 - Add freeze exceptions for 4.26
3850 - Enable the 18789-fix-ftbfs-thunderbird-91 APT overlay (refs: #18789).
3852 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0.4-build2 (tails/tails!710)
3855 - Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.0. … 4? (tails/tails#18795)
3858 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
3859 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0.4-build2
3861 * Resolve "Change buttons to [Start Tor Browser Offline] [Open Tor Connection]
3862 when starting Tor Browser while not connected to tor" (tails/tails!704)
3865 - Change buttons to [Start Tor Browser Offline] [Open Tor Connection] when
3866 starting Tor Browser while not connected to tor (tails/tails#18584)
3869 - open TorBrowser when offline →opens Tor Connection
3871 * Use DuckDuckGo for search queries on our website (tails/tails!498)
3874 - Don't search on staging.tails.boum.org
3876 - Translate searchbox placeholder
3877 - Factorize the CSS translation hack
3878 - Remove useless template
3879 - Improve search box
3880 - Align better the heart and the label
3881 - Use DuckDuckGo on news as well
3882 - Prevent Search and Donate from touching on small screen
3883 - Fix contrast to WCAG AA
3884 - Use DuckDuckGo for search queries (#17652)
3886 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2022 13:15:16 +0100
3888 tails (4.25) unstable; urgency=medium
3890 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0.2-build3 (tails/tails!684)
3893 - Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.0.2 based on Firefox 91.4esr (tails/tails#18726)
3896 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
3897 - FIX sha256sums for TorBrowser
3898 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0.2-build3
3900 * Unsafe Browser: fix buggy GUI after upgrade to Tor Browser 11.0a10
3904 - Buggy GUI in Unsafe Browser after upgrade to Tor Browser 11.0a10
3908 - Unsafe Browser: fix buggy GUI after upgrade to Tor Browser 11.0a10.
3910 * IUK generation: stop using the "extreme" extra compression option
3914 - squashfs-tools-ng is slow (tails/tails#18675)
3917 - IUK generation: stop using the "extreme" extra compression option
3919 * Fix devel FTBFS by dropping VirtualBox guest support for now (tails/tails!652)
3922 - Test suite: the live user is no longer a member of vboxsf.
3923 - Fix FTBFS by dropping VirtualBox for now (Closes #18643)
3925 * APT: trust the new signing key for our APT repositories (tails/tails!682)
3928 - APT: trust the new signing key for our APT repositories (tails/sysadmin#17810)
3930 * Resolve ""I can listen to an Ogg audio track in Tor Browser" test suite step
3931 sometimes fails" (tails/tails!680)
3934 - "I can listen to an Ogg audio track in Tor Browser" test suite step sometimes
3935 fails (tails/tails#18716)
3938 - Test suite: make audio in browser test more robust
3939 - Test suite: simplify
3941 * Refresh uBlock origin patch to fix devel FTBFS (tails/tails!678)
3944 - Refresh uBlock Origin patch
3946 * Fix shellcheck CI job (tails/tails!677)
3949 - Replace unsupported braces expansion with list
3950 - Add missing quotes
3951 - Update shellcheck exclusion for newer shellcheck
3953 * Drop feature/tor-nightly-master branch (tails/tails!676)
3956 - APT time-based snapshots fail: tor-nightly-master-buster suite does not exist
3957 anymore (tails/tails#17877)
3960 - Drop feature/tor-nightly-master branch
3962 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0.1-build1 (tails/tails!675)
3965 - Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.0.1 (based on Firefox 91.3esr) (tails/tails#18641)
3968 - Revert "Unsafe Browser: fix buggy GUI after upgrade to Tor Browser 11.0a10."
3969 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0.1-build1
3971 * run_test_suite --live-patch (and more!) (tails/tails!674)
3974 - one-line if can be made more compact
3975 - enjoy some File module goodness
3976 - avoid using shell, let's Find.find with ruby
3977 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
3978 - correctly handle invocations without --live-patch
3979 - refactoring: live_patch is a VM method
3980 - --live-patch is more powerful
3981 - --live-patch (draft)
3982 - run_test_suite --view-interact
3983 - test suite debug: easier to copy files in the VM
3985 * Test suite: remove unused step definition and the corresponding image
3989 - Test suite: remove unused step definition and the corresponding image
3991 * Test suite: fix reporting of hostname leaks via DHCP (tails/tails!671)
3994 - Test suite: fix reporting of hostname leaks via DHCP
3996 * Fix some GitLab CI tests (tails/tails!669)
3999 - Add missing dependencies
4000 - Add missing dependency
4001 - Maintain the list of Tor Connection dependencies in a single place
4003 * Resolve "Compute years range dynamically in Tor Connection's time setting
4004 dialog" (tails/tails!668)
4007 - Compute years range dynamically in Tor Connection's time setting dialog
4011 - Tor Connection year range derives from build time
4013 * add comments to connect-drop after security audit (tails/tails!666)
4016 - add comments to connect-drop after security audit
4018 * Add a "Tails (External Hard Disk)" boot menu option (tails/tails!665)
4021 - Add a "Tails (External Hard Disk)" option that removes live-media=removable
4023 * Vagrant build box: have hostname resolve to 127.0.0.1 (tails/tails!661)
4026 - Vagrant build box: have hostname resolve to 127.0.0.1
4028 * Test suite: give GNOME Overview more time to process our search
4032 - Test suite: give GNOME Overview more time to process our search
4034 * Upgrade Vagrant build box to Bullseye (tails/tails!653)
4037 - Upgrade Vagrant build box to Bullseye (tails/tails#18660)
4040 - Vagrant: add more debug output
4041 - build-tails: fix submodule initialization
4042 - Use long option name
4043 - Vagrant build box provisioning: don't assume the "debian" and "debian-security"
4044 snapshots have the same serial
4045 - Document when we can drop a workaround
4046 - Upgrade Vagrant build box to Bullseye
4047 - Vagrant build box: bump all APT snapshots
4049 * create-usb-image-from-iso: detect syslinux installation failure
4053 - Builds succeeds even if syslinux failed to install in create-usb-image-from-iso
4058 - create-usb-image-from-iso: remove obsolete comments
4059 - create-usb-image-from-iso: remove obsolete workaround
4060 - create-usb-image-from-iso: detect syslinux installation failure
4062 * Tor Connection: Add link to Troubleshooting doc (tails/tails!650)
4065 - Link to the Tor connection troubleshooting doc from the error screen
4069 - apply UX tip: move link to bottom
4070 - Tor Connection: Add link to Troubleshooting doc
4072 * Trim down SquashFS exclusions: remove obsolete ones, move as much as possible
4073 to chroot_local-hooks (tails/tails!649)
4076 - leading slashes are clearer
4077 - Trim down SquashFS exclusions: remove obsolete ones, move as much as possible
4078 to chroot_local-hooks
4080 * Upgrade to tor 0.4.6.8 (tails/tails!647)
4083 - Upgrade tor to 0.4.6 (tails/tails#18310)
4086 - Upgrade to tor 0.4.6.8, by bumping the snapshot of the torproject APT
4087 repository to 2021110301
4089 * Improve dialog when Unsafe Browser is not enabled (tails/tails!628)
4092 - Improve dialog when Unsafe Browser is not enabled (tails/tails#18598)
4097 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
4098 - Make the link for the Unsafe Browser documentation translatable
4099 - Use a named anchor (refs: #18598)
4100 - Include link for the Unsafe Browser documentation
4101 - Associate text/html with tor-browser (refs: #18598)
4102 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
4103 - Improve dialog when Unsafe Browser is not enabled
4105 * Basic GUI to backup a Persistent Storage to another one (tails/tails!596)
4108 - Retry updating the backup if only mounting the backup Tails is missing
4110 - Basic GUI to backup a Persistent Storage to another one (tails/tails#18504)
4113 - Test suite: improve readability
4114 - Test suite: test that the backup is identical to the source
4115 - Adjust to a04204cba2
4116 - Adjust to 6161e4f823
4117 - Adjust to a77c2425f3
4118 - Adjust to cb7b877fda
4119 - Test suite: use deprecated GuestFS luks_* functions
4122 - tails-backup: avoid issue in non-English locales
4123 - Shellcheck: disable excessive rule
4124 - Test suite: detect disks being plugged using udisks
4125 - Test suite: add elementary scenario for tails-backup.
4126 - tails-backup: implement pinentry retries and cancel
4127 - tails-backup: handle unlocked but unmounted TailsData
4128 - tails-backup: suppress bilibop's message
4129 - tails-backup: detect if rsync fails through pipefail
4130 - Expand rsync short options.
4131 - tails-backup-rsync: defensively check that we copy between mountpoints
4132 - tails-backup: make shellcheck happy
4133 - tails-backup: don't try to unlock and already unlocked and mounted volume
4134 - tails-backup: drop need for admin password
4135 - tails-backup: drop unused parameters
4136 - tails-backup: add back progress bar that doesn't hide rsync's output
4137 - tails-backup: fix up on "Always display the 1st screen"
4139 - Improve feedback (for now)
4141 - Always display the 1st screen if there's any error (#18720)
4142 - Use consistent quotes
4143 - Put the most meaningful word first
4144 - Move together with the other Persistent Storage utilities
4145 - tails-backup: drop unused variables
4146 - tails-backup: use consistent indentation
4147 - tails-backup: unlock and mount the drive automatically
4148 - tails-backup: show pulsating progress while copying
4149 - tails-backup: try to eject automatically
4150 - tails-backup: fix quoting.
4151 - Make tails-backup executable.
4153 - Advice to upgrade from the backup utility
4154 - Update doc to Persistent Storage Backup utility
4156 - Rework interactions and copy
4157 - fix typo in .desktop file
4158 - update to latest version of the script
4161 * Improve robustness of new TCA automated tests (tails/tails!525)
4164 - Test suite: drop unused step.
4165 - Test suite: correctly use "is None" in python script.
4166 - Remove usage of tor.sh's tor_is_working
4167 - Drop most of the tor shell library.
4168 - tor_is_working is stem-based, too
4169 - refactor bash+py stem wrapper into py script
4170 - python ♥ equality to None should use `is` keyword
4171 - python ♥ let's PEP8 everything
4172 - python ♥ remove useless imports
4173 - python ♥ proper argument parser
4174 - python ♥ main function
4176 - Drop unused variable.
4177 - Catch correct exception.
4179 - Rewrite tor_wait_until_bootstrapped() to be more robust.
4180 - Extreme Nitpicking™
4181 - Make tor_wait_until_bootstrapped() handle tor restarts.
4182 - Improve debugging.
4183 - Avoid spamming new python interpreters while waiting for Tor to bootstrap.
4184 - Allow multiline code blocks in tor_control_stem_wrapper().
4185 - Target the 4.22 code base
4186 - XXX debugging for test/18293-improve-tca-test-robustness
4187 - Test suite: adapt to removal of tor_control_send().
4188 - Test suite: test that tor's control port is open for real.
4189 - Tor shell library: improve error handling when the Tor control port is
4191 - Remove mention of unused import.
4192 - Tor shell library: re-implement control interaction with Python and stem.
4193 - Tor shell library: improve parsing and error handling of getinfo/getconf.
4194 - Add missing shell quoting.
4195 - Add forgotten local variables.
4196 - Add proper error handling to the shell library's control port interaction.
4197 - Test suite: wait for tor's ControlPort before using it (refs: #18293).
4199 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 06 Dec 2021 16:03:22 +0100
4201 tails (4.24) unstable; urgency=medium
4203 * Upgrade to Tor Browser based on Firefox 91 ESR (tails/tails!639)
4206 - Upgrade to Tor Browser based on Firefox 91 ESR (tails/tails#18261)
4209 - Unsafe Browser: disable more "phone home" features
4210 - Unsafe Browser: disable services.settings.server
4211 - Test suite: search for element more widely.
4212 - Test suite: Firefox' Print dialog is now a panel (refs #18261)
4213 - Update the Tor Browser AppArmor policy for Tor Browser 11 (Firefox 91)
4215 - Test suite: make Gherkin test description more honest
4216 - Rubocop: disable a pattern we use all over the place
4217 - Test suite: update expected images and drop obsolete special-case for Chinese
4218 - Test suite: account for different separator used in German
4220 - Test suite: update comment
4221 - Fix typo in comment
4222 - Test suite: adjust to new Firefox print dialog
4223 - Test suite: update expected windows titles
4224 - Test suite: update expected images
4225 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0a9
4227 * Test suite: make "Unsafe Browser has only Firefox's default bookmarks
4228 configured" step more robust (tails/tails!646)
4231 - Fragile test since the upgrade to Tor Browser 11: "Unsafe Browser has only
4232 Firefox's default bookmarks configured" (tails/tails#18658)
4235 - Test suite: wait for menu to really open before looking for menu entry
4236 - Test suite: update expected picture
4238 * APT sources: add Bullseye security (stable) (tails/tails!637)
4241 - APT sources: add Bullseye security (tails/tails#18492)
4244 - APT pinning: ensure we get security updates for the packages we pull from
4246 - APT sources: add Bullseye security repo
4248 * Move tca developer doc to more appropriate places (tails/tails!636)
4251 - Update "Tor network configuration" design doc (tails/tails#18360)
4254 - tips to develop Tor Connection are reachable
4255 - tca doc behavior.md moved to Gherkin
4256 - move tca/HACKING.md to website
4258 * APT sources: add Bullseye security (tails/tails!626)
4261 - APT pinning: ensure we get security updates for the packages we pull from
4263 - APT sources: add Bullseye security repo
4265 * Upgrade kernel to 5.10.46-5 in stable (tails/tails!625)
4268 - Upgrade Linux to 5.10.46-5 (DSA 4978-1) (tails/tails#18613)
4269 - Upgrade to Buster 10.11 (tails/tails#18608)
4272 - Pull libzstd1 from Bullseye: needed by updated squashfs-tools
4273 - Install squashfs-tools from bullseye.
4275 - to get a new kernel in stable, bump debian/serial
4276 - change pinning to get kernel from bullseye
4277 - bump kernel to 5.10.46-5
4279 * Upgrade kernel to 5.10.46-5 in devel (tails/tails!622)
4282 - Pull libzstd1 from Bullseye: needed by updated squashfs-tools
4283 - change pinning to get kernel from bullseye
4284 - bump kernel to 5.10.46-5
4286 * update Tor network configuration design doc (tails/tails!606)
4289 - TCA is not a Tor Launcher wrapper.
4290 - Apply intrigeri's proofreading suggestions.
4291 - explain why tca-portal runs as root
4292 - Document connect-drop security model
4293 - update Tor network configuration design doc
4295 * TCA: clean leftovers (tails/tails!604)
4298 - TCA clean leftovers (tails/tails#18273)
4301 - systemd-notify: move to better way
4302 - we considered this implementation good enough
4304 - move XXX to #18610
4305 - clarify comment after tails/tails!567
4306 - remove code that was never used and never tested
4307 - comment moved to #18609
4309 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0a10-build1 (tails/tails!655)
4312 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0a10-build1
4314 * Remove obsolete freeze exception (tails/tails!648)
4317 - Remove obsolete freeze exception
4319 * Port the iuk test suite from squashfs-tools to squashfs-tools-ng
4323 - Port the iuk test suite from squashfs-tools to squashfs-tools-ng
4327 - IUK test suite: support file names with spaces
4328 - IUK test suite: take into account gensquashfs behavior wrt. SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
4329 - IUK test suite: add missing import
4330 - IUK test suite: port from squashfs-tools to squashfs-tools-ng
4331 - IUK generation: add assertion
4332 - Upgrader: use apparent size to compute space needed to install an IUK
4334 * Switch to zstd for SquashFS compression in development ISO/USB images
4338 - Switch to zstd for SquashFS compression in development ISO/USB images
4340 * Switch to squashfs-tools-ng to build IUKs (tails/tails!640)
4343 - Switch to squashfs-tools-ng to fix IUKs build reproducibly (tails/tails#18577)
4344 - Failure reproducing IUKs for 4.22~rc1 (tails/tails#18536)
4345 - Failure reproducing IUKs for 4.23 (tails/tails#18627)
4348 - GitLab CI: avoid confusing error message
4349 - Release process: use only the isobuilders that have squashfs-tools-ng
4350 - Switch to squashfs-tools-ng to generate our IUKs
4351 - Update release process requirements for building IUKs
4353 * Resolve "Tor Connection bridge tests fail" (tails/tails!621)
4356 - Tor Connection bridge tests fail (tails/tails#18634)
4359 - FIX tests for 84e047ebd39e too
4360 - fix tests after 68b0e77119e
4362 * Upgrader: avoid high cpu usage when getting download progress info
4366 - tails-upgrade-frontend causes very high CPU load when downloading upgrade
4370 - Upgrader: avoid high cpu usage when getting download progress info
4372 * Explain better how to type a bridge (#18597) (tails/tails!617)
4375 - Explain better "type in a bridge" (tails/tails#18597)
4379 - Use singular as much as possible
4380 - Use 'bridge' in singular as much as possible
4382 - Explain better how to type a bridge (#18597)
4383 - Style guide: not everybody types
4385 * Don't mention local network in Unsafe Browser confirmation (tails/tails!615)
4388 - Don't mention local network in Unsafe Browser confirmation (tails/tails#18600)
4393 * Rephrase intro of Fix Clock dialog (tails/tails!614)
4396 - Rephrase intro of Fix Clock dialog (tails/tails#18572)
4399 - Be consistent with /doc/about/warnings/identity
4401 - Remove duplicate text
4402 - Simplify and be more correct
4404 * Improve time zone selection UX (tails/tails!595)
4407 - Improve time zone selection UX (tails/tails#18514)
4410 - the test suite correctly handles UTC/GMT
4411 - UTC can be selected, too
4412 - test suite enjoys better UX, too
4413 - pressing enter selects topmost entry
4414 - tca gtk errors are logged immediately
4415 - test suite waits for filtering to be applied
4416 - Test suite: replace usage of non-existing Screen.pressKey with Screen.press
4417 - revamp the time selection dialog
4419 - test suite updated for new timezone selection
4420 - FIX matching (lets hope so)
4421 - better UX for timezone selection
4422 - proper logging in asyncutils
4424 * Installer: make the confirmation dialog more scary (tails/tails!593)
4427 - Make the confirmation more scary when reinstalling a USB stick that has a
4428 Persistent Storage (tails/tails#18301)
4431 - Test suite: adjust confirmation label when reinstalling over a usb with a
4433 - Test suite: adjust confirmation dialog label in Installer (refs #18301)
4434 - Installer: inform when there is no target available
4435 - Installer: enforce Persistent Storage detection
4436 - Installer: display if the target device has a Persistence Storage
4437 - Make the confirmation more scary when reinstalling a USB stick that has a
4438 Persistent Storage (refs: #18301)
4440 * TCA: Fix "AttributeError: no attribute persistence_config_failed"
4445 - make the diff smaller
4446 - TCA: Fix "AttributeError: no attribute persistence_config_failed"
4448 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Thu, 04 Nov 2021 14:25:18 +0100
4450 tails (4.23) unstable; urgency=medium
4452 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.5.8-build2 (tails/tails!611)
4455 - Upgrade to Tor Browser 10.5.8 (based on Firefox 78.15.0esr) (tails/tails#18623)
4458 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
4459 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.5.8-build2
4461 * FIX #18568: wait after killing TBB (tails/tails!607)
4464 - "Tails is localized for every tier-1 language" test fails on iguana
4468 - FIX #18568: wait after killing TBB
4470 * Fix devel FTBFS (tails/tails!601)
4473 - Install squashfs-tools from bullseye.
4474 - Refresh uBlock patch vs version 1.37.0+dfsg-1 (fixes: #18537)
4476 * copy-iuks-to-rsync-server-and-verify: handle arbitrary build agents
4480 - copy-iuks-to-rsync-server-and-verify: needs adjustment for changing isobuilder
4481 names (tails/tails#18574)
4484 - copy-iuks-to-rsync-server-and-verify: handle arbitrary build agents.
4486 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 05 Oct 2021 08:20:24 +0200
4488 tails (4.22) unstable; urgency=medium
4490 * Upgrade Thunderbird to 78.13.0-1~deb10u1
4492 * Upgrade to Tor Browser 10.5.6 (78.14.0esr) (tails/tails!594)
4495 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.5.6-build2 (fixes: #18566)
4497 * Remove Prestera firmware, that's useless in the context of Tails
4501 - Stop setting up a kernel module build environment during the images build
4502 - Remove Prestera firmware, that's useless in the context of Tails
4504 * Only allow typing 1 bridge (tails/tails!587)
4507 - Only allow typing 1 bridge
4509 * Don't pretend tor has bootstrapped when tor@default.service failed to start
4513 - Don't pretend tor has bootstrapped when tor@default.service failed to start
4515 * Upgrade firmware-amd-graphics to 20210818-1 (tails/tails!582)
4518 - Install version 20210818-1 of packages built from src:firmware-nonfree
4519 - Enable the 18556-amd-gpu-firmware APT overlay (refs: #18556).
4521 * Ensure we use a working mirror to download automatic upgrades (tails/tails!581)
4524 - Update mirror-pool-dispatcher submodule
4525 - Allow the Upgrader to use tor, now needed by tails-transform-mirror-url for
4527 - many improvements to mirror-pool-dispatcher
4528 - FIX dependency for tails-transform-mirror-url
4529 - apply suggestion from mirror-pool-dispatcher!2
4530 - mirror-pool-dispatcher tests mirrors
4532 * Test suite: fix Pidgin scenarios with XMPP accounts on a server that requires
4533 going through the "Create New Room" UI (tails/tails!580)
4536 - Some Pidgin test suite scenarios fail when using XMPP accounts on a server that
4537 requires going through the "Create New Room" UI (tails/tails#18560)
4540 - Test suite: update expected Pidgin images
4542 * Test suite: fail if tor reports that DisableNetwork is an empty string
4546 - Test suite: log and fail if tor reports that DisableNetwork is an empty string
4548 * Persistent Bridges, iteration 4: integrate bridges persistence in Tor
4549 Connection (tails/tails!543)
4552 - Tor Connection: remove visible border around scrolled window
4553 - Drop unneeded grep option
4554 - Test suite: be more defensive when interacting with toggle buttons
4555 - Test suite: disable step that does not reflect the current implementation
4557 - Mention alternate implementation idea in comment
4558 - Fix typo in comment
4559 - Make checks closer to our needs
4560 - Move shell code from tca-portal to helper script
4561 - Make tca-portal helper script more generic
4562 - Tor Connection: when pre-filling bridges, adjust the verb from "Type in" to
4564 - Test suite: explain what labelee is
4565 - Test suite: adjust to current UI
4566 - TCA: fix display on low-height screen resolutions
4567 - Test suite: update expected UI text to match current implementation
4568 - TCA: correctly set the bridges persistence switch's initial state
4569 - TCA: adapt to new tca-portal API
4570 - TCA: remove unused imports
4571 - TCA: display error when enabling/disabling persistence failed
4572 - TCA: check success/failure of portal call when enabling/disabling persistence
4574 - Test suite: adjust strings to match current implementation
4575 - TCA: lock the UI and display a spinner while enabling/disabling persistence
4576 - TCA: add another keyboard accelerator
4577 - TCA: when toggling bridges persistence, wait the portal call to return a
4579 - TCA: remove unused import
4580 - Change usages of call_async to new API
4581 - TCA: remove incorrect signal handling
4582 - TCA: actually enable/disable Tor bridges persistence when the user asks us to
4583 - TCA: display vertical scrollbar when contents does not fit
4584 - TCA: hide Network Monitor launcher
4585 - Test suite: use the Tor Connection UI to enable bridges persistence
4586 - TCA: add skeleton implementation for toggling bridges persistence on/off
4587 - TCA: draft bridges Glade UI
4588 - TCA: improve keyboard navigation
4589 - TCA: add accessibility relationships between a bunch of widgets
4590 - TCA: add debug output
4591 - TCA: move persistence detection to the wrapper script
4592 - TCA: avoid throwing an (invisible) KeyError exception on first launch
4595 * Persistent Bridges, iteration 3: allow persisting bridges (tails/tails!539)
4598 - Test suite: lint, again
4599 - Test suite: adjust expected owner to actual implementation
4600 - TCA: check and save persistence status on startup
4601 - tca-portal: add commands to enable/disable persistence of Tor configuration
4602 - Test suite: mock functionality that's not implemented yet
4603 - Test suite: add step implementation
4604 - Test suite: disable incorrect step definition
4605 - Test suite: implement steps
4606 - Test suite: adjust to expected permissions of /var/lib/tca
4607 - Persistence setup: add support for disabling a preset non-interactively
4608 - Persistence setup: add a "Tor Bridges" feature
4609 - On shutdown, copy to Persistent Storage the Tor configuration that should now
4611 - Test suite: implement "I accept Tor Connection's offer to use my persistent
4613 - Test suite: implement "I choose to connect to Tor automatically" step.
4614 - Test suite: extend step to handle configuring persistent bridges.
4615 - TDD: add (unimplemented) steps for Tor bridges persistence
4616 - Test suite: simplify feature name
4618 * Persistent Bridges, iteration 2: use settings from tca.conf on first start
4622 - Revert "Test suite: cope with current actual behavior"
4623 - TCA: rename method to reflect what it now does
4624 - TCA: on first run, pre-seed bridges UI state from configuration
4625 - TCA: add debug logging to help understand what configuration we've loaded
4626 - TCA: add debug output to help figure out whether we loaded tca.conf
4627 - TCA: fix loading an empty or invalid configuration file
4628 - TCA: on first start, load Tor connection configuration from tca.conf
4630 * Persistent Bridges, iteration 1: split transient / potentially persistent state
4634 - Test suite: cope with current actual behavior
4635 - Test suite: adjust to actual implementation
4636 - TCA: don't save the default bridges to tca.conf
4637 - Test suite: fix buggy "tca.conf is empty" test
4638 - Make method name clearer and consistent with read_tca_state()
4639 - TCA: Rename method
4641 - TCA: Migrate transient state information to a dedicated file
4642 - TCA: Rename method
4643 - TCA: Refactoring (extract code to functions)
4644 - Test suite: Implement new steps
4646 - TDD: add (unimplemented) steps for the contents of tca.conf
4647 - TCA: Disable loading proxy settings from the configuration file
4648 - TCA: Set up, pass through, and inherit a new state file
4649 - TCA: Remove unused import
4650 - TCA: Drop unneeded call to expanduser()
4651 - TCA: Only save known-working Tor configuration to tca.conf
4652 - TCA: Minor refactoring (avoid having to reason about double-negations)
4653 - TCA: Make methods names more specific
4655 * Always start tor@default.service at boot, don't restart it after closing the
4656 Unsafe Browser (tails/tails!584)
4659 - Test suite: adjust to the fact tor@default.service is started during boot
4660 - Don't restart tor after exiting the Unsafe Browser
4661 - Always start tor@default.service at boot
4663 * Unsafe Browser: Only mention the Persistent Storage when there is one
4667 - Unsafe Browser: Only mention the Persistent Storage when there is one
4669 * Fix running the test suite on sid (tails/tails!579)
4672 - Drop another instance of the obsolete which(1)
4673 - Test suite: migrate away from obsolete which(1)
4674 - Test suite: switch to virtio graphics
4676 * FIX run_test_suite usage of tor --version for corner-cases (tails/tails!575)
4679 - FIX run_test_suite for corner-cases
4681 * Installer: fix combobox freezes (tails/tails!571)
4684 - Installer: fix combobox freezes (refs: #18531)
4686 * Update Tor Browser AppArmor policy (tails/tails!568)
4689 - Update Tor Browser AppArmor policy
4691 * Tor Connection: decrease "sign of life" timeout, increase bootstrap timeout
4695 - Test suite: DRY clicking "Connect to Tor"
4696 - Test suite: drop obsolete workaround
4698 - Tor Connection: allow the user to retry connecting to Tor from the error screen
4699 with the same settings
4700 - TCA hacking: use numbers that we have a chance to somewhat support
4701 - TCA hacking: drop buggy option
4702 - Add dummy entry for next release
4703 - Tor Connection: decrease "sign of life" timeout, increase bootstrap timeout
4705 * Test suite: use new XMPP chat rooms (tails/tails!566)
4708 - Deal with xmpp.riseup.net going away (tails/tails#17956)
4711 - Test suite: remove dead code
4712 - Test suite: rename argument to match its current usage
4713 - Test suite: use new XMPP chat rooms
4715 * Resolve "TCA does not connect with default bridges when it should"
4719 - Let's use user-centric (first person) phrasing whenever possible
4720 - Always set variables
4721 - better variable names
4722 - test suite: support using bridges w/o needing them
4723 - Gherkin for #18462
4724 - preserve user's choice of using default bridges
4726 * Stop trying to connect to Tor when we reach the Tor Connection error screen
4730 - TCA hacking: add missing sudo
4731 - TCA hacking: make test firewall rule not depend on already having connected to
4733 - TCA hacking: make test firewall rule more accurate
4734 - Test suite: adjust to the new, fixed situation
4735 - Revert "let's wait for the Fix Clock dialog to show up"
4736 - let's wait for the Fix Clock dialog to show up
4737 - state machine docstring
4738 - minor cleaning use of variables
4739 - FIX state machine wrt DisableNetwork
4740 - refactor _decide_right_step
4741 - remove hopefully-obsolete todo comments
4742 - stop trying to connect after timeout
4744 * Move wait_for_working_tor logic from NetworkManager to systemd
4748 - Update links in comment
4749 - Drop useless logging
4750 - Allow NM to start htpdate again if it failed last time
4751 - Clean up implementation of "Does not run htpdate again after success"
4753 - sw upgrade should only run when tor is ready
4754 - waiting for readiness sounds like a pre-command
4755 - Does not run htpdate again after success
4756 - let's use the flag file, instead of asking tor
4757 - systemd-controlled htpdate
4759 * Add Russian to the bundled offline documentation (tails/tails!552)
4762 - enable Russian on our website. will-fix:
4763 https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/18454
4765 * vagrant/lib/tails_build_settings.rb: use --no-signature with git log
4769 - vagrant/lib/tails_build_settings.rb: use --no-signature with git log
4770 - .gitignore: ignore vmdb2.log
4772 * GJsonRpcClient.call_async can set a callback (tails/tails!544)
4775 - tca-portal: add missing sentence bits
4776 - Apply 3 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
4777 - GJsonRpcClient response handler fix
4778 - tca-portal is now fully asynchronous
4779 - change previous usages of call_async to new API
4780 - call_async can set callbacks
4782 * drop tordate (tails/tails!542)
4785 - ooops, that wasn't useless!
4786 - Tor Connection: make GtkSpinButton's UI consistent
4787 - Tor Connection: add keyboard accelerators
4788 - Tor Connection: use "Wrong clock" instead of "Wrong time" terminology
4789 - Tor Connection: use "Fix Clock" instead of "Set Time" terminology
4791 - Test suite: simplify
4792 - Test suite: use higher-level predicate
4793 - Test suite: remove obsolete exception
4794 - htpdate: increase timeout for working tor
4795 - drop useless stuff from 10-time.sh
4796 - 20-time imports: update comments, fix shellcheck
4797 - remove confusing log line
4798 - htpdate works successfully after manual time set
4799 - tca sends stderr to journal
4800 - no reason to delete the tor log anymore
4801 - testing for tordate in test suite is now useless
4802 - stop mentioning tordate in website
4803 - update time syncing design doc
4804 - remove unused code from 20-time.sh
4805 - be bold: let's drop @fragile from tor bridges!
4808 * Re-enable the tor sandbox when no PTs are used (tails/tails!535)
4811 - Use variable name more readable than $1
4812 - Add missing "set -eu"
4813 - Test suite: fix typo in not-enabled-yet code
4814 - Test suite: prepare sandbox test for when #18470 is fixed
4815 - Test suite: adjust to tor sandbox being disabled when falling back to default
4817 - Remove unused attribute
4818 - Revamp management of the Tor Sandbox configuration option
4820 - Use consistent and less confusing names for attribute and method
4821 - Adjust to new call_async API
4822 - Tor Connection: disable caching of information retrieved from tor by Stem
4823 - Wait for side-effects of async call to complete.
4824 - Improve encapsulation.
4825 - Rename tor-sandbox-helper → tor-pt-configuration-helper.
4826 - Be defensive about arguments.
4827 - Give base-class a better name.
4828 - Drop useless re-definition of method in subclass.
4830 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
4831 - Test suite: re-enable tor sandbox sanity check (refs: #18237).
4832 - Drop unused, out-of-date main() used for testing a library.
4833 - Re-enable the tor sandbox when no PTs are used (refs: #18237)
4835 * TCA: Allow the user to manually set time (tails/tails!531)
4838 - time dialog: spacing + follow mockups better
4839 - reference to how a problem might be solved
4840 - Set time test scenario uses snapshots
4841 - stricter date validation
4843 - Test suite re-introduce linting lost by merge conflict resolution
4845 - more bringing back from devel
4846 - Tor Connection: translate 1 string to test l10n
4847 - Update POT and PO files
4848 - bring back lost changes to tor.rb
4849 - fix datestring validation
4850 - Test suite: revert indentation regression
4851 - Test suite: use user-facing terminology in Gherkin
4852 - fix test suite about time dialog
4853 - loggers are better than prints
4854 - tca remembers user timezone
4855 - bring back "unsuccessfully configure" step
4856 - reorder fixes in the error screen
4857 - set-system-time has early input validation
4858 - tca-portal can validate arguments
4859 - set-system-time errors are handled
4860 - less noisy logging
4861 - tails-set-date cleaned a bit
4862 - tails-set-date checks if the date is valid early
4863 - wait for set time window to be closed
4864 - rewrite Gherkin using more user-centric language
4865 - fix "Apply suggestion"
4866 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
4867 - tca test: combo box faster and cleaner
4868 - Tooltip for combo box
4869 - tca-portal is a bit more verbose
4870 - when changing the time, tor must be restarted
4871 - Test "set the time in tca" does what it says
4873 - FIX: missing .ui file translation support
4874 - Connect to Tor can be clicked
4875 - TCA: adds a dialog to Set Time
4876 - tca-portal allows setting time
4877 - Separate the anti-test from the fix
4878 - reword: "I try to" actually check failure
4879 - 15548 implementation is "simulated"
4880 - test suite: hw clock can be set to relative time
4881 - test: cmd_helper modernized
4882 - DRAFT: Add a Scenario for #15548
4884 * Allow running our test suite on modern AMD CPUs (tails/tails!406)
4887 - document LIBVIRT_CPUMODEL
4888 - amd hack: convert to config file
4889 - modern AMD CPUs apparently benefit from this fix
4891 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 06 Sep 2021 15:14:57 +0200
4893 tails (4.21) unstable; urgency=medium
4895 * Upgrade to Linux 5.10.46-3 (tails/tails!549)
4898 - Upgrade to Linux 5.10.46-2+ (CVE-2021-33909) (tails/tails#18489)
4901 - Update /etc/group's expected lines ordering
4902 - Ensure UIDs/GIDs don't change
4903 - Remove obsolete dkms logs cleanup
4904 - Don't (attempt to) build VirtualBox guest modules anymore
4905 - Upgrade snapshot of the Debian archive to 2021080201
4907 * Upgrade Thunderbird to 78.12.0-1~deb10u1
4909 * Don't (attempt to) build VirtualBox guest modules anymore (tails/tails!537)
4912 - Update /etc/group's expected lines ordering
4913 - Ensure UIDs/GIDs don't change
4914 - Remove obsolete dkms logs cleanup
4915 - Don't (attempt to) build VirtualBox guest modules anymore
4917 * Installer: allow choose Upgrade option when reinstall is cancelled
4921 - Choosing "Upgrade" option in Tails Installer can delete persistent volume
4925 - Installer: allow choose Upgrade option when reinstall is cancelled
4927 * Upgrade to Tor Browser 10.5.4 (based on Firefox 78.13esr) (tails/tails!555)
4930 - Upgrade to Tor Browser 10.5.4 (based on Firefox 78.13esr) (tails/tails#18479)
4933 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
4934 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.5.4-build1
4936 * Clean up code and pre-TCA leftovers (tails/tails!541)
4939 - Clean up pre-TCA leftovers (tails/tails#18365)
4940 - Rename a11y-proxy-netns: it's now used for ibus as well (tails/tails#18366)
4943 - Give function the name we use
4944 - Rename a11y-proxy-netns → netns-bus-proxy.
4945 - Rename TCA's torlaunch network namespace from torlaunch to tca.
4947 - Test suite: drop obsolete workaround.
4948 - Drop already done TODO comment.
4949 - Fix outdated references to Tor Launcher.
4950 - Drop unneeded workaround.
4951 - Test suite: drop code used to support --old-iso for 4.20 release.
4952 - Remove unused exec_unconfined_firefox().
4954 * Refactor and consolidate how we explicitly check for Tor leaks in the automated
4955 test suite (tails/tails!540)
4958 - "all Internet traffic has only flowed through Tor" sometimes fails: does not
4959 allow for varying behavior (fallback to default bridges, or not)
4963 - Test suite: refactor and consolidate how we explicitly check for Tor leaks.
4964 - Revert "Test suite: temporarily disable failing step in scenario."
4966 * Post-RM: doc improvements (tails/tails!528)
4969 - clarify release types
4970 - after releasing: give more guidance
4972 - rm doc: give manual testers the signatures
4973 - some parts are not related to freeze
4974 - refresh-translations explains that it failed
4975 - rm doc: clarify what to do with the package diff
4976 - rm doc: clarify freezing
4978 * Fix usage of mutable default arguments in Python (tails/tails!527)
4981 - Fix usage of mutable default arguments in Python
4983 * More automated testing of TCA for Sponsor08/10 (tails/tails!435)
4989 - Test suite: wait longer for the TCA to report errors.
4990 - Test suite: test that TCA reports an error when reconnecting to a network where
4992 - Test suite: drop unnecessary step.
4993 - Test suite: make blocking Tor survive reconnections.
4994 - Test suite: monitor Tor leaks.
4995 - Fix erroneous camel casing in translation.
4996 - Test suite: test explicitly selecting default bridges in TCA.
4997 - Test suite: test that the same Tor config is applied if TCA reconnects.
4998 - Test suite: test that TCA disallows normal bridges in hide mode.
5000 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 09 Aug 2021 07:55:57 +0000
5002 tails (4.20) unstable; urgency=medium
5004 * Upgrade Thunderbird to 78.11.0-1~deb10u1
5006 * Upgrade KeePassXC to 2.6.2+dfsg.1-1~bpo10+1
5008 * 20-time.sh: actually abort if Tor has failed to bootstrap (tails/tails!514)
5011 - 20-time.sh: temporarily workaround buggy check
5012 - 20-time.sh: fix success and error handling
5013 - 20-time.sh: simplify control flow
5015 - 20-time.sh: actually abort if Tor has failed to bootstrap
5017 * Resolve "TCA sometimes fails to start: "bwrap: Can't find source path
5018 /tmp/netns-specific/torlaunch: No such file or directory"" (tails/tails!489)
5021 - tails-ibus-proxy-netns@.service: remove now unneeded NotifyAccess=all
5022 - a11y: systemd-notify -> import systemd.daemon
5023 - silence useless information to syslog
5024 - avoid errors when started directly
5025 - clean systemd unit
5026 - more timeout on a11y-proxy-netns
5027 - FIX gnome.sh search for exact name gnome-shell
5030 - wait for user systemd session to be ready
5031 - FIX systemctl path
5032 - remove testing leftover
5033 - a11y/ibus proxy wait socket to signal readiness
5034 - tca-related proxies only active when unneeded
5035 - tails-tor-launcher not needed anymore
5036 - a11y/ibus proxies for TCA only started with TCA
5037 - FIX: call systemctl --user
5038 - tentatively setting TCA as a systemd service
5040 * Resolve "TCA asks consent question when changing network" (tails/tails!460)
5043 - FIX: switching to progress, not success, on connection
5044 - small code cleaning
5046 - tca: FIX success-error-retry
5047 - tca reacts to DisableNetwork changes
5048 - reduce stem logging noise
5049 - tca application monitors DisableNetwork
5051 * tca-portal service (tails/tails!422)
5054 - start tca-portal at boot
5055 - restrict access to tca-portal.socket!
5056 - tca-portal: add open-documentation + refactoring
5057 - FIX FTBFS on tca-portal.service
5058 - gnome-system-monitor opens at network tab
5059 - ooops: enable tca-portal unit
5060 - tca-portal opens onioncircuits
5061 - tca-portal (sic!) has systemd socket-activation
5062 - tca can talk to its portal
5063 - tca-connection-helper based on tinyrpc
5064 - draft of a tor-connection-helper service
5066 * Resolve "TCA: buggy window detection logic on app startup" (tails/tails!457)
5069 - TCA sends startup notification to DE
5071 * Resolve "The amnesia user might have too much power over TCA's configuration
5072 directory" (tails/tails!442)
5075 - change documentation wrt to tca.conf
5076 - tca.conf path changed to /var/lib/tca/
5078 * Install Linux 5.10.46 and upgrade shim (tails/tails!521)
5081 - Update shim* to the version from sid
5082 - Update Linux to 5.10.46
5084 * Don't run a useless IBus proxy for OnionCircuits (tails/tails!510)
5087 - Don't run a useless IBus proxy for OnionCircuits
5089 * Rakefile: actually build with the base branch merged (tails/tails!504)
5092 - Merging the base branch is not effective ⇒ different Git state between
5093 isobuilders and isotesters (tails/tails#18441)
5096 - Rakefile: actually build with the base branch merged
5098 * Rewrite notification when closing TCA on progress bar (tails/tails!496)
5101 - Rewrite notification when closing TCA on progress bar (#18362)
5103 * Implement "Connect to Tor" button in error screen (tails/tails!494)
5106 - Revert "avoid errors when started directly"
5107 - step error correctly indicates that bridges are on
5108 - better textarea alignment
5109 - put the current bridges in the textarea
5110 - keeps more state about bridge configuration
5111 - avoid errors when started directly
5112 - error: step proxy now goes back to error screen
5113 - connect to tor actually does something
5114 - bridges + "connect to tor" on error
5115 - DRAFT of better error screen
5117 * Tor Connection Assistant (tails/tails!375)
5120 - open unsafe-browser (if configured)
5121 - Test suite: properly tear down after cloding TCA.
5122 - Test suite: add some extra error handling.
5123 - Test suite: pass showingOnly even though it should not be needed.
5124 - Test suite: add error message.
5125 - Test suite: fix bad syntax.
5126 - Test suite: add delay between tries in override_child().
5127 - Test suite: add optional delay between retry_action() tries.
5128 - Make is_tor_working() more accurate.
5129 - Test suite: only set default bridges when relevant.
5130 - design change: Tor Launcher is just removed.
5131 - document tca behaviour
5132 - bootstrap/phase may include WARN, too
5133 - Test suite: work around closing TCA too fast.
5134 - more logging to debug test suite
5135 - remove leftover commit
5136 - proper place for hacking tips
5137 - Add icon for the Tor Connection assistant
5138 - Generate the list of default bridges at build time.
5139 - Test suite: drop workaround.
5140 - success indication and fallback to default bridges
5141 - more hacking tips to test tca
5142 - cover corner cases better
5143 - NetworkManager state: signal instead of polling
5144 - tca calls NM immediately
5145 - tca reacts to nm state changes
5146 - Test suite: save Tor journal if TCA fails to start.
5147 - Test suite: bump image.
5148 - Test suite: TCA has a new internal name.
5149 - Test suite: attempt to make try_for() more robust.
5150 - Test suite: adapt to TCA UI change.
5151 - Test suite: fix retring for child() with regexp matching.
5152 - TCA: move to Gtk.Application style
5153 - progress bar get data from bootstrap-phase
5154 - TCA: drop debugging.
5155 - Test suite: convert potentially endless loop to try_for() with timeout.
5156 - Persistent Welcome Screen settings: migrate obsolete network setting to new
5157 offline mode setting.
5158 - Test suite: optimize upgrade check.
5159 - smoother progress bar
5160 - connect-drop: clean unnecessary hacks
5161 - s/amnesia/LIVE_USERNAME/
5162 - drop tor-sandbox-helper: not used right now
5163 - FIX proxy not working
5164 - document tca wrappers
5165 - some css rule to style TCA a bit
5166 - refactoring: utils -> torutils
5167 - more user freedom: consent question can be changed
5168 - current Tor state is observed when filling bridges
5170 - resize window on every change_box
5171 - FIX GAsyncSpawn 100% CPU
5172 - no internet probe anymore: also fix 100% CPU bug
5173 - Welcome Screen: use "airplane mode" icon for Offline mode.
5174 - Test suite: add scenario testing that TCA can connect after an initial
5176 - Test suite: make function usable in more contexts.
5177 - Test suite: also make it possible to block default bridges.
5178 - Test suite: detect TCA errors and fail early.
5179 - Test suite: add scenario testing that TCA falls back to default bridges if Tor
5181 - Test suite: run a dedicated default bridge.
5182 - Test suite: refactor.
5183 - Test suite: adapt to another changed label.
5184 - FIX doc about how to check for non-working Tor
5185 - improve display size detection
5187 - Test suite: refer to the correct variable.
5188 - Test suite: adapt to changed label.
5189 - Test suite: fix syntax error.
5191 - Improve user-visible strings
5192 - Test suite: improve names.
5193 - Test suite: use TCA's "hide Tor usage" path when testing PTs.
5194 - Disable launcher buttons: broken because of netns
5195 - use the 3 images + better layout
5196 - normal bridges are not accepted in Hide Mode
5197 - Bridge validation + better handle IPv6
5198 - Always obfs4 + bridge documentation link
5199 - GitLab CI: tails-documentation
5200 - tails-documentation gains --force-local
5201 - document tips&tricks for tca
5202 - don't kill TCA on network reconnection
5203 - syslog logging really has identity set
5204 - lots of logging to understand bridge bug
5205 - put doctests in gitlab in shape again
5206 - FIX IBus connection for onion-circuits
5207 - more debug about bridge-connection part
5208 - Port TCA to onion-grater-over-netns magic
5209 - TCA will honor debug flag
5211 - a bit less noise for translatable mixin
5212 - TCA logs to syslog/stderr automagically
5213 - gitlab-ci: TCA doctest dependency
5214 - FIX .gitlab-ci.yml (syntax error)
5215 - normal bridges were to be stripped, not expanded
5216 - default bridges imported
5217 - FIX: bridges have ip-port, not only IP!
5218 - put TCA testing in gitlab-ci
5221 - Revert "Test suite: add workaround for TCA not sanitizing bridge input
5223 - Decent validation for bridge lines
5224 - rewrite tca wrapper in python
5225 - Test suite: reorder steps to avoid TCA blocking the desktop.
5226 - Revert "Test suite: wait for TCA's GUI to be available before using it."
5227 - Test suite: work around lost click around TCA start.
5228 - Test suite: refactor.
5229 - Test suite: add workaround for TCA not sanitizing bridge input properly.
5230 - Test suite: wait for TCA's GUI to be available before using it.
5231 - Test suite: add timeout.
5232 - Test suite: work around Ruby <2.7 args vs keywords handling.
5233 - Test suite: fix exception message.
5234 - Test suite: adapt scenario for new "Offline Mode" Greeter setting.
5235 - Welcome Screen: obsolete "Network Connection" and add new "Offline Mode"
5237 - Test suite: rewrite Tor Launcher tests for Tor Connection Assistant.
5238 - Test suite: allow regexp matching in Dogtail's child() method.
5239 - Test suite: drop unnecessary methods from subclass.
5241 - tca: state saved, still to little use
5242 - tca: don't run two times
5244 - tca: side icon will be added from Python
5245 - Temporarily add pluggable transport config to torrc.
5246 - Convert Tor Launcher .desktop file to one for TCA.
5247 - Remove Tor Launcher, for real!
5248 - tca: small text improvement
5249 - connect-drop works fine without environment
5250 - Revert "Remove Tor Launcher"
5251 - tails-tor-launcher actually runs tca
5252 - Remove Tor Launcher
5253 - another workaround for #18123
5254 - onion-grater: quoting matters
5255 - Move very context-specific script out of root's PATH.
5256 - onion-grater: options are case insensitive
5257 - adapt profile to onion-grater's case-sensitiveness
5258 - Temporarily workaround tor bug by always disabling the seccomp sandbox.
5259 - FIX onion-grater tca profile
5260 - run `tca` and it will auto-sudo
5261 - tca can connect to onion-grater
5262 - translations refreshed for TCA
5264 - add tca .ui file to POTFILES.in for l10n
5265 - Test suite: delete obsolete scenario.
5267 - Test suite: use correct bridge/PT terminology.
5268 - Test suite: fix tor seccomp check in the normal bridge case.
5270 - Fix assertion failure message.
5271 - Let's settle for 'normal' bridge when no PT is used.
5272 - Add Tor Launcher to GNOME favorite applications.
5273 - Tor Launcher: allow amnesia to start and add suitable .desktop file.
5274 - Tor Launcher: kill old instances when starting.
5275 - Remove the "Tor is ready" notification.
5277 - small TorConnectionProxy fixes
5279 - tca: --debug-statefile for better simulation
5280 - error page + early proxy config
5282 - main workflows work!
5283 - Step forwards for bridge configuration
5284 - bridge selection: beginning
5285 - easy Tor configuration works!
5286 - sudo tca will do; start Tor integration
5287 - more steps in Tor launcher UI
5288 - GUI: first step implemented (more or less)
5289 - a first attempt at a GUI
5290 - Test suite: always verify that Tor's Sandbox setting.
5291 - Handle multiline GETCONF responses.
5292 - Welcome Screen: add note about the missing bridge mode option.
5293 - Test suite: fix tor Seccomp verification.
5294 - Tor Launcher: enable tor's Seccomp sandbox when not using pluggable transports.
5295 - tor-launcher: repair the --force-net-config feature.
5296 - Drop now unused restart-tor script.
5297 - Unsafe Browser: don't restart tor with restart-tor.
5298 - Drop ugly hook killing Tor Launcher.
5299 - onion-grater: transparently recover lost tor controller connections.
5300 - Work around event handling bug in stem?
5301 - Make dynamic configuration we always do static.
5302 - Test suite: another attempt to deal with lost key press.
5303 - Test suite: deal with lost key press.
5304 - Test suite: adapt to Tor Launcher always starting (refs: #17330)
5306 - tor launcher: set *every* option
5307 - tor-launcher supports proxy authentication
5308 - detect Tor bootstrapping status
5309 - Tor Launcher some more implementation
5310 - WIP: a first attempt at rewriting Tor Launcher
5311 - onion-grater: fix error handling.
5312 - onion-grater: workaround tor bug by switch from control socket to control port.
5313 - Always start Tor Launcher (refs: #17330).
5314 - onion-grater: connect to control socket without control port fallback.
5315 - Improve check by verifying at least one "nameserver" line.
5316 - Drop unused imports.
5318 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.5.2 (tails/tails!524)
5321 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
5322 - Tor Browser upgrade process: adjust branch name
5323 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.5.2-build1
5324 - Tor Browser upgrade process: adjust instructions to new file names
5325 - Factorize export of TOR_USE_LEGACY_LAUNCHER (fixes: #18459)
5327 * Fix feature branch commit encoded into the artifacts' names (fixes: #18468)
5331 - Built images encode incorrect topic branch commit (tails/tails#18468)
5334 - Fix feature branch commit encoded into the artifacts' names (fixes: #18468)
5336 * Update the jenkins-tools submodule, to fix po.feature (tails/tails!520)
5339 - Update the jenkins-tools submodule, to fix po.feature
5341 * Upgrader: more robust upgrade download and verification failure detection
5345 - Upgrader: confusing download failure but upgrade still applied
5349 - tails-iuk-cancel-download: return exit code as-is if it's neither 0 nor 1
5350 - tails-iuk-cancel-download: fix shell syntax errors
5351 - Avoid that the Upgrader breaks if pgrep won't match any process
5352 - Upgrader: cancell the IUK download if an error appears
5353 - Upgrader: more defensive programming
5354 - Upgrader: ensure we fail closed on download and verification errors
5356 * Test suite: consistently save artifacts for various Tor connection failures
5360 - Test suite: handle case where the htpdate logs do not exist.
5361 - Test suite: add headings to output in Tor failure artifacts.
5362 - Test suite: make save_tor_journal() possible to run without Tor logs.
5363 - Revert "Revert "Test suite: consistently save artifacts for various Tor
5364 connection failures.""
5366 * Upgrade to OnionShare 2.2 (tails/tails!515)
5369 - OnionShare: use ~/Downloads/ as the upload directory in "Receive Files" mode
5370 - AppArmor: allow a few more things that OnionShare v2 needs
5371 - OnionShare config: use the same indentation as what the app saves
5372 - OnionShare config: import new settings
5373 - onion-grater: update rules for OnionShare v2
5374 - OnionShare: hide Tor settings
5375 - Install OnionShare from Bullseye
5377 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.5a17 (tails/tails!513)
5380 - Test suite: update expected image
5381 - Unsafe Browser: Disable Tor Browser's tor bootstrapping mechanism
5382 - Test suite: add support for testing Tor Browser alpha versions
5383 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive.
5384 - Disable Tor Browser's tor bootstrapping UI
5385 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.5a17.
5387 * WhisperBack: set lower expectations for handling of error reports
5391 - Temporarily set low expectations for handling of error reports, via our website
5392 and/or in WhisperBack (tails/tails#18427)
5395 - WhisperBack: set lower expectations
5397 * Fix issues in testing's test suite (tails/tails!509)
5400 - Revert "Test suite: consistently save artifacts for various Tor connection
5402 - Test suite: consistently save artifacts for various Tor connection failures.
5403 - Test suite: work around the desktop icons being obscured by TCA.
5405 - Test suite: correctly identify supported Tor Browser locales (fixes #18319)
5406 - Test suite: drop unknown keyword parameters from translate().
5407 - Test suite: rework translate() to not always use the tails domain (fixes:
5410 * onion-grater: fix support for restrict-stream-events for namespace matched
5411 profiles (tails/tails!508)
5415 - Move hard-coded network address to constant
5416 - onion-grater: fix remote connection check.
5417 - Untangle if-statements a bit.
5418 - onion-grater: fix support for restrict-stream-events for namespace matched
5419 profiles (closes: #18417).
5421 * Upgrade Linux to 5.10.40 (tails/tails!507)
5424 - Upgrade Linux to 5.10.40 (5.10.0-0.bpo.7)
5426 * Upgrade to Debian Buster 10.10 (tails/tails!506)
5429 - Upgrade to Debian Buster 10.10 by bumping APT snapshot of the Debian archive to
5431 - Test suite: don't break if there are multiple Firefox processes
5432 - lint_po: ignore torbrowser-launcher's PO files
5433 - generate-build-manifest: support builds that used no source package
5434 - Switch to a simpler way to maintain our Tor Browser AppArmor profile delta
5435 - Rebase AppArmor profile for Tor Browser on top of torbrowser-launcher 0.3.3-5
5437 * Upgrade Tor to 0.4.5.9 (tails/tails!505)
5440 - Upgrade tor to 0.4.5.9 (tails/tails#18309)
5443 - Upgrade Tor to 0.4.5.9
5445 * build-tails: fix bugs that prevent local submodules from being used
5449 - build-tails: fix resetting the submodules' origin
5450 - build-tails: fix syntax error
5452 * Installer: Make "Reinstall" option not disappear when coming back from
5453 confirmation dialog (tails/tails!502)
5456 - "Reinstall" option disappears when coming back from Upgrade confirmation
5458 - Disable Tails Installer options when there is no target USB stick available
5462 - Installer: disable widgets when there is no target available
5463 - Make "Reinstall" option not disappear when coming back from confirmation dialog
5465 * always start tor (except offline mode) (tails/tails!497)
5468 - FIX comment explaining how we user tor@ units
5469 - always start tor (except offline mode)
5471 * Fix build vmdb2 without http proxy (tails/tails!490)
5474 - variables are better than hardcoded names!
5475 - logs are preserved in case of error
5476 - cleaner temporary files handling
5477 - FIX building without a http_proxy
5479 * Resolve "Run tails-*-proxy-netns@.service only for the amnesia user"
5483 - a11y/ibus: description includes netns name
5484 - a11y/ibus proxy are only enabled for amnesia user
5486 * Jenkins lib: support extracting issue number at the beginning of the branch
5487 name (tails/tails!482)
5490 - adds doctests to ActiveBranches
5491 - Jenkins lib: support extracting issue number at the beginning of the branch
5494 * Resolve "TCA: Implement screen when not connected to a local network"
5498 - open the _real_ wifi settings page
5499 - wording follows wireframe design
5500 - gnome env: add XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
5501 - tca can open wi-fi config window
5503 * Test suite: drop low-value tests, add Cucumber tags, improve wording a little
5507 - Test suite: try harder not to click a button before it's active
5508 - Test suite: remove a few low-value USB installation, upgrade, and boot tests
5509 - Test suite: remove wget plaintext http:// test
5510 - fixup! Test suite: remove whois(1) tests
5511 - Test suite: give generic method a more generic name
5512 - Test suite: remove whois(1) tests
5513 - Test suite: merge closely related scenarios to improve performance
5514 - Test suite: use an existing snapshot instead of booting a fresh Tails
5515 - Test suite: improve wording of scenarios and steps
5516 - Test suite: remove Pidgin custom certificates tests
5517 - Test suite: remove basic AppArmor test
5518 - Test suite: remove GnuPG keyserver test
5519 - Test suite: remove browser plugins tests
5520 - Test suite: add @slow and @not_release_blockers Cucumber tags
5521 - Test suite: remove definition for unused step
5522 - Test suite: remove VirtualBox test
5524 * Generate the Vagrant base boxes using vmdb2 instead of vmdebootstrap
5528 - Add shellcheck exception.
5529 - Drop insane backticks.
5530 - Re-introduce some comments that were lost when migrating to vmdb2.
5531 - Build doc: remove obsolete instructions
5532 - vmdb2: remove no-op duplicated mirror parameters
5533 - Fix copy-paste mistakes.
5534 - Use grub.d instead of fighting with sed/perl escaping.
5535 - vmdb2: disable caching
5536 - Drop duplicated work.
5537 - Update docs and instructions for migration from vmdebootstrap to vmdb2.
5538 - Let's stop claiming Tails can be built from Stretch.
5539 - Escape \ in here doc.
5540 - Vagrant: work around Debian#951257.
5541 - Vagrant: abort when the proxy is invalid.
5542 - Vagrant: use IP address for internal proxy.
5543 - Drop leftovers from when we used vmdeboostrap to generate Vagrant boxes.
5544 - Apply policy-rc.d trick to workaround Debian bug when installing udisks2 in a
5546 - tails-builder: install missing udisks2 deps.
5547 - Workaround the fact subshells don't inherit set -e
5549 - Include the .qcow2, not raw image, in the Vagrant box.
5550 - Bump tails-builder image back to 20G.
5552 - Switch to vmdb2-based Vagrant box creation (refs: #15349)
5553 - Split long command over multiple lines.
5554 - Generate .box file.
5555 - Add back --rootfs-tarball argument to vmdb2.
5556 - Use correct sed syntax in replacement to refer to matched groups.
5557 - Use variables in place of hard-coded strings.
5559 - Drop unnecessary `touch`.
5560 - Clean up before and after calling vmdb2.
5561 - Generate image name dynamically.
5562 - Set APT serials dynamically.
5563 - Use mktemp for temporary file.
5564 - Drop unused stuff for generating container images.
5565 - Do `set -u` in script.
5566 - vmdb2: append newline at the end of authorized_keys entry
5567 - vmdb2: add HTTP proxy support
5568 - WIP: Vagrant: script for generating tails-builder images using vmdb2 instead of
5569 vmdebootstrap (refs: #15349)
5571 * Drop obsolete workaround for Jenkins passing mergebasebranch (tails/tails!475)
5574 - Revert "Rakefile: handle jenkins passing the now obsolete mergebasebranch."
5576 * custom-apt-cruft-check: indentify used binary packages where we lack the source
5580 - custom-apt-cruft-check: add support for the testing suite
5581 - custom-apt-cruft-check: indentify used binary packages where we lack the
5584 * GitLab CI (test-tca): add missing python3-dbus dependency (tails/tails!472)
5587 - GitLab CI (test-tca): add missing python3-dbus dependency
5589 * Disable shellcheck false positive (tails/tails!471)
5592 - Disable shellcheck false positive
5594 * Fix the dependencies of tca-portal.service and tca-portal.socket
5598 - Fix tca-portl.{socket,service} dependencies
5599 - Let tca-portal.service be started via systemd socket activation
5601 * Resolve "No spinner when starting Tor Browser from TCA" (tails/tails!459)
5604 - offline step now follows wording from our design
5605 - FIX: going offline should not display error step
5606 - tca-portal open applications using gtk stuff
5608 * Drop monkeysphere configuration (tails/tails!454)
5611 - Drop monkeysphere configuration
5613 * Use v3 Onion Service for the deb.torproject.org APT repository
5617 - Use v3 Onion Service for the deb.torproject.org APT repository
5619 * Test suite: drop Seahorse tests (tails/tails!451)
5622 - Test suite: drop now useless background
5623 - Test suite: update rationale for workaround
5624 - Test suite: drop support for running v2 Onion services in Chutney
5625 - Test suite: drop Seahorse tests
5627 * Maintain our Tor Browser AppArmor profile delta in a simpler way
5631 - Test suite: don't break if there are multiple Firefox processes
5632 - lint_po: ignore torbrowser-launcher's PO files
5633 - generate-build-manifest: support builds that used no source package
5634 - Switch to a simpler way to maintain our Tor Browser AppArmor profile delta
5635 - Rebase AppArmor profile for Tor Browser on top of torbrowser-launcher 0.3.3-5
5637 * Recover TCA fix + test suite work from now defunct !431 (tails/tails!447)
5640 - Test suite: fix racy test.
5641 - Test suite: avoid using regex matching since we can.
5642 - Test suite: drop escaping we already deal with.
5643 - Test suite: implement proper dropping of markup.
5644 - Test suite: escape single-quotes in generated Python strings.
5645 - Test suite: drop markup from translated strings.
5646 - Test suite: make Dogtail automatically translate strings.
5647 - TCA: fix tor crashing when falling back to default bridges.
5649 * TCA asks for confirmation if you close it during progress (tails/tails!446)
5652 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
5653 - asks confirmation on quit during progress
5655 * TCA: explain the autoconfig better and implement designed behavior for
5656 displaying help (tails/tails!445)
5659 - TCA: hide bridge help by default
5660 - TCA: use the designed toggle instead of a link near "Configure a Tor bridge" in
5662 - TCA: Explain more about the implications of the autoconfig of Tor
5664 * Resolve "TCA connects with default bridges when it shouldn't" (tails/tails!444)
5667 - TCA always saves configuration
5669 * Resolve "TCA status does not reflect the current status of the connection to
5670 Tor" (tails/tails!443)
5673 - tca reacts to /run/tor-has-bootstrapped/done
5674 - tca monitors /run/tor-has-bootstrapped/done
5676 * Improve Tor Connection GUI (tails/tails!438)
5679 - Test suite: adapt to UI changes in TCA.
5680 - Fix shellcheck regressions
5681 - TCA: add title to proxy configuration window
5682 - TCA: add link to doc in consent question
5683 - TCA: make status messages consistently include "to Tor"
5684 - TCA: define margin in 1 single place
5685 - TCA: make the bridges config screen breathe
5686 - TCA: implement designed link to the bridges doc
5687 - TCA: remove icons on proxy port & pasword entries
5688 - TCA: make the "Connecting" progress screen breathe
5689 - TCA: make proxy configuration visual layout linear
5690 - TCA: basic visual layout for the "Error connecting to Tor" screen
5691 - TCA: reorganize container/child structure to fix vertical text alignment
5692 - TCA: Fix vertical text alignment
5693 - TCA: Fix vertical text alignment
5694 - TCA: make "Connected to Tor successfully" a progress-box-heading
5695 - TCA: add standard spacing between label and progress bar
5696 - TCA: make "Connecting to Tor…" a progress-box-heading
5697 - TCA: move progress-box-heading styling to CSS
5698 - TCA: make it breathe
5699 - TCA: drop duplicate margin
5700 - TCA: improve vertical alignment of success icon
5701 - TCA: hide percentage
5702 - fixup! TCA: use Unicode ellipsis char
5703 - TCA: use correct Unicode char
5704 - TCA: hide non-functional "Reset Tor Connection" button
5705 - TCA: explicitly declare translation domain in Glade UI file
5706 - TCA: style step titles via CSS, make them larger
5707 - TCA: make layout more GNOME HIG compliant
5708 - TCA: use non-deprecated margin properties, make them multiples of 6px
5709 - TCA: make the "Start Tor Browser button" fill the dialog width as designed
5710 - TCA: drop custom font size
5711 - TCA: use standard GNOME HIG spacing
5712 - TCA: improve visual layout
5713 - TCA: fix alignment
5714 - TCA: improve visual layout
5716 - TCA: port CSS to pixels and start making it a bit more GNOME HIG compliant
5717 - TCA: give widget a name so it can be styled with CSS
5718 - WIP: save with glade/sid
5719 - Git, please ignore Glade backup files for TCA
5720 - TCA Glade UI: require the GTK version we're shipping in Tails 4.x
5722 * Resolve "Confusing behavior of Tor Connection in offline mode"
5726 - better function naming
5727 - offline mode error strings changed
5728 - FIX ci dependencies for tca
5729 - update gettext strings
5730 - tca offline mode errors are translatable
5731 - TCA give clear error message in Offline Mode
5732 - tailslib has doctests
5733 - tailslib: can check greeter variables
5735 * Resolve "Ensure WhisperBack still tells us how successful connections to Tor
5736 were made" (tails/tails!434)
5739 - whisperback includes tca details
5741 * TCA UI improvements (tails/tails!428)
5744 - Test suite: don't throw TCAConnectionFailure on try_for() timeout.
5745 - Test suite: adapt for recent UI changes in TCA.
5746 - explain bridge requirements in hide mode
5747 - smaller image in TCA
5748 - Improvements to TCA GUI
5749 - doc: how to tweak tca GUI
5750 - corner case about bridge validation
5751 - FIX resize problems through GtkStack
5752 - tca UI improvements
5753 - changing to default bridges is honored
5754 - tca ui more consistent
5756 * TCA reports an error in case of slow connection (tails/tails!426)
5759 - progress bar was very slow; + more testing
5760 - tca timeout understands "sign-of-life" UX concept
5761 - quick & dirty: increase timeout
5763 * Display an error message when upgrader fails to check for available upgrades
5767 - Display an error message when the Upgrader fails to check for available
5768 upgrades (tails/tails#18238)
5771 - Display a dialog if an error happens when getting the UDF
5772 - Make debugging_info parameter optional
5773 - Display an error dialog when the Upgrader fails to check for available upgrades
5775 * Rename "MAC address spoofing" as "MAC address anonymization" (tails/tails!411)
5779 - Avoid in-page link
5781 - Rename "MAC address spoofing" as "MAC address anonymization" (#18286)
5783 * Upgrade Linux to 5.10.24 (tails/tails!409)
5786 - Upgrade Linux to 5.10.24
5787 - Revert "Install linux-compiler-* linux-kbuild-* from our custom APT repository"
5789 * Fix shellcheck error (tails/tails!394)
5792 - Fix shellcheck error
5794 * Establish a coding standards baseline on our shell code base (tails/tails!190)
5797 - GitLab CI: install "file" for the shellcheck test
5800 - GitLab CI: use Unit test reports for shellcheck
5801 - shellcheck-tree: drop unused import
5802 - shellcheck-tree: drop obsolete comment
5803 - GitLab CI: check shell scripts
5804 - ShellCheck: fix remaining offenses
5805 - ShellCheck: fix remaining SC2086 offenses
5806 - shellcheck-tree: skip built website
5807 - Drop unused variables
5808 - ShellCheck: make exceptions where warranted
5809 - Misc. linting suggested by ShellCheck
5810 - shellcheck-tree: new script, that runs shellcheck on all shell scripts
5811 - Misc. linting suggested by ShellCheck
5812 - ShellCheck: make exceptions where warranted
5813 - Drop $ in arithmetic variables
5814 - Drop useless calls to cat
5815 - ShellCheck: fix offenses
5816 - ShellCheck: fix SC2155 offenses
5817 - ShellCheck: backticks → $()
5818 - auto/config: fix stderr redirection
5820 - ShellCheck: make exceptions where warranted
5821 - ShellCheck: add missing quoting
5822 - branch_name_to_suite: fix bug in tr call
5823 - ShellCheck: disable false positive
5824 - unsafe-browser: use $* when our intent is to concatenate
5825 - keepassxc wrapper: fix behavior in case 2+ arguments are passed
5826 - live-persist: fix usage message
5827 - ShellCheck: fix SC2162 offense
5828 - ShellCheck: make exceptions where warranted
5829 - ShellCheck: add missing quoting
5830 - ShellCheck: fix SC2006 offenses
5831 - ShellCheck: fix SC2155 offenses
5832 - Drop useless "echo"
5833 - ShellCheck: make exceptions where warranted
5834 - ShellCheck: fix SC2006 offenses
5835 - ShellCheck: replace deprecated tempfile with mktemp (SC2186)
5836 - ShellCheck: add missing quoting
5837 - Replace antiquated use of expr
5838 - Drop unused variables
5839 - ShellCheck: fix SC2155 offenses
5840 - ShellCheck: disable check that generates mostly false positives
5842 - Drop unused variables
5843 - ShellCheck: add missing quoting
5844 - Drop unused variable
5845 - ShellCheck: fix SC2059 offense
5846 - Ensure here-doc text is not subject to parameter expansion, command
5847 substitution, and arithmetic expansion, unless we do need it
5848 - ShellCheck: fix SC2162 offenses
5849 - chroot_local-hooks: consistently set the executable bit
5851 - Make for loop more robust
5852 - Ensure filenames that start with '-' are not interpreted as switches
5853 - Ensure glob is not expanded by the shell interpreter
5854 - 10-tbb: fix typo in variable name
5856 - ShellCheck: make exceptions where warranted
5857 - ShellCheck: disable false positive
5858 - ShellCheck: disable following included source files
5860 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2021 13:50:41 +0200
5862 tails (4.19) unstable; urgency=medium
5864 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0.17-build1 (tails/tails!468)
5867 - Upgrade to Tor Browser based on Firefox 78.11 (tails/tails#18284)
5870 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive.
5871 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0.17-build1.
5873 * Upgrade Thunderbird to 1:78.10.0-1~deb10u1
5875 * run_test_suite: fix tor version check with recent tor (tails/tails!450)
5878 - Chutney: fix tor version check with recent tor
5879 - run_test_suite: fix tor version check with recent tor
5881 * Upgrader, tails-security-check: drop CA pinning (tails/tails!448)
5884 - TLS certificate issue prevents tails-upgrade-frontend to check for updates :
5885 Error while downloading the signing key (tails/tails#18324)
5888 - Design doc: update tense
5889 - Remove unused Let's Encrypt certificates
5890 - Upgrader, tails-security-check: drop CA pinning
5891 - Design doc: drop overly optimistic future improvement idea
5892 - Design doc: mirrors used by the Upgrader are all HTTPS nowadays
5894 * gitlab-triage: migrate from Docker to podman (tails/tails!440)
5897 - gitlab-triage: migrate from Docker to podman
5899 * Add password feedback for sudo (refs: #18355) (tails/tails!439)
5902 - Add password feedback for sudo (refs: #18355)
5904 * Remove ikiwiki-cgi.setup (tails/tails!405)
5907 - Document how to test changes to the banner locally
5908 - Deduplicate content
5909 - Don't disable plugins that are not enabled by default
5910 - Remove ikiwiki-cgi.setup and references to it
5912 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 31 May 2021 09:19:03 +0000
5914 tails (4.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5916 * Upgrade Thunderbird to 78.9.0-1~deb10u1
5918 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0.16 (tails/tails!400)
5921 - Upgrade to Tor Browser based on Firefox 78.10 (tails/tails#18252)
5924 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive.
5925 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0.15.
