1 tails (5.13) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
3 * Dummy entry for next release.
5 -- intrigeri <intrigeri@debian.org> Wed, 19 Apr 2023 15:26:21 +0000
7 tails (5.12) unstable; urgency=medium
9 * Test suite: Try to catch another case of "Display output is not active"
13 - Test suite breakage when restoring an old Bullseye snapshot: "Guest disabled
14 display", "Display output is not active" (tails/tails#18953)
17 - Test suite: Try to catch another case of "Display output is not active"
19 * Test suite: Press escape to wake up the display (tails/tails!1089)
22 - Test suite breakage when restoring an old Bullseye snapshot: "Guest disabled
23 display", "Display output is not active" (tails/tails#18953)
26 - Test suite: Retry restoring snapshot 3 times
27 - Test suite: Press escape up wake up the display
29 * Upgrade to Linux 6.1.20-1 (stable branch) (tails/tails!1080)
32 - Upgrade to Linux 6.1.15 (tails/tails#19484)
33 - Upgrade to Linux 6.1.20+ (tails/tails#19556)
36 - Upgrade to Linux 6.1.20-1 from sid
38 * Upgrade to Linux 6.1.20-1 from sid (devel branch) (tails/tails!1079)
41 - Upgrade to Linux 6.1.20-1 from sid
43 * Add icon for tails-backup (tails/tails!1111)
46 - Have an icon for the backup utility (tails/tails#19363)
49 - Update icon for Persistent Storage settings
50 - Add icon for tails-backup
52 * Additional Software: Fix launched apps not accessible via Dogtail
56 - tca-portal, tails-additional-software: don't run apps as amnesia under the
57 scope of the (root) systemd service (tails/tails#19131)
58 - Additional Software is in English when launched from a notification
60 - tails-additional-software-config and gedit started from a notification are not
61 accessible ⇒ breaks test suite (tails/tails#19233)
64 - Additional Software: Make tails-additional-software-config D-Bus activatable
65 - Additional Software: Launch apps with gtk-launch
67 * Resolve "myspace.com has become incompatible with our htpdate setup"
71 - myspace.com has become incompatible with our htpdate setup (tails/tails#19561)
74 - test-iuk: list 1 package per line, for nicer future diffs
75 - test-iuk: make it breathe
76 - test-iuk: refuse running unless in a throw-away container
77 - convert shell script to set -eu
78 - move test-iuk to its own file
79 - refactor: put in its own file
81 - replace myspace.com with facebook.com
83 * Test suite: Fix step "persistent Greeter options were restored"
87 - "Persistent Greeter options" test suite scenario always fails
91 - Test suite: Avoid an unnecessary reboot
92 - Test suite: Make clicking "Connect to Tor" button more robust
93 - Test suite: Add alternative persian comma image
94 - Test suite: Fix step "persistent Greeter options were restored"
95 - Test suite: Translate Dogtail args to $lang_code
96 - Remote shell: Support setting environment variables in remote commands
97 - Test suite: Support configuring chutney start time
99 * tps: Fix hook execution with --profiling option (tails/tails!1112)
102 - tps: Fix hook execution with --profiling option
104 * Shell library: Validate LANG before using it (tails/tails!1110)
107 - Validate LANG in localization.sh (tails/tails#19576)
110 - Shell library: Validate LANG before using it
112 * Remove obsolete disabling of nf_conntrack_helper (tails/tails!1109)
115 - Update disabling of netfilter's automatic conntrack helper assignment
119 - Remove obsolete disabling of nf_conntrack_helper
121 * Test suite: Fix Electrum test (tails/tails!1105)
124 - Electrum test suite broken by !1010 (tails/tails#19589)
127 - Test suite: Fix Electrum test
129 * Test suite: Fix additional software scenario (tails/tails!1102)
132 - Test suite: Scenario "Recovering in offline mode after Additional Software
133 previously failed to upgrade and then succeed to upgrade when online" fails
137 - Remove @fragile tags that were only justified by #19233, which was solved via
139 - Test suite: Fix additional software scenario
141 * Additional Software: Use valid D-Bus name as app name (tails/tails!1099)
144 - `gtk-launch org.boum.tails.additional-software-config.desktop` is broken
148 - Design doc: update path
149 - Additional Software: Use valid D-Bus name as app name
151 * Test suite: allow the pattern to cover slightly less of the write cache
155 - Test Suite: Feature "System memory erasure on shutdown" is fragile
159 - Test suite: allow the pattern to cover even less of the write cache
160 - Test suite: allow the pattern to cover slightly less of the write cache
162 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.5 (tails/tails!1097)
165 - Upgrade to Tor Browser 12.0.5, based on Firefox 102.10 (tails/tails#19559)
168 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
169 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.5-build2
170 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.5-build1
172 * tps: Fix "python.UnknownError" returned for builtin errors (tails/tails!1095)
175 - Buggy error handling in tps: OSError is not a valid D-Bus name
179 - tps: Fix "python.UnknownError" returned for builtin errors
181 * Welcome Screen: Support login kernel command-line option (tails/tails!1093)
184 - Welcome Screen: Support login kernel command-line option
186 * Welcome Screen: Don't allow unlocking with empty passphrase by pressing Enter
190 - Welcome Screen: Don't allow unlocking with empty passphrase by pressing Enter
194 - Welcome Screen: Don't allow unlocking with empty passphrase by pressing Enter
196 * systemd: Use name in unit status messages (tails/tails!1088)
199 - systemd: Use name instead of description in unit status messages
203 - systemd: Use both name and description in unit status messages
205 * Display a diceware suggestion when creating the Persistent Storage
209 - Display a diceware suggestion when creating the Persistent Storage
213 - tps-frontend: Move passphrase suggestion code to passphrase_view.py
214 - tps-frontend: Fix local variable 'passphrase' might be referenced before
216 - tps-frontend: Increase spacing between suggested passphrase and refresh button
217 - tps-frontend: Add missing space to error message
218 - tps-frontend: Fix indentation
219 - tps-frontend: hide relevant UI elements when diceware fails
220 - tps-frontend: give attribute an expressive name
221 - Wait Bookworm to use the non-English wordlists
222 - Determine passphrase suggestion width automatically
223 - tps-frontend: Remove default passphrase suggestion
224 - tps-frontend: refactoring
225 - tps-frontend: hide 'for example' label when diceware suggestion fails
226 - tps-frontend: don't break when wordlist directory doesn't exist
227 - tps-frontend: Use a method to set a new passphrase hint
228 - tps-frontend: Log the exceptions caused by diceware suggestion
229 - tps-frontend: print stderr when diceware fails
230 - tps-frontend: use a wordlist in the currently configured language when
232 - tps-frontend: adjust passphrase view UI
233 - Display a diceware suggestion when creating the Persistent Storage
235 * Fix race when starting tails-ibus-proxy.service (tails/tails!1086)
238 - tails-dbus-proxy: Add missing PIDFile= property to systemd services
239 - tails-ibus-proxy: Busy wait on ibus-daemon
240 - tails-ibus-proxy: Fix missing whitespace (PEP-8)
241 - Fix race when starting tails-ibus-proxy.service
243 * Don't translate "known security vulnerabilities" (tails/tails!1081)
246 - Don't translate "known security vulnerabilities"
248 * Fix progress information inconsistencies when resuming an automatic upgrade
249 download (tails/tails!1071)
252 - Upgrader sometimes fails: Negative number not allowed in format_bytes at
253 /usr/local/share/perl/5.32.1/Tails/IUK/Role/FormatByte.pm line 45 (Fix progress
254 information inconsistencies when resuming an automatic upgrade download)
258 - Revert "Upgrader: Avoid display the progress dialog initial text"
260 - Make code style more consistent
262 - Upgrader: Avoid display the progress dialog initial text
263 - Tails::IUK::LWP::UserAgent::WithProgress: check if the temp file exists
264 - Tails::IUK::LWP::UserAgent::WithProgress: always display the total amount of
267 * Persistent Storage design docs (tails/tails!1035)
270 - Persistent Storage: Update design doc (tails/tails#19223)
273 - Remove XXX comments
274 - Remove glossary entry for tails-persistence-setup
275 - Link to contribute/Persistent_Storage in contribute.mdwn
276 - Persistent Storage design doc: Don't link to line numbers
277 - Revert "Rename persistence.mdwn -> Persistent_Storage.mdwn"
281 - Improve Persistent Storage contribute doc
282 - Rename persistence.mdwn -> Persistent_Storage.mdwn
283 - Move persistent-storage/HACKING.md to website
284 - Update Additional Software design doc
285 - Persistent Storage design doc: Add section on symlink attacks
286 - Improve Persistent Storage design doc
287 - better draft of Persistent Storage design docs
289 * tps: Fix activation of feature in inconsistent state (tails/tails!1010)
292 - Consider sync'ing data to disk after copying it to Persistent Storage when
293 activating a feature (tails/tails#19368)
294 - Seemingly spurious tps.configuration.mount.IsActiveException when deactivating
295 a Persistent Storage feature (tails/tails#19331)
296 - Delete corresponding data when a feature of the Persistent Storage is turned
297 off in the settings (tails/tails#8447)
298 - Switches of the new Persistent Storage are too slow to respond on some USB
299 sticks (tails/tails#19291)
300 - tps: Fix activation failing when in inconsistent state (tails/tails#19376)
303 - Test suite: Update string
304 - less ambiguous variable name
305 - libtps.sh: Print JSON output
306 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
307 - libtps.sh: Describe format returned by tps_get_features()
308 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
309 - Make code easier to review
310 - tps-frontend: Check if action row is defined
312 - Explain stacklevel option
313 - Use normal string instead of f-string
317 - tps: Delete feature data via `rm -rf`
318 - tps: Set HasData to True if we can't figure it out
319 - tps-frontend: Ensure that the delete data button has the correct visibility
320 - tps-frontend: Fix feature deactivated when IsActive changes to False
321 - tps: Ensure that all feature properties are refreshed
322 - Welcome Screen: Improve error message
323 - Test suite: Use tpscli instead of parsing persistence.conf
324 - Test suite: Fix "Given" used instead of "Then"
325 - Test suite: Improve scenario "Feature activation fails"
326 - Test suite: Use consistent wording
327 - tps: Support reloading the service
328 - Test suite: Improve comment and variable names
329 - Test suite: Add another check that tps feature is deactivated immediately
330 - Test suite: Use "active" instead of "enabled" for Persistent Storage
331 - Test suite: Add scenario "Feature activation fails"
332 - Welcome Screen: Show unlocked message when features failed to activate
333 - Integrate tps-frontend Python files into our l10n framework
334 - tps: Don't return an error in Unlock when features have unexpected state
336 - tps-frontend: Don't insert hyphens when breaking lines in the error message
337 - Test suite: Add scenario "Deleting data of a Persistent Storage feature"
338 - tps-frontend: Remove unused imports
339 - tps-frontend: Add accessible name to delete data button
340 - tps-frontend: Make title of error dialogs bold
341 - tps: Print stderr of failed commands in error messages
342 - Test suite: Improve Gherkin of "Activating and deactivating Persistent Storage
344 - tps: Strip the "GDBus.Error:" prefix from errors displayed to users
345 - tps: Check that enabling/disabling feature worked
346 - tps: Fix ActivationFailedError raised instead of DeactivationFailedError
347 - tps: Fix incorrect PropertiesChanged signal
348 - tps: Add behave test for deleting feature
349 - tps: Fix behave tests failing
350 - tps: Fix no PropertiesChanged emitted for HasData
351 - tps: Remove Error property
352 - tps-frontend: Use IsEnabled property
353 - tps: Don't raise AlreadyActivatedError and NotActivatedError
354 - tps: Fix race condition when adding/removing features from config file
355 - tps: Add new property Feature.IsEnabled
356 - Welcome Screen: Mention which features failed to activate
357 - tps-frontend: Move delete data button into first row
358 - tps-frontend: Remove separator between first and second row
359 - Welcome Screen: Document GtkInspector
361 - tps: Sync data copied to Persistent Storage
362 - tps: Improve error in Welcome Screen when features failed to activate
363 - tps-frontend: Show warning for features which failed to activate
364 - tps: Remove features which failed to activate
365 - tps: Store errors during service activation
366 - tps: Make error message label selectable
367 - tps-frontend: Use … instead of ... in button labels
368 - tps-frontend: Confirm data deletion
369 - tps: Treat Persistent directory with empty "Tor Browser" directory as empty
370 - tps: Fix "return" used instead of "raise"
372 - tps: Support deleting data
373 - tps-frontend: Show a spinner while activating/deactivating features
374 - tps-frontend: Hide persistent folder button when feature is inactive
375 - Also make on-deactived hooks work when run twice
376 - tps behave-tests: Test deactivating feature with inconsistent state
377 - tps: Make on-activated hooks work when run twice
378 - Fix shellcheck source comments
379 - tps: Fix deactivation of feature in inconsistent state
380 - tps behave-tests: Test activating feature with inconsistent state
381 - Revert "Don't try (and fail) to refresh features' IsActive when unlocking"
382 - tps: Fix activation of feature in inconsistent state
384 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2023 16:54:56 +0000
386 tails (5.11) unstable; urgency=medium
388 * Upgrade Thunderbird to 102.9.0-1~deb11u1
390 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.4-build2 (tails/tails!1082)
393 - Upgrade to Tor Browser 12.0.4 based on Firefox 102.9 (tails/tails#19450)
396 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
397 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.4-build2
399 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.4-build1 (tails/tails!1078)
402 - Upgrade to Tor Browser 12.0.4 based on Firefox 102.9 (tails/tails#19450)
406 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
407 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.4-build1
409 * Fix root exporting unsafe env (tails/tails!1067)
412 - LPE via Environment Key Injection (tails/tails#19464)
415 - remove inaccurate type hint
416 - Revert "tails-additional-software: Fix string returned instead of int"
417 - tails-additional-software: Fix logging command
418 - tails-additional-software: Fix string returned instead of int
419 - tails-additional-software: Log stderr of the executed command to Journal
420 - tails-additional-software: Fix _ (gettext.gettext) not defined
421 - tails-additional-software: Add type hints
422 - tails-additional-software: Print logs of apt hooks to journal
423 - Remote shell: Don't capture stderr of "sh_spawn" commands
424 - tailslib: Make code easier to read
425 - Start tails-dump-user-env.service automatically again
426 - Revert "workaround failure"
427 - 10-tor.sh: Remove obsolete wait loops
428 - run-with-user-env: Depend on tails-dump-user-env.service
429 - run-with-env: Fix current environment not passed to the command
430 - tails-additional-software: Log stderr of the executed command
431 - let's use standard logging methods
432 - Remote shell: Fix some log output not printed to stderr
433 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
434 - Rename exec-with-env -> run-with-env
435 - INHERIT_FD is needed for connect-drop to work
436 - port exec-with-env to argparse
438 - Use exec in some places
439 - tails-dump-user-env.service: Be explicit about which users the service should
441 - userenv.py: Don't use current env in read_allowed_env_vars_from_file
442 - dump-user-env: Use logging module
443 - userenv.py: Fix all env vars from the current env passed
444 - exec-with-env: Move read_allowed_env_vars_from_file() to userenv.py
445 - exec-with-env: Only export allow-listed environment variables
446 - tailslib: Move NOSYMFOLLOW_MOUNTPOINT back to tps package
447 - exec-with-env: Fix error message
448 - dump-user-env: Fix error message
449 - dump-user-env: Don't set $EUID
450 - userenv.py: Log invalid environment variables
451 - dump-user-env: Only dump specific environment variables
452 - Remote shell: Remove unused imports
453 - Test Suite: Use "systemctl poweroff" instead of "poweroff"
454 - Remote shell: Don't fail if user env is not found
455 - Remote shell: Use user env in commands executed as root
456 - refactor: Rename loadenv-exec -> exec-with-env
457 - Run tails-additional-software-notify as amnesia with user env
458 - exec-with-user-env: Fix comment and add usage message
459 - refactor: Rename launch_x_application -> run_with_user_env
460 - refactor: Rename gnome-env -> user-env
461 - dump-user-env: Print error message when required variables could not be set
462 - tps-frontend-wrapper: Pass current user environment
463 - Reimplement loadenv-exec in Python
464 - Replace most usages of gnome_env in Python scripts
465 - netnsdrop.py: Remove unused argument user
466 - tails-additional-software-notify: Fix error when printing usage message
467 - tails-additional-software-notify: Fix unresolved reference '_'
468 - Replace systemctl-user with exec-in-gnome-env
469 - Avoid exporting gnome environment file in privileged processes
470 - Dump gnome-shell env as amnesia
471 - tails-notify-user: Use consistent indentation
472 - 20-time.sh: Don't export amnesia-controlled gnome env
473 - tailslib: Don't export gnome env
474 - Test suite: Fix unset environment variables evaluating to true
475 - tca-portal: Support setting debug log level via environment and kernel cmdline
477 * Sanitize input (tails/tails!1058)
480 - LPE via Environment Key Injection (tails/tails#19464)
483 - sanitize WAYLAND_DISPLAY
486 * Test new tps functionality (tails/tails!1052)
489 - Ensure Cucumber tests cover new tps functionality (tails/tails#19225)
492 - Quote variable used in shell command
493 - rubocop --auto-correct
494 - Test Suite: Improve Gherkin of "Creating a Persistent Storage" scenario
495 - Test Suite: Add scenario "Changing the Persistent Storage passphrase"
496 - Test Suite: Add scenario "Activating and deactivating Persistent Storage
498 - Test Suite: Add scenario "Creating a Persistent Storage"
500 * Test suite: Fix step "the clearnet user has not sent packets out to the
501 Internet" (tails/tails!1074)
504 - Test suite step "the clearnet user has not sent packets out to the Internet" is
505 now irrelevant to Unsafe Browser (tails/tails#19370)
509 - Test suite: Add anti test for packets sent by the Unsafe Browser
510 - Test suite: Fix step "the clearnet user has not sent packets out to the
513 * Remove custom window-center extension (tails/tails!1072)
516 - Consider replacing our custom window-center GNOME Shell extension with the
517 center-new-windows Mutter option (tails/tails#19489)
520 - Remove custom window-center extension
522 * 10-tor.sh: Add log output (tails/tails!1070)
525 - Remote shell: Improve log output
526 - 10-tor.sh: Add log output
528 * Use zram (tails/tails!1064)
531 - Consider using zram (tails/tails#5740)
534 - remove unused variable
535 - chdir / makes paths more predictable
536 - move swapon.tails in its own file
537 - 05-replace_swapon: Use exec to run the original swapon
538 - 05-replace_swapon: Improve device check
539 - 05-replace_swapon: Fail if any argument contains non-zram device
543 * Welcome Screen: UI changes (tails/tails!1063)
546 - Help new users understand better the encryption model (#18732)
547 - Test suite: Make output easier to search for
548 - Remote Shell: Automatically restart service when it fails
549 - Test Suite: Use Dogtail to check if the Greeter has started
550 - Test Suite: Avoid spamming log with stacktrace of the same error
551 - Test Suite: Fix failure because of outdated screenshot
552 - Test Suite: Use Dogtail to open GNOME Shell menus
553 - Test Suite: Use Dogtail for some Greeter steps
554 - Welcome Screen: Fix excessive height
555 - Welcome Screen: Replace passphrase entry placeholder with a label
556 - Welcome Screen: Align section header icons / link buttons
557 - Welcome Screen: Remove unnecessary GtkBox
558 - Welcome Screen: Update label
559 - Welcome Screen: Update string shown when Persistent Storage is unlocked
561 * Upgrade to Linux 6.1.12-1 from sid (stable branch) (tails/tails!1062)
564 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 6.1.7+ (tails/tails#19444)
567 - Test suite: disable bridge QR code automated tests
568 - Upgrade to Linux 6.1.12-1 from sid
570 * Welcome Screen: Don't allow unlocking with empty passphrase (tails/tails!1059)
573 - Disable "Unlock" button until a passphrase has been entered (tails/tails#19357)
576 - Welcome Screen: Don't allow unlocking with empty passphrase
578 * Upgrade to Linux 6.1.12-1 from sid (devel branch) (tails/tails!1055)
581 - Test suite: relax timeout
582 - Test suite: disable bridge QR code automated tests
583 - Upgrade to Linux 6.1.12-1 from sid
585 * tps: Fix strings not translatable (tails/tails!1053)
588 - Missing translations of UI strings about Persistent Storage (tails/tails#19415)
591 - tails-backup: Fix strings not translatable
592 - tps: Fix strings not translatable
594 * Set screencast feature to never stop automatically (#12723) (tails/tails!1049)
597 - Set screencast feature to never stop automatically (#12723)
599 * Avoid double negation (tails/tails!1048)
603 - Avoid double negation
605 * Unlock VeraCrypt Volumes: Use Gtk.show_uri_on_window to open directories
609 - Opening VeraCrypt volume spawns zombie process (tails/tails#19423)
612 - Unlock VeraCrypt Volumes: Use Gtk.show_uri_on_window to open directories
614 * Enable non-free-firmware archive area for distributions that support it
618 - devel FTBFS (tails/tails#19456)
619 - devel branch FTBFS: uBlock diff (tails/tails#19398)
620 - Enable non-free-firmware APT component (tails/tails#19411)
623 - fix FTBFS: patch wasnt applying
624 - Fix FTBFS by installing b43-fwcutter from bullseye instead of sid
625 - Bump the debian APT snapshot to one that supports the non-free-firmware archive
627 - Enable non-free-firmware archive area for distributions that support it
629 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2023 15:21:33 +0000
631 tails (5.10) unstable; urgency=medium
633 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.3-build1 (tails/tails!1046)
636 - Upgrade to Tor Browser based on Firefox 102.8 (tails/tails#19412)
639 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
640 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.3-build1
642 * Avoid symlink attack when writing amnesia owned file as root (tails/tails!1038)
644 Dennis Brinkrolf discovered a privilege escalation in Tails 5.9:
645 an adversary, who can already run arbitrary code as the amnesia user,
646 could escalate their privileges to reading arbitrary files on the
647 system. It might be possible to use this as part of an exploit chain
648 to gain full root privileges.
651 - Privilege escalation via Dotfiles, sudo, and gnome-shell-save-environment
655 - clarify/acknowledge security limitations
657 - Avoid symlink attack when writing amnesia owned file as root
659 * Stop some dbus proxies when they are unneeded (tails/tails!1019)
662 - Keyboard input sometimes not working in Tor Connection and Tor Browser
666 - Rewrite dbus proxy code
667 - Only run Tor Browser dbus proxy services when needed
668 - Only run Onion Circuits dbus proxy service when needed
669 - Automatically start dbus proxy service when Onion Circuits is started
670 - Automatically start dbus proxy service when Tor Browser is started
672 * tps: Treat unmounted partition as locked (tails/tails!1043)
675 - tps-frontend lets user activate features when the Persistent Storage LUKS was
676 not fully set up (tails/tails#19352)
679 - tps: Treat unmounted partition as locked
681 * Upgrader: don't crash when a download is interrupted and then resumed
685 - Upgrader: don't crash when a download is interrupted and then resumed
687 * tps: Bump the unlocking timeout to 120 seconds (tails/tails!1039)
690 - Persistent Storage fails to unlock: timeout (tails/tails#19432)
693 - tps: Bump the unlocking timeout to 120 seconds
695 * Test suite: adjust to updated Tor Browser localization in German
699 - Test suite step "the support documentation page opens in Tor Browser" is broken
700 in German (tails/tails#19419)
703 - Test suite: relax our expectations, again
704 - Test suite: adjust to updated Tor Browser localization in German
706 * Small fixes on Persistent Storage UI (tails/tails!1032)
711 - Update doc-source-relationships.yml
712 - Replace: 'doc/first_steps/persistence' with 'doc/persistent_storage'
714 - Avoid confusing future tense
719 - Improve error message
720 - Be more helpful in UI
722 * GitLab CI: remove lint-latest-po job (tails/tails!1031)
725 - Fix lint-latest-po (tails/tails#19378)
728 - GitLab CI: remove lint-latest-po job
730 * Welcome Screen: Avoid starting Persistent Storage app on each login
734 - Remove Welcome Screen persistent settings hack (tails/tails#19062)
735 - Persistent Storage settings always opened after login (tails/tails#19410)
738 - still renaming directories
739 - Improve comment documenting Welcome Screen settings design
740 - Rename Welcome Screen settings directories
741 - document Welcome Screen settings design
742 - Remove workaround for persistent Welcome Screen settings directory
743 - Welcome Screen: Avoid starting Persistent Storage app on each login
745 * Update our doc to the new Persistent Storage (tails/tails!1024)
749 - Remove old issue and work around
751 - Add a bit more doubt
752 - Add dummy changelog entry for 5.10.
753 - Remove UDFs for versions we'll never release
757 - This file is not about persistence anymore
758 - Update cross-references
761 - Update cross-references
763 - Give more visibility
764 - Reorder by importance
766 - Integrate FAQ into doc
768 - Remove Persistent Storage from installation doc
769 - Move last warning to a better place
771 - Remove useless warning
772 - Integrate warning in doc
775 - Layer the information
778 - Update list of features
779 - Rewrite in Markdown and improve style
781 - Update to new Persistent Storage
782 - Move instructions to use the Persistent Storage to a dedicated page
785 - Add subsections and TOC
786 - Reorder features as in new interface
787 - Update to new Persistent Storage
788 - Update to new Persistent Storage
789 - Rename as Markdown file
790 - Deduplicate content
792 - Add missing alt tags
793 - Update to new Persistent Storage
794 - Update doc to #19338
795 - Add missing alt tags
796 - Use more consistent terminology
801 - Rename more pages and images
802 - Merge inline in the only place where it was used
803 - Create a dedicated doc section about the Persistent Storage
804 - Deactivate trail plugin
805 - Remove CSS about traillink
806 - Remove traillink from templates
807 - Remove HTML tags in Markdown
808 - Remove traillink directives (#18951)
809 - Explain better how to exchange with another Linux
810 - Move long warning and FAQ to a dedicated page
811 - Improve warning on opening from another OS
812 - Remove unactionable warning
814 - Improve style guide
818 - Split Persistent Storage creation and configuration
820 * FIX Persistent Greeter options scenario (tails/tails!1021)
823 - "Persistent Greeter options" test case is broken (tails/tails#19397)
827 - login button in german, too
828 - fix more images for German greeter
829 - Fix test suite regexp
830 - new images for persistent language
831 - FIX Persistent Greeter options scenario
833 * No predictable names in /tmp (tails/tails!1018)
836 - Don't use predictable names in /tmp (tails/tails#19389)
839 - Don't use predictable names in /tmp
840 - Use service name without variables
842 * tps: Ask for confirmation when Persistent Storage exists but is not unlocked
846 - Confirm when starting without unlocking the Persistent Storage
850 - Test Suite: Check if the confirmation dialog is displayed
851 - Test suite: Fix "I log in to a new session" step failing
852 - tps: Ask for confirmation when Persistent Storage exists but is not unlocked
854 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 15 Feb 2023 09:44:33 +0000
856 tails (5.9) unstable; urgency=medium
858 * Update tor to 0.4.7.13 (tails/tails!1013)
861 - Upgrade to Tor 0.4.7.13 (tails/tails#19377)
864 - Update tor to 0.4.7.13
866 * Resolve "Upgrade to Tor Browser based on Firefox 102.7" (tails/tails!1012)
869 - Upgrade to Tor Browser based on Firefox 102.7 (tails/tails#19360)
872 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
873 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.2-build1
875 * tps: Increase timeout of activate call (tails/tails!1006)
878 - tps logs passphrase in cleartext in debug mode (tails/tails#19350)
879 - Persistent Storage fails to activate: timeout (tails/tails#19347)
882 - tps: Don't print status of NetworkManager.service to stdout
883 - tps: Bump the activation timeout to 120 seconds
884 - tps: Add log messages
885 - tps: Log line which called executil helper functions
887 * Troubleshooting mode: stop passing options that can only break stuff
891 - Reconsider Troubleshooting Mode kernel command line wrt. Wayland
895 - Troubleshooting mode (syslinux): stop passing options that can only break stuff
896 - Troubleshooting mode (EFI): stop passing options that can only break stuff
898 * Upgrade to Linux 6.0 (tails/tails!996)
901 - Add randomize_kstack_offset=1 to boot parameters (tails/tails#19023)
902 - Enable BPF JIT hardening (tails/tails#19345)
903 - Upgrade to Linux 6.0 (tails/tails#18467)
906 - Test suite: allow the pattern to cover slightly less of the write cache
907 - Revert renaming of /etc/amnesia/version to /etc/tails/version
908 - Move "set -eu" to a better location
909 - Test suite: remove dead code
910 - Test suite: drop check about tails-version output
911 - Upgrade to Linux 6.0.12-1~bpo11+1
912 - early_patch: implement the initramfs-tools' "prereqs" interface
913 - initramfs: stop including SCSI drivers
914 - initramfs: bring back including all DRM modules
915 - Always log the size of the initramfs
916 - initramfs: remove support for AFS and CIFS
917 - initramfs: remove support for PCMCIA and parallel port
918 - initramfs: don't include firmware for drivers we removed
919 - initramfs: remove sunrpc support
920 - initramfs: remove a bunch more SCSI drivers
923 - Include fewer modules in the initramfs
924 - Compress the initramfs with the most space-efficient XZ compression level
925 - Simplify how we set initramfs compression algorithm
926 - Hardening: turn on BPF JIT hardening, if the JIT is enabled.
927 - Fix headings levels
928 - Hardening: randomize kernel stack offset on syscall entry
929 - initrd: install privacy screen provider drivers
930 - Upgrade to Linux 6.0.3-1~bpo11+1 from bullseye-backports
931 - Enable bullseye-backports APT source
932 - Rename config/amnesia to config/variables
933 - Rename /etc/amnesia to /etc/tails
934 - Deprecate /usr/share/doc/amnesia/
935 - The thing is called Tails
936 - Drop support for config/amnesia.local
938 - Rename $AMNESIA_* variables
939 - Remove unused variables
941 * Tor Connection: Hide "Fix clock", "Proxy", and "Captive Portal" when time sync
942 was successful already (tails/tails!986)
945 - Add label to bridge line on the error screen (tails/tails#19332)
946 - Hide "Fix clock", "Proxy", and "Captive Portal" when time sync was successful
947 already (tails/tails#19171)
950 - Make it easier to reason about state transitions
951 - Tor Connection: simplify test
952 - Tor Connection: improve phrasing
953 - Tor Connection: make phrasing consistent
954 - Tor Connection: tell the user when we know their network is blocking access to
956 - Tor Connection: explain what bridges are on the error screen
957 - Tor Connection: rename "Bridge by email" section on the error screen
958 - Tor Connection: add label to bridge line on the error screen too
959 - Tor Connection: fix alignment of "Send an empty email" string
960 - Tor Connection: Hide "Fix clock", "Proxy", and "Captive Portal" when time sync
961 was successful already
962 - Name widgets so we can act on them
963 - Tor Connection: make log message somewhat clearer
964 - Tor Connection: remember the result of tails-get-network-time
966 * tps: Fix handling of symlink bindings (tails/tails!1009)
969 - Persistent Storage sometimes fails to activate Dotfiles (tails/tails#19346)
972 - tps behave-tests: Support passing flags to behave
973 - tps behave-tests: Test source directory with symlink
974 - tps behave-tests: Add README
975 - tps: Fix BEHAVE_DEBUG_ON_ERROR feature of the behave tests
976 - tps: Improve log messages
977 - tps-frontend: Improve log and error messages
978 - tps-frontend: Fix log level of message
979 - tps: Fix activation of symlink bindings failing
980 - tps: Fix log message
981 - tps: Improve error message
982 - tps: Fix Activate call failing with spurious error
983 - tps: More useful error message
985 * tps: Don't log parameters which can contain secrets (tails/tails!1005)
988 - tps logs passphrase in cleartext in debug mode (tails/tails#19350)
991 - tps: Don't log parameters which can contain secrets
993 * Do not hide the GTK3 “application menu” button in title bars (tails/tails!1004)
996 - Cannot access GTK3 application menus in Tails 5.8 / Wayland (tails/tails#19371)
999 - Do not hide the GTK3 “application menu” button in title bars
1001 * Fix Tor Browser homepage localization when started from Tor Connection
1005 - Tor Browser homepage is not localized when started from Tor Connection
1011 - Fix Tor Browser homepage localization when started from Tor Connection
1013 * Update tails@ key (tails/tails!1001)
1016 - Test suite: ensure OpenPGP keys test is run when the only change on the branch
1020 * Pull non-website PO files from Weblate (tails/tails!1000)
1023 - Pull non-website PO files from Weblate (tails/tails#19322)
1026 - import-translations: remove obsolete reference to Transifex
1027 - import-translations: drop support for excluding languages
1028 - generate-languages-list: workaround the fact we can't distinguish reviewed
1029 translations from non-reviewed ones
1030 - Pull non-website PO files from Weblate
1032 * Make a few user-facing strings localizable (tails/tails!998)
1035 - Not localized (internationalized) strings (tails/tails#19349)
1038 - Integrate the Welcome Screen's main_window.py into our l10n framework
1040 - Make a few user-facing strings localizable
1042 * Autocorrect Rubocop violations (tails/tails!997)
1046 - Test suite: run rubocop --autocorrect
1048 * Improve wording of backup utility (tails/tails!995)
1051 - Improve wording of backup utility (tails/tails#19348)
1054 - Test suite: adjust to new UI wording
1055 - Use more consistent wording
1059 * Fix newly discovered shellcheck violations (tails/tails!994)
1062 - Fix "lb build" exit code reporting
1063 - Add missing quotes
1065 * Remove scrollbar in Favorites (tails/tails!992)
1068 - Need to scroll to see all Favorites (tails/tails#19338)
1071 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
1072 - Test suite: fix "the screen keyboard works in Tor Browser"
1074 - Test suite: remove dead code
1075 - Test suite: retry opening new tab
1076 - Test suite: ensure Tor Browser has loaded the home page before we continue
1077 - Test suite: spam Tor Browser less intensively
1078 - Test suite: remove unused code
1079 - Test suite: start Tor Browser and Thunderbird by typing their name
1080 - Test suite: fix typo in comment
1081 - Remove scrollbar in Favorites
1083 * Remove dead code about TAILS_WIKI_SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES (tails/tails!991)
1086 - WhisperBack: don't try to include non-existing tails-greeter.errors file
1087 - WhisperBack: don't try to include non-existing xorg.conf
1088 - Remove l10n plumbing for WhisperBack configuration file
1089 - Remove obsolete .xsessionrc
1091 - WhisperBack config: remove dead code
1093 * Test suite: fix Unsafe Browser localization test in French (tails/tails!988)
1096 - Test suite: fix Unsafe Browser localization test in French
1098 * Revert "Run Qt applications as native Wayland by default" (tails/tails!987)
1101 - Remove obsolete config/chroot_local-includes/usr/share/live/config/xserver-
1102 xorg/*.ids (tails/tails#19330)
1103 - Qt AppImages broken on Tails 5.8 (tails/tails#19326)
1104 - Clipboard encryption/decryption with Kleopatra is broken on Wayland
1106 - can't paste into unlock password field in KeepassXC in Tails 5.8
1110 - Remove obsolete per-device X.Org driver override via live-config
1111 - Revert "Don't run OnionShare as a native Wayland app"
1112 - Revert "Run Qt applications as native Wayland by default"
1114 * Remove the warning dialog when starting the Unsafe Browser (tails/tails!985)
1117 - Explain better the Unsafe Browser from Tor Connection (tails/tails#19168)
1120 - Test suite: adjust to removed warning dialog
1121 - Remove the warning dialog when starting the Unsafe Browser
1123 * Make the Upgrader use the mirror redirector (tails/tails!983)
1126 - Upgrader: use dedicated SocksPort with no stream isolation
1127 - Test suite: remove test whose cost/benefit has become very high
1128 - Test suite: apply user-facing terminology
1129 - Design doc: remove outdated details
1130 - Remove now unused mirror-pool-dispatcher submodule
1131 - Design doc: update what the fallback DNS pool is used for
1132 - Drop dead code, obsolete dependencies, and obsolete tweaks
1133 - Upgrader: Drop the "replace URL with a random one from the mirror pool JSON"
1134 and "fallback to DNS pool" mechanisms
1135 - Upgrader: bring back explanation when impossible to do an incremental upgrade
1136 - IUK test suite: adjust to 888b78811bcd156284d01a063d448f6bd693db22
1137 - Design doc: use new download URI in example UDFs
1138 - Generate UDFs that point to the mirror redirector for ISO and IUK downloads
1140 * Welcome Screen: restore ability to login with default settings by pressing
1141 "Enter" (tails/tails!982)
1144 - Login with default settings now requires pressing "Enter" twice in the Welcome
1145 Screen (tails/tails#19323)
1148 - Welcome Screen: restore ability to login with default settings by pressing
1151 * switch Persistent Storage icon to SVG (tails/tails!980)
1154 - Replace Persistent Storage icon with SVG version (tails/tails#19316)
1157 - Also use the SVG icon in the Welcome Screen
1158 - Switch Persistent Storage icon to SVG
1160 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:53:31 +0100
1162 tails (5.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1164 * Upgrade Thunderbird to 102.6.0-1~deb11u1
1166 * Fix FTBFS: refresh patch (tails/tails!965)
1171 - Fix FTBFS: refresh patch
1173 * Update tor browser to 12.0.1 (tails/tails!979)
1178 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
1179 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.1-build1
1181 * Enable bullseye-proposed-updates (to test Bullseye 11.6 before it's released),
1182 upgrade to Linux 5.10.158 (tails/tails!975)
1184 Closes #19301, #19293
1187 - After disabling the Tor Configuration persistence feature, only start Tor
1188 Connection if we're connected to a local network
1189 - Also consider the Linux kernel from bullseye-updates
1190 - Install the Linux kernel from bullseye-proposed-updates, if that suite is
1192 - Test suite: remove unused image
1193 - Upgrade to Linux 5.10.158-1
1194 - Enable bullseye-proposed-updates, to test Bullseye 11.6 before it's released
1195 - Bump snapshot of the Debian archive to 2022121302, so we can use proposed-
1196 updates for Bullseye 11.6
1198 * Test suite: make keyboard input more reliable (tails/tails!971)
1201 - Test suite: increase sleep time at the end of Screen#type
1202 - Test suite: correct comment
1203 - Test suite: keep keys pressed for 40 ms
1204 - Test suite: improve comment
1205 - Test suite: keep keys pressed for 20 ms instead of 10 ms
1206 - Test suite: update comment
1208 * Fix Dotfiles access for non-root users (tails/tails!968)
1213 - Fix dotfiles access for non-root users
1215 * Adapt to Wayland our error reporting mechanism when GDM fails to start
1221 - resorting to X.Org → crash → better UX!
1222 - Adapt to Wayland our error reporting mechanism when GDM fails to start
1224 * Switch from bullseye-proposed-updates to Bullseye 11.6 (tails/tails!978)
1229 - Revert "Enable bullseye-proposed-updates, to test Bullseye 11.6 before it's
1231 - Bump APT snapshots
1233 * Tor Connection UI improvements (tails/tails!977)
1235 Closes #19238, #19256, #19169, #19172
1238 - Tor Connection: fix window size
1239 - Fix links from Tor Connection to the offline documentation
1240 - Tor Connection: fix typo in string
1241 - Tor Connection: display QR code scanning error below the scanning button
1242 - Add label to bridge line
1244 * Persistent Storage: use new icon (tails/tails!976)
1247 - Use the new Persistent Storage icon on the Welcome Screen when the Persistent
1248 Storage does not exist yet
1249 - Persistent Storage: use new icon
1251 * Allow persisting bridge scanned from QR code, take 1 (tails/tails!973)
1256 - Allow persisting bridge scanned from QR code, take 1
1258 * Update tor to 0.4.7.12 (tails/tails!972)
1263 - Update tor to 0.4.7.12
1265 * fix window centering (tails/tails!970)
1270 - Ensure extension description matches what it actually does
1271 - gdm-tails is a GDM session, with extension support
1272 - more comments to clarify subtleties
1273 - check which session we're in is more to the point
1275 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
1276 - stop "when it's done" , not predefined time
1277 - window-centering only runs in GDM
1279 - rounding is needed to avoid false moves
1280 - better comments and log messages
1281 - Revert "avoid useless CPU work"
1282 - avoid useless CPU work
1283 - extensions are disabled in GDM: workaround
1284 - window centering in Greeter
1286 * Remove static suggestion of diceware passphrase (tails/tails!969)
1291 - Remove static suggestion of diceware passphrase
1293 * Allow disabling the Unsafe Browser (tails/tails!967)
1298 - fix "I disable the Unsafe Browser" in corner cases
1299 - adapt Greeter options persistence
1300 - fix test suite for new wording
1301 - Adjust to the Unsafe Browser being disabled by default
1303 - Enable Unsafe Browser by default
1304 - Revert "Welcome Screen: always enable the Unsafe Browser and make the setting
1307 * Misc Persistent Storage fixes for 5.8 (tails/tails!966)
1309 Closes #19220, #19279, #19280, #19148, #19294
1312 - Don't run OnionShare as a native Wayland app
1313 - Run Qt applications as native Wayland by default
1314 - Allow running Qt applications as native Wayland
1315 - Remove Dasher (broken on Wayland)
1316 - Tell the user what's going on while deleting Persistent Storage
1317 - When Persistent Storage is unlocked, instruct how to delete it
1318 - Persistent Storage: add missing link to doc on the features screen
1320 * FIX --disable-chutney (tails/tails!961)
1323 - FIX --disable-chutney
1325 * Tor Connection: select "Ask for a bridge by email" by default when "Hiding"
1331 - Make it easier to scan a QR code
1332 - Tor Connection: select "Ask for a bridge by email" by default when "Hiding"
1334 * Tor Connection: display percentage on the connection progress bar
1338 - Tor Connection: display percentage on the connection progress bar
1340 * TPS explanation strings, and more (tails/tails!947)
1345 - remove vague comment
1348 - explanation strings for relevant TPS features
1350 * Additional Software: ensure APT is not broken after being interrupted
1356 - Additional Software: ensure APT is not broken after being interrupted
1358 * Test suite: relax our expectations for coverage of the known pattern in memory
1362 - Test suite: relax our expectations for coverage of the known pattern in memory
1364 * create persistent storage from the greeter (tails/tails!922)
1369 - change wording following the new style
1370 - comment to explain flag files
1372 - Apply 3 suggestion(s) to 3 file(s)
1374 - greeter test suite code refactor
1375 - checking early is useless and ineffective
1376 - FIX look at the actual value
1377 - big code refactoring
1378 - actually handle button
1379 - better size and margins for padlock
1380 - make label the same in glade and python
1381 - remove suggested-action
1382 - Reorder in greeter
1383 - Better real estate use
1384 - draft: automated tests
1385 - "don't create" is not a suggested-action
1386 - Clearer state management in UI
1387 - actually start persistent storage setup
1388 - draft: create persistent storage from greeter
1390 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0 (tails/tails!921)
1392 Closes #19135, #19085
1395 - Test suite: bump timeout
1396 - Make code more readable
1397 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
1398 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0
1399 - Test suite: fix "Downloading files with the Tor Browser" scenario with Tor
1400 Browser 12 on Wayland
1401 - Test suite: improve comment phrasing
1402 - Test suite: only compute keymap once in Screen#press
1403 - Test suite (mouse_location): remove unused method parameters
1404 - Fix buggy (invisible) conflict resolution from rebase
1405 - Turn off shellcheck false positive
1406 - Drop obsolete mentions of $TBB_EXT
1407 - Drop import of library that's not needed anymore
1408 - Update handling of Tor Browser locales
1409 - Fix location for Burmese
1410 - Declare newly added Tor Browser locales
1411 - Don't try to install non-existing langpacks
1412 - Tor Browser update process: there's no langpacks anymore
1413 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
1414 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0a5
1415 - Upgrade Tor Browser to nightly.2022.11.22
1416 - Thunderbird: avoid proxy bypass, same as Tor Browser
1417 - Test suite: Unsafe Browser has no bookmarks at all anymore
1418 - Unsafe Browser: delete default bookmarks
1419 - Test suite: update expected images
1420 - Test suite: update expected images
1421 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0a4
1422 - Thunderbird: replace network.security.ports.banned pref with
1423 network.proxy.allow_hijacking_localhost
1424 - Tor Browser: remove network.security.ports.banned pref, which does more harm
1426 - Update AppArmor policy for Tor Browser 12
1427 - Test suite: update expected images for Tor Browser 12
1428 - Test suite: update expected Unsafe Browser images for Tor Browser 12
1430 - Remove unused variable
1431 - Test suite: update expected images for Tor Browser 12
1432 - Test suite: remove obsolete complexity
1433 - Test suite: update for new "New Identity" UX in Tor Browser 12
1434 - Test suite: spam Tor Browser less intensively
1435 - Test suite: refactoring (DRY)
1436 - Test suite: update expected image
1437 - Test suite: spam Tor Browser less intensively
1438 - Test suite: add support for Tor Browser nightly builds
1441 - Drop unused flexibility
1442 - Remove obsolete variable
1443 - Adjust to multilingual Tor Browser tarball
1444 - Adjust to script being renamed upstream
1445 - Upgrade Tor Browser to nightly.2022.10.19
1446 - Tor Browser upgrade doc: support nightly builds, assume multilingual tarball
1447 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0a3
1448 - Unsafe Browser: also apply branding to brand.properties
1449 - Fix grammar in comment
1450 - Unsafe Browser: don't ask confirmation when quitting with CTRL+q
1451 - Test suite: update Unsafe Browser images
1452 - Test suite: add expected unused Tor Browser library
1453 - Test suite: adjust to Tor Browser 12's (Firefox 102) new download flow
1454 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0a2
1457 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 19 Dec 2022 09:43:26 +0000
1459 tails (5.8~beta1) unstable; urgency=medium
1461 * Rewrite the Persistent Storage settings in Python (tails/tails!897)
1463 Closes: #17803, #15142, #11529, #15827, #7002, #18008, #17331, #7503, #19130, #16061, #15313
1466 - Change test case to reflect what we wanted
1467 - Really disable broken Thunderbird test
1468 - fix reload-connections hook during greeter
1469 - clarify Mount.__str__ from persistence.conf format
1470 - one more type hint
1471 - remove a (never used) systemd alias
1472 - symlink_to ignores the second argument.
