1 tails (3.6) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
3 * Dummy entry for next release.
5 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 09 Jan 2018 21:30:54 +0100
7 tails (3.5.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
9 * Dummy entry for potential emergency release.
11 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 23 Jan 2018 01:33:25 +0100
13 tails (3.5) unstable; urgency=medium
16 - Upgrade amd64-microcode to 3.20171205.1, for the mitigation
17 against Spectre (CVE-2017-5715) (Closes: #15148).
18 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.5-build3 (Closes: #15197).
19 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 1:52.5.2-2~deb9u1.0tails1 (Closes: #15033)
20 - Upgrade gdk-pixbuf to 2.36.5-2+deb9u2.0tails1 (Closes: #15177).
21 - Upgrade bind9 to 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3+deb9u4.
22 - Upgrade libxml2 to 2.9.4+dfsg1-2.2+deb9u2.
25 - Upgrade Linux to 4.14.13, which is the first kernel that has the
26 "[x86] microcode/AMD: Add support for fam17h microcode loading"
27 commit, that's needed to load the AMD fam17h microcode for
28 mitigating the Spectre vulnerability (CVE-2017-5715).
31 - Drop Claws Mail persistence setting migration. Whenever
32 persistent Claws Mail setting is enabled, this creates an empty
33 ~/.icedove/ directory, that prevents Thunderbird from starting
35 - Don't prevent the GNOME Applications button from opening its menu if
36 time syncing resulted in a shift back in time (Closes: #14250).
37 - Tails Installer: when cloning Tails to another USB drive, check
38 if the target device has enough space *before* any destructive
39 actions are made (Closes: #14622).
40 - Tor Browser: make "Print to file" work again, for all locales
41 (Closes: #13403, #15024).
44 - Fix option passed to cmp: -q is not supported but --quiet is.
45 Spotted on feature/buster that's the first branch that exercises
46 this code, but there's no reason to fix it only there.
49 - Adapt tests for Tor Launcher 0.2.14.3, i.e. the one shipped with
50 Tor Browser 7.5 in Tails 3.5 (Closes: #15064).
51 - Add support for creating arbitrarily sized partitions.
52 - Add a "Try cloning Tails to a too small partition" scenario
53 (regression test for #14622).
55 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 23 Jan 2018 00:57:58 +0100
57 tails (3.4) unstable; urgency=medium
60 - Install Linux 4.14.0-3 from sid (Closes: #14976). This enables
61 the kernel-side mitigations for Meltdown.
62 - Upgrade curl to 7.52.1-5+deb9u3.
63 - Upgrade enigmail to 2:1.9.9-1~deb9u1.
64 - Upgrade gimp to 2.8.18-1+deb9u1.
65 - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u4.
66 - Upgrade libav (ffmpeg) to 7:3.2.9-1~deb9u1.
67 - Upgrade libxcursor to 1:1.1.14-1+deb9u1.
68 - Upgrade libxml-libxml-perl to 2.0128+dfsg-1+deb9u1.
69 - Upgrade poppler to 0.48.0-2+deb9u1.
70 - Upgrade rsync to 3.1.2-1 3.1.2-1+deb9u1.
71 - Upgrade samba to 2:4.5.12+dfsg-2+deb9u1.
72 - Upgrade sensible-utils to 0.0.9+deb9u1.
73 - Upgrade tor to 0.3.1.9-1~d90.stretch+1.
76 - Display TopIcons systray on the left of the system menu. This
77 fixes #14796 (on Buster, it is displayed in the middle of the
78 screen, on the left of the clock) and an annoying UX problem we
79 have on Stretch: OpenPGP applet is in the middle of icons that
80 share the exact same (modern, GNOME Shell-like) behaviour, which
81 is disturbing when opening one of the modern menus and moving
82 the mouse left/right to the others, because in the middle one
83 icon won't react as expected, and the nice blue bottom border
85 - Use the "intel" X.Org driver for integrated graphics in Intel
86 i5-7300HQ (Closes: #14990).
87 - Enable HashKnownHosts in the OpenSSH client (Closes: #14995).
88 Debian enables HashKnownHosts by default via /etc/ssh/ssh_config
89 for good reasons, let's not revert to the upstream default.
90 - Pin the AppArmor feature set to the Stretch's kernel one. Linux
91 4.14 brings new AppArmor mediation features and the policy
92 shipped in Stretch may not be ready for it. So let's disable
93 these new features to avoid breaking stuff: it's too hard to
94 check if all the policy for apps we ship (and that users install
95 themselves) has the right rules to cope with these new mediation
99 - Don't delete downloaded debs after install (Closes: #10958).
100 - Install xul-ext-ublock-origin from sid to make the dashboard
101 work again(Closes: #14993). Thanks to cacahuatl
102 <cacahuatl@autistici.org> for the patch!
103 - Additional software feature: use debconf priority critical to
104 prevent failure when installing packages otherwise requiring
105 manual configuration (Closes: #6038)
106 - Don't include anything under /lib/live/mount/medium/ in the
107 readahead list (Closes: #14964). This fixes the boot time
108 regression introduced in Tails 3.3.
111 - Display a more helpful error message when the 'origin' remote
112 does not point to the official Tails Git repository. This task
113 calls git_base_branch_head() which relies on the fact 'origin'
114 points to our official repo.
115 - Vagrant: never build the wiki early. This has caused several
116 issues throughout the years, the lastest instance being the
117 reopening of #14933. (Closes: #14933)
118 - Install libelf-dev during the time we need it for building DKMS modules.
119 - Make the DKMS build hook verbose, and display DKMS modules build
120 logs on failure. This hook is a recurring cause of headaches,
121 let's simplify debugging.
122 - Remove obsolete duplicate build of the virtualbox-guest DKMS
126 - Log the list of systemd jobs when systemctl is-system-running
127 fails (Closes: #14772). Listing the units is not enough: in most
128 cases I've seen, is-system-running returns "starting" which
129 means the job queue is not empty, and to debug that we need the
131 - Only support SikuliX; drop support for Sikuli.
132 - Disable SPICE clipboard sharing in the guest. It could only mess
133 things up, and in fact has confused me by suddenly setting my
134 *host's* clipboard to "ATTACK AT DAWN"... :)
135 - Decode Base64.decode64 return value appropriately; it returns
136 strings encoded in ASCII-8bit.
137 - Don't flood the debug logger with the journal contents.
138 - Handle case where $vm is undefined during an extremely early
140 - Allow more time for 'systemctl is-system-running' to
141 succeed. (Refs: #14772)
142 - Make Sikuli attempt to find replacements on FindFailed by
143 employing fuzz, or "lowering the similarity factor". The
144 replacements (if found) are saved among the artifacts, and
145 serves as potential drop-in-replacements for outdated
146 images. The main use case for this is when the font
147 configuration in Tails changes, which normally invalidates a
148 large part of our images given that our default high similarity
149 factor. We also add the `--fuzzy-image-matching` where the
150 replacements are used in case of FindFailed, so the tests can
151 proceed beyond the first FindFailed. The idea is that a full
152 test suite run will produce replacements for potentially *all*
154 - Fix our findAny() vs findfailed_hook. For findAny() it might be
155 expected that some images won't be found, so we shouldn't use
156 our findfailed_hook, which is about dealing with the situation
157 where images need to be updated.
158 - Make sure Pidgin's D-Bus policy changes are applied (Closes:
159 #15007). Without the HUP there's a race that we sometimes lose.
160 - Nump the Unsafe Browser's start page image (Closes: #15006).
161 - Hot-plug a 'pcnet' network device instead of 'virtio' on Sid,
162 since the latter is not detected on Sid (Closes: #14819).
164 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 08 Jan 2018 16:57:07 +0100
166 tails (3.3) unstable; urgency=medium
169 - Upgrade the base system to the Debian Stretch 9.2 point-release
170 which gives us tons of bugfixes (Closes: #14714).
171 - Install Linux 4.13.0-1 (Closes: #14789).
174 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 52.4.0 (Closes: #14963).
175 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.0.10 (Closes: #14940).
176 - Upgrade gdk-pixbuf to 2.36.5-2+deb9u1.0tails1 (Closes: #14729).
179 - Upgrade to Tor 0.3.1.8-2~d90.stretch+1, a new stable Tor series.
180 - tails-documentation: rewrite in Python + use WebKit for display
181 instead of the Tor Browser. Since Tor Browser 7.0.8 rendering of
182 local pages (like our docs) fail (#14962) so this is probably a
183 temporary workaround of that.
184 - Replace the Unsafe Browser's warning pages with static,
185 pure-HTML versions. This is truly a *temporary* workaround for
187 - Update deb.tails.boum.org APT repo key (Closes: #14927)
188 - Refresh Tor Browser AppArmor profile patch to apply on top of
189 torbrowser-launcher 0.2.8-4's (Closes: #14923).
190 - Drop obsolete manual enabling of AppArmor on the kernel
191 command-line: it's now enabled by default, so the (Tails -
192 Debian) delta gets smaller. :)
195 - Install Tails Installer 5.0.2. Fixes:
196 * Most notably, fix an issue preventing Tails Installer from
197 installing to drives containing a non-Tails partition that
198 (obviously) has affected a lot of users. (Closes: #14755).
199 * Fix an issue that made the resulting installations unbootable
200 if Tails Installer was using a too recent udisks2, e.g. the
201 one currently in Debian Sid (Closes: #14809).
202 * Code clean-ups (Closes: #14721, #14722, #14723).
203 - Fix UEFI boot for USB sticks installed with Universal USB
204 Installer (Closes: #8992).
205 - Force Tor Browser and Thunderbird to enable accessibility
206 support even if no a11y feature is enabled in GNOME yet (Closes:
208 - Mark our custom Desktop launchers as trusted (Closes: #14793,
210 - Add a systemd --user target for bits of GNOME
211 EarlyInitialization managed by systemd, and make the keyboard
212 layout configuration as part of it. This fixes an issue where
213 the layout chosen in the Greeter sometimes wasn't applied in the
214 GNOME session (Closes: #12543).
217 - auto/{build,clean,config}: run with `set -eu`.
218 - Add script to sanity check the website. Currently it ensures all
219 blog posts and security advisories have valid Ikiwiki 'meta
220 date' directives, since we depend on it for reproducibility.
221 Also make passing this sanity check a pre-condition for building
222 the website (Closes: #12726, #14767).
223 - Abort the ISO build when DKMS modules were not built.
224 - Take into account where DKMS modules get installed nowadays.
225 - auto/build: normalize file timestamps in wiki/src before
226 building. The copy of the website included in the ISO image has
227 "Posted" timestamps that apparently match when we cloned the Git
228 repository, which affects reproducibility. (Closes: #14933).
229 - Fix reproducibility of builds of topic branches that lag behind
230 their base branch with the mergebasebranch build option enabled.
231 Two otherwise identical merge commits done at different times
232 get different IDs, and we happen to embed in the ISO the ID of
233 the commit we're building from. (Closes: #14946)
236 - Bump timeout for "I can save the current page as", otherwise the
237 "The Tor Browser directory is usable" scenario fails randomly
238 when the system is under load.
239 - New scenario: installing Tails to an eligible drive with an
240 existing filesystem. This is a regression test for #14755.
241 - New scenario: re-installing over an existing Tails installation.
243 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 14 Nov 2017 04:53:27 +0100
245 tails (3.2) unstable; urgency=medium
248 - Upgrade Linux packages to the Debian kernel 4.12.0-2, based on
249 mainline Linux 4.12.12 (Closes: #11831, #12732, #14673).
252 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.0.6-build3 (Closes: #14696).
253 - Upgrade to Thunderbird 52.3.0 (Closes: #12639).
254 - Deny access to Pidgin's D-Bus service (Closes: #14612). That D-Bus
255 interface is dangerous because it allows _any_ application running
256 as `amnesia' that has access to the session bus to extract
257 basically any information from Pidgin and to reconfigure it:
258 https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/DbusHowto
259 - Block loading of Bluetooth kernel modules (Closes: #14655) and
260 block Bluetooth devices with rfkill (Closes: #14655).
261 - Add localhost.localdomain to the hosts file to prevent loopback
262 leaks to Tor circuits (Closes: #13574). Thanks to tailshark for
266 - Upgrade to Tails Installer 5.0.1 (Closes: #8859, #8860, #12707). This
267 version gets rid of the splash screen, detects when Tails is already
268 installed on the target device (and then proposes to upgrade),
269 and generally improves the UX. It also increases the Tails partition
270 size and refuses to install to devices smaller than 8 GB.
271 - Deprecate Thunderbird's preferences/0000tails.js (Closes: #12680).
272 - Install the BookletImposer PDF imposition toolkit (Closes: #12686).
274 * Fallback to ~/Tor Browser for uploads (Closes: #8917).
275 * Silence some common operations that always are denied and
276 otherwise would spam the journal (Closes: #14606)
277 - Shell library: remove now unused functions (Closes: #12685).
278 - Add pppoe to the installed packages (Closes #13463). Thanks to geb
280 - Replace syslinux:i386 with syslinux:amd64 in the ISO9660
281 filesystem (Closes: #13513).
282 - htpdate: fix date header regexp (Closes: #10495). It seems that
283 some servers (sometimes) do not send their headers with first
284 letter uppercased, hence a lot of failures to find the date in it.
285 - Install aufs-dkms from Debian unstable (Closes: #12732).
286 - Install vim-tiny instead of vim-nox (Closes: #12687). On Stretch,
287 vim-nox started pulling ruby and rake in the ISO. I think vim-tiny
288 would be good enough, and would save a few MiB in the ISO. Those
289 who use vim more intensively and want another flavour of vim are
290 likely to need persistence anyway, and can thus install a more
291 featureful vim with the additional software packages feature.
292 - Remove gksu and its and gconf's dependencies (Closes: #12738). We
293 use pkexec instead of gksudo. gksu is unmaintained, buggy
294 (e.g. #12000), and it is the only reason we ship GConf, which we
295 want to remove. The other removals are:
296 * libgnomevfs2-extra, which was previously used for SSH/FTP support in
297 Nautilus, but isn't needed for that any more.
298 * libgnome2-bin which provides gnome-open, which isn't required by
299 any application in Tails (as far as we know).
300 * Configurations and scripts that become obsolete because of these
302 - Refresh torbrowser-AppArmor-profile.patch to apply cleanly on top
303 of torbrowser-launcher 0.2.8-1 (Closes: #14602).
304 - Switch from Florence to GNOME's on-screen keyboard (Closes: #8281)
305 and incidentally improve accessibility in GTK+ 2.0 and Qt
306 applications. This drops Florence and the corresponding GNOME
308 - Make ./HACKING.mdwn a symlink again (Closes: #13600).
309 - Implement refresh-translations --force .
310 - Rework how we handle the individual POT files of our applications.
311 Comparing the new temporary POT files we generate with the
312 temporary POT files we generated last time (if ever, and if we
313 did, for which branch?) is not relevant; these POT files are only
314 used for merging into a new tails.pot and *that* one is relevant
315 to diff against the old tails.pot.
316 - Update the Tails signing key. (Closes: #11747)
318 * Ensure reproducible permissions for /etc/hostname (Closes:
320 * Patch desktop-file-utils to make its mimeinfo.cache reproducible
322 * Patch glib2.0 to make its giomodule.cache reproducible (Closes:
324 * Patch gdk-pixbuf to make its loaders.cache reproducible (Closes:
326 * Patch gtk2.0 and gtk3.0 to make their immodules.cache
327 reproducible (Closes: #13440).
328 * Remove GCconf: it is a source of non-determinism in the
329 filesystem (element order in /var/lib/gconf/defaults/%gconf-tree-*.xml)
330 which made Tails unreproducible.
331 * Ignore comment updates in POT files, which was a source of
332 non-determinism and therefore prevented Tails from being
333 reproducible (Closes: #12641).
335 * Increase mmap randomization to the maximum supported value
336 (Closes: #11840). This improves ASLR effectiveness, and makes
337 address-space fragmentation a bit worse.
338 * Stop explicitly enabling kaslr: it's enabled by default in
339 Debian, and this kernel parameter is not supported anymore.
340 * Disable kexec, to make our attack surface a bit smaller.
343 - Start Nautilus silently in the background when run as root
344 (Closes: #12034). Otherwise, after closing Nautilus one gets the
345 prompt back only after 5-15 seconds, which confuses users and makes
346 our doc more complicated than it should.
347 - Ensure pinentry-gtk2 run by Seahorse has the correct $DISPLAY set
351 - build-manifest-extra-packages.yml: remove squashfs-tools version
352 we don't use anymore (Closes: #12684). Apparently our
353 apt-get/debootstrap wrapper tricks are enough to detect the
354 version of squashfs-tools we actually install and use.
355 - Merge base branch earlier, i.e. in auto/config instead of
356 auto/build (Closes: #14459). Previously, a given build from a topic
357 branch would mix inconsistent versions of things.
358 - Fail builds started before SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (Closes:
359 #12352). Such builds would not be reproducible, and this is an
360 assumption (a reasonable one!) that we do all over the place, so
361 let's fail early. While we're at it, let's fail if
362 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is not set as well. Actually we would fail any
363 way if that was the case when reaching our
364 99-zzzzzz_reproducible-builds-post-processing build hook, but
368 - Test the GNOME Root Terminal.
369 - Take into account that Tails Installer 5.0.1 refuses to install
370 Tails to devices smaller than 8 GiB. It'll still allow *upgrading*
372 - Use 7200 MiB virtual USB drives when we really mean 8 GiB. In the
373 real world, USB sticks labeled "8 GB" can be much smaller, so
374 Tails Installer will accept anything that's at least 7200 MiB.
375 This commit makes us exercise something closer to what happens in
376 the real world, and incidentally it'll save storage space on our
377 isotesters and improve test suite performance a bit. :)
378 - Have unclutter poll every 0.1s instead of continuously. On current
379 sid, virt-viewer eats a full CPU and doesn't do its job when
380 "unclutter -idle 0" is running.
381 - Adapt tests for Tails Installer 5.0.1.
382 - Workaround Pidgin's DBus interface being blocked since we actually
383 depend on it for some tests.
384 - Test that Pidgin's DBus interface is blocked.
385 - Save more data on test suite failures (Refs: #13541):
386 * When Tor fails to bootstrap, save Tor logs and chutney nodes
388 * When Htpdate fails to synchronize the clock, save its logs.
389 * Always save the systemd journal on failure.
390 - When testing emergency shutdown, wait longer for Tails to tell
391 us it has finished wiping the memory. The goal here is to help
392 us understand whether (Refs: #13462) is a bug in the emergency
393 shutdown feature or in our test suite.
394 - Restart nautilus-desktop if Desktop icons are not visible
396 - Test suite: fix assert_raise() when using ruby-test-unit >=
397 3.2.5 (Closes: #14654). ruby-test-unit 3.2.5 added native Java
398 exception support for JRuby. The fact we defined the :Java
399 constant was enough to trigger that JRuby-specific code, which
401 - Test suite: take into account that click-to-play is not required
402 anymore for WebM videos in Tor Browser (Closes: #14586).
404 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:23:01 +0200
406 tails (3.1) unstable; urgency=medium
409 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.0.4-build1 (Closes: #13577).
410 - Upgrade Linux to 4.9.30-2+deb9u3.
411 - Upgrade libtiff to 4.0.8-2+deb9u1.
412 - Upgrade bind9 to 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3+deb9u2.
413 - Upgrate evince to 3.22.1-3+deb9u1.
414 - Upgrade imagemagick 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u1.
415 - Ensure Thunderbird cleans its temporary directory. (Closes: #13340).
418 - Patch gconf to produce reproducible XML output (refs: #12738). This is
419 the temporary solution for #12738 in Tails 3.1 which will be reverted
420 (and fixed permanently by removing gconf) in Tails 3.2.
421 - Apply Debian bts patch to cracklib to produce reproducible dictionnaries
423 - Upgrade to Debian 9.1 (Closes: #13178).
426 - Replace faulty URL in htpdate neutral pool (Closes: #13472).
427 - Keep installing a version of Enigmail compatible with Thunderbird 45.x
429 - Fix the time syncing and Tor notifications translations (Closes: #13437).
432 - Upgrade the Vagrant basebox for building ISO images to Stretch
434 - Fix on-disk build by bumping Vagrant build VM memory to 768M
436 - Fix rescue build option by exporting TAILS_BUILD_FAILURE_RESCUE
440 - mark gnome screenshot scenario as fragile (refs: #13458)
441 - mark UEFI scenario as fragile (refs: #13459).
443 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 05 Aug 2017 15:25:51 +0200
445 tails (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium
448 - Upgrade tor to 0.3.0.9-1~d90.stretch+1 (Closes: #13253).
449 - Upgrade Linux to 4.9.30-2+deb9u2.
450 - Upgrade libc to 2.24-11+deb9u1.
451 - Upgrade libexpat1 to 2.2.0-2+deb9u1.
452 - Upgrade libgcrypt20 to 1.7.6-2+deb9u1.
453 - Upgrade libgnutls30 to 3.5.8-5+deb9u1.
454 - Enable Debian security APT sources (Closes: #12309).
457 - Use a higher resolution image in Tails persistence setup
461 - Forcibly set $SSH_AUTH_SOCK before starting GNOME
462 Shell. Apparently, due to a race condition, GNOME keyring
463 sometimes fails to tell the session manager about the correct
464 SSH_AUTH_SOCK, and thus GNOME Terminal hasn't this variable set
465 and any ssh process started in there won't use the (perfectly
466 working) SSH agent (Closes: #12481).
467 - Fix issue that made Tails Installer rejects working USB drives,
468 pretending they're not "removable" (Closes: #12696).
469 - Make behavior of the power button and lid close actions in the Greeter
470 consistent with the regular GNOME session (Closes: #13000).
473 - Track the latest debian-security archive for the corresponding
474 APT sources, and not for the unrelated jessie-updates (Closes:
476 - Print APT sources used in the build VM, to help debugging issues
479 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 04 Jul 2017 15:59:18 +0200
481 tails (3.0) unstable; urgency=medium
484 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.0.1 (Closes: #12635, #12657).
485 - Upgrade to a new snapshot of the Debian and Torproject
486 APT repositories: respectively 2017060904 and 2017060903
490 - Tor Browser: enable Electrolysis (e10s), i.e. render content in a separate
491 child process, which will allow to improve performance and security
492 further along the road. This required us to drop our branding add-on
493 and re-implement its functionality in our Tor Browser wrapper
495 - Clean obsolete cached packages when using the Additional Software Packages
496 feature (Closes: #12400).
497 - Improve KeePassX database migration handling (Closes: #12375).
498 - Upgrade OnionShare to 0.9.2, from Debian sid as it has been removed
499 from Stretch (Closes: #12610).
500 - Upgrade Tor to 0.3.0.8 (Closes: #12656).
501 - Drop obsolete bilibop patch, that was applied in 0.5.2.1.
502 - Include disk space usage information in the WhisperBack bug reports.
503 - Reorder technical details in WhisperBack bug reports in way that makes
504 more sense when reading them.
505 - Convert lc.py to Python 3.
506 - Simplify some Python code thanks to subprocess.check_ouput.
507 - Set the initial keyboard focus on the "Start Tails" button
508 in Tails Greeter (Closes: #12509).
509 - Convert Tails Greeter's Debian packaging to current best practices.
512 - Fix persistent Thunderbird configuration migration when there is
513 a mimeTypes.rdf, that doesn't contain any associations to "icedove"
514 or "/usr/bin/iceweasel" (Closes: #12580).
515 - Fix persistent browser bookmarks, by generating them from an sqlite dump
517 - Use the "intel" X.Org driver for Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor
518 x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Integrated Graphics Controller.
519 - `exec' from our Thunderbird wrapper so it doesn't remain running.
520 - Tails Installer: don't allow installing on non-removable drives
522 - Fetch the torbrowser-launcher sources from Debian sid:
523 it's been removed from Debian testing.
524 Refresh torbrowser-AppArmor-profile.patch accordingly.
525 - Unsafe Browser: remove the search bar, that's currently buggy
526 and its presence only encourages unsupported usage (Closes: #12573).
527 - Unsafe Browser: disable searching in the address bar. It can result
528 in leaking hostnames and credentials to the default search
529 engine operator (Closes: #12540).
530 - Make our omni.ja modifications reproducible (Closes: #12620).
531 - Generate the fontconfig cache in a reproducible manner (Closes: #12567).
532 - Don't include torrents/rss.html in the ISO. It's not generated
533 in a deterministic manner and is worthless in the ISO (Closes: #12619).
534 - Improve the language → default keyboard layout mapping
535 in Tails Greeter (Closes: #12547).
536 - Don't close Tails Greeter's main window when Alt-F4 is pressed
540 - Run emergency_shutdown.feature after usb_*.feature, to reduce disk
541 space requirements (Closes: #12565).
542 - Deal with server messages in Pidgin.
543 - Improve Pidgin connectivity check robustness.
544 - Flag the Synaptic test as fragile (i.e. #12586).
545 - Optimization: only test once that Tails, booted on DVD, eventually
546 shuts down after wiping memory.
547 - Move tests about the shutdown applet to a dedicated feature,
548 as they have nothing to do with Tails' "emergency" shutdown feature.
549 - Adapt the network connectivity check to Stretch, and improve it to check
550 both link and IP connectivity (Closes: #12602).
551 - Apply a fix from upstream Git to mutter, to fix some of its interactions
552 with dogtail (Closes: #11718).
553 - Mark "Scenario: Watching a WebM video" as fragile (i.e. #10442).
556 - Set create_box -e, to make the vagrant box generation a bit more robust.
558 - Install kernel from backports and Tails build deps before performing
559 APT upgrade, to avoid useless bandwidth usage (Closes: #12529).
560 - Update submodules after merging the base branch (Closes: #12556).
561 - Rakefile: fix date comparison in basebox:clean_old (Closes: #12575).
562 - Rakefile: have basebox:clean_old delete baseboxes more than 4 months old
564 - Also check for fuzzy patches' .orig files at the end of our build hooks,
565 so we detect any fuzzy patches applied by hooks (Closes: #12617).
566 - Remove .orig files for patches we allow to be fuzzy.
567 - Don't pre-build the wiki when mergebasebranch is enabled.
568 When pre-building the wiki, we modify the PO files which results in a
569 conflict from the base branch merge in case it modifies the same
570 files, which breaks the build (Closes: #12611).
571 - Rakefile: add a task that removes all tails-builder-* libvirt volumes
574 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 10 Jun 2017 14:39:10 +0000
576 tails (3.0~rc1) unstable; urgency=medium
579 - Install Thunderbird 1:45.8.0-3+tails2 and handle the Icedove → Thunderbird
580 migration, including wrt. persistent data (Closes: #11712, #12242).
581 This package also has the patch from
582 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1281959 applied,
583 to ease future integration of the Thunderbird AppArmor profile.
584 Also, drop the Claws → Icedove migration path.
585 - Upgrade to a new snapshot of the Debian and Torproject
586 APT repositories: 2017051803 (Closes: #12554).
587 - Upgrade Linux packages to the Debian kernel 4.9.0-3, based on
588 mainline Linux 4.9.25.
589 - Replace the kexec-based memory erasure feature with the Linux kernel's
590 memory poisoning (Closes: #12354, #12428). The kexec-based implementation
591 was not reliable enough and provided a poor UX. Instead, we now return
592 to the initramfs on shutdown and unmount all filesystems there, so their
593 content and corresponding caches are erased.
594 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.0a4 based on Firefox 52.1.1esr (Closes:
596 * Unfortunately e10s (multi-process Firefox) is disabled (#12569).
597 * Unfortunately persistent bookmarks created for the first time
598 in Tails 3.0~rc1 is broken (#12568).
599 * Adds exceptions for the extensions Tails installs on top of
600 the vanilla Tor Browser (Closes: #11419).
601 - Upgrade tor to 0.3.0.7-1 (Closes: #12485) and log both to the
602 usual file and the journal (Closes: #12412).
603 - Merge the code that makes Tails almost build reproducibly (Refs:
604 #5630); we still have issues with the fontconfig cache (Refs:
608 - Add a HACKING document for new code contributors (Closes:
610 - Rename tor-controlport-filter to onion-grater (Closes: #12394)
611 and import patches killing the delta against Whonix version
613 - Improve onion-grater; thanks to Joy SN <joysn1980@yahoo.com>
614 for the original patches (Closes: #12173):
615 · add --listen-interface
616 · make stdout/stderr unbuffered to ensure Python exceptions are logged
617 · use yaml.safe_load()
618 - Improve KeePassX database migration handling (refs: #12375).
619 - Electrum: set coin selection strategy to 'Privacy' (Closes: #12177).
620 - Allow Onion Circuits to access /proc/pid/status.
621 - Make gdm-shell-tails.desktop more similar to the one shipped
622 in gnome-shell 3.22.3-3 (refs: #12364).
623 - Greeter: have the help window point to updated documentation,
624 use WebKit2 instead of the deprecated WebKit, and hide the sidebar
626 - Use exec to start KeePassX, i.e. avoid leaving the wrapper running.
629 - Install xserver-xorg-legacy, to fix support for various graphics
630 adapters that still don't work with rootless X.Org (Closes: #12542).
631 - Use the "intel" X.Org driver for Intel Q35 and Intel Atom
632 D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx graphics controllers (refs: #12219).
633 - Give UEFI bootloaders upper-case filenames (Closes: #12511).
634 Some UEFI firmware, such as the one in the ThinkPad X220, only recognize
635 them if they have an upper-case name.
636 - KeePassX: enable "Automatically save after each change" again,
637 like we did in Tails 2.x (fixes a regression introduced
639 - Install packages needed by the "Test speakers" functionality
641 - Fix automatic upgrades when one is already applied (Closed:
643 - When generating the network device blacklist, also blacklist
644 network drivers from the staging directory (Closes: #12362).
645 - htpdate pool: replace www.sarava.org with leap.se. The former
646 has been down for a while and it's not clear when it's going to
647 be stable again. The latter should be reliable.
650 - Check that dirmngr used the configured keyserver (Closes: #12371).
651 - Sanity check that Chutney starts all nodes in the network.
652 - Disable the Sandbox option for all nodes, until Tor#21943
653 is fixed (Closes: #12512).
654 - Wait for the desktop icons to be displayed in the "Tails desktop is ready"
655 step. Let's not try interacting with the desktop earlier.
656 - Add tests for memory erasure on "normal" shutdown (refs: #12428).
657 - Add tests for memory erasure on "emergency" shutdown, and run some
658 with network enabled (refs: #12354).
659 - Have eject_cdrom run eject(1) like it used to do in the past.
660 Otherwise the machine is immediately halted and we cannot test
661 whether memory has been erased.
662 - Pass mount_USB_drive structured data instead of free-form text.
663 - Test that MAC spoofing and "Disable network" works for
664 hotplugged networking devices (Refs: #12362).
667 - Generate the Vagrant base box locally as part of the build process,
668 instead of downloading it: one less binary blob as input in the build
669 process (refs: #12409).
670 - Use Vagrant for builds on Jenkins too (Closes: #11972).
671 - Tell build script to be more verbose.
672 - Respect the 'ARTIFACTS' environment variable if set.
673 - Add a second disk to handle the apt-cacher-ng cache, and store
674 the corresponding logs in there (Closes: #11979).
675 - Use APT snapshots in Vagrant build VMs, create/use a basebox that matches
676 the branch/tag/commit being tested, and provision a new VM for each build
677 (Closes: #11980, #11981).
678 - Ship all build dependencies in the Vagrant basebox, to save some
679 time when building ISOs.
680 - Make basebox generation compatible with both GnuPG 1.x and 2.x.
681 - Set LC_ALL=C, mostly to suppress some warnings.
682 - Support forcing VM cleanup before/after build.
683 - Add tasks for cleaning up old or all base boxes (refs: #12409).
684 - Add build option useful for debugging build failures.
685 - Remove obsolete build options.
686 - Make auto/scripts/utils.sh more reusable, use it in Rakefile,
687 auto/build and setup-tails-builder.
688 - Add an option controlling whether to merge the base branch.
689 - Add "rake test" target and import logics from puppet-tails'
690 wrap_test_suite script.
691 - Build Tails as a release simply when HEAD is tagged, i.e. we do not
692 require building from a detached head any more.
693 - Sanity check compression choice when building a release.
694 - Use the host's resolv.conf when building the Vagrant base box.
695 Since systemd-networkd is used to manage resolv.conf inside the base box,
696 and it hasn't been initialized yet (we are not booting it, just chrooting
697 into it) DNS is broken otherwise.
698 - Release process: "release" a new base box when freezing.
699 - Chown/scp artifacts with a single command to limit overhead and warnings
700 noise caused by repeated SSH calls.
701 - Add a build options to use a custom CPU model, and custom
702 machine type, for reproducibility testing (refs: #12345).
703 - Add support for installing Tor Browser nightly builds.
705 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 20 May 2017 16:48:45 +0200
707 tails (3.0~beta4) unstable; urgency=medium
710 - All changes brought by Tails 2.12.
711 - Upgrade to a new snapshot of the Debian and Torproject
712 APT repositories (2017041704).
714 * Security improvements
715 - Enable the buddy page allocator free poisoning (Closes: #12089).
716 - Enable slub/slab allocator free poisoning (Closes: #12090).
717 - Create IUKs (automatic upgrades) in a reproducible manner
721 - Firewall: forbid the _apt user to talk to DNS ports. APT works very well
722 without DNS access since we only have Onion APT sources, so let's silence
724 - Replace Pidgin's "systray" icon with the guifications plugin
725 (Closes: #11741). We're trying to remove as much as we can from
726 the set of icons managed by TopIcons extension flavours, in the hope
727 it's enough to cancel the problems we've seen with them (#10576, #11737).
728 - Disable apt-daily.timer, that can only cause problems in our context
730 - Do not let pppd-dns manage /etc/resolv.conf (Closes: #12401).
731 - Ensure rootless X.Org can access /dev/fb0 when started by GDM.
732 - Include the amdgpu module in the initramfs (refs: #12218).
733 - Tails Greeter: don't mention 'firewall' anymore (#12382).
734 - Tails Greeter: avoid the popover menu for Formats being cut,
735 in most cases (Closes: #12249).
736 - Tails Greeter: disable the screensaver (Closes: #12370).
737 - Tails Greeter: fix behavior when pressing Enter in the language selection
738 menu (Closes: #12359).
741 - Install speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng to fix the Orca screen reader
743 - Install xserver-xorg-video-intel and use it on a few graphics adapters
744 that are not supported correctly by the modesetting driver (refs: #12219).
745 More PCI IDs will be added as new affected hardware is reported.
748 - Run on a Q35 2.8 machine (Closes: #11605).
749 - Deprecate xtightvncviewer in favor of tigervnc-viewer.
750 - Test the Unsafe Browser in 3 random supported languages, not all.
751 This should be enough to identify most future regressions in this area,
752 and will be much faster than testing them all.
753 - Pidgin tests: switch to an image that doesn't depend on the
754 topic of tails@conference.riseup.net.
755 - Fix a problematic use of try_for.
756 - Fix VM.select_virtual_desktop() and VM.do_focus().
757 - Random Gherkin improvements.
758 - Fix a focus issue for GNOME Terminal vs. Tails Installer.
759 - Adjust to kernel memory poisoning being enabled, which breaks the way
760 we used to test memory erasure (refs: #12354):
761 · Drop "no memory erasure" and "memory erasure" tests, that can't work
763 · Test erasure of memory freed by a killed userspace process.
764 · Test that memory poisoning applies to unmounted tmpfs.
765 · Test that memory poisoning applies to read and write cache
766 for unmounted vfat and LUKS-encrypted ext4.
767 · Run erase_memory a bit later, it requires less disk space nowadays.
769 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2017 13:01:25 +0000
771 tails (2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
774 - Completely remove I2P. :( We have decided to remove I2P (see
775 #11276) due to our failure of finding someone interested in
776 maintaining it in Tails (Closes: #12263).
777 - Upgrade the Linux kernel to 4.9.13-1~bpo8+1 (Closes: #12122).
780 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.5.2 based on Firefox 45.9. (Closes:
782 - Mount a dedicated filesystem on /var/tmp, to mitigate the
783 hardlinks permissions open by the user-tmp abstraction. See
784 https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/9949#note-23 for details
786 - Protect against CVE-2017-2636 by disabling the n-hdlc kernel
787 module (Closes: #12315).
788 - Ensure /etc/resolv.conf is owned by root:root in the SquashFS.
789 lb_chroot_resolv will "cp -a" it from the source tree, so it
790 inherits its ownership from the whoever cloned the Git
791 repository. This has two problems. First, this results in unsafe
792 permissions on this file (e.g. a Vagrant build results in the
793 'amnesia' user having write access to it).
794 - Upgrade libjasper1 to 1.900.1-debian1-2.4+deb8u3
795 - Upgrade gstreamer and its plugins to 1.4.4-2+deb8u1.
796 - Upgrade eject to 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13.1+deb8u1.
797 - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u8.
798 - Upgrade pidgin to 2.11.0-0+deb8u2.
799 - Upgrade samba to 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u5.
803 - Don't add the live user to the "audio" group. This should not be
804 needed on a modern Linux desktop system anymore (Closes:
806 - Install virtualbox-* 5.1.14-dfsg-3~bpo8+1 from our custom APT
807 repository (Closes: #12307).
808 - Install virtualbox-guest-* from sid. The version currently in
809 jessie-backports is not compatible with Linux 4.9, and there's
810 basically no chance that it gets updated (the maintainer asked
811 for them to be *removed* from jessie-backports) (Closes:
813 - Pull ttdnsd from our custom APT repository. It's gone from the
814 TorProject one. We removed ttdnsd on feature/stretch already, so
815 we'll need to pull it from our custom APT repository only for
817 - Clean up libdvd-pkg build files, again. This cleanup operation
818 was mistakenly removed in commit c4e8744 (Closes: #11273).
819 - Install gnome-sound-recorder (Closes #10950). Thanks to Austin
820 English <austinenglish@gmail.com> for the patch!
821 - Stop restarting tor if bootstrapping stalls. It seems tor might
822 have fixed the issues we used (see: #10238, #9516) to experience
823 with the bootstrap process stalling and requiring a restart to
824 kickstart it (Closes: #12411).
825 - tor.sh: communicate via the UNIX socket instead of TCP port.
826 This makes the library usable when run inside systemd units that
827 have `PrivateNetwork=yes` set.
828 - Get tor's bootstrap progress via GETINFO instead of log
830 - Upgrade tor to 0.2.9.10-1~d80.jessie+1
833 - mirror-pool-dispatcher: bump maximum expected mirrors.json size
834 to 32 KiB. This fixes an error where Tails Upgrader would
835 complain with "cannot choose a download server" (Closes:
839 - Retry curl and APT operations up to 20 times to make the ISO
840 build more robust wrt. unreliable Internet connectivity. Thanks
841 to Arnaud <arnaud@preev.io> for the patch!
842 - Install ikiwiki from jessie-backports, instead of our patched
843 one. Our changes were merged in 3.20161219, and jessie-backports
844 now has 3.20170111~bpo8+1 (Closes: #12051).
845 - Fix FTBFS when installing a .deb via config/chroot_local-packages
846 by being more flexible when matching local packages in the apt
847 list file (Closes: #12374). Thanks to Arnaud <arnaud@preev.io>
849 - auto/build: support Stretch's GnuPG v2 keyring filename.
852 - Try possible fix for #11508. IPv6Packet:s' source is accessed by
853 `.ipv6_saddr`, not `ip_saddr` (that's for IPv4Packet). So, let's
854 just try and see which one of the two each packet has, because
855 one of them must be there! Also, given that UDPPacket can be
856 either IPv4 or IPv6 it seems safest to try to parse each packet
857 as IPv6Packet first -- that way we keep looking at transport
858 layer protocols for IPv4 only, and treat everything IPv6 as the
859 same, which makes sense, since we should block all IPv6, so
860 everything should be treated the same at all times.
861 - Changes due to #12411:
862 * Raise special exception for Tor bootstrap failures.
863 * Remove obsolete debug logging now that we don't log anything
864 interesting for `restart-tor` any more.
866 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2017 17:41:46 +0200
868 tails (3.0~beta3) unstable; urgency=medium
870 * Major new features and changes
871 - Make the "Formats" settings in Tails Greeter take effect (Closes: #12079,
872 new feature that was broken since it was introduced in 3.0~alpha1).
873 - Upgrade to a new snapshot of the Debian and Torproject
874 APT repositories (2017031702).
877 - Stop including I2P: we decided (#11276) to remove I2P, due to our failure
878 at finding someone to maintain it in Tails (Closes: #12263).
881 - Upgrade MAT to 0.6.1-4: fixes silent failure of the Nautilus
882 contextual menu extension.
883 - Ensure /etc/resolv.conf is owned by root:root in the SquashFS
885 - Protect against CVE-2017-2636 by disabling the n-hdlc kernel module
889 - Reintroduce the X11 guest utilities for VirtualBox (regression
890 introduced in 3.0~beta2).
891 - Upgrade X.Org server and the modesetting driver (hopefully helps
893 - Automate the migration from KeePassX databases generated on Tails 2.x
894 to the format required by KeePassX 2.0.x (Closes: #10956, #12369).
895 - Add keyboard shortcuts in Tails Greeter (Closes: #12186, #12063).
896 - Install dbus-user-session (regression introduced in 3.0~beta2).
897 - Manage temporary directories in a declarative way (tmpfiles.d).