5927 * Upgrade Intel microcodes to 3.20210216.1~deb10u1
5929 * Upgrade firmware-linux-nonfree to 20210315-2
5931 * Remove Poedit (#18236) (tails/tails!395)
5934 - Remove Poedit (#18236)
5936 * Display an error message when the Upgrader fails to download the signing key
5940 - Display an error message when the Upgrader fails to check for available
5941 upgrades (tails/tails#18238)
5944 - Display an error message when the Upgrader fails to download the signing key
5946 * Remove clock sync notification (tails/tails!389)
5949 - Remove the "clock synchronization" notification (tails/tails#7439)
5952 - tails-htp-notify-user only notifies if $problems
5954 * Bump snapshots of the Debian APT archive to 2021033101 (tails/tails!388)
5957 - Bump snapshots of the Debian APT archive to 2021033101
5959 * APT: use non-onion HTTPS sources for Debian repositories (tails/tails!383)
5962 - Fix failures with Debian's APT repository onion service (tails/tails#17993)
5965 - APT: use non-onion HTTPS sources for Debian repositories
5967 * Merge base branch earlier (tails/tails!381)
5970 - The mergebasebranch option merges the base branch too late (tails/tails#12557)
5973 - Document that faketime is needed on the host to build Tails.
5974 - Vagrant: don't install faketime any more.
5975 - Drop useless version part from development build filenames.
5976 - Build system: only add base branch info to image names when relevant.
5977 - Build system: make development images' names more consistent.
5978 - Build system: move around logic to reduce ENV state.
5979 - Build system: re-run rake after merging base branch (#12557)
5980 - Rakefile: handle jenkins passing the now obsolete mergebasebranch.
5981 - Build system: by default, merge the base branch early when building (#12557)
5983 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 19 Apr 2021 14:19:38 +0000
5985 tails (4.17) unstable; urgency=medium
5987 * Upgrade Thunderbird to 78.8.0-1~deb10u1
5989 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0.14-build1 (tails/tails!382)
5992 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0.14-build1.
5994 * Upgrade tor to 0.4.5.7 (tails/tails!380)
5997 - Upgrade tor to 0.4.5.7 (tails/tails#18244)
6000 - Upgrade tor to 0.4.5.7
6002 * Retry failed upgrade downloads, reusing the previously downloaded data, and
6003 fallback to the DNS mirror pool (tails/tails!379)
6006 - Make it possible to resume an automatic upgrade download (tails/tails#15875)
6007 - Make Tails Upgrader resilient to broken mirrors (tails/tails#17615)
6010 - Tails::IUK::TargetFile::Download: always disable exponential backoff when
6012 - Tails::IUK::LWP::UserAgent::WithProgress: display correct progress status when
6013 resuming a previously failed download
6014 - Give Tails::IUK::LWP::UserAgent::WithProgress information that it'll need
6015 - Refactoring: make temp_file an attribute
6016 - Refactoring: use more meaningful variable name and document what value it holds
6017 - GitLab CI: disable test that now requires systemd
6018 - Retry failed upgrade downloads, reusing the previously downloaded data, and
6019 fallback to the DNS mirror pool
6020 - Upgrader hardening: comment out sudo env_keep settings that are not needed in
6022 - Tails::Download::HTTPS hardening: drop support for SSL_NO_VERIFY
6023 - Upgrader test suite: remove useless Win32 support code
6025 * Repair the filesystem on the system partition and avoid breaking it in the
6026 first place (tails/tails!374)
6029 - Deleted obsolete automatic upgrades still occupy disk space ⇒ no automatic
6030 upgrade possible after a while (tails/tails#17902)
6033 - On boot, repair the filesystem on the system partition
6034 - Refactoring: move repartitioning code to a function
6035 - Unmount the system partition on shutdown
6037 * Upgrade GRUB2 to 2.04-16+ (tails/tails!372)
6040 - Upgrade GRUB2 to 2.04-16+ (tails/tails#18227)
6041 - devel branch FTBFS with uBlock 1.33.0+dfsg-1 (tails/tails#18191)
6044 - Bump snapshots of the Debian APT archive to 2021030401
6046 * Upgrade non-free Linux firmware to 20210208-3 (tails/tails!371)
6049 - Upgrade non-free Linux firmware to 20210208-3+ (tails/tails#18226)
6050 - devel branch FTBFS with uBlock 1.33.0+dfsg-1 (tails/tails#18191)
6053 - Revert "Temporarily install the kernel from Bullseye"
6054 - Refresh uBlock patch
6055 - Bump snapshots of the Debian APT archive to 2021030101
6057 * Test suite: relax delay for OpenPGP future expiration date (tails/tails!370)
6060 - Test suite: relax delay for OpenPGP future expiration date
6062 * Improve security advisory since they don't list vulnerabilities anymore
6066 - Help people find the information on their own (#18221)
6067 - Remove not-so-helpful TOC
6068 - Simplify and reuse the same wording
6069 - Don't make people click for nothing (#18221)
6071 * Clarify error message when starting the Unsafe Browser while offline
6075 - Clarify error message when the Unsafe Browser was launched without network
6076 connection (tails/tails#12251)
6079 - Test suite: update to match UI change
6080 - Clarify error message when starting offline (#12251)
6082 * Release process: add po4a version sanity checks (tails/tails!364)
6085 - Release process: ensure the RM has the correct version of po4a
6087 * Upgrade our production and test-only tor configuration (tails/tails!363)
6090 - Upgrade our production and test-only tor configuration (tails/tails#18216)
6093 - Test suite: bump PathsNeededToBuildCircuits to 0.67, like Chutney
6094 - Test suite: drop "TestingBridgeDownloadInitialDelay" customization
6095 - Test suite: drop "DownloadInitialDelay" testing options that we set to their
6097 - Test suite: drop unused second argument for the "DownloadInitialDelay" tor
6099 - Test suite: use the new "DownloadInitialDelay" names for the "DownloadSchedule"
6101 - torrc: drop obsolete WarnUnsafeSocks setting
6102 - torrc: migrate from deprecated {Control,Trans}ListenAddress to
6103 {Control,Trans}Port address syntax
6105 * Upgrade tor to 0.4.5.6 (tails/tails!361)
6108 - run_test_suite: abort if the host system's tor is too old
6109 - Test suite setup doc: ensure we have a recent enough tor
6110 - Test suite setup doc: update APT pinning to support current QEMU backport
6111 - Upgrade tor to 0.4.5.6 final
6113 * Update uBlock Origin patch (tails/tails!354)
6116 - Refresh uBlock patch
6118 * Resolve "onion-grater race condition" (tails/tails!345)
6121 - onion-grater race condition (tails/tails#18123)
6125 - onioncircuits: longer options are more readable
6126 - tails-create-netns: more consistent style
6127 - tails-create-netns: avoid bashisms
6128 - a11y-proxy-netns: explain behavior with comments
6129 - review tips: is_veth_nic is more readable
6130 - review tips: clearer behaviour
6131 - Remove another remain from the reverted TBB experiment.
6132 - veth exclusion: log to debug
6133 - don't spoof veth interfaces
6134 - a11y proxy now can be passed to the right netns
6135 - onioncircuits is accessible!
6136 - small cleanup to tailslib.gnome
6137 - really: let's forget about TBB and its netns
6138 - Let's forget about TBB in its netns
6139 - get_all_ethernet_nics behave even if no real eth
6140 - update design doc for netns improvements
6141 - test: tor can bind a non-127.0.0.1 port
6142 - FIX helper lib to recognize veth appropriately
6144 - tails-documentation: fixed when Tor is not ready
6145 - sudo tor-browser allowed
6146 - FIX service: run before network.target
6147 - we need veth: don't blacklist it, it's harmless
6148 - /stop tails-create-netns service can stop
6149 - FIX tails-create-netns.service
6150 - TBB: changed onion-grater
6151 - TBB works + port 9150 drop
6152 - netns: firewall configuration moved to ferm
6153 - configure tor and ferm for TBB netns address
6154 - tails-create-netns is a systemd.service
6155 - onion-grater whitelisted in sane_defaults
6156 - onioncircuits profile adapted to netns
6157 - onioncircuits wrapper to use netns
6158 - still a draft, but at least tidier
6159 - DRAFT of network namespace support
6161 * Test suite: disable sound forwarding to host (tails/tails!333)
6164 - Test suite: consider disabling SPICE audio (tails/tails#18122)
6167 - Test suite: disable sound forwarding to host (Closes: #18122)
6169 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 22 Mar 2021 08:11:53 +0000
6171 tails (4.15.1) unstable; urgency=medium
6173 * Upgrade sudo to 1.8.27-1+deb10u3 due to CVE-2021-3156 ("Baron
6176 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2021 19:33:08 +0100
6178 tails (4.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6180 * Upgrade Thunderbird to 1:78.6.0-1~deb10u1
6182 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0.9, based on Firefox 78.7 (tails/tails!331)
6185 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0.9, based on Firefox 78.7 (tails/tails#18100)
6188 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive.
6189 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0.9-build2.
6191 * Test suite: support path of tcpdump in current sid (tails/tails!328)
6194 - Test suite broken on current sid: "No such file or directory -
6195 /usr/sbin/tcpdump" (tails/tails#18126)
6198 - Test suite: support path of tcpdump in current sid
6200 * Update CAs trusted to connect to our website (tails/tails!327)
6203 - Upgrader fails to check upgrades: CA changed for our website
6205 - Remove AddTrust_External_Root.pem from our website CA bundle
6210 - Reference issue and add another related XXX
6211 - Don't ship individual Let's Encrypt intermediate certificates files in the
6213 - Move Let's Encrypt intermediate certificates outside of the system-wide CA
6215 - Upgrader: trust current and upcoming Let's Encrypt intermediate certificates
6216 - Add current and upcoming Let's Encrypt intermediate certificates
6217 - Remove AddTrust_External_Root.pem from our website CA bundle (refs: #11811).
6219 * Upgrade Linux to 5.9.15-1~bpo10+1 (stable branch) (tails/tails!325)
6222 - Upgrade to Linux 5.9.15 (tails/tails#18104)
6223 - Install Intel SOF Firmware and Topology binaries from Debian
6225 - USB tethering is broken with iOS 14 => Need kernel upgrade (tails/tails#18097)
6228 - Refresh uBlock patch
6229 - Install Intel SOF Firmware and Topology binaries from Debian
6230 - Upgrade Linux to 5.9.15-1~bpo10+1
6231 - Update APT snapshot for the "debian" archive to 2021011501
6233 * Upgrade firmware-linux to 20201218-1
6235 * Migrate blueprints to GitLab wiki (tails/tails!323)
6237 * Fix stream isolation test suite after !306 (tails/tails!319)
6240 - Test suite: update wrt. recent htpdate changes (tails/tails#18095)
6243 - fix stream isolation test suite after !306
6245 * Refresh uBlock patch to fix devel branch FTBFS (tails/tails!318)
6248 - Refresh uBlock patch
6250 * Test suite: improve error reporting for GuestFS problems and user mistakes
6254 - Test suite: error out early if images to be tested are directories
6255 - Test suite: log all guestfs events, not only "trace" level messages
6257 * Make 'Upgrading the system' dialog appear faster (tails/tails!316)
6260 - Make "Upgrading the system" dialog appear faster (tails/tails#18051)
6263 - Upgrader test suite: adjust to match UI changes
6264 - Warn in advance about the network connection being disabled (#18051)
6265 - Avoid ambiguous future tense
6267 - Upgrader: don't declare variable in conditional statement
6268 - Upgrader: adjust test suite to user interaction changes
6270 - Make 'Upgrading the system' dialog appear faster
6272 * Make writing Tails.module more robust (tails/tails!315)
6275 - Make writing Tails.module more robust (tails/tails#17906)
6278 - Make writing Tails.module more robust
6280 * Fix support for Ledger hardware wallet, by upgrading python3-btchip
6284 - "No hardware device detected" with Ledger Nano S wallet in Electrum
6288 - Fix support for Ledger hardware wallet, by upgrading python3-btchip
6290 * Test expiration date for all keys trusted by APT (tails/tails!310)
6293 - Test expiration date for all keys trusted by APT (tails/tails#18094)
6296 - Test suite: improve Gherkin phrasing
6297 - Test suite: check expiration date for all trusted APT keys
6299 * Log more info upon curl failure in htpdate (tails/tails!306)
6302 - htpdate: make output more useful on name resolution errors
6303 - htpdate: include stdout and stderr of curl(1) upon failure
6304 - htpdate: remove misleading comment
6306 * Clarify that this message is about the size of the USB stick (#18073)
6310 - Improve error message when the USB stick is too small (tails/tails#18073)
6313 - Add comment to explain the unit being used
6314 - Display too small boot device size in GB, not GiB
6315 - Display too small boot device size with 1 digit of precision after the decimal
6317 - Make displayed number and unit match
6318 - Only use variable after we've assigned it a value
6319 - Clarify that this message is about the size of the USB stick (#18073)
6321 * Thunderbird: drop obsolete patch. (tails/tails!304)
6324 - Thunderbird: drop obsolete patch.
6326 * Make build reproducibility verification easier (tails/tails!303)
6329 - Don't trust any random key that has a UID which contains "deb.tails.boum.org"
6330 - Make formatting consistent with other command lines
6333 - Use numbered list: order matters
6334 - Reorder instructions to avoid a step essentially depend on the next one
6335 - contribute/build.mdwn: add instruction for importing deb.tails.boum.org key
6336 - release_process/test/reproducibility.mdwn: add -p to mkdir
6337 - Rakefile: add option to scp to disable agent
6339 * Test suite: differentiate between tordate and htpdate errors (tails/tails!295)
6342 - Test suite: split exception.
6343 - Test suite: use more specific exception.
6344 - We can have TimeSyncingError due to tordate, so no htpdate log exists.
6345 - Rename variable and rearrange code to fix scoping issues.
6346 - Test suite: differentiate between tordate and htpdate errors.
6348 * Add "Don't Show Again" button to the notification when starting Tails in a VM
6352 - Add "Don't Show Again" button to notifications where appropriate
6356 - swap buttons in tails-virt-notify-user
6357 - Refresh translations.
6358 - tails-documentation: drop yelp dependency.
6359 - Revert "Patch libdesktop-notify-perl to accept an array ref for actions."
6360 - tails-documentation: let Gnome start Tor Browser so it can quit.
6361 - tails-virt-notify-user: port form Perl to Python.
6363 - Improve button labels
6364 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
6365 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
6366 - tails-virt-notify-user: make action IDs globally unique again.
6368 - tails-virt-notify-user: make action buttons ordering deterministic.
6369 - Patch libdesktop-notify-perl to accept an array ref for actions.
6370 - live-persist: always enable support for "Don't ask again" (refs: #10553).
6371 - tails-virt-notify-user: only show "Don't ask again" if feature is available
6373 - tails-virt-notify-user: add "Don't ask again" button PoC (refs: #10553).
6374 - Add tooling for "Don't ask me again" feature for notifications etc.
6376 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 25 Jan 2021 08:23:10 +0000
6378 tails (4.14) unstable; urgency=medium
6380 * Grant the user read access to external Persistent Storage (tails/tails!300)
6383 - Nautilus cannot open a plugged Tails Persistent Storage anymore
6387 - Make *external* TailsData's root user-readable when mounted (closes: #18050)
6389 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0.7 (tails/tails!297)
6392 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0.7 (tails/tails#18058)
6395 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive.
6396 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0.7-build1.
6398 * Add a script to help updating our UX debt spreadsheet (tails/tails!292)
6401 - ux-debt-changes: list issues that had the UX:debt label removed
6402 - ux-debt-changes: list issues that had the UX:debt label added
6403 - ux-debt-changes: allow running only some of the supported reports
6404 - ux-debt-changes: cache GitLab API responses
6405 - ux-debt-changes initial version: lists solved or rejected UX:debt issues since
6408 * Upgrade to Linux 5.9 and to Buster 10.7 (tails/tails!288)
6411 - Upgrade Linux to 5.9 (tails/tails#17973)
6412 - Upgrade to Buster 10.7 (tails/tails#17995)
6415 - Upgrade Linux to 5.9.0-0.bpo.2, currently at version 5.9.6-1~bpo10+1
6416 - Install the kernel from buster-backports
6417 - Upgrade Tails and the Vagrant build box to Debian Buster 10.7
6419 * Test suite: make evince "Print to File" test more robust (tails/tails!287)
6422 - Test suite: update and fix comment
6423 - Test suite: make evince "Print to File" test more robust
6425 * Upgrade Linux to 5.9 (devel branch) (tails/tails!285)
6428 - Upgrade Linux to 5.9.0-0.bpo.2, currently at version 5.9.6-1~bpo10+1
6430 * Don't include URLs pointing to our live website in translatable strings
6434 - Upgrader: don't use non-existent debug method
6435 - GitLab CI: ensure we don't re-add translatable URLs to our live website
6436 - Update POT and PO files
6437 - Don't include URLs pointing to our live website in translatable strings
6440 * Test suite: bump timeout for the Greeter's GUI to update after language change.
6444 - Revert "Test suite: switch from sleep() to more robust approach."
6445 - Test suite: switch from sleep() to more robust approach.
6446 - Test suite: bump timeout for the Greeter's GUI to update after language change.
6448 * Port otr-bot to Python 3 and migrate to slixmpp (tails/tails!278)
6451 - Test suite's otr-bot.py has obsolete dependencies (tails/tails#17031)
6454 - Test suite doc: update dependencies
6455 - Make otr-bot quiet.
6457 - Improve variable names.
6458 - otr-bot: port to python3 and migrate from jabberbot to slixmpp.
6460 * Detect corrupt GnuPG public keyring and restore its backup (tails/tails!275)
6463 - Automate fix for "GnuPG keys missing" problem (tails/tails#17807)
6466 - Try to detect corrupt GnuPG pubring.kbx and restore any backup (refs: #17807)
6468 * Drop superfluous block.events_dfl_poll_msecs=1000 kernel parameter
6472 - Drop superfluous block.events_dfl_poll_msecs=1000 kernel parameter
6474 * Install the kernel from buster-backports (tails/tails!273)
6477 - Install the kernel from buster-backports
6479 * Enable Electrum's Ledger hardware wallet support (tails/tails!272)
6482 - Ledger Nano S hardware wallet is not recognized due to wrong udev rules
6486 - Enable Electrum's Ledger hardware wallet support
6488 * Test suite: update expected title of the GitLab page we use (tails/tails!271)
6491 - Test suite: update expected title of the GitLab page we use
6493 * Port Tails Installer to Python 3 (tails/tails!270)
6496 - Port Tails Installer to Python 3 (tails/tails#10085)
6497 - Installer: get rid of workaround for udisks bug#418 in SetFlags()
6501 - Update POT and PO files
6502 - Also undo mistaken changes to Tails 3.0 release note PO files.
6503 - Installer: get rid of workaround for udisks#418 in SetFlags()
6504 - Installer: update URL (Redmine → GitLab)
6505 - Installer: drop obsolete comment
6506 - Installer: don't make user-facing URLs translatable
6507 - Undo mistaken change to Tails 3.0 release notes.
6508 - Tails Installer: fix incorrect function/variable names.
6509 - Update installer's deps after porting to Python 3 (refs: #10085)
6510 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
6511 - Tails Installer: don't show install/cancel buttons on warning prompts.
6512 - Tails Installer: delay deletion of parents until all drives have been examined.
6513 - Tails Installer: update PO/POT files after migration to Python 3.
6514 - Tails Installer: move into Python 3's dist-packages.
6515 - Tails Installer: revive _set_liberal_perms_recursive().
6516 - Tails Installer: pass argument list to subprocess.Popen().
6517 - Tails Installer: port to Python 3 based on saschamarkus's patches (refs:
6520 * Update deb.torproject.org's APT key (tails/tails!269)
6523 - Outdated APT key for deb.torproject.org (tails/tails#18042)
6526 - Stop installing deb.torproject.org-keyring
6527 - Update deb.torproject.org's APT key
6529 * Release process: drop dependency on parallel_collect_IUKs (tails/tails!267)
6533 - Release process: don't pass --debug to copy-iuks-to-rsync-server-and-verify
6534 - Release process: drop dependency on parallel_collect_IUKs
6537 * Allow users to change persisted admin password option (tails/tails!266)
6540 - Allow users to change persisted admin password option (tails/tails#18018)
6543 - Fix not being able to delete a once persisted admin password
6545 * Upgrade Thunderbird to 1:78.5.1-1~deb10u1, and accordingly update
6546 its patch series (tails/tails!264)
6549 - All branches FTBFS since Thunderbird 78.5.0 upload (tails/tails#18034)
6552 - Drop Thunderbird patch: applied in 78.5.0 upstream
6553 - Drop Thunderbird patch: applied in 78.5.0 upstream
6554 - patch-thunderbird: log which patch we're currently trying to apply
6557 * Stop installing the Unifont fonts (tails/tails!263)
6560 - Stop installing the Unifont fonts
6562 * Upgrade tor to 0.4.4.6 (tails/tails!259)
6565 - Upgrade tor to 0.4.4.6
6567 * Document python-gitlab setup needed for generate-changelog and generate-report
6571 - Don't track testing forever
6572 - Make instructions work on sid
6573 - python3-gitlab from Buster doesn't work
6574 - Document torsocks for GitLab scripts
6575 - Improve readibility
6576 - generate-changelog, generate-report: point to documentation
6577 - Document how to configure python-gitlab
6579 * Test suite: use the qemu-xhci USB controller (tails/tails!255)
6582 - Use qemu-xhci for TailsToaster (tails/tails#15831)
6585 - Test suite: use the qemu-xhci USB controller
6587 * Require Buster or newer for running our test suite (tails/tails!254)
6590 - Require Buster or newer for running our test suite (tails/tails#17842)
6593 - Test suite: run a Q35 5.0 machine
6594 - Test suite: drop workarounds for running on Stretch
6595 - run_test_suite: drop support for Stretch
6596 - Test suite doc: drop support for Stretch
6598 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 14 Dec 2020 08:56:31 +0000
6600 tails (4.13) unstable; urgency=medium
6602 * Tor Browser 10.0.5 (tails/tails!253)
6605 - Upgrade to Tor Browser 10.0.5 (tails/tails#18017)
6606 - Most Tor Browser scenarios fail (tails/tails#18016)
6607 - Only ship locale definitions that the user can select in the Welcome Screen
6611 - Mark security issue as fixed
6612 - Test suite: avoid wait_any() in error-prone situation.
6613 - Test suite: adapt image so it works for RTL locales too.
6614 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0.5-build1.
6617 * Browsers: drop el-GR from browser localization (tails/tails!252)
6620 - "The Unsafe Browser can be used in all languages supported in Tails" scenario
6621 fails in Greek (tails/tails#18015)
6624 - Browsers: drop el-GR from browser localization.
6626 * Test suite: wait for GNOME Overview launchers to be ready before interacting
6627 with them (tails/tails!251)
6630 - Most Tor Browser scenarios fail (tails/tails#18016)
6633 - Test suite: wait for GNOME Overview launchers to be ready before interacting
6634 with them (fixes: #18016).
6636 * Garbage collect website cache more aggressively (tails/tails!248)
6639 - Some builds fail on Jenkins due to lack of disk space to store cached built
6640 website (tails/tails#18010)
6643 - website-cache: don't delete lost+found directory
6645 - website-cache: garbage collect cache directories older than 20 days
6647 * generate-report: Buster compatibility, help the user install dependencies
6651 - generate-report: add helpful message on missing Python modules
6652 - generate-changelog, generate-report: support Python 3.7
6654 * custom-apt-cruft-check: fix output when there's nothing to remove
6658 - custom-apt-cruft-check: fix output when there's nothing to remove
6660 * Release process: streamline configuration and environment management
6664 - Release process: rename variable to avoid confusion
6665 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
6666 - Fix typo in suggestion
6667 - Apply 3 suggestion(s) to 3 file(s)
6668 - rm-config: workaround pylint false positives
6669 - remove-unused-udfs: lint
6670 - remove-unused-udfs: actually use passed before_version
6671 - rm-config: add mypy exceptions
6672 - rm-config: add docstrings
6674 - rm-config: drop unused import
6675 - rm-config: import generation of IUK_SOURCE_VERSIONS
6677 - rm-config: import more configuration generation
6678 - rm-config: validate configuration
6679 - RM config template: quote "FIXME" as it should be in the manually-filled
6681 - rm-config: fix generate-environment for non-string values
6682 - rm-config: log config before validating
6683 - rm-config: pass stage to Config()
6684 - rm-config: add validate-configuration action
6685 - Release process: consistently provide editor command-line
6686 - rm-config: ensure generated shell snippet has a trailing newline
6687 - Release process: move generation of derived values to rm-config
6689 - Release process: fully phrase the rm-config usage bits
6690 - Release process: bring all notes together
6691 - Release process: document how to get your own local.yml
6692 - Release process: convert example local.yml to YAML, move generated variable out
6696 - rm-config: generate boilerplate config, read config & export it as shell
6698 - Release process: ensure the configuration does not taint the next release
6700 - Document config format
6701 - Ensure RM config snippets produce 1 single YAML document when concatenated
6702 - Release process: specify interface for new RM config management.
6704 * WhisperBack: include the output of lsusb in reports (tails/tails!244)
6707 - WhisperBack: include the output of lsusb in reports
6709 * Automate Tor Browser WebRTC tests (tails/tails!243)
6712 - Automate Tor Browser WebRTC tests (tails/tails#10264)
6715 - Test suite: automatically test that WebRTC is disabled in Tor Browser
6716 - Test suite: refactoring (extract code to function)
6718 * GitLab CI: only run the apt-snapshots-expiry job when relevant
6722 - GitLab CI: only run the apt-snapshots-expiry job when relevant
6723 - GitLab CI: switch to "Pipelines for Merge Requests" mode
6725 * GitLab CI: check PO files that we did not import from Transifex yet, only run
6726 PO checks when relevant (tails/tails!241)
6731 - GitLab CI: only run check-po-msgfmt and lint-po when relevant
6732 - GitLab CI: check PO files that we did not import from Transifex yet
6734 * Add script that checks which packages in our custom APT repo are unused
6738 - Remove cruft from our custom APT repository (2020Q4 edition)
6742 - custom-apt-cruft-check: look for custom package on the suite we're working on
6743 - custom-apt-cruft-check: update script description to match current usage
6744 - custom-apt-cruft-check: fix generated reprepro command
6745 - custom-apt-cruft-check: make output command line easier to copy'n'paste
6746 - custom-apt-cruft-check: use a command line argument to specify which suite to
6748 - Revert overzealous linting
6749 - custom-apt-cruft-check: fix branch check
6751 - custom-apt-cruft-check: add helpful comment to error message
6752 - custom-apt-cruft-check: output require reprepro clean up command
6753 - custom-apt-cruft-check: fetch .build-manifest from Jenkins
6754 - custom-apt-cruft-check: change quoting so \n becomes an actual newline
6755 - custom-apt-cruft-check: also support the devel branch/APT suite
6757 - custom-apt-cruft-check: add support for Onion service
6758 - Add script that checks which packages in our custom APT repo that are unused.
6760 * Release process: automate removing unused UDFs (tails/tails!239)
6763 - Remove UDFs for versions we'll never release
6764 - remove-unused-udfs: avoid computing the list of tags multiple times
6765 - remove-unused-udfs: avoid using global variable.
6766 - Release process: automate removing unused UDFs
6767 - Release process: remove now-irrelevant case
6768 - Release process: move cleaning up Changelog to a smarter place
6769 - Release process: remove duplicate operation
6770 - Release process: bundle together actions on the devel branch
6772 * GitLab CI: check that no APT snapshot will expire within 1 month
6776 - GitLab CI: give job a name that better reflects its, well, job
6778 - GitLab CI: check that no APT snapshot will expire within 1 month.
6779 - apt-snapshot-expiry: exit with error if any snapshot will expire within 1
6781 - Get rid of subshell.
6783 * Release process: automate generation of email to manual testers
6787 - Release process: make the shell complain if setting PAD was forgotten.
6788 - Release process: de-duplicate
6789 - Release process: automate generating the call for manual testing
6791 * Release process: streamline APT repository operations (tails/tails!236)
6794 - Release process: only context switch to freeze exception management if needed
6795 - Release process: streamline thawing time-based APT snapshots
6796 - Release process: streamline bumping time-based APT snapshots expiration date
6797 - Fix Vagrant build box APT snapshots updating info
6798 - Release process: streamline freezing time-based APT snapshots
6799 - Release process: automate
6800 - Release process: streamline post-release operations
6801 - Release process: streamline initializing the versioned custom APT suite
6802 - Replace link to obsolete reprepro homepage with link to Tracker
6803 - Release process: automate
6804 - Release process: streamline merging base branches
6805 - Custom APT repo doc: move to a script merging a main branch
6806 - Release process: streamline resetting custom APT suites
6808 - Custom APT repo doc: move to a script resetting a suite
6809 - Release process: streamline merging APT overlays
6810 - Release process: be extra explicit about what "freeze time" means
6811 - Revert "Release process: be explicit about the required setting when merging"
6813 * Ensure that we install the required custom packages from our custom APT repo
6817 - Release process: drop VeraCrypt reminder.
6818 - Build system: ensure we install the required custom packages from our custom
6821 * Release process: move big code snippets to scripts (tails/tails!234)
6825 - Release process: move to a script preparing the included website
6826 - Release process: move to a script cleaning SquashFS sort file
6828 - Release process: move to a script generating images signatures and Torrents
6830 - Release process: move to a script publishing test UDFs
6832 - Release process: move to a script signing UDFs
6833 - Release process: move to a script updating the trace file
6835 - Release process: move to a script publishing IUKs
6837 - Release process: move to a script announcing and seeding the Torrents
6839 - Release process: move to a script copying release files to the website
6840 - Release process: move Tor blog post generation to a script
6842 * check-po-msgstr: Add option to sanitize .po files (tails#17661)
6846 - check-po-msgstr: Add option to sanitize .po files (tails#17661)
6848 * GitLab CI: run the perl5lib, persistence-setup, and a subset of the upgrader
6849 test suites (tails/tails!228)
6852 - Upgrader test suite: drop noisy output
6853 - Add missing strictures
6854 - GitLab CI: run the subset of the iuk test suite that works in a Docker
6856 - GitLab CI: run the persistence-setup test suite
6857 - GitLab CI: run the perl5lib test suite
6858 - Skip chattr when running in a test environment
6859 - Perl program test suite doc: run tests in a UTF-8 locale
6860 - Perl program test suite doc: use command-line --all flag instead of environment
6862 - Perl program test suite doc: add missing dependency
6864 * GitLab CI: run unit tests for tails-gdm-error-message (tails/tails!224)
6867 - GitLab CI: run unit tests for tails-gdm-error-message
6869 * GitLab CI: run WhisperBack unit tests (tails/tails!222)
6872 - GitLab CI: run WhisperBack unit tests
6874 * GitLab CI: check PO files with lint_po, that calls i18nspector
6878 - GitLab CI: use Debian testing for lint-po stage
6879 - GitLab CI: check PO files with lint_po, that calls i18nspector
6881 * Fix test suite robustness regression introduced by the upgrade of lizard
6882 isotesters to Buster (tails/tails!218)
6885 - Test suite robustness regressed since the lizard isotesters were upgraded to
6886 Buster (tails/tails#17985)
6889 - Test suite: don't let Screen#find mess with Screen#wait_vanish's timeout
6891 - Test suite: make @screen.find() @screen.wait() for 5 seconds
6893 * Fix Tails Installer in Turkish and in languages that have a translation for the
6894 "Clone the current Tails" string (tails/tails!217)
6897 - Tails Installer does not allow upgrade in languages that have a translation for
6898 the "Clone the current Tails" string (tails/tails#17982)
6899 - tails-installer fails to operate in Turkish (tails/tails#17576)
6902 - Fix Tails Installer in Turkish
6903 - Update POT and PO files
6904 - Installer: s/Live.?OS/Tails/
6905 - Installer: use translations for strings defined in Glade
6907 * Move wrap_test_suite cucumber args logic into run_test_suite (tails/tails!216)
6910 - run_test_suite: use variable consistently.
6911 - run_test_suite: don't use current Git state, but the one described by Jenkin's
6912 environment variables.
6914 - Test suite: print which Cucumber tags are used on start.
6915 - Remove unused Rake 'test' task.
6916 - run_test_suite: make @doc tag handling independent of ~@fragile.
6918 - run_test_suite: move cucumber logic from wrap_test_suite in here (refs:
6919 tails/sysadmin#17772).
6921 * Test suite: automate a few manual tests (tails/tails!213)
6924 - Automatically test that we cannot login as root (tails/tails#10274)
6925 - Automate APT manual tests (tails/tails#17017)
6926 - Test that the correct keyboard layout is set (tails/tails#10261)
6927 - Test that DuckDuckGo is the default search engine in Tor Browser
6929 - Test that the on-screen keyboard works and its layout is correctly set
6933 - Test suite: fix regexp
6934 - Test suite: login using the button, not accelerators.
6935 - Test suite: implement find_any() with real_find().
6937 - Test suite: enable localization tests in Spanish and Turkish
6938 - Test suite: have #(exists|find|wait)_any return a hash instead of an array
6939 - run_test_suite: pass --expand to Cucumber
6940 - Test suite: handle the fact that the browser address bar is initialized lazily
6942 - Test suite: make new tests not run by default
6943 - Test suite: automate the screen keyboard manual tests
6944 - Test suite: enable keyboard layout and browser search engine tests for Arabic
6945 - Test suite: automate testing that DuckDuckGo is the default search engine in
6946 all tier-1 languages
6947 - Test suite: automate testing that the correct keyboard layout is set
6948 - Test suite: automate manual /bin/su tests
6949 - Test suite: automate manual APT tests
6950 - Test suite: fix steps semantics
6951 - Test suite: don't bother logging in when not needed
6953 * Drop dead code for read-only persistence (tails/tails!211)
6956 - Drop dead code for read-only persistence (tails/tails#17972)
6959 - Drop dead code for read-only persistence
6961 * Make the root directory of the persistence non-world-readable (tails/tails!210)
6964 - Make the root directory of the persistence non-world-readable
6968 - Put first what matters most to the user
6970 - Add period at the end of (imperative) sentences
6971 - Fix Markdown formatting
6972 - Add, and take benefit from, a GTK bookmark for the persistent Dotfiles source
6974 - Make the root directory of the persistence non-world-readable
6976 * Make udisks less verbose about "errors" to determine whether unused loop
6977 devices are encrypted (tails/tails!209)
6980 - Revert "Raise the maximum number of loop devices to 32 (refs: #12065)."
6982 * Allow raising sound volume above 100% (tails/tails!207)
6985 - Allow raising sound volume above 100% (tails/tails#17322)
6986 - Re-enable TCP timestamps (tails/tails#17491)
6989 - Allow raising sound volume above 100%
6991 * Re-enable TCP timestamps (tails/tails!206)
6994 - Re-enable TCP timestamps (tails/tails#17491)
6997 - Re-enable TCP timestamps
6999 * Add a button to restart Tails at the end of creating the Persistent Storage
7003 - Drop unneeded sentence
7004 - Add a button to restart Tails at the end of creating the Persistent Storage
7006 * Only install usable locales and Tor Browser langpacks (tails/tails!204)
7009 - Only ship locale definitions that the user can select in the Welcome Screen
7011 - Test suite often fails on Jenkins due to lack of "disk" space in
7012 /tmp/TailsToaster/TailsToasterStorage (tails/tails#17984)
7015 - Test suite: calculate supported locales outside of loop.
7016 - Test suite: add expected image for the Unsafe Browser in Spanish
7017 - Test suite: don't use English as a way of testing localization of the Unsafe
7019 - Test suite: adjust for the removal of locales-all
7020 - Avoid localepurge deleting ll_RR.utf8 locale variants
7021 - Build system: drop browser localization descriptions for languages not
7022 available in the Welcome Screen
7023 - Bring back localepurge, to delete unneeded localizations
7024 - Only ship Tor Browser langpacks for locales that the user can select in the
7026 - Only ship locale definitions that the user can select in the Welcome Screen
7028 * Thunderbird 78 and Enigmail obsoletion (tails/tails!203)
7031 - Upgrade to Thunderbird 78 ESR (tails/tails#17148)
7032 - Migrate from Enigmail to Thunderbird 78's built-in OpenPGP support
7036 - Test suite: adjust tests for Thunderbird 78.
7037 - Test suite: make local.yml load before *.d dirs, as intended.
7038 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
7039 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
7040 - Add missing 'set -u' to build-time hook.
7041 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
7044 - I'm not sure whether it's still the case
7045 - Update more references
7046 - Instruct to disable the GnuPG feature of the Persistent Storage
7047 - Document 'Require Encryption' by default
7048 - Rewrite anonym's draft
7052 - Remove outdated screenshot
7053 - Explain better the protection of the Master Password
7054 - Thunderbird: drop part of patch.
7055 - Thunderbird: don't automatically attach public key to signed messages.
7056 - Thunderbird: backport patch introducing pref for whether to automatically
7057 attach the public key.
7058 - Thunderbird: backport fix for OpenPGP dialog when sending to a recipient
7060 - Create libresolv.so → libresolv-${version}.so symlink.
7061 - Thunderbird: use the "Require encryption by default" policy.
7062 - Thunderbird: apply patch fixing issue with default encryption policy.
7063 - Revert "Thunderbird: patch to disable protectHeaders AKA MemoryHole."
7064 - Revert "Thunderbird: set allow_external_gnupg = true."
7065 - Improve migration prompt
7066 - Help user know how old Tails 4.13 is
7067 - Update Persistent Storage UI and doc
7068 - Remove fuzzy duplicates in PO files.
7069 - Remove section that's too generic
7070 - Remove deprecated migration instructions
7071 - Add section to import private keys
7072 - Move shorter and more generic sections first
7073 - Use automatic TOC anchors
7074 - Merge inline with its only page
7075 - Add headings and make the instructions linear
7076 - Thunderbird: patch to disable protectHeaders AKA MemoryHole.
7077 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
7078 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
7079 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
7080 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
7081 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
7082 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
7083 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
7084 - Hook thunderbird wrapper script into our translation infrastructure.
7085 - Thunderbird: notify user about Enigmail migration.
7086 - Update Thunderbird OpenPGP docs for version 78.
7087 - Drop everything related to Enigmail.
7088 - Thunderbird: set allow_external_gnupg = true.
7089 - Thunderbird: update renamed prefs from upstreamed patches.
7090 - Don't install Enigmail (refs: #17147).
7091 - Update Thunderbird patches from icedove.git at commit
7092 90184f927783370a65bfde271a67613d21372c9f
7094 - Revert "Install Thunderbird 68 until we're ready for 78"
7096 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 16 Nov 2020 12:23:11 +0100
7098 tails (4.12) unstable; urgency=medium
7101 - Upgrade libx11 to 2:1.6.7-1+deb10u1
7104 - Upgrade firmware-linux-nonfree to 20200918-1
7106 * Upgrade to Tor Browser 10.0.2 (based on Firefox 78.4) (tails/tails!208)
7109 - Upgrade to Tor Browser 10.0.2 (based on Firefox 78.4) (tails/tails#17971)
7112 - Revert "Tor Browser: patch in prefs changes introduced in 10.0-build3."
7113 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive.
7114 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0.2-build2.
7116 * Use v3 Onion service to connect to our custom APT repository (tails/tails!201)
7119 - Migrate deb.tails.boum.org APT source to v3 onion (tails/tails#17937)
7122 - Use v3 Onion service to connect to our custom APT repository
7124 * onion-grater: fix rate limiting of how often we try to connect to tor
7128 - onion-grater: fix rate limiting of how often we try to connect to tor
7130 * Electrum & Upgrader wrappers: fix i18n support and use canonical URL for manual
7131 upgrade doc (tails/tails!198)
7134 - tails-upgrade-frontend-wrapper points users to a 404 URL for manual upgrades in
7135 French (tails/tails#17958)
7136 - Some Python scripts fail to set the gettext text domain correctly
7141 - Electrum & Upgrader wrappers: fix internationalization support, by setting the
7142 text domain correctly
7143 - Unfuzzy 2 translation strings
7144 - Update POT and PO files
7145 - tails-upgrade-frontend-wrapper: remove spurious double quotes surrounding error
7147 - Update POT and PO files
7148 - tails-upgrade-frontend-wrapper: use canonical URLs for manual upgrade doc
7150 * Keep installing Thunderbird 68 until we're ready for 78 (tails/tails!197)
7153 - All branches FTBFS since Thunderbird 78 reached the Buster security repo
7157 - Install Thunderbird 68 until we're ready for 78
7159 * WhisperBack: sanitize HTTP(s) URLs (tails/tails!196)
7162 - Unscrubbed URL in WhisperBack reports (tails/tails#10695)
7165 - WhisperBack: sanitize HTTP(s) URLs
7167 * Avoid mirrors and rsync.lizard running out of disk space during the release
7168 process when upgrades to a beta/RC are present (tails/tails!195)
7171 - Avoid mirrors and rsync.lizard running out of disk space during the release
7172 process when upgrades to a beta/RC are present (tails/tails#17944)
7175 - Release process: delete beta/RC IUKs before uploading the IUKs for the final
7177 - Call for testing: set a deadline for providing feedback (2 days before the
7179 - Release process: automate generation of call for testing
7181 * Installer: fix various internationalization bugs (tails/tails!194)
7184 - Various internationalization bugs in the Installer (tails/tails#17961)
7187 - Update POT and PO files, to match translatable strings changes
7188 - Installer: allow translators to reorder string arguments in translations
7189 - Installer: fix translations being unused due to translatable string being
7192 * Upgrade Linux to 5.8 and Debian to 10.6 (tails/tails!188)
7195 - Upgrade Linux to 5.8 (tails/tails#17896)
7196 - Upgrade to Buster 10.6 (tails/tails#17930)
7197 - Regression with Intel Corporation [8086:22b0] and [8086:22b1] GPU since 4.9
7201 - Tor Browser AppArmor profile: allow access to DRI nodes
7202 - Tor Browser AppArmor profile: update patch to apply on top of 0.3.2-14
7203 - Update GNOME Shell to 3.30.2-11~deb10u2.0tails1
7204 - Update systemd to 241-7~deb10u4.0tails1
7205 - Refresh uBlock patch to apply cleanly on top of webext-ublock-origin-firefox
7207 - Adjust for webext-ublock-origin package split
7208 - Adjust fake linux-compiler-gcc-N-x86 hack to Linux 5.8's needs
7209 - Kernel command line: drop init_on_alloc=1, now set by default in Debian
7210 - Upgrade Linux to 5.8.0-2 (currently at version 5.8.10-1)
7211 - Bump snapshot of the Debian archive to 2020101002
7213 * Upgrade to tor 0.4.4.5 (tails/tails!187)
7216 - Upgrade to tor 0.4.4 (tails/tails#17932)
7219 - Bump APT snapshot of the "torproject" archive to 2020091901, that has tor
7222 * Port Perl code to translatable strings format supported by GNU gettext
7226 - Port Perl code to translatable strings format supported by GNU gettext
7230 - refresh-translations: check PO files while converting them to MO
7231 - Upgrader, Persistence wizard: set the UTF-8 flag on all strings returned by
7233 - Re-add loading POSIX: we use it for more than setlocale
7234 - Upgrader, Persistence wizard: assume UTF-8 locale
7235 - Drop unneeded call to setlocale
7236 - Drop meaningless attempt at localization
7237 - Persistence setup: encode output when displaying errors on stdout
7238 - IUK creation: make saveas method benchmarking info honor its $outfile_name
7240 - Port Perl code to translatable strings format supported by GNU gettext
7242 * Import WhisperBack into our main Git repository (tails/tails!179)
7245 - Move WhisperBack source to our main Git repository (tails/tails#16936)
7248 - generate-changelog: don't consider obsolete tails/whisperback project
7249 - Integrate WhisperBack into our l10n setup
7250 - Import WhisperBack
7252 * Import Tails Installer into our main Git repository and delete its dead code
7256 - Move Tails Installer to our main Git repository (tails/tails#17917)
7259 - generate-changelog: don't consider obsolete tails/installer project
7260 - Adjust tails-installer.desktop to l10n setup
7261 - Installer: adjust gettext files lookup
7262 - Installer: adjust data directory lookup
7263 - Update Transifex script & doc: most of our Transifex projects are obsolete
7264 - Adjust code and doc to the fact Tails Installer now lives in tails.git
7265 - Import Tails Installer
7267 * Add a button to cancel the upgrade while downloading (tails/tails!12)
7270 - Add a button to cancel the upgrade while it's downloading (tails/tails#17310)
7273 - Fix regression introduced by 26b9b1b83f3857232474dd2291889867e80a3b45
7274 - Upgrader: port code added in !12 to the l10n setup we switched to in !181
7276 - Convert tails-iuk-get-target-file | zenity pipeline to start / pump / finish
7278 - Update design doc wrt. new tails-iuk-get-target-file permissions
7279 - Remove unnecessary exit code handling
7281 - Allow tails-upgrade-frontend to kill the download process
7282 - Set a signal handler to cancel the download when the zenity dialog is closed
7283 - Add a button to cancel the upgrade while it is downloading
7285 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 19 Oct 2020 08:35:44 +0000
7287 tails (4.11) unstable; urgency=medium
7290 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 5.7.0-3 at 5.7.17-1 (#17895).
7291 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0 (#17933).
7292 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 68.12.0-1~deb10u1.
7293 - Upgrade xorg-server to 1.20.4-1+deb10u1.
7294 - Upgrade openexr to 2.2.1-4.1+deb10u1.
7295 - Upgrade bind9 to 9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+deb10u2.
7296 - Upgrade ghostscript to 9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u4.
7297 - Upgrade libzmq5 to 4.3.1-4+deb10u2.
7299 * Minor improvements and updates
7300 - Upgrade Electrum to 4.0.2-2.
7302 * Tor Browser 10.0 (tails/tails!189)
7305 - Tor Browser: patch in prefs changes introduced in 10.0-build3.
7306 - Test suite: make scenario titles consistently not end with period
7307 - Unsafe Browser: adjust disabling add-ons to Tor Browser 10
7308 - Unsafe Browser: add missing escaping
7309 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0-build2 (refs: #17933).
7310 - Rename, refactor, reorganize.
7311 - Tor Browser: use new trick to avoid mandatory extension signing.
7312 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0a7.
7314 * Test suite: use versioned python2 interpreter for otr-bot.py (tails/tails!186)
7317 - Test suite: use versioned python2 interpreter for otr-bot.py
7319 * Test suite: switch to virtio transport for the remote shell (tails/tails!185)
7322 - Improve the remote shell's performance by switching to a virtio channel
7326 - Test suite: make SocketReadTimeout inherit from RuntimeError
7328 - Test suite: use factorized way to get and update the domain's XML definition
7329 - Fix Layout/EmptyLineAfterGuardClause Rubocop regression
7330 - Fix Style/StringLiterals Rubocop regression
7331 - Fix Naming/HeredocDelimiterNaming Rubocop regression
7332 - Rubocop: fix a Security/JSONLoad regression
7333 - tails-autotest-remote-shell: lint
7334 - tails-autotest-remote-shell: remove unused import
7335 - Remote shell: improve warning.
7336 - Test suite: log whenever remote_shell_is_up?() returns false.
7337 - Remote shell: use timed read() for virtio channel.
7338 - Remote shell: switch from serial to virtio transport (refs: #11888).
7340 * Release process: generate UDFs to non-final releases from any supported
7341 previous version (tails/tails!178)
7344 - UDF generation is broken for release candidates (tails/tails#17921)
7347 - Don't generate UDFs on the stable channel to point to a release candidate
7348 - Release process: generate UDFs to non-final releases from any supported
7351 * Don't override Debian's system-wide Thunderbird configuration (tails/tails!177)
7354 - Adding comment explaining extensions.update.enabled Thunderbird pref (Refs:
7356 - Removing network.protocol-handler.app.http[s] Thunderbird preferences (Refs:
7358 - Removing intl.locale.requested Thunderbird preference (Refs: #16021)
7359 - Changing header in Thunderbird's prefs file indicating they are Tails' prefs
7361 - aa_tails.js: Removing repeated thunderbird preferences
7362 - Moving local included thunderbird config to not overwrite debian default (Will-
7365 * Clarify phrasing of KeePassXC database renaming dialog (tails/tails!175)
7369 - Explain that the change came from KeePassXC (#17286)
7371 * Test Thunderbird with local email server on Jenkins (tails/tails!172)
7374 - Checking credentials in Thunderbird autoconfig wizard sometimes fails in the
7375 test suite (tails/tails#11890)
7376 - Run our own email (IMAP/POP3/SMTP) server for automated tests run on lizard
7380 - Test suite: fix Rubocop offenses
7382 - Test suite: add debug logging so we can tell whether we're installing the
7383 hosts' email server's snakeoil certificate
7384 - Test suite: add missing newline.
7385 - Test suite: set promiscuous trust for the certificate we import.
7386 - Test suite: import isotesters' snakoil SSL cert into Thunderbird.
7387 - Test suite: complete the switch from Icedove to Thunderbird namespace in
7388 configuration (refs: #12277)
7390 * Chutney docs and logging (tails/tails!167)
7393 - Test suite: improve logging message for initial Chutney cleanup.
7394 - Test suite: also log when Chutney is up and running.
7395 - Test suite: make Chutney logging visible without debug formatter.
7396 - Test suite: document our usage of Chutney (refs: #17801).
7398 * Install python3-trezor from buster-backports (tails/tails!165)
7401 - Install trezor packages from buster-backports
7403 * Fix “return to Greeter when clicking the Start Tails button” on Intel+AMD dual-
7404 GPU systems (tails/tails!163)
7407 - tails-unblock-network: skip most graphics-related devices when triggering udev
7409 * Round the download size in "Upgrade available" dialog (tails/tails!162)
7412 - Rounds the size of numbers displayed in stderr if is not possible to do an
7413 incremental upgrade because there is no free memory or disk space available
7414 - Round the download size in Upgrade available IUK dialog
7416 * Save KeePassXC database in persistent directory (tails/tails!161)
7419 - Adjust end-user documentation for new default KeePassXC database filename
7420 - Open Passwords.kdbx by default (#17286)
7421 - Install KeePassXC 2.5.4 from buster-backports (#17286)
7423 * Support audio on recent Intel platforms: Comet Lake, Whiskey Lake, etc.
7427 - auto/build: enable the pipefail option
7428 - Add Intel SOF Firmware and Topology binaries as a submodule and install them
7429 - build-tails: give our build scripts access to submodules' refs
7430 - Make code fail hard if it becomes obsolete
7432 * "Synchronizing the system's clock" notification: hidden → onion services
7436 - update hidden to onion services
7437 (https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/15354)
7439 * Drop obsolete workaround for python3-qdarkstyle, fixing devel FTBFS
7443 - Drop now unneeded APT pinning on helpdev and python3-qdarkstyle
7444 - Revert "Avoid installing python3-qdarkstyle by default"
7446 * Build the changelog from GitLab MRs rather than from Git commits
7450 - generate-changelog: only list merged MRs
7451 - Changelog generation: support preparing a non-final (alpha, beta, RC) release
7453 - Release process: update obsolete reference to Stretch
7454 - Release process: use HTTPS URIs
7455 - Remove obsolete "release" script
7456 - RM doc: drop obsolete process hack around painful changelog generation
7457 - Release process and release notes checklist: switch to automated changelog
7459 - changelog.jinja2: add newlines for nicer formatting if rendered as Markdown
7460 - generate-changelog: skip merge commits
7461 - Add PoC script that generates a changelog from GitLab MRs
7463 * Include "initially installed Tails version" info in WhisperBack reports
7467 - Include "initially installed Tails version" in WhisperBack reports
7468 - Reorder debugging info: keep persistence-related info together
7470 * try_for() timeout is not honored (tails/tails!151)
7473 - Test suite: try_for timeout is not honored (tails/tails#17822)
7476 - Revert "Revert "Test suite: revert exception handling change in try_for""
7478 * Enable persistence for all Greeter settings (tails/tails!149)
7481 - Test suite: make sure Greeter settings are default when they should.
7482 - Test suite: add scenario testing persistent Greeter options (refs: #17136).
7483 - Test suite: support entering sudo/persistent password in German.
7484 - Test suite: simplify.
7485 - Test suite: refactor.
7486 - Test suite: restore $language after reboot during the same scenario.
7487 - Test suite: consistently wait for notifications after logging in.
7488 - Greeter: Explain in a comment why we need this ugly workaround
7489 - Greeter: expand persistence support to all settings.
7491 * Tor browser 10.0.x based on ESR78 (tails/tails!148)
7494 - Automate Tor Browser import branch name generation.
7495 - Tor Browser: disable update checks via Enterprise Policy mechanism.
7496 - Revert "Tor Browser: disable the update check with a hack."
7497 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0a6.
7498 - Tor Browser: disable the update check with a hack.
7499 - Test Suite: bump image.
7500 - Test Suite: bump UnsafeBrowserStartPage.fa.png.
7501 - Unsafe Browser: enable userChrome.css.
7502 - Unsafe Browser: Fix pref → user_pref error.
7503 - Tor Browser: drop userChrome.css.
7504 - Unsafe Browsesr: make DNS resolution work.
7505 - Revert "Tor Browser: remove leftover .orig."
7506 - Revert "Tor Browser: delete all Namecoin stuff."
7507 - Revert "Tor Browser: temporarily disable all non-en_US locales."
7508 - Tor Browser: refresh extension hacks patches.
7509 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0a5-build2.
7511 - Don't ignore grep failure.
7512 - Tor Browser: delete all Namecoin stuff.
7513 - Tor Browser: use the bundled libstdc++.so.6.
7514 - Tor Browser: remove leftover .orig.
7515 - Tor Browser: temporarily disable all non-en_US locales.
7516 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.x nightly build as of 2020-08-13.
7517 - Tor Browser: naming scheme for nightly builds has changed.
7519 * Hide broken "Turn on Wi-Fi Hotspot" feature in GNOME Wi-Fi settings
7523 - Hide broken "Turn on Wi-Fi Hotspot" feature in GNOME Wi-Fi settings (#17887)
7525 * Upgrade Linux to 5.7.17-1, adjust for updated Electrum dependencies, support
7526 older TREZOR firmware (tails/tails!142)
7529 - Avoid installing python3-qdarkstyle by default
7530 - Install python3-hid, to support the HID version of TREZOR
7531 - Install python3-qdarkstyle from Bullseye: Electrum now depends on it (#17904)
7532 - Upgrade Linux to 5.7.0-3, currently at version 5.7.17-1 (#17895)
7533 - Revert "Install python3-cryptography, otherwise Electrum 4.0.2-0.1 won't start"
7534 - Install python3-construct from buster-backports: python3-trezor needs it
7537 * Fix sorting Intel GPUs last in the "Error starting GDM" message
7541 - Multiple GPUs are not sorted in the intended order in the "Error starting GDM"
7542 message (tails/tails#17903)
7545 - Fix sorting Intel GPUs last in the "Error starting GDM" message (#17903)
7547 * Include information about the contents of the system partition in WhisperBack
7548 reports (tails/tails!140)
7551 - tails-debugging-info: include information about the contents of the system
7553 - tails-debugging-info: add support for commands that need to go through a shell
7555 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 21 Sep 2020 12:03:51 +0200
7557 tails (4.10) unstable; urgency=medium
7560 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 9.5.4-build1 (Closes: #17885).
7561 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 5.7.0-2 at 5.7.10-1 (Closes: #17841,
7565 - Make iPhone Tethering work by adding udev rule to disable MAC
7566 spoofing for it (Closes: #17820).
7567 - Remove broken Thunderbird protocol selection. This code has been
7568 a no-op in practice since at least Tails 4.0. We've decided to
7569 reject #17276 and investigate what the biggest problems are for
7570 email in Tails with slow/shitty Internet connections:
7571 default'ing to IMAP may, or may not, be part of these
7572 problems (Closes #17276).
7574 * Minor improvements and updates
7575 - Upgrade to Tor 0.4.3.6 (Closes: #17835).
7576 - Upgrade to Electrum 4.0.2 (Closes: #17828).
7577 - Hide Thunderbird welcome message: it is not relevant in the
7578 context of Tails. For example, it feels weird that we would
7579 encourage users to donate to Thunderbird about as loudly as we
7580 encourage them to donate to Tails. Besides, the default message
7581 is retrieved from the web when Thunderbird starts. We don't
7582 need this extra network activity.
7583 - import-translations: use *_release branches instead of
7584 *_completed branches. The new *_release branches contain exactly
7585 what we want, i.e. all reviewed translations from
7586 Transifex. While the *_completed branches only contain PO files
7587 for languages that are fully translated (Closes: #16774).
7590 - Upgrade snapshot of the Debian archive to 2020081601, including
7591 the 10.5 point release of Debian Buster (Closes: #17790).
7592 - On Bullseye and newer: use custom, fake, unversioned python
7593 packages. The unversioned python packages are not shipped in
7594 Bullseye/sid anymore, and even old versions are not installable
7595 anymore (Closes: #17858).
7596 - Import vagrant-libvirt's create_box.sh script. It's not included
7597 in vagrant-libvirt 0.1.2-1 anymore (Closes: #17872).
7600 - Improve robustness for scenario "The Additional Software dpkg
7601 hook notices when persistence is locked down while installing a
7603 - Improve robustness for scenario "Use GNOME Disks to unlock a USB
7604 drive that has a basic VeraCrypt volume with a keyfile".
7605 - Improve robustness of cloning a Git repository.
7606 - Don't hammer resources of the system under test while
7607 installing/removing packages. I see every such dpkg|grep call
7608 takes about 0.3 seconds on lizard, i.e. 30% of the 1 second
7609 default delay between checks, which I suspect is enough to slow
7610 down the package installation/removal we're exercising.
7611 - Update expected title of the GitLab page we use
7612 - Rubocop: target Ruby 2.5 (Buster).
7614 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 24 Aug 2020 13:28:43 +0200
7616 tails (4.9) unstable; urgency=medium
7619 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 9.5.3-build1 (Closes: #17827).
7620 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 1:68.10.0-1~deb10u1 (DSA-4718).
7621 - Upgrade Linux to 5.7.0-1 at 5.7.6-1 (Closes: #17786).
7622 - Upgrade Evolution Data Server to 3.30.5-1+deb10u1 (DSA-4725).
7623 - Upgrade FFmpeg to 7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1 (DSA-4722).
7624 - Upgrade ImageMagick to 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1+deb10u1 (DSA-4712).
7625 - Upgrade NSS to 2:3.42.1-1+deb10u3 (DSA-4726).
7626 - Upgrade OpenMPT to 2:3.42.1-1+deb10u3 (DSA-4729).
7627 - Upgrade WebKitGTK to 2.28.3-2~deb10u1 (DSA-4724).
7630 - Fix quoting issue triggering problems with some administration
7631 passwords (Closes: #17792).
7632 - Fix toram boot option by not starting the tails-shutdown-on-media-removal
7633 service unit in that case (Closes: #17800).
7634 - Fix keyboard setting handling in the greeter (Closes: #17794).
7635 - Make sure log messages can be displayed by Plymouth, which has strict
7636 limits, and improve parsing in tails-gdm-error-message (Closes: #17533).
7637 - Upgrade firmware-linux and firmware-nonfree to 20200421-1.
7639 * Minor improvements and updates
7640 - Ensure MAC spoofing messages are translated (Closes: #17783).
7641 - Improve failure handling for MAC spoofing (Closes: #17784).
7642 - Trigger MAC spoofing "panic" mode when the debug=test_mac_spoof_panic boot
7644 - Upgrade VirtualBox guest modules to 6.1.12-dfsg-5.
7647 - Automate post-release GitLab updates, using gitlab-triage (Closes: #17589).
7648 - Fix a lot of possible problems spotted by ShellCheck, thanks to Paul Wise.
7649 - Stop installing custom firmware: firmware-realtek 20200421-1 includes it
7650 (See: #17786, #17323).
7651 - Update Thunderbird patches (Closes: #6156, #17808).
7652 - Bump snapshot of the Debian archive to 2020071801 (Closes: #17786).
7655 - Add shell-special chars to passwords (See: #17792).
7656 - Always test the Unsafe Browser in Farsi.
7657 - Fix support for symlinks (Closes: #17547).
7658 - Update persistence-setup test suite for a new preset in Welcome Screen
7660 - Drop Thunderbird POP3 test.
7661 - Make the "the Tor Browser has started" step stricter.
7662 - Improve error output when the Unsafe Browser fails to start in some locale.
7664 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 27 Jul 2020 09:03:10 +0200
7666 tails (4.8) unstable; urgency=medium
7669 - Welcome Screen: after a large refactoring we now can persist
7670 settings (See: #17136)! Currently it is limited to the newly
7671 added option that controls whether the Unsafe Browser is allowed
7672 to start (#17085). In the next major release we'll support all
7676 - Allow to disable the Unsafe Browser in the Welcome Screen
7677 (Closes: #17085). The Unsafe Browser can be used by exploits to
7678 deanonymize the Tails user (for details, see: #15635).
7679 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 9.5.1-build2 (Closes: 17782).
7681 * Upgrade to Thunderbird 68.9.0 (DSA-4702).
7682 * Disable unsafe MX automatic configuration method (Closes:
7684 * Disable unsafe MS Exchange automatic configuration method
7686 - Upgrade Linux kernel to linux-image-5.6.0-2 at 5.6.14-2 (Closes:
7688 - Upgrade gnutls28-based packages to 3.6.7-4+deb10u4 (DSA-4697).
7689 - Upgrade intel-microcode to 3.20200609.2~deb10u1 (DSA-4701).
7692 - Trigger emergency shutdown on resume when the boot device was
7693 removed while suspended (Closes: #16787).
7694 - Thunderbird: make searching in messages (Find bar and Find in
7695 This Message) work again (Closes: #17328).
7696 - Ensure Mac Spoofing Panic messages will be correctly displayed
7697 (Closes: #17779). udev may close child processes when a process
7698 associated with a rule (/etc/udev/rules) terminates so we wait
7699 for those processes before exiting.
7700 - Wrap `seahorse-tool --import` so it is handled by `gpg --import`
7701 (Closes: #17183). This makes importing binary keys via GNOME
7702 Files integration possible again.
7704 * Minor improvements and updates
7705 - Upgrade to tor 0.4.3.5-1 (Closes: #17741).
7706 - Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:6.1.5-3+deb10u6.
7707 - Upgrade VirtualBox guest modules to 6.1.10-dfsg-1.
7708 - Append Unsafe Browser setting to WhisperBack debug info.
7711 - Upgrade snapshot of the Debian archive to 2020061003, including
7712 the 10.4 point release of Debian Buster (Closes: #17620).
7713 - Tor Browser AppArmor profile: update patch to apply on top of
7714 0.3.2-11 (Closes: #17612)
7715 - Thunderbird AppArmor profile: update patch to apply on top of
7716 68.9.0 (Closes: #17769).
7719 - Establish a coding standards baseline on our Ruby code base
7720 using Rubocop (Closes: #17646). This *MASSIVE* change includes
7721 mainly stylistic fixes and linting but also a few bug fixes,
7722 some dead code removal and code simplifications/refactorings,
7723 spelling fixes, improved gherkin and even removal the of
7724 a few duplicated tests and merging of very similar tests.
7725 - Improve robustness of navigating the GRUB menu in UEFI mode, and
7726 consequently drop the @fragile tag on the UEFI boot scenario
7728 - Allow configuring the number of vCPUs given to TailsToaster.
7729 Based on work done by kytv (♥) on #6729. On powerful hardware
7730 with many CPUs, Tails boots much faster with >2 vCPUs given to
7732 - Disable desktop size and clipboard interference between the host
7733 system and the system under test when using --view.
7734 - Ensure we run post_snapshot_restore_hook every time it's needed.
7735 - Fix running with XDG_SESSION_TYPE unset (Closes: #17596).
7736 - Always test the localized start up page of the Unsafe Browser.
7737 - Add --keep-chutney option to keep Chutney data, but no
7738 snapshots, between runs.
7739 - Revert "Test suite: disable tests about notifications in case of
7740 MAC spoofing failure (refs: #10774)"
7741 - Verify that the Unsafe Browser is disabled by default.
7742 - Test suite: fix --image-bumping-mode.
7744 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2020 16:02:18 +0200
7746 tails (4.7) unstable; urgency=medium
7749 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 9.5-build2 (Closes: #17710).
7750 - Upgrade APT to 1.8.2.1 (DSA-4685).
7751 - Upgrade BIND to 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+deb10u1 (DSA-4689).
7752 - Upgrade WebKitGTK to 2.28.2-2~deb10u1 (DSA-4681).
7753 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 1:68.8.0-1~deb10u1 (DSA-4683).
7756 - Improve Additional Software reliability (Closes: #17278): disable
7757 periodic APT operations entirely, adjust timeouts, force data
7758 synchronization, preserve file ownership.
7759 - Make memory erasure feature compatible with overlayfs (Closes: #15146).
7760 - Adjust various documentation for the new GitLab-based hosting.
7762 * Minor improvements and updates
7763 - Fix title of unlock-veracrypt-volume error dialog in case of incorrect
7764 password (Closes: #17668).
7765 - Clean up confusing torrc (Closes: #17706).
7768 - IUK creation: don't use extreme compression options for the outer
7769 SquashFS container refs.
7770 - IUK creation: add support for building several IUKs in parallel locally
7772 - IUK verification: add support for fetching IUKs built in parallel on
7773 Jenkins (Closes: #17658).
7774 - Release process: generate UDFs on the alpha channel for previous
7775 non-final releases (Closes: #17614).
7776 - Remove aufs-based IUK generation code and doc (Closes: #17489).
7779 - Adjust for augmented timeouts in Additional Software.
7780 - Adjust locale lookup to check several directories.
7781 - Speed up 'I fill a ... MiB file' step by 1000%.
7782 - Keep latest test suite screenshot (Closes: #17621).
7783 - Fix test suite breaking when the user connects to the VM via virt-viewer
7785 - Adjust reference images and titles following the migration to GitLab
7786 (Closes: #17718, 17719).
7788 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 01 Jun 2020 18:31:41 +0200
7790 tails (4.6) unstable; urgency=medium
7793 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 9.0.10-build2 (Closes: #17660).
7794 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 1:68.7.0-1~deb10u1 (MFSA-2020-14, DSA-4656).
7795 - Upgrade Git to 1:2.11.0-3+deb9u3 (DSA-4657, DSA-4659).
7796 - Upgrade Node.js to 10.19.0~dfsg1-1 (DSA-4669).
7797 - Upgrade OpenLDAP to 2.4.47+dfsg-3+deb10u2 (DSA-4666).
7798 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.1.1d-0+deb10u3 (DSA-4661).
7799 - Upgrade ReportLab to 3.5.13-1+deb10u1 (DSA-4663).
7800 - Upgrade WebKitGTK to 2.26.4-1~deb10u3 (DSA-4658).
7803 - Switch Japanese input method from Anthy to Mozc (Closes: #16719).
7804 - Install the libu2f-udev package, for U2F device support.
7805 - Update our list of 'Favorites' applications (Closes: #16990).
7808 - lint_po: support locales with "@" in their name, such as ru@petr1708
7810 - perl5lib: declare missing test dependencies (Closes: #17591).
7811 - iuk: declare missing test dependencies (Closes: #17592).
7812 - Upgrade to po4a 0.55 for Tails images and Vagrant box (Closes: #17005).
7815 - Print disk usage information when the test suite fails with “No
7817 - Ensure no zombie processes are left around, by cleaning subprocesses
7818 correctly (Closes: #17551).
7819 - Prevent webrick from becoming a zombie process.
7820 - Avoid test suite getting stuck due to a zero timeout.
7821 - Fix obsoletion warnings (Closes: #17552).
7822 - Add root check and --allow-non-root option (Closes: #17613). Let's
7823 make it clear running the test suite requires root privileges in
7826 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 04 May 2020 18:43:38 +0200
7828 tails (4.5) unstable; urgency=medium
7831 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 9.0.9-build1 (Closes: #17594).
7832 - Upgrade BlueZ to 5.50-1.2~deb10u1 (DSA-4647).
7833 - Upgrade GnuTLS to 3.6.7-4+deb10u3 (DSA-4652).
7835 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 06 Apr 2020 21:51:05 +0200
7837 tails (4.5~rc1) unstable; urgency=medium
7840 - Migrate from aufs to overlayfs (Closes: #8415). This change touches
7841 many components which won't all be listed individually, but some
7842 highlights are listed below:
7843 ⋅ Adjust the build system to stop building the aufs kernel module.
7844 ⋅ Switch the kernel command line from union=aufs to union=overlayfs.
7845 ⋅ Adjust AppArmor profiles (Closes: #9045, #12112).
7846 . Adapt chroot-browsers (Closes: #12105).
7847 ⋅ Drop the aufs Git submodule.
7848 ⋅ Make memory erasure feature compatible with overlayfs
7850 ⋅ Make Upgrader support and also generate overlayfs-based IUKs by
7851 default (Closes: #9373).
7852 - Use GRUB with Secure Boot support for x86_64 (Closes: #6560, #15806).
7853 This is also a large change, touching many components:
7854 ⋅ Install grub from bullseye.
7855 ⋅ Introduce a custom grub configuration file.
7856 ⋅ Use a custom background image.
7857 ⋅ Mimick Debian Installer's efi-image build script to handle all
7858 details in binary local hooks.
7859 ⋅ Add SYSLINUX in the syslinux bootloader menu, to make it easier to
7860 troubleshoot GRUB vs. syslinux issues (Closes: #17538).
7861 ⋅ Upgrader: Adjust to also handle files in EFI/debian when dealing
7863 ⋅ Adjust test suite.
7864 - Migrate test suite from Sikuli to a combination of OpenCV (image
7865 matching), xdotool (mouse interaction), plus libvirt's send-key
7866 (keyboard interaction) (Closes: #15460). This is another major
7867 changes, allowing the test suite to run on Buster-based systems,
7868 touching various areas of the test suite, among which:
7869 ⋅ Add workaround for the Greeter when restoring snapshot.
7870 ⋅ Fix dependencies for Buster.
7871 ⋅ Replace some Sikuli-based options with some OpenCV-based ones
7872 (e.g. --retry-find → --image-bumping-mode).
7873 ⋅ Handle non-English keyboards.
7874 ⋅ Fix --capture on Buster and above.
7875 ⋅ Deal with Buster having migrated from avconv to ffmpeg.
7878 - Upgrade ICU to 63.1-6+deb10u1 (DSA-4646).
7880 * Minor improvements and updates
7881 - Refactor tails-documentation (Closes: #16903).
7884 - Freeze APT snapshots for 4.5~rc1.
7885 - Rakefile: always disable website caching when building from a tag
7887 - Rakefile: fix recommended permissions (libvirt needs +r to share the
7888 source tree with the Vagrant box).
7889 - Import persistence-setup.git from its own repository into tails.git
7890 (Closes: #17526, #6487).
7891 - IUK: ensure rsync runtime dependency is installed.
7894 - Adjust for the aufs → overlayfs migration (Closes: #12106, #17440,
7896 - run_test_suite: don't print usage on error.
7897 - run_test_suite: --view/--vnc-server-only are only supported on x11.
7898 - Optimize checking if file is empty.
7899 - Speed up some test failures to avoid resource starvation.
7900 - Check for tcplay dependency.
7901 - Increase chances chutney starts after unclean shutdown.
7902 - Make chutney log what it is doing.
7903 - Make opening Thunderbird's Extensions tab more robust.
7905 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Thu, 26 Mar 2020 22:51:35 +0100
7907 tails (4.4.1) unstable; urgency=medium
7910 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 9.0.7-build1 (Closes: #17539).
7911 - Upgrade tor to 0.4.2.7 (Closes: #17531).
7912 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 1:68.6.0-1~deb10u1 (MFSA-2020-10, DSA-4642).
7913 - Upgrade WebKitGTK to 2.26.4-1~deb10u2 (DSA-4641).
7916 - lint_po: avoid race conditions when checking PO files (Closes: #17359).