1473 - sort hook execution
1476 - Reset Tor configuration when deactivating the corresponding Persistent Storage
1478 - Don't install/upgrade Additional Software unless the corresponding persistent
1479 directories are mounted
1480 - Don't try to create Persistent Storage when the system partition is not called
1482 - Don't try to create Persistent Storage on non-GPT device
1483 - Persistent Storage creation: use UI strings from the design
1484 - Add ssh as a conflict app for the SSH client feature
1485 - Move "Tor Browser Bookmarks" to Applications section of Persistent Storage
1487 - Save with Glade 3.40.0
1488 - Reload NetworkManager connections when activating/deactivating the
1489 corresponding Persistent Storage feature
1490 - tps-frontend: fix icons path
1491 - Stop setting custom permissions on /var/lib/live/config
1492 - WhisperBack: don't include obsolete file in the attached technical info
1493 - CUPS: update configuration files as soon as possible
1494 - Restart CUPS after enabling/disabling the Printers persistent storage feature
1495 - Remove incorrect comment
1496 - Remove function that's not used anymore
1497 - tails-additional-software-config: adjust to new Persistent Storage
1499 - Refactoring: move method to library
1500 - Revert "Test suite: workaround regression in Additional Software"
1501 - tails-additional-software: don't wait for tps-frontend to complete before
1502 writing contents to live-additional-software.conf
1504 - launch_x_application: drop feature we don't need anymore
1505 - Add exceptions for Bandit false positives
1506 - Use long option name
1507 - Harden sudo configuration
1508 - Revert "Test suite: add temporary workaround for tps buggy user story wrt.
1510 - Fix the user story for Dotfiles
1512 - tps: document behavior that can be surprising
1513 - TCA: fix setup of persistent bridge switch widget
1514 - Remove unused script and service
1515 - Test suite: remove obsolete workaround
1516 - TCA: drop useless code
1517 - TCA: fix localization of window title
1518 - Remove unused copied'n'pasted constant
1519 - TCA: mediate reading/writing from/to tca.conf via tca-portal
1520 - Update logger's name: "tor-launcher" does not mean anything in this context
1522 - Remove unused import
1523 - TCA: remove unused import
1524 - TCA: fix type of argument
1525 - Don't allow deleting an unlocked Persistent Storage
1526 - Drop incomplete attempt to support unlocking Persistent Storage after login
1527 - Unsafe Browser: adjust to the removal of persistence_is_enabled in tails-
1530 - Remove useless customization
1531 - Fix typo in docstring
1532 - Add Synaptic, apt-get, and dpkg as conflicting apps for the Additional Software
1533 persistent storage feature
1534 - Remove "XXX" comment: this is about further improving a feature that was not
1535 even planned in the design
1536 - Remove "XXX" comment: already tracked on the issue
1538 - Remove "XXX" comment: moved to the issue
1540 - Fix variable type mismatch
1541 - Remove "XXX" comment: moved to the issue
1542 - Remove "XXX" comment
1544 - Remove "XXX" comment: let's not translate stuff that the user has no chance to
1546 - Remove "XXX" comment: moved to the issue
1547 - Test suite: fix Gherkin When/Then semantics
1548 - Test suite: fix backup scenario
1549 - Remove unused import
1550 - Test suite: refactoring (extract code to method)
1551 - Revert "Test suite: adjust for increased TimeoutStopsec= (refs: #17278)"
1552 - Test suite: check earlier that Additional Software is correctly configured
1553 - Test suite: workaround regression in Additional Software
1554 - Test suite: minor refactoring
1555 - Additional Software: add more accurate wait loop
1557 - Additional Software: don't run tps a second time
1558 - Additional Software: drop unsupported and now useless options
1559 - mypy: enable a few more checks
1560 - mypy: ignore gi and gi.repository
1561 - Help mypy discover our Python libraries
1563 - Fix comment phrasing
1564 - Fix activating Additional Software with an unlocked persistent storage
1565 - Test suite: use shortcut
1566 - Test suite: continue adapting to new UI
1567 - Remove obsolete scripts
1568 - Test suite: drop the Persistent Storage configuration file unit tests
1570 - Ignore flake8 false positives
1571 - tps test suite: make config_file_test support the case when udisks is not
1573 - Fix typo in comment
1574 - GitLab CI: drop test-persistent-storage-behave
1575 - Fix tps behave tests when a dedicated filesystem is mounted on /tmp
1576 - Add support for debug output without a debugger installed
1580 - Test suite: finish adapting "I delete the persistent partition" to new UI
1581 - Use string from the design
1582 - Fix inverted boolean logic
1583 - Fix typo in comment
1584 - Make it possible to run config_file_test.py without a tails-persistent-storage
1586 - Revert "tps: Change owner of persistence.conf to root"
1587 - Move class docstring where it belongs
1588 - Fix typo in comment
1589 - Test suite: don't test for persistence.conf.bak existence
1590 - Test suite: run the persistence storage behave and config file unit tests
1591 - GitLab CI: add missing dependencies
1592 - GitLab CI: run persistent storage tests in separate jobs
1593 - tps test suite: use larger filesystem to that mke2fs can create a Journal
1594 - Fix typo in comment
1595 - Declare mount flags used by the tps test suite
1596 - tps test suite: use the same mount flags as production
1597 - Sort ExecStartPre before ExecStart, just like their execution order
1598 - Maintain directories with systemd-tmpfiles
1599 - Forbid usage as non-amnesia: this would break stuff
1600 - Simplify code and make bookmark removal an atomic operation
1601 - Do all GNOME bookmarks changes as the amnesia user
1602 - Use canonical directory location
1603 - Protect grep command against special regexp chars
1604 - Revert incomplete split of the Welcome Screen persistence feature
1605 - Welcome Screen: don't allow login until we're fully done activating the
1607 - Remove unused import
1608 - Welcome Screen: point to new issue that tracks a cleanup that's now possible
1609 - Remove unused imports
1611 - Remove unused import
1612 - Don't let tempfile try to delete file that we just renamed
1613 - Don't try (and fail) to refresh features' IsActive when unlocking
1614 - Use different variables names when we're using them to store different data
1616 - Fix comment grammar and clarify
1617 - Test suite: add temporary workaround for tps buggy user story wrt. dotfiles
1618 - Add shellcheck exception
1619 - Test suite: actually enable all persistence presets.
1620 - tps: Remove config file backup functionality
1621 - tps: Make writes to the configuration file atomic
1622 - tps: Fix "invalid boot device" message not shown
1623 - tps: Fix state handling
1624 - tps: Handle expected error that deletion fails because device is busy
1625 - tps: Don't unmount with force
1626 - Remove unused IncorrectOwnerException and IncorrectOwnerError
1627 - Rename test directory
1628 - tps: Remove the obsolete mount test
1629 - GitLab CI: Run the tps config file test
1630 - tps: Fix config file test
1631 - tps: Change owner of persistence.conf to root
1632 - tps: Deactivate features before deleting
1633 - Test suite: start porting to new implementation of Persistent Storage
1634 - Test suite: update referenced class name
1635 - tps: Don't make the tps service exit when closing the app
1636 - tps: Add button to open tails-additional-software-config
1637 - tps: Add labelled-by property to list boxes in features_view.ui
1639 - tps: Print debug log messages when running behave tests
1640 - tps: Make features view accessible to screen readers
1641 - tps: Format features_view.ui with glade
1642 - tps: Use connect-drop
1643 - connect-drop: Avoid opening an additional file descriptor
1644 - actually authenticate to dbus
1645 - Test suite: remove obsolete images
1646 - Persistent Storage frontend: add accessibility relationships
1647 - connect-drop: fix style
1648 - connect-drop: --dbus has help line
1649 - connect-drop: option groups
1650 - connect-drop --env-keep
1651 - connect-drop is now DBus-aware
1652 - WIP: Update Persistent Storage design document
1653 - Update Persistent Storage design document
1654 - tps: Add basic support for custom features
1655 - Clarify branded names
1656 - tps: Add some accessibility information
1657 - tps: Improve layout
1658 - Set executable bit on unlock-veracrypt-volumes
1659 - tps: Use tails-documentation to open doc links
1660 - tps: Add a HACKING.md
1661 - tps: Try again using get_block_for_dev
1662 - tps: Add Tor Configuration feature
1663 - tps: Remove Language and Region feature
1664 - tps: Start implementing language and region feature
1665 - Rewrite Persistent Storage settings in Python (refs: #17803)
1667 * Tor bridges QR code scanning (tails/tails!874)
1672 - match labels between code and tests
1673 - do whatever dogtail wants
1674 - fix labeling in tca
1675 - Test suite: update to new string
1676 - Apply GNOME style guide
1677 - Implement sajolida's new design for bridges input on the error screen
1678 - Polish new bridge input UI
1679 - infobar works in error page, too
1681 - MessageDialog → InfoBar
1682 - scanning QR from error page is tested, too
1683 - test suite refactoring
1684 - adapt QR code automated test to new mockup
1685 - using QR code sets state
1686 - the new mockup now seems to behave
1687 - scan qrcode: new mockup
1688 - change wording for QR code errors
1689 - Test suite: ensure we see the QR code on the screen
1690 - run_test_suite: check recently added dependencies
1691 - WIP: Test suite: add test for QR code scanning feature in Tor Connection
1692 - Reference issue that has more details instead of a commit that lacks context
1693 - Don't load library that we don't use anymore
1694 - show no dialog if the user closes zbarcam
1695 - Ignore zbarcam output if it arrives too late
1696 - Add the v4l2loopback kernel module
1697 - improve labels before UX does :)
1698 - Tor Connection: disable the "Scan a QR code" button until "Enter a bridge that
1699 you already know" is selected
1700 - gettext for dialog
1701 - implement Scan QR code from error step, too
1702 - better error handling
1703 - QR code content is parsed/validated
1704 - doctests for parse_qr_content
1705 - Convert the contents of the QR code into bridge lines
1706 - clicking on "Scan QR code" does something...
1707 - glade: clicked callback + naming convention
1708 - Tor Connection: add button to scan QR code
1709 - scanning Tor bridges QR codes: building blocks
1711 * Migrate from X.Org to Wayland (tails/tails!838)
1713 Closes: #12213, #19042, #14623, #15635, #19008, #16795, #18020, #17284, #5422, #9767, #7502, #18339
1716 - Test suite: don't expect the application title seen on the accessibility bus to
1718 - Glade: AtkObject::accessible-role properties should not be translatable
1719 - Test suite: fix clearing notifications
1720 - FIX sandbox check for some parts of the test suite
1721 - Test suite: simplify
1722 - workaround an a11y bug preventing test suite
1723 - one more test suite fix
1724 - Test suite: migrate to input techniques that work on Wayland
1725 - TPS is on Wayland, a11y, ibus...
1726 - remove unused import
1728 - more explicit block clearnet → internal services
1729 - FIX proxy test for unsafebrowser
1730 - Really disable broken Thunderbird test
1731 - no incoming connections to UnsafeBrowser
1732 - tails-add-session-firewall-rune work without --apply
1734 - Test suite: make test work in non-English locales
1735 - Test suite: rename step to match what it currently checks
1736 - Fix typos in comment
1737 - Test suite: remove workaround
1738 - Test suite: fix race condition
1739 - Test suite: add missing space between words in error message
1740 - Extract Python code to an external script
1742 - Drop unnecessary /g regexp modifiers
1743 - Use extended regexps
1744 - Don't install unneeded systemd-container
1746 - Remove obsolete comment
1747 - Fix typo in comment
1749 - Improve user-facing string
1750 - Use install(1) instead of mkdir + chown
1751 - Make variable name correctly reflect its value
1752 - Make variable name correctly reflect its value
1753 - Add missing word in error message
1754 - Test suite: drop unnecessary step
1755 - Test suite: move and warn about xdotool using code
1756 - Fix a bunch of issues identified by shellcheck
1757 - Unsafe Browser: drop workarounds.
1758 - Test suite: clarify/simplify code
1759 - Test suite: fix recovery
1760 - Test suite: fix robustness issue
1761 - Test suite: verify that browser address bar images exist
1762 - Test suite: adjust path
1763 - Test suite: fix sanity check
1764 - Test suite: drop comment
1765 - Unsafe Browser: move code
1766 - Unsafe Browser: drop unnecessary mount for container
1767 - Test suite: adapt firewall sanity check to the clearnet network namespace
1768 - Test suite: adapt test after dropping the greeter's Unsafe Browser setting
1769 - Test suite: adapt regex to new command line
1770 - Test suite: deal with Unsafe Browser permission error
1771 - Test suite: export Unsafe Browser bookmarks into an accessible directory
1772 - Unsafe Browser: allow access to /etc/hosts in AppArmor profile
1773 - Test suite: use correct step
1774 - Welcome Screen: really hide the "Add" button for obsolete settings
1775 - Welcome Screen: always enable the Unsafe Browser and make the setting obsolete
1776 - Revert "Unsafe Browser: prevent accidental/malicious operation under Xorg"
1777 - Unsafe Browser: further isolate from the root filesystem
1778 - Unsafe Browser: drop duplicated mount
1779 - Fix incorrect merge conflict resolution.
1780 - Unsafe Browser: expose the real /home
1781 - Unsafe Browser: confine with AppArmor
1782 - Unsafe Browser: prevent accidental/malicious operation under Xorg
1783 - Unsafe Browser: work around issue with ibus/a11y proxy stopping
1784 - Make necessary firewall rules in tails-create-netns persist throughout the
1786 - Unsafe Browser: migrate to tails-create-netns
1787 - Unsafe Browser: run as native Wayland application
1788 - Unsafe Browser: start with tailslib.netnsdrop.run_in_netns()
1789 - Add missing double quotes
1790 - Use $() to get a command's output, not backticks
1791 - Add missing double quotes
1792 - Drop unused argument
1793 - Disable shellcheck false positive
1794 - Test suite: work around the Screen Keyboard not appearing as it should on
1796 - Patch Thunderbird AppArmor profile so it works in Wayland.
1797 - Thunderbird: enable Wayland support
1798 - Test suite: fix a bunch of incorrect/buggy Dogtail click actions
1799 - Tor Browser: enable Wayland support
1800 - Test suite: fix a bunch of incorrect Dogtail "click" actions
1801 - Test suite: make test more robust.
1802 - Unsafe Browser: enable ibus and accessibility!
1803 - Test suite: actually disable TOR_TRANSPROXY for the Unsafe Browser
1804 - Test suite: optimization
1805 - Test suite: fix chroot vs pmap mismatch.
1806 - Test suite: fix Dogtail for non-amneisia users
1807 - Test suite vs Wayland: fix another issue when clicking crashes accessibility
1808 - Remote shell: get the GNOME environment from the python library instead
1809 - Fix environment so accessibility is working with launch_x_application()
1810 - Test suite vs Wayland: deal with several issues when installing packages in
1812 - Test suite: deal with XWayland vs Dogtail issue for synaptic run as root
1813 - Test suite: enable the accessibility toolkit for the root user
1814 - Remote shell: set XAUTHORITY, which isn't set by export_gnome_env() any more
1815 - Wayland vs export_gnome_env(): drop variables not dumped into /run/gnome-shell-
1817 - Test suite: deal with Wayland vs Dogtail issue
1818 - Test suite: deal with GNOME notification buttons being unclickable through
1820 - Test suite: work around another instance where Dogtail breaks after clicking a
1822 - Test suite: use correct activation for some particular push buttons.
1823 - Test suite: deal with Wayland vs Dogtail issue.
1824 - Test suite: some radio buttons want 'click', some want 'select'.
1825 - Test suite: work around AT-SPI action bug
1826 - Test suite: apparently some buttons want "click" while others want "press"
1827 - Test suite: fix Electrum test vs Wayland migration.
1828 - Test suite: use appropriate Dogtail actions for push/radio buttons.
1829 - Test suite: use better image when waiting for snapshots to be restored fully.
1830 - Unsafe Browser: hook zenity dialogs to at-spi bus.
1831 - stop installing xorg packages
1832 - Test suite: handle Unsafe Browser exiting with an error code after being
1834 - Test suite: adapt Unsafe Browser tests since migrating to Wayland.
1835 - Test suite: adapt to Wayland
1836 - Test suite: adapt to Wayland
1837 - Revert "Remove unused exec_unconfined_firefox()."
1838 - Update GNOME Shell user service name for Wayland
1839 - Test suite: migrate more tests to input techniques that work on Wayland
1840 - Remote shell: ensure $DISPLAY is set
1841 - Test suite: don't import dogtail.rawinput that can't work on Wayland
1842 - Test suite: generate methods with meta-programming
1843 - Test suite: migrate to input techniques that work on Wayland
1844 - Test suite: remove X.Org-specific workaround
1845 - Fix typo in comment
1846 - Test suite: click in a way that works on Wayland
1847 - Test suite: remove unused method that's broken on Wayland
1848 - Unsafe Browser: set up networking via a new namespace.
1849 - Revert "Unsafe Browser: crappy attempt to sort of get networking up."
1850 - Unsafe Browser: crappy attempt to sort of get networking up.
1851 - Unsafe Browser: bind-mount resolv.conf as read-only.
1852 - Unsafe Browser: experiment for running as the amnesia user.
1853 - Stop disabling Wayland in GDM (refs: #12213).
1854 - Revert "Use X.Org in amnesia's GNOME session (refs: #12213)."
1856 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 02 Nov 2022 09:47:35 +0000
1858 tails (5.7) unstable; urgency=medium
1860 * fix FTBFS: don't remove, just hold (tails/tails!960)
1863 - Tails FTBFS: grub-pc is not configured (tails/tails#19290)
1866 - don't remove, just hold
1868 * Resolve "Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.5.8" (tails/tails!962)
1871 - Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.5.8 (tails/tails#19295)
1874 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
1875 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.5.8-build1
1877 * Add Metadata Cleaner (#18101) (tails/tails!959)
1880 - Mention MAT and metadata on /about (tails/tails#19206)
1881 - Add Metadata Cleaner (tails/tails#18101)
1884 - Mention Metadata Cleaner from /about (#19206)
1885 - Document Metadata Cleaner (#18101)
1886 - Add Metadata Cleaner (#18101)
1888 * WhisperBack debugging info: have df ignore filesystems of type fuse.portal
1892 - Can't start WhisperBack when /root/.cache/doc is mounted (tails/tails#19282)
1895 - WhisperBack debugging info: have df ignore filesystems of type fuse.portal
1897 * Update htpdate pool: secure.flickr.com → flickr.com (tails/tails!954)
1900 - Update htpdate pool: secure.flickr.com → flickr.com
1902 * Update tor to 0.4.7.11 (tails/tails!953)
1905 - Upgrade to tor 0.4.7.11 (tails/tails#19276)
1908 - Update tor to 0.4.7.11
1910 * Remove broken pdf-redact-tools (tails/tails!950)
1913 - pdf-redact-tools broken (tails/tails#19250)
1916 - Remove broken pdf-redact-tools
1918 * Resolve "Explain better the Unsafe Browser from Tor Connection"
1922 - Test suite: update wrt. new UI strings
1923 - Insist on signing in, then closing (#19168)
1924 - Be more clear (#19168)
1926 * Remove (easier) and (safer) label from consent question (#19166)
1930 - Remove (easier) and (safer) label from consent question (tails/tails#19166)
1933 - Test suite: update wrt. new UI strings
1934 - Remove (easier) and (safer) label from consent question (#19166)
1936 * fix snakeoil certificates in Thunderbird test suite (tails/tails!943)
1939 - Fix and re-enable "I can send emails, and receive emails over IMAP" automated
1940 test: Certificate handling on Jenkins needs updating for Thunderbird 102
1944 - add snakeoil to thunderbird using certutil
1945 - reneable test by default
1946 - Revert "Really disable broken Thunderbird test"
1948 * extend validity time check for OpenPGP keys (tails/tails!939)
1951 - Extend period for "The included OpenPGP keys are up-to-date"
1955 - extend validity time check for OpenPGP keys
1957 * Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive (tails/tails!938)
1960 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
1962 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 21 Nov 2022 11:13:06 +0100
1964 tails (5.6) unstable; urgency=medium
1966 * Upgrade Linux to 5.10.149 (tails/tails!935)
1969 - Fix beacown (tails/tails#19210)
1972 - Release process: bring back test that we can run locally, but not on Jenkins
1973 - Really disable broken Thunderbird test
1974 - Upgrade Linux to 5.10.149-1
1976 * Disable broken Thunderbird test (tails/tails!934)
1979 - Disable broken Thunderbird test
1981 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.5.5 (tails/tails!936)
1984 - Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.5.5 (ESR 91.13 + ESR 102.4 backports)
1988 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.5.5
1990 * post-release misc updates (tails/tails!932)
1993 - easier transmission-remote instructions
1994 - avoid re-downloading if restarting
1995 - better instructions for automated test suite
1997 * Thunderbird: remove obsolete oauth2 pref (tails/tails!929)
2000 - Thunderbird: remove obsolete oauth2 pref
2002 * Upgrader: when a manual upgrade is needed, point to the news & manual upgrade
2003 doc without specifying a (probably incorrect) version (tails/tails!915)
2006 - Tails Upgrader recommends manual upgrades to deprecated versions
2010 - Make /latest inline the translated version of the release notes
2011 - Rewrite in Markdown
2012 - Move latest release notes out of /news
2014 - Point to release notes of latest version only
2015 - Upgrader: when a manual upgrade is needed, point to the news & manual upgrade
2016 doc without specifying a version
2018 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 24 Oct 2022 08:06:36 +0000
2020 tails (5.5) unstable; urgency=medium
2022 * Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.5.4 (ESR 91.13 + ESR 102.3 backports)
2026 - Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.5.4 (ESR 91.13 + ESR 102.3 backports)
2030 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
2031 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.5.4-build2
2033 * Upgrade to Thunderbird 102 (tails/tails!928)
2036 - Upgrade to Thunderbird 102 (tails/tails#19156)
2039 - adapt test suite to new UI
2040 - JS hardening in Thunderbird
2042 - Update Thunderbird patches from
2043 tails/thunderbird@4efe2ce285c552c1808120d54a11f4be9e57527f
2044 - Update Thunderbird patches from
2045 tails/thunderbird@4efe2ce285c552c1808120d54a11f4be9e57527f
2046 - Thunderbird patches update doc: update examples
2047 - Thunderbird patches update doc: push upstream tags too
2048 - Thunderbird patches update doc: document how to verify
2049 - Thunderbird patches update doc: add missing commit and push steps
2050 - Thunderbird patches update doc: don't suggest we're still trying to upstream
2052 - Thunderbird patches update doc: adjust to Bullseye
2055 * import-translations: use new remote (tails/tails!927)
2058 - App translations supported by Tor Project moving from Transifex to weblate
2062 - import-translations: drop support for standalone WhisperBack project
2063 - import-translations: use new remote
2065 * GitLab CI: ensure all website core pages exist (tails/tails!926)
2068 - Make code more readable
2069 - GitLab CI: ensure all website core pages exist
2071 * GitLab CI: build our website on master and branches targeting master
2075 - GitLab CI: build our website on master and branches targeting master
2076 - build-website: remove check now done in GitLab CI
2078 * Test suite: remove Cucumber test scenarios and build website checks that are
2079 now covered by GitLab CI (tails/tails!923)
2082 - Remove Cucumber test scenarios that are now covered by GitLab CI
2086 - build-website: remove check now done in GitLab CI
2087 - Test suite: remove Cucumber test scenarios that are now covered by GitLab CI
2089 * Upgrade to Bullseye 11.5 and Linux 5.10.140 (tails/tails!920)
2092 - Upgrade Linux to 5.10.140 (tails/tails#19127)
2093 - Upgrade to Bullseye 11.5 (tails/tails#19082)
2096 - Test suite: relax timeouts
2097 - Test suite: bump timeout
2099 - Upgrade to Bullseye 11.5 and Linux 5.10.140
2101 * Test suite: fix virt-viewer active?() check to work with all versions
2105 - virt-viewer 11.0 breaks our test suite (tails/tails#19064)
2108 - Test suite: fix virt-viewer active?() check to work with all versions
2110 * Fix screen lock keyboard shortcut (tails/tails!918)
2113 - Super+L sometimes starts the screensaver when it should ask for a screen lock
2114 password (tails/tails#19090)
2117 - Fix screen lock keyboard shortcut
2119 * Test suite: make localized Unsafe Browser tests faster and easier to maintain
2123 - Localized Unsafe Browser tests are slow and hard to maintain
2127 - Test suite: add comment
2128 - Make Gherkin scenario outline placeholder more descriptive
2129 - Test suite: make localized Unsafe Browser tests faster and easier to maintain
2130 - Test suite: remove dead code
2132 * Add standard fields to /etc/os-release (tails/tails!914)
2135 - Add standard fields to /etc/os-release
2137 * Build system: make our website cache volume smaller (tails/tails!913)
2140 - Build system: make our website cache volume smaller
2142 * Use "torsocks --isolate" everywhere we use torsocks (tails/tails!912)
2145 - Use "torsocks --isolate" everywhere we use torsocks
2147 * Fix devel FTBFS with uBlock 1.44.0+dfsg-1 (tails/tails!910)
2152 * Post-release doc updates (tails/tails!907)
2155 - call for testers has meaningful date
2156 - warning: tb-build-05 not serving files over HTTP
2157 - cleanup script that waits for new TBB release
2159 * GitLab CI: run the Bandit security oriented static analyzer for Python
2163 - Check re.match's return value in a way that always returns a boolean
2164 - Add typing information
2165 - GitLab CI: also check shell and Python files that have no shebang
2166 - GitLab CI: run the Bandit security oriented static analyzer for Python
2167 - Lint comments format
2168 - Ignore Bandit false positives
2169 - Remove obsolete Emacs "coding: UTF-8" configuration
2170 - WhisperBack: only load global configuration file
2171 - Add configuration for the Bandit security oriented static analyzer for Python
2173 * Make it easy to re-run failed test suite scenarios (tails/tails!901)
2176 - run_test_suite wrapper that retries failed tests (tails/tails#19072)
2179 - RM tip: run all test scenarios
2180 - RM tip: multiple test suite runs overnight
2181 - set rerun file from ruby
2183 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Thu, 13 Oct 2022 11:55:08 +0200
2185 tails (5.4) unstable; urgency=medium
2187 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.5.2 (tails/tails!908)
2190 - Upgrade to Tor Browser based on 91.13 (tails/tails#19073)
2193 - automatic redirect to HTTPS, here we meet again
2194 - Upgrade Tor Browser to UNVERIFIED 11.5.2-build1
2196 * Upgrade Linux packages to 5.10.0-17, currently at version 5.10.136
2200 - Handle CVE-2022-2585 (POSIX CPU timer UAF) (tails/tails#19081)
2203 - Upgrade Linux packages to 5.10.0-17, currnetly at version 5.10.136
2205 * Disable HTTPS-only mode in Unsafe Browser (tails/tails!906)
2208 - Disable HTTPS-only mode in Unsafe Browser (tails/tails#19095)
2211 - disable HTTPS-only mode for unsafe browser
2213 * Upgrade tor to 0.4.7.10 (tails/tails!903)
2216 - Upgrade to tor 0.4.7.10 (tails/tails#19083)
2219 - Don't mention irrelevant implementation detail
2220 - Avoid initially pushed branch failing its pipeline
2221 - Drop obsolete step
2222 - Upgrade tor to 0.4.7.10
2224 * Resolve "Some time sync related automated tests fail when run on a system whose
2225 system clock is not in UTC" (tails/tails!902)
2228 - Some time sync related automated tests fail when run on a system whose system
2229 clock is not in UTC (tails/tails#19070)
2232 - uses UTC time even on non-UTC systems
2234 * Misc kernel hardening (tails/tails!899)
2237 - Kernel hardening: restricts loading TTY line disciplines (tails/tails#18302)
2238 - Enable page allocator freelist randomization (tails/tails#18886)
2239 - Consider dropping slub_debug=P and page_poison=1 options and let init_on_free
2240 wipe slab and page allocations (tails/tails#18858)
2243 - Kernel hardening: restricts loading TTY line disciplines
2244 - Kernel: enable page allocator freelist randomization
2245 - Remove obsolete kernel command line options
2247 * Actually stop NetworkManager before applying an upgrade (tails/tails!896)
2250 - Remove obsolete comment
2251 - Use systemctl(1) instead of service(8)
2252 - Actually stop NetworkManager before applying an upgrade
2254 * Test suite: fix Unsafe Browser localization tests (tails/tails!867)
2257 - testing unsafebrowser is more deterministic
2258 - add spanish start page image for unsafe browser
2259 - add portuguese start page image for unsafe browser
2260 - debug unsafe browser errors
2262 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2022 13:18:27 +0200
2264 tails (5.3.1) unstable; urgency=medium
2266 * Upgrade Linux to 5.10.127-2 (DSA-5191)
2267 * Upgrade Thunderbird to 91.12.0 (DSA-5195)
2269 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 01 Aug 2022 23:19:49 +0000
2271 tails (5.3) unstable; urgency=medium
2273 * Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.5.1, bring back uBlock, and fix the Unsafe Browser's
2274 window title (tails/tails!894)
2277 - uBlock is not enabled in Tor Browser (tails/tails#19059)
2278 - Upgrade to Tor Browser based on ESR 91.12 (tails/tails#19058)
2279 - Window title of Unsafe Browser reads "Tor Browser" (tails/tails#18603)
2282 - Tor Browser: use the system's libstdc++.so.6 like upstream would on a Bullseye
2284 - update-acng-config: get ready for 6.x
2285 - Remove hack that's not needed on Bullseye anymore
2287 - Make cp behavior deterministic
2288 - htpdate pool 2: replace fragile thepiratebay.org with www.gnome.org
2289 - Bring back code needed to install uBlock
2290 - Create directory before copying into it
2291 - Browsers: also pass --name to Firefox
2292 - Reformat code: make room for more options and nicer Git diffs
2293 - Unsafe Browser: also set brandProductName to "Unsafe Browser", for consistency
2294 - Unsafe Browser: set the branding in the file that's actually used in current
2296 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
2297 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.5.1-build1
2299 * Test suite: misc. improvements (tails/tails!892)
2302 - Test suite sometimes fails to find a picture (e.g. TailsGreeterLoginButton.png)
2303 while it's present on screen (tails/tails#19044)
2306 - Test suite: also display stdout on vmcommand failure
2307 - Test suite: bump timeout
2308 - Test suite: fix typo in comment
2309 - Welcome Screen: remove unused import
2310 - Test suite: point to relevant issue
2311 - Test suite: wait more for some images
2312 - Test suite: have Screen#find wait longer
2313 - Test suite: add debug logging to investigate #19044
2314 - Test suite: fix variable name
2315 - Test suite: give some time to the persistence passphrase widget to get focus
2316 - Use named constants instead of magic numbers
2317 - Don't catch unrelated IndexError exceptions
2319 - Remove unused import
2320 - Test suite: fix, improve, and update comments
2321 - Test suite: set the time in the guest using timedatectl
2322 - Make host_to_guest_time_sync raise an exception on failure
2325 * Upgrade to Debian Bullseye 11.4, Linux 5.10.127, and Network Manager 1.30.6
2329 - Upgrade to Debian Bullseye 11.4 (tails/tails#19046)
2333 - Update Vagrant box to Debian Bullseye 11.4
2334 - Enable the 19046-bullseye-11.4-force-all-tests APT overlay (refs: #19046).
2335 - Upgrade to Linux 5.10.0-16 (currently at 5.10.127-1)
2336 - Upgrade to Debian Bullseye 11.4
2338 * Upgrade mat2 to 0.12.1-2+deb11u1
2340 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 25 Jul 2022 13:45:07 +0200
2342 tails (5.2) unstable; urgency=medium
2344 * Upgrade Thunderbird to 91.11.0
2346 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.5 (tails/tails!889)
2349 - Upgrade to Tor Browser based on Firefox 91.11 (tails/tails#19029)
2352 - more bumping tor browser
2353 - bump torbrowser images
2355 - manual bump TorBrowserOverviewIcon.png
2356 - some more image bumping
2357 - l10n screenshot updated
2358 - bump duckduckgo prompt image
2359 - adapt tor browser screenshot
2360 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
2361 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.5
2362 - Revert "NIGHTLY ONLY! REMOVE ME!"
2363 - clean nightly dirt
2364 - install langpacks for nightlies, too (if possible)
2365 - NIGHTLY ONLY! REMOVE ME!
2366 - Revert "disable OnionAliases for Unsafe Browser"
2367 - use new TBB setting to disable onionrewrites altogether
2368 - take tbb 11.5 from nightlies
2369 - disable OnionAliases for Unsafe Browser
2370 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.5a13-build2
2372 * Adapt release process to new Tor blog platform (tails/tails!887)
2375 - Change release process details for blog.torproject.org (tails/tails#18963)
2379 - Release process: suggest publishing a Tor blog even for bugfix releases
2380 - Release process: improve Tor blog post instructions
2381 - generate-Tor-blog-post: use actual template and also generate the Lektor header
2382 - generate-Tor-blog-post: refactor (extract code to function)
2383 - generate-Tor-blog-post: remove inline images too
2384 - Release process: adapt the Tor blog post process to Lektor
2385 - generate-Tor-blog-post: fix ikiwiki command
2387 * GitLab CI: clean up and refactor https-get-expired jobs (tails/tails!884)
2390 - GitLab CI: force running jobs when updating .gitlab-ci.yml
2391 - GitLab CI: factorize
2392 - GitLab CI: install golang in the same way we do during a Tails build
2393 - GitLab CI: remove duplicate call to "apt-get update"
2394 - GitLab CI: drop obsolete pinning to Buster
2396 * Git: ignore the early_patch= (aka. --early-patch) hook (tails/tails!882)
2399 - Git: ignore the early_patch= (aka. --early-patch) hook
2401 * Resolve "IUK test suite: features/frontend is broken (tails-transform-mirror-
2402 url fails)" (tails/tails!880)
2405 - IUK test suite: features/frontend is broken (tails-transform-mirror-url fails)
2409 - IUk test suite: Set Torsocks to allow outbound connections to the loopback
2411 - IUK test suite: Add test file
2412 - IUK test suite: disable certificate verification
2414 * Test suite: fix copying a new directory with late patch (tails/tails!877)
2417 - Test suite: fix copying a new directory with late patch
2419 * Resolve "Test "The included APT repository keys are up-to-date" does not check
2420 subkeys" (tails/tails!876)
2423 - Test "The included APT repository keys are up-to-date" does not check subkeys
2427 - check we have at least one *relevant* subkey
2428 - gpg checks deeper: both master keys and subkeys
2430 - Revert "Revert "check APT subkeys, too""
2432 * Test suite: misc bugfixes (tails/tails!872)
2435 - Test suite: also set the guest's time when connected to the LAN but not to Tor
2436 - Test suite: move sleep where it was supposed to be
2438 * workaround persistent Tor bridges bug (tails/tails!870)
2441 - Tor Bridges persistence sometimes fails to save bridges during initial setup on
2442 Bullseye, at least in our test suite (tails/tails#18926)
2445 - workaround for bug only present in test suite
2447 * check APT subkeys, too (tails/tails!869)
2450 - Test "The included APT repository keys are up-to-date" does not check subkeys
2454 - check APT subkeys, too
2456 * Set Samba workgroup used by GTK applications to "localhost" (tails/tails!865)
2459 - Several applications ask Tor to resolve the "workgroup" hostname
2463 - Set Samba workgroup used by GTK applications to "localhost"
2465 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 11 Jul 2022 08:13:08 +0000
2467 tails (5.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
2469 * Upgrade Linux to 5.10.120-1 and tor to 0.4.7.8 (tails/tails!863)
2472 - Upgrade to tor 0.4.7.8 (tails/tails#19035)
2473 - Upgrade Linux to 5.10.120-1 (tails/tails#19036)
2476 - Upgrade Linux kernel packages to 5.10.0-15 (currently at version 5.10.120-1)
2477 - Upgrade to tor 0.4.7.8
2479 * Upgrade to Thunderbird 91.10.0
2481 * Fix htpdate pool: https://www.mozilla.org returns incorrects Date header
2485 - Fix htpdate pool: https://www.mozilla.org returns incorrects Date header
2489 - Fix htpdate pool: https://www.mozilla.org returns incorrects Date header
2491 * Test suite: update the set of @fragile tags (tails/tails!862)
2494 - "Persistent browser bookmarks" is fragile (tails/tails#11585)
2495 - "The persistent Tor Browser directory is usable" test suite scenario is fragile
2497 - The "is properly stream isolated" test suite mechanism is fragile
2499 - Step "a screenshot is saved to the live user's Pictures directory" is fragile
2501 - "I can view and print a PDF file" scenarios are fragile (tails/tails#10994)
2502 - Memory erasure on boot medium removal is fragile (tails/tails#13462)
2503 - Test suite: update the set of @fragile tags (tails/tails#19007)
2506 - add @fragile tags when it's useful
2507 - Remove many @feature tags
2509 * follow up again on tca audit: clarify comments (tails/tails!860)
2512 - Audit tca-portal (tails/tails#18374)
2515 - acknowledge jvoisin's comments
2517 * Test suite: exercise the screen keyboard with a key that won't auto-complete
2521 - "the screen keyboard works in Tor Browser" fails in Arabic (tails/tails#19013)
2524 - Test suite: exercise the screen keyboard with a key that won't auto-complete
2526 * GitLab CI: improve jobs rules (tails/tails!856)
2529 - GitLab CI: don't run code tests on the master branch
2530 - GitLab CI: also run https-get-expired* jobs when we modify our htpdate
2532 - GitLab CI: only run https-get-expired when relevant
2534 * Inline strtobool function (tails/tails!855)
2537 - Inline strtobool function
2539 * Test suite: improve robustness (tails/tails!851)
2542 - Developers need to apply workaround in order to build Tails during the release
2543 process (tails/tails#18998)
2544 - Test scenario "htpdate is using the Tails-specific SocksPort" is broken
2548 - Test suite: avoid missed clicks retry when opening the calendar & notifications
2550 - Test suite: give the Upgrader time to fill the zenity dialog
2551 - Test suite: give the Greeter some time to re-enable the login button
2552 - Fix building from dev branches during the release process
2553 - Test suite: don't reset virtual X display between clients
2554 - Test suite: hopefully increase chances we catch the process we want
2556 - Test suite: ensure we write every line extracted from "ss -taupen" as soon as
2558 - Test suite: migrate from service(8) to directly using systemctl
2559 - Test suite: adapt to new HTTPS client used by htpdate
2560 - Test suite: make setting up a Pidgin account more robust
2561 - Test suite: make interaction with GNOME Disks title bar buttons more robust
2562 - Test suite: make copying'n'pasting into a Terminal more robust
2564 * Have a better footer (tails/tails!756)
2567 - Translate a couple strings to check sidebar2 vs. PO plugin
2570 - Link to accessibility from footer
2571 - Rescue translations
2574 - Use sidebar2 to replace translation hacks in templates
2575 - Integrate sidebar2 in the local build
2576 - Add missing ARIA label
2577 - Make the label bold
2578 - Improve the appeal to the newsletter (#16888)
2579 - Translate footer into Spanish
2581 - Move jobs from top navigation to footer
2582 - Use more consistent margin system
2583 - Have a better footer (#17699)
2584 - Create dedicated page for testimonials
2585 - Don't use all capitals (#16137)
2587 * early-patch: live-patch at initramfs's time (tails/tails!696)
2591 - Fix documentation wrt. the name of the option actually passed
2592 - Document --late-patch
2593 - more documentation
2594 - works even if hook fails
2595 - early_patch from test suite umounts immediately
2596 - pass 9p fs to TailsToaster: --early-patch works
2597 - live-patch → late-patch
2598 - early-live-patch → early-patch
2599 - Test suite: make EARLY_LIVE_PATCH a boolean
2600 - Disable obsolete shellcheck override
2601 - Don't enable live_patch by default
2602 - Make headings levels consistent with the rest of our website
2604 - Apply 4 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
2605 - run_test_suite --early-live-patch
2606 - developer documentation for live_patch
2607 - live_patch: early-patching system
2609 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 22 Jun 2022 11:31:52 +0000
2611 tails (5.1) unstable; urgency=medium
2613 * Upgrade to Thunderbird 91.9.0
2615 * Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.0.14 based on Firefox 91.10 (tails/tails!852)
2618 - Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.0.14 based on Firefox 91.10 (tails/tails#18979)
2621 - htpdate: replace tachanka.org with www.autistici.org
2622 - Mark security advisory against 5.0 as fixed
2623 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
2624 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0.14-build1
2626 * Resolve "displayed_time_str fails in test suite" (tails/tails!839)
2629 - displayed_time_str fails in test suite (tails/tails#18991)
2632 - Ignore advisories when looking for displayed time
2635 * FIX Clock disappearing when the user sets UTC as their local timezone
2639 - Clock disappears from the GNOME top bar after "Fix the clock" and choosing UTC
2640 timezone (tails/tails#18993)
2643 - safety net for future problems
2644 - handle UTC special-case
2646 * Test suite: workaround lost and duplicate key presses by pasting long strings
2647 instead of typing them (tails/tails!821)
2650 - Test suite: merge step used only by another step into its caller
2651 - Test suite: paste long strings instead of typing them
2652 - Test suite: drop useless step
2653 - Test suite: refactor (extract code to method)
2655 * Test suite: Make opening GNOME menus more robust (tails/tails!816)
2658 - Opening GNOME menus in the test suite on Bullseye is very fragile
2662 - Test suite: try harder to open GNOME menus
2663 - Test suite: drop unnecessary delay
2664 - Test suite: use Dogtail to check presence of GNOME bookmarks
2665 - Test suite: use Dogtail to open the GNOME menus
2666 - Test suite: wait for the desktop to be visible before we interact with it after
2667 restoring a snapshot
2670 * Upgrade to Linux 5.10.113-1 (DSA 5127-1) (tails/tails!813)
2673 - Upgrade Linux to 5.10.113-1 (DSA 5127-1) (tails/tails#18962)
2676 - Upgrade to Linux 5.10.113-1 (DSA 5127-1)
2678 * Make console-setup.service startup non-racy (tails/tails!811)
2681 - console-setup.service fails sometimes, which breaks "Tor is ready" in test
2682 suite (tails/tails#18636)
2685 - Make console-setup.service startup non-racy
2687 * Test suite: support running on Ruby 3.0 (tails/tails!810)
2690 - Test suite misbehaves on Ruby 3.0, e.g. "the Tor Connection Assistant connects
2691 to Tor" step always incorrectly fails (tails/tails#18904)
2694 - Test suite: ensure we don't try to click the "Restore Disk Image" button before
2696 - Test suite: support Bookworm host system's improved UEFI graphics
2697 - Test suite: enable Ruby deprecation warnings
2698 - Test suite: adjust to separation of positional and keyword arguments in Ruby
2700 - Test suite: update button label for Bullseye
2701 - Remove duplicate word in comment
2702 - Test suite: drop workaround for Ruby < 2.7
2703 - Test suite: migrate from deprecated luks_open and luks_close to
2704 cryptsetup_{open,close}
2706 * test https-get-expired with sid's Go (tails/tails!849)
2709 - GitLab CI: only run https-get-expired-sid job when relevant
2710 - GitLab CI: factorize
2711 - GitLab CI: test https-get-expired with sid's Go on a sid image
2712 - also test https-get-expired with sid's golang
2714 * Vagrant: install ikiwiki that fixes #18992 (tails/tails!847)
2717 - ikiwiki generates buggy PO files with po4a 0.62 (tails/tails#18992)
2720 - Vagrant: stop using the obsolete builder-jessie APT suite
2721 - Vagrant: install ikiwiki that fixes #18992
2723 * tca-portal: stricter validation (tails/tails!846)
2726 - test: right length, valid for date(1), but invalid format
2727 - drop test case for "minutes" timespec
2728 - be more explicit about the format we want
2729 - seconds always included
2730 - stricter validation for SetTimeCommand
2732 * ignore advisories + better debug (tails/tails!845)
2738 * Test suite: fix regression when testing Tor Connection in non-English locale
2742 - Test suite: fix regression when testing Tor Connection in non-English locale
2744 * FIX sharing via onionshare from nautilus (tails/tails!840)
2747 - "Share via OnionShare" does nothing (tails/tails#18990)
2750 - FIX sharing via onionshare from nautilus
2752 * lint_po: ignore unknown-message-flag errors (tails/tails!836)
2755 - lint_po: ignore unknown-message-flag errors
2757 * Don't enable "configure a bridge" just because the user looked at the hide mode
2761 - “Configure a Bridge” is enabled when rolling back from hiding Tor
2765 - regression test for #18546
2766 - enable easymode-bridges only in easy mode
2768 * Vagrant build box: upgrade to po4a 0.62-1 (tails/tails!834)
2771 - Vagrant build box: drop APT configuration for Buster
2772 - Vagrant build box: upgrade to po4a 0.62-1
2774 * Installer: create system partition 2 MiB from the beginning of the drive
2778 - Installer: create system partition 2 MiB from the beginning of the drive
2780 * Various Tor Connection UX improvements (tails/tails!831)
2783 - Tor Connection: Give the same instructions on both bridge screens
2785 - Always tell whether bridges are used in the success screen (tails/tails#18547)
2789 - Test suite: update expected images
2790 - Make phrasing consistent
2792 - refactor: properties allow our code to be clearer
2793 - bridges: same instructions on both screens
2794 - Success message conditional to bridges
2796 * Rewrite the home pages of the Unsafe Browser + Have different homes for the
2797 Unsafe Browser depending on whether we're connected to Tor already
2801 - Have different homes for the Unsafe Browser depending on whether we're
2802 connected to Tor already (tails/tails#18601)
2803 - Rewrite the home pages of the Unsafe Browser (tails/tails#18602)
2812 - Add illustration by Andrés
2813 - Test suite: remove obsolete localized images
2814 - Test suite: update expected image
2815 - Test suite: add missing @doc tag
2816 - FIX wrong path was checked
2817 - Clarify that the image is an example
2818 - Clarify use of CSS (Take 2)
2819 - Unsafe browser: home page if non connected to Tor
2820 - Clarify use of CSS
2823 - Write a dedicated page for captive portals
2824 - Improve instructions
2825 - Give examples of websites to use
2826 - Use our own image and remove the login and password
2829 * Test suite: misc. robustness improvements (tails/tails!827)
2832 - Tests for backup are fragile (tails/tails#18727)
2835 - Test suite: add localized expected image for Unsafe Browser start page in pt_BR
2836 - Test suite: enable debug logging for Screen#wait
2837 - Test suite: Fix frequent "cannot find TailsGreeterLoginButton.png" failures
2838 - Test suite: update expected image for Bullseye
2839 - Test suite: give the XMPP server some time to create the room
2840 - Test suite: update expected Pidgin images
2841 - Test suite: fix error message
2842 - Test suite: Improve error reporting
2843 - Test suite: Fix clock upper bound calculation
2844 - Test suite: refactoring (save value to variable)
2845 - Test suite: Drop most debugging info for issue that does not happen anymore
2846 - Test suite: Drop spurious verb in debug log
2847 - Revert "Mark test scenario as fragile"
2848 - Test suite (backup): Wait for Zenity to have filled its widgets with the
2851 * Upgrade apt-cacher-ng to bullseye-backports - fixes issue #18931
2855 - rake build fails - apt-get works erratically ( 502 connection closed
2856 [IP:127.0.0.1:3142] ) - No build artifacts were found! (tails/tails#18931)
2859 - Upgrade apt-cacher-ng to bullseye-backports.