898 - Replace references to the /var/run compatibility symlink
899 with the canonical /run.
900 - Update our Torbirdy patchset to the latest one sent upstream.
901 - Install mesa-utils, so that Qt 5 can detect whether software based
903 - Have Tails Greeter honor the "debug" kernel command-line option,
904 for easier debugging (Closes: #12373).
905 - Refactor Tails Greeter to reduce code duplication (Closes: #12247).
908 - Fix sizing of zenity dialogs (Closes: #12313, regression introduced
910 - Fix confusing, spurious error messages in command-line applications
911 wrapped with torsocks:
912 · Ship a /etc/mailname file with content "localhost".
913 Otherwise something (Git? libc6?) tries to resolve the "amnesia" host
914 name, which fails, and a confusing error message is displayed
915 (Closes: #12205, regression introduced in 3.0~alpha1).
916 · Have torsocks allow UDP connections to the loopback interface,
917 with AllowOutboundLocalhost 2 (Closes: #11736).
920 - Improve debugging info logging for PacketFu parsing issues,
921 and implement a plausible fix (refs: #11508).
922 - Try to make "double-click on desktop launcher" more reliable.
923 - Fix selection of ISO in Tails Installer.
924 - Re-enable the GnuPG tests that require a keyserver, pointing them
925 to an Onion service we run on Chutney, that redirects all TCP traffic
926 to a real, clearnet keyserver (Closes: #12211).
927 - Implement a workaround for checking the configured keyserver in GnuPG,
928 until a better fix is implemented (refs: #12371).
929 - Fix the "Report an Error launcher" scenario in German.
932 - Retry curl and APT operations up to 20 times to make the ISO build
933 more robust wrt. unreliable Internet connectivity.
934 Thanks to Arnaud <arnaud@preev.io> for the patch!
935 - Install ikiwiki from jessie-backports, instead of our patched one
937 - Clean up libdvd-pkg build files, again (Closes: #11273).
938 - Rakefile: fix TAILS_OFFLINE_BUILD exported variable name.
939 - Adjust apt-mirror to support branches based on feature/stretch
940 that don't use frozen APT snapshots.
942 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 19 Mar 2017 15:10:28 +0100
944 tails (3.0~beta2) unstable; urgency=medium
946 * All changes brought by Tails 2.11, except:
947 - the test suite changes, that are not all compatible with this branch;
948 - the "Tails 3.0 will require a 64-bit processor" notification:
949 this advance warning is not useful on a release series
952 * Major new features and changes
953 - Upgrade to a new snapshot of the Debian APT repositories (2017030802),
954 and of the Torproject ones (2017030801).
955 - Upgrade Linux to 4.9.0-2 (version 4.9.13-1).
958 - Improve GNOME Shell Window List styling. (Closes: #12233)
961 - Make it possible to start graphical applications in the Root Terminal.
965 - Improve robustness when dealing with notifications. (Closes: #11464)
966 - Bump timeout when waiting for 'Tor is ready' notification.
967 - Fix the incremental upgrade test.
968 - Drop a few obsolete test cases, update a number of images.
969 - Adapt firewall leak test to new DHCP source IP address.
970 - Adjust Seahorse and Enigmail tests to the keyserver that is now used.
972 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 08 Mar 2017 16:29:44 +0000
974 tails (2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
977 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.5.1 based on Firefox 45.8. (Closes:
979 - Fix CVE-2017-6074 (local root privilege escalation) by disabling
980 the 'dccp' module. (Closes: #12280)
981 - Disable kernel modules for some uncommon network protocol. These
982 are the ones recommended by CIS. (Part of: #6457)
983 - Disable modules we blacklist for security reasons. Blacklisted
984 (via `blacklist MODULENAME`) modules are only blocked from being
985 loaded during the boot process, but are still loadable with an
986 explicit `modprobe MODULENAME`, and (worse!) via kernel module
988 - Upgrade linux-image-4.8.0-0.bpo.2-686-unsigned to 4.8.15-2~bpo8+2.
989 - Upgrade bind9 to 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u10.
990 - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u7.
991 - Upgrade libevent-2.0-5 to 2.0.21-stable-2+deb8u1.
992 - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u9.
993 - Upgrade libjasper1 to 1.900.1-debian1-2.4+deb8u2.
994 - Upgrade liblcms2-2 to 2.6-3+deb8u1.
995 - Upgrade libxpm4 to 1:3.5.12-0+deb8u1.
996 - Upgrade login to 1:4.2-3+deb8u3.
997 - Upgrade ntfs-3g to 1:2014.2.15AR.2-1+deb8u3.
998 - Upgrade openjdk-7-jre to 7u121-2.6.8-2~deb8u1.
999 - Upgrade openssl to 1.0.1t-1+deb8u6.
1000 - Upgrade tcpdump to 4.9.0-1~deb8u1.
1001 - Upgrade vim to 2:7.4.488-7+deb8u2.
1002 - Upgrade libreoffice to 1:4.3.3-2+deb8u6.
1004 * Minor improvements
1005 - import-translations: also import PO files for French from
1006 Transifex. The translation team for French switched to Transifex
1007 even for our custom programs:
1008 https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-l10n/2016-November/004312.html
1009 - Notify the user, if running on a 32-bit processor, that it won't
1010 be supported in Tails 3.0 anymore. (Closes: #12193)
1011 - Notify I2P users that I2P will be removed in Tails
1012 2.12. (Closes: #12271)
1015 - Disable -proposed-updates at boot time. If a Debian point
1016 release happens right after a freeze but we have decided to
1017 enable it before the freeze to get (at least most of) it, then
1018 we get in the situation where -proposed-updates is enabled in
1019 the final release, which we don't want. We only want it enabled
1020 at build time. (Closes: #12169)
1021 - Ferm: Use the variable when referring to the Live user. The
1022 firewall will fail to start during early boot otherwise since
1023 the "amnesia" user hasn't been created yet. (Closes: #12208)
1024 - Tor Browser: Don't show offline warning when opening local
1025 documentation. (Closes: #12269)
1026 - tails-virt-notify-user: use the tails-documentation helper to
1027 improve UX when one is not connected to Tor yet, and display
1028 localized doc when available.
1029 - Fix rare issue causing automatic upgrades to not apply properly
1030 (Closes: #8449, and hopefully #11839 as well):
1031 * Allow the tails-install-iuk user to run "/usr/bin/nocache
1033 * Install tails-iuk 2.8, which will use nocache for various file
1034 operations, and sync writes to the installation medium.
1035 - Install Linux 4.8.15 to prevent GNOME from freezing with Intel
1036 GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics. (Closes: #12217, but fixes tons
1037 of other small bugs)
1040 - Add 'offline' option, making it possible to build Tails offline
1041 (if all needed resources are present in your cache). (Closes:
1045 - Encapsulate exec_helper's class to not "pollute" the global
1046 namespace with all our helpers. This is an example of how we can
1048 - Extend remote shell with *safe* file operations. Now we can
1049 read/write/append *any* characters without worrying that it will
1050 do crazy things by being passed through the shell, as was the
1051 case before. This commit also:
1052 * adds some better reporting of errors happening on the server
1053 side by communicating back the exception thrown.
1054 * removes the `user` parameter from the VM.file_* methods. They
1055 were not used, any way, and simply do not feel like they
1056 fit. I think the only reason we had it initially was because
1057 it was implemented via the command interface, where a user
1058 concept makes a lot of sense.
1059 - debug_log() Dogtail script content on failure.
1060 - Add a very precise timestamp to each debug_log().
1061 - Make robust_notification_wait() ensure the applet is closed. In
1062 robust_notification_wait() when we close the notification
1063 applet, other windows may change position, creating a racy
1064 situation for any immediately following action aimed at one such
1065 window. (Closes: #10381)
1066 - Fix I2P's Pidgin test. The initial conversation (that determines
1067 the title of the conversation window) is now made by a different
1068 IRC service than before.
1069 - Use lossless compression for the VNC viewer with --view.
1070 Otherwise the VNC viewer is not a good place to extract test
1071 suite images from, at least with xtigervncviewer.
1072 - Add optional pause() notification feature to the test suite. It
1073 will run a user-configurable arbitrary shell command when
1074 pause() is called, e.g. on failure when --interactive-debugging
1075 is used. This is pretty useful when multitasking with long test
1076 suite runs, so you immediately are notified when a test fails
1077 (or when you reached a temporary pause() breakpoint). (Closes:
1079 - Add the possibility to run Python code in a persistent session
1080 in the remote shell and use this for Dogtail to significantly
1081 improve its performance by saving state and reusing it between
1082 commands. This changes the semantics of the creation of Dogtail
1083 objects. Previously they just created the code that then would
1084 be run once an actionable method was called (.wait, .click etc),
1085 but now it works like in Python, that Dogtail will try to find
1086 the graphical element upon object creation. (Closes: #12059)
1087 - Test that we don't ship any -proposed-updates APT sources.
1089 - Make force_new_tor_circuit() respect NEWNYM rate limiting.
1090 - Add retry magic for lost click when opening Tails' documentation
1091 from the desktop launcher. (Closes: #12131)
1093 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 06 Mar 2017 17:14:52 +0100
1095 tails (3.0~beta1) experimental; urgency=medium
1097 * All changes brought by Tails 2.7.1, 2.9.1 and 2.10.
1099 * Major new features and changes
1100 - Redesigned Tails Greeter.
1101 - Upgrade to a new snapshot (2017013002) of the Debian and Torproject
1103 - Upgrade Linux to 4.9.0-1.
1106 - Reject packets sent on the LAN to the NetBIOS name service
1108 - Seahorse: use the Tor OnionBalance hidden service pool,
1109 which provides transport encryption and authentication of the keyserver.
1111 * Minor improvements
1112 - Include adwaita-qt* and enable it by default, so that Qt applications
1113 integrate nicely into a GNOME environment (Closes: #11790).
1114 - Add support for the TREZOR hardware wallet in Electrum (Closes: #10964).
1115 - AppArmor: allow all programs to read /etc/tor/torsocks.conf via
1116 abstractions/base, to ease maintenance.
1117 - Don't (try to) bind the Power button to the shutdown action
1119 - Enable natural scrolling (Closes: #11969).
1120 - Update uBlock Origin patterns + settings file.
1121 - live-persist: remove Squeeze → Wheezy migration code.
1122 - Update pre-existing persistent GnuPG configuration on login
1124 - Upgrader: use the alpha channel when the next version will be an
1125 alpha, beta, or RC. This will allow users of 3.0~betaN to upgrade to
1126 the next beta or RC, without having to type any command-line
1130 - Fix "upgrade from ISO" when run from a 32-bit system,
1131 such as Tails 2.x (Closes: #11873).
1132 - Fix ability to read videos over HTTPS with Totem (Closes: #11963).
1133 - Re-introduce default directories in $HOME, which fixes
1134 Spice file transfers (Closes: #11968).
1135 - Re-enable tap-to-click (Closes: #11993).
1136 - Lower systemd's DefaultTimeoutStopSec, to get rid of a long delay
1137 before memory wiping starts. This also prevents shutdown from ever
1138 being blocked by any buggy service that takes a while to stop
1140 - Drop Jessie APT sources.
1141 - Re-add VirtualBox DKMS modules.
1142 - Fix GnuPG communication with keyservers, by using the Tor OnionBalance
1143 hidden service pool (Closes: #12202).
1144 - Fix Enigmail communication with keyservers, by teaching Torbirdy
1145 not to break it (Closes: #11948):
1146 · Patch Torbirdy to allow not breaking keyserver communication when
1147 using GnuPG v2.1+, and to use a better default keyserver.
1148 · Torbirdy: enable the new behaviour made possible by the aforementioned
1149 patch (extensions.enigmail.already_torified).
1150 · Torbirdy: drop our custom keyserver configuration, since the
1151 aforementioned patch makes it the default.
1154 - Don't install gnome-system-log anymore (Closes: #12133).
1155 It's deprecated in GNOME, and mostly useless anyway as it's not
1156 Journal-aware. It's replacement (gnome-logs) is not usable
1157 enough in the context of Tails, and most users who can read logs
1158 should manage to do it with journalctl, so don't install it either.
1159 - Drop multiarch handling: Tails 3.0 will be amd64-only (Closes: #11961).
1162 - Disable eatmydata usage and caching: in current Stretch, debootstrap fails
1163 if we use eatmydata + the operation mode picked by live-build when caching
1164 is enabled (Closes: #12052).
1165 - Bump disk space (and memory for in-RAM builds) requirements.
1166 - Follow replacement of python-reportbug with python3-reportbug.
1167 - Don't try to deinstall packages that are unknown on Stretch.
1168 - Move AppArmor aliases to a dedicated file, and include it.
1169 This will avoid maintaining these settings as a patch.
1170 - Don't attempt to remove the usr.bin.chromium-browser AppArmor profile:
1171 it's not shipped in Debian anymore.
1174 - Add optional pause() notification (Closes: #12175).
1175 - Make the remote shell's file operations robust (Closes: #11887).
1176 - Update a number of test cases for Stretch, sometimes by converting
1178 - Drop usage and tests of read-only persistence.
1179 We won't have this option anymore, and it's not even sure we'll
1180 reintroduce it (Refs: #12093, Closes: #12055).
1181 - Adjust CONFIGURED_KEYSERVER_HOSTNAME to match current settings.
1182 - Test suite: clean up disks between features.
1184 * Adjustments for Debian 9 (Stretch) with no or very little user-visible impact
1185 - Adjust dpkg-divert path: it has moved.
1186 - Replace xfonts-wqy with fonts-wqy-microhei + fonts-wqy-zenhei.
1187 The former was removed from Debian testing, and the latter are recommended
1188 by task-chinese-s-desktop and task-chinese-t-desktop.
1189 - Install virtualbox* from sid.
1190 It was removed from testing due to https://bugs.debian.org/794466.
1191 - Drop deprecated settings from org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/power.
1192 - Update settings name in org/gnome/desktop/peripherals/touchpad, and drop
1194 - Adjust to changed Liferea's .desktop filename.
1195 - Also torify Liferea when started via its (new) D-Bus service.
1196 - Install hunspell-pt-br instead of hunspell-pt-pt.
1197 Tor Browser 6.5 moved from pt-PT to pt-BR, which is fine vs
1198 spellcheckers in Jessie since its hunspell-pt provides both -pt and
1199 -br, but in Stretch they are separate packages.
1200 - AppArmor: adjust usr.sbin.cupsd profile so it loads successfully
1202 - Migrate from netstat to ss.
1203 - Update extensions.enigmail.configuredVersion.
1204 - Remove the jessie-proposed-updates APT sources.
1206 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 01 Feb 2017 19:23:03 +0000
1208 tails (2.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1210 * Major new features and changes
1211 - Upgrade the Linux kernel to 4.8.0-0.bpo.2 (Closes: #11886).
1212 - Install OnionShare from jessie-backports. Also install
1213 python3-stem from jessie-backports to allow the use of ephemeral
1214 onion services (Closes: #7870).
1215 - Completely rewrite tor-controlport-filter. Now we can safely
1216 support OnionShare, Tor Browser's per-tab circuit view and
1219 * Handle multiple sessions simultaneously.
1220 * Separate data (filters) from code.
1221 * Use python3-stem to allow our filter to be a lot more
1222 oblivious of the control language (Closes: #6788).
1223 * Allow restricting STREAM events to only those generated by the
1224 subscribed client application.
1225 * Allow rewriting commands and responses arbitrarily.
1226 * Make tor-controlport-filter reusable for others by e.g. making
1227 it possible to pass the listen port, and Tor control
1228 cookie/socket paths as arguments (Closes: #6742). We hear
1229 Whonix plan to use it! :)
1230 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.9.9-1~d80.jessie+1, the new stable series
1234 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.5 based on Firefox 45.7 (Closes: #12159)
1235 - Upgrade Icedove to 1:45.6.0-1~deb8u1+tail1s.
1236 - Upgrade bind9-packages to 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u9.
1237 - Upgrade pcscd to 1.8.13-1+deb8u1.
1238 - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u8.
1239 - Upgrade libxml2 to 2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u4.
1240 - Upgrade tor to 0.2.9.9-1~d80.jessie+1.
1241 - Upgrade samba-libs to 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u2.
1243 * Minor improvements
1244 - Enable and use the Debian Jessie proposed-updates APT
1245 repository, anticipating on the Jessie 8.7 point-release
1247 - Enable the per-tab circuit view in Tor Browser (Closes: #9365).
1248 - Change syslinux menu entries from "Live" to "Tails" (Closes:
1249 #11975). Also replace the confusing "failsafe" wording with
1250 "Troubleshooting Mode" (Closes: #11365).
1251 - Make OnionCircuits use the filtered control port (Closes:
1253 - Make tor-launcher use the filtered control port.
1254 - Run OnionCircuits directly as the Live user, instead of a
1255 separate user. This will make it compatible with the Orca screen
1256 reader (Closes: #11197).
1257 - Run tor-controlport-filter on port 9051, and the unfiltered one
1258 on 9052. This simplifies client configurations and assumptions
1259 made in many applications that use Tor's ControlPort. It's the
1260 exception that we connect to the unfiltered version, so this
1261 seems like the more sane approach.
1262 - Remove tor-arm (Nyx) (Closes: #9811).
1263 - Remove AddTrust_External_Root.pem from our website CA bundle. We
1264 now only use Let's Encrypt (Closes: #11811).
1265 - Configure APT to use Debian's Onion services instead of the
1266 clearnet ones (Closes: #11556).
1267 - Replaced AdBlock Plus with uBlock Origin (Closes: #9833). This
1268 incidentally also makes our filter lists lighter by
1269 de-duplicating common patterns among the EasyList filters
1270 (Closes: #6908). Thanks to spriver for this first major code
1272 - Install OpenPGP Applet 1.0 (and libgtk3-simplelist-perl) from
1273 Jessie backports (Closes: #11899).
1274 - Add support for exFAT (Closes: #9659).
1275 - Disable unprivileged BPF. Since upgrading to kernel 4.6,
1276 unprivileged users can use the bpf() syscall, which is a
1277 security concern, even with JIT disabled. So we disable that.
1278 This feature wasn't available before Linux 4.6, so disabling it
1279 should not cause any regressions (Closes: #11827).
1280 - Add and enable AppArmor profiles for OnionCircuits and OnoinShare.
1281 - Raise the maximum number of loop devices to 32 (Closes: #12065).
1282 - Drop kernel.dmesg_restrict customization: it's enabled by
1283 default since 4.8.4-1~exp1 (Closes: #11886).
1284 - Upgrade Electrum to 2.7.9-1.
1285 - Make the Electrum proxy configuration apply after upgrading to
1286 2.7.9-1. These changes incidentally makes Electrum behave nicer:
1287 users will now not be presented the network configuration part
1288 of the setup wizard -- a server will be picked randomly, and
1289 Electrum will auto-connect. The automated test suite is adjusted
1290 accordingly (Closes: #12140).
1291 - Remove unused Browser profile seed file localstore.rdf which was
1292 made obsolete in Firefox 34.
1293 - Tor Browser: switch from pt-PT to pt-BR langpack. The upstream
1294 Tor Browser did this in version 6.5 (Refs: #12159).
1298 * use gdm-password instead of gdm-autologin, to fix switching to
1299 the VT where the desktop session lives on Stretch (Closes:
1301 * Fix more options scrolledwindow size in Stretch (Closes:
1303 - Tails Installer: remove unused code warning about missing
1304 extlinux in Tails Installer (Closes: #11196).
1305 - Update APT pinning to cover all binary packages built from
1306 src:mesa so we ensure installing mesa from jessie-backports
1308 - Install xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu. This should help supporting
1309 newer AMD graphics adapters. (Closes #11850)
1310 - Fix firewall startup during early boot, by referring to the
1311 "amnesia" user via its UID (Closes: #7018).
1312 - Include all amd64-microcodes.
1313 - refresh-translations: ignore
1314 config/chroot_local-includes/usr/share/doc/tails/website/.
1315 Otherwise, if the website has been built already, PO tools
1316 complain that there are files with translatable strings in
1317 there, which are not listed in POTFILES.in.
1318 - Make uBlock Origin's button appear on first run. Otherwise it
1319 will only appear on browser runs after the first one. This bug
1320 also affected Adblock Plus (Closes: #12145).
1323 - Be more careful when unmounting the tmpfs used as workspace
1324 during builds, fixing an issue that made Jenkins' ISO builders
1325 prone to failures (Closes: #12009).
1326 - Upgrade the Vagrant basebox to 20170105. The only big change is
1327 that we now install the backported kernel in the builder VM, to
1328 make building possible on Debian Sid (Closes: #12081).
1329 - Ensure the VirtualBox guest DKMS modules are built for the
1330 kernel we want them for. In some situations, depending on the
1331 version of the running kernel, the modules would not be built
1332 for the 686 kernel, which is the one that needs the VirtualBox
1333 guest modules. This commit ensures the VirtualBox guest modules
1334 are built and installed regardless of the how the build
1335 environment looks like (Closes: #12139).
1338 - Replace the filesystem shares support with a helper for easily
1339 sharing files from the host to the guest using virtual disks
1341 - Do not test sending email when testing POP3. We cannot clean
1342 that email up (easily) since when we use POP3 deletions won't
1343 affect the remote inbox, only our local one, resulting in the
1344 quota being reached eventually (Closes: #12006).
1345 - Have APT tests configure APT to use non-onion sources. Our test
1346 suite uses Chutney to create a virtual, private Tor network, and
1347 thus doesn't support connections to Onion services running in
1348 the real Tor network (Refs: #11556).
1349 - Allow connections to Tor's control port during stream isolation
1350 tests, but only for those applications where we expect that.
1351 - Fix Electrum tests after upgrading to 2.7.9-1.
1352 - Make encryption.feature pass for Tails 2.10~rc1.
1353 - Adapt tests after the Donation campaign was disabled (Refs:
1355 - Fix 'The "Tails documentation" link on the Desktop works'
1356 scenario. The TailsOfflineDocHomepage.png image doesn't match
1357 what we see any more (I have no clue why), so let's use Dogtail
1358 and solve this once and for all, hopefully.
1359 - Work around Tails freezing during memory wiping. These
1360 workarounds should be reverted once #11786 is fixed
1361 properly. (Refs: #10776, #11786)
1362 - Support both xtigervncviewer and xtightvncviewer for --view.
1363 xtightvncviewer is a transitional package in Sid, which depends
1364 on tigervnc-viewer (which ships xtigervncviewer), so by keeping
1365 the dep and supporting both binaries, --view will work on both
1366 Sid and Jessie (Closes: #12129).
1367 - Test suite: bump image after upgrading to Tor Browser 6.5 (Refs:
1369 - Add debugging info for when PacketFu misbehaves, and be more
1370 careful when to save pcap artifacts (Refs: #11508).
1372 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2017 11:38:37 +0100
1374 tails (2.9.1) unstable; urgency=medium
1377 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.0.8 based on Firefox 45.6. If you pay
1378 close attention you'll see that we import -build1 but there was
1379 a -build2. The only change is Tor Button 1.9.5.13 which makes
1380 some changes to the donation campaign banner in `about:tor`,
1381 which we safely can skip. (Closes: #12028)
1382 - Upgrade Icedove to 45.5.1-1~deb8u1+tails1. (Closes: #12029)
1383 - Upgrade APT-related packages to 1.0.9.8.4.
1385 * Minor improvements
1386 - Switch to DuckDuckGo as the default search engine in the tor
1387 Browser. This is what Tor Browser has, and Disconnect.me (the
1388 previous default) has been re-directing to DDG for some time,
1389 which has been confusing users. In addition, we localize the DDG
1390 user interface for the locales with availablelangpacks. (Closes:
1392 - Improve the display name for the Wikipedia search plugin.
1393 - Enable contrib and non-free for our own APT repos.
1394 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.8.10. (Closes: #12015)
1395 - Upgrade obfs4proxy to 0.0.7-1~tpo1.
1398 - AppArmor Totem profile: add permissions needed to avoid warning
1399 on startup. (Closes: #11984)
1400 - Upgrade the VirtualBox Guest additions and modules to version
1401 5.1.8. This should prevent Xorg from crashing unless the video
1402 memory for the VMs are significantly bumped. (Closes: #11965)
1403 Users will still have to enable I/O APIC due to a bug in Linux.
1404 - Drop unwanted search plugins from the Tor Browser langpacks.
1405 Otherwise they are only removed from English locales. Note that
1406 the langpacks contain copies of the English plugins, not
1407 localized versions, so we actually lose nothing.
1410 - Add support for SikuliX, which recently hit Debian Unstable,
1411 while still supporting Sikuli for Jessie users. (Closes: #11991)
1412 - Fix some instances where we were trying to use the mouse outside
1413 of the Sikuli screen.
1414 - Use "TorBirdy" instead of "amnesia branding" as the "anchor"
1415 addon. I.e. the addon that we use to find the other ones. The
1416 "amnesia branding" addon has been removed, so we must use
1417 something else. (Fixup: #11906)
1418 - Dogtailify "the support documentation page opens in Tor Browser"
1419 step. We previously relied on Sikuli, and the image was made
1420 outdated thanks to our donation campaign. No more! (Closes:
1422 - Resolve dl.amnesia.boum.org instead of picking a static address.
1423 Just hours after updating the dustri.org IP address, its web
1424 server went down => test suite failures. Let's make this test as
1425 robust as actually downloading the Tails ISO image -- if that
1426 fails, we probably have more serious problems on our hands than
1427 a failing test suite. (Closes: #11960)
1428 - Switch MAT scenario from testing PDFs to PNGs. Also add
1429 anti-test and test using using a tool *different* from MAT, the
1430 tool being tested here. (Closes: #11901)
1432 -- Tails Developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:19:16 +0100
1434 tails (2.7.1) unstable; urgency=medium
1437 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.0.7 (build3) based on Firefox 45.5.1.
1438 - Upgrade gstreamer0.10-based packages to 0.10.31-3+nmu4+deb8u2.
1439 - Upgrade imagemagick-based packages to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u6.
1440 - Upgrade libicu52 to 52.1-8+deb8u4.
1441 - Upgrade vim-based packages to 2:7.4.488-7+deb8u1.
1443 * Minor improvements
1444 - Reserve 64 MiB for the kernel and 128 MiB for privileged
1445 processes before the memory is wiped. We hope that this might
1446 help (but not solve, sadly) some crashes experienced while
1450 - Make the wiki shipped inside Tails build deterministically
1452 * Enable ikiwiki's "deterministic" option, and require it when
1454 * Use our custom backport of discount (2.2.1-1~bpo8+1~0.tails1),
1455 to fix reproducibility issues (Debian#782315). This can be
1456 dropped once our ISO builders use Stretch.
1457 * Install ikiwiki from our builder-jessie APT suite, to make the
1458 pagestats plugin output deterministic.
1459 - refresh-translations: don't update PO files unless something
1460 other than POT-Creation-Date was changed. (Closes: #11967)
1461 - Fix Vagrant's is_release? check. Per auto/build, we consider it
1462 a release when we build from detached head, and HEAD is tagged.
1463 - Enforce `cleanall` when building a release. I.e. don't allow the
1464 user supplied options to override this behaviour. This is
1465 important since Vagrant caches wiki builds, and we do not want
1466 leftovers from a previous builds ending up in a release. Also,
1467 this is required for making Tails images build reproducibly.
1468 - Make the build system's `cleanall` option really clean
1469 everything. At the moment it doesn't clean the cached wiki
1470 build (which basically was its only job).
1471 - import-package: support contrib and non-free sections.
1474 - Wait a bit between opening the shutdown applet menu, and
1475 clicking one of its widgets. (Closes: #11616).
1476 - Adapt Icedove test after removing the amnesia branding add-on.
1478 - Replace --pause-on-fail with --interactive-debugging. It does
1479 the same thing, but also offers an interactive Ruby shell, via
1480 pry, with the Cucumber world context.
1482 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:27:37 +0100
1484 tails (3.0~alpha1) experimental; urgency=medium
1486 * Major new features and changes
1487 - Upgrade to a snapshot of Debian 9 (Stretch) from 2016-11-15.
1488 - Switch userpace from 32-bit to 64-bit (Closes: #8183), and accordingly:
1489 · Memory erasure: drop the "one instance of sdmem per 2 GiB of RAM" tweak,
1490 that is not needed on x86-64.
1491 · Display a "sorry!" message when trying to boot on a 32-bit BIOS system
1493 - Switch GNOME Shell to its default black theme (Closes: #11789).
1495 * Minor improvements
1496 - Install the cirrus and modesetting X.Org drivers (Closes: #10962).
1497 - Install the 'amdgpu' driver for the AMD Radeon cards (refs: #11850).
1498 - Stop disabling kernel modesetting for QXL (refs: #11518).
1499 - Replace TopIcons with gnome-shell-extension-top-icons-plus.
1500 The former causes plenty of trouble and is apparently abandoned
1501 upstream. The latter is actively maintained upstream, and packaged
1502 in Debian. (refs: #10576)
1503 - Use torsocks to torify Git, and drop tsocks entirely. tsocks has been
1504 unmaintained for years in Debian, and was removed from testing
1505 for a while (Closes: #10955).
1506 - Replace Florence's "systray" icon with the Florence Indicator GNOME Shell
1507 extension (refs: #8312). And then, don't automatically start Florence:
1508 the Florence Indicator GNOME Shell extension will start it the first time
1509 one tries to display it. This should save a tiny bit of RAM.
1510 - Harden AppArmor Totem profiles.
1511 - Switch to the Debian-packaged aufs kernel module (Closes: #11829).
1512 - Configure the firewall to not allow root to connect to Tor at all,
1513 which is possible now that APT uses a dedicated user for network
1515 - Fix firewall startup during early boot, by referring to the "amnesia"
1516 user via its UID (refs: #7018).
1517 - Install hunspell dictionaries instead of myspell ones, for a few more
1518 languages: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Russian. Only Farsi keeps
1519 using a myspell dictionary for now.
1522 - Stop installing BookletImposer PDF imposition toolkit.
1523 It's unmaintained upstream and thus won't be part of Debian Stretch.
1524 - Stop installing ekeyd: it's unmaintained, very rarely used, poorly
1525 designed (dedicated daemon), and security sensitive (Closes: #7687).
1526 - Stop shipping ttdnsd. It was only useful for developers and power-users
1527 who can install it themselves as needed. It's been unmaintained upstream
1528 for many years. It's very buggy so we had to remove it from the DNS
1529 resolution loop years ago. It's not in Debian. And it's one of the only
1530 two bits of Tails that still relied on tsocks, that is RC-buggy,
1531 unmaintained in Debian, and not in Stretch at the moment. So it has
1532 become clear that the cost of keeping ttdnsd now outweighs the benefits
1533 it brought (refs: #10959).
1536 - Bump disk space (and memory for in-RAM builds) requirements.
1537 - Support new live-config configuration directory naming, again and again.
1538 - Use the lowest compression level for the SquashFS when compressing it
1539 with gzip. This makes our development builds faster, and the resulting
1540 ISO image only a little bit bigger (Closes: #9788).
1541 - Configure initramfs compression later, to make the build faster.
1544 - Various refactoring while we were at it.
1545 - Port tests to Dogtail: installation, upgrade, notification detection,
1546 Synaptic, Gobby, and some of Tor Browser.
1547 - Workaround GNOME Shell being buggy for Dogtail (refs: #11718).
1548 - Update a bunch of test suite images for Stretch.
1549 - Mark created disk as temporary when we don't need to keep it around.
1550 - Simplify adding NetworkManager connections, and rely more on the defaults.
1551 Not providing the complete configuration file makes us test something
1552 closer to what happens when a user adds a Wi-Fi connection themselves.
1553 - Adjust the minimum allowed memory pattern coverage before wiping.
1554 - Always sync the time from the host when restoring from a snapshot.
1555 Previously we wouldn't do it when the network was plugged but Tor wasn't
1556 running, which can cause issues if we *then* start Tor since the time
1558 - Adjust to the fact that we now support running as a 64-bit guest
1559 in VirtualBox, and simplify code since we now include a 64-bit userland.
1560 - Improve how we restart Tor/I2P after restoring from a snapshot.
1561 - Adjust PolicyKit tests for Stretch.
1562 - Work around Tails stopping on shut down due to #11730.
1563 This should be reverted once #11730 is fixed properly.
1564 - Update the screenshot scenario.
1565 - Fix pcap file saving on MAC spoofing failure (Closes: #11698).
1566 - Test that notifications are actually shown.
1567 - Drop obsolete workaround for Florence sometimes not being hidden
1568 on startup (#11398).
1569 - Avoid remote shell deadlock.
1570 - Install at-spi2-core from Debian Sid.
1571 With the current version in Stretch, at-spi-bus-launcher crashes on
1572 start, breaking parts of GNOME's accessibility, and Dogtail.
1573 For details, see https://bugs.debian.org/840618.
1574 - Check that the MAC address is spoofed for manually added persistent
1575 NetworkManager connections created on Jessie and Stretch (refs: #11931).
1576 - Use nc.traditional in tests that rely on its behaviour.
1577 - Adjust expected notification text to cope with #11941.
1579 * Adjustments for Debian 9 (Stretch) with no or very little user-visible impact
1580 - Adjust APT sources and pinning for Stretch.
1581 - Don't install gnome-media, which is not part of testing/sid anymore.
1582 We already install the only bits it was providing or depending on.
1583 - Don't install gnome-themes: it's gone in Stretch.
1584 - Stop installing GStreamer 0.10 explicitly: it won't be in Stretch,
1585 and some bits are gone already.
1586 - Refresh and unfuzzy patches for Stretch. Replace some of them with
1587 programmatic patching, as patches break the build whenever
1589 - Drop start_AppArmor_earlier.diff: on Stretch, AppArmor starts much earlier
1591 - Accept iceweasel-l10n-* that don't provide any search engine:
1592 on Stretch, at least iceweasel-l10n-ar_1%3a43.0.4-1_all.deb doesn't.
1593 - Stop deleting 75-persistent-net-generator.rules: obsolete in Stretch.
1594 It was removed in systemd (220-7).
1595 - Tell live-boot we're still using aufs: recent live-boot defaults
1596 to overlayfs, which we don't use yet.
1597 - Don't remove imagemagick in 11-localize_browser: cups-filters depends on it
1599 - Explicitly install bc: needed by our 2010-pidgin live-config hook.
1600 - Remove gcc-4.9-base and gcc-5 via a chroot hook, taking into account
1601 that GCC 5 is the default on Stretch.
1602 - Switch to openjdk-8-jre: openjdk-7-jre is not in Stretch anymore.
1603 - gcalctool was renamed to gnome-calculator.
1604 - Don't try to delete non-existing AppArmor profile for ntpd: it was moved
1605 to the ntp package in Stretch.
1606 - Build DKMS modules with GCC 5: Stretch hasn't 4.8 anymore.
1607 - Don't try to reload or disable an initscript that we don't patch,
1608 and that doesn't exist anymore.
1609 - Support the case when /usr/src/libdvd-pkg does not exist.
1610 Apparently this can happen on Stretch.
1611 - Adjust to the move of /etc/gnome/defaults.list in Stretch
1613 - Stop installing xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse. It's obsolete and conflicts
1614 with recent kernels: https://bugs.debian.org/831420
1615 - Install open-vm-tools from sid: it's been removed from testing.
1616 - Install the gobby package, instead of the (now gone) transitional
1618 - apparmor-adjust-tor-profile.diff: drop bits that are useless, and
1619 prevent Tor from starting, on Stretch.
1620 - Tor Daemon Status: declare compatibility with GNOME Shell 3.20.
1621 - Shutdown helper: declare compatibility with GNOME Shell 3.20.
1622 - Drop 43-adjust_path_to_ibus-unikey_binaries hook: it was a workaround
1623 for a bug (Debian#714932) that was fixed.
1624 - Use netcat-openbsd instead of connect-proxy for torifying SSH.
1625 connect-proxy seems barely maintained in Debian and was removed from
1626 testing due to https://bugs.debian.org/830423.
1627 - Don't disable gdomap service: we don't include it anymore.
1628 unar in Jessie depended on gnustep-base-runtime (that ships gdomap),
1629 but this is not the case in Stretch anymore.
1630 - Install system-config-printer-common instead of system-config-printer,
1631 and drop customization that were needed only for the latter:
1632 system-config-printer (1.5.7-2) extracts into a new -common package
1633 the bits needed by gnome-control-center (Closes: #11505).
1634 - Adjust haveged AppArmor profile to work with Linux 4.x on Stretch.
1635 - cupsd AppArmor profile: update list of backends, and add aufs-specific
1636 tweak that Stretch needs (refs: #11699).
1637 - Revert to GNOME's default font antialiasing/hinting.
1638 We fixed on rgba/slight when converting some manual fontconfig stuff
1639 to GNOME's layer on top of it, but at least from a fresh Stretch
1640 install (2016-08-24) we got grayscale/slight. It could be that some
1641 auto-detection is involved, so the values would be different depending
1642 on the actual hardware. Any way, let's try to decrease our delta here.
1643 - Adjust haveged arguments customization for Stretch (Closes: 11522).
1644 - Display the date in the desktop top bar, as we did in Jessie and older.
1646 - Drop patch to keep haveged, saned, spice-vdagent and laptop-mode running
1647 on shutdown. These patches are no-ops on Stretch, where these services
1648 have native systemd unit files. It's not worth porting these patches:
1649 saned is socket-activated so in most cases it does not have to be shut
1650 down, and we expect that the other ones can be stopped pretty quickly.
1651 Let's bring back this kind of optimization if, and only if, we identify
1652 an actual problem to fix in this area :)
1653 - Don't delete downloaded debs after install: apt(8) >= 1.2~exp1 deletes
1654 them by default, which is not nice for users who use it to preseed
1655 their persistent APT cache. (Closes: #10958)
1656 - Hide "OpenJDK Java 8 Policy Tool" from the Applications menu.
1657 - Don't ship GCC 6: we don't ship compilers in Tails usually.
1658 - Don't ship gcc-5-base: on Stretch we ship gcc-6-base instead.
1659 - Don't start shipping libdvdcss2-dbgsym nor paxctld.
1660 - Adjust default web browser customization: GNOME in Debian now defaults
1661 to Firefox ESR (refs: #11440).
1662 - Install libreoffice-gtk3: on Stretch this is needed to have Gtk+ 3 widgets
1663 and a Gtk/GNOMEish print dialog.
1664 - Explicitly install gtk2-engines-pixbuf, as it's not pulled automatically
1665 on Stretch, and it's needed to theme GTK+ 2 applications in a nice way
1667 - AppArmor gnome abstraction: allow reading /etc/xdg/*-mimeapps.list
1669 - Drop obsolete disabling of GNOME Keyring's GnuPG agent feature.
1670 That feature was removed upstream.
1671 - Explicitly select pinentry-gtk2 as our preferred pinentry program.
1672 On Stretch, gnome-keyring depends on pinentry-gnome3, and then that one
1673 is selected by default. It does not feel worth it to introduce a hackish
1674 solution such as a fake pinentry-gnome3 package, so let's ignore it and
1675 just make sure we are using the pinentry program we prefer
1677 - Drop keep_memlockd_on_shutdown.diff: it's been a no-op since Tails 2.0
1679 - Drop custom NetworkManager plugin configuration: these tweaks are not
1680 needed on Stretch anymore.
1681 - Disable new style network interface naming scheme.
1682 It has little value for a live system, so let's stick to what we are
1683 used to, and avoid having to adjust code/config/test suite
1685 - Drop obsolete NM configuration wrt. sending hostname in DHCP requests
1687 - Update APT pinning to cover all binary packages built from src:mesa
1689 - Don't try to install gnupg-curl: it doesn't exist anymore in Stretch.
1690 - Install seahorse-nautilus from sid. It's been removed from testing.
1691 - Drop workaround for Debian bug #645466, that was fixed in 2014
1693 - Allow the "_apt" user to use Tor: in Stretch, APT network operations
1694 are performed with the "_apt" user and not root.
1695 - Make sure that 'localhost' points to the IPv4 loopback address.
1696 - Make desktop launchers executable (Closes: #11927).
1697 - Disable Wayland usage in GDM (Closes: #11923).
1698 - Fix AppArmor profile for gst-plugin-scanner (Closes: #11928).
1699 - Change Nautilus' default zoom level to 'small' (Closes: #11716).
1700 The icons in GNOME Files and on the desktop are too huge otherwise. With
1701 this new setting, they are similar in size to what we had in Jessie.
1702 - Fix broken symlink preventing Enigmail from being enabled.
1703 - Configure NetworkManager to not touch MAC addresses (refs: #11931).
1704 Its default behaviour on Debian Stretch is to reset the MAC address to the
1705 permanent one, and we did not make up our mind yet wrt. replacing
1706 our custom MAC spoofing system with NM's own one (refs: #11293).
1707 - Patch NetworkManager so that it does not leak the hostname in DHCP
1708 requests (Closes: #11720).
1709 - Deal with the fact that the NetworkManager dispatcher scripts are now
1710 sometimes called with an empty first argument (Closes: #11938).
1711 - Upgrade to GnuPG 2.1.15-9, and accordingly:
1712 · Remove the CA certificate for sks-keyservers.net, that we installed
1713 in the system-wide CAs directory: it is now included in the dirmngr
1714 package. Stop trusting it for non-GnuPG operations.
1715 · Make dirmngr use the sks-keyservers.net CA certificate from Debian.