7918 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 22 Mar 2020 20:27:47 +0100
7920 tails (4.4) unstable; urgency=medium
7923 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 9.0.6-build2 (MFSA-2020-09).
7924 - Upgrade Linux kernel to linux-image-5.4.0-4, currently at 5.4.19-1
7926 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 68.5.0-1~deb10u1 (MFSA-2020-07, Closes: #17481).
7927 - Upgrade cURL to 7.64.0-4+deb10u1 (DSA-4633).
7928 - Upgrade evince to 3.30.2-3+deb10u1 (DSA-4624).
7929 - Upgrade Pillow to 5.4.1-2+deb10u1 (DSA-4631).
7930 - Upgrade ppp to 2.4.7-2+4.1+deb10u1 (DSA-4632).
7931 - Upgrade WebKitGTK to 2.26.4-1~deb10u1 (DSA-4627).
7934 - Fix missing firmware for RTL8822BE/RTL8822CE (See: #17323). Use the
7935 tails-workarounds provided firmwares until the firmware-realtek
7936 package is updated with the patch by Sjoerd Simons (Debian#935969).
7937 Note: This might not be sufficient to support those cards.
7939 * Minor improvements and updates
7940 - Upgrade dogtail to 0.9.11-6.
7941 - Upgrade virtualbox to 6.1.4-dfsg-1.
7944 - Vagrant build box: disable mitigation features for CPU
7945 vulnerabilities (Closes: #17386). Given the kind of things we do in
7946 our Vagrant build box, it seems very unlikely that vulnerabilities
7947 such as Spectre and Meltdown can be exploited in there. Let's
7948 reclaim some of the performance cost of the corresponding mitigation
7950 - Enable website caching by default, with a way option to disable it
7952 - Key the website cache on debian/changelog too (Closes: #17511).
7953 - Update APT snapshot of the Debian archive to 2020030101.
7954 - Add support for the tails-workarounds submodule.
7956 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2020 10:59:10 +0100
7958 tails (4.3) unstable; urgency=medium
7961 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 9.0.5-build2 (Closes: #17469).
7962 - Update Linux kernel to linux-image-5.4.0-3-amd64, currently at
7963 5.4.13-1 (Closes: #17443).
7964 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 1:68.4.1-1~deb10u1
7965 - Upgrade WebKitGTK to 2.26.3-1~deb10u1 (DSA-4610).
7968 - live-persist: don't backup empty configuration files (Closes:
7969 #17112). In some cases, the previous code would overwrite a
7970 non-empty backup file with an empty one, making it harder to
7971 recover from the already painful #10976.
7972 - create-usb-image-from-iso: Run syslinux within proper chroot
7973 (Closes: #17179). Previously we ran syslinux from the host,
7974 which can lead to bugs if its versions differs from the one
7975 inside the chroot (which is what Tails will use later). Thanks
7976 to Johan Blåbäck for the patch!
7977 - Tails Upgrader: Fix progress bar not pulsating and hide useless
7978 OK button (Closes: #16603).
7980 * Minor improvements and updates
7981 - Upgrade tor to 0.4.2.6 (Closes: #17059).
7982 - Install the trezor package, which adds a command-line (only)
7983 tool for managing Trezor devices (Closes: #17463). Thanks to
7984 Pavol Rusnak for the patch!
7985 - As a consequence of the Linux kernel upgrade we also:
7986 * Upgrade aufs to 5.4.3 20200127.
7987 * Install VirtualBox guest tools and kernel modules from sid.
7990 - Upgrade snapshot of the Debian archive to 2020020302, including
7991 the 10.3 point release of Debian Buster (Closes: #17458).
7992 - Add opt-in caching of the wiki (Closes: #15342).
7993 - Use mksquashfs' -no-exports option even when the fastcomp build
7994 option is set. "fastcomp" is supposed to only tweak SquashFS
7995 compression settings, but so far it was also disabling the
7996 -no-exports option that we set for our release builds.
7997 - Drop a bunch of packages installed for ikiwiki for various
7999 * libfile-chdir-perl, libyaml-perl and libxml-simple-perl which
8000 was needed back when we built our own ikiwiki from Git… a
8002 * libtext-multimarkdown-perl used multimarkdown ikiwiki which
8003 its doubtful we ever will use.
8004 * libhtml-scrubber-perl, libhtml-template-perl,
8005 libhtml-parser-perl, libyaml-libyaml-perl and liburi-perl
8006 which are already installed as ikiwiki dependencies.
8007 - Install libimage-magick-perl instead of the perlmagick
8008 transitional package.
8009 - Don't install obsolete dependencies whois and eatmydata.
8010 - Consistently validate individual build options as we parse them.
8011 This is consistent with how we handled "fastcomp" already. Only
8012 compatibility checks between multiple build options really need
8013 to happen later, once we've parsed all build options.
8014 - Remove 5 years old transition code
8015 - Fully provision the Vagrant box every time it starts, and
8016 partially re-provision it for every build.
8017 - Behave correctly when disabling a previously set "offline" or
8018 "vmproxy+extproxy" build option. Previously, setting one of
8019 these build options *once* would taint the Vagrant box forever
8020 with the resulting apt-cacher-ng configuration.
8021 - Shrink the apt-cacher-ng cache after a successful build too
8023 - Set up infrastructure to retrieve log file from the VM even on
8024 build failure (Closes: #7749).
8025 - Always build from a fresh Git clone.
8026 - Set the permissions that Vagrant needs inside the source tree
8027 (Closes: #11411, #16607, #17289).
8030 - Remove Seahorse key synchronization scenarios. These 2 scenarios
8031 never pass due to #17169, so currently:
8032 * They don't teach us anything new → no benefit.
8033 * Every time a developer looks at test suite results,
8034 they need to filter out this known problem, which takes time
8035 and trains us to ignore problems.
8037 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 10 Feb 2020 14:08:59 +0100
8039 tails (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=medium
8042 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 9.0.4-build1 (MFSA-2020-03)
8045 - Avoid the Upgrader proposing to upgrade to the version
8046 that's already running (Closes: #17425)
8047 - Avoid 2 minutes delay while rebooting after applying an automatic
8048 upgrade (Closes: #17026)
8049 - Make Thunderbird support TLS 1.3 (Closes: #17333)
8052 - IUK generation: don't make all files in the SquashFS diff
8053 owned by root, otherwise an upgraded system cannot start
8056 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 13 Jan 2020 09:21:51 +0000
8058 tails (4.2) unstable; urgency=medium
8061 - Switch to a redesigned upgrade system (Closes: #15281), which:
8062 - removes the need for manual upgrades caused by lack of disk space
8065 - Bump snapshot of the Debian archive to 2019122802
8068 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 9.0.3 (Closes: #17402)
8069 - Upgrade Linux to 5.3.15-1 (Closes: #17332)
8070 and upgrade the aufs module to 5.3-20191223
8071 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 1:68.3.0-2~deb10u1
8072 - Upgrade libsasl2 to 2.1.27+dfsg-1+deb10u1
8073 - Upgrade python3-ecdsa to 0.13-3+deb10u1
8077 - Open ~/Persistent/keepassx.kdbx by default again (Closes: #17212)
8078 - Open the database specified by the user on the command-line, if any
8079 - Fix database renaming prompt
8081 - Ensure debugging info lands in the Journal before we refer to it
8082 - Catch more download errors
8083 - Upgrade amd64-microcode to 3.20191218.1, which removes firmware
8084 updates that cause issues
8086 * Minor improvements and updates
8087 - Add metadata analysis tools used by SecureDrop (Closes: #17178)
8088 - Refresh the signing key before checking for available upgrades
8090 - Port the Upgrader and perl5lib to a set of dependencies that are
8091 faster and have a lower memory footprint (Closes: #17152)
8092 - Ensure IUKs don't include files of our website if their content
8093 has not changed (refs: #15290)
8094 - Zero heap memory at allocation time and at free time (Closes: #17236)
8097 - Import the Upgrader and perl5lib codebases into tails.git
8099 - lint_po: ignore pre-existing rply cache file that can cause
8100 trouble if it's corrupted (Closes: #17359)
8101 - Move generate-languages-list to auto/scripts
8102 - import-translations: work around the lack of usable branches
8103 in Tor's translation.git (Closes: #17279)
8104 - Build released IUKs on Jenkins and verify that they match
8105 those built locally by the Release Manager (Closes: #15287)
8106 - Don't download every localized Tor Browser tarball: instead,
8107 use the new tarball that includes every langpacks (Closes: #17400)
8110 - Adapt for the "one single SquashFS diff" upgrade scheme
8111 - Chutney: update to upstream 33cbff7fc73aa51a785197c5f4afa5a91d81de9c
8113 - Fix tagging of Chutney exit relays and bridge authorities
8114 - Tag Chutney clients as such
8115 - Wait for all Chutney nodes to have bootstrapped before assuming
8116 the simulated Tor network is ready
8117 - Don't try to save tor control sockets as artifacts
8118 - Add a crude script to generate IUKs for our test suite
8120 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 06 Jan 2020 16:25:22 +0000
8122 tails (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
8125 - Drop all network drivers from the initramfs to shrink its size
8126 drastically. Going over the 32 MiB mark might be the reason why so
8127 many Apple machines can't boot 4.1 while they could boot 4.0
8129 - Only allow up to (but excluding) 32 MiB for initramfs accordingly.
8131 * Minor improvements and updates
8132 - Fix escape sequence in tails-gdm-failed-to-start.service, to avoid a
8133 warning message (Closes: #17166).
8135 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 15 Dec 2019 23:51:25 +0100
8137 tails (4.1) unstable; urgency=medium
8140 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 9.0.2-build2, based on Firefox ESR 68.3
8142 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 68.2.2 (Closes: #16771, #17220, #17222, #17267).
8143 - Upgrade Enigmail to 2:2.1.3+ds1-4~deb10u2 accordingly.
8146 - Upgrade Linux to 5.3.9-2 from sid (Closes: #17124).
8147 - Disable unprivileged userfaultfd syscall (Closes: #17196).
8148 - Upgrade file to 1:5.35-4+deb10u1 (DSA-4550-1).
8149 - Upgrade FriBidi to 1.0.5-3.1+deb10u1 (DSA-4561-1).
8150 - Upgrade Ghostscript to 9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u3 (DSA-4569-1)
8151 - Upgrade Intel microcode to 3.20191112.1~deb10u1 (DSA-4565-1,
8153 - Upgrade libarchive to 3.3.3-4+deb10u1 (DSA-4557-1).
8154 - Upgrade libvpx to 1.7.0-3+deb10u1 (DSA-4578-1).
8155 - Upgrade libxslt to 1.1.32-2.2~deb10u1 (CVE-2019-18197).
8156 - Upgrade ncurses to 6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2 (CVE-2019-17594,
8158 - Upgrade Python 2.7 to 2.7.16-2+deb10u1 (CVE-2018-20852,
8159 CVE-2019-10160, CVE-2019-16056, CVE-2019-16935, CVE-2019-9740,
8161 - Upgrade Qt to 5.11.3+dfsg1-1+deb10u1 (DSA-4556-1).
8162 - Upgrade tcpdump to 4.9.3-1~deb10u1 (DSA-4547-1).
8163 - Upgrade WebKitGTK to 2.26.2-1~deb10+1 (DSA-4558-1, DSA-4563-1).
8166 - Remove TorBirdy (Closes: #17219, #17269).
8167 - Use keys.openpgp.org's Onion service as the default keyserver
8168 (Closes: #12689, #14770).
8169 - Fix ordering of GTK bookmarks setup vs. Tor Browser directories
8170 creation (Closes: #17206).
8171 - Bring back the "Show Passphrase" button in the Greeter
8173 - Bring back "Open in Terminal" entry in the GNOME Files context menu
8175 - Revert "Browsers: disable the Quantum Bar." (Closes: #17143).
8176 - Revert "Hide all Tor connection-related settings in
8177 about:preferences in all browsers" (Closes: #17214).
8178 - Wait until Tor has bootstrapped before we try to upgrade Additional
8179 Software (Closes: #17203).
8180 - Fix the "GDM failed to start" splash screen functionality
8183 * Minor improvements and updates
8184 - htpdate: stop sending User-Agent that fakes Tor Browser
8186 - HTP: replace encrypted.google.com with www.google.com.
8187 - Remove signal handler from Greeter UI file (Closes: #17240).
8188 - Upgrade AMD microcode to 3.20191021.1.
8189 - Upgrade fonts-noto-cjk to 1:20170601+repack1-3+deb10u1
8193 - Update Vagrant box to Buster (Closes: #16868).
8194 - Adjust to timedatectl's output on Buster.
8195 - Adjust to Buster's debootstrap.
8196 - Vagrant: ensure the chroot has a /proc filesystem while running
8198 - Vagrant: install po4a from Stretch in the basebox.
8199 - build-tails: wait for NTP to be disabled before setting the desired
8201 - Bump APT snapshot of the Debian archive to 2019111801, including the
8202 10.2 point release of Buster (Closes: #17124, #17021).
8203 - Install virtualbox 6.0.12-dfsg-1 from our custom APT repository
8207 - Ensure we don't break tests by opening the Applications menu in
8208 post_vm_start_hook (Closes: #17164).
8209 - Improve GnuPG testing (Closes: #12689):
8210 · Switch to using sajolida's key.
8211 · Start adjusting for keys.openpgp.org.
8212 · Make the "GnuPG's dirmngr uses the configured keyserver" step
8213 actually test what it is meant to.
8214 · Make error strings better reflect what failure they are about.
8215 · Ensure dirmngr uses IPv4 since our CI runs on an IPv4-only
8217 - Ensure dirmngr picks up the changes we make to its configuration.
8218 - Switch backend keyservers (Closes: #14770).
8219 - Don't leave redir(1) processes behind (Closes: #14948).
8220 - Update image for Buster (Closes: #14770).
8221 - Update fragility status of Seahorse scenarios.
8222 - Avoid multiple instances of tcpdump writing to the same file,
8223 resulting in an unparsable network capture (Closes: #17102).
8224 - Update for Thunderbird 68 (Closes: #17269).
8227 - Remove or adapt mentions to Tails Installer as only installation
8228 method (Closes: #17204).
8229 - Add a warning about which Tails to run rsync from (Closes: #17197).
8231 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 02 Dec 2019 22:23:35 +0100
8233 tails (4.0) unstable; urgency=medium
8236 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 9.0-build2, based on Firefox ESR 68.2.
8239 - Upgrade IBus to 1.5.19-4+deb10u1.0tails1 (Closes: #17144)
8240 - Upgrade sudo to 1.8.27-1+deb10u1
8243 - Fix regressions brought by the integration of Tor Browser 9.0:
8244 · Fix non-English spellchecking (Closes: #17150)
8245 · Unsafe Browser: don't enable private browsing mode, don't display
8246 Tor Browser icons, hide the new "New identity" toolbar button
8248 · Hide all Tor connection-related settings in about:preferences
8250 - Fix Stealth Onion services in OnionShare (Closes: #17162)
8251 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.1.1d-0+deb10u2
8253 * Minor improvements and updates
8254 - Don't include the locales package (Closes: #17132)
8255 - Update htpdate's User-Agent to match Tor Browser 9.0's
8258 - Only partially fill memory for userspace processes (Closes: #17104)
8259 - Drop the "Unsafe Browser has no proxy configured" step, that's hard
8260 to update and adds little value
8261 - Various updates for Tor Browser 9.0 final
8262 - Make the "SSH is using the default SocksPort" scenario more robust
8265 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 21 Oct 2019 10:24:56 +0000
8267 tails (4.0~rc1) unstable; urgency=medium
8270 - Update Tor Browser to 9.0a7, based on Firefox ESR 68 (#16356).
8271 - Include a working version of Electrum: 3.3.8-0.1 (Closes: #16421).
8273 · Remove the obsolete "coin_chooser: Privacy" option (Closes: #15483).
8274 · Disable the update check (Closes: #15483).
8275 - Curate the list of languages in Tails Greeter (Closes: #16095).
8276 Only include languages which meet one of these conditions:
8277 · Have a PO file in tails.git (i.e. have at least one translated
8278 and reviewed string)
8279 · Are on our list of tier-1 supported languages.
8280 - Update Linux to 5.3.2-1~exp1 from Debian experimental (Closes: #17117).
8281 - Bump APT snapshots of the 'debian' and 'torproject' archives
8282 to 2019100904. This includes the update to the Buster 10.1
8286 - Drop NoScript customization that makes our web fingerprint diverge
8287 from Tor Browser's (related to #5362).
8288 - Enable Buster security APT sources (Closes: #17119).
8289 - Upgrade CUPS to 2.2.10-6+deb10u1 (CVE-2019-8696, CVE-2019-8675,
8290 and more security fixes).
8291 - Update GnuPG to 2.2.12-1+deb10u1, which mitigates the certificates
8293 - Update e2fsprogs to 1.44.5-1+deb10u2 (DSA-4535-1).
8294 - Update ghostscript to 9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u2 (DSA-4518-1, DSA-4499-1).
8295 - Update WebKitGTK to 2.24.4-1~deb10u1 (DSA-4515-1).
8296 - Update Pango to 1.42.4-7~deb10u1 (DSA-4496-1).
8297 - Update ffmpeg to 7:4.1.4-1~deb10u1 (DSA-4502-1).
8298 - Update expat to 2.2.6-2+deb10u1 (DSA-4530-1).
8299 - Update GLib to 2.58.3-2+deb10u1 (CVE-2019-13012).
8300 - Update libmariadb3 to 1:10.3.17-0+deb10u1 (various vulnerabilities).
8301 - Update NSS to 2:3.42.1-1+deb10u1 (CVE-2019-11719, CVE-2019-11727,
8303 - Update LibreOffice to 1:6.1.5-3+deb10u4 (DSA-4519-1, DSA-4501-1,
8304 DSA-4483-1, and CVE-2019-9848).
8305 - Update Samba to 2:4.9.5+dfsg-5+deb10u1 (DSA-4513-1).
8306 - Update OpenSSL to 1.1.1d-0+deb10u1 (DSA-4539-1).
8307 - Update libxslt to 1.1.32-2.1~deb10u1 (CVE-2019-11068, CVE-2019-13117,
8309 - Update zeromq3 to 4.3.1-4+deb10u1 (DSA-4477-1).
8310 - Update patch to 2.7.6-3+deb10u1 (DSA-4489-1).
8311 - Update Thunderbird to 1:60.9.0-1~deb10u1 (DSA-4523-1, DSA-4482-1).
8312 - Update wpasupplicant to 2:2.7+git20190128+0c1e29f-6+deb10u1 (DSA-4538-1).
8315 - Ensure that tor-has-bootstrapped systemd units are stopped
8316 if tor@default.service stops; replace the tor-has-bootstrapped
8317 script with a tor_has_bootstrapped() function that checks the status
8318 of tails-tor-has-bootstrapped.target (Closes: #16664).
8319 - Fix MIME info data build reproducibility (Closes: #17023).
8320 - Fix missing GNOME bookmarks, by adding them earlier in the session
8321 login process (Closes: #17030).
8322 - Increase left dock width in GIMP's sessionrc (Closes: #16807).
8323 - Use hardware defaults for the touchpad click method (Closes: #17045).
8324 - Fix image thumbnails in GNOME Files (Closes: #17062).
8325 - Use the "intel" X.Org driver for Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640
8327 - Fix sdhci-pci support.
8328 - Honor the "Formats" settings chosen in the Greeter (Closes: #16806).
8329 - Fix administration password not being applied in some cases
8331 - Fix Greeter settings being applied when clicking "Cancel"
8333 - Fix bridge information not always shown when the user selects
8334 bridge mode in the Greeter.
8335 - Fix path in whisperback's debugging info (Closes: #17109).
8336 - Fix Tor Browser functionality that was broken when it was started
8337 by clicking a link in Thunderbird (Closes: #17105).
8338 - Fix WhisperBack that was broken due to an expired X.509 certificate:
8339 stop using TLS (we already have end-to-end encryption via OpenPGP,
8340 plus end-to-end encryption and remote peer authentication via
8341 Tor hidden services). Also, switch to a v3 Onion service (Closes #17110).
8342 - Install Stretch's po4a (0.47-2) from our custom APT repository:
8343 the upgrade to Buster's version will need more work and coordination
8345 - Fix hiding of the Add-ons manager in the Unsafe Browser hamburger menu.
8346 Regression introduced when we upgraded to Tor Browser based on Firefox
8348 - Mention USB images as a valid installation technique when trying
8349 to create a persistent volume on a device that can't have one
8352 * Minor improvements and updates
8353 - Add iPhone USB tethering support (Closes: #16180).
8354 - Install Enigmail from Buster (Closes: #16978).
8355 - Disable GDM debug logs (Closes: #17011).
8356 - Hide less common keyboard layouts in the Greeter (Closes: #17084).
8357 - Major refactoring and cleanup of Tails Greeter (Closes: #17098).
8358 - Use a localized page for the Greeter help window, if available
8360 - Separate Chinese into simplified and traditional scripts
8361 in the Greeter (Closes: #16094).
8362 - Allow the user to show the passphrase they're typing when creating
8363 a new persistent volume (Closes: #15102).
8364 - When saving persistence.conf or its backup, also run sync(1)
8365 on its parent directory (might help fix #10976).
8366 - Improve Tails Installer wording (Closes: #15564).
8367 - Update tor to 0.4.1.6-1~d10.buster+1.
8368 - Update VirtualBox guest drivers and tools to 6.0.12-dfsg-1.
8371 - SquashFS sort file: remove more noise.
8372 - Improve lint_po's UX (refs: #16864).
8373 - Import our pythonlib, previously included as a submodule (Closes: #16935).
8374 - Use a consistent, standard Python packages directory (Closes: #17082).
8377 - Make various steps more robust:
8378 · "all notifications are disappeared" (Closes: #17012)
8379 · "Additional Software is correctly configured for package"
8380 · "I unlock and mount this VeraCrypt file container
8381 with Unlock VeraCrypt Volumes"
8382 · "I open the Unsafe Browser proxy settings dialog"
8383 · starting apps via the GNOME Activities Overview (Closes: #13469)
8384 · "I start the Tor Browser in offline mode"
8385 - Handle Guestfs::Error exceptions.
8386 - Provide guidance to fix problematic situation.
8387 - Update various reference images for Buster.
8388 - Don't attempt to find fuzzy matches with Sikuli unless fuzzy image
8389 matching is enabled (Closes: #17029).
8390 - Dogtail'ify all interactions with gedit (Closes: #17028).
8391 - New test: ensure that no experimental APT suite is enabled
8392 for deb.torproject.org (Closes: #16931).
8393 - Remove dead IRC-related code and dependencies.
8394 - Take into account that Evince and Tor Browser's print-to-file dialogs
8395 are rendered in a subtly different manner.
8396 - Drop fragile tag for actual Tails bugs (#17007).
8397 - Drop compatibility code for Cucumber < 2.4.0 (Closes: #17083).
8398 - Fix regression in the Persistent browser bookmarks scenario
8401 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Thu, 10 Oct 2019 11:23:53 +0000
8403 tails (4.0~beta2) unstable; urgency=medium
8405 * All changes included in Tails 3.16, see the corresponding changelog entry.
8408 - Upgrade tor to 0.4.1.5 (Closes: #16986).
8411 - Upgrade the Linux kernel to 5.2.0-2 (Closes: #16942).
8412 This mitigates the Spectre v1 swapgs vulnerability (CVE-2019-1125).
8413 Accordingly, aufs to aufs5.2 20190805.
8414 - Install enigmail from Bullseye (Closes: #16738).
8415 This fixes CVE-2019-12269.
8418 - tails-unblock-network: only sleep until all-net-blacklist.conf is gone,
8419 instead of unconditionally delaying the login process for 5 seconds
8421 - Terminate GDM's GNOME session after the amnesia user logs in,
8422 to free 200-300 MiB of memory (Closes: #12092).
8423 Temporarily enable GDM debug logs so we get enough information to fix
8424 any issue this might cause.
8425 - Make our KeePassXC wrapper translatable (Closes: #16952).
8426 - Adjust boot-time backports APT pinning for Buster.
8427 - Ensure we don't install unwanted packages even if they become
8428 "Priority: standard" again (Closes: #16949).
8429 - Move some GNOME apps to different menu categories (Closes: #16981).
8430 - Update HTP pools: replace boum.org (invalid certificate) with puscii.nl,
8431 replace www.myspace.com with myspace.com (the former redirects to
8433 - AppArmor: allow OnionShare to open URLs with Tor Browser (Closes: #16914).
8434 - Make file transfers with Spice reliable.
8436 * Minor improvements and updates
8437 - Greeter: improve formatting of printed exceptions.
8438 - Use the same icon for Tails Documentation in the Applications menu
8439 as on te Desktop (Closes: #16800).
8440 - Drop migration path from GnuPG persistent configuration created
8441 in the Tails 2.x era.
8442 - Remove various hacks that we don't need on Buster anymore.
8443 - Stop installing libcaribou-gtk3-module (Closes: #16757).
8444 - Stop installing python-cairo: mat2 does not use it anymore.
8445 - tails-unblock-network: have udev reload the databases it uses.
8446 This should avoid our fix for #16805 introducing regressions.
8449 - Bump APT snapshot of the 'debian' and 'torproject' archives
8451 - Import the Greeter codebase into tails.git (Closes: #16912).
8452 - Explicitly install gnome-shell to make the set of installed packages
8453 more deterministic (related to #16947).
8454 - Don't try to follow symlinks when normalizing timestamps on source files.
8455 - Add missing "set -u" to build-time hook.
8456 - Use consistent method to extract translatable strings from Glade files.
8457 - Create gdm-tails related files from the original GNOME files
8459 - Stop installing libimage-exiftool-perl explicitly: mat2 depends on it
8461 - Rakefile: disable compression when retrieving artifacts via scp.
8462 This makes this build step faster on systems that have SSH compression
8464 - import-translations: use tails-misc_release for tails.git's PO files
8465 (i.e. the Tails part of #16774).
8466 - Use squashfs-tools from sid (Closes: #16637).
8467 - Lower VM_MEMORY_BASE to 1536M.
8468 - Remove unneeded package cleanup (Closes: #16950).
8471 - New scenario: installing with GNOME Disks from a USB image
8473 - New scenarios: VeraCrypt PIM support (Closes: #15946).
8474 - Revert timeout bump that's not needed anymore.
8475 - Add a showing method on Dogtail objects.
8476 - VeraCrypt: ensure the temporary keyfile file is not garbage collected
8477 while we still need it.
8478 - Remote shell: print traceback to stderr so we can see it.
8479 - Install Dogtail from Bullseye and run it with Python 3 (Closes: #16976).
8480 This gives us UTF-8 support. Accordingly, drop anonym's "showingOnly"
8481 patch that was merged upstream, and port some test suite code to Dogtail,
8482 which we could not do before it got UTF-8 support.
8483 - Dogtail'ify some steps.
8484 - Make "^the Tor Browser shows the "([^"]+)" error$" step more robust
8486 - Make the "the support documentation page opens in Tor Browser" step more
8487 robust (Closes: #15321)
8488 - Remove a bunch of obsolete @fragile tags, update the reasons why
8489 the remaining ones are fragile, and add some missing @fragile tags.
8490 - Drop useless code based on wrong assumptions (refs: #13470).
8491 - Make the "I set an administration password" step more robust.
8493 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 02 Sep 2019 19:55:24 +0000
8495 tails (4.0~beta1) unstable; urgency=medium
8498 - Upgrade to a snapshot of Debian 10 (Buster) from 2018-08-06.
8501 - Remove scribus completely (refs: 16290).
8502 - Remove LibreOffice Math (#16911).
8505 - Fix Electrum wrapper's persistence check (Closes: #16821).
8506 - Remove pre-generated Pidgin accounts (Closes: #16744).
8507 - Hide the security level button in the unsafe browser (Closes:
8509 - Only hide unlocked TailsData partitions from the boot device
8512 * Minor improvements and updates
8513 - Remove KeePassX and replace it with KeePassXC (Closes:
8514 #15297). As KeePassX was used around for a longer time, we don't
8515 need automatic upgrading cappability from old KeePass file
8516 format (Tails 2 times). The user can still import those old
8517 files, if they want to access it.
8518 - Ship a pre-compiled AppArmor policy to make boot faster (Closes:
8520 - Change the splash screen for Tails 4.0 (#16837). Add SVG source
8522 - Remove our predefined bookmarks and ship default upstream Tor
8523 Browser bookmarks instead (Closes: #15895).
8524 - Install bolt for improved Thunderbolt support (Closes: #5463).
8525 - Don't display the Home launcher on the desktop (Closes: #16799).
8526 Since the switch to the desktop-icons GNOME Shell extension, the
8527 nicer XDG-blah name ("Home" in English, translated in many
8528 languages) is not used to label this launcher anymore: instead,
8529 the name of the directory is displayed, in this case: "amnesia",
8530 which makes no sense to our users. Our other options to fix that
8531 are more costly and we've decided a while ago, when I proposed
8532 to remove the desktop icons, to keep them until they were too
8533 expensive to support. So this one goes: we have the Places menu
8535 - Add Files to favorite apps (Closes: #16799). This gives another
8536 entry point to the home folder, which partially mitigates any UX
8537 regression that might be caused by the previous changelog entry.
8538 - Explicitly install imagemagick. We ship it on purpose (see
8539 [[contribute/meetings/201707]]).
8541 * Drop obsolete optional MAT dependencies it isn't using any
8543 * Stop explicitly installing MAT dependencies. The package
8544 depends on those so we don't need to pull them ourselves.
8545 - Move translations from root-terminal.desktop.in into own PO
8546 files (Closes: #15335).
8547 - Drop obsolete live-boot patch: the bug it workarounds only
8548 happens with CONFIG_AUFS_DEBUG enabled. We disable
8549 CONFIG_AUFS_DEBUG in config/chroot_local-hooks/13-aufs and the
8550 Debian package did it as well (Refs: Debian#886329).
8551 - Rename /usr/share/amnesia to /usr/share/tails.
8552 - Drop APT pinning for non-existing live.debian.net, that we
8553 haven't used since 2010.
8554 - Don't install the cryptsetup initramfs integration and startup
8555 scripts (Closes: #16264). We probably only need the binaries.
8556 Not installing the initramfs integration will get rid of some
8558 - Don't install full-blown cryptsetup, take 2 (refs: #15690). We've
8559 stopped installing it (#16264) but this branch independently
8561 - Disable live-tools.service (Closes: #16324). This service is only
8562 useful to display the "Please remove the live-medium, close the
8563 tray (if any) and press ENTER to continue:" prompt on shutdown,
8564 that we don't want to display in Tails: shutdown and memory
8565 erasure should not require a confirmation once the user has
8566 triggered it. In Stretch this code was broken and we were
8567 relying on this. But the Buster upgrade of this code has
8568 repaired it, so I sometimes see that prompt. This might also
8569 explain some issues such as #16312.
8570 - AppArmor: allow cups-brf, driverless, and gutenprint53+usb
8571 printer backends (Closes: #15030). Technically, cups-brf and
8572 driverless are not third-party and should be confined more
8573 strictly with "ixr", under the cupsd profile. But I don't know
8574 how to to test these backends and confining them more strictly
8575 may break them. Anyway, that's an upstream matter: the purpose
8576 of our Tails-specific patch is to replace the third party
8577 backends /usr/lib/cups/backend/* catch all rule, that doesn't
8578 work for us, and not to keep the list of backends which come
8579 with CUPS up-to-date.
8580 - Make export_gnome_env() exit early if gnome-shell isn't running.
8581 Without this e.g. the automated test suite, which will call
8582 export_gnome_env() before gnome-shell is running, will have its
8583 journal polluted with errors about this. This is not the first
8584 time I see this and get worried and waste minutes investigating,
8585 so let's just fix it.
8588 - Bump VM_MEMORY_BASE to 2048M. With the previous 1024M setting,
8589 the squashfs preparation gets OOM-killed.
8590 - Limit the memory used by mksquashfs to 512M (Closes: #16177). By
8591 default mksquashfs will use 25% of the physical memory. So when
8592 we use the "ram" build option, build in a VM with 13GB of RAM,
8593 of which up to 12G is supposed to be used by the build tmpfs,
8594 mksquashfs will try using 13/4 = 3.25G of memory. And then it
8595 will get reaped by the OOM killer more or less occasionally
8596 depending on how much space is really used in the build tmpfs
8597 and how much memory the rest of the system is using. So let's
8598 limit the memory used by mksquashfs to 50% of the memory we
8599 allocate to the build VM, excluding the part of it that we
8600 expect tmpfs data to fill. In passing, the fact mksquashfs does
8601 not get killed every time suggests that our current
8602 BUILD_SPACE_REQUIREMENT value exceeds the real needs of a build:
8603 a value around 10 or 11G should be enough. But that will be for
8605 - Use xz with default settings to compress non-release SquashFS
8606 (refs: #16177). squashfs-tools 1:4.3-11, used to build
8607 feature/buster, does not consistently honor the value passed to
8608 -mem: the xz compressor does but at least the gzip and lzo ones
8609 don't. This makes the build often fail because mksquashfs gets
8610 reaped by the OOM-killer. Our only other option is currently to
8611 bump the build VM memory a lot, which is going to be painful on
8612 developers' systems and might not be an option on Jenkins. So
8613 let's fall back to xz with default settings (not the crazy slow
8614 but efficient we use at release time) when building non-release
8616 - Rename the "gzipcomp" build option to "fastcomp". What matters
8617 in the "user" interface is not the exact algorithm that's used,
8618 it's the fact it's supposed to be faster than the compression
8619 settings we use to build releases. We may have to changes these
8620 fast(er) settings occasionally, possibly to use a non-gzip
8621 algorithm. So let's keep supporting "gzipcomp" for backward
8622 compatibility but stop documenting it. Instead, support and
8623 document "fastcomp".
8624 - Add the vmproxy+extproxy build option. When enabled, use the
8625 vmproxy but configure it to in turn use the exproxy set via the
8626 http_proxy environment variable.
8627 - Support the case when we don't ship a custom AppArmor feature
8628 set. Let's keep this sanity check for the times when we do ship
8629 a custom feature set, but building an ISO without a custom one
8630 should remain supported. (Closes: #15149)
8631 - Don't remove packages whose deinstallation removes most of the
8632 system; don't explicitly remove packages that are taken care of
8633 by "apt-get autoremove" already. On Buster, removing dpkg-dev
8634 or make deinstalls python3, gnome-shell and more.
8635 - Install all "Priority: standard" packages via an explicit
8636 packages list instead of via --tasks (Closes: #15690). This will
8637 make it easier to remove some of these packages from the list of
8638 those that should be installed in the first place, as opposed to
8639 letting them be installed by tasksel only to uninstall them
8640 later. I've seeded tails-000-standard.list with the output of:
8641 tasksel --task-packages standard | sort … run on a clean Buster
8643 * live-build forcibly translates --packages-lists="standard"
8644 into "tasksel install standard", so to make this change
8645 effective we also need to switch to "--packages-lists
8646 minimal" or "--packages-lists none". The former has
8647 problematic side-effects so let's use the latter.
8648 * Add to tails-common.list some of the packages that were
8649 previously installed automatically, e.g. via live-build's
8650 lists/standard → lists/minimal.
8653 - Tons of tiny updates for the Stretch → Buster transition, mainly
8654 updated reference images, but also a few other trivial changes
8655 (e.g. close with Alt+F4 instead of menu, or vice versa) due to
8656 changes in applications.
8657 - Drop test case about migrating from a Jessie-area persistent
8658 volume. If our code happens to support Tails 2.x → 4.x upgrades
8659 without going through 3.x, fine. But let's not spend cycles in
8660 our CI to guarantee this.
8661 - Revert "Test suite: add backward compatibility with redir <
8662 3.0." We don't support running the test suite on Jessie anymore.
8663 - Adjust dhclient listening address for Buster.
8664 - Bump timeout for poweroff from 3 to 10 minutes (Refs: #16312).
8665 - Adjust dogtail patterns for gobby test (Closes: #16335). With the
8666 gobby upgrade from 0.5.0 to 0.6.0 pre-series, the case changed a
8667 little for a menu item and the window it leads to.
8668 - Update key shortcut to close seahorse's Preferences window
8669 (Closes: #16341). The “Close” button is gone from the
8670 Preferences window in the buster version of the seahorse
8671 package, making it impossible to close that window. Switch to
8672 sending ESC instead of Alt-C.
8673 - Update MAT test case for MAT2 (Closes: #16623).
8674 - Add debug logging for when we call Sikuli. When following a
8675 (debug) log live (through `--format debug`) I find this change
8676 useful to know what is going on *right now* since Sikuli only
8677 reports what it has done after it is done.
8678 - Be more careful when finding ASP notifications. For some reason
8679 both the label and button has a "weird" invisible (despite
8680 `showingOnly`) twin located just below the Applications
8681 menu. So let's make some extra effort to actually find the real
8682 notification, and then look for the label and button among its
8684 - Remove obsolete method. Display::take_screenshot() hasn't
8686 - Remove workaround "Desktop icons are sometimes not shown" (Refs:
8688 - Wait longer between search steps in the GNOME Overview. On
8689 jenkins.lizard — which was under high load at that time — I've
8690 seen failures while starting GNOME Terminal from the Overview,
8692 - The debug log claims we did type "c", waited 1 second, then
8693 typed "ommandline", then slept another 1 second, then pressed
8694 Enter. I.e. just as the code says.
8695 - The video shows that GNOME Shell did pick up "c", which
8696 selected the first search result ("Configure Persistent
8697 Volume"), but then there's no trace of typing "ommandline".
8698 So I suspect that "ommandline" was lost because GNOME Shell
8699 was still busy, somehow. Let's sleep a bit longer before
8700 these steps, to give GNOME Shell a better chance to recover
8701 and notice keyboard input.
8702 - Log exceptions thrown in generated (i.e. snapshot) steps (Refs:
8703 #16747). Hopefully this will help us track down these elusive
8705 - Extend waiting time for additional software to be installed.
8706 - Sometimes we need more more time to load a page over tor.
8707 - Remove useless TailsUpgraderApplyingUpgrade.png. The "progress
8708 prompt" it was used for just flashes by and can easily be
8709 missed. There is no reason at all to wait for it since the only
8710 two final outcomes are success or failure, which we already look
8712 - debug_log() when we save/restore snapshots. These actions can
8713 take a long time (especially saving snapshots on a system under
8714 load) and can make it appear like if the test suite has gotten
8715 stuck for those following the debug log.
8716 - Don't rely on mtimes from Debian packages we download, to
8717 indicate which one has the biggest version (Closes: #16819).
8718 These mtimes are copied from the HTTP server where APT downloads
8719 packages from, which contradicts our assumption that the newest
8720 file must be the one with the biggest version. Instead we use ls
8721 to sort by version number, to pick the biggest version.
8722 - Only send TAB every second to get the syslinux kernel
8723 command-line (Closes: #16820). Our syslinux has a timeout of 5s so
8724 sending TAB every second should be enough to guarantee we do
8725 open the kernel command line. As anonym reported, "the spammer
8726 makes the splash show for significantly longer: I've seen >10x,
8727 so the boot splash never managed to appear, which is worrying".
8728 - Drop workaround to make the TAB spammer compatible with the UEFI
8729 firmware (Closes: #16820). As reported by anonym on #16820, and
8730 confirmed by my testing, pressing TAB doesn't seem to open the
8731 UEFI configuration, so the very reason why we had this
8734 * Adjustments for Debian 10 (Buster) with no or very little user-visible impact
8735 - Adjust APT sources and pinning for Buster.
8736 - Refresh and unfuzzy patches for Buster.
8737 - Pass --ellipsize to zenity (refs: #16286). This fixes dialog
8738 width and height on Buster.
8739 - Update expected /etc/passwd and /etc/group for Buster.
8740 - Display TopIcons systray on the left of the system menu (Refs:
8742 - Remove apparmor-adjust-freedesktop-abstraction.diff patch,
8743 merged upstream in apparmor. The
8744 9d8b6f4dbd8a04470490ae2bfd52044906abd7f6 commit (first appeared
8745 upstream in apparmor v2.13.1) implements this change in a
8747 - Adjust hook to the fact the Dovecot AppArmor profiles are not
8748 shipped in /etc anymore.
8749 - Import iuk.git's feature/buster branch at commit 919335e
8751 - Enable desktop-icons gnome-shell extension (Closes: #16283).
8752 - Add autostart script to have gnome-shell trust desktop icons
8753 (Closes: #16283). Various conditions must be met for gnome-shell
8754 to make desktop icons launchable, including file
8755 permissions. But the GIO metadata::trusted setting is also
8756 needed, and can apparently only be set from an opened session,
8757 so let's set the right things with an autostart script.
8758 - Drop code that sets the cursor to "WATCH" (hourglass) after
8759 logging in (Closes: #16305) This fixes "GDM's GNOME Shell floods
8760 the Journal with XFIXES/cursor issues on Buster" by importing
8761 the relevant bits of greeter:feature/buster's commit abad17b6.
8762 - Remove 8 development packages that are not part of Tails 3.11 so
8763 we probably don't need to ship them in Tails 4.0 either (Closes:
8765 - Completely get rid of Qt4 (Closes: #15182).
8766 - SSH client: remove obsolete CompressionLevel setting (Closes:
8768 - Removing /usr/share/live/config/xserver-xorg/intel.ids (Closes:
8769 #14991). Let's hope the graphics hardware issues we fixed via
8770 that file is fixed no.
8771 - Adjust Onion Grater and AppArmor configuration for OnionShare
8772 1.3 (Closes: #16306).
8773 - Have OnionShare 1.3 connect to the system Tor via Onion Grater
8774 for the control port (Closes: #16306). By default, OnionShare
8775 1.3 will start its own tor process, which can't possibly work on
8777 - Don't install binutils-* (Closes: #16272). It wasn't in Tails 3.x
8778 and we have no reason to ship it in 4.0.
8779 - Install mat2 instead of the transitional mat package.
8780 - Don't suspend automatically (Closes: #16624)
8781 - tails-additional-software: Adjust arguments to
8782 tails-persistence-setup (Closes: #16622). It seems like the perl
8783 library which previously nicely handled the tps command-line
8784 arguments now doesn't support taking dashes instead of
8785 underscores anymore.
8786 - Start tails-unblock-network in a blocking way (Closes: #16620)
8787 This reverts commit 59e99c51f15ab9e756e287acb03b4d3a91ca1dd2 in
8788 greeter.git. NetworkManager starting at the same time as GNOME
8789 Shell makes things racy: the Wi-Fi password prompt is sometimes
8790 not displayed (unreproduce on Debian Buster Live).
8791 - Patch ibus to fix an issue that prevented the on-screen keyboard
8792 from displaying in Tails Greeter (Closes: #16291).
8793 - oniongrater: give onioncircuits empty STATUS_SERVER events.
8794 Connection to STATUS_SERVER events is required by stem 1.7
8795 connect() function, but we actually don't need them, so let's
8796 suppress them (Closes: #16626).
8797 - Fix GNOME bookmarks file for Buster (Closes: #16629).
8798 - Build VeraCrypt packages with our patches applied for Buster
8800 - Avoid new "render" group stealing a GID we have already
8801 statically allocated to another group (Closes: #16649) With the
8802 systemd 241-1~bpo9+1 → 241-3~bpo9+1 upgrade, udev.postinst now
8803 creates a "render" system group, which shifts GIDs and makes our
8805 - update-acng-config: add support for 4.x and 5.x, drop 2.x. We
8806 won't build 2.x releases anymore but we'll start building 4.x
8807 from this branch soon.
8808 - Restore Plymouth theme to "text" (Closes: #16743). The default
8809 theme in Buster ("futureprototype") is Debian-branded and thus
8810 unsuitable for Tails. Let's revert to the one we use in Tails
8812 - Stop installing caribou and libcaribou*: they're not used by
8813 GNOME Shell in Buster anymore (Closes: #16628)
8814 - Allow read access to /etc/machine-id in the AppArmor profile for
8815 Thunderbird (Closes: #16756). It breaks access to the D-Bus
8816 service where the GNOME on-screen keyboard listens on Buster.
8817 - Fix screen locker not working in Buster (Closes: #16763).
8818 - Hide lstopo in the Applications menu (Closes: #16797). It's
8819 pulled as a dependency by aircrack-ng but is probably not useful
8820 to the vast majority of Tails users.
8821 - Hide nm-connection-editor in the Applications menu (Closes:
8822 #16798). We still need the network-manager-gnome package that
8823 installs this .desktop file (for details, see
8824 commit:40290be3651eaa6f08346231aef80eddd8b33c64), but there's no
8825 reason to expose it directly to users.
8826 - TorStatus: call our custom destructor to avoid a use-after-free
8827 crashing GNOME Shell (Closes: #16791). It was ported to an ES6
8828 class in the process.
8829 - Copy dmidecode to initramfs (Closes: #16857). On Buster,
8830 partprobe complains if dmidecode is missing. It's not clear what
8831 the consequences are, at least it doesn't cause partprobe to
8832 exit with an error status code - but it's cheap to just copy
8833 dmidecode to the initramfs.
8834 - Adjust path for webext-ublock-origin 1.19.0+dfsg-2 (Closes:
8836 - Update Tor Browser AppArmor profile to take into account new
8837 uBlock installation path (Closes: #16858).
8838 - Disable the uBlock logger sidebar. This brings back
8839 the hack we had before we removed it in #16206. Without this,
8840 the uBlock logger sidebar is displayed.
8841 - Reintroduce the same APT pinning as we use in 3.x for uBlock.
8842 Granted, the version from Buster should probably be sufficient
8843 right now, but it probably won't be once Tor Browser gets
8844 updated to a future major Firefox ESR. And in the meantime,
8845 this pinning discrepancy between devel and feature/buster makes
8846 it harder to maintain our patch against
8847 /usr/share/webext/ublock-origin/js/background.js.
8848 - Drop obsolete libdesktop-notify-perl patches: they were merged
8850 - Use X.Org in amnesia's GNOME session (Closes: #12213). Since a
8851 few months gdm3 defaults to Wayland in Debian testing/sid, just
8852 like upstream. But we're not ready yet.
8853 - Adjust Greeter's gdm-tails.session for Buster (Closes:
8854 #12551). This should ultimately be applied in greeter.git, but
8855 let's deal with it as a patch for now to avoid having to
8856 maintain two parallel branches of the Greeter.
8857 - Patch udisks2 and libblockdev and fix Tails Installer to repair
8858 USB boot on Buster (Closes: #14809).
8859 - Install gnome-user-docs directly instead of the gnome-user-guide
8860 transitional package.
8861 - Install the "crypto" libblockdev plugin (Closes: #14816). It's
8862 needed by recent udisks to do crypto operations.
8863 - Use ConditionUser=1000 instead of manually testing the output of
8864 `id -u' in some of our systemd services.
8865 - Have debootstrap install gnupg when setting up the chroot.
8866 Otherwise the build fails after debootstrap has done its job and
8867 live-build tries to use apt-key.
8868 - Don't try to install the obsolete gnome-search-tool package.
8869 It's been removed from testing/sid by its maintainers:
8870 https://bugs.debian.org/885975
8871 - Don't try to retrieve syslinux.exe from the syslinux source
8872 package. Since syslinux 3:6.03+dfsg1-1 this file is (rightfully)
8873 not included anymore in the Debian source package. This commit
8874 is meant to fix the feature/buster ISO build. We of course need
8875 to find a proper solution, which is what #15178 is about.
8876 - Drop our pinned AppArmor feature set (Closes: #15149). On current
8877 Buster the AppArmor package pins to the Linux 4.14.13-1 feature
8878 set and I expect it'll keep pinning something that should work
8879 with the policy shipped in Buster.
8880 - Drop Stretch-specific workaround. This essentially workarounds
8881 4f8b50afb10a1ce1faf7645971bc020d2eb5d7dd,
8882 3e2d8a6a025b86f8191d125783ad507c57171bad and
8883 d56633a3089e5b177e07c2888442745557772f42.
8884 - Disable the usr.bin.man AppArmor profile. On Buster it breaks
8885 apparmor.service due to "profile has merged rule with
8886 conflicting x modifiers" that's most likely caused by the "/**
8887 mrixwlk" rule vs. our tweaks for aufs support.
8888 - Import files (from gksu 2.0.2-9+b1) needed for the Root Terminal
8889 into Git instead of fetching the package and extracting them at
8891 - Use orca's current package name instead of pre-Buster
8893 - Stop explicitly installing gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio. This was
8894 needed on Jessie due to Debian#852870 which was fixed in
8896 - Drop adwaita-qt4: it was removed from Debian sid and won't be in
8898 - Disable man-db.timer on Buster (Closes: #16631)
8899 - Fix invalid seq range in update-acng-config so we geberate proper
8900 rules for Tails 4.x and 5.x.
8902 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 07 Aug 2019 20:30:15 +0200
8904 tails (3.16) unstable; urgency=medium
8907 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.5.5 (Closes: #16692).
8910 - Install Linux kernel from the Buster security repository (Closes: #16970).
8911 The new Spectre v1 swapgs variant (CVE-2019-1125), which was fixed
8912 in sid via 5.2.x, which is a too big change for the Tails 3.16 bugfix
8913 release. Let's instead track Buster (+ security) for the time being.
8914 - Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u10 (DSA-4483-1, DSA-4501-1).
8915 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 60.8 (DSA-4482-1).
8916 - Upgrade Ghostscript to 9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u4 (DSA-4499-1).
8917 - Upgrade Patch to 2.7.5-1+deb9u2 (DSA-4489-1).
8918 - Upgrade nghttp2 library to 1.18.1-1+deb9u1 (DSA-4511-1).
8921 - Additional software: Improve/fix support for translations (Closes: #16601).
8922 - Rework the implementation for hiding TailsData partitions (Closes: #16789).
8923 - Adjust how tordate determines whether the clock is in a valid range,
8924 fixing issues with obfs4 (Closes: #16972).
8926 * Minor improvements and updates
8927 - Ship default upstream Tor Browser bookmarks, and remove our predefined
8928 bookmarks (Closes: #15895).
8929 - Hide the security level button in the unsafe browser (Closes: #16735).
8930 - Remove pre-generated Pidgin accounts (Closes: #16744).
8931 - Remove LibreOffice Math (Closes: #16911).
8932 - Website: Make sandbox page translatable (Closes: #16873).
8933 - Website: Only scrub HTML on blueprints (Closes: #16901).
8934 - Website: Point history & diff URLs to Salsa.
8937 - Bump APT snapshot of the torproject archive to 2019073103, and drop
8938 tor-experimental-0.4.0.x-stretch reference (Closes: #16883).
8939 - Bump APT snapshot of the Debian archive to 2019080801 to get fixed
8940 firmware packages from sid instead of sticking to those from
8941 stretch-backports (Closes: #16728).
8942 - Enable the buster APT repository and install some packages from there:
8943 hunspell-id, hunspell-tr, and fonts-noto-* (See: #16728).
8944 - Refresh patch for webext-ublock-origin 1.19.0+dfsg-2, and adjust Tor
8945 Browser AppArmor profile accordingly (Closes: #16858).
8946 - Refresh Tor Browser AppArmor profile patch for torbrowser-launcher
8947 0.3.2-1 (Closes: #16941).
8950 - Ignore RARP packets, since PacketFu cannot parse them (Closes: #16825).
8951 - Adjust both locale handling and reference pictures for the Unsafe
8952 Browser homepage (Closes: #17004).
8953 - Fix "Watching a WebM video over HTTPS" scenario on Jenkins
8955 - Tag "Watching a WebM video" as fragile.
8956 - Make @check_tor_leaks more verbose (See: #10442).
8957 - Remove broken Electrum scenario since Electrum support is currently
8958 missing (Closes: #16421).
8960 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 03 Sep 2019 20:30:14 +0200
8962 tails (3.15) unstable; urgency=medium
8965 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.5.4 (Closes: #16691).
8966 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 60.7.2 (Closes: #16834).
8969 - Upgrade Expat to 2.2.0-2+deb9u2 (DSA-4472-1).
8970 - Upgrade OpenSSL 1.0 to 1.0.2s-1~deb9u1 (DSA-4475-1).
8971 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.1.0k-1~deb9u1 (DSA-4475-1).
8972 - Upgrade Vim to 2:8.0.0197-4+deb9u3 (DSA-4467-1).
8975 - Recompute CHS values for the hybrid MBR after first-boot
8976 repartitioning (Closes: #16389). Some legacy BIOS systems won't boot
8978 - Strip debug symbols from the aufs kernel module smaller (refs: #16818).
8979 The primary target was getting the initramfs down under 32MB, hoping
8980 to repair boot of feature/buster on MacBookPro 8,1. In any cases,
8981 the user experience should be improved due to a faster boot for
8982 every user, and a shortened “black screen” duration (between the
8983 bootloader and the Plymouth splash screen).
8985 * Minor improvements and updates
8986 - Make “Unlock VeraCrypt Volumes” show an error message if locking
8987 fails (Closes: #15794).
8988 - Add support for booting Tails from a read only sdcard (fromiso),
8989 through Heads, allowing for measured boot on some tamper-evident
8990 hardware (https://github.com/osresearch/heads/issues/581).
8993 - Patch Thunderbird packages from Debian when building Tails images
8995 - Improve tooling to maintain and update PO files (Closes: #15403),
8996 rewriting some tools and moving code to the jenkins-tools submodule.
8997 - Implement preliminary steps needed to make the ikiwiki PO plugin
8998 able to update PO files for languages that are disabled on the
8999 website (refs: #15355).
9001 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 09 Jul 2019 02:50:09 +0200
9003 tails (3.14.2) unstable; urgency=medium
9006 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.5.3 (Closes: #16835).
9009 - tails-screen-locker: Don't use dim-label style class
9012 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 23 Jun 2019 11:52:49 +0200
9014 tails (3.14.1) unstable; urgency=medium
9017 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.5.2-build1 (Closes: #16824).
9018 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 60.7.0 (Closes: #16742).
9019 - Upgraded Linux to 4.19.37-4 (Closes: #16823).
9022 - Only probe for partitions on the boot device when setting up
9023 TailsData. Without arguments partprobe will scan all devices,
9024 and if it encounters a device it doesn't support (e.g. fake
9025 raid-0 arrays) it will return non-zero, thus aborting Tails'
9026 partitioning script, resulting in an unbootable install
9029 * Minor improvements and updates
9030 - Upgrade tor to 0.4.0.5-1~d90.stretch+1, the first stable
9031 candidate in the 0.4.0.x series (Closes: #16687).
9032 - Completely disable IPv6 except for the loopback interface. We
9033 attempt to completely block it on the netfilter level but we
9034 have seen ICMPv6 "leaks" any way (related to Router
9035 Solicitation, see: #16148) so let's just disable it. We keep
9036 enabled on the loopback interface since some services depends on
9038 - create-usb-image-from-iso: Use syslinux from chroot. We used the
9039 syslinux from the vagrant box before, which caused issues with
9040 when building Tails/Buster with a Stretch vagrant box and then
9041 cloning the image via Tails Installer with syslinux from Buster
9043 - Set Tor Browser's homepage to https://tails.boum.org/home/testing/
9044 if building anything but a stable release. This page explains the
9045 dangers of using a non-stable release. (Closes: #12003)
9048 - auto/{build,config}:
9049 * consistently use fatal() to error out, and prefix its message
9050 with "E: " to help distinguish them from the noise produced by
9052 * Similarly, also prefix informational message with "I: ".
9053 * drop support for GnuPG 1.x.
9054 * clone more build output to the log file.
9055 * Drop obsolete check for syslinux version. This version
9056 requirement is satisfied by Jessie and it is doubtful Tails
9057 would build in anything older.
9058 * auto/build: drop a few checks for conditions that are already
9059 satisfied in the supported build environments.
9060 - Revert "Build system: try to be smart again by fetching only the
9061 refs we need." This optimization overrides the trick we have on
9062 Jenkins (set_origin_base_branch_head in
9063 jenkins-jobs:macros/builders.yaml),
9064 that ensures that a reproducibly_build_Tails_ISO_* job builds
9065 from the commit used by the first build. (Closes: #16730)
9068 - Fix mistake with execute() vs spawn() when starting the upgrader.
9069 - Don't filter during pcap capture, instead let's just apply the
9070 same filtering when we are inspecting the pcap files. This way
9071 any pcap file saved on failure will include the full capture,
9072 and not just the packets sent by the system under testing, which
9073 sometimes makes it hard to understand what is going on.
9074 - Also include the content of /var/log/tor/log in $scenario.tor
9075 when tor failed to bootstrap (refs: #16793)
9076 - Don't flood the debug logger with tor@default's journal
9078 - Power off system under testing after scenario. Until now we have
9079 relied on either one of the generated "snapshot restore" steps
9080 or the "[Given] a computer" step to implicitly stop the old VM
9081 when we move on to a new scenario. That meant the old VM was
9082 still running during the new scenarios @Before@ hooks. If the
9083 new scenario is tagged @check_tor_leaks that means we start its
9084 sniffer while the old VM is still running, possibly sending
9085 packets that then affect the new scenario. That would explain
9086 some myserious "Unexpected connections were made" failures we
9087 have seen (Closes: #11521).
9088 - Only accept IP(v6)/ARP during DHCP check.
9090 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2019 15:29:07 +0200
9092 tails (3.14) unstable; urgency=medium
9095 - Upgrade Linux to 4.19.0-5 from sid (Closes: #16708).
9096 - Enable all available mitigations for the Microarchitectural Data
9097 Sampling (MDS) attacks and disable SMT on vulnerable CPUs
9099 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.5 (Closes: #16337, #16706).
9102 - Install Electrum 3.2.3-1 from our custom APT repository (Closes: #16708).
9103 The version in sid now displays a warning and exits, while 3.2.3-1 is
9104 still usable, in the rare cases when it manages to connect to the
9105 network, despite being affected by problematic phishing attacks which
9106 will only be solved once the package in Debian is updated to a newer
9110 - Bump APT snapshot of the 'debian' archive to 2019051601, needed for
9111 the MDS mitigations.
9112 - Don't install the firmware-linux and firmware-linux-nonfree
9113 metapackages, as packages they pulled are already listed explicitly
9114 and one might run into version-related issues (Closes: #16708).
9116 * Minor improvements and updates
9117 - Remove some packages from the Tails image as their use is not
9118 widespread while consuming space for everyone. They can still be
9119 installed and upgraded through Additional Software (Closes: #15291).
9120 This includes: monkeysphere and msva-perl, gobby, hopenpgp-tools,
9121 keyringer, libgfshare-bin, monkeysign, paperkey, pitivi,
9122 pdf-redact-tools, pwgen, traverso, and ssss.
9123 - Fix missing translations in the Greeter (Closes: #13438).
9124 - Fix missing newline in unlock-veracrypt-volumes (Closes: #16696).
9125 - Port fillram to Python 3 (Closes: #15845).
9126 - Enable localization for new locales introduced in Tor Browser 8.5
9128 - Re-introduce TopIcons GNOME Shell extension (Closes: #16709).
9129 - Improve internationalization of the Unlock VeraCrypt Volumes
9130 component (Closes: #16602).
9133 - Make tails-security-check's SOCKS port test work when there's a live
9134 security advisory (Closes: #16701).
9135 - Make terminology more consistent.
9137 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 20 May 2019 18:52:04 +0200
9139 tails (3.13.2) unstable; urgency=medium
9142 - Replace all locale-specific fonts and standard X.Org fonts with
9143 the Noto fonts collection (Closes: #9956).
9144 - Install localization support packages for all tier-1 supported languages,
9145 and only those (Closes: #15807). Current tier-1 supported languages are:
9146 Arabic, German, English, Spanish, Farsi, French, Italian, Portuguese
9147 (Brazil), Russian, Turkish, Simplified Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian.
9148 - Disable the TopIcons GNOME Shell extension (Closes: #16608).
9149 This extension causes crashes (#11188), does not work on Wayland
9150 (#8309, #12213) so long-term, we need to remove it anyway.
9151 In order to learn how much our users rely on this extension and
9152 on OpenPGP Applet, let's disable this extension for one Tails release.
9153 While TopIcons is disabled (by default):
9154 · Users can still use OpenPGP Applet via the system tray in the bottom
9155 left corner of the desktop.
9156 · Users who do need TopIcons for other reasons can enable it again
9157 with 1 command line.
9160 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.0.9 (Closes: #16694).
9161 - Upgrade to Debian Stretch 9.9 (Closes: #16670).
9162 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 60.6.1 (Closes: #16641).
9165 - Fix Thunderbird account setup wizard (Closes: #16573).
9166 - Display poweroff and reboot buttons even when locked (Closes: #15640).
9167 - Disable emergency shutdown during suspend (Closes: #11729).
9168 - Provide feedback while starting Onion Circuits (Closes: #16350).
9169 - Associate .key files with Seahorse (Closes: #15213).
9170 This partially fixes importing OpenPGP keys from GNOME Files.
9171 - Don't show spurious notification about "TailsData" while setting
9172 up a persistent volume (Closes: #16632).
9174 * Minor improvements and updates
9175 - Add a suspend button to status-menu-helper (Closes: #14556).
9176 - status-menu-helper: clean up and refactor.
9177 - Drop CSS hacks for the uBlock log window (Closes: #16206).
9178 - Polish 04-change-gids-and-uids code style (Closes: #16322).
9179 - Create persistence.conf backup in a more robust manner (Closes: #16568).
9180 - Make the WhisperBack .desktop file translatable in Transifex
9184 - Don't fail the build if Tor Browser supports new locales that we don't ship
9185 a spellchecking dictionary for (#15807).
9186 - Fix apt-cacher-ng cache shrinking (Closes: #16020).
9187 - Remove obsolete usr.bin.onioncircuits AppArmor profile (Closes: #12170).
9188 All Tails current branches now install onioncircuits 0.6-0.0tails1,
9189 which ships a more current AppArmor profile than the one we
9190 have in our own Git tree.
9191 - Install Electrum from sid (Closes: #16642).
9192 - Avoid new "render" group stealing a GID we have already statically
9193 allocated to another group (Closes: #16649).
9196 - Disable tests about notifications in case of MAC spoofing failure:
9197 we have a well-known bug here and these tests do nothing but confirm
9198 it again and again, which brings no value and has a cost (#10774).
9199 - Clarify what WebM scenarios are fragile (#10442).
9200 - Avoid zombies by waiting for killed child processes to exit (#14948).
9202 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 05 May 2019 19:32:22 +0000
9204 tails (3.13.1) unstable; urgency=medium
9207 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.0.8 (Closes: #16606, MFSA-2019-10).
9208 - Upgrade NTFS-3G to 1:2016.2.22AR.1+dfsg-1+deb9u1 (DSA-4413-1).
9210 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:54:03 +0000
9212 tails (3.13) unstable; urgency=medium
9215 - Upgrade Linux to 4.19.28-1 (Closes: #16390, #16469, #16552).
9216 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.0.7 (Closes: #16559).
9217 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 65.1.0 (Closes: #16422).
9220 - Upgrade LDB to 2:1.1.27-1+deb9u1 (DSA-4397-1).
9221 - Upgrade OpenJPEG to 2.1.2-1.1+deb9u3 (DSA-4405-1).
9222 - Upgrade OpenSSL 1.0 to 1.0.2r-1~deb9u1 (DSA-4400-1).
9223 - Upgrade OpenSSH to 1:7.4p1-10+deb9u6 (DSA-4387-2).
9226 - Upgrade tor to 0.3.5.8-1~d90.stretch+1 (Closes: #16348).
9227 - Ensure Additional Software doesn't try to download packages that are
9228 in persistent cache (Closes: #15957).
9229 - Improve chances of recovering a lost persistence configuration
9231 - Tor Launcher: add langpacks to enable localization again
9233 - Migrate away from buggy Chinese input method: switch from ibus-pinyin
9234 to ibus-libpinyin + ibus-chewing (Closes: #11292).
9235 - Fix crash in Whisperback when additional persistent APT repositories
9236 are configured (Closes: #16563).
9237 - Give visual feedback while starting Whisperback (Closes: #16333).
9239 * Minor improvements and updates
9240 - Add feedback when opening VeraCrypt Mounter (Closes: #16334).
9241 - Improve consistency in Additional Software's accessibility
9243 - Fix missing accessibility support when opening a browser from a
9244 notification (Closes: #16475).
9245 - Refresh ublock-origin patch to apply cleanly on top of 1.18.4+dfsg-1
9247 - Upgrade intel-microcode to 3.20180807a.2~deb9u1.
9248 Fixes CVE-2018-3615, CVE-2018-3620, CVE-2018-3646, CVE-2018-3639,
9249 CVE-2018-3640, CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5754.
9252 - Lower memory requirements when building Tails by limiting the memory
9253 used by mksquashfs to 512M (Closes: #16177).
9254 - Remove obsolete check on Thunderbird addons (Closes: #16045).
9255 - Update Tails' APT GnuPG key expiration (Closes: #16420).
9256 - Optimize Git operations (share resources, fetch only the needed
9258 - Clone submodules from the host's local repositories (Closes: #16476).
9259 - Drop useless manual initramfs update (Closes: #16452).
9260 - Add a sanity check on the size of the initramfs (Closes: #16452).
9263 - Add automated tests for Additional Software GUI (Closes: #14576,
9265 - Add automated tests on the backup persistence configuration
9267 - Adjust test for Thunderbird 60.5.1 (Closes: #16555).
9269 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 18 Mar 2019 23:40:50 +0100
9271 tails (3.12.1) unstable; urgency=medium
9274 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.0.6 (MFSA-2019-05; Closes: #16437).
9275 - Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u5 (DSA-4381).
9276 - Upgrade cURL to 7.52.1-5+deb9u9 (DSA-4386).
9277 - Upgrade Qt 5 to 5.7.1+dfsg-3+deb9u1 (DSA-4374).
9278 - Upgrade OpenSSH to 1:7.4p1-10+deb9u5 (DSA-4387).
9280 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 12 Feb 2019 21:25:14 +0100
9282 tails (3.12) unstable; urgency=medium
9285 - Make the USB image the main supported way to install Tails (refs: #15292).
9286 On first boot, grow the system partition to a size that's a factor
9287 of the size of the boot medium and randomize GUIDs (Closes: #15319).
9288 - Upgrade Linux to 4.19, version 4.19.13-1 (Closes: #16073, #16224).
9289 Fixes CVE-2018-19985, CVE-2018-19406, CVE-2018-16862, CVE-2018-18397,
9290 CVE-2018-18397, CVE-2018-18397, CVE-2018-18397, CVE-2018-19824,
9292 - Remove Liferea (Closes: #11082, #15776).
9293 - Upgrade to the Debian Stretch 9.6 point-release.
9296 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.0.5 (MFSA-2019-02; Closes: #16388).
9297 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 60.4.0 (DSA-4362-1; Closes: #16261).
9298 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.2q-1~deb9u1 (DSA-4355-1).
9299 - Upgrade libarchive to 3.2.2-2+deb9u1 (DSA-4360-1).
9300 - Upgrade GnuTLS to 3.5.8-5+deb9u4 (CVE-2018-10844, CVE-2018-10845).
9301 - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.2.4-2+deb9u3 (CVE-2018-1000222, CVE-2018-5711).
9302 - Upgrade libmspack to 0.5-1+deb9u3 (CVE-2018-18584, CVE-2018-18585).
9303 - Upgrade libopenmpt to 0.2.7386~beta20.3-3+deb9u3 (CVE-2018-10017).
9304 - Upgrade libx11 to 2:1.6.4-3+deb9u1 (CVE-2018-14598, CVE-2018-14599,
9306 - Upgrade libxcursor to 1:1.1.14-1+deb9u2 (CVE-2015-9262).
9307 - Upgrade NetworkManager to 1.6.2-3+deb9u2+0.tails1 (CVE-2018-15688).
9308 - Upgrade wpa to 2:2.4-1+deb9u2 (CVE-2018-14526).
9309 - Upgrade zeromq3 to 4.2.1-4+deb9u1 (CVE-2019-6250).
9310 - Upgrade APT to 1.4.9 (DSA-4371-1).
9311 - Upgrade GhostScript to 9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u1 (DSA-4372-1).
9314 - Fix Totem's access to the Internet when it's started from the Applications
9316 - Rename HTP pools to avoid confusion (Closes: #15428).
9317 - Fix memory erasure on shutdown with systemd v239+, by mounting
9318 a dedicated tmpfs on /run/initramfs instead of trying to remount /run
9319 with the "exec" option (Closes: #16097).
9320 - Make the KeePassX wrapper dialog translatable.
9321 - Fix detection of first Thunderbird run.
9323 * Minor improvements and updates
9324 - Upgrade tor to 0.3.4.9-1~d90.stretch+1.
9325 - Upgrade Mesa to 18.2.6-1~bpo9+1, libdrm to 2.4.95-1~bpo9+1,
9326 and libglvnd to 1.1.0-1~bpo9+1.
9327 - Upgrade firmware-linux and firmware-nonfree to 20190114-1.
9328 - Upgrade amd64-microcode to 3.20181128.1.
9329 - Upgrade intel-microcode to 3.20180807a.2~bpo9+1.
9330 - Remove the boot readahead feature (Closes: #15915).
9331 In most supported use cases, it did not improve boot time anymore,
9332 or even increases it.
9333 - Require TLS 1.2 in our Upgrader and tails-security-check (Closes: 11815).
9334 - Enable O_CREAT restriction in /tmp directories for FIFOs and regular
9335 files (Closes: #16072).
9336 - Upgrade systemd to 240-4~bpo9+0tails1 (Closes: #16352).
9337 Fixes CVE-2018-16864, CVE-2018-16865, and CVE-2018-16866.
9338 - Upgrade Enigmail to 2.0.8-5~deb9u1 (Closes: #15657).
9339 - Upgrade Torbirdy to 0.2.6-1~bpo9+1 (Closes: #15661).
9340 - Modify Torbirdy configuration in a way that's easier to maintain.
9341 - Tell the user they need to use sudo when they attempt to use su
9345 - Make the build of the USB image reproducible (Closes: #15985).
9346 - Allow specifying which set of APT snapshots shall be used during
9347 the build, with the APT_SNAPSHOTS_SERIALS build option (Closes: #15107).
9348 - Fix more GIDs and display more information when changing UIDs or GIDs
9349 fails (Closes: #16036).
9350 - Remove obsolete patches, refresh remaining ones to apply on top
9351 of currently installed packages version.
9352 - Disable irrelevant recurring jobs in Vagrant build box (refs: #16177)
9353 that increase the chance of FTBFS due to mksquashfs being reaped
9355 - Adjust for recent GnuPG error'ing out when it has no controlling terminal.
9358 - Adjust test suite for USB image:
9359 - Add tests that exercise behavior on first boot from a device
9360 installed using the USB image (Closes: #16003).
9361 - Drop tests for use cases we don't support anymore with the introduction
9362 of the USB image (refs: #16004).
9363 - Adjust remaining tests to focus on main supported use cases,
9364 i.e. Tails installed from a USB image (refs: #16004.
9365 - In scenarios where we simulate MAC spoofing failure, test safety-critical
9366 properties even if the desktop notification is buggy (refs: #10774).
9367 - Update expected title for our Redmine (Closes: #16237).
9368 - Update expected image for OpenPGP key search.
9370 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2019 13:26:26 +0100
9372 tails (3.11) unstable; urgency=medium
9375 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.0.4-build2 (Closes: #16193).
9376 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 60.3.0-1~deb9u1.0tails1 (Closes: #16118).
9377 - Thunderbird: unconditionally disable Autocrypt, as it is not safe in
9378 its current state (See: #15923, Closes: #16186).
9379 - Upgrade Linux to 4.18.20 and aufs to 4.18.11+-20181119
9381 - Upgrade cURL to 7.52.1-5+deb9u8 (DSA-4331).
9382 - Upgrade Ghostscript to 9.26~dfsg-0+deb9u1 (DSA-4336, DSA-4346).
9383 - Upgrade Perl to 5.24.1-3+deb9u5 (DSA-4347).
9384 - Upgrade Policykit to 0.105-18+deb9u1 (DSA-4350).
9385 - Upgrade Samba to 2:4.5.12+dfsg-2+deb9u4 (DSA-4345).