2861 * Disable search providers in the Activities Overview: Calculator, Nautilus,
2862 Terminal (tails/tails!824)
2865 - Disable some GNOME Overview search providers (tails/tails#18952)
2868 - Disable search providers in the Activities Overview: Calculator, Contacts,
2869 Documents, Nautilus, Terminal
2871 * Test suite: ignore failures to destroy a stopped domain (tails/tails!822)
2874 - Scenario: "Upgrading an old Tails USB installation from another Tails USB
2875 drive" after-hook is racy (tails/tails#18972)
2878 - Test suite: ignore failures to destroy a stopped domain
2880 * Associate OpenPGP-encrypted files with Kleopatra (tails/tails!820)
2883 - Tails 5 does not decrypt .gpg files when double-clicking them
2887 - Associate OpenPGP-encrypted files with Kleopatra
2889 * safely get gnome_env_vars (tails/tails!819)
2892 - clarify about which environment is being dumped
2894 - Fix typo in comment
2895 - comments clarify why we think we are safe
2897 - gnome_env_vars look at the gnome-shell env dump
2898 - gnome-shell dumps its conf in a root-owned file
2900 * Avoid user confusion wrt. name of the default KeePassXC database
2904 - KeePassXC offers to rename the default database on non-English locales
2908 - Silence false positive
2909 - Drop obsolete reason
2910 - Don't allow translating Passwords.kdbx
2912 * Use Bullseye debootstrap configuration (tails/tails!817)
2915 - Use Bullseye debootstrap configuration
2917 * FIX IUK verification when we have 2 series at the same time (tails/tails!815)
2920 - bin/copy-iuks-to-rsync-server-and-verify failing because of old releases
2924 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
2925 - document how the RM should use this command
2926 - don't fail when 404s have been ignored
2927 - proper exit code on failure
2928 - refactor --ignore-404
2931 - 404s found -> non-zero exit code
2932 - --ignore-404 and --dry-run
2934 * Fix FTBFS with uBlock 1.42 (tails/tails!814)
2939 * Upgrade to tor 0.4.7.7 (tails/tails!812)
2942 - Upgrade to tor 0.4.7.x (tails/tails#18932)
2945 - Upgrade to tor 0.4.7.7
2947 * Add translation files for Qt5 (#18958) (tails/tails!808)
2950 - Translations of basic Qt5 strings are missing (tails/tails#18958)
2953 - Add translation files for Qt
2955 * Make news/version_3* non-translatable (#16758) (tails/tails!805)
2958 - Make news/version_3* non-translatable (#16758)
2960 * Add Kleopatra to the Favorites (tails/tails!802)
2963 - Test suite: make expected image a tiny bit smaller
2964 - Add Kleopatra to the Favorites submenu
2966 * Test suite: drop pre-Bullseye compatibility (tails/tails!789)
2969 - Test suite: drop workaround for Ruby < 2.7
2970 - Test suite: migrate from deprecated luks_open and luks_close to
2971 cryptsetup_{open,close}
2973 * Add to confirm before restarting (#18912) (tails/tails!782)
2976 - New dialog when Unsafe Browser is not enabled makes it too easy to lose work
2980 - Make code more readable
2981 - Make function's responsibility tighter to simplify its code
2982 - Handle new code branch that was forgotten
2983 - Fix local variables declaration
2984 - Use 'Cancel' as default button (#18912)
2985 - 'Cancel' is more standard
2986 - Add to confirm before restarting (#18912)
2988 * Display time in the timezone that the user has chosen in Tor Connection
2992 - Display time in the timezone that the user has chosen in Tor Connection
2996 - Design doc: Explain security trade-off
2997 - Test suite: Explain that Asia/Shanghai == +08:00
2998 - tails-get-date: use Python instead of date(1)
2999 - Fix typo in error message
3000 - Test suite: ensure the displayed clock is in the user's timezone
3001 - Test suite: remove workaround
3002 - Test suite: refactor (extract code do method)
3003 - Test suite: be more defensive to give better error output
3004 - Test suite: send debug info to the debug log
3005 - Test suite: make step name clearer
3006 - Design doc: mention timezone status and plans
3007 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
3008 - Fix typo in comment
3011 - Remove unnecessary comma
3012 - try to fix the vertical misalignment
3014 - Link back to main page
3015 - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/time%20zone
3016 - Move FAQ to a dedicated page
3018 - Don't potentially overwrite TZ key in dict with environment's value.
3019 - Cleanup dead code, fix formatting.
3020 - Consistently display GMT instead of UTC.
3021 - Use the same time format as GNOME's clock.
3022 - use date to format the date
3023 - date@ extension does The Right Thing
3024 - DRAFT: display time in local timezone
3026 * Follow-up on "Audit tca-portal" (tails/tails!723)
3029 - useless shellcheck directive
3030 - Apply 2 suggestion(s) to 2 file(s)
3031 - Fix typo in comment
3032 - clarify how we believe pgrep --ns 1 will help us
3033 - PersistenceSetupCommand: gnome_env_vars not needed
3034 - export_gnome_env hardening
3035 - some more validation when setting system time
3036 - gnome.py executes later; required for testing
3037 - add some doctests to tca-portal
3038 - more tuples, less lists
3039 - clarify: we are fine with the TOCTOU
3040 - --systemd-socket is exclusive with --listen
3041 - be more explicit about stdout/stderr handling
3042 - clarify handle_* comments
3043 - clarify what is the role of handle_line
3044 - anchor SetTimeCommand regexp
3045 - clarify comment about validate_args
3046 - use full path to commands whenever possible
3048 * Automatic time sync before connecting to Tor in automatic mode
3052 - Mitigate attack by active network adversary on automated time sync + replayed
3053 Tor consensus (tails/tails#18830)
3054 - Automatic time sync before connecting to Tor in automatic mode
3058 - Test suite: rename step to make it closer to what a user would do
3059 - use the non-deprecated version of "Tor is ready"
3061 - Add missing word in comment
3062 - Update comment: this now build reproducibly
3064 - fix undefined local variable
3065 - tails-get-network-time better syslog
3066 - tails-get-network-time has timeout
3067 - refactor old test case based on new functions
3068 - new test: time sync times out
3069 - tor connection runs even if timesync fails
3071 - some info is shown during network time sync
3073 - wait for time to be retrieved before starting Tor
3074 - use APT preferences, not --target-release
3075 - gitlab tests run with the correct Go version
3076 - public key type check
3077 - Explain why these if statements don't apply to us
3079 - Design doc: 2 out of 3 is enough since we're using the median
3081 - test all urls in htpdate.pools
3082 - https-get-expired gets more testing
3083 - https-get-expired: explain how this compares to Go implementation
3084 - Test suite: explain why scenarios pass in a somewhat surprisingly manner
3087 - Design doc: explain why we accept a risk
3088 - Design doc: improve phrasing
3089 - Design doc: drop conditional
3090 - Design doc: explain why we're protected
3091 - Design doc: clarify phrasing
3092 - Update design doc: this is not a problem anymore
3093 - reproducibility: clean cache after compiling
3095 - htpdate performs the median
3096 - design doc: explain https-get-expired
3098 - Pick Go from buster-backports
3099 - try to make go build reproducible: -trimpath
3100 - Test suite: mark fragile scenario as such
3101 - https-get-expired: CI tests now
3102 - test https-get-expired building
3103 - https-get-expired gains -proxy option
3104 - port htpdate to https-get-expired
3105 - https-get-expired: more similar to htpdate's curl
3106 - https-get-expired output headers, not body
3107 - fix go compilation
3108 - add https-get-expired: will need for time sync
3109 - "date in past" check is more robust
3110 - sanity check: the new date cannot be in the past
3111 - unsafe browser is checked for tor leaks
3112 - UnsafeBrowser correctly detects if we're online
3113 - checking DisableNetowrk is #18293-aware
3114 - Merge the new scenario with the old one
3115 - FIX restore: some snapshot has network but no Tor
3116 - UnsafeBrowser tests don't need Tor; scenarios--
3117 - FIX we don't even need to check Tor
3118 - Test suite: clarify what we're actually testing
3122 - Update doc to automatic time sync (#18717)
3123 - Improve structure of design doc
3125 - Design doc: copy more detailed explanation from the blueprint
3126 - Design doc: improve structure
3127 - Design doc: document new automatic time sync mechanism
3128 - Remove very old explanation
3129 - wording: we're looking for unneeded *exceptions*
3130 - Apply 5 suggestion(s) to 2 file(s)
3131 - FIX test case: allow it to use time sync
3132 - "flow through" supports fake connectivity check
3133 - FIX globally setting allowed DNS queries
3134 - refactor check for leaks
3135 - debugging leaks is easier
3136 - fix DNS query for easy mode
3137 - test suite self-correction warning
3138 - dns queries are allowed only when needed
3139 - +debug "traffic has only flowed through"
3140 - break the "Tor is ready" step in two
3142 - easy-mode allowed_hosts are set in tca_configure
3143 - explicitly allow connectivity check in many tests
3144 - fix time sync error simulation
3145 - fix exception wording
3146 - use DNS inspection to check for leaks
3147 - the FirewallHelper is DNS-aware
3149 - test "traffic only flows through" supports timesync
3150 - Add tests for time sync before Tor connects
3151 - Improve TCA test suite code
3152 - add vm script to upload/download files
3153 - tails-get-network-time: don't assume anything about body encoding
3154 - Raise exception instance, not class
3156 - tails-get-network-time: emulate NetworkManager's behavior more closely
3157 - Move hard-coded string to constant
3159 - tails-get-network-time: refactor
3161 - tails-get-network-time: migrate to pycurl, to make our fingerprint closer to
3163 - Store the network time server in a configuration file
3164 - Move code to main() function
3165 - Test suite: adjust to new automatic time sync feature
3166 - Test suite: drop workaround
3167 - Tor Connection: in automatic mode, set the system time from the network
3168 - tca-portal: implement a new get-network-time command
3169 - tca-portal: include stdout in responses
3171 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 04 Jun 2022 08:11:47 +0000
3173 tails (5.0) unstable; urgency=medium
3175 * Upgrade Thunderbird to 91.8
3177 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0.11 (based on esr91.9) (tails/tails!804)
3180 - Test suite: update expected image
3181 - Test suite: update expected web page title
3182 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
3183 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0.11-build1
3185 * Fix Additional Software test suite on Bullseye (tails/tails!794)
3188 - Test suite: use popularity-contest as a test package instead of sslh
3190 * Fix devel branch FTBFS (tails/tails!773)
3193 - Preserve UIDs/GIDs stability
3194 - Refresh list of standard packages
3196 * Drop obsolete patch (tails/tails!690)
3199 - Drop obsolete patch
3201 * all languages are listed (tails/tails!683)
3204 - all formats are shown
3205 - translations appear again in Greeter
3206 - when native l10n is not available, use english
3207 - all languages are listed
3209 * Fix the Tails Installer in bullseye (tails/tails!679)
3212 - retry has shorter sleep times
3213 - FIX self.sleep never existed
3214 - retry getting udisks object upon failure
3215 - don't rescan devices: we already know!
3216 - partition_device returns a UDI
3217 - refactor detect_supported_drives
3218 - retrying getting system partition helps
3219 - race conditions? let's increase sleep time!
3221 * Document Kleopatra (tails/tails!803)
3230 - Mention Kleopatra in the Persistent Storage settings
3231 - Remove not-so-useful note
3232 - Document Kleopatra (Closes: #18933)
3233 - Remove Seahorse from the doc
3234 - Remove screenshots that need updating
3235 - Remove OpenPGP Applet from the doc
3236 - Patch screenshots for the removal of the OpenPGP Applet
3238 * Fix opening links and attachments from Thunderbird, disable LibreOffice tip of
3239 the day (tails/tails!793)
3242 - AppArmor Thunderbird profile: allow executing /bin/dash with inherited policy
3243 - Disable LibreOffice's tip of the day
3245 * fix whisperback sending error (tails/tails!787)
3248 - Thread.isAlive -> is_alive
3250 * Fix Scenario: Upgrading an old Tails USB installation from another Tails USB
3251 drive (tails/tails!765)
3254 - apparently fix tails/tails#18840
3255 - send tails installer log to syslog
3257 * Additional Software: synchronize APT data when needed directly from t-p-s
3261 - Test suite: restart Tails in the same way we expect the user to
3262 - Test suite: don't exit the persistence wizard once done, make saving settings
3264 - Test suite: refactoring (convert step to method)
3265 - Additional Software: synchronize APT data when needed directly from t-p-s
3266 - Remove XXX:Bullseye: this is not going to happen
3268 * Persistence: enable Additional Software by default (tails/tails!800)
3271 - Persistence Setup: adjust test suite to Additional Software being enabled by
3273 - Persistence: enable Additional Software by default
3275 * Let the user know they should wait while we are copying Additional Software to
3276 a new Persistent Storage (tails/tails!799)
3279 - Use phrasing proposed by sajolida
3280 - t-p-s: ensure the GUI is updated while we synchronize data to the new
3282 - Persistence setup: forbid clicking "Restart Now" twice in a row
3283 - Test suite: save a file listing of /var/cache/apt when a Additional Software
3285 - Let the user know they should wait while we are copying Additional Software
3286 data to a new Persistent Storage
3288 * htpdate.service is always started (tails/tails!796)
3291 - be more explicit about what we are testing
3292 - htpdate is started every time
3293 - some tests can be excluded from feature branches
3294 - add regression test for #18868
3295 - start htpdate.service earlier
3297 * Replace Seahorse and OpenPGP Applet with Kleopatra (tails/tails!792)
3300 - Ensure Seahorse icons are present when running the persistence-setup test suite
3301 - Persistent Storage: re-add custom icons for the GnuPG and SSH Client features
3302 - FT role definition: remove seahorse-nautilus
3303 - Contributors & design doc: drop OpenPGP Applet
3304 - Remove the topIcons GNOME Shell extension
3305 - Test suite: remove OpenPGP Applet tests, and the code & images they used
3306 - Re-add and update explanation for disabling ssh-agent
3307 - Remove broken patch
3308 - Remove Gettext stuff for Seahorse
3309 - Remove hooks about Seahorse and OpenPGP Applet
3310 - Replace our PGP tools with Kleopatra
3312 * Fix Bullseye-based Tails booting 20% slower than 4.x (tails/tails!791)
3315 - Freeze the AppArmor kernel feature set too
3317 * Stop trusting our old APT signing key (tails/tails!788)
3320 - Bump APT snapshots to versions signed with our new key
3321 - Test suite: stop ignoring our old APT key
3322 - Stop trusting our old APT signing key
3324 * Update live-build to include the local packages fix. (tails/tails!776)
3327 - Update live-build to include the local packages fix.
3329 * Tails Installer: retry getting partition table (tails/tails!767)
3332 - retry getting partition table
3334 * Update gdm-tails.json for Bullseye (tails/tails!689)
3337 - Add pointer accessibility support to gdm-tails.json
3338 - gdm-tails.json: remove panelStyle
3340 * Update VeraCrypt test suite for Bullseye (tails/tails!686)
3343 - Test suite: trim expected image to account for GNOME mounted volume
3345 - Give exchange USB drive more space
3346 - Test suite: update to new GNOME Disks UI
3347 - Test suite: update Nautilus application name
3348 - Test suite: update expected picture
3350 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 02 May 2022 12:03:37 +0200
3352 tails (5.0~beta1) unstable; urgency=medium
3354 * Upgrade to Debian 11 (Bullseye).
3355 - Fixes opening a Veracrypt volume with a long passphrase (tails#17474)
3356 - NetworkManager now uses its internal DHCP client
3358 - Software upgrades:
3361 - bookletimposer 0.3
3365 - NetworkManager 1.30.0
3368 - Thunderbird 91.7.0-2~deb11u1
3371 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0.10-build1 (tails#777)
3373 * Enable driverless printing and scanning (tails#18521)
3375 * Fix locales translation in the Welcome Screen (tails#18199, tails/tails!683)
3378 - all formats are shown
3379 - translations appear again in Greeter
3380 - when native l10n is not available, use english
3381 - all languages are listed
3383 * Drop hack to kill GDM on login, not necessary anymore on Bullseye (tails#17952)
3385 * Have tor log to the Journal (tails#18842)
3387 * Have NetworkManager and MAC spoofing ignore veth* network interfaces (tails#18443)
3389 * Drop deprecated printer-driver-hpijs (tails#18225)
3391 * Fix devel branch FTBFS (tails/tails!773)
3394 - Preserve UIDs/GIDs stability
3395 - Refresh list of standard packages
3397 * Drop obsolete patch (tails/tails!690)
3400 - Drop obsolete patch
3402 * Fix the Tails Installer in bullseye (tails/tails!679)
3405 - retry has shorter sleep times
3406 - FIX self.sleep never existed
3407 - retry getting udisks object upon failure
3408 - don't rescan devices: we already know!
3409 - partition_device returns a UDI
3410 - refactor detect_supported_drives
3411 - retrying getting system partition helps
3412 - race conditions? let's increase sleep time!
3414 * Fix Scenario: Upgrading an old Tails USB installation from another Tails USB
3415 drive (tails/tails!765)
3418 - apparently fix tails/tails#18840
3419 - send tails installer log to syslog
3421 * Additional Software: synchronize APT data when needed directly from t-p-s
3425 - Test suite: restart Tails in the same way we expect the user to
3426 - Test suite: don't exit the persistence wizard once done, make saving settings
3428 - Test suite: refactoring (convert step to method)
3429 - Additional Software: synchronize APT data when needed directly from t-p-s
3430 - Remove XXX:Bullseye: this is not going to happen
3432 * Update gdm-tails.json for Bullseye (tails/tails!689)
3435 - Add pointer accessibility support to gdm-tails.json
3436 - gdm-tails.json: remove panelStyle
3438 * Update VeraCrypt test suite for Bullseye (tails/tails!686)
3441 - Test suite: trim expected image to account for GNOME mounted volume
3443 - Give exchange USB drive more space
3444 - Test suite: update to new GNOME Disks UI
3445 - Test suite: update Nautilus application name
3446 - Test suite: update expected picture
3448 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 04 Apr 2022 09:25:25 +0000
3450 tails (4.29) unstable; urgency=medium
3452 * Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.0.x based on Firefox 91.8 (tails/tails!777)
3455 - Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.0.x based on Firefox 91.8 (tails/tails#18874)
3458 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
3459 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0.10-build1
3461 * Upgrade Thunderbird to 91.7
3463 * Upgrade to obfs4proxy 0.0.12 (Elligator2 bug) (tails/tails!728)
3466 - Fix bug in obfs4proxy (Elligator2), upgrading to 0.0.12+ (tails/tails#18800)
3469 - Revert "Downgrade obfs4proxy to 0.0.12-dev from the Tor Browser 11.0.4 tarball"
3471 * htpdate: log to stdout even when a log file is specified (tails/tails!772)
3474 - htpdate: also log to the Journal (tails/tails#18895)
3477 - htpdate: log to stdout even when a log file is specified
3479 * Upgrade to Buster 10.12 and Linux 5.10.103-1 (tails/tails!771)
3482 - Upgrade to Buster 10.12 (tails/tails#18885)
3483 - Upgrade Linux to 5.10.103-1 (DSA-5095-1) (tails/tails#18877)
3486 - Drop unused KERNEL_SOURCE_VERSION variable
3487 - Upgrade to Buster 10.12 and Linux 5.10.106-1
3489 * Test suite: drop OTR tests (tails/tails!769)
3492 - "Pidgin automatically generates an OTR key" test suite step fails when host
3493 system is Bullseye (tails/tails#18866)
3496 - Test suite: rename otr-bot to xmpp-bot
3497 - Test suite: drop support for OTR
3498 - Test suite: drop OTR tests
3500 * Provide HTTPS link when JavaScript is disabled (#18559) (tails/tails!755)
3503 - Update release process
3505 - Provide HTTPS link when JavaScript is disabled (#18559)
3507 * Clarify purpose and timeline (tails/tails!744)
3510 - Add link to release notes on GitLab
3511 - Include technical writers in the procedure
3514 - Remember Technical Writers where to find the latest stable
3515 - Clarify purpose and timeline
3517 * Upgrade zlib1g to 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1+deb10u1 (DSA-5111-1)
3520 * doc updates after releasing 4.28 (tails/tails!742)
3523 - Use expected location of release notes
3524 - Easier technical-writers notification
3525 - clean RCs from rsync.lizard: command
3526 - twitter: less brain usage, more commands
3527 - clicking links is easier than thinking
3528 - RM: please communicate before clocking off
3529 - more parallelization: do tests while IUKs are building
3530 - lesson learned: read DSA mailing list
3531 - be sure you are on the right branch
3532 - importing PO often fails: let's explain why
3533 - check iuks/v2 exists: scripted
3535 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 04 Apr 2022 13:21:09 +0200
3537 tails (4.28) unstable; urgency=medium
3539 * Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.0.7-build2 based on Firefox 91.7 (tails/tails!741)
3542 - Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.0.7 based on Firefox 91.7 (tails/tails#18853)
3545 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
3546 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0.7-build2
3548 * Upgrade to Thunderbird 91.6.1
3550 * Upgrade to tor 0.4.6.10 (tails/tails!737)
3553 - Upgrade to tor 0.4.6.10 (tails/tails#18835)
3556 - Upgrade to tor 0.4.6.10 (Closes #18835)
3558 * Enable obfs4proxy logging (tails/tails!734)
3561 - save obfs4proxy logs into artifacts
3562 - enable obfs4proxy debug logging
3563 - "obfs4proxy managed" is an option from the past
3565 * minor fixes to custom-apt-cruft-check (tails/tails!733)
3568 - custom-apt-cruft-check: output nicer Markdown
3569 - Give method a name closer to what it wraps
3571 - fix wrong variable name
3575 * Test suite: collect logs of tor & friends when we timed out waiting for TCA to
3576 connect (tails/tails!732)
3579 - Test suite does not save tor log on "Timed out while waiting for TCA to connect
3580 to Tor (Timeout::Error)" (tails/tails#18850)
3583 - Apply 2 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
3584 - Test suite: collect logs of tor & friends when we timed out waiting for TCA to
3587 * Test suite: ignore old APT repository signing key (tails/tails!731)
3590 - Test suite: ignore expiration date of 221F9A3C6FA3E09E182E060BC7988EA7A358D82E
3594 - Test suite: ignore old APT repository signing key
3596 * Test suite can test on the real Tor network (tails/tails!725)
3599 - Test behavior on the real Tor network (tails/tails#18847)
3602 - move Jenkins-only code in the appropriate section
3603 - better debug message
3604 - shell oneliner converted to ruby
3605 - Configure simulated Tor network: step -> function
3606 - rubocop is happier
3607 - Test suite: don't try to save chutney data when it does not exist
3608 - add at least one relevant scenario
3609 - if +real-Tor, select relevant scenarios
3610 - test suite runs with real Tor, if +real-Tor
3611 - "default bridges" honors --disable-chutney
3612 - Check adapted to --disable-chutney
3613 - run_test_suite --disable-chutney
3614 - chutney-specific conf moved into appropriate step
3616 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 07 Mar 2022 18:16:01 +0100
3618 tails (4.27) unstable; urgency=medium
3620 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0.6-build1, based on Firefox 91.6 (tails!724)
3622 Closes issues: tails#18799
3624 This upgrades obfs4proxy to the version shipped with Tor Browser 11.0.4
3625 (0.0.11 + a few commits).
3627 * Upgrade to Linux 5.10.92 (tails/tails!721)
3630 - devel branch FTBFS with webext-ublock-origin-firefox 1.39.0+dfsg-2
3632 - Upgrade Linux to 5.10.92+ (DSA 5050-1) (tails/tails#18805)
3635 - Refresh uBlock Origin patch
3636 - Dropping VirtualBox guest support for now
3637 - Bump APT snapshot of the Debian archive to 2022012801
3638 - Upgrade to Linux 5.10.0-11 (currently at version 5.10.92-1)
3640 * Upgrade to Thunderbird 91 (tails/tails!720)
3643 - Upgrade to Thunderbird 91 (tails/tails#18069)
3646 - Test suite: update expected images for Thunderbird 91
3647 - Test suite: adjust to Thunderbird 91 UI
3648 - Test suite: drop dead code
3649 - Test suite: lint (thanks Rubocop)
3650 - Test suite: refactor (extract code to method) to solve Rubocop error
3652 - Update path mangling in Thunderbird patches for v91
3653 - Update Thunderbird patches from
3654 tails/thunderbird@bef716a60762b743dce1f48c37a64a99a0707b21
3655 - Upgrade to Thunderbird 91
3657 * Insist on Tor Browser being offline (#18584) (tails/tails!711)
3660 - Change buttons to [Start Tor Browser Offline] [Open Tor Connection] when
3661 starting Tor Browser while not connected to tor (tails/tails#18584)
3664 - Insist on Tor Browser being offline (#18584)
3666 * Install obfs4proxy from the Tor Browser tarball (tails/tails!716)
3669 - Briefly document what config/equivs is for
3670 - Install our dummy obfs4proxy package
3671 - Enable the 18800-obfs4proxy-from-tor-browser-tarball APT overlay (refs:
3673 - Add equivs configuration for our new obfs4proxy dummy package
3674 - AppArmor: allow access that obfs4proxy 0.0.11 needs
3675 - Install obfs4proxy from the Tor Browser tarball
3678 * Test suite: update expected button label (tails/tails!718)
3681 - Test suite: update expected button label
3683 * Re-generate our test IUKs using gensquashfs (tails/tails!715)
3686 - Re-generate our test IUKs using gensquashfs (tails/tails#18654)
3689 - Test suite: use test IUKs generated with gensquashfs
3690 - Release process: never delete test IUKs generated with gensquashfs
3691 - Give new, unique names to test IUKs generated with gensquashfs
3693 * Add generated tails-backup.desktop to .gitignore (tails/tails!714)
3696 - Add generated tails-backup.desktop to .gitignore
3698 * simplify workflow when adding an APT overlay (tails/tails!708)
3701 - waiting now uses a proper tool
3702 - add-APT-overlay can wait for suite creation
3704 * Resolve "Tests for backup are fragile" (tails/tails!706)
3707 - Tests for backup are fragile (tails/tails#18727)
3710 - try to make backup tool test more resilient
3712 * fix wi-fi settings from Tor Connection (tails/tails!692)
3715 - Fix Wi-Fi settings when open from Tor Connection (tails/tails#18587)
3718 - Fix Wi-Fi settings from Tor Connection
3720 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:50:41 +0000
3722 tails (4.26) unstable; urgency=medium
3724 * Resolve "All branches FTBFS since Thunderbird 91 was uploaded"
3728 - All branches FTBFS since Thunderbird 91 was uploaded (tails/tails#18789)
3731 - pin thunderbird l10n packages, too
3732 - Add freeze exceptions for 4.26
3733 - Enable the 18789-fix-ftbfs-thunderbird-91 APT overlay (refs: #18789).
3735 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0.4-build2 (tails/tails!710)
3738 - Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.0. … 4? (tails/tails#18795)
3741 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
3742 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0.4-build2
3744 * Resolve "Change buttons to [Start Tor Browser Offline] [Open Tor Connection]
3745 when starting Tor Browser while not connected to tor" (tails/tails!704)
3748 - Change buttons to [Start Tor Browser Offline] [Open Tor Connection] when
3749 starting Tor Browser while not connected to tor (tails/tails#18584)
3752 - open TorBrowser when offline →opens Tor Connection
3754 * Use DuckDuckGo for search queries on our website (tails/tails!498)
3757 - Don't search on staging.tails.boum.org
3759 - Translate searchbox placeholder
3760 - Factorize the CSS translation hack
3761 - Remove useless template
3762 - Improve search box
3763 - Align better the heart and the label
3764 - Use DuckDuckGo on news as well
3765 - Prevent Search and Donate from touching on small screen
3766 - Fix contrast to WCAG AA
3767 - Use DuckDuckGo for search queries (#17652)
3769 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2022 13:15:16 +0100
3771 tails (4.25) unstable; urgency=medium
3773 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0.2-build3 (tails/tails!684)
3776 - Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.0.2 based on Firefox 91.4esr (tails/tails#18726)
3779 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
3780 - FIX sha256sums for TorBrowser
3781 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0.2-build3
3783 * Unsafe Browser: fix buggy GUI after upgrade to Tor Browser 11.0a10
3787 - Buggy GUI in Unsafe Browser after upgrade to Tor Browser 11.0a10
3791 - Unsafe Browser: fix buggy GUI after upgrade to Tor Browser 11.0a10.
3793 * IUK generation: stop using the "extreme" extra compression option
3797 - squashfs-tools-ng is slow (tails/tails#18675)
3800 - IUK generation: stop using the "extreme" extra compression option
3802 * Fix devel FTBFS by dropping VirtualBox guest support for now (tails/tails!652)
3805 - Test suite: the live user is no longer a member of vboxsf.
3806 - Fix FTBFS by dropping VirtualBox for now (Closes #18643)
3808 * APT: trust the new signing key for our APT repositories (tails/tails!682)
3811 - APT: trust the new signing key for our APT repositories (tails/sysadmin#17810)
3813 * Resolve ""I can listen to an Ogg audio track in Tor Browser" test suite step
3814 sometimes fails" (tails/tails!680)
3817 - "I can listen to an Ogg audio track in Tor Browser" test suite step sometimes
3818 fails (tails/tails#18716)
3821 - Test suite: make audio in browser test more robust
3822 - Test suite: simplify
3824 * Refresh uBlock origin patch to fix devel FTBFS (tails/tails!678)
3827 - Refresh uBlock Origin patch
3829 * Fix shellcheck CI job (tails/tails!677)
3832 - Replace unsupported braces expansion with list
3833 - Add missing quotes
3834 - Update shellcheck exclusion for newer shellcheck
3836 * Drop feature/tor-nightly-master branch (tails/tails!676)
3839 - APT time-based snapshots fail: tor-nightly-master-buster suite does not exist
3840 anymore (tails/tails#17877)
3843 - Drop feature/tor-nightly-master branch
3845 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0.1-build1 (tails/tails!675)
3848 - Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.0.1 (based on Firefox 91.3esr) (tails/tails#18641)
3851 - Revert "Unsafe Browser: fix buggy GUI after upgrade to Tor Browser 11.0a10."
3852 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0.1-build1
3854 * run_test_suite --live-patch (and more!) (tails/tails!674)
3857 - one-line if can be made more compact
3858 - enjoy some File module goodness
3859 - avoid using shell, let's Find.find with ruby
3860 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
3861 - correctly handle invocations without --live-patch
3862 - refactoring: live_patch is a VM method
3863 - --live-patch is more powerful
3864 - --live-patch (draft)
3865 - run_test_suite --view-interact
3866 - test suite debug: easier to copy files in the VM
3868 * Test suite: remove unused step definition and the corresponding image
3872 - Test suite: remove unused step definition and the corresponding image
3874 * Test suite: fix reporting of hostname leaks via DHCP (tails/tails!671)
3877 - Test suite: fix reporting of hostname leaks via DHCP
3879 * Fix some GitLab CI tests (tails/tails!669)
3882 - Add missing dependencies
3883 - Add missing dependency
3884 - Maintain the list of Tor Connection dependencies in a single place
3886 * Resolve "Compute years range dynamically in Tor Connection's time setting
3887 dialog" (tails/tails!668)
3890 - Compute years range dynamically in Tor Connection's time setting dialog
3894 - Tor Connection year range derives from build time
3896 * add comments to connect-drop after security audit (tails/tails!666)
3899 - add comments to connect-drop after security audit
3901 * Add a "Tails (External Hard Disk)" boot menu option (tails/tails!665)
3904 - Add a "Tails (External Hard Disk)" option that removes live-media=removable
3906 * Vagrant build box: have hostname resolve to 127.0.0.1 (tails/tails!661)
3909 - Vagrant build box: have hostname resolve to 127.0.0.1
3911 * Test suite: give GNOME Overview more time to process our search
3915 - Test suite: give GNOME Overview more time to process our search
3917 * Upgrade Vagrant build box to Bullseye (tails/tails!653)
3920 - Upgrade Vagrant build box to Bullseye (tails/tails#18660)
3923 - Vagrant: add more debug output
3924 - build-tails: fix submodule initialization
3925 - Use long option name
3926 - Vagrant build box provisioning: don't assume the "debian" and "debian-security"
3927 snapshots have the same serial
3928 - Document when we can drop a workaround
3929 - Upgrade Vagrant build box to Bullseye
3930 - Vagrant build box: bump all APT snapshots
3932 * create-usb-image-from-iso: detect syslinux installation failure
3936 - Builds succeeds even if syslinux failed to install in create-usb-image-from-iso
3941 - create-usb-image-from-iso: remove obsolete comments
3942 - create-usb-image-from-iso: remove obsolete workaround
3943 - create-usb-image-from-iso: detect syslinux installation failure
3945 * Tor Connection: Add link to Troubleshooting doc (tails/tails!650)
3948 - Link to the Tor connection troubleshooting doc from the error screen
3952 - apply UX tip: move link to bottom
3953 - Tor Connection: Add link to Troubleshooting doc
3955 * Trim down SquashFS exclusions: remove obsolete ones, move as much as possible
3956 to chroot_local-hooks (tails/tails!649)
3959 - leading slashes are clearer
3960 - Trim down SquashFS exclusions: remove obsolete ones, move as much as possible
3961 to chroot_local-hooks
3963 * Upgrade to tor 0.4.6.8 (tails/tails!647)
3966 - Upgrade tor to 0.4.6 (tails/tails#18310)
3969 - Upgrade to tor 0.4.6.8, by bumping the snapshot of the torproject APT
3970 repository to 2021110301
3972 * Improve dialog when Unsafe Browser is not enabled (tails/tails!628)
3975 - Improve dialog when Unsafe Browser is not enabled (tails/tails#18598)
3980 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
3981 - Make the link for the Unsafe Browser documentation translatable
3982 - Use a named anchor (refs: #18598)
3983 - Include link for the Unsafe Browser documentation
3984 - Associate text/html with tor-browser (refs: #18598)
3985 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
3986 - Improve dialog when Unsafe Browser is not enabled
3988 * Basic GUI to backup a Persistent Storage to another one (tails/tails!596)
3991 - Retry updating the backup if only mounting the backup Tails is missing
3993 - Basic GUI to backup a Persistent Storage to another one (tails/tails#18504)
3996 - Test suite: improve readability
3997 - Test suite: test that the backup is identical to the source
3998 - Adjust to a04204cba2
3999 - Adjust to 6161e4f823
4000 - Adjust to a77c2425f3
4001 - Adjust to cb7b877fda
4002 - Test suite: use deprecated GuestFS luks_* functions
4005 - tails-backup: avoid issue in non-English locales
4006 - Shellcheck: disable excessive rule
4007 - Test suite: detect disks being plugged using udisks
4008 - Test suite: add elementary scenario for tails-backup.
4009 - tails-backup: implement pinentry retries and cancel
4010 - tails-backup: handle unlocked but unmounted TailsData
4011 - tails-backup: suppress bilibop's message
4012 - tails-backup: detect if rsync fails through pipefail
4013 - Expand rsync short options.
4014 - tails-backup-rsync: defensively check that we copy between mountpoints
4015 - tails-backup: make shellcheck happy
4016 - tails-backup: don't try to unlock and already unlocked and mounted volume
4017 - tails-backup: drop need for admin password
4018 - tails-backup: drop unused parameters
4019 - tails-backup: add back progress bar that doesn't hide rsync's output
4020 - tails-backup: fix up on "Always display the 1st screen"
4022 - Improve feedback (for now)
4024 - Always display the 1st screen if there's any error (#18720)
4025 - Use consistent quotes
4026 - Put the most meaningful word first
4027 - Move together with the other Persistent Storage utilities
4028 - tails-backup: drop unused variables
4029 - tails-backup: use consistent indentation
4030 - tails-backup: unlock and mount the drive automatically
4031 - tails-backup: show pulsating progress while copying
4032 - tails-backup: try to eject automatically
4033 - tails-backup: fix quoting.
4034 - Make tails-backup executable.
4036 - Advice to upgrade from the backup utility
4037 - Update doc to Persistent Storage Backup utility
4039 - Rework interactions and copy
4040 - fix typo in .desktop file
4041 - update to latest version of the script
4044 * Improve robustness of new TCA automated tests (tails/tails!525)
4047 - Test suite: drop unused step.
4048 - Test suite: correctly use "is None" in python script.
4049 - Remove usage of tor.sh's tor_is_working
4050 - Drop most of the tor shell library.
4051 - tor_is_working is stem-based, too
4052 - refactor bash+py stem wrapper into py script
4053 - python ♥ equality to None should use `is` keyword
4054 - python ♥ let's PEP8 everything
4055 - python ♥ remove useless imports
4056 - python ♥ proper argument parser
4057 - python ♥ main function
4059 - Drop unused variable.
4060 - Catch correct exception.
4062 - Rewrite tor_wait_until_bootstrapped() to be more robust.
4063 - Extreme Nitpicking™
4064 - Make tor_wait_until_bootstrapped() handle tor restarts.
4065 - Improve debugging.
4066 - Avoid spamming new python interpreters while waiting for Tor to bootstrap.
4067 - Allow multiline code blocks in tor_control_stem_wrapper().
4068 - Target the 4.22 code base
4069 - XXX debugging for test/18293-improve-tca-test-robustness
4070 - Test suite: adapt to removal of tor_control_send().
4071 - Test suite: test that tor's control port is open for real.
4072 - Tor shell library: improve error handling when the Tor control port is
4074 - Remove mention of unused import.
4075 - Tor shell library: re-implement control interaction with Python and stem.
4076 - Tor shell library: improve parsing and error handling of getinfo/getconf.
4077 - Add missing shell quoting.
4078 - Add forgotten local variables.
4079 - Add proper error handling to the shell library's control port interaction.
4080 - Test suite: wait for tor's ControlPort before using it (refs: #18293).
4082 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 06 Dec 2021 16:03:22 +0100
4084 tails (4.24) unstable; urgency=medium
4086 * Upgrade to Tor Browser based on Firefox 91 ESR (tails/tails!639)
4089 - Upgrade to Tor Browser based on Firefox 91 ESR (tails/tails#18261)
4092 - Unsafe Browser: disable more "phone home" features
4093 - Unsafe Browser: disable services.settings.server
4094 - Test suite: search for element more widely.
4095 - Test suite: Firefox' Print dialog is now a panel (refs #18261)
4096 - Update the Tor Browser AppArmor policy for Tor Browser 11 (Firefox 91)
4098 - Test suite: make Gherkin test description more honest
4099 - Rubocop: disable a pattern we use all over the place
4100 - Test suite: update expected images and drop obsolete special-case for Chinese
4101 - Test suite: account for different separator used in German
4103 - Test suite: update comment
4104 - Fix typo in comment
4105 - Test suite: adjust to new Firefox print dialog
4106 - Test suite: update expected windows titles
4107 - Test suite: update expected images
4108 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0a9
4110 * Test suite: make "Unsafe Browser has only Firefox's default bookmarks
4111 configured" step more robust (tails/tails!646)
4114 - Fragile test since the upgrade to Tor Browser 11: "Unsafe Browser has only
4115 Firefox's default bookmarks configured" (tails/tails#18658)
4118 - Test suite: wait for menu to really open before looking for menu entry
4119 - Test suite: update expected picture
4121 * APT sources: add Bullseye security (stable) (tails/tails!637)
4124 - APT sources: add Bullseye security (tails/tails#18492)
4127 - APT pinning: ensure we get security updates for the packages we pull from
4129 - APT sources: add Bullseye security repo
4131 * Move tca developer doc to more appropriate places (tails/tails!636)
4134 - Update "Tor network configuration" design doc (tails/tails#18360)
4137 - tips to develop Tor Connection are reachable
4138 - tca doc behavior.md moved to Gherkin
4139 - move tca/HACKING.md to website
4141 * APT sources: add Bullseye security (tails/tails!626)
4144 - APT pinning: ensure we get security updates for the packages we pull from
4146 - APT sources: add Bullseye security repo
4148 * Upgrade kernel to 5.10.46-5 in stable (tails/tails!625)
4151 - Upgrade Linux to 5.10.46-5 (DSA 4978-1) (tails/tails#18613)
4152 - Upgrade to Buster 10.11 (tails/tails#18608)
4155 - Pull libzstd1 from Bullseye: needed by updated squashfs-tools
4156 - Install squashfs-tools from bullseye.
4158 - to get a new kernel in stable, bump debian/serial
4159 - change pinning to get kernel from bullseye
4160 - bump kernel to 5.10.46-5
4162 * Upgrade kernel to 5.10.46-5 in devel (tails/tails!622)
4165 - Pull libzstd1 from Bullseye: needed by updated squashfs-tools
4166 - change pinning to get kernel from bullseye
4167 - bump kernel to 5.10.46-5
4169 * update Tor network configuration design doc (tails/tails!606)
4172 - TCA is not a Tor Launcher wrapper.
4173 - Apply intrigeri's proofreading suggestions.