1716 · Move keyserver proxy configuration to dirmngr.conf, and drop the
1717 keyserver-options that are obsolete or now the default.
1719 -- intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2016 16:19:21 +0000
1721 tails (2.7) unstable; urgency=medium
1724 - Upgrade to Linux 4.7. (Closes: #11885, #11818)
1725 - Upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.9. (Closes: #11832, #11891)
1726 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.0.6 based on Firefox 45.5. (Closes: #11910)
1727 - Upgrade Icedove to 1:45.4.0-1~deb8u1+tails1. (Closes: #11854,
1729 - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u5.
1730 - Upgrade openssl to 1.0.1t-1+deb8u5.
1731 - Upgrade libarchive to 3.1.2-11+deb8u3.
1732 - Upgrade bind9 to 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u8.
1733 - Upgrade libav to 6:11.8-1~deb8u1.
1734 - Upgrade ghostscript to 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u3.
1735 - Upgrade c-ares to 1.10.0-2+deb8u1.
1736 - Upgrade nspr to 2:4.12-1+debu8u1.
1737 - Upgrade nss to 2:3.26-1+debu8u1.
1738 - Upgrade tar to 1.27.1-2+deb8u1.
1739 - Upgrade curl to 7.38.0-4+deb8u5.
1740 - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u7.
1741 - Upgrade opendjk-7 to 7u111-2.6.7-2~deb8u1.
1742 - Upgrade mat to 0.5.2-3+deb8u1.
1743 - Upgrade libxslt to 1.1.28-2+deb8u2.
1744 - Upgrade pillow to 2.6.1-2+deb8u3.
1746 * Minor improvements
1747 - Ship Let's encrypt intermediate certificate to prepare the
1748 the next certificate renewal of our website. Also unify the
1749 way our upgrades and security checkers verify this SSL
1750 certificate using our dedicated perl lib code. (Closes: #11810)
1753 - Fix multiarch support in Synaptic. (Closes: #11820)
1754 - Set default spelling language to en_US in Icedove. (Closes: #11037)
1757 - Disable debootstrap merged-usr option. (Closes: #11903)
1760 - Add test for incremental upgrades. (Closes: #6309)
1761 - Add tests for Icedove. (Closes: #6304)
1762 - Decrease timeout to Tails Greeter to speed up testing of branches
1763 where it is broken. (Closes: #11449)
1764 - Add a ID field to the remote shell responses to filter out
1765 unrelated ones. (Closes: #11846)
1766 - Reliabily wait for the Greeter PostLogin script. (Closes: #5666)
1767 - Reliabily type the kernel command line in the prompt at the boot
1768 menu to ensure the remote shell is started. (Closes: #10777)
1769 - Remove DVDROM device when not used, to workaround QEMU/Libvirt
1770 compatibility issue. (Closes: #11874)
1772 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2016 14:46:04 +0100
1774 tails (2.6) unstable; urgency=medium
1776 * Major new features and changes
1777 - Install Tor 0.2.8.7. (Closes: #11351)
1778 - Enable kASLR in the Linux kernel. (Closes: #11281)
1779 - Upgrade Icedove to 1:45.2.0-1~deb8u1+tails1: (Closes: #11714)
1780 · Drop auto-fetched configurations using Oauth2. They do not
1781 work together with Torbirdy since it disables needed
1782 functionality (like JavaScript and cookies) in the embedded
1783 browser. This should make auto-configuration work for GMail
1784 again, for instance. (Closes: ##11536)
1785 · Pin Icedove to be installed from our APT repo. Debian's
1786 Icedove packages still do not have our secure Icedove
1787 autoconfig wizard patches applied, so installing them would be
1788 a serious security regression. (Closes: #11613)
1789 · Add missing icedove-l10n-* packages to our custom APT
1790 repository (Closes: #11550)
1791 - Upgrade to Linux 4.6: (Closes: #10298)
1792 · Install the 686 kernel flavour instead of the obsolete 586
1794 · APT, dpkg: add amd64 architecture. The amd64 kernel flavour is
1795 not built anymore for the i386 architecture, so we need to use
1797 · Build and install the out-of-tree aufs4 module. (Closes: #10298)
1798 · Disable kernel modesetting for QXL: it's not compatible with
1799 Jessie's QXL X.Org driver.
1802 - Hopefully fixed an issue which would sometimes make the Greeter
1803 ignore the "disable networking" or "bridge mode"
1804 options. (Closes: #11593)
1806 * Minor improvements
1807 - Install firmware-intel-sound and firmware-ti-connectivity. This
1808 adds support for some sound cards and Wi-Fi adapters. (Closes:
1810 - Install OpenPGP Applet from Debian. (Closes: #10190)
1811 - Port the "About Tails" dialog to python3.
1812 - Run our initramfs memory erasure hook earlier (Closes:
1813 #10733). The goal here is to:
1814 · save a few seconds on shutdown (it might matter especially for
1816 · work in a less heavily multitasking / event-driven
1817 environment, for more robust operation.
1818 - Install rngd, and make rng-tools initscript return success when
1819 it can't find any hardware RNG device. Most Tails systems around
1820 probably have no such device, and we don't want systemd to
1821 believe they failed to boot properly. (Closes: #5650)
1822 - Don't force using the vboxvideo X.Org driver. According to our
1823 tests, this forced setting is:
1824 · harmful: it breaks X startup when the vboxvideo *kernel*
1826 · useless: X.Org now autodetects the vboxvideo X.Org driver and
1827 uses it when running in VirtualBox and the vboxvideo kernel
1829 - Port boot-profile to python3 (Closes: #10083). Thanks to
1830 heartsucker <heartsucker@autistici.org> for the patch!
1831 - Include /proc/cmdline and the content of persistent APT sources
1832 in WhisperBack bug reports. (Closes: #11675, #11635)
1833 - Disable non-free APT sources at boot time. (Closes: #10130)
1834 - Have a dedicated page for the homepage of Tor Browser in
1835 Tails. (Closes: # 11725)
1836 - Only build the VirtualBox kernel modules for the 32-bit kernel.
1837 It's both hard and useless to build it for 64-bit in the current
1838 state of things, as long as we're shipping a 32-bit userspace.
1839 Also, install virtualbox-* from jessie-backports, since the
1840 version in Jessie is not compatible with Linux 4.x.
1843 - Don't install+remove dpatch during the build. It's not been
1844 needed in this hook for ages.
1845 - Bump BUILD_SPACE_REQUIREMENT: at least one of us needed that to
1846 build feature/10298-linux-4.x-aufs with the gzipcomp option.
1849 - Send Tails Installer's debug log to the Cucumber debug log on
1850 failure. This is meant to debug #10720 since I can't
1851 reproduce it locally.
1852 - Give the system under testing 2 vCPUs. (Closes: #6729)
1853 - Split scenarios from checks.feature. (Closes: #5707)
1854 - Add retry-logic to the Synaptic tests. (Closes: #10412, #10441,
1856 - Run usb_upgrade.feature earlier, when there is enough free disk
1857 space left. (Closes: #11582)
1858 - Use more recent virtual hardware in the system under test,
1859 i.e. USB 3.0 (nec-xhci) on a pc-i440fx-2.5 machine. Switching
1860 USB controllers has helped with problems we see on Jenkins when
1861 booting from USB (#11588). Also, there are chances that more
1862 recent virtual hardware sees more testing these days, so it
1863 sounds potentially useful to "upgrade".
1864 - Add support for Cucumber 2.4. (Closes: #11690)
1865 - Always write {pretty,debug} logs and JSON output to the artifact
1867 - Disable info level logging on Chutney nodes to save disk
1868 space. For our network all these add up to > 1 GiB and we didn't
1869 take this into account when budgeting RAM to the isotesters on
1872 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 20 Sep 2016 04:16:33 +0200
1874 tails (2.5) unstable; urgency=medium
1876 * Major new features and changes
1877 - Upgrade Icedove to 1:45.1.0-1~deb8u1+tails2. (Closes: #11530)
1878 · Fix long delay causing bad UX in the autoconfig wizard,
1879 when it does not manage to guess proper settings on some domains.
1881 · Better support sending email through some ISPs, such as Riseup.
1883 · Fix spurious error message when creating an account and providing
1884 its password. (Closes: #11550)
1887 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.0.3 based on Firefox 45.3. (Closes: #11611)
1888 - Upgrade GIMP to 2.8.14-1+deb8u1.
1889 - Upgrade libav to 6:11.7-1~deb8u1.
1890 - Upgrade expat to 2.1.0-6+deb8u3.
1891 - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u6.
1892 - Upgrade libmodule-build-perl to 0.421000-2+deb8u1.
1893 - Upgrade perl to 5.20.2-3+deb8u6.
1894 - Upgrade Pidgin to 2.11.0-0+deb8u1.
1895 - Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:4.3.3-2+deb8u5.
1896 - Upgrade libxslt1.1 to 1.1.28-2+deb8u1.
1897 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt25-2+deb8u3.
1898 - Upgrade OpenSSH to 1:6.7p1-5+deb8u3.
1899 - Upgrade p7zip to 9.20.1~dfsg.1-4.1+deb8u2.
1901 * Minor improvements
1902 - htpdate: replace obsolete and unreliable URIs in HTP pools, and decrease
1903 timeout for HTTP operations for more robust time synchronization.
1905 - Hide settings panel for the Online Accounts component of GNOME,
1906 that we don't support. (Closes: #11545)
1907 - Vastly improve graphics performance in KVM guest with QXL driver.
1909 - Fix graphics artifacts in Tor Browser in KVM guest with QXL driver.
1913 - Wrap Pidgin in a more maintainable way. (Closes: #11567)
1916 - Add a test scenario for the persistence "dotfiles" feature.
1918 - Improve robustness of most APT, Git, SFTP and SSH scenarios,
1919 enough to enable them on Jenkins. (Closes: #10444, #10496, #10498)
1920 - Improve robustness of checking for persistence partition. (Closes: #11558)
1921 - Treat Tails booting from /dev/sda as OK, to support all cases
1922 including a weird one caused by hybrid ISO images. (Closes: #10504)
1923 - Bump a bunch of timeouts to cope with the occasional slowness on Jenkins.
1924 - Only query A records when exercising DNS lookups, to improve robustness.
1926 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 31 Jul 2016 16:50:35 +0000
1928 tails (2.4) unstable; urgency=medium
1930 * Major new features and changes
1931 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.0.1 based on Firefox 45.2. (Closes:
1933 - Enable Icedove's automatic configuration wizard. We patch the
1934 wizard to only use secure protocols when probing, and only
1935 accept secure protocols, while keeping the improvements done by
1936 TorBirdy in its own non-automatic configuration wizard. (Closes:
1940 - Upgrade bsdtar and libarchive13 to 3.1.2-11+deb8u1.
1941 - Upgrade icedove to 38.8.0-1~deb8u1+tails3.
1942 - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u3.
1943 - Upgrade libexpat1 to 2.1.0-6+deb8u2.
1944 - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u3.
1945 - Upgrade gdk-pixbuf-based packages to 2.31.1-2+deb8u5.
1946 - Upgrade libidn11 to 1.29-1+deb8u1.
1947 - Upgrade libndp0 to 1.4-2+deb8u1.
1948 - Upgrade poppler-based packages to 0.26.5-2+deb8u1.
1949 - Upgrade librsvg2-2 to 2.40.5-1+deb8u2.
1950 - Upgrade libsmbclient to 2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u3.
1951 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1k-3+deb8u5.
1952 - Upgrade libtasn1-6 to 4.2-3+deb8u2.
1953 - Upgrade libxml2 to 2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u2.
1954 - Upgrade openjdk-7-jre to 7u101-2.6.6-1~deb8u1.
1957 - Enable Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery for IPv4. If any
1958 system on the path to the remote host has a MTU smaller than the
1959 standard Ethernet one, then Tails will receive an ICMP packet
1960 asking it to send smaller packets. Our firewall will drop such
1961 ICMP packets to the floor, and then the TCP connection won't
1962 work properly. This can happen to any TCP connection, but so far
1963 it's been reported as breaking obfs4 for actual users. Thanks to
1964 Yawning for the help! (Closes: #9268)
1965 - Make Tails Upgrader ship other locales than English. (Closes:
1967 - Make it possible to add local USB printers again. Bugfix on
1968 Tails 2.0. (Closes #10965).
1970 * Minor improvements
1971 - Remove custom SSH ciphers and MACs settings. (Closes: #7315)
1972 - Bring back "minimize" and "maximize" buttons in titlebars by
1973 default. (Closes: #11270)
1974 - Icedove improvements:
1975 * Stop patching in our default into Torbirdy. We've upstreamed
1976 some parts, and the rest we set with pref branch overrides in
1977 /etc/xul-ext/torbirdy.js. (Closes: #10905)
1978 * Use hkps keyserver in Enigmail. (Closes: #10906)
1979 * Default to POP if persistence is enabled, IMAP is
1980 not. (Closes: #10574)
1981 * Disable remote email account creation in Icedove. (Closes:
1983 - Firewall hardening (Closes: #11391):
1984 * Don't accept RELATED packets. This enables quite a lot of code
1985 in the kernel that we don't need. Let's reduce the attack
1987 * Restrict debian-tor user to NEW TCP syn packets. It doesn't
1988 need to do more, so let's do a little bit of security in
1990 * Disable netfilter's nf_conntrack_helper.
1991 * Fix disabling of automatic conntrack helper assignment.
1993 * Set various kernel boot options: slab_nomerge slub_debug=FZ
1994 mce=0 vsyscall=none. (Closes: #11143)
1995 * Remove the kernel .map files. These are only useful for kernel
1996 debugging and slightly make things easier for malware, perhaps
1997 and otherwise just occupy disk space. Also stop exposing
1998 kernel memory addresses through /proc etc. (Closes: #10951)
1999 - Drop zenity hacks to "focus" the negative answer. Jessie's
2000 zenity introduced the --default-cancel option, finally!
2002 - Drop useless APT pinning for Linux.
2003 - Remove gnome-tweak-tool. (Closes: #11237)
2004 - Install python-dogtail, to enable accessibility technologies in
2005 our automated test suite (see below). (Part of: #10721)
2006 - Install libdrm and mesa from jessie-backports. (Closes: #11303)
2007 - Remove hledger. (Closes: #11346)
2008 - Don't pre-configure the #tails chan on the default OFTC account.
2010 - Install onioncircuits from jessie-backports. (Closes: #11443)
2011 - Remove nmh. (Closes: #10477)
2012 - Drop Debian experimental APT source: we don't use it.
2013 - Use APT codenames (e.g. "stretch") instead of suites, to be
2014 compatible with our tagged APT snapshots.
2015 - Drop module-assistant hook and its cleanup. We've not been using
2017 - Remove 'Reboot' and 'Power Off' entries from Applications →
2018 System Tools. (Closes: #11075)
2019 - Pin our custom APT repo to the same level as Debian ones, and
2020 explicitly pin higher the packages we want to pull from our custom
2021 APT repo, when needed.
2022 - config/chroot_local-hooks/59-libdvd-pkg: verify libdvdcss
2023 package installation. (Closes: #11420)
2024 - Make Tails Upgrader use our new mirror pool design. (Closes:
2026 - Drop custom OpenSSH client ciphers and MACs settings. We did a
2027 pretty bad job at maintaining them compared to the Debian
2028 upstream. (Closes: #7315)
2029 - Install jessie-backports version of all binary packages built
2030 from src:hplip. This adds support for quite a few new
2032 - Install printer-driver-postscript-hp, which adds support for
2036 - Use a freezable APT repo when building Tails. This is a first
2037 step towards reproducible builds, and improves our QA and
2038 development processes by making our builds more predictable. For
2039 details, see: https://tails.boum.org/contribute/APT_repository/
2040 - There has been a massive amount of improvements to the
2041 Vagrant-based build system, and now it could be considered the
2042 de-facto build system for Tails! Improvements and fixes include:
2043 * Migrate Vagrant to use libvirt/KVM instead of
2044 Virtualbox. (Closes: #6354)
2045 * Make apt-get stuff non-interactive while provisioning.
2046 Because there is no interaction, so that will results in
2048 * Bump disk space (=> RAM for RAM builds) needed to build with
2049 Vagrant. Since the Jessie migration it seems impossible to
2050 keep this low enough to fit in 8 GiB or RAM. For this reason
2051 we also drop the space optimization where we build inside a
2052 crazy aufs stack; now we just build in a tmpfs.
2053 * Clean up apt-cacher-ng cache on vm:provision to save disk
2054 space on the builder.
2055 * Add convenient Rake task for SSH:ing into the builder VM:
2057 * Add rake task for generating a new Vagrant base box.
2058 * Automatically provision the VM on build to keep things up-to-date.
2059 * Don't enable extproxy unless explicitly given as an
2060 option. Previously it would automatically be enabled when
2061 `http_proxy` is set in the environment, unlike what is
2062 documented. This will hopefully lead to fewer surprises for users
2063 who e.g. point http_proxy to a torified polipo, or similar.
2064 * Re-fetch tags when running build-tails with Vagrant. That
2065 should fix an annoyance related to #7182 that I frequently
2066 encounter: when I, as the RM, rebuild the release image the
2067 second time from the force-updated tag, the build system would
2068 not have the force-updated tag. (Closes: #7182)
2069 * Make sure we use the intended locale in the Tails builder VM.
2070 Since we communicate via SSH, and e.g. Debian forward the
2071 locale env vars by default, we have to take some steps
2072 ensuring we do not do that.
2073 - Pull monkeysphere from stretch to avoid failing to install under
2074 eatmydata. Patch submitted by Cyril Brulebois <cyril@debamax.com>.
2077 - Add wrapper around dogtail (inside Tails) for "remote" usage in
2078 the automated test suite. This provides a simple interface for
2079 generating dogtail python code, sending it to the guest, and
2080 executing it, and should allow us to write more robust tests
2081 leveraging assistive technologies. (Closes: #10721)
2082 - A few previously sikuli-based tests has been migrated to use
2083 dogtail instead, e.g. GNOME Applications menu interaction.
2084 - Add a test for re-configuring an existing persistent volume.
2085 This is a regression test for #10809. (Closes: #10834)
2086 - Use a simulated Tor network provided by Chutney in the automated
2087 test suite. The main motivation here is improved robustness --
2088 since the "Tor network" we now use will exit from the host
2089 running the automated test suite, we won't have to deal with Tor
2090 network blocking, or unreliable circuits. Performance should
2091 also be improved. (Closes: #9521)
2092 - Drop the usage of Tor Check in our tests. It doesn't make sense
2093 now when we use Chutney since that always means it will report
2094 that Tor is not being used.
2095 - Stop testing obsolete pluggable transports.
2096 - Completely rewrite the firewall leak detector to something more
2097 flexible and expressive.
2098 - Run tcpdump with --immediate-mode for the network sniffer. With
2099 this option, "packets are delivered to tcpdump as soon as they
2100 arrive, rather than being buffered for efficiency" which is
2101 required to make the sniffing work reliable the way we use it.
2102 - Remove most scenarios testing "tordate". It just isn't working
2103 well in Tails, so we shouldn't expect the tests to actually work
2104 all of the time. (Closes: #10440)
2105 - Close Pidgin before we inspect or persist its accounts.xml.
2106 I've seen a case when that file is _not_ saved (and thus, not
2107 persisted) if we shut down the system while Pidgin is still
2108 running. (Closes: #11413)
2109 - Close the GNOME Notification bar by pressing ESC, instead of
2110 opening the Applications menu. The Applications menu often
2111 covers other elements that we're looking for on the
2112 screen. (Closes #11401)
2113 - Hide Florence keyboard window when it doesn't vanish by itself
2114 (Closes: #11398) and wait a bit less for Florence to disappear
2117 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 06 Jun 2016 20:10:56 +0200
2119 tails (2.3) unstable; urgency=medium
2122 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.5. (Fixes: #11362)
2123 - Upgrade icedove to 38.7.0-1~deb8u1
2124 - Upgrade git to 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u2
2125 - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u1
2126 - Upgrade pidgin-otr to 4.0.1-1+deb8u1
2127 - Upgrade srtp to 1.4.5~20130609~dfsg-1.1+deb8u1
2128 - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u1
2129 - Upgrade samba to 2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u2
2130 - Upgrade openssh to 1:6.7p1-5+deb8u2
2133 - Refresh Tor Browser's AppArmor profile patch against the one from
2134 torbrowser-launcher 0.2.4-1. (Fixes: #11264)
2135 - Pull monkeysphere from stretch to avoid failing to install under
2136 eatmydata. (Fixes: #11170)
2137 - Start gpg-agent with no-grab option due to issues with pinentry and
2138 GNOME's top bar. (Fixes: #11038)
2139 - Tails Installer: Update error message to match new name of 'Clone
2140 & Install'. (Fixes: #11238)
2142 * Cope with a missing geoipdb. (Fixes: #11203)
2143 * Make both panes of the window scrollable. (Fixes #11192)
2144 - WhisperBack: Workaround socks bug. When the Tor fails to connect to
2145 the host, WisperBack used to display a ValueError. This is caused by
2146 a socks bug that is solved in upstream's master but not in Tails.
2147 This commit workarounds this bug Unclear error message in WhisperBack
2148 when failing to connect to the server. (Fixes: #11136)
2150 * Minor improvements
2151 - Upgrade to Debian 8.4, a Debian point release with many minor upgrades
2152 and fixes to various packages . (Fixes: #11232)
2153 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.25. (Fixes: #11363)
2154 - Pin pinentry-gtk2 to jessie-backports. The new version allows pasting
2155 passwords from the clipboard. (Fixes: #11239)
2156 - config/chroot_local-hooks/59-libdvd-pkg: cleanup /usr/src/libdvd-pkg.
2158 - Make the Tor Status "disconnected" icon more contrasted with the
2159 "connected" one. (Fixes: #11199)
2162 - Add UTF-8 support to OTR Bot. (Fixes: #10866)
2163 - Don't explicitly depend on openjdk-7-jre or any JRE for that
2164 matter. Sikuli will pull in a suitable one, so depending on one
2165 ourselves is only risks causing trouble. (Fixes: #11335)
2167 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 25 Apr 2016 14:12:22 +0200
2169 tails (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=medium
2172 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.4. (Closes: #11254)
2173 - Upgrade bind9-related packages to 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u6
2174 - Upgrade libotr to 4.1.0-2+deb8u1
2175 - Upgrade samba-related packages to 2:4.1.17+dfsg-2+deb8u2.
2176 - Upgrade libgraphite2 to 1.3.6-1~deb8u1.
2178 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Thu, 17 Mar 2016 15:03:52 +0100
2180 tails (2.2) unstable; urgency=medium
2182 * Major new features and changes
2183 - Replace Vidalia (which has been unmaintained for years) with:
2185 * the Tor Status GNOME Shell extension, which adds a System Status
2186 icon indicating whether Tor is ready or not.
2187 * Onion Circuits, a simple Tor circuit monitoring tool.
2190 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.3 (Closes: #11189).
2191 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u4.
2192 - Upgrade cpio to 2.11+dfsg-4.1+deb8u1.
2193 - Upgrade glibc to 2.19-18+deb8u3.
2194 - Upgrade libav to 6:11.6-1~deb8u1.
2195 - Upgrade libgraphite2 to 1.3.5-1~deb8u1.
2196 - Upgrade libjasper1 to 1.900.1-debian1-2.4+deb8u1.
2197 - Upgrade libreoffice to 4.3.3-2+deb8u3.
2198 - Upgrade libssh2 to 1.4.3-4.1+deb8u1.
2199 - Upgrade openssl to 1.0.1k-3+deb8u4.
2200 - Upgrade perl to 5.20.2-3+deb8u4.
2201 - Upgrade python-imaging, python-pil to 2.6.1-2 2.6.1-2+deb8u2.
2204 - Hide "Laptop Mode Tools Configuration" menu entry. We don't
2205 support configuring l-m-t in Tails, and it doesn't work out of
2206 the box. (Closes: #11074)
2208 * Actually write a string when saving bug report to
2209 disk. (Closes: #11133)
2210 * Add missing argument to OpenPGP dialog so the optional OpenPGP
2211 key can be added again. (Closes: #11033)
2213 * Minor improvements
2214 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.24-1~deb8u+1.
2215 - Add support for viewing DRM protected DVD videos using
2216 libdvdcss2. Patch series submitted by Austin English
2217 <austinenglish@gmail.com>. (Closes: #7674)
2218 - Automatically save KeePassX database after every change by default.
2220 - Implement Tor stream isolation for WhisperBack
2221 - Delete unused tor-tsocks-mua.conf previously used by Claws
2222 Mail. (Closes: #10904)
2223 - Add set -u to all gettext:ized shell scripts. In gettext-base <
2224 1.8.2, like the one we had in Wheezy, gettext.sh references the
2225 environment variable ZSH_VERSION, which we do not set. This has
2226 prevented us from doing `set -u` without various hacks. (Closes:
2228 - Also set -e in some shell scripts which lacked it for no good
2230 - Make Git verify the integrity of transferred objects. (Closes:
2232 - Remove LAlt+Shift and LShift+RShift keyboard layout toggling
2233 shortcuts. (Closes: #10913, #11042)
2236 - Reorder the execution of feature to decrease peak disk
2237 usage. (Closes: #10503)
2238 - Paste into the GTK file chooser, instead of typing. (Closes:
2240 - Pidgin: wait a bit for text to have stopped scrolling before we
2241 click on it. (Closes: #10783)
2242 - Fix step that runs commands in GNOME Terminal, that was broken
2243 on Jessie when a Terminal is running already. (Closes: #11176)
2244 - Let ruby-rjb guess JAVA_HOME instead fixing on one jvm
2245 version. (Closes: #11190)
2248 - Upgrade build system to Debian Jessie. This includes migrating to a
2249 new Vagrant basebox based on Debian Jessie.
2250 - Rakefile: print git status when there are uncommitted
2251 changes. Patch submitted by Austin English
2252 <austinenglish@gmail.com>. (Closes: #11108)
2253 - .gitignore: add .rake_tasks~. Patch submitted by Austin English
2254 <austinenglish@gmail.com>. (Closes: #11134)
2255 - config/amnesia: use --show-field over sed filtering. Patch
2256 submitted by Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>.
2257 - Umount and clean up leftover temporary directories from old
2258 builds. (Closes: #10772)
2260 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 07 Mar 2016 18:09:50 +0100
2262 tails (2.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium
2264 * Major new features and changes
2265 - Enable the Tor Browser's font fingerprinting protection
2266 (Closes: #11000). We do it for all browsers (including
2267 the Unsafe Browser and I2P Browser mainly to avoid making our
2268 automated test suite overly complex. This implied to set an appropriate
2269 working directory when launching the Tor Browser, to accommodate for
2270 the assumptions it makes about this.
2273 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.2 (Closes: #11105).
2276 - Repair 32-bit UEFI support (Closes: #11007); bugfix on 2.0.
2277 - Add libgnome2-bin to installed packages list to provide gnome-open,
2278 which fixes URL handling at least in KeePassX, Electrum and Icedove
2279 (Closes: #11031); bugfix on 2.0. Thanks to segfault for the patch!
2281 * Minor improvements
2282 - Refactor and de-duplicate the chrooted browsers' configuration:
2283 prefs.js, userChrome.css (Closes: #9896).
2284 - Make the -profile Tor Launcher workaround simpler (Closes: #7943).
2285 - Move Torbutton environment configuration to the tor-browser script,
2286 instead of polluting the default system environment with it.
2287 - Refresh patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile
2289 - Propagate Tor Launcher options via the wrapper.
2290 - Move tor-launcher script to /usr/local/bin.
2291 - Move tor-launcher-standalone to /usr/local/lib.
2292 - Move Tor Launcher env configuration closer to the place where it is used,
2293 for simplicity's sake.
2296 - Mass update browser and Tor Launcher related images due to font change,
2297 caused by Tor Browser 5.5's font fingerprinting protection
2298 (Closes: #11097). And then, use separate PrintToFile.png for the browsers,
2299 and Evince, since it cannot be shared anymore.
2300 - Adjust to the refactored chrooted browsers configuration handling.
2301 - Test that Tor Launcher uses the correct Tor Browser libraries.
2302 - Allow more slack when verifying that the date that was set.
2303 - Bump a bit the timeout used when waiting for the remote shell.
2304 - Bump timeout for the process to disappear, when closing Evince.
2305 - Bump timeout when saving persistence configuration.
2306 - Bump timeout for bootstrapping I2P.
2309 - Remove no longer relevant places.sqlite cleanup procedure.
2311 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Fri, 12 Feb 2016 13:00:15 +0000
2313 tails (2.0) unstable; urgency=medium
2315 * Major new features and changes
2316 - Upgrade to Debian 8 (Jessie).
2317 - Migrate to GNOME Shell in Classic mode.
2318 - Use systemd as PID 1, and convert all custom initscripts to systemd units.
2319 - Remove the Windows camouflage feature: our call for help to port
2320 it to GNOME Shell (issued in January, 2015) was unsuccessful.
2321 - Remove Claws Mail: Icedove is now the default email client
2323 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5 (Closes: #10858, #10983).
2326 - Minimally sandbox many services with systemd's namespacing features.
2327 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u3.
2328 - Upgrade Git to 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u1.
2329 - Upgrade Perl to 5.20.2-3+deb8u3.
2330 - Upgrade bind9-related packages to 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u5.
2331 - Upgrade FUSE to 2.9.3-15+deb8u2.
2332 - Upgrade isc-dhcp-client tot 4.3.1-6+deb8u2.
2333 - Upgrade libpng12-0 to 1.2.50-2+deb8u2.
2334 - Upgrade OpenSSH client to 1:6.7p1-5+deb8u1.
2337 - Restore the logo in the "About Tails" dialog.
2338 - Don't tell the user that "Tor is ready" before htpdate is done
2340 - Upgrader wrapper: make the check for free memory more accurate
2341 (Closes: #10540, #8263).
2342 - Allow the desktop user, when active, to configure printers;
2343 fixes regression introduced in Tails 1.1 (Closes: #8443).
2344 - Close Vidalia before we restart Tor. Otherwise Vidalia will be running
2345 and showing errors while we make sure that Tor bootstraps, which could
2347 - Allow Totem to read DVDs, by installing apparmor-profiles-extra
2348 from jessie-backports (Closes: #9990).
2349 - Make memory erasure on shutdown more robust (Closes: #9707, #10487):
2350 · don't forcefully overcommit memory
2351 · don't kill the allocating task
2352 · make sure the kernel doesn't starve from memory
2353 · make parallel sdmem handling faster and more robust
2354 - Don't offer the option, in Tor Browser, to open a downloaded file with
2355 an external application (Closes: #9285). Our AppArmor confinement was
2356 blocking most such actions anyway, resulting in poor UX; bugfix on 1.3.
2357 Accordingly, remove the now-obsolete exception we had in the Tor
2358 Browser AppArmor profile, that allowed executing seahorse-tool.
2359 - Fix performance issue in Tails Upgrader, that made it very slow to apply
2360 an automatic upgrade; bugfix on 1.7 (Closes: #10757).
2361 - Use our wrapper script to start Icedove from the GNOME menus.
2362 - Make it possible to localize our Icedove wrapper script.
2363 - List Icedove persistence option in the same position where Claws Mail
2364 used to be, in the persistent volume assistant (Closes: #10832).
2365 - Fix Electrum by installing the version from Debian Testing
2366 (Closes: #10754). We need version >=2.5.4-2, see #9713;
2367 bugfix on 2.0~beta1. And, explicitly install python-qt4 to enable
2368 Electrum's GUI: it's a Recommends, and we're not pulling it ourselves
2369 via other means anymore.
2370 - Restore default file associations (Closes: #10798);
2371 bugfix on 2.0~beta1.
2372 - Update 'nopersistent' boot parameter to 'nopersistence'; bugfix on 0.12
2373 (Closes: #10831). Thanks to live-media=removable, this had no security
2375 - Repair dotfiles persistence feature, by adding a symlink from
2376 /lib/live/mount/persistence to /live/persistence; bugfix on 2.0~beta1
2378 - Fix ability to re-configure an existing persistent volume using
2379 the GUI; bugfix on 2.0~beta1 (Closes: #10809).
2380 - Associate armored OpenPGP public keys named *.key with Seahorse,
2381 to workaround https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93656;
2382 bugfix on 1.1 (Closes: #10889).
2383 - Update the list of enabled GNOME Shell extensions, which might fix
2384 the "GNOME Shell sometimes leaves Classic mode" bug seen in 2.0~beta1:
2385 · Remove obsolete "Alternative Status Menu", that is not shipped
2387 · Explicitly enable the GNOME Shell extensions that build
2389 - Make _get_tg_setting() compatible with set -u (Closes: #10785).
2390 - laptop-mode-tools: don't control autosuspend. Some USB input
2391 devices don't support autosuspend. This change might help fix
2392 #10850, but even if it doesn't, it makes sense to me that we
2393 don't let laptop-mode-tools fiddle with this on a Live system
2394 (Closes (for now): #10850).
2396 * Minor improvements
2397 - Remove obsolete code from various places.
2399 · hide all windows while logging in
2400 · resize and re-position the panel when the screen size grows
2401 · PostLogin: log into the Journal instead of a dedicated log file
2402 · use localectl to set the system locale and keyboard mapping
2403 · delete the Live user's password if no administration password is set
2405 · port to GDBus greeter interface, and adjust to other GDM
2408 · port to UDisks2, and from Qt4 to GTK3
2409 · adapt to work on other GNU/Linux operating systems than Tails
2410 · clean up enough upstream code and packaging bits to make it
2411 deserve being uploaded to Debian
2412 · rename everything from liveusb-creator to tails-installer
2413 - Port tails-perl5lib to GTK3 and UDisks2. In passing, do some minor
2414 refactoring and a GUI improvement.
2415 - Persistent Volume Assistant:
2416 · port to GTK3 and UDisks2
2417 · handle errors when deleting persistent volume (Closes: #8435)
2418 · remove obsolete workarounds
2419 - Don't install UDisks v1.
2420 - Adapt custom udev and polkit rules to UDisks v2 (Closes: #9054, #9270).
2421 - Adjust import-translations' post-import step for Tails Installer,
2422 to match how its i18n system works nowadays.
2423 - Use socket activation for CUPS, to save some boot time.
2424 - Set memlockd.service's OOMScoreAdjust to -1000.
2425 - Don't bother creating /var/lib/live in tails-detect-virtualization.
2426 If it does not exist at this point, we have bigger and more
2427 noticeable problems.
2428 - Simplify the virtualization detection & reporting system, and do it
2429 as a non-root user with systemd-detect-virt rather than virt-what.
2430 - Replace rsyslog with the systemd Journal (Closes: #8320), and adjust
2431 WhisperBack's logs handling accordingly.
2432 - Drop tails-save-im-environment.
2433 It's not been used since we stopped automatically starting the web browser.
2434 - Add a hook that aborts the build if any *.orig file is found. Such files
2435 appear mainly when a patch of ours is fuzzy. In most cases they are no big
2436 deal, but in some cases they end up being taken into account
2438 - Replace the tor+http shim with apt-transport-tor (Closes: #8198).
2439 - Install gnome-tweak-tool.
2440 - Don't bother testing if we're using dependency based boot.
2441 - Drop workaround to start spice-vdagent in GDM (Closes: #8025).
2442 This has been fixed in Jessie proper.
2443 - Don't install ipheth-utils anymore. It seems to be obsolete
2444 in current desktop environments.
2445 - Stop installing the buggy unrar-free, superseded in Jessie (Closes: #5838)
2446 - Drop all custom fontconfig configuration, and configure fonts rendering
2448 - Drop zenity patch (zenity-fix-whitespacing-box-sizes.diff),
2449 that was applied upstream.
2450 - Install libnet-dbus-perl (currently 1.1.0) from jessie-backports,
2451 it brings new features we need.
2452 - Have the security check and the upgrader wait for Tor having bootstrapped
2453 with systemd unit ordering.
2454 - Get rid of tails-security-check's wrapper.
2455 Its only purpose was to wait for Tor to have bootstrapped,
2456 which is now done via systemd.
2457 - Don't allow the amnesia and tails-upgrade-frontend users to run
2458 tor-has-bootstrapped as root with sudo. They don't need it anymore,
2459 thanks to using systemd for starting relevant units only once Tor
2461 - Install python-nautilus, that enables MAT's context menu item in Nautilus.
2463 - Configure GDM with a snippet file instead of patching its
2464 greeter.dconf-defaults.
2466 · port to Python 3 and GObject Introspection (Closes: #7755)
2467 · migrate from the gnutls module to the ssl one
2468 · use PGP/MIME for better attachments handling
2469 · migrate from the gnupginterface module to the gnupg one
2470 · natively support SOCKS ⇒ don't wrap with torsocks anymore
2472 · don't try to include the obsolete .xession-errors in bug reports
2474 - chroot-browser.sh: don't use static DISPLAY.
2475 - Simplify debugging:
2476 · don't hide the emergency shutdown's stdout
2477 · tails-unblock-network: trace commands so that they end up in the Journal
2478 - Configure the console codeset at ISO build time, instead of setting it
2479 to a constant via the Greeter's PostLogin.default.
2480 - Order the AppArmor policy compiling in a way that is less of a blocker
2482 - Include the major KMS modules in the initramfs. This helps seamless
2483 transition to X.Org when booting, and back to text mode on shutdown,
2484 can help for proper graphics hardware reinitialization post-kexec,
2485 and should improve GNOME Shell support in some virtual machines.
2486 - Always show the Universal Access menu icon in the GNOME panel.
2487 - Drop notification for not-migrated-yet persistence configuration,
2488 and persistence settings disabled due to wrong access rights.
2489 That migration happened more two years ago.
2490 - Remove the restricted network detector, that has been broken for too long;
2491 see #10560 for next steps (Closes: #8328).
2492 - Remove unsupported, never completed kiosk mode support.
2493 - clock_gettime_monotonic: use Perl's own function to get the integer part,
2494 instead of forking out to sed.
2495 - Don't (try to) disable lvm2 initscripts anymore. Both the original reason
2496 and the implementation are obsolete on Jessie.
2497 - Lower potential for confusion (#8443), by removing system-config-printer.
2498 One GUI to configure printers is enough (Closes: #8505).
2499 - Add "set -u" to tails-unblock-network.
2500 - Add a systemd target whose completion indicates that Tor has bootstrapped,
2501 and use it everywhere sensible (Closes: #9393).
2502 - Disable udev's 75-persistent-net-generator.rules, to preventing races
2503 between MAC spoofing and interface naming.
2504 - Replace patch against NetworkManager.conf with drop-in files.
2505 - Replace resolvconf with simpler NetworkManager and dhclient configuration.
2507 - Replace patching of the gdomap, i2p, hdparm, tor and ttdnsd initscripts
2508 with 'systemctl disable' (Closes: #9881).
2509 - Replace patches that wrapped apps with torsocks with dynamic patching with
2510 a hook, to ease maintenance. Also, patch D-Bus services as needed
2512 - Notify the user if running Tails inside non-free virtualization software
2513 that does not try to hide its nature (Closes: #5315).
2514 Thanks to Austin English <austinenglish@gmail.com> for the patch.
2515 - Declare htpdate.service as being needed for time-sync.target, to ensure
2516 that "services where correct time is essential should be ordered after
2518 - Convert some of the X session startup programs to `systemd --user' units.
2519 - Let the Pidgin wrapper pass through additional command-line arguments
2521 - Move out of the $PATH a bunch of programs that users should generally
2522 not run directly: connect-socks, end-profile, getTorBrowserUserAgent,
2523 generate-tor-browser-profile, kill-boot-profile, tails-spoof-mac,
2524 tails-set-wireless-devices-state, tails-configure-keyboard,
2525 do_not_ever_run_me, boot-profile, tails-unblock-network,
2526 tor-controlport-filter, tails-virt-notify-user, tails-htp-notify-user,
2527 udev-watchdog-wrapper (Closes: #10658)
2528 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.23-2~deb8u+1.
2529 - Disable I2P's time syncing support.
2530 - Install Torbirdy from official Jessie backports, instead of from
2531 our own APT repository (Closes: #10804).
2532 - Make GNOME Disks' passphrase strength checking new feature work,
2533 by installing cracklib-runtime (Closes: #10862).
2534 - Add support for Japanese in Tor Browser.
2535 - Install xserver-xorg-video-intel from Jessie Backports (currently:
2536 2.99.917-2~bpo8+1). This adds support for recent chips such as
2537 Intel Broadwell's HD Graphics (Closes: #10841).
2538 - Improve a little bit post-Greeter network unblocking:
2539 · Sleep a bit longer between deleting the blacklist, and triggering udev;
2540 this might help cure #9012.
2541 · Increase logging, so that we get more information next time someone
2543 · Touch /etc/modprobe.d/ after deleting the blacklist; this might help,
2544 in case all this is caused by some aufs bug.
2545 - Enable and use the Debian jessie-proposed-updates APT repository,
2546 anticipating on the Jessie 8.3 point-release (Closes: #10897).
2547 - Upgrade most firmware packages to 20160110-1.
2548 - Upgrade Intel CPU microcodes to 3.20151106.1~deb8u1.
2549 - Disable IPv6 for the default wired connection, so that
2550 NetworkManager does not spam the logs with IPv6 router
2551 solicitation failure. Note that this does not fix the problem
2552 for other connections (Partially closes: #10939).