9386 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.1.0j-1~deb9u1 (DSA-4348).
9387 - Upgrade libtiff to 4.0.8-2+deb9u4 (DSA-4349).
9391 · Improve support for incremental upgrades to avoid issues with
9392 partially applied upgrades (Closes: #14754).
9393 · Add a prompt after the IUK has been downloaded so the user can
9394 control when the network will be disabled; previously this was
9395 done without users having a say, possibly leading to confusion and
9396 lost work (Closes: #15282).
9397 - Thunderbird: always set locale according to environment (Closes: #16113).
9399 * Minor improvements and updates
9400 - Remove packages which were needed for getTorBrowserUserAgent
9402 - Fix persistence configuration window opening on full screen
9404 - Time sync: don't temporarily increase tor's log level when using
9405 bridges/PTs (Closes: #15743).
9406 - Warn about non-free software depending on the host operating system
9407 and/or virtualization stack (Closes: #16195).
9410 - Create USB image after building the ISO, and include it in build
9411 artifacts (Closes: #15984, #15985, #15990).
9412 - Release process: adapt to IDF v2 (Closes: #16171).
9415 - Add new Using "VeraCrypt encrypted volumes" feature, with scenarios
9416 split into two parts: "Unlock VeraCrypt Volumes" and "GNOME Disks"
9417 (Closes: #14469, #14471, #15238, #15239).
9418 - Reintroduce "Clock is one day in the future in bridge mode" test
9420 - Make starting apps via GNOME Activities Overview more robust
9422 - Check for "Upgrading the system" and adjust to "Upgrade successfully
9423 downloaded" new UI (See: #14754, #15282).
9425 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 10 Dec 2018 20:37:06 +0100
9427 tails (3.10.1) unstable; urgency=medium
9429 * Declare that Enigmail is compatible with Thunderbird 60.*.
9431 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 23 Oct 2018 01:30:00 +0200
9433 tails (3.10) unstable; urgency=medium
9436 - Harden sudo config to avoid potential future privilege escalation
9438 - Upgrade Linux to 4.18 and aufs to 4.18-20181008 (Closes: #15936).
9439 - Upgrade the snapshot of the Debian archive to 2018100901 accordingly.
9440 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.0.3-build1 (Closes: #16067).
9441 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 60.2.1 (Closes: #16037).
9444 - Fix installation of mesa/stretch-backports by installing libwayland*
9445 from stretch-backports (Closes: #15846).
9446 - Tor Browser AppArmor profile patch: update to apply cleanly on top
9447 of torbrowser-launcher 0.2.9-5.
9448 - Additional Software: fix issues spotted during the code review
9450 - Additional Software: make sure to offer persistence only for newly
9451 installed packages, avoiding inconsistency (Closes: #15983).
9452 - Improve button labels in confirmation dialogs of the Tails installer
9454 - Hardcode User Agent in htpdate.user-agent (Closes: #15912), as the
9455 Tor Browser doesn't expose it anymore.
9456 - Fix encoding-related crashes in Tails Installer (Closes: #15166).
9457 - Set the Firefox preferences to spoof English, to avoid leaking
9458 information about locale settings (Closes: #16029).
9459 - VeraCrypt: Hide PIM entries in GNOME Shell and Disks, since a newer
9460 cryptsetup would be needed (Closes: #16031).
9461 - VeraCrypt: Fix support for multiple encryption, by iterating over
9462 all children in the device-mapper tree (Closes: #15967).
9463 - Update translations.
9465 * Minor improvements and updates
9466 - Add dmsetup and losetup output in WhisperBack reports to help debug
9467 VeraCrypt-related issues (Closes: #15966).
9468 - Let AppArmor allow access to /usr/local/share/mime, reducing noise
9469 in logs due to many DENIED entries (Closes: #15965).
9470 - Use proper stem.connection module in onion-grater instead of trying
9471 to read the auth cookie manually: that's fragile and breaks some use
9472 cases (e.g. custom auth cookie).
9473 - Unlock VeraCrypt Volumes: Improve internationalization support.
9476 - Ensure the test suite doesn't break when changing the headline of
9477 /home (Closes: #12156).
9478 - Update test suite for updated button labels in confirmation dialogs
9479 of the Tails installer (Closes: #11501).
9481 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 23 Oct 2018 01:30:00 +0200
9483 tails (3.9.1) unstable; urgency=medium
9486 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.0.2, based on Firefox 60.2.1 (Closes: #16017).
9487 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 60.0-3~deb9u1.0tails2 (Closes: #15959). Also
9488 imported the same security fixes that caused Tor Browser 8.0.2.
9489 - Upgrade curl to 7.52.1-5+deb9u7 (DSA-4286).
9490 - Upgrade Ghostscript to 9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u5 (DSA-4294).
9491 - Upgrade libarchive-zip-perl to 1.59-1+deb9u1 (DSA-4300).
9492 - Upgrade libkpathsea6 to 2016.20160513.41080.dfsg-2+deb9u1 (DSA-4299).
9493 - Upgrade LittleCMS 2, aka. liblcms2-2, to 2.8-4+deb9u1 (DSA-4284).
9494 - Upgrade Python 2.7 to 2.7.13-2+deb9u3 (DSA-4306).
9495 - Upgrade Python 3.5 to 3.5.3-1+deb9u1 (DSA-4307).
9498 - Make Thunderbird translated in non-English locales via
9499 intl.locale.requested, which works correctly since 60.0-3
9501 - Totem: backport AppArmor profile fix to allow opening the help
9503 - Remove mutt, that was accidentally installed in 3.9 (Closes: #15904).
9504 - Fix VeraCrypt volumes not being opened in GNOME Files (Closes: #15954).
9505 - Fix displaying the "General" section in the Tor Browser preferences
9507 - Fix APT pinning at Tails runtime for our custom APT repository
9508 and for Debian backports (Closes: #15837, #15973).
9510 * Minor improvements and updates
9511 - Upgrade tor to 0.3.4.8-1~d90.stretch+1 (Closes: #15889).
9513 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 03 Oct 2018 12:12:33 +0200
9515 tails (3.9) unstable; urgency=medium
9518 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.0 (Closes: #15803, #15907).
9519 Notable user-visible changes and relevant details:
9520 · Adjust to the fact Tor Browser 8.0a10 replaces firefox with a wrapper.
9521 · Don't use the bundled copy of libstdc++.so.6, ours is recent enough.
9522 · Drop obsolete Torbutton prefs (Closes: #15706).
9523 · Switch back to 128px icons (Closes: #15081).
9524 · AppArmor profile: take into account new Firefox binary path.
9525 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 60.0 (Closes: #15792).
9526 Notable user-visible changes and relevant details:
9527 · AppArmor profile: patch to avoid conflicting x modifiers for ps(1).
9528 - Upgrade tor to 0.3.4.7-rc (Closes: #15772).
9531 - Upgrade Linux to 4.17.17-1 and intel-microcode to 3.20180807a.1
9532 This fixes CVE-2018-3620 aka. Foreshadow aka. L1 Terminal Fault
9534 - Upgrade OpenSSH to 1:7.4p1-10+deb9u4 (DSA-4280).
9537 - Fix Totem on Intel graphics cards by inlining the backported mesa
9538 and dri-enumerate abstractions into its AppArmor profile: they are needed
9539 with recent Mesa and libdrm (Closes: #15821). Regression introduced
9541 - Fix unlocking "hidden" TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt volumes via GNOME Shell
9543 - Fix confusing error message when unlocking TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt volumes
9545 - Revert to Stretch's X.Org nouveau video driver (Closes: #15833).
9546 It seems that the regression brought by the upgraded one
9547 is worse than the improvements reported after our call for testing.
9548 Regression introduced in 3.9~rc1.
9549 - Use the intel X.Org driver for Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620.
9550 - Fix regressions introduced in 3.9~rc1 in/by Additional Software Packages:
9551 · Don't break new empty persistence configuration files creation when
9552 permissions are incorrect (Closes: #15802).
9553 · Fix UX when the user has specified a distribution or version
9554 for a given package in their live-additional-software.conf
9556 · Don't show installation notifications on upgrade (Closes: #15879).
9557 - Make more Additional Software Packages strings translatable in the
9558 configuration dialog and PolicyKit messages.
9560 * Minor improvements and updates
9561 - Upgrade firmware-nonfree to 20180825-1.
9562 - Update the deb.torproject.org APT repository signing key.
9563 - Unlock VeraCrypt Volumes: add disclaimer (Closes: #15849).
9566 - Update Thunderbird test suite for 60.0 (Closes: #15791).
9567 - Fix various robustness issues.
9568 - Make the Chutney nodes use a higher V3AuthVotingInterval to make client
9569 bootstrap more robust (Closes: #15799).
9570 - Update the Tor Launcher binary path.
9571 - Adjust to the fact "New Circuit for this Site" is now in the site
9572 information and not under the Torbutton anymore.
9573 - Delete unused images.
9575 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 04 Sep 2018 12:15:43 +0000
9577 tails (3.9~rc1) unstable; urgency=medium
9580 - Integrate the Additional Software Packages feature into the desktop
9581 and revamp the interface of "Configure Persistent Volume".
9582 - Support TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt encrypted volumes on the desktop.
9583 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.0a9, based on Firefox 60 ESR (Closes: #15023).
9584 Notable user-visible changes and relevant details:
9585 · Drop search engine customization and stick to Tor Browser's defaults.
9586 · Upgrade uBlock Origin to its WebExtension version and now rely
9587 on the filter lists shipped in the Debian package.
9588 · Tweak the number of web content processes to work better with 2 GiB
9589 of RAM (Closes: #15716).
9590 · Revamp how we're handling our custom prefs, drop obsolete ones,
9591 reduce our delta with pristine Tor Browser.
9592 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 60.0b10 (Closes: #15091). Notable details:
9593 · Install Torbirdy 0.2.5 from stretch-backports and drop our patches
9594 that were merged upstream.
9595 · Enable the optional part of the fixes for EFAIL (Closes: #15602).
9596 - Upgrade Linux to 4.17 (Closes: #15763).
9597 - Upgrade tor to 0.3.4.6-rc (Closes: #15770).
9598 - Upgrade to Debian Stretch 9.5.
9601 - Upgrade CUPS to 2.2.1-8+deb9u2 (DSA-4243).
9602 - Upgrade Exiv2 to 0.25-3.1+deb9u1 (DSA-4238).
9603 - Upgrade FUSE to 2.9.7-1+deb9u1 (DSA-4257).
9604 - Upgrade GDM to 3.22.3-3+deb9u2 (DSA-4270).
9605 - Upgrade libsoup to 2.56.0-2+deb9u2 (DSA-4241).
9606 - Upgrade Imagemagick to 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u5 (DSA-4245).
9607 - Upgrade ffmpeg to 7:3.2.12-1~deb9u1 (DSA-4258, DSA-4249).
9608 - Upgrade libmspack to 0.5-1+deb9u2 (DSA-4260).
9609 - Upgrade Samba to 2:4.5.12+dfsg-2+deb9u3 (DSA-4271).
9610 - Upgrade the Apache XML Security for C++ library to 1.7.3-4+deb9u1
9614 - Don't display the Enigmail configuration wizard in every Tails session
9615 (Closes: #15693, #15746). Fix against Tails 3.8.
9616 - Make the torstatus GNOME Shell extension actually translatable
9617 (Closes: #15715). Fix against the first Tails release that included
9619 - Drop Icedove → Thunderbird migration code which started causing trouble.
9621 · Link to upgrade documentation when upgrading (Closes: #7904).
9622 · Show the reinstall option only when the device is big enough to make
9623 a full reinstallation (Closes: #14810).
9624 · Make the main window fit in a 600px-high screen (Closes: #14849).
9625 · Show the correct device size in the reinstall confirmation dialog
9627 - Tails Greeter: don't display file:/// URLs to users (Closes: #15582).
9629 * Minor improvements and updates
9630 - Install Mesa and libdrm* from stretch-backports and upgrade the Nouveau
9631 X.Org video driver to 1.0.15. This improves support for some graphics
9632 cards such as NVIDIA Pascal series (Closes: #14910)
9633 - htpdate: improve diagnostics output when the date header can't be fetched.
9634 - Onion Grater: support named AppArmor profiles.
9635 - Update Onion Grater's config for new Tor Browser AppArmor profile name.
9636 - Enable e10s in the Unsafe Browser.
9637 - Delete all search plugins for the Unsafe Browser (Closes: #15708).
9638 - Display a deprecation warning when starting Liferea (#11082).
9639 - Upgrade VirtualBox guest modules to 5.2.16-dfsg-3~bpo9+2.
9640 - Use Tor Browser for browsing the documentation even when offline
9642 - Provide feedback while Tor Browser, "Tails documentation"
9643 or "Report an error" are starting (Closes: #15101).
9644 - WhisperBack: remove the right pane (Closes: #7180).
9645 - tails-debugging-info: return machine-readable, structured data.
9646 Adjust WhisperBack accordingly (Closes: #8514). This paves the way
9647 towards more usable bug reports (#8722).
9648 - Port lots of our Perl code to more lightweight libraries.
9649 This decreases the amount of memory used by the persistence
9650 configuration interface.
9651 - Do not hide applications that require an admin password (Closes: #11013).
9652 - Try unlocking every persistent volume when multiple ones are
9653 available (Closes: #15653).
9654 - Upgrade Electrum to 3.1.3-1~bpo9+1.
9655 - Upgrade most firmware to 20180518-1.
9656 - Upgrade Intel microcode to 3.20180703.2~bpo9+1.
9657 - Upgrade AMD microcode to 3.20180524.1.
9660 - Drop AppArmor feature set pinning: this is now done in Debian Stretch
9662 - Remove the now unused deb.torproject.org sid APT source (Closes: #15638).
9663 - Install OnionShare from our custom APT repo instead of from sid.
9664 We've mistakenly tracked sid for a while and it has become a problem,
9665 so stick to the version that works for us until Tails 4.0.
9666 - Fix building the ISO on zfs by dropping the cache=none setting for
9667 vmproxy's storage (Closes: #14404).
9668 - Update the Vagrant basebox for any change under vagrant/.
9669 Previously, some relevant changes were not effective until something under
9670 vagrant/definitions/tails-builder/ was changed.
9671 - Make intltool ignore .py files: `intltool-update --maintain` seems to be
9672 buggy with .py files.
9673 - Refresh our CUPS AppArmor profile patch to apply on 2.2.1-8+deb9u2.
9674 - Make it more obvious that the .orig file check is fatal (Closes: #15727).
9675 - Delete baseboxes once they're 6 months old instead of 4.
9676 This is more in line with the delay between our major releases these days.
9677 - Rename /usr/share/amnesia to /usr/share/tails. It was about time.
9678 - Abort the build if /etc/{passwd,group} has changed (Closes: #15419).
9679 Such changes can break Tails after an automatic upgrade was applied
9680 so let's detect it ASAP. Consequently, ensure a few GIDs — that wanted
9681 to play musical chairs — are the same as in Tails 3.8 (Closes: #15695).
9682 - Don't fail the build if the APT lists don't include any package
9683 whose name matches ^geoclue.
9686 - Adjust to the new tails-persistence-setup API.
9687 - Update the Tor Browser's AppArmor profile name.
9688 - Re-enable the "I can print the current page […]" test.
9689 - Update tests wrt. the fact tails-upgrade-frontend-wrapper was ported
9690 to Python (Closes: #15379).
9691 - Make a test more robust by waiting for the page to have loaded.
9692 - Adjust to the fact the WhisperBack debugging info is now configured
9693 in a machine-readable file.
9694 - Remove test for tails-debugging-info, that has been a no-op for a while.
9695 - Adjust for Tor Browser 8.
9696 - Make the "I open the address" step more robust and accordingly
9697 stop marking the tests that use it in the Unsafe Browser
9698 as fragile (refs: #14771).
9699 - De-duplicate a number of images of standard GTK+ 3 widgets.
9700 - Make the audio and WebM tests more robust.
9701 - Make the "I start the Tor Browser in offline mode" step more robust.
9702 - Make the "AppArmor has (not )? denied" step more robust.
9703 - Don't try and use XVFB_PID if it's not set (Closes: #15730).
9704 - Adjust Pidgin test to use a certificate that's still in Debian
9706 - Use a hopefully more reliable public GnuPG key and make tests
9707 more robust against new subkeys being added (Closes: #15771).
9708 - Stop hard-coding the list of RTL Tor Browser locales.
9709 - Fix the "Unsafe Browser can be used in all languages supported in Tails"
9710 test for locales that have a translated homepage (Closes: #11711).
9711 - Take into account that apt(8) won't return when run in the remote shell
9712 with the ASP hooks enabled.
9714 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Thu, 16 Aug 2018 18:37:47 +0000
9716 tails (3.8) unstable; urgency=medium
9719 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.5.6 (MFSA 2018-17; Closes: #15683).
9720 - Upgrade Enigmail to 2.0.7 (partly fixes #15602 aka. EFAIL).
9721 - Upgrade libgcrypt to 1.7.6-2+deb9u3 (DSA-4231-1).
9722 - Upgrade perl to 5.24.1-3+deb9u4 (DSA-4226-1).
9725 - Thunderbird: fix importing public OpenPGP keys from email attachments
9727 - Make the Unsafe Browser home page translatable again (Closes: #15461).
9729 * Minor improvements
9730 - Don't display the "Know your rights" message on Thunderbird first run.
9731 - Move Thunderbird's default userChrome.css to /etc/thunderbird, just like
9732 we do for Tor Browser, for easier upgrade handling.
9734 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 25 Jun 2018 09:59:22 +0000
9736 tails (3.7.1) unstable; urgency=medium
9739 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.5.5 (MFSA 2018-14; closes: #15643).
9740 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 52.8.0 (DSA-4209-1; Closes: #15607).
9741 - Partially fixes EFAIL.
9742 - Fixes importing OpenPGP keys from keyservers with Enigmail.
9743 - Accordingly refresh our Thunderbird AppArmor profile patch.
9744 - Upgrade cURL to 7.52.1-5+deb9u6 (DSA-4202-1).
9745 - Upgrade GnuPG (modern) 2.1.18-8~deb9u2 (DSA-4222-1).
9746 - Upgrade GnuPG (legacy) to 1.4.21-4+deb9u1 (DSA-4223-1).
9747 - Upgrade Git to 1:2.11.0-3+deb9u3 (DSA-4212-1).
9748 - Upgrade PackageKit to 1.1.5-2+deb9u1 (DSA-4207-1).
9749 - Upgrade procps to 2:3.3.12-3+deb9u1 (DSA-4208-1).
9750 - Upgrade wavpack to 5.0.0-2+deb9u2 (DSA-4197-1).
9751 - Upgrade wget to 1.18-5+deb9u2 (DSA-4195-1).
9752 - Upgrade xdg-utils to 1.1.1-1+deb9u1 (DSA-4211-1).
9755 - Fix setting a screen locker password with non-ASCII characters
9758 - Rename the WhisperBack launcher to "WhisperBack Error Reporting"
9759 so that users have a better chance to understand what it does
9761 - Ensure debugging info in Whisperback reports don't contain email
9762 signature markers so that email clients forward it in full
9764 - Wrap text written by the user to 70 chars (Closes: #11689).
9766 * Minor improvements
9767 - The "Tails documentation" desktop launcher now opens /doc instead of
9768 the aging /getting_started that confused people during user testing
9772 - Update to match "Tails documentation" behaviour change.
9774 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 09 Jun 2018 19:53:51 +0000
9776 tails (3.7) unstable; urgency=medium
9779 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.5.4 (MFSA 2018-12, Closes: #15588).
9780 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.1.0f-3+deb9u2 (DSA-4157).
9781 - Upgrade Perl to 5.24.1-3+deb9u3 (DSA-4172).
9782 - Upgrade Libre Office to 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u4 (DSA-4178).
9783 - Upgrade libmad to 0.15.1b-8+deb9u1 (DSA-4192).
9786 - Enable the removal of OpenPGP keyblock in Whisperback (closes: #7797).
9787 - Show the logo in Whisperback's About menu (closes: #13198).
9788 - Use the same font in all the Whisperback report (Closes: #11272).
9789 - Update tails-bugs@tails.boum OpenPGP key (Closes: #15534).
9791 * Minor improvements
9792 - Stop installing python-qt4 and python-trezor (Closes: #15391).
9793 - Make WhisperBack easier to find in the GNOME Overview (Closes: #13299).
9795 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 08 May 2018 01:47:22 +0200
9797 tails (3.6.2) unstable; urgency=medium
9800 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.5.3 (MFSA 2018-10, Closes: #15459).
9801 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 1:52.7.0-1~deb9u1.0tails1 (DSA-4155,
9803 - Upgrade libicu to 57.1-6+deb9u2 (DSA-4150).
9804 - Upgrade intel-microcode to 3.20180312.1~bpo9+1. Implements
9805 IBRS/IBPB/STIPB support, Spectre-v2 mitigation for: Sandybridge,
9806 Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake
9810 - Tor Browser AppArmor profile:
9811 * Grant the main Firefox process access to machine-id: needed for
9812 IBus support (Closes: #15437).
9813 * Allow access to extensions installed by the user such as Tails
9814 Verification (Closes: #15434).
9815 - Remove packages needed to support Video Acceleration API
9816 (VA-API) because they breaks opening GNOME Settings and Totem in
9817 Tails 3.6 on some computers (only NVIDIA for now but perhaps
9818 other hardware is affected). (Closes: #15433, #15449)
9819 - Upgrade Linux to 4.15.11-1 and bump the aufs submodule (Closes:
9821 - tails-documentation script:
9822 * open translated documentation page in Tor Browser when online
9824 * use documented syntax for os.execv (Refs: #15332)
9825 * re-add support for passing a HTML anchor as the second
9827 - Fix issue where the tails-persistence-setup user's guid would be
9828 changed when it was the uid that was intended (Closes: #15422).
9830 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Thu, 29 Mar 2018 17:49:42 +0200
9832 tails (3.6.1) unstable; urgency=medium
9835 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.5.2 (MFSA 2018-08 i.e. CVE-2018-5146).
9836 - Upgrade libvorbis to 1.3.5-4+deb9u2 (DSA 4140-1 aka. CVE-2018-5146).
9837 - Upgrade curl to 7.52.1-5+deb9u5 (DSA 4136-1).
9838 - Upgrade samba to 2:4.5.12+dfsg-2+deb9u2 (DSA 4135-1).
9841 - Fix ISO build reproducibility (Closes: #15400)
9842 - Disable Selfrando: Tor Browser upstream currently enables it only
9843 in non-release builds
9844 (https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24912#comment:8).
9846 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2018 22:42:00 +0000
9848 tails (3.6) unstable; urgency=medium
9851 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.5.1.
9852 - Upgrade Tor to 0.3.2.10. (Closes: #15158)
9853 - Add ability to lock the screen. (Closes: #5684)
9854 - Add initial support for Meek bridges. (Closes: #8243)
9855 - Upgrade to Thunderbird 52.6.0. (Closes: #15298)
9856 - Enable Thunderbird AppArmor profile. (Closes: 11973)
9857 - Upgrade Linux to 4.15.0-1. (Closes: #15309).
9858 - Upgrade systemd to 237.
9859 - Upgrade Electrum to 3.0.6. (Closes: #15022)
9860 - Upgrade the base system to the Debian Stretch 9.4 point-release
9862 - Port a few shell scripts to Python thanks to GoodCrypto. (Closes: #11198)
9865 - Upgrade Intel processor microcode firmware. (Closes: #15173).
9866 - Upgrade poppler to 0.48.0-2+deb9u1. (CVE-2017-14929, CVE-2017-1000456)
9867 - Upgrade tiff to 4.0.8-2+deb9u2 (CVE-2017-9935, CVE-2017-11335,
9868 CVE-2017-12944, CVE-2017-13726, CVE-2017-13727, CVE-2017-18013)
9869 - Upgrade ffmpeg to 7:3.2.10-1~deb9u1. (CVE-2017-17081)
9870 - Upgrade libtasn1-6 to 4.10-1.1+deb9u1. (CVE-2017-10790, CVE-2018-6003)
9871 - Upgrade Libre Office to 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u2. (CVE-2018-6871)
9872 - Upgrade libvorbis to 1.3.5-4+deb9u1. (CVE-2017-14632, CVE-2017-14633)
9873 - Upgrade gcc to 6.3.0-18+deb9u1.
9874 - Upgrade util-linux to 2.29.2-1+deb9u1. (CVE-2018-7738)
9875 - Upgrade isc-dhcp to 4.3.5-3+deb9u1 (CVE-2017-3144, CVE-2018-5732,
9878 * Minor improvements
9879 - Avoid noisy warning at boot time by creating tails-upgrade-frontend's
9880 trusted GnuPG homedir with stricter permissions, then making it looser.
9882 - Drop (broken) Thunderbird dedicated SocksPort. (Closes: #12460)
9883 - Drop customized update-ca-certificates.service. (Closes: #14756)
9884 - Update AppArmor cupsd profile. (Closes: #15029)
9885 - Improve UX when GDM does not start. (Closes: #14521)
9886 - Install packages needed to support Video Acceleration API.
9888 - Upgrade aufs-dkms for Linux 4.15. (Closes: #15132).
9889 - Ship pdf-redact-tools, thanks to dachary <loic@dachary.org>.
9891 - Additional Software Packages: convert to python3 and PEP-8.
9893 - Additional Software Packages: do not check for updates every time the
9894 network gets reconnected. (Closes: #9819)
9895 - Revert to xorg-xserver from Stretch. (Closes: #15232)
9896 - Open Tails documentation in Tor Browser when online. (Closes: #15332)
9897 - Disable Enigmail's Memory Hole feature. (Closes: #15201)
9898 - Persistence Setup: stop depending on Synaptic. (Closes: #15263)
9901 - Additional Software Packages: fix the "incomplete online upgrade
9902 process" bug in offline mode (Closes: #14570)
9903 - Additional Software Packages: do not block Desktop opening.
9905 - Install OpenPGP Applet 1.1. (Closes: #6398).
9906 - Repair rng-tools using a real start-stop-daemon program.
9908 - Tails installer: fix bug with unicode status messages. (Closes: #15254)
9911 - Abort if tails-custom-apt-sources failed.
9912 - Abort the ISO build when DKMS modules are not built. (Closes: #14789).
9913 - Improve how we track dependencies in build hooks. (Closes: #14818)
9914 - Fix (potential) rare race condition during build.
9915 - Ensure the SquashFS has /etc/hostname properly configured.
9917 - Bump builder VM's RAM. (Closes: #15310)
9920 - Log the list of systemd jobs when systemctl is-system-running fails.
9922 - Allow more time for 'systemctl is-system-running' to succeed.
9923 - Only support SikuliX, not Sikuli.
9924 - Disable SPICE clipboard sharing.
9925 - Don't flood the debug logger with the journal contents.
9927 - Enter a name into the Thunderbird account configuration.
9929 - Fix the "I do not see ..." step's case. (Closes: #14929)
9930 - Mark scenarios that use the "The Report an Error launcher will…" step
9931 as fragile (Closes: #15321)
9932 - Test that Tor Browser opens docs when online. (Closes: #15332)
9933 - Adapt test after warning moved to after Unsafe Browser verification
9934 dialog. (Closes: #8775)
9935 - Dogtailify electrum.feature.
9936 - Add additional software packages feature. (Closes: #14572)
9937 - Disable test that is broken due to a Tor Browser bug. (refs: #15336)
9939 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 12 Mar 2018 21:28:29 +0100
9941 tails (3.5) unstable; urgency=medium
9944 - Upgrade amd64-microcode to 3.20171205.1, for the mitigation
9945 against Spectre (CVE-2017-5715) (Closes: #15148).
9946 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.5-build3 (Closes: #15197).
9947 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 1:52.5.2-2~deb9u1.0tails1 (Closes: #15033)
9948 - Upgrade gdk-pixbuf to 2.36.5-2+deb9u2.0tails1 (Closes: #15177).
9949 - Upgrade bind9 to 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3+deb9u4.
9950 - Upgrade libxml2 to 2.9.4+dfsg1-2.2+deb9u2.
9952 * Minor improvements
9953 - Upgrade Linux to 4.14.13, which is the first kernel that has the
9954 "[x86] microcode/AMD: Add support for fam17h microcode loading"
9955 commit, that's needed to load the AMD fam17h microcode for
9956 mitigating the Spectre vulnerability (CVE-2017-5715).
9959 - Drop Claws Mail persistence setting migration. Whenever
9960 persistent Claws Mail setting is enabled, this creates an empty
9961 ~/.icedove/ directory, that prevents Thunderbird from starting
9963 - Don't prevent the GNOME Applications button from opening its menu if
9964 time syncing resulted in a shift back in time (Closes: #14250).
9965 - Tails Installer: when cloning Tails to another USB drive, check
9966 if the target device has enough space *before* any destructive
9967 actions are made (Closes: #14622).
9968 - Tor Browser: make "Print to file" work again, for all locales
9969 (Closes: #13403, #15024).
9972 - Fix option passed to cmp: -q is not supported but --quiet is.
9973 Spotted on feature/buster that's the first branch that exercises
9974 this code, but there's no reason to fix it only there.
9977 - Adapt tests for Tor Launcher 0.2.14.3, i.e. the one shipped with
9978 Tor Browser 7.5 in Tails 3.5 (Closes: #15064).
9979 - Add support for creating arbitrarily sized partitions.
9980 - Add a "Try cloning Tails to a too small partition" scenario
9981 (regression test for #14622).
9983 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 23 Jan 2018 00:57:58 +0100
9985 tails (3.4) unstable; urgency=medium
9988 - Install Linux 4.14.0-3 from sid (Closes: #14976). This enables
9989 the kernel-side mitigations for Meltdown.
9990 - Upgrade curl to 7.52.1-5+deb9u3.
9991 - Upgrade enigmail to 2:1.9.9-1~deb9u1.
9992 - Upgrade gimp to 2.8.18-1+deb9u1.
9993 - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u4.
9994 - Upgrade libav (ffmpeg) to 7:3.2.9-1~deb9u1.
9995 - Upgrade libxcursor to 1:1.1.14-1+deb9u1.
9996 - Upgrade libxml-libxml-perl to 2.0128+dfsg-1+deb9u1.
9997 - Upgrade poppler to 0.48.0-2+deb9u1.
9998 - Upgrade rsync to 3.1.2-1 3.1.2-1+deb9u1.
9999 - Upgrade samba to 2:4.5.12+dfsg-2+deb9u1.
10000 - Upgrade sensible-utils to 0.0.9+deb9u1.
10001 - Upgrade tor to 0.3.1.9-1~d90.stretch+1.
10003 * Minor improvements
10004 - Display TopIcons systray on the left of the system menu. This
10005 fixes #14796 (on Buster, it is displayed in the middle of the
10006 screen, on the left of the clock) and an annoying UX problem we
10007 have on Stretch: OpenPGP applet is in the middle of icons that
10008 share the exact same (modern, GNOME Shell-like) behaviour, which
10009 is disturbing when opening one of the modern menus and moving
10010 the mouse left/right to the others, because in the middle one
10011 icon won't react as expected, and the nice blue bottom border
10012 continuity is broken.
10013 - Use the "intel" X.Org driver for integrated graphics in Intel
10014 i5-7300HQ (Closes: #14990).
10015 - Enable HashKnownHosts in the OpenSSH client (Closes: #14995).
10016 Debian enables HashKnownHosts by default via /etc/ssh/ssh_config
10017 for good reasons, let's not revert to the upstream default.
10018 - Pin the AppArmor feature set to the Stretch's kernel one. Linux
10019 4.14 brings new AppArmor mediation features and the policy
10020 shipped in Stretch may not be ready for it. So let's disable
10021 these new features to avoid breaking stuff: it's too hard to
10022 check if all the policy for apps we ship (and that users install
10023 themselves) has the right rules to cope with these new mediation
10027 - Don't delete downloaded debs after install (Closes: #10958).
10028 - Install xul-ext-ublock-origin from sid to make the dashboard
10029 work again(Closes: #14993). Thanks to cacahuatl
10030 <cacahuatl@autistici.org> for the patch!
10031 - Additional software feature: use debconf priority critical to
10032 prevent failure when installing packages otherwise requiring
10033 manual configuration (Closes: #6038)
10034 - Don't include anything under /lib/live/mount/medium/ in the
10035 readahead list (Closes: #14964). This fixes the boot time
10036 regression introduced in Tails 3.3.
10039 - Display a more helpful error message when the 'origin' remote
10040 does not point to the official Tails Git repository. This task
10041 calls git_base_branch_head() which relies on the fact 'origin'
10042 points to our official repo.
10043 - Vagrant: never build the wiki early. This has caused several
10044 issues throughout the years, the lastest instance being the
10045 reopening of #14933. (Closes: #14933)
10046 - Install libelf-dev during the time we need it for building DKMS modules.
10047 - Make the DKMS build hook verbose, and display DKMS modules build
10048 logs on failure. This hook is a recurring cause of headaches,
10049 let's simplify debugging.
10050 - Remove obsolete duplicate build of the virtualbox-guest DKMS
10054 - Log the list of systemd jobs when systemctl is-system-running
10055 fails (Closes: #14772). Listing the units is not enough: in most
10056 cases I've seen, is-system-running returns "starting" which
10057 means the job queue is not empty, and to debug that we need the
10059 - Only support SikuliX; drop support for Sikuli.
10060 - Disable SPICE clipboard sharing in the guest. It could only mess
10061 things up, and in fact has confused me by suddenly setting my
10062 *host's* clipboard to "ATTACK AT DAWN"... :)
10063 - Decode Base64.decode64 return value appropriately; it returns
10064 strings encoded in ASCII-8bit.
10065 - Don't flood the debug logger with the journal contents.
10066 - Handle case where $vm is undefined during an extremely early
10068 - Allow more time for 'systemctl is-system-running' to
10069 succeed. (Refs: #14772)
10070 - Make Sikuli attempt to find replacements on FindFailed by
10071 employing fuzz, or "lowering the similarity factor". The
10072 replacements (if found) are saved among the artifacts, and
10073 serves as potential drop-in-replacements for outdated
10074 images. The main use case for this is when the font
10075 configuration in Tails changes, which normally invalidates a
10076 large part of our images given that our default high similarity
10077 factor. We also add the `--fuzzy-image-matching` where the
10078 replacements are used in case of FindFailed, so the tests can
10079 proceed beyond the first FindFailed. The idea is that a full
10080 test suite run will produce replacements for potentially *all*
10082 - Fix our findAny() vs findfailed_hook. For findAny() it might be
10083 expected that some images won't be found, so we shouldn't use
10084 our findfailed_hook, which is about dealing with the situation
10085 where images need to be updated.
10086 - Make sure Pidgin's D-Bus policy changes are applied (Closes:
10087 #15007). Without the HUP there's a race that we sometimes lose.
10088 - Nump the Unsafe Browser's start page image (Closes: #15006).
10089 - Hot-plug a 'pcnet' network device instead of 'virtio' on Sid,
10090 since the latter is not detected on Sid (Closes: #14819).
10092 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 08 Jan 2018 16:57:07 +0100
10094 tails (3.3) unstable; urgency=medium
10097 - Upgrade the base system to the Debian Stretch 9.2 point-release
10098 which gives us tons of bugfixes (Closes: #14714).
10099 - Install Linux 4.13.0-1 (Closes: #14789).
10102 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 52.4.0 (Closes: #14963).
10103 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.0.10 (Closes: #14940).
10104 - Upgrade gdk-pixbuf to 2.36.5-2+deb9u1.0tails1 (Closes: #14729).
10106 * Minor improvements
10107 - Upgrade to Tor 0.3.1.8-2~d90.stretch+1, a new stable Tor series.
10108 - tails-documentation: rewrite in Python + use WebKit for display
10109 instead of the Tor Browser. Since Tor Browser 7.0.8 rendering of
10110 local pages (like our docs) fail (#14962) so this is probably a
10111 temporary workaround of that.
10112 - Replace the Unsafe Browser's warning pages with static,
10113 pure-HTML versions. This is truly a *temporary* workaround for
10115 - Update deb.tails.boum.org APT repo key (Closes: #14927)
10116 - Refresh Tor Browser AppArmor profile patch to apply on top of
10117 torbrowser-launcher 0.2.8-4's (Closes: #14923).
10118 - Drop obsolete manual enabling of AppArmor on the kernel
10119 command-line: it's now enabled by default, so the (Tails -
10120 Debian) delta gets smaller. :)
10123 - Install Tails Installer 5.0.2. Fixes:
10124 * Most notably, fix an issue preventing Tails Installer from
10125 installing to drives containing a non-Tails partition that
10126 (obviously) has affected a lot of users. (Closes: #14755).
10127 * Fix an issue that made the resulting installations unbootable
10128 if Tails Installer was using a too recent udisks2, e.g. the
10129 one currently in Debian Sid (Closes: #14809).
10130 * Code clean-ups (Closes: #14721, #14722, #14723).
10131 - Fix UEFI boot for USB sticks installed with Universal USB
10132 Installer (Closes: #8992).
10133 - Force Tor Browser and Thunderbird to enable accessibility
10134 support even if no a11y feature is enabled in GNOME yet (Closes:
10136 - Mark our custom Desktop launchers as trusted (Closes: #14793,
10138 - Add a systemd --user target for bits of GNOME
10139 EarlyInitialization managed by systemd, and make the keyboard
10140 layout configuration as part of it. This fixes an issue where
10141 the layout chosen in the Greeter sometimes wasn't applied in the
10142 GNOME session (Closes: #12543).
10145 - auto/{build,clean,config}: run with `set -eu`.
10146 - Add script to sanity check the website. Currently it ensures all
10147 blog posts and security advisories have valid Ikiwiki 'meta
10148 date' directives, since we depend on it for reproducibility.
10149 Also make passing this sanity check a pre-condition for building
10150 the website (Closes: #12726, #14767).
10151 - Abort the ISO build when DKMS modules were not built.
10152 - Take into account where DKMS modules get installed nowadays.
10153 - auto/build: normalize file timestamps in wiki/src before
10154 building. The copy of the website included in the ISO image has
10155 "Posted" timestamps that apparently match when we cloned the Git
10156 repository, which affects reproducibility. (Closes: #14933).
10157 - Fix reproducibility of builds of topic branches that lag behind
10158 their base branch with the mergebasebranch build option enabled.
10159 Two otherwise identical merge commits done at different times
10160 get different IDs, and we happen to embed in the ISO the ID of
10161 the commit we're building from. (Closes: #14946)
10164 - Bump timeout for "I can save the current page as", otherwise the
10165 "The Tor Browser directory is usable" scenario fails randomly
10166 when the system is under load.
10167 - New scenario: installing Tails to an eligible drive with an
10168 existing filesystem. This is a regression test for #14755.
10169 - New scenario: re-installing over an existing Tails installation.
10171 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 14 Nov 2017 04:53:27 +0100
10173 tails (3.2) unstable; urgency=medium
10176 - Upgrade Linux packages to the Debian kernel 4.12.0-2, based on
10177 mainline Linux 4.12.12 (Closes: #11831, #12732, #14673).
10180 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.0.6-build3 (Closes: #14696).
10181 - Upgrade to Thunderbird 52.3.0 (Closes: #12639).
10182 - Deny access to Pidgin's D-Bus service (Closes: #14612). That D-Bus
10183 interface is dangerous because it allows _any_ application running
10184 as `amnesia' that has access to the session bus to extract
10185 basically any information from Pidgin and to reconfigure it:
10186 https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/DbusHowto
10187 - Block loading of Bluetooth kernel modules (Closes: #14655) and
10188 block Bluetooth devices with rfkill (Closes: #14655).
10189 - Add localhost.localdomain to the hosts file to prevent loopback
10190 leaks to Tor circuits (Closes: #13574). Thanks to tailshark for
10193 * Minor improvements
10194 - Upgrade to Tails Installer 5.0.1 (Closes: #8859, #8860, #12707). This
10195 version gets rid of the splash screen, detects when Tails is already
10196 installed on the target device (and then proposes to upgrade),
10197 and generally improves the UX. It also increases the Tails partition
10198 size and refuses to install to devices smaller than 8 GB.
10199 - Deprecate Thunderbird's preferences/0000tails.js (Closes: #12680).
10200 - Install the BookletImposer PDF imposition toolkit (Closes: #12686).
10202 * Fallback to ~/Tor Browser for uploads (Closes: #8917).
10203 * Silence some common operations that always are denied and
10204 otherwise would spam the journal (Closes: #14606)
10205 - Shell library: remove now unused functions (Closes: #12685).
10206 - Add pppoe to the installed packages (Closes #13463). Thanks to geb
10208 - Replace syslinux:i386 with syslinux:amd64 in the ISO9660
10209 filesystem (Closes: #13513).
10210 - htpdate: fix date header regexp (Closes: #10495). It seems that
10211 some servers (sometimes) do not send their headers with first
10212 letter uppercased, hence a lot of failures to find the date in it.
10213 - Install aufs-dkms from Debian unstable (Closes: #12732).
10214 - Install vim-tiny instead of vim-nox (Closes: #12687). On Stretch,
10215 vim-nox started pulling ruby and rake in the ISO. I think vim-tiny
10216 would be good enough, and would save a few MiB in the ISO. Those
10217 who use vim more intensively and want another flavour of vim are
10218 likely to need persistence anyway, and can thus install a more
10219 featureful vim with the additional software packages feature.
10220 - Remove gksu and its and gconf's dependencies (Closes: #12738). We
10221 use pkexec instead of gksudo. gksu is unmaintained, buggy
10222 (e.g. #12000), and it is the only reason we ship GConf, which we
10223 want to remove. The other removals are:
10224 * libgnomevfs2-extra, which was previously used for SSH/FTP support in
10225 Nautilus, but isn't needed for that any more.
10226 * libgnome2-bin which provides gnome-open, which isn't required by
10227 any application in Tails (as far as we know).
10228 * Configurations and scripts that become obsolete because of these
10230 - Refresh torbrowser-AppArmor-profile.patch to apply cleanly on top
10231 of torbrowser-launcher 0.2.8-1 (Closes: #14602).
10232 - Switch from Florence to GNOME's on-screen keyboard (Closes: #8281)
10233 and incidentally improve accessibility in GTK+ 2.0 and Qt
10234 applications. This drops Florence and the corresponding GNOME
10236 - Make ./HACKING.mdwn a symlink again (Closes: #13600).
10237 - Implement refresh-translations --force .
10238 - Rework how we handle the individual POT files of our applications.
10239 Comparing the new temporary POT files we generate with the
10240 temporary POT files we generated last time (if ever, and if we
10241 did, for which branch?) is not relevant; these POT files are only
10242 used for merging into a new tails.pot and *that* one is relevant
10243 to diff against the old tails.pot.
10244 - Update the Tails signing key. (Closes: #11747)
10246 * Ensure reproducible permissions for /etc/hostname (Closes:
10248 * Patch desktop-file-utils to make its mimeinfo.cache reproducible
10250 * Patch glib2.0 to make its giomodule.cache reproducible (Closes:
10252 * Patch gdk-pixbuf to make its loaders.cache reproducible (Closes:
10254 * Patch gtk2.0 and gtk3.0 to make their immodules.cache
10255 reproducible (Closes: #13440).
10256 * Remove GCconf: it is a source of non-determinism in the
10257 filesystem (element order in /var/lib/gconf/defaults/%gconf-tree-*.xml)
10258 which made Tails unreproducible.
10259 * Ignore comment updates in POT files, which was a source of
10260 non-determinism and therefore prevented Tails from being
10261 reproducible (Closes: #12641).
10262 - Kernel hardening:
10263 * Increase mmap randomization to the maximum supported value
10264 (Closes: #11840). This improves ASLR effectiveness, and makes
10265 address-space fragmentation a bit worse.
10266 * Stop explicitly enabling kaslr: it's enabled by default in
10267 Debian, and this kernel parameter is not supported anymore.
10268 * Disable kexec, to make our attack surface a bit smaller.
10271 - Start Nautilus silently in the background when run as root
10272 (Closes: #12034). Otherwise, after closing Nautilus one gets the
10273 prompt back only after 5-15 seconds, which confuses users and makes
10274 our doc more complicated than it should.
10275 - Ensure pinentry-gtk2 run by Seahorse has the correct $DISPLAY set
10279 - build-manifest-extra-packages.yml: remove squashfs-tools version
10280 we don't use anymore (Closes: #12684). Apparently our
10281 apt-get/debootstrap wrapper tricks are enough to detect the
10282 version of squashfs-tools we actually install and use.
10283 - Merge base branch earlier, i.e. in auto/config instead of
10284 auto/build (Closes: #14459). Previously, a given build from a topic
10285 branch would mix inconsistent versions of things.
10286 - Fail builds started before SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (Closes:
10287 #12352). Such builds would not be reproducible, and this is an
10288 assumption (a reasonable one!) that we do all over the place, so
10289 let's fail early. While we're at it, let's fail if
10290 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is not set as well. Actually we would fail any
10291 way if that was the case when reaching our
10292 99-zzzzzz_reproducible-builds-post-processing build hook, but
10296 - Test the GNOME Root Terminal.
10297 - Take into account that Tails Installer 5.0.1 refuses to install
10298 Tails to devices smaller than 8 GiB. It'll still allow *upgrading*
10299 such sticks though.
10300 - Use 7200 MiB virtual USB drives when we really mean 8 GiB. In the
10301 real world, USB sticks labeled "8 GB" can be much smaller, so
10302 Tails Installer will accept anything that's at least 7200 MiB.
10303 This commit makes us exercise something closer to what happens in
10304 the real world, and incidentally it'll save storage space on our
10305 isotesters and improve test suite performance a bit. :)
10306 - Have unclutter poll every 0.1s instead of continuously. On current
10307 sid, virt-viewer eats a full CPU and doesn't do its job when
10308 "unclutter -idle 0" is running.
10309 - Adapt tests for Tails Installer 5.0.1.
10310 - Workaround Pidgin's DBus interface being blocked since we actually
10311 depend on it for some tests.
10312 - Test that Pidgin's DBus interface is blocked.
10313 - Save more data on test suite failures (Refs: #13541):
10314 * When Tor fails to bootstrap, save Tor logs and chutney nodes
10316 * When Htpdate fails to synchronize the clock, save its logs.
10317 * Always save the systemd journal on failure.
10318 - When testing emergency shutdown, wait longer for Tails to tell
10319 us it has finished wiping the memory. The goal here is to help
10320 us understand whether (Refs: #13462) is a bug in the emergency
10321 shutdown feature or in our test suite.
10322 - Restart nautilus-desktop if Desktop icons are not visible
10324 - Test suite: fix assert_raise() when using ruby-test-unit >=
10325 3.2.5 (Closes: #14654). ruby-test-unit 3.2.5 added native Java
10326 exception support for JRuby. The fact we defined the :Java
10327 constant was enough to trigger that JRuby-specific code, which
10329 - Test suite: take into account that click-to-play is not required
10330 anymore for WebM videos in Tor Browser (Closes: #14586).
10332 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:23:01 +0200
10334 tails (3.1) unstable; urgency=medium
10337 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.0.4-build1 (Closes: #13577).
10338 - Upgrade Linux to 4.9.30-2+deb9u3.
10339 - Upgrade libtiff to 4.0.8-2+deb9u1.
10340 - Upgrade bind9 to 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3+deb9u2.
10341 - Upgrate evince to 3.22.1-3+deb9u1.
10342 - Upgrade imagemagick 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u1.
10343 - Ensure Thunderbird cleans its temporary directory. (Closes: #13340).
10345 * Minor improvements
10346 - Patch gconf to produce reproducible XML output (refs: #12738). This is
10347 the temporary solution for #12738 in Tails 3.1 which will be reverted
10348 (and fixed permanently by removing gconf) in Tails 3.2.
10349 - Apply Debian bts patch to cracklib to produce reproducible dictionnaries
10351 - Upgrade to Debian 9.1 (Closes: #13178).
10354 - Replace faulty URL in htpdate neutral pool (Closes: #13472).
10355 - Keep installing a version of Enigmail compatible with Thunderbird 45.x
10357 - Fix the time syncing and Tor notifications translations (Closes: #13437).
10360 - Upgrade the Vagrant basebox for building ISO images to Stretch
10362 - Fix on-disk build by bumping Vagrant build VM memory to 768M
10364 - Fix rescue build option by exporting TAILS_BUILD_FAILURE_RESCUE
10368 - mark gnome screenshot scenario as fragile (refs: #13458)
10369 - mark UEFI scenario as fragile (refs: #13459).
10371 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 05 Aug 2017 15:25:51 +0200
10373 tails (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium
10376 - Upgrade tor to 0.3.0.9-1~d90.stretch+1 (Closes: #13253).
10377 - Upgrade Linux to 4.9.30-2+deb9u2.
10378 - Upgrade libc to 2.24-11+deb9u1.
10379 - Upgrade libexpat1 to 2.2.0-2+deb9u1.
10380 - Upgrade libgcrypt20 to 1.7.6-2+deb9u1.
10381 - Upgrade libgnutls30 to 3.5.8-5+deb9u1.
10382 - Enable Debian security APT sources (Closes: #12309).
10384 * Minor improvements
10385 - Use a higher resolution image in Tails persistence setup
10389 - Forcibly set $SSH_AUTH_SOCK before starting GNOME
10390 Shell. Apparently, due to a race condition, GNOME keyring
10391 sometimes fails to tell the session manager about the correct
10392 SSH_AUTH_SOCK, and thus GNOME Terminal hasn't this variable set
10393 and any ssh process started in there won't use the (perfectly
10394 working) SSH agent (Closes: #12481).
10395 - Fix issue that made Tails Installer rejects working USB drives,
10396 pretending they're not "removable" (Closes: #12696).
10397 - Make behavior of the power button and lid close actions in the Greeter
10398 consistent with the regular GNOME session (Closes: #13000).
10401 - Track the latest debian-security archive for the corresponding
10402 APT sources, and not for the unrelated jessie-updates (Closes:
10404 - Print APT sources used in the build VM, to help debugging issues
10407 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 04 Jul 2017 15:59:18 +0200
10409 tails (3.0) unstable; urgency=medium
10412 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.0.1 (Closes: #12635, #12657).
10413 - Upgrade to a new snapshot of the Debian and Torproject
10414 APT repositories: respectively 2017060904 and 2017060903
10417 * Minor improvements
10418 - Tor Browser: enable Electrolysis (e10s), i.e. render content in a separate
10419 child process, which will allow to improve performance and security
10420 further along the road. This required us to drop our branding add-on
10421 and re-implement its functionality in our Tor Browser wrapper
10423 - Clean obsolete cached packages when using the Additional Software Packages
10424 feature (Closes: #12400).
10425 - Improve KeePassX database migration handling (Closes: #12375).
10426 - Upgrade OnionShare to 0.9.2, from Debian sid as it has been removed
10427 from Stretch (Closes: #12610).
10428 - Upgrade Tor to 0.3.0.8 (Closes: #12656).
10429 - Drop obsolete bilibop patch, that was applied in 0.5.2.1.
10430 - Include disk space usage information in the WhisperBack bug reports.
10431 - Reorder technical details in WhisperBack bug reports in way that makes
10432 more sense when reading them.
10433 - Convert lc.py to Python 3.
10434 - Simplify some Python code thanks to subprocess.check_ouput.
10435 - Set the initial keyboard focus on the "Start Tails" button
10436 in Tails Greeter (Closes: #12509).
10437 - Convert Tails Greeter's Debian packaging to current best practices.
10440 - Fix persistent Thunderbird configuration migration when there is
10441 a mimeTypes.rdf, that doesn't contain any associations to "icedove"
10442 or "/usr/bin/iceweasel" (Closes: #12580).
10443 - Fix persistent browser bookmarks, by generating them from an sqlite dump
10445 - Use the "intel" X.Org driver for Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor
10446 x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Integrated Graphics Controller.
10447 - `exec' from our Thunderbird wrapper so it doesn't remain running.
10448 - Tails Installer: don't allow installing on non-removable drives
10450 - Fetch the torbrowser-launcher sources from Debian sid:
10451 it's been removed from Debian testing.
10452 Refresh torbrowser-AppArmor-profile.patch accordingly.
10453 - Unsafe Browser: remove the search bar, that's currently buggy
10454 and its presence only encourages unsupported usage (Closes: #12573).
10455 - Unsafe Browser: disable searching in the address bar. It can result
10456 in leaking hostnames and credentials to the default search
10457 engine operator (Closes: #12540).
10458 - Make our omni.ja modifications reproducible (Closes: #12620).
10459 - Generate the fontconfig cache in a reproducible manner (Closes: #12567).
10460 - Don't include torrents/rss.html in the ISO. It's not generated
10461 in a deterministic manner and is worthless in the ISO (Closes: #12619).
10462 - Improve the language → default keyboard layout mapping
10463 in Tails Greeter (Closes: #12547).
10464 - Don't close Tails Greeter's main window when Alt-F4 is pressed
10468 - Run emergency_shutdown.feature after usb_*.feature, to reduce disk
10469 space requirements (Closes: #12565).
10470 - Deal with server messages in Pidgin.
10471 - Improve Pidgin connectivity check robustness.
10472 - Flag the Synaptic test as fragile (i.e. #12586).
10473 - Optimization: only test once that Tails, booted on DVD, eventually
10474 shuts down after wiping memory.
10475 - Move tests about the shutdown applet to a dedicated feature,
10476 as they have nothing to do with Tails' "emergency" shutdown feature.
10477 - Adapt the network connectivity check to Stretch, and improve it to check
10478 both link and IP connectivity (Closes: #12602).
10479 - Apply a fix from upstream Git to mutter, to fix some of its interactions
10480 with dogtail (Closes: #11718).
10481 - Mark "Scenario: Watching a WebM video" as fragile (i.e. #10442).
10484 - Set create_box -e, to make the vagrant box generation a bit more robust.
10486 - Install kernel from backports and Tails build deps before performing
10487 APT upgrade, to avoid useless bandwidth usage (Closes: #12529).
10488 - Update submodules after merging the base branch (Closes: #12556).
10489 - Rakefile: fix date comparison in basebox:clean_old (Closes: #12575).
10490 - Rakefile: have basebox:clean_old delete baseboxes more than 4 months old
10492 - Also check for fuzzy patches' .orig files at the end of our build hooks,
10493 so we detect any fuzzy patches applied by hooks (Closes: #12617).
10494 - Remove .orig files for patches we allow to be fuzzy.
10495 - Don't pre-build the wiki when mergebasebranch is enabled.
10496 When pre-building the wiki, we modify the PO files which results in a
10497 conflict from the base branch merge in case it modifies the same
10498 files, which breaks the build (Closes: #12611).
10499 - Rakefile: add a task that removes all tails-builder-* libvirt volumes
10502 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 10 Jun 2017 14:39:10 +0000
10504 tails (3.0~rc1) unstable; urgency=medium
10507 - Install Thunderbird 1:45.8.0-3+tails2 and handle the Icedove → Thunderbird
10508 migration, including wrt. persistent data (Closes: #11712, #12242).
10509 This package also has the patch from
10510 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1281959 applied,
10511 to ease future integration of the Thunderbird AppArmor profile.
10512 Also, drop the Claws → Icedove migration path.
10513 - Upgrade to a new snapshot of the Debian and Torproject
10514 APT repositories: 2017051803 (Closes: #12554).
10515 - Upgrade Linux packages to the Debian kernel 4.9.0-3, based on
10516 mainline Linux 4.9.25.
10517 - Replace the kexec-based memory erasure feature with the Linux kernel's
10518 memory poisoning (Closes: #12354, #12428). The kexec-based implementation
10519 was not reliable enough and provided a poor UX. Instead, we now return
10520 to the initramfs on shutdown and unmount all filesystems there, so their
10521 content and corresponding caches are erased.
10522 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.0a4 based on Firefox 52.1.1esr (Closes:
10524 * Unfortunately e10s (multi-process Firefox) is disabled (#12569).
10525 * Unfortunately persistent bookmarks created for the first time
10526 in Tails 3.0~rc1 is broken (#12568).
10527 * Adds exceptions for the extensions Tails installs on top of
10528 the vanilla Tor Browser (Closes: #11419).
10529 - Upgrade tor to 0.3.0.7-1 (Closes: #12485) and log both to the
10530 usual file and the journal (Closes: #12412).
10531 - Merge the code that makes Tails almost build reproducibly (Refs:
10532 #5630); we still have issues with the fontconfig cache (Refs:
10535 * Minor improvements
10536 - Add a HACKING document for new code contributors (Closes:
10538 - Rename tor-controlport-filter to onion-grater (Closes: #12394)
10539 and import patches killing the delta against Whonix version
10541 - Improve onion-grater; thanks to Joy SN <joysn1980@yahoo.com>
10542 for the original patches (Closes: #12173):
10543 · add --listen-interface
10544 · make stdout/stderr unbuffered to ensure Python exceptions are logged
10545 · use yaml.safe_load()
10546 - Improve KeePassX database migration handling (refs: #12375).
10547 - Electrum: set coin selection strategy to 'Privacy' (Closes: #12177).
10548 - Allow Onion Circuits to access /proc/pid/status.
10549 - Make gdm-shell-tails.desktop more similar to the one shipped
10550 in gnome-shell 3.22.3-3 (refs: #12364).
10551 - Greeter: have the help window point to updated documentation,
10552 use WebKit2 instead of the deprecated WebKit, and hide the sidebar
10554 - Use exec to start KeePassX, i.e. avoid leaving the wrapper running.
10557 - Install xserver-xorg-legacy, to fix support for various graphics
10558 adapters that still don't work with rootless X.Org (Closes: #12542).
10559 - Use the "intel" X.Org driver for Intel Q35 and Intel Atom
10560 D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx graphics controllers (refs: #12219).
10561 - Give UEFI bootloaders upper-case filenames (Closes: #12511).
10562 Some UEFI firmware, such as the one in the ThinkPad X220, only recognize
10563 them if they have an upper-case name.
10564 - KeePassX: enable "Automatically save after each change" again,
10565 like we did in Tails 2.x (fixes a regression introduced
10567 - Install packages needed by the "Test speakers" functionality
10569 - Fix automatic upgrades when one is already applied (Closed:
10571 - When generating the network device blacklist, also blacklist
10572 network drivers from the staging directory (Closes: #12362).
10573 - htpdate pool: replace www.sarava.org with leap.se. The former
10574 has been down for a while and it's not clear when it's going to
10575 be stable again. The latter should be reliable.
10578 - Check that dirmngr used the configured keyserver (Closes: #12371).
10579 - Sanity check that Chutney starts all nodes in the network.
10580 - Disable the Sandbox option for all nodes, until Tor#21943
10581 is fixed (Closes: #12512).
10582 - Wait for the desktop icons to be displayed in the "Tails desktop is ready"
10583 step. Let's not try interacting with the desktop earlier.
10584 - Add tests for memory erasure on "normal" shutdown (refs: #12428).
10585 - Add tests for memory erasure on "emergency" shutdown, and run some
10586 with network enabled (refs: #12354).
10587 - Have eject_cdrom run eject(1) like it used to do in the past.
10588 Otherwise the machine is immediately halted and we cannot test
10589 whether memory has been erased.
10590 - Pass mount_USB_drive structured data instead of free-form text.
10591 - Test that MAC spoofing and "Disable network" works for
10592 hotplugged networking devices (Refs: #12362).
10595 - Generate the Vagrant base box locally as part of the build process,
10596 instead of downloading it: one less binary blob as input in the build
10597 process (refs: #12409).
10598 - Use Vagrant for builds on Jenkins too (Closes: #11972).
10599 - Tell build script to be more verbose.
10600 - Respect the 'ARTIFACTS' environment variable if set.
10601 - Add a second disk to handle the apt-cacher-ng cache, and store
10602 the corresponding logs in there (Closes: #11979).
10603 - Use APT snapshots in Vagrant build VMs, create/use a basebox that matches
10604 the branch/tag/commit being tested, and provision a new VM for each build
10605 (Closes: #11980, #11981).
10606 - Ship all build dependencies in the Vagrant basebox, to save some
10607 time when building ISOs.
10608 - Make basebox generation compatible with both GnuPG 1.x and 2.x.
10609 - Set LC_ALL=C, mostly to suppress some warnings.
10610 - Support forcing VM cleanup before/after build.
10611 - Add tasks for cleaning up old or all base boxes (refs: #12409).
10612 - Add build option useful for debugging build failures.
10613 - Remove obsolete build options.
10614 - Make auto/scripts/utils.sh more reusable, use it in Rakefile,
10615 auto/build and setup-tails-builder.
10616 - Add an option controlling whether to merge the base branch.
10617 - Add "rake test" target and import logics from puppet-tails'
10618 wrap_test_suite script.
10619 - Build Tails as a release simply when HEAD is tagged, i.e. we do not
10620 require building from a detached head any more.
10621 - Sanity check compression choice when building a release.
10622 - Use the host's resolv.conf when building the Vagrant base box.
10623 Since systemd-networkd is used to manage resolv.conf inside the base box,
10624 and it hasn't been initialized yet (we are not booting it, just chrooting
10625 into it) DNS is broken otherwise.
10626 - Release process: "release" a new base box when freezing.
10627 - Chown/scp artifacts with a single command to limit overhead and warnings
10628 noise caused by repeated SSH calls.
10629 - Add a build options to use a custom CPU model, and custom
10630 machine type, for reproducibility testing (refs: #12345).
10631 - Add support for installing Tor Browser nightly builds.
10633 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 20 May 2017 16:48:45 +0200
10635 tails (3.0~beta4) unstable; urgency=medium
10638 - All changes brought by Tails 2.12.
10639 - Upgrade to a new snapshot of the Debian and Torproject
10640 APT repositories (2017041704).
10642 * Security improvements
10643 - Enable the buddy page allocator free poisoning (Closes: #12089).
10644 - Enable slub/slab allocator free poisoning (Closes: #12090).
10645 - Create IUKs (automatic upgrades) in a reproducible manner
10648 * Minor improvements
10649 - Firewall: forbid the _apt user to talk to DNS ports. APT works very well
10650 without DNS access since we only have Onion APT sources, so let's silence
10652 - Replace Pidgin's "systray" icon with the guifications plugin
10653 (Closes: #11741). We're trying to remove as much as we can from
10654 the set of icons managed by TopIcons extension flavours, in the hope
10655 it's enough to cancel the problems we've seen with them (#10576, #11737).
10656 - Disable apt-daily.timer, that can only cause problems in our context
10658 - Do not let pppd-dns manage /etc/resolv.conf (Closes: #12401).
10659 - Ensure rootless X.Org can access /dev/fb0 when started by GDM.
10660 - Include the amdgpu module in the initramfs (refs: #12218).
10661 - Tails Greeter: don't mention 'firewall' anymore (#12382).
10662 - Tails Greeter: avoid the popover menu for Formats being cut,
10663 in most cases (Closes: #12249).
10664 - Tails Greeter: disable the screensaver (Closes: #12370).
10665 - Tails Greeter: fix behavior when pressing Enter in the language selection
10666 menu (Closes: #12359).
10669 - Install speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng to fix the Orca screen reader
10671 - Install xserver-xorg-video-intel and use it on a few graphics adapters
10672 that are not supported correctly by the modesetting driver (refs: #12219).
10673 More PCI IDs will be added as new affected hardware is reported.
10676 - Run on a Q35 2.8 machine (Closes: #11605).
10677 - Deprecate xtightvncviewer in favor of tigervnc-viewer.
10678 - Test the Unsafe Browser in 3 random supported languages, not all.
10679 This should be enough to identify most future regressions in this area,
10680 and will be much faster than testing them all.
10681 - Pidgin tests: switch to an image that doesn't depend on the
10682 topic of tails@conference.riseup.net.
10683 - Fix a problematic use of try_for.
10684 - Fix VM.select_virtual_desktop() and VM.do_focus().
10685 - Random Gherkin improvements.
10686 - Fix a focus issue for GNOME Terminal vs. Tails Installer.
10687 - Adjust to kernel memory poisoning being enabled, which breaks the way
10688 we used to test memory erasure (refs: #12354):
10689 · Drop "no memory erasure" and "memory erasure" tests, that can't work
10691 · Test erasure of memory freed by a killed userspace process.
10692 · Test that memory poisoning applies to unmounted tmpfs.
10693 · Test that memory poisoning applies to read and write cache
10694 for unmounted vfat and LUKS-encrypted ext4.
10695 · Run erase_memory a bit later, it requires less disk space nowadays.
10697 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2017 13:01:25 +0000
10699 tails (2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
10702 - Completely remove I2P. :( We have decided to remove I2P (see
10703 #11276) due to our failure of finding someone interested in
10704 maintaining it in Tails (Closes: #12263).
10705 - Upgrade the Linux kernel to 4.9.13-1~bpo8+1 (Closes: #12122).
10708 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.5.2 based on Firefox 45.9. (Closes:
10710 - Mount a dedicated filesystem on /var/tmp, to mitigate the
10711 hardlinks permissions open by the user-tmp abstraction. See
10712 https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/9949#note-23 for details
10714 - Protect against CVE-2017-2636 by disabling the n-hdlc kernel
10715 module (Closes: #12315).
10716 - Ensure /etc/resolv.conf is owned by root:root in the SquashFS.
10717 lb_chroot_resolv will "cp -a" it from the source tree, so it
10718 inherits its ownership from the whoever cloned the Git
10719 repository. This has two problems. First, this results in unsafe
10720 permissions on this file (e.g. a Vagrant build results in the
10721 'amnesia' user having write access to it).
10722 - Upgrade libjasper1 to 1.900.1-debian1-2.4+deb8u3
10723 - Upgrade gstreamer and its plugins to 1.4.4-2+deb8u1.
10724 - Upgrade eject to 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13.1+deb8u1.
10725 - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u8.
10726 - Upgrade pidgin to 2.11.0-0+deb8u2.
10727 - Upgrade samba to 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u5.
10730 * Minor improvements
10731 - Don't add the live user to the "audio" group. This should not be
10732 needed on a modern Linux desktop system anymore (Closes:
10734 - Install virtualbox-* 5.1.14-dfsg-3~bpo8+1 from our custom APT
10735 repository (Closes: #12307).
10736 - Install virtualbox-guest-* from sid. The version currently in
10737 jessie-backports is not compatible with Linux 4.9, and there's
10738 basically no chance that it gets updated (the maintainer asked
10739 for them to be *removed* from jessie-backports) (Closes:
10741 - Pull ttdnsd from our custom APT repository. It's gone from the
10742 TorProject one. We removed ttdnsd on feature/stretch already, so
10743 we'll need to pull it from our custom APT repository only for
10745 - Clean up libdvd-pkg build files, again. This cleanup operation
10746 was mistakenly removed in commit c4e8744 (Closes: #11273).
10747 - Install gnome-sound-recorder (Closes #10950). Thanks to Austin
10748 English <austinenglish@gmail.com> for the patch!
10749 - Stop restarting tor if bootstrapping stalls. It seems tor might
10750 have fixed the issues we used (see: #10238, #9516) to experience
10751 with the bootstrap process stalling and requiring a restart to
10752 kickstart it (Closes: #12411).
10753 - tor.sh: communicate via the UNIX socket instead of TCP port.
10754 This makes the library usable when run inside systemd units that
10755 have `PrivateNetwork=yes` set.
10756 - Get tor's bootstrap progress via GETINFO instead of log
10758 - Upgrade tor to 0.2.9.10-1~d80.jessie+1
10761 - mirror-pool-dispatcher: bump maximum expected mirrors.json size
10762 to 32 KiB. This fixes an error where Tails Upgrader would
10763 complain with "cannot choose a download server" (Closes:
10767 - Retry curl and APT operations up to 20 times to make the ISO
10768 build more robust wrt. unreliable Internet connectivity. Thanks
10769 to Arnaud <arnaud@preev.io> for the patch!
10770 - Install ikiwiki from jessie-backports, instead of our patched
10771 one. Our changes were merged in 3.20161219, and jessie-backports
10772 now has 3.20170111~bpo8+1 (Closes: #12051).
10773 - Fix FTBFS when installing a .deb via config/chroot_local-packages
10774 by being more flexible when matching local packages in the apt
10775 list file (Closes: #12374). Thanks to Arnaud <arnaud@preev.io>
10777 - auto/build: support Stretch's GnuPG v2 keyring filename.
10780 - Try possible fix for #11508. IPv6Packet:s' source is accessed by
10781 `.ipv6_saddr`, not `ip_saddr` (that's for IPv4Packet). So, let's
10782 just try and see which one of the two each packet has, because
10783 one of them must be there! Also, given that UDPPacket can be
10784 either IPv4 or IPv6 it seems safest to try to parse each packet
10785 as IPv6Packet first -- that way we keep looking at transport
10786 layer protocols for IPv4 only, and treat everything IPv6 as the
10787 same, which makes sense, since we should block all IPv6, so
10788 everything should be treated the same at all times.
10789 - Changes due to #12411:
10790 * Raise special exception for Tor bootstrap failures.
10791 * Remove obsolete debug logging now that we don't log anything
10792 interesting for `restart-tor` any more.
10794 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2017 17:41:46 +0200
10796 tails (3.0~beta3) unstable; urgency=medium
10798 * Major new features and changes
10799 - Make the "Formats" settings in Tails Greeter take effect (Closes: #12079,
10800 new feature that was broken since it was introduced in 3.0~alpha1).
10801 - Upgrade to a new snapshot of the Debian and Torproject
10802 APT repositories (2017031702).
10805 - Stop including I2P: we decided (#11276) to remove I2P, due to our failure
10806 at finding someone to maintain it in Tails (Closes: #12263).
10809 - Upgrade MAT to 0.6.1-4: fixes silent failure of the Nautilus
10810 contextual menu extension.
10811 - Ensure /etc/resolv.conf is owned by root:root in the SquashFS
10813 - Protect against CVE-2017-2636 by disabling the n-hdlc kernel module
10816 * Minor improvements
10817 - Reintroduce the X11 guest utilities for VirtualBox (regression
10818 introduced in 3.0~beta2).
10819 - Upgrade X.Org server and the modesetting driver (hopefully helps
10821 - Automate the migration from KeePassX databases generated on Tails 2.x
10822 to the format required by KeePassX 2.0.x (Closes: #10956, #12369).
10823 - Add keyboard shortcuts in Tails Greeter (Closes: #12186, #12063).
10824 - Install dbus-user-session (regression introduced in 3.0~beta2).
10825 - Manage temporary directories in a declarative way (tmpfiles.d).
10826 - Replace references to the /var/run compatibility symlink
10827 with the canonical /run.
10828 - Update our Torbirdy patchset to the latest one sent upstream.
10829 - Install mesa-utils, so that Qt 5 can detect whether software based
10830 rendering is needed.
10831 - Have Tails Greeter honor the "debug" kernel command-line option,
10832 for easier debugging (Closes: #12373).
10833 - Refactor Tails Greeter to reduce code duplication (Closes: #12247).
10836 - Fix sizing of zenity dialogs (Closes: #12313, regression introduced
10838 - Fix confusing, spurious error messages in command-line applications
10839 wrapped with torsocks:
10840 · Ship a /etc/mailname file with content "localhost".
10841 Otherwise something (Git? libc6?) tries to resolve the "amnesia" host
10842 name, which fails, and a confusing error message is displayed
10843 (Closes: #12205, regression introduced in 3.0~alpha1).
10844 · Have torsocks allow UDP connections to the loopback interface,
10845 with AllowOutboundLocalhost 2 (Closes: #11736).
10848 - Improve debugging info logging for PacketFu parsing issues,
10849 and implement a plausible fix (refs: #11508).
10850 - Try to make "double-click on desktop launcher" more reliable.
10851 - Fix selection of ISO in Tails Installer.
10852 - Re-enable the GnuPG tests that require a keyserver, pointing them
10853 to an Onion service we run on Chutney, that redirects all TCP traffic
10854 to a real, clearnet keyserver (Closes: #12211).
10855 - Implement a workaround for checking the configured keyserver in GnuPG,
10856 until a better fix is implemented (refs: #12371).
10857 - Fix the "Report an Error launcher" scenario in German.