4174 - explain why tca-portal runs as root
4175 - Document connect-drop security model
4176 - update Tor network configuration design doc
4178 * TCA: clean leftovers (tails/tails!604)
4181 - TCA clean leftovers (tails/tails#18273)
4184 - systemd-notify: move to better way
4185 - we considered this implementation good enough
4187 - move XXX to #18610
4188 - clarify comment after tails/tails!567
4189 - remove code that was never used and never tested
4190 - comment moved to #18609
4192 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0a10-build1 (tails/tails!655)
4195 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0a10-build1
4197 * Remove obsolete freeze exception (tails/tails!648)
4200 - Remove obsolete freeze exception
4202 * Port the iuk test suite from squashfs-tools to squashfs-tools-ng
4206 - Port the iuk test suite from squashfs-tools to squashfs-tools-ng
4210 - IUK test suite: support file names with spaces
4211 - IUK test suite: take into account gensquashfs behavior wrt. SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
4212 - IUK test suite: add missing import
4213 - IUK test suite: port from squashfs-tools to squashfs-tools-ng
4214 - IUK generation: add assertion
4215 - Upgrader: use apparent size to compute space needed to install an IUK
4217 * Switch to zstd for SquashFS compression in development ISO/USB images
4221 - Switch to zstd for SquashFS compression in development ISO/USB images
4223 * Switch to squashfs-tools-ng to build IUKs (tails/tails!640)
4226 - Switch to squashfs-tools-ng to fix IUKs build reproducibly (tails/tails#18577)
4227 - Failure reproducing IUKs for 4.22~rc1 (tails/tails#18536)
4228 - Failure reproducing IUKs for 4.23 (tails/tails#18627)
4231 - GitLab CI: avoid confusing error message
4232 - Release process: use only the isobuilders that have squashfs-tools-ng
4233 - Switch to squashfs-tools-ng to generate our IUKs
4234 - Update release process requirements for building IUKs
4236 * Resolve "Tor Connection bridge tests fail" (tails/tails!621)
4239 - Tor Connection bridge tests fail (tails/tails#18634)
4242 - FIX tests for 84e047ebd39e too
4243 - fix tests after 68b0e77119e
4245 * Upgrader: avoid high cpu usage when getting download progress info
4249 - tails-upgrade-frontend causes very high CPU load when downloading upgrade
4253 - Upgrader: avoid high cpu usage when getting download progress info
4255 * Explain better how to type a bridge (#18597) (tails/tails!617)
4258 - Explain better "type in a bridge" (tails/tails#18597)
4262 - Use singular as much as possible
4263 - Use 'bridge' in singular as much as possible
4265 - Explain better how to type a bridge (#18597)
4266 - Style guide: not everybody types
4268 * Don't mention local network in Unsafe Browser confirmation (tails/tails!615)
4271 - Don't mention local network in Unsafe Browser confirmation (tails/tails#18600)
4276 * Rephrase intro of Fix Clock dialog (tails/tails!614)
4279 - Rephrase intro of Fix Clock dialog (tails/tails#18572)
4282 - Be consistent with /doc/about/warnings/identity
4284 - Remove duplicate text
4285 - Simplify and be more correct
4287 * Improve time zone selection UX (tails/tails!595)
4290 - Improve time zone selection UX (tails/tails#18514)
4293 - the test suite correctly handles UTC/GMT
4294 - UTC can be selected, too
4295 - test suite enjoys better UX, too
4296 - pressing enter selects topmost entry
4297 - tca gtk errors are logged immediately
4298 - test suite waits for filtering to be applied
4299 - Test suite: replace usage of non-existing Screen.pressKey with Screen.press
4300 - revamp the time selection dialog
4302 - test suite updated for new timezone selection
4303 - FIX matching (lets hope so)
4304 - better UX for timezone selection
4305 - proper logging in asyncutils
4307 * Installer: make the confirmation dialog more scary (tails/tails!593)
4310 - Make the confirmation more scary when reinstalling a USB stick that has a
4311 Persistent Storage (tails/tails#18301)
4314 - Test suite: adjust confirmation label when reinstalling over a usb with a
4316 - Test suite: adjust confirmation dialog label in Installer (refs #18301)
4317 - Installer: inform when there is no target available
4318 - Installer: enforce Persistent Storage detection
4319 - Installer: display if the target device has a Persistence Storage
4320 - Make the confirmation more scary when reinstalling a USB stick that has a
4321 Persistent Storage (refs: #18301)
4323 * TCA: Fix "AttributeError: no attribute persistence_config_failed"
4328 - make the diff smaller
4329 - TCA: Fix "AttributeError: no attribute persistence_config_failed"
4331 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Thu, 04 Nov 2021 14:25:18 +0100
4333 tails (4.23) unstable; urgency=medium
4335 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.5.8-build2 (tails/tails!611)
4338 - Upgrade to Tor Browser 10.5.8 (based on Firefox 78.15.0esr) (tails/tails#18623)
4341 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
4342 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.5.8-build2
4344 * FIX #18568: wait after killing TBB (tails/tails!607)
4347 - "Tails is localized for every tier-1 language" test fails on iguana
4351 - FIX #18568: wait after killing TBB
4353 * Fix devel FTBFS (tails/tails!601)
4356 - Install squashfs-tools from bullseye.
4357 - Refresh uBlock patch vs version 1.37.0+dfsg-1 (fixes: #18537)
4359 * copy-iuks-to-rsync-server-and-verify: handle arbitrary build agents
4363 - copy-iuks-to-rsync-server-and-verify: needs adjustment for changing isobuilder
4364 names (tails/tails#18574)
4367 - copy-iuks-to-rsync-server-and-verify: handle arbitrary build agents.
4369 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 05 Oct 2021 08:20:24 +0200
4371 tails (4.22) unstable; urgency=medium
4373 * Upgrade Thunderbird to 78.13.0-1~deb10u1
4375 * Upgrade to Tor Browser 10.5.6 (78.14.0esr) (tails/tails!594)
4378 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.5.6-build2 (fixes: #18566)
4380 * Remove Prestera firmware, that's useless in the context of Tails
4384 - Stop setting up a kernel module build environment during the images build
4385 - Remove Prestera firmware, that's useless in the context of Tails
4387 * Only allow typing 1 bridge (tails/tails!587)
4390 - Only allow typing 1 bridge
4392 * Don't pretend tor has bootstrapped when tor@default.service failed to start
4396 - Don't pretend tor has bootstrapped when tor@default.service failed to start
4398 * Upgrade firmware-amd-graphics to 20210818-1 (tails/tails!582)
4401 - Install version 20210818-1 of packages built from src:firmware-nonfree
4402 - Enable the 18556-amd-gpu-firmware APT overlay (refs: #18556).
4404 * Ensure we use a working mirror to download automatic upgrades (tails/tails!581)
4407 - Update mirror-pool-dispatcher submodule
4408 - Allow the Upgrader to use tor, now needed by tails-transform-mirror-url for
4410 - many improvements to mirror-pool-dispatcher
4411 - FIX dependency for tails-transform-mirror-url
4412 - apply suggestion from mirror-pool-dispatcher!2
4413 - mirror-pool-dispatcher tests mirrors
4415 * Test suite: fix Pidgin scenarios with XMPP accounts on a server that requires
4416 going through the "Create New Room" UI (tails/tails!580)
4419 - Some Pidgin test suite scenarios fail when using XMPP accounts on a server that
4420 requires going through the "Create New Room" UI (tails/tails#18560)
4423 - Test suite: update expected Pidgin images
4425 * Test suite: fail if tor reports that DisableNetwork is an empty string
4429 - Test suite: log and fail if tor reports that DisableNetwork is an empty string
4431 * Persistent Bridges, iteration 4: integrate bridges persistence in Tor
4432 Connection (tails/tails!543)
4435 - Tor Connection: remove visible border around scrolled window
4436 - Drop unneeded grep option
4437 - Test suite: be more defensive when interacting with toggle buttons
4438 - Test suite: disable step that does not reflect the current implementation
4440 - Mention alternate implementation idea in comment
4441 - Fix typo in comment
4442 - Make checks closer to our needs
4443 - Move shell code from tca-portal to helper script
4444 - Make tca-portal helper script more generic
4445 - Tor Connection: when pre-filling bridges, adjust the verb from "Type in" to
4447 - Test suite: explain what labelee is
4448 - Test suite: adjust to current UI
4449 - TCA: fix display on low-height screen resolutions
4450 - Test suite: update expected UI text to match current implementation
4451 - TCA: correctly set the bridges persistence switch's initial state
4452 - TCA: adapt to new tca-portal API
4453 - TCA: remove unused imports
4454 - TCA: display error when enabling/disabling persistence failed
4455 - TCA: check success/failure of portal call when enabling/disabling persistence
4457 - Test suite: adjust strings to match current implementation
4458 - TCA: lock the UI and display a spinner while enabling/disabling persistence
4459 - TCA: add another keyboard accelerator
4460 - TCA: when toggling bridges persistence, wait the portal call to return a
4462 - TCA: remove unused import
4463 - Change usages of call_async to new API
4464 - TCA: remove incorrect signal handling
4465 - TCA: actually enable/disable Tor bridges persistence when the user asks us to
4466 - TCA: display vertical scrollbar when contents does not fit
4467 - TCA: hide Network Monitor launcher
4468 - Test suite: use the Tor Connection UI to enable bridges persistence
4469 - TCA: add skeleton implementation for toggling bridges persistence on/off
4470 - TCA: draft bridges Glade UI
4471 - TCA: improve keyboard navigation
4472 - TCA: add accessibility relationships between a bunch of widgets
4473 - TCA: add debug output
4474 - TCA: move persistence detection to the wrapper script
4475 - TCA: avoid throwing an (invisible) KeyError exception on first launch
4478 * Persistent Bridges, iteration 3: allow persisting bridges (tails/tails!539)
4481 - Test suite: lint, again
4482 - Test suite: adjust expected owner to actual implementation
4483 - TCA: check and save persistence status on startup
4484 - tca-portal: add commands to enable/disable persistence of Tor configuration
4485 - Test suite: mock functionality that's not implemented yet
4486 - Test suite: add step implementation
4487 - Test suite: disable incorrect step definition
4488 - Test suite: implement steps
4489 - Test suite: adjust to expected permissions of /var/lib/tca
4490 - Persistence setup: add support for disabling a preset non-interactively
4491 - Persistence setup: add a "Tor Bridges" feature
4492 - On shutdown, copy to Persistent Storage the Tor configuration that should now
4494 - Test suite: implement "I accept Tor Connection's offer to use my persistent
4496 - Test suite: implement "I choose to connect to Tor automatically" step.
4497 - Test suite: extend step to handle configuring persistent bridges.
4498 - TDD: add (unimplemented) steps for Tor bridges persistence
4499 - Test suite: simplify feature name
4501 * Persistent Bridges, iteration 2: use settings from tca.conf on first start
4505 - Revert "Test suite: cope with current actual behavior"
4506 - TCA: rename method to reflect what it now does
4507 - TCA: on first run, pre-seed bridges UI state from configuration
4508 - TCA: add debug logging to help understand what configuration we've loaded
4509 - TCA: add debug output to help figure out whether we loaded tca.conf
4510 - TCA: fix loading an empty or invalid configuration file
4511 - TCA: on first start, load Tor connection configuration from tca.conf
4513 * Persistent Bridges, iteration 1: split transient / potentially persistent state
4517 - Test suite: cope with current actual behavior
4518 - Test suite: adjust to actual implementation
4519 - TCA: don't save the default bridges to tca.conf
4520 - Test suite: fix buggy "tca.conf is empty" test
4521 - Make method name clearer and consistent with read_tca_state()
4522 - TCA: Rename method
4524 - TCA: Migrate transient state information to a dedicated file
4525 - TCA: Rename method
4526 - TCA: Refactoring (extract code to functions)
4527 - Test suite: Implement new steps
4529 - TDD: add (unimplemented) steps for the contents of tca.conf
4530 - TCA: Disable loading proxy settings from the configuration file
4531 - TCA: Set up, pass through, and inherit a new state file
4532 - TCA: Remove unused import
4533 - TCA: Drop unneeded call to expanduser()
4534 - TCA: Only save known-working Tor configuration to tca.conf
4535 - TCA: Minor refactoring (avoid having to reason about double-negations)
4536 - TCA: Make methods names more specific
4538 * Always start tor@default.service at boot, don't restart it after closing the
4539 Unsafe Browser (tails/tails!584)
4542 - Test suite: adjust to the fact tor@default.service is started during boot
4543 - Don't restart tor after exiting the Unsafe Browser
4544 - Always start tor@default.service at boot
4546 * Unsafe Browser: Only mention the Persistent Storage when there is one
4550 - Unsafe Browser: Only mention the Persistent Storage when there is one
4552 * Fix running the test suite on sid (tails/tails!579)
4555 - Drop another instance of the obsolete which(1)
4556 - Test suite: migrate away from obsolete which(1)
4557 - Test suite: switch to virtio graphics
4559 * FIX run_test_suite usage of tor --version for corner-cases (tails/tails!575)
4562 - FIX run_test_suite for corner-cases
4564 * Installer: fix combobox freezes (tails/tails!571)
4567 - Installer: fix combobox freezes (refs: #18531)
4569 * Update Tor Browser AppArmor policy (tails/tails!568)
4572 - Update Tor Browser AppArmor policy
4574 * Tor Connection: decrease "sign of life" timeout, increase bootstrap timeout
4578 - Test suite: DRY clicking "Connect to Tor"
4579 - Test suite: drop obsolete workaround
4581 - Tor Connection: allow the user to retry connecting to Tor from the error screen
4582 with the same settings
4583 - TCA hacking: use numbers that we have a chance to somewhat support
4584 - TCA hacking: drop buggy option
4585 - Add dummy entry for next release
4586 - Tor Connection: decrease "sign of life" timeout, increase bootstrap timeout
4588 * Test suite: use new XMPP chat rooms (tails/tails!566)
4591 - Deal with xmpp.riseup.net going away (tails/tails#17956)
4594 - Test suite: remove dead code
4595 - Test suite: rename argument to match its current usage
4596 - Test suite: use new XMPP chat rooms
4598 * Resolve "TCA does not connect with default bridges when it should"
4602 - Let's use user-centric (first person) phrasing whenever possible
4603 - Always set variables
4604 - better variable names
4605 - test suite: support using bridges w/o needing them
4606 - Gherkin for #18462
4607 - preserve user's choice of using default bridges
4609 * Stop trying to connect to Tor when we reach the Tor Connection error screen
4613 - TCA hacking: add missing sudo
4614 - TCA hacking: make test firewall rule not depend on already having connected to
4616 - TCA hacking: make test firewall rule more accurate
4617 - Test suite: adjust to the new, fixed situation
4618 - Revert "let's wait for the Fix Clock dialog to show up"
4619 - let's wait for the Fix Clock dialog to show up
4620 - state machine docstring
4621 - minor cleaning use of variables
4622 - FIX state machine wrt DisableNetwork
4623 - refactor _decide_right_step
4624 - remove hopefully-obsolete todo comments
4625 - stop trying to connect after timeout
4627 * Move wait_for_working_tor logic from NetworkManager to systemd
4631 - Update links in comment
4632 - Drop useless logging
4633 - Allow NM to start htpdate again if it failed last time
4634 - Clean up implementation of "Does not run htpdate again after success"
4636 - sw upgrade should only run when tor is ready
4637 - waiting for readiness sounds like a pre-command
4638 - Does not run htpdate again after success
4639 - let's use the flag file, instead of asking tor
4640 - systemd-controlled htpdate
4642 * Add Russian to the bundled offline documentation (tails/tails!552)
4645 - enable Russian on our website. will-fix:
4646 https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/18454
4648 * vagrant/lib/tails_build_settings.rb: use --no-signature with git log
4652 - vagrant/lib/tails_build_settings.rb: use --no-signature with git log
4653 - .gitignore: ignore vmdb2.log
4655 * GJsonRpcClient.call_async can set a callback (tails/tails!544)
4658 - tca-portal: add missing sentence bits
4659 - Apply 3 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
4660 - GJsonRpcClient response handler fix
4661 - tca-portal is now fully asynchronous
4662 - change previous usages of call_async to new API
4663 - call_async can set callbacks
4665 * drop tordate (tails/tails!542)
4668 - ooops, that wasn't useless!
4669 - Tor Connection: make GtkSpinButton's UI consistent
4670 - Tor Connection: add keyboard accelerators
4671 - Tor Connection: use "Wrong clock" instead of "Wrong time" terminology
4672 - Tor Connection: use "Fix Clock" instead of "Set Time" terminology
4674 - Test suite: simplify
4675 - Test suite: use higher-level predicate
4676 - Test suite: remove obsolete exception
4677 - htpdate: increase timeout for working tor
4678 - drop useless stuff from 10-time.sh
4679 - 20-time imports: update comments, fix shellcheck
4680 - remove confusing log line
4681 - htpdate works successfully after manual time set
4682 - tca sends stderr to journal
4683 - no reason to delete the tor log anymore
4684 - testing for tordate in test suite is now useless
4685 - stop mentioning tordate in website
4686 - update time syncing design doc
4687 - remove unused code from 20-time.sh
4688 - be bold: let's drop @fragile from tor bridges!
4691 * Re-enable the tor sandbox when no PTs are used (tails/tails!535)
4694 - Use variable name more readable than $1
4695 - Add missing "set -eu"
4696 - Test suite: fix typo in not-enabled-yet code
4697 - Test suite: prepare sandbox test for when #18470 is fixed
4698 - Test suite: adjust to tor sandbox being disabled when falling back to default
4700 - Remove unused attribute
4701 - Revamp management of the Tor Sandbox configuration option
4703 - Use consistent and less confusing names for attribute and method
4704 - Adjust to new call_async API
4705 - Tor Connection: disable caching of information retrieved from tor by Stem
4706 - Wait for side-effects of async call to complete.
4707 - Improve encapsulation.
4708 - Rename tor-sandbox-helper → tor-pt-configuration-helper.
4709 - Be defensive about arguments.
4710 - Give base-class a better name.
4711 - Drop useless re-definition of method in subclass.
4713 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
4714 - Test suite: re-enable tor sandbox sanity check (refs: #18237).
4715 - Drop unused, out-of-date main() used for testing a library.
4716 - Re-enable the tor sandbox when no PTs are used (refs: #18237)
4718 * TCA: Allow the user to manually set time (tails/tails!531)
4721 - time dialog: spacing + follow mockups better
4722 - reference to how a problem might be solved
4723 - Set time test scenario uses snapshots
4724 - stricter date validation
4726 - Test suite re-introduce linting lost by merge conflict resolution
4728 - more bringing back from devel
4729 - Tor Connection: translate 1 string to test l10n
4730 - Update POT and PO files
4731 - bring back lost changes to tor.rb
4732 - fix datestring validation
4733 - Test suite: revert indentation regression
4734 - Test suite: use user-facing terminology in Gherkin
4735 - fix test suite about time dialog
4736 - loggers are better than prints
4737 - tca remembers user timezone
4738 - bring back "unsuccessfully configure" step
4739 - reorder fixes in the error screen
4740 - set-system-time has early input validation
4741 - tca-portal can validate arguments
4742 - set-system-time errors are handled
4743 - less noisy logging
4744 - tails-set-date cleaned a bit
4745 - tails-set-date checks if the date is valid early
4746 - wait for set time window to be closed
4747 - rewrite Gherkin using more user-centric language
4748 - fix "Apply suggestion"
4749 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
4750 - tca test: combo box faster and cleaner
4751 - Tooltip for combo box
4752 - tca-portal is a bit more verbose
4753 - when changing the time, tor must be restarted
4754 - Test "set the time in tca" does what it says
4756 - FIX: missing .ui file translation support
4757 - Connect to Tor can be clicked
4758 - TCA: adds a dialog to Set Time
4759 - tca-portal allows setting time
4760 - Separate the anti-test from the fix
4761 - reword: "I try to" actually check failure
4762 - 15548 implementation is "simulated"
4763 - test suite: hw clock can be set to relative time
4764 - test: cmd_helper modernized
4765 - DRAFT: Add a Scenario for #15548
4767 * Allow running our test suite on modern AMD CPUs (tails/tails!406)
4770 - document LIBVIRT_CPUMODEL
4771 - amd hack: convert to config file
4772 - modern AMD CPUs apparently benefit from this fix
4774 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 06 Sep 2021 15:14:57 +0200
4776 tails (4.21) unstable; urgency=medium
4778 * Upgrade to Linux 5.10.46-3 (tails/tails!549)
4781 - Upgrade to Linux 5.10.46-2+ (CVE-2021-33909) (tails/tails#18489)
4784 - Update /etc/group's expected lines ordering
4785 - Ensure UIDs/GIDs don't change
4786 - Remove obsolete dkms logs cleanup
4787 - Don't (attempt to) build VirtualBox guest modules anymore
4788 - Upgrade snapshot of the Debian archive to 2021080201
4790 * Upgrade Thunderbird to 78.12.0-1~deb10u1
4792 * Don't (attempt to) build VirtualBox guest modules anymore (tails/tails!537)
4795 - Update /etc/group's expected lines ordering
4796 - Ensure UIDs/GIDs don't change
4797 - Remove obsolete dkms logs cleanup
4798 - Don't (attempt to) build VirtualBox guest modules anymore
4800 * Installer: allow choose Upgrade option when reinstall is cancelled
4804 - Choosing "Upgrade" option in Tails Installer can delete persistent volume
4808 - Installer: allow choose Upgrade option when reinstall is cancelled
4810 * Upgrade to Tor Browser 10.5.4 (based on Firefox 78.13esr) (tails/tails!555)
4813 - Upgrade to Tor Browser 10.5.4 (based on Firefox 78.13esr) (tails/tails#18479)
4816 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
4817 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.5.4-build1
4819 * Clean up code and pre-TCA leftovers (tails/tails!541)
4822 - Clean up pre-TCA leftovers (tails/tails#18365)
4823 - Rename a11y-proxy-netns: it's now used for ibus as well (tails/tails#18366)
4826 - Give function the name we use
4827 - Rename a11y-proxy-netns → netns-bus-proxy.
4828 - Rename TCA's torlaunch network namespace from torlaunch to tca.
4830 - Test suite: drop obsolete workaround.
4831 - Drop already done TODO comment.
4832 - Fix outdated references to Tor Launcher.
4833 - Drop unneeded workaround.
4834 - Test suite: drop code used to support --old-iso for 4.20 release.
4835 - Remove unused exec_unconfined_firefox().
4837 * Refactor and consolidate how we explicitly check for Tor leaks in the automated
4838 test suite (tails/tails!540)
4841 - "all Internet traffic has only flowed through Tor" sometimes fails: does not
4842 allow for varying behavior (fallback to default bridges, or not)
4846 - Test suite: refactor and consolidate how we explicitly check for Tor leaks.
4847 - Revert "Test suite: temporarily disable failing step in scenario."
4849 * Post-RM: doc improvements (tails/tails!528)
4852 - clarify release types
4853 - after releasing: give more guidance
4855 - rm doc: give manual testers the signatures
4856 - some parts are not related to freeze
4857 - refresh-translations explains that it failed
4858 - rm doc: clarify what to do with the package diff
4859 - rm doc: clarify freezing
4861 * Fix usage of mutable default arguments in Python (tails/tails!527)
4864 - Fix usage of mutable default arguments in Python
4866 * More automated testing of TCA for Sponsor08/10 (tails/tails!435)
4872 - Test suite: wait longer for the TCA to report errors.
4873 - Test suite: test that TCA reports an error when reconnecting to a network where
4875 - Test suite: drop unnecessary step.
4876 - Test suite: make blocking Tor survive reconnections.
4877 - Test suite: monitor Tor leaks.
4878 - Fix erroneous camel casing in translation.
4879 - Test suite: test explicitly selecting default bridges in TCA.
4880 - Test suite: test that the same Tor config is applied if TCA reconnects.
4881 - Test suite: test that TCA disallows normal bridges in hide mode.
4883 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 09 Aug 2021 07:55:57 +0000
4885 tails (4.20) unstable; urgency=medium
4887 * Upgrade Thunderbird to 78.11.0-1~deb10u1
4889 * Upgrade KeePassXC to 2.6.2+dfsg.1-1~bpo10+1
4891 * 20-time.sh: actually abort if Tor has failed to bootstrap (tails/tails!514)
4894 - 20-time.sh: temporarily workaround buggy check
4895 - 20-time.sh: fix success and error handling
4896 - 20-time.sh: simplify control flow
4898 - 20-time.sh: actually abort if Tor has failed to bootstrap
4900 * Resolve "TCA sometimes fails to start: "bwrap: Can't find source path
4901 /tmp/netns-specific/torlaunch: No such file or directory"" (tails/tails!489)
4904 - tails-ibus-proxy-netns@.service: remove now unneeded NotifyAccess=all
4905 - a11y: systemd-notify -> import systemd.daemon
4906 - silence useless information to syslog
4907 - avoid errors when started directly
4908 - clean systemd unit
4909 - more timeout on a11y-proxy-netns
4910 - FIX gnome.sh search for exact name gnome-shell
4913 - wait for user systemd session to be ready
4914 - FIX systemctl path
4915 - remove testing leftover
4916 - a11y/ibus proxy wait socket to signal readiness
4917 - tca-related proxies only active when unneeded
4918 - tails-tor-launcher not needed anymore
4919 - a11y/ibus proxies for TCA only started with TCA
4920 - FIX: call systemctl --user
4921 - tentatively setting TCA as a systemd service
4923 * Resolve "TCA asks consent question when changing network" (tails/tails!460)
4926 - FIX: switching to progress, not success, on connection
4927 - small code cleaning
4929 - tca: FIX success-error-retry
4930 - tca reacts to DisableNetwork changes
4931 - reduce stem logging noise
4932 - tca application monitors DisableNetwork
4934 * tca-portal service (tails/tails!422)
4937 - start tca-portal at boot
4938 - restrict access to tca-portal.socket!
4939 - tca-portal: add open-documentation + refactoring
4940 - FIX FTBFS on tca-portal.service
4941 - gnome-system-monitor opens at network tab
4942 - ooops: enable tca-portal unit
4943 - tca-portal opens onioncircuits
4944 - tca-portal (sic!) has systemd socket-activation
4945 - tca can talk to its portal
4946 - tca-connection-helper based on tinyrpc
4947 - draft of a tor-connection-helper service
4949 * Resolve "TCA: buggy window detection logic on app startup" (tails/tails!457)
4952 - TCA sends startup notification to DE
4954 * Resolve "The amnesia user might have too much power over TCA's configuration
4955 directory" (tails/tails!442)
4958 - change documentation wrt to tca.conf
4959 - tca.conf path changed to /var/lib/tca/
4961 * Install Linux 5.10.46 and upgrade shim (tails/tails!521)
4964 - Update shim* to the version from sid
4965 - Update Linux to 5.10.46
4967 * Don't run a useless IBus proxy for OnionCircuits (tails/tails!510)
4970 - Don't run a useless IBus proxy for OnionCircuits
4972 * Rakefile: actually build with the base branch merged (tails/tails!504)
4975 - Merging the base branch is not effective ⇒ different Git state between
4976 isobuilders and isotesters (tails/tails#18441)
4979 - Rakefile: actually build with the base branch merged
4981 * Rewrite notification when closing TCA on progress bar (tails/tails!496)
4984 - Rewrite notification when closing TCA on progress bar (#18362)
4986 * Implement "Connect to Tor" button in error screen (tails/tails!494)
4989 - Revert "avoid errors when started directly"
4990 - step error correctly indicates that bridges are on
4991 - better textarea alignment
4992 - put the current bridges in the textarea
4993 - keeps more state about bridge configuration
4994 - avoid errors when started directly
4995 - error: step proxy now goes back to error screen
4996 - connect to tor actually does something
4997 - bridges + "connect to tor" on error
4998 - DRAFT of better error screen
5000 * Tor Connection Assistant (tails/tails!375)
5003 - open unsafe-browser (if configured)
5004 - Test suite: properly tear down after cloding TCA.
5005 - Test suite: add some extra error handling.
5006 - Test suite: pass showingOnly even though it should not be needed.
5007 - Test suite: add error message.
5008 - Test suite: fix bad syntax.
5009 - Test suite: add delay between tries in override_child().
5010 - Test suite: add optional delay between retry_action() tries.
5011 - Make is_tor_working() more accurate.
5012 - Test suite: only set default bridges when relevant.
5013 - design change: Tor Launcher is just removed.
5014 - document tca behaviour
5015 - bootstrap/phase may include WARN, too
5016 - Test suite: work around closing TCA too fast.
5017 - more logging to debug test suite
5018 - remove leftover commit
5019 - proper place for hacking tips
5020 - Add icon for the Tor Connection assistant
5021 - Generate the list of default bridges at build time.
5022 - Test suite: drop workaround.
5023 - success indication and fallback to default bridges
5024 - more hacking tips to test tca
5025 - cover corner cases better
5026 - NetworkManager state: signal instead of polling
5027 - tca calls NM immediately
5028 - tca reacts to nm state changes
5029 - Test suite: save Tor journal if TCA fails to start.
5030 - Test suite: bump image.
5031 - Test suite: TCA has a new internal name.
5032 - Test suite: attempt to make try_for() more robust.
5033 - Test suite: adapt to TCA UI change.
5034 - Test suite: fix retring for child() with regexp matching.
5035 - TCA: move to Gtk.Application style
5036 - progress bar get data from bootstrap-phase
5037 - TCA: drop debugging.
5038 - Test suite: convert potentially endless loop to try_for() with timeout.
5039 - Persistent Welcome Screen settings: migrate obsolete network setting to new
5040 offline mode setting.
5041 - Test suite: optimize upgrade check.
5042 - smoother progress bar
5043 - connect-drop: clean unnecessary hacks
5044 - s/amnesia/LIVE_USERNAME/
5045 - drop tor-sandbox-helper: not used right now
5046 - FIX proxy not working
5047 - document tca wrappers
5048 - some css rule to style TCA a bit
5049 - refactoring: utils -> torutils
5050 - more user freedom: consent question can be changed
5051 - current Tor state is observed when filling bridges
5053 - resize window on every change_box
5054 - FIX GAsyncSpawn 100% CPU
5055 - no internet probe anymore: also fix 100% CPU bug
5056 - Welcome Screen: use "airplane mode" icon for Offline mode.
5057 - Test suite: add scenario testing that TCA can connect after an initial
5059 - Test suite: make function usable in more contexts.
5060 - Test suite: also make it possible to block default bridges.
5061 - Test suite: detect TCA errors and fail early.
5062 - Test suite: add scenario testing that TCA falls back to default bridges if Tor
5064 - Test suite: run a dedicated default bridge.
5065 - Test suite: refactor.
5066 - Test suite: adapt to another changed label.
5067 - FIX doc about how to check for non-working Tor
5068 - improve display size detection
5070 - Test suite: refer to the correct variable.
5071 - Test suite: adapt to changed label.
5072 - Test suite: fix syntax error.
5074 - Improve user-visible strings
5075 - Test suite: improve names.
5076 - Test suite: use TCA's "hide Tor usage" path when testing PTs.
5077 - Disable launcher buttons: broken because of netns
5078 - use the 3 images + better layout
5079 - normal bridges are not accepted in Hide Mode
5080 - Bridge validation + better handle IPv6
5081 - Always obfs4 + bridge documentation link
5082 - GitLab CI: tails-documentation
5083 - tails-documentation gains --force-local
5084 - document tips&tricks for tca
5085 - don't kill TCA on network reconnection
5086 - syslog logging really has identity set
5087 - lots of logging to understand bridge bug
5088 - put doctests in gitlab in shape again
5089 - FIX IBus connection for onion-circuits
5090 - more debug about bridge-connection part
5091 - Port TCA to onion-grater-over-netns magic
5092 - TCA will honor debug flag
5094 - a bit less noise for translatable mixin
5095 - TCA logs to syslog/stderr automagically
5096 - gitlab-ci: TCA doctest dependency
5097 - FIX .gitlab-ci.yml (syntax error)
5098 - normal bridges were to be stripped, not expanded
5099 - default bridges imported
5100 - FIX: bridges have ip-port, not only IP!
5101 - put TCA testing in gitlab-ci
5104 - Revert "Test suite: add workaround for TCA not sanitizing bridge input
5106 - Decent validation for bridge lines
5107 - rewrite tca wrapper in python
5108 - Test suite: reorder steps to avoid TCA blocking the desktop.
5109 - Revert "Test suite: wait for TCA's GUI to be available before using it."
5110 - Test suite: work around lost click around TCA start.
5111 - Test suite: refactor.
5112 - Test suite: add workaround for TCA not sanitizing bridge input properly.
5113 - Test suite: wait for TCA's GUI to be available before using it.
5114 - Test suite: add timeout.
5115 - Test suite: work around Ruby <2.7 args vs keywords handling.
5116 - Test suite: fix exception message.
5117 - Test suite: adapt scenario for new "Offline Mode" Greeter setting.
5118 - Welcome Screen: obsolete "Network Connection" and add new "Offline Mode"
5120 - Test suite: rewrite Tor Launcher tests for Tor Connection Assistant.
5121 - Test suite: allow regexp matching in Dogtail's child() method.
5122 - Test suite: drop unnecessary methods from subclass.
5124 - tca: state saved, still to little use
5125 - tca: don't run two times
5127 - tca: side icon will be added from Python
5128 - Temporarily add pluggable transport config to torrc.
5129 - Convert Tor Launcher .desktop file to one for TCA.
5130 - Remove Tor Launcher, for real!
5131 - tca: small text improvement
5132 - connect-drop works fine without environment
5133 - Revert "Remove Tor Launcher"
5134 - tails-tor-launcher actually runs tca
5135 - Remove Tor Launcher
5136 - another workaround for #18123
5137 - onion-grater: quoting matters
5138 - Move very context-specific script out of root's PATH.
5139 - onion-grater: options are case insensitive
5140 - adapt profile to onion-grater's case-sensitiveness
5141 - Temporarily workaround tor bug by always disabling the seccomp sandbox.
5142 - FIX onion-grater tca profile
5143 - run `tca` and it will auto-sudo
5144 - tca can connect to onion-grater
5145 - translations refreshed for TCA
5147 - add tca .ui file to POTFILES.in for l10n
5148 - Test suite: delete obsolete scenario.
5150 - Test suite: use correct bridge/PT terminology.
5151 - Test suite: fix tor seccomp check in the normal bridge case.
5153 - Fix assertion failure message.
5154 - Let's settle for 'normal' bridge when no PT is used.
5155 - Add Tor Launcher to GNOME favorite applications.
5156 - Tor Launcher: allow amnesia to start and add suitable .desktop file.
5157 - Tor Launcher: kill old instances when starting.
5158 - Remove the "Tor is ready" notification.
5160 - small TorConnectionProxy fixes
5162 - tca: --debug-statefile for better simulation
5163 - error page + early proxy config
5165 - main workflows work!
5166 - Step forwards for bridge configuration
5167 - bridge selection: beginning
5168 - easy Tor configuration works!
5169 - sudo tca will do; start Tor integration
5170 - more steps in Tor launcher UI
5171 - GUI: first step implemented (more or less)
5172 - a first attempt at a GUI
5173 - Test suite: always verify that Tor's Sandbox setting.
5174 - Handle multiline GETCONF responses.
5175 - Welcome Screen: add note about the missing bridge mode option.
5176 - Test suite: fix tor Seccomp verification.
5177 - Tor Launcher: enable tor's Seccomp sandbox when not using pluggable transports.
5178 - tor-launcher: repair the --force-net-config feature.
5179 - Drop now unused restart-tor script.
5180 - Unsafe Browser: don't restart tor with restart-tor.
5181 - Drop ugly hook killing Tor Launcher.
5182 - onion-grater: transparently recover lost tor controller connections.
5183 - Work around event handling bug in stem?
5184 - Make dynamic configuration we always do static.
5185 - Test suite: another attempt to deal with lost key press.
5186 - Test suite: deal with lost key press.
5187 - Test suite: adapt to Tor Launcher always starting (refs: #17330)
5189 - tor launcher: set *every* option
5190 - tor-launcher supports proxy authentication
5191 - detect Tor bootstrapping status
5192 - Tor Launcher some more implementation
5193 - WIP: a first attempt at rewriting Tor Launcher
5194 - onion-grater: fix error handling.
5195 - onion-grater: workaround tor bug by switch from control socket to control port.
5196 - Always start Tor Launcher (refs: #17330).
5197 - onion-grater: connect to control socket without control port fallback.
5198 - Improve check by verifying at least one "nameserver" line.
5199 - Drop unused imports.
5201 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.5.2 (tails/tails!524)
5204 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
5205 - Tor Browser upgrade process: adjust branch name
5206 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.5.2-build1
5207 - Tor Browser upgrade process: adjust instructions to new file names
5208 - Factorize export of TOR_USE_LEGACY_LAUNCHER (fixes: #18459)
5210 * Fix feature branch commit encoded into the artifacts' names (fixes: #18468)
5214 - Built images encode incorrect topic branch commit (tails/tails#18468)
5217 - Fix feature branch commit encoded into the artifacts' names (fixes: #18468)
5219 * Update the jenkins-tools submodule, to fix po.feature (tails/tails!520)
5222 - Update the jenkins-tools submodule, to fix po.feature
5224 * Upgrader: more robust upgrade download and verification failure detection
5228 - Upgrader: confusing download failure but upgrade still applied
5232 - tails-iuk-cancel-download: return exit code as-is if it's neither 0 nor 1
5233 - tails-iuk-cancel-download: fix shell syntax errors
5234 - Avoid that the Upgrader breaks if pgrep won't match any process
5235 - Upgrader: cancell the IUK download if an error appears
5236 - Upgrader: more defensive programming
5237 - Upgrader: ensure we fail closed on download and verification errors
5239 * Test suite: consistently save artifacts for various Tor connection failures
5243 - Test suite: handle case where the htpdate logs do not exist.
5244 - Test suite: add headings to output in Tor failure artifacts.
5245 - Test suite: make save_tor_journal() possible to run without Tor logs.
5246 - Revert "Revert "Test suite: consistently save artifacts for various Tor
5247 connection failures.""
5249 * Upgrade to OnionShare 2.2 (tails/tails!515)
5252 - OnionShare: use ~/Downloads/ as the upload directory in "Receive Files" mode
5253 - AppArmor: allow a few more things that OnionShare v2 needs
5254 - OnionShare config: use the same indentation as what the app saves
5255 - OnionShare config: import new settings
5256 - onion-grater: update rules for OnionShare v2
5257 - OnionShare: hide Tor settings
5258 - Install OnionShare from Bullseye
5260 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.5a17 (tails/tails!513)
5263 - Test suite: update expected image
5264 - Unsafe Browser: Disable Tor Browser's tor bootstrapping mechanism
5265 - Test suite: add support for testing Tor Browser alpha versions
5266 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive.
5267 - Disable Tor Browser's tor bootstrapping UI
5268 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.5a17.
5270 * WhisperBack: set lower expectations for handling of error reports
5274 - Temporarily set low expectations for handling of error reports, via our website
5275 and/or in WhisperBack (tails/tails#18427)
5278 - WhisperBack: set lower expectations
5280 * Fix issues in testing's test suite (tails/tails!509)
5283 - Revert "Test suite: consistently save artifacts for various Tor connection
5285 - Test suite: consistently save artifacts for various Tor connection failures.
5286 - Test suite: work around the desktop icons being obscured by TCA.
5288 - Test suite: correctly identify supported Tor Browser locales (fixes #18319)
5289 - Test suite: drop unknown keyword parameters from translate().
5290 - Test suite: rework translate() to not always use the tails domain (fixes:
5293 * onion-grater: fix support for restrict-stream-events for namespace matched
5294 profiles (tails/tails!508)
5298 - Move hard-coded network address to constant
5299 - onion-grater: fix remote connection check.
5300 - Untangle if-statements a bit.
5301 - onion-grater: fix support for restrict-stream-events for namespace matched
5302 profiles (closes: #18417).
5304 * Upgrade Linux to 5.10.40 (tails/tails!507)
5307 - Upgrade Linux to 5.10.40 (5.10.0-0.bpo.7)
5309 * Upgrade to Debian Buster 10.10 (tails/tails!506)
5312 - Upgrade to Debian Buster 10.10 by bumping APT snapshot of the Debian archive to
5314 - Test suite: don't break if there are multiple Firefox processes
5315 - lint_po: ignore torbrowser-launcher's PO files
5316 - generate-build-manifest: support builds that used no source package
5317 - Switch to a simpler way to maintain our Tor Browser AppArmor profile delta
5318 - Rebase AppArmor profile for Tor Browser on top of torbrowser-launcher 0.3.3-5
5320 * Upgrade Tor to 0.4.5.9 (tails/tails!505)
5323 - Upgrade tor to 0.4.5.9 (tails/tails#18309)
5326 - Upgrade Tor to 0.4.5.9
5328 * build-tails: fix bugs that prevent local submodules from being used
5332 - build-tails: fix resetting the submodules' origin
5333 - build-tails: fix syntax error
5335 * Installer: Make "Reinstall" option not disappear when coming back from
5336 confirmation dialog (tails/tails!502)
5339 - "Reinstall" option disappears when coming back from Upgrade confirmation
5341 - Disable Tails Installer options when there is no target USB stick available
5345 - Installer: disable widgets when there is no target available
5346 - Make "Reinstall" option not disappear when coming back from confirmation dialog
5348 * always start tor (except offline mode) (tails/tails!497)
5351 - FIX comment explaining how we user tor@ units
5352 - always start tor (except offline mode)
5354 * Fix build vmdb2 without http proxy (tails/tails!490)
5357 - variables are better than hardcoded names!
5358 - logs are preserved in case of error
5359 - cleaner temporary files handling
5360 - FIX building without a http_proxy
5362 * Resolve "Run tails-*-proxy-netns@.service only for the amnesia user"
5366 - a11y/ibus: description includes netns name
5367 - a11y/ibus proxy are only enabled for amnesia user
5369 * Jenkins lib: support extracting issue number at the beginning of the branch
5370 name (tails/tails!482)
5373 - adds doctests to ActiveBranches
5374 - Jenkins lib: support extracting issue number at the beginning of the branch
5377 * Resolve "TCA: Implement screen when not connected to a local network"
5381 - open the _real_ wifi settings page
5382 - wording follows wireframe design
5383 - gnome env: add XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
5384 - tca can open wi-fi config window
5386 * Test suite: drop low-value tests, add Cucumber tags, improve wording a little
5390 - Test suite: try harder not to click a button before it's active
5391 - Test suite: remove a few low-value USB installation, upgrade, and boot tests
5392 - Test suite: remove wget plaintext http:// test
5393 - fixup! Test suite: remove whois(1) tests
5394 - Test suite: give generic method a more generic name
5395 - Test suite: remove whois(1) tests
5396 - Test suite: merge closely related scenarios to improve performance
5397 - Test suite: use an existing snapshot instead of booting a fresh Tails
5398 - Test suite: improve wording of scenarios and steps
5399 - Test suite: remove Pidgin custom certificates tests
5400 - Test suite: remove basic AppArmor test
5401 - Test suite: remove GnuPG keyserver test
5402 - Test suite: remove browser plugins tests
5403 - Test suite: add @slow and @not_release_blockers Cucumber tags
5404 - Test suite: remove definition for unused step
5405 - Test suite: remove VirtualBox test
5407 * Generate the Vagrant base boxes using vmdb2 instead of vmdebootstrap
5411 - Add shellcheck exception.
5412 - Drop insane backticks.
5413 - Re-introduce some comments that were lost when migrating to vmdb2.
5414 - Build doc: remove obsolete instructions
5415 - vmdb2: remove no-op duplicated mirror parameters
5416 - Fix copy-paste mistakes.
5417 - Use grub.d instead of fighting with sed/perl escaping.
5418 - vmdb2: disable caching
5419 - Drop duplicated work.
5420 - Update docs and instructions for migration from vmdebootstrap to vmdb2.
5421 - Let's stop claiming Tails can be built from Stretch.
5422 - Escape \ in here doc.
5423 - Vagrant: work around Debian#951257.
5424 - Vagrant: abort when the proxy is invalid.
5425 - Vagrant: use IP address for internal proxy.
5426 - Drop leftovers from when we used vmdeboostrap to generate Vagrant boxes.
5427 - Apply policy-rc.d trick to workaround Debian bug when installing udisks2 in a
5429 - tails-builder: install missing udisks2 deps.
5430 - Workaround the fact subshells don't inherit set -e
5432 - Include the .qcow2, not raw image, in the Vagrant box.
5433 - Bump tails-builder image back to 20G.
5435 - Switch to vmdb2-based Vagrant box creation (refs: #15349)
5436 - Split long command over multiple lines.
5437 - Generate .box file.
5438 - Add back --rootfs-tarball argument to vmdb2.
5439 - Use correct sed syntax in replacement to refer to matched groups.
5440 - Use variables in place of hard-coded strings.
5442 - Drop unnecessary `touch`.
5443 - Clean up before and after calling vmdb2.
5444 - Generate image name dynamically.
5445 - Set APT serials dynamically.
5446 - Use mktemp for temporary file.
5447 - Drop unused stuff for generating container images.
5448 - Do `set -u` in script.
5449 - vmdb2: append newline at the end of authorized_keys entry
5450 - vmdb2: add HTTP proxy support
5451 - WIP: Vagrant: script for generating tails-builder images using vmdb2 instead of
5452 vmdebootstrap (refs: #15349)
5454 * Drop obsolete workaround for Jenkins passing mergebasebranch (tails/tails!475)
5457 - Revert "Rakefile: handle jenkins passing the now obsolete mergebasebranch."