2555 - Adapt to the new desktop environment and applications' look.
2556 - Adapt new changed nmcli syntax and output.
2557 - New NetworkManager connection files must be manually loaded in Jessie.
2558 - Adapt to new pkexec behavior.
2559 - Adapt to how we now disable networking.
2560 - Use sysctl instead of echo:ing into /proc/sys.
2561 - Use oom_score_adj instead of the older oom_adj.
2562 - Adapt everything depending on logs to the use of the Journal.
2563 - Port to UDisks v2.
2564 - Check that the system partition is an EFI System Partition.
2565 - Add ldlinux.c32 to the list of bootloader files that are expected
2566 to be modified when we run syslinux (Closes: #9053).
2567 - Use apt(8) instead of apt-get(8).
2568 - Don't hide the cursor after opening the GNOME apps menu.
2569 - Convert the remote shell to into a systemd native service and a Python 3,
2570 script that uses the sd_notify facility (Closes: #9057). Also, set its
2571 OOM score adjustment value via its unit file, and not from the test suite.
2572 - Adjust to match where screenshots are saved nowadays.
2573 - Check that all system units have started (Closes: #8262)
2574 - Simplify the "too small device" test.
2575 - Spawn `poweroff' and `halt' in the background, and don't wait for them
2576 to return: anything else would be racy vs. the remote shell's stopping.
2577 - Bump video memory allocated to the system under test, to fix out of video
2579 - When configuring the CPU to lack PAE support, use a qemu32 CPU instead
2580 of a Pentium one: the latter makes GNOME Shell crash.
2581 See #8778 for details about how Mesa's CPU features detection has
2582 room for improvement.
2583 - Adjust free(1) output parsing for Jessie.
2584 - vm-execute: rename --type option to --spawn.
2585 - Add method to set the X.Org clipboard, and install its dependency
2587 - Paste URLs in one go, to work around issue with lost key presses
2588 in the browser (Closes: #10467).
2589 - Reliably wait for Synaptic's search button to fade in.
2590 - Take into account that the sticky bit is not set on block devices
2592 - Ensure that we can use a NetworkManager connection stored in persistence
2594 - Use a stricter regexp when extracting logs for dropped packets.
2595 - Clone the host CPU for the test suite guests (Closes: #8778).
2596 - Run ping as root (aufs does not support file capabilities so we don't
2597 get cap_net_raw+ep, and if built on a filesystem that does support
2598 file capabilities, then /bin/ping is not setupd root).
2599 - Escape regexp special characters when constructing the firewall log
2600 parsing regexp, and pass -P to grep, since Ruby uses PCRE.
2601 - Adjust is_persistent?() helper to findmnt changes in Jessie.
2602 - Rework in depth how we measure pattern coverage in memory, with more
2603 reliable Linux OOM and VM settings, fundamental improvements
2604 in what exactly we measure, and custom OOM adjutments for fillram
2605 processes (Closes: #9705).
2606 - Use blkid instead of parted to determine the filesystem type.
2607 - Use --kiosk mode instead of --fullscreen in virt-viewer, to remove
2608 the tiny border of the in-viewer menu.
2609 - Remove now redundant desktop screenshot directory scenario.
2610 - Adapt GNOME notification handling for Debian Jessie (Closes: #8782)
2611 - Disable screen blanking in the automated test suite, which occasionally
2612 breaks some test cases (Closes: #10403).
2613 - Move upgrade scenarios to the feature dedicated to them.
2614 - Don't make libvirt storage volumes executable.
2615 - Refactor the PAUSE_ON_FAIL functionality, so that we can use `pause()`
2616 as a breakpoint when debugging.
2617 - Drop non-essential Totem test that is mostly a duplicate, and too painful
2618 to be worth automating on Jessie.
2619 - Retry Totem HTTPS test with a new Tor circuit on failure.
2620 - Replace iptables status regexp-based parser with a new XML-based
2621 status analyzer: the previous implementation could not be adjusted
2622 to the new ip6tables' output (Closes: #9704).
2623 - Don't reboot in one instance when it is not needed.
2624 - Optimize memory erasure anti-test: block the boot to save CPU on the host.
2625 - Update I2P tests for Jessie, and generally make them more robust.
2626 - Update Electrum tests for 2.5.4-2 (Closes: #10758).
2627 - Add workaround for libvirt vs. guestfs permissions issue, to allow
2628 running the test suite on current Debian sid.
2629 - Fix buggy code, that happened to work by mistake, in the Seahorse
2630 test cases; bugfix on 1.8.
2631 - Update test suite images due to CSS change on Tails' website.
2632 - Adapt Tor Browser tests to work with the 5.5 series.
2633 - Automatically test downloading files in Tor Browser.
2634 - Remove obsolete scenario, that tested opening a downloaded file with
2635 an external application, which we do not support anymore.
2636 - Improve robustness of the "Tails OpenPGP keys" scenario (Closes: #10378).
2637 - Automatically test the "Diable all networking" feature (Closes: #10430).
2638 - Automatically test that SSH works over LAN (Closes: #9087).
2639 - Bump some statuc sleeps to fix a few race conditions (Closes: #5330).
2640 - Automatically test that an emergency shutdown triggers on boot
2641 medium removal (Closes: #5472).
2642 - Make the AppArmor checks actually detect errors (Closes: #10926).
2645 - Bump amount of disk space needed to build Tails with Vagrant.
2646 The addition of the Japanese Tor Browser tarball made us reach
2647 the limit of the previous value.
2649 * Adjustments for Debian 8 (Jessie) with no or very little user-visible impact
2650 - Free the fixed UIDs/GIDs we need before creating the corresponding users.
2651 - Replace the real gnome-backgrounds with a fake, equivs generated one
2652 (Closes: #8055). Jessie's gnome-shell depends on gnome-backgrounds,
2653 which is too fat to ship considering we're not using it.
2654 - AppArmor: adjust CUPS profile to support our Live system environment
2656 · Mangle lib/live/mount/overlay/... as usual for aufs.
2657 · Pass the the attach_disconnected flag, that's needed for compatibility
2659 - Make sure we don't ship geoclue* (Closes: #7949).
2660 - Drop deprecated GDM configuration file.
2661 - Don't add the Live user to the deprecated 'fuse' group.
2662 - Drop hidepid mount option for /proc (Closes: #8256). In its current,
2663 simplistic form it cannot be supported by systemd.
2664 - Don't manually load acpi-cpufreq at boot time. It fails to load
2665 whenever no device it supports is present, which makes the
2666 systemd-modules-load.service fail. These days, the kernel
2667 should just automatically load such modules when they are needed.
2668 - Drop sysvinit-specific (sensigs.omit.d) tweaks for memlockd.
2669 - Disable the GDM unit file's Restart=always, that breaks our "emergency
2670 shutdown on boot medium removal" feature.
2671 - Update the implementation of the memory erasure on shutdown feature:
2672 · check for rebooting state using systemctl, instead of the obsolete
2673 $RUNLEVEL (Closes: #8306)
2674 · the kexec-load initscript normally silently exits unless systemd is
2675 currently running a reboot job. This is not the case when the emergency
2676 shutdown has been triggered, so we removed this check
2677 · migrate tails-kexec to the /lib/systemd/system-shutdown/ facility
2678 · don't (try to) switch to tty1 on emergency shutdown: it apparently
2679 requires data that we haven't locked into memory, and then it blocks
2680 the whole emergency shutdown process
2681 - Display a slightly darker version of the desktop wallpaper on the screen
2682 saver, instead of the default flashy "Debian 8" branding (Closes: #9038).
2683 - Disable software autorun from external media.
2684 - Disable a few unneeded D-Bus services. Some of these services are
2685 automatically started (via D-Bus activation) when GNOME Shell tries
2686 to use them. The only "use" I've seen for them, except eating
2687 precious RAM, is to display "No appointment today" in the calendar pop-up.
2689 - Prevent NetworkManager services from starting at boot time
2690 (Closes: #8313). We start them ourselves after changing the MAC address.
2691 - Unfuzzy all patches (Closes: #8268) and drop a few obsolete ones.
2692 - Adapt IBus configuration for Jessie (Closes: #8270), i.e. merge the two
2693 places where we configure keyboard layout and input methods: both are now
2694 configured in the same place in Jessie's GNOME.
2695 - Migrate panel launchers to the favorite apps list (Closes: #7992).
2696 - Drop pre-GNOME Shell menu tweaks.
2697 - Hide "Log out" button in the GNOME Shell menu (Closes: #8364).
2698 - Add a custom shutdown-helper GNOME Shell extension (Closes: #8302, #5684
2699 and #5878) that removes the press-Alt-to-turn-shutdown-button-into-Suspend
2700 functionality from the GNOME user menu, and makes Restart and Shutdown
2701 immediate, without further user interaction. Accordingly remove our custom
2702 Shutdown Helper panel applet (#8302).
2703 - Drop GNOME Panel configuration, now deprecated.
2704 - Disable GNOME Shell's screen lock feature.
2705 We're not there yet (see #5684).
2706 - Disable GNOME Shell screen locker's user switch feature.
2707 - Explicitly install libany-moose-perl (Closes: #8051).
2708 It's needed by our OpenPGP applet. On Wheezy, this package was pulled
2709 by some other dependency. This is not the case anymore on Jessie.
2710 - Don't install notification-daemon nor gnome-mag: GNOME Shell has taken
2711 over this functionality (Closes: #7481).
2712 - Don't install ntfsprogs: superseded on Jessie.
2713 - Don't install barry-util: not part of Jessie.
2714 - Link udev-watchdog dynamically, and lock it plus its dependencies
2716 - Migrate from gdm-simple-greeter to a custom gdm-tails session
2718 - Update Plymouth installation and configuration:
2719 · install the plymouth packages via chroot_local-hooks: lb 2.x's "standard"
2720 packages list pulls console-common in, which plymouth now conflicts with
2721 · don't patch the plymouth initscript anymore, that was superseded
2722 by native systemd unit files
2723 · mask the plymouth-{halt,kexec,poweroff,reboot,shutdown} services,
2724 to prevent them from occupying the active TTY with an (empty) splash
2725 screen on shutdown/reboot, that would hide the messages we want to show
2726 to the user via tails-kexec (Closes: #9032)
2727 - Migrate GNOME keyboard layout settings from libgnomekbd to input-sources
2729 - Explicitly install syslinux-efi, that we need and is not automatically
2730 pulled by anything else anymore.
2731 - Workaround #7248 for GDM: use a solid blue background picture,
2732 instead of a solid color fill, in the Greeter session.
2733 - De-install gcc-4.8-base and gcc-4.9 at the end of the ISO build process.
2734 - Revert the "Wrap syndaemon to always use -t" Wheezy-specific workaround.
2735 - htpdate: run date(1) in a Jessie-compatible (and nicer) way.
2736 - Remove obsolete dconf screenshot settings and the corresponding test.
2737 - Drop our patched python-dbus{,-dev} package (Closes: #9177).
2738 - live-persist: stop overriding live-boot's functions, we now have
2739 a recent enough blkid.
2740 - Adjust sdmem initramfs bits for Jessie:
2741 · Directly call poweroff instead of halt -p.
2742 · Don't pass -n to poweroff and reboot, it's not supported anymore.
2743 - Wrap text in the Unsafe Browser startup warning dialog
2744 (Jessie's zenity does not wrap it itself).
2745 - Associate application/pgp-keys with Seahorse's "Import Key" application
2747 - Install topIcons GNOME Shell extension (v28), to work around the fact
2748 that a few of the applets we use hijack the notification area.
2749 - "cd /" to fix permissions issue at tails-persistence-setup startup
2751 - Install gstreamer1.0-libav, so that Totem can play H264-encoded videos.
2752 - Adjust APT sources configuration:
2753 · remove explicit jessie and jessie-updates sources:
2754 automatically added by live-build
2755 · add Debian testing
2756 · add jessie-backports
2757 - Firewall: white-list access to the accessibility daemon (Closes: #8075).
2758 - Adjust to changed desktop notification behavior and supported feature set
2760 · pass the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS used by the GNOME session
2762 · update waiting for a notification handler: gnome-panel and nm-applet
2763 are obsolete, GNOME Shell is now providing this facility, so instead
2764 wait for a process that starts once GNOME Shell is ready, namely
2765 ibus-daemon (Closes: #8685)
2766 · port tails-warn-about-disabled-persistence and tails-virt-notify-user
2767 to notification actions (instead of hyperlinks), and make the latter
2768 transient; to this end, add support to Desktop::Notify for "hints"
2769 and notification actions
2770 · tails-security-check: use a dialog box instead of desktop notifications
2771 · MAC spoofing failure notification: remove the link to the documentation;
2772 it was broken on Tails/Wheezy already, see #10559 for next steps
2773 - Don't explicitly install gnome-panel nor gnome-menus, so that they go away
2774 whenever the Greeter does not pull them in anymore.
2775 - Install gkbd-capplet, that provides gkbd-keyboard-display (Closes: #8363).
2776 - Install Tor 0.2.7 from deb.torproject.org: we don't need to rebuild it
2777 ourselves for seccomp support anymore.
2778 - Wrap Seahorse with torsocks when it is started as a D-Bus service too
2780 - Rename the AppArmor profile for Tor, so it applies to the system-wide
2781 Tor service we run (Closes: #10528).
2782 - Essentially revert ALSA state handling to how it was pre-Jessie, so that
2783 mixer levels are unmuted and sanitized at boot time (Closes: #7591).
2784 - Pass --yes to apt-get when installing imagemagick.
2785 - Make removable devices, that we support installing Tails to, user writable:
2786 Tails Installer requires raw block device access to such devices
2787 (Closes: #8273). Similarly, allow the amnesia user, when active, to open
2788 non-system devices for writing with udisks2. This is roughly udisks2's
2789 equivalent of having direct write access to raw block storage devices.
2790 Here too, Tails Installer uses this functionality.
2791 - Disable networkd to prevent any risk of DNS leaks it might cause; and
2792 disable timesyncd, as we have our own time synchronization mechanism.
2793 They are not enabled by default in Jessie, but may be in Stretch,
2794 so let's be explicit about it.
2795 - Mask hwclock-save.service, to avoid sync'ing the system clock
2796 to the hardware clock on shutdown (Closes: #9363).
2797 - apparmor-adjust-cupsd-profile.diff: adjust to parse fine on Jessie
2799 - Explicitly use tor@default.service when it's the one we mean.
2800 - Refactor GNOME/X env exporting to Tails' shell library, and grab
2801 more of useful bits of the desktop session environment.
2802 Then, use the result in the test suite's remote shell.
2803 - Stop tweaking /etc/modules. It's 2015, the kernel should load these things
2804 automatically (Closes: #10609).
2805 - Have systemd hardening let Tor modify its configuration (needed by Tor
2806 Launcher), and start obfs4proy (Closes: #10696, #10724).
2807 - Bump extensions.adblockplus.currentVersion and
2808 extensions.enigmail.configuredVersion to match what we currently get
2810 - I2P: switch from 'service' to 'systemctl' where possible.
2812 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:06:33 +0100
2814 tails (1.8.2) unstable; urgency=medium
2817 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.7.
2818 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u2.
2819 - Upgrade foomatic-filters to 4.0.17-1+deb7u1.
2820 - Upgrade git to 1:1.7.10.4-1+wheezy2.
2821 - Upgrade Icedove to 38.5.0-1~deb7u1.
2822 - Upgrade libxml2-related packages to 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy5.
2823 - Upgrade OpenSSL-related packages to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u19.
2824 - Upgrade libsmbclient to 2:3.6.6-6+deb7u6.
2826 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 09 Jan 2016 16:27:27 +0100
2828 tails (1.8.1) unstable; urgency=medium
2831 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.6.
2832 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u1
2833 - Upgrade gdkpixbuf to 2.26.1-1+deb7u3
2834 - Upgrade bind9 tools to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u8
2837 - Fix time synchronization in bridge mode by refreshing our patch
2838 against Tor's AppArmor profile.
2840 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Fri, 18 Dec 2015 19:05:18 +0000
2842 tails (1.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2845 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.7.6-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.
2846 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.5. (Closes: #10751)
2847 - Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u5.
2848 - Upgrade krb5-based packages to 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u6.
2849 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u6.
2850 - Upgrade wpasupplicant to 1.0-3+deb7u3.
2851 - Upgrade libpng12-0 to 1.2.49-1+deb7u1.
2852 - Upgrade openjdk-7 to 7u91-2.6.3-1~deb7u1.
2853 - Upgrade libnspr4 to 2:4.9.2-1+deb7u3
2854 - Upgrade dpkg to 1.16.17.
2855 - Upgrade gnutls26 to 2.12.20-8+deb7u4.
2856 - Upgrade Icedove to 1:38.0.1-1~deb7u1.
2857 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u18.
2860 - Upgrade to Electrum 2.5.4-2~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Now Electrum
2861 should work again. Note that the documentation has not been
2862 adapted to the slight changes in the Electrum account setup
2865 * Minor improvements
2866 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.23-2~deb7u+1.
2867 - Rebase our patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile on top
2868 of the one shipped in torbrowser-launcher 0.2.1-2.
2869 - Warn if the claws-mail persistence is enabled and contains a
2870 Claws Mail configuration when starting icedove. (Closes: #10458)
2871 - Replace the Claws Mail GNOME launcher with Icedove. (Closes:
2873 - Remove the Claws Mail persistence feature from the Persistence
2874 Assistant. (Closes: #10742)
2877 - Simplify ISO image naming rules by using the base rule we use
2878 for Jenkins all the time, except when building from a tag
2879 (i.e. building a release). (Closes: #10349)
2882 - Lower the waiting time for USB installation in the test suite.
2883 So far we were waiting up to one hour, which is just the same as
2884 our Jenkins inactivity timeout, so in practice when Tails
2885 Installer fails and displays an error message, instead of
2886 reporting that the job failed (which is the point of the
2887 exercise) we abort the job due to this timeout which
2888 communicates less clearly that there's probably a bug. (Closes:
2890 - Remove the check for the sound icon in the systray in the
2891 Windows Camouflage tests. (Closes: #10493)
2892 - Retry running whois when "LIMIT EXCEEDED" is in its output for
2893 increased robustness. (Closes: #10523)
2894 - Make Seahorse tests more robust. (Closes: #9095, #10501)
2895 - Make the handling of Pidgin's account manager more robust.
2898 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 14 Dec 2015 23:07:19 +0100
2900 tails (1.7) unstable; urgency=medium
2902 * Major new features and changes
2903 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.4. (Closes: #10456)
2904 - Add a technology preview of the Icedove Email client (a
2905 rebranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird), including OpenPGP
2906 support via the Enigmail add-on, general security and anonymity
2907 improvements via the Torbirdy add-on, and complete persistence
2908 support (which will be enabled automatically if you already have
2909 Claws Mail persistence enabled). Icedove will replace Claws Mail
2910 as the supported email client in Tails in a future
2911 release. (Closes: #6151, #9498, #10285)
2912 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.7.4-rc-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Among the many
2913 improvement of this new Tor major release, the new
2914 KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option allows us to drop the
2915 bug15482.patch patch (taken from the Tor Browse bundle) that
2916 enabled similar (but inferior) functionality for *all*
2917 SocksPort:s -- now the same circuit is only kept alive for
2918 extended periods for the SocksPort used by the Tor
2919 Browser. (Closes: #10194, #10308)
2920 - Add an option to Tails Greeter which disables networking
2921 completely. This is useful when intending to use Tails for
2922 offline work only. (Closes: #6811)
2925 - Fix CVE-2015-7665, which could lead to a network interface's IP
2926 address being exposed through wget. (Closes: #10364)
2927 - Prevent a symlink attack on ~/.xsession-errors via
2928 tails-debugging-info which could be used by the amnesia user to
2929 read the contents of any file, no matter the
2930 permissions. (Closes: #10333)
2931 - Upgrade libfreetype6 to 2.4.9-1.1+deb7u2.
2932 - Upgrade gdk-pixbuf packages to 2.26.1-1+deb7u2.
2933 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u5.
2934 - Upgrade openjdk-7 packages to 7u85-2.6.1-6~deb7u1.
2935 - Upgrade unzip to 6.0-8+deb7u4.
2938 - Add a temporary workaround for an issue in our code which checks
2939 whether i2p has bootstrapped, which (due to some recent change
2940 in either I2P or Java) could make it appear it had finished
2941 prematurely. (Closes: #10185)
2942 - Fix a logical bug in the persistence preset migration code while
2943 real-only persistence is enabled. (Closes: #10431)
2945 * Minor improvements
2946 - Rework the wordings of the various installation and upgrade
2947 options available in Tails installer in Wheezy. (Closes: #9672)
2948 - Restart Tor if bootstrapping stalls for too long when not using
2949 pluggable transports. (Closes: #9516)
2950 - Install firmware-amd-graphics, and firmware-misc-nonfree instead
2951 of firmware-ralink-nonfree, both from Debian Sid.
2952 - Update the Tails signing key. (Closes: #10012)
2953 - Update the Tails APT repo signing key. (Closes: #10419)
2954 - Install the nmh package. (Closes: #10457)
2955 - Explicitly run "sync" at the end of the Tails Upgrader's upgrade
2956 process, and pass the "sync" option when remounting the system
2957 partition as read-write. This might help with some issues we've
2958 seen, such as #10239, and possibly for #8449 as well.
2961 - Add initial automated tests for Icedove. (Closes: #10332)
2962 - Add automated tests of the MAC spoofing feature. (Closes: #6302)
2963 - Drop the concept of "background snapshots" and introduce a general
2964 system for generating snapshots that can be shared between
2965 features. This removes all silly hacks we previously used to
2966 "skip" steps, and greatly improves performance and reliability
2967 of the whole test suite. (Closes: #6094, #8008)
2968 - Flush to the log file in debug_log() so the debugging info can
2969 be viewed in real time when monitoring the debug log
2970 file. (Closes: #10323)
2971 - Force UTF-8 locale in automated test suite. Ruby will default to
2972 the system locale, and if it is non-UTF-8, some String-methods
2973 will fail when operating on non-ASCII strings. (Closes: #10359)
2974 - Escape regexp used to match nick in CTCP replies. Our Pidgin
2975 nick's have a 10% chance to include a ^, which will break that
2976 regexp. We need to escape all characters in the nick. (Closes:
2978 - Extract TBB languages from the Tails source code. This will
2979 ensure that valid locales are tested. As an added bonus, the
2980 code is greatly simplified. (Closes: #9897)
2981 - Automatically test that tails-debugging-info is not susceptible
2982 to the type of symlink attacks fixed by #10333.
2983 - Save all test suite artifacts in a dedicated directory with more
2984 useful infromation encoded in the path. This makes it easier to
2985 see which artifacts belongs to which failed scenario and which
2986 run. (Closes: #10151)
2987 - Log all useful information via Cucumber's formatters instead of
2988 printing to stderr, which is not included when logging to file
2989 via `--out`. (Closes: #10342)
2990 - Continue running the automated test suite's vnc server even if
2991 the client disconnects. (Closes: #10345)
2992 - Add more automatic tests for I2P. (Closes: #6406)
2993 - Bump the Tor circuit retry count to 10. (Closes: #10375)
2994 - Clean up dependencies: (Closes: #10208)
2999 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 03 Nov 2015 01:09:41 +0100
3001 tails (1.6) unstable; urgency=medium
3004 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.3. (Closes: #10223)
3005 - Upgrade bind9-based packages to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u7.
3006 - Upgrade liblcms1 to 1.19.dfsg2-1.2+deb7u1.
3007 - Upgrade libldap-2.4-2 to 2.4.31-2+deb7u1.
3008 - Upgrade libslp1 to 1.2.1-9+deb7u1.
3009 - Upgrade ssl-cert to 1.0.32+deb7u1.
3012 - Fix a corner case for the MAC spoofing panic mode. If panic mode
3013 failed to disable the specific device that couldn't be spoofed
3014 (by unloading the module) we disable networking. Previously we
3015 only stopped NetworkManager. The problem is that NM isn't even
3016 started at this time, but will specifically be started when
3017 we're done with MAC spoofing. Therefore, let's completely
3018 disable NetworkManager so it cannot possibly be
3019 started. (Closes: #10160)
3020 - Avoid use of uninitialized value in restricted-network-detector.
3021 If NetworkManager decides that a wireless connection has timed
3022 out before "supplicant connection state" has occued, our idea of
3023 the state is `undef`, so it cannot be used in a string
3024 comparison. Hence, let's initialize the state to the empty
3025 string instead of `undef`. Also fix the state
3026 recording. Apparently NetworkManager can say a few different
3027 things when it logs the device state transitions. (Closes:
3030 * Minor improvements
3031 - Remove workaround for localizing search engine plugins. The
3032 workaround has recently become unnecessary, possibly due to the
3033 changes made for the seach bar after the Tor Browser was rebased
3034 on Firefox 38esr. (Closes: #9146)
3035 - Refer to the I2P Browser in the I2P notifications. Instead of
3036 some obscure links that won't work in the Tor Browser, where
3037 users likely will try them, and which I believe will open them
3038 by default. (Closes: #10182)
3039 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.22. Also set the I2P apparmor profile to
3040 enforce mode. (Closes: #9830)
3043 - Test that udev-watchdog is monitoring the correct device when
3044 booted from USB. (Closes: #9890)
3045 - Remove unused 'gksu' step. This causes a false-positive to be
3046 found for #5330. (Closes: #9877)
3047 - Make --capture capture individual videos for failed scenarios
3048 only, and --capture-all to capture videos for all scenarios.
3050 - Use the more efficient x264 encoding when capturing videos using
3051 the --capture* options. (Closes: #10001)
3052 - Make --old-iso default to --iso if omitted. Using the same ISO
3053 for the USB upgrade tests most often still does what we want,
3054 e.g. test that the current version of Tails being tested has a
3055 working Tails installer. Hence this seems like a reasonable
3056 default. (Closes: #10147)
3057 - Avoid nested FindFailed exceptions in waitAny()/findAny(), and
3058 throw a new dedicated FindAnyFailed exception if these fail
3059 instead. Rjb::throw doesn't block Ruby's execution until the
3060 Java exception has been received by Ruby, so strange things can
3061 happen and we must avoid it. (Closes: #9633)
3062 - Fix the Download Management page in our browsers. Without the
3063 browser.download.panel.shown pref set, the progress being made
3064 will not update until after the browser has been restarted.
3066 - Add a 'pretty_debug' (with an alias: 'debug') Cucumber formatter
3067 that deals with debugging instead of printing it to STDERR via
3068 the `--debug` option (which now has been removed). This gives us
3069 the full flexibility of Cucumber's formatter system, e.g. one
3070 easy-to-read formatter can print to the terminal, while we get
3071 the full debug log printed to a file. (Closes: #9491)
3072 - Import logging module in otr-bot.py. Our otr-bot.py does not use
3073 logging but the jabberbot library makes logging calls, causing a
3074 one-off message “No handlers could be found for logger
3075 "jabberbot"” to be printed to the console. This commit
3076 effectively prevents logging/outputting anything to the terminal
3077 which is at a level lower than CRITICAL. (Closes: 9375)
3078 - Force new Tor circuit and reload web site on browser
3079 timeouts. (Closes: #10116)
3080 - Focus Pidgin's buddy list before trying to access the tools
3081 menu. (Closes: #10217)
3082 - Optimize IRC test using waitAny. If connecting to IRC fails,
3083 such as when OFTC is blocking Tor, waiting 60 seconds to connect
3084 while a a Reconnect button is visible is sub-optimal. It would
3085 be better to try forcing a new Tor circuit and clicking the
3086 reconnect button. (Closes: #9653)
3087 - Wait for (and focus if necessary) Pidgin's Certificate windows.
3090 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 20 Sep 2015 17:47:26 +0000
3092 tails (1.5.1) unstable; urgency=medium
3095 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.2. (Closes: #10112)
3096 - Upgrade gdk-pixbuf packages to 2.26.1-1+deb7u1.
3097 - Upgrade libnss3 to 2:3.14.5-1+deb7u5.
3100 - Refresh Tor Browser AppArmor profile patch. The old one doesn't
3101 apply on top of testing's torbrowser-launcher anymore.
3104 - Make sure Jenkins creates new jobs to build the testing branch
3105 after freezes. (Closes: #9925)
3107 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Fri, 28 Aug 2015 01:52:14 +0200
3109 tails (1.5) unstable; urgency=medium
3111 * Major new features and changes
3112 - Move LAN web browsing from Tor Browser to the Unsafe Browser,
3113 and forbid access to the LAN from the former. (Closes: #7976)
3114 - Install a 32-bit GRUB EFI boot loader. This at least works
3115 on some Intel Baytrail systems. (Closes: #8471)
3118 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0, and integrate it:
3119 · Disable Tiles in all browsers' new tab page.
3120 · Don't use geo-specific search engine prefs in our browsers.
3121 · Hide Tools -> Set Up Sync, Tools -> Apps (that links to the Firefox
3122 Marketplace), and the "Share this page" button in the Tool bar.
3123 · Generate localized Wikipedia search engine plugin icons so the
3124 English and localized versions can be distinguished in the new
3125 search bar. (Closes: #9955)
3126 - Fix panic mode on MAC spoofing failure. (Closes: #9531)
3127 - Deny Tor Browser access to global tmp directories with AppArmor,
3128 and give it its own $TMPDIR. (Closes: #9558)
3129 - Tails Installer: don't use a predictable file name for the subprocess
3130 error log. (Closes: #9349)
3131 - Pidgin AppArmor profile: disable the launchpad-integration abstraction,
3132 which is too wide-open.
3133 - Use aliases so that our AppArmor policy applies to
3134 /lib/live/mount/overlay/ and /lib/live/mount/rootfs/*.squashfs/ as well as
3135 it applies to /. And accordingly:
3136 · Upgrade AppArmor packages to 2.9.0-3~bpo70+1.
3137 · Install rsyslog from wheezy-backports, since the version from Wheezy
3138 conflicts with AppArmor 2.9.
3139 · Stop installing systemd for now: the migration work is being done in
3140 the feature/jessie branch, and it conflicts with rsyslog from
3142 · Drop apparmor-adjust-user-tmp-abstraction.diff: obsoleted.
3143 · apparmor-adjust-tor-profile.diff: simplify and de-duplicate rules.
3144 · Take into account aufs whiteouts in the system_tor profile.
3145 · Adjust the Vidalia profile to take into account Live-specific paths.
3146 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u3.
3147 - Upgrade bind9-host, dnsutils and friends to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u6.
3148 - Upgrade cups-filters to 1.0.18-2.1+deb7u2.
3149 - Upgrade ghostscript to 9.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u2.
3150 - Upgrade libexpat1 to 2.1.0-1+deb7u2.
3151 - Upgrade libicu48 to 4.8.1.1-12+deb7u3.
3152 - Upgrade libwmf0.2-7 to 0.2.8.4-10.3+deb7u1.
3153 - Upgrade openjdk-7 to 7u79-2.5.6-1~deb7u1.
3156 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.6.10-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.
3158 * Minor improvements
3159 - Tails Installer: let the user know when it has rejected a candidate
3160 destination device because it is too small. (Closes: #9130)
3161 - Tails Installer: prevent users from trying to "upgrade" a device
3162 that contains no Tails, or that was not installed with Tails Installer.
3164 - Install libotr5 and pidgin-otr 4.x from wheezy-backports. This adds
3165 support for the OTRv3 protocol and for multiple concurrent connections
3166 to the same account. (Closes: #9513)
3167 - Skip warning dialog when starting Tor Browser while being offline,
3168 in case it is already running. Thanks to Austin English for the patch!
3170 - Install the apparmor-profiles package (Closes: #9539), but don't ship
3171 a bunch of AppArmor profiles we don't use, to avoid increasing
3172 boot time. (Closes: #9757)
3173 - Ship a /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home.d/tails snippet, instead
3174 of patching /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home.
3175 - live-boot: don't mount tmpfs twice on /live/overlay, so that the one which
3176 is actually used as the read-write branch of the root filesystem's union
3177 mount, is visible. As a consequence:
3178 · One can now inspect how much space is used, at a given time, in the
3179 read-write branch of the root filesystem's union mount.
3180 · We can make sure our AppArmor policy works fine when that filesystem
3181 is visible, which is safer in case e.g. live-boot's behavior changes
3182 under our feet in the future... or in case these "hidden" files are
3183 actually accessible somehow already.
3186 - Add our jenkins-tools repository as a Git submodule, and replace
3187 check_po.sh with a symlink pointing to the same script in that submodule.
3188 Adjust the automated test suite accordingly. (Closes: #9567)
3189 - Bump amount of RAM needed for Vagrant RAM builds to 7.5 GiB. In
3190 particular the inclusion of the Tor Browser 5.0 series has recently
3191 increased the amount of space needed to build Tails. (Closes: #9901)
3194 - Test that the Tor Browser cannot access LAN resources.
3195 - Test that the Unsafe Browser can access the LAN.
3196 - Installer: test new behavior when trying to upgrade an empty device, and
3197 when attempting to upgrade a non-Tails FAT partition on GPT; also, take
3198 into account that all unsupported upgrade scenarios now trigger
3200 - Request a new Tor circuit and re-run the Seahorse and GnuPG CLI tests
3201 on failure. (Closes: #9518, #9709)
3202 - run_test_suite: remove control chars from log file even when cucumber
3203 exits with non-zero. (Closes: #9376)
3204 - Add compatibility with cucumber 2.0 and Debian Stretch. (Closes: #9667)
3205 - Use custom exception when 'execute_successfully' fails.
3206 - Retry looking up whois info on transient failure. (Closes: #9668)
3207 - Retry wget on transient failure. (Closes: #9715)
3208 - Test that Tor Browser cannot access files in /tmp.
3209 - Allow running the test suite without ntp installed. There are other means
3210 to have an accurate host system clock, e.g. systemd-timesyncd and tlsdate.
3212 - Bump timeout in the Totem feature.
3213 - Grep memory dump using the --text option. This is necessary with recent
3214 versions of grep, such as the one in current Debian sid, otherwise it
3215 will count only one occurrence of the pattern we're looking for.
3217 - Include execute_successfully's error in the exception, instead
3218 of writing it to stdout via puts. (Closes: #9795)
3219 - Test that udev-watchdog is actually monitoring the correct device.
3221 - IUK: workaround weird Archive::Tar behaviour on current sid.
3222 - Test the SocksPort:s given in torrc in the Unsafe Browser.
3223 This way we don't get any sneaky errors in case we change them and
3224 forget to update this test.
3225 - Directly verify AppArmor blocking of the Tor Browser by looking in
3226 the audit log: Firefox 38 does no longer provide any graphical feedback
3227 when the kernel blocks its access to files the user wants to access.
3228 - Update browser-related automated test suite images, and workaround
3229 weirdness introduced by the new Tor Browser fonts.
3230 - Test that Pidgin, Tor Browser, Totem and Evince cannot access ~/.gnupg
3231 via alternate, live-boot generated paths.
3232 - Adjust tests to cope with our new AppArmor aliases.
3233 - Bump memory allocated to the system under test to 2 GB. (Closes: #9883)
3235 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 10 Aug 2015 19:12:58 +0200
3237 tails (1.4.1) unstable; urgency=medium
3240 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.5.3, based on Firefox 31.8.0 ESR. (Closes: #9649)
3241 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.6.9-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails2, which includes a circuit
3242 isolation bugfix. (Closes: #9560)
3243 - AppArmor: deny Tor Browser access to the list of recently used files.
3245 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u17.
3246 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1.
3247 - Upgrade CUPS to 1.5.3-5+deb7u6.
3248 - Upgrade FUSE to 2.9.0-2+deb7u2.
3249 - Upgrade libsqlite3-0 to 3.7.13-1+deb7u2.
3250 - Upgrade ntfs-3g and ntfsprogs to 1:2012.1.15AR.5-2.1+deb7u2.
3251 - Upgrade p7zip-full to 9.20.1~dfsg.1-4+deb7u1.
3254 - Fix automatic upgrades in Windows Camouflage mode. (Closes: #9413)
3255 - Don't ship the snakeoil SSL key pair generated by ssl-cert in the ISO.
3257 - Partially fix the truncated notifications issue. (#7249)
3259 * Minor improvements
3260 - Disable the hwclock.sh initscript at reboot/shutdown time.
3261 This is an additional safety measure to ensure that the hardware clock
3262 is not modified. (Closes: #9364)
3263 - Stop shipping /var/cache/man/*, to make ISOs and IUKs smaller.
3265 - Update torbrowser-AppArmor-profile.patch to apply cleanly on top of the
3266 profile shipped with torbrowser-launcher 0.2.0-1.
3267 - Add the jessie/updates APT repo and set appropriate pinning.
3268 - Upgrade Electrum to 1.9.8-4~bpo70+1.
3269 - Upgrade kernel firmware packages to 0.44.
3272 - Install the Linux kernel from Debian Jessie. (Closes: #9341)
3273 - Remove files that are not under version control when building in Jenkins.
3275 - Don't modify files in the source tree before having possibly merged
3276 the base branch into it. (Closes: #9406)
3277 - Make it so eatmydata is actually used during a greater part of the build
3278 process. This includes using eatmydata from wheezy-backports.
3279 (Closes: #9419, #9523)
3280 - release script: adjust to support current Debian sid.
3283 - Test the system clock sanity check we do at boot. (Closes: #9377)
3284 - Remove the impossible "Clock way in the past" scenarios.
3285 Thanks to config/chroot_local-includes/lib/live/config/0001-sane-clock,
3286 these scenarios cannot happen, and since we test that it works they
3287 can be safely removed.
3288 - Test that the hardware clock is not modified at shutdown. (Closes: #9557)
3289 - Pidgin: retry looking for the roadmap URL in the topic.
3290 - Avoid showing Pidgin's tooltips during test, potentially confusing Sikuli.
3292 - Test all OpenPGP keys shipped with Tails. (Closes: #9402)
3293 - Check that notification-daemon is running when looking for notifications
3294 fails. (Closes: #9332)
3295 - Allow using the cucumber formatters however we want. (Closes: #9424)
3296 - Enable Spice in the guest, and blacklist the psmouse kernel module,
3297 to help with lost mouse events. (Closes: #9425)
3298 - Automate testing Torbutton's 'New Identity' feature. (Closes: #9286)
3299 - Test that Seahorse is configured to use the correct keyserver.
3301 - Always export TMPDIR back to the test suite's shell environment.
3303 - Make OpenPGP tests more reliable:
3304 · Retry accessing the OpenPGP applet menus on failure. (Closes: #9355)
3305 · Retry accessing menus in Seahorse on failure. (Closes: #9344)
3306 - Focus the Pidgin conversation window before any attempt to interact
3307 with it. (Closes: #9317)
3308 - Use convertkey from the (backported to Jessie) Debian package,
3309 instead of our own copy of that script. (Closes: #9066)
3310 - Make the memory erasure tests more robust (Closes: #9329):
3311 · Bump /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes when running fillram.
3312 · Actually set oom_adj for the remote shell when running fillram.
3313 · Try to be more sure that we OOM kill fillram.
3314 · Run fillram as non-root.
3315 - Only try to build the storage pool if TailsToasterStorage isn't found.
3318 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 28 Jun 2015 19:46:25 +0200
3320 tails (1.4) unstable; urgency=medium
3322 * Major new features
3323 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.5.1, based on Firefox 31.7.0 ESR, which
3324 introduces many major new features for usability, security and
3325 privacy. Unfortunately its per-tab circuit view did not make it
3326 into Tails yet since it requires exposing more Tor state to the
3327 user running the Tor Browser than we are currently comfortable
3328 with. (Closes: #9031, #9369)
3329 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.6.7-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails2. Like in the Tor
3330 bundled with the Tor Browser, we patch it so that circuits used
3331 for SOCKSAuth streams have their lifetime increased indefinitely
3332 while in active use. This currently only affects the Tor Browser
3333 in Tails, and should improve the experience on certain web sites
3334 that otherwise would switch language or log you out every ten
3335 minutes or so when Tor switches circuit. (Closes: #7934)
3338 - tor-browser wrapper script: avoid offering avenues to arbitrary
3339 code execution to e.g. an exploited Pidgin. AppArmor Ux rules
3340 don't sanitize $PATH, which can lead to an exploited application
3341 (that's allowed to run this script unconfined, e.g. Pidgin)
3342 having this script run arbitrary code, violating that
3343 application's confinement. Let's prevent that by setting PATH to
3344 a list of directories where only root can write. (Closes: #9370)
3345 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt9-3.
3346 - Upgrade curl to 7.26.0-1+wheezy13.
3347 - Upgrade dpkg to 1.16.16.
3348 - Upgrade gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad to 0.10.23-7.1+deb7u2.
3349 - Upgrade libgd2-xpm to 2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-6.1+deb7u1.
3350 - Upgrade openldap to 2.4.31-2.
3351 - Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u4.
3352 - Upgrade libruby1.9.1 to 1.9.3.194-8.1+deb7u5.
3353 - Upgrade libtasn1-3 to 2.13-2+deb7u2.
3354 - Upgrade libx11 to 2:1.5.0-1+deb7u2.
3355 - Upgrade libxml-libxml-perl to 2.0001+dfsg-1+deb7u1.
3356 - Upgrade libxml2 to 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy4.
3357 - Upgrade OpenJDK to 7u79-2.5.5-1~deb7u1.
3358 - Upgrade ppp to 2.4.5-5.1+deb7u2.