10860 - Retry curl and APT operations up to 20 times to make the ISO build
10861 more robust wrt. unreliable Internet connectivity.
10862 Thanks to Arnaud <arnaud@preev.io> for the patch!
10863 - Install ikiwiki from jessie-backports, instead of our patched one
10865 - Clean up libdvd-pkg build files, again (Closes: #11273).
10866 - Rakefile: fix TAILS_OFFLINE_BUILD exported variable name.
10867 - Adjust apt-mirror to support branches based on feature/stretch
10868 that don't use frozen APT snapshots.
10870 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 19 Mar 2017 15:10:28 +0100
10872 tails (3.0~beta2) unstable; urgency=medium
10874 * All changes brought by Tails 2.11, except:
10875 - the test suite changes, that are not all compatible with this branch;
10876 - the "Tails 3.0 will require a 64-bit processor" notification:
10877 this advance warning is not useful on a release series
10878 that's 64-bit only.
10880 * Major new features and changes
10881 - Upgrade to a new snapshot of the Debian APT repositories (2017030802),
10882 and of the Torproject ones (2017030801).
10883 - Upgrade Linux to 4.9.0-2 (version 4.9.13-1).
10885 * Minor improvements
10886 - Improve GNOME Shell Window List styling. (Closes: #12233)
10889 - Make it possible to start graphical applications in the Root Terminal.
10893 - Improve robustness when dealing with notifications. (Closes: #11464)
10894 - Bump timeout when waiting for 'Tor is ready' notification.
10895 - Fix the incremental upgrade test.
10896 - Drop a few obsolete test cases, update a number of images.
10897 - Adapt firewall leak test to new DHCP source IP address.
10898 - Adjust Seahorse and Enigmail tests to the keyserver that is now used.
10900 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 08 Mar 2017 16:29:44 +0000
10902 tails (2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
10905 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.5.1 based on Firefox 45.8. (Closes:
10907 - Fix CVE-2017-6074 (local root privilege escalation) by disabling
10908 the 'dccp' module. (Closes: #12280)
10909 - Disable kernel modules for some uncommon network protocol. These
10910 are the ones recommended by CIS. (Part of: #6457)
10911 - Disable modules we blacklist for security reasons. Blacklisted
10912 (via `blacklist MODULENAME`) modules are only blocked from being
10913 loaded during the boot process, but are still loadable with an
10914 explicit `modprobe MODULENAME`, and (worse!) via kernel module
10916 - Upgrade linux-image-4.8.0-0.bpo.2-686-unsigned to 4.8.15-2~bpo8+2.
10917 - Upgrade bind9 to 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u10.
10918 - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u7.
10919 - Upgrade libevent-2.0-5 to 2.0.21-stable-2+deb8u1.
10920 - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u9.
10921 - Upgrade libjasper1 to 1.900.1-debian1-2.4+deb8u2.
10922 - Upgrade liblcms2-2 to 2.6-3+deb8u1.
10923 - Upgrade libxpm4 to 1:3.5.12-0+deb8u1.
10924 - Upgrade login to 1:4.2-3+deb8u3.
10925 - Upgrade ntfs-3g to 1:2014.2.15AR.2-1+deb8u3.
10926 - Upgrade openjdk-7-jre to 7u121-2.6.8-2~deb8u1.
10927 - Upgrade openssl to 1.0.1t-1+deb8u6.
10928 - Upgrade tcpdump to 4.9.0-1~deb8u1.
10929 - Upgrade vim to 2:7.4.488-7+deb8u2.
10930 - Upgrade libreoffice to 1:4.3.3-2+deb8u6.
10932 * Minor improvements
10933 - import-translations: also import PO files for French from
10934 Transifex. The translation team for French switched to Transifex
10935 even for our custom programs:
10936 https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-l10n/2016-November/004312.html
10937 - Notify the user, if running on a 32-bit processor, that it won't
10938 be supported in Tails 3.0 anymore. (Closes: #12193)
10939 - Notify I2P users that I2P will be removed in Tails
10940 2.12. (Closes: #12271)
10943 - Disable -proposed-updates at boot time. If a Debian point
10944 release happens right after a freeze but we have decided to
10945 enable it before the freeze to get (at least most of) it, then
10946 we get in the situation where -proposed-updates is enabled in
10947 the final release, which we don't want. We only want it enabled
10948 at build time. (Closes: #12169)
10949 - Ferm: Use the variable when referring to the Live user. The
10950 firewall will fail to start during early boot otherwise since
10951 the "amnesia" user hasn't been created yet. (Closes: #12208)
10952 - Tor Browser: Don't show offline warning when opening local
10953 documentation. (Closes: #12269)
10954 - tails-virt-notify-user: use the tails-documentation helper to
10955 improve UX when one is not connected to Tor yet, and display
10956 localized doc when available.
10957 - Fix rare issue causing automatic upgrades to not apply properly
10958 (Closes: #8449, and hopefully #11839 as well):
10959 * Allow the tails-install-iuk user to run "/usr/bin/nocache
10960 /bin/cp *" as root.
10961 * Install tails-iuk 2.8, which will use nocache for various file
10962 operations, and sync writes to the installation medium.
10963 - Install Linux 4.8.15 to prevent GNOME from freezing with Intel
10964 GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics. (Closes: #12217, but fixes tons
10965 of other small bugs)
10968 - Add 'offline' option, making it possible to build Tails offline
10969 (if all needed resources are present in your cache). (Closes:
10973 - Encapsulate exec_helper's class to not "pollute" the global
10974 namespace with all our helpers. This is an example of how we can
10975 work towards #9030.
10976 - Extend remote shell with *safe* file operations. Now we can
10977 read/write/append *any* characters without worrying that it will
10978 do crazy things by being passed through the shell, as was the
10979 case before. This commit also:
10980 * adds some better reporting of errors happening on the server
10981 side by communicating back the exception thrown.
10982 * removes the `user` parameter from the VM.file_* methods. They
10983 were not used, any way, and simply do not feel like they
10984 fit. I think the only reason we had it initially was because
10985 it was implemented via the command interface, where a user
10986 concept makes a lot of sense.
10987 - debug_log() Dogtail script content on failure.
10988 - Add a very precise timestamp to each debug_log().
10989 - Make robust_notification_wait() ensure the applet is closed. In
10990 robust_notification_wait() when we close the notification
10991 applet, other windows may change position, creating a racy
10992 situation for any immediately following action aimed at one such
10993 window. (Closes: #10381)
10994 - Fix I2P's Pidgin test. The initial conversation (that determines
10995 the title of the conversation window) is now made by a different
10996 IRC service than before.
10997 - Use lossless compression for the VNC viewer with --view.
10998 Otherwise the VNC viewer is not a good place to extract test
10999 suite images from, at least with xtigervncviewer.
11000 - Add optional pause() notification feature to the test suite. It
11001 will run a user-configurable arbitrary shell command when
11002 pause() is called, e.g. on failure when --interactive-debugging
11003 is used. This is pretty useful when multitasking with long test
11004 suite runs, so you immediately are notified when a test fails
11005 (or when you reached a temporary pause() breakpoint). (Closes:
11007 - Add the possibility to run Python code in a persistent session
11008 in the remote shell and use this for Dogtail to significantly
11009 improve its performance by saving state and reusing it between
11010 commands. This changes the semantics of the creation of Dogtail
11011 objects. Previously they just created the code that then would
11012 be run once an actionable method was called (.wait, .click etc),
11013 but now it works like in Python, that Dogtail will try to find
11014 the graphical element upon object creation. (Closes: #12059)
11015 - Test that we don't ship any -proposed-updates APT sources.
11017 - Make force_new_tor_circuit() respect NEWNYM rate limiting.
11018 - Add retry magic for lost click when opening Tails' documentation
11019 from the desktop launcher. (Closes: #12131)
11021 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 06 Mar 2017 17:14:52 +0100
11023 tails (3.0~beta1) experimental; urgency=medium
11025 * All changes brought by Tails 2.7.1, 2.9.1 and 2.10.
11027 * Major new features and changes
11028 - Redesigned Tails Greeter.
11029 - Upgrade to a new snapshot (2017013002) of the Debian and Torproject
11031 - Upgrade Linux to 4.9.0-1.
11034 - Reject packets sent on the LAN to the NetBIOS name service
11036 - Seahorse: use the Tor OnionBalance hidden service pool,
11037 which provides transport encryption and authentication of the keyserver.
11039 * Minor improvements
11040 - Include adwaita-qt* and enable it by default, so that Qt applications
11041 integrate nicely into a GNOME environment (Closes: #11790).
11042 - Add support for the TREZOR hardware wallet in Electrum (Closes: #10964).
11043 - AppArmor: allow all programs to read /etc/tor/torsocks.conf via
11044 abstractions/base, to ease maintenance.
11045 - Don't (try to) bind the Power button to the shutdown action
11047 - Enable natural scrolling (Closes: #11969).
11048 - Update uBlock Origin patterns + settings file.
11049 - live-persist: remove Squeeze → Wheezy migration code.
11050 - Update pre-existing persistent GnuPG configuration on login
11052 - Upgrader: use the alpha channel when the next version will be an
11053 alpha, beta, or RC. This will allow users of 3.0~betaN to upgrade to
11054 the next beta or RC, without having to type any command-line
11058 - Fix "upgrade from ISO" when run from a 32-bit system,
11059 such as Tails 2.x (Closes: #11873).
11060 - Fix ability to read videos over HTTPS with Totem (Closes: #11963).
11061 - Re-introduce default directories in $HOME, which fixes
11062 Spice file transfers (Closes: #11968).
11063 - Re-enable tap-to-click (Closes: #11993).
11064 - Lower systemd's DefaultTimeoutStopSec, to get rid of a long delay
11065 before memory wiping starts. This also prevents shutdown from ever
11066 being blocked by any buggy service that takes a while to stop
11068 - Drop Jessie APT sources.
11069 - Re-add VirtualBox DKMS modules.
11070 - Fix GnuPG communication with keyservers, by using the Tor OnionBalance
11071 hidden service pool (Closes: #12202).
11072 - Fix Enigmail communication with keyservers, by teaching Torbirdy
11073 not to break it (Closes: #11948):
11074 · Patch Torbirdy to allow not breaking keyserver communication when
11075 using GnuPG v2.1+, and to use a better default keyserver.
11076 · Torbirdy: enable the new behaviour made possible by the aforementioned
11077 patch (extensions.enigmail.already_torified).
11078 · Torbirdy: drop our custom keyserver configuration, since the
11079 aforementioned patch makes it the default.
11082 - Don't install gnome-system-log anymore (Closes: #12133).
11083 It's deprecated in GNOME, and mostly useless anyway as it's not
11084 Journal-aware. It's replacement (gnome-logs) is not usable
11085 enough in the context of Tails, and most users who can read logs
11086 should manage to do it with journalctl, so don't install it either.
11087 - Drop multiarch handling: Tails 3.0 will be amd64-only (Closes: #11961).
11090 - Disable eatmydata usage and caching: in current Stretch, debootstrap fails
11091 if we use eatmydata + the operation mode picked by live-build when caching
11092 is enabled (Closes: #12052).
11093 - Bump disk space (and memory for in-RAM builds) requirements.
11094 - Follow replacement of python-reportbug with python3-reportbug.
11095 - Don't try to deinstall packages that are unknown on Stretch.
11096 - Move AppArmor aliases to a dedicated file, and include it.
11097 This will avoid maintaining these settings as a patch.
11098 - Don't attempt to remove the usr.bin.chromium-browser AppArmor profile:
11099 it's not shipped in Debian anymore.
11102 - Add optional pause() notification (Closes: #12175).
11103 - Make the remote shell's file operations robust (Closes: #11887).
11104 - Update a number of test cases for Stretch, sometimes by converting
11106 - Drop usage and tests of read-only persistence.
11107 We won't have this option anymore, and it's not even sure we'll
11108 reintroduce it (Refs: #12093, Closes: #12055).
11109 - Adjust CONFIGURED_KEYSERVER_HOSTNAME to match current settings.
11110 - Test suite: clean up disks between features.
11112 * Adjustments for Debian 9 (Stretch) with no or very little user-visible impact
11113 - Adjust dpkg-divert path: it has moved.
11114 - Replace xfonts-wqy with fonts-wqy-microhei + fonts-wqy-zenhei.
11115 The former was removed from Debian testing, and the latter are recommended
11116 by task-chinese-s-desktop and task-chinese-t-desktop.
11117 - Install virtualbox* from sid.
11118 It was removed from testing due to https://bugs.debian.org/794466.
11119 - Drop deprecated settings from org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/power.
11120 - Update settings name in org/gnome/desktop/peripherals/touchpad, and drop
11122 - Adjust to changed Liferea's .desktop filename.
11123 - Also torify Liferea when started via its (new) D-Bus service.
11124 - Install hunspell-pt-br instead of hunspell-pt-pt.
11125 Tor Browser 6.5 moved from pt-PT to pt-BR, which is fine vs
11126 spellcheckers in Jessie since its hunspell-pt provides both -pt and
11127 -br, but in Stretch they are separate packages.
11128 - AppArmor: adjust usr.sbin.cupsd profile so it loads successfully
11130 - Migrate from netstat to ss.
11131 - Update extensions.enigmail.configuredVersion.
11132 - Remove the jessie-proposed-updates APT sources.
11134 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 01 Feb 2017 19:23:03 +0000
11136 tails (2.10) unstable; urgency=medium
11138 * Major new features and changes
11139 - Upgrade the Linux kernel to 4.8.0-0.bpo.2 (Closes: #11886).
11140 - Install OnionShare from jessie-backports. Also install
11141 python3-stem from jessie-backports to allow the use of ephemeral
11142 onion services (Closes: #7870).
11143 - Completely rewrite tor-controlport-filter. Now we can safely
11144 support OnionShare, Tor Browser's per-tab circuit view and
11147 * Handle multiple sessions simultaneously.
11148 * Separate data (filters) from code.
11149 * Use python3-stem to allow our filter to be a lot more
11150 oblivious of the control language (Closes: #6788).
11151 * Allow restricting STREAM events to only those generated by the
11152 subscribed client application.
11153 * Allow rewriting commands and responses arbitrarily.
11154 * Make tor-controlport-filter reusable for others by e.g. making
11155 it possible to pass the listen port, and Tor control
11156 cookie/socket paths as arguments (Closes: #6742). We hear
11157 Whonix plan to use it! :)
11158 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.9.9-1~d80.jessie+1, the new stable series
11162 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.5 based on Firefox 45.7 (Closes: #12159)
11163 - Upgrade Icedove to 1:45.6.0-1~deb8u1+tail1s.
11164 - Upgrade bind9-packages to 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u9.
11165 - Upgrade pcscd to 1.8.13-1+deb8u1.
11166 - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u8.
11167 - Upgrade libxml2 to 2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u4.
11168 - Upgrade tor to 0.2.9.9-1~d80.jessie+1.
11169 - Upgrade samba-libs to 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u2.
11171 * Minor improvements
11172 - Enable and use the Debian Jessie proposed-updates APT
11173 repository, anticipating on the Jessie 8.7 point-release
11175 - Enable the per-tab circuit view in Tor Browser (Closes: #9365).
11176 - Change syslinux menu entries from "Live" to "Tails" (Closes:
11177 #11975). Also replace the confusing "failsafe" wording with
11178 "Troubleshooting Mode" (Closes: #11365).
11179 - Make OnionCircuits use the filtered control port (Closes:
11181 - Make tor-launcher use the filtered control port.
11182 - Run OnionCircuits directly as the Live user, instead of a
11183 separate user. This will make it compatible with the Orca screen
11184 reader (Closes: #11197).
11185 - Run tor-controlport-filter on port 9051, and the unfiltered one
11186 on 9052. This simplifies client configurations and assumptions
11187 made in many applications that use Tor's ControlPort. It's the
11188 exception that we connect to the unfiltered version, so this
11189 seems like the more sane approach.
11190 - Remove tor-arm (Nyx) (Closes: #9811).
11191 - Remove AddTrust_External_Root.pem from our website CA bundle. We
11192 now only use Let's Encrypt (Closes: #11811).
11193 - Configure APT to use Debian's Onion services instead of the
11194 clearnet ones (Closes: #11556).
11195 - Replaced AdBlock Plus with uBlock Origin (Closes: #9833). This
11196 incidentally also makes our filter lists lighter by
11197 de-duplicating common patterns among the EasyList filters
11198 (Closes: #6908). Thanks to spriver for this first major code
11200 - Install OpenPGP Applet 1.0 (and libgtk3-simplelist-perl) from
11201 Jessie backports (Closes: #11899).
11202 - Add support for exFAT (Closes: #9659).
11203 - Disable unprivileged BPF. Since upgrading to kernel 4.6,
11204 unprivileged users can use the bpf() syscall, which is a
11205 security concern, even with JIT disabled. So we disable that.
11206 This feature wasn't available before Linux 4.6, so disabling it
11207 should not cause any regressions (Closes: #11827).
11208 - Add and enable AppArmor profiles for OnionCircuits and OnoinShare.
11209 - Raise the maximum number of loop devices to 32 (Closes: #12065).
11210 - Drop kernel.dmesg_restrict customization: it's enabled by
11211 default since 4.8.4-1~exp1 (Closes: #11886).
11212 - Upgrade Electrum to 2.7.9-1.
11213 - Make the Electrum proxy configuration apply after upgrading to
11214 2.7.9-1. These changes incidentally makes Electrum behave nicer:
11215 users will now not be presented the network configuration part
11216 of the setup wizard -- a server will be picked randomly, and
11217 Electrum will auto-connect. The automated test suite is adjusted
11218 accordingly (Closes: #12140).
11219 - Remove unused Browser profile seed file localstore.rdf which was
11220 made obsolete in Firefox 34.
11221 - Tor Browser: switch from pt-PT to pt-BR langpack. The upstream
11222 Tor Browser did this in version 6.5 (Refs: #12159).
11226 * use gdm-password instead of gdm-autologin, to fix switching to
11227 the VT where the desktop session lives on Stretch (Closes:
11229 * Fix more options scrolledwindow size in Stretch (Closes:
11231 - Tails Installer: remove unused code warning about missing
11232 extlinux in Tails Installer (Closes: #11196).
11233 - Update APT pinning to cover all binary packages built from
11234 src:mesa so we ensure installing mesa from jessie-backports
11236 - Install xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu. This should help supporting
11237 newer AMD graphics adapters. (Closes #11850)
11238 - Fix firewall startup during early boot, by referring to the
11239 "amnesia" user via its UID (Closes: #7018).
11240 - Include all amd64-microcodes.
11241 - refresh-translations: ignore
11242 config/chroot_local-includes/usr/share/doc/tails/website/.
11243 Otherwise, if the website has been built already, PO tools
11244 complain that there are files with translatable strings in
11245 there, which are not listed in POTFILES.in.
11246 - Make uBlock Origin's button appear on first run. Otherwise it
11247 will only appear on browser runs after the first one. This bug
11248 also affected Adblock Plus (Closes: #12145).
11251 - Be more careful when unmounting the tmpfs used as workspace
11252 during builds, fixing an issue that made Jenkins' ISO builders
11253 prone to failures (Closes: #12009).
11254 - Upgrade the Vagrant basebox to 20170105. The only big change is
11255 that we now install the backported kernel in the builder VM, to
11256 make building possible on Debian Sid (Closes: #12081).
11257 - Ensure the VirtualBox guest DKMS modules are built for the
11258 kernel we want them for. In some situations, depending on the
11259 version of the running kernel, the modules would not be built
11260 for the 686 kernel, which is the one that needs the VirtualBox
11261 guest modules. This commit ensures the VirtualBox guest modules
11262 are built and installed regardless of the how the build
11263 environment looks like (Closes: #12139).
11266 - Replace the filesystem shares support with a helper for easily
11267 sharing files from the host to the guest using virtual disks
11269 - Do not test sending email when testing POP3. We cannot clean
11270 that email up (easily) since when we use POP3 deletions won't
11271 affect the remote inbox, only our local one, resulting in the
11272 quota being reached eventually (Closes: #12006).
11273 - Have APT tests configure APT to use non-onion sources. Our test
11274 suite uses Chutney to create a virtual, private Tor network, and
11275 thus doesn't support connections to Onion services running in
11276 the real Tor network (Refs: #11556).
11277 - Allow connections to Tor's control port during stream isolation
11278 tests, but only for those applications where we expect that.
11279 - Fix Electrum tests after upgrading to 2.7.9-1.
11280 - Make encryption.feature pass for Tails 2.10~rc1.
11281 - Adapt tests after the Donation campaign was disabled (Refs:
11283 - Fix 'The "Tails documentation" link on the Desktop works'
11284 scenario. The TailsOfflineDocHomepage.png image doesn't match
11285 what we see any more (I have no clue why), so let's use Dogtail
11286 and solve this once and for all, hopefully.
11287 - Work around Tails freezing during memory wiping. These
11288 workarounds should be reverted once #11786 is fixed
11289 properly. (Refs: #10776, #11786)
11290 - Support both xtigervncviewer and xtightvncviewer for --view.
11291 xtightvncviewer is a transitional package in Sid, which depends
11292 on tigervnc-viewer (which ships xtigervncviewer), so by keeping
11293 the dep and supporting both binaries, --view will work on both
11294 Sid and Jessie (Closes: #12129).
11295 - Test suite: bump image after upgrading to Tor Browser 6.5 (Refs:
11297 - Add debugging info for when PacketFu misbehaves, and be more
11298 careful when to save pcap artifacts (Refs: #11508).
11300 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2017 11:38:37 +0100
11302 tails (2.9.1) unstable; urgency=medium
11305 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.0.8 based on Firefox 45.6. If you pay
11306 close attention you'll see that we import -build1 but there was
11307 a -build2. The only change is Tor Button 1.9.5.13 which makes
11308 some changes to the donation campaign banner in `about:tor`,
11309 which we safely can skip. (Closes: #12028)
11310 - Upgrade Icedove to 45.5.1-1~deb8u1+tails1. (Closes: #12029)
11311 - Upgrade APT-related packages to 1.0.9.8.4.
11313 * Minor improvements
11314 - Switch to DuckDuckGo as the default search engine in the tor
11315 Browser. This is what Tor Browser has, and Disconnect.me (the
11316 previous default) has been re-directing to DDG for some time,
11317 which has been confusing users. In addition, we localize the DDG
11318 user interface for the locales with availablelangpacks. (Closes:
11320 - Improve the display name for the Wikipedia search plugin.
11321 - Enable contrib and non-free for our own APT repos.
11322 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.8.10. (Closes: #12015)
11323 - Upgrade obfs4proxy to 0.0.7-1~tpo1.
11326 - AppArmor Totem profile: add permissions needed to avoid warning
11327 on startup. (Closes: #11984)
11328 - Upgrade the VirtualBox Guest additions and modules to version
11329 5.1.8. This should prevent Xorg from crashing unless the video
11330 memory for the VMs are significantly bumped. (Closes: #11965)
11331 Users will still have to enable I/O APIC due to a bug in Linux.
11332 - Drop unwanted search plugins from the Tor Browser langpacks.
11333 Otherwise they are only removed from English locales. Note that
11334 the langpacks contain copies of the English plugins, not
11335 localized versions, so we actually lose nothing.
11338 - Add support for SikuliX, which recently hit Debian Unstable,
11339 while still supporting Sikuli for Jessie users. (Closes: #11991)
11340 - Fix some instances where we were trying to use the mouse outside
11341 of the Sikuli screen.
11342 - Use "TorBirdy" instead of "amnesia branding" as the "anchor"
11343 addon. I.e. the addon that we use to find the other ones. The
11344 "amnesia branding" addon has been removed, so we must use
11345 something else. (Fixup: #11906)
11346 - Dogtailify "the support documentation page opens in Tor Browser"
11347 step. We previously relied on Sikuli, and the image was made
11348 outdated thanks to our donation campaign. No more! (Closes:
11350 - Resolve dl.amnesia.boum.org instead of picking a static address.
11351 Just hours after updating the dustri.org IP address, its web
11352 server went down => test suite failures. Let's make this test as
11353 robust as actually downloading the Tails ISO image -- if that
11354 fails, we probably have more serious problems on our hands than
11355 a failing test suite. (Closes: #11960)
11356 - Switch MAT scenario from testing PDFs to PNGs. Also add
11357 anti-test and test using using a tool *different* from MAT, the
11358 tool being tested here. (Closes: #11901)
11360 -- Tails Developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:19:16 +0100
11362 tails (2.7.1) unstable; urgency=medium
11365 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.0.7 (build3) based on Firefox 45.5.1.
11366 - Upgrade gstreamer0.10-based packages to 0.10.31-3+nmu4+deb8u2.
11367 - Upgrade imagemagick-based packages to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u6.
11368 - Upgrade libicu52 to 52.1-8+deb8u4.
11369 - Upgrade vim-based packages to 2:7.4.488-7+deb8u1.
11371 * Minor improvements
11372 - Reserve 64 MiB for the kernel and 128 MiB for privileged
11373 processes before the memory is wiped. We hope that this might
11374 help (but not solve, sadly) some crashes experienced while
11378 - Make the wiki shipped inside Tails build deterministically
11380 * Enable ikiwiki's "deterministic" option, and require it when
11382 * Use our custom backport of discount (2.2.1-1~bpo8+1~0.tails1),
11383 to fix reproducibility issues (Debian#782315). This can be
11384 dropped once our ISO builders use Stretch.
11385 * Install ikiwiki from our builder-jessie APT suite, to make the
11386 pagestats plugin output deterministic.
11387 - refresh-translations: don't update PO files unless something
11388 other than POT-Creation-Date was changed. (Closes: #11967)
11389 - Fix Vagrant's is_release? check. Per auto/build, we consider it
11390 a release when we build from detached head, and HEAD is tagged.
11391 - Enforce `cleanall` when building a release. I.e. don't allow the
11392 user supplied options to override this behaviour. This is
11393 important since Vagrant caches wiki builds, and we do not want
11394 leftovers from a previous builds ending up in a release. Also,
11395 this is required for making Tails images build reproducibly.
11396 - Make the build system's `cleanall` option really clean
11397 everything. At the moment it doesn't clean the cached wiki
11398 build (which basically was its only job).
11399 - import-package: support contrib and non-free sections.
11402 - Wait a bit between opening the shutdown applet menu, and
11403 clicking one of its widgets. (Closes: #11616).
11404 - Adapt Icedove test after removing the amnesia branding add-on.
11406 - Replace --pause-on-fail with --interactive-debugging. It does
11407 the same thing, but also offers an interactive Ruby shell, via
11408 pry, with the Cucumber world context.
11410 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:27:37 +0100
11412 tails (3.0~alpha1) experimental; urgency=medium
11414 * Major new features and changes
11415 - Upgrade to a snapshot of Debian 9 (Stretch) from 2016-11-15.
11416 - Switch userpace from 32-bit to 64-bit (Closes: #8183), and accordingly:
11417 · Memory erasure: drop the "one instance of sdmem per 2 GiB of RAM" tweak,
11418 that is not needed on x86-64.
11419 · Display a "sorry!" message when trying to boot on a 32-bit BIOS system
11421 - Switch GNOME Shell to its default black theme (Closes: #11789).
11423 * Minor improvements
11424 - Install the cirrus and modesetting X.Org drivers (Closes: #10962).
11425 - Install the 'amdgpu' driver for the AMD Radeon cards (refs: #11850).
11426 - Stop disabling kernel modesetting for QXL (refs: #11518).
11427 - Replace TopIcons with gnome-shell-extension-top-icons-plus.
11428 The former causes plenty of trouble and is apparently abandoned
11429 upstream. The latter is actively maintained upstream, and packaged
11430 in Debian. (refs: #10576)
11431 - Use torsocks to torify Git, and drop tsocks entirely. tsocks has been
11432 unmaintained for years in Debian, and was removed from testing
11433 for a while (Closes: #10955).
11434 - Replace Florence's "systray" icon with the Florence Indicator GNOME Shell
11435 extension (refs: #8312). And then, don't automatically start Florence:
11436 the Florence Indicator GNOME Shell extension will start it the first time
11437 one tries to display it. This should save a tiny bit of RAM.
11438 - Harden AppArmor Totem profiles.
11439 - Switch to the Debian-packaged aufs kernel module (Closes: #11829).
11440 - Configure the firewall to not allow root to connect to Tor at all,
11441 which is possible now that APT uses a dedicated user for network
11443 - Fix firewall startup during early boot, by referring to the "amnesia"
11444 user via its UID (refs: #7018).
11445 - Install hunspell dictionaries instead of myspell ones, for a few more
11446 languages: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Russian. Only Farsi keeps
11447 using a myspell dictionary for now.
11450 - Stop installing BookletImposer PDF imposition toolkit.
11451 It's unmaintained upstream and thus won't be part of Debian Stretch.
11452 - Stop installing ekeyd: it's unmaintained, very rarely used, poorly
11453 designed (dedicated daemon), and security sensitive (Closes: #7687).
11454 - Stop shipping ttdnsd. It was only useful for developers and power-users
11455 who can install it themselves as needed. It's been unmaintained upstream
11456 for many years. It's very buggy so we had to remove it from the DNS
11457 resolution loop years ago. It's not in Debian. And it's one of the only
11458 two bits of Tails that still relied on tsocks, that is RC-buggy,
11459 unmaintained in Debian, and not in Stretch at the moment. So it has
11460 become clear that the cost of keeping ttdnsd now outweighs the benefits
11461 it brought (refs: #10959).
11464 - Bump disk space (and memory for in-RAM builds) requirements.
11465 - Support new live-config configuration directory naming, again and again.
11466 - Use the lowest compression level for the SquashFS when compressing it
11467 with gzip. This makes our development builds faster, and the resulting
11468 ISO image only a little bit bigger (Closes: #9788).
11469 - Configure initramfs compression later, to make the build faster.
11472 - Various refactoring while we were at it.
11473 - Port tests to Dogtail: installation, upgrade, notification detection,
11474 Synaptic, Gobby, and some of Tor Browser.
11475 - Workaround GNOME Shell being buggy for Dogtail (refs: #11718).
11476 - Update a bunch of test suite images for Stretch.
11477 - Mark created disk as temporary when we don't need to keep it around.
11478 - Simplify adding NetworkManager connections, and rely more on the defaults.
11479 Not providing the complete configuration file makes us test something
11480 closer to what happens when a user adds a Wi-Fi connection themselves.
11481 - Adjust the minimum allowed memory pattern coverage before wiping.
11482 - Always sync the time from the host when restoring from a snapshot.
11483 Previously we wouldn't do it when the network was plugged but Tor wasn't
11484 running, which can cause issues if we *then* start Tor since the time
11486 - Adjust to the fact that we now support running as a 64-bit guest
11487 in VirtualBox, and simplify code since we now include a 64-bit userland.
11488 - Improve how we restart Tor/I2P after restoring from a snapshot.
11489 - Adjust PolicyKit tests for Stretch.
11490 - Work around Tails stopping on shut down due to #11730.
11491 This should be reverted once #11730 is fixed properly.
11492 - Update the screenshot scenario.
11493 - Fix pcap file saving on MAC spoofing failure (Closes: #11698).
11494 - Test that notifications are actually shown.
11495 - Drop obsolete workaround for Florence sometimes not being hidden
11496 on startup (#11398).
11497 - Avoid remote shell deadlock.
11498 - Install at-spi2-core from Debian Sid.
11499 With the current version in Stretch, at-spi-bus-launcher crashes on
11500 start, breaking parts of GNOME's accessibility, and Dogtail.
11501 For details, see https://bugs.debian.org/840618.
11502 - Check that the MAC address is spoofed for manually added persistent
11503 NetworkManager connections created on Jessie and Stretch (refs: #11931).
11504 - Use nc.traditional in tests that rely on its behaviour.
11505 - Adjust expected notification text to cope with #11941.
11507 * Adjustments for Debian 9 (Stretch) with no or very little user-visible impact
11508 - Adjust APT sources and pinning for Stretch.
11509 - Don't install gnome-media, which is not part of testing/sid anymore.
11510 We already install the only bits it was providing or depending on.
11511 - Don't install gnome-themes: it's gone in Stretch.
11512 - Stop installing GStreamer 0.10 explicitly: it won't be in Stretch,
11513 and some bits are gone already.
11514 - Refresh and unfuzzy patches for Stretch. Replace some of them with
11515 programmatic patching, as patches break the build whenever
11517 - Drop start_AppArmor_earlier.diff: on Stretch, AppArmor starts much earlier
11519 - Accept iceweasel-l10n-* that don't provide any search engine:
11520 on Stretch, at least iceweasel-l10n-ar_1%3a43.0.4-1_all.deb doesn't.
11521 - Stop deleting 75-persistent-net-generator.rules: obsolete in Stretch.
11522 It was removed in systemd (220-7).
11523 - Tell live-boot we're still using aufs: recent live-boot defaults
11524 to overlayfs, which we don't use yet.
11525 - Don't remove imagemagick in 11-localize_browser: cups-filters depends on it
11527 - Explicitly install bc: needed by our 2010-pidgin live-config hook.
11528 - Remove gcc-4.9-base and gcc-5 via a chroot hook, taking into account
11529 that GCC 5 is the default on Stretch.
11530 - Switch to openjdk-8-jre: openjdk-7-jre is not in Stretch anymore.
11531 - gcalctool was renamed to gnome-calculator.
11532 - Don't try to delete non-existing AppArmor profile for ntpd: it was moved
11533 to the ntp package in Stretch.
11534 - Build DKMS modules with GCC 5: Stretch hasn't 4.8 anymore.
11535 - Don't try to reload or disable an initscript that we don't patch,
11536 and that doesn't exist anymore.
11537 - Support the case when /usr/src/libdvd-pkg does not exist.
11538 Apparently this can happen on Stretch.
11539 - Adjust to the move of /etc/gnome/defaults.list in Stretch
11541 - Stop installing xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse. It's obsolete and conflicts
11542 with recent kernels: https://bugs.debian.org/831420
11543 - Install open-vm-tools from sid: it's been removed from testing.
11544 - Install the gobby package, instead of the (now gone) transitional
11546 - apparmor-adjust-tor-profile.diff: drop bits that are useless, and
11547 prevent Tor from starting, on Stretch.
11548 - Tor Daemon Status: declare compatibility with GNOME Shell 3.20.
11549 - Shutdown helper: declare compatibility with GNOME Shell 3.20.
11550 - Drop 43-adjust_path_to_ibus-unikey_binaries hook: it was a workaround
11551 for a bug (Debian#714932) that was fixed.
11552 - Use netcat-openbsd instead of connect-proxy for torifying SSH.
11553 connect-proxy seems barely maintained in Debian and was removed from
11554 testing due to https://bugs.debian.org/830423.
11555 - Don't disable gdomap service: we don't include it anymore.
11556 unar in Jessie depended on gnustep-base-runtime (that ships gdomap),
11557 but this is not the case in Stretch anymore.
11558 - Install system-config-printer-common instead of system-config-printer,
11559 and drop customization that were needed only for the latter:
11560 system-config-printer (1.5.7-2) extracts into a new -common package
11561 the bits needed by gnome-control-center (Closes: #11505).
11562 - Adjust haveged AppArmor profile to work with Linux 4.x on Stretch.
11563 - cupsd AppArmor profile: update list of backends, and add aufs-specific
11564 tweak that Stretch needs (refs: #11699).
11565 - Revert to GNOME's default font antialiasing/hinting.
11566 We fixed on rgba/slight when converting some manual fontconfig stuff
11567 to GNOME's layer on top of it, but at least from a fresh Stretch
11568 install (2016-08-24) we got grayscale/slight. It could be that some
11569 auto-detection is involved, so the values would be different depending
11570 on the actual hardware. Any way, let's try to decrease our delta here.
11571 - Adjust haveged arguments customization for Stretch (Closes: 11522).
11572 - Display the date in the desktop top bar, as we did in Jessie and older.
11574 - Drop patch to keep haveged, saned, spice-vdagent and laptop-mode running
11575 on shutdown. These patches are no-ops on Stretch, where these services
11576 have native systemd unit files. It's not worth porting these patches:
11577 saned is socket-activated so in most cases it does not have to be shut
11578 down, and we expect that the other ones can be stopped pretty quickly.
11579 Let's bring back this kind of optimization if, and only if, we identify
11580 an actual problem to fix in this area :)
11581 - Don't delete downloaded debs after install: apt(8) >= 1.2~exp1 deletes
11582 them by default, which is not nice for users who use it to preseed
11583 their persistent APT cache. (Closes: #10958)
11584 - Hide "OpenJDK Java 8 Policy Tool" from the Applications menu.
11585 - Don't ship GCC 6: we don't ship compilers in Tails usually.
11586 - Don't ship gcc-5-base: on Stretch we ship gcc-6-base instead.
11587 - Don't start shipping libdvdcss2-dbgsym nor paxctld.
11588 - Adjust default web browser customization: GNOME in Debian now defaults
11589 to Firefox ESR (refs: #11440).
11590 - Install libreoffice-gtk3: on Stretch this is needed to have Gtk+ 3 widgets
11591 and a Gtk/GNOMEish print dialog.
11592 - Explicitly install gtk2-engines-pixbuf, as it's not pulled automatically
11593 on Stretch, and it's needed to theme GTK+ 2 applications in a nice way
11595 - AppArmor gnome abstraction: allow reading /etc/xdg/*-mimeapps.list
11597 - Drop obsolete disabling of GNOME Keyring's GnuPG agent feature.
11598 That feature was removed upstream.
11599 - Explicitly select pinentry-gtk2 as our preferred pinentry program.
11600 On Stretch, gnome-keyring depends on pinentry-gnome3, and then that one
11601 is selected by default. It does not feel worth it to introduce a hackish
11602 solution such as a fake pinentry-gnome3 package, so let's ignore it and
11603 just make sure we are using the pinentry program we prefer
11605 - Drop keep_memlockd_on_shutdown.diff: it's been a no-op since Tails 2.0
11607 - Drop custom NetworkManager plugin configuration: these tweaks are not
11608 needed on Stretch anymore.
11609 - Disable new style network interface naming scheme.
11610 It has little value for a live system, so let's stick to what we are
11611 used to, and avoid having to adjust code/config/test suite
11613 - Drop obsolete NM configuration wrt. sending hostname in DHCP requests
11615 - Update APT pinning to cover all binary packages built from src:mesa
11617 - Don't try to install gnupg-curl: it doesn't exist anymore in Stretch.
11618 - Install seahorse-nautilus from sid. It's been removed from testing.
11619 - Drop workaround for Debian bug #645466, that was fixed in 2014
11621 - Allow the "_apt" user to use Tor: in Stretch, APT network operations
11622 are performed with the "_apt" user and not root.
11623 - Make sure that 'localhost' points to the IPv4 loopback address.
11624 - Make desktop launchers executable (Closes: #11927).
11625 - Disable Wayland usage in GDM (Closes: #11923).
11626 - Fix AppArmor profile for gst-plugin-scanner (Closes: #11928).
11627 - Change Nautilus' default zoom level to 'small' (Closes: #11716).
11628 The icons in GNOME Files and on the desktop are too huge otherwise. With
11629 this new setting, they are similar in size to what we had in Jessie.
11630 - Fix broken symlink preventing Enigmail from being enabled.
11631 - Configure NetworkManager to not touch MAC addresses (refs: #11931).
11632 Its default behaviour on Debian Stretch is to reset the MAC address to the
11633 permanent one, and we did not make up our mind yet wrt. replacing
11634 our custom MAC spoofing system with NM's own one (refs: #11293).
11635 - Patch NetworkManager so that it does not leak the hostname in DHCP
11636 requests (Closes: #11720).
11637 - Deal with the fact that the NetworkManager dispatcher scripts are now
11638 sometimes called with an empty first argument (Closes: #11938).
11639 - Upgrade to GnuPG 2.1.15-9, and accordingly:
11640 · Remove the CA certificate for sks-keyservers.net, that we installed
11641 in the system-wide CAs directory: it is now included in the dirmngr
11642 package. Stop trusting it for non-GnuPG operations.
11643 · Make dirmngr use the sks-keyservers.net CA certificate from Debian.
11644 · Move keyserver proxy configuration to dirmngr.conf, and drop the
11645 keyserver-options that are obsolete or now the default.
11647 -- intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2016 16:19:21 +0000
11649 tails (2.7) unstable; urgency=medium
11652 - Upgrade to Linux 4.7. (Closes: #11885, #11818)
11653 - Upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.9. (Closes: #11832, #11891)
11654 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.0.6 based on Firefox 45.5. (Closes: #11910)
11655 - Upgrade Icedove to 1:45.4.0-1~deb8u1+tails1. (Closes: #11854,
11657 - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u5.
11658 - Upgrade openssl to 1.0.1t-1+deb8u5.
11659 - Upgrade libarchive to 3.1.2-11+deb8u3.
11660 - Upgrade bind9 to 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u8.
11661 - Upgrade libav to 6:11.8-1~deb8u1.
11662 - Upgrade ghostscript to 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u3.
11663 - Upgrade c-ares to 1.10.0-2+deb8u1.
11664 - Upgrade nspr to 2:4.12-1+debu8u1.
11665 - Upgrade nss to 2:3.26-1+debu8u1.
11666 - Upgrade tar to 1.27.1-2+deb8u1.
11667 - Upgrade curl to 7.38.0-4+deb8u5.
11668 - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u7.
11669 - Upgrade opendjk-7 to 7u111-2.6.7-2~deb8u1.
11670 - Upgrade mat to 0.5.2-3+deb8u1.
11671 - Upgrade libxslt to 1.1.28-2+deb8u2.
11672 - Upgrade pillow to 2.6.1-2+deb8u3.
11674 * Minor improvements
11675 - Ship Let's encrypt intermediate certificate to prepare the
11676 the next certificate renewal of our website. Also unify the
11677 way our upgrades and security checkers verify this SSL
11678 certificate using our dedicated perl lib code. (Closes: #11810)
11681 - Fix multiarch support in Synaptic. (Closes: #11820)
11682 - Set default spelling language to en_US in Icedove. (Closes: #11037)
11685 - Disable debootstrap merged-usr option. (Closes: #11903)
11688 - Add test for incremental upgrades. (Closes: #6309)
11689 - Add tests for Icedove. (Closes: #6304)
11690 - Decrease timeout to Tails Greeter to speed up testing of branches
11691 where it is broken. (Closes: #11449)
11692 - Add a ID field to the remote shell responses to filter out
11693 unrelated ones. (Closes: #11846)
11694 - Reliabily wait for the Greeter PostLogin script. (Closes: #5666)
11695 - Reliabily type the kernel command line in the prompt at the boot
11696 menu to ensure the remote shell is started. (Closes: #10777)
11697 - Remove DVDROM device when not used, to workaround QEMU/Libvirt
11698 compatibility issue. (Closes: #11874)
11700 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2016 14:46:04 +0100
11702 tails (2.6) unstable; urgency=medium
11704 * Major new features and changes
11705 - Install Tor 0.2.8.7. (Closes: #11351)
11706 - Enable kASLR in the Linux kernel. (Closes: #11281)
11707 - Upgrade Icedove to 1:45.2.0-1~deb8u1+tails1: (Closes: #11714)
11708 · Drop auto-fetched configurations using Oauth2. They do not
11709 work together with Torbirdy since it disables needed
11710 functionality (like JavaScript and cookies) in the embedded
11711 browser. This should make auto-configuration work for GMail
11712 again, for instance. (Closes: ##11536)
11713 · Pin Icedove to be installed from our APT repo. Debian's
11714 Icedove packages still do not have our secure Icedove
11715 autoconfig wizard patches applied, so installing them would be
11716 a serious security regression. (Closes: #11613)
11717 · Add missing icedove-l10n-* packages to our custom APT
11718 repository (Closes: #11550)
11719 - Upgrade to Linux 4.6: (Closes: #10298)
11720 · Install the 686 kernel flavour instead of the obsolete 586
11722 · APT, dpkg: add amd64 architecture. The amd64 kernel flavour is
11723 not built anymore for the i386 architecture, so we need to use
11725 · Build and install the out-of-tree aufs4 module. (Closes: #10298)
11726 · Disable kernel modesetting for QXL: it's not compatible with
11727 Jessie's QXL X.Org driver.
11730 - Hopefully fixed an issue which would sometimes make the Greeter
11731 ignore the "disable networking" or "bridge mode"
11732 options. (Closes: #11593)
11734 * Minor improvements
11735 - Install firmware-intel-sound and firmware-ti-connectivity. This
11736 adds support for some sound cards and Wi-Fi adapters. (Closes:
11738 - Install OpenPGP Applet from Debian. (Closes: #10190)
11739 - Port the "About Tails" dialog to python3.
11740 - Run our initramfs memory erasure hook earlier (Closes:
11741 #10733). The goal here is to:
11742 · save a few seconds on shutdown (it might matter especially for
11743 the emergency one);
11744 · work in a less heavily multitasking / event-driven
11745 environment, for more robust operation.
11746 - Install rngd, and make rng-tools initscript return success when
11747 it can't find any hardware RNG device. Most Tails systems around
11748 probably have no such device, and we don't want systemd to
11749 believe they failed to boot properly. (Closes: #5650)
11750 - Don't force using the vboxvideo X.Org driver. According to our
11751 tests, this forced setting is:
11752 · harmful: it breaks X startup when the vboxvideo *kernel*
11754 · useless: X.Org now autodetects the vboxvideo X.Org driver and
11755 uses it when running in VirtualBox and the vboxvideo kernel
11757 - Port boot-profile to python3 (Closes: #10083). Thanks to
11758 heartsucker <heartsucker@autistici.org> for the patch!
11759 - Include /proc/cmdline and the content of persistent APT sources
11760 in WhisperBack bug reports. (Closes: #11675, #11635)
11761 - Disable non-free APT sources at boot time. (Closes: #10130)
11762 - Have a dedicated page for the homepage of Tor Browser in
11763 Tails. (Closes: # 11725)
11764 - Only build the VirtualBox kernel modules for the 32-bit kernel.
11765 It's both hard and useless to build it for 64-bit in the current
11766 state of things, as long as we're shipping a 32-bit userspace.
11767 Also, install virtualbox-* from jessie-backports, since the
11768 version in Jessie is not compatible with Linux 4.x.
11771 - Don't install+remove dpatch during the build. It's not been
11772 needed in this hook for ages.
11773 - Bump BUILD_SPACE_REQUIREMENT: at least one of us needed that to
11774 build feature/10298-linux-4.x-aufs with the gzipcomp option.
11777 - Send Tails Installer's debug log to the Cucumber debug log on
11778 failure. This is meant to debug #10720 since I can't
11779 reproduce it locally.
11780 - Give the system under testing 2 vCPUs. (Closes: #6729)
11781 - Split scenarios from checks.feature. (Closes: #5707)
11782 - Add retry-logic to the Synaptic tests. (Closes: #10412, #10441,
11784 - Run usb_upgrade.feature earlier, when there is enough free disk
11785 space left. (Closes: #11582)
11786 - Use more recent virtual hardware in the system under test,
11787 i.e. USB 3.0 (nec-xhci) on a pc-i440fx-2.5 machine. Switching
11788 USB controllers has helped with problems we see on Jenkins when
11789 booting from USB (#11588). Also, there are chances that more
11790 recent virtual hardware sees more testing these days, so it
11791 sounds potentially useful to "upgrade".
11792 - Add support for Cucumber 2.4. (Closes: #11690)
11793 - Always write {pretty,debug} logs and JSON output to the artifact
11795 - Disable info level logging on Chutney nodes to save disk
11796 space. For our network all these add up to > 1 GiB and we didn't
11797 take this into account when budgeting RAM to the isotesters on
11800 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 20 Sep 2016 04:16:33 +0200
11802 tails (2.5) unstable; urgency=medium
11804 * Major new features and changes
11805 - Upgrade Icedove to 1:45.1.0-1~deb8u1+tails2. (Closes: #11530)
11806 · Fix long delay causing bad UX in the autoconfig wizard,
11807 when it does not manage to guess proper settings on some domains.
11809 · Better support sending email through some ISPs, such as Riseup.
11811 · Fix spurious error message when creating an account and providing
11812 its password. (Closes: #11550)
11815 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.0.3 based on Firefox 45.3. (Closes: #11611)
11816 - Upgrade GIMP to 2.8.14-1+deb8u1.
11817 - Upgrade libav to 6:11.7-1~deb8u1.
11818 - Upgrade expat to 2.1.0-6+deb8u3.
11819 - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u6.
11820 - Upgrade libmodule-build-perl to 0.421000-2+deb8u1.
11821 - Upgrade perl to 5.20.2-3+deb8u6.
11822 - Upgrade Pidgin to 2.11.0-0+deb8u1.
11823 - Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:4.3.3-2+deb8u5.
11824 - Upgrade libxslt1.1 to 1.1.28-2+deb8u1.
11825 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt25-2+deb8u3.
11826 - Upgrade OpenSSH to 1:6.7p1-5+deb8u3.
11827 - Upgrade p7zip to 9.20.1~dfsg.1-4.1+deb8u2.
11829 * Minor improvements
11830 - htpdate: replace obsolete and unreliable URIs in HTP pools, and decrease
11831 timeout for HTTP operations for more robust time synchronization.
11833 - Hide settings panel for the Online Accounts component of GNOME,
11834 that we don't support. (Closes: #11545)
11835 - Vastly improve graphics performance in KVM guest with QXL driver.
11837 - Fix graphics artifacts in Tor Browser in KVM guest with QXL driver.
11841 - Wrap Pidgin in a more maintainable way. (Closes: #11567)
11844 - Add a test scenario for the persistence "dotfiles" feature.
11846 - Improve robustness of most APT, Git, SFTP and SSH scenarios,
11847 enough to enable them on Jenkins. (Closes: #10444, #10496, #10498)
11848 - Improve robustness of checking for persistence partition. (Closes: #11558)
11849 - Treat Tails booting from /dev/sda as OK, to support all cases
11850 including a weird one caused by hybrid ISO images. (Closes: #10504)
11851 - Bump a bunch of timeouts to cope with the occasional slowness on Jenkins.
11852 - Only query A records when exercising DNS lookups, to improve robustness.
11854 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 31 Jul 2016 16:50:35 +0000
11856 tails (2.4) unstable; urgency=medium
11858 * Major new features and changes
11859 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.0.1 based on Firefox 45.2. (Closes:
11861 - Enable Icedove's automatic configuration wizard. We patch the
11862 wizard to only use secure protocols when probing, and only
11863 accept secure protocols, while keeping the improvements done by
11864 TorBirdy in its own non-automatic configuration wizard. (Closes:
11868 - Upgrade bsdtar and libarchive13 to 3.1.2-11+deb8u1.
11869 - Upgrade icedove to 38.8.0-1~deb8u1+tails3.
11870 - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u3.
11871 - Upgrade libexpat1 to 2.1.0-6+deb8u2.
11872 - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u3.
11873 - Upgrade gdk-pixbuf-based packages to 2.31.1-2+deb8u5.
11874 - Upgrade libidn11 to 1.29-1+deb8u1.
11875 - Upgrade libndp0 to 1.4-2+deb8u1.
11876 - Upgrade poppler-based packages to 0.26.5-2+deb8u1.
11877 - Upgrade librsvg2-2 to 2.40.5-1+deb8u2.
11878 - Upgrade libsmbclient to 2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u3.
11879 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1k-3+deb8u5.
11880 - Upgrade libtasn1-6 to 4.2-3+deb8u2.
11881 - Upgrade libxml2 to 2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u2.
11882 - Upgrade openjdk-7-jre to 7u101-2.6.6-1~deb8u1.
11885 - Enable Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery for IPv4. If any
11886 system on the path to the remote host has a MTU smaller than the
11887 standard Ethernet one, then Tails will receive an ICMP packet
11888 asking it to send smaller packets. Our firewall will drop such
11889 ICMP packets to the floor, and then the TCP connection won't
11890 work properly. This can happen to any TCP connection, but so far
11891 it's been reported as breaking obfs4 for actual users. Thanks to
11892 Yawning for the help! (Closes: #9268)
11893 - Make Tails Upgrader ship other locales than English. (Closes:
11895 - Make it possible to add local USB printers again. Bugfix on
11896 Tails 2.0. (Closes #10965).
11898 * Minor improvements
11899 - Remove custom SSH ciphers and MACs settings. (Closes: #7315)
11900 - Bring back "minimize" and "maximize" buttons in titlebars by
11901 default. (Closes: #11270)
11902 - Icedove improvements:
11903 * Stop patching in our default into Torbirdy. We've upstreamed
11904 some parts, and the rest we set with pref branch overrides in
11905 /etc/xul-ext/torbirdy.js. (Closes: #10905)
11906 * Use hkps keyserver in Enigmail. (Closes: #10906)
11907 * Default to POP if persistence is enabled, IMAP is
11908 not. (Closes: #10574)
11909 * Disable remote email account creation in Icedove. (Closes:
11911 - Firewall hardening (Closes: #11391):
11912 * Don't accept RELATED packets. This enables quite a lot of code
11913 in the kernel that we don't need. Let's reduce the attack
11915 * Restrict debian-tor user to NEW TCP syn packets. It doesn't
11916 need to do more, so let's do a little bit of security in
11918 * Disable netfilter's nf_conntrack_helper.
11919 * Fix disabling of automatic conntrack helper assignment.
11920 - Kernel hardening:
11921 * Set various kernel boot options: slab_nomerge slub_debug=FZ
11922 mce=0 vsyscall=none. (Closes: #11143)
11923 * Remove the kernel .map files. These are only useful for kernel
11924 debugging and slightly make things easier for malware, perhaps
11925 and otherwise just occupy disk space. Also stop exposing
11926 kernel memory addresses through /proc etc. (Closes: #10951)
11927 - Drop zenity hacks to "focus" the negative answer. Jessie's
11928 zenity introduced the --default-cancel option, finally!
11930 - Drop useless APT pinning for Linux.
11931 - Remove gnome-tweak-tool. (Closes: #11237)
11932 - Install python-dogtail, to enable accessibility technologies in
11933 our automated test suite (see below). (Part of: #10721)
11934 - Install libdrm and mesa from jessie-backports. (Closes: #11303)
11935 - Remove hledger. (Closes: #11346)
11936 - Don't pre-configure the #tails chan on the default OFTC account.
11938 - Install onioncircuits from jessie-backports. (Closes: #11443)
11939 - Remove nmh. (Closes: #10477)
11940 - Drop Debian experimental APT source: we don't use it.
11941 - Use APT codenames (e.g. "stretch") instead of suites, to be
11942 compatible with our tagged APT snapshots.
11943 - Drop module-assistant hook and its cleanup. We've not been using
11945 - Remove 'Reboot' and 'Power Off' entries from Applications →
11946 System Tools. (Closes: #11075)
11947 - Pin our custom APT repo to the same level as Debian ones, and
11948 explicitly pin higher the packages we want to pull from our custom
11949 APT repo, when needed.
11950 - config/chroot_local-hooks/59-libdvd-pkg: verify libdvdcss
11951 package installation. (Closes: #11420)
11952 - Make Tails Upgrader use our new mirror pool design. (Closes:
11954 - Drop custom OpenSSH client ciphers and MACs settings. We did a
11955 pretty bad job at maintaining them compared to the Debian
11956 upstream. (Closes: #7315)
11957 - Install jessie-backports version of all binary packages built
11958 from src:hplip. This adds support for quite a few new
11960 - Install printer-driver-postscript-hp, which adds support for
11961 some more printers.
11964 - Use a freezable APT repo when building Tails. This is a first
11965 step towards reproducible builds, and improves our QA and
11966 development processes by making our builds more predictable. For
11967 details, see: https://tails.boum.org/contribute/APT_repository/
11968 - There has been a massive amount of improvements to the
11969 Vagrant-based build system, and now it could be considered the
11970 de-facto build system for Tails! Improvements and fixes include:
11971 * Migrate Vagrant to use libvirt/KVM instead of
11972 Virtualbox. (Closes: #6354)
11973 * Make apt-get stuff non-interactive while provisioning.
11974 Because there is no interaction, so that will results in
11976 * Bump disk space (=> RAM for RAM builds) needed to build with
11977 Vagrant. Since the Jessie migration it seems impossible to
11978 keep this low enough to fit in 8 GiB or RAM. For this reason
11979 we also drop the space optimization where we build inside a
11980 crazy aufs stack; now we just build in a tmpfs.
11981 * Clean up apt-cacher-ng cache on vm:provision to save disk
11982 space on the builder.
11983 * Add convenient Rake task for SSH:ing into the builder VM:
11985 * Add rake task for generating a new Vagrant base box.
11986 * Automatically provision the VM on build to keep things up-to-date.
11987 * Don't enable extproxy unless explicitly given as an
11988 option. Previously it would automatically be enabled when
11989 `http_proxy` is set in the environment, unlike what is
11990 documented. This will hopefully lead to fewer surprises for users
11991 who e.g. point http_proxy to a torified polipo, or similar.
11992 * Re-fetch tags when running build-tails with Vagrant. That
11993 should fix an annoyance related to #7182 that I frequently
11994 encounter: when I, as the RM, rebuild the release image the
11995 second time from the force-updated tag, the build system would
11996 not have the force-updated tag. (Closes: #7182)
11997 * Make sure we use the intended locale in the Tails builder VM.
11998 Since we communicate via SSH, and e.g. Debian forward the
11999 locale env vars by default, we have to take some steps
12000 ensuring we do not do that.
12001 - Pull monkeysphere from stretch to avoid failing to install under
12002 eatmydata. Patch submitted by Cyril Brulebois <cyril@debamax.com>.
12005 - Add wrapper around dogtail (inside Tails) for "remote" usage in
12006 the automated test suite. This provides a simple interface for
12007 generating dogtail python code, sending it to the guest, and
12008 executing it, and should allow us to write more robust tests
12009 leveraging assistive technologies. (Closes: #10721)
12010 - A few previously sikuli-based tests has been migrated to use
12011 dogtail instead, e.g. GNOME Applications menu interaction.
12012 - Add a test for re-configuring an existing persistent volume.
12013 This is a regression test for #10809. (Closes: #10834)
12014 - Use a simulated Tor network provided by Chutney in the automated
12015 test suite. The main motivation here is improved robustness --
12016 since the "Tor network" we now use will exit from the host
12017 running the automated test suite, we won't have to deal with Tor
12018 network blocking, or unreliable circuits. Performance should
12019 also be improved. (Closes: #9521)
12020 - Drop the usage of Tor Check in our tests. It doesn't make sense
12021 now when we use Chutney since that always means it will report
12022 that Tor is not being used.
12023 - Stop testing obsolete pluggable transports.
12024 - Completely rewrite the firewall leak detector to something more
12025 flexible and expressive.
12026 - Run tcpdump with --immediate-mode for the network sniffer. With
12027 this option, "packets are delivered to tcpdump as soon as they
12028 arrive, rather than being buffered for efficiency" which is
12029 required to make the sniffing work reliable the way we use it.
12030 - Remove most scenarios testing "tordate". It just isn't working
12031 well in Tails, so we shouldn't expect the tests to actually work
12032 all of the time. (Closes: #10440)
12033 - Close Pidgin before we inspect or persist its accounts.xml.
12034 I've seen a case when that file is _not_ saved (and thus, not
12035 persisted) if we shut down the system while Pidgin is still
12036 running. (Closes: #11413)
12037 - Close the GNOME Notification bar by pressing ESC, instead of
12038 opening the Applications menu. The Applications menu often
12039 covers other elements that we're looking for on the
12040 screen. (Closes #11401)
12041 - Hide Florence keyboard window when it doesn't vanish by itself
12042 (Closes: #11398) and wait a bit less for Florence to disappear
12045 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 06 Jun 2016 20:10:56 +0200
12047 tails (2.3) unstable; urgency=medium
12050 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.5. (Fixes: #11362)
12051 - Upgrade icedove to 38.7.0-1~deb8u1
12052 - Upgrade git to 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u2
12053 - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u1
12054 - Upgrade pidgin-otr to 4.0.1-1+deb8u1
12055 - Upgrade srtp to 1.4.5~20130609~dfsg-1.1+deb8u1
12056 - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u1
12057 - Upgrade samba to 2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u2
12058 - Upgrade openssh to 1:6.7p1-5+deb8u2
12061 - Refresh Tor Browser's AppArmor profile patch against the one from
12062 torbrowser-launcher 0.2.4-1. (Fixes: #11264)
12063 - Pull monkeysphere from stretch to avoid failing to install under
12064 eatmydata. (Fixes: #11170)
12065 - Start gpg-agent with no-grab option due to issues with pinentry and
12066 GNOME's top bar. (Fixes: #11038)
12067 - Tails Installer: Update error message to match new name of 'Clone
12068 & Install'. (Fixes: #11238)
12070 * Cope with a missing geoipdb. (Fixes: #11203)
12071 * Make both panes of the window scrollable. (Fixes #11192)
12072 - WhisperBack: Workaround socks bug. When the Tor fails to connect to
12073 the host, WisperBack used to display a ValueError. This is caused by
12074 a socks bug that is solved in upstream's master but not in Tails.
12075 This commit workarounds this bug Unclear error message in WhisperBack
12076 when failing to connect to the server. (Fixes: #11136)
12078 * Minor improvements
12079 - Upgrade to Debian 8.4, a Debian point release with many minor upgrades
12080 and fixes to various packages . (Fixes: #11232)
12081 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.25. (Fixes: #11363)
12082 - Pin pinentry-gtk2 to jessie-backports. The new version allows pasting
12083 passwords from the clipboard. (Fixes: #11239)
12084 - config/chroot_local-hooks/59-libdvd-pkg: cleanup /usr/src/libdvd-pkg.
12086 - Make the Tor Status "disconnected" icon more contrasted with the
12087 "connected" one. (Fixes: #11199)
12090 - Add UTF-8 support to OTR Bot. (Fixes: #10866)
12091 - Don't explicitly depend on openjdk-7-jre or any JRE for that
12092 matter. Sikuli will pull in a suitable one, so depending on one
12093 ourselves is only risks causing trouble. (Fixes: #11335)
12095 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 25 Apr 2016 14:12:22 +0200
12097 tails (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=medium
12100 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.4. (Closes: #11254)
12101 - Upgrade bind9-related packages to 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u6
12102 - Upgrade libotr to 4.1.0-2+deb8u1
12103 - Upgrade samba-related packages to 2:4.1.17+dfsg-2+deb8u2.
12104 - Upgrade libgraphite2 to 1.3.6-1~deb8u1.
12106 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Thu, 17 Mar 2016 15:03:52 +0100
12108 tails (2.2) unstable; urgency=medium
12110 * Major new features and changes
12111 - Replace Vidalia (which has been unmaintained for years) with:
12113 * the Tor Status GNOME Shell extension, which adds a System Status
12114 icon indicating whether Tor is ready or not.
12115 * Onion Circuits, a simple Tor circuit monitoring tool.
12118 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.3 (Closes: #11189).
12119 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u4.
12120 - Upgrade cpio to 2.11+dfsg-4.1+deb8u1.
12121 - Upgrade glibc to 2.19-18+deb8u3.
12122 - Upgrade libav to 6:11.6-1~deb8u1.
12123 - Upgrade libgraphite2 to 1.3.5-1~deb8u1.
12124 - Upgrade libjasper1 to 1.900.1-debian1-2.4+deb8u1.
12125 - Upgrade libreoffice to 4.3.3-2+deb8u3.
12126 - Upgrade libssh2 to 1.4.3-4.1+deb8u1.
12127 - Upgrade openssl to 1.0.1k-3+deb8u4.
12128 - Upgrade perl to 5.20.2-3+deb8u4.
12129 - Upgrade python-imaging, python-pil to 2.6.1-2 2.6.1-2+deb8u2.
12132 - Hide "Laptop Mode Tools Configuration" menu entry. We don't
12133 support configuring l-m-t in Tails, and it doesn't work out of
12134 the box. (Closes: #11074)
12136 * Actually write a string when saving bug report to
12137 disk. (Closes: #11133)
12138 * Add missing argument to OpenPGP dialog so the optional OpenPGP
12139 key can be added again. (Closes: #11033)
12141 * Minor improvements
12142 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.24-1~deb8u+1.
12143 - Add support for viewing DRM protected DVD videos using
12144 libdvdcss2. Patch series submitted by Austin English
12145 <austinenglish@gmail.com>. (Closes: #7674)
12146 - Automatically save KeePassX database after every change by default.
12148 - Implement Tor stream isolation for WhisperBack
12149 - Delete unused tor-tsocks-mua.conf previously used by Claws
12150 Mail. (Closes: #10904)
12151 - Add set -u to all gettext:ized shell scripts. In gettext-base <
12152 1.8.2, like the one we had in Wheezy, gettext.sh references the
12153 environment variable ZSH_VERSION, which we do not set. This has
12154 prevented us from doing `set -u` without various hacks. (Closes:
12156 - Also set -e in some shell scripts which lacked it for no good
12158 - Make Git verify the integrity of transferred objects. (Closes:
12160 - Remove LAlt+Shift and LShift+RShift keyboard layout toggling
12161 shortcuts. (Closes: #10913, #11042)
12164 - Reorder the execution of feature to decrease peak disk
12165 usage. (Closes: #10503)
12166 - Paste into the GTK file chooser, instead of typing. (Closes:
12168 - Pidgin: wait a bit for text to have stopped scrolling before we
12169 click on it. (Closes: #10783)
12170 - Fix step that runs commands in GNOME Terminal, that was broken
12171 on Jessie when a Terminal is running already. (Closes: #11176)
12172 - Let ruby-rjb guess JAVA_HOME instead fixing on one jvm
12173 version. (Closes: #11190)
12176 - Upgrade build system to Debian Jessie. This includes migrating to a
12177 new Vagrant basebox based on Debian Jessie.
12178 - Rakefile: print git status when there are uncommitted
12179 changes. Patch submitted by Austin English
12180 <austinenglish@gmail.com>. (Closes: #11108)
12181 - .gitignore: add .rake_tasks~. Patch submitted by Austin English
12182 <austinenglish@gmail.com>. (Closes: #11134)
12183 - config/amnesia: use --show-field over sed filtering. Patch
12184 submitted by Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>.
12185 - Umount and clean up leftover temporary directories from old
12186 builds. (Closes: #10772)
12188 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 07 Mar 2016 18:09:50 +0100
12190 tails (2.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium
12192 * Major new features and changes
12193 - Enable the Tor Browser's font fingerprinting protection
12194 (Closes: #11000). We do it for all browsers (including
12195 the Unsafe Browser and I2P Browser mainly to avoid making our
12196 automated test suite overly complex. This implied to set an appropriate
12197 working directory when launching the Tor Browser, to accommodate for
12198 the assumptions it makes about this.
12201 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.2 (Closes: #11105).
12204 - Repair 32-bit UEFI support (Closes: #11007); bugfix on 2.0.
12205 - Add libgnome2-bin to installed packages list to provide gnome-open,
12206 which fixes URL handling at least in KeePassX, Electrum and Icedove
12207 (Closes: #11031); bugfix on 2.0. Thanks to segfault for the patch!
12209 * Minor improvements
12210 - Refactor and de-duplicate the chrooted browsers' configuration:
12211 prefs.js, userChrome.css (Closes: #9896).
12212 - Make the -profile Tor Launcher workaround simpler (Closes: #7943).
12213 - Move Torbutton environment configuration to the tor-browser script,
12214 instead of polluting the default system environment with it.
12215 - Refresh patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile
12217 - Propagate Tor Launcher options via the wrapper.
12218 - Move tor-launcher script to /usr/local/bin.
12219 - Move tor-launcher-standalone to /usr/local/lib.
12220 - Move Tor Launcher env configuration closer to the place where it is used,
12221 for simplicity's sake.
12224 - Mass update browser and Tor Launcher related images due to font change,
12225 caused by Tor Browser 5.5's font fingerprinting protection
12226 (Closes: #11097). And then, use separate PrintToFile.png for the browsers,
12227 and Evince, since it cannot be shared anymore.
12228 - Adjust to the refactored chrooted browsers configuration handling.
12229 - Test that Tor Launcher uses the correct Tor Browser libraries.
12230 - Allow more slack when verifying that the date that was set.
12231 - Bump a bit the timeout used when waiting for the remote shell.
12232 - Bump timeout for the process to disappear, when closing Evince.
12233 - Bump timeout when saving persistence configuration.
12234 - Bump timeout for bootstrapping I2P.
12237 - Remove no longer relevant places.sqlite cleanup procedure.
12239 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Fri, 12 Feb 2016 13:00:15 +0000
12241 tails (2.0) unstable; urgency=medium
12243 * Major new features and changes
12244 - Upgrade to Debian 8 (Jessie).
12245 - Migrate to GNOME Shell in Classic mode.
12246 - Use systemd as PID 1, and convert all custom initscripts to systemd units.
12247 - Remove the Windows camouflage feature: our call for help to port
12248 it to GNOME Shell (issued in January, 2015) was unsuccessful.
12249 - Remove Claws Mail: Icedove is now the default email client
12251 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5 (Closes: #10858, #10983).
12254 - Minimally sandbox many services with systemd's namespacing features.
12255 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u3.
12256 - Upgrade Git to 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u1.
12257 - Upgrade Perl to 5.20.2-3+deb8u3.
12258 - Upgrade bind9-related packages to 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u5.
12259 - Upgrade FUSE to 2.9.3-15+deb8u2.
12260 - Upgrade isc-dhcp-client tot 4.3.1-6+deb8u2.
12261 - Upgrade libpng12-0 to 1.2.50-2+deb8u2.
12262 - Upgrade OpenSSH client to 1:6.7p1-5+deb8u1.
12265 - Restore the logo in the "About Tails" dialog.
12266 - Don't tell the user that "Tor is ready" before htpdate is done
12268 - Upgrader wrapper: make the check for free memory more accurate
12269 (Closes: #10540, #8263).
12270 - Allow the desktop user, when active, to configure printers;
12271 fixes regression introduced in Tails 1.1 (Closes: #8443).
12272 - Close Vidalia before we restart Tor. Otherwise Vidalia will be running
12273 and showing errors while we make sure that Tor bootstraps, which could
12275 - Allow Totem to read DVDs, by installing apparmor-profiles-extra
12276 from jessie-backports (Closes: #9990).
12277 - Make memory erasure on shutdown more robust (Closes: #9707, #10487):
12278 · don't forcefully overcommit memory
12279 · don't kill the allocating task
12280 · make sure the kernel doesn't starve from memory
12281 · make parallel sdmem handling faster and more robust
12282 - Don't offer the option, in Tor Browser, to open a downloaded file with
12283 an external application (Closes: #9285). Our AppArmor confinement was
12284 blocking most such actions anyway, resulting in poor UX; bugfix on 1.3.
12285 Accordingly, remove the now-obsolete exception we had in the Tor
12286 Browser AppArmor profile, that allowed executing seahorse-tool.
12287 - Fix performance issue in Tails Upgrader, that made it very slow to apply
12288 an automatic upgrade; bugfix on 1.7 (Closes: #10757).
12289 - Use our wrapper script to start Icedove from the GNOME menus.
12290 - Make it possible to localize our Icedove wrapper script.
12291 - List Icedove persistence option in the same position where Claws Mail
12292 used to be, in the persistent volume assistant (Closes: #10832).
12293 - Fix Electrum by installing the version from Debian Testing
12294 (Closes: #10754). We need version >=2.5.4-2, see #9713;
12295 bugfix on 2.0~beta1. And, explicitly install python-qt4 to enable
12296 Electrum's GUI: it's a Recommends, and we're not pulling it ourselves
12297 via other means anymore.
12298 - Restore default file associations (Closes: #10798);
12299 bugfix on 2.0~beta1.
12300 - Update 'nopersistent' boot parameter to 'nopersistence'; bugfix on 0.12
12301 (Closes: #10831). Thanks to live-media=removable, this had no security
12302 impact in practice.
12303 - Repair dotfiles persistence feature, by adding a symlink from
12304 /lib/live/mount/persistence to /live/persistence; bugfix on 2.0~beta1
12306 - Fix ability to re-configure an existing persistent volume using
12307 the GUI; bugfix on 2.0~beta1 (Closes: #10809).