5459 * custom-apt-cruft-check: indentify used binary packages where we lack the source
5463 - custom-apt-cruft-check: add support for the testing suite
5464 - custom-apt-cruft-check: indentify used binary packages where we lack the
5467 * GitLab CI (test-tca): add missing python3-dbus dependency (tails/tails!472)
5470 - GitLab CI (test-tca): add missing python3-dbus dependency
5472 * Disable shellcheck false positive (tails/tails!471)
5475 - Disable shellcheck false positive
5477 * Fix the dependencies of tca-portal.service and tca-portal.socket
5481 - Fix tca-portl.{socket,service} dependencies
5482 - Let tca-portal.service be started via systemd socket activation
5484 * Resolve "No spinner when starting Tor Browser from TCA" (tails/tails!459)
5487 - offline step now follows wording from our design
5488 - FIX: going offline should not display error step
5489 - tca-portal open applications using gtk stuff
5491 * Drop monkeysphere configuration (tails/tails!454)
5494 - Drop monkeysphere configuration
5496 * Use v3 Onion Service for the deb.torproject.org APT repository
5500 - Use v3 Onion Service for the deb.torproject.org APT repository
5502 * Test suite: drop Seahorse tests (tails/tails!451)
5505 - Test suite: drop now useless background
5506 - Test suite: update rationale for workaround
5507 - Test suite: drop support for running v2 Onion services in Chutney
5508 - Test suite: drop Seahorse tests
5510 * Maintain our Tor Browser AppArmor profile delta in a simpler way
5514 - Test suite: don't break if there are multiple Firefox processes
5515 - lint_po: ignore torbrowser-launcher's PO files
5516 - generate-build-manifest: support builds that used no source package
5517 - Switch to a simpler way to maintain our Tor Browser AppArmor profile delta
5518 - Rebase AppArmor profile for Tor Browser on top of torbrowser-launcher 0.3.3-5
5520 * Recover TCA fix + test suite work from now defunct !431 (tails/tails!447)
5523 - Test suite: fix racy test.
5524 - Test suite: avoid using regex matching since we can.
5525 - Test suite: drop escaping we already deal with.
5526 - Test suite: implement proper dropping of markup.
5527 - Test suite: escape single-quotes in generated Python strings.
5528 - Test suite: drop markup from translated strings.
5529 - Test suite: make Dogtail automatically translate strings.
5530 - TCA: fix tor crashing when falling back to default bridges.
5532 * TCA asks for confirmation if you close it during progress (tails/tails!446)
5535 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
5536 - asks confirmation on quit during progress
5538 * TCA: explain the autoconfig better and implement designed behavior for
5539 displaying help (tails/tails!445)
5542 - TCA: hide bridge help by default
5543 - TCA: use the designed toggle instead of a link near "Configure a Tor bridge" in
5545 - TCA: Explain more about the implications of the autoconfig of Tor
5547 * Resolve "TCA connects with default bridges when it shouldn't" (tails/tails!444)
5550 - TCA always saves configuration
5552 * Resolve "TCA status does not reflect the current status of the connection to
5553 Tor" (tails/tails!443)
5556 - tca reacts to /run/tor-has-bootstrapped/done
5557 - tca monitors /run/tor-has-bootstrapped/done
5559 * Improve Tor Connection GUI (tails/tails!438)
5562 - Test suite: adapt to UI changes in TCA.
5563 - Fix shellcheck regressions
5564 - TCA: add title to proxy configuration window
5565 - TCA: add link to doc in consent question
5566 - TCA: make status messages consistently include "to Tor"
5567 - TCA: define margin in 1 single place
5568 - TCA: make the bridges config screen breathe
5569 - TCA: implement designed link to the bridges doc
5570 - TCA: remove icons on proxy port & pasword entries
5571 - TCA: make the "Connecting" progress screen breathe
5572 - TCA: make proxy configuration visual layout linear
5573 - TCA: basic visual layout for the "Error connecting to Tor" screen
5574 - TCA: reorganize container/child structure to fix vertical text alignment
5575 - TCA: Fix vertical text alignment
5576 - TCA: Fix vertical text alignment
5577 - TCA: make "Connected to Tor successfully" a progress-box-heading
5578 - TCA: add standard spacing between label and progress bar
5579 - TCA: make "Connecting to Tor…" a progress-box-heading
5580 - TCA: move progress-box-heading styling to CSS
5581 - TCA: make it breathe
5582 - TCA: drop duplicate margin
5583 - TCA: improve vertical alignment of success icon
5584 - TCA: hide percentage
5585 - fixup! TCA: use Unicode ellipsis char
5586 - TCA: use correct Unicode char
5587 - TCA: hide non-functional "Reset Tor Connection" button
5588 - TCA: explicitly declare translation domain in Glade UI file
5589 - TCA: style step titles via CSS, make them larger
5590 - TCA: make layout more GNOME HIG compliant
5591 - TCA: use non-deprecated margin properties, make them multiples of 6px
5592 - TCA: make the "Start Tor Browser button" fill the dialog width as designed
5593 - TCA: drop custom font size
5594 - TCA: use standard GNOME HIG spacing
5595 - TCA: improve visual layout
5596 - TCA: fix alignment
5597 - TCA: improve visual layout
5599 - TCA: port CSS to pixels and start making it a bit more GNOME HIG compliant
5600 - TCA: give widget a name so it can be styled with CSS
5601 - WIP: save with glade/sid
5602 - Git, please ignore Glade backup files for TCA
5603 - TCA Glade UI: require the GTK version we're shipping in Tails 4.x
5605 * Resolve "Confusing behavior of Tor Connection in offline mode"
5609 - better function naming
5610 - offline mode error strings changed
5611 - FIX ci dependencies for tca
5612 - update gettext strings
5613 - tca offline mode errors are translatable
5614 - TCA give clear error message in Offline Mode
5615 - tailslib has doctests
5616 - tailslib: can check greeter variables
5618 * Resolve "Ensure WhisperBack still tells us how successful connections to Tor
5619 were made" (tails/tails!434)
5622 - whisperback includes tca details
5624 * TCA UI improvements (tails/tails!428)
5627 - Test suite: don't throw TCAConnectionFailure on try_for() timeout.
5628 - Test suite: adapt for recent UI changes in TCA.
5629 - explain bridge requirements in hide mode
5630 - smaller image in TCA
5631 - Improvements to TCA GUI
5632 - doc: how to tweak tca GUI
5633 - corner case about bridge validation
5634 - FIX resize problems through GtkStack
5635 - tca UI improvements
5636 - changing to default bridges is honored
5637 - tca ui more consistent
5639 * TCA reports an error in case of slow connection (tails/tails!426)
5642 - progress bar was very slow; + more testing
5643 - tca timeout understands "sign-of-life" UX concept
5644 - quick & dirty: increase timeout
5646 * Display an error message when upgrader fails to check for available upgrades
5650 - Display an error message when the Upgrader fails to check for available
5651 upgrades (tails/tails#18238)
5654 - Display a dialog if an error happens when getting the UDF
5655 - Make debugging_info parameter optional
5656 - Display an error dialog when the Upgrader fails to check for available upgrades
5658 * Rename "MAC address spoofing" as "MAC address anonymization" (tails/tails!411)
5662 - Avoid in-page link
5664 - Rename "MAC address spoofing" as "MAC address anonymization" (#18286)
5666 * Upgrade Linux to 5.10.24 (tails/tails!409)
5669 - Upgrade Linux to 5.10.24
5670 - Revert "Install linux-compiler-* linux-kbuild-* from our custom APT repository"
5672 * Fix shellcheck error (tails/tails!394)
5675 - Fix shellcheck error
5677 * Establish a coding standards baseline on our shell code base (tails/tails!190)
5680 - GitLab CI: install "file" for the shellcheck test
5683 - GitLab CI: use Unit test reports for shellcheck
5684 - shellcheck-tree: drop unused import
5685 - shellcheck-tree: drop obsolete comment
5686 - GitLab CI: check shell scripts
5687 - ShellCheck: fix remaining offenses
5688 - ShellCheck: fix remaining SC2086 offenses
5689 - shellcheck-tree: skip built website
5690 - Drop unused variables
5691 - ShellCheck: make exceptions where warranted
5692 - Misc. linting suggested by ShellCheck
5693 - shellcheck-tree: new script, that runs shellcheck on all shell scripts
5694 - Misc. linting suggested by ShellCheck
5695 - ShellCheck: make exceptions where warranted
5696 - Drop $ in arithmetic variables
5697 - Drop useless calls to cat
5698 - ShellCheck: fix offenses
5699 - ShellCheck: fix SC2155 offenses
5700 - ShellCheck: backticks → $()
5701 - auto/config: fix stderr redirection
5703 - ShellCheck: make exceptions where warranted
5704 - ShellCheck: add missing quoting
5705 - branch_name_to_suite: fix bug in tr call
5706 - ShellCheck: disable false positive
5707 - unsafe-browser: use $* when our intent is to concatenate
5708 - keepassxc wrapper: fix behavior in case 2+ arguments are passed
5709 - live-persist: fix usage message
5710 - ShellCheck: fix SC2162 offense
5711 - ShellCheck: make exceptions where warranted
5712 - ShellCheck: add missing quoting
5713 - ShellCheck: fix SC2006 offenses
5714 - ShellCheck: fix SC2155 offenses
5715 - Drop useless "echo"
5716 - ShellCheck: make exceptions where warranted
5717 - ShellCheck: fix SC2006 offenses
5718 - ShellCheck: replace deprecated tempfile with mktemp (SC2186)
5719 - ShellCheck: add missing quoting
5720 - Replace antiquated use of expr
5721 - Drop unused variables
5722 - ShellCheck: fix SC2155 offenses
5723 - ShellCheck: disable check that generates mostly false positives
5725 - Drop unused variables
5726 - ShellCheck: add missing quoting
5727 - Drop unused variable
5728 - ShellCheck: fix SC2059 offense
5729 - Ensure here-doc text is not subject to parameter expansion, command
5730 substitution, and arithmetic expansion, unless we do need it
5731 - ShellCheck: fix SC2162 offenses
5732 - chroot_local-hooks: consistently set the executable bit
5734 - Make for loop more robust
5735 - Ensure filenames that start with '-' are not interpreted as switches
5736 - Ensure glob is not expanded by the shell interpreter
5737 - 10-tbb: fix typo in variable name
5739 - ShellCheck: make exceptions where warranted
5740 - ShellCheck: disable false positive
5741 - ShellCheck: disable following included source files
5743 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2021 13:50:41 +0200
5745 tails (4.19) unstable; urgency=medium
5747 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0.17-build1 (tails/tails!468)
5750 - Upgrade to Tor Browser based on Firefox 78.11 (tails/tails#18284)
5753 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive.
5754 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0.17-build1.
5756 * Upgrade Thunderbird to 1:78.10.0-1~deb10u1
5758 * run_test_suite: fix tor version check with recent tor (tails/tails!450)
5761 - Chutney: fix tor version check with recent tor
5762 - run_test_suite: fix tor version check with recent tor
5764 * Upgrader, tails-security-check: drop CA pinning (tails/tails!448)
5767 - TLS certificate issue prevents tails-upgrade-frontend to check for updates :
5768 Error while downloading the signing key (tails/tails#18324)
5771 - Design doc: update tense
5772 - Remove unused Let's Encrypt certificates
5773 - Upgrader, tails-security-check: drop CA pinning
5774 - Design doc: drop overly optimistic future improvement idea
5775 - Design doc: mirrors used by the Upgrader are all HTTPS nowadays
5777 * gitlab-triage: migrate from Docker to podman (tails/tails!440)
5780 - gitlab-triage: migrate from Docker to podman
5782 * Add password feedback for sudo (refs: #18355) (tails/tails!439)
5785 - Add password feedback for sudo (refs: #18355)
5787 * Remove ikiwiki-cgi.setup (tails/tails!405)
5790 - Document how to test changes to the banner locally
5791 - Deduplicate content
5792 - Don't disable plugins that are not enabled by default
5793 - Remove ikiwiki-cgi.setup and references to it
5795 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 31 May 2021 09:19:03 +0000
5797 tails (4.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5799 * Upgrade Thunderbird to 78.9.0-1~deb10u1
5801 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0.16 (tails/tails!400)
5804 - Upgrade to Tor Browser based on Firefox 78.10 (tails/tails#18252)
5807 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive.
5808 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0.15.
5810 * Upgrade Intel microcodes to 3.20210216.1~deb10u1
5812 * Upgrade firmware-linux-nonfree to 20210315-2
5814 * Remove Poedit (#18236) (tails/tails!395)
5817 - Remove Poedit (#18236)
5819 * Display an error message when the Upgrader fails to download the signing key
5823 - Display an error message when the Upgrader fails to check for available
5824 upgrades (tails/tails#18238)
5827 - Display an error message when the Upgrader fails to download the signing key
5829 * Remove clock sync notification (tails/tails!389)
5832 - Remove the "clock synchronization" notification (tails/tails#7439)
5835 - tails-htp-notify-user only notifies if $problems
5837 * Bump snapshots of the Debian APT archive to 2021033101 (tails/tails!388)
5840 - Bump snapshots of the Debian APT archive to 2021033101
5842 * APT: use non-onion HTTPS sources for Debian repositories (tails/tails!383)
5845 - Fix failures with Debian's APT repository onion service (tails/tails#17993)
5848 - APT: use non-onion HTTPS sources for Debian repositories
5850 * Merge base branch earlier (tails/tails!381)
5853 - The mergebasebranch option merges the base branch too late (tails/tails#12557)
5856 - Document that faketime is needed on the host to build Tails.
5857 - Vagrant: don't install faketime any more.
5858 - Drop useless version part from development build filenames.
5859 - Build system: only add base branch info to image names when relevant.
5860 - Build system: make development images' names more consistent.
5861 - Build system: move around logic to reduce ENV state.
5862 - Build system: re-run rake after merging base branch (#12557)
5863 - Rakefile: handle jenkins passing the now obsolete mergebasebranch.
5864 - Build system: by default, merge the base branch early when building (#12557)
5866 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 19 Apr 2021 14:19:38 +0000
5868 tails (4.17) unstable; urgency=medium
5870 * Upgrade Thunderbird to 78.8.0-1~deb10u1
5872 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0.14-build1 (tails/tails!382)
5875 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0.14-build1.
5877 * Upgrade tor to 0.4.5.7 (tails/tails!380)
5880 - Upgrade tor to 0.4.5.7 (tails/tails#18244)
5883 - Upgrade tor to 0.4.5.7
5885 * Retry failed upgrade downloads, reusing the previously downloaded data, and
5886 fallback to the DNS mirror pool (tails/tails!379)
5889 - Make it possible to resume an automatic upgrade download (tails/tails#15875)
5890 - Make Tails Upgrader resilient to broken mirrors (tails/tails#17615)
5893 - Tails::IUK::TargetFile::Download: always disable exponential backoff when
5895 - Tails::IUK::LWP::UserAgent::WithProgress: display correct progress status when
5896 resuming a previously failed download
5897 - Give Tails::IUK::LWP::UserAgent::WithProgress information that it'll need
5898 - Refactoring: make temp_file an attribute
5899 - Refactoring: use more meaningful variable name and document what value it holds
5900 - GitLab CI: disable test that now requires systemd
5901 - Retry failed upgrade downloads, reusing the previously downloaded data, and
5902 fallback to the DNS mirror pool
5903 - Upgrader hardening: comment out sudo env_keep settings that are not needed in
5905 - Tails::Download::HTTPS hardening: drop support for SSL_NO_VERIFY
5906 - Upgrader test suite: remove useless Win32 support code
5908 * Repair the filesystem on the system partition and avoid breaking it in the
5909 first place (tails/tails!374)
5912 - Deleted obsolete automatic upgrades still occupy disk space ⇒ no automatic
5913 upgrade possible after a while (tails/tails#17902)
5916 - On boot, repair the filesystem on the system partition
5917 - Refactoring: move repartitioning code to a function
5918 - Unmount the system partition on shutdown
5920 * Upgrade GRUB2 to 2.04-16+ (tails/tails!372)
5923 - Upgrade GRUB2 to 2.04-16+ (tails/tails#18227)
5924 - devel branch FTBFS with uBlock 1.33.0+dfsg-1 (tails/tails#18191)
5927 - Bump snapshots of the Debian APT archive to 2021030401
5929 * Upgrade non-free Linux firmware to 20210208-3 (tails/tails!371)
5932 - Upgrade non-free Linux firmware to 20210208-3+ (tails/tails#18226)
5933 - devel branch FTBFS with uBlock 1.33.0+dfsg-1 (tails/tails#18191)
5936 - Revert "Temporarily install the kernel from Bullseye"
5937 - Refresh uBlock patch
5938 - Bump snapshots of the Debian APT archive to 2021030101
5940 * Test suite: relax delay for OpenPGP future expiration date (tails/tails!370)
5943 - Test suite: relax delay for OpenPGP future expiration date
5945 * Improve security advisory since they don't list vulnerabilities anymore
5949 - Help people find the information on their own (#18221)
5950 - Remove not-so-helpful TOC
5951 - Simplify and reuse the same wording
5952 - Don't make people click for nothing (#18221)
5954 * Clarify error message when starting the Unsafe Browser while offline
5958 - Clarify error message when the Unsafe Browser was launched without network
5959 connection (tails/tails#12251)
5962 - Test suite: update to match UI change
5963 - Clarify error message when starting offline (#12251)
5965 * Release process: add po4a version sanity checks (tails/tails!364)
5968 - Release process: ensure the RM has the correct version of po4a
5970 * Upgrade our production and test-only tor configuration (tails/tails!363)
5973 - Upgrade our production and test-only tor configuration (tails/tails#18216)
5976 - Test suite: bump PathsNeededToBuildCircuits to 0.67, like Chutney
5977 - Test suite: drop "TestingBridgeDownloadInitialDelay" customization
5978 - Test suite: drop "DownloadInitialDelay" testing options that we set to their
5980 - Test suite: drop unused second argument for the "DownloadInitialDelay" tor
5982 - Test suite: use the new "DownloadInitialDelay" names for the "DownloadSchedule"
5984 - torrc: drop obsolete WarnUnsafeSocks setting
5985 - torrc: migrate from deprecated {Control,Trans}ListenAddress to
5986 {Control,Trans}Port address syntax
5988 * Upgrade tor to 0.4.5.6 (tails/tails!361)
5991 - run_test_suite: abort if the host system's tor is too old
5992 - Test suite setup doc: ensure we have a recent enough tor
5993 - Test suite setup doc: update APT pinning to support current QEMU backport
5994 - Upgrade tor to 0.4.5.6 final
5996 * Update uBlock Origin patch (tails/tails!354)
5999 - Refresh uBlock patch
6001 * Resolve "onion-grater race condition" (tails/tails!345)
6004 - onion-grater race condition (tails/tails#18123)
6008 - onioncircuits: longer options are more readable
6009 - tails-create-netns: more consistent style
6010 - tails-create-netns: avoid bashisms
6011 - a11y-proxy-netns: explain behavior with comments
6012 - review tips: is_veth_nic is more readable
6013 - review tips: clearer behaviour
6014 - Remove another remain from the reverted TBB experiment.
6015 - veth exclusion: log to debug
6016 - don't spoof veth interfaces
6017 - a11y proxy now can be passed to the right netns
6018 - onioncircuits is accessible!
6019 - small cleanup to tailslib.gnome
6020 - really: let's forget about TBB and its netns
6021 - Let's forget about TBB in its netns
6022 - get_all_ethernet_nics behave even if no real eth
6023 - update design doc for netns improvements
6024 - test: tor can bind a non-127.0.0.1 port
6025 - FIX helper lib to recognize veth appropriately
6027 - tails-documentation: fixed when Tor is not ready
6028 - sudo tor-browser allowed
6029 - FIX service: run before network.target
6030 - we need veth: don't blacklist it, it's harmless
6031 - /stop tails-create-netns service can stop
6032 - FIX tails-create-netns.service
6033 - TBB: changed onion-grater
6034 - TBB works + port 9150 drop
6035 - netns: firewall configuration moved to ferm
6036 - configure tor and ferm for TBB netns address
6037 - tails-create-netns is a systemd.service
6038 - onion-grater whitelisted in sane_defaults
6039 - onioncircuits profile adapted to netns
6040 - onioncircuits wrapper to use netns
6041 - still a draft, but at least tidier
6042 - DRAFT of network namespace support
6044 * Test suite: disable sound forwarding to host (tails/tails!333)
6047 - Test suite: consider disabling SPICE audio (tails/tails#18122)
6050 - Test suite: disable sound forwarding to host (Closes: #18122)
6052 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 22 Mar 2021 08:11:53 +0000
6054 tails (4.15.1) unstable; urgency=medium
6056 * Upgrade sudo to 1.8.27-1+deb10u3 due to CVE-2021-3156 ("Baron
6059 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2021 19:33:08 +0100
6061 tails (4.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6063 * Upgrade Thunderbird to 1:78.6.0-1~deb10u1
6065 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0.9, based on Firefox 78.7 (tails/tails!331)
6068 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0.9, based on Firefox 78.7 (tails/tails#18100)
6071 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive.
6072 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0.9-build2.
6074 * Test suite: support path of tcpdump in current sid (tails/tails!328)
6077 - Test suite broken on current sid: "No such file or directory -
6078 /usr/sbin/tcpdump" (tails/tails#18126)
6081 - Test suite: support path of tcpdump in current sid
6083 * Update CAs trusted to connect to our website (tails/tails!327)
6086 - Upgrader fails to check upgrades: CA changed for our website
6088 - Remove AddTrust_External_Root.pem from our website CA bundle
6093 - Reference issue and add another related XXX
6094 - Don't ship individual Let's Encrypt intermediate certificates files in the
6096 - Move Let's Encrypt intermediate certificates outside of the system-wide CA
6098 - Upgrader: trust current and upcoming Let's Encrypt intermediate certificates
6099 - Add current and upcoming Let's Encrypt intermediate certificates
6100 - Remove AddTrust_External_Root.pem from our website CA bundle (refs: #11811).
6102 * Upgrade Linux to 5.9.15-1~bpo10+1 (stable branch) (tails/tails!325)
6105 - Upgrade to Linux 5.9.15 (tails/tails#18104)
6106 - Install Intel SOF Firmware and Topology binaries from Debian
6108 - USB tethering is broken with iOS 14 => Need kernel upgrade (tails/tails#18097)
6111 - Refresh uBlock patch
6112 - Install Intel SOF Firmware and Topology binaries from Debian
6113 - Upgrade Linux to 5.9.15-1~bpo10+1
6114 - Update APT snapshot for the "debian" archive to 2021011501
6116 * Upgrade firmware-linux to 20201218-1
6118 * Migrate blueprints to GitLab wiki (tails/tails!323)
6120 * Fix stream isolation test suite after !306 (tails/tails!319)
6123 - Test suite: update wrt. recent htpdate changes (tails/tails#18095)
6126 - fix stream isolation test suite after !306
6128 * Refresh uBlock patch to fix devel branch FTBFS (tails/tails!318)
6131 - Refresh uBlock patch
6133 * Test suite: improve error reporting for GuestFS problems and user mistakes
6137 - Test suite: error out early if images to be tested are directories
6138 - Test suite: log all guestfs events, not only "trace" level messages
6140 * Make 'Upgrading the system' dialog appear faster (tails/tails!316)
6143 - Make "Upgrading the system" dialog appear faster (tails/tails#18051)
6146 - Upgrader test suite: adjust to match UI changes
6147 - Warn in advance about the network connection being disabled (#18051)
6148 - Avoid ambiguous future tense
6150 - Upgrader: don't declare variable in conditional statement
6151 - Upgrader: adjust test suite to user interaction changes
6153 - Make 'Upgrading the system' dialog appear faster
6155 * Make writing Tails.module more robust (tails/tails!315)
6158 - Make writing Tails.module more robust (tails/tails#17906)
6161 - Make writing Tails.module more robust
6163 * Fix support for Ledger hardware wallet, by upgrading python3-btchip
6167 - "No hardware device detected" with Ledger Nano S wallet in Electrum
6171 - Fix support for Ledger hardware wallet, by upgrading python3-btchip
6173 * Test expiration date for all keys trusted by APT (tails/tails!310)
6176 - Test expiration date for all keys trusted by APT (tails/tails#18094)
6179 - Test suite: improve Gherkin phrasing
6180 - Test suite: check expiration date for all trusted APT keys
6182 * Log more info upon curl failure in htpdate (tails/tails!306)
6185 - htpdate: make output more useful on name resolution errors
6186 - htpdate: include stdout and stderr of curl(1) upon failure
6187 - htpdate: remove misleading comment
6189 * Clarify that this message is about the size of the USB stick (#18073)
6193 - Improve error message when the USB stick is too small (tails/tails#18073)
6196 - Add comment to explain the unit being used
6197 - Display too small boot device size in GB, not GiB
6198 - Display too small boot device size with 1 digit of precision after the decimal
6200 - Make displayed number and unit match
6201 - Only use variable after we've assigned it a value
6202 - Clarify that this message is about the size of the USB stick (#18073)
6204 * Thunderbird: drop obsolete patch. (tails/tails!304)
6207 - Thunderbird: drop obsolete patch.
6209 * Make build reproducibility verification easier (tails/tails!303)
6212 - Don't trust any random key that has a UID which contains "deb.tails.boum.org"
6213 - Make formatting consistent with other command lines
6216 - Use numbered list: order matters
6217 - Reorder instructions to avoid a step essentially depend on the next one
6218 - contribute/build.mdwn: add instruction for importing deb.tails.boum.org key
6219 - release_process/test/reproducibility.mdwn: add -p to mkdir
6220 - Rakefile: add option to scp to disable agent
6222 * Test suite: differentiate between tordate and htpdate errors (tails/tails!295)
6225 - Test suite: split exception.
6226 - Test suite: use more specific exception.
6227 - We can have TimeSyncingError due to tordate, so no htpdate log exists.
6228 - Rename variable and rearrange code to fix scoping issues.
6229 - Test suite: differentiate between tordate and htpdate errors.
6231 * Add "Don't Show Again" button to the notification when starting Tails in a VM
6235 - Add "Don't Show Again" button to notifications where appropriate
6239 - swap buttons in tails-virt-notify-user
6240 - Refresh translations.
6241 - tails-documentation: drop yelp dependency.
6242 - Revert "Patch libdesktop-notify-perl to accept an array ref for actions."
6243 - tails-documentation: let Gnome start Tor Browser so it can quit.
6244 - tails-virt-notify-user: port form Perl to Python.
6246 - Improve button labels
6247 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
6248 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
6249 - tails-virt-notify-user: make action IDs globally unique again.
6251 - tails-virt-notify-user: make action buttons ordering deterministic.
6252 - Patch libdesktop-notify-perl to accept an array ref for actions.
6253 - live-persist: always enable support for "Don't ask again" (refs: #10553).
6254 - tails-virt-notify-user: only show "Don't ask again" if feature is available
6256 - tails-virt-notify-user: add "Don't ask again" button PoC (refs: #10553).
6257 - Add tooling for "Don't ask me again" feature for notifications etc.
6259 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 25 Jan 2021 08:23:10 +0000
6261 tails (4.14) unstable; urgency=medium
6263 * Grant the user read access to external Persistent Storage (tails/tails!300)
6266 - Nautilus cannot open a plugged Tails Persistent Storage anymore
6270 - Make *external* TailsData's root user-readable when mounted (closes: #18050)
6272 * Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0.7 (tails/tails!297)
6275 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0.7 (tails/tails#18058)
6278 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive.
6279 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0.7-build1.
6281 * Add a script to help updating our UX debt spreadsheet (tails/tails!292)
6284 - ux-debt-changes: list issues that had the UX:debt label removed
6285 - ux-debt-changes: list issues that had the UX:debt label added
6286 - ux-debt-changes: allow running only some of the supported reports
6287 - ux-debt-changes: cache GitLab API responses
6288 - ux-debt-changes initial version: lists solved or rejected UX:debt issues since
6291 * Upgrade to Linux 5.9 and to Buster 10.7 (tails/tails!288)
6294 - Upgrade Linux to 5.9 (tails/tails#17973)
6295 - Upgrade to Buster 10.7 (tails/tails#17995)
6298 - Upgrade Linux to 5.9.0-0.bpo.2, currently at version 5.9.6-1~bpo10+1
6299 - Install the kernel from buster-backports
6300 - Upgrade Tails and the Vagrant build box to Debian Buster 10.7
6302 * Test suite: make evince "Print to File" test more robust (tails/tails!287)
6305 - Test suite: update and fix comment
6306 - Test suite: make evince "Print to File" test more robust
6308 * Upgrade Linux to 5.9 (devel branch) (tails/tails!285)
6311 - Upgrade Linux to 5.9.0-0.bpo.2, currently at version 5.9.6-1~bpo10+1
6313 * Don't include URLs pointing to our live website in translatable strings
6317 - Upgrader: don't use non-existent debug method
6318 - GitLab CI: ensure we don't re-add translatable URLs to our live website
6319 - Update POT and PO files
6320 - Don't include URLs pointing to our live website in translatable strings
6323 * Test suite: bump timeout for the Greeter's GUI to update after language change.
6327 - Revert "Test suite: switch from sleep() to more robust approach."
6328 - Test suite: switch from sleep() to more robust approach.
6329 - Test suite: bump timeout for the Greeter's GUI to update after language change.
6331 * Port otr-bot to Python 3 and migrate to slixmpp (tails/tails!278)
6334 - Test suite's otr-bot.py has obsolete dependencies (tails/tails#17031)
6337 - Test suite doc: update dependencies
6338 - Make otr-bot quiet.
6340 - Improve variable names.
6341 - otr-bot: port to python3 and migrate from jabberbot to slixmpp.
6343 * Detect corrupt GnuPG public keyring and restore its backup (tails/tails!275)
6346 - Automate fix for "GnuPG keys missing" problem (tails/tails#17807)
6349 - Try to detect corrupt GnuPG pubring.kbx and restore any backup (refs: #17807)
6351 * Drop superfluous block.events_dfl_poll_msecs=1000 kernel parameter
6355 - Drop superfluous block.events_dfl_poll_msecs=1000 kernel parameter
6357 * Install the kernel from buster-backports (tails/tails!273)
6360 - Install the kernel from buster-backports
6362 * Enable Electrum's Ledger hardware wallet support (tails/tails!272)
6365 - Ledger Nano S hardware wallet is not recognized due to wrong udev rules
6369 - Enable Electrum's Ledger hardware wallet support
6371 * Test suite: update expected title of the GitLab page we use (tails/tails!271)
6374 - Test suite: update expected title of the GitLab page we use
6376 * Port Tails Installer to Python 3 (tails/tails!270)
6379 - Port Tails Installer to Python 3 (tails/tails#10085)
6380 - Installer: get rid of workaround for udisks bug#418 in SetFlags()
6384 - Update POT and PO files
6385 - Also undo mistaken changes to Tails 3.0 release note PO files.
6386 - Installer: get rid of workaround for udisks#418 in SetFlags()
6387 - Installer: update URL (Redmine → GitLab)
6388 - Installer: drop obsolete comment
6389 - Installer: don't make user-facing URLs translatable
6390 - Undo mistaken change to Tails 3.0 release notes.
6391 - Tails Installer: fix incorrect function/variable names.
6392 - Update installer's deps after porting to Python 3 (refs: #10085)
6393 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
6394 - Tails Installer: don't show install/cancel buttons on warning prompts.
6395 - Tails Installer: delay deletion of parents until all drives have been examined.
6396 - Tails Installer: update PO/POT files after migration to Python 3.
6397 - Tails Installer: move into Python 3's dist-packages.
6398 - Tails Installer: revive _set_liberal_perms_recursive().
6399 - Tails Installer: pass argument list to subprocess.Popen().
6400 - Tails Installer: port to Python 3 based on saschamarkus's patches (refs:
6403 * Update deb.torproject.org's APT key (tails/tails!269)
6406 - Outdated APT key for deb.torproject.org (tails/tails#18042)
6409 - Stop installing deb.torproject.org-keyring
6410 - Update deb.torproject.org's APT key
6412 * Release process: drop dependency on parallel_collect_IUKs (tails/tails!267)
6416 - Release process: don't pass --debug to copy-iuks-to-rsync-server-and-verify
6417 - Release process: drop dependency on parallel_collect_IUKs
6420 * Allow users to change persisted admin password option (tails/tails!266)
6423 - Allow users to change persisted admin password option (tails/tails#18018)
6426 - Fix not being able to delete a once persisted admin password
6428 * Upgrade Thunderbird to 1:78.5.1-1~deb10u1, and accordingly update
6429 its patch series (tails/tails!264)
6432 - All branches FTBFS since Thunderbird 78.5.0 upload (tails/tails#18034)
6435 - Drop Thunderbird patch: applied in 78.5.0 upstream
6436 - Drop Thunderbird patch: applied in 78.5.0 upstream
6437 - patch-thunderbird: log which patch we're currently trying to apply
6440 * Stop installing the Unifont fonts (tails/tails!263)
6443 - Stop installing the Unifont fonts
6445 * Upgrade tor to 0.4.4.6 (tails/tails!259)
6448 - Upgrade tor to 0.4.4.6
6450 * Document python-gitlab setup needed for generate-changelog and generate-report
6454 - Don't track testing forever
6455 - Make instructions work on sid
6456 - python3-gitlab from Buster doesn't work
6457 - Document torsocks for GitLab scripts
6458 - Improve readibility
6459 - generate-changelog, generate-report: point to documentation
6460 - Document how to configure python-gitlab
6462 * Test suite: use the qemu-xhci USB controller (tails/tails!255)
6465 - Use qemu-xhci for TailsToaster (tails/tails#15831)
6468 - Test suite: use the qemu-xhci USB controller
6470 * Require Buster or newer for running our test suite (tails/tails!254)
6473 - Require Buster or newer for running our test suite (tails/tails#17842)
6476 - Test suite: run a Q35 5.0 machine
6477 - Test suite: drop workarounds for running on Stretch
6478 - run_test_suite: drop support for Stretch
6479 - Test suite doc: drop support for Stretch
6481 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 14 Dec 2020 08:56:31 +0000
6483 tails (4.13) unstable; urgency=medium
6485 * Tor Browser 10.0.5 (tails/tails!253)
6488 - Upgrade to Tor Browser 10.0.5 (tails/tails#18017)
6489 - Most Tor Browser scenarios fail (tails/tails#18016)
6490 - Only ship locale definitions that the user can select in the Welcome Screen
6494 - Mark security issue as fixed
6495 - Test suite: avoid wait_any() in error-prone situation.
6496 - Test suite: adapt image so it works for RTL locales too.
6497 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0.5-build1.
6500 * Browsers: drop el-GR from browser localization (tails/tails!252)
6503 - "The Unsafe Browser can be used in all languages supported in Tails" scenario
6504 fails in Greek (tails/tails#18015)
6507 - Browsers: drop el-GR from browser localization.
6509 * Test suite: wait for GNOME Overview launchers to be ready before interacting
6510 with them (tails/tails!251)
6513 - Most Tor Browser scenarios fail (tails/tails#18016)
6516 - Test suite: wait for GNOME Overview launchers to be ready before interacting
6517 with them (fixes: #18016).
6519 * Garbage collect website cache more aggressively (tails/tails!248)
6522 - Some builds fail on Jenkins due to lack of disk space to store cached built
6523 website (tails/tails#18010)
6526 - website-cache: don't delete lost+found directory
6528 - website-cache: garbage collect cache directories older than 20 days
6530 * generate-report: Buster compatibility, help the user install dependencies
6534 - generate-report: add helpful message on missing Python modules
6535 - generate-changelog, generate-report: support Python 3.7
6537 * custom-apt-cruft-check: fix output when there's nothing to remove
6541 - custom-apt-cruft-check: fix output when there's nothing to remove
6543 * Release process: streamline configuration and environment management
6547 - Release process: rename variable to avoid confusion
6548 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
6549 - Fix typo in suggestion
6550 - Apply 3 suggestion(s) to 3 file(s)
6551 - rm-config: workaround pylint false positives
6552 - remove-unused-udfs: lint
6553 - remove-unused-udfs: actually use passed before_version
6554 - rm-config: add mypy exceptions
6555 - rm-config: add docstrings
6557 - rm-config: drop unused import
6558 - rm-config: import generation of IUK_SOURCE_VERSIONS
6560 - rm-config: import more configuration generation
6561 - rm-config: validate configuration
6562 - RM config template: quote "FIXME" as it should be in the manually-filled
6564 - rm-config: fix generate-environment for non-string values
6565 - rm-config: log config before validating
6566 - rm-config: pass stage to Config()
6567 - rm-config: add validate-configuration action
6568 - Release process: consistently provide editor command-line
6569 - rm-config: ensure generated shell snippet has a trailing newline
6570 - Release process: move generation of derived values to rm-config
6572 - Release process: fully phrase the rm-config usage bits
6573 - Release process: bring all notes together
6574 - Release process: document how to get your own local.yml
6575 - Release process: convert example local.yml to YAML, move generated variable out
6579 - rm-config: generate boilerplate config, read config & export it as shell
6581 - Release process: ensure the configuration does not taint the next release
6583 - Document config format
6584 - Ensure RM config snippets produce 1 single YAML document when concatenated
6585 - Release process: specify interface for new RM config management.
6587 * WhisperBack: include the output of lsusb in reports (tails/tails!244)
6590 - WhisperBack: include the output of lsusb in reports
6592 * Automate Tor Browser WebRTC tests (tails/tails!243)
6595 - Automate Tor Browser WebRTC tests (tails/tails#10264)
6598 - Test suite: automatically test that WebRTC is disabled in Tor Browser
6599 - Test suite: refactoring (extract code to function)
6601 * GitLab CI: only run the apt-snapshots-expiry job when relevant
6605 - GitLab CI: only run the apt-snapshots-expiry job when relevant
6606 - GitLab CI: switch to "Pipelines for Merge Requests" mode
6608 * GitLab CI: check PO files that we did not import from Transifex yet, only run
6609 PO checks when relevant (tails/tails!241)
6614 - GitLab CI: only run check-po-msgfmt and lint-po when relevant
6615 - GitLab CI: check PO files that we did not import from Transifex yet
6617 * Add script that checks which packages in our custom APT repo are unused
6621 - Remove cruft from our custom APT repository (2020Q4 edition)
6625 - custom-apt-cruft-check: look for custom package on the suite we're working on
6626 - custom-apt-cruft-check: update script description to match current usage
6627 - custom-apt-cruft-check: fix generated reprepro command
6628 - custom-apt-cruft-check: make output command line easier to copy'n'paste
6629 - custom-apt-cruft-check: use a command line argument to specify which suite to
6631 - Revert overzealous linting
6632 - custom-apt-cruft-check: fix branch check
6634 - custom-apt-cruft-check: add helpful comment to error message
6635 - custom-apt-cruft-check: output require reprepro clean up command
6636 - custom-apt-cruft-check: fetch .build-manifest from Jenkins
6637 - custom-apt-cruft-check: change quoting so \n becomes an actual newline
6638 - custom-apt-cruft-check: also support the devel branch/APT suite
6640 - custom-apt-cruft-check: add support for Onion service
6641 - Add script that checks which packages in our custom APT repo that are unused.
6643 * Release process: automate removing unused UDFs (tails/tails!239)
6646 - Remove UDFs for versions we'll never release
6647 - remove-unused-udfs: avoid computing the list of tags multiple times
6648 - remove-unused-udfs: avoid using global variable.
6649 - Release process: automate removing unused UDFs
6650 - Release process: remove now-irrelevant case
6651 - Release process: move cleaning up Changelog to a smarter place
6652 - Release process: remove duplicate operation
6653 - Release process: bundle together actions on the devel branch
6655 * GitLab CI: check that no APT snapshot will expire within 1 month
6659 - GitLab CI: give job a name that better reflects its, well, job
6661 - GitLab CI: check that no APT snapshot will expire within 1 month.
6662 - apt-snapshot-expiry: exit with error if any snapshot will expire within 1
6664 - Get rid of subshell.
6666 * Release process: automate generation of email to manual testers
6670 - Release process: make the shell complain if setting PAD was forgotten.
6671 - Release process: de-duplicate
6672 - Release process: automate generating the call for manual testing
6674 * Release process: streamline APT repository operations (tails/tails!236)
6677 - Release process: only context switch to freeze exception management if needed
6678 - Release process: streamline thawing time-based APT snapshots
6679 - Release process: streamline bumping time-based APT snapshots expiration date
6680 - Fix Vagrant build box APT snapshots updating info
6681 - Release process: streamline freezing time-based APT snapshots
6682 - Release process: automate
6683 - Release process: streamline post-release operations
6684 - Release process: streamline initializing the versioned custom APT suite
6685 - Replace link to obsolete reprepro homepage with link to Tracker
6686 - Release process: automate
6687 - Release process: streamline merging base branches
6688 - Custom APT repo doc: move to a script merging a main branch
6689 - Release process: streamline resetting custom APT suites
6691 - Custom APT repo doc: move to a script resetting a suite
6692 - Release process: streamline merging APT overlays
6693 - Release process: be extra explicit about what "freeze time" means
6694 - Revert "Release process: be explicit about the required setting when merging"
6696 * Ensure that we install the required custom packages from our custom APT repo
6700 - Release process: drop VeraCrypt reminder.
6701 - Build system: ensure we install the required custom packages from our custom
6704 * Release process: move big code snippets to scripts (tails/tails!234)
6708 - Release process: move to a script preparing the included website
6709 - Release process: move to a script cleaning SquashFS sort file
6711 - Release process: move to a script generating images signatures and Torrents
6713 - Release process: move to a script publishing test UDFs
6715 - Release process: move to a script signing UDFs
6716 - Release process: move to a script updating the trace file
6718 - Release process: move to a script publishing IUKs
6720 - Release process: move to a script announcing and seeding the Torrents
6722 - Release process: move to a script copying release files to the website
6723 - Release process: move Tor blog post generation to a script
6725 * check-po-msgstr: Add option to sanitize .po files (tails#17661)
6729 - check-po-msgstr: Add option to sanitize .po files (tails#17661)
6731 * GitLab CI: run the perl5lib, persistence-setup, and a subset of the upgrader
6732 test suites (tails/tails!228)
6735 - Upgrader test suite: drop noisy output
6736 - Add missing strictures
6737 - GitLab CI: run the subset of the iuk test suite that works in a Docker
6739 - GitLab CI: run the persistence-setup test suite
6740 - GitLab CI: run the perl5lib test suite
6741 - Skip chattr when running in a test environment
6742 - Perl program test suite doc: run tests in a UTF-8 locale
6743 - Perl program test suite doc: use command-line --all flag instead of environment
6745 - Perl program test suite doc: add missing dependency
6747 * GitLab CI: run unit tests for tails-gdm-error-message (tails/tails!224)
6750 - GitLab CI: run unit tests for tails-gdm-error-message
6752 * GitLab CI: run WhisperBack unit tests (tails/tails!222)
6755 - GitLab CI: run WhisperBack unit tests
6757 * GitLab CI: check PO files with lint_po, that calls i18nspector
6761 - GitLab CI: use Debian testing for lint-po stage
6762 - GitLab CI: check PO files with lint_po, that calls i18nspector
6764 * Fix test suite robustness regression introduced by the upgrade of lizard
6765 isotesters to Buster (tails/tails!218)
6768 - Test suite robustness regressed since the lizard isotesters were upgraded to
6769 Buster (tails/tails#17985)
6772 - Test suite: don't let Screen#find mess with Screen#wait_vanish's timeout
6774 - Test suite: make @screen.find() @screen.wait() for 5 seconds
6776 * Fix Tails Installer in Turkish and in languages that have a translation for the
6777 "Clone the current Tails" string (tails/tails!217)
6780 - Tails Installer does not allow upgrade in languages that have a translation for
6781 the "Clone the current Tails" string (tails/tails#17982)
6782 - tails-installer fails to operate in Turkish (tails/tails#17576)
6785 - Fix Tails Installer in Turkish
6786 - Update POT and PO files
6787 - Installer: s/Live.?OS/Tails/
6788 - Installer: use translations for strings defined in Glade
6790 * Move wrap_test_suite cucumber args logic into run_test_suite (tails/tails!216)
6793 - run_test_suite: use variable consistently.
6794 - run_test_suite: don't use current Git state, but the one described by Jenkin's
6795 environment variables.
6797 - Test suite: print which Cucumber tags are used on start.
6798 - Remove unused Rake 'test' task.
6799 - run_test_suite: make @doc tag handling independent of ~@fragile.
6801 - run_test_suite: move cucumber logic from wrap_test_suite in here (refs:
6802 tails/sysadmin#17772).
6804 * Test suite: automate a few manual tests (tails/tails!213)
6807 - Automatically test that we cannot login as root (tails/tails#10274)
6808 - Automate APT manual tests (tails/tails#17017)
6809 - Test that the correct keyboard layout is set (tails/tails#10261)
6810 - Test that DuckDuckGo is the default search engine in Tor Browser
6812 - Test that the on-screen keyboard works and its layout is correctly set
6816 - Test suite: fix regexp
6817 - Test suite: login using the button, not accelerators.
6818 - Test suite: implement find_any() with real_find().
6820 - Test suite: enable localization tests in Spanish and Turkish
6821 - Test suite: have #(exists|find|wait)_any return a hash instead of an array
6822 - run_test_suite: pass --expand to Cucumber
6823 - Test suite: handle the fact that the browser address bar is initialized lazily
6825 - Test suite: make new tests not run by default
6826 - Test suite: automate the screen keyboard manual tests
6827 - Test suite: enable keyboard layout and browser search engine tests for Arabic
6828 - Test suite: automate testing that DuckDuckGo is the default search engine in
6829 all tier-1 languages
6830 - Test suite: automate testing that the correct keyboard layout is set
6831 - Test suite: automate manual /bin/su tests
6832 - Test suite: automate manual APT tests
6833 - Test suite: fix steps semantics
6834 - Test suite: don't bother logging in when not needed
6836 * Drop dead code for read-only persistence (tails/tails!211)
6839 - Drop dead code for read-only persistence (tails/tails#17972)
6842 - Drop dead code for read-only persistence
6844 * Make the root directory of the persistence non-world-readable (tails/tails!210)
6847 - Make the root directory of the persistence non-world-readable
6851 - Put first what matters most to the user
6853 - Add period at the end of (imperative) sentences
6854 - Fix Markdown formatting
6855 - Add, and take benefit from, a GTK bookmark for the persistent Dotfiles source
6857 - Make the root directory of the persistence non-world-readable
6859 * Make udisks less verbose about "errors" to determine whether unused loop
6860 devices are encrypted (tails/tails!209)
6863 - Revert "Raise the maximum number of loop devices to 32 (refs: #12065)."