3361 - Disable security warnings when connecting to POP3 and IMAP ports.
3363 - Make the Windows 8 browser theme compatible with the Unsafe and I2P
3364 browsers. (Closes: #9138)
3365 - Hide Torbutton's "Tor Network Settings..." context menu entry.
3367 - Upgrade the syslinux packages to support booting Tails on
3368 Chromebook C720-2800. (Closes: #9044)
3369 - Enable localization in Tails Upgrader. (Closes: #9190)
3370 - Make sure the system clock isn't before the build date during
3371 early boot. Our live-config hook that imports our signing keys
3372 depend on that the system clock isn't before the date when the
3373 keys where created. (Closes: #9149)
3374 - Set GNOME's OpenPGP keys via desktop.gnome.crypto.pgp to prevent
3375 us from getting GNOME's default keyserver in addition to our
3376 own. (Closes: #9233)
3377 - Prevent Firefox from crashing when Orca is enabled: grant
3378 it access to assistive technologies in its Apparmor
3379 profile. (Closes: #9261)
3380 - Add Jessie APT source. (Closes: #9278)
3381 - Fix set_simple_config_key(). If the key already existed in the
3382 config file before the call, all other lines would be removed
3383 due to the sed option -n and p combo. (Closes: #9122)
3384 - Remove illegal instance of local outside of function definition.
3385 Together with `set -e` that error has prevented this script from
3386 restarting Vidalia, like it should. (Closes: #9328)
3388 * Minor improvements
3389 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.19-3~deb7u+1.
3390 - Install Tor Browser's bundled Torbutton instead of custom .deb.
3391 As of Torbutton 1.9.1.0 everything we need has been upstreamed.
3392 - Install Tor Browser's bundled Tor Launcher instead of our
3393 in-tree version. With Tor 0.2.6.x our custom patches for the
3394 ClientTransportPlugin hacks are not needed any more. (Closes:
3396 - Don't install msmtp and mutt. (Closes: #8727)
3397 - Install fonts-linuxlibertine for improved Vietnamese support in
3398 LibreOffice. (Closes: #8996)
3399 - Remove obsoletete #i2p-help IRC channel from the Pidgin
3400 configuration (Closes: #9137)
3401 - Add Gedit shortcut to gpgApplet's context menu. Thanks to Ivan
3402 Bliminse for the patch. (Closes: #9069).
3403 - Install printer-driver-gutenprint to support more printer
3404 models. (Closes: #8994).
3405 - Install paperkey for off-line OpenPGP key backup. (Closes: #8957)
3406 - Hide the Tor logo in Tor Launcher. (Closes: #8696)
3407 - Remove useless log() instance in tails-unblock-network. (Closes:
3409 - Install cdrdao: this enables Brasero to burn combined data/audio
3410 CDs and to do byte-to-byte disc copy.
3411 - Hide access to the Add-ons manager in the Unsafe Browser. It's
3412 currently broken (#9307) but we any way do not want users to
3413 install add-ons in the Unsafe Browser. (Closes: #9305)
3414 - Disable warnings on StartTLS for POP3 and IMAP (Will-fix: #9327)
3415 The default value of this option activates warnings on ports
3416 23,109,110,143. This commit disables the warnings for POP3 and
3417 IMAP as these could be equally used in encrypted StartTLS
3418 connections. (Closes: #9327)
3419 - Completely rework how we localize our browser by generating our
3420 branding add-on, and search plugins programatically. This
3421 improves the localization for the ar, es, fa, ko, nl, pl, ru,
3422 tr, vi and zh_CN locales by localizing the Startpage and
3423 Disconnect.me search plugins. Following Tor Browser 4.5's recent
3424 switch, we now use Disconnect.me as the default search
3425 engine. (Closes: #9309)
3426 * Actively set Google as the Unsafe Browser's default search
3430 - Encode in Git which APT suites to include when building Tails.
3432 - Clean up the list of packages we install. (Closes: #6073)
3433 - Run auto/{build,clean,config} under `set -x' for improved
3435 - Zero-pad our ISO images so their size is divisible by 2048.
3436 The data part of an ISO image's sectors is 2048 bytes, which
3437 implies that ISO images should always have a size divisible
3438 by 2048. Some applications, e.g. VirtualBox, use this as a sanity
3439 check, treating ISO images for which this isn't true as garbage.
3440 Our isohybrid post-processing does not ensure this,
3441 however. Also Output ISO size before/after isohybrid'ing and
3442 truncate'ing it. This will help detect if/when truncate is
3443 needed at all, so that we can report back to syslinux
3444 maintainers more useful information. (Closes: #8891)
3445 - Vagrant: raise apt-cacher-ng's ExTreshold preference to 50. The
3446 goal here is to avoid Tor Browser tarballs being deleted by
3447 apt-cacher-ng's daily expiration cronjob: they're not listed in
3448 any APT repo's index file, so acng will be quite eager to clean
3452 - Bring dependency checks up-to-date (Closes: #8988).
3453 - Adapt test suite to be run on Debian Jessie, which includes
3454 removing various Wheezy-specific workarounds, adding a few
3455 specific to Jessie, migrating from ffmpeg to libav, and
3456 more. (Closes: #8165)
3457 - Test that MAT can see that a PDF is dirty (Closes: #9136).
3458 - Allow throwing Timeout::Error in try_for() blocks, as well as
3459 nested try_for() (Closes: #9189, #9290).
3460 - Read test suite configuration files from the features/config/local.d
3461 directory. (Closes: #9220)
3462 - Kill virt-viewer with SIGTERM, not SIGINT, to prevent hordes of
3463 zombie processes from appearing. (Closes: #9139)
3464 - Kill Xvfb with SIGTERM, not SIGKILL, on test suite exit to allow
3465 it to properly clean up. (Closes: #8707)
3466 - Split SSH & SFTP configs in the test suite. (Closes: #9257)
3467 - Improve how we start subprocesses in the test suite, mostly by
3468 bypassing the shell for greater security and robustness (Closes:
3470 - Add Electrum test feature. (Closes #8963)
3471 - Test that Tails Installer detects when USB devices are
3472 removed. (Closes: #9131)
3473 - Test Tails Installer with devices which are too small. (Closes:
3475 - Test that the Report an Error launcher works in German. (Closes:
3477 - Verify that no extensions are installed in the Unsafe Browser
3478 using about:support instead of about:addons, which is broken
3479 (#9307). (Closes: #9306)
3480 - Retry GNOME application menu actions when they glitch. The
3481 GNOME application menus seem to have issues with clicks or
3482 hovering actions not registering, and hence sometimes submenus
3483 are not opened when they should, and sometimes clicks on the
3484 final application shortcut are lost. There seems to be a
3485 correlation between this and CPU load on the host running the
3486 test suite. We workaround this by simply re-trying the last
3487 action when it seems to fail. (Closes: #8928)
3488 - Work around Seahorse GUI glitchiness (Closes: #9343):
3489 * When Seahorse appears to be frozen--apparently due to network
3490 issues--it can often be worked around by refreshing the screen
3491 or activating a new window.
3492 * Open Seahorse's preferences dialog using the mouse.
3493 * Access menu entries with the mouse.
3494 - Wait for systray icons to finish loading before interacting with
3495 the systray. (Closes: #9258)
3496 - Test suite configuration: generalize local.d support to *.d. We
3497 now load features/config/*.d/*.yml.
3498 - Use code blocks in "After Scenario" hooks. This is much simpler
3499 to use (and more readable!) compared to hooking functions and
3500 arguments like we used to do.
3501 - Create filesystem share sources in the temporary directory and
3502 make them world-readable. (Closes: #8950)
3504 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 11 May 2015 16:45:04 +0200
3506 tails (1.3.2) unstable; urgency=medium
3509 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.0.6, based on Firefox 31.6.0 ESR.
3510 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u16.
3513 - Make Florence usable with touchpads by forcing syndaemon to
3514 always use the `-t` option, which only disables tapping and
3515 scrolling and not mouse movements (Closes: #9011).
3516 - Make tails-spoof-mac log the correct macchanger exit code on
3517 failure (Closes: #8687).
3519 · Ignore devices with less than 3.5 GB of storage since they
3520 do not fit a Tails installation (Closes: #6538).
3521 · Remove devices from the device list as they are unplugged
3524 * Minor improvements
3525 - Install obfs4proxy 0.0.4-1~tpo1, which adds support for
3526 client-mode ScrambleSuit.
3527 - Don't start Vidalia if Windows Camouflage is enabled. (Closes:
3530 · Remove "Add-ons" from the Tools menu, and hide "Keyboard
3531 Shortcuts" and "Take a Tour" since they point to resources on
3532 the open Internet (Closes: #7970).
3533 · Hide TorButton button from the customize toolbar options, and
3534 remove configs whose only purpose was to make Torbutton "green"
3539 · Test non-LAN SSH, and SFTP via GNOME's "Connect to Server"
3541 · Verify that Tails' Tor binary has the expected Tor authorities
3542 hard coded (Closes: #8960).
3544 · Programmatically determine the supported languages when testing
3545 the Unsafe Browser (Closes: #8918).
3546 · Rename --temp-dir to --tmpdir and make it behave more like
3547 mktemp, and honour TMPDIR if set in the environment. (Closes:
3550 · Make --temp-dir (now --tmpdir) actually work.
3552 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 30 Mar 2015 16:54:20 +0200
3554 tails (1.3.1) unstable; urgency=medium
3557 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.0.5, based on Firefox 31.5.3 ESR. This addresses:
3558 · https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-28/
3559 · https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-29/
3560 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt7-1.
3561 - Upgrade libxfont to 1:1.4.5-5.
3562 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u15.
3563 - Upgrade tcpdump to 4.3.0-1+deb7u2.
3564 - Upgrade bsdtar to 3.0.4-3+wheezy1.
3565 - Upgrade CUPS to 1.5.3-5+deb7u5.
3566 - Upgrade file and libmagic to 5.11-2+deb7u8.
3567 - Upgrade GnuPG to 1.4.12-7+deb7u7.
3568 - Upgrade libarchive to 3.0.4-3+wheezy1.
3569 - Upgrade libav to 6:0.8.17-1.
3570 - Upgrade FreeType 2 to 2.4.9-1.1+deb7u1.
3571 - Upgrade libgcrypt11 1.5.0-5+deb7u3.
3572 - Upgrade libgnutls26 to 2.12.20-8+deb7u3.
3573 - Upgrade libgtk2-perl to 2:1.244-1+deb7u1.
3574 - Upgrade ICU to 4.8.1.1-12+deb7u2.
3575 - Upgrade NSS to 2:3.14.5-1+deb7u4.
3576 - Upgrade libssh2 to 1.4.2-1.1+deb7u1.
3579 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.5.11-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Changes include:
3580 · Directory authority changes.
3581 · Fix assertion errors that may trigger under high DNS load.
3582 · No longer break on HUP with seccomp2 enabled.
3583 · and more - please consult the upstream changelog.
3584 - Upgrade Tor Launcher to 0.2.7.2, and update the test suite accordingly
3585 (Closes: #8964, #6985). Changes include:
3586 · Ask about bridges before proxy in wizard.
3587 · Hide logo if TOR_HIDE_BROWSER_LOGO set.
3588 · Remove firewall prompt from wizard.
3589 · Feedback when “Copy Tor Log” is clicked.
3590 · Improve behavior if tor exits.
3591 · Add option to hide TBB's logo
3592 · Change "Tor Browser Bundle" to "Tor Browser"
3593 · Update translations from Transifex.
3594 - Fix the Tor Launcher killer. (Closes: #9067)
3595 - Allow Seahorse to communicate with keyservers when run from Tails
3596 OpenPGP Applet. (Closes: #6394)
3597 - SSH client: don't proxy connections to 172.17.* to 172.31.*.
3599 - Repair config/chroot_local-packages feature, that was broken in Tails 1.3
3600 by 19-install-tor-browser-AppArmor-profile. (Closes: #8910)
3601 - language_statistics.sh: count original words instead of translated words.
3602 Otherwise we get >100% translation if translated strings are longer than
3603 original strings. (Closes: #9016)
3605 * Minor improvements
3606 - Only ship the new Tails signing key, and have Tails Upgrader stop trusting
3607 the old one. Update the documentation and test suite accordingly.
3608 (Closes: #8735, #8736, #8882, #8769, #8951)
3609 - Polish and harden a bit the WhisperBack configuration (Closes: #8991):
3610 · Only allow the `amnesia' user to run tails-debugging info as root
3612 · Fix spelling and grammar mistakes, improve phrasing a bit.
3613 · Quote variables consistently.
3617 · Chatting over XMPP in Pidgin, both peer-to-peer and in a multi-user
3618 chatroom. (Closes: #8002)
3619 · Chatting with OTR enabled over XMPP in Pidgin. (Closes: #8001)
3620 · Check that Pidgin only responds to the expected CTCP requests.
3622 · Fetching keys using Seahorse started via the OpenPGP Applet.
3623 · Sync'ing keys using Seahorse.
3625 · Fix a race condition between the remote shell's and Tails Greeter's
3626 startup, by making sure the remote shell is ready before we start
3627 GDM. (Closes: #8941)
3628 · Kill virt-viewer properly. (Closes: #9070)
3629 · Make sure the display is stopped on destroy_and_undefine().
3630 Where we had it earlier, it could be skipped if anything else in the
3631 block threw an exception.
3632 · Fix wrong use of "$@". (Closes: #9071)
3633 · Enable the pipefail option in run_test_suite.
3634 · Improve the GNOME screenshot test's robustness. (Closes: #8952)
3636 · turn the focus_pidgin_window() helper into a more generic
3637 VM.focus_xorg_window() one.
3638 · Reorganize the Display class.
3639 · Use clearer method to check process status in the Display class.
3640 - New developer-oriented features:
3641 · Add a --log-to-file option to run_test_suite. (Closes: #8894)
3642 · Add helpers for generating random strings.
3643 · Make it possible to hook arbitrary calls on scenario end. This is useful
3644 for dynamically adding cleanup functions, instead of having
3645 to explicitly deal with them in some After hook.
3647 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 23 Mar 2015 12:34:56 +0000
3649 tails (1.3) unstable; urgency=medium
3651 * Major new features
3652 - Produce the Tails image in hybrid mode (again) so that the same
3653 image can be installed both on DVD *and* "hard disks" like USB
3654 storage and similar. (Closes: #8510)
3655 - Confine the Tor Browser using AppArmor. (Closes: #5525)
3656 - Install the Electrum bitcoin client from wheezy-backports, and
3657 add a persistence preset for the Live user's bitcoin wallet. If
3658 electrum is started without the persistence preset enabled, a
3659 warning is shown. (Closes: #6739)
3662 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.0.4 (based on Firefox 31.5.0esr)
3666 - Have tor_bootstrap_progress echo 0 if no matching log line is
3667 found. (Closes: #8257)
3668 - Always pass arguments through wrappers (connect-socks, totem,
3669 wget, whois) with "$@". $* doesn't handle arguments with
3670 e.g. embedded spaces correctly. (Closes: #8603, #8830)
3671 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt4-3.
3673 * Minor improvements
3674 - Install a custom-built Tor package with Seccomp enabled;
3675 enable the Seccomp sandbox when no pluggable transport is used.
3677 - Install obfs4proxy instead of obfsproxy, which adds support for
3678 the obfs4 Tor pluggable transport. (Closes: #7980)
3679 - Install GnuPG v2 and associated tools from wheezy-backports,
3680 primarily for its improved support for OpenPGP smartcards. It
3681 lives side-by-side with GnuPG v1, which still is the
3682 default. (Closes: #6241)
3683 - Install ibus-unikey, a Vietnamese input method for IBus. (Closes:
3685 - Install torsocks (2.x) from wheezy-backports. (Closes: #8220)
3686 - Install keyringer from Debian Jessie. (Closes: #7752)
3687 - Install pulseaudio-utils.
3688 - Remove all traces of Polipo: we don't use it anymore. This
3689 closes #5379 and #6115 because:
3690 * Have APT directly use the Tor SOCKS proxy. (Closes: #8194)
3691 * Wrap wget with torsocks. (Closes: #6623)
3692 * Wrap Totem to torify it with torsocks. (Closes: #8219)
3693 * Torify Git with tsocks, instead of setting GIT_PROXY_COMMAND.
3695 - Use torsocks for whois and Gobby, instead of torify.
3696 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.18-1~deb7u+1.
3697 - Refactor the Unsafe and I2P browser code into a common shell
3698 library. A lot of duplicated code is now shared, and the code
3699 has been cleaned up and made more reliable. Several
3700 optimizations of memory usage and startup time were also
3701 implemented. (Closes: #7951)
3702 - Invert Exit and About in gpgApplet context menu. This is a
3703 short-term workaround for making it harder to exit the
3704 application by mistake (e.g. a double right-click). (Closes:
3706 - Implement new touchpad settings. This enables tap-to-click,
3707 2-fingers scrolling, and disable while typing. We don't enable
3708 reverse scrolling nor horizontal scrolling. (Closes: #7779)
3709 - Include the mount(8) output and live-additional-software.conf in
3710 WhisperBack bug reports (Closes: #8719, #8491).
3711 - Reduce brightness and saturation of background color. (Closes:
3713 - Have ALSA output sound via PulseAudio by default. This gives us
3714 centralized sound volume controls, and... allows to easily, and
3715 automatically, test that audio output works from Tor Browser,
3716 thanks to the PulseAudio integration into the GNOME sound
3718 - Import the new Tails signing key, which we will use for Tails
3719 1.3.1, and have Tails Upgrader trust both it and the "old"
3720 (current) Tails signing key. (Closes: #8732)
3721 - tails-security-check: error out when passed an invalid CA file.
3722 Unfortunately, the underlying HTTPS stack we use here fails open
3723 in those case, so we have to check it ourselves. Currently, we
3724 check that the file exists, is readable, is a plain file and is
3725 not empty. Also support specifying the CA file via an
3726 environment variable. This will ease development and bug-fixing
3728 - Fix racy code in Tails Installer that sometimes made the
3729 automated test suite stall for scenarios installing Tails
3730 to USB disks. (Closes: #6092)
3731 - Make it possible to use Tails Upgrader to upgrade a Tails
3732 installation that has cruft files on the system partition.
3736 - Install syslinux-utils from our builder-wheezy APT repository in
3737 Vagrant. We need version 6.03~pre20 to make the Tails ISO image
3739 - Update deb.tails.boum.org apt repo signing key. (Closes: #8747)
3740 - Revert "Workaround build failure in lb_source, after creating
3741 the ISO." This is not needed anymore given the move to the Tor
3742 SOCKS proxy. (Closes: #5307)
3743 - Remove the bootstrap stage usage option and disable all
3744 live-build caching in Vagrant. It introduces complexity and
3745 potential for strange build inconsistencies for a meager
3746 reduction in build time. (Closes: #8725)
3747 - Hardcode the mirrors used at build and boot time in auto/config.
3748 Our stuff will be more consistent, easier to reproduce, and our
3749 QA process will be more reliable if we all use the same mirrors
3750 at build time as the ones we configure in the ISO. E.g. we won't
3751 have issues such as #8715 again. (Closes: #8726)
3752 - Don't attempt to retrieve source packages from local-packages so
3753 local packages can be installed via
3754 config/chroot_local-packages. (Closes: #8756)
3755 - Use our own Tor Browser archive when building an ISO. (Closes:
3759 - Use libguestfs instead of parted when creating partitions and
3760 filsystems, and to check that only the expected files
3761 persist. We also switch to qcow2 as the default disk image
3762 format everywhere to reduce disk usage, enable us to use
3763 snapshots that includes the disks (in the future), and to use
3764 the same steps for creating disks in all tests. (Closes: #8673)
3765 - Automatically test that Tails ignores persistence volumes stored
3766 on non-removable media, and doesn't enable swaps. (Closes:
3768 - Actually make sure that Tails can boot from live systems stored
3769 on a hard drive. Running the 'I start Tails from DVD ...' step
3770 will override the earlier 'the computer is set to boot from ide
3771 drive "live_hd"' step, so let's make the "from DVD" part
3772 optional; it will be the default any way.
3773 - Make it possible to use an old iso with different persistence
3774 presets. (Closes: #8091)
3775 - Hide the cursor between steps when navigating the GNOME
3776 applications menu. This makes it a bit more robust, again:
3777 sometimes the cursor is partially hiding the menu entry we're
3778 looking for, hence preventing Sikuli from finding it (in
3779 particular when it's "Accessories", since we've just clicked on
3780 "Applications" which is nearby). (Closes: #8875)
3781 - Ensure that the test will fail if "apt-get X" commands fail.
3782 - Test 'Tor is ready' notification in a separate scenario. (Closes:
3784 - Add automated tests for torified wget and whois. This should
3785 help us identify future regressions such as #8603 in their
3787 - Add automated test for opening an URL from Pidgin.
3788 - And add automated tests for the Tor Browser's AppArmor
3790 - Test that "Report an Error Launcher" opens the support
3792 - Test that the Unsafe Browser:
3793 * starts in various locales.
3794 * complains when DNS isn't configured.
3795 * tears down its chroot on shutdown.
3796 * runs as the correct user.
3797 * has no plugins or add-ons installed.
3798 * has no unexpected bookmarks.
3799 * has no proxy configured.
3800 - Bump the "I2P router console is ready" timeout in its test to
3801 deal with slow Internet connections.
3802 - Make the automatic tests of gpgApplet more robust by relying
3803 more on graphical elements instead of keyboard shortcuts and
3804 static sleep():s. (Closes: #5632)
3805 - Make sure that enough disk space is available when creating
3806 virtual storage media. (Closes: #8907)
3807 - Test that the Unsafe Browser doesn't generate any non-user
3808 initiated traffic, and in particular that it doesn't check for
3809 upgrades, which is a regression test for #8694. (Closes: #8702)
3810 - Various robustness improvements to the Synaptic tests. (Closes:
3812 - Automatically test Git. (Closes: #6307)
3813 - Automatically test GNOME Screenshot, which is a regression test
3814 for #8087. (Closes: #8688)
3815 - Fix a quoting issue with `tails_persistence_enabled?`. (Closes:
3817 - Introduce an improved configuration system that also can store
3818 local secrets, like user credentials needed for some
3819 tests. (Closes: #6301, #8188)
3820 - Actually verify that we successfully set the time in our time
3821 syncing tests. (Closes: #5836)
3822 - Automatically test Tor. This includes normal functionality and
3823 the use pluggable transports, that our Tor enforcement is
3824 effective (e.g. only the Tor network or configured bridges are
3825 contacted) and that our stream isolation configuration is
3826 working. (Closes: #5644, #6305, #7821)
3828 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 23 Feb 2015 17:14:00 +0100
3830 tails (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=medium
3833 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt2-1.
3834 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.0.3 (based on Firefox 31.4.0esr)
3836 - Fail safe by entering panic mode if macchanger exits with an
3837 error, since in this situation we have to treat the
3838 driver/device state as undefined. Also, we previously just
3839 exited the script in this case, not triggering the panic mode
3840 and potentially leaking the real MAC address (Closes: #8571).
3841 - Disable upgrade checking in the Unsafe Browser. Until now the
3842 Unsafe Browser has checked for upgrades of the Tor Browser in
3843 the clear (Closes: #8694).
3846 - Fix startup of the Unsafe Browser in some locales (Closes: #8693).
3847 - Wait for notification-daemon to run before showing the MAC
3848 spoofing panic mode notifications. Without this, the "Network
3849 card disabled" notification is sometimes lost when MAC spoofing
3850 fails. Unfortunately this only improves the situation, but
3851 doesn't fix it completely (see #8685).
3852 - Log that we're going to stop NetworkManager before trying to do
3853 it in the MAC spoofing scripts. Without this we wouldn't get the
3854 log message in case stopping NetworkManager fails (thanks to
3856 - Set GNOME Screenshot preferences to save the screenshots in
3857 /home/amnesia (Closes: #8087).
3858 - Do not suspend to RAM when closing the lid on battery power
3860 - Properly update the Tails Installer's status when plugging in a
3861 USB drive after it has started (Closes: #8353).
3862 - Make rsync compare file contents by using --checksum for more
3863 reliable generation of the squashfs filesystem in
3864 IUKs. Previously it used the default, which is checking
3865 timestamps and file size, but that doesn't play well with the
3866 Tor browser files, that have a fixed mtime, which could result
3867 in updated files not ending up in the IUK.
3869 * Minor improvements
3870 - Finish migrating tails-security-check's and tails-iuk's pinning
3871 to our website's new X.509 certificate authority (Closes: #8404).
3874 - Update to Vagrant build box tails-builder-20141201. The only
3875 change is the removal of a reference to an ISO image which
3876 doesn't exist (except on the system that generated the build
3877 box) which causes an error for some users (Closes: #7644).
3878 - Generate the list of packages used during build, after building
3879 with Jenkins (Closes: #8518). This allows tracking their status
3880 on the Debian reproducible build front:
3881 https://reproducible.debian.net/index_pkg_sets.html#tails
3883 * Automated test suite
3884 - Check PO files with i18nspector (Closes: #8359).
3885 - Fix the expected image of a check.tp.o failure. Previously we
3886 looked for the "Sorry. You are not using Tor." text, but it
3887 seems it recently changed enough for Sikuli to not find it. To
3888 prevent future errors of the same kind we'll look for the
3889 crossed-over onion icon instead (Closes: #8533).
3890 - Bump timeout when waiting for Tor to re-bootstrap. We have a
3891 dreaded issue with timeouts that are multiple of 2 minutes, and
3892 then Tor succeeds soon after, so in order to allow for this
3893 timeout to be reached twice, and then possibly succeed, let's
3894 use N*2 minutes + 30 seconds, with N=2.
3896 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 14 Jan 2015 16:12:26 +0100
3898 tails (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=medium
3901 - Create a CA bundle for Tails Upgrader at ISO build time, and
3902 patch Tails Upgrader to use it. Specifically this will make it
3903 possible to check for Tails upgrades after our website changes
3904 certificate around the 2014 to 2015 transition (Partially fixes
3907 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 15 Dec 2014 10:05:17 +0100
3909 tails (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3912 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.0-4, i.e. 3.16.7-1.
3913 - Install Tor Browser 4.0.2 (based on Firefox 31.3.0esr).
3916 - Install syslinux-utils, to get isohybrid back (Closes: #8155).
3917 - Update xserver-xorg-input-evdev to 1:2.7.0-1+tails1 which
3918 includes a patch that restores mouse scrolling in KVM/Spice
3920 - Set Torbutton logging preferences to the defaults (Closes:
3921 #8160). With the default settings, no site-specific information is
3923 - Use the correct stack of rootfs:s for the chroot browsers (Closes:
3924 #8152, #8158). After installing incremental upgrades Tails' root
3925 filesystem consists of a stack squashfs:s, not only
3926 filesystem.squashfs. When not stacking them correct we may end up
3927 using the Tor Browser (Firefox) from an older version of Tails, or
3928 with no Tor Browser at all, as in the upgrade from Tails 1.1.2 to
3929 1.2, when we migrated from Iceweasel to the Tor Browser. Based on
3930 a patch contributed by sanic.
3931 - Use the Tor Browser for MIME type that GNOME associates with
3932 Iceweasel (Closes: #8153). Open URLs from Claws Mail, KeePassX
3933 etc. should be possible again.
3934 - Update patch to include all Intel CPU microcodes (Closes: #8189).
3935 - AppArmor: allow Pidgin to run Tor Browser unconfined, with
3936 scrubbed environment (Closes: #8186). Links opened in Pidgin are
3937 now handled by the Tor Browser.
3938 - Install all localized Iceweasel search plugins (Closes: #8139).
3939 - When generating the boot profile, ignore directories in
3940 process_IN_ACCESS as well (Closes: #7925). This allows ut to
3941 update the squashfs-ordering again in Tails 1.2.1.
3942 - gpgApplet: Don't pass already encoded data to GTK2 (Closes:
3943 #7968). It's now possible to clearsign text including non-ASCII
3945 - Do not run the PulseAudio initscript, neither at startup nor
3946 shutdown (Closes: #8082).
3948 * Minor improvements
3949 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.17-1~deb7u+1.
3950 - Make GnuPG configuration closer to the best practices one
3952 - Have GnuPG directly use the Tor SOCKS port (Closes: #7416).
3953 - Remove TrueCrypt support and documentat how to open TrueCrypt
3954 volumes using cryptsetup (Closes: #5373).
3955 - Install hopenpgp-tools from Debian Jessie.
3958 - Add gettext >= 0.18.3 as a Tails build dependency. We need it for
3959 xgettext JavaScript support in feature/jessie.
3961 * Automated test suite
3962 - Don't click to open a sub-menu in the GNOME applications menu
3964 - When testing the Windows camouflage, look for individual systray
3965 applets, to avoid relying on their ordering (Closes: #8059).
3966 - Focus the Pidgin Buddy List before looking for something
3967 happening in it (Closes: #8161).
3968 - Remove workaround for showing the TBB's menu bar (Closes #8028).
3970 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 02 Dec 2014 11:34:03 +0100
3972 tails (1.2) unstable; urgency=medium
3974 * Major new features
3975 - Migrate from Iceweasel to the Tor Browser from the Tor Browser
3976 Bundle 4.0 (based on Firefox 31.2.0esr). This fixes the POODLE
3978 The installation in Tails is made global (multi-profile), uses
3979 the system-wide Tor instance, disables the Tor Browser updater,
3980 and keeps the desired deviations previously present in Iceweasel,
3981 e.g. we install the AdBlock Plus add-on, but not Tor Launcher (since
3982 we run it as a standalone XUL application), among other things.
3983 - Install AppArmor's userspace tools and apparmor-profiles-extra
3984 from Wheezy Backports, and enable the AppArmor Linux Security
3985 Module. This adds Mandatory Access Control for several critical
3986 applications in Tails, including Tor, Vidalia, Pidgin, Evince
3988 - Isolate I2P traffic from the Tor Browser by adding a dedicated
3989 I2P Browser. It is set up similarly to the Unsafe Browser,
3990 but further disables features that are irrelevant for I2P, like
3991 search plugins and the AdBlock Plus addon, while keeping Tor Browser
3992 security features like the NoScript and Torbutton addons.
3993 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.5.8-rc-1~d70.wheezy+1.
3996 - Disable TCP timestamps (Closes: #6579).
3999 - Remove expired Pidgin certificates (Closes: #7730).
4000 - Use sudo instead of gksudo for running tails-upgrade-frontend to
4001 make stderr more easily accessible (Closes: #7431).
4002 - Run tails-persistence-setup with sudo instead of gksudo to make
4003 stderr more easily accessible, and allow the desktop user to
4004 pass the --verbose parameter (Closes: #7623).
4005 - Disable CUPS in the Unsafe Browser. This will prevent the
4006 browser from hanging for several minutes when accidentally
4007 pressing CTRL+P or trying to go to File -> Print (Closes: #7771).
4009 * Minor improvements
4010 - Install Linux 3.16-3 (version 3.16.5-1) from Debian
4011 unstable (Closes: #7886, #8100).
4012 - Transition away from TrueCrypt: install cryptsetup and friends
4013 from wheezy-backports (Closes: #5932), and make it clear that
4014 TrueCrypt will be removed in Tails 1.2.1 (Closes: #7739).
4015 - Install Monkeysign dependencies for qrcodes scanning.
4016 - Upgrade syslinux to 3:6.03~pre20+dfsg-2~bpo70+1, and install
4017 the new syslinux-efi package.
4018 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.15-1~deb7u+1
4019 - Enable Wheezy proposed-updates APT repository and setup APT
4020 pinnings to install packages from it.
4021 - Enable Tor's syscall sandbox. This feature (new in 0.2.5.x)
4022 should make Tor a bit harder to exploit. It is only be enabled
4023 when when no special Tor configuration is requested in Tails
4024 Greeter due to incompatibility with pluggable transports.
4025 - Start I2P automatically when the network connects via a
4026 NetworkManager hook, and "i2p" is present on the kernel command
4027 line. The router console is no longer opened automatically, but
4028 can be accessed through the I2P Browser (Closes: #7732).
4029 - Simplify the IPv6 ferm rules (Closes: #7668).
4030 - Include persistence.conf in WhisperBack reports (Closes: #7461)
4031 - Pin packages from testing to 500, so that they can be upgraded.
4032 - Don't set Torbutton environment vars globally (Closes: #5648).
4033 - Enable VirtualBox guest additions by default (Closes: #5730). In
4034 particular this enables VirtualBox's display management service.
4035 - In the Unsafe Browser, hide option for "Tor Browser Health
4036 report", and the "Get Addons" section in the Addon manager
4038 - Show Pidgin's formatting toolbar (Closes: #7356). Having the
4039 formatting toolbar displayed in Pidgin makes the OTR status more
4040 explicit by displaying it with words.
4042 * Automated test suite
4043 - Add --pause-on-fail to ease VM state debugging when tests
4045 - Add execute_successfully() and assert_vmcommand_success() for
4046 added robustness when executing some command in the testing VM.
4047 - Use Test::Unit::Assertions instead of our home-made assert().
4048 - Add test for persistent browser bookmarks.
4049 - Add basic tests for Pidgin, Totem and Evince, including their
4050 AppArmor enforcement.
4051 - Factorize some common step pattern into single steps.
4052 - Factorize running a command in GNOME Terminal.
4053 - Add common steps to copy a file and test for its existence.
4054 - Add a wait_and_double_click Sikuli helper method.
4055 - Add a VM.file_content method, to avoid repeating ourselves, and
4056 use it whenever easily doable.
4057 - Drop test that diffs syslinux' exithelp.cfg: we don't ship this
4059 - In the Unsafe Browser tests, rely on subtle timing less (Closes:
4061 - Use the same logic to determine when Tor is working in the test
4062 suite as in Tails itself. The idea is to avoid spamming the Tor
4063 control port during bootstrap, since we've seen problems with
4066 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:34:50 +0200
4068 tails (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=medium
4071 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.8.0esr-0+tails3~bpo70+1
4072 (fixes Mozilla#1064636).
4073 - Install Linux 3.16-1 from sid (Closes: #7886).
4074 - Upgrade file to 5.11-2+deb7u5 (fixes CVE-2014-0207,
4075 CVE-2014-0237, CVE-2014-0238, CVE-2014-3478, CVE-2014-3479,
4076 CVE-2014-3480, CVE-2014-3487, CVE-2014-3538 and CVE-2014-3587).
4077 - Upgrade curl to 7.26.0-1+wheezy10 (fixes CVE-2014-3613 and
4079 - Upgrade bind9-based packages to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u2
4080 (fixes CVE-2014-0591).
4081 - Upgrade gnupg to 1.4.12-7+deb7u6 (fixes CVE-2014-5270).
4082 - Upgrade apt to 0.9.7.9+deb7u5 (fixes CVE-2014-0487,
4083 CVE-2014-0488, CVE-2014-0489, CVE-2014-0490, and
4085 - Upgrade dbus to 1.6.8-1+deb7u4 (fixes CVE-2014-3635,
4086 CVE-2014-3636, CVE-2014-3637, CVE-2014-3638 and CVE-2014-3639).
4087 - Upgrade libav-based pacakges to 6:0.8.16-1 (fixes
4089 - Upgrade bash to 4.2+dfsg-0.1+deb7u1 (fixes CVE-2014-6271).
4091 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 23 Sep 2014 23:01:40 -0700
4093 tails (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
4096 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.8.0esr-0+tails1~bpo70+1
4097 (Firefox 24.8.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
4098 Also import the Tor Browser profile at commit
4099 271b64b889e5c549196c3ee91c888de88148560f from
4100 ttp/tor-browser-24.8.0esr-3.x-1.
4101 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.23-2~d70.wheezy+1 (fixes CVE-2014-5117).
4102 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.14.1-1~deb7u+1.
4103 - Upgrade Linux to 3.14.15-2 (fixes CVE-2014-3534, CVE-2014-4667
4105 - Upgrade CUPS-based packages to 1.5.3-5+deb7u4 (fixes
4106 CVE-2014-3537, CVE-2014-5029, CVE-2014-5030 and CVE-2014-5031).
4107 - Upgrade libnss3 to 2:3.14.5-1+deb7u1 (fixes CVE-2013-1741,
4108 CVE-2013-5606, CVE-2014-1491 and CVE-2014-1492).
4109 - Upgrade openssl to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u12 (fixes CVE-2014-3505,
4110 CVE-2014-3506, CVE-2014-3507, CVE-2014-3508, CVE-2014-3509,
4111 CVE-2014-3510, CVE-2014-3511, CVE-2014-3512 and CVE-2014-5139).
4112 - Upgrade krb5-based packages to 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u2 (fixes
4113 CVE-2014-4341, CVE-2014-4342, CVE-2014-4343, CVE-2014-4344 and
4115 - Upgrade libav-based packages to 6:0.8.15-1 (fixes CVE-2011-3934,
4116 CVE-2011-3935, CVE-2011-3946, CVE-2013-0848, CVE-2013-0851,
4117 CVE-2013-0852, CVE-2013-0860, CVE-2013-0868, CVE-2013-3672,
4118 CVE-2013-3674 and CVE-2014-2263.
4119 - Upgrade libgpgme11 to 1.2.0-1.4+deb7u1 (fixes CVE-2014-5117).
4120 - Upgrade python-imaging to 1.1.7-4+deb7u1 (fixes CVE-2014-3589).
4121 - Prevent dhclient from sending the hostname over the network
4123 - Override the hostname provided by the DHCP server (Closes: #7769).
4124 - Add an I2P boot parameter. Without adding "i2p" to the kernel
4125 command line, I2P will not be accessible for the Live user.
4126 - Stricter I2P firewall rules:
4127 * deny I2P from accessing the LAN
4128 * deny I2P from accessing the loopback device, except for select
4129 whitelisted services
4130 * allow I2P access to the Internet
4131 The ACCEPT rules will only be enabled when the string 'i2p' is
4132 passed at the boot prompt. The rules which DENY or REJECT
4133 access for the 'i2psvc' user will always be applied.
4134 - Disable I2P plugins, since it doesn't make much sense without
4135 persistence, and should eliminate some attack vectors.
4136 - Disable I2P's BOB port. No maintained I2P application uses it.
4139 - Fix condition clause in tails-security-check (Closes: #7657).
4140 - Don't ship OpenJDK 6: I2P prefers v7, and we don't need both.
4141 - Prevent Tails Installer from updating the system partition
4142 properties on MBR partitions (Closes: #7716).
4144 * Minor improvements
4145 - Upgrade to Torbutton 1.6.12.1.
4146 - Install gnome-user-guide (Closes: #7618).
4147 - Install cups-pk-helper (Closes: #7636).
4148 - Update the SquashFS sort file.
4149 - Compress the SquashFS more aggressively (Closes: #7706).
4150 - I2P: Keep POP3 email on server. The default in the I2P webmail
4151 app was to keep mail on the server, but that setting was changed
4152 recently. This configuration setting (susimail.config) will only
4153 be copied over in I2P 0.9.14 and newer.
4154 - Add a Close button to the Tails Installer launcher window.
4157 - Migrate Vagrant basebox to Debian Wheezy (Closes #7133, #6736).
4158 - Consistently use the same Debian mirror.
4159 - Disable runtime APT proxy configuration when using APT in
4160 binary_local-hooks (Closes: #7691).
4162 * Automated test suite
4163 - Automatically test hostname leaks (Closes: #7712).
4164 - Move autotest live-config hook to be run last. This way we'll
4165 notice if some earlier live-config hook cancels all hooks by
4166 running the automated test suite since the remote shell won't be
4167 running in that case.
4168 - Test that the I2P boot parameter does what it's supposed to do
4170 - Start applications by using the GNOME Applications menu instead
4171 of the GNOME Run Dialog (Closes: #5550, #7060).
4173 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:49:28 +0000
4175 tails (1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
4177 * Rebase on Debian Wheezy
4178 - Upgrade literally thousands of packages.
4179 - Migrate to GNOME3 fallback mode.
4180 - Install LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice.
4181 - Remove custom LSB logging: Wheezy has fancy colored init
4184 * Major new features
4185 - UEFI boot support.
4186 - Replace the Windows XP camouflage with an experimental Windows 8
4188 - Install Linux 3.14.12-1 from Debian unstable.
4189 - Bring back VirtualBox guest modules, installed from Wheezy
4190 backports. Full functionality is only available when using the
4194 - Fix write access to boot medium via udisks (#6172).
4195 - Don't allow the desktop user to pass arguments to
4196 tails-upgrade-frontend (Closes: #7410).
4197 - Make persistent file permissions safer (Closes #7443):
4198 * Make the content of /etc/skel non-world-readable. Otherwise,
4199 such files may be copied to /home/amnesia, and in turn to the
4200 persistent volume, with unsafe permissions. That's no big deal
4201 in /home/amnesia (that is itself not world-readable), *but*
4202 the root of the persistent volume has to be world-readable.
4203 * Have activate_custom_mounts create new directories with safe
4205 * Set strict permissions on /home/amnesia (Closes: #7463).
4206 * Fix permissions on persistent directories that were created
4207 with unsafe permissions (Closes: #7458).
4208 * Fix files ownership while copying persistence (Closes: #7216).
4209 The previous instructions to copy the persistent data were
4210 creating personal files that belong to root. I don't think
4211 there is a way of preserving the original ownership using
4212 Nautilus (unless doing a "move" instead of a "copy" but that's
4213 not what we are trying to do here).