12308 - Associate armored OpenPGP public keys named *.key with Seahorse,
12309 to workaround https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93656;
12310 bugfix on 1.1 (Closes: #10889).
12311 - Update the list of enabled GNOME Shell extensions, which might fix
12312 the "GNOME Shell sometimes leaves Classic mode" bug seen in 2.0~beta1:
12313 · Remove obsolete "Alternative Status Menu", that is not shipped
12315 · Explicitly enable the GNOME Shell extensions that build
12317 - Make _get_tg_setting() compatible with set -u (Closes: #10785).
12318 - laptop-mode-tools: don't control autosuspend. Some USB input
12319 devices don't support autosuspend. This change might help fix
12320 #10850, but even if it doesn't, it makes sense to me that we
12321 don't let laptop-mode-tools fiddle with this on a Live system
12322 (Closes (for now): #10850).
12324 * Minor improvements
12325 - Remove obsolete code from various places.
12327 · hide all windows while logging in
12328 · resize and re-position the panel when the screen size grows
12329 · PostLogin: log into the Journal instead of a dedicated log file
12330 · use localectl to set the system locale and keyboard mapping
12331 · delete the Live user's password if no administration password is set
12333 · port to GDBus greeter interface, and adjust to other GDM
12336 · port to UDisks2, and from Qt4 to GTK3
12337 · adapt to work on other GNU/Linux operating systems than Tails
12338 · clean up enough upstream code and packaging bits to make it
12339 deserve being uploaded to Debian
12340 · rename everything from liveusb-creator to tails-installer
12341 - Port tails-perl5lib to GTK3 and UDisks2. In passing, do some minor
12342 refactoring and a GUI improvement.
12343 - Persistent Volume Assistant:
12344 · port to GTK3 and UDisks2
12345 · handle errors when deleting persistent volume (Closes: #8435)
12346 · remove obsolete workarounds
12347 - Don't install UDisks v1.
12348 - Adapt custom udev and polkit rules to UDisks v2 (Closes: #9054, #9270).
12349 - Adjust import-translations' post-import step for Tails Installer,
12350 to match how its i18n system works nowadays.
12351 - Use socket activation for CUPS, to save some boot time.
12352 - Set memlockd.service's OOMScoreAdjust to -1000.
12353 - Don't bother creating /var/lib/live in tails-detect-virtualization.
12354 If it does not exist at this point, we have bigger and more
12355 noticeable problems.
12356 - Simplify the virtualization detection & reporting system, and do it
12357 as a non-root user with systemd-detect-virt rather than virt-what.
12358 - Replace rsyslog with the systemd Journal (Closes: #8320), and adjust
12359 WhisperBack's logs handling accordingly.
12360 - Drop tails-save-im-environment.
12361 It's not been used since we stopped automatically starting the web browser.
12362 - Add a hook that aborts the build if any *.orig file is found. Such files
12363 appear mainly when a patch of ours is fuzzy. In most cases they are no big
12364 deal, but in some cases they end up being taken into account
12366 - Replace the tor+http shim with apt-transport-tor (Closes: #8198).
12367 - Install gnome-tweak-tool.
12368 - Don't bother testing if we're using dependency based boot.
12369 - Drop workaround to start spice-vdagent in GDM (Closes: #8025).
12370 This has been fixed in Jessie proper.
12371 - Don't install ipheth-utils anymore. It seems to be obsolete
12372 in current desktop environments.
12373 - Stop installing the buggy unrar-free, superseded in Jessie (Closes: #5838)
12374 - Drop all custom fontconfig configuration, and configure fonts rendering
12376 - Drop zenity patch (zenity-fix-whitespacing-box-sizes.diff),
12377 that was applied upstream.
12378 - Install libnet-dbus-perl (currently 1.1.0) from jessie-backports,
12379 it brings new features we need.
12380 - Have the security check and the upgrader wait for Tor having bootstrapped
12381 with systemd unit ordering.
12382 - Get rid of tails-security-check's wrapper.
12383 Its only purpose was to wait for Tor to have bootstrapped,
12384 which is now done via systemd.
12385 - Don't allow the amnesia and tails-upgrade-frontend users to run
12386 tor-has-bootstrapped as root with sudo. They don't need it anymore,
12387 thanks to using systemd for starting relevant units only once Tor
12389 - Install python-nautilus, that enables MAT's context menu item in Nautilus.
12391 - Configure GDM with a snippet file instead of patching its
12392 greeter.dconf-defaults.
12394 · port to Python 3 and GObject Introspection (Closes: #7755)
12395 · migrate from the gnutls module to the ssl one
12396 · use PGP/MIME for better attachments handling
12397 · migrate from the gnupginterface module to the gnupg one
12398 · natively support SOCKS ⇒ don't wrap with torsocks anymore
12400 · don't try to include the obsolete .xession-errors in bug reports
12402 - chroot-browser.sh: don't use static DISPLAY.
12403 - Simplify debugging:
12404 · don't hide the emergency shutdown's stdout
12405 · tails-unblock-network: trace commands so that they end up in the Journal
12406 - Configure the console codeset at ISO build time, instead of setting it
12407 to a constant via the Greeter's PostLogin.default.
12408 - Order the AppArmor policy compiling in a way that is less of a blocker
12410 - Include the major KMS modules in the initramfs. This helps seamless
12411 transition to X.Org when booting, and back to text mode on shutdown,
12412 can help for proper graphics hardware reinitialization post-kexec,
12413 and should improve GNOME Shell support in some virtual machines.
12414 - Always show the Universal Access menu icon in the GNOME panel.
12415 - Drop notification for not-migrated-yet persistence configuration,
12416 and persistence settings disabled due to wrong access rights.
12417 That migration happened more two years ago.
12418 - Remove the restricted network detector, that has been broken for too long;
12419 see #10560 for next steps (Closes: #8328).
12420 - Remove unsupported, never completed kiosk mode support.
12421 - clock_gettime_monotonic: use Perl's own function to get the integer part,
12422 instead of forking out to sed.
12423 - Don't (try to) disable lvm2 initscripts anymore. Both the original reason
12424 and the implementation are obsolete on Jessie.
12425 - Lower potential for confusion (#8443), by removing system-config-printer.
12426 One GUI to configure printers is enough (Closes: #8505).
12427 - Add "set -u" to tails-unblock-network.
12428 - Add a systemd target whose completion indicates that Tor has bootstrapped,
12429 and use it everywhere sensible (Closes: #9393).
12430 - Disable udev's 75-persistent-net-generator.rules, to preventing races
12431 between MAC spoofing and interface naming.
12432 - Replace patch against NetworkManager.conf with drop-in files.
12433 - Replace resolvconf with simpler NetworkManager and dhclient configuration.
12435 - Replace patching of the gdomap, i2p, hdparm, tor and ttdnsd initscripts
12436 with 'systemctl disable' (Closes: #9881).
12437 - Replace patches that wrapped apps with torsocks with dynamic patching with
12438 a hook, to ease maintenance. Also, patch D-Bus services as needed
12440 - Notify the user if running Tails inside non-free virtualization software
12441 that does not try to hide its nature (Closes: #5315).
12442 Thanks to Austin English <austinenglish@gmail.com> for the patch.
12443 - Declare htpdate.service as being needed for time-sync.target, to ensure
12444 that "services where correct time is essential should be ordered after
12446 - Convert some of the X session startup programs to `systemd --user' units.
12447 - Let the Pidgin wrapper pass through additional command-line arguments
12449 - Move out of the $PATH a bunch of programs that users should generally
12450 not run directly: connect-socks, end-profile, getTorBrowserUserAgent,
12451 generate-tor-browser-profile, kill-boot-profile, tails-spoof-mac,
12452 tails-set-wireless-devices-state, tails-configure-keyboard,
12453 do_not_ever_run_me, boot-profile, tails-unblock-network,
12454 tor-controlport-filter, tails-virt-notify-user, tails-htp-notify-user,
12455 udev-watchdog-wrapper (Closes: #10658)
12456 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.23-2~deb8u+1.
12457 - Disable I2P's time syncing support.
12458 - Install Torbirdy from official Jessie backports, instead of from
12459 our own APT repository (Closes: #10804).
12460 - Make GNOME Disks' passphrase strength checking new feature work,
12461 by installing cracklib-runtime (Closes: #10862).
12462 - Add support for Japanese in Tor Browser.
12463 - Install xserver-xorg-video-intel from Jessie Backports (currently:
12464 2.99.917-2~bpo8+1). This adds support for recent chips such as
12465 Intel Broadwell's HD Graphics (Closes: #10841).
12466 - Improve a little bit post-Greeter network unblocking:
12467 · Sleep a bit longer between deleting the blacklist, and triggering udev;
12468 this might help cure #9012.
12469 · Increase logging, so that we get more information next time someone
12471 · Touch /etc/modprobe.d/ after deleting the blacklist; this might help,
12472 in case all this is caused by some aufs bug.
12473 - Enable and use the Debian jessie-proposed-updates APT repository,
12474 anticipating on the Jessie 8.3 point-release (Closes: #10897).
12475 - Upgrade most firmware packages to 20160110-1.
12476 - Upgrade Intel CPU microcodes to 3.20151106.1~deb8u1.
12477 - Disable IPv6 for the default wired connection, so that
12478 NetworkManager does not spam the logs with IPv6 router
12479 solicitation failure. Note that this does not fix the problem
12480 for other connections (Partially closes: #10939).
12483 - Adapt to the new desktop environment and applications' look.
12484 - Adapt new changed nmcli syntax and output.
12485 - New NetworkManager connection files must be manually loaded in Jessie.
12486 - Adapt to new pkexec behavior.
12487 - Adapt to how we now disable networking.
12488 - Use sysctl instead of echo:ing into /proc/sys.
12489 - Use oom_score_adj instead of the older oom_adj.
12490 - Adapt everything depending on logs to the use of the Journal.
12491 - Port to UDisks v2.
12492 - Check that the system partition is an EFI System Partition.
12493 - Add ldlinux.c32 to the list of bootloader files that are expected
12494 to be modified when we run syslinux (Closes: #9053).
12495 - Use apt(8) instead of apt-get(8).
12496 - Don't hide the cursor after opening the GNOME apps menu.
12497 - Convert the remote shell to into a systemd native service and a Python 3,
12498 script that uses the sd_notify facility (Closes: #9057). Also, set its
12499 OOM score adjustment value via its unit file, and not from the test suite.
12500 - Adjust to match where screenshots are saved nowadays.
12501 - Check that all system units have started (Closes: #8262)
12502 - Simplify the "too small device" test.
12503 - Spawn `poweroff' and `halt' in the background, and don't wait for them
12504 to return: anything else would be racy vs. the remote shell's stopping.
12505 - Bump video memory allocated to the system under test, to fix out of video
12507 - When configuring the CPU to lack PAE support, use a qemu32 CPU instead
12508 of a Pentium one: the latter makes GNOME Shell crash.
12509 See #8778 for details about how Mesa's CPU features detection has
12510 room for improvement.
12511 - Adjust free(1) output parsing for Jessie.
12512 - vm-execute: rename --type option to --spawn.
12513 - Add method to set the X.Org clipboard, and install its dependency
12515 - Paste URLs in one go, to work around issue with lost key presses
12516 in the browser (Closes: #10467).
12517 - Reliably wait for Synaptic's search button to fade in.
12518 - Take into account that the sticky bit is not set on block devices
12520 - Ensure that we can use a NetworkManager connection stored in persistence
12522 - Use a stricter regexp when extracting logs for dropped packets.
12523 - Clone the host CPU for the test suite guests (Closes: #8778).
12524 - Run ping as root (aufs does not support file capabilities so we don't
12525 get cap_net_raw+ep, and if built on a filesystem that does support
12526 file capabilities, then /bin/ping is not setupd root).
12527 - Escape regexp special characters when constructing the firewall log
12528 parsing regexp, and pass -P to grep, since Ruby uses PCRE.
12529 - Adjust is_persistent?() helper to findmnt changes in Jessie.
12530 - Rework in depth how we measure pattern coverage in memory, with more
12531 reliable Linux OOM and VM settings, fundamental improvements
12532 in what exactly we measure, and custom OOM adjutments for fillram
12533 processes (Closes: #9705).
12534 - Use blkid instead of parted to determine the filesystem type.
12535 - Use --kiosk mode instead of --fullscreen in virt-viewer, to remove
12536 the tiny border of the in-viewer menu.
12537 - Remove now redundant desktop screenshot directory scenario.
12538 - Adapt GNOME notification handling for Debian Jessie (Closes: #8782)
12539 - Disable screen blanking in the automated test suite, which occasionally
12540 breaks some test cases (Closes: #10403).
12541 - Move upgrade scenarios to the feature dedicated to them.
12542 - Don't make libvirt storage volumes executable.
12543 - Refactor the PAUSE_ON_FAIL functionality, so that we can use `pause()`
12544 as a breakpoint when debugging.
12545 - Drop non-essential Totem test that is mostly a duplicate, and too painful
12546 to be worth automating on Jessie.
12547 - Retry Totem HTTPS test with a new Tor circuit on failure.
12548 - Replace iptables status regexp-based parser with a new XML-based
12549 status analyzer: the previous implementation could not be adjusted
12550 to the new ip6tables' output (Closes: #9704).
12551 - Don't reboot in one instance when it is not needed.
12552 - Optimize memory erasure anti-test: block the boot to save CPU on the host.
12553 - Update I2P tests for Jessie, and generally make them more robust.
12554 - Update Electrum tests for 2.5.4-2 (Closes: #10758).
12555 - Add workaround for libvirt vs. guestfs permissions issue, to allow
12556 running the test suite on current Debian sid.
12557 - Fix buggy code, that happened to work by mistake, in the Seahorse
12558 test cases; bugfix on 1.8.
12559 - Update test suite images due to CSS change on Tails' website.
12560 - Adapt Tor Browser tests to work with the 5.5 series.
12561 - Automatically test downloading files in Tor Browser.
12562 - Remove obsolete scenario, that tested opening a downloaded file with
12563 an external application, which we do not support anymore.
12564 - Improve robustness of the "Tails OpenPGP keys" scenario (Closes: #10378).
12565 - Automatically test the "Diable all networking" feature (Closes: #10430).
12566 - Automatically test that SSH works over LAN (Closes: #9087).
12567 - Bump some statuc sleeps to fix a few race conditions (Closes: #5330).
12568 - Automatically test that an emergency shutdown triggers on boot
12569 medium removal (Closes: #5472).
12570 - Make the AppArmor checks actually detect errors (Closes: #10926).
12573 - Bump amount of disk space needed to build Tails with Vagrant.
12574 The addition of the Japanese Tor Browser tarball made us reach
12575 the limit of the previous value.
12577 * Adjustments for Debian 8 (Jessie) with no or very little user-visible impact
12578 - Free the fixed UIDs/GIDs we need before creating the corresponding users.
12579 - Replace the real gnome-backgrounds with a fake, equivs generated one
12580 (Closes: #8055). Jessie's gnome-shell depends on gnome-backgrounds,
12581 which is too fat to ship considering we're not using it.
12582 - AppArmor: adjust CUPS profile to support our Live system environment
12584 · Mangle lib/live/mount/overlay/... as usual for aufs.
12585 · Pass the the attach_disconnected flag, that's needed for compatibility
12587 - Make sure we don't ship geoclue* (Closes: #7949).
12588 - Drop deprecated GDM configuration file.
12589 - Don't add the Live user to the deprecated 'fuse' group.
12590 - Drop hidepid mount option for /proc (Closes: #8256). In its current,
12591 simplistic form it cannot be supported by systemd.
12592 - Don't manually load acpi-cpufreq at boot time. It fails to load
12593 whenever no device it supports is present, which makes the
12594 systemd-modules-load.service fail. These days, the kernel
12595 should just automatically load such modules when they are needed.
12596 - Drop sysvinit-specific (sensigs.omit.d) tweaks for memlockd.
12597 - Disable the GDM unit file's Restart=always, that breaks our "emergency
12598 shutdown on boot medium removal" feature.
12599 - Update the implementation of the memory erasure on shutdown feature:
12600 · check for rebooting state using systemctl, instead of the obsolete
12601 $RUNLEVEL (Closes: #8306)
12602 · the kexec-load initscript normally silently exits unless systemd is
12603 currently running a reboot job. This is not the case when the emergency
12604 shutdown has been triggered, so we removed this check
12605 · migrate tails-kexec to the /lib/systemd/system-shutdown/ facility
12606 · don't (try to) switch to tty1 on emergency shutdown: it apparently
12607 requires data that we haven't locked into memory, and then it blocks
12608 the whole emergency shutdown process
12609 - Display a slightly darker version of the desktop wallpaper on the screen
12610 saver, instead of the default flashy "Debian 8" branding (Closes: #9038).
12611 - Disable software autorun from external media.
12612 - Disable a few unneeded D-Bus services. Some of these services are
12613 automatically started (via D-Bus activation) when GNOME Shell tries
12614 to use them. The only "use" I've seen for them, except eating
12615 precious RAM, is to display "No appointment today" in the calendar pop-up.
12617 - Prevent NetworkManager services from starting at boot time
12618 (Closes: #8313). We start them ourselves after changing the MAC address.
12619 - Unfuzzy all patches (Closes: #8268) and drop a few obsolete ones.
12620 - Adapt IBus configuration for Jessie (Closes: #8270), i.e. merge the two
12621 places where we configure keyboard layout and input methods: both are now
12622 configured in the same place in Jessie's GNOME.
12623 - Migrate panel launchers to the favorite apps list (Closes: #7992).
12624 - Drop pre-GNOME Shell menu tweaks.
12625 - Hide "Log out" button in the GNOME Shell menu (Closes: #8364).
12626 - Add a custom shutdown-helper GNOME Shell extension (Closes: #8302, #5684
12627 and #5878) that removes the press-Alt-to-turn-shutdown-button-into-Suspend
12628 functionality from the GNOME user menu, and makes Restart and Shutdown
12629 immediate, without further user interaction. Accordingly remove our custom
12630 Shutdown Helper panel applet (#8302).
12631 - Drop GNOME Panel configuration, now deprecated.
12632 - Disable GNOME Shell's screen lock feature.
12633 We're not there yet (see #5684).
12634 - Disable GNOME Shell screen locker's user switch feature.
12635 - Explicitly install libany-moose-perl (Closes: #8051).
12636 It's needed by our OpenPGP applet. On Wheezy, this package was pulled
12637 by some other dependency. This is not the case anymore on Jessie.
12638 - Don't install notification-daemon nor gnome-mag: GNOME Shell has taken
12639 over this functionality (Closes: #7481).
12640 - Don't install ntfsprogs: superseded on Jessie.
12641 - Don't install barry-util: not part of Jessie.
12642 - Link udev-watchdog dynamically, and lock it plus its dependencies
12644 - Migrate from gdm-simple-greeter to a custom gdm-tails session
12646 - Update Plymouth installation and configuration:
12647 · install the plymouth packages via chroot_local-hooks: lb 2.x's "standard"
12648 packages list pulls console-common in, which plymouth now conflicts with
12649 · don't patch the plymouth initscript anymore, that was superseded
12650 by native systemd unit files
12651 · mask the plymouth-{halt,kexec,poweroff,reboot,shutdown} services,
12652 to prevent them from occupying the active TTY with an (empty) splash
12653 screen on shutdown/reboot, that would hide the messages we want to show
12654 to the user via tails-kexec (Closes: #9032)
12655 - Migrate GNOME keyboard layout settings from libgnomekbd to input-sources
12657 - Explicitly install syslinux-efi, that we need and is not automatically
12658 pulled by anything else anymore.
12659 - Workaround #7248 for GDM: use a solid blue background picture,
12660 instead of a solid color fill, in the Greeter session.
12661 - De-install gcc-4.8-base and gcc-4.9 at the end of the ISO build process.
12662 - Revert the "Wrap syndaemon to always use -t" Wheezy-specific workaround.
12663 - htpdate: run date(1) in a Jessie-compatible (and nicer) way.
12664 - Remove obsolete dconf screenshot settings and the corresponding test.
12665 - Drop our patched python-dbus{,-dev} package (Closes: #9177).
12666 - live-persist: stop overriding live-boot's functions, we now have
12667 a recent enough blkid.
12668 - Adjust sdmem initramfs bits for Jessie:
12669 · Directly call poweroff instead of halt -p.
12670 · Don't pass -n to poweroff and reboot, it's not supported anymore.
12671 - Wrap text in the Unsafe Browser startup warning dialog
12672 (Jessie's zenity does not wrap it itself).
12673 - Associate application/pgp-keys with Seahorse's "Import Key" application
12675 - Install topIcons GNOME Shell extension (v28), to work around the fact
12676 that a few of the applets we use hijack the notification area.
12677 - "cd /" to fix permissions issue at tails-persistence-setup startup
12679 - Install gstreamer1.0-libav, so that Totem can play H264-encoded videos.
12680 - Adjust APT sources configuration:
12681 · remove explicit jessie and jessie-updates sources:
12682 automatically added by live-build
12683 · add Debian testing
12684 · add jessie-backports
12685 - Firewall: white-list access to the accessibility daemon (Closes: #8075).
12686 - Adjust to changed desktop notification behavior and supported feature set
12688 · pass the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS used by the GNOME session
12690 · update waiting for a notification handler: gnome-panel and nm-applet
12691 are obsolete, GNOME Shell is now providing this facility, so instead
12692 wait for a process that starts once GNOME Shell is ready, namely
12693 ibus-daemon (Closes: #8685)
12694 · port tails-warn-about-disabled-persistence and tails-virt-notify-user
12695 to notification actions (instead of hyperlinks), and make the latter
12696 transient; to this end, add support to Desktop::Notify for "hints"
12697 and notification actions
12698 · tails-security-check: use a dialog box instead of desktop notifications
12699 · MAC spoofing failure notification: remove the link to the documentation;
12700 it was broken on Tails/Wheezy already, see #10559 for next steps
12701 - Don't explicitly install gnome-panel nor gnome-menus, so that they go away
12702 whenever the Greeter does not pull them in anymore.
12703 - Install gkbd-capplet, that provides gkbd-keyboard-display (Closes: #8363).
12704 - Install Tor 0.2.7 from deb.torproject.org: we don't need to rebuild it
12705 ourselves for seccomp support anymore.
12706 - Wrap Seahorse with torsocks when it is started as a D-Bus service too
12708 - Rename the AppArmor profile for Tor, so it applies to the system-wide
12709 Tor service we run (Closes: #10528).
12710 - Essentially revert ALSA state handling to how it was pre-Jessie, so that
12711 mixer levels are unmuted and sanitized at boot time (Closes: #7591).
12712 - Pass --yes to apt-get when installing imagemagick.
12713 - Make removable devices, that we support installing Tails to, user writable:
12714 Tails Installer requires raw block device access to such devices
12715 (Closes: #8273). Similarly, allow the amnesia user, when active, to open
12716 non-system devices for writing with udisks2. This is roughly udisks2's
12717 equivalent of having direct write access to raw block storage devices.
12718 Here too, Tails Installer uses this functionality.
12719 - Disable networkd to prevent any risk of DNS leaks it might cause; and
12720 disable timesyncd, as we have our own time synchronization mechanism.
12721 They are not enabled by default in Jessie, but may be in Stretch,
12722 so let's be explicit about it.
12723 - Mask hwclock-save.service, to avoid sync'ing the system clock
12724 to the hardware clock on shutdown (Closes: #9363).
12725 - apparmor-adjust-cupsd-profile.diff: adjust to parse fine on Jessie
12727 - Explicitly use tor@default.service when it's the one we mean.
12728 - Refactor GNOME/X env exporting to Tails' shell library, and grab
12729 more of useful bits of the desktop session environment.
12730 Then, use the result in the test suite's remote shell.
12731 - Stop tweaking /etc/modules. It's 2015, the kernel should load these things
12732 automatically (Closes: #10609).
12733 - Have systemd hardening let Tor modify its configuration (needed by Tor
12734 Launcher), and start obfs4proy (Closes: #10696, #10724).
12735 - Bump extensions.adblockplus.currentVersion and
12736 extensions.enigmail.configuredVersion to match what we currently get
12738 - I2P: switch from 'service' to 'systemctl' where possible.
12740 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:06:33 +0100
12742 tails (1.8.2) unstable; urgency=medium
12745 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.7.
12746 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u2.
12747 - Upgrade foomatic-filters to 4.0.17-1+deb7u1.
12748 - Upgrade git to 1:1.7.10.4-1+wheezy2.
12749 - Upgrade Icedove to 38.5.0-1~deb7u1.
12750 - Upgrade libxml2-related packages to 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy5.
12751 - Upgrade OpenSSL-related packages to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u19.
12752 - Upgrade libsmbclient to 2:3.6.6-6+deb7u6.
12754 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 09 Jan 2016 16:27:27 +0100
12756 tails (1.8.1) unstable; urgency=medium
12759 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.6.
12760 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u1
12761 - Upgrade gdkpixbuf to 2.26.1-1+deb7u3
12762 - Upgrade bind9 tools to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u8
12765 - Fix time synchronization in bridge mode by refreshing our patch
12766 against Tor's AppArmor profile.
12768 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Fri, 18 Dec 2015 19:05:18 +0000
12770 tails (1.8) unstable; urgency=medium
12773 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.7.6-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.
12774 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.5. (Closes: #10751)
12775 - Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u5.
12776 - Upgrade krb5-based packages to 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u6.
12777 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u6.
12778 - Upgrade wpasupplicant to 1.0-3+deb7u3.
12779 - Upgrade libpng12-0 to 1.2.49-1+deb7u1.
12780 - Upgrade openjdk-7 to 7u91-2.6.3-1~deb7u1.
12781 - Upgrade libnspr4 to 2:4.9.2-1+deb7u3
12782 - Upgrade dpkg to 1.16.17.
12783 - Upgrade gnutls26 to 2.12.20-8+deb7u4.
12784 - Upgrade Icedove to 1:38.0.1-1~deb7u1.
12785 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u18.
12788 - Upgrade to Electrum 2.5.4-2~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Now Electrum
12789 should work again. Note that the documentation has not been
12790 adapted to the slight changes in the Electrum account setup
12793 * Minor improvements
12794 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.23-2~deb7u+1.
12795 - Rebase our patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile on top
12796 of the one shipped in torbrowser-launcher 0.2.1-2.
12797 - Warn if the claws-mail persistence is enabled and contains a
12798 Claws Mail configuration when starting icedove. (Closes: #10458)
12799 - Replace the Claws Mail GNOME launcher with Icedove. (Closes:
12801 - Remove the Claws Mail persistence feature from the Persistence
12802 Assistant. (Closes: #10742)
12805 - Simplify ISO image naming rules by using the base rule we use
12806 for Jenkins all the time, except when building from a tag
12807 (i.e. building a release). (Closes: #10349)
12810 - Lower the waiting time for USB installation in the test suite.
12811 So far we were waiting up to one hour, which is just the same as
12812 our Jenkins inactivity timeout, so in practice when Tails
12813 Installer fails and displays an error message, instead of
12814 reporting that the job failed (which is the point of the
12815 exercise) we abort the job due to this timeout which
12816 communicates less clearly that there's probably a bug. (Closes:
12818 - Remove the check for the sound icon in the systray in the
12819 Windows Camouflage tests. (Closes: #10493)
12820 - Retry running whois when "LIMIT EXCEEDED" is in its output for
12821 increased robustness. (Closes: #10523)
12822 - Make Seahorse tests more robust. (Closes: #9095, #10501)
12823 - Make the handling of Pidgin's account manager more robust.
12826 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 14 Dec 2015 23:07:19 +0100
12828 tails (1.7) unstable; urgency=medium
12830 * Major new features and changes
12831 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.4. (Closes: #10456)
12832 - Add a technology preview of the Icedove Email client (a
12833 rebranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird), including OpenPGP
12834 support via the Enigmail add-on, general security and anonymity
12835 improvements via the Torbirdy add-on, and complete persistence
12836 support (which will be enabled automatically if you already have
12837 Claws Mail persistence enabled). Icedove will replace Claws Mail
12838 as the supported email client in Tails in a future
12839 release. (Closes: #6151, #9498, #10285)
12840 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.7.4-rc-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Among the many
12841 improvement of this new Tor major release, the new
12842 KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option allows us to drop the
12843 bug15482.patch patch (taken from the Tor Browse bundle) that
12844 enabled similar (but inferior) functionality for *all*
12845 SocksPort:s -- now the same circuit is only kept alive for
12846 extended periods for the SocksPort used by the Tor
12847 Browser. (Closes: #10194, #10308)
12848 - Add an option to Tails Greeter which disables networking
12849 completely. This is useful when intending to use Tails for
12850 offline work only. (Closes: #6811)
12853 - Fix CVE-2015-7665, which could lead to a network interface's IP
12854 address being exposed through wget. (Closes: #10364)
12855 - Prevent a symlink attack on ~/.xsession-errors via
12856 tails-debugging-info which could be used by the amnesia user to
12857 read the contents of any file, no matter the
12858 permissions. (Closes: #10333)
12859 - Upgrade libfreetype6 to 2.4.9-1.1+deb7u2.
12860 - Upgrade gdk-pixbuf packages to 2.26.1-1+deb7u2.
12861 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u5.
12862 - Upgrade openjdk-7 packages to 7u85-2.6.1-6~deb7u1.
12863 - Upgrade unzip to 6.0-8+deb7u4.
12866 - Add a temporary workaround for an issue in our code which checks
12867 whether i2p has bootstrapped, which (due to some recent change
12868 in either I2P or Java) could make it appear it had finished
12869 prematurely. (Closes: #10185)
12870 - Fix a logical bug in the persistence preset migration code while
12871 real-only persistence is enabled. (Closes: #10431)
12873 * Minor improvements
12874 - Rework the wordings of the various installation and upgrade
12875 options available in Tails installer in Wheezy. (Closes: #9672)
12876 - Restart Tor if bootstrapping stalls for too long when not using
12877 pluggable transports. (Closes: #9516)
12878 - Install firmware-amd-graphics, and firmware-misc-nonfree instead
12879 of firmware-ralink-nonfree, both from Debian Sid.
12880 - Update the Tails signing key. (Closes: #10012)
12881 - Update the Tails APT repo signing key. (Closes: #10419)
12882 - Install the nmh package. (Closes: #10457)
12883 - Explicitly run "sync" at the end of the Tails Upgrader's upgrade
12884 process, and pass the "sync" option when remounting the system
12885 partition as read-write. This might help with some issues we've
12886 seen, such as #10239, and possibly for #8449 as well.
12889 - Add initial automated tests for Icedove. (Closes: #10332)
12890 - Add automated tests of the MAC spoofing feature. (Closes: #6302)
12891 - Drop the concept of "background snapshots" and introduce a general
12892 system for generating snapshots that can be shared between
12893 features. This removes all silly hacks we previously used to
12894 "skip" steps, and greatly improves performance and reliability
12895 of the whole test suite. (Closes: #6094, #8008)
12896 - Flush to the log file in debug_log() so the debugging info can
12897 be viewed in real time when monitoring the debug log
12898 file. (Closes: #10323)
12899 - Force UTF-8 locale in automated test suite. Ruby will default to
12900 the system locale, and if it is non-UTF-8, some String-methods
12901 will fail when operating on non-ASCII strings. (Closes: #10359)
12902 - Escape regexp used to match nick in CTCP replies. Our Pidgin
12903 nick's have a 10% chance to include a ^, which will break that
12904 regexp. We need to escape all characters in the nick. (Closes:
12906 - Extract TBB languages from the Tails source code. This will
12907 ensure that valid locales are tested. As an added bonus, the
12908 code is greatly simplified. (Closes: #9897)
12909 - Automatically test that tails-debugging-info is not susceptible
12910 to the type of symlink attacks fixed by #10333.
12911 - Save all test suite artifacts in a dedicated directory with more
12912 useful infromation encoded in the path. This makes it easier to
12913 see which artifacts belongs to which failed scenario and which
12914 run. (Closes: #10151)
12915 - Log all useful information via Cucumber's formatters instead of
12916 printing to stderr, which is not included when logging to file
12917 via `--out`. (Closes: #10342)
12918 - Continue running the automated test suite's vnc server even if
12919 the client disconnects. (Closes: #10345)
12920 - Add more automatic tests for I2P. (Closes: #6406)
12921 - Bump the Tor circuit retry count to 10. (Closes: #10375)
12922 - Clean up dependencies: (Closes: #10208)
12927 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 03 Nov 2015 01:09:41 +0100
12929 tails (1.6) unstable; urgency=medium
12932 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.3. (Closes: #10223)
12933 - Upgrade bind9-based packages to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u7.
12934 - Upgrade liblcms1 to 1.19.dfsg2-1.2+deb7u1.
12935 - Upgrade libldap-2.4-2 to 2.4.31-2+deb7u1.
12936 - Upgrade libslp1 to 1.2.1-9+deb7u1.
12937 - Upgrade ssl-cert to 1.0.32+deb7u1.
12940 - Fix a corner case for the MAC spoofing panic mode. If panic mode
12941 failed to disable the specific device that couldn't be spoofed
12942 (by unloading the module) we disable networking. Previously we
12943 only stopped NetworkManager. The problem is that NM isn't even
12944 started at this time, but will specifically be started when
12945 we're done with MAC spoofing. Therefore, let's completely
12946 disable NetworkManager so it cannot possibly be
12947 started. (Closes: #10160)
12948 - Avoid use of uninitialized value in restricted-network-detector.
12949 If NetworkManager decides that a wireless connection has timed
12950 out before "supplicant connection state" has occued, our idea of
12951 the state is `undef`, so it cannot be used in a string
12952 comparison. Hence, let's initialize the state to the empty
12953 string instead of `undef`. Also fix the state
12954 recording. Apparently NetworkManager can say a few different
12955 things when it logs the device state transitions. (Closes:
12958 * Minor improvements
12959 - Remove workaround for localizing search engine plugins. The
12960 workaround has recently become unnecessary, possibly due to the
12961 changes made for the seach bar after the Tor Browser was rebased
12962 on Firefox 38esr. (Closes: #9146)
12963 - Refer to the I2P Browser in the I2P notifications. Instead of
12964 some obscure links that won't work in the Tor Browser, where
12965 users likely will try them, and which I believe will open them
12966 by default. (Closes: #10182)
12967 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.22. Also set the I2P apparmor profile to
12968 enforce mode. (Closes: #9830)
12971 - Test that udev-watchdog is monitoring the correct device when
12972 booted from USB. (Closes: #9890)
12973 - Remove unused 'gksu' step. This causes a false-positive to be
12974 found for #5330. (Closes: #9877)
12975 - Make --capture capture individual videos for failed scenarios
12976 only, and --capture-all to capture videos for all scenarios.
12978 - Use the more efficient x264 encoding when capturing videos using
12979 the --capture* options. (Closes: #10001)
12980 - Make --old-iso default to --iso if omitted. Using the same ISO
12981 for the USB upgrade tests most often still does what we want,
12982 e.g. test that the current version of Tails being tested has a
12983 working Tails installer. Hence this seems like a reasonable
12984 default. (Closes: #10147)
12985 - Avoid nested FindFailed exceptions in waitAny()/findAny(), and
12986 throw a new dedicated FindAnyFailed exception if these fail
12987 instead. Rjb::throw doesn't block Ruby's execution until the
12988 Java exception has been received by Ruby, so strange things can
12989 happen and we must avoid it. (Closes: #9633)
12990 - Fix the Download Management page in our browsers. Without the
12991 browser.download.panel.shown pref set, the progress being made
12992 will not update until after the browser has been restarted.
12994 - Add a 'pretty_debug' (with an alias: 'debug') Cucumber formatter
12995 that deals with debugging instead of printing it to STDERR via
12996 the `--debug` option (which now has been removed). This gives us
12997 the full flexibility of Cucumber's formatter system, e.g. one
12998 easy-to-read formatter can print to the terminal, while we get
12999 the full debug log printed to a file. (Closes: #9491)
13000 - Import logging module in otr-bot.py. Our otr-bot.py does not use
13001 logging but the jabberbot library makes logging calls, causing a
13002 one-off message “No handlers could be found for logger
13003 "jabberbot"” to be printed to the console. This commit
13004 effectively prevents logging/outputting anything to the terminal
13005 which is at a level lower than CRITICAL. (Closes: 9375)
13006 - Force new Tor circuit and reload web site on browser
13007 timeouts. (Closes: #10116)
13008 - Focus Pidgin's buddy list before trying to access the tools
13009 menu. (Closes: #10217)
13010 - Optimize IRC test using waitAny. If connecting to IRC fails,
13011 such as when OFTC is blocking Tor, waiting 60 seconds to connect
13012 while a a Reconnect button is visible is sub-optimal. It would
13013 be better to try forcing a new Tor circuit and clicking the
13014 reconnect button. (Closes: #9653)
13015 - Wait for (and focus if necessary) Pidgin's Certificate windows.
13018 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 20 Sep 2015 17:47:26 +0000
13020 tails (1.5.1) unstable; urgency=medium
13023 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.2. (Closes: #10112)
13024 - Upgrade gdk-pixbuf packages to 2.26.1-1+deb7u1.
13025 - Upgrade libnss3 to 2:3.14.5-1+deb7u5.
13028 - Refresh Tor Browser AppArmor profile patch. The old one doesn't
13029 apply on top of testing's torbrowser-launcher anymore.
13032 - Make sure Jenkins creates new jobs to build the testing branch
13033 after freezes. (Closes: #9925)
13035 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Fri, 28 Aug 2015 01:52:14 +0200
13037 tails (1.5) unstable; urgency=medium
13039 * Major new features and changes
13040 - Move LAN web browsing from Tor Browser to the Unsafe Browser,
13041 and forbid access to the LAN from the former. (Closes: #7976)
13042 - Install a 32-bit GRUB EFI boot loader. This at least works
13043 on some Intel Baytrail systems. (Closes: #8471)
13046 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0, and integrate it:
13047 · Disable Tiles in all browsers' new tab page.
13048 · Don't use geo-specific search engine prefs in our browsers.
13049 · Hide Tools -> Set Up Sync, Tools -> Apps (that links to the Firefox
13050 Marketplace), and the "Share this page" button in the Tool bar.
13051 · Generate localized Wikipedia search engine plugin icons so the
13052 English and localized versions can be distinguished in the new
13053 search bar. (Closes: #9955)
13054 - Fix panic mode on MAC spoofing failure. (Closes: #9531)
13055 - Deny Tor Browser access to global tmp directories with AppArmor,
13056 and give it its own $TMPDIR. (Closes: #9558)
13057 - Tails Installer: don't use a predictable file name for the subprocess
13058 error log. (Closes: #9349)
13059 - Pidgin AppArmor profile: disable the launchpad-integration abstraction,
13060 which is too wide-open.
13061 - Use aliases so that our AppArmor policy applies to
13062 /lib/live/mount/overlay/ and /lib/live/mount/rootfs/*.squashfs/ as well as
13063 it applies to /. And accordingly:
13064 · Upgrade AppArmor packages to 2.9.0-3~bpo70+1.
13065 · Install rsyslog from wheezy-backports, since the version from Wheezy
13066 conflicts with AppArmor 2.9.
13067 · Stop installing systemd for now: the migration work is being done in
13068 the feature/jessie branch, and it conflicts with rsyslog from
13070 · Drop apparmor-adjust-user-tmp-abstraction.diff: obsoleted.
13071 · apparmor-adjust-tor-profile.diff: simplify and de-duplicate rules.
13072 · Take into account aufs whiteouts in the system_tor profile.
13073 · Adjust the Vidalia profile to take into account Live-specific paths.
13074 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u3.
13075 - Upgrade bind9-host, dnsutils and friends to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u6.
13076 - Upgrade cups-filters to 1.0.18-2.1+deb7u2.
13077 - Upgrade ghostscript to 9.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u2.
13078 - Upgrade libexpat1 to 2.1.0-1+deb7u2.
13079 - Upgrade libicu48 to 4.8.1.1-12+deb7u3.
13080 - Upgrade libwmf0.2-7 to 0.2.8.4-10.3+deb7u1.
13081 - Upgrade openjdk-7 to 7u79-2.5.6-1~deb7u1.
13084 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.6.10-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.
13086 * Minor improvements
13087 - Tails Installer: let the user know when it has rejected a candidate
13088 destination device because it is too small. (Closes: #9130)
13089 - Tails Installer: prevent users from trying to "upgrade" a device
13090 that contains no Tails, or that was not installed with Tails Installer.
13092 - Install libotr5 and pidgin-otr 4.x from wheezy-backports. This adds
13093 support for the OTRv3 protocol and for multiple concurrent connections
13094 to the same account. (Closes: #9513)
13095 - Skip warning dialog when starting Tor Browser while being offline,
13096 in case it is already running. Thanks to Austin English for the patch!
13098 - Install the apparmor-profiles package (Closes: #9539), but don't ship
13099 a bunch of AppArmor profiles we don't use, to avoid increasing
13100 boot time. (Closes: #9757)
13101 - Ship a /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home.d/tails snippet, instead
13102 of patching /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home.
13103 - live-boot: don't mount tmpfs twice on /live/overlay, so that the one which
13104 is actually used as the read-write branch of the root filesystem's union
13105 mount, is visible. As a consequence:
13106 · One can now inspect how much space is used, at a given time, in the
13107 read-write branch of the root filesystem's union mount.
13108 · We can make sure our AppArmor policy works fine when that filesystem
13109 is visible, which is safer in case e.g. live-boot's behavior changes
13110 under our feet in the future... or in case these "hidden" files are
13111 actually accessible somehow already.
13114 - Add our jenkins-tools repository as a Git submodule, and replace
13115 check_po.sh with a symlink pointing to the same script in that submodule.
13116 Adjust the automated test suite accordingly. (Closes: #9567)
13117 - Bump amount of RAM needed for Vagrant RAM builds to 7.5 GiB. In
13118 particular the inclusion of the Tor Browser 5.0 series has recently
13119 increased the amount of space needed to build Tails. (Closes: #9901)
13122 - Test that the Tor Browser cannot access LAN resources.
13123 - Test that the Unsafe Browser can access the LAN.
13124 - Installer: test new behavior when trying to upgrade an empty device, and
13125 when attempting to upgrade a non-Tails FAT partition on GPT; also, take
13126 into account that all unsupported upgrade scenarios now trigger
13128 - Request a new Tor circuit and re-run the Seahorse and GnuPG CLI tests
13129 on failure. (Closes: #9518, #9709)
13130 - run_test_suite: remove control chars from log file even when cucumber
13131 exits with non-zero. (Closes: #9376)
13132 - Add compatibility with cucumber 2.0 and Debian Stretch. (Closes: #9667)
13133 - Use custom exception when 'execute_successfully' fails.
13134 - Retry looking up whois info on transient failure. (Closes: #9668)
13135 - Retry wget on transient failure. (Closes: #9715)
13136 - Test that Tor Browser cannot access files in /tmp.
13137 - Allow running the test suite without ntp installed. There are other means
13138 to have an accurate host system clock, e.g. systemd-timesyncd and tlsdate.
13140 - Bump timeout in the Totem feature.
13141 - Grep memory dump using the --text option. This is necessary with recent
13142 versions of grep, such as the one in current Debian sid, otherwise it
13143 will count only one occurrence of the pattern we're looking for.
13145 - Include execute_successfully's error in the exception, instead
13146 of writing it to stdout via puts. (Closes: #9795)
13147 - Test that udev-watchdog is actually monitoring the correct device.
13149 - IUK: workaround weird Archive::Tar behaviour on current sid.
13150 - Test the SocksPort:s given in torrc in the Unsafe Browser.
13151 This way we don't get any sneaky errors in case we change them and
13152 forget to update this test.
13153 - Directly verify AppArmor blocking of the Tor Browser by looking in
13154 the audit log: Firefox 38 does no longer provide any graphical feedback
13155 when the kernel blocks its access to files the user wants to access.
13156 - Update browser-related automated test suite images, and workaround
13157 weirdness introduced by the new Tor Browser fonts.
13158 - Test that Pidgin, Tor Browser, Totem and Evince cannot access ~/.gnupg
13159 via alternate, live-boot generated paths.
13160 - Adjust tests to cope with our new AppArmor aliases.
13161 - Bump memory allocated to the system under test to 2 GB. (Closes: #9883)
13163 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 10 Aug 2015 19:12:58 +0200
13165 tails (1.4.1) unstable; urgency=medium
13168 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.5.3, based on Firefox 31.8.0 ESR. (Closes: #9649)
13169 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.6.9-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails2, which includes a circuit
13170 isolation bugfix. (Closes: #9560)
13171 - AppArmor: deny Tor Browser access to the list of recently used files.
13173 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u17.
13174 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1.
13175 - Upgrade CUPS to 1.5.3-5+deb7u6.
13176 - Upgrade FUSE to 2.9.0-2+deb7u2.
13177 - Upgrade libsqlite3-0 to 3.7.13-1+deb7u2.
13178 - Upgrade ntfs-3g and ntfsprogs to 1:2012.1.15AR.5-2.1+deb7u2.
13179 - Upgrade p7zip-full to 9.20.1~dfsg.1-4+deb7u1.
13182 - Fix automatic upgrades in Windows Camouflage mode. (Closes: #9413)
13183 - Don't ship the snakeoil SSL key pair generated by ssl-cert in the ISO.
13185 - Partially fix the truncated notifications issue. (#7249)
13187 * Minor improvements
13188 - Disable the hwclock.sh initscript at reboot/shutdown time.
13189 This is an additional safety measure to ensure that the hardware clock
13190 is not modified. (Closes: #9364)
13191 - Stop shipping /var/cache/man/*, to make ISOs and IUKs smaller.
13193 - Update torbrowser-AppArmor-profile.patch to apply cleanly on top of the
13194 profile shipped with torbrowser-launcher 0.2.0-1.
13195 - Add the jessie/updates APT repo and set appropriate pinning.
13196 - Upgrade Electrum to 1.9.8-4~bpo70+1.
13197 - Upgrade kernel firmware packages to 0.44.
13200 - Install the Linux kernel from Debian Jessie. (Closes: #9341)
13201 - Remove files that are not under version control when building in Jenkins.
13203 - Don't modify files in the source tree before having possibly merged
13204 the base branch into it. (Closes: #9406)
13205 - Make it so eatmydata is actually used during a greater part of the build
13206 process. This includes using eatmydata from wheezy-backports.
13207 (Closes: #9419, #9523)
13208 - release script: adjust to support current Debian sid.
13211 - Test the system clock sanity check we do at boot. (Closes: #9377)
13212 - Remove the impossible "Clock way in the past" scenarios.
13213 Thanks to config/chroot_local-includes/lib/live/config/0001-sane-clock,
13214 these scenarios cannot happen, and since we test that it works they
13215 can be safely removed.
13216 - Test that the hardware clock is not modified at shutdown. (Closes: #9557)
13217 - Pidgin: retry looking for the roadmap URL in the topic.
13218 - Avoid showing Pidgin's tooltips during test, potentially confusing Sikuli.
13220 - Test all OpenPGP keys shipped with Tails. (Closes: #9402)
13221 - Check that notification-daemon is running when looking for notifications
13222 fails. (Closes: #9332)
13223 - Allow using the cucumber formatters however we want. (Closes: #9424)
13224 - Enable Spice in the guest, and blacklist the psmouse kernel module,
13225 to help with lost mouse events. (Closes: #9425)
13226 - Automate testing Torbutton's 'New Identity' feature. (Closes: #9286)
13227 - Test that Seahorse is configured to use the correct keyserver.
13229 - Always export TMPDIR back to the test suite's shell environment.
13231 - Make OpenPGP tests more reliable:
13232 · Retry accessing the OpenPGP applet menus on failure. (Closes: #9355)
13233 · Retry accessing menus in Seahorse on failure. (Closes: #9344)
13234 - Focus the Pidgin conversation window before any attempt to interact
13235 with it. (Closes: #9317)
13236 - Use convertkey from the (backported to Jessie) Debian package,
13237 instead of our own copy of that script. (Closes: #9066)
13238 - Make the memory erasure tests more robust (Closes: #9329):
13239 · Bump /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes when running fillram.
13240 · Actually set oom_adj for the remote shell when running fillram.
13241 · Try to be more sure that we OOM kill fillram.
13242 · Run fillram as non-root.
13243 - Only try to build the storage pool if TailsToasterStorage isn't found.
13246 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 28 Jun 2015 19:46:25 +0200
13248 tails (1.4) unstable; urgency=medium
13250 * Major new features
13251 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.5.1, based on Firefox 31.7.0 ESR, which
13252 introduces many major new features for usability, security and
13253 privacy. Unfortunately its per-tab circuit view did not make it
13254 into Tails yet since it requires exposing more Tor state to the
13255 user running the Tor Browser than we are currently comfortable
13256 with. (Closes: #9031, #9369)
13257 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.6.7-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails2. Like in the Tor
13258 bundled with the Tor Browser, we patch it so that circuits used
13259 for SOCKSAuth streams have their lifetime increased indefinitely
13260 while in active use. This currently only affects the Tor Browser
13261 in Tails, and should improve the experience on certain web sites
13262 that otherwise would switch language or log you out every ten
13263 minutes or so when Tor switches circuit. (Closes: #7934)
13266 - tor-browser wrapper script: avoid offering avenues to arbitrary
13267 code execution to e.g. an exploited Pidgin. AppArmor Ux rules
13268 don't sanitize $PATH, which can lead to an exploited application
13269 (that's allowed to run this script unconfined, e.g. Pidgin)
13270 having this script run arbitrary code, violating that
13271 application's confinement. Let's prevent that by setting PATH to
13272 a list of directories where only root can write. (Closes: #9370)
13273 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt9-3.
13274 - Upgrade curl to 7.26.0-1+wheezy13.
13275 - Upgrade dpkg to 1.16.16.
13276 - Upgrade gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad to 0.10.23-7.1+deb7u2.
13277 - Upgrade libgd2-xpm to 2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-6.1+deb7u1.
13278 - Upgrade openldap to 2.4.31-2.
13279 - Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u4.
13280 - Upgrade libruby1.9.1 to 1.9.3.194-8.1+deb7u5.
13281 - Upgrade libtasn1-3 to 2.13-2+deb7u2.
13282 - Upgrade libx11 to 2:1.5.0-1+deb7u2.
13283 - Upgrade libxml-libxml-perl to 2.0001+dfsg-1+deb7u1.
13284 - Upgrade libxml2 to 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy4.
13285 - Upgrade OpenJDK to 7u79-2.5.5-1~deb7u1.
13286 - Upgrade ppp to 2.4.5-5.1+deb7u2.
13289 - Disable security warnings when connecting to POP3 and IMAP ports.
13291 - Make the Windows 8 browser theme compatible with the Unsafe and I2P
13292 browsers. (Closes: #9138)
13293 - Hide Torbutton's "Tor Network Settings..." context menu entry.
13295 - Upgrade the syslinux packages to support booting Tails on
13296 Chromebook C720-2800. (Closes: #9044)
13297 - Enable localization in Tails Upgrader. (Closes: #9190)
13298 - Make sure the system clock isn't before the build date during
13299 early boot. Our live-config hook that imports our signing keys
13300 depend on that the system clock isn't before the date when the
13301 keys where created. (Closes: #9149)
13302 - Set GNOME's OpenPGP keys via desktop.gnome.crypto.pgp to prevent
13303 us from getting GNOME's default keyserver in addition to our
13304 own. (Closes: #9233)
13305 - Prevent Firefox from crashing when Orca is enabled: grant
13306 it access to assistive technologies in its Apparmor
13307 profile. (Closes: #9261)
13308 - Add Jessie APT source. (Closes: #9278)
13309 - Fix set_simple_config_key(). If the key already existed in the
13310 config file before the call, all other lines would be removed
13311 due to the sed option -n and p combo. (Closes: #9122)
13312 - Remove illegal instance of local outside of function definition.
13313 Together with `set -e` that error has prevented this script from
13314 restarting Vidalia, like it should. (Closes: #9328)
13316 * Minor improvements
13317 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.19-3~deb7u+1.
13318 - Install Tor Browser's bundled Torbutton instead of custom .deb.
13319 As of Torbutton 1.9.1.0 everything we need has been upstreamed.
13320 - Install Tor Browser's bundled Tor Launcher instead of our
13321 in-tree version. With Tor 0.2.6.x our custom patches for the
13322 ClientTransportPlugin hacks are not needed any more. (Closes:
13324 - Don't install msmtp and mutt. (Closes: #8727)
13325 - Install fonts-linuxlibertine for improved Vietnamese support in
13326 LibreOffice. (Closes: #8996)
13327 - Remove obsoletete #i2p-help IRC channel from the Pidgin
13328 configuration (Closes: #9137)
13329 - Add Gedit shortcut to gpgApplet's context menu. Thanks to Ivan
13330 Bliminse for the patch. (Closes: #9069).
13331 - Install printer-driver-gutenprint to support more printer
13332 models. (Closes: #8994).
13333 - Install paperkey for off-line OpenPGP key backup. (Closes: #8957)
13334 - Hide the Tor logo in Tor Launcher. (Closes: #8696)
13335 - Remove useless log() instance in tails-unblock-network. (Closes:
13337 - Install cdrdao: this enables Brasero to burn combined data/audio
13338 CDs and to do byte-to-byte disc copy.
13339 - Hide access to the Add-ons manager in the Unsafe Browser. It's
13340 currently broken (#9307) but we any way do not want users to
13341 install add-ons in the Unsafe Browser. (Closes: #9305)
13342 - Disable warnings on StartTLS for POP3 and IMAP (Will-fix: #9327)
13343 The default value of this option activates warnings on ports
13344 23,109,110,143. This commit disables the warnings for POP3 and
13345 IMAP as these could be equally used in encrypted StartTLS
13346 connections. (Closes: #9327)
13347 - Completely rework how we localize our browser by generating our
13348 branding add-on, and search plugins programatically. This
13349 improves the localization for the ar, es, fa, ko, nl, pl, ru,
13350 tr, vi and zh_CN locales by localizing the Startpage and
13351 Disconnect.me search plugins. Following Tor Browser 4.5's recent
13352 switch, we now use Disconnect.me as the default search
13353 engine. (Closes: #9309)
13354 * Actively set Google as the Unsafe Browser's default search
13358 - Encode in Git which APT suites to include when building Tails.
13360 - Clean up the list of packages we install. (Closes: #6073)
13361 - Run auto/{build,clean,config} under `set -x' for improved
13363 - Zero-pad our ISO images so their size is divisible by 2048.
13364 The data part of an ISO image's sectors is 2048 bytes, which
13365 implies that ISO images should always have a size divisible
13366 by 2048. Some applications, e.g. VirtualBox, use this as a sanity
13367 check, treating ISO images for which this isn't true as garbage.
13368 Our isohybrid post-processing does not ensure this,
13369 however. Also Output ISO size before/after isohybrid'ing and
13370 truncate'ing it. This will help detect if/when truncate is
13371 needed at all, so that we can report back to syslinux
13372 maintainers more useful information. (Closes: #8891)
13373 - Vagrant: raise apt-cacher-ng's ExTreshold preference to 50. The
13374 goal here is to avoid Tor Browser tarballs being deleted by
13375 apt-cacher-ng's daily expiration cronjob: they're not listed in
13376 any APT repo's index file, so acng will be quite eager to clean
13380 - Bring dependency checks up-to-date (Closes: #8988).
13381 - Adapt test suite to be run on Debian Jessie, which includes
13382 removing various Wheezy-specific workarounds, adding a few
13383 specific to Jessie, migrating from ffmpeg to libav, and
13384 more. (Closes: #8165)
13385 - Test that MAT can see that a PDF is dirty (Closes: #9136).
13386 - Allow throwing Timeout::Error in try_for() blocks, as well as
13387 nested try_for() (Closes: #9189, #9290).
13388 - Read test suite configuration files from the features/config/local.d
13389 directory. (Closes: #9220)
13390 - Kill virt-viewer with SIGTERM, not SIGINT, to prevent hordes of
13391 zombie processes from appearing. (Closes: #9139)
13392 - Kill Xvfb with SIGTERM, not SIGKILL, on test suite exit to allow
13393 it to properly clean up. (Closes: #8707)
13394 - Split SSH & SFTP configs in the test suite. (Closes: #9257)
13395 - Improve how we start subprocesses in the test suite, mostly by
13396 bypassing the shell for greater security and robustness (Closes:
13398 - Add Electrum test feature. (Closes #8963)
13399 - Test that Tails Installer detects when USB devices are
13400 removed. (Closes: #9131)
13401 - Test Tails Installer with devices which are too small. (Closes:
13403 - Test that the Report an Error launcher works in German. (Closes:
13405 - Verify that no extensions are installed in the Unsafe Browser
13406 using about:support instead of about:addons, which is broken
13407 (#9307). (Closes: #9306)
13408 - Retry GNOME application menu actions when they glitch. The
13409 GNOME application menus seem to have issues with clicks or
13410 hovering actions not registering, and hence sometimes submenus
13411 are not opened when they should, and sometimes clicks on the
13412 final application shortcut are lost. There seems to be a
13413 correlation between this and CPU load on the host running the
13414 test suite. We workaround this by simply re-trying the last
13415 action when it seems to fail. (Closes: #8928)
13416 - Work around Seahorse GUI glitchiness (Closes: #9343):
13417 * When Seahorse appears to be frozen--apparently due to network
13418 issues--it can often be worked around by refreshing the screen
13419 or activating a new window.
13420 * Open Seahorse's preferences dialog using the mouse.
13421 * Access menu entries with the mouse.
13422 - Wait for systray icons to finish loading before interacting with
13423 the systray. (Closes: #9258)
13424 - Test suite configuration: generalize local.d support to *.d. We
13425 now load features/config/*.d/*.yml.
13426 - Use code blocks in "After Scenario" hooks. This is much simpler
13427 to use (and more readable!) compared to hooking functions and
13428 arguments like we used to do.
13429 - Create filesystem share sources in the temporary directory and
13430 make them world-readable. (Closes: #8950)
13432 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 11 May 2015 16:45:04 +0200
13434 tails (1.3.2) unstable; urgency=medium
13437 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.0.6, based on Firefox 31.6.0 ESR.
13438 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u16.
13441 - Make Florence usable with touchpads by forcing syndaemon to
13442 always use the `-t` option, which only disables tapping and
13443 scrolling and not mouse movements (Closes: #9011).
13444 - Make tails-spoof-mac log the correct macchanger exit code on
13445 failure (Closes: #8687).
13447 · Ignore devices with less than 3.5 GB of storage since they
13448 do not fit a Tails installation (Closes: #6538).
13449 · Remove devices from the device list as they are unplugged
13452 * Minor improvements
13453 - Install obfs4proxy 0.0.4-1~tpo1, which adds support for
13454 client-mode ScrambleSuit.
13455 - Don't start Vidalia if Windows Camouflage is enabled. (Closes:
13458 · Remove "Add-ons" from the Tools menu, and hide "Keyboard
13459 Shortcuts" and "Take a Tour" since they point to resources on
13460 the open Internet (Closes: #7970).
13461 · Hide TorButton button from the customize toolbar options, and
13462 remove configs whose only purpose was to make Torbutton "green"
13467 · Test non-LAN SSH, and SFTP via GNOME's "Connect to Server"
13469 · Verify that Tails' Tor binary has the expected Tor authorities
13470 hard coded (Closes: #8960).
13472 · Programmatically determine the supported languages when testing
13473 the Unsafe Browser (Closes: #8918).
13474 · Rename --temp-dir to --tmpdir and make it behave more like
13475 mktemp, and honour TMPDIR if set in the environment. (Closes:
13478 · Make --temp-dir (now --tmpdir) actually work.
13480 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 30 Mar 2015 16:54:20 +0200
13482 tails (1.3.1) unstable; urgency=medium
13485 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.0.5, based on Firefox 31.5.3 ESR. This addresses:
13486 · https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-28/
13487 · https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-29/
13488 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt7-1.
13489 - Upgrade libxfont to 1:1.4.5-5.
13490 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u15.
13491 - Upgrade tcpdump to 4.3.0-1+deb7u2.
13492 - Upgrade bsdtar to 3.0.4-3+wheezy1.
13493 - Upgrade CUPS to 1.5.3-5+deb7u5.
13494 - Upgrade file and libmagic to 5.11-2+deb7u8.
13495 - Upgrade GnuPG to 1.4.12-7+deb7u7.
13496 - Upgrade libarchive to 3.0.4-3+wheezy1.
13497 - Upgrade libav to 6:0.8.17-1.
13498 - Upgrade FreeType 2 to 2.4.9-1.1+deb7u1.
13499 - Upgrade libgcrypt11 1.5.0-5+deb7u3.
13500 - Upgrade libgnutls26 to 2.12.20-8+deb7u3.
13501 - Upgrade libgtk2-perl to 2:1.244-1+deb7u1.
13502 - Upgrade ICU to 4.8.1.1-12+deb7u2.
13503 - Upgrade NSS to 2:3.14.5-1+deb7u4.
13504 - Upgrade libssh2 to 1.4.2-1.1+deb7u1.
13507 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.5.11-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Changes include:
13508 · Directory authority changes.
13509 · Fix assertion errors that may trigger under high DNS load.
13510 · No longer break on HUP with seccomp2 enabled.
13511 · and more - please consult the upstream changelog.
13512 - Upgrade Tor Launcher to 0.2.7.2, and update the test suite accordingly
13513 (Closes: #8964, #6985). Changes include:
13514 · Ask about bridges before proxy in wizard.
13515 · Hide logo if TOR_HIDE_BROWSER_LOGO set.
13516 · Remove firewall prompt from wizard.
13517 · Feedback when “Copy Tor Log” is clicked.
13518 · Improve behavior if tor exits.
13519 · Add option to hide TBB's logo
13520 · Change "Tor Browser Bundle" to "Tor Browser"
13521 · Update translations from Transifex.
13522 - Fix the Tor Launcher killer. (Closes: #9067)
13523 - Allow Seahorse to communicate with keyservers when run from Tails
13524 OpenPGP Applet. (Closes: #6394)
13525 - SSH client: don't proxy connections to 172.17.* to 172.31.*.
13527 - Repair config/chroot_local-packages feature, that was broken in Tails 1.3
13528 by 19-install-tor-browser-AppArmor-profile. (Closes: #8910)
13529 - language_statistics.sh: count original words instead of translated words.
13530 Otherwise we get >100% translation if translated strings are longer than
13531 original strings. (Closes: #9016)
13533 * Minor improvements
13534 - Only ship the new Tails signing key, and have Tails Upgrader stop trusting
13535 the old one. Update the documentation and test suite accordingly.
13536 (Closes: #8735, #8736, #8882, #8769, #8951)
13537 - Polish and harden a bit the WhisperBack configuration (Closes: #8991):
13538 · Only allow the `amnesia' user to run tails-debugging info as root
13540 · Fix spelling and grammar mistakes, improve phrasing a bit.
13541 · Quote variables consistently.
13545 · Chatting over XMPP in Pidgin, both peer-to-peer and in a multi-user
13546 chatroom. (Closes: #8002)
13547 · Chatting with OTR enabled over XMPP in Pidgin. (Closes: #8001)
13548 · Check that Pidgin only responds to the expected CTCP requests.
13550 · Fetching keys using Seahorse started via the OpenPGP Applet.
13551 · Sync'ing keys using Seahorse.
13553 · Fix a race condition between the remote shell's and Tails Greeter's
13554 startup, by making sure the remote shell is ready before we start
13555 GDM. (Closes: #8941)
13556 · Kill virt-viewer properly. (Closes: #9070)
13557 · Make sure the display is stopped on destroy_and_undefine().
13558 Where we had it earlier, it could be skipped if anything else in the
13559 block threw an exception.
13560 · Fix wrong use of "$@". (Closes: #9071)
13561 · Enable the pipefail option in run_test_suite.
13562 · Improve the GNOME screenshot test's robustness. (Closes: #8952)
13564 · turn the focus_pidgin_window() helper into a more generic
13565 VM.focus_xorg_window() one.
13566 · Reorganize the Display class.
13567 · Use clearer method to check process status in the Display class.
13568 - New developer-oriented features:
13569 · Add a --log-to-file option to run_test_suite. (Closes: #8894)
13570 · Add helpers for generating random strings.
13571 · Make it possible to hook arbitrary calls on scenario end. This is useful
13572 for dynamically adding cleanup functions, instead of having
13573 to explicitly deal with them in some After hook.
13575 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 23 Mar 2015 12:34:56 +0000
13577 tails (1.3) unstable; urgency=medium
13579 * Major new features
13580 - Produce the Tails image in hybrid mode (again) so that the same
13581 image can be installed both on DVD *and* "hard disks" like USB
13582 storage and similar. (Closes: #8510)
13583 - Confine the Tor Browser using AppArmor. (Closes: #5525)
13584 - Install the Electrum bitcoin client from wheezy-backports, and
13585 add a persistence preset for the Live user's bitcoin wallet. If
13586 electrum is started without the persistence preset enabled, a
13587 warning is shown. (Closes: #6739)
13590 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.0.4 (based on Firefox 31.5.0esr)
13594 - Have tor_bootstrap_progress echo 0 if no matching log line is
13595 found. (Closes: #8257)
13596 - Always pass arguments through wrappers (connect-socks, totem,
13597 wget, whois) with "$@". $* doesn't handle arguments with
13598 e.g. embedded spaces correctly. (Closes: #8603, #8830)
13599 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt4-3.
13601 * Minor improvements
13602 - Install a custom-built Tor package with Seccomp enabled;
13603 enable the Seccomp sandbox when no pluggable transport is used.
13605 - Install obfs4proxy instead of obfsproxy, which adds support for
13606 the obfs4 Tor pluggable transport. (Closes: #7980)
13607 - Install GnuPG v2 and associated tools from wheezy-backports,
13608 primarily for its improved support for OpenPGP smartcards. It
13609 lives side-by-side with GnuPG v1, which still is the
13610 default. (Closes: #6241)
13611 - Install ibus-unikey, a Vietnamese input method for IBus. (Closes:
13613 - Install torsocks (2.x) from wheezy-backports. (Closes: #8220)
13614 - Install keyringer from Debian Jessie. (Closes: #7752)
13615 - Install pulseaudio-utils.
13616 - Remove all traces of Polipo: we don't use it anymore. This
13617 closes #5379 and #6115 because:
13618 * Have APT directly use the Tor SOCKS proxy. (Closes: #8194)
13619 * Wrap wget with torsocks. (Closes: #6623)
13620 * Wrap Totem to torify it with torsocks. (Closes: #8219)
13621 * Torify Git with tsocks, instead of setting GIT_PROXY_COMMAND.
13623 - Use torsocks for whois and Gobby, instead of torify.
13624 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.18-1~deb7u+1.
13625 - Refactor the Unsafe and I2P browser code into a common shell
13626 library. A lot of duplicated code is now shared, and the code
13627 has been cleaned up and made more reliable. Several
13628 optimizations of memory usage and startup time were also
13629 implemented. (Closes: #7951)
13630 - Invert Exit and About in gpgApplet context menu. This is a
13631 short-term workaround for making it harder to exit the
13632 application by mistake (e.g. a double right-click). (Closes:
13634 - Implement new touchpad settings. This enables tap-to-click,
13635 2-fingers scrolling, and disable while typing. We don't enable
13636 reverse scrolling nor horizontal scrolling. (Closes: #7779)
13637 - Include the mount(8) output and live-additional-software.conf in
13638 WhisperBack bug reports (Closes: #8719, #8491).
13639 - Reduce brightness and saturation of background color. (Closes:
13641 - Have ALSA output sound via PulseAudio by default. This gives us
13642 centralized sound volume controls, and... allows to easily, and
13643 automatically, test that audio output works from Tor Browser,
13644 thanks to the PulseAudio integration into the GNOME sound
13646 - Import the new Tails signing key, which we will use for Tails
13647 1.3.1, and have Tails Upgrader trust both it and the "old"
13648 (current) Tails signing key. (Closes: #8732)
13649 - tails-security-check: error out when passed an invalid CA file.
13650 Unfortunately, the underlying HTTPS stack we use here fails open
13651 in those case, so we have to check it ourselves. Currently, we
13652 check that the file exists, is readable, is a plain file and is
13653 not empty. Also support specifying the CA file via an
13654 environment variable. This will ease development and bug-fixing
13656 - Fix racy code in Tails Installer that sometimes made the
13657 automated test suite stall for scenarios installing Tails
13658 to USB disks. (Closes: #6092)
13659 - Make it possible to use Tails Upgrader to upgrade a Tails
13660 installation that has cruft files on the system partition.
13664 - Install syslinux-utils from our builder-wheezy APT repository in
13665 Vagrant. We need version 6.03~pre20 to make the Tails ISO image
13667 - Update deb.tails.boum.org apt repo signing key. (Closes: #8747)
13668 - Revert "Workaround build failure in lb_source, after creating
13669 the ISO." This is not needed anymore given the move to the Tor
13670 SOCKS proxy. (Closes: #5307)
13671 - Remove the bootstrap stage usage option and disable all
13672 live-build caching in Vagrant. It introduces complexity and
13673 potential for strange build inconsistencies for a meager
13674 reduction in build time. (Closes: #8725)
13675 - Hardcode the mirrors used at build and boot time in auto/config.
13676 Our stuff will be more consistent, easier to reproduce, and our
13677 QA process will be more reliable if we all use the same mirrors
13678 at build time as the ones we configure in the ISO. E.g. we won't
13679 have issues such as #8715 again. (Closes: #8726)
13680 - Don't attempt to retrieve source packages from local-packages so
13681 local packages can be installed via
13682 config/chroot_local-packages. (Closes: #8756)
13683 - Use our own Tor Browser archive when building an ISO. (Closes:
13687 - Use libguestfs instead of parted when creating partitions and
13688 filsystems, and to check that only the expected files
13689 persist. We also switch to qcow2 as the default disk image
13690 format everywhere to reduce disk usage, enable us to use
13691 snapshots that includes the disks (in the future), and to use
13692 the same steps for creating disks in all tests. (Closes: #8673)
13693 - Automatically test that Tails ignores persistence volumes stored
13694 on non-removable media, and doesn't enable swaps. (Closes:
13696 - Actually make sure that Tails can boot from live systems stored
13697 on a hard drive. Running the 'I start Tails from DVD ...' step
13698 will override the earlier 'the computer is set to boot from ide
13699 drive "live_hd"' step, so let's make the "from DVD" part
13700 optional; it will be the default any way.
13701 - Make it possible to use an old iso with different persistence
13702 presets. (Closes: #8091)
13703 - Hide the cursor between steps when navigating the GNOME
13704 applications menu. This makes it a bit more robust, again:
13705 sometimes the cursor is partially hiding the menu entry we're
13706 looking for, hence preventing Sikuli from finding it (in
13707 particular when it's "Accessories", since we've just clicked on
13708 "Applications" which is nearby). (Closes: #8875)
13709 - Ensure that the test will fail if "apt-get X" commands fail.
13710 - Test 'Tor is ready' notification in a separate scenario. (Closes:
13712 - Add automated tests for torified wget and whois. This should
13713 help us identify future regressions such as #8603 in their
13714 torifying wrappers.
13715 - Add automated test for opening an URL from Pidgin.
13716 - And add automated tests for the Tor Browser's AppArmor
13718 - Test that "Report an Error Launcher" opens the support
13720 - Test that the Unsafe Browser:
13721 * starts in various locales.
13722 * complains when DNS isn't configured.
13723 * tears down its chroot on shutdown.
13724 * runs as the correct user.
13725 * has no plugins or add-ons installed.
13726 * has no unexpected bookmarks.
13727 * has no proxy configured.
13728 - Bump the "I2P router console is ready" timeout in its test to
13729 deal with slow Internet connections.