6865 * Allow raising sound volume above 100% (tails/tails!207)
6868 - Allow raising sound volume above 100% (tails/tails#17322)
6869 - Re-enable TCP timestamps (tails/tails#17491)
6872 - Allow raising sound volume above 100%
6874 * Re-enable TCP timestamps (tails/tails!206)
6877 - Re-enable TCP timestamps (tails/tails#17491)
6880 - Re-enable TCP timestamps
6882 * Add a button to restart Tails at the end of creating the Persistent Storage
6886 - Drop unneeded sentence
6887 - Add a button to restart Tails at the end of creating the Persistent Storage
6889 * Only install usable locales and Tor Browser langpacks (tails/tails!204)
6892 - Only ship locale definitions that the user can select in the Welcome Screen
6894 - Test suite often fails on Jenkins due to lack of "disk" space in
6895 /tmp/TailsToaster/TailsToasterStorage (tails/tails#17984)
6898 - Test suite: calculate supported locales outside of loop.
6899 - Test suite: add expected image for the Unsafe Browser in Spanish
6900 - Test suite: don't use English as a way of testing localization of the Unsafe
6902 - Test suite: adjust for the removal of locales-all
6903 - Avoid localepurge deleting ll_RR.utf8 locale variants
6904 - Build system: drop browser localization descriptions for languages not
6905 available in the Welcome Screen
6906 - Bring back localepurge, to delete unneeded localizations
6907 - Only ship Tor Browser langpacks for locales that the user can select in the
6909 - Only ship locale definitions that the user can select in the Welcome Screen
6911 * Thunderbird 78 and Enigmail obsoletion (tails/tails!203)
6914 - Upgrade to Thunderbird 78 ESR (tails/tails#17148)
6915 - Migrate from Enigmail to Thunderbird 78's built-in OpenPGP support
6919 - Test suite: adjust tests for Thunderbird 78.
6920 - Test suite: make local.yml load before *.d dirs, as intended.
6921 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
6922 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
6923 - Add missing 'set -u' to build-time hook.
6924 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
6927 - I'm not sure whether it's still the case
6928 - Update more references
6929 - Instruct to disable the GnuPG feature of the Persistent Storage
6930 - Document 'Require Encryption' by default
6931 - Rewrite anonym's draft
6935 - Remove outdated screenshot
6936 - Explain better the protection of the Master Password
6937 - Thunderbird: drop part of patch.
6938 - Thunderbird: don't automatically attach public key to signed messages.
6939 - Thunderbird: backport patch introducing pref for whether to automatically
6940 attach the public key.
6941 - Thunderbird: backport fix for OpenPGP dialog when sending to a recipient
6943 - Create libresolv.so → libresolv-${version}.so symlink.
6944 - Thunderbird: use the "Require encryption by default" policy.
6945 - Thunderbird: apply patch fixing issue with default encryption policy.
6946 - Revert "Thunderbird: patch to disable protectHeaders AKA MemoryHole."
6947 - Revert "Thunderbird: set allow_external_gnupg = true."
6948 - Improve migration prompt
6949 - Help user know how old Tails 4.13 is
6950 - Update Persistent Storage UI and doc
6951 - Remove fuzzy duplicates in PO files.
6952 - Remove section that's too generic
6953 - Remove deprecated migration instructions
6954 - Add section to import private keys
6955 - Move shorter and more generic sections first
6956 - Use automatic TOC anchors
6957 - Merge inline with its only page
6958 - Add headings and make the instructions linear
6959 - Thunderbird: patch to disable protectHeaders AKA MemoryHole.
6960 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
6961 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
6962 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
6963 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
6964 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
6965 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
6966 - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
6967 - Hook thunderbird wrapper script into our translation infrastructure.
6968 - Thunderbird: notify user about Enigmail migration.
6969 - Update Thunderbird OpenPGP docs for version 78.
6970 - Drop everything related to Enigmail.
6971 - Thunderbird: set allow_external_gnupg = true.
6972 - Thunderbird: update renamed prefs from upstreamed patches.
6973 - Don't install Enigmail (refs: #17147).
6974 - Update Thunderbird patches from icedove.git at commit
6975 90184f927783370a65bfde271a67613d21372c9f
6977 - Revert "Install Thunderbird 68 until we're ready for 78"
6979 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 16 Nov 2020 12:23:11 +0100
6981 tails (4.12) unstable; urgency=medium
6984 - Upgrade libx11 to 2:1.6.7-1+deb10u1
6987 - Upgrade firmware-linux-nonfree to 20200918-1
6989 * Upgrade to Tor Browser 10.0.2 (based on Firefox 78.4) (tails/tails!208)
6992 - Upgrade to Tor Browser 10.0.2 (based on Firefox 78.4) (tails/tails#17971)
6995 - Revert "Tor Browser: patch in prefs changes introduced in 10.0-build3."
6996 - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive.
6997 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0.2-build2.
6999 * Use v3 Onion service to connect to our custom APT repository (tails/tails!201)
7002 - Migrate deb.tails.boum.org APT source to v3 onion (tails/tails#17937)
7005 - Use v3 Onion service to connect to our custom APT repository
7007 * onion-grater: fix rate limiting of how often we try to connect to tor
7011 - onion-grater: fix rate limiting of how often we try to connect to tor
7013 * Electrum & Upgrader wrappers: fix i18n support and use canonical URL for manual
7014 upgrade doc (tails/tails!198)
7017 - tails-upgrade-frontend-wrapper points users to a 404 URL for manual upgrades in
7018 French (tails/tails#17958)
7019 - Some Python scripts fail to set the gettext text domain correctly
7024 - Electrum & Upgrader wrappers: fix internationalization support, by setting the
7025 text domain correctly
7026 - Unfuzzy 2 translation strings
7027 - Update POT and PO files
7028 - tails-upgrade-frontend-wrapper: remove spurious double quotes surrounding error
7030 - Update POT and PO files
7031 - tails-upgrade-frontend-wrapper: use canonical URLs for manual upgrade doc
7033 * Keep installing Thunderbird 68 until we're ready for 78 (tails/tails!197)
7036 - All branches FTBFS since Thunderbird 78 reached the Buster security repo
7040 - Install Thunderbird 68 until we're ready for 78
7042 * WhisperBack: sanitize HTTP(s) URLs (tails/tails!196)
7045 - Unscrubbed URL in WhisperBack reports (tails/tails#10695)
7048 - WhisperBack: sanitize HTTP(s) URLs
7050 * Avoid mirrors and rsync.lizard running out of disk space during the release
7051 process when upgrades to a beta/RC are present (tails/tails!195)
7054 - Avoid mirrors and rsync.lizard running out of disk space during the release
7055 process when upgrades to a beta/RC are present (tails/tails#17944)
7058 - Release process: delete beta/RC IUKs before uploading the IUKs for the final
7060 - Call for testing: set a deadline for providing feedback (2 days before the
7062 - Release process: automate generation of call for testing
7064 * Installer: fix various internationalization bugs (tails/tails!194)
7067 - Various internationalization bugs in the Installer (tails/tails#17961)
7070 - Update POT and PO files, to match translatable strings changes
7071 - Installer: allow translators to reorder string arguments in translations
7072 - Installer: fix translations being unused due to translatable string being
7075 * Upgrade Linux to 5.8 and Debian to 10.6 (tails/tails!188)
7078 - Upgrade Linux to 5.8 (tails/tails#17896)
7079 - Upgrade to Buster 10.6 (tails/tails#17930)
7080 - Regression with Intel Corporation [8086:22b0] and [8086:22b1] GPU since 4.9
7084 - Tor Browser AppArmor profile: allow access to DRI nodes
7085 - Tor Browser AppArmor profile: update patch to apply on top of 0.3.2-14
7086 - Update GNOME Shell to 3.30.2-11~deb10u2.0tails1
7087 - Update systemd to 241-7~deb10u4.0tails1
7088 - Refresh uBlock patch to apply cleanly on top of webext-ublock-origin-firefox
7090 - Adjust for webext-ublock-origin package split
7091 - Adjust fake linux-compiler-gcc-N-x86 hack to Linux 5.8's needs
7092 - Kernel command line: drop init_on_alloc=1, now set by default in Debian
7093 - Upgrade Linux to 5.8.0-2 (currently at version 5.8.10-1)
7094 - Bump snapshot of the Debian archive to 2020101002
7096 * Upgrade to tor 0.4.4.5 (tails/tails!187)
7099 - Upgrade to tor 0.4.4 (tails/tails#17932)
7102 - Bump APT snapshot of the "torproject" archive to 2020091901, that has tor
7105 * Port Perl code to translatable strings format supported by GNU gettext
7109 - Port Perl code to translatable strings format supported by GNU gettext
7113 - refresh-translations: check PO files while converting them to MO
7114 - Upgrader, Persistence wizard: set the UTF-8 flag on all strings returned by
7116 - Re-add loading POSIX: we use it for more than setlocale
7117 - Upgrader, Persistence wizard: assume UTF-8 locale
7118 - Drop unneeded call to setlocale
7119 - Drop meaningless attempt at localization
7120 - Persistence setup: encode output when displaying errors on stdout
7121 - IUK creation: make saveas method benchmarking info honor its $outfile_name
7123 - Port Perl code to translatable strings format supported by GNU gettext
7125 * Import WhisperBack into our main Git repository (tails/tails!179)
7128 - Move WhisperBack source to our main Git repository (tails/tails#16936)
7131 - generate-changelog: don't consider obsolete tails/whisperback project
7132 - Integrate WhisperBack into our l10n setup
7133 - Import WhisperBack
7135 * Import Tails Installer into our main Git repository and delete its dead code
7139 - Move Tails Installer to our main Git repository (tails/tails#17917)
7142 - generate-changelog: don't consider obsolete tails/installer project
7143 - Adjust tails-installer.desktop to l10n setup
7144 - Installer: adjust gettext files lookup
7145 - Installer: adjust data directory lookup
7146 - Update Transifex script & doc: most of our Transifex projects are obsolete
7147 - Adjust code and doc to the fact Tails Installer now lives in tails.git
7148 - Import Tails Installer
7150 * Add a button to cancel the upgrade while downloading (tails/tails!12)
7153 - Add a button to cancel the upgrade while it's downloading (tails/tails#17310)
7156 - Fix regression introduced by 26b9b1b83f3857232474dd2291889867e80a3b45
7157 - Upgrader: port code added in !12 to the l10n setup we switched to in !181
7159 - Convert tails-iuk-get-target-file | zenity pipeline to start / pump / finish
7161 - Update design doc wrt. new tails-iuk-get-target-file permissions
7162 - Remove unnecessary exit code handling
7164 - Allow tails-upgrade-frontend to kill the download process
7165 - Set a signal handler to cancel the download when the zenity dialog is closed
7166 - Add a button to cancel the upgrade while it is downloading
7168 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 19 Oct 2020 08:35:44 +0000
7170 tails (4.11) unstable; urgency=medium
7173 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 5.7.0-3 at 5.7.17-1 (#17895).
7174 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0 (#17933).
7175 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 68.12.0-1~deb10u1.
7176 - Upgrade xorg-server to 1.20.4-1+deb10u1.
7177 - Upgrade openexr to 2.2.1-4.1+deb10u1.
7178 - Upgrade bind9 to 9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+deb10u2.
7179 - Upgrade ghostscript to 9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u4.
7180 - Upgrade libzmq5 to 4.3.1-4+deb10u2.
7182 * Minor improvements and updates
7183 - Upgrade Electrum to 4.0.2-2.
7185 * Tor Browser 10.0 (tails/tails!189)
7188 - Tor Browser: patch in prefs changes introduced in 10.0-build3.
7189 - Test suite: make scenario titles consistently not end with period
7190 - Unsafe Browser: adjust disabling add-ons to Tor Browser 10
7191 - Unsafe Browser: add missing escaping
7192 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0-build2 (refs: #17933).
7193 - Rename, refactor, reorganize.
7194 - Tor Browser: use new trick to avoid mandatory extension signing.
7195 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0a7.
7197 * Test suite: use versioned python2 interpreter for otr-bot.py (tails/tails!186)
7200 - Test suite: use versioned python2 interpreter for otr-bot.py
7202 * Test suite: switch to virtio transport for the remote shell (tails/tails!185)
7205 - Improve the remote shell's performance by switching to a virtio channel
7209 - Test suite: make SocketReadTimeout inherit from RuntimeError
7211 - Test suite: use factorized way to get and update the domain's XML definition
7212 - Fix Layout/EmptyLineAfterGuardClause Rubocop regression
7213 - Fix Style/StringLiterals Rubocop regression
7214 - Fix Naming/HeredocDelimiterNaming Rubocop regression
7215 - Rubocop: fix a Security/JSONLoad regression
7216 - tails-autotest-remote-shell: lint
7217 - tails-autotest-remote-shell: remove unused import
7218 - Remote shell: improve warning.
7219 - Test suite: log whenever remote_shell_is_up?() returns false.
7220 - Remote shell: use timed read() for virtio channel.
7221 - Remote shell: switch from serial to virtio transport (refs: #11888).
7223 * Release process: generate UDFs to non-final releases from any supported
7224 previous version (tails/tails!178)
7227 - UDF generation is broken for release candidates (tails/tails#17921)
7230 - Don't generate UDFs on the stable channel to point to a release candidate
7231 - Release process: generate UDFs to non-final releases from any supported
7234 * Don't override Debian's system-wide Thunderbird configuration (tails/tails!177)
7237 - Adding comment explaining extensions.update.enabled Thunderbird pref (Refs:
7239 - Removing network.protocol-handler.app.http[s] Thunderbird preferences (Refs:
7241 - Removing intl.locale.requested Thunderbird preference (Refs: #16021)
7242 - Changing header in Thunderbird's prefs file indicating they are Tails' prefs
7244 - aa_tails.js: Removing repeated thunderbird preferences
7245 - Moving local included thunderbird config to not overwrite debian default (Will-
7248 * Clarify phrasing of KeePassXC database renaming dialog (tails/tails!175)
7252 - Explain that the change came from KeePassXC (#17286)
7254 * Test Thunderbird with local email server on Jenkins (tails/tails!172)
7257 - Checking credentials in Thunderbird autoconfig wizard sometimes fails in the
7258 test suite (tails/tails#11890)
7259 - Run our own email (IMAP/POP3/SMTP) server for automated tests run on lizard
7263 - Test suite: fix Rubocop offenses
7265 - Test suite: add debug logging so we can tell whether we're installing the
7266 hosts' email server's snakeoil certificate
7267 - Test suite: add missing newline.
7268 - Test suite: set promiscuous trust for the certificate we import.
7269 - Test suite: import isotesters' snakoil SSL cert into Thunderbird.
7270 - Test suite: complete the switch from Icedove to Thunderbird namespace in
7271 configuration (refs: #12277)
7273 * Chutney docs and logging (tails/tails!167)
7276 - Test suite: improve logging message for initial Chutney cleanup.
7277 - Test suite: also log when Chutney is up and running.
7278 - Test suite: make Chutney logging visible without debug formatter.
7279 - Test suite: document our usage of Chutney (refs: #17801).
7281 * Install python3-trezor from buster-backports (tails/tails!165)
7284 - Install trezor packages from buster-backports
7286 * Fix “return to Greeter when clicking the Start Tails button” on Intel+AMD dual-
7287 GPU systems (tails/tails!163)
7290 - tails-unblock-network: skip most graphics-related devices when triggering udev
7292 * Round the download size in "Upgrade available" dialog (tails/tails!162)
7295 - Rounds the size of numbers displayed in stderr if is not possible to do an
7296 incremental upgrade because there is no free memory or disk space available
7297 - Round the download size in Upgrade available IUK dialog
7299 * Save KeePassXC database in persistent directory (tails/tails!161)
7302 - Adjust end-user documentation for new default KeePassXC database filename
7303 - Open Passwords.kdbx by default (#17286)
7304 - Install KeePassXC 2.5.4 from buster-backports (#17286)
7306 * Support audio on recent Intel platforms: Comet Lake, Whiskey Lake, etc.
7310 - auto/build: enable the pipefail option
7311 - Add Intel SOF Firmware and Topology binaries as a submodule and install them
7312 - build-tails: give our build scripts access to submodules' refs
7313 - Make code fail hard if it becomes obsolete
7315 * "Synchronizing the system's clock" notification: hidden → onion services
7319 - update hidden to onion services
7320 (https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/15354)
7322 * Drop obsolete workaround for python3-qdarkstyle, fixing devel FTBFS
7326 - Drop now unneeded APT pinning on helpdev and python3-qdarkstyle
7327 - Revert "Avoid installing python3-qdarkstyle by default"
7329 * Build the changelog from GitLab MRs rather than from Git commits
7333 - generate-changelog: only list merged MRs
7334 - Changelog generation: support preparing a non-final (alpha, beta, RC) release
7336 - Release process: update obsolete reference to Stretch
7337 - Release process: use HTTPS URIs
7338 - Remove obsolete "release" script
7339 - RM doc: drop obsolete process hack around painful changelog generation
7340 - Release process and release notes checklist: switch to automated changelog
7342 - changelog.jinja2: add newlines for nicer formatting if rendered as Markdown
7343 - generate-changelog: skip merge commits
7344 - Add PoC script that generates a changelog from GitLab MRs
7346 * Include "initially installed Tails version" info in WhisperBack reports
7350 - Include "initially installed Tails version" in WhisperBack reports
7351 - Reorder debugging info: keep persistence-related info together
7353 * try_for() timeout is not honored (tails/tails!151)
7356 - Test suite: try_for timeout is not honored (tails/tails#17822)
7359 - Revert "Revert "Test suite: revert exception handling change in try_for""
7361 * Enable persistence for all Greeter settings (tails/tails!149)
7364 - Test suite: make sure Greeter settings are default when they should.
7365 - Test suite: add scenario testing persistent Greeter options (refs: #17136).
7366 - Test suite: support entering sudo/persistent password in German.
7367 - Test suite: simplify.
7368 - Test suite: refactor.
7369 - Test suite: restore $language after reboot during the same scenario.
7370 - Test suite: consistently wait for notifications after logging in.
7371 - Greeter: Explain in a comment why we need this ugly workaround
7372 - Greeter: expand persistence support to all settings.
7374 * Tor browser 10.0.x based on ESR78 (tails/tails!148)
7377 - Automate Tor Browser import branch name generation.
7378 - Tor Browser: disable update checks via Enterprise Policy mechanism.
7379 - Revert "Tor Browser: disable the update check with a hack."
7380 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0a6.
7381 - Tor Browser: disable the update check with a hack.
7382 - Test Suite: bump image.
7383 - Test Suite: bump UnsafeBrowserStartPage.fa.png.
7384 - Unsafe Browser: enable userChrome.css.
7385 - Unsafe Browser: Fix pref → user_pref error.
7386 - Tor Browser: drop userChrome.css.
7387 - Unsafe Browsesr: make DNS resolution work.
7388 - Revert "Tor Browser: remove leftover .orig."
7389 - Revert "Tor Browser: delete all Namecoin stuff."
7390 - Revert "Tor Browser: temporarily disable all non-en_US locales."
7391 - Tor Browser: refresh extension hacks patches.
7392 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.0a5-build2.
7394 - Don't ignore grep failure.
7395 - Tor Browser: delete all Namecoin stuff.
7396 - Tor Browser: use the bundled libstdc++.so.6.
7397 - Tor Browser: remove leftover .orig.
7398 - Tor Browser: temporarily disable all non-en_US locales.
7399 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 10.x nightly build as of 2020-08-13.
7400 - Tor Browser: naming scheme for nightly builds has changed.
7402 * Hide broken "Turn on Wi-Fi Hotspot" feature in GNOME Wi-Fi settings
7406 - Hide broken "Turn on Wi-Fi Hotspot" feature in GNOME Wi-Fi settings (#17887)
7408 * Upgrade Linux to 5.7.17-1, adjust for updated Electrum dependencies, support
7409 older TREZOR firmware (tails/tails!142)
7412 - Avoid installing python3-qdarkstyle by default
7413 - Install python3-hid, to support the HID version of TREZOR
7414 - Install python3-qdarkstyle from Bullseye: Electrum now depends on it (#17904)
7415 - Upgrade Linux to 5.7.0-3, currently at version 5.7.17-1 (#17895)
7416 - Revert "Install python3-cryptography, otherwise Electrum 4.0.2-0.1 won't start"
7417 - Install python3-construct from buster-backports: python3-trezor needs it
7420 * Fix sorting Intel GPUs last in the "Error starting GDM" message
7424 - Multiple GPUs are not sorted in the intended order in the "Error starting GDM"
7425 message (tails/tails#17903)
7428 - Fix sorting Intel GPUs last in the "Error starting GDM" message (#17903)
7430 * Include information about the contents of the system partition in WhisperBack
7431 reports (tails/tails!140)
7434 - tails-debugging-info: include information about the contents of the system
7436 - tails-debugging-info: add support for commands that need to go through a shell
7438 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 21 Sep 2020 12:03:51 +0200
7440 tails (4.10) unstable; urgency=medium
7443 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 9.5.4-build1 (Closes: #17885).
7444 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 5.7.0-2 at 5.7.10-1 (Closes: #17841,
7448 - Make iPhone Tethering work by adding udev rule to disable MAC
7449 spoofing for it (Closes: #17820).
7450 - Remove broken Thunderbird protocol selection. This code has been
7451 a no-op in practice since at least Tails 4.0. We've decided to
7452 reject #17276 and investigate what the biggest problems are for
7453 email in Tails with slow/shitty Internet connections:
7454 default'ing to IMAP may, or may not, be part of these
7455 problems (Closes #17276).
7457 * Minor improvements and updates
7458 - Upgrade to Tor 0.4.3.6 (Closes: #17835).
7459 - Upgrade to Electrum 4.0.2 (Closes: #17828).
7460 - Hide Thunderbird welcome message: it is not relevant in the
7461 context of Tails. For example, it feels weird that we would
7462 encourage users to donate to Thunderbird about as loudly as we
7463 encourage them to donate to Tails. Besides, the default message
7464 is retrieved from the web when Thunderbird starts. We don't
7465 need this extra network activity.
7466 - import-translations: use *_release branches instead of
7467 *_completed branches. The new *_release branches contain exactly
7468 what we want, i.e. all reviewed translations from
7469 Transifex. While the *_completed branches only contain PO files
7470 for languages that are fully translated (Closes: #16774).
7473 - Upgrade snapshot of the Debian archive to 2020081601, including
7474 the 10.5 point release of Debian Buster (Closes: #17790).
7475 - On Bullseye and newer: use custom, fake, unversioned python
7476 packages. The unversioned python packages are not shipped in
7477 Bullseye/sid anymore, and even old versions are not installable
7478 anymore (Closes: #17858).
7479 - Import vagrant-libvirt's create_box.sh script. It's not included
7480 in vagrant-libvirt 0.1.2-1 anymore (Closes: #17872).
7483 - Improve robustness for scenario "The Additional Software dpkg
7484 hook notices when persistence is locked down while installing a
7486 - Improve robustness for scenario "Use GNOME Disks to unlock a USB
7487 drive that has a basic VeraCrypt volume with a keyfile".
7488 - Improve robustness of cloning a Git repository.
7489 - Don't hammer resources of the system under test while
7490 installing/removing packages. I see every such dpkg|grep call
7491 takes about 0.3 seconds on lizard, i.e. 30% of the 1 second
7492 default delay between checks, which I suspect is enough to slow
7493 down the package installation/removal we're exercising.
7494 - Update expected title of the GitLab page we use
7495 - Rubocop: target Ruby 2.5 (Buster).
7497 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 24 Aug 2020 13:28:43 +0200
7499 tails (4.9) unstable; urgency=medium
7502 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 9.5.3-build1 (Closes: #17827).
7503 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 1:68.10.0-1~deb10u1 (DSA-4718).
7504 - Upgrade Linux to 5.7.0-1 at 5.7.6-1 (Closes: #17786).
7505 - Upgrade Evolution Data Server to 3.30.5-1+deb10u1 (DSA-4725).
7506 - Upgrade FFmpeg to 7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1 (DSA-4722).
7507 - Upgrade ImageMagick to 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1+deb10u1 (DSA-4712).
7508 - Upgrade NSS to 2:3.42.1-1+deb10u3 (DSA-4726).
7509 - Upgrade OpenMPT to 2:3.42.1-1+deb10u3 (DSA-4729).
7510 - Upgrade WebKitGTK to 2.28.3-2~deb10u1 (DSA-4724).
7513 - Fix quoting issue triggering problems with some administration
7514 passwords (Closes: #17792).
7515 - Fix toram boot option by not starting the tails-shutdown-on-media-removal
7516 service unit in that case (Closes: #17800).
7517 - Fix keyboard setting handling in the greeter (Closes: #17794).
7518 - Make sure log messages can be displayed by Plymouth, which has strict
7519 limits, and improve parsing in tails-gdm-error-message (Closes: #17533).
7520 - Upgrade firmware-linux and firmware-nonfree to 20200421-1.
7522 * Minor improvements and updates
7523 - Ensure MAC spoofing messages are translated (Closes: #17783).
7524 - Improve failure handling for MAC spoofing (Closes: #17784).
7525 - Trigger MAC spoofing "panic" mode when the debug=test_mac_spoof_panic boot
7527 - Upgrade VirtualBox guest modules to 6.1.12-dfsg-5.
7530 - Automate post-release GitLab updates, using gitlab-triage (Closes: #17589).
7531 - Fix a lot of possible problems spotted by ShellCheck, thanks to Paul Wise.
7532 - Stop installing custom firmware: firmware-realtek 20200421-1 includes it
7533 (See: #17786, #17323).
7534 - Update Thunderbird patches (Closes: #6156, #17808).
7535 - Bump snapshot of the Debian archive to 2020071801 (Closes: #17786).
7538 - Add shell-special chars to passwords (See: #17792).
7539 - Always test the Unsafe Browser in Farsi.
7540 - Fix support for symlinks (Closes: #17547).
7541 - Update persistence-setup test suite for a new preset in Welcome Screen
7543 - Drop Thunderbird POP3 test.
7544 - Make the "the Tor Browser has started" step stricter.
7545 - Improve error output when the Unsafe Browser fails to start in some locale.
7547 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 27 Jul 2020 09:03:10 +0200
7549 tails (4.8) unstable; urgency=medium
7552 - Welcome Screen: after a large refactoring we now can persist
7553 settings (See: #17136)! Currently it is limited to the newly
7554 added option that controls whether the Unsafe Browser is allowed
7555 to start (#17085). In the next major release we'll support all
7559 - Allow to disable the Unsafe Browser in the Welcome Screen
7560 (Closes: #17085). The Unsafe Browser can be used by exploits to
7561 deanonymize the Tails user (for details, see: #15635).
7562 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 9.5.1-build2 (Closes: 17782).
7564 * Upgrade to Thunderbird 68.9.0 (DSA-4702).
7565 * Disable unsafe MX automatic configuration method (Closes:
7567 * Disable unsafe MS Exchange automatic configuration method
7569 - Upgrade Linux kernel to linux-image-5.6.0-2 at 5.6.14-2 (Closes:
7571 - Upgrade gnutls28-based packages to 3.6.7-4+deb10u4 (DSA-4697).
7572 - Upgrade intel-microcode to 3.20200609.2~deb10u1 (DSA-4701).
7575 - Trigger emergency shutdown on resume when the boot device was
7576 removed while suspended (Closes: #16787).
7577 - Thunderbird: make searching in messages (Find bar and Find in
7578 This Message) work again (Closes: #17328).
7579 - Ensure Mac Spoofing Panic messages will be correctly displayed
7580 (Closes: #17779). udev may close child processes when a process
7581 associated with a rule (/etc/udev/rules) terminates so we wait
7582 for those processes before exiting.
7583 - Wrap `seahorse-tool --import` so it is handled by `gpg --import`
7584 (Closes: #17183). This makes importing binary keys via GNOME
7585 Files integration possible again.
7587 * Minor improvements and updates
7588 - Upgrade to tor 0.4.3.5-1 (Closes: #17741).
7589 - Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:6.1.5-3+deb10u6.
7590 - Upgrade VirtualBox guest modules to 6.1.10-dfsg-1.
7591 - Append Unsafe Browser setting to WhisperBack debug info.
7594 - Upgrade snapshot of the Debian archive to 2020061003, including
7595 the 10.4 point release of Debian Buster (Closes: #17620).
7596 - Tor Browser AppArmor profile: update patch to apply on top of
7597 0.3.2-11 (Closes: #17612)
7598 - Thunderbird AppArmor profile: update patch to apply on top of
7599 68.9.0 (Closes: #17769).
7602 - Establish a coding standards baseline on our Ruby code base
7603 using Rubocop (Closes: #17646). This *MASSIVE* change includes
7604 mainly stylistic fixes and linting but also a few bug fixes,
7605 some dead code removal and code simplifications/refactorings,
7606 spelling fixes, improved gherkin and even removal the of
7607 a few duplicated tests and merging of very similar tests.
7608 - Improve robustness of navigating the GRUB menu in UEFI mode, and
7609 consequently drop the @fragile tag on the UEFI boot scenario
7611 - Allow configuring the number of vCPUs given to TailsToaster.
7612 Based on work done by kytv (♥) on #6729. On powerful hardware
7613 with many CPUs, Tails boots much faster with >2 vCPUs given to
7615 - Disable desktop size and clipboard interference between the host
7616 system and the system under test when using --view.
7617 - Ensure we run post_snapshot_restore_hook every time it's needed.
7618 - Fix running with XDG_SESSION_TYPE unset (Closes: #17596).
7619 - Always test the localized start up page of the Unsafe Browser.
7620 - Add --keep-chutney option to keep Chutney data, but no
7621 snapshots, between runs.
7622 - Revert "Test suite: disable tests about notifications in case of
7623 MAC spoofing failure (refs: #10774)"
7624 - Verify that the Unsafe Browser is disabled by default.
7625 - Test suite: fix --image-bumping-mode.
7627 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2020 16:02:18 +0200
7629 tails (4.7) unstable; urgency=medium
7632 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 9.5-build2 (Closes: #17710).
7633 - Upgrade APT to 1.8.2.1 (DSA-4685).
7634 - Upgrade BIND to 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+deb10u1 (DSA-4689).
7635 - Upgrade WebKitGTK to 2.28.2-2~deb10u1 (DSA-4681).
7636 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 1:68.8.0-1~deb10u1 (DSA-4683).
7639 - Improve Additional Software reliability (Closes: #17278): disable
7640 periodic APT operations entirely, adjust timeouts, force data
7641 synchronization, preserve file ownership.
7642 - Make memory erasure feature compatible with overlayfs (Closes: #15146).
7643 - Adjust various documentation for the new GitLab-based hosting.
7645 * Minor improvements and updates
7646 - Fix title of unlock-veracrypt-volume error dialog in case of incorrect
7647 password (Closes: #17668).
7648 - Clean up confusing torrc (Closes: #17706).
7651 - IUK creation: don't use extreme compression options for the outer
7652 SquashFS container refs.
7653 - IUK creation: add support for building several IUKs in parallel locally
7655 - IUK verification: add support for fetching IUKs built in parallel on
7656 Jenkins (Closes: #17658).
7657 - Release process: generate UDFs on the alpha channel for previous
7658 non-final releases (Closes: #17614).
7659 - Remove aufs-based IUK generation code and doc (Closes: #17489).
7662 - Adjust for augmented timeouts in Additional Software.
7663 - Adjust locale lookup to check several directories.
7664 - Speed up 'I fill a ... MiB file' step by 1000%.
7665 - Keep latest test suite screenshot (Closes: #17621).
7666 - Fix test suite breaking when the user connects to the VM via virt-viewer
7668 - Adjust reference images and titles following the migration to GitLab
7669 (Closes: #17718, 17719).
7671 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 01 Jun 2020 18:31:41 +0200
7673 tails (4.6) unstable; urgency=medium
7676 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 9.0.10-build2 (Closes: #17660).
7677 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 1:68.7.0-1~deb10u1 (MFSA-2020-14, DSA-4656).
7678 - Upgrade Git to 1:2.11.0-3+deb9u3 (DSA-4657, DSA-4659).
7679 - Upgrade Node.js to 10.19.0~dfsg1-1 (DSA-4669).
7680 - Upgrade OpenLDAP to 2.4.47+dfsg-3+deb10u2 (DSA-4666).
7681 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.1.1d-0+deb10u3 (DSA-4661).
7682 - Upgrade ReportLab to 3.5.13-1+deb10u1 (DSA-4663).
7683 - Upgrade WebKitGTK to 2.26.4-1~deb10u3 (DSA-4658).
7686 - Switch Japanese input method from Anthy to Mozc (Closes: #16719).
7687 - Install the libu2f-udev package, for U2F device support.
7688 - Update our list of 'Favorites' applications (Closes: #16990).
7691 - lint_po: support locales with "@" in their name, such as ru@petr1708
7693 - perl5lib: declare missing test dependencies (Closes: #17591).
7694 - iuk: declare missing test dependencies (Closes: #17592).
7695 - Upgrade to po4a 0.55 for Tails images and Vagrant box (Closes: #17005).
7698 - Print disk usage information when the test suite fails with “No
7700 - Ensure no zombie processes are left around, by cleaning subprocesses
7701 correctly (Closes: #17551).
7702 - Prevent webrick from becoming a zombie process.
7703 - Avoid test suite getting stuck due to a zero timeout.
7704 - Fix obsoletion warnings (Closes: #17552).
7705 - Add root check and --allow-non-root option (Closes: #17613). Let's
7706 make it clear running the test suite requires root privileges in
7709 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 04 May 2020 18:43:38 +0200
7711 tails (4.5) unstable; urgency=medium
7714 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 9.0.9-build1 (Closes: #17594).
7715 - Upgrade BlueZ to 5.50-1.2~deb10u1 (DSA-4647).
7716 - Upgrade GnuTLS to 3.6.7-4+deb10u3 (DSA-4652).
7718 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 06 Apr 2020 21:51:05 +0200
7720 tails (4.5~rc1) unstable; urgency=medium
7723 - Migrate from aufs to overlayfs (Closes: #8415). This change touches
7724 many components which won't all be listed individually, but some
7725 highlights are listed below:
7726 ⋅ Adjust the build system to stop building the aufs kernel module.
7727 ⋅ Switch the kernel command line from union=aufs to union=overlayfs.
7728 ⋅ Adjust AppArmor profiles (Closes: #9045, #12112).
7729 . Adapt chroot-browsers (Closes: #12105).
7730 ⋅ Drop the aufs Git submodule.
7731 ⋅ Make memory erasure feature compatible with overlayfs
7733 ⋅ Make Upgrader support and also generate overlayfs-based IUKs by
7734 default (Closes: #9373).
7735 - Use GRUB with Secure Boot support for x86_64 (Closes: #6560, #15806).
7736 This is also a large change, touching many components:
7737 ⋅ Install grub from bullseye.
7738 ⋅ Introduce a custom grub configuration file.
7739 ⋅ Use a custom background image.
7740 ⋅ Mimick Debian Installer's efi-image build script to handle all
7741 details in binary local hooks.
7742 ⋅ Add SYSLINUX in the syslinux bootloader menu, to make it easier to
7743 troubleshoot GRUB vs. syslinux issues (Closes: #17538).
7744 ⋅ Upgrader: Adjust to also handle files in EFI/debian when dealing
7746 ⋅ Adjust test suite.
7747 - Migrate test suite from Sikuli to a combination of OpenCV (image
7748 matching), xdotool (mouse interaction), plus libvirt's send-key
7749 (keyboard interaction) (Closes: #15460). This is another major
7750 changes, allowing the test suite to run on Buster-based systems,
7751 touching various areas of the test suite, among which:
7752 ⋅ Add workaround for the Greeter when restoring snapshot.
7753 ⋅ Fix dependencies for Buster.
7754 ⋅ Replace some Sikuli-based options with some OpenCV-based ones
7755 (e.g. --retry-find → --image-bumping-mode).
7756 ⋅ Handle non-English keyboards.
7757 ⋅ Fix --capture on Buster and above.
7758 ⋅ Deal with Buster having migrated from avconv to ffmpeg.
7761 - Upgrade ICU to 63.1-6+deb10u1 (DSA-4646).
7763 * Minor improvements and updates
7764 - Refactor tails-documentation (Closes: #16903).
7767 - Freeze APT snapshots for 4.5~rc1.
7768 - Rakefile: always disable website caching when building from a tag
7770 - Rakefile: fix recommended permissions (libvirt needs +r to share the
7771 source tree with the Vagrant box).
7772 - Import persistence-setup.git from its own repository into tails.git
7773 (Closes: #17526, #6487).
7774 - IUK: ensure rsync runtime dependency is installed.
7777 - Adjust for the aufs → overlayfs migration (Closes: #12106, #17440,
7779 - run_test_suite: don't print usage on error.
7780 - run_test_suite: --view/--vnc-server-only are only supported on x11.
7781 - Optimize checking if file is empty.
7782 - Speed up some test failures to avoid resource starvation.
7783 - Check for tcplay dependency.
7784 - Increase chances chutney starts after unclean shutdown.
7785 - Make chutney log what it is doing.
7786 - Make opening Thunderbird's Extensions tab more robust.
7788 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Thu, 26 Mar 2020 22:51:35 +0100
7790 tails (4.4.1) unstable; urgency=medium
7793 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 9.0.7-build1 (Closes: #17539).
7794 - Upgrade tor to 0.4.2.7 (Closes: #17531).
7795 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 1:68.6.0-1~deb10u1 (MFSA-2020-10, DSA-4642).
7796 - Upgrade WebKitGTK to 2.26.4-1~deb10u2 (DSA-4641).
7799 - lint_po: avoid race conditions when checking PO files (Closes: #17359).
7801 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 22 Mar 2020 20:27:47 +0100
7803 tails (4.4) unstable; urgency=medium
7806 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 9.0.6-build2 (MFSA-2020-09).
7807 - Upgrade Linux kernel to linux-image-5.4.0-4, currently at 5.4.19-1
7809 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 68.5.0-1~deb10u1 (MFSA-2020-07, Closes: #17481).
7810 - Upgrade cURL to 7.64.0-4+deb10u1 (DSA-4633).
7811 - Upgrade evince to 3.30.2-3+deb10u1 (DSA-4624).
7812 - Upgrade Pillow to 5.4.1-2+deb10u1 (DSA-4631).
7813 - Upgrade ppp to 2.4.7-2+4.1+deb10u1 (DSA-4632).
7814 - Upgrade WebKitGTK to 2.26.4-1~deb10u1 (DSA-4627).
7817 - Fix missing firmware for RTL8822BE/RTL8822CE (See: #17323). Use the
7818 tails-workarounds provided firmwares until the firmware-realtek
7819 package is updated with the patch by Sjoerd Simons (Debian#935969).
7820 Note: This might not be sufficient to support those cards.
7822 * Minor improvements and updates
7823 - Upgrade dogtail to 0.9.11-6.
7824 - Upgrade virtualbox to 6.1.4-dfsg-1.
7827 - Vagrant build box: disable mitigation features for CPU
7828 vulnerabilities (Closes: #17386). Given the kind of things we do in
7829 our Vagrant build box, it seems very unlikely that vulnerabilities
7830 such as Spectre and Meltdown can be exploited in there. Let's
7831 reclaim some of the performance cost of the corresponding mitigation
7833 - Enable website caching by default, with a way option to disable it
7835 - Key the website cache on debian/changelog too (Closes: #17511).
7836 - Update APT snapshot of the Debian archive to 2020030101.
7837 - Add support for the tails-workarounds submodule.
7839 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2020 10:59:10 +0100
7841 tails (4.3) unstable; urgency=medium
7844 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 9.0.5-build2 (Closes: #17469).
7845 - Update Linux kernel to linux-image-5.4.0-3-amd64, currently at
7846 5.4.13-1 (Closes: #17443).
7847 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 1:68.4.1-1~deb10u1
7848 - Upgrade WebKitGTK to 2.26.3-1~deb10u1 (DSA-4610).
7851 - live-persist: don't backup empty configuration files (Closes:
7852 #17112). In some cases, the previous code would overwrite a
7853 non-empty backup file with an empty one, making it harder to
7854 recover from the already painful #10976.
7855 - create-usb-image-from-iso: Run syslinux within proper chroot
7856 (Closes: #17179). Previously we ran syslinux from the host,
7857 which can lead to bugs if its versions differs from the one
7858 inside the chroot (which is what Tails will use later). Thanks
7859 to Johan Blåbäck for the patch!
7860 - Tails Upgrader: Fix progress bar not pulsating and hide useless
7861 OK button (Closes: #16603).
7863 * Minor improvements and updates
7864 - Upgrade tor to 0.4.2.6 (Closes: #17059).
7865 - Install the trezor package, which adds a command-line (only)
7866 tool for managing Trezor devices (Closes: #17463). Thanks to
7867 Pavol Rusnak for the patch!
7868 - As a consequence of the Linux kernel upgrade we also:
7869 * Upgrade aufs to 5.4.3 20200127.
7870 * Install VirtualBox guest tools and kernel modules from sid.
7873 - Upgrade snapshot of the Debian archive to 2020020302, including
7874 the 10.3 point release of Debian Buster (Closes: #17458).
7875 - Add opt-in caching of the wiki (Closes: #15342).
7876 - Use mksquashfs' -no-exports option even when the fastcomp build
7877 option is set. "fastcomp" is supposed to only tweak SquashFS
7878 compression settings, but so far it was also disabling the
7879 -no-exports option that we set for our release builds.
7880 - Drop a bunch of packages installed for ikiwiki for various
7882 * libfile-chdir-perl, libyaml-perl and libxml-simple-perl which
7883 was needed back when we built our own ikiwiki from Git… a
7885 * libtext-multimarkdown-perl used multimarkdown ikiwiki which
7886 its doubtful we ever will use.
7887 * libhtml-scrubber-perl, libhtml-template-perl,
7888 libhtml-parser-perl, libyaml-libyaml-perl and liburi-perl
7889 which are already installed as ikiwiki dependencies.
7890 - Install libimage-magick-perl instead of the perlmagick
7891 transitional package.
7892 - Don't install obsolete dependencies whois and eatmydata.
7893 - Consistently validate individual build options as we parse them.
7894 This is consistent with how we handled "fastcomp" already. Only
7895 compatibility checks between multiple build options really need
7896 to happen later, once we've parsed all build options.
7897 - Remove 5 years old transition code
7898 - Fully provision the Vagrant box every time it starts, and
7899 partially re-provision it for every build.
7900 - Behave correctly when disabling a previously set "offline" or
7901 "vmproxy+extproxy" build option. Previously, setting one of
7902 these build options *once* would taint the Vagrant box forever
7903 with the resulting apt-cacher-ng configuration.
7904 - Shrink the apt-cacher-ng cache after a successful build too
7906 - Set up infrastructure to retrieve log file from the VM even on
7907 build failure (Closes: #7749).
7908 - Always build from a fresh Git clone.
7909 - Set the permissions that Vagrant needs inside the source tree
7910 (Closes: #11411, #16607, #17289).
7913 - Remove Seahorse key synchronization scenarios. These 2 scenarios
7914 never pass due to #17169, so currently:
7915 * They don't teach us anything new → no benefit.
7916 * Every time a developer looks at test suite results,
7917 they need to filter out this known problem, which takes time
7918 and trains us to ignore problems.