4214 - Disable FoxyProxy's proxy:// protocol handler (Closes: #7479).
4215 FoxyProxy adds the proxy:// protocol handler, which can be used
4216 to configure the proxy via an URI. A malicious web page can
4217 include (or a malicious exit node can inject) some JavaScript
4218 code to visit such an URI and disable or otherwise change
4219 Iceweasel's proxy settings. While using this to disable
4220 proxying will be dealt with safely by our firewall, this could
4221 be used to defeat stream isolation, although the user must be
4222 tricked into accepting the new proxy settings.
4223 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.7.0esr-0+tails1~bpo70+1
4224 (Firefox 24.7.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
4225 - Upgrade to Linux 3.14.12-1 (fixes CVE-2014-4699).
4226 - Upgrade libav-based packages to 0.8.13-1 (fixes CVE-2014-4609).
4227 - Upgrade to libxml2 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy1 (fixes CVE-2014-0191).
4228 - Upgrade to dbus 1.6.8-1+deb7u3 (fixes CVE-2014-3477,
4229 CVE-2014-3532 and CVE-2014-3533).
4232 - Disable GNOME keyring's GnuPG functionality. (Closes: #7330) In
4233 feature/regular-gnupg-agent, we installed the regular GnuPG
4234 agent so that it is used instead of GNOME keyring's one. This is
4235 not enough on Wheezy, so let's disable the starting of the "gpg"
4236 component of GNOME keyring.
4237 - Make sure /etc/default/locale exists, with a sensible default
4238 value (Closes: #7333). Before Tails Greeter's PostLogin script
4239 are run, /etc/default/locale does not exist on Wheezy. Our
4240 tails-kexec initscript (and quite a few other scripts we run)
4241 depends on this file to exist. So, let's make sure it exists,
4242 with a sensible default value.
4243 - Create the tails-persistence-setup user with the same UID/GID it
4244 had on Tails/Squeeze. (Closes: #7343) Else, our various checks
4245 for safe access rights on persistence.conf fail.
4246 - Revert back to browsing the offline documentation using Iceweasel
4247 instead of Yelp (Closes: #7390, #7285).
4248 - Make the new NetworkManager configuration directory persistent,
4249 when the old one was, but disable the old one (Closes: #7338).
4250 - Before running tails-upgrade-frontend, chdir to a world-readable
4251 place (Closes: #7641). In particular, Archive::Tar::Wrapper,
4252 when called by tails-install-iuk, wants to chdir back to the
4253 original cwd after it has chdir'd elsewhere to do its job.
4255 * Minor improvements
4256 - Install seahorse-nautilus, replacing seahorse-plugins (Closes #5516).
4257 - Install hledger (custom backport, for now): our accountants need this.
4258 - Install stable Scribus instead of scribus-ng.
4259 - Install the printer driver for Epson Inkjet that use ESC/P-R.
4260 - Install the BookletImposer PDF imposition toolkit. It's tiny,
4261 and really helpful e.g. when producing booklets.
4262 - Install gtkhash and nautilus-gtkhash (Closes #6763).
4263 - Import new version of Tor Launcher:
4264 · Now based on upstream Tor Launcher 0.2.5.4.
4265 · Tor bug #11772: Proxy Type menu not set correctly
4266 · Tor bug #11699: Change &#160 to   in network-settings.dtd
4267 · Correctly handle startup paths that contain dot.
4268 - Upgrade to Torbutton 1.6.9.0.
4269 - Avoid shipping python2.6 in addition to python2.7.
4270 - Don't install Gobby 0.4 anymore. Gobby 0.5 has been available in
4271 Debian since Squeeze, now is a good time to drop the obsolete
4273 - Require a bit less free memory before checking for upgrades with
4274 Tails Upgrader. The general goal is to avoid displaying "Not
4275 enough memory available to check for upgrades" too often due to
4276 over-cautious memory requirements checked in the wrapper.
4277 - Make Tails Greeter's help window resolution-aware. Previously it
4278 used a static 800x600 which was problematic on lower resolutions,
4279 and sub-optimal on higher resolutions. Now it adapts itself
4280 according to the screen resolution.
4281 - Whisperback now sanitizes attached logs better with respect to
4282 DMI data, IPv6 addresses, and serial numbers (Closes #6797,
4284 - Integrate the new logo in Tails Installer (Closes #7095)
4285 - Also install linux-base and linux-compiler-gcc-4.8-x86 from
4286 sid. This way, we can get rid of our linux-compiler-gcc-4.8-x86
4287 3.12, and it makes things a bit more consistent.
4288 - Include the syslinux binary, and its MBR, in the ISO filesystem.
4289 This in turn allows Tails Installer to use this binary and MBR,
4290 which is critical for avoiding problems (such as #7345) on
4292 - Include syslinux.exe for win32 in utils/win32/ on the ISO
4293 filesystem (Closes: #7425).
4295 * Add consistent margins in GUI.
4296 * Always reset the target drive's MBR, without asking for
4297 confirmation, after installing or upgrading.
4298 * Install the bootloader using the syslinux binary found on the
4299 target device, once the Live OS has been extracted/copied
4301 - Enable double-clicking to pick entries in the language or
4302 keyboard layout lists in Tails Greeter.
4303 - Install backport of shared-mime-info 1.3 (Closes: #7079).
4304 - Make sanity-check prompts closable in Tails Persistence Setup
4306 - Fix quick search in Tails Greeter's Other languages window
4308 - Install systemd. It is not enabled by default, but having it
4309 around will help doing the migration work.
4310 - Enable AppArmor on the kernel command-line. This is a no-op
4311 without the userspace tools and with no profile shipped, but it
4312 will make it easier to fix this part of the situation.
4315 - Bump Vagrant builder's memory for RAM builds. Wheezy requires
4316 more space to build, and the resulting image is larger.
4317 - Fix Vagrant compatibility issue. Some classes' methods/fields
4318 have been renamed between Vagrant versions, so we need a simple
4319 compatibility layer to support all versions. Without this, it's
4320 not possible to issue e.g. a `build` command to an already
4321 running (i.e. `vm:up`:ed) Vagrant instance.
4322 - Move cpu and mem checks to the `build` task. Previously, when
4323 they were checked in `vm:up` *only* when issued while the VM
4324 already is up, so these checks weren't run if one issues a
4325 `build` when the VM is off. Now we'll fail earlier with a more
4326 informative error message, and it looks like a more logical home
4328 - Fix buggy memory checks for RAM building. We have to take into
4329 account which state the Vagrant VM is in for determining *where*
4330 we check if enough memory is available for a RAM build. If it's
4331 off, we check the host; if it's on we check the VM. Previously
4332 we always checked the host, which doesn't make sense when the VM
4335 * Automated test suite
4336 - Bump the tester VM's RAM by 256 MiB. There is not enough free
4337 RAM to run Tails Upgrader with just 1 GiB of RAM after the
4338 migration to Wheezy.
4339 - Always adjust OOM and memory overcommit settings. The kernel
4340 freezes seem to also happen for the amd64 kernel when filling
4342 - Add option to make Sikuli rety on FindFailed. This makes it
4343 possible to update manu images for Sikuli in just *one* test
4344 suite run, by continuously updating outdated pictures as we go.
4345 - Actually run "Upgrade from ISO" from a USB drive running the old
4346 version. That's what users do, and is buggy.
4347 - Automatically test persistent directories permissions (Closes: #7560).
4348 - Use read-write persistence when testing upgraded USB
4349 installations. Otherwise e.g. the permission fixes won't get
4350 applied, and the subsequent steps testing the permissions will
4352 - Actually check that the ISO's Tails is installed. The step
4353 "Tails is installed on USB drive $TARGET" only checks that the
4354 *running* Tails is installed on $TARGET, which obviously fails
4355 when doing an upgrade from ISO running an old Tails. That it
4356 worked for the same scenario running the current Tails is just
4358 - Use OpenJDK 7 to run our test suite (Closes #7175).
4359 - Use qemu-system-x86_64 directly, instead of kvm, for running the
4360 automated test suite (Closes: #7605).
4362 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 20 Jul 2014 23:16:13 +0200
4364 tails (1.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium
4367 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.6.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1
4368 (Firefox 24.6.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
4369 Also import the Tor Browser profile at commit
4370 90ba8fbaf6f23494f1a0e38d63153b3b7e65d3d3 from
4371 ttp/tor-browser-24.6.0esr-3.x-1.
4372 - Install Linux 3.14 from Debian unstable (fixes CVE-2014-3153 and
4374 - Install openssl from Squeeze LTS (fixes CVE-2014-0076,
4375 CVE-2014-0195, CVE-2014-0221, CVE-2014-3470 and CVE-2014-0224).
4376 - Install GnuTLS from Squeeze LTS (fixes CVE-2014-3466.).
4378 * Minor improvements
4379 - Add Squeeze LTS APT sources. It has been given a low pinning
4380 priority so explicit pinning must be used to actually install
4382 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.22-1~d60.squeeze+1.
4383 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.13-1~deb6u+1.
4385 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 08 Jun 2014 19:14:00 +0200
4387 tails (1.0) unstable; urgency=medium
4390 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.5.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1
4391 (Firefox 24.5.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
4392 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.21-1+tails1~d60.squeeze+1:
4393 * Based on 0.2.4.21-1~d60.squeeze+1.
4394 * Backport the fix for Tor bug #11464. It adds client-side blacklists for
4395 all Tor directory authority keys that was vulnerable to Heartbleed.
4396 This protects clients in case attackers were able to compromise a
4397 majority of the authority signing and identity keys.
4400 - Disable inbound I2P connections. Tails already restricts incoming
4401 connections, but this change tells I2P about it.
4402 - Fix link to the system requirements documentation page in the Tails
4403 Upgrader error shown when too little RAM is available.
4405 * Minor improvements
4406 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.12-2~deb6u+1.
4407 - Import TorBrowser profile. This was forgotten in Tails 0.23 and even
4408 though we didn't explicitly set those preferences in that release
4409 they defaulted to the same values. This future-proofs us in case the
4410 defaults would ever change.
4411 - Import new custom version of tor-launcher:
4412 * Based on upstream Tor Launcher 0.2.5.3.
4413 * Improve how Tor Launcher handles incomplete translation.
4414 (Tor bug #11483; more future-proof fix for Tails bug #6885)
4415 * Remove the bridge settings prompt. (Tor bug #11482; closes Tails
4417 * Always show bridge help button. (Tor bug #11484)
4418 - Integrate the new Tails logo into various places:
4421 * The "About Tails" dialog
4424 - Use the stable APT suite when building from the stable Git branch
4428 - Add test for the #7022 fix.
4430 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 27 Apr 2014 19:34:01 +0200
4432 tails (0.23) unstable; urgency=medium
4435 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.4.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1
4436 (Firefox 24.4.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
4438 * Major new features
4439 - Spoof the network interfaces' MAC address by default (Closes: #5421),
4440 as designed on https://tails.boum.org/contribute/design/MAC_address/.
4441 - Rework the way to configure how Tor connects to the network
4442 (bridges, proxy, fascist firewall): add an option to Tails Greeter,
4443 start Tor Launcher when needed (Closes: #5920, #5343).
4446 - Additional software: do not crash when persistence is disabled
4448 - Upgrade Pidgin to 2.10.9, that fixes some regressions introduced
4449 in the 2.10.8 security update (Closes: #6661).
4450 - Wait for Tor to have fully bootstrapped, plus a bit more time,
4451 before checking for upgrades (Closes: #6728) and unfixed known
4453 - Disable the Intel Management Engine Interface driver (Closes: #6460).
4454 We don't need it in Tails, it might be dangerous, and it causes bugs
4455 on various hardware such as systems that reboot when asked to shut down
4456 - Add a launcher for the Tails documentation. This makes it available
4457 in Windows Camouflage mode (Closes: #5374, #6767).
4458 - Remove the obsolete wikileaks.de account from Pidgin (Closes: #6807).
4460 * Minor improvements
4461 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.21-1~d60.squeeze+1.
4462 - Upgrade obfsproxy to 0.2.6-2~~squeeze+1.
4463 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.11-1deb6u1.
4464 - Install 64-bit kernel instead of the 686-pae one (Closes: #5456).
4465 This is a necessary first step towards UEFI boot support.
4466 - Install Monkeysign (in a not-so-functional shape yet).
4467 - Disable the autologin text consoles (Closes: #5588). This was one of
4468 the blockers before a screen saver can be installed
4469 in a meaningful way (#5684).
4470 - Don't localize the text consoles anymore: it is broken on Wheezy,
4471 the intended users can as well use loadkeys, and we now do not have
4472 to trust setupcon to be safe for being run as root by the desktop user.
4473 - Make it possible to manually start IBus.
4474 - Reintroduce the possibility to switch identities in the Tor Browser,
4475 using a filtering proxy in front of the Tor ControlPort to avoid giving
4476 full control over Tor to the desktop user (Closes: #6383).
4477 - Incremental upgrades improvements:
4478 · Drop the Tails Upgrader launcher, to limit users' confusion
4480 · Lock down sudo credentials a bit.
4481 · Hide debugging information (Closes: #6505).
4482 · Include ~/.xsession-errors in WhisperBack bug reports.
4483 This captures the Tails Upgrader errors and debugging information.
4484 · Report more precisely why an incremental upgrade cannot be done
4486 · Various user interface and phrasing improvements.
4487 - Don't install the Cookie Monster browser extension (Closes: #6790).
4488 - Add a browser bookmark pointing to Tor's Stack Exchange (Closes: #6632).
4489 - Remove the preconfigured #tor channel from the Pidgin: apparently,
4490 too many Tails users go ask Tails questions there, without making
4491 it clear that they are running Tails, hence creating a user-support
4492 nightmare (Closes: #6679).
4493 - Use (most of) Tor Browser's mozconfig (Closes: #6474).
4494 - Rebase the browser on top of iceweasel 24.3.0esr-1, to get
4495 the certificate authorities added by Debian back (Closes: #6704).
4496 - Give access to the relevant documentation pages from Tails Greeter.
4497 - Hide Tails Greeter's password mismatch warning when entry is changed.
4498 - Persistent Volume Assistant:
4499 · Take into account our installer is now called Tails Installer.
4500 · Optimize window height (Closes: #5458).
4501 · Display device paths in a more user-friendly way (Closes: #5311).
4504 - Ease updating POT and PO files at release time, and importing translations
4505 from Transifex (Closes: #6288, #6207).
4506 - Drop custom poedit backport, install it from squeeze-backports-sloppy.
4507 - Make ISO and IUK smaller (Closes: #6390, #6425):
4508 · Exclude more files from being included in the ISO.
4509 · Remove *.pyc later so that they are not recreated.
4510 · Truncate log files later so that they are not filled again.
4511 · At ISO build time, set mtime to the epoch for large files whose content
4512 generally does not change between releases. This forces rsync
4513 to compare the actual content of these files, when preparing an IUK,
4514 instead of blindly adding it to the IUK merely because the mtime
4515 has changed, while the content is the same.
4516 - Make local hooks logging consistent.
4519 - Migrate from JRuby to native Ruby + rjb.
4520 - The test suite can now be run on Debian Wheezy + backports.
4521 - Fix buggy "persistence is not enabled" step (Closes: #5465).
4522 - Use IPv6 private address as of RFC 4193 for the test suite's virtual
4523 network. Otherwise dnsmasq from Wheezy complains, as it is not capable
4524 of handling public IPv6 addresses.
4525 - Delete volumes after each scenario unless tagged @keep_volumes.
4526 - Add an anti-test to make sure the memory erasure test works fine.
4527 - A *lot* of bugfixes, simplifications and robustness improvements.
4529 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 18 Mar 2014 00:58:50 +0100
4531 tails (0.22.1) unstable; urgency=medium
4534 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.3.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+2
4535 (Firefox 24.3.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
4536 - Upgrade NSS to 3.14.5-1~bpo60+1.
4537 - Upgrade Pidgin to 2.10.8.
4538 - Workaround browser size fingerprinting issue by using small icons
4539 in the web browser's navigation toolbar (Closes: #6377).
4540 We're actually hit by Tor#9268, and this is the best workaround gk
4541 and I were able to find when discussing this on Tor#10095.
4543 * Major new features
4544 - Check for upgrades availability using Tails Upgrader, and propose
4545 to apply an incremental upgrade whenever possible (Closes: #6014).
4546 · Run tails-update-frontend at session login time.
4547 · Have tails-security-check only report unfixed security issues.
4548 · Greatly improve the Tails Upgrader UI and strings phrasing.
4549 · Enable startup notification for Tails Upgrader.
4550 - Install Linux 3.12 (3.12.6-2) from Debian testing. Unfortunately,
4551 this breaks the memory wipe feature on some hardware (#6460), but
4552 it fixes quite a few security issues, and improves hardware support.
4553 - Update the build system to be compatible with Vagrant 1.2 and 1.3,
4554 in addition to the already supported versions (Closes: #6221).
4555 Thanks to David Isaac Wolinsky <isaac.wolinsky@gmail.com>.
4558 - Do not start IBus for languages that don't need it. This fixes
4559 the keybindings problems introduced in 0.22 (Closes: #6478).
4560 Thanks to WinterFairy.
4561 - Disable network.proxy.socks_remote_dns in the Unsafe Browser.
4562 Bugfix against 0.22 (Closes: #6479).
4563 - Fetch Tor Browser User-Agent from its own prefs, rather than from
4564 the obsolete Torbutton ones. Bugfix against 0.22 (Closes: #6477).
4565 - Upgrade Vagrant basebox to include up-to-date Debian archive keys
4566 (Closes: #6515, #6527).
4567 - Do not use a non-working proxy for downloading the Vagrant basebox
4569 - Use IE's icon in Windows camouflage mode.
4570 Bugfix against 0.22 (Closes: #6536).
4571 - Support "upgrading" a partial Tails installation (Closes: #6438)
4572 and fix missing confirmation dialog in Tails Installer (Closes: #6437).
4573 Thanks to Andres Gomez Ramirez <andres.gomez@cern.ch>.
4574 - Fix browser homepage in Spanish locales (Closes: #6612).
4576 * Minor improvements
4577 - Tor 0.2.4 is stable! Adapt APT sources accordingly.
4578 - Update Tor Browser to 24.2.0esr-1+tails1, that uses its own NSS
4579 library instead of the system one.
4580 - Update Torbutton to 1.6.5.3.
4581 - Do not start Tor Browser automatically, but notify when Tor is ready.
4582 Warn the user when they attempt to start Tor Browser before Tor is ready.
4583 - Import Tor Browser profile at
4584 3ed5d9511e783deb86835803a6f40e7d5a182a12 from ttp/tor-browser-24.2.0esr-1.
4585 - Use http.debian.net for Vagrant builds, instead of the mostly broken
4586 (and soon obsolete) cdn.debian.net.
4587 - Phrasing and UI improvements in tails-upgrade-frontend.
4588 - Style and robustness improvements in tails-security-check.
4589 - Make room for upcoming UEFI support in Tails Installer.
4591 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:08:13 +0100
4593 tails (0.22) unstable; urgency=medium
4597 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 24.2.0esr that fixes a few serious security issues.
4598 - Stop migrating persistence configuration and access rights. Instead,
4599 disable all persistence configuration files if the mountpoint has wrong
4600 access rights (Closes: #6413).
4601 - Upgrade to NSS 3.15.3 that fixes a few serious security issues affecting
4602 the browser, such as CVE-2013-1741, CVE-2013-5605 and CVE-2013-5606.
4604 * Major improvements
4605 - Switch to Iceweasel 24 (Closes: #6370).
4606 · Resync' (most) Iceweasel prefs with TBB 3.0-beta-1 and get rid
4607 of many obsolete or default settings.
4608 · Disable WebRTC (Closes: #6468).
4609 · Import TorBrowser profile at commit
4610 51bf06502c46ee6c1f587459e8370aef11a3422d from the tor-browser-24.2.0esr-1
4611 branch at https://git.torproject.org/tor-browser.git.
4612 - Switch to Torbutton 1.6.5 (Closes: #6371).
4613 · Prevent Torbutton from asking users to "upgrade TBB".
4614 · Use the same Tor SOCKS port as the TBB (9151) for our web browser.
4615 This should be enough to avoid being affected by Tor#8511.
4616 · Disable Torbutton 1.6's check for Tor.
4617 Unfortunately, the new check.torproject.org breaks the remote Tor
4618 check. We cannot use the local Tor check with the control port. So,
4619 the shortest and sanest path to fixing the check issue, because the
4620 remote Tor check is broken" seems to simply disable this check.
4621 Patch submitted upstream as Tor#10216.
4622 - Prepare incremental upgrades to be the next default way to upgrade Tails,
4623 on point-releases at least.
4626 - Deny X authentication only after Vidalia exits (Closes: #6389).
4627 - Disable DPMS screen blanking (Closes: #5617).
4628 - Fix checking of the persistent volume's ACL.
4629 - Sanitize more IP and MAC addresses in bug reports (Closes: #6391).
4630 - Do not fail USB upgrade when the "tmp" directory exists on the
4632 - Tails Installer: list devices with isohybrid Tails installed
4635 * Minor improvements
4636 - Create a configuration file for additional software if needed
4638 - Translations all over the place.
4639 - Enable favicons in Iceweasel.
4640 - Do not propose to make permanent NoScript exceptions.
4641 In Tails, every such thing is temporary, so better only display the menu
4642 entry that's about temporarily allowing something.
4643 - Clearer warning when deleting persistent volume (thanks to Andres Gomez
4644 Ramirez <andres.gomez@cern.ch> for the patch).
4645 - Make wording in Tails Installer more consistent.
4648 * Use IBus instead of SCIM (Closes: #5624, #6206).
4649 It makes it possible to input passwords in pinentry for at least Japanese,
4650 Chinese and Korean languages.
4651 * Add an import-translation script.
4652 This automates the importation process of completed translations
4654 * Always list optimal keyboard layout in the greeter (Closes: #5741).
4655 * Fix on-the-fly translation of the greeter in various languages
4659 * Update I2P to 0.9.8.1 (Closes: #6080, #5889).
4660 * Improve I2P configuration:
4661 - Disable IPv6 support in a nicer way.
4662 - Disable i2cp (allows java clients to communicate from outside the JVM). If
4663 this is unset an exception for port 7654 would need to be added to ferm.
4664 - Disable "in-network" updates (this is also done in the regular I2P
4666 - Disable the outproxies. Access to the Internet is already routed through
4667 Tor so these are unnecessary. If end-users have a good reason to go
4668 through one of the I2P outproxies they can turn them back on.
4669 * Add a couple of default I2P IRC channels to Pidgin.
4670 * Allow access to the local 'eepsite' through FoxyProxy.
4671 * Add firewall exceptions for the standard I2P ports.
4673 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 30 Nov 2013 16:47:18 +0100
4675 tails (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4678 - Don't grant access to the Tor control port for the desktop user
4679 (amnesia). Else, an attacker able to run arbitrary code as this user
4680 could obtain the public IP with a get_info command.
4681 · Vidalia is now run as a dedicated user.
4682 · Remove the amnesia user from the debian-tor group.
4683 · Remove the Vidalia launcher in the Applications menu.
4684 The Vidalia instance it starts is useless, since it can't connect
4685 to the Tor control port.
4686 - Don't allow the desktop user to directly change persistence settings.
4687 Else, an attacker able to run arbitrary code as this user could
4688 leverage this feature to gain persistent root access, as long as
4689 persistence is enabled.
4690 · Fully rework the persistent filesystem and files ownership
4692 · Run the Persistent Volume Assistant as a dedicated user, that is
4693 granted the relevant udisks and filesystem -level credentials.
4694 · At persistence activation time, don't trust existing persistence
4695 configuration files, migrate to the new ownership and permissions,
4696 migrate every known-safe existing settings and backup what's left.
4697 Warn the user when not all persistence settings could be migrated.
4698 · Persistent Volume Assistant uses the new ownership and permissions
4699 scheme when initializing a new persistent volume, and refuses to
4700 read persistence.conf if it, or the parent directory, hasn't the
4701 expected permissions.
4702 · Make boot medium 'system internal' for udisks with bilibop.
4703 Once Tails is based on Wheezy, this will further complete the
4704 protection (see #6172 for details).
4705 - Update Iceweasel to 17.0.10esr-0+tails2~bpo60+1.
4706 - Update Torbutton to 1.5.2-2, including a patch cherry-picked from
4707 upstream to make window resizing closer to what the design says.
4709 * Major new features
4710 - Add a persistence preset for printing settings (Closes: #5686).
4711 Reload CUPS configuration after persistence activation.
4712 - Support SD card connected through a SDIO host adapter (Closes: #6324).
4713 · Rebrand Tails USB installer to Tails installer.
4714 · Display devices brand, model and size in the Installer
4716 · Ask for confirmation before installing Tails onto a device
4718 · Add support for SDIO and MMC block devices to the Tails Installer
4719 (Closes: #5744) and the Persistent Volume Assistant (Closes: #6325).
4720 · Arm the udev watchdog when booted from SD (plugged in SDIO) too
4723 * Minor improvements
4724 - Provide a consistent path to the persistent volume mountpoint
4726 - Add a KeePassX launcher to the top GNOME panel (Closes: #6290).
4727 - Rework bug reporting workflow: point the desktop launcher to
4728 the troubleshooting page.
4729 - Make /home world-readable at build time, regardless of the Git
4730 working copy permissions. This makes the build process more robust
4731 against strict umasks.
4732 - Add signing capabilities to the tails-build script (Closes: #6267).
4733 This is in turn used to sign ISO images built by our Jenkins setup
4735 - Simplify the ikiwiki setup and make more pages translatable.
4736 - Exclude the version string in GnuPG's ASCII armored output.
4737 - Prefer stronger ciphers (AES256,AES192,AES,CAST5) when encrypting
4739 - Use the same custom Startpage search URL than the TBB.
4740 This apparently disables the new broken "family" filter.
4741 - Update AdBlock Plus patterns.
4742 - Install Linux from Debian testing.
4743 (That is, the same version that was shipped in 0.20.1.)
4746 - Look for "/tmp/.X11-unix/X${1#:}" too when detecting displays in use.
4747 - Adapt tests to match the Control Port access security fix:
4748 · Take into account that the amnesia user isn't part of the debian-tor
4750 · Run as root the checks to see if a process is running: this
4751 is required to see other users' processes.
4753 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2013 23:42:46 +0200
4755 tails (0.20.1) unstable; urgency=low
4757 * Major new features
4758 - Install Tor 0.2.4.17-rc-1~d60.squeeze+1 from the Tor project's repository.
4759 - Install Iceweasel 17.0.9esr with Torbrowser patches.
4760 - Install Linux kernel 3.10-3 (version 3.10.11-1) from sid.
4763 - Remount persistence devices read-only at shutdown/reboot time
4765 - Greeter: display a warning icon on admin password mismatch and on
4766 persistence unlocking failure. Thanks to Andres Gomez Ramirez
4767 <andres.gomez@cern.ch> for the fix!
4768 - Don't torsocksify Pidgin.
4769 Instead we disable Pidgin's GNOME integration to get the "Global proxy
4770 configuration", which we set to use Tor. This fixes the I2P IRC account.
4771 - Additional software: fix typo in notification.
4772 - Allow installing "Priority: standard" packages that we do not install
4773 by default: remove them late in the build process instead of assigning
4774 them a -1 APT pinning level.
4776 * Minor improvements
4777 - Update AdBlock Plus patterns.
4778 - Use more unique ISO file name when building from Jenkins.
4779 - Additional software: point to the system log on upgrade failure.
4780 - Set SOCKS5_USER and SOCKS5_PASSWORD in the connect-socks wrapper (used
4781 by Git). Else, Tor 0.2.4's IsolateSOCKSAuth and connect-proxy
4782 sometimes play together in some way that makes connect-proxy ask for
4783 a password to connect to the SocksPort. SOCKS5_USER and
4784 SOCKS5_PASSWORD are passed through unchanged if they were manually set
4785 by the user already.
4786 - Use our custom connect-socks wrapper for SSH. Else, Tor 0.2.4's
4787 IsolateSOCKSAuth and connect-proxy sometimes play together in some way
4788 that makes connect-proxy ask for a password to connect to the
4789 SocksPort. Note that connect-socks uses the default SocksPort too, so
4790 no change here wrt. our connection isolation design.
4793 - Import new translations from Transifex.
4796 - Fix old ISO checking for consistent error reporting.
4797 - Remove custom persistence test from manual test suite.
4798 It was removed for the GUI in t-p-s 0.33.
4800 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2013 15:49:36 +0200
4802 tails (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4804 * Major new features
4805 - Install Linux kernel 3.10.3-1 from Debian unstable.
4806 - Iceweasel 17.0.8esr + Torbrowser patches.
4809 - Prevent Iceweasel from displaying a warning when leaving HTTPS web sites.
4810 - Make Iceweasel use the correct, localized search engine.
4811 - Fix Git access to https:// repositories.
4813 * Minor improvements
4814 - Install Dasher, a predictive text entry tool.
4815 - Add a wrapper around TrueCrypt which displays a warning about it soon
4816 being deprecated in Tails.
4817 - Remove Pidgin libraries for all protocols but IRC and Jabber/XMPP.
4818 Many of the other protocols Pidgin support are broken in Tails and
4819 haven't got any security auditting.
4820 - Disable the pre-defined Pidgin accounts so they do not auto-connect
4822 - Include information about Alsa in WhisperBack reports.
4823 - Explicitly restrict access to ptrace. While this setting was enabled
4824 by default in Debian's Linux 3.9.6-1, it will later disabled in 3.9.7-1.
4825 It's unclear what will happen next, so let's explicitly enable it ourselves.
4826 - Do not display dialog when a message is sent in Claws Mail.
4827 - Sync iceweasel preferences with the Torbrowser's.
4830 - Many translation updates all over the place.
4831 - Merge all Tails-related POT files into one, and make use of intltoolize
4832 for better integration with Transifex.
4834 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:19:57 +0200
4836 tails (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4838 * Major new features
4839 - Install Linux kernel 3.9.5-1 from Debian unstable.
4840 Features of particular interest for Tails are the Yama LSM
4841 (ptrace scope restrictions) and improved hardware support.
4842 As a corollary, install initramfs-tools from there too.
4843 - Iceweasel 17.0.7esr + Torbrowser patches.
4844 - Unblock Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, WWAN and WiMAX; block every other type of
4845 wireless device. Next steps are described on the
4846 todo/protect_against_external_bus_memory_forensics ticket.
4849 - Fix write access to boot medium at the block device level,
4850 by installing bilibop-udev. Thanks to quidame for his support.
4851 - tails-greeter l10n-related fixes, thanks to winterfairy:
4852 · Fix so translations is applied on password mismatch messages.
4853 · Separate forward and login buttons and make them translatable.
4854 - Fix link to documentation when no sudo password is set.
4855 - gpgApplet: partial fix for clipboard emptying after a wrong passphrase
4857 - Workaround aufs bug in Unsafe Browser script.
4859 * Minor improvements
4860 - Drop GNOME proxy settings: we did not find any use of it we were keen
4861 to support, other than two programs (Seahorse, Pidgin) that are now run
4863 - Format newly created persistent volumes as ext4.
4864 - GnuPG: don't connect to the keyserver specified by the key owner.
4865 This feature opens the door to a variety of subtle attacks.
4866 - GnuPG: locate keys only from local keyrings.
4867 This is probably the default, but better safe than sorry.
4868 - Install virt-what from Wheezy.
4869 The version from Squeeze does not detect at least Parallels for Mac v.8.
4870 - Upgrade live-boot and live-config to the 3.0.x final version from Wheezy.
4871 · Remove /live and /lib/live/image compatibility symlinks.
4872 · Add /live/overlay -> /lib/live/mount/overlay symlink.
4873 The live-boot changes (commit d2b2a461) brought to fix Debian bug
4874 #696495 revert some of our previous changes (commit 77dab1cb), and as
4875 a result, at the time live-persist runs, no tmpfs is mounted on
4876 /live/overlay, which breaks the aufs mount. So, let's just ensure
4877 /live/overlay points to a tmpfs.
4878 · Really disable policykit and sudo live-config hooks.
4879 ... by making it believe they've already been run.
4880 This workarounds new live-config's default behavior.
4883 - Many translation updates all over the place.
4886 - Re-enable previously disabled boot device permissions test.
4888 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:36:20 +0200
4890 tails (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4893 - Support obfs3 bridges.
4894 - Automatically install a custom list of additional packages chosen by
4895 the user at the beginning of every working session, and upgrade them
4896 once a network connection is established (technology preview).
4899 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.6esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1.
4900 - Update Torbrowser patches to current maint-2.4 branch (567682b).
4901 - Isolate DOM storage to first party URI, and enable DOM storage:
4902 don't set dom.storage.enabled anymore, and set Torbutton's
4903 disable_domstorage to false.
4904 - Isolate the image cache per url bar domain.
4905 - Torbutton 1.5.2, and various prefs hacks to fix breakage:
4906 · Add .saved version of the Torbutton preferences the TBB also sets.
4907 · Set TOR_SOCKS_HOST and TOR_SOCKS_PORT.
4908 · Move some prefs (network.proxy.*, extensions.autoDisableScopes,
4909 extensions.foxyproxy.last-version) to user.js.
4910 Else, with Torbutton 1.5.x, these ones are not taken into account.
4911 · Set network.proxy.socks_version.
4912 Else we get the meaningless user_pref("network.proxy.socks_version", 9063);
4913 in prefs.js after the initial startup.
4914 · Set extensions.foxyproxy.socks_remote_dns to true.
4915 Else, it overrides the various ways we set network.proxy.socks_remote_dns,
4916 which in turn makes Torbutton think it should start in non-Tor mode.
4917 · Also pass the TOR_SOCKS_* environment variables to iceweasel when
4918 generating the profile: Torbutton behaves differently depending on
4919 these variables, so we don't want the initial profile generation to be
4920 done without them. In practice, this has no implication that we could
4921 see right now, but better safe than sorry.
4922 · Import all version overrides from the TBB prefs.
4923 Else, the User-Agent sent in the HTTP headers is fine, but real
4924 values leak with JavaScript, as demonstrated by ip-check's "Browser
4926 · Move a bunch of settings to user_pref(), that are not applied otherwise.
4927 For some, this fixes a regression in 0.18~rc1.
4928 For other, the bug was already present in Tails 0.17.2.
4929 - HTTPS Everywhere 3.2.
4930 - Update prefs to match the TBB's, fix bugs, and take advantage of the latest
4932 · Increase pipeline randomization.
4933 · Fix @font-face handling of local() fonts.
4934 Also disable fallback font rendering.
4935 · Explicitly disable SPDY v2 and v3.
4936 · Update http pipelining prefs.
4937 - Make prefs organization closer to the TBB's:
4938 · Remove Torbutton prefs that we set at their default value.
4939 · Import Torbutton preferences from the TBB.
4940 · Organize iceweasel config files in sections the same way as the TBB.
4942 · Don't set extensions.torbutton.clear_cookies nor
4943 extensions.torbutton.saved.share_proxy_settings:
4944 we don't care about toggling anymore.
4945 · Don't set extensions.torbutton.saved.download_retention nor
4946 extensions.torbutton.saved.search_suggest:
4947 these settings are not used in Torbutton anymore.
4948 - Update unsafe browser prefs mangling accordingly.
4949 - Move network.protocol-handler.warn-external.* to user_pref().
4950 Else they're not applied.
4951 These prefs are actually ignored by Firefox these days -- the TBB
4952 design doc reads "They are set still anyway out of respect for the
4953 dead". Let's go on doing the same.
4954 - Update extensions.adblockplus.currentVersion.
4955 - Fetch xul-ext-https-everywhere (3.2-2) and xul-ext-noscript (2.6.6.1-1)
4956 from Debian unstable. They were uploaded there, and accordingly removed
4960 - Linux 3.2.41-2+deb7u2.
4961 - Fixed swapped filenames of tails-{reboot,shutdown}.desktop.
4962 Thanks to Mikko Harhanen for the patch.
4963 - Only add ClientTransportPlugin to torrc when bridge mode is enabled.
4964 This should bring back support for proxies of type other than obfsproxy.
4966 * Minor improvements
4967 - Set kernel.dmesg_restrict=1, and make /proc/<pid>/ invisible
4968 and restricted for other users. It makes it slightly harder for an attacker
4969 to gather information that may allow them to escalate privileges.
4970 - Install gnome-screenshot.
4971 - Don't disable IPv6 on all network interfaces anymore.
4972 It turns out the IPv6 leaks we wanted to fix actually don't exist.
4973 - Add a "About Tails" launcher in the System menu.
4974 - Install GNOME accessibility themes.
4975 - Use 'Getting started...' as the homepage for Tails documentation button.
4976 - Stop relying on the obsolete /live/image compatibility symlink.
4977 - Disable audio preview in Nautilus.
4978 - Wheezy was released => Squeeze is now oldstable.
4979 - Pick Tor from deb.torproject.org regardless of the release name they
4980 advertise. At some point we needed it, their APT repository still thought
4981 that stable == Squeeze.
4982 - Add Wheezy APT sources.
4983 - Install Linux and related packages from Wheezy.
4984 Debian sid just got Linux 3.8, and we don't want to switch to a new kernel
4986 - Fetch laptop-mode-tools from Wheezy.
4987 Wheezy has the version we've been installing in 0.18~rc1,
4988 while a newer one was uploaded to sid in the meantime.
4989 - Fetch a few packages from Wheezy instead of unstable.
4990 Namely: spice-vdagent, libregexp-common-perl, macchanger, service-wrapper,
4991 libservice-wrapper-java and libservice-wrapper-jni.
4992 Wheezy has the versions we've been installing for a while, so let's
4993 avoid having unstable push a newer one to us uselessly at some point.
4994 Note that at the time of this writing, the versions in sid and in Wheezy
4995 are the same, so this commit is effectively a no-op as of today: it is
4996 merely a safeguard for the future.
4999 - Many translation updates all over the place.
5002 - Make Vagrant's build-tails script support Jenkins too.
5005 - Fix Unsafe Browser test broken by hidepid.
5007 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 13 May 2013 22:17:38 +0200
5009 tails (0.17.2) unstable; urgency=low
5012 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.5esr-0+tails2~bpo60+1.
5013 - Stop displaying obsolete context menu entries ("Open Tor URL" and friends).
5016 - Update Linux to 3.2.41-2
5019 - Use more reliable OpenPGP keyservers:
5020 · use the hkps pool in GnuPG (and import their SSL CA)
5021 · use hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net in Seahorse (as it does not support
5023 - Keep udisks users (GNOME Disk Utility, tails-persistence-setup, etc.)
5024 from resetting the system partition's attributes when manipulating the
5025 partition table. To this end, backport the relevant bugfix from Wheezy
5026 into parted 2.3-5+tails1. This allowed to remove the sgdisk-based
5027 workaround in tais-persistence-setup, and to stop installing
5028 python-parted. All this is a first needed step to fix
5029 todo/make_system_disk_read-only in a future release.
5031 * Minor improvements
5032 - Disable NoScript's HTML5 media click-to-play for better user experience.
5035 - Tails USB installer: update translations for French, German, Spanish,
5036 Finnish, Greek, Italian, Latvian, Dutch, Polish and Chinese.
5037 - Tails Greeter: update translations for Farsi, Chinese, French;
5038 new translations: Finnish, Norwegian Bokmål, Galician.
5039 - tails-persistence-setup: update Farsi and Chinese translations;
5040 import new translations for Finnish and Swedish.
5041 - WhisperBack: update translations for Arabic, French, German, Greek,
5042 Spanish, Korean, Polish, Russian. New translations: Finnish, Chinese.
5045 - Add automated testing framework (Sikuli, Cucumber, libvirt -based)
5046 with a bunch of tests.
5048 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:17:26 +0200
5050 tails (0.17.1) unstable; urgency=low
5053 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.4esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1.
5056 - Update Linux to 3.2.39-2.
5057 It includes the drm and agp subsystems from Linux 3.4.29.
5058 - Don't install xserver-xorg-video-rendition backport.
5059 xserver-xorg-video-rendition has been removed from squeeze-backports
5060 due to an upstream tarball mismatch discover when merging backports
5061 into the main Debian archive, and xserver-xorg-video-all still depends
5062 on it, so we explicitly install all drivers from -all but -rendition
5063 as a (hopefully temporary) workaround.
5065 * Minor improvements
5066 - Remove Indymedia IRC account, until we ship a version of Pidgin
5067 with SASL support, that is when Tails is based on Wheezy.
5070 - Don't ship the wiki's todo and bugs on ISO images.
5072 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:54:11 +0100
5074 tails (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5077 - Install the KeePassX password manager, with a configuration and
5078 documentation that makes it easy to persist the password database.
5081 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.3esr-1+tails1~bpo60+1.
5082 - Install xul-ext-adblock-plus from squeeze-backports.
5083 - Do not allow listing all available fonts.
5084 Set browser.display.max_font_attempts and browser.display.max_font_count
5085 to enable the Torbrowser Limit-the-number-of-fonts-per-document patch.
5086 - Set default spellchecker dictionary to English (USA),
5087 and localize it according to locale with our custom branding extension.
5088 - Disable the add-ons automatic update feature.
5089 - Make the generated profile world-readable.
5090 - Remove NoScript click-to-play confirmation.
5091 - Sync some prefs set by Torbutton, to be ready when it stops setting these.
5092 - Disable navigation timing.
5093 - Disable SPDY. It stores state and may have keepalive issues.