13730 - Make the automatic tests of gpgApplet more robust by relying
13731 more on graphical elements instead of keyboard shortcuts and
13732 static sleep():s. (Closes: #5632)
13733 - Make sure that enough disk space is available when creating
13734 virtual storage media. (Closes: #8907)
13735 - Test that the Unsafe Browser doesn't generate any non-user
13736 initiated traffic, and in particular that it doesn't check for
13737 upgrades, which is a regression test for #8694. (Closes: #8702)
13738 - Various robustness improvements to the Synaptic tests. (Closes:
13740 - Automatically test Git. (Closes: #6307)
13741 - Automatically test GNOME Screenshot, which is a regression test
13742 for #8087. (Closes: #8688)
13743 - Fix a quoting issue with `tails_persistence_enabled?`. (Closes:
13745 - Introduce an improved configuration system that also can store
13746 local secrets, like user credentials needed for some
13747 tests. (Closes: #6301, #8188)
13748 - Actually verify that we successfully set the time in our time
13749 syncing tests. (Closes: #5836)
13750 - Automatically test Tor. This includes normal functionality and
13751 the use pluggable transports, that our Tor enforcement is
13752 effective (e.g. only the Tor network or configured bridges are
13753 contacted) and that our stream isolation configuration is
13754 working. (Closes: #5644, #6305, #7821)
13756 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 23 Feb 2015 17:14:00 +0100
13758 tails (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=medium
13761 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt2-1.
13762 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.0.3 (based on Firefox 31.4.0esr)
13764 - Fail safe by entering panic mode if macchanger exits with an
13765 error, since in this situation we have to treat the
13766 driver/device state as undefined. Also, we previously just
13767 exited the script in this case, not triggering the panic mode
13768 and potentially leaking the real MAC address (Closes: #8571).
13769 - Disable upgrade checking in the Unsafe Browser. Until now the
13770 Unsafe Browser has checked for upgrades of the Tor Browser in
13771 the clear (Closes: #8694).
13774 - Fix startup of the Unsafe Browser in some locales (Closes: #8693).
13775 - Wait for notification-daemon to run before showing the MAC
13776 spoofing panic mode notifications. Without this, the "Network
13777 card disabled" notification is sometimes lost when MAC spoofing
13778 fails. Unfortunately this only improves the situation, but
13779 doesn't fix it completely (see #8685).
13780 - Log that we're going to stop NetworkManager before trying to do
13781 it in the MAC spoofing scripts. Without this we wouldn't get the
13782 log message in case stopping NetworkManager fails (thanks to
13784 - Set GNOME Screenshot preferences to save the screenshots in
13785 /home/amnesia (Closes: #8087).
13786 - Do not suspend to RAM when closing the lid on battery power
13788 - Properly update the Tails Installer's status when plugging in a
13789 USB drive after it has started (Closes: #8353).
13790 - Make rsync compare file contents by using --checksum for more
13791 reliable generation of the squashfs filesystem in
13792 IUKs. Previously it used the default, which is checking
13793 timestamps and file size, but that doesn't play well with the
13794 Tor browser files, that have a fixed mtime, which could result
13795 in updated files not ending up in the IUK.
13797 * Minor improvements
13798 - Finish migrating tails-security-check's and tails-iuk's pinning
13799 to our website's new X.509 certificate authority (Closes: #8404).
13802 - Update to Vagrant build box tails-builder-20141201. The only
13803 change is the removal of a reference to an ISO image which
13804 doesn't exist (except on the system that generated the build
13805 box) which causes an error for some users (Closes: #7644).
13806 - Generate the list of packages used during build, after building
13807 with Jenkins (Closes: #8518). This allows tracking their status
13808 on the Debian reproducible build front:
13809 https://reproducible.debian.net/index_pkg_sets.html#tails
13811 * Automated test suite
13812 - Check PO files with i18nspector (Closes: #8359).
13813 - Fix the expected image of a check.tp.o failure. Previously we
13814 looked for the "Sorry. You are not using Tor." text, but it
13815 seems it recently changed enough for Sikuli to not find it. To
13816 prevent future errors of the same kind we'll look for the
13817 crossed-over onion icon instead (Closes: #8533).
13818 - Bump timeout when waiting for Tor to re-bootstrap. We have a
13819 dreaded issue with timeouts that are multiple of 2 minutes, and
13820 then Tor succeeds soon after, so in order to allow for this
13821 timeout to be reached twice, and then possibly succeed, let's
13822 use N*2 minutes + 30 seconds, with N=2.
13824 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 14 Jan 2015 16:12:26 +0100
13826 tails (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=medium
13829 - Create a CA bundle for Tails Upgrader at ISO build time, and
13830 patch Tails Upgrader to use it. Specifically this will make it
13831 possible to check for Tails upgrades after our website changes
13832 certificate around the 2014 to 2015 transition (Partially fixes
13835 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 15 Dec 2014 10:05:17 +0100
13837 tails (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
13840 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.0-4, i.e. 3.16.7-1.
13841 - Install Tor Browser 4.0.2 (based on Firefox 31.3.0esr).
13844 - Install syslinux-utils, to get isohybrid back (Closes: #8155).
13845 - Update xserver-xorg-input-evdev to 1:2.7.0-1+tails1 which
13846 includes a patch that restores mouse scrolling in KVM/Spice
13848 - Set Torbutton logging preferences to the defaults (Closes:
13849 #8160). With the default settings, no site-specific information is
13851 - Use the correct stack of rootfs:s for the chroot browsers (Closes:
13852 #8152, #8158). After installing incremental upgrades Tails' root
13853 filesystem consists of a stack squashfs:s, not only
13854 filesystem.squashfs. When not stacking them correct we may end up
13855 using the Tor Browser (Firefox) from an older version of Tails, or
13856 with no Tor Browser at all, as in the upgrade from Tails 1.1.2 to
13857 1.2, when we migrated from Iceweasel to the Tor Browser. Based on
13858 a patch contributed by sanic.
13859 - Use the Tor Browser for MIME type that GNOME associates with
13860 Iceweasel (Closes: #8153). Open URLs from Claws Mail, KeePassX
13861 etc. should be possible again.
13862 - Update patch to include all Intel CPU microcodes (Closes: #8189).
13863 - AppArmor: allow Pidgin to run Tor Browser unconfined, with
13864 scrubbed environment (Closes: #8186). Links opened in Pidgin are
13865 now handled by the Tor Browser.
13866 - Install all localized Iceweasel search plugins (Closes: #8139).
13867 - When generating the boot profile, ignore directories in
13868 process_IN_ACCESS as well (Closes: #7925). This allows ut to
13869 update the squashfs-ordering again in Tails 1.2.1.
13870 - gpgApplet: Don't pass already encoded data to GTK2 (Closes:
13871 #7968). It's now possible to clearsign text including non-ASCII
13873 - Do not run the PulseAudio initscript, neither at startup nor
13874 shutdown (Closes: #8082).
13876 * Minor improvements
13877 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.17-1~deb7u+1.
13878 - Make GnuPG configuration closer to the best practices one
13880 - Have GnuPG directly use the Tor SOCKS port (Closes: #7416).
13881 - Remove TrueCrypt support and documentat how to open TrueCrypt
13882 volumes using cryptsetup (Closes: #5373).
13883 - Install hopenpgp-tools from Debian Jessie.
13886 - Add gettext >= 0.18.3 as a Tails build dependency. We need it for
13887 xgettext JavaScript support in feature/jessie.
13889 * Automated test suite
13890 - Don't click to open a sub-menu in the GNOME applications menu
13892 - When testing the Windows camouflage, look for individual systray
13893 applets, to avoid relying on their ordering (Closes: #8059).
13894 - Focus the Pidgin Buddy List before looking for something
13895 happening in it (Closes: #8161).
13896 - Remove workaround for showing the TBB's menu bar (Closes #8028).
13898 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 02 Dec 2014 11:34:03 +0100
13900 tails (1.2) unstable; urgency=medium
13902 * Major new features
13903 - Migrate from Iceweasel to the Tor Browser from the Tor Browser
13904 Bundle 4.0 (based on Firefox 31.2.0esr). This fixes the POODLE
13906 The installation in Tails is made global (multi-profile), uses
13907 the system-wide Tor instance, disables the Tor Browser updater,
13908 and keeps the desired deviations previously present in Iceweasel,
13909 e.g. we install the AdBlock Plus add-on, but not Tor Launcher (since
13910 we run it as a standalone XUL application), among other things.
13911 - Install AppArmor's userspace tools and apparmor-profiles-extra
13912 from Wheezy Backports, and enable the AppArmor Linux Security
13913 Module. This adds Mandatory Access Control for several critical
13914 applications in Tails, including Tor, Vidalia, Pidgin, Evince
13916 - Isolate I2P traffic from the Tor Browser by adding a dedicated
13917 I2P Browser. It is set up similarly to the Unsafe Browser,
13918 but further disables features that are irrelevant for I2P, like
13919 search plugins and the AdBlock Plus addon, while keeping Tor Browser
13920 security features like the NoScript and Torbutton addons.
13921 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.5.8-rc-1~d70.wheezy+1.
13924 - Disable TCP timestamps (Closes: #6579).
13927 - Remove expired Pidgin certificates (Closes: #7730).
13928 - Use sudo instead of gksudo for running tails-upgrade-frontend to
13929 make stderr more easily accessible (Closes: #7431).
13930 - Run tails-persistence-setup with sudo instead of gksudo to make
13931 stderr more easily accessible, and allow the desktop user to
13932 pass the --verbose parameter (Closes: #7623).
13933 - Disable CUPS in the Unsafe Browser. This will prevent the
13934 browser from hanging for several minutes when accidentally
13935 pressing CTRL+P or trying to go to File -> Print (Closes: #7771).
13937 * Minor improvements
13938 - Install Linux 3.16-3 (version 3.16.5-1) from Debian
13939 unstable (Closes: #7886, #8100).
13940 - Transition away from TrueCrypt: install cryptsetup and friends
13941 from wheezy-backports (Closes: #5932), and make it clear that
13942 TrueCrypt will be removed in Tails 1.2.1 (Closes: #7739).
13943 - Install Monkeysign dependencies for qrcodes scanning.
13944 - Upgrade syslinux to 3:6.03~pre20+dfsg-2~bpo70+1, and install
13945 the new syslinux-efi package.
13946 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.15-1~deb7u+1
13947 - Enable Wheezy proposed-updates APT repository and setup APT
13948 pinnings to install packages from it.
13949 - Enable Tor's syscall sandbox. This feature (new in 0.2.5.x)
13950 should make Tor a bit harder to exploit. It is only be enabled
13951 when when no special Tor configuration is requested in Tails
13952 Greeter due to incompatibility with pluggable transports.
13953 - Start I2P automatically when the network connects via a
13954 NetworkManager hook, and "i2p" is present on the kernel command
13955 line. The router console is no longer opened automatically, but
13956 can be accessed through the I2P Browser (Closes: #7732).
13957 - Simplify the IPv6 ferm rules (Closes: #7668).
13958 - Include persistence.conf in WhisperBack reports (Closes: #7461)
13959 - Pin packages from testing to 500, so that they can be upgraded.
13960 - Don't set Torbutton environment vars globally (Closes: #5648).
13961 - Enable VirtualBox guest additions by default (Closes: #5730). In
13962 particular this enables VirtualBox's display management service.
13963 - In the Unsafe Browser, hide option for "Tor Browser Health
13964 report", and the "Get Addons" section in the Addon manager
13966 - Show Pidgin's formatting toolbar (Closes: #7356). Having the
13967 formatting toolbar displayed in Pidgin makes the OTR status more
13968 explicit by displaying it with words.
13970 * Automated test suite
13971 - Add --pause-on-fail to ease VM state debugging when tests
13973 - Add execute_successfully() and assert_vmcommand_success() for
13974 added robustness when executing some command in the testing VM.
13975 - Use Test::Unit::Assertions instead of our home-made assert().
13976 - Add test for persistent browser bookmarks.
13977 - Add basic tests for Pidgin, Totem and Evince, including their
13978 AppArmor enforcement.
13979 - Factorize some common step pattern into single steps.
13980 - Factorize running a command in GNOME Terminal.
13981 - Add common steps to copy a file and test for its existence.
13982 - Add a wait_and_double_click Sikuli helper method.
13983 - Add a VM.file_content method, to avoid repeating ourselves, and
13984 use it whenever easily doable.
13985 - Drop test that diffs syslinux' exithelp.cfg: we don't ship this
13987 - In the Unsafe Browser tests, rely on subtle timing less (Closes:
13989 - Use the same logic to determine when Tor is working in the test
13990 suite as in Tails itself. The idea is to avoid spamming the Tor
13991 control port during bootstrap, since we've seen problems with
13994 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:34:50 +0200
13996 tails (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=medium
13999 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.8.0esr-0+tails3~bpo70+1
14000 (fixes Mozilla#1064636).
14001 - Install Linux 3.16-1 from sid (Closes: #7886).
14002 - Upgrade file to 5.11-2+deb7u5 (fixes CVE-2014-0207,
14003 CVE-2014-0237, CVE-2014-0238, CVE-2014-3478, CVE-2014-3479,
14004 CVE-2014-3480, CVE-2014-3487, CVE-2014-3538 and CVE-2014-3587).
14005 - Upgrade curl to 7.26.0-1+wheezy10 (fixes CVE-2014-3613 and
14007 - Upgrade bind9-based packages to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u2
14008 (fixes CVE-2014-0591).
14009 - Upgrade gnupg to 1.4.12-7+deb7u6 (fixes CVE-2014-5270).
14010 - Upgrade apt to 0.9.7.9+deb7u5 (fixes CVE-2014-0487,
14011 CVE-2014-0488, CVE-2014-0489, CVE-2014-0490, and
14013 - Upgrade dbus to 1.6.8-1+deb7u4 (fixes CVE-2014-3635,
14014 CVE-2014-3636, CVE-2014-3637, CVE-2014-3638 and CVE-2014-3639).
14015 - Upgrade libav-based pacakges to 6:0.8.16-1 (fixes
14017 - Upgrade bash to 4.2+dfsg-0.1+deb7u1 (fixes CVE-2014-6271).
14019 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 23 Sep 2014 23:01:40 -0700
14021 tails (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
14024 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.8.0esr-0+tails1~bpo70+1
14025 (Firefox 24.8.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
14026 Also import the Tor Browser profile at commit
14027 271b64b889e5c549196c3ee91c888de88148560f from
14028 ttp/tor-browser-24.8.0esr-3.x-1.
14029 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.23-2~d70.wheezy+1 (fixes CVE-2014-5117).
14030 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.14.1-1~deb7u+1.
14031 - Upgrade Linux to 3.14.15-2 (fixes CVE-2014-3534, CVE-2014-4667
14032 and CVE-2014-4943).
14033 - Upgrade CUPS-based packages to 1.5.3-5+deb7u4 (fixes
14034 CVE-2014-3537, CVE-2014-5029, CVE-2014-5030 and CVE-2014-5031).
14035 - Upgrade libnss3 to 2:3.14.5-1+deb7u1 (fixes CVE-2013-1741,
14036 CVE-2013-5606, CVE-2014-1491 and CVE-2014-1492).
14037 - Upgrade openssl to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u12 (fixes CVE-2014-3505,
14038 CVE-2014-3506, CVE-2014-3507, CVE-2014-3508, CVE-2014-3509,
14039 CVE-2014-3510, CVE-2014-3511, CVE-2014-3512 and CVE-2014-5139).
14040 - Upgrade krb5-based packages to 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u2 (fixes
14041 CVE-2014-4341, CVE-2014-4342, CVE-2014-4343, CVE-2014-4344 and
14043 - Upgrade libav-based packages to 6:0.8.15-1 (fixes CVE-2011-3934,
14044 CVE-2011-3935, CVE-2011-3946, CVE-2013-0848, CVE-2013-0851,
14045 CVE-2013-0852, CVE-2013-0860, CVE-2013-0868, CVE-2013-3672,
14046 CVE-2013-3674 and CVE-2014-2263.
14047 - Upgrade libgpgme11 to 1.2.0-1.4+deb7u1 (fixes CVE-2014-5117).
14048 - Upgrade python-imaging to 1.1.7-4+deb7u1 (fixes CVE-2014-3589).
14049 - Prevent dhclient from sending the hostname over the network
14051 - Override the hostname provided by the DHCP server (Closes: #7769).
14052 - Add an I2P boot parameter. Without adding "i2p" to the kernel
14053 command line, I2P will not be accessible for the Live user.
14054 - Stricter I2P firewall rules:
14055 * deny I2P from accessing the LAN
14056 * deny I2P from accessing the loopback device, except for select
14057 whitelisted services
14058 * allow I2P access to the Internet
14059 The ACCEPT rules will only be enabled when the string 'i2p' is
14060 passed at the boot prompt. The rules which DENY or REJECT
14061 access for the 'i2psvc' user will always be applied.
14062 - Disable I2P plugins, since it doesn't make much sense without
14063 persistence, and should eliminate some attack vectors.
14064 - Disable I2P's BOB port. No maintained I2P application uses it.
14067 - Fix condition clause in tails-security-check (Closes: #7657).
14068 - Don't ship OpenJDK 6: I2P prefers v7, and we don't need both.
14069 - Prevent Tails Installer from updating the system partition
14070 properties on MBR partitions (Closes: #7716).
14072 * Minor improvements
14073 - Upgrade to Torbutton 1.6.12.1.
14074 - Install gnome-user-guide (Closes: #7618).
14075 - Install cups-pk-helper (Closes: #7636).
14076 - Update the SquashFS sort file.
14077 - Compress the SquashFS more aggressively (Closes: #7706).
14078 - I2P: Keep POP3 email on server. The default in the I2P webmail
14079 app was to keep mail on the server, but that setting was changed
14080 recently. This configuration setting (susimail.config) will only
14081 be copied over in I2P 0.9.14 and newer.
14082 - Add a Close button to the Tails Installer launcher window.
14085 - Migrate Vagrant basebox to Debian Wheezy (Closes #7133, #6736).
14086 - Consistently use the same Debian mirror.
14087 - Disable runtime APT proxy configuration when using APT in
14088 binary_local-hooks (Closes: #7691).
14090 * Automated test suite
14091 - Automatically test hostname leaks (Closes: #7712).
14092 - Move autotest live-config hook to be run last. This way we'll
14093 notice if some earlier live-config hook cancels all hooks by
14094 running the automated test suite since the remote shell won't be
14095 running in that case.
14096 - Test that the I2P boot parameter does what it's supposed to do
14098 - Start applications by using the GNOME Applications menu instead
14099 of the GNOME Run Dialog (Closes: #5550, #7060).
14101 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:49:28 +0000
14103 tails (1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
14105 * Rebase on Debian Wheezy
14106 - Upgrade literally thousands of packages.
14107 - Migrate to GNOME3 fallback mode.
14108 - Install LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice.
14109 - Remove custom LSB logging: Wheezy has fancy colored init
14112 * Major new features
14113 - UEFI boot support.
14114 - Replace the Windows XP camouflage with an experimental Windows 8
14116 - Install Linux 3.14.12-1 from Debian unstable.
14117 - Bring back VirtualBox guest modules, installed from Wheezy
14118 backports. Full functionality is only available when using the
14122 - Fix write access to boot medium via udisks (#6172).
14123 - Don't allow the desktop user to pass arguments to
14124 tails-upgrade-frontend (Closes: #7410).
14125 - Make persistent file permissions safer (Closes #7443):
14126 * Make the content of /etc/skel non-world-readable. Otherwise,
14127 such files may be copied to /home/amnesia, and in turn to the
14128 persistent volume, with unsafe permissions. That's no big deal
14129 in /home/amnesia (that is itself not world-readable), *but*
14130 the root of the persistent volume has to be world-readable.
14131 * Have activate_custom_mounts create new directories with safe
14133 * Set strict permissions on /home/amnesia (Closes: #7463).
14134 * Fix permissions on persistent directories that were created
14135 with unsafe permissions (Closes: #7458).
14136 * Fix files ownership while copying persistence (Closes: #7216).
14137 The previous instructions to copy the persistent data were
14138 creating personal files that belong to root. I don't think
14139 there is a way of preserving the original ownership using
14140 Nautilus (unless doing a "move" instead of a "copy" but that's
14141 not what we are trying to do here).
14142 - Disable FoxyProxy's proxy:// protocol handler (Closes: #7479).
14143 FoxyProxy adds the proxy:// protocol handler, which can be used
14144 to configure the proxy via an URI. A malicious web page can
14145 include (or a malicious exit node can inject) some JavaScript
14146 code to visit such an URI and disable or otherwise change
14147 Iceweasel's proxy settings. While using this to disable
14148 proxying will be dealt with safely by our firewall, this could
14149 be used to defeat stream isolation, although the user must be
14150 tricked into accepting the new proxy settings.
14151 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.7.0esr-0+tails1~bpo70+1
14152 (Firefox 24.7.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
14153 - Upgrade to Linux 3.14.12-1 (fixes CVE-2014-4699).
14154 - Upgrade libav-based packages to 0.8.13-1 (fixes CVE-2014-4609).
14155 - Upgrade to libxml2 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy1 (fixes CVE-2014-0191).
14156 - Upgrade to dbus 1.6.8-1+deb7u3 (fixes CVE-2014-3477,
14157 CVE-2014-3532 and CVE-2014-3533).
14160 - Disable GNOME keyring's GnuPG functionality. (Closes: #7330) In
14161 feature/regular-gnupg-agent, we installed the regular GnuPG
14162 agent so that it is used instead of GNOME keyring's one. This is
14163 not enough on Wheezy, so let's disable the starting of the "gpg"
14164 component of GNOME keyring.
14165 - Make sure /etc/default/locale exists, with a sensible default
14166 value (Closes: #7333). Before Tails Greeter's PostLogin script
14167 are run, /etc/default/locale does not exist on Wheezy. Our
14168 tails-kexec initscript (and quite a few other scripts we run)
14169 depends on this file to exist. So, let's make sure it exists,
14170 with a sensible default value.
14171 - Create the tails-persistence-setup user with the same UID/GID it
14172 had on Tails/Squeeze. (Closes: #7343) Else, our various checks
14173 for safe access rights on persistence.conf fail.
14174 - Revert back to browsing the offline documentation using Iceweasel
14175 instead of Yelp (Closes: #7390, #7285).
14176 - Make the new NetworkManager configuration directory persistent,
14177 when the old one was, but disable the old one (Closes: #7338).
14178 - Before running tails-upgrade-frontend, chdir to a world-readable
14179 place (Closes: #7641). In particular, Archive::Tar::Wrapper,
14180 when called by tails-install-iuk, wants to chdir back to the
14181 original cwd after it has chdir'd elsewhere to do its job.
14183 * Minor improvements
14184 - Install seahorse-nautilus, replacing seahorse-plugins (Closes #5516).
14185 - Install hledger (custom backport, for now): our accountants need this.
14186 - Install stable Scribus instead of scribus-ng.
14187 - Install the printer driver for Epson Inkjet that use ESC/P-R.
14188 - Install the BookletImposer PDF imposition toolkit. It's tiny,
14189 and really helpful e.g. when producing booklets.
14190 - Install gtkhash and nautilus-gtkhash (Closes #6763).
14191 - Import new version of Tor Launcher:
14192 · Now based on upstream Tor Launcher 0.2.5.4.
14193 · Tor bug #11772: Proxy Type menu not set correctly
14194 · Tor bug #11699: Change &#160 to   in network-settings.dtd
14195 · Correctly handle startup paths that contain dot.
14196 - Upgrade to Torbutton 1.6.9.0.
14197 - Avoid shipping python2.6 in addition to python2.7.
14198 - Don't install Gobby 0.4 anymore. Gobby 0.5 has been available in
14199 Debian since Squeeze, now is a good time to drop the obsolete
14200 0.4 implementation.
14201 - Require a bit less free memory before checking for upgrades with
14202 Tails Upgrader. The general goal is to avoid displaying "Not
14203 enough memory available to check for upgrades" too often due to
14204 over-cautious memory requirements checked in the wrapper.
14205 - Make Tails Greeter's help window resolution-aware. Previously it
14206 used a static 800x600 which was problematic on lower resolutions,
14207 and sub-optimal on higher resolutions. Now it adapts itself
14208 according to the screen resolution.
14209 - Whisperback now sanitizes attached logs better with respect to
14210 DMI data, IPv6 addresses, and serial numbers (Closes #6797,
14212 - Integrate the new logo in Tails Installer (Closes #7095)
14213 - Also install linux-base and linux-compiler-gcc-4.8-x86 from
14214 sid. This way, we can get rid of our linux-compiler-gcc-4.8-x86
14215 3.12, and it makes things a bit more consistent.
14216 - Include the syslinux binary, and its MBR, in the ISO filesystem.
14217 This in turn allows Tails Installer to use this binary and MBR,
14218 which is critical for avoiding problems (such as #7345) on
14219 "Upgrade from ISO".
14220 - Include syslinux.exe for win32 in utils/win32/ on the ISO
14221 filesystem (Closes: #7425).
14223 * Add consistent margins in GUI.
14224 * Always reset the target drive's MBR, without asking for
14225 confirmation, after installing or upgrading.
14226 * Install the bootloader using the syslinux binary found on the
14227 target device, once the Live OS has been extracted/copied
14229 - Enable double-clicking to pick entries in the language or
14230 keyboard layout lists in Tails Greeter.
14231 - Install backport of shared-mime-info 1.3 (Closes: #7079).
14232 - Make sanity-check prompts closable in Tails Persistence Setup
14234 - Fix quick search in Tails Greeter's Other languages window
14236 - Install systemd. It is not enabled by default, but having it
14237 around will help doing the migration work.
14238 - Enable AppArmor on the kernel command-line. This is a no-op
14239 without the userspace tools and with no profile shipped, but it
14240 will make it easier to fix this part of the situation.
14243 - Bump Vagrant builder's memory for RAM builds. Wheezy requires
14244 more space to build, and the resulting image is larger.
14245 - Fix Vagrant compatibility issue. Some classes' methods/fields
14246 have been renamed between Vagrant versions, so we need a simple
14247 compatibility layer to support all versions. Without this, it's
14248 not possible to issue e.g. a `build` command to an already
14249 running (i.e. `vm:up`:ed) Vagrant instance.
14250 - Move cpu and mem checks to the `build` task. Previously, when
14251 they were checked in `vm:up` *only* when issued while the VM
14252 already is up, so these checks weren't run if one issues a
14253 `build` when the VM is off. Now we'll fail earlier with a more
14254 informative error message, and it looks like a more logical home
14256 - Fix buggy memory checks for RAM building. We have to take into
14257 account which state the Vagrant VM is in for determining *where*
14258 we check if enough memory is available for a RAM build. If it's
14259 off, we check the host; if it's on we check the VM. Previously
14260 we always checked the host, which doesn't make sense when the VM
14261 is already started.
14263 * Automated test suite
14264 - Bump the tester VM's RAM by 256 MiB. There is not enough free
14265 RAM to run Tails Upgrader with just 1 GiB of RAM after the
14266 migration to Wheezy.
14267 - Always adjust OOM and memory overcommit settings. The kernel
14268 freezes seem to also happen for the amd64 kernel when filling
14270 - Add option to make Sikuli rety on FindFailed. This makes it
14271 possible to update manu images for Sikuli in just *one* test
14272 suite run, by continuously updating outdated pictures as we go.
14273 - Actually run "Upgrade from ISO" from a USB drive running the old
14274 version. That's what users do, and is buggy.
14275 - Automatically test persistent directories permissions (Closes: #7560).
14276 - Use read-write persistence when testing upgraded USB
14277 installations. Otherwise e.g. the permission fixes won't get
14278 applied, and the subsequent steps testing the permissions will
14280 - Actually check that the ISO's Tails is installed. The step
14281 "Tails is installed on USB drive $TARGET" only checks that the
14282 *running* Tails is installed on $TARGET, which obviously fails
14283 when doing an upgrade from ISO running an old Tails. That it
14284 worked for the same scenario running the current Tails is just
14286 - Use OpenJDK 7 to run our test suite (Closes #7175).
14287 - Use qemu-system-x86_64 directly, instead of kvm, for running the
14288 automated test suite (Closes: #7605).
14290 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 20 Jul 2014 23:16:13 +0200
14292 tails (1.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium
14295 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.6.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1
14296 (Firefox 24.6.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
14297 Also import the Tor Browser profile at commit
14298 90ba8fbaf6f23494f1a0e38d63153b3b7e65d3d3 from
14299 ttp/tor-browser-24.6.0esr-3.x-1.
14300 - Install Linux 3.14 from Debian unstable (fixes CVE-2014-3153 and
14302 - Install openssl from Squeeze LTS (fixes CVE-2014-0076,
14303 CVE-2014-0195, CVE-2014-0221, CVE-2014-3470 and CVE-2014-0224).
14304 - Install GnuTLS from Squeeze LTS (fixes CVE-2014-3466.).
14306 * Minor improvements
14307 - Add Squeeze LTS APT sources. It has been given a low pinning
14308 priority so explicit pinning must be used to actually install
14310 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.22-1~d60.squeeze+1.
14311 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.13-1~deb6u+1.
14313 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 08 Jun 2014 19:14:00 +0200
14315 tails (1.0) unstable; urgency=medium
14318 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.5.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1
14319 (Firefox 24.5.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
14320 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.21-1+tails1~d60.squeeze+1:
14321 * Based on 0.2.4.21-1~d60.squeeze+1.
14322 * Backport the fix for Tor bug #11464. It adds client-side blacklists for
14323 all Tor directory authority keys that was vulnerable to Heartbleed.
14324 This protects clients in case attackers were able to compromise a
14325 majority of the authority signing and identity keys.
14328 - Disable inbound I2P connections. Tails already restricts incoming
14329 connections, but this change tells I2P about it.
14330 - Fix link to the system requirements documentation page in the Tails
14331 Upgrader error shown when too little RAM is available.
14333 * Minor improvements
14334 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.12-2~deb6u+1.
14335 - Import TorBrowser profile. This was forgotten in Tails 0.23 and even
14336 though we didn't explicitly set those preferences in that release
14337 they defaulted to the same values. This future-proofs us in case the
14338 defaults would ever change.
14339 - Import new custom version of tor-launcher:
14340 * Based on upstream Tor Launcher 0.2.5.3.
14341 * Improve how Tor Launcher handles incomplete translation.
14342 (Tor bug #11483; more future-proof fix for Tails bug #6885)
14343 * Remove the bridge settings prompt. (Tor bug #11482; closes Tails
14345 * Always show bridge help button. (Tor bug #11484)
14346 - Integrate the new Tails logo into various places:
14349 * The "About Tails" dialog
14352 - Use the stable APT suite when building from the stable Git branch
14356 - Add test for the #7022 fix.
14358 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 27 Apr 2014 19:34:01 +0200
14360 tails (0.23) unstable; urgency=medium
14363 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.4.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1
14364 (Firefox 24.4.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
14366 * Major new features
14367 - Spoof the network interfaces' MAC address by default (Closes: #5421),
14368 as designed on https://tails.boum.org/contribute/design/MAC_address/.
14369 - Rework the way to configure how Tor connects to the network
14370 (bridges, proxy, fascist firewall): add an option to Tails Greeter,
14371 start Tor Launcher when needed (Closes: #5920, #5343).
14374 - Additional software: do not crash when persistence is disabled
14376 - Upgrade Pidgin to 2.10.9, that fixes some regressions introduced
14377 in the 2.10.8 security update (Closes: #6661).
14378 - Wait for Tor to have fully bootstrapped, plus a bit more time,
14379 before checking for upgrades (Closes: #6728) and unfixed known
14381 - Disable the Intel Management Engine Interface driver (Closes: #6460).
14382 We don't need it in Tails, it might be dangerous, and it causes bugs
14383 on various hardware such as systems that reboot when asked to shut down
14384 - Add a launcher for the Tails documentation. This makes it available
14385 in Windows Camouflage mode (Closes: #5374, #6767).
14386 - Remove the obsolete wikileaks.de account from Pidgin (Closes: #6807).
14388 * Minor improvements
14389 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.21-1~d60.squeeze+1.
14390 - Upgrade obfsproxy to 0.2.6-2~~squeeze+1.
14391 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.11-1deb6u1.
14392 - Install 64-bit kernel instead of the 686-pae one (Closes: #5456).
14393 This is a necessary first step towards UEFI boot support.
14394 - Install Monkeysign (in a not-so-functional shape yet).
14395 - Disable the autologin text consoles (Closes: #5588). This was one of
14396 the blockers before a screen saver can be installed
14397 in a meaningful way (#5684).
14398 - Don't localize the text consoles anymore: it is broken on Wheezy,
14399 the intended users can as well use loadkeys, and we now do not have
14400 to trust setupcon to be safe for being run as root by the desktop user.
14401 - Make it possible to manually start IBus.
14402 - Reintroduce the possibility to switch identities in the Tor Browser,
14403 using a filtering proxy in front of the Tor ControlPort to avoid giving
14404 full control over Tor to the desktop user (Closes: #6383).
14405 - Incremental upgrades improvements:
14406 · Drop the Tails Upgrader launcher, to limit users' confusion
14408 · Lock down sudo credentials a bit.
14409 · Hide debugging information (Closes: #6505).
14410 · Include ~/.xsession-errors in WhisperBack bug reports.
14411 This captures the Tails Upgrader errors and debugging information.
14412 · Report more precisely why an incremental upgrade cannot be done
14414 · Various user interface and phrasing improvements.
14415 - Don't install the Cookie Monster browser extension (Closes: #6790).
14416 - Add a browser bookmark pointing to Tor's Stack Exchange (Closes: #6632).
14417 - Remove the preconfigured #tor channel from the Pidgin: apparently,
14418 too many Tails users go ask Tails questions there, without making
14419 it clear that they are running Tails, hence creating a user-support
14420 nightmare (Closes: #6679).
14421 - Use (most of) Tor Browser's mozconfig (Closes: #6474).
14422 - Rebase the browser on top of iceweasel 24.3.0esr-1, to get
14423 the certificate authorities added by Debian back (Closes: #6704).
14424 - Give access to the relevant documentation pages from Tails Greeter.
14425 - Hide Tails Greeter's password mismatch warning when entry is changed.
14426 - Persistent Volume Assistant:
14427 · Take into account our installer is now called Tails Installer.
14428 · Optimize window height (Closes: #5458).
14429 · Display device paths in a more user-friendly way (Closes: #5311).
14432 - Ease updating POT and PO files at release time, and importing translations
14433 from Transifex (Closes: #6288, #6207).
14434 - Drop custom poedit backport, install it from squeeze-backports-sloppy.
14435 - Make ISO and IUK smaller (Closes: #6390, #6425):
14436 · Exclude more files from being included in the ISO.
14437 · Remove *.pyc later so that they are not recreated.
14438 · Truncate log files later so that they are not filled again.
14439 · At ISO build time, set mtime to the epoch for large files whose content
14440 generally does not change between releases. This forces rsync
14441 to compare the actual content of these files, when preparing an IUK,
14442 instead of blindly adding it to the IUK merely because the mtime
14443 has changed, while the content is the same.
14444 - Make local hooks logging consistent.
14447 - Migrate from JRuby to native Ruby + rjb.
14448 - The test suite can now be run on Debian Wheezy + backports.
14449 - Fix buggy "persistence is not enabled" step (Closes: #5465).
14450 - Use IPv6 private address as of RFC 4193 for the test suite's virtual
14451 network. Otherwise dnsmasq from Wheezy complains, as it is not capable
14452 of handling public IPv6 addresses.
14453 - Delete volumes after each scenario unless tagged @keep_volumes.
14454 - Add an anti-test to make sure the memory erasure test works fine.
14455 - A *lot* of bugfixes, simplifications and robustness improvements.
14457 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 18 Mar 2014 00:58:50 +0100
14459 tails (0.22.1) unstable; urgency=medium
14462 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.3.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+2
14463 (Firefox 24.3.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
14464 - Upgrade NSS to 3.14.5-1~bpo60+1.
14465 - Upgrade Pidgin to 2.10.8.
14466 - Workaround browser size fingerprinting issue by using small icons
14467 in the web browser's navigation toolbar (Closes: #6377).
14468 We're actually hit by Tor#9268, and this is the best workaround gk
14469 and I were able to find when discussing this on Tor#10095.
14471 * Major new features
14472 - Check for upgrades availability using Tails Upgrader, and propose
14473 to apply an incremental upgrade whenever possible (Closes: #6014).
14474 · Run tails-update-frontend at session login time.
14475 · Have tails-security-check only report unfixed security issues.
14476 · Greatly improve the Tails Upgrader UI and strings phrasing.
14477 · Enable startup notification for Tails Upgrader.
14478 - Install Linux 3.12 (3.12.6-2) from Debian testing. Unfortunately,
14479 this breaks the memory wipe feature on some hardware (#6460), but
14480 it fixes quite a few security issues, and improves hardware support.
14481 - Update the build system to be compatible with Vagrant 1.2 and 1.3,
14482 in addition to the already supported versions (Closes: #6221).
14483 Thanks to David Isaac Wolinsky <isaac.wolinsky@gmail.com>.
14486 - Do not start IBus for languages that don't need it. This fixes
14487 the keybindings problems introduced in 0.22 (Closes: #6478).
14488 Thanks to WinterFairy.
14489 - Disable network.proxy.socks_remote_dns in the Unsafe Browser.
14490 Bugfix against 0.22 (Closes: #6479).
14491 - Fetch Tor Browser User-Agent from its own prefs, rather than from
14492 the obsolete Torbutton ones. Bugfix against 0.22 (Closes: #6477).
14493 - Upgrade Vagrant basebox to include up-to-date Debian archive keys
14494 (Closes: #6515, #6527).
14495 - Do not use a non-working proxy for downloading the Vagrant basebox
14497 - Use IE's icon in Windows camouflage mode.
14498 Bugfix against 0.22 (Closes: #6536).
14499 - Support "upgrading" a partial Tails installation (Closes: #6438)
14500 and fix missing confirmation dialog in Tails Installer (Closes: #6437).
14501 Thanks to Andres Gomez Ramirez <andres.gomez@cern.ch>.
14502 - Fix browser homepage in Spanish locales (Closes: #6612).
14504 * Minor improvements
14505 - Tor 0.2.4 is stable! Adapt APT sources accordingly.
14506 - Update Tor Browser to 24.2.0esr-1+tails1, that uses its own NSS
14507 library instead of the system one.
14508 - Update Torbutton to 1.6.5.3.
14509 - Do not start Tor Browser automatically, but notify when Tor is ready.
14510 Warn the user when they attempt to start Tor Browser before Tor is ready.
14511 - Import Tor Browser profile at
14512 3ed5d9511e783deb86835803a6f40e7d5a182a12 from ttp/tor-browser-24.2.0esr-1.
14513 - Use http.debian.net for Vagrant builds, instead of the mostly broken
14514 (and soon obsolete) cdn.debian.net.
14515 - Phrasing and UI improvements in tails-upgrade-frontend.
14516 - Style and robustness improvements in tails-security-check.
14517 - Make room for upcoming UEFI support in Tails Installer.
14519 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:08:13 +0100
14521 tails (0.22) unstable; urgency=medium
14525 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 24.2.0esr that fixes a few serious security issues.
14526 - Stop migrating persistence configuration and access rights. Instead,
14527 disable all persistence configuration files if the mountpoint has wrong
14528 access rights (Closes: #6413).
14529 - Upgrade to NSS 3.15.3 that fixes a few serious security issues affecting
14530 the browser, such as CVE-2013-1741, CVE-2013-5605 and CVE-2013-5606.
14532 * Major improvements
14533 - Switch to Iceweasel 24 (Closes: #6370).
14534 · Resync' (most) Iceweasel prefs with TBB 3.0-beta-1 and get rid
14535 of many obsolete or default settings.
14536 · Disable WebRTC (Closes: #6468).
14537 · Import TorBrowser profile at commit
14538 51bf06502c46ee6c1f587459e8370aef11a3422d from the tor-browser-24.2.0esr-1
14539 branch at https://git.torproject.org/tor-browser.git.
14540 - Switch to Torbutton 1.6.5 (Closes: #6371).
14541 · Prevent Torbutton from asking users to "upgrade TBB".
14542 · Use the same Tor SOCKS port as the TBB (9151) for our web browser.
14543 This should be enough to avoid being affected by Tor#8511.
14544 · Disable Torbutton 1.6's check for Tor.
14545 Unfortunately, the new check.torproject.org breaks the remote Tor
14546 check. We cannot use the local Tor check with the control port. So,
14547 the shortest and sanest path to fixing the check issue, because the
14548 remote Tor check is broken" seems to simply disable this check.
14549 Patch submitted upstream as Tor#10216.
14550 - Prepare incremental upgrades to be the next default way to upgrade Tails,
14551 on point-releases at least.
14554 - Deny X authentication only after Vidalia exits (Closes: #6389).
14555 - Disable DPMS screen blanking (Closes: #5617).
14556 - Fix checking of the persistent volume's ACL.
14557 - Sanitize more IP and MAC addresses in bug reports (Closes: #6391).
14558 - Do not fail USB upgrade when the "tmp" directory exists on the
14559 destination device.
14560 - Tails Installer: list devices with isohybrid Tails installed
14563 * Minor improvements
14564 - Create a configuration file for additional software if needed
14566 - Translations all over the place.
14567 - Enable favicons in Iceweasel.
14568 - Do not propose to make permanent NoScript exceptions.
14569 In Tails, every such thing is temporary, so better only display the menu
14570 entry that's about temporarily allowing something.
14571 - Clearer warning when deleting persistent volume (thanks to Andres Gomez
14572 Ramirez <andres.gomez@cern.ch> for the patch).
14573 - Make wording in Tails Installer more consistent.
14576 * Use IBus instead of SCIM (Closes: #5624, #6206).
14577 It makes it possible to input passwords in pinentry for at least Japanese,
14578 Chinese and Korean languages.
14579 * Add an import-translation script.
14580 This automates the importation process of completed translations
14582 * Always list optimal keyboard layout in the greeter (Closes: #5741).
14583 * Fix on-the-fly translation of the greeter in various languages
14587 * Update I2P to 0.9.8.1 (Closes: #6080, #5889).
14588 * Improve I2P configuration:
14589 - Disable IPv6 support in a nicer way.
14590 - Disable i2cp (allows java clients to communicate from outside the JVM). If
14591 this is unset an exception for port 7654 would need to be added to ferm.
14592 - Disable "in-network" updates (this is also done in the regular I2P
14594 - Disable the outproxies. Access to the Internet is already routed through
14595 Tor so these are unnecessary. If end-users have a good reason to go
14596 through one of the I2P outproxies they can turn them back on.
14597 * Add a couple of default I2P IRC channels to Pidgin.
14598 * Allow access to the local 'eepsite' through FoxyProxy.
14599 * Add firewall exceptions for the standard I2P ports.
14601 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 30 Nov 2013 16:47:18 +0100
14603 tails (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
14606 - Don't grant access to the Tor control port for the desktop user
14607 (amnesia). Else, an attacker able to run arbitrary code as this user
14608 could obtain the public IP with a get_info command.
14609 · Vidalia is now run as a dedicated user.
14610 · Remove the amnesia user from the debian-tor group.
14611 · Remove the Vidalia launcher in the Applications menu.
14612 The Vidalia instance it starts is useless, since it can't connect
14613 to the Tor control port.
14614 - Don't allow the desktop user to directly change persistence settings.
14615 Else, an attacker able to run arbitrary code as this user could
14616 leverage this feature to gain persistent root access, as long as
14617 persistence is enabled.
14618 · Fully rework the persistent filesystem and files ownership
14620 · Run the Persistent Volume Assistant as a dedicated user, that is
14621 granted the relevant udisks and filesystem -level credentials.
14622 · At persistence activation time, don't trust existing persistence
14623 configuration files, migrate to the new ownership and permissions,
14624 migrate every known-safe existing settings and backup what's left.
14625 Warn the user when not all persistence settings could be migrated.
14626 · Persistent Volume Assistant uses the new ownership and permissions
14627 scheme when initializing a new persistent volume, and refuses to
14628 read persistence.conf if it, or the parent directory, hasn't the
14629 expected permissions.
14630 · Make boot medium 'system internal' for udisks with bilibop.
14631 Once Tails is based on Wheezy, this will further complete the
14632 protection (see #6172 for details).
14633 - Update Iceweasel to 17.0.10esr-0+tails2~bpo60+1.
14634 - Update Torbutton to 1.5.2-2, including a patch cherry-picked from
14635 upstream to make window resizing closer to what the design says.
14637 * Major new features
14638 - Add a persistence preset for printing settings (Closes: #5686).
14639 Reload CUPS configuration after persistence activation.
14640 - Support SD card connected through a SDIO host adapter (Closes: #6324).
14641 · Rebrand Tails USB installer to Tails installer.
14642 · Display devices brand, model and size in the Installer
14644 · Ask for confirmation before installing Tails onto a device
14646 · Add support for SDIO and MMC block devices to the Tails Installer
14647 (Closes: #5744) and the Persistent Volume Assistant (Closes: #6325).
14648 · Arm the udev watchdog when booted from SD (plugged in SDIO) too
14651 * Minor improvements
14652 - Provide a consistent path to the persistent volume mountpoint
14654 - Add a KeePassX launcher to the top GNOME panel (Closes: #6290).
14655 - Rework bug reporting workflow: point the desktop launcher to
14656 the troubleshooting page.
14657 - Make /home world-readable at build time, regardless of the Git
14658 working copy permissions. This makes the build process more robust
14659 against strict umasks.
14660 - Add signing capabilities to the tails-build script (Closes: #6267).
14661 This is in turn used to sign ISO images built by our Jenkins setup
14663 - Simplify the ikiwiki setup and make more pages translatable.
14664 - Exclude the version string in GnuPG's ASCII armored output.
14665 - Prefer stronger ciphers (AES256,AES192,AES,CAST5) when encrypting
14667 - Use the same custom Startpage search URL than the TBB.
14668 This apparently disables the new broken "family" filter.
14669 - Update AdBlock Plus patterns.
14670 - Install Linux from Debian testing.
14671 (That is, the same version that was shipped in 0.20.1.)
14674 - Look for "/tmp/.X11-unix/X${1#:}" too when detecting displays in use.
14675 - Adapt tests to match the Control Port access security fix:
14676 · Take into account that the amnesia user isn't part of the debian-tor
14678 · Run as root the checks to see if a process is running: this
14679 is required to see other users' processes.
14681 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2013 23:42:46 +0200
14683 tails (0.20.1) unstable; urgency=low
14685 * Major new features
14686 - Install Tor 0.2.4.17-rc-1~d60.squeeze+1 from the Tor project's repository.
14687 - Install Iceweasel 17.0.9esr with Torbrowser patches.
14688 - Install Linux kernel 3.10-3 (version 3.10.11-1) from sid.
14691 - Remount persistence devices read-only at shutdown/reboot time
14693 - Greeter: display a warning icon on admin password mismatch and on
14694 persistence unlocking failure. Thanks to Andres Gomez Ramirez
14695 <andres.gomez@cern.ch> for the fix!
14696 - Don't torsocksify Pidgin.
14697 Instead we disable Pidgin's GNOME integration to get the "Global proxy
14698 configuration", which we set to use Tor. This fixes the I2P IRC account.
14699 - Additional software: fix typo in notification.
14700 - Allow installing "Priority: standard" packages that we do not install
14701 by default: remove them late in the build process instead of assigning
14702 them a -1 APT pinning level.
14704 * Minor improvements
14705 - Update AdBlock Plus patterns.
14706 - Use more unique ISO file name when building from Jenkins.
14707 - Additional software: point to the system log on upgrade failure.
14708 - Set SOCKS5_USER and SOCKS5_PASSWORD in the connect-socks wrapper (used
14709 by Git). Else, Tor 0.2.4's IsolateSOCKSAuth and connect-proxy
14710 sometimes play together in some way that makes connect-proxy ask for
14711 a password to connect to the SocksPort. SOCKS5_USER and
14712 SOCKS5_PASSWORD are passed through unchanged if they were manually set
14713 by the user already.
14714 - Use our custom connect-socks wrapper for SSH. Else, Tor 0.2.4's
14715 IsolateSOCKSAuth and connect-proxy sometimes play together in some way
14716 that makes connect-proxy ask for a password to connect to the
14717 SocksPort. Note that connect-socks uses the default SocksPort too, so
14718 no change here wrt. our connection isolation design.
14721 - Import new translations from Transifex.
14724 - Fix old ISO checking for consistent error reporting.
14725 - Remove custom persistence test from manual test suite.
14726 It was removed for the GUI in t-p-s 0.33.
14728 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2013 15:49:36 +0200
14730 tails (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
14732 * Major new features
14733 - Install Linux kernel 3.10.3-1 from Debian unstable.
14734 - Iceweasel 17.0.8esr + Torbrowser patches.
14737 - Prevent Iceweasel from displaying a warning when leaving HTTPS web sites.
14738 - Make Iceweasel use the correct, localized search engine.
14739 - Fix Git access to https:// repositories.
14741 * Minor improvements
14742 - Install Dasher, a predictive text entry tool.
14743 - Add a wrapper around TrueCrypt which displays a warning about it soon
14744 being deprecated in Tails.
14745 - Remove Pidgin libraries for all protocols but IRC and Jabber/XMPP.
14746 Many of the other protocols Pidgin support are broken in Tails and
14747 haven't got any security auditting.
14748 - Disable the pre-defined Pidgin accounts so they do not auto-connect
14750 - Include information about Alsa in WhisperBack reports.
14751 - Explicitly restrict access to ptrace. While this setting was enabled
14752 by default in Debian's Linux 3.9.6-1, it will later disabled in 3.9.7-1.
14753 It's unclear what will happen next, so let's explicitly enable it ourselves.
14754 - Do not display dialog when a message is sent in Claws Mail.
14755 - Sync iceweasel preferences with the Torbrowser's.
14758 - Many translation updates all over the place.
14759 - Merge all Tails-related POT files into one, and make use of intltoolize
14760 for better integration with Transifex.
14762 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:19:57 +0200
14764 tails (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
14766 * Major new features
14767 - Install Linux kernel 3.9.5-1 from Debian unstable.
14768 Features of particular interest for Tails are the Yama LSM
14769 (ptrace scope restrictions) and improved hardware support.
14770 As a corollary, install initramfs-tools from there too.
14771 - Iceweasel 17.0.7esr + Torbrowser patches.
14772 - Unblock Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, WWAN and WiMAX; block every other type of
14773 wireless device. Next steps are described on the
14774 todo/protect_against_external_bus_memory_forensics ticket.
14777 - Fix write access to boot medium at the block device level,
14778 by installing bilibop-udev. Thanks to quidame for his support.
14779 - tails-greeter l10n-related fixes, thanks to winterfairy:
14780 · Fix so translations is applied on password mismatch messages.
14781 · Separate forward and login buttons and make them translatable.
14782 - Fix link to documentation when no sudo password is set.
14783 - gpgApplet: partial fix for clipboard emptying after a wrong passphrase
14785 - Workaround aufs bug in Unsafe Browser script.
14787 * Minor improvements
14788 - Drop GNOME proxy settings: we did not find any use of it we were keen
14789 to support, other than two programs (Seahorse, Pidgin) that are now run
14791 - Format newly created persistent volumes as ext4.
14792 - GnuPG: don't connect to the keyserver specified by the key owner.
14793 This feature opens the door to a variety of subtle attacks.
14794 - GnuPG: locate keys only from local keyrings.
14795 This is probably the default, but better safe than sorry.
14796 - Install virt-what from Wheezy.
14797 The version from Squeeze does not detect at least Parallels for Mac v.8.
14798 - Upgrade live-boot and live-config to the 3.0.x final version from Wheezy.
14799 · Remove /live and /lib/live/image compatibility symlinks.
14800 · Add /live/overlay -> /lib/live/mount/overlay symlink.
14801 The live-boot changes (commit d2b2a461) brought to fix Debian bug
14802 #696495 revert some of our previous changes (commit 77dab1cb), and as
14803 a result, at the time live-persist runs, no tmpfs is mounted on
14804 /live/overlay, which breaks the aufs mount. So, let's just ensure
14805 /live/overlay points to a tmpfs.
14806 · Really disable policykit and sudo live-config hooks.
14807 ... by making it believe they've already been run.
14808 This workarounds new live-config's default behavior.
14811 - Many translation updates all over the place.
14814 - Re-enable previously disabled boot device permissions test.
14816 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:36:20 +0200
14818 tails (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
14821 - Support obfs3 bridges.
14822 - Automatically install a custom list of additional packages chosen by
14823 the user at the beginning of every working session, and upgrade them
14824 once a network connection is established (technology preview).
14827 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.6esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1.
14828 - Update Torbrowser patches to current maint-2.4 branch (567682b).
14829 - Isolate DOM storage to first party URI, and enable DOM storage:
14830 don't set dom.storage.enabled anymore, and set Torbutton's
14831 disable_domstorage to false.
14832 - Isolate the image cache per url bar domain.
14833 - Torbutton 1.5.2, and various prefs hacks to fix breakage:
14834 · Add .saved version of the Torbutton preferences the TBB also sets.
14835 · Set TOR_SOCKS_HOST and TOR_SOCKS_PORT.
14836 · Move some prefs (network.proxy.*, extensions.autoDisableScopes,
14837 extensions.foxyproxy.last-version) to user.js.
14838 Else, with Torbutton 1.5.x, these ones are not taken into account.
14839 · Set network.proxy.socks_version.
14840 Else we get the meaningless user_pref("network.proxy.socks_version", 9063);
14841 in prefs.js after the initial startup.
14842 · Set extensions.foxyproxy.socks_remote_dns to true.
14843 Else, it overrides the various ways we set network.proxy.socks_remote_dns,
14844 which in turn makes Torbutton think it should start in non-Tor mode.
14845 · Also pass the TOR_SOCKS_* environment variables to iceweasel when
14846 generating the profile: Torbutton behaves differently depending on
14847 these variables, so we don't want the initial profile generation to be
14848 done without them. In practice, this has no implication that we could
14849 see right now, but better safe than sorry.
14850 · Import all version overrides from the TBB prefs.
14851 Else, the User-Agent sent in the HTTP headers is fine, but real
14852 values leak with JavaScript, as demonstrated by ip-check's "Browser
14854 · Move a bunch of settings to user_pref(), that are not applied otherwise.
14855 For some, this fixes a regression in 0.18~rc1.
14856 For other, the bug was already present in Tails 0.17.2.
14857 - HTTPS Everywhere 3.2.
14858 - Update prefs to match the TBB's, fix bugs, and take advantage of the latest
14859 Torbrowser patches:
14860 · Increase pipeline randomization.
14861 · Fix @font-face handling of local() fonts.
14862 Also disable fallback font rendering.
14863 · Explicitly disable SPDY v2 and v3.
14864 · Update http pipelining prefs.
14865 - Make prefs organization closer to the TBB's:
14866 · Remove Torbutton prefs that we set at their default value.
14867 · Import Torbutton preferences from the TBB.
14868 · Organize iceweasel config files in sections the same way as the TBB.
14870 · Don't set extensions.torbutton.clear_cookies nor
14871 extensions.torbutton.saved.share_proxy_settings:
14872 we don't care about toggling anymore.
14873 · Don't set extensions.torbutton.saved.download_retention nor
14874 extensions.torbutton.saved.search_suggest:
14875 these settings are not used in Torbutton anymore.
14876 - Update unsafe browser prefs mangling accordingly.
14877 - Move network.protocol-handler.warn-external.* to user_pref().
14878 Else they're not applied.
14879 These prefs are actually ignored by Firefox these days -- the TBB
14880 design doc reads "They are set still anyway out of respect for the
14881 dead". Let's go on doing the same.
14882 - Update extensions.adblockplus.currentVersion.
14883 - Fetch xul-ext-https-everywhere (3.2-2) and xul-ext-noscript (2.6.6.1-1)
14884 from Debian unstable. They were uploaded there, and accordingly removed
14888 - Linux 3.2.41-2+deb7u2.
14889 - Fixed swapped filenames of tails-{reboot,shutdown}.desktop.
14890 Thanks to Mikko Harhanen for the patch.
14891 - Only add ClientTransportPlugin to torrc when bridge mode is enabled.
14892 This should bring back support for proxies of type other than obfsproxy.
14894 * Minor improvements
14895 - Set kernel.dmesg_restrict=1, and make /proc/<pid>/ invisible
14896 and restricted for other users. It makes it slightly harder for an attacker
14897 to gather information that may allow them to escalate privileges.
14898 - Install gnome-screenshot.
14899 - Don't disable IPv6 on all network interfaces anymore.
14900 It turns out the IPv6 leaks we wanted to fix actually don't exist.
14901 - Add a "About Tails" launcher in the System menu.
14902 - Install GNOME accessibility themes.
14903 - Use 'Getting started...' as the homepage for Tails documentation button.
14904 - Stop relying on the obsolete /live/image compatibility symlink.
14905 - Disable audio preview in Nautilus.
14906 - Wheezy was released => Squeeze is now oldstable.
14907 - Pick Tor from deb.torproject.org regardless of the release name they
14908 advertise. At some point we needed it, their APT repository still thought
14909 that stable == Squeeze.
14910 - Add Wheezy APT sources.
14911 - Install Linux and related packages from Wheezy.
14912 Debian sid just got Linux 3.8, and we don't want to switch to a new kernel
14914 - Fetch laptop-mode-tools from Wheezy.
14915 Wheezy has the version we've been installing in 0.18~rc1,
14916 while a newer one was uploaded to sid in the meantime.
14917 - Fetch a few packages from Wheezy instead of unstable.
14918 Namely: spice-vdagent, libregexp-common-perl, macchanger, service-wrapper,
14919 libservice-wrapper-java and libservice-wrapper-jni.
14920 Wheezy has the versions we've been installing for a while, so let's
14921 avoid having unstable push a newer one to us uselessly at some point.
14922 Note that at the time of this writing, the versions in sid and in Wheezy
14923 are the same, so this commit is effectively a no-op as of today: it is
14924 merely a safeguard for the future.
14927 - Many translation updates all over the place.
14930 - Make Vagrant's build-tails script support Jenkins too.
14933 - Fix Unsafe Browser test broken by hidepid.
14935 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 13 May 2013 22:17:38 +0200
14937 tails (0.17.2) unstable; urgency=low
14940 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.5esr-0+tails2~bpo60+1.
14941 - Stop displaying obsolete context menu entries ("Open Tor URL" and friends).
14944 - Update Linux to 3.2.41-2
14947 - Use more reliable OpenPGP keyservers:
14948 · use the hkps pool in GnuPG (and import their SSL CA)
14949 · use hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net in Seahorse (as it does not support
14951 - Keep udisks users (GNOME Disk Utility, tails-persistence-setup, etc.)
14952 from resetting the system partition's attributes when manipulating the
14953 partition table. To this end, backport the relevant bugfix from Wheezy
14954 into parted 2.3-5+tails1. This allowed to remove the sgdisk-based
14955 workaround in tais-persistence-setup, and to stop installing
14956 python-parted. All this is a first needed step to fix
14957 todo/make_system_disk_read-only in a future release.
14959 * Minor improvements
14960 - Disable NoScript's HTML5 media click-to-play for better user experience.
14963 - Tails USB installer: update translations for French, German, Spanish,
14964 Finnish, Greek, Italian, Latvian, Dutch, Polish and Chinese.
14965 - Tails Greeter: update translations for Farsi, Chinese, French;
14966 new translations: Finnish, Norwegian Bokmål, Galician.
14967 - tails-persistence-setup: update Farsi and Chinese translations;
14968 import new translations for Finnish and Swedish.
14969 - WhisperBack: update translations for Arabic, French, German, Greek,
14970 Spanish, Korean, Polish, Russian. New translations: Finnish, Chinese.
14973 - Add automated testing framework (Sikuli, Cucumber, libvirt -based)
14974 with a bunch of tests.
14976 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:17:26 +0200
14978 tails (0.17.1) unstable; urgency=low
14981 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.4esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1.
14984 - Update Linux to 3.2.39-2.
14985 It includes the drm and agp subsystems from Linux 3.4.29.
14986 - Don't install xserver-xorg-video-rendition backport.
14987 xserver-xorg-video-rendition has been removed from squeeze-backports
14988 due to an upstream tarball mismatch discover when merging backports
14989 into the main Debian archive, and xserver-xorg-video-all still depends
14990 on it, so we explicitly install all drivers from -all but -rendition
14991 as a (hopefully temporary) workaround.
14993 * Minor improvements
14994 - Remove Indymedia IRC account, until we ship a version of Pidgin
14995 with SASL support, that is when Tails is based on Wheezy.
14998 - Don't ship the wiki's todo and bugs on ISO images.
15000 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:54:11 +0100
15002 tails (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
15005 - Install the KeePassX password manager, with a configuration and
15006 documentation that makes it easy to persist the password database.
15009 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.3esr-1+tails1~bpo60+1.
15010 - Install xul-ext-adblock-plus from squeeze-backports.
15011 - Do not allow listing all available fonts.
15012 Set browser.display.max_font_attempts and browser.display.max_font_count
15013 to enable the Torbrowser Limit-the-number-of-fonts-per-document patch.
15014 - Set default spellchecker dictionary to English (USA),
15015 and localize it according to locale with our custom branding extension.
15016 - Disable the add-ons automatic update feature.
15017 - Make the generated profile world-readable.
15018 - Remove NoScript click-to-play confirmation.
15019 - Sync some prefs set by Torbutton, to be ready when it stops setting these.
15020 - Disable navigation timing.
15021 - Disable SPDY. It stores state and may have keepalive issues.
15022 - More aggressive iceweasel HTTP pipelining settings.
15023 - Enable WebGL (as click-to-play only).
15024 - Disable network.http.connection-retry-timeout.
15025 - Disable full path information for plugins.
15026 - Remove NoScript blocks of WebFonts.
15027 - Disable DOM storage in Torbutton.
15028 Since we don't apply the 0026-Isolate-DOM-storage-to-first-party-URI.patch
15029 Torbrowser patch yet, and still disable DOM storage, we need to tell
15030 Torbutton not to use it.
15031 - Synchronize iceweasel's general.useragent.override with TBB based on FF17.
15032 The User-Agent settings are not kept up-to-date anymore in Torbutton, so
15033 we have to keep in sync manually with TBB's settings.
15034 - Remove obsolete APT pining for Torbutton.
15035 It's not maintained in Debian anymore, so we now fetch it from our own
15037 - Fetch FoxyProxy from Debian experimental and libnspr4-0d from
15038 squeeze-backports, for compatibility with Iceweasel 17.
15039 - Rebase bookmarks file on top of the default iceweasel 17 one.
15040 - Explicitly disable AdBlock Plus "correct typos" feature.
15041 This feature connects to http://urlfixer.org/.
15042 It is disabled by default in 2.2-1, but let's be careful.
15044 * Minor improvements
15045 - Upgrade to live-boot 3.0~b11-1 and live-config 3.0.12-1.
15046 Accordingly update the 9980-permissions hook, live-persist,
15047 unsafe-browser and boot-profile.
15048 Add compatibility symlinks from /live to /lib/live, and from /live/image
15049 to /lib/live/mount/medium, to ease the transition.
15050 - Check for errors when sourcing live-boot files, e.g. to detect when
15051 they have been renamed upstream.
15052 - Don't add "quiet" to the kernel command-line ourselves.
15053 Else, it appears twice as live-build's lb_binary_syslinux adds it too.
15054 Historically, we've been adding it ourselves on top of that because
15055 lb_binary_yaboot does not add it, but since we gave up the PowerPC support
15056 attempt, we're now only interested in syslinux, so let's make it easier
15057 for the general case, e.g. when one wants to remove the "quiet" parameter
15058 as suggested by our "Tails does not start" debugging documentation.
15059 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.4.
15062 - Many bugfixes brought by the Debian Squeeze 6.0.7 point-release.
15063 - Use the regular GnuPG agent + pinentry-gtk2 instead of Seahorse
15064 as a GnuPG agent. This fixes usage of OpenPGP in Claws Mail,
15065 and brings support for OpenPGP smartcards.
15066 - Enable I2P hidden mode.
15067 Else, killing I2P ungracefully is bad for the I2P network.
15068 - live-persist: move error() function before the first potential usecase.
15069 - Add missing executable bit on restart-tor and restart-vidalia.
15070 - Add shutdown and reboot launchers to the menu.
15071 This workarounds the lack of a shutdown helper applet in camouflage mode.
15072 - Remove Pidgin's MXit and Sametime support.
15073 ... at least until CVE-2013-0273, CVE-2013-0272 and CVE-2013-0271 are
15074 fixed in Debian stable. While we're at it, don't force file removal in
15075 these "set -e" build scripts: fail hard, instead of silently ignoring
15076 the fact that files may have moved or disappeared.
15079 - Install recent Intel and AMD microcode from squeeze-backports,
15080 explicitly excluding the iucode-tool package that's not a good idea
15082 - Install firmware loader for Qualcomm Gobi USB chipsets.
15083 This is needed to have various mobile broadband chipsets work.
15084 - Upgrade barry to 0.18.3-5~bpo60+1.
15085 This much improved new version supports more hardware & ISP,
15086 and does not display dozens of spurious error messages at boot time.
15089 - Remove APT local cache (/Var/cache/apt/{,src}pkgcache.bin).
15091 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:37:57 +0100
15093 tails (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
15095 * Minor improvements
15096 - Replace the too-easy-to-misclick shutdown button with a better
15097 "Shutdown Helper" Gnome applet.
15098 - Display ~/Persistent in GNOME Places and GtkFileChooser if it is mounted.
15099 - Set Unsafe Browser's window title to "Unsafe Browser".
15100 - Install ekeyd to support the EntropyKey.
15101 - Install font for Sinhala.
15102 - Update Poedit to 1.5.4.
15103 - Kill Vidalia when restarting Tor.
15104 Doing this as early as possible exposes Vidalia's "broken onion" icon
15106 - Hide the persistence setup launchers in kiosk mode.
15107 - Add a shell library for Tor functions.
15108 These are shared among multiple of our scripts.
15109 - Install dictionaries for supported languages.
15110 Install hunspell dictionaries when possible,
15111 fall back on myspell ones else.
15114 - Disable IPv6 on all network interfaces.
15115 This is a workaround for the IPv6 link-local multicast leak that was recently
15116 discovered. Tails has no local service that listens on IPv6, so there should be
15117 no regression, hopefully, unless one wants to play with OnionCat and VoIP,
15118 but those of us should know how to workaround this anyway.
15119 - live-persist: Fix variable mismatch, fixing probe white-list.
15120 Tails may previously have been able to list GPT partitions labelled
15121 "TailsData" on hard drives (!) as valid persistence volumes...
15122 - live-persist: Fix --media option when no devices are attached.
15123 Earlier, if it was set to e.g. 'removable-usb' and no USB storage was
15124 connected, $whitelistdev would be empty, which is interpreted like
15125 all devices are ok by the rest of the code.
15126 - Fix SCIM in the autostarted web browser: save IM environment variables
15127 to a file during Desktop session startup, and export them into the
15128 autostarted browser's environment.
15129 - Talk of DVD, not of CD, in the shutdown messages.
15130 - Make tordate work in bridge mode with an incorrect clock.
15131 When using a bridge Tor reports TLS cert lifetime errors (e.g. when
15132 the system clock is way off) with severity "info", but when no bridge
15133 is used the severity is "warn". tordate/20-time.sh depends on grepping
15134 these error messages, so we termporarily increase Tor's logging
15135 severity when using bridge mode. If we don't do this tordate will
15136 sleep forever, leaving Tor in a non-working state.
15137 · White-list root to use Tor's ControlPort.
15138 · Add logging for is_clock_way_off().
15139 · Remove Tor's log before time syncing.
15140 We depend on grepping stuff from the Tor log (especially for
15141 tordate/20-time.sh), so deleting it seems like a Good Thing(TM).
15142 · Stop Tor before messing with its log or data dir.
15143 - live-persist: limit searched devices the same way as live-boot.
15144 If no --media argument is specified, use live-boot's
15145 "(live-media|bootfrom)=removable(|-usb)" argument to limit devices
15146 searched for a persistent volume.
15147 - tails-greeter: do not pass media=removable to live-persist.
15148 Now that we have autodetection with kernel command-line,
15149 it should not be needed anymore.
15150 - Start memlockd after configuring it,
15151 instead of starting it before and restarting it after.
15152 This avoids running memlockd twice, and prevents other possibly
15153 surprising race-conditions.
15154 As a consequence, also have tails-sdmem-on-media-removal start after the
15155 memlockd service *and* tails-reconfigure-memlockd: to start the watchdog,
15156 we need memlockd to be properly configured *and* running.
15159 - Set iceweasel homepage to the news section on the Tails website.
15160 ... using the localized one when possible.
15161 - Hide the iceweasel add-on bar by default.
15162 Now that we don't want to ship the Monkeysphere addon anymore,
15163 that was the only one displayed in there, we can as well hide the whole bar.
15164 - Don't hide the AdBlock-Plus button in the add-on bar anymore. Now that
15165 we hide the whole addon bar, we can get rid of this old
15167 - Do not install a placeholder (fake) FireGPG iceweasel extension anymore.
15168 It was shipped from 0.10 (early 2012) to 0.15 (late November),
15169 so the migration period should be over now.
15170 - Don't install xul-ext-monkeysphere anymore.
15171 The implication of the current keyserver policy are not well
15172 understood, Monkeysphere is little used in Tails, and we're not sure
15173 anymore it would be our first bet for the web browser profile with no
15174 CA. Let's keep the various configuration bits (e.g. FoxyProxy,
15175 patching MSVA), though, so that advanced users who are used to have
15176 Monkeysphere in Tails just have to install the package.
15179 - Install the "standard" task with tasksel for better consistency in the
15180 Tails ISO images built in various environments.
15181 - Install p7zip-full. It's a dep by file-roller, but we explicily use it
15182 elsewhere, and it's better to be safe than sorry.
15183 - Remove pinning of libvpx0 to sid.
15184 This package is part of Squeeze, and not from testing/sid.
15185 We have been shipping the version from Squeeze for a while.
15186 - Remove config/chroot_local-packages/ from .gitignore.
15187 The documented way for "external" contributors to add custom packages
15188 is to put them in chroot_local-packages, and once we pull we import
15189 any such package into our APT repo and rewrite the
15190 history appropriately.
15191 Also, the ability to add packages in there and not see them in "git
15192 status" makes it very easy to build tainted ISO images with
15193 non-standard packages, which makes some of us fear can lead to hard to
15195 - Make it clearer what can and cannot be done in terms of local packages.
15197 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:47:42 +0100
15199 tails (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
15201 * Major new features
15202 - Persistence for browser bookmarks.
15203 - Support for obfsproxy bridges.
15205 * Minor improvements
15206 - Add the Hangul (Korean) Input Method Engine for SCIM.
15207 - Add vendor-specific dpkg origin information. This makes dpkg-vendor
15208 return correct information.
15209 - Install pcscd and libccid from squeeze-backports. This is needed to
15210 support, to some extent, some OpenPGP SmartCard readers.
15211 - Install HPIJS PPD files and the IJS driver (hpijs).
15212 This adds support for some printers, such as Xerox DocumentCenter400.
15213 - Optimize fonts display for LCD.
15214 - Update TrueCrypt to version 7.1a.
15217 - Do not use pdnsd anymore. It has been orphaned in Debian, has quite
15218 some bugs in there, and apparently Tor's DNSPort's own caching is
15220 - Remove useless iceweasel cookies exceptions. They are useless as
15221 per-session cookies are allowed.
15222 - Do not run setupcon on X. This call is only needed on the Linux
15223 console, no need to annoy the user with a weird "Press enter to
15224 activate this console" when the open a root shell in a GNOME
15226 - Allow the tails-iuk-get-target-file user to connect to the SOCKSPort
15227 dedicated for Tails-specific software.
15228 - Fix gpgApplet menu display in Windows camouflage mode.
15229 - Fix Tor reaching an inactive state if it's restarted in "bridge mode",
15230 e.g. during the time sync' process.
15233 - Update iceweasel to 10.0.11esr-1+tails1.
15234 - User profile is now generated at build time in order to support persistent
15236 - Update HTTPS Everywhere to version 3.0.4.
15237 - Update NoScript to version 2.6.
15238 - Fix bookmark to I2P router console.
15239 - Re-enable Monkeysphere extension to connect to the validation agent.