7920 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 10 Feb 2020 14:08:59 +0100
7922 tails (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=medium
7925 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 9.0.4-build1 (MFSA-2020-03)
7928 - Avoid the Upgrader proposing to upgrade to the version
7929 that's already running (Closes: #17425)
7930 - Avoid 2 minutes delay while rebooting after applying an automatic
7931 upgrade (Closes: #17026)
7932 - Make Thunderbird support TLS 1.3 (Closes: #17333)
7935 - IUK generation: don't make all files in the SquashFS diff
7936 owned by root, otherwise an upgraded system cannot start
7939 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 13 Jan 2020 09:21:51 +0000
7941 tails (4.2) unstable; urgency=medium
7944 - Switch to a redesigned upgrade system (Closes: #15281), which:
7945 - removes the need for manual upgrades caused by lack of disk space
7948 - Bump snapshot of the Debian archive to 2019122802
7951 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 9.0.3 (Closes: #17402)
7952 - Upgrade Linux to 5.3.15-1 (Closes: #17332)
7953 and upgrade the aufs module to 5.3-20191223
7954 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 1:68.3.0-2~deb10u1
7955 - Upgrade libsasl2 to 2.1.27+dfsg-1+deb10u1
7956 - Upgrade python3-ecdsa to 0.13-3+deb10u1
7960 - Open ~/Persistent/keepassx.kdbx by default again (Closes: #17212)
7961 - Open the database specified by the user on the command-line, if any
7962 - Fix database renaming prompt
7964 - Ensure debugging info lands in the Journal before we refer to it
7965 - Catch more download errors
7966 - Upgrade amd64-microcode to 3.20191218.1, which removes firmware
7967 updates that cause issues
7969 * Minor improvements and updates
7970 - Add metadata analysis tools used by SecureDrop (Closes: #17178)
7971 - Refresh the signing key before checking for available upgrades
7973 - Port the Upgrader and perl5lib to a set of dependencies that are
7974 faster and have a lower memory footprint (Closes: #17152)
7975 - Ensure IUKs don't include files of our website if their content
7976 has not changed (refs: #15290)
7977 - Zero heap memory at allocation time and at free time (Closes: #17236)
7980 - Import the Upgrader and perl5lib codebases into tails.git
7982 - lint_po: ignore pre-existing rply cache file that can cause
7983 trouble if it's corrupted (Closes: #17359)
7984 - Move generate-languages-list to auto/scripts
7985 - import-translations: work around the lack of usable branches
7986 in Tor's translation.git (Closes: #17279)
7987 - Build released IUKs on Jenkins and verify that they match
7988 those built locally by the Release Manager (Closes: #15287)
7989 - Don't download every localized Tor Browser tarball: instead,
7990 use the new tarball that includes every langpacks (Closes: #17400)
7993 - Adapt for the "one single SquashFS diff" upgrade scheme
7994 - Chutney: update to upstream 33cbff7fc73aa51a785197c5f4afa5a91d81de9c
7996 - Fix tagging of Chutney exit relays and bridge authorities
7997 - Tag Chutney clients as such
7998 - Wait for all Chutney nodes to have bootstrapped before assuming
7999 the simulated Tor network is ready
8000 - Don't try to save tor control sockets as artifacts
8001 - Add a crude script to generate IUKs for our test suite
8003 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 06 Jan 2020 16:25:22 +0000
8005 tails (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
8008 - Drop all network drivers from the initramfs to shrink its size
8009 drastically. Going over the 32 MiB mark might be the reason why so
8010 many Apple machines can't boot 4.1 while they could boot 4.0
8012 - Only allow up to (but excluding) 32 MiB for initramfs accordingly.
8014 * Minor improvements and updates
8015 - Fix escape sequence in tails-gdm-failed-to-start.service, to avoid a
8016 warning message (Closes: #17166).
8018 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 15 Dec 2019 23:51:25 +0100
8020 tails (4.1) unstable; urgency=medium
8023 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 9.0.2-build2, based on Firefox ESR 68.3
8025 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 68.2.2 (Closes: #16771, #17220, #17222, #17267).
8026 - Upgrade Enigmail to 2:2.1.3+ds1-4~deb10u2 accordingly.
8029 - Upgrade Linux to 5.3.9-2 from sid (Closes: #17124).
8030 - Disable unprivileged userfaultfd syscall (Closes: #17196).
8031 - Upgrade file to 1:5.35-4+deb10u1 (DSA-4550-1).
8032 - Upgrade FriBidi to 1.0.5-3.1+deb10u1 (DSA-4561-1).
8033 - Upgrade Ghostscript to 9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u3 (DSA-4569-1)
8034 - Upgrade Intel microcode to 3.20191112.1~deb10u1 (DSA-4565-1,
8036 - Upgrade libarchive to 3.3.3-4+deb10u1 (DSA-4557-1).
8037 - Upgrade libvpx to 1.7.0-3+deb10u1 (DSA-4578-1).
8038 - Upgrade libxslt to 1.1.32-2.2~deb10u1 (CVE-2019-18197).
8039 - Upgrade ncurses to 6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2 (CVE-2019-17594,
8041 - Upgrade Python 2.7 to 2.7.16-2+deb10u1 (CVE-2018-20852,
8042 CVE-2019-10160, CVE-2019-16056, CVE-2019-16935, CVE-2019-9740,
8044 - Upgrade Qt to 5.11.3+dfsg1-1+deb10u1 (DSA-4556-1).
8045 - Upgrade tcpdump to 4.9.3-1~deb10u1 (DSA-4547-1).
8046 - Upgrade WebKitGTK to 2.26.2-1~deb10+1 (DSA-4558-1, DSA-4563-1).
8049 - Remove TorBirdy (Closes: #17219, #17269).
8050 - Use keys.openpgp.org's Onion service as the default keyserver
8051 (Closes: #12689, #14770).
8052 - Fix ordering of GTK bookmarks setup vs. Tor Browser directories
8053 creation (Closes: #17206).
8054 - Bring back the "Show Passphrase" button in the Greeter
8056 - Bring back "Open in Terminal" entry in the GNOME Files context menu
8058 - Revert "Browsers: disable the Quantum Bar." (Closes: #17143).
8059 - Revert "Hide all Tor connection-related settings in
8060 about:preferences in all browsers" (Closes: #17214).
8061 - Wait until Tor has bootstrapped before we try to upgrade Additional
8062 Software (Closes: #17203).
8063 - Fix the "GDM failed to start" splash screen functionality
8066 * Minor improvements and updates
8067 - htpdate: stop sending User-Agent that fakes Tor Browser
8069 - HTP: replace encrypted.google.com with www.google.com.
8070 - Remove signal handler from Greeter UI file (Closes: #17240).
8071 - Upgrade AMD microcode to 3.20191021.1.
8072 - Upgrade fonts-noto-cjk to 1:20170601+repack1-3+deb10u1
8076 - Update Vagrant box to Buster (Closes: #16868).
8077 - Adjust to timedatectl's output on Buster.
8078 - Adjust to Buster's debootstrap.
8079 - Vagrant: ensure the chroot has a /proc filesystem while running
8081 - Vagrant: install po4a from Stretch in the basebox.
8082 - build-tails: wait for NTP to be disabled before setting the desired
8084 - Bump APT snapshot of the Debian archive to 2019111801, including the
8085 10.2 point release of Buster (Closes: #17124, #17021).
8086 - Install virtualbox 6.0.12-dfsg-1 from our custom APT repository
8090 - Ensure we don't break tests by opening the Applications menu in
8091 post_vm_start_hook (Closes: #17164).
8092 - Improve GnuPG testing (Closes: #12689):
8093 · Switch to using sajolida's key.
8094 · Start adjusting for keys.openpgp.org.
8095 · Make the "GnuPG's dirmngr uses the configured keyserver" step
8096 actually test what it is meant to.
8097 · Make error strings better reflect what failure they are about.
8098 · Ensure dirmngr uses IPv4 since our CI runs on an IPv4-only
8100 - Ensure dirmngr picks up the changes we make to its configuration.
8101 - Switch backend keyservers (Closes: #14770).
8102 - Don't leave redir(1) processes behind (Closes: #14948).
8103 - Update image for Buster (Closes: #14770).
8104 - Update fragility status of Seahorse scenarios.
8105 - Avoid multiple instances of tcpdump writing to the same file,
8106 resulting in an unparsable network capture (Closes: #17102).
8107 - Update for Thunderbird 68 (Closes: #17269).
8110 - Remove or adapt mentions to Tails Installer as only installation
8111 method (Closes: #17204).
8112 - Add a warning about which Tails to run rsync from (Closes: #17197).
8114 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 02 Dec 2019 22:23:35 +0100
8116 tails (4.0) unstable; urgency=medium
8119 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 9.0-build2, based on Firefox ESR 68.2.
8122 - Upgrade IBus to 1.5.19-4+deb10u1.0tails1 (Closes: #17144)
8123 - Upgrade sudo to 1.8.27-1+deb10u1
8126 - Fix regressions brought by the integration of Tor Browser 9.0:
8127 · Fix non-English spellchecking (Closes: #17150)
8128 · Unsafe Browser: don't enable private browsing mode, don't display
8129 Tor Browser icons, hide the new "New identity" toolbar button
8131 · Hide all Tor connection-related settings in about:preferences
8133 - Fix Stealth Onion services in OnionShare (Closes: #17162)
8134 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.1.1d-0+deb10u2
8136 * Minor improvements and updates
8137 - Don't include the locales package (Closes: #17132)
8138 - Update htpdate's User-Agent to match Tor Browser 9.0's
8141 - Only partially fill memory for userspace processes (Closes: #17104)
8142 - Drop the "Unsafe Browser has no proxy configured" step, that's hard
8143 to update and adds little value
8144 - Various updates for Tor Browser 9.0 final
8145 - Make the "SSH is using the default SocksPort" scenario more robust
8148 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 21 Oct 2019 10:24:56 +0000
8150 tails (4.0~rc1) unstable; urgency=medium
8153 - Update Tor Browser to 9.0a7, based on Firefox ESR 68 (#16356).
8154 - Include a working version of Electrum: 3.3.8-0.1 (Closes: #16421).
8156 · Remove the obsolete "coin_chooser: Privacy" option (Closes: #15483).
8157 · Disable the update check (Closes: #15483).
8158 - Curate the list of languages in Tails Greeter (Closes: #16095).
8159 Only include languages which meet one of these conditions:
8160 · Have a PO file in tails.git (i.e. have at least one translated
8161 and reviewed string)
8162 · Are on our list of tier-1 supported languages.
8163 - Update Linux to 5.3.2-1~exp1 from Debian experimental (Closes: #17117).
8164 - Bump APT snapshots of the 'debian' and 'torproject' archives
8165 to 2019100904. This includes the update to the Buster 10.1
8169 - Drop NoScript customization that makes our web fingerprint diverge
8170 from Tor Browser's (related to #5362).
8171 - Enable Buster security APT sources (Closes: #17119).
8172 - Upgrade CUPS to 2.2.10-6+deb10u1 (CVE-2019-8696, CVE-2019-8675,
8173 and more security fixes).
8174 - Update GnuPG to 2.2.12-1+deb10u1, which mitigates the certificates
8176 - Update e2fsprogs to 1.44.5-1+deb10u2 (DSA-4535-1).
8177 - Update ghostscript to 9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u2 (DSA-4518-1, DSA-4499-1).
8178 - Update WebKitGTK to 2.24.4-1~deb10u1 (DSA-4515-1).
8179 - Update Pango to 1.42.4-7~deb10u1 (DSA-4496-1).
8180 - Update ffmpeg to 7:4.1.4-1~deb10u1 (DSA-4502-1).
8181 - Update expat to 2.2.6-2+deb10u1 (DSA-4530-1).
8182 - Update GLib to 2.58.3-2+deb10u1 (CVE-2019-13012).
8183 - Update libmariadb3 to 1:10.3.17-0+deb10u1 (various vulnerabilities).
8184 - Update NSS to 2:3.42.1-1+deb10u1 (CVE-2019-11719, CVE-2019-11727,
8186 - Update LibreOffice to 1:6.1.5-3+deb10u4 (DSA-4519-1, DSA-4501-1,
8187 DSA-4483-1, and CVE-2019-9848).
8188 - Update Samba to 2:4.9.5+dfsg-5+deb10u1 (DSA-4513-1).
8189 - Update OpenSSL to 1.1.1d-0+deb10u1 (DSA-4539-1).
8190 - Update libxslt to 1.1.32-2.1~deb10u1 (CVE-2019-11068, CVE-2019-13117,
8192 - Update zeromq3 to 4.3.1-4+deb10u1 (DSA-4477-1).
8193 - Update patch to 2.7.6-3+deb10u1 (DSA-4489-1).
8194 - Update Thunderbird to 1:60.9.0-1~deb10u1 (DSA-4523-1, DSA-4482-1).
8195 - Update wpasupplicant to 2:2.7+git20190128+0c1e29f-6+deb10u1 (DSA-4538-1).
8198 - Ensure that tor-has-bootstrapped systemd units are stopped
8199 if tor@default.service stops; replace the tor-has-bootstrapped
8200 script with a tor_has_bootstrapped() function that checks the status
8201 of tails-tor-has-bootstrapped.target (Closes: #16664).
8202 - Fix MIME info data build reproducibility (Closes: #17023).
8203 - Fix missing GNOME bookmarks, by adding them earlier in the session
8204 login process (Closes: #17030).
8205 - Increase left dock width in GIMP's sessionrc (Closes: #16807).
8206 - Use hardware defaults for the touchpad click method (Closes: #17045).
8207 - Fix image thumbnails in GNOME Files (Closes: #17062).
8208 - Use the "intel" X.Org driver for Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640
8210 - Fix sdhci-pci support.
8211 - Honor the "Formats" settings chosen in the Greeter (Closes: #16806).
8212 - Fix administration password not being applied in some cases
8214 - Fix Greeter settings being applied when clicking "Cancel"
8216 - Fix bridge information not always shown when the user selects
8217 bridge mode in the Greeter.
8218 - Fix path in whisperback's debugging info (Closes: #17109).
8219 - Fix Tor Browser functionality that was broken when it was started
8220 by clicking a link in Thunderbird (Closes: #17105).
8221 - Fix WhisperBack that was broken due to an expired X.509 certificate:
8222 stop using TLS (we already have end-to-end encryption via OpenPGP,
8223 plus end-to-end encryption and remote peer authentication via
8224 Tor hidden services). Also, switch to a v3 Onion service (Closes #17110).
8225 - Install Stretch's po4a (0.47-2) from our custom APT repository:
8226 the upgrade to Buster's version will need more work and coordination
8228 - Fix hiding of the Add-ons manager in the Unsafe Browser hamburger menu.
8229 Regression introduced when we upgraded to Tor Browser based on Firefox
8231 - Mention USB images as a valid installation technique when trying
8232 to create a persistent volume on a device that can't have one
8235 * Minor improvements and updates
8236 - Add iPhone USB tethering support (Closes: #16180).
8237 - Install Enigmail from Buster (Closes: #16978).
8238 - Disable GDM debug logs (Closes: #17011).
8239 - Hide less common keyboard layouts in the Greeter (Closes: #17084).
8240 - Major refactoring and cleanup of Tails Greeter (Closes: #17098).
8241 - Use a localized page for the Greeter help window, if available
8243 - Separate Chinese into simplified and traditional scripts
8244 in the Greeter (Closes: #16094).
8245 - Allow the user to show the passphrase they're typing when creating
8246 a new persistent volume (Closes: #15102).
8247 - When saving persistence.conf or its backup, also run sync(1)
8248 on its parent directory (might help fix #10976).
8249 - Improve Tails Installer wording (Closes: #15564).
8250 - Update tor to 0.4.1.6-1~d10.buster+1.
8251 - Update VirtualBox guest drivers and tools to 6.0.12-dfsg-1.
8254 - SquashFS sort file: remove more noise.
8255 - Improve lint_po's UX (refs: #16864).
8256 - Import our pythonlib, previously included as a submodule (Closes: #16935).
8257 - Use a consistent, standard Python packages directory (Closes: #17082).
8260 - Make various steps more robust:
8261 · "all notifications are disappeared" (Closes: #17012)
8262 · "Additional Software is correctly configured for package"
8263 · "I unlock and mount this VeraCrypt file container
8264 with Unlock VeraCrypt Volumes"
8265 · "I open the Unsafe Browser proxy settings dialog"
8266 · starting apps via the GNOME Activities Overview (Closes: #13469)
8267 · "I start the Tor Browser in offline mode"
8268 - Handle Guestfs::Error exceptions.
8269 - Provide guidance to fix problematic situation.
8270 - Update various reference images for Buster.
8271 - Don't attempt to find fuzzy matches with Sikuli unless fuzzy image
8272 matching is enabled (Closes: #17029).
8273 - Dogtail'ify all interactions with gedit (Closes: #17028).
8274 - New test: ensure that no experimental APT suite is enabled
8275 for deb.torproject.org (Closes: #16931).
8276 - Remove dead IRC-related code and dependencies.
8277 - Take into account that Evince and Tor Browser's print-to-file dialogs
8278 are rendered in a subtly different manner.
8279 - Drop fragile tag for actual Tails bugs (#17007).
8280 - Drop compatibility code for Cucumber < 2.4.0 (Closes: #17083).
8281 - Fix regression in the Persistent browser bookmarks scenario
8284 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Thu, 10 Oct 2019 11:23:53 +0000
8286 tails (4.0~beta2) unstable; urgency=medium
8288 * All changes included in Tails 3.16, see the corresponding changelog entry.
8291 - Upgrade tor to 0.4.1.5 (Closes: #16986).
8294 - Upgrade the Linux kernel to 5.2.0-2 (Closes: #16942).
8295 This mitigates the Spectre v1 swapgs vulnerability (CVE-2019-1125).
8296 Accordingly, aufs to aufs5.2 20190805.
8297 - Install enigmail from Bullseye (Closes: #16738).
8298 This fixes CVE-2019-12269.
8301 - tails-unblock-network: only sleep until all-net-blacklist.conf is gone,
8302 instead of unconditionally delaying the login process for 5 seconds
8304 - Terminate GDM's GNOME session after the amnesia user logs in,
8305 to free 200-300 MiB of memory (Closes: #12092).
8306 Temporarily enable GDM debug logs so we get enough information to fix
8307 any issue this might cause.
8308 - Make our KeePassXC wrapper translatable (Closes: #16952).
8309 - Adjust boot-time backports APT pinning for Buster.
8310 - Ensure we don't install unwanted packages even if they become
8311 "Priority: standard" again (Closes: #16949).
8312 - Move some GNOME apps to different menu categories (Closes: #16981).
8313 - Update HTP pools: replace boum.org (invalid certificate) with puscii.nl,
8314 replace www.myspace.com with myspace.com (the former redirects to
8316 - AppArmor: allow OnionShare to open URLs with Tor Browser (Closes: #16914).
8317 - Make file transfers with Spice reliable.
8319 * Minor improvements and updates
8320 - Greeter: improve formatting of printed exceptions.
8321 - Use the same icon for Tails Documentation in the Applications menu
8322 as on te Desktop (Closes: #16800).
8323 - Drop migration path from GnuPG persistent configuration created
8324 in the Tails 2.x era.
8325 - Remove various hacks that we don't need on Buster anymore.
8326 - Stop installing libcaribou-gtk3-module (Closes: #16757).
8327 - Stop installing python-cairo: mat2 does not use it anymore.
8328 - tails-unblock-network: have udev reload the databases it uses.
8329 This should avoid our fix for #16805 introducing regressions.
8332 - Bump APT snapshot of the 'debian' and 'torproject' archives
8334 - Import the Greeter codebase into tails.git (Closes: #16912).
8335 - Explicitly install gnome-shell to make the set of installed packages
8336 more deterministic (related to #16947).
8337 - Don't try to follow symlinks when normalizing timestamps on source files.
8338 - Add missing "set -u" to build-time hook.
8339 - Use consistent method to extract translatable strings from Glade files.
8340 - Create gdm-tails related files from the original GNOME files
8342 - Stop installing libimage-exiftool-perl explicitly: mat2 depends on it
8344 - Rakefile: disable compression when retrieving artifacts via scp.
8345 This makes this build step faster on systems that have SSH compression
8347 - import-translations: use tails-misc_release for tails.git's PO files
8348 (i.e. the Tails part of #16774).
8349 - Use squashfs-tools from sid (Closes: #16637).
8350 - Lower VM_MEMORY_BASE to 1536M.
8351 - Remove unneeded package cleanup (Closes: #16950).
8354 - New scenario: installing with GNOME Disks from a USB image
8356 - New scenarios: VeraCrypt PIM support (Closes: #15946).
8357 - Revert timeout bump that's not needed anymore.
8358 - Add a showing method on Dogtail objects.
8359 - VeraCrypt: ensure the temporary keyfile file is not garbage collected
8360 while we still need it.
8361 - Remote shell: print traceback to stderr so we can see it.
8362 - Install Dogtail from Bullseye and run it with Python 3 (Closes: #16976).
8363 This gives us UTF-8 support. Accordingly, drop anonym's "showingOnly"
8364 patch that was merged upstream, and port some test suite code to Dogtail,
8365 which we could not do before it got UTF-8 support.
8366 - Dogtail'ify some steps.
8367 - Make "^the Tor Browser shows the "([^"]+)" error$" step more robust
8369 - Make the "the support documentation page opens in Tor Browser" step more
8370 robust (Closes: #15321)
8371 - Remove a bunch of obsolete @fragile tags, update the reasons why
8372 the remaining ones are fragile, and add some missing @fragile tags.
8373 - Drop useless code based on wrong assumptions (refs: #13470).
8374 - Make the "I set an administration password" step more robust.
8376 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 02 Sep 2019 19:55:24 +0000
8378 tails (4.0~beta1) unstable; urgency=medium
8381 - Upgrade to a snapshot of Debian 10 (Buster) from 2018-08-06.
8384 - Remove scribus completely (refs: 16290).
8385 - Remove LibreOffice Math (#16911).
8388 - Fix Electrum wrapper's persistence check (Closes: #16821).
8389 - Remove pre-generated Pidgin accounts (Closes: #16744).
8390 - Hide the security level button in the unsafe browser (Closes:
8392 - Only hide unlocked TailsData partitions from the boot device
8395 * Minor improvements and updates
8396 - Remove KeePassX and replace it with KeePassXC (Closes:
8397 #15297). As KeePassX was used around for a longer time, we don't
8398 need automatic upgrading cappability from old KeePass file
8399 format (Tails 2 times). The user can still import those old
8400 files, if they want to access it.
8401 - Ship a pre-compiled AppArmor policy to make boot faster (Closes:
8403 - Change the splash screen for Tails 4.0 (#16837). Add SVG source
8405 - Remove our predefined bookmarks and ship default upstream Tor
8406 Browser bookmarks instead (Closes: #15895).
8407 - Install bolt for improved Thunderbolt support (Closes: #5463).
8408 - Don't display the Home launcher on the desktop (Closes: #16799).
8409 Since the switch to the desktop-icons GNOME Shell extension, the
8410 nicer XDG-blah name ("Home" in English, translated in many
8411 languages) is not used to label this launcher anymore: instead,
8412 the name of the directory is displayed, in this case: "amnesia",
8413 which makes no sense to our users. Our other options to fix that
8414 are more costly and we've decided a while ago, when I proposed
8415 to remove the desktop icons, to keep them until they were too
8416 expensive to support. So this one goes: we have the Places menu
8418 - Add Files to favorite apps (Closes: #16799). This gives another
8419 entry point to the home folder, which partially mitigates any UX
8420 regression that might be caused by the previous changelog entry.
8421 - Explicitly install imagemagick. We ship it on purpose (see
8422 [[contribute/meetings/201707]]).
8424 * Drop obsolete optional MAT dependencies it isn't using any
8426 * Stop explicitly installing MAT dependencies. The package
8427 depends on those so we don't need to pull them ourselves.
8428 - Move translations from root-terminal.desktop.in into own PO
8429 files (Closes: #15335).
8430 - Drop obsolete live-boot patch: the bug it workarounds only
8431 happens with CONFIG_AUFS_DEBUG enabled. We disable
8432 CONFIG_AUFS_DEBUG in config/chroot_local-hooks/13-aufs and the
8433 Debian package did it as well (Refs: Debian#886329).
8434 - Rename /usr/share/amnesia to /usr/share/tails.
8435 - Drop APT pinning for non-existing live.debian.net, that we
8436 haven't used since 2010.
8437 - Don't install the cryptsetup initramfs integration and startup
8438 scripts (Closes: #16264). We probably only need the binaries.
8439 Not installing the initramfs integration will get rid of some
8441 - Don't install full-blown cryptsetup, take 2 (refs: #15690). We've
8442 stopped installing it (#16264) but this branch independently
8444 - Disable live-tools.service (Closes: #16324). This service is only
8445 useful to display the "Please remove the live-medium, close the
8446 tray (if any) and press ENTER to continue:" prompt on shutdown,
8447 that we don't want to display in Tails: shutdown and memory
8448 erasure should not require a confirmation once the user has
8449 triggered it. In Stretch this code was broken and we were
8450 relying on this. But the Buster upgrade of this code has
8451 repaired it, so I sometimes see that prompt. This might also
8452 explain some issues such as #16312.
8453 - AppArmor: allow cups-brf, driverless, and gutenprint53+usb
8454 printer backends (Closes: #15030). Technically, cups-brf and
8455 driverless are not third-party and should be confined more
8456 strictly with "ixr", under the cupsd profile. But I don't know
8457 how to to test these backends and confining them more strictly
8458 may break them. Anyway, that's an upstream matter: the purpose
8459 of our Tails-specific patch is to replace the third party
8460 backends /usr/lib/cups/backend/* catch all rule, that doesn't
8461 work for us, and not to keep the list of backends which come
8462 with CUPS up-to-date.
8463 - Make export_gnome_env() exit early if gnome-shell isn't running.
8464 Without this e.g. the automated test suite, which will call
8465 export_gnome_env() before gnome-shell is running, will have its
8466 journal polluted with errors about this. This is not the first
8467 time I see this and get worried and waste minutes investigating,
8468 so let's just fix it.
8471 - Bump VM_MEMORY_BASE to 2048M. With the previous 1024M setting,
8472 the squashfs preparation gets OOM-killed.
8473 - Limit the memory used by mksquashfs to 512M (Closes: #16177). By
8474 default mksquashfs will use 25% of the physical memory. So when
8475 we use the "ram" build option, build in a VM with 13GB of RAM,
8476 of which up to 12G is supposed to be used by the build tmpfs,
8477 mksquashfs will try using 13/4 = 3.25G of memory. And then it
8478 will get reaped by the OOM killer more or less occasionally
8479 depending on how much space is really used in the build tmpfs
8480 and how much memory the rest of the system is using. So let's
8481 limit the memory used by mksquashfs to 50% of the memory we
8482 allocate to the build VM, excluding the part of it that we
8483 expect tmpfs data to fill. In passing, the fact mksquashfs does
8484 not get killed every time suggests that our current
8485 BUILD_SPACE_REQUIREMENT value exceeds the real needs of a build:
8486 a value around 10 or 11G should be enough. But that will be for
8488 - Use xz with default settings to compress non-release SquashFS
8489 (refs: #16177). squashfs-tools 1:4.3-11, used to build
8490 feature/buster, does not consistently honor the value passed to
8491 -mem: the xz compressor does but at least the gzip and lzo ones
8492 don't. This makes the build often fail because mksquashfs gets
8493 reaped by the OOM-killer. Our only other option is currently to
8494 bump the build VM memory a lot, which is going to be painful on
8495 developers' systems and might not be an option on Jenkins. So
8496 let's fall back to xz with default settings (not the crazy slow
8497 but efficient we use at release time) when building non-release
8499 - Rename the "gzipcomp" build option to "fastcomp". What matters
8500 in the "user" interface is not the exact algorithm that's used,
8501 it's the fact it's supposed to be faster than the compression
8502 settings we use to build releases. We may have to changes these
8503 fast(er) settings occasionally, possibly to use a non-gzip
8504 algorithm. So let's keep supporting "gzipcomp" for backward
8505 compatibility but stop documenting it. Instead, support and
8506 document "fastcomp".
8507 - Add the vmproxy+extproxy build option. When enabled, use the
8508 vmproxy but configure it to in turn use the exproxy set via the
8509 http_proxy environment variable.
8510 - Support the case when we don't ship a custom AppArmor feature
8511 set. Let's keep this sanity check for the times when we do ship
8512 a custom feature set, but building an ISO without a custom one
8513 should remain supported. (Closes: #15149)
8514 - Don't remove packages whose deinstallation removes most of the
8515 system; don't explicitly remove packages that are taken care of
8516 by "apt-get autoremove" already. On Buster, removing dpkg-dev
8517 or make deinstalls python3, gnome-shell and more.
8518 - Install all "Priority: standard" packages via an explicit
8519 packages list instead of via --tasks (Closes: #15690). This will
8520 make it easier to remove some of these packages from the list of
8521 those that should be installed in the first place, as opposed to
8522 letting them be installed by tasksel only to uninstall them
8523 later. I've seeded tails-000-standard.list with the output of:
8524 tasksel --task-packages standard | sort … run on a clean Buster
8526 * live-build forcibly translates --packages-lists="standard"
8527 into "tasksel install standard", so to make this change
8528 effective we also need to switch to "--packages-lists
8529 minimal" or "--packages-lists none". The former has
8530 problematic side-effects so let's use the latter.
8531 * Add to tails-common.list some of the packages that were
8532 previously installed automatically, e.g. via live-build's
8533 lists/standard → lists/minimal.
8536 - Tons of tiny updates for the Stretch → Buster transition, mainly
8537 updated reference images, but also a few other trivial changes
8538 (e.g. close with Alt+F4 instead of menu, or vice versa) due to
8539 changes in applications.
8540 - Drop test case about migrating from a Jessie-area persistent
8541 volume. If our code happens to support Tails 2.x → 4.x upgrades
8542 without going through 3.x, fine. But let's not spend cycles in
8543 our CI to guarantee this.
8544 - Revert "Test suite: add backward compatibility with redir <
8545 3.0." We don't support running the test suite on Jessie anymore.
8546 - Adjust dhclient listening address for Buster.
8547 - Bump timeout for poweroff from 3 to 10 minutes (Refs: #16312).
8548 - Adjust dogtail patterns for gobby test (Closes: #16335). With the
8549 gobby upgrade from 0.5.0 to 0.6.0 pre-series, the case changed a
8550 little for a menu item and the window it leads to.
8551 - Update key shortcut to close seahorse's Preferences window
8552 (Closes: #16341). The “Close” button is gone from the
8553 Preferences window in the buster version of the seahorse
8554 package, making it impossible to close that window. Switch to
8555 sending ESC instead of Alt-C.
8556 - Update MAT test case for MAT2 (Closes: #16623).
8557 - Add debug logging for when we call Sikuli. When following a
8558 (debug) log live (through `--format debug`) I find this change
8559 useful to know what is going on *right now* since Sikuli only
8560 reports what it has done after it is done.
8561 - Be more careful when finding ASP notifications. For some reason
8562 both the label and button has a "weird" invisible (despite
8563 `showingOnly`) twin located just below the Applications
8564 menu. So let's make some extra effort to actually find the real
8565 notification, and then look for the label and button among its
8567 - Remove obsolete method. Display::take_screenshot() hasn't
8569 - Remove workaround "Desktop icons are sometimes not shown" (Refs:
8571 - Wait longer between search steps in the GNOME Overview. On
8572 jenkins.lizard — which was under high load at that time — I've
8573 seen failures while starting GNOME Terminal from the Overview,
8575 - The debug log claims we did type "c", waited 1 second, then
8576 typed "ommandline", then slept another 1 second, then pressed
8577 Enter. I.e. just as the code says.
8578 - The video shows that GNOME Shell did pick up "c", which
8579 selected the first search result ("Configure Persistent
8580 Volume"), but then there's no trace of typing "ommandline".
8581 So I suspect that "ommandline" was lost because GNOME Shell
8582 was still busy, somehow. Let's sleep a bit longer before
8583 these steps, to give GNOME Shell a better chance to recover
8584 and notice keyboard input.
8585 - Log exceptions thrown in generated (i.e. snapshot) steps (Refs:
8586 #16747). Hopefully this will help us track down these elusive
8588 - Extend waiting time for additional software to be installed.
8589 - Sometimes we need more more time to load a page over tor.
8590 - Remove useless TailsUpgraderApplyingUpgrade.png. The "progress
8591 prompt" it was used for just flashes by and can easily be
8592 missed. There is no reason at all to wait for it since the only
8593 two final outcomes are success or failure, which we already look
8595 - debug_log() when we save/restore snapshots. These actions can
8596 take a long time (especially saving snapshots on a system under
8597 load) and can make it appear like if the test suite has gotten
8598 stuck for those following the debug log.
8599 - Don't rely on mtimes from Debian packages we download, to
8600 indicate which one has the biggest version (Closes: #16819).
8601 These mtimes are copied from the HTTP server where APT downloads
8602 packages from, which contradicts our assumption that the newest
8603 file must be the one with the biggest version. Instead we use ls
8604 to sort by version number, to pick the biggest version.
8605 - Only send TAB every second to get the syslinux kernel
8606 command-line (Closes: #16820). Our syslinux has a timeout of 5s so
8607 sending TAB every second should be enough to guarantee we do
8608 open the kernel command line. As anonym reported, "the spammer
8609 makes the splash show for significantly longer: I've seen >10x,
8610 so the boot splash never managed to appear, which is worrying".
8611 - Drop workaround to make the TAB spammer compatible with the UEFI
8612 firmware (Closes: #16820). As reported by anonym on #16820, and
8613 confirmed by my testing, pressing TAB doesn't seem to open the
8614 UEFI configuration, so the very reason why we had this
8617 * Adjustments for Debian 10 (Buster) with no or very little user-visible impact
8618 - Adjust APT sources and pinning for Buster.
8619 - Refresh and unfuzzy patches for Buster.
8620 - Pass --ellipsize to zenity (refs: #16286). This fixes dialog
8621 width and height on Buster.
8622 - Update expected /etc/passwd and /etc/group for Buster.
8623 - Display TopIcons systray on the left of the system menu (Refs:
8625 - Remove apparmor-adjust-freedesktop-abstraction.diff patch,
8626 merged upstream in apparmor. The
8627 9d8b6f4dbd8a04470490ae2bfd52044906abd7f6 commit (first appeared
8628 upstream in apparmor v2.13.1) implements this change in a
8630 - Adjust hook to the fact the Dovecot AppArmor profiles are not
8631 shipped in /etc anymore.
8632 - Import iuk.git's feature/buster branch at commit 919335e
8634 - Enable desktop-icons gnome-shell extension (Closes: #16283).
8635 - Add autostart script to have gnome-shell trust desktop icons
8636 (Closes: #16283). Various conditions must be met for gnome-shell
8637 to make desktop icons launchable, including file
8638 permissions. But the GIO metadata::trusted setting is also
8639 needed, and can apparently only be set from an opened session,
8640 so let's set the right things with an autostart script.
8641 - Drop code that sets the cursor to "WATCH" (hourglass) after
8642 logging in (Closes: #16305) This fixes "GDM's GNOME Shell floods
8643 the Journal with XFIXES/cursor issues on Buster" by importing
8644 the relevant bits of greeter:feature/buster's commit abad17b6.
8645 - Remove 8 development packages that are not part of Tails 3.11 so
8646 we probably don't need to ship them in Tails 4.0 either (Closes:
8648 - Completely get rid of Qt4 (Closes: #15182).
8649 - SSH client: remove obsolete CompressionLevel setting (Closes:
8651 - Removing /usr/share/live/config/xserver-xorg/intel.ids (Closes:
8652 #14991). Let's hope the graphics hardware issues we fixed via
8653 that file is fixed no.
8654 - Adjust Onion Grater and AppArmor configuration for OnionShare
8655 1.3 (Closes: #16306).
8656 - Have OnionShare 1.3 connect to the system Tor via Onion Grater
8657 for the control port (Closes: #16306). By default, OnionShare
8658 1.3 will start its own tor process, which can't possibly work on
8660 - Don't install binutils-* (Closes: #16272). It wasn't in Tails 3.x
8661 and we have no reason to ship it in 4.0.
8662 - Install mat2 instead of the transitional mat package.
8663 - Don't suspend automatically (Closes: #16624)
8664 - tails-additional-software: Adjust arguments to
8665 tails-persistence-setup (Closes: #16622). It seems like the perl
8666 library which previously nicely handled the tps command-line
8667 arguments now doesn't support taking dashes instead of
8668 underscores anymore.
8669 - Start tails-unblock-network in a blocking way (Closes: #16620)
8670 This reverts commit 59e99c51f15ab9e756e287acb03b4d3a91ca1dd2 in
8671 greeter.git. NetworkManager starting at the same time as GNOME
8672 Shell makes things racy: the Wi-Fi password prompt is sometimes
8673 not displayed (unreproduce on Debian Buster Live).
8674 - Patch ibus to fix an issue that prevented the on-screen keyboard
8675 from displaying in Tails Greeter (Closes: #16291).
8676 - oniongrater: give onioncircuits empty STATUS_SERVER events.
8677 Connection to STATUS_SERVER events is required by stem 1.7
8678 connect() function, but we actually don't need them, so let's
8679 suppress them (Closes: #16626).
8680 - Fix GNOME bookmarks file for Buster (Closes: #16629).
8681 - Build VeraCrypt packages with our patches applied for Buster
8683 - Avoid new "render" group stealing a GID we have already
8684 statically allocated to another group (Closes: #16649) With the
8685 systemd 241-1~bpo9+1 → 241-3~bpo9+1 upgrade, udev.postinst now
8686 creates a "render" system group, which shifts GIDs and makes our
8688 - update-acng-config: add support for 4.x and 5.x, drop 2.x. We
8689 won't build 2.x releases anymore but we'll start building 4.x
8690 from this branch soon.
8691 - Restore Plymouth theme to "text" (Closes: #16743). The default
8692 theme in Buster ("futureprototype") is Debian-branded and thus
8693 unsuitable for Tails. Let's revert to the one we use in Tails
8695 - Stop installing caribou and libcaribou*: they're not used by
8696 GNOME Shell in Buster anymore (Closes: #16628)
8697 - Allow read access to /etc/machine-id in the AppArmor profile for
8698 Thunderbird (Closes: #16756). It breaks access to the D-Bus
8699 service where the GNOME on-screen keyboard listens on Buster.
8700 - Fix screen locker not working in Buster (Closes: #16763).
8701 - Hide lstopo in the Applications menu (Closes: #16797). It's
8702 pulled as a dependency by aircrack-ng but is probably not useful
8703 to the vast majority of Tails users.
8704 - Hide nm-connection-editor in the Applications menu (Closes:
8705 #16798). We still need the network-manager-gnome package that
8706 installs this .desktop file (for details, see
8707 commit:40290be3651eaa6f08346231aef80eddd8b33c64), but there's no
8708 reason to expose it directly to users.
8709 - TorStatus: call our custom destructor to avoid a use-after-free
8710 crashing GNOME Shell (Closes: #16791). It was ported to an ES6
8711 class in the process.
8712 - Copy dmidecode to initramfs (Closes: #16857). On Buster,
8713 partprobe complains if dmidecode is missing. It's not clear what
8714 the consequences are, at least it doesn't cause partprobe to
8715 exit with an error status code - but it's cheap to just copy
8716 dmidecode to the initramfs.
8717 - Adjust path for webext-ublock-origin 1.19.0+dfsg-2 (Closes:
8719 - Update Tor Browser AppArmor profile to take into account new
8720 uBlock installation path (Closes: #16858).
8721 - Disable the uBlock logger sidebar. This brings back
8722 the hack we had before we removed it in #16206. Without this,
8723 the uBlock logger sidebar is displayed.
8724 - Reintroduce the same APT pinning as we use in 3.x for uBlock.
8725 Granted, the version from Buster should probably be sufficient
8726 right now, but it probably won't be once Tor Browser gets
8727 updated to a future major Firefox ESR. And in the meantime,
8728 this pinning discrepancy between devel and feature/buster makes
8729 it harder to maintain our patch against
8730 /usr/share/webext/ublock-origin/js/background.js.
8731 - Drop obsolete libdesktop-notify-perl patches: they were merged
8733 - Use X.Org in amnesia's GNOME session (Closes: #12213). Since a
8734 few months gdm3 defaults to Wayland in Debian testing/sid, just
8735 like upstream. But we're not ready yet.
8736 - Adjust Greeter's gdm-tails.session for Buster (Closes:
8737 #12551). This should ultimately be applied in greeter.git, but
8738 let's deal with it as a patch for now to avoid having to
8739 maintain two parallel branches of the Greeter.
8740 - Patch udisks2 and libblockdev and fix Tails Installer to repair
8741 USB boot on Buster (Closes: #14809).
8742 - Install gnome-user-docs directly instead of the gnome-user-guide
8743 transitional package.
8744 - Install the "crypto" libblockdev plugin (Closes: #14816). It's
8745 needed by recent udisks to do crypto operations.
8746 - Use ConditionUser=1000 instead of manually testing the output of
8747 `id -u' in some of our systemd services.
8748 - Have debootstrap install gnupg when setting up the chroot.
8749 Otherwise the build fails after debootstrap has done its job and
8750 live-build tries to use apt-key.
8751 - Don't try to install the obsolete gnome-search-tool package.
8752 It's been removed from testing/sid by its maintainers:
8753 https://bugs.debian.org/885975
8754 - Don't try to retrieve syslinux.exe from the syslinux source
8755 package. Since syslinux 3:6.03+dfsg1-1 this file is (rightfully)
8756 not included anymore in the Debian source package. This commit
8757 is meant to fix the feature/buster ISO build. We of course need
8758 to find a proper solution, which is what #15178 is about.
8759 - Drop our pinned AppArmor feature set (Closes: #15149). On current
8760 Buster the AppArmor package pins to the Linux 4.14.13-1 feature
8761 set and I expect it'll keep pinning something that should work
8762 with the policy shipped in Buster.
8763 - Drop Stretch-specific workaround. This essentially workarounds
8764 4f8b50afb10a1ce1faf7645971bc020d2eb5d7dd,
8765 3e2d8a6a025b86f8191d125783ad507c57171bad and
8766 d56633a3089e5b177e07c2888442745557772f42.
8767 - Disable the usr.bin.man AppArmor profile. On Buster it breaks
8768 apparmor.service due to "profile has merged rule with
8769 conflicting x modifiers" that's most likely caused by the "/**
8770 mrixwlk" rule vs. our tweaks for aufs support.
8771 - Import files (from gksu 2.0.2-9+b1) needed for the Root Terminal
8772 into Git instead of fetching the package and extracting them at
8774 - Use orca's current package name instead of pre-Buster
8776 - Stop explicitly installing gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio. This was
8777 needed on Jessie due to Debian#852870 which was fixed in
8779 - Drop adwaita-qt4: it was removed from Debian sid and won't be in
8781 - Disable man-db.timer on Buster (Closes: #16631)
8782 - Fix invalid seq range in update-acng-config so we geberate proper
8783 rules for Tails 4.x and 5.x.
8785 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 07 Aug 2019 20:30:15 +0200
8787 tails (3.16) unstable; urgency=medium
8790 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.5.5 (Closes: #16692).
8793 - Install Linux kernel from the Buster security repository (Closes: #16970).
8794 The new Spectre v1 swapgs variant (CVE-2019-1125), which was fixed
8795 in sid via 5.2.x, which is a too big change for the Tails 3.16 bugfix
8796 release. Let's instead track Buster (+ security) for the time being.
8797 - Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u10 (DSA-4483-1, DSA-4501-1).
8798 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 60.8 (DSA-4482-1).
8799 - Upgrade Ghostscript to 9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u4 (DSA-4499-1).
8800 - Upgrade Patch to 2.7.5-1+deb9u2 (DSA-4489-1).
8801 - Upgrade nghttp2 library to 1.18.1-1+deb9u1 (DSA-4511-1).
8804 - Additional software: Improve/fix support for translations (Closes: #16601).
8805 - Rework the implementation for hiding TailsData partitions (Closes: #16789).
8806 - Adjust how tordate determines whether the clock is in a valid range,
8807 fixing issues with obfs4 (Closes: #16972).
8809 * Minor improvements and updates
8810 - Ship default upstream Tor Browser bookmarks, and remove our predefined
8811 bookmarks (Closes: #15895).
8812 - Hide the security level button in the unsafe browser (Closes: #16735).
8813 - Remove pre-generated Pidgin accounts (Closes: #16744).
8814 - Remove LibreOffice Math (Closes: #16911).
8815 - Website: Make sandbox page translatable (Closes: #16873).
8816 - Website: Only scrub HTML on blueprints (Closes: #16901).
8817 - Website: Point history & diff URLs to Salsa.
8820 - Bump APT snapshot of the torproject archive to 2019073103, and drop
8821 tor-experimental-0.4.0.x-stretch reference (Closes: #16883).
8822 - Bump APT snapshot of the Debian archive to 2019080801 to get fixed
8823 firmware packages from sid instead of sticking to those from
8824 stretch-backports (Closes: #16728).
8825 - Enable the buster APT repository and install some packages from there:
8826 hunspell-id, hunspell-tr, and fonts-noto-* (See: #16728).
8827 - Refresh patch for webext-ublock-origin 1.19.0+dfsg-2, and adjust Tor
8828 Browser AppArmor profile accordingly (Closes: #16858).
8829 - Refresh Tor Browser AppArmor profile patch for torbrowser-launcher
8830 0.3.2-1 (Closes: #16941).
8833 - Ignore RARP packets, since PacketFu cannot parse them (Closes: #16825).
8834 - Adjust both locale handling and reference pictures for the Unsafe
8835 Browser homepage (Closes: #17004).
8836 - Fix "Watching a WebM video over HTTPS" scenario on Jenkins
8838 - Tag "Watching a WebM video" as fragile.
8839 - Make @check_tor_leaks more verbose (See: #10442).
8840 - Remove broken Electrum scenario since Electrum support is currently
8841 missing (Closes: #16421).
8843 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 03 Sep 2019 20:30:14 +0200
8845 tails (3.15) unstable; urgency=medium
8848 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.5.4 (Closes: #16691).
8849 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 60.7.2 (Closes: #16834).
8852 - Upgrade Expat to 2.2.0-2+deb9u2 (DSA-4472-1).
8853 - Upgrade OpenSSL 1.0 to 1.0.2s-1~deb9u1 (DSA-4475-1).
8854 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.1.0k-1~deb9u1 (DSA-4475-1).
8855 - Upgrade Vim to 2:8.0.0197-4+deb9u3 (DSA-4467-1).