5094 - More aggressive iceweasel HTTP pipelining settings.
5095 - Enable WebGL (as click-to-play only).
5096 - Disable network.http.connection-retry-timeout.
5097 - Disable full path information for plugins.
5098 - Remove NoScript blocks of WebFonts.
5099 - Disable DOM storage in Torbutton.
5100 Since we don't apply the 0026-Isolate-DOM-storage-to-first-party-URI.patch
5101 Torbrowser patch yet, and still disable DOM storage, we need to tell
5102 Torbutton not to use it.
5103 - Synchronize iceweasel's general.useragent.override with TBB based on FF17.
5104 The User-Agent settings are not kept up-to-date anymore in Torbutton, so
5105 we have to keep in sync manually with TBB's settings.
5106 - Remove obsolete APT pining for Torbutton.
5107 It's not maintained in Debian anymore, so we now fetch it from our own
5109 - Fetch FoxyProxy from Debian experimental and libnspr4-0d from
5110 squeeze-backports, for compatibility with Iceweasel 17.
5111 - Rebase bookmarks file on top of the default iceweasel 17 one.
5112 - Explicitly disable AdBlock Plus "correct typos" feature.
5113 This feature connects to http://urlfixer.org/.
5114 It is disabled by default in 2.2-1, but let's be careful.
5116 * Minor improvements
5117 - Upgrade to live-boot 3.0~b11-1 and live-config 3.0.12-1.
5118 Accordingly update the 9980-permissions hook, live-persist,
5119 unsafe-browser and boot-profile.
5120 Add compatibility symlinks from /live to /lib/live, and from /live/image
5121 to /lib/live/mount/medium, to ease the transition.
5122 - Check for errors when sourcing live-boot files, e.g. to detect when
5123 they have been renamed upstream.
5124 - Don't add "quiet" to the kernel command-line ourselves.
5125 Else, it appears twice as live-build's lb_binary_syslinux adds it too.
5126 Historically, we've been adding it ourselves on top of that because
5127 lb_binary_yaboot does not add it, but since we gave up the PowerPC support
5128 attempt, we're now only interested in syslinux, so let's make it easier
5129 for the general case, e.g. when one wants to remove the "quiet" parameter
5130 as suggested by our "Tails does not start" debugging documentation.
5131 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.4.
5134 - Many bugfixes brought by the Debian Squeeze 6.0.7 point-release.
5135 - Use the regular GnuPG agent + pinentry-gtk2 instead of Seahorse
5136 as a GnuPG agent. This fixes usage of OpenPGP in Claws Mail,
5137 and brings support for OpenPGP smartcards.
5138 - Enable I2P hidden mode.
5139 Else, killing I2P ungracefully is bad for the I2P network.
5140 - live-persist: move error() function before the first potential usecase.
5141 - Add missing executable bit on restart-tor and restart-vidalia.
5142 - Add shutdown and reboot launchers to the menu.
5143 This workarounds the lack of a shutdown helper applet in camouflage mode.
5144 - Remove Pidgin's MXit and Sametime support.
5145 ... at least until CVE-2013-0273, CVE-2013-0272 and CVE-2013-0271 are
5146 fixed in Debian stable. While we're at it, don't force file removal in
5147 these "set -e" build scripts: fail hard, instead of silently ignoring
5148 the fact that files may have moved or disappeared.
5151 - Install recent Intel and AMD microcode from squeeze-backports,
5152 explicitly excluding the iucode-tool package that's not a good idea
5154 - Install firmware loader for Qualcomm Gobi USB chipsets.
5155 This is needed to have various mobile broadband chipsets work.
5156 - Upgrade barry to 0.18.3-5~bpo60+1.
5157 This much improved new version supports more hardware & ISP,
5158 and does not display dozens of spurious error messages at boot time.
5161 - Remove APT local cache (/Var/cache/apt/{,src}pkgcache.bin).
5163 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:37:57 +0100
5165 tails (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5167 * Minor improvements
5168 - Replace the too-easy-to-misclick shutdown button with a better
5169 "Shutdown Helper" Gnome applet.
5170 - Display ~/Persistent in GNOME Places and GtkFileChooser if it is mounted.
5171 - Set Unsafe Browser's window title to "Unsafe Browser".
5172 - Install ekeyd to support the EntropyKey.
5173 - Install font for Sinhala.
5174 - Update Poedit to 1.5.4.
5175 - Kill Vidalia when restarting Tor.
5176 Doing this as early as possible exposes Vidalia's "broken onion" icon
5178 - Hide the persistence setup launchers in kiosk mode.
5179 - Add a shell library for Tor functions.
5180 These are shared among multiple of our scripts.
5181 - Install dictionaries for supported languages.
5182 Install hunspell dictionaries when possible,
5183 fall back on myspell ones else.
5186 - Disable IPv6 on all network interfaces.
5187 This is a workaround for the IPv6 link-local multicast leak that was recently
5188 discovered. Tails has no local service that listens on IPv6, so there should be
5189 no regression, hopefully, unless one wants to play with OnionCat and VoIP,
5190 but those of us should know how to workaround this anyway.
5191 - live-persist: Fix variable mismatch, fixing probe white-list.
5192 Tails may previously have been able to list GPT partitions labelled
5193 "TailsData" on hard drives (!) as valid persistence volumes...
5194 - live-persist: Fix --media option when no devices are attached.
5195 Earlier, if it was set to e.g. 'removable-usb' and no USB storage was
5196 connected, $whitelistdev would be empty, which is interpreted like
5197 all devices are ok by the rest of the code.
5198 - Fix SCIM in the autostarted web browser: save IM environment variables
5199 to a file during Desktop session startup, and export them into the
5200 autostarted browser's environment.
5201 - Talk of DVD, not of CD, in the shutdown messages.
5202 - Make tordate work in bridge mode with an incorrect clock.
5203 When using a bridge Tor reports TLS cert lifetime errors (e.g. when
5204 the system clock is way off) with severity "info", but when no bridge
5205 is used the severity is "warn". tordate/20-time.sh depends on grepping
5206 these error messages, so we termporarily increase Tor's logging
5207 severity when using bridge mode. If we don't do this tordate will
5208 sleep forever, leaving Tor in a non-working state.
5209 · White-list root to use Tor's ControlPort.
5210 · Add logging for is_clock_way_off().
5211 · Remove Tor's log before time syncing.
5212 We depend on grepping stuff from the Tor log (especially for
5213 tordate/20-time.sh), so deleting it seems like a Good Thing(TM).
5214 · Stop Tor before messing with its log or data dir.
5215 - live-persist: limit searched devices the same way as live-boot.
5216 If no --media argument is specified, use live-boot's
5217 "(live-media|bootfrom)=removable(|-usb)" argument to limit devices
5218 searched for a persistent volume.
5219 - tails-greeter: do not pass media=removable to live-persist.
5220 Now that we have autodetection with kernel command-line,
5221 it should not be needed anymore.
5222 - Start memlockd after configuring it,
5223 instead of starting it before and restarting it after.
5224 This avoids running memlockd twice, and prevents other possibly
5225 surprising race-conditions.
5226 As a consequence, also have tails-sdmem-on-media-removal start after the
5227 memlockd service *and* tails-reconfigure-memlockd: to start the watchdog,
5228 we need memlockd to be properly configured *and* running.
5231 - Set iceweasel homepage to the news section on the Tails website.
5232 ... using the localized one when possible.
5233 - Hide the iceweasel add-on bar by default.
5234 Now that we don't want to ship the Monkeysphere addon anymore,
5235 that was the only one displayed in there, we can as well hide the whole bar.
5236 - Don't hide the AdBlock-Plus button in the add-on bar anymore. Now that
5237 we hide the whole addon bar, we can get rid of this old
5239 - Do not install a placeholder (fake) FireGPG iceweasel extension anymore.
5240 It was shipped from 0.10 (early 2012) to 0.15 (late November),
5241 so the migration period should be over now.
5242 - Don't install xul-ext-monkeysphere anymore.
5243 The implication of the current keyserver policy are not well
5244 understood, Monkeysphere is little used in Tails, and we're not sure
5245 anymore it would be our first bet for the web browser profile with no
5246 CA. Let's keep the various configuration bits (e.g. FoxyProxy,
5247 patching MSVA), though, so that advanced users who are used to have
5248 Monkeysphere in Tails just have to install the package.
5251 - Install the "standard" task with tasksel for better consistency in the
5252 Tails ISO images built in various environments.
5253 - Install p7zip-full. It's a dep by file-roller, but we explicily use it
5254 elsewhere, and it's better to be safe than sorry.
5255 - Remove pinning of libvpx0 to sid.
5256 This package is part of Squeeze, and not from testing/sid.
5257 We have been shipping the version from Squeeze for a while.
5258 - Remove config/chroot_local-packages/ from .gitignore.
5259 The documented way for "external" contributors to add custom packages
5260 is to put them in chroot_local-packages, and once we pull we import
5261 any such package into our APT repo and rewrite the
5262 history appropriately.
5263 Also, the ability to add packages in there and not see them in "git
5264 status" makes it very easy to build tainted ISO images with
5265 non-standard packages, which makes some of us fear can lead to hard to
5267 - Make it clearer what can and cannot be done in terms of local packages.
5269 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:47:42 +0100
5271 tails (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5273 * Major new features
5274 - Persistence for browser bookmarks.
5275 - Support for obfsproxy bridges.
5277 * Minor improvements
5278 - Add the Hangul (Korean) Input Method Engine for SCIM.
5279 - Add vendor-specific dpkg origin information. This makes dpkg-vendor
5280 return correct information.
5281 - Install pcscd and libccid from squeeze-backports. This is needed to
5282 support, to some extent, some OpenPGP SmartCard readers.
5283 - Install HPIJS PPD files and the IJS driver (hpijs).
5284 This adds support for some printers, such as Xerox DocumentCenter400.
5285 - Optimize fonts display for LCD.
5286 - Update TrueCrypt to version 7.1a.
5289 - Do not use pdnsd anymore. It has been orphaned in Debian, has quite
5290 some bugs in there, and apparently Tor's DNSPort's own caching is
5292 - Remove useless iceweasel cookies exceptions. They are useless as
5293 per-session cookies are allowed.
5294 - Do not run setupcon on X. This call is only needed on the Linux
5295 console, no need to annoy the user with a weird "Press enter to
5296 activate this console" when the open a root shell in a GNOME
5298 - Allow the tails-iuk-get-target-file user to connect to the SOCKSPort
5299 dedicated for Tails-specific software.
5300 - Fix gpgApplet menu display in Windows camouflage mode.
5301 - Fix Tor reaching an inactive state if it's restarted in "bridge mode",
5302 e.g. during the time sync' process.
5305 - Update iceweasel to 10.0.11esr-1+tails1.
5306 - User profile is now generated at build time in order to support persistent
5308 - Update HTTPS Everywhere to version 3.0.4.
5309 - Update NoScript to version 2.6.
5310 - Fix bookmark to I2P router console.
5311 - Re-enable Monkeysphere extension to connect to the validation agent.
5314 - The Tails USB installer, tails-persistence-setup and tails-greeter
5315 are now translated into Bulgarian.
5316 - Update Chinese translation for tails-greeter.
5317 - Update Euskadi translation for WhisperBack.
5320 - Custom packages are now retrieved from Tails APT repository instead
5321 of bloating the Git repository.
5322 - Allow '~' in wiki filenames. This makes it possible to ship
5323 update-description files for release candidates.
5324 - Document how to create incremental update kit.
5325 - Handle release candidates when generating custom APT sources.
5326 - Remove pinning for xul-ext-adblock-plus.
5327 It is obsolete since we've added this package to our APT repository.
5329 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:59:17 +0100
5331 tails (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5333 * Major new features
5334 - Enable Tor stream isolation; several new SocksPorts with
5335 appropriate Isolate* options have been added for different use
5336 cases (i.e. applications). All application's have been
5337 reconfigured to use these new SocksPorts, which should increase
5338 anonymity by making it more difficulte to correlate traffic from
5339 different applications or "online identities".
5340 - The web browser now has the anonymity enhancing patches from the
5342 - gpgApplet can now handle public-key cryptography.
5343 - Install an additional, PAE-enabled kernel with NX-bit
5344 support. This kernel is auto-selected when the hardware supports
5346 * provide executable space protection, preventing certain types of
5347 buffer overflows from being exploitable.
5348 * enable more than 4 GiB of system memory.
5349 * make all processors/cores available, including their
5350 power-saving functionality.
5351 - Add a persistence preset for NetworkManager connections.
5353 * Minor improvements
5354 - On kexec reboot, make the boot quiet only if debug=wipemem was not
5356 - Update torproject.org's APT repo key.
5357 - Update the embedded Tails signing key.
5358 - Use symlinks instead of duplicating localized searchplugins.
5359 - Rewrite Tails firewall using ferm. Tails firewall was written in
5360 very unsophisticated iptables-save/restore format. As more feature
5361 creeped in, it started to be quite unreadable.
5362 - Optimize VirtualBox modules build at runtime to avoid installing the
5363 userspace utils N times.
5364 - Drop most of Vidalia's configuration. Our custom lines just caused
5365 trouble (with multiple SocksPorts) and the default works well.
5366 - Blacklist PC speaker module. On some computers, having the pcspkr
5367 module loaded means loud beeps at bootup, shutdown and when using
5368 the console. As it draws useless attention to Tails users, it is
5369 better to prevent Linux from loading it by default.
5370 - Remove all addons from the Unsafe Browser. No addons are essential
5371 for the Unsafe Browser's intent. If anything they will modify the
5372 network fingerprint compared to a normal Iceweasel install, which
5374 - Prevent some unwanted packages to be installed at all, rather than
5375 uninstalling them later. This should speed up the build a bit.
5376 - Add a symlink from /etc/live/config to /etc/live/config.d. This
5377 makes the system compatible with live-config 3.0.4-1, without
5378 breaking backward compatibility with various parts of the system
5379 that use the old path.
5380 - Do not run unecessary scripts during shutdown sequence, to make
5382 - Make live-persist deal with persistent ~/.gconf subdirs so that
5383 any options saved therein actually get persistent.
5384 - Prevent memlockd unload on shutdown, to make sure that all
5385 necessary tools for memory wiping are available when the new
5387 - Patch initscripts headers instead of fiddling with update-rc.d. We
5388 now let insserv figure out the correct ordering for the services
5389 during startup and shutdown, i.e. use dependency-based boot
5391 - Remove the last absolute path in our isolinux config, which makes
5392 it easier to migrate from isolinux to syslinux (just rename the
5393 directory), and hence might make it easier for 3rd party USB
5394 installers (like the Universal USB Installer) to support Tails.
5397 - Include `seq` in the ramdisk environment: it is used to wipe more
5398 memory. This fixes the long-standing bug about Tails not cleaning
5399 all memory on shutdown.
5400 - Fix Yelp crashing on internal links
5401 - Allow amnesia user to use Tor's TransPort. This firewall exception
5402 is necessary for applications that doesn't have in-built SOCKS
5403 support and cannot use torsocks. One such example is Claws Mail,
5404 which uses tsocks since torsocks makes it leak the hostname. This
5405 exception, together with Tor's automatic .onion mapping makes
5406 Claws Mail able to use hidden service mail providers again.
5407 - Force threads locking support in Python DBus binding. Without this
5408 liveusb-creator doesn't work with a PAE-enabled kernel.
5409 - Fix localized search plugins for 'es' and 'pt'
5410 - Fix live-boot's readahead, which caused an unnecessary pause
5412 - Factorize GCC wanted / available version numbers in VirtualBox
5413 modules building hook. This, incidentally, fixes a bug caused by
5414 duplication and not updating all instances.
5415 - Fix tordate vs. Tor 0.2.3.x. Since 0.2.3.x Tor doesn't download a
5416 consensus for clocks that are more than 30 days in the past or 2
5417 days in the future (see commits f4c1fa2 and 87622e4 in Tor's git
5418 repo). For such clock skews we set the time to the Tor authority's
5419 cert's valid-after date to ensure that a consensus can be
5423 - Update to version 0.2.3.24-rc-1~~squeeze+1, a new major
5424 version. It's not a stable release, but we have been assured by
5425 the Tor developers that this is the right move.
5426 - Stop setting custom value for the Tor LongLivedPorts
5427 setting. Gobby's port was upstreamed in Tor 0.2.3.x.
5430 - Update to 10.0.10esr-1+tails1, which has all the anonymity enhancing
5431 patches from the TorBrowser applied.
5432 - Install iceweasel from our own repo, http://deb.tails.boum.org.
5433 - Fix Iceweasel's file associations. No more should you be suggested
5434 to open a PDF in the GIMP.
5437 - Use curl instead of wget, and add a --proxy option passed through
5439 - Remove the --fullrequest option, we don't need it anymore.
5440 - Remove --dns-timeout option, we don't need it anymore.
5441 - Change --proxy handling to support Debian Squeeze's curl.
5442 - Clarify what happens if --proxy is not used.
5443 - Compute the median of the diffs more correctly.
5446 - Update Linux to 3.2.32-1.
5449 - Update vidalia to 0.2.20-1+tails1.
5450 - Update bundled WhisperBack package to 1.6.2:
5451 * Raise the socket library timeout to 120 seconds
5452 * Use smtplib's timeout parameter
5453 * Fix error output when calling send a 2nd time
5454 - Update liveusb-creator to 3.11.6-3.
5455 - Update i2p to 0.9.2.
5456 - Update tails-persistence-setup to 0.20-1, which should make it
5457 possible to install Tails on large (>= 32 GiB) USB drives.
5458 - Install console-setup and keyboard-configuration from unstable
5459 (required by new initramfs-tools).
5460 - Update tails-greeter to 0.7.3:
5461 * Import pt_BR translation.
5462 * Let langpanel usable during option selection stage
5463 * Print less debugging messages by default
5464 (below are changes in tails-greeter 0.7.2:)
5465 * Use correct test operators.
5466 * Generate language codes of available locales at package build
5468 * Read list of language codes from where we have saved it at
5470 * Drop tails-lang-helper, not used anymore.
5471 * Do not compile locales at login time anymore. Tails now ships
5473 - Import live-config{,-sysvinit} 3.0.8-1. live-config >= 3.0.9-1
5474 has basically nothing useful for us, and it migrates to new paths
5475 brought by live-boot 3.0~b7, which we're not ready for yet (see:
5476 todo/newer_live-boot).
5479 - Fix Tails specific Iceweasel localization for pt-BR
5480 - Add Japanese input system: scim-anthy.
5481 - whisperback is now also translated into German, Hebrew, Hungarian,
5483 - tails-persistence-setup is now also translated into Arabic.
5484 - tails-greeter is now also translated into Arabic, Hebrew, Basque,
5485 Hungarian, Italian and Chinese.
5488 - Catch more errors in during build time:
5489 - Ensure that all local hooks start with 'set -e'.
5490 - Fail hard if adduser fails in local hooks.
5491 - Fail hard if 'rm' fails in local hooks.
5492 - vagrant: Ensure we have the set of Perl packages needed by our
5494 - vagrant: Configure live-build to ship with ftp.us.debian.org.
5495 Using cdn.debian.net leads to bad interactions with Tor.
5496 - vagrant: Don't use gzip compression when building from a tag, i.e.
5498 - vagrant: Optionally use bootstrap stage cache for faster builds
5499 via the 'cache' build option.
5500 - vagrant: Make sure release builds are clean, i.e. they don't use
5501 any potentially dangerous build options.
5502 - vagrant: Disable live-build package caching. This build system is
5503 meant to use an external caching proxy, so live-build's cache just
5504 wastes RAM (for in-memory builds) or disk space.
5505 - vagrant: use aufs magic instead of copying source into tmpfs.
5506 This reduces the amount of RAM required for building Tails in.
5507 - vagrant: Allow in-memory builds when a VM with enough memory is
5510 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:34:56 +0000
5512 tails (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5514 * Major new features
5515 - Use white-list/principle of least privelege approach for local services.
5516 Only users that need a certain local (i.e. hosted on loopback) service
5517 (according to our use cases) are granted access to it by our firewall;
5518 all other users are denied access.
5519 - Ship a first version of the incremental update system. Updates are not
5520 currently triggered automatically, but this will allow tests to be done
5523 * Minor improvements
5524 - Enable four workspaces in the Windows XP camouflage. This allows
5525 users to quickly switch to a more innocent looking workspace in case
5526 they are working on sensitive data and attract unwanted attention.
5527 The workspace switcher applet isn't there, though, since there's no
5528 such thing in Windows XP, so switching is only possible via keyboard
5530 - Ship with precompiled locales instead of generating them upon login.
5531 - Add support for wireless regulation.
5532 - Use color for Git output, not intended for machine consumption,
5533 written to the terminal.
5534 - Have ttdnsd use OpenDNS. Using Google's DNS servers was very
5535 glitchy, and rarely succeeded when it should. It can probably be
5536 attributed to Google's DNS, which is known to take issue with Tor
5538 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.6, with many UI improvements and new translations.
5539 - Include GDM logs and dmidecode informations in the reports.
5540 - Allow to modify language and layout in the "Advanced options" screen
5542 - GnuPG: bump cert-digest-algo to SHA512.
5543 - Update torproject.org's APT repo key.
5546 - Make Claws Mail save local/POP emails in its dot-directory. The
5547 default is to save them at ~/Mail, which isn't included in our
5548 current Claws Mail persistence preset.
5549 - Fix the System Monitor applet.
5550 - Remove broken ttdnsd from the default DNS resolution loop.
5551 - Hide the 'TailsData' partition in desktop applications.
5552 - Ship unrar-free again, so that the GNOME archive manager knows about
5554 - Ship with an empty whitelist for Noscript.
5555 - Disable FoxyProxy's advertisement on proxy error page.
5556 - Fix slow browsing experience for offline documentation.
5557 - Raise the socket timeout to 120 seconds in WhisperBack.
5558 - Enable the ikiwiki trail plugin for the locally built wiki too.
5561 - Upgrade iceweasel to 10.0.6esr-1 (Extended Support Release) and install it
5562 and its dependencies from squeeze-backports.
5565 - Upgrade Linux to 3.2.23-1.
5568 - Update tor to version 0.2.2.39.
5569 - Update Iceweasel to version 10.0.7esr-2.
5570 - Update i2p to version 0.9.1.
5573 - vagrant: Install Ikiwiki from Debian unstable. The 'mirrorlist'
5574 patches have finally been merged in upstream Ikiwiki. So instead of
5575 building Ikiwiki by hand, we can now install the package directly
5576 from Debian unstable.
5577 - Do not build the ikiwiki forum on the bundled static website copy.
5579 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:19:25 +0200
5581 tails (0.12.1) unstable; urgency=low
5583 This is a brown paper bag release to fix two major problems introduced in
5587 - Upgrade Torbutton to 1.4.6.
5588 - Upgrade AdBlock Plus to 2.1.
5589 - Update AdBlock Plus patterns.
5592 - Upgrade Linux to 3.2.21-3 (linux-image-3.2.0-3-486).
5595 - Install MAT from Debian backports, drop custom package.
5596 - Install python-pdfrw to re-add PDF support to the MAT.
5597 - Upgrade tails-greeter to 0.7.1, which fixes the race condition that
5598 broke administration password and locale settings on some systems.
5601 - Remove the Tails specific plymouth theme. The theme interfers heavily with
5602 the boot process on some hardware.
5604 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:06:03 +0200
5606 tails (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5608 * Major new features
5609 - Add the Unsafe Web Browser, which has direct access to the Internet and
5610 can be used to login to captive portals.
5611 - The (previously experimental, now deemed stable) Windows camouflage can now
5612 be enabled via a check box in Tails greeter.
5615 - Upgrade to 0.2.2.37-1~~squeeze+1.
5618 - Upgrade iceweasel to 10.0.5esr-1 (Extended Support Release) and install it
5619 and its dependencies from squeeze-backports.
5620 - Add a bookmark for the offline Tails documentation.
5621 - Update AdBlock patterns.
5624 - Allow using larger USB drives by increasing the mkfs timeout to 10 minutes.
5625 - Tell the user what's going on when the Tails boot device cannot be found.
5628 - Upgrade Linux to 3.2.20-1 (linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64).
5632 - Install torsocks. Note that this makes `torify' use `torsocks' instead of
5633 `tsocks'. The `tsocks' binary is dropped to avoid problems, but remaining
5634 files (the library) are kept since ttdnsd depends on them.
5635 - Fetch live-config-sysvinit from sid so that it matches live-config version.
5636 - Update virtualbox backports to 4.1.10-dfsg-1~bpo60+1.
5637 - Install pciutils (needed by virtualbox-guest-utils).
5638 - Install mousetweaks. This is needed to use the mouse accessibility settings
5639 in System -> Preferences -> Mouse -> Accessibility.
5640 - Install the "hardlink" files deduplicator.
5641 - Do not install cryptkeeper anymore. See todo/remove_cryptkeeper for reason.
5642 Users of cryptkeeper are encouraged to install cryptkeeper via `apt-get
5643 update; apt-get install --yes cryptkeeper`, open their volume and move
5644 their to Tails' built-in persistence instead, as a one-time migration.
5645 - Upgrade I2P to version 0.9.
5646 - Don't install GParted. GNOME Disk Utility has been on par with GParted
5647 since Squeeze was released.
5648 - Upgrade live-boot to 3.0~a27-1+tails2~1.gbp319fe6.
5649 - Upgrade live-config to 3.0~a39-1 and install it from Debian experimental.
5650 - Upgrade tails-greeter to 0.7.
5651 - Upgrade tails-persistence-setup to 0.17-1.
5652 - Install libyaml-libyaml-perl.
5653 - Upgrade MAT, the metadata anonymisation toolkit, 0.3.2-1~bpo60+1.
5654 - Fetch python-pdfrw from backports, drop custom package.
5656 * Internationalization
5657 - The Tails website and documentation now has a (partial) Portuguese
5661 - Tails can now be built without using a HTTP proxy.
5662 - Tails can now easily be built by using Vagrant. See the updated
5663 contribute/build page for instructions.
5666 - Remove obsolete noswap boot parameter. live-boot now handles swap on an
5668 - The squashfs.sort files generated with boot-profile should now be ok which
5669 makes the generate images boot noticeably faster on optical media. See
5670 bugs/weird_squashfs.sort_entries for more information.
5671 - Set Tails specific syslinux and plymouth themes.
5672 - Add NVidia KMS video drivers to the initrd in order to show our shiny new
5673 plymouth theme on more systems.
5675 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:37:00 +0200
5677 tails (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5679 * Major new features
5680 - Do not grant the desktop user root credentials by default.
5681 - A graphical boot menu (tails-greeter 0.6.3) allows choosing among
5682 many languages, and setting an optional sudoer password.
5683 - Support opt-in targeted persistence
5684 · tails-persistence-setup 0.14-1
5685 · live-boot 3.0~a25-1+tails1~5.gbp48d06c
5686 · live-config 3.0~a35-1
5687 - USB installer: liveusb-creator 3.11.6-1
5690 - Install iceweasel 10.0.4esr-1 (Extended Support Release).
5691 Let's stop tracking a too fast moving target.
5692 Debian Wheezy will ship ESR versions.
5693 - Install needed dependencies from squeeze-backports.
5696 bing appeared due to our upgrading iceweasel.
5697 Removing it makes things consistent with the way they have been
5698 until now, that is: let's keep only the general search engines
5699 we've been asked to add, plus Google, and a few specialized ones.
5700 · Replace Debian-provided DuckDuckGo search plugin with the "HTML SSL"
5701 one, version 20110219. This is the non-JavaScript, SSL, POST flavour.
5703 · Install localized search engines in the correct place.
5704 No need to copy them around at boot time anymore.
5705 · Remove Scroogle. RIP.
5706 - Enable TLS false start, like the TBB does since December.
5707 - Adblock Plus: don't count and save filter hits, supress first run dialog.
5708 - Install neither the GreaseMonkey add-on, nor any GreaseMonkey script.
5709 YouTube's HTML5 opt-in program is over.
5710 HTML5 video support is now autodetected and used.
5713 - Upgrade to 0.2.17-1+tails1: drop Do-not-warn-about-Tor-version.patch,
5715 - Set SkipVersionCheck=true.
5716 Thanks to chiiph for implementing this upstream (needs Vidalia 0.2.16+).
5718 * Internationalization
5719 - Install all available iceweasel l10n packages.
5720 - Remove syslinux language choosing menu.
5721 tails-greeter allows choosing a non-English language.
5722 - Add fonts for Hebrew, Thai, Khmer, Lao and Korean languages.
5724 - Setup text console at profile time.
5725 Context: Tails runs with text console autologin on.
5726 These consoles now wait, using a "Press enter to activate this console"
5727 message, for the user. When they press enter in there, they should have chosen
5728 their preferred keyboard layout in tails-greeter by now. Then, we run setupcon.
5729 As a result, the resulting shell is properly localized, and setupcon
5730 sets the correct keyboard layout, both according to the preferences expressed by
5731 the user in tails-greeter.
5732 - Don't use localepurge, don't remove any Scribus translations anymore,
5733 don't localize environment at live-config time:
5734 tails-greeter allows us to support many, many more languages.
5737 - Linux 3.2.15-1 (linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64).
5738 - Fix low sound level on MacBook5,2.
5739 - Disable laptop-mode-tools automatic modules. This modules set often
5740 needs some amount of hardware-specific tweaking to work properly.
5741 This makes them rather not well suited for a Live system.
5744 - Install GNOME keyring.
5745 This is needed so that NetworkManager remembers the WEP/WPA secrets
5746 for the time of a Tails session. Initialize GNOME keyring at user
5748 - Install usbutils to have the lsusb command.
5749 - Install the Traverso multitrack audio recorder and editor.
5752 - GNOME Terminal: keep 8192 scrollback lines instead of the smallish
5754 - Replaced tails-wifi initscript with laptop-mode-tools matching feature.
5755 - Disable gdomap service.
5756 - Fetch klibc-utils and libklibc from sid.
5757 The last initramfs-tools depends on these.
5758 - Set root password to "root" if debug=root is passed on the
5759 kernel cmdline. Allow setting root password on kernel cmdline via
5760 rootpw=. Looks like we implemented this feature twice.
5761 - Append a space on the kernel command line. This eases manually adding
5763 - Rename sudoers.d snippets to match naming scheme.
5764 Sudo credentials that shall be unconditionally granted to the Tails
5765 default user are named zzz_*, to make sure they are applied.
5766 - WhisperBack: also include /var/log/live-persist and
5767 /var/lib/gdm3/tails.persistence.
5768 - Add a wrapper to torify whois.
5769 - Rework the VirtualBox guest modules building hook to support
5771 - Consistently wait for nm-applet when waiting for user session to come up.
5772 Waiting for gnome-panel or notification-daemon worked worse.
5773 - Don't start the NetworkManager system service via init.
5774 Some Tails NM hooks need the user to be logged in to run properly.
5775 That's why tails-greeter starts NetworkManager at PostLogin time.
5776 - Also lock /bin/echo into memory. For some reason, kexec-load needs it.
5777 - Pidgin: don't use the OFTC hidden service anymore.
5778 It proved to be quite unreliable, being sometimes down for days.
5779 - Do not display storage volumes on Desktop, by disabling
5780 /apps/nautilus/desktop/volumes_visible GConf entry. Enabling that
5781 GConf setting avoids displaying the bind-mounted persistent
5782 directories on the Desktop, and reduces user confusion. It also is
5783 a first step towards a bigger UI change: GNOME3 does not manage the
5784 Desktop anymore, so volume icons and other Desktop icons are meant to
5785 disappear anyway. It implies we'll have to move all Desktop icons
5786 elsewhere. Let's start this move now: this will smooth the UI change
5787 Wheezy will carry for our users, by applying some of it progressively.
5790 - Don't build hybrid ISO images anymore. They boot less reliably on
5791 a variety of hardware, and are made less useful by us shipping
5792 a USB installer from now on.
5793 - Append .conf to live-config configuration filenames:
5794 live-config >3.0~a36-1 only takes into account files named *.conf
5795 in there. Accordingly update scripts that source these files.
5796 - Remove long-obsolete home-refresh script and its configuration.
5798 * Virtualization support
5799 - Support Spice and QXL: install the Spice agent from Debian sid,
5800 install xserver-xorg-video-qxl from squeeze-backports.
5802 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:54:00 +0200
5804 tails (0.10.2) unstable; urgency=low
5807 - Update to 10.0.2-1.
5808 - Disable HTTPS-Everywhere's SSL Observatory (plus first-run pop-up).
5809 - Revert "FoxyProxy: don't enclose regexps between ^ and $."
5810 Currently "http://www.i2p2.de" (and everything similar) is captured by
5811 the I2P filter, which is incorrect. It seems isMultiLine="false" does
5812 *not* make RE into ^RE$ any longer.
5813 - Remove file:// from NoScript's exception lists.
5814 This will fix the JavaScript toggles in the local copy of the documentation.
5815 - Update AdBlock patterns.
5818 - Upgrade I2P to 0.8.13.
5819 - Install libvpx0 from sid.
5820 - Fetch klibc-utils and libklibc from sid.
5821 The last initramfs-tools depends on these.
5824 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.2.7-1.
5825 - Install firmware-libertas.
5826 This adds support for wireless network cards with Marvell Libertas
5827 8xxx chips supported by the libertas_cs, libertas_sdio, libertas_spi,
5828 libertas_tf_usb, mwl8k and usb8xxx drivers.
5831 - Revert "Set time to middle of [valid-after, fresh-until] from consensus."
5832 This reverts commit 18d23a500b9412b4b0fbe4e38a9398eb1a3eadef.
5833 With this vmid clocks that are E minutes back in time may cause issues
5834 (temporary Tor outages) after consensus updates that happen at the
5835 (60-E):th minute or later during any hour. Full analysis:
5836 https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2012-January/000873.html
5837 - Add the default user to the vboxsf group.
5838 This will allow the user to get full access to automounted VirtualBox
5839 shared folders as they are mounted with guid vboxsf and rwx group
5842 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:26:21 +0100
5844 tails (0.10.1) unstable; urgency=low
5847 - Make Startpage the default web search engine. Scroogle does not look
5848 reliable enough these days.
5851 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.5.1 (update link to bug reporting documentation).
5852 - Update MAT to 0.2.2-2~bpo60+1 (fixes a critical bug in the GUI).
5855 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.2.1-2
5857 * Time synchronization
5858 Serious rework that should fix most, if not all, of the infamous
5859 time-sync' related bugs some Tails users have experienced recently.
5860 - Make htpdate more resilient by using three server pools, and
5861 allowing some failure ratio.
5862 - Set time from Tor's unverified-consensus if needed.
5863 - Set time to middle of [valid-after, fresh-until] from consensus.
5864 - Many robustness, performance and fingerprinting-resistance improvements.
5865 - Display time-sync' notification much earlier.
5868 - Fix access to "dumb" git:// protocol by using a connect-socks wrapper
5869 as GIT_PROXY_COMMAND.
5870 - SSH client: fix access to SSH servers on the Internet by correcting
5871 Host / ProxyCommand usage.
5872 - Pidgin: use OFTC hidden service to workaround Tor blocking.
5873 - Claws Mail: disable draft autosaving.
5874 When composing PGP encrypted email, drafts are saved back to
5875 the server in plaintext. This includes both autosaved and manually
5877 - tails-security-check-wrapper: avoid eating all memory when offline.
5879 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:00:31 +0100
5881 tails (0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5883 * Tor: upgrade to 0.2.2.35-1.
5886 - Install Iceweasel 9.0 from the Debian Mozilla team's APT repository.
5887 - Update Torbutton to 1.4.5.1-1.
5888 - Support viewing any YouTube video that is available in HTML5 format:
5889 install xul-ext-greasemonkey and the "Permanently Enable HTML5 on
5890 YouTube" GreaseMonkey script.
5891 - Stop using Polipo in Iceweasel. Its SOCKS support was fixed.
5892 - Install from Debian sid the iceweasel extensions we ship,
5893 for compatibility with FF9.
5894 - Use Scroogle (any languages) instead of Scroogle (English only) when
5895 booted in English. Many users choose English because their own
5896 language is not supported yet; let's not hide them search results in
5898 - Install Iceweasel language packs from Debian unstable:
5899 unfortunately they are not shipped on the mozilla.debian.net repository.
5900 - Install the NoScript Firefox extension; configure it the same way as
5902 - Disable third-party cookies.
5903 They can be used to track users, which is bad. Besides, this is what
5904 TBB has been doing for years.
5905 - FoxyProxy: allow direct connections to RFC1918 IPs.
5907 * Do not transparent proxy outgoing Internet connections through Tor.
5908 - Torify the SSH client using connect-proxy to all IPs but RFC1918 ones.
5909 - Torify APT using Polipo HTTP.
5910 - Torify wget in wgetrc.
5911 - Torify gobby clients using torsocks. It does not support proxies yet.
5912 - Torify tails-security-check using LWP::UserAgent's SOCKS proxy support.
5913 - Fix enabling of GNOME's HTTP proxy.
5916 - Upgrade Vidalia to 0.2.15-1+tails1.
5917 · New upstream release.
5918 · Do not warn about Tor version.
5919 - Upgrade MAT to 0.2.2-1~bpo60+1.
5920 - Upgrade VirtualBox guest software to 4.1.6-dfsg-2~bpo60+1,
5921 built against the ABI of X.Org backports.
5922 - Upgrade I2P to 0.8.11 using KillYourTV's Squeeze packages;
5923 additionally, fix its start script that was broken by the tordate merge.
5924 - Install unar (The Unarchiver) instead of the non-free unrar.
5925 - Install Nautilus Wipe instead of custom Nautilus scripts.
5928 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.1.6-1.
5929 - Upgrade to X.Org from squeeze-backports.
5930 - Install more, and more recent b43 firmwares.
5931 - Upgrade barry to 0.15-1.2~bpo60+1.
5933 * Internationalization
5934 - Add basic language support for Russian, Farsi and Vietnamese.
5935 - Install some Indic fonts.
5936 - Install some Russian fonts.
5937 - Add Alt+Shift shortcut to switch keyboard layout.
5940 - Support booting in "Windows XP -like camouflage mode":
5941 · Install homebrewn local .debs for a Windows XP look-alike Gnome theme.
5942 · Add the "Windows XP Bliss" desktop wallpaper.
5943 · Added a script that's sets up Gnome to look like Microsoft Windows XP.
5944 · Add Windows XP "camouflage" icons for some programs.
5945 · Make Iceweasel use the IE icon when Windows XP camouflage is enabled.
5946 · Add special launcher icons for the Windows XP theme so that they're
5948 - Decrease Florence focus zoom to 1.2.
5949 - Do not fetch APT translation files. Running apt-get update is heavy enough.
5950 - Add MSN support thanks to msn-pecan.
5951 - Add custom SSH client configuration:
5952 · Prefer strong ciphers and MACs.
5953 · Enable maximum compression level.
5954 · Explicitly disable X11 forwarding.
5955 · Connect as root by default, to prevent fingerprinting when username
5957 - Replace flawed FireGPG with a home-made GnuPG encryption applet;
5958 install a feature-stripped FireGPG that redirects users to
5959 the documentation, and don't run Seahorse applet anymore.
5960 - Enable Seahorse's GnuPG agent.
5961 - Blank screen when lid is closed, rather than shutting down the system.
5962 The shutdown "feature" has caused data losses for too many people, it seems.
5963 There are many other ways a Tails system can be shut down in a hurry
5965 - Import Tails signing key into the keyring.
5966 - Fix bug in the Pidgin nick generation that resulted in the nick
5967 "XXX_NICK_XXX" once out of twenty.
5968 - Pre-configure the #tor IRC discussion channel in Pidgin.
5969 - Fix "technology preview" of bridge support: it was broken by tordate merge.
5970 - Install dependencies of our USB installer to ease its development.
5971 - Make vidalia NM hook sleep only if Vidalia is already running.
5972 - Reintroduce the htpdate notification, telling users when it's safe
5973 to use Tor Hidden Services.
5974 - htpdate: omit -f argument to not download full pages.
5975 - htpdate: write success file even when not within {min,max}adjust.
5976 Otherwise htpdate will not "succeed" when the time diff is 0 (i.e.
5977 the clock was already correct) so the success file cannot be used
5978 as an indicator that the system time now is correct, which arguably
5979 is its most important purpose.
5982 - Name built images according to git tag.
5984 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:56:38 +0100
5986 tails (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5989 - Upgrade to 0.2.2.34 (fixes CVE-2011-2768, CVE-2011-2769).
5992 - Upgrade to 3.5.16-11 (fixes CVE-2011-3647, CVE-2011-3648, CVE-2011-3650).
5993 - Upgrade FireGPG to 0.8-1+tails2: notify users that the FireGPG Text
5994 Editor is the only safe place for performing cryptographic operations,
5995 and make it impossible to do otherwise. Other ways open up several
5996 severe attacks through JavaScript (e.g. leaking plaintext when
5997 decrypting, signing messages written by the attacker).
5998 - Install Cookie Monster extension instead of CS Lite.
5999 - Always ask where to save files.
6000 - Upgrade Torbutton to 1.4.4.1-1, which includes support for the in-browser
6001 "New identity" feature.
6004 - Install MAT, the metadata anonymisation toolkit.
6005 - Upgrade TrueCrypt to 7.1.