15242 - The Tails USB installer, tails-persistence-setup and tails-greeter
15243 are now translated into Bulgarian.
15244 - Update Chinese translation for tails-greeter.
15245 - Update Euskadi translation for WhisperBack.
15248 - Custom packages are now retrieved from Tails APT repository instead
15249 of bloating the Git repository.
15250 - Allow '~' in wiki filenames. This makes it possible to ship
15251 update-description files for release candidates.
15252 - Document how to create incremental update kit.
15253 - Handle release candidates when generating custom APT sources.
15254 - Remove pinning for xul-ext-adblock-plus.
15255 It is obsolete since we've added this package to our APT repository.
15257 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:59:17 +0100
15259 tails (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
15261 * Major new features
15262 - Enable Tor stream isolation; several new SocksPorts with
15263 appropriate Isolate* options have been added for different use
15264 cases (i.e. applications). All application's have been
15265 reconfigured to use these new SocksPorts, which should increase
15266 anonymity by making it more difficulte to correlate traffic from
15267 different applications or "online identities".
15268 - The web browser now has the anonymity enhancing patches from the
15269 TorBrowser applied.
15270 - gpgApplet can now handle public-key cryptography.
15271 - Install an additional, PAE-enabled kernel with NX-bit
15272 support. This kernel is auto-selected when the hardware supports
15274 * provide executable space protection, preventing certain types of
15275 buffer overflows from being exploitable.
15276 * enable more than 4 GiB of system memory.
15277 * make all processors/cores available, including their
15278 power-saving functionality.
15279 - Add a persistence preset for NetworkManager connections.
15281 * Minor improvements
15282 - On kexec reboot, make the boot quiet only if debug=wipemem was not
15284 - Update torproject.org's APT repo key.
15285 - Update the embedded Tails signing key.
15286 - Use symlinks instead of duplicating localized searchplugins.
15287 - Rewrite Tails firewall using ferm. Tails firewall was written in
15288 very unsophisticated iptables-save/restore format. As more feature
15289 creeped in, it started to be quite unreadable.
15290 - Optimize VirtualBox modules build at runtime to avoid installing the
15291 userspace utils N times.
15292 - Drop most of Vidalia's configuration. Our custom lines just caused
15293 trouble (with multiple SocksPorts) and the default works well.
15294 - Blacklist PC speaker module. On some computers, having the pcspkr
15295 module loaded means loud beeps at bootup, shutdown and when using
15296 the console. As it draws useless attention to Tails users, it is
15297 better to prevent Linux from loading it by default.
15298 - Remove all addons from the Unsafe Browser. No addons are essential
15299 for the Unsafe Browser's intent. If anything they will modify the
15300 network fingerprint compared to a normal Iceweasel install, which
15302 - Prevent some unwanted packages to be installed at all, rather than
15303 uninstalling them later. This should speed up the build a bit.
15304 - Add a symlink from /etc/live/config to /etc/live/config.d. This
15305 makes the system compatible with live-config 3.0.4-1, without
15306 breaking backward compatibility with various parts of the system
15307 that use the old path.
15308 - Do not run unecessary scripts during shutdown sequence, to make
15310 - Make live-persist deal with persistent ~/.gconf subdirs so that
15311 any options saved therein actually get persistent.
15312 - Prevent memlockd unload on shutdown, to make sure that all
15313 necessary tools for memory wiping are available when the new
15314 kernel has kexec'd.
15315 - Patch initscripts headers instead of fiddling with update-rc.d. We
15316 now let insserv figure out the correct ordering for the services
15317 during startup and shutdown, i.e. use dependency-based boot
15319 - Remove the last absolute path in our isolinux config, which makes
15320 it easier to migrate from isolinux to syslinux (just rename the
15321 directory), and hence might make it easier for 3rd party USB
15322 installers (like the Universal USB Installer) to support Tails.
15325 - Include `seq` in the ramdisk environment: it is used to wipe more
15326 memory. This fixes the long-standing bug about Tails not cleaning
15327 all memory on shutdown.
15328 - Fix Yelp crashing on internal links
15329 - Allow amnesia user to use Tor's TransPort. This firewall exception
15330 is necessary for applications that doesn't have in-built SOCKS
15331 support and cannot use torsocks. One such example is Claws Mail,
15332 which uses tsocks since torsocks makes it leak the hostname. This
15333 exception, together with Tor's automatic .onion mapping makes
15334 Claws Mail able to use hidden service mail providers again.
15335 - Force threads locking support in Python DBus binding. Without this
15336 liveusb-creator doesn't work with a PAE-enabled kernel.
15337 - Fix localized search plugins for 'es' and 'pt'
15338 - Fix live-boot's readahead, which caused an unnecessary pause
15340 - Factorize GCC wanted / available version numbers in VirtualBox
15341 modules building hook. This, incidentally, fixes a bug caused by
15342 duplication and not updating all instances.
15343 - Fix tordate vs. Tor 0.2.3.x. Since 0.2.3.x Tor doesn't download a
15344 consensus for clocks that are more than 30 days in the past or 2
15345 days in the future (see commits f4c1fa2 and 87622e4 in Tor's git
15346 repo). For such clock skews we set the time to the Tor authority's
15347 cert's valid-after date to ensure that a consensus can be
15351 - Update to version 0.2.3.24-rc-1~~squeeze+1, a new major
15352 version. It's not a stable release, but we have been assured by
15353 the Tor developers that this is the right move.
15354 - Stop setting custom value for the Tor LongLivedPorts
15355 setting. Gobby's port was upstreamed in Tor 0.2.3.x.
15358 - Update to 10.0.10esr-1+tails1, which has all the anonymity enhancing
15359 patches from the TorBrowser applied.
15360 - Install iceweasel from our own repo, http://deb.tails.boum.org.
15361 - Fix Iceweasel's file associations. No more should you be suggested
15362 to open a PDF in the GIMP.
15365 - Use curl instead of wget, and add a --proxy option passed through
15367 - Remove the --fullrequest option, we don't need it anymore.
15368 - Remove --dns-timeout option, we don't need it anymore.
15369 - Change --proxy handling to support Debian Squeeze's curl.
15370 - Clarify what happens if --proxy is not used.
15371 - Compute the median of the diffs more correctly.
15374 - Update Linux to 3.2.32-1.
15377 - Update vidalia to 0.2.20-1+tails1.
15378 - Update bundled WhisperBack package to 1.6.2:
15379 * Raise the socket library timeout to 120 seconds
15380 * Use smtplib's timeout parameter
15381 * Fix error output when calling send a 2nd time
15382 - Update liveusb-creator to 3.11.6-3.
15383 - Update i2p to 0.9.2.
15384 - Update tails-persistence-setup to 0.20-1, which should make it
15385 possible to install Tails on large (>= 32 GiB) USB drives.
15386 - Install console-setup and keyboard-configuration from unstable
15387 (required by new initramfs-tools).
15388 - Update tails-greeter to 0.7.3:
15389 * Import pt_BR translation.
15390 * Let langpanel usable during option selection stage
15391 * Print less debugging messages by default
15392 (below are changes in tails-greeter 0.7.2:)
15393 * Use correct test operators.
15394 * Generate language codes of available locales at package build
15396 * Read list of language codes from where we have saved it at
15397 package build time.
15398 * Drop tails-lang-helper, not used anymore.
15399 * Do not compile locales at login time anymore. Tails now ships
15401 - Import live-config{,-sysvinit} 3.0.8-1. live-config >= 3.0.9-1
15402 has basically nothing useful for us, and it migrates to new paths
15403 brought by live-boot 3.0~b7, which we're not ready for yet (see:
15404 todo/newer_live-boot).
15407 - Fix Tails specific Iceweasel localization for pt-BR
15408 - Add Japanese input system: scim-anthy.
15409 - whisperback is now also translated into German, Hebrew, Hungarian,
15410 Italian and Korean.
15411 - tails-persistence-setup is now also translated into Arabic.
15412 - tails-greeter is now also translated into Arabic, Hebrew, Basque,
15413 Hungarian, Italian and Chinese.
15416 - Catch more errors in during build time:
15417 - Ensure that all local hooks start with 'set -e'.
15418 - Fail hard if adduser fails in local hooks.
15419 - Fail hard if 'rm' fails in local hooks.
15420 - vagrant: Ensure we have the set of Perl packages needed by our
15422 - vagrant: Configure live-build to ship with ftp.us.debian.org.
15423 Using cdn.debian.net leads to bad interactions with Tor.
15424 - vagrant: Don't use gzip compression when building from a tag, i.e.
15426 - vagrant: Optionally use bootstrap stage cache for faster builds
15427 via the 'cache' build option.
15428 - vagrant: Make sure release builds are clean, i.e. they don't use
15429 any potentially dangerous build options.
15430 - vagrant: Disable live-build package caching. This build system is
15431 meant to use an external caching proxy, so live-build's cache just
15432 wastes RAM (for in-memory builds) or disk space.
15433 - vagrant: use aufs magic instead of copying source into tmpfs.
15434 This reduces the amount of RAM required for building Tails in.
15435 - vagrant: Allow in-memory builds when a VM with enough memory is
15438 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:34:56 +0000
15440 tails (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
15442 * Major new features
15443 - Use white-list/principle of least privelege approach for local services.
15444 Only users that need a certain local (i.e. hosted on loopback) service
15445 (according to our use cases) are granted access to it by our firewall;
15446 all other users are denied access.
15447 - Ship a first version of the incremental update system. Updates are not
15448 currently triggered automatically, but this will allow tests to be done
15451 * Minor improvements
15452 - Enable four workspaces in the Windows XP camouflage. This allows
15453 users to quickly switch to a more innocent looking workspace in case
15454 they are working on sensitive data and attract unwanted attention.
15455 The workspace switcher applet isn't there, though, since there's no
15456 such thing in Windows XP, so switching is only possible via keyboard
15458 - Ship with precompiled locales instead of generating them upon login.
15459 - Add support for wireless regulation.
15460 - Use color for Git output, not intended for machine consumption,
15461 written to the terminal.
15462 - Have ttdnsd use OpenDNS. Using Google's DNS servers was very
15463 glitchy, and rarely succeeded when it should. It can probably be
15464 attributed to Google's DNS, which is known to take issue with Tor
15466 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.6, with many UI improvements and new translations.
15467 - Include GDM logs and dmidecode informations in the reports.
15468 - Allow to modify language and layout in the "Advanced options" screen
15470 - GnuPG: bump cert-digest-algo to SHA512.
15471 - Update torproject.org's APT repo key.
15474 - Make Claws Mail save local/POP emails in its dot-directory. The
15475 default is to save them at ~/Mail, which isn't included in our
15476 current Claws Mail persistence preset.
15477 - Fix the System Monitor applet.
15478 - Remove broken ttdnsd from the default DNS resolution loop.
15479 - Hide the 'TailsData' partition in desktop applications.
15480 - Ship unrar-free again, so that the GNOME archive manager knows about
15482 - Ship with an empty whitelist for Noscript.
15483 - Disable FoxyProxy's advertisement on proxy error page.
15484 - Fix slow browsing experience for offline documentation.
15485 - Raise the socket timeout to 120 seconds in WhisperBack.
15486 - Enable the ikiwiki trail plugin for the locally built wiki too.
15489 - Upgrade iceweasel to 10.0.6esr-1 (Extended Support Release) and install it
15490 and its dependencies from squeeze-backports.
15493 - Upgrade Linux to 3.2.23-1.
15496 - Update tor to version 0.2.2.39.
15497 - Update Iceweasel to version 10.0.7esr-2.
15498 - Update i2p to version 0.9.1.
15501 - vagrant: Install Ikiwiki from Debian unstable. The 'mirrorlist'
15502 patches have finally been merged in upstream Ikiwiki. So instead of
15503 building Ikiwiki by hand, we can now install the package directly
15504 from Debian unstable.
15505 - Do not build the ikiwiki forum on the bundled static website copy.
15507 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:19:25 +0200
15509 tails (0.12.1) unstable; urgency=low
15511 This is a brown paper bag release to fix two major problems introduced in
15515 - Upgrade Torbutton to 1.4.6.
15516 - Upgrade AdBlock Plus to 2.1.
15517 - Update AdBlock Plus patterns.
15520 - Upgrade Linux to 3.2.21-3 (linux-image-3.2.0-3-486).
15523 - Install MAT from Debian backports, drop custom package.
15524 - Install python-pdfrw to re-add PDF support to the MAT.
15525 - Upgrade tails-greeter to 0.7.1, which fixes the race condition that
15526 broke administration password and locale settings on some systems.
15529 - Remove the Tails specific plymouth theme. The theme interfers heavily with
15530 the boot process on some hardware.
15532 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:06:03 +0200
15534 tails (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
15536 * Major new features
15537 - Add the Unsafe Web Browser, which has direct access to the Internet and
15538 can be used to login to captive portals.
15539 - The (previously experimental, now deemed stable) Windows camouflage can now
15540 be enabled via a check box in Tails greeter.
15543 - Upgrade to 0.2.2.37-1~~squeeze+1.
15546 - Upgrade iceweasel to 10.0.5esr-1 (Extended Support Release) and install it
15547 and its dependencies from squeeze-backports.
15548 - Add a bookmark for the offline Tails documentation.
15549 - Update AdBlock patterns.
15552 - Allow using larger USB drives by increasing the mkfs timeout to 10 minutes.
15553 - Tell the user what's going on when the Tails boot device cannot be found.
15556 - Upgrade Linux to 3.2.20-1 (linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64).
15560 - Install torsocks. Note that this makes `torify' use `torsocks' instead of
15561 `tsocks'. The `tsocks' binary is dropped to avoid problems, but remaining
15562 files (the library) are kept since ttdnsd depends on them.
15563 - Fetch live-config-sysvinit from sid so that it matches live-config version.
15564 - Update virtualbox backports to 4.1.10-dfsg-1~bpo60+1.
15565 - Install pciutils (needed by virtualbox-guest-utils).
15566 - Install mousetweaks. This is needed to use the mouse accessibility settings
15567 in System -> Preferences -> Mouse -> Accessibility.
15568 - Install the "hardlink" files deduplicator.
15569 - Do not install cryptkeeper anymore. See todo/remove_cryptkeeper for reason.
15570 Users of cryptkeeper are encouraged to install cryptkeeper via `apt-get
15571 update; apt-get install --yes cryptkeeper`, open their volume and move
15572 their to Tails' built-in persistence instead, as a one-time migration.
15573 - Upgrade I2P to version 0.9.
15574 - Don't install GParted. GNOME Disk Utility has been on par with GParted
15575 since Squeeze was released.
15576 - Upgrade live-boot to 3.0~a27-1+tails2~1.gbp319fe6.
15577 - Upgrade live-config to 3.0~a39-1 and install it from Debian experimental.
15578 - Upgrade tails-greeter to 0.7.
15579 - Upgrade tails-persistence-setup to 0.17-1.
15580 - Install libyaml-libyaml-perl.
15581 - Upgrade MAT, the metadata anonymisation toolkit, 0.3.2-1~bpo60+1.
15582 - Fetch python-pdfrw from backports, drop custom package.
15584 * Internationalization
15585 - The Tails website and documentation now has a (partial) Portuguese
15589 - Tails can now be built without using a HTTP proxy.
15590 - Tails can now easily be built by using Vagrant. See the updated
15591 contribute/build page for instructions.
15594 - Remove obsolete noswap boot parameter. live-boot now handles swap on an
15596 - The squashfs.sort files generated with boot-profile should now be ok which
15597 makes the generate images boot noticeably faster on optical media. See
15598 bugs/weird_squashfs.sort_entries for more information.
15599 - Set Tails specific syslinux and plymouth themes.
15600 - Add NVidia KMS video drivers to the initrd in order to show our shiny new
15601 plymouth theme on more systems.
15603 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:37:00 +0200
15605 tails (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
15607 * Major new features
15608 - Do not grant the desktop user root credentials by default.
15609 - A graphical boot menu (tails-greeter 0.6.3) allows choosing among
15610 many languages, and setting an optional sudoer password.
15611 - Support opt-in targeted persistence
15612 · tails-persistence-setup 0.14-1
15613 · live-boot 3.0~a25-1+tails1~5.gbp48d06c
15614 · live-config 3.0~a35-1
15615 - USB installer: liveusb-creator 3.11.6-1
15618 - Install iceweasel 10.0.4esr-1 (Extended Support Release).
15619 Let's stop tracking a too fast moving target.
15620 Debian Wheezy will ship ESR versions.
15621 - Install needed dependencies from squeeze-backports.
15624 bing appeared due to our upgrading iceweasel.
15625 Removing it makes things consistent with the way they have been
15626 until now, that is: let's keep only the general search engines
15627 we've been asked to add, plus Google, and a few specialized ones.
15628 · Replace Debian-provided DuckDuckGo search plugin with the "HTML SSL"
15629 one, version 20110219. This is the non-JavaScript, SSL, POST flavour.
15631 · Install localized search engines in the correct place.
15632 No need to copy them around at boot time anymore.
15633 · Remove Scroogle. RIP.
15634 - Enable TLS false start, like the TBB does since December.
15635 - Adblock Plus: don't count and save filter hits, supress first run dialog.
15636 - Install neither the GreaseMonkey add-on, nor any GreaseMonkey script.
15637 YouTube's HTML5 opt-in program is over.
15638 HTML5 video support is now autodetected and used.
15641 - Upgrade to 0.2.17-1+tails1: drop Do-not-warn-about-Tor-version.patch,
15643 - Set SkipVersionCheck=true.
15644 Thanks to chiiph for implementing this upstream (needs Vidalia 0.2.16+).
15646 * Internationalization
15647 - Install all available iceweasel l10n packages.
15648 - Remove syslinux language choosing menu.
15649 tails-greeter allows choosing a non-English language.
15650 - Add fonts for Hebrew, Thai, Khmer, Lao and Korean languages.
15651 - Add bidi support.
15652 - Setup text console at profile time.
15653 Context: Tails runs with text console autologin on.
15654 These consoles now wait, using a "Press enter to activate this console"
15655 message, for the user. When they press enter in there, they should have chosen
15656 their preferred keyboard layout in tails-greeter by now. Then, we run setupcon.
15657 As a result, the resulting shell is properly localized, and setupcon
15658 sets the correct keyboard layout, both according to the preferences expressed by
15659 the user in tails-greeter.
15660 - Don't use localepurge, don't remove any Scribus translations anymore,
15661 don't localize environment at live-config time:
15662 tails-greeter allows us to support many, many more languages.
15665 - Linux 3.2.15-1 (linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64).
15666 - Fix low sound level on MacBook5,2.
15667 - Disable laptop-mode-tools automatic modules. This modules set often
15668 needs some amount of hardware-specific tweaking to work properly.
15669 This makes them rather not well suited for a Live system.
15672 - Install GNOME keyring.
15673 This is needed so that NetworkManager remembers the WEP/WPA secrets
15674 for the time of a Tails session. Initialize GNOME keyring at user
15676 - Install usbutils to have the lsusb command.
15677 - Install the Traverso multitrack audio recorder and editor.
15680 - GNOME Terminal: keep 8192 scrollback lines instead of the smallish
15682 - Replaced tails-wifi initscript with laptop-mode-tools matching feature.
15683 - Disable gdomap service.
15684 - Fetch klibc-utils and libklibc from sid.
15685 The last initramfs-tools depends on these.
15686 - Set root password to "root" if debug=root is passed on the
15687 kernel cmdline. Allow setting root password on kernel cmdline via
15688 rootpw=. Looks like we implemented this feature twice.
15689 - Append a space on the kernel command line. This eases manually adding
15691 - Rename sudoers.d snippets to match naming scheme.
15692 Sudo credentials that shall be unconditionally granted to the Tails
15693 default user are named zzz_*, to make sure they are applied.
15694 - WhisperBack: also include /var/log/live-persist and
15695 /var/lib/gdm3/tails.persistence.
15696 - Add a wrapper to torify whois.
15697 - Rework the VirtualBox guest modules building hook to support
15699 - Consistently wait for nm-applet when waiting for user session to come up.
15700 Waiting for gnome-panel or notification-daemon worked worse.
15701 - Don't start the NetworkManager system service via init.
15702 Some Tails NM hooks need the user to be logged in to run properly.
15703 That's why tails-greeter starts NetworkManager at PostLogin time.
15704 - Also lock /bin/echo into memory. For some reason, kexec-load needs it.
15705 - Pidgin: don't use the OFTC hidden service anymore.
15706 It proved to be quite unreliable, being sometimes down for days.
15707 - Do not display storage volumes on Desktop, by disabling
15708 /apps/nautilus/desktop/volumes_visible GConf entry. Enabling that
15709 GConf setting avoids displaying the bind-mounted persistent
15710 directories on the Desktop, and reduces user confusion. It also is
15711 a first step towards a bigger UI change: GNOME3 does not manage the
15712 Desktop anymore, so volume icons and other Desktop icons are meant to
15713 disappear anyway. It implies we'll have to move all Desktop icons
15714 elsewhere. Let's start this move now: this will smooth the UI change
15715 Wheezy will carry for our users, by applying some of it progressively.
15718 - Don't build hybrid ISO images anymore. They boot less reliably on
15719 a variety of hardware, and are made less useful by us shipping
15720 a USB installer from now on.
15721 - Append .conf to live-config configuration filenames:
15722 live-config >3.0~a36-1 only takes into account files named *.conf
15723 in there. Accordingly update scripts that source these files.
15724 - Remove long-obsolete home-refresh script and its configuration.
15726 * Virtualization support
15727 - Support Spice and QXL: install the Spice agent from Debian sid,
15728 install xserver-xorg-video-qxl from squeeze-backports.
15730 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:54:00 +0200
15732 tails (0.10.2) unstable; urgency=low
15735 - Update to 10.0.2-1.
15736 - Disable HTTPS-Everywhere's SSL Observatory (plus first-run pop-up).
15737 - Revert "FoxyProxy: don't enclose regexps between ^ and $."
15738 Currently "http://www.i2p2.de" (and everything similar) is captured by
15739 the I2P filter, which is incorrect. It seems isMultiLine="false" does
15740 *not* make RE into ^RE$ any longer.
15741 - Remove file:// from NoScript's exception lists.
15742 This will fix the JavaScript toggles in the local copy of the documentation.
15743 - Update AdBlock patterns.
15746 - Upgrade I2P to 0.8.13.
15747 - Install libvpx0 from sid.
15748 - Fetch klibc-utils and libklibc from sid.
15749 The last initramfs-tools depends on these.
15752 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.2.7-1.
15753 - Install firmware-libertas.
15754 This adds support for wireless network cards with Marvell Libertas
15755 8xxx chips supported by the libertas_cs, libertas_sdio, libertas_spi,
15756 libertas_tf_usb, mwl8k and usb8xxx drivers.
15759 - Revert "Set time to middle of [valid-after, fresh-until] from consensus."
15760 This reverts commit 18d23a500b9412b4b0fbe4e38a9398eb1a3eadef.
15761 With this vmid clocks that are E minutes back in time may cause issues
15762 (temporary Tor outages) after consensus updates that happen at the
15763 (60-E):th minute or later during any hour. Full analysis:
15764 https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2012-January/000873.html
15765 - Add the default user to the vboxsf group.
15766 This will allow the user to get full access to automounted VirtualBox
15767 shared folders as they are mounted with guid vboxsf and rwx group
15770 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:26:21 +0100
15772 tails (0.10.1) unstable; urgency=low
15775 - Make Startpage the default web search engine. Scroogle does not look
15776 reliable enough these days.
15779 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.5.1 (update link to bug reporting documentation).
15780 - Update MAT to 0.2.2-2~bpo60+1 (fixes a critical bug in the GUI).
15783 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.2.1-2
15785 * Time synchronization
15786 Serious rework that should fix most, if not all, of the infamous
15787 time-sync' related bugs some Tails users have experienced recently.
15788 - Make htpdate more resilient by using three server pools, and
15789 allowing some failure ratio.
15790 - Set time from Tor's unverified-consensus if needed.
15791 - Set time to middle of [valid-after, fresh-until] from consensus.
15792 - Many robustness, performance and fingerprinting-resistance improvements.
15793 - Display time-sync' notification much earlier.
15796 - Fix access to "dumb" git:// protocol by using a connect-socks wrapper
15797 as GIT_PROXY_COMMAND.
15798 - SSH client: fix access to SSH servers on the Internet by correcting
15799 Host / ProxyCommand usage.
15800 - Pidgin: use OFTC hidden service to workaround Tor blocking.
15801 - Claws Mail: disable draft autosaving.
15802 When composing PGP encrypted email, drafts are saved back to
15803 the server in plaintext. This includes both autosaved and manually
15805 - tails-security-check-wrapper: avoid eating all memory when offline.
15807 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:00:31 +0100
15809 tails (0.10) unstable; urgency=low
15811 * Tor: upgrade to 0.2.2.35-1.
15814 - Install Iceweasel 9.0 from the Debian Mozilla team's APT repository.
15815 - Update Torbutton to 1.4.5.1-1.
15816 - Support viewing any YouTube video that is available in HTML5 format:
15817 install xul-ext-greasemonkey and the "Permanently Enable HTML5 on
15818 YouTube" GreaseMonkey script.
15819 - Stop using Polipo in Iceweasel. Its SOCKS support was fixed.
15820 - Install from Debian sid the iceweasel extensions we ship,
15821 for compatibility with FF9.
15822 - Use Scroogle (any languages) instead of Scroogle (English only) when
15823 booted in English. Many users choose English because their own
15824 language is not supported yet; let's not hide them search results in
15825 their own language.
15826 - Install Iceweasel language packs from Debian unstable:
15827 unfortunately they are not shipped on the mozilla.debian.net repository.
15828 - Install the NoScript Firefox extension; configure it the same way as
15830 - Disable third-party cookies.
15831 They can be used to track users, which is bad. Besides, this is what
15832 TBB has been doing for years.
15833 - FoxyProxy: allow direct connections to RFC1918 IPs.
15835 * Do not transparent proxy outgoing Internet connections through Tor.
15836 - Torify the SSH client using connect-proxy to all IPs but RFC1918 ones.
15837 - Torify APT using Polipo HTTP.
15838 - Torify wget in wgetrc.
15839 - Torify gobby clients using torsocks. It does not support proxies yet.
15840 - Torify tails-security-check using LWP::UserAgent's SOCKS proxy support.
15841 - Fix enabling of GNOME's HTTP proxy.
15844 - Upgrade Vidalia to 0.2.15-1+tails1.
15845 · New upstream release.
15846 · Do not warn about Tor version.
15847 - Upgrade MAT to 0.2.2-1~bpo60+1.
15848 - Upgrade VirtualBox guest software to 4.1.6-dfsg-2~bpo60+1,
15849 built against the ABI of X.Org backports.
15850 - Upgrade I2P to 0.8.11 using KillYourTV's Squeeze packages;
15851 additionally, fix its start script that was broken by the tordate merge.
15852 - Install unar (The Unarchiver) instead of the non-free unrar.
15853 - Install Nautilus Wipe instead of custom Nautilus scripts.
15856 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.1.6-1.
15857 - Upgrade to X.Org from squeeze-backports.
15858 - Install more, and more recent b43 firmwares.
15859 - Upgrade barry to 0.15-1.2~bpo60+1.
15861 * Internationalization
15862 - Add basic language support for Russian, Farsi and Vietnamese.
15863 - Install some Indic fonts.
15864 - Install some Russian fonts.
15865 - Add Alt+Shift shortcut to switch keyboard layout.
15868 - Support booting in "Windows XP -like camouflage mode":
15869 · Install homebrewn local .debs for a Windows XP look-alike Gnome theme.
15870 · Add the "Windows XP Bliss" desktop wallpaper.
15871 · Added a script that's sets up Gnome to look like Microsoft Windows XP.
15872 · Add Windows XP "camouflage" icons for some programs.
15873 · Make Iceweasel use the IE icon when Windows XP camouflage is enabled.
15874 · Add special launcher icons for the Windows XP theme so that they're
15876 - Decrease Florence focus zoom to 1.2.
15877 - Do not fetch APT translation files. Running apt-get update is heavy enough.
15878 - Add MSN support thanks to msn-pecan.
15879 - Add custom SSH client configuration:
15880 · Prefer strong ciphers and MACs.
15881 · Enable maximum compression level.
15882 · Explicitly disable X11 forwarding.
15883 · Connect as root by default, to prevent fingerprinting when username
15885 - Replace flawed FireGPG with a home-made GnuPG encryption applet;
15886 install a feature-stripped FireGPG that redirects users to
15887 the documentation, and don't run Seahorse applet anymore.
15888 - Enable Seahorse's GnuPG agent.
15889 - Blank screen when lid is closed, rather than shutting down the system.
15890 The shutdown "feature" has caused data losses for too many people, it seems.
15891 There are many other ways a Tails system can be shut down in a hurry
15893 - Import Tails signing key into the keyring.
15894 - Fix bug in the Pidgin nick generation that resulted in the nick
15895 "XXX_NICK_XXX" once out of twenty.
15896 - Pre-configure the #tor IRC discussion channel in Pidgin.
15897 - Fix "technology preview" of bridge support: it was broken by tordate merge.
15898 - Install dependencies of our USB installer to ease its development.
15899 - Make vidalia NM hook sleep only if Vidalia is already running.
15900 - Reintroduce the htpdate notification, telling users when it's safe
15901 to use Tor Hidden Services.
15902 - htpdate: omit -f argument to not download full pages.
15903 - htpdate: write success file even when not within {min,max}adjust.
15904 Otherwise htpdate will not "succeed" when the time diff is 0 (i.e.
15905 the clock was already correct) so the success file cannot be used
15906 as an indicator that the system time now is correct, which arguably
15907 is its most important purpose.
15910 - Name built images according to git tag.
15912 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:56:38 +0100
15914 tails (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
15917 - Upgrade to 0.2.2.34 (fixes CVE-2011-2768, CVE-2011-2769).
15920 - Upgrade to 3.5.16-11 (fixes CVE-2011-3647, CVE-2011-3648, CVE-2011-3650).
15921 - Upgrade FireGPG to 0.8-1+tails2: notify users that the FireGPG Text
15922 Editor is the only safe place for performing cryptographic operations,
15923 and make it impossible to do otherwise. Other ways open up several
15924 severe attacks through JavaScript (e.g. leaking plaintext when
15925 decrypting, signing messages written by the attacker).
15926 - Install Cookie Monster extension instead of CS Lite.
15927 - Always ask where to save files.
15928 - Upgrade Torbutton to 1.4.4.1-1, which includes support for the in-browser
15929 "New identity" feature.
15932 - Install MAT, the metadata anonymisation toolkit.
15933 - Upgrade TrueCrypt to 7.1.
15934 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.5~rc1 (leads the user by the hand if an error
15935 occurs while sending the bugreport, proposes to save it after 2 faild
15936 attempts, numerous bugfixes).
15937 - Linux: upgrade to linux-image-3.0.0-2-486 (version 3.0.0-6); fixes
15938 a great number of bugs and security issues.
15941 - Fully rework date and time setting system.
15942 - Remove the htp user firewall exception.
15943 - Saner keyboard layouts for Arabic and Russian.
15944 - Use Plymouth text-only splash screen at boot time.
15945 - Color the init scripts output.
15946 - Suppress Tor's warning about applications doing their own DNS lookups.
15947 This is totally safe due to our Tor enforcement.
15948 - Disable hdparm boot-time service.
15949 We only want hdparm so that laptop-mode-tools can use it.
15950 - Run Claws Mail using torify.
15951 It's not as good as if Claws Mail supported SOCKS proxies itself,
15952 but still better than relying on the transparent netfilter torification.
15953 - Install HPLIP and hpcups for better printing support.
15955 * Erase memory at shutdown
15956 - Run many sdmem instances at once.
15957 In hope of erasing more memory until we come up with a proper fix for
15958 [[bugs/sdmem_does_not_clear_all_memory]].
15959 - Kill gdm3 instead of using its initscript on brutal shutdown.
15960 - Use absolute path to eject for more robust memory wipe on boot medium removal.
15963 - Exclude kernel and initramfs from being put into the SquashFS.
15964 Those files are already shipped where they are needed, that is in the ISO
15965 filesystem. Adapt kexec and memlockd bits.
15966 - Do not ship the GNOME icon theme cache.
15967 - Do not ship .pyc files.
15968 - Do not ship NEWS.Debian.gz files.
15971 - Re-implement hook that modifies syslinux config to make future
15972 development easier.
15974 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:26:38 +0100
15976 tails (0.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
15979 - Update to 3.5.16-10 (fixes DSA-2313-1).
15980 - FireGPG: force crypto action results to appear in a new window, otherwise
15981 JavaScript can steal decrypted plaintext. Advice: always use FireGPG's
15982 text editor when writing text you want to encrypt. If you write it in a
15983 textbox the plaintext can be stolen through JavaScript before it is
15984 encrypted in the same way.
15985 - Update HTTPS Everywhere extension to 1.0.3-1.
15986 - Stop using the small version of the Tor check page. The small version
15987 incorrectly tells Tails users to upgrade their Torbrowser, which has
15988 confused some users.
15991 - Update Linux to 3.0.0-2 (fixes DSA-2310-1, CVE-2011-2905, CVE-2011-2909,
15992 CVE-2011-2723, CVE-2011-2699, CVE-2011-1162, CVE-2011-1161).
15993 - Update usb-modeswitch to 1.1.9-2~bpo60+1 and usb-modeswitch-data to
15994 20110805-1~bpo60+1 from Debian backports. This adds support for a few
15995 devices such as Pantech UMW190 CDMA modem.
15996 - Install libregexp-common-perl 2011041701-3 from Debian unstable. This
15997 fixes the bug: [[bugs/msva_does_not_use_configured_keyserver]].
15998 - Install hdparm so the hard drives can be spinned down in order to save
16000 - Install barry-util for better BlackBerry integration.
16001 - Debian security upgrades: OpenOffice.org (DSA-2315-1), openjdk-6
16002 (DSA-2311-1), policykit-1 (DSA-2319-1)
16004 * Protecting against memory recovery
16005 - Set more appropriate Linux VM config before wiping memory. These
16006 parameters should make the wipe process more robust and efficient.
16008 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:31:18 +0200
16010 tails (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
16012 * Rebase on the Debian Squeeze 6.0.2.1 point-release.
16015 - Update to 0.2.2.33-1.
16016 - Disabled ControlPort in favour of ControlSocket.
16017 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to Tor's LongLivedPorts list.
16021 - Start script now depends on HTP since I2P breaks if the clock jumps or is
16022 too skewed during bootstrap.
16025 - Update to 3.5.16-9 (fixes CVE-2011-2374, CVE-2011-2376, CVE-2011-2365,
16026 CVE-2011-2373, CVE-2011-2371, CVE-2011-0083, CVE-2011-2363, CVE-2011-0085,
16027 CVE-2011-2362, CVE-2011-2982, CVE-2011-2981, CVE-2011-2378, CVE-2011-2984,
16029 - Enable HTTP pipelining (like TBB).
16030 - Update HTTPS Everywhere extension to 1.0.1-1 from Debian unstable.
16031 - Suppress FoxyProxy update prompts.
16032 - Prevent FoxyProxy from "phoning home" after a detected upgrade.
16033 - Fixed a bunch of buggy regular expressions in FoxyProxy's configuration.
16034 See [[bugs/exploitable_typo_in_url_regex?]] for details. Note that none of
16035 these issues are critical due to the transparent proxy.
16036 - Add DuckDuckGo SSL search engine.
16039 - Update to torbutton 1.4.3-1 from Debian unstable.
16040 - Don't show Torbutton status in the status bar as it's now displayed in the
16044 - More random looking nicks in pidgin.
16045 - Add IRC account on chat.wikileaks.de:9999.
16048 - Upgrade htpdate script (taken from Git 7797fe9) that allows setting wget's
16049 --dns-timeout option.
16052 - Update Linux to 3.0.0-1. -686 is now deprecated in favour of -486 and
16053 -686-pae; the world is not ready for -pae yet, so we now ship -486.
16054 - Update OpenSSL to 0.9.8o-4squeeze2 (fixes CVE-2011-1945 (revoke
16055 compromised DigiNotar certificates), CVE-2011-1945).
16056 - Update Vidalia to 0.2.14-1+tails1 custom package.
16057 - Install accessibility tools:
16058 - gnome-mag: screen magnifier
16059 - gnome-orca: text-to-speech
16060 - Replace the onBoard virtual keyboard with Florence.
16061 - Install the PiTIVi non-linear audio/video editor.
16066 * Arbitrary DNS queries
16067 - Tor can not handle all types of DNS queries, so if the Tor resolver fails
16068 we fallback to ttdnsd. This is now possible with Tor 0.2.2.x, since we
16069 fixed Tor bug #3369.
16072 - Install ipheth-utils for iPhone tethering.
16073 - Install xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse (for mouse integration with the host OS
16074 in VMWare and KVM).
16075 - Install virtualbox-ose 4.x guest packages from Debian backports.
16078 - Switch gpg to use keys.indymedia.org's hidden service, without SSL.
16079 The keys.indymedia.org SSL certificate is now self-signed. The hidden
16080 service gives a good enough way to authenticate the server and encrypts
16081 the connection, and just removes the certificates management issue.
16082 - The squashfs is now compressed using XZ which reduces the image size quite
16084 - Remove Windows autorun.bat and autorun.inf. These files did open a static
16085 copy of our website, which is not accessible any longer.
16088 - Use the Git branch instead of the Debian version into the built image's
16090 - Allow replacing efficient XZ compression with quicker gzip.
16091 - Build and install documentation into the chroot (-> filesystem.squashfs).
16092 Rationale: our static website cannot be copied to a FAT32 filesystem due
16093 to filenames being too long. This means the documentation cannot be
16094 browsed offline from outside Tails. However, our installer creates GPT
16095 hidden partitions, so the doc would not be browseable from outside Tails
16096 anyway. The only usecase we really break by doing so is browsing the
16097 documentation while running a non-Tails system, from a Tails CD.
16099 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 09 Sep 2011 11:31:18 +0200
16101 tails (0.7.2) unstable; urgency=high
16104 - Disable Torbutton's external application launch warning.
16105 ... which advises using Tails. Tails *is* running Tails.
16106 - FoxyProxy: install from Debian instead of the older one we previously
16110 - haveged: install an official Debian backport instead of a custom backport.
16111 - unrar: install the version from Debian's non-free repository.
16112 Users report unrar-free does not work well enough.
16114 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:34:56 +0200
16116 tails (0.7.1) unstable; urgency=high
16118 * Vidalia: new 0.2.12-2+tails1 custom package.
16121 - Don't show Foxyproxy's status / icon in FF statusbar to prevent users
16122 from accidentaly / unconsciously put their anonymity at risk.
16123 - "amnesia branding" extension: bump Iceweasel compatibility to 4.0 to ease
16124 development of future releases.
16127 - Upgrade Linux kernel to Debian's 2.6.32-33: fixes tons of bugs,
16128 including the infamous missing mouse cursor one. Oh, and it closes
16129 a few security holes at well.
16130 - Install unrar-free.
16131 - Do not install pppoeconf (superseeded by NetworkManager).
16132 - Upgrade macchanger to Debian testing package to ease development of
16133 future Tails releases.
16134 - Debian security upgrades: x11-xserver-utils (DSA-2213-1), isc-dhcp
16135 (DSA-2216-1), libmodplug (DSA-2226-1), openjdk-6 (DSA-2224-1).
16137 * Protecting against memory recovery
16138 - Add Italian translation for tails-kexec. Thanks to Marco A. Calamari.
16139 - Make it clear what it may mean if the system does not power off
16141 - Use kexec's --reset-vga option that might fix display corruption issues
16144 * WhisperBack (encrypted bug reporting software)
16145 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.4.1:
16146 localizes the documentation wiki's URL,
16147 uses WebKit to display the bug reporting help page,
16148 now is usable on really small screens.
16149 - Extract wiki's supported languages at build time, save this
16150 information to /etc/amnesia/environment, source this file into the
16151 Live user's environment so that WhisperBack 1.4+ can make good use
16155 - Fix boot in Chinese.
16156 - Install mobile-broadband-provider-info for better 3G support.
16157 - Add back GNOME system icons to menus.
16158 - tails-security-check: avoid generating double-slashes in the Atom
16160 - Remove "vga=788" boot parameter which breaks the boot on some hardware.
16161 - Remove now useless "splash" boot parameter.
16162 - Fix a bunch of i386-isms.
16163 - Pass the noswap option to the kernel. This does not change actual Tails
16164 behaviour but prevents users from unnecessarily worrying because of
16165 the "Activating swap" boot message.
16166 - Make use of check.torproject.org's Arabic version.
16169 - Enable squeeze-backports. It is now ready and will be used soon.
16170 - Install eatmydata in the chroot.
16171 - Convert ikiwiki setup files to YAML.
16173 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:14:53 +0200
16175 tails (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
16178 - Install foomatic-filters-ppds to support more printers.
16179 - Give the default user the right to manage printers.
16182 - Deinstall unwanted packages newly pulled by recent live-build.
16184 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:58:51 +0200
16186 tails (0.7~rc2) unstable; urgency=low
16188 ** SNAPSHOT build @824f39248a08f9e190146980fb1eb0e55d483d71 **
16190 * Rebase on Debian Squeeze 6.0.1 point-release.
16192 * Vidalia: new 0.2.10-3+tails5 custom package..
16195 - Install usb-modeswitch and modemmanager to support mobile broadband
16196 devices such as 3G USB dongles. Thanks to Marco A. Calamari for the
16200 - Website relocated to https://tails.boum.org/ => adapt various places.
16201 - Configure keyboard layout accordingly to the chosen language for
16202 Italian and Portuguese.
16204 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:44:25 +0100
16206 tails (0.7~rc1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
16208 ** SNAPSHOT build @98987f111fc097a699b526eeaef46bc75be5290a **
16210 * Rebase on Debian Squeeze.
16212 * T(A)ILS has been renamed to Tails.
16214 * Protecting against memory recovery
16215 New, safer way to wipe memory on shutdown which is now also used when
16216 the boot media is physically removed.
16219 - Update to 0.2.1.30-1.
16222 - Add HTTPS Everywhere 0.9.4 extension.
16223 - Better preserve Anonymity Set: spoof US English Browser and timezone
16224 the same way as the Tor Browser Bundle, disable favicons and picture
16226 - Install AdBlock Plus extension from Debian.
16227 - Add Tor-related bookmarks.
16228 - Support FTP, thanks to FoxyProxy.
16229 - Update AdBlock patterns.
16230 - Disable geolocation and the offline cache.
16233 - Update Vidalia to 0.2.10-3+tails4.
16234 - Install gnome-disk-utility (Palimpsest) and Seahorse plugins.
16235 - Add opt-in i2p support with Iceweasel integration through FoxyProxy.
16236 - onBoard: fix "really quits when clicking the close window icon" bug.
16237 - Optionally install TrueCrypt at boot time.
16238 - Install laptop-mode-tools for better use of battery-powered hardware.
16239 - Replace xsane with simple-scan which is part of GNOME and way easier
16241 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.3.1 (bugfixes, French translation).
16242 - Install scribus-ng instead of scribus. It is far less buggy in Squeeze.
16245 - Drop incoming packets by default.
16246 - Forbid queries to DNS resolvers on the LAN.
16247 - Set output policy to drop (defense-in-depth).
16250 - Install Atheros and Broadcom wireless firmwares.
16251 - Install libsane-hpaio and sane-utils, respectively needed for
16252 multi-function peripherals and some SCSI scanners.
16254 * live-boot 2.0.15-1+tails1.35f1a14
16255 - Cherry-pick our fromiso= bugfixes from upstream 3.x branch.
16258 - Many tiny user interface improvements.
16259 - More robust HTP time synchronization wrt. network failures.
16260 Also, display the logs when the clock synchronization fails.
16261 - Disable GNOME automatic media mounting and opening to protect against
16262 a class of attacks that was recently put under the spotlights.
16263 Also, this feature was breaking the "no trace is left on local
16264 storage devices unless explicitly asked" part of Tails specification.
16265 - Make configuration more similar to the Tor Browser Bundle's one.
16266 - GnuPG: default to stronger digest algorithms.
16267 - Many more or less proper hacks to get the built image size under 700MB.
16268 - Compress the initramfs using LZMA for faster boot.
16271 - Run lb build inside eatmydata fsync-less environment to greatly improve
16274 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:52:19 +0100
16276 tails (0.6.2) unstable; urgency=high
16278 * Tor: upgrade to 0.2.1.29 (fixes CVE-2011-0427).
16280 - Upgrade Linux kernel, dpkg, libc6, NSS, OpenSSL, libxml2 (fixes various
16282 - Upgrade Claws Mail to 3.7.6 (new backport).
16283 - Install Liferea, tcpdump and tcpflow.
16284 * Seahorse: use hkp:// transport as it does not support hkps://.
16285 * FireGPG: use hkps:// to connect to the configured keyserver.
16286 * Build system: take note of the Debian Live tools versions being used
16287 to make next point-release process faster.
16288 * APT: don't ship package indices.
16290 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:59:43 +0100
16292 tails (0.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
16294 * Tor: upgrade to 0.1.28 (fixes CVE-2010-1676)
16295 * Software: upgrade NSS, Xulrunner, glibc (fixes various security issues)
16296 * FireGPG: use the same keyserver as the one configured in gpg.conf.
16297 * Seahorse: use same keyserver as in gpg.conf.
16298 * HTP: display the logs when the clock synchronization fails.
16299 * Update HTP configuration: www.google.com now redirects to
16300 encrypted.google.com.
16301 * Use the light version of the "Are you using Tor?" webpage.
16302 * Update AdBlock patterns.
16304 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 24 Dec 2010 13:28:29 +0100
16306 tails (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
16310 * New OpenPGP signing-only key. Details are on the website:
16311 https://amnesia.boum.org/GnuPG_key/
16314 - Fixed torbutton has migrated to testing, remove custom package.
16317 - Query ssl.scroogle.org instead of lists.debian.org.
16318 - Don't run when the interface that has gone up is the loopback one.
16321 - Add shortcut to securely erase free space in a partition.
16322 - The nautilus-wipe shortcut user interface is now translatable.
16325 - Really fix virtualization warning display.
16326 - More accurate APT pinning.
16327 - Disable Debian sid APT source again since a fixed live-config has
16328 migrated to Squeeze since then.
16330 * live-boot: upgrade to 2.0.8-1+tails1.13926a
16331 - Sometimes fixes the smem at shutdown bug.
16332 - Now possible to create a second partition on the USB stick T(A)ILS is
16336 - Support RT2860 wireless chipsets by installing firmware-ralink from
16338 - Install firmware-linux-nonfree from backports.
16339 - Fix b43 wireless chipsets by having b43-fwcutter extract firmwares at
16343 - Install live-build and live-helper from Squeeze.
16344 - Update SquashFS sort file.
16346 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:53:17 +0200
16348 tails (0.6~rc3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
16350 ** SNAPSHOT build @a3ebb6c775d83d1a1448bc917a9f0995df93e44d **
16353 - Autostart Iceweasel with the GNOME session. This workarounds the
16354 "Iceweasel first page is not loaded" bug.
16357 - Upgrade htpdate script (taken from Git 7797fe9).
16360 - Disable ssh-agent auto-starting with X session: gnome-keyring is
16361 more user-friendly.
16362 - Fix virtualization warning display.
16363 - Boot profile hook: write desktop file to /etc/skel.
16366 - Convert build system to live-build 2.0.1.
16367 - APT: fetch live-build and live-helper from Debian Live snapshots.
16368 - Remove dependency on live-build functions in chroot_local-hooks.
16369 This makes the build environment more robust and less dependent on
16370 live-build internals.
16371 - Remove hand-made rcS.d/S41tails-wifi: a hook now does this.
16372 - Measure time used by the lh build command.
16373 - Fix boot profile hook.
16374 - Boot profiling: wait a bit more: the current list does not include
16377 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 02 Oct 2010 23:06:46 +0200
16379 tails (0.6~rc2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
16381 ** SNAPSHOT build @c0ca0760ff577a1e797cdddf0e95c5d62a986ec8 **
16384 - Refreshed AdBlock patterns (20100926).
16385 - Set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true (untested yet)
16386 - Torbutton: install patched 1.2.5-1+tails1 to fix the User-Agent bug,
16387 disable extensions.torbutton.spoof_english again.
16390 - WhisperBack: upgrade to 1.3~beta3 (main change: let the user provide
16391 optional email address and OpenPGP key).
16393 - Update haveged backport to 0.9-3~amnesia+lenny1.
16394 - Update live-boot custom packages (2.0.6-1+tails1.6797e8): fixes bugs
16395 in persistency and smem-on-shutdown.
16396 - Update custom htpdate script. Taken from commit d778a6094cb3 in our
16397 custom Git repository: fixes setting of date/time.
16400 - Bugfix: failed builds are now (hopefully) detected.
16401 - Fix permissions on files in /etc/apt/ that are preserved in the image.
16402 - Install version 2.0~a21-1 of live-build and live-helper in the image.
16403 We are too late in the release process to upgrade to current Squeeze
16404 version (2.0~a29-1).
16407 - Pidgin/OTR: disable the automatic OTR initiation and OTR requirement.
16409 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:23:17 +0200
16411 tails (0.6~1.gbpef2878) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
16413 ** SNAPSHOT build @ef28782a0bf58004397b5fd303f938cc7d11ddaa **
16416 - Use a 2.6.32 kernel: linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.5-686 (2.6.32-23~bpo50+1)
16417 from backports.org. This should support far more hardware and
16418 especially a lot of wireless adapters.
16419 - Add firmware for RTL8192 wireless adapters.
16420 - Enable power management on all wireless interfaces on boot.
16423 - Install inkscape.
16425 - Install gfshare and ssss: two complementary implementations
16426 of Shamir's Secret Sharing.
16427 - Install tor-geoipdb.
16428 - Remove dialog, mc and xterm.
16431 - Set extensions.torbutton.spoof_english to its default true value
16432 in order to workaround a security issue:
16433 https://amnesia.boum.org/security/Iceweasel_exposes_a_rare_User-Agent/
16436 - Install the Iceweasel extension.
16437 - Use a hkps:// keyserver.
16440 - Install gnupg from backports.org so that hkps:// is supported.
16441 - Use a hkps:// keyserver.
16442 - Proxy traffic via polipo.
16443 - Prefer up-to-date digests and ciphers.
16445 * Vidalia: rebased our custom package against 0.2.10.
16448 - Built images are now named like this:
16449 tails-i386-lenny-0.5-20100925.iso
16450 - Use live-helper support for isohybrid options instead of doing the
16451 conversion ourselves. The default binary image type we build is now
16453 - Remove .deb built by m-a after they have been installed.
16454 - Setup custom GConf settings at build time rather than at boot time.
16455 - Move $HOME files to /etc/skel and let adduser deal with permissions.
16456 - Convert to live-boot / live-config / live-build 2.x branches.
16457 - Replaced our custom live-initramfs with a custom live-boot package;
16458 included version is 2.0.5-1+tails2.6797e8 from our Git repository:
16459 git clone git://git.immerda.ch/tails_live-boot.git
16460 - Install live-config* from the live-snapshots Lenny repository.
16461 Rationale: live-config binary packages differ depending on the target
16462 distribution, so that using Squeeze's live-config does not produce
16463 fully-working Lenny images.
16464 - Rename custom scripts, packages lists and syslinux menu entries from
16465 the amnesia-* namespace to the tails-* one.
16468 - Use (authenticated) HTP instead of NTP.
16469 - The htpdate script that is used comes from commit 43f5f83c0 in our
16470 custom repository: git://git.immerda.ch/tails_htp.git
16471 - Start Tor and Vidalia only once HTP is done.
16474 - Fix IPv6 firewall restore file. It was previously not used at all.
16475 - Use ftp.us.debian.org instead of the buggy GeoIP-powered
16477 - Gedit: don't autocreate backup copies.
16478 - Build images with syslinux>=4.01 that has better isohybrid support.
16479 - amnesia-security-check: got rid of the dependency on File::Slurp.
16480 - Take into account the migration of backports.org to backports.debian.org.
16481 - Make GnuPG key import errors fatal on boot.
16482 - Warn the user when T(A)ILS is running inside a virtual machine.
16483 - DNS cache: forget automapped .onion:s on Tor restart.
16485 * Documentation: imported Incognito's walkthrough, converted to
16486 Markdown, started the needed adaptation work.
16488 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 26 Sep 2010 11:06:50 +0200
16490 tails (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
16492 * The project has merged efforts with Incognito.
16493 It is now to be called "The (Amnesic) Incognito Live System".
16497 - Created the amnesia-news mailing-list.
16498 - Added a forum to the website.
16499 - Created a chatroom on IRC: #tails on irc.oftc.net
16502 - Workaround nasty NetworkManager vs. Tor bug that often
16503 prevented the system to connect to the Tor network: restart Tor and Vidalia
16504 when a network interface goes up.
16505 - onBoard now autodetects the keyboard layout... at least once some
16506 keys have been pressed.
16507 - New windows don't open in background anymore, thanks to
16508 a patched Metacity.
16509 - Memory wiping at shutdown is now lightning fast, and does not prevent
16510 the computer to halt anymore.
16511 - GNOME panel icons are right-aligned again.
16512 - Fixed permissions on APT config files.
16513 - Repaired mouse integration when running inside VirtualBox.
16516 - Torbutton: redirect to Scroogle when presented a Google captcha.
16517 - Revamped bookmarks
16518 . moved T(A)ILS own website to the personal toolbar
16519 . moved webmail links (that are expected to be more than 3 soon)
16520 to a dedicated folder.
16521 - Don't show AdBlock Plus icon in the toolbar.
16522 - Adblock Plus: updated patterns, configured to only update subscriptions
16523 once a year. Which means never, hopefully, as users do update their
16524 Live system on a regular basis, don't they?
16526 * Vidalia: rebased our custom package against 0.2.8.
16529 - Install Claws Mail from backports.org to use the X.509 CA
16530 certificates provided by Debian.
16531 - Enable PGP modules with basic configuration:
16532 . Automatically check signatures.
16533 . Use gpg-agent to manage passwords.
16534 . Display warning on start-up if GnuPG doesn't work.
16535 - Set the IO timeout to 120s (i.e. the double of the default 60s).
16538 - Automatically connect to irc.oftc.net with a randomized nickname,
16539 so as not to advertize the use of T(A)ILS; this nickname is made of:
16540 . a random firstname picked from the 2000 most registered by the U.S.
16541 social security administration in the 70s;
16542 . two random digits.
16543 Good old irc.indymedia.org is still configured - with same nickname -
16544 but is not enabled by default anymore.
16545 - Disabled MSN support, that is far too often affected by security flaws.
16547 * Build $HOME programmatically
16548 - Migrated all GConf settings, including the GNOME panel configuration,
16549 to XML files that are loaded at boot time.
16550 - Configure iceweasel profile skeleton in /etc/iceweasel.
16551 A brand new profile is setup from this skeleton once iceweasel is
16552 started after boot.
16553 . build sqlite files at build time from plain SQL.
16554 . FireGPG: hard-code current firegpg version at build time to prevent
16555 the extension to think it was just updated.
16556 . stop shipping binary NSS files. These were here only to
16557 install CaCert's certificate, that is actually shipped by Debian's
16561 - Updated Debian Live snapshots APT repository URL.
16562 - Purge all devel packages at the end of the chroot configuration.
16563 - Make sure the hook that fixes permissions runs last.
16564 - Remove unwanted Iceweasel search plugins at build time.
16567 - Added a progress bar for boot time file readahead.
16568 - Readahead more (~37MB) stuff in foreground at boot time.
16569 - Make the APT pinning persist in the Live image.
16570 - localepurge: keep locales for all supported languages,
16571 don't bother when installing new packages.
16572 - Removed syslinux help menu: these help pages are either buggy or
16573 not understandable by non-geeks.
16574 - Fixed Windows autorun.
16575 - Disable a few live-initramfs scripts to improve boot time.
16576 - Firewall: forbid any IPv6 communication with the outside.
16577 - Virtualization support: install open-vm-tools.
16578 - WhisperBack: updated to 1.2.1, add a random bug ID to the sent
16580 - Prompt for CD removal on shutdown, not for USB device.
16582 * live-initramfs: new package built from our Git (e2890a04ff) repository.
16583 - Merged upstream changes up to 1.177.2-1.
16584 - New noprompt=usb feature.
16585 - Fix buggy memory wiping and shutdown.
16586 - Really reboot when asked, rather than shutting down the system.
16589 - Upgraded to a new custom, patched package (0.93.0-0ubuntu4~amnesia1).
16590 - Added an entry in the Applications menu.
16593 - Install vim-nox with basic configuration
16595 - Install monkeysphere and msva-perl
16596 - Replaced randomsound with haveged as an additional source of entropy.
16599 - Build ralink rt2570 wifi modules.
16600 - Build rt2860 wifi modules from Squeeze. This supports the RT2860
16601 wireless adapter, found particularly in the ASUS EeePC model 901
16603 - Build broadcom-sta-source wifi modules.
16604 - Bugfix: cpufreq modules were not properly added to /etc/modules.
16605 - Use 800x600 mode on boot rather than 1024x768 for compatibility
16606 with smaller displays.
16608 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:14:13 +0200
16610 amnesia (0.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
16612 New release, mainly aimed at fixing live-initramfs security issue
16613 (Debian bug #568750), with an additional set of small enhancements as
16616 * live-initramfs: new custom package built from our own live-initramfs
16617 Git repository (commit 8b96e5a6cf8abc)
16618 - based on new 1.173.1-1 upstream release
16619 - fixed live-media=removable behaviour so that filesystem images found
16620 on non-removable storage are really never used (Debian bug #568750)
16622 * Vidalia: bring back our UI customizations (0.2.7-1~lenny+amnesia1)
16624 * APT: consistently use the GeoIP-powered cdn.debian.net
16626 * Software: make room so that {alpha, future} Squeeze images fit on
16628 - only install OpenOffice.org's calc, draw, impress, math and writer
16630 - removed OpenOffice.org's English hyphenation and thesaurus
16631 - removed hunspell, wonder why it was ever added
16634 - explicitly disable persistence, better safe than sorry
16635 - removed compulsory 15s timeout, live-initramfs knows how to wait for
16636 the Live media to be ready
16638 * Build system: don't cache rootfs anymore
16640 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:28:16 +0100
16642 amnesia (0.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
16644 * Brown paper bag bugfix release: have amnesia-security-check use
16645 entries publication time, rather than update time... else tagging
16646 a security issue as fixed, after releasing a new version, make this
16647 issue be announced to every user of this new, fixed version.
16649 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:58:41 +0100
16651 amnesia (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
16653 * We now only build and ship "Hybrid" ISO images, which can be either
16654 burnt on CD-ROM or dd'd to a USB stick or hard disk.
16656 * l10n: we now build and ship multilingual images; initially supported
16657 (or rather wanna-be-supported) languages are: ar, zh, de, en, fr, it,
16659 - install Iceweasel's and OpenOffice.org's l10n packages for every
16661 - stop installing localized help for OpenOffice.org, we can't afford it
16662 for enough languages
16663 - when possible, Iceweasel's homepage and default search engine are localized
16664 - added Iceweasel's "any language" Scroogle SSL search engine
16665 - when the documentation icon is clicked, display the local wiki in
16666 currently used language, if available
16667 - the Nautilus wipe script is now translatable
16668 - added gnome-keyboard-applet to the Gnome panel
16671 - replaced Icedove with claws mail, in a bit rough way; see
16672 https://amnesia.boum.org/todo/replace_icedove_with_claws/ for best
16673 practices and configuration advices
16674 - virtual keyboard: install onBoard instead of kvkbd
16675 - Tor controller: install Vidalia instead of TorK
16676 - install only chosen parts of Gnome, rather than gnome-desktop-environment
16677 - do not install xdialog, which is unused and not in Squeeze
16678 - stop installing grub as it breaks Squeeze builds (see Debian bug #467620)
16679 - install live-helper from snapshots repository into the Live image
16682 - do not install the NoScript extension anymore: it is not strictly
16683 necessary but bloodily annoying
16685 * Provide WhisperBack 1.2 for anonymous, GnuPG-encrypted bug reporting.
16686 - added dependency on python-gnutls
16687 - install the SMTP hidden relay's certificate
16689 * amnesia-security-check: new program that tells users that the amnesia
16690 version they are running is affected by security flaws, and which ones
16691 they are; this program is run at Gnome session startup, after sleeping
16692 2 minutes to let Tor a chance to initialize.
16695 - uses the Desktop Notifications framework
16696 - fetches the security atom feed from the wiki
16697 - verifies the server certificate against its known CA
16698 - tries fetching the localized feed; if it fails, fetch the default
16701 * live-initramfs: new custom package built from our own live-initramfs
16702 Git repository (commit 40e957c4b89099e06421)
16703 - at shutdown time, ask the user to unplug the CD / USB stick, then run
16704 smem, wait for it to finish, then attempt to immediately halt
16707 - bumped dependency on live-helper to >= 2.0a6 and adapted our config
16708 - generate hybrid ISO images by default, when installed syslinux is
16710 - stop trying to support building several images in a row, it is still
16711 broken and less needed now that we ship hybrid ISO images
16712 - scripts/config: specify distribution when initializing defaults
16713 - updated Debian Live APT repository's signing key
16716 - disable virtualbox packages installing and module building on !i386
16717 && !amd64, as PowerPC is not a supported guest architecture
16718 - built and imported tor_0.2.1.20-1~~lenny+1_powerpc.deb
16721 - rough beginnings of a scratch Squeeze branch, currently unsupported
16722 - install gobby-infinote
16725 - updated GnuPG key with up-to-date signatures
16726 - more improvements on boot time from CD
16727 - enhanced the wipe in Nautilus UI (now asks for confirmation and
16728 reports success or failure)
16729 - removed the "restart Tor" launcher from the Gnome panel
16731 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:28:04 +0100
16733 amnesia (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
16735 * software: removed openvpn, added
16741 - lvm2 (with disabled initscript as it slows-down too much the boot in certain
16743 - NetworkManager 0.7 (from backports.org) to support non-DHCP networking
16745 - randomsound to enhance the kernel's random pool
16747 - install the latest stable release from deb.torproject.org
16748 - ifupdown script now uses SIGHUP signal rather than a whole tor
16749 restart, so that in the middle of it vidalia won't start it's own
16751 - configure Gnome proxy to use Tor
16753 - adblockplus: upgraded to 1.0.2
16754 - adblockplus: subscribe to US and DE EasyList extensions, updated patterns
16755 - firegpg is now installed from Debian Squeeze rather than manually; current
16756 version is then 0.7.10
16757 - firegpg: use better keyserver ... namely pool.sks-keyservers.net
16758 - added bookmark to Amnesia's own website
16759 - use a custom "amnesiabranding" extension to localize the default search
16760 engine and homepage depending on the current locale
16761 - updated noscript whitelist
16762 - disable overriden homepage redirect on iceweasel upgrade
16764 - nicer default configuration with verified irc.indymedia.org's SSL cert
16765 - do not parse incoming messages for formatting
16766 - hide formatting toolbar
16767 * hardware compatibility
16769 - beginning of support for the ppc architecture
16770 - load acpi-cpufreq, cpufreq_ondemand and cpufreq_powersave kernel
16772 * live-initramfs: custom, updated package based on upstream's 1.157.4-1, built
16773 from commit b0a4265f9f30bad945da of amnesia's custom live-initramfs Git
16775 - securely erases RAM on shutdown using smem
16776 - fixes the noprompt bug when running from USB
16777 - disables local swap partitions usage, wrongly enabled by upstream
16778 * fully support for running as a guest system in VirtualBox
16779 - install guest utils and X11 drivers
16780 - build virtualbox-ose kernel modules at image build time
16782 - new (translatable) wiki, using ikiwiki, with integrated bugs and todo
16783 tracking system a static version of the wiki is included in generated
16784 images and linked from the Desktop
16786 - adapt for live-helper 2.0, and depend on it
16787 - get amnesia version from debian/changelog
16788 - include the full version in ISO volume name
16789 - save .list, .packages and .buildlog
16790 - scripts/clean: cleanup any created dir in binary_local-includes
16791 - updated Debian Live snapshot packages repository URL and signing key
16792 - remove duplicated apt/preferences file, the live-helper bug has been
16794 * l10n: beginning of support for --language=en
16796 - improved boot time on CD by ordering files in the squashfs in the order they
16797 are used during boot
16798 - added a amnesia-version script to built images, that outputs the current
16800 - added a amnesia-debug script that prepares a tarball with information that
16801 could be useful for developpers
16802 - updated Amnesia GnuPG key to a new 4096R one
16803 - set time with NTP when a network interface is brought up
16804 - import amnesia's GnuPG pubkey into the live session user's keyring
16805 - do not ask DHCP for a specific hostname
16806 - install localepurge, only keep en, fr, de and es locales, which reduces the
16807 generated images' size by 100MB
16808 - added a hook to replace /sbin/swapon with a script that only runs
16810 - moved networking hooks responsibility from ifupdown to NetworkManager
16812 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:17:08 +0100
16814 amnesia (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
16816 * imported /home/amnesia, then:
16817 - more user-friendly shell, umask 077
16818 - updated panel, added launcher to restart Tor
16819 - mv $HOME/bin/* /usr/local/bin/
16820 - removed metacity sessions
16821 - removed gstreamer's registry, better keep this dynamically updated
16822 - rm .qt/qt_plugins_3.3rc, better keep this dynamically updated
16823 - removed .gnome/gnome-vfs/.trash_entry_cache
16824 - removed kconf_update log
16825 - removed and excluded Epiphany configuration (not installed)
16828 - enable caching in RAM
16829 - explicitly disable ssl v2, and enable ssl v3 + tls
16830 - removed prefs for the non-installed webdeveloper
16831 - removed the SSL Blacklist extension (not so useful, licensing issues)
16832 - deep profile directory cleanup
16833 - extensions cleanup: prefer Debian-packaged ones, cleanly reinstalled
16834 AddBlock Plus and CS Lite to allow upgrading them
16835 - updated pluginreg.dat and localstore.rdf
16836 - moved some settings to user.js
16837 - made cookie/JavaScript whitelists more consistent
16838 - force httpS on whitelisted sites
16839 - NoScript: marked google and gmail as untrusted
16840 - some user interface tweaks, mainly for NoScript
16841 - FireGPG: disable the buggy auto-detection feature, the link to firegpg's
16842 homepage in generated pgp messages and the GMail interface (which won't
16843 work without JavaScript anyway)
16844 - updated blocklist.xml
16845 - removed and excluded a bunch of files in the profile directory
16846 * icedove: clean the profile directory up just like we did for iceweasel
16847 * software: install msmtp and mutt
16849 - use rsync rather than tar
16852 - reviewed pidgin-otr security (see TODO)
16854 - stop calling home-refresh in lh_build
16855 - include home-refresh in generated images
16857 - fix permissions on local includes at build time
16858 - updated scripts/{build,clean} wrt. new $HOME handling
16859 - scripts/{build,config}: stop guessing BASEDIR, we must be run from
16860 the root of the source directory anyway
16861 - stop storing /etc/amnesia/version in Git, delete it at clean time
16863 - converted Changelog to the Debian format and location, updated
16864 build scripts accordingly
16865 - added a README symlink at the root of the source directory
16866 - basic debian/ directory (not working for building packages yet,
16867 but at least we can now use git-dch)
16868 - added debian/gbp.conf with our custom options for git-dch
16869 - config/amnesia: introduce new $AMNESIA_DEV_* variables to be used
16870 by developpers' scripts
16871 - added ./release script: a wrapper around git-dch, git-commit and git-tag
16873 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:42:03 +0200
16875 amnesia (0.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
16877 * Forked Privatix 9.03.15, by Markus Mandalka:
16878 http://mandalka.name/privatix/index.html.en
16879 Everything has since been rewritten or so heavily changed that nothing
16880 remains from the original code... apart of a bunch of Gnome settings.
16881 * hardware support:
16882 - install a bunch of non-free wifi firmwares
16883 - install xsane and add the live user to the scanner group
16884 - install aircrack-ng
16885 - install xserver-xorg-video-geode on i386 (eCafe support)
16886 - install xserver-xorg-video-all
16887 - install firmware-linux from backports.org
16888 - install system-config-printer
16889 - added instructions in README.eCAFE to support the Hercules eCAFE EC-800
16892 - configure pinning to support installing chosen packages from
16893 squeeze; the APT source for testing is hardcoded in chroot_sources/,
16894 since there is no way to use $LH_CHROOT_MIRROR in chroot_local-hooks
16895 - give backports.org priority 200, so that we track upgrades of packages
16896 installed from there
16897 * release: include the Changelog and TODO in the generated images,
16898 in the /usr/share/doc/amnesia/ directory
16899 * software: install gnomebaker when building Gnome-based live OS, to
16900 easily clone myself when running from CD
16902 - build i386 images when the build host is amd64
16903 - added a version file: /etc/amnesia/version
16904 - use snapshot live-* packages inside the images
16905 - setup timezone depending on the chosen build locale
16906 - rely on standard live-initramfs adduser to do our user setup
16907 (including sudo vs. Gnome/KDE, etc.)
16908 - stop "supporting" KDE
16909 - allow building several images at once
16910 - migrated most of lh_config invocations to scripts/config
16911 - append "noprompt" so that halting/rebooting work with splashy
16912 - moved our own variables to config/amnesia, using the namespace
16915 - default search engine is now Scroogle SSL, configured to search pages
16916 in French language; the English one is also installed
16917 - never ask to save passwords or forms content
16918 - configured the torbutton extension to use polipo
16919 - installed the CACert root certificate
16920 - installed the SSL Blacklist extension and the blacklist data
16921 - installed the FireGPG extension
16922 - installed the CS Lite extension
16923 - installed the NoScript extension
16924 - NoScript, CS Lite: replaced the default whitelists with a list of
16925 trusted, non-commercial Internet Service Providers
16926 - configure extensions (add to prefs.js):
16927 user_pref("extensions.torbutton.startup", true);
16928 user_pref("extensions.torbutton.startup_state", 1);
16929 user_pref("extensions.torbutton.tor_enabled", true);
16930 user_pref("noscript.notify.hide", true);
16931 user_pref("capability.policy.maonoscript.sites", "about:
16932 about:blank about:certerror about:config about:credits
16933 about:neterror about:plugins about:privatebrowsing
16934 about:sessionrestore chrome: resource:");
16935 user_pref("extensions.firegpg.no_updates", true);
16936 - install the NoScript plugin from Debian squeeze
16937 - delete urlclassifier3.sqlite on $HOME refresh: as we disabled
16938 "safebrowsing", this huge file is of no use
16939 - torbutton: install newer version from Squeeze
16940 * linux: removed non-686 kernel flavours when building i386 images
16941 * compatibility: append "live-media=removable live-media-timeout=15", to
16942 prevent blindly booting another debian-live installed on the hard disk
16944 - gnome-app-install
16946 - cryptkeeper: Gnome system tray applet to encrypt files with EncFS
16947 - kvkbd: virtual keyboard (installed from backports.org)
16948 - sshfs (and added live user to the fuse group)
16949 - less, secure-delete, wipe, seahorse, sshfs, ntfs-3g
16952 - enable the transparent proxy, the DNS resolver, and the control port
16953 - save authentication cookie to /tmp/control_auth_cookie, so that the
16954 live user can use Tork and co.
16955 - autostart Tork with Gnome
16956 - Tork: installed, disabled most notifications and startup tips
16957 - added a restart tor hook to if-up.d (used by Network Manager as well),
16958 so that Tor does work immediately even if the network cable was
16959 plugged late in/after the boot process
16961 - added a nautilus-script to wipe files and directories
16962 - bash with working completion for the live user
16963 * polipo: install and configure this HTTP proxy to forward requests
16965 * DNS: install and configure pdnsd to forward any DNS request through
16967 * firewall: force every outgoing TCP connection through the Tor
16968 transparent proxy, discard any outgoing UDP connection
16970 - set syslinux timeout to 4 seconds
16971 - use splashy for more user-friendly boot/halt sequences
16973 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:09:15 +0200