6006 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.5~rc1 (leads the user by the hand if an error
6007 occurs while sending the bugreport, proposes to save it after 2 faild
6008 attempts, numerous bugfixes).
6009 - Linux: upgrade to linux-image-3.0.0-2-486 (version 3.0.0-6); fixes
6010 a great number of bugs and security issues.
6013 - Fully rework date and time setting system.
6014 - Remove the htp user firewall exception.
6015 - Saner keyboard layouts for Arabic and Russian.
6016 - Use Plymouth text-only splash screen at boot time.
6017 - Color the init scripts output.
6018 - Suppress Tor's warning about applications doing their own DNS lookups.
6019 This is totally safe due to our Tor enforcement.
6020 - Disable hdparm boot-time service.
6021 We only want hdparm so that laptop-mode-tools can use it.
6022 - Run Claws Mail using torify.
6023 It's not as good as if Claws Mail supported SOCKS proxies itself,
6024 but still better than relying on the transparent netfilter torification.
6025 - Install HPLIP and hpcups for better printing support.
6027 * Erase memory at shutdown
6028 - Run many sdmem instances at once.
6029 In hope of erasing more memory until we come up with a proper fix for
6030 [[bugs/sdmem_does_not_clear_all_memory]].
6031 - Kill gdm3 instead of using its initscript on brutal shutdown.
6032 - Use absolute path to eject for more robust memory wipe on boot medium removal.
6035 - Exclude kernel and initramfs from being put into the SquashFS.
6036 Those files are already shipped where they are needed, that is in the ISO
6037 filesystem. Adapt kexec and memlockd bits.
6038 - Do not ship the GNOME icon theme cache.
6039 - Do not ship .pyc files.
6040 - Do not ship NEWS.Debian.gz files.
6043 - Re-implement hook that modifies syslinux config to make future
6046 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:26:38 +0100
6048 tails (0.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
6051 - Update to 3.5.16-10 (fixes DSA-2313-1).
6052 - FireGPG: force crypto action results to appear in a new window, otherwise
6053 JavaScript can steal decrypted plaintext. Advice: always use FireGPG's
6054 text editor when writing text you want to encrypt. If you write it in a
6055 textbox the plaintext can be stolen through JavaScript before it is
6056 encrypted in the same way.
6057 - Update HTTPS Everywhere extension to 1.0.3-1.
6058 - Stop using the small version of the Tor check page. The small version
6059 incorrectly tells Tails users to upgrade their Torbrowser, which has
6060 confused some users.
6063 - Update Linux to 3.0.0-2 (fixes DSA-2310-1, CVE-2011-2905, CVE-2011-2909,
6064 CVE-2011-2723, CVE-2011-2699, CVE-2011-1162, CVE-2011-1161).
6065 - Update usb-modeswitch to 1.1.9-2~bpo60+1 and usb-modeswitch-data to
6066 20110805-1~bpo60+1 from Debian backports. This adds support for a few
6067 devices such as Pantech UMW190 CDMA modem.
6068 - Install libregexp-common-perl 2011041701-3 from Debian unstable. This
6069 fixes the bug: [[bugs/msva_does_not_use_configured_keyserver]].
6070 - Install hdparm so the hard drives can be spinned down in order to save
6072 - Install barry-util for better BlackBerry integration.
6073 - Debian security upgrades: OpenOffice.org (DSA-2315-1), openjdk-6
6074 (DSA-2311-1), policykit-1 (DSA-2319-1)
6076 * Protecting against memory recovery
6077 - Set more appropriate Linux VM config before wiping memory. These
6078 parameters should make the wipe process more robust and efficient.
6080 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:31:18 +0200
6082 tails (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6084 * Rebase on the Debian Squeeze 6.0.2.1 point-release.
6087 - Update to 0.2.2.33-1.
6088 - Disabled ControlPort in favour of ControlSocket.
6089 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to Tor's LongLivedPorts list.
6093 - Start script now depends on HTP since I2P breaks if the clock jumps or is
6094 too skewed during bootstrap.
6097 - Update to 3.5.16-9 (fixes CVE-2011-2374, CVE-2011-2376, CVE-2011-2365,
6098 CVE-2011-2373, CVE-2011-2371, CVE-2011-0083, CVE-2011-2363, CVE-2011-0085,
6099 CVE-2011-2362, CVE-2011-2982, CVE-2011-2981, CVE-2011-2378, CVE-2011-2984,
6101 - Enable HTTP pipelining (like TBB).
6102 - Update HTTPS Everywhere extension to 1.0.1-1 from Debian unstable.
6103 - Suppress FoxyProxy update prompts.
6104 - Prevent FoxyProxy from "phoning home" after a detected upgrade.
6105 - Fixed a bunch of buggy regular expressions in FoxyProxy's configuration.
6106 See [[bugs/exploitable_typo_in_url_regex?]] for details. Note that none of
6107 these issues are critical due to the transparent proxy.
6108 - Add DuckDuckGo SSL search engine.
6111 - Update to torbutton 1.4.3-1 from Debian unstable.
6112 - Don't show Torbutton status in the status bar as it's now displayed in the
6116 - More random looking nicks in pidgin.
6117 - Add IRC account on chat.wikileaks.de:9999.
6120 - Upgrade htpdate script (taken from Git 7797fe9) that allows setting wget's
6121 --dns-timeout option.
6124 - Update Linux to 3.0.0-1. -686 is now deprecated in favour of -486 and
6125 -686-pae; the world is not ready for -pae yet, so we now ship -486.
6126 - Update OpenSSL to 0.9.8o-4squeeze2 (fixes CVE-2011-1945 (revoke
6127 compromised DigiNotar certificates), CVE-2011-1945).
6128 - Update Vidalia to 0.2.14-1+tails1 custom package.
6129 - Install accessibility tools:
6130 - gnome-mag: screen magnifier
6131 - gnome-orca: text-to-speech
6132 - Replace the onBoard virtual keyboard with Florence.
6133 - Install the PiTIVi non-linear audio/video editor.
6138 * Arbitrary DNS queries
6139 - Tor can not handle all types of DNS queries, so if the Tor resolver fails
6140 we fallback to ttdnsd. This is now possible with Tor 0.2.2.x, since we
6141 fixed Tor bug #3369.
6144 - Install ipheth-utils for iPhone tethering.
6145 - Install xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse (for mouse integration with the host OS
6147 - Install virtualbox-ose 4.x guest packages from Debian backports.
6150 - Switch gpg to use keys.indymedia.org's hidden service, without SSL.
6151 The keys.indymedia.org SSL certificate is now self-signed. The hidden
6152 service gives a good enough way to authenticate the server and encrypts
6153 the connection, and just removes the certificates management issue.
6154 - The squashfs is now compressed using XZ which reduces the image size quite
6156 - Remove Windows autorun.bat and autorun.inf. These files did open a static
6157 copy of our website, which is not accessible any longer.
6160 - Use the Git branch instead of the Debian version into the built image's
6162 - Allow replacing efficient XZ compression with quicker gzip.
6163 - Build and install documentation into the chroot (-> filesystem.squashfs).
6164 Rationale: our static website cannot be copied to a FAT32 filesystem due
6165 to filenames being too long. This means the documentation cannot be
6166 browsed offline from outside Tails. However, our installer creates GPT
6167 hidden partitions, so the doc would not be browseable from outside Tails
6168 anyway. The only usecase we really break by doing so is browsing the
6169 documentation while running a non-Tails system, from a Tails CD.
6171 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 09 Sep 2011 11:31:18 +0200
6173 tails (0.7.2) unstable; urgency=high
6176 - Disable Torbutton's external application launch warning.
6177 ... which advises using Tails. Tails *is* running Tails.
6178 - FoxyProxy: install from Debian instead of the older one we previously
6182 - haveged: install an official Debian backport instead of a custom backport.
6183 - unrar: install the version from Debian's non-free repository.
6184 Users report unrar-free does not work well enough.
6186 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:34:56 +0200
6188 tails (0.7.1) unstable; urgency=high
6190 * Vidalia: new 0.2.12-2+tails1 custom package.
6193 - Don't show Foxyproxy's status / icon in FF statusbar to prevent users
6194 from accidentaly / unconsciously put their anonymity at risk.
6195 - "amnesia branding" extension: bump Iceweasel compatibility to 4.0 to ease
6196 development of future releases.
6199 - Upgrade Linux kernel to Debian's 2.6.32-33: fixes tons of bugs,
6200 including the infamous missing mouse cursor one. Oh, and it closes
6201 a few security holes at well.
6202 - Install unrar-free.
6203 - Do not install pppoeconf (superseeded by NetworkManager).
6204 - Upgrade macchanger to Debian testing package to ease development of
6205 future Tails releases.
6206 - Debian security upgrades: x11-xserver-utils (DSA-2213-1), isc-dhcp
6207 (DSA-2216-1), libmodplug (DSA-2226-1), openjdk-6 (DSA-2224-1).
6209 * Protecting against memory recovery
6210 - Add Italian translation for tails-kexec. Thanks to Marco A. Calamari.
6211 - Make it clear what it may mean if the system does not power off
6213 - Use kexec's --reset-vga option that might fix display corruption issues
6216 * WhisperBack (encrypted bug reporting software)
6217 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.4.1:
6218 localizes the documentation wiki's URL,
6219 uses WebKit to display the bug reporting help page,
6220 now is usable on really small screens.
6221 - Extract wiki's supported languages at build time, save this
6222 information to /etc/amnesia/environment, source this file into the
6223 Live user's environment so that WhisperBack 1.4+ can make good use
6227 - Fix boot in Chinese.
6228 - Install mobile-broadband-provider-info for better 3G support.
6229 - Add back GNOME system icons to menus.
6230 - tails-security-check: avoid generating double-slashes in the Atom
6232 - Remove "vga=788" boot parameter which breaks the boot on some hardware.
6233 - Remove now useless "splash" boot parameter.
6234 - Fix a bunch of i386-isms.
6235 - Pass the noswap option to the kernel. This does not change actual Tails
6236 behaviour but prevents users from unnecessarily worrying because of
6237 the "Activating swap" boot message.
6238 - Make use of check.torproject.org's Arabic version.
6241 - Enable squeeze-backports. It is now ready and will be used soon.
6242 - Install eatmydata in the chroot.
6243 - Convert ikiwiki setup files to YAML.
6245 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:14:53 +0200
6247 tails (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6250 - Install foomatic-filters-ppds to support more printers.
6251 - Give the default user the right to manage printers.
6254 - Deinstall unwanted packages newly pulled by recent live-build.
6256 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:58:51 +0200
6258 tails (0.7~rc2) unstable; urgency=low
6260 ** SNAPSHOT build @824f39248a08f9e190146980fb1eb0e55d483d71 **
6262 * Rebase on Debian Squeeze 6.0.1 point-release.
6264 * Vidalia: new 0.2.10-3+tails5 custom package..
6267 - Install usb-modeswitch and modemmanager to support mobile broadband
6268 devices such as 3G USB dongles. Thanks to Marco A. Calamari for the
6272 - Website relocated to https://tails.boum.org/ => adapt various places.
6273 - Configure keyboard layout accordingly to the chosen language for
6274 Italian and Portuguese.
6276 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:44:25 +0100
6278 tails (0.7~rc1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
6280 ** SNAPSHOT build @98987f111fc097a699b526eeaef46bc75be5290a **
6282 * Rebase on Debian Squeeze.
6284 * T(A)ILS has been renamed to Tails.
6286 * Protecting against memory recovery
6287 New, safer way to wipe memory on shutdown which is now also used when
6288 the boot media is physically removed.
6291 - Update to 0.2.1.30-1.
6294 - Add HTTPS Everywhere 0.9.4 extension.
6295 - Better preserve Anonymity Set: spoof US English Browser and timezone
6296 the same way as the Tor Browser Bundle, disable favicons and picture
6298 - Install AdBlock Plus extension from Debian.
6299 - Add Tor-related bookmarks.
6300 - Support FTP, thanks to FoxyProxy.
6301 - Update AdBlock patterns.
6302 - Disable geolocation and the offline cache.
6305 - Update Vidalia to 0.2.10-3+tails4.
6306 - Install gnome-disk-utility (Palimpsest) and Seahorse plugins.
6307 - Add opt-in i2p support with Iceweasel integration through FoxyProxy.
6308 - onBoard: fix "really quits when clicking the close window icon" bug.
6309 - Optionally install TrueCrypt at boot time.
6310 - Install laptop-mode-tools for better use of battery-powered hardware.
6311 - Replace xsane with simple-scan which is part of GNOME and way easier
6313 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.3.1 (bugfixes, French translation).
6314 - Install scribus-ng instead of scribus. It is far less buggy in Squeeze.
6317 - Drop incoming packets by default.
6318 - Forbid queries to DNS resolvers on the LAN.
6319 - Set output policy to drop (defense-in-depth).
6322 - Install Atheros and Broadcom wireless firmwares.
6323 - Install libsane-hpaio and sane-utils, respectively needed for
6324 multi-function peripherals and some SCSI scanners.
6326 * live-boot 2.0.15-1+tails1.35f1a14
6327 - Cherry-pick our fromiso= bugfixes from upstream 3.x branch.
6330 - Many tiny user interface improvements.
6331 - More robust HTP time synchronization wrt. network failures.
6332 Also, display the logs when the clock synchronization fails.
6333 - Disable GNOME automatic media mounting and opening to protect against
6334 a class of attacks that was recently put under the spotlights.
6335 Also, this feature was breaking the "no trace is left on local
6336 storage devices unless explicitly asked" part of Tails specification.
6337 - Make configuration more similar to the Tor Browser Bundle's one.
6338 - GnuPG: default to stronger digest algorithms.
6339 - Many more or less proper hacks to get the built image size under 700MB.
6340 - Compress the initramfs using LZMA for faster boot.
6343 - Run lb build inside eatmydata fsync-less environment to greatly improve
6346 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:52:19 +0100
6348 tails (0.6.2) unstable; urgency=high
6350 * Tor: upgrade to 0.2.1.29 (fixes CVE-2011-0427).
6352 - Upgrade Linux kernel, dpkg, libc6, NSS, OpenSSL, libxml2 (fixes various
6354 - Upgrade Claws Mail to 3.7.6 (new backport).
6355 - Install Liferea, tcpdump and tcpflow.
6356 * Seahorse: use hkp:// transport as it does not support hkps://.
6357 * FireGPG: use hkps:// to connect to the configured keyserver.
6358 * Build system: take note of the Debian Live tools versions being used
6359 to make next point-release process faster.
6360 * APT: don't ship package indices.
6362 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:59:43 +0100
6364 tails (0.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
6366 * Tor: upgrade to 0.1.28 (fixes CVE-2010-1676)
6367 * Software: upgrade NSS, Xulrunner, glibc (fixes various security issues)
6368 * FireGPG: use the same keyserver as the one configured in gpg.conf.
6369 * Seahorse: use same keyserver as in gpg.conf.
6370 * HTP: display the logs when the clock synchronization fails.
6371 * Update HTP configuration: www.google.com now redirects to
6372 encrypted.google.com.
6373 * Use the light version of the "Are you using Tor?" webpage.
6374 * Update AdBlock patterns.
6376 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 24 Dec 2010 13:28:29 +0100
6378 tails (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6382 * New OpenPGP signing-only key. Details are on the website:
6383 https://amnesia.boum.org/GnuPG_key/
6386 - Fixed torbutton has migrated to testing, remove custom package.
6389 - Query ssl.scroogle.org instead of lists.debian.org.
6390 - Don't run when the interface that has gone up is the loopback one.
6393 - Add shortcut to securely erase free space in a partition.
6394 - The nautilus-wipe shortcut user interface is now translatable.
6397 - Really fix virtualization warning display.
6398 - More accurate APT pinning.
6399 - Disable Debian sid APT source again since a fixed live-config has
6400 migrated to Squeeze since then.
6402 * live-boot: upgrade to 2.0.8-1+tails1.13926a
6403 - Sometimes fixes the smem at shutdown bug.
6404 - Now possible to create a second partition on the USB stick T(A)ILS is
6408 - Support RT2860 wireless chipsets by installing firmware-ralink from
6410 - Install firmware-linux-nonfree from backports.
6411 - Fix b43 wireless chipsets by having b43-fwcutter extract firmwares at
6415 - Install live-build and live-helper from Squeeze.
6416 - Update SquashFS sort file.
6418 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:53:17 +0200
6420 tails (0.6~rc3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
6422 ** SNAPSHOT build @a3ebb6c775d83d1a1448bc917a9f0995df93e44d **
6425 - Autostart Iceweasel with the GNOME session. This workarounds the
6426 "Iceweasel first page is not loaded" bug.
6429 - Upgrade htpdate script (taken from Git 7797fe9).
6432 - Disable ssh-agent auto-starting with X session: gnome-keyring is
6434 - Fix virtualization warning display.
6435 - Boot profile hook: write desktop file to /etc/skel.
6438 - Convert build system to live-build 2.0.1.
6439 - APT: fetch live-build and live-helper from Debian Live snapshots.
6440 - Remove dependency on live-build functions in chroot_local-hooks.
6441 This makes the build environment more robust and less dependent on
6442 live-build internals.
6443 - Remove hand-made rcS.d/S41tails-wifi: a hook now does this.
6444 - Measure time used by the lh build command.
6445 - Fix boot profile hook.
6446 - Boot profiling: wait a bit more: the current list does not include
6449 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 02 Oct 2010 23:06:46 +0200
6451 tails (0.6~rc2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
6453 ** SNAPSHOT build @c0ca0760ff577a1e797cdddf0e95c5d62a986ec8 **
6456 - Refreshed AdBlock patterns (20100926).
6457 - Set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true (untested yet)
6458 - Torbutton: install patched 1.2.5-1+tails1 to fix the User-Agent bug,
6459 disable extensions.torbutton.spoof_english again.
6462 - WhisperBack: upgrade to 1.3~beta3 (main change: let the user provide
6463 optional email address and OpenPGP key).
6465 - Update haveged backport to 0.9-3~amnesia+lenny1.
6466 - Update live-boot custom packages (2.0.6-1+tails1.6797e8): fixes bugs
6467 in persistency and smem-on-shutdown.
6468 - Update custom htpdate script. Taken from commit d778a6094cb3 in our
6469 custom Git repository: fixes setting of date/time.
6472 - Bugfix: failed builds are now (hopefully) detected.
6473 - Fix permissions on files in /etc/apt/ that are preserved in the image.
6474 - Install version 2.0~a21-1 of live-build and live-helper in the image.
6475 We are too late in the release process to upgrade to current Squeeze
6476 version (2.0~a29-1).
6479 - Pidgin/OTR: disable the automatic OTR initiation and OTR requirement.
6481 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:23:17 +0200
6483 tails (0.6~1.gbpef2878) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
6485 ** SNAPSHOT build @ef28782a0bf58004397b5fd303f938cc7d11ddaa **
6488 - Use a 2.6.32 kernel: linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.5-686 (2.6.32-23~bpo50+1)
6489 from backports.org. This should support far more hardware and
6490 especially a lot of wireless adapters.
6491 - Add firmware for RTL8192 wireless adapters.
6492 - Enable power management on all wireless interfaces on boot.
6497 - Install gfshare and ssss: two complementary implementations
6498 of Shamir's Secret Sharing.
6499 - Install tor-geoipdb.
6500 - Remove dialog, mc and xterm.
6503 - Set extensions.torbutton.spoof_english to its default true value
6504 in order to workaround a security issue:
6505 https://amnesia.boum.org/security/Iceweasel_exposes_a_rare_User-Agent/
6508 - Install the Iceweasel extension.
6509 - Use a hkps:// keyserver.
6512 - Install gnupg from backports.org so that hkps:// is supported.
6513 - Use a hkps:// keyserver.
6514 - Proxy traffic via polipo.
6515 - Prefer up-to-date digests and ciphers.
6517 * Vidalia: rebased our custom package against 0.2.10.
6520 - Built images are now named like this:
6521 tails-i386-lenny-0.5-20100925.iso
6522 - Use live-helper support for isohybrid options instead of doing the
6523 conversion ourselves. The default binary image type we build is now
6525 - Remove .deb built by m-a after they have been installed.
6526 - Setup custom GConf settings at build time rather than at boot time.
6527 - Move $HOME files to /etc/skel and let adduser deal with permissions.
6528 - Convert to live-boot / live-config / live-build 2.x branches.
6529 - Replaced our custom live-initramfs with a custom live-boot package;
6530 included version is 2.0.5-1+tails2.6797e8 from our Git repository:
6531 git clone git://git.immerda.ch/tails_live-boot.git
6532 - Install live-config* from the live-snapshots Lenny repository.
6533 Rationale: live-config binary packages differ depending on the target
6534 distribution, so that using Squeeze's live-config does not produce
6535 fully-working Lenny images.
6536 - Rename custom scripts, packages lists and syslinux menu entries from
6537 the amnesia-* namespace to the tails-* one.
6540 - Use (authenticated) HTP instead of NTP.
6541 - The htpdate script that is used comes from commit 43f5f83c0 in our
6542 custom repository: git://git.immerda.ch/tails_htp.git
6543 - Start Tor and Vidalia only once HTP is done.
6546 - Fix IPv6 firewall restore file. It was previously not used at all.
6547 - Use ftp.us.debian.org instead of the buggy GeoIP-powered
6549 - Gedit: don't autocreate backup copies.
6550 - Build images with syslinux>=4.01 that has better isohybrid support.
6551 - amnesia-security-check: got rid of the dependency on File::Slurp.
6552 - Take into account the migration of backports.org to backports.debian.org.
6553 - Make GnuPG key import errors fatal on boot.
6554 - Warn the user when T(A)ILS is running inside a virtual machine.
6555 - DNS cache: forget automapped .onion:s on Tor restart.
6557 * Documentation: imported Incognito's walkthrough, converted to
6558 Markdown, started the needed adaptation work.
6560 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 26 Sep 2010 11:06:50 +0200
6562 tails (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6564 * The project has merged efforts with Incognito.
6565 It is now to be called "The (Amnesic) Incognito Live System".
6569 - Created the amnesia-news mailing-list.
6570 - Added a forum to the website.
6571 - Created a chatroom on IRC: #tails on irc.oftc.net
6574 - Workaround nasty NetworkManager vs. Tor bug that often
6575 prevented the system to connect to the Tor network: restart Tor and Vidalia
6576 when a network interface goes up.
6577 - onBoard now autodetects the keyboard layout... at least once some
6578 keys have been pressed.
6579 - New windows don't open in background anymore, thanks to
6581 - Memory wiping at shutdown is now lightning fast, and does not prevent
6582 the computer to halt anymore.
6583 - GNOME panel icons are right-aligned again.
6584 - Fixed permissions on APT config files.
6585 - Repaired mouse integration when running inside VirtualBox.
6588 - Torbutton: redirect to Scroogle when presented a Google captcha.
6589 - Revamped bookmarks
6590 . moved T(A)ILS own website to the personal toolbar
6591 . moved webmail links (that are expected to be more than 3 soon)
6592 to a dedicated folder.
6593 - Don't show AdBlock Plus icon in the toolbar.
6594 - Adblock Plus: updated patterns, configured to only update subscriptions
6595 once a year. Which means never, hopefully, as users do update their
6596 Live system on a regular basis, don't they?
6598 * Vidalia: rebased our custom package against 0.2.8.
6601 - Install Claws Mail from backports.org to use the X.509 CA
6602 certificates provided by Debian.
6603 - Enable PGP modules with basic configuration:
6604 . Automatically check signatures.
6605 . Use gpg-agent to manage passwords.
6606 . Display warning on start-up if GnuPG doesn't work.
6607 - Set the IO timeout to 120s (i.e. the double of the default 60s).
6610 - Automatically connect to irc.oftc.net with a randomized nickname,
6611 so as not to advertize the use of T(A)ILS; this nickname is made of:
6612 . a random firstname picked from the 2000 most registered by the U.S.
6613 social security administration in the 70s;
6614 . two random digits.
6615 Good old irc.indymedia.org is still configured - with same nickname -
6616 but is not enabled by default anymore.
6617 - Disabled MSN support, that is far too often affected by security flaws.
6619 * Build $HOME programmatically
6620 - Migrated all GConf settings, including the GNOME panel configuration,
6621 to XML files that are loaded at boot time.
6622 - Configure iceweasel profile skeleton in /etc/iceweasel.
6623 A brand new profile is setup from this skeleton once iceweasel is
6625 . build sqlite files at build time from plain SQL.
6626 . FireGPG: hard-code current firegpg version at build time to prevent
6627 the extension to think it was just updated.
6628 . stop shipping binary NSS files. These were here only to
6629 install CaCert's certificate, that is actually shipped by Debian's
6633 - Updated Debian Live snapshots APT repository URL.
6634 - Purge all devel packages at the end of the chroot configuration.
6635 - Make sure the hook that fixes permissions runs last.
6636 - Remove unwanted Iceweasel search plugins at build time.
6639 - Added a progress bar for boot time file readahead.
6640 - Readahead more (~37MB) stuff in foreground at boot time.
6641 - Make the APT pinning persist in the Live image.
6642 - localepurge: keep locales for all supported languages,
6643 don't bother when installing new packages.
6644 - Removed syslinux help menu: these help pages are either buggy or
6645 not understandable by non-geeks.
6646 - Fixed Windows autorun.
6647 - Disable a few live-initramfs scripts to improve boot time.
6648 - Firewall: forbid any IPv6 communication with the outside.
6649 - Virtualization support: install open-vm-tools.
6650 - WhisperBack: updated to 1.2.1, add a random bug ID to the sent
6652 - Prompt for CD removal on shutdown, not for USB device.
6654 * live-initramfs: new package built from our Git (e2890a04ff) repository.
6655 - Merged upstream changes up to 1.177.2-1.
6656 - New noprompt=usb feature.
6657 - Fix buggy memory wiping and shutdown.
6658 - Really reboot when asked, rather than shutting down the system.
6661 - Upgraded to a new custom, patched package (0.93.0-0ubuntu4~amnesia1).
6662 - Added an entry in the Applications menu.
6665 - Install vim-nox with basic configuration
6667 - Install monkeysphere and msva-perl
6668 - Replaced randomsound with haveged as an additional source of entropy.
6671 - Build ralink rt2570 wifi modules.
6672 - Build rt2860 wifi modules from Squeeze. This supports the RT2860
6673 wireless adapter, found particularly in the ASUS EeePC model 901
6675 - Build broadcom-sta-source wifi modules.
6676 - Bugfix: cpufreq modules were not properly added to /etc/modules.
6677 - Use 800x600 mode on boot rather than 1024x768 for compatibility
6678 with smaller displays.
6680 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:14:13 +0200
6682 amnesia (0.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
6684 New release, mainly aimed at fixing live-initramfs security issue
6685 (Debian bug #568750), with an additional set of small enhancements as
6688 * live-initramfs: new custom package built from our own live-initramfs
6689 Git repository (commit 8b96e5a6cf8abc)
6690 - based on new 1.173.1-1 upstream release
6691 - fixed live-media=removable behaviour so that filesystem images found
6692 on non-removable storage are really never used (Debian bug #568750)
6694 * Vidalia: bring back our UI customizations (0.2.7-1~lenny+amnesia1)
6696 * APT: consistently use the GeoIP-powered cdn.debian.net
6698 * Software: make room so that {alpha, future} Squeeze images fit on
6700 - only install OpenOffice.org's calc, draw, impress, math and writer
6702 - removed OpenOffice.org's English hyphenation and thesaurus
6703 - removed hunspell, wonder why it was ever added
6706 - explicitly disable persistence, better safe than sorry
6707 - removed compulsory 15s timeout, live-initramfs knows how to wait for
6708 the Live media to be ready
6710 * Build system: don't cache rootfs anymore
6712 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:28:16 +0100
6714 amnesia (0.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
6716 * Brown paper bag bugfix release: have amnesia-security-check use
6717 entries publication time, rather than update time... else tagging
6718 a security issue as fixed, after releasing a new version, make this
6719 issue be announced to every user of this new, fixed version.
6721 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:58:41 +0100
6723 amnesia (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6725 * We now only build and ship "Hybrid" ISO images, which can be either
6726 burnt on CD-ROM or dd'd to a USB stick or hard disk.
6728 * l10n: we now build and ship multilingual images; initially supported
6729 (or rather wanna-be-supported) languages are: ar, zh, de, en, fr, it,
6731 - install Iceweasel's and OpenOffice.org's l10n packages for every
6733 - stop installing localized help for OpenOffice.org, we can't afford it
6734 for enough languages
6735 - when possible, Iceweasel's homepage and default search engine are localized
6736 - added Iceweasel's "any language" Scroogle SSL search engine
6737 - when the documentation icon is clicked, display the local wiki in
6738 currently used language, if available
6739 - the Nautilus wipe script is now translatable
6740 - added gnome-keyboard-applet to the Gnome panel
6743 - replaced Icedove with claws mail, in a bit rough way; see
6744 https://amnesia.boum.org/todo/replace_icedove_with_claws/ for best
6745 practices and configuration advices
6746 - virtual keyboard: install onBoard instead of kvkbd
6747 - Tor controller: install Vidalia instead of TorK
6748 - install only chosen parts of Gnome, rather than gnome-desktop-environment
6749 - do not install xdialog, which is unused and not in Squeeze
6750 - stop installing grub as it breaks Squeeze builds (see Debian bug #467620)
6751 - install live-helper from snapshots repository into the Live image
6754 - do not install the NoScript extension anymore: it is not strictly
6755 necessary but bloodily annoying
6757 * Provide WhisperBack 1.2 for anonymous, GnuPG-encrypted bug reporting.
6758 - added dependency on python-gnutls
6759 - install the SMTP hidden relay's certificate
6761 * amnesia-security-check: new program that tells users that the amnesia
6762 version they are running is affected by security flaws, and which ones
6763 they are; this program is run at Gnome session startup, after sleeping
6764 2 minutes to let Tor a chance to initialize.
6767 - uses the Desktop Notifications framework
6768 - fetches the security atom feed from the wiki
6769 - verifies the server certificate against its known CA
6770 - tries fetching the localized feed; if it fails, fetch the default
6773 * live-initramfs: new custom package built from our own live-initramfs
6774 Git repository (commit 40e957c4b89099e06421)
6775 - at shutdown time, ask the user to unplug the CD / USB stick, then run
6776 smem, wait for it to finish, then attempt to immediately halt
6779 - bumped dependency on live-helper to >= 2.0a6 and adapted our config
6780 - generate hybrid ISO images by default, when installed syslinux is
6782 - stop trying to support building several images in a row, it is still
6783 broken and less needed now that we ship hybrid ISO images
6784 - scripts/config: specify distribution when initializing defaults
6785 - updated Debian Live APT repository's signing key
6788 - disable virtualbox packages installing and module building on !i386
6789 && !amd64, as PowerPC is not a supported guest architecture
6790 - built and imported tor_0.2.1.20-1~~lenny+1_powerpc.deb
6793 - rough beginnings of a scratch Squeeze branch, currently unsupported
6794 - install gobby-infinote
6797 - updated GnuPG key with up-to-date signatures
6798 - more improvements on boot time from CD
6799 - enhanced the wipe in Nautilus UI (now asks for confirmation and
6800 reports success or failure)
6801 - removed the "restart Tor" launcher from the Gnome panel
6803 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:28:04 +0100
6805 amnesia (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6807 * software: removed openvpn, added
6813 - lvm2 (with disabled initscript as it slows-down too much the boot in certain
6815 - NetworkManager 0.7 (from backports.org) to support non-DHCP networking
6817 - randomsound to enhance the kernel's random pool
6819 - install the latest stable release from deb.torproject.org
6820 - ifupdown script now uses SIGHUP signal rather than a whole tor
6821 restart, so that in the middle of it vidalia won't start it's own
6823 - configure Gnome proxy to use Tor
6825 - adblockplus: upgraded to 1.0.2
6826 - adblockplus: subscribe to US and DE EasyList extensions, updated patterns
6827 - firegpg is now installed from Debian Squeeze rather than manually; current
6828 version is then 0.7.10
6829 - firegpg: use better keyserver ... namely pool.sks-keyservers.net
6830 - added bookmark to Amnesia's own website
6831 - use a custom "amnesiabranding" extension to localize the default search
6832 engine and homepage depending on the current locale
6833 - updated noscript whitelist
6834 - disable overriden homepage redirect on iceweasel upgrade
6836 - nicer default configuration with verified irc.indymedia.org's SSL cert
6837 - do not parse incoming messages for formatting
6838 - hide formatting toolbar
6839 * hardware compatibility
6841 - beginning of support for the ppc architecture
6842 - load acpi-cpufreq, cpufreq_ondemand and cpufreq_powersave kernel
6844 * live-initramfs: custom, updated package based on upstream's 1.157.4-1, built
6845 from commit b0a4265f9f30bad945da of amnesia's custom live-initramfs Git
6847 - securely erases RAM on shutdown using smem
6848 - fixes the noprompt bug when running from USB
6849 - disables local swap partitions usage, wrongly enabled by upstream
6850 * fully support for running as a guest system in VirtualBox
6851 - install guest utils and X11 drivers
6852 - build virtualbox-ose kernel modules at image build time
6854 - new (translatable) wiki, using ikiwiki, with integrated bugs and todo
6855 tracking system a static version of the wiki is included in generated
6856 images and linked from the Desktop
6858 - adapt for live-helper 2.0, and depend on it
6859 - get amnesia version from debian/changelog
6860 - include the full version in ISO volume name
6861 - save .list, .packages and .buildlog
6862 - scripts/clean: cleanup any created dir in binary_local-includes
6863 - updated Debian Live snapshot packages repository URL and signing key
6864 - remove duplicated apt/preferences file, the live-helper bug has been
6866 * l10n: beginning of support for --language=en
6868 - improved boot time on CD by ordering files in the squashfs in the order they
6869 are used during boot
6870 - added a amnesia-version script to built images, that outputs the current
6872 - added a amnesia-debug script that prepares a tarball with information that
6873 could be useful for developpers
6874 - updated Amnesia GnuPG key to a new 4096R one
6875 - set time with NTP when a network interface is brought up
6876 - import amnesia's GnuPG pubkey into the live session user's keyring
6877 - do not ask DHCP for a specific hostname
6878 - install localepurge, only keep en, fr, de and es locales, which reduces the
6879 generated images' size by 100MB
6880 - added a hook to replace /sbin/swapon with a script that only runs
6882 - moved networking hooks responsibility from ifupdown to NetworkManager
6884 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:17:08 +0100
6886 amnesia (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6888 * imported /home/amnesia, then:
6889 - more user-friendly shell, umask 077
6890 - updated panel, added launcher to restart Tor
6891 - mv $HOME/bin/* /usr/local/bin/
6892 - removed metacity sessions
6893 - removed gstreamer's registry, better keep this dynamically updated
6894 - rm .qt/qt_plugins_3.3rc, better keep this dynamically updated
6895 - removed .gnome/gnome-vfs/.trash_entry_cache
6896 - removed kconf_update log
6897 - removed and excluded Epiphany configuration (not installed)
6900 - enable caching in RAM
6901 - explicitly disable ssl v2, and enable ssl v3 + tls
6902 - removed prefs for the non-installed webdeveloper
6903 - removed the SSL Blacklist extension (not so useful, licensing issues)
6904 - deep profile directory cleanup
6905 - extensions cleanup: prefer Debian-packaged ones, cleanly reinstalled
6906 AddBlock Plus and CS Lite to allow upgrading them
6907 - updated pluginreg.dat and localstore.rdf
6908 - moved some settings to user.js
6909 - made cookie/JavaScript whitelists more consistent
6910 - force httpS on whitelisted sites
6911 - NoScript: marked google and gmail as untrusted
6912 - some user interface tweaks, mainly for NoScript
6913 - FireGPG: disable the buggy auto-detection feature, the link to firegpg's
6914 homepage in generated pgp messages and the GMail interface (which won't
6915 work without JavaScript anyway)
6916 - updated blocklist.xml
6917 - removed and excluded a bunch of files in the profile directory
6918 * icedove: clean the profile directory up just like we did for iceweasel
6919 * software: install msmtp and mutt
6921 - use rsync rather than tar
6924 - reviewed pidgin-otr security (see TODO)
6926 - stop calling home-refresh in lh_build
6927 - include home-refresh in generated images
6929 - fix permissions on local includes at build time
6930 - updated scripts/{build,clean} wrt. new $HOME handling
6931 - scripts/{build,config}: stop guessing BASEDIR, we must be run from
6932 the root of the source directory anyway
6933 - stop storing /etc/amnesia/version in Git, delete it at clean time
6935 - converted Changelog to the Debian format and location, updated
6936 build scripts accordingly
6937 - added a README symlink at the root of the source directory
6938 - basic debian/ directory (not working for building packages yet,
6939 but at least we can now use git-dch)
6940 - added debian/gbp.conf with our custom options for git-dch
6941 - config/amnesia: introduce new $AMNESIA_DEV_* variables to be used
6942 by developpers' scripts
6943 - added ./release script: a wrapper around git-dch, git-commit and git-tag
6945 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:42:03 +0200
6947 amnesia (0.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
6949 * Forked Privatix 9.03.15, by Markus Mandalka:
6950 http://mandalka.name/privatix/index.html.en
6951 Everything has since been rewritten or so heavily changed that nothing
6952 remains from the original code... apart of a bunch of Gnome settings.
6954 - install a bunch of non-free wifi firmwares
6955 - install xsane and add the live user to the scanner group
6956 - install aircrack-ng
6957 - install xserver-xorg-video-geode on i386 (eCafe support)
6958 - install xserver-xorg-video-all
6959 - install firmware-linux from backports.org
6960 - install system-config-printer
6961 - added instructions in README.eCAFE to support the Hercules eCAFE EC-800
6964 - configure pinning to support installing chosen packages from
6965 squeeze; the APT source for testing is hardcoded in chroot_sources/,
6966 since there is no way to use $LH_CHROOT_MIRROR in chroot_local-hooks
6967 - give backports.org priority 200, so that we track upgrades of packages
6968 installed from there
6969 * release: include the Changelog and TODO in the generated images,
6970 in the /usr/share/doc/amnesia/ directory
6971 * software: install gnomebaker when building Gnome-based live OS, to
6972 easily clone myself when running from CD
6974 - build i386 images when the build host is amd64
6975 - added a version file: /etc/amnesia/version
6976 - use snapshot live-* packages inside the images
6977 - setup timezone depending on the chosen build locale
6978 - rely on standard live-initramfs adduser to do our user setup
6979 (including sudo vs. Gnome/KDE, etc.)
6980 - stop "supporting" KDE
6981 - allow building several images at once
6982 - migrated most of lh_config invocations to scripts/config
6983 - append "noprompt" so that halting/rebooting work with splashy
6984 - moved our own variables to config/amnesia, using the namespace
6987 - default search engine is now Scroogle SSL, configured to search pages
6988 in French language; the English one is also installed
6989 - never ask to save passwords or forms content
6990 - configured the torbutton extension to use polipo
6991 - installed the CACert root certificate
6992 - installed the SSL Blacklist extension and the blacklist data
6993 - installed the FireGPG extension
6994 - installed the CS Lite extension
6995 - installed the NoScript extension
6996 - NoScript, CS Lite: replaced the default whitelists with a list of
6997 trusted, non-commercial Internet Service Providers
6998 - configure extensions (add to prefs.js):
6999 user_pref("extensions.torbutton.startup", true);
7000 user_pref("extensions.torbutton.startup_state", 1);
7001 user_pref("extensions.torbutton.tor_enabled", true);
7002 user_pref("noscript.notify.hide", true);
7003 user_pref("capability.policy.maonoscript.sites", "about:
7004 about:blank about:certerror about:config about:credits
7005 about:neterror about:plugins about:privatebrowsing
7006 about:sessionrestore chrome: resource:");
7007 user_pref("extensions.firegpg.no_updates", true);
7008 - install the NoScript plugin from Debian squeeze
7009 - delete urlclassifier3.sqlite on $HOME refresh: as we disabled
7010 "safebrowsing", this huge file is of no use
7011 - torbutton: install newer version from Squeeze
7012 * linux: removed non-686 kernel flavours when building i386 images
7013 * compatibility: append "live-media=removable live-media-timeout=15", to
7014 prevent blindly booting another debian-live installed on the hard disk
7018 - cryptkeeper: Gnome system tray applet to encrypt files with EncFS
7019 - kvkbd: virtual keyboard (installed from backports.org)
7020 - sshfs (and added live user to the fuse group)
7021 - less, secure-delete, wipe, seahorse, sshfs, ntfs-3g
7024 - enable the transparent proxy, the DNS resolver, and the control port
7025 - save authentication cookie to /tmp/control_auth_cookie, so that the
7026 live user can use Tork and co.
7027 - autostart Tork with Gnome
7028 - Tork: installed, disabled most notifications and startup tips
7029 - added a restart tor hook to if-up.d (used by Network Manager as well),
7030 so that Tor does work immediately even if the network cable was
7031 plugged late in/after the boot process
7033 - added a nautilus-script to wipe files and directories
7034 - bash with working completion for the live user
7035 * polipo: install and configure this HTTP proxy to forward requests
7037 * DNS: install and configure pdnsd to forward any DNS request through
7039 * firewall: force every outgoing TCP connection through the Tor
7040 transparent proxy, discard any outgoing UDP connection
7042 - set syslinux timeout to 4 seconds
7043 - use splashy for more user-friendly boot/halt sequences
7045 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:09:15 +0200