8858 - Recompute CHS values for the hybrid MBR after first-boot
8859 repartitioning (Closes: #16389). Some legacy BIOS systems won't boot
8861 - Strip debug symbols from the aufs kernel module smaller (refs: #16818).
8862 The primary target was getting the initramfs down under 32MB, hoping
8863 to repair boot of feature/buster on MacBookPro 8,1. In any cases,
8864 the user experience should be improved due to a faster boot for
8865 every user, and a shortened “black screen” duration (between the
8866 bootloader and the Plymouth splash screen).
8868 * Minor improvements and updates
8869 - Make “Unlock VeraCrypt Volumes” show an error message if locking
8870 fails (Closes: #15794).
8871 - Add support for booting Tails from a read only sdcard (fromiso),
8872 through Heads, allowing for measured boot on some tamper-evident
8873 hardware (https://github.com/osresearch/heads/issues/581).
8876 - Patch Thunderbird packages from Debian when building Tails images
8878 - Improve tooling to maintain and update PO files (Closes: #15403),
8879 rewriting some tools and moving code to the jenkins-tools submodule.
8880 - Implement preliminary steps needed to make the ikiwiki PO plugin
8881 able to update PO files for languages that are disabled on the
8882 website (refs: #15355).
8884 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 09 Jul 2019 02:50:09 +0200
8886 tails (3.14.2) unstable; urgency=medium
8889 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.5.3 (Closes: #16835).
8892 - tails-screen-locker: Don't use dim-label style class
8895 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 23 Jun 2019 11:52:49 +0200
8897 tails (3.14.1) unstable; urgency=medium
8900 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.5.2-build1 (Closes: #16824).
8901 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 60.7.0 (Closes: #16742).
8902 - Upgraded Linux to 4.19.37-4 (Closes: #16823).
8905 - Only probe for partitions on the boot device when setting up
8906 TailsData. Without arguments partprobe will scan all devices,
8907 and if it encounters a device it doesn't support (e.g. fake
8908 raid-0 arrays) it will return non-zero, thus aborting Tails'
8909 partitioning script, resulting in an unbootable install
8912 * Minor improvements and updates
8913 - Upgrade tor to 0.4.0.5-1~d90.stretch+1, the first stable
8914 candidate in the 0.4.0.x series (Closes: #16687).
8915 - Completely disable IPv6 except for the loopback interface. We
8916 attempt to completely block it on the netfilter level but we
8917 have seen ICMPv6 "leaks" any way (related to Router
8918 Solicitation, see: #16148) so let's just disable it. We keep
8919 enabled on the loopback interface since some services depends on
8921 - create-usb-image-from-iso: Use syslinux from chroot. We used the
8922 syslinux from the vagrant box before, which caused issues with
8923 when building Tails/Buster with a Stretch vagrant box and then
8924 cloning the image via Tails Installer with syslinux from Buster
8926 - Set Tor Browser's homepage to https://tails.boum.org/home/testing/
8927 if building anything but a stable release. This page explains the
8928 dangers of using a non-stable release. (Closes: #12003)
8931 - auto/{build,config}:
8932 * consistently use fatal() to error out, and prefix its message
8933 with "E: " to help distinguish them from the noise produced by
8935 * Similarly, also prefix informational message with "I: ".
8936 * drop support for GnuPG 1.x.
8937 * clone more build output to the log file.
8938 * Drop obsolete check for syslinux version. This version
8939 requirement is satisfied by Jessie and it is doubtful Tails
8940 would build in anything older.
8941 * auto/build: drop a few checks for conditions that are already
8942 satisfied in the supported build environments.
8943 - Revert "Build system: try to be smart again by fetching only the
8944 refs we need." This optimization overrides the trick we have on
8945 Jenkins (set_origin_base_branch_head in
8946 jenkins-jobs:macros/builders.yaml),
8947 that ensures that a reproducibly_build_Tails_ISO_* job builds
8948 from the commit used by the first build. (Closes: #16730)
8951 - Fix mistake with execute() vs spawn() when starting the upgrader.
8952 - Don't filter during pcap capture, instead let's just apply the
8953 same filtering when we are inspecting the pcap files. This way
8954 any pcap file saved on failure will include the full capture,
8955 and not just the packets sent by the system under testing, which
8956 sometimes makes it hard to understand what is going on.
8957 - Also include the content of /var/log/tor/log in $scenario.tor
8958 when tor failed to bootstrap (refs: #16793)
8959 - Don't flood the debug logger with tor@default's journal
8961 - Power off system under testing after scenario. Until now we have
8962 relied on either one of the generated "snapshot restore" steps
8963 or the "[Given] a computer" step to implicitly stop the old VM
8964 when we move on to a new scenario. That meant the old VM was
8965 still running during the new scenarios @Before@ hooks. If the
8966 new scenario is tagged @check_tor_leaks that means we start its
8967 sniffer while the old VM is still running, possibly sending
8968 packets that then affect the new scenario. That would explain
8969 some myserious "Unexpected connections were made" failures we
8970 have seen (Closes: #11521).
8971 - Only accept IP(v6)/ARP during DHCP check.
8973 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2019 15:29:07 +0200
8975 tails (3.14) unstable; urgency=medium
8978 - Upgrade Linux to 4.19.0-5 from sid (Closes: #16708).
8979 - Enable all available mitigations for the Microarchitectural Data
8980 Sampling (MDS) attacks and disable SMT on vulnerable CPUs
8982 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.5 (Closes: #16337, #16706).
8985 - Install Electrum 3.2.3-1 from our custom APT repository (Closes: #16708).
8986 The version in sid now displays a warning and exits, while 3.2.3-1 is
8987 still usable, in the rare cases when it manages to connect to the
8988 network, despite being affected by problematic phishing attacks which
8989 will only be solved once the package in Debian is updated to a newer
8993 - Bump APT snapshot of the 'debian' archive to 2019051601, needed for
8994 the MDS mitigations.
8995 - Don't install the firmware-linux and firmware-linux-nonfree
8996 metapackages, as packages they pulled are already listed explicitly
8997 and one might run into version-related issues (Closes: #16708).
8999 * Minor improvements and updates
9000 - Remove some packages from the Tails image as their use is not
9001 widespread while consuming space for everyone. They can still be
9002 installed and upgraded through Additional Software (Closes: #15291).
9003 This includes: monkeysphere and msva-perl, gobby, hopenpgp-tools,
9004 keyringer, libgfshare-bin, monkeysign, paperkey, pitivi,
9005 pdf-redact-tools, pwgen, traverso, and ssss.
9006 - Fix missing translations in the Greeter (Closes: #13438).
9007 - Fix missing newline in unlock-veracrypt-volumes (Closes: #16696).
9008 - Port fillram to Python 3 (Closes: #15845).
9009 - Enable localization for new locales introduced in Tor Browser 8.5
9011 - Re-introduce TopIcons GNOME Shell extension (Closes: #16709).
9012 - Improve internationalization of the Unlock VeraCrypt Volumes
9013 component (Closes: #16602).
9016 - Make tails-security-check's SOCKS port test work when there's a live
9017 security advisory (Closes: #16701).
9018 - Make terminology more consistent.
9020 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 20 May 2019 18:52:04 +0200
9022 tails (3.13.2) unstable; urgency=medium
9025 - Replace all locale-specific fonts and standard X.Org fonts with
9026 the Noto fonts collection (Closes: #9956).
9027 - Install localization support packages for all tier-1 supported languages,
9028 and only those (Closes: #15807). Current tier-1 supported languages are:
9029 Arabic, German, English, Spanish, Farsi, French, Italian, Portuguese
9030 (Brazil), Russian, Turkish, Simplified Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian.
9031 - Disable the TopIcons GNOME Shell extension (Closes: #16608).
9032 This extension causes crashes (#11188), does not work on Wayland
9033 (#8309, #12213) so long-term, we need to remove it anyway.
9034 In order to learn how much our users rely on this extension and
9035 on OpenPGP Applet, let's disable this extension for one Tails release.
9036 While TopIcons is disabled (by default):
9037 · Users can still use OpenPGP Applet via the system tray in the bottom
9038 left corner of the desktop.
9039 · Users who do need TopIcons for other reasons can enable it again
9040 with 1 command line.
9043 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.0.9 (Closes: #16694).
9044 - Upgrade to Debian Stretch 9.9 (Closes: #16670).
9045 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 60.6.1 (Closes: #16641).
9048 - Fix Thunderbird account setup wizard (Closes: #16573).
9049 - Display poweroff and reboot buttons even when locked (Closes: #15640).
9050 - Disable emergency shutdown during suspend (Closes: #11729).
9051 - Provide feedback while starting Onion Circuits (Closes: #16350).
9052 - Associate .key files with Seahorse (Closes: #15213).
9053 This partially fixes importing OpenPGP keys from GNOME Files.
9054 - Don't show spurious notification about "TailsData" while setting
9055 up a persistent volume (Closes: #16632).
9057 * Minor improvements and updates
9058 - Add a suspend button to status-menu-helper (Closes: #14556).
9059 - status-menu-helper: clean up and refactor.
9060 - Drop CSS hacks for the uBlock log window (Closes: #16206).
9061 - Polish 04-change-gids-and-uids code style (Closes: #16322).
9062 - Create persistence.conf backup in a more robust manner (Closes: #16568).
9063 - Make the WhisperBack .desktop file translatable in Transifex
9067 - Don't fail the build if Tor Browser supports new locales that we don't ship
9068 a spellchecking dictionary for (#15807).
9069 - Fix apt-cacher-ng cache shrinking (Closes: #16020).
9070 - Remove obsolete usr.bin.onioncircuits AppArmor profile (Closes: #12170).
9071 All Tails current branches now install onioncircuits 0.6-0.0tails1,
9072 which ships a more current AppArmor profile than the one we
9073 have in our own Git tree.
9074 - Install Electrum from sid (Closes: #16642).
9075 - Avoid new "render" group stealing a GID we have already statically
9076 allocated to another group (Closes: #16649).
9079 - Disable tests about notifications in case of MAC spoofing failure:
9080 we have a well-known bug here and these tests do nothing but confirm
9081 it again and again, which brings no value and has a cost (#10774).
9082 - Clarify what WebM scenarios are fragile (#10442).
9083 - Avoid zombies by waiting for killed child processes to exit (#14948).
9085 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 05 May 2019 19:32:22 +0000
9087 tails (3.13.1) unstable; urgency=medium
9090 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.0.8 (Closes: #16606, MFSA-2019-10).
9091 - Upgrade NTFS-3G to 1:2016.2.22AR.1+dfsg-1+deb9u1 (DSA-4413-1).
9093 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:54:03 +0000
9095 tails (3.13) unstable; urgency=medium
9098 - Upgrade Linux to 4.19.28-1 (Closes: #16390, #16469, #16552).
9099 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.0.7 (Closes: #16559).
9100 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 65.1.0 (Closes: #16422).
9103 - Upgrade LDB to 2:1.1.27-1+deb9u1 (DSA-4397-1).
9104 - Upgrade OpenJPEG to 2.1.2-1.1+deb9u3 (DSA-4405-1).
9105 - Upgrade OpenSSL 1.0 to 1.0.2r-1~deb9u1 (DSA-4400-1).
9106 - Upgrade OpenSSH to 1:7.4p1-10+deb9u6 (DSA-4387-2).
9109 - Upgrade tor to 0.3.5.8-1~d90.stretch+1 (Closes: #16348).
9110 - Ensure Additional Software doesn't try to download packages that are
9111 in persistent cache (Closes: #15957).
9112 - Improve chances of recovering a lost persistence configuration
9114 - Tor Launcher: add langpacks to enable localization again
9116 - Migrate away from buggy Chinese input method: switch from ibus-pinyin
9117 to ibus-libpinyin + ibus-chewing (Closes: #11292).
9118 - Fix crash in Whisperback when additional persistent APT repositories
9119 are configured (Closes: #16563).
9120 - Give visual feedback while starting Whisperback (Closes: #16333).
9122 * Minor improvements and updates
9123 - Add feedback when opening VeraCrypt Mounter (Closes: #16334).
9124 - Improve consistency in Additional Software's accessibility
9126 - Fix missing accessibility support when opening a browser from a
9127 notification (Closes: #16475).
9128 - Refresh ublock-origin patch to apply cleanly on top of 1.18.4+dfsg-1
9130 - Upgrade intel-microcode to 3.20180807a.2~deb9u1.
9131 Fixes CVE-2018-3615, CVE-2018-3620, CVE-2018-3646, CVE-2018-3639,
9132 CVE-2018-3640, CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5754.
9135 - Lower memory requirements when building Tails by limiting the memory
9136 used by mksquashfs to 512M (Closes: #16177).
9137 - Remove obsolete check on Thunderbird addons (Closes: #16045).
9138 - Update Tails' APT GnuPG key expiration (Closes: #16420).
9139 - Optimize Git operations (share resources, fetch only the needed
9141 - Clone submodules from the host's local repositories (Closes: #16476).
9142 - Drop useless manual initramfs update (Closes: #16452).
9143 - Add a sanity check on the size of the initramfs (Closes: #16452).
9146 - Add automated tests for Additional Software GUI (Closes: #14576,
9148 - Add automated tests on the backup persistence configuration
9150 - Adjust test for Thunderbird 60.5.1 (Closes: #16555).
9152 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 18 Mar 2019 23:40:50 +0100
9154 tails (3.12.1) unstable; urgency=medium
9157 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.0.6 (MFSA-2019-05; Closes: #16437).
9158 - Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u5 (DSA-4381).
9159 - Upgrade cURL to 7.52.1-5+deb9u9 (DSA-4386).
9160 - Upgrade Qt 5 to 5.7.1+dfsg-3+deb9u1 (DSA-4374).
9161 - Upgrade OpenSSH to 1:7.4p1-10+deb9u5 (DSA-4387).
9163 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 12 Feb 2019 21:25:14 +0100
9165 tails (3.12) unstable; urgency=medium
9168 - Make the USB image the main supported way to install Tails (refs: #15292).
9169 On first boot, grow the system partition to a size that's a factor
9170 of the size of the boot medium and randomize GUIDs (Closes: #15319).
9171 - Upgrade Linux to 4.19, version 4.19.13-1 (Closes: #16073, #16224).
9172 Fixes CVE-2018-19985, CVE-2018-19406, CVE-2018-16862, CVE-2018-18397,
9173 CVE-2018-18397, CVE-2018-18397, CVE-2018-18397, CVE-2018-19824,
9175 - Remove Liferea (Closes: #11082, #15776).
9176 - Upgrade to the Debian Stretch 9.6 point-release.
9179 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.0.5 (MFSA-2019-02; Closes: #16388).
9180 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 60.4.0 (DSA-4362-1; Closes: #16261).
9181 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.2q-1~deb9u1 (DSA-4355-1).
9182 - Upgrade libarchive to 3.2.2-2+deb9u1 (DSA-4360-1).
9183 - Upgrade GnuTLS to 3.5.8-5+deb9u4 (CVE-2018-10844, CVE-2018-10845).
9184 - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.2.4-2+deb9u3 (CVE-2018-1000222, CVE-2018-5711).
9185 - Upgrade libmspack to 0.5-1+deb9u3 (CVE-2018-18584, CVE-2018-18585).
9186 - Upgrade libopenmpt to 0.2.7386~beta20.3-3+deb9u3 (CVE-2018-10017).
9187 - Upgrade libx11 to 2:1.6.4-3+deb9u1 (CVE-2018-14598, CVE-2018-14599,
9189 - Upgrade libxcursor to 1:1.1.14-1+deb9u2 (CVE-2015-9262).
9190 - Upgrade NetworkManager to 1.6.2-3+deb9u2+0.tails1 (CVE-2018-15688).
9191 - Upgrade wpa to 2:2.4-1+deb9u2 (CVE-2018-14526).
9192 - Upgrade zeromq3 to 4.2.1-4+deb9u1 (CVE-2019-6250).
9193 - Upgrade APT to 1.4.9 (DSA-4371-1).
9194 - Upgrade GhostScript to 9.26a~dfsg-0+deb9u1 (DSA-4372-1).
9197 - Fix Totem's access to the Internet when it's started from the Applications
9199 - Rename HTP pools to avoid confusion (Closes: #15428).
9200 - Fix memory erasure on shutdown with systemd v239+, by mounting
9201 a dedicated tmpfs on /run/initramfs instead of trying to remount /run
9202 with the "exec" option (Closes: #16097).
9203 - Make the KeePassX wrapper dialog translatable.
9204 - Fix detection of first Thunderbird run.
9206 * Minor improvements and updates
9207 - Upgrade tor to 0.3.4.9-1~d90.stretch+1.
9208 - Upgrade Mesa to 18.2.6-1~bpo9+1, libdrm to 2.4.95-1~bpo9+1,
9209 and libglvnd to 1.1.0-1~bpo9+1.
9210 - Upgrade firmware-linux and firmware-nonfree to 20190114-1.
9211 - Upgrade amd64-microcode to 3.20181128.1.
9212 - Upgrade intel-microcode to 3.20180807a.2~bpo9+1.
9213 - Remove the boot readahead feature (Closes: #15915).
9214 In most supported use cases, it did not improve boot time anymore,
9215 or even increases it.
9216 - Require TLS 1.2 in our Upgrader and tails-security-check (Closes: 11815).
9217 - Enable O_CREAT restriction in /tmp directories for FIFOs and regular
9218 files (Closes: #16072).
9219 - Upgrade systemd to 240-4~bpo9+0tails1 (Closes: #16352).
9220 Fixes CVE-2018-16864, CVE-2018-16865, and CVE-2018-16866.
9221 - Upgrade Enigmail to 2.0.8-5~deb9u1 (Closes: #15657).
9222 - Upgrade Torbirdy to 0.2.6-1~bpo9+1 (Closes: #15661).
9223 - Modify Torbirdy configuration in a way that's easier to maintain.
9224 - Tell the user they need to use sudo when they attempt to use su
9228 - Make the build of the USB image reproducible (Closes: #15985).
9229 - Allow specifying which set of APT snapshots shall be used during
9230 the build, with the APT_SNAPSHOTS_SERIALS build option (Closes: #15107).
9231 - Fix more GIDs and display more information when changing UIDs or GIDs
9232 fails (Closes: #16036).
9233 - Remove obsolete patches, refresh remaining ones to apply on top
9234 of currently installed packages version.
9235 - Disable irrelevant recurring jobs in Vagrant build box (refs: #16177)
9236 that increase the chance of FTBFS due to mksquashfs being reaped
9238 - Adjust for recent GnuPG error'ing out when it has no controlling terminal.
9241 - Adjust test suite for USB image:
9242 - Add tests that exercise behavior on first boot from a device
9243 installed using the USB image (Closes: #16003).
9244 - Drop tests for use cases we don't support anymore with the introduction
9245 of the USB image (refs: #16004).
9246 - Adjust remaining tests to focus on main supported use cases,
9247 i.e. Tails installed from a USB image (refs: #16004.
9248 - In scenarios where we simulate MAC spoofing failure, test safety-critical
9249 properties even if the desktop notification is buggy (refs: #10774).
9250 - Update expected title for our Redmine (Closes: #16237).
9251 - Update expected image for OpenPGP key search.
9253 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2019 13:26:26 +0100
9255 tails (3.11) unstable; urgency=medium
9258 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.0.4-build2 (Closes: #16193).
9259 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 60.3.0-1~deb9u1.0tails1 (Closes: #16118).
9260 - Thunderbird: unconditionally disable Autocrypt, as it is not safe in
9261 its current state (See: #15923, Closes: #16186).
9262 - Upgrade Linux to 4.18.20 and aufs to 4.18.11+-20181119
9264 - Upgrade cURL to 7.52.1-5+deb9u8 (DSA-4331).
9265 - Upgrade Ghostscript to 9.26~dfsg-0+deb9u1 (DSA-4336, DSA-4346).
9266 - Upgrade Perl to 5.24.1-3+deb9u5 (DSA-4347).
9267 - Upgrade Policykit to 0.105-18+deb9u1 (DSA-4350).
9268 - Upgrade Samba to 2:4.5.12+dfsg-2+deb9u4 (DSA-4345).
9269 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.1.0j-1~deb9u1 (DSA-4348).
9270 - Upgrade libtiff to 4.0.8-2+deb9u4 (DSA-4349).
9274 · Improve support for incremental upgrades to avoid issues with
9275 partially applied upgrades (Closes: #14754).
9276 · Add a prompt after the IUK has been downloaded so the user can
9277 control when the network will be disabled; previously this was
9278 done without users having a say, possibly leading to confusion and
9279 lost work (Closes: #15282).
9280 - Thunderbird: always set locale according to environment (Closes: #16113).
9282 * Minor improvements and updates
9283 - Remove packages which were needed for getTorBrowserUserAgent
9285 - Fix persistence configuration window opening on full screen
9287 - Time sync: don't temporarily increase tor's log level when using
9288 bridges/PTs (Closes: #15743).
9289 - Warn about non-free software depending on the host operating system
9290 and/or virtualization stack (Closes: #16195).
9293 - Create USB image after building the ISO, and include it in build
9294 artifacts (Closes: #15984, #15985, #15990).
9295 - Release process: adapt to IDF v2 (Closes: #16171).
9298 - Add new Using "VeraCrypt encrypted volumes" feature, with scenarios
9299 split into two parts: "Unlock VeraCrypt Volumes" and "GNOME Disks"
9300 (Closes: #14469, #14471, #15238, #15239).
9301 - Reintroduce "Clock is one day in the future in bridge mode" test
9303 - Make starting apps via GNOME Activities Overview more robust
9305 - Check for "Upgrading the system" and adjust to "Upgrade successfully
9306 downloaded" new UI (See: #14754, #15282).
9308 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 10 Dec 2018 20:37:06 +0100
9310 tails (3.10.1) unstable; urgency=medium
9312 * Declare that Enigmail is compatible with Thunderbird 60.*.
9314 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 23 Oct 2018 01:30:00 +0200
9316 tails (3.10) unstable; urgency=medium
9319 - Harden sudo config to avoid potential future privilege escalation
9321 - Upgrade Linux to 4.18 and aufs to 4.18-20181008 (Closes: #15936).
9322 - Upgrade the snapshot of the Debian archive to 2018100901 accordingly.
9323 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.0.3-build1 (Closes: #16067).
9324 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 60.2.1 (Closes: #16037).
9327 - Fix installation of mesa/stretch-backports by installing libwayland*
9328 from stretch-backports (Closes: #15846).
9329 - Tor Browser AppArmor profile patch: update to apply cleanly on top
9330 of torbrowser-launcher 0.2.9-5.
9331 - Additional Software: fix issues spotted during the code review
9333 - Additional Software: make sure to offer persistence only for newly
9334 installed packages, avoiding inconsistency (Closes: #15983).
9335 - Improve button labels in confirmation dialogs of the Tails installer
9337 - Hardcode User Agent in htpdate.user-agent (Closes: #15912), as the
9338 Tor Browser doesn't expose it anymore.
9339 - Fix encoding-related crashes in Tails Installer (Closes: #15166).
9340 - Set the Firefox preferences to spoof English, to avoid leaking
9341 information about locale settings (Closes: #16029).
9342 - VeraCrypt: Hide PIM entries in GNOME Shell and Disks, since a newer
9343 cryptsetup would be needed (Closes: #16031).
9344 - VeraCrypt: Fix support for multiple encryption, by iterating over
9345 all children in the device-mapper tree (Closes: #15967).
9346 - Update translations.
9348 * Minor improvements and updates
9349 - Add dmsetup and losetup output in WhisperBack reports to help debug
9350 VeraCrypt-related issues (Closes: #15966).
9351 - Let AppArmor allow access to /usr/local/share/mime, reducing noise
9352 in logs due to many DENIED entries (Closes: #15965).
9353 - Use proper stem.connection module in onion-grater instead of trying
9354 to read the auth cookie manually: that's fragile and breaks some use
9355 cases (e.g. custom auth cookie).
9356 - Unlock VeraCrypt Volumes: Improve internationalization support.
9359 - Ensure the test suite doesn't break when changing the headline of
9360 /home (Closes: #12156).
9361 - Update test suite for updated button labels in confirmation dialogs
9362 of the Tails installer (Closes: #11501).
9364 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 23 Oct 2018 01:30:00 +0200
9366 tails (3.9.1) unstable; urgency=medium
9369 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.0.2, based on Firefox 60.2.1 (Closes: #16017).
9370 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 60.0-3~deb9u1.0tails2 (Closes: #15959). Also
9371 imported the same security fixes that caused Tor Browser 8.0.2.
9372 - Upgrade curl to 7.52.1-5+deb9u7 (DSA-4286).
9373 - Upgrade Ghostscript to 9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u5 (DSA-4294).
9374 - Upgrade libarchive-zip-perl to 1.59-1+deb9u1 (DSA-4300).
9375 - Upgrade libkpathsea6 to 2016.20160513.41080.dfsg-2+deb9u1 (DSA-4299).
9376 - Upgrade LittleCMS 2, aka. liblcms2-2, to 2.8-4+deb9u1 (DSA-4284).
9377 - Upgrade Python 2.7 to 2.7.13-2+deb9u3 (DSA-4306).
9378 - Upgrade Python 3.5 to 3.5.3-1+deb9u1 (DSA-4307).
9381 - Make Thunderbird translated in non-English locales via
9382 intl.locale.requested, which works correctly since 60.0-3
9384 - Totem: backport AppArmor profile fix to allow opening the help
9386 - Remove mutt, that was accidentally installed in 3.9 (Closes: #15904).
9387 - Fix VeraCrypt volumes not being opened in GNOME Files (Closes: #15954).
9388 - Fix displaying the "General" section in the Tor Browser preferences
9390 - Fix APT pinning at Tails runtime for our custom APT repository
9391 and for Debian backports (Closes: #15837, #15973).
9393 * Minor improvements and updates
9394 - Upgrade tor to 0.3.4.8-1~d90.stretch+1 (Closes: #15889).
9396 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 03 Oct 2018 12:12:33 +0200
9398 tails (3.9) unstable; urgency=medium
9401 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.0 (Closes: #15803, #15907).
9402 Notable user-visible changes and relevant details:
9403 · Adjust to the fact Tor Browser 8.0a10 replaces firefox with a wrapper.
9404 · Don't use the bundled copy of libstdc++.so.6, ours is recent enough.
9405 · Drop obsolete Torbutton prefs (Closes: #15706).
9406 · Switch back to 128px icons (Closes: #15081).
9407 · AppArmor profile: take into account new Firefox binary path.
9408 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 60.0 (Closes: #15792).
9409 Notable user-visible changes and relevant details:
9410 · AppArmor profile: patch to avoid conflicting x modifiers for ps(1).
9411 - Upgrade tor to 0.3.4.7-rc (Closes: #15772).
9414 - Upgrade Linux to 4.17.17-1 and intel-microcode to 3.20180807a.1
9415 This fixes CVE-2018-3620 aka. Foreshadow aka. L1 Terminal Fault
9417 - Upgrade OpenSSH to 1:7.4p1-10+deb9u4 (DSA-4280).
9420 - Fix Totem on Intel graphics cards by inlining the backported mesa
9421 and dri-enumerate abstractions into its AppArmor profile: they are needed
9422 with recent Mesa and libdrm (Closes: #15821). Regression introduced
9424 - Fix unlocking "hidden" TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt volumes via GNOME Shell
9426 - Fix confusing error message when unlocking TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt volumes
9428 - Revert to Stretch's X.Org nouveau video driver (Closes: #15833).
9429 It seems that the regression brought by the upgraded one
9430 is worse than the improvements reported after our call for testing.
9431 Regression introduced in 3.9~rc1.
9432 - Use the intel X.Org driver for Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620.
9433 - Fix regressions introduced in 3.9~rc1 in/by Additional Software Packages:
9434 · Don't break new empty persistence configuration files creation when
9435 permissions are incorrect (Closes: #15802).
9436 · Fix UX when the user has specified a distribution or version
9437 for a given package in their live-additional-software.conf
9439 · Don't show installation notifications on upgrade (Closes: #15879).
9440 - Make more Additional Software Packages strings translatable in the
9441 configuration dialog and PolicyKit messages.
9443 * Minor improvements and updates
9444 - Upgrade firmware-nonfree to 20180825-1.
9445 - Update the deb.torproject.org APT repository signing key.
9446 - Unlock VeraCrypt Volumes: add disclaimer (Closes: #15849).
9449 - Update Thunderbird test suite for 60.0 (Closes: #15791).
9450 - Fix various robustness issues.
9451 - Make the Chutney nodes use a higher V3AuthVotingInterval to make client
9452 bootstrap more robust (Closes: #15799).
9453 - Update the Tor Launcher binary path.
9454 - Adjust to the fact "New Circuit for this Site" is now in the site
9455 information and not under the Torbutton anymore.
9456 - Delete unused images.
9458 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 04 Sep 2018 12:15:43 +0000
9460 tails (3.9~rc1) unstable; urgency=medium
9463 - Integrate the Additional Software Packages feature into the desktop
9464 and revamp the interface of "Configure Persistent Volume".
9465 - Support TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt encrypted volumes on the desktop.
9466 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.0a9, based on Firefox 60 ESR (Closes: #15023).
9467 Notable user-visible changes and relevant details:
9468 · Drop search engine customization and stick to Tor Browser's defaults.
9469 · Upgrade uBlock Origin to its WebExtension version and now rely
9470 on the filter lists shipped in the Debian package.
9471 · Tweak the number of web content processes to work better with 2 GiB
9472 of RAM (Closes: #15716).
9473 · Revamp how we're handling our custom prefs, drop obsolete ones,
9474 reduce our delta with pristine Tor Browser.
9475 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 60.0b10 (Closes: #15091). Notable details:
9476 · Install Torbirdy 0.2.5 from stretch-backports and drop our patches
9477 that were merged upstream.
9478 · Enable the optional part of the fixes for EFAIL (Closes: #15602).
9479 - Upgrade Linux to 4.17 (Closes: #15763).
9480 - Upgrade tor to 0.3.4.6-rc (Closes: #15770).
9481 - Upgrade to Debian Stretch 9.5.
9484 - Upgrade CUPS to 2.2.1-8+deb9u2 (DSA-4243).
9485 - Upgrade Exiv2 to 0.25-3.1+deb9u1 (DSA-4238).
9486 - Upgrade FUSE to 2.9.7-1+deb9u1 (DSA-4257).
9487 - Upgrade GDM to 3.22.3-3+deb9u2 (DSA-4270).
9488 - Upgrade libsoup to 2.56.0-2+deb9u2 (DSA-4241).
9489 - Upgrade Imagemagick to 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u5 (DSA-4245).
9490 - Upgrade ffmpeg to 7:3.2.12-1~deb9u1 (DSA-4258, DSA-4249).
9491 - Upgrade libmspack to 0.5-1+deb9u2 (DSA-4260).
9492 - Upgrade Samba to 2:4.5.12+dfsg-2+deb9u3 (DSA-4271).
9493 - Upgrade the Apache XML Security for C++ library to 1.7.3-4+deb9u1
9497 - Don't display the Enigmail configuration wizard in every Tails session
9498 (Closes: #15693, #15746). Fix against Tails 3.8.
9499 - Make the torstatus GNOME Shell extension actually translatable
9500 (Closes: #15715). Fix against the first Tails release that included
9502 - Drop Icedove → Thunderbird migration code which started causing trouble.
9504 · Link to upgrade documentation when upgrading (Closes: #7904).
9505 · Show the reinstall option only when the device is big enough to make
9506 a full reinstallation (Closes: #14810).
9507 · Make the main window fit in a 600px-high screen (Closes: #14849).
9508 · Show the correct device size in the reinstall confirmation dialog
9510 - Tails Greeter: don't display file:/// URLs to users (Closes: #15582).
9512 * Minor improvements and updates
9513 - Install Mesa and libdrm* from stretch-backports and upgrade the Nouveau
9514 X.Org video driver to 1.0.15. This improves support for some graphics
9515 cards such as NVIDIA Pascal series (Closes: #14910)
9516 - htpdate: improve diagnostics output when the date header can't be fetched.
9517 - Onion Grater: support named AppArmor profiles.
9518 - Update Onion Grater's config for new Tor Browser AppArmor profile name.
9519 - Enable e10s in the Unsafe Browser.
9520 - Delete all search plugins for the Unsafe Browser (Closes: #15708).
9521 - Display a deprecation warning when starting Liferea (#11082).
9522 - Upgrade VirtualBox guest modules to 5.2.16-dfsg-3~bpo9+2.
9523 - Use Tor Browser for browsing the documentation even when offline
9525 - Provide feedback while Tor Browser, "Tails documentation"
9526 or "Report an error" are starting (Closes: #15101).
9527 - WhisperBack: remove the right pane (Closes: #7180).
9528 - tails-debugging-info: return machine-readable, structured data.
9529 Adjust WhisperBack accordingly (Closes: #8514). This paves the way
9530 towards more usable bug reports (#8722).
9531 - Port lots of our Perl code to more lightweight libraries.
9532 This decreases the amount of memory used by the persistence
9533 configuration interface.
9534 - Do not hide applications that require an admin password (Closes: #11013).
9535 - Try unlocking every persistent volume when multiple ones are
9536 available (Closes: #15653).
9537 - Upgrade Electrum to 3.1.3-1~bpo9+1.
9538 - Upgrade most firmware to 20180518-1.
9539 - Upgrade Intel microcode to 3.20180703.2~bpo9+1.
9540 - Upgrade AMD microcode to 3.20180524.1.
9543 - Drop AppArmor feature set pinning: this is now done in Debian Stretch
9545 - Remove the now unused deb.torproject.org sid APT source (Closes: #15638).
9546 - Install OnionShare from our custom APT repo instead of from sid.
9547 We've mistakenly tracked sid for a while and it has become a problem,
9548 so stick to the version that works for us until Tails 4.0.
9549 - Fix building the ISO on zfs by dropping the cache=none setting for
9550 vmproxy's storage (Closes: #14404).
9551 - Update the Vagrant basebox for any change under vagrant/.
9552 Previously, some relevant changes were not effective until something under
9553 vagrant/definitions/tails-builder/ was changed.
9554 - Make intltool ignore .py files: `intltool-update --maintain` seems to be
9555 buggy with .py files.
9556 - Refresh our CUPS AppArmor profile patch to apply on 2.2.1-8+deb9u2.
9557 - Make it more obvious that the .orig file check is fatal (Closes: #15727).
9558 - Delete baseboxes once they're 6 months old instead of 4.
9559 This is more in line with the delay between our major releases these days.
9560 - Rename /usr/share/amnesia to /usr/share/tails. It was about time.
9561 - Abort the build if /etc/{passwd,group} has changed (Closes: #15419).
9562 Such changes can break Tails after an automatic upgrade was applied
9563 so let's detect it ASAP. Consequently, ensure a few GIDs — that wanted
9564 to play musical chairs — are the same as in Tails 3.8 (Closes: #15695).
9565 - Don't fail the build if the APT lists don't include any package
9566 whose name matches ^geoclue.
9569 - Adjust to the new tails-persistence-setup API.
9570 - Update the Tor Browser's AppArmor profile name.
9571 - Re-enable the "I can print the current page […]" test.
9572 - Update tests wrt. the fact tails-upgrade-frontend-wrapper was ported
9573 to Python (Closes: #15379).
9574 - Make a test more robust by waiting for the page to have loaded.
9575 - Adjust to the fact the WhisperBack debugging info is now configured
9576 in a machine-readable file.
9577 - Remove test for tails-debugging-info, that has been a no-op for a while.
9578 - Adjust for Tor Browser 8.
9579 - Make the "I open the address" step more robust and accordingly
9580 stop marking the tests that use it in the Unsafe Browser
9581 as fragile (refs: #14771).
9582 - De-duplicate a number of images of standard GTK+ 3 widgets.
9583 - Make the audio and WebM tests more robust.
9584 - Make the "I start the Tor Browser in offline mode" step more robust.
9585 - Make the "AppArmor has (not )? denied" step more robust.
9586 - Don't try and use XVFB_PID if it's not set (Closes: #15730).
9587 - Adjust Pidgin test to use a certificate that's still in Debian
9589 - Use a hopefully more reliable public GnuPG key and make tests
9590 more robust against new subkeys being added (Closes: #15771).
9591 - Stop hard-coding the list of RTL Tor Browser locales.
9592 - Fix the "Unsafe Browser can be used in all languages supported in Tails"
9593 test for locales that have a translated homepage (Closes: #11711).
9594 - Take into account that apt(8) won't return when run in the remote shell
9595 with the ASP hooks enabled.
9597 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Thu, 16 Aug 2018 18:37:47 +0000
9599 tails (3.8) unstable; urgency=medium
9602 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.5.6 (MFSA 2018-17; Closes: #15683).
9603 - Upgrade Enigmail to 2.0.7 (partly fixes #15602 aka. EFAIL).
9604 - Upgrade libgcrypt to 1.7.6-2+deb9u3 (DSA-4231-1).
9605 - Upgrade perl to 5.24.1-3+deb9u4 (DSA-4226-1).
9608 - Thunderbird: fix importing public OpenPGP keys from email attachments
9610 - Make the Unsafe Browser home page translatable again (Closes: #15461).
9612 * Minor improvements
9613 - Don't display the "Know your rights" message on Thunderbird first run.
9614 - Move Thunderbird's default userChrome.css to /etc/thunderbird, just like
9615 we do for Tor Browser, for easier upgrade handling.
9617 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 25 Jun 2018 09:59:22 +0000
9619 tails (3.7.1) unstable; urgency=medium
9622 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.5.5 (MFSA 2018-14; closes: #15643).
9623 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 52.8.0 (DSA-4209-1; Closes: #15607).
9624 - Partially fixes EFAIL.
9625 - Fixes importing OpenPGP keys from keyservers with Enigmail.
9626 - Accordingly refresh our Thunderbird AppArmor profile patch.
9627 - Upgrade cURL to 7.52.1-5+deb9u6 (DSA-4202-1).
9628 - Upgrade GnuPG (modern) 2.1.18-8~deb9u2 (DSA-4222-1).
9629 - Upgrade GnuPG (legacy) to 1.4.21-4+deb9u1 (DSA-4223-1).
9630 - Upgrade Git to 1:2.11.0-3+deb9u3 (DSA-4212-1).
9631 - Upgrade PackageKit to 1.1.5-2+deb9u1 (DSA-4207-1).
9632 - Upgrade procps to 2:3.3.12-3+deb9u1 (DSA-4208-1).
9633 - Upgrade wavpack to 5.0.0-2+deb9u2 (DSA-4197-1).
9634 - Upgrade wget to 1.18-5+deb9u2 (DSA-4195-1).
9635 - Upgrade xdg-utils to 1.1.1-1+deb9u1 (DSA-4211-1).
9638 - Fix setting a screen locker password with non-ASCII characters
9641 - Rename the WhisperBack launcher to "WhisperBack Error Reporting"
9642 so that users have a better chance to understand what it does
9644 - Ensure debugging info in Whisperback reports don't contain email
9645 signature markers so that email clients forward it in full
9647 - Wrap text written by the user to 70 chars (Closes: #11689).
9649 * Minor improvements
9650 - The "Tails documentation" desktop launcher now opens /doc instead of
9651 the aging /getting_started that confused people during user testing
9655 - Update to match "Tails documentation" behaviour change.
9657 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 09 Jun 2018 19:53:51 +0000
9659 tails (3.7) unstable; urgency=medium
9662 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.5.4 (MFSA 2018-12, Closes: #15588).
9663 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.1.0f-3+deb9u2 (DSA-4157).
9664 - Upgrade Perl to 5.24.1-3+deb9u3 (DSA-4172).
9665 - Upgrade Libre Office to 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u4 (DSA-4178).
9666 - Upgrade libmad to 0.15.1b-8+deb9u1 (DSA-4192).
9669 - Enable the removal of OpenPGP keyblock in Whisperback (closes: #7797).
9670 - Show the logo in Whisperback's About menu (closes: #13198).
9671 - Use the same font in all the Whisperback report (Closes: #11272).
9672 - Update tails-bugs@tails.boum OpenPGP key (Closes: #15534).
9674 * Minor improvements
9675 - Stop installing python-qt4 and python-trezor (Closes: #15391).
9676 - Make WhisperBack easier to find in the GNOME Overview (Closes: #13299).
9678 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 08 May 2018 01:47:22 +0200
9680 tails (3.6.2) unstable; urgency=medium
9683 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.5.3 (MFSA 2018-10, Closes: #15459).
9684 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 1:52.7.0-1~deb9u1.0tails1 (DSA-4155,
9686 - Upgrade libicu to 57.1-6+deb9u2 (DSA-4150).
9687 - Upgrade intel-microcode to 3.20180312.1~bpo9+1. Implements
9688 IBRS/IBPB/STIPB support, Spectre-v2 mitigation for: Sandybridge,
9689 Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake
9693 - Tor Browser AppArmor profile:
9694 * Grant the main Firefox process access to machine-id: needed for
9695 IBus support (Closes: #15437).
9696 * Allow access to extensions installed by the user such as Tails
9697 Verification (Closes: #15434).
9698 - Remove packages needed to support Video Acceleration API
9699 (VA-API) because they breaks opening GNOME Settings and Totem in
9700 Tails 3.6 on some computers (only NVIDIA for now but perhaps
9701 other hardware is affected). (Closes: #15433, #15449)
9702 - Upgrade Linux to 4.15.11-1 and bump the aufs submodule (Closes:
9704 - tails-documentation script:
9705 * open translated documentation page in Tor Browser when online
9707 * use documented syntax for os.execv (Refs: #15332)
9708 * re-add support for passing a HTML anchor as the second
9710 - Fix issue where the tails-persistence-setup user's guid would be
9711 changed when it was the uid that was intended (Closes: #15422).
9713 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Thu, 29 Mar 2018 17:49:42 +0200
9715 tails (3.6.1) unstable; urgency=medium
9718 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.5.2 (MFSA 2018-08 i.e. CVE-2018-5146).
9719 - Upgrade libvorbis to 1.3.5-4+deb9u2 (DSA 4140-1 aka. CVE-2018-5146).
9720 - Upgrade curl to 7.52.1-5+deb9u5 (DSA 4136-1).
9721 - Upgrade samba to 2:4.5.12+dfsg-2+deb9u2 (DSA 4135-1).
9724 - Fix ISO build reproducibility (Closes: #15400)
9725 - Disable Selfrando: Tor Browser upstream currently enables it only
9726 in non-release builds
9727 (https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24912#comment:8).
9729 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2018 22:42:00 +0000
9731 tails (3.6) unstable; urgency=medium
9734 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.5.1.
9735 - Upgrade Tor to 0.3.2.10. (Closes: #15158)
9736 - Add ability to lock the screen. (Closes: #5684)
9737 - Add initial support for Meek bridges. (Closes: #8243)
9738 - Upgrade to Thunderbird 52.6.0. (Closes: #15298)
9739 - Enable Thunderbird AppArmor profile. (Closes: 11973)
9740 - Upgrade Linux to 4.15.0-1. (Closes: #15309).
9741 - Upgrade systemd to 237.
9742 - Upgrade Electrum to 3.0.6. (Closes: #15022)
9743 - Upgrade the base system to the Debian Stretch 9.4 point-release
9745 - Port a few shell scripts to Python thanks to GoodCrypto. (Closes: #11198)
9748 - Upgrade Intel processor microcode firmware. (Closes: #15173).
9749 - Upgrade poppler to 0.48.0-2+deb9u1. (CVE-2017-14929, CVE-2017-1000456)
9750 - Upgrade tiff to 4.0.8-2+deb9u2 (CVE-2017-9935, CVE-2017-11335,
9751 CVE-2017-12944, CVE-2017-13726, CVE-2017-13727, CVE-2017-18013)
9752 - Upgrade ffmpeg to 7:3.2.10-1~deb9u1. (CVE-2017-17081)
9753 - Upgrade libtasn1-6 to 4.10-1.1+deb9u1. (CVE-2017-10790, CVE-2018-6003)
9754 - Upgrade Libre Office to 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u2. (CVE-2018-6871)
9755 - Upgrade libvorbis to 1.3.5-4+deb9u1. (CVE-2017-14632, CVE-2017-14633)
9756 - Upgrade gcc to 6.3.0-18+deb9u1.
9757 - Upgrade util-linux to 2.29.2-1+deb9u1. (CVE-2018-7738)
9758 - Upgrade isc-dhcp to 4.3.5-3+deb9u1 (CVE-2017-3144, CVE-2018-5732,
9761 * Minor improvements
9762 - Avoid noisy warning at boot time by creating tails-upgrade-frontend's
9763 trusted GnuPG homedir with stricter permissions, then making it looser.
9765 - Drop (broken) Thunderbird dedicated SocksPort. (Closes: #12460)
9766 - Drop customized update-ca-certificates.service. (Closes: #14756)
9767 - Update AppArmor cupsd profile. (Closes: #15029)
9768 - Improve UX when GDM does not start. (Closes: #14521)
9769 - Install packages needed to support Video Acceleration API.
9771 - Upgrade aufs-dkms for Linux 4.15. (Closes: #15132).
9772 - Ship pdf-redact-tools, thanks to dachary <loic@dachary.org>.
9774 - Additional Software Packages: convert to python3 and PEP-8.
9776 - Additional Software Packages: do not check for updates every time the
9777 network gets reconnected. (Closes: #9819)
9778 - Revert to xorg-xserver from Stretch. (Closes: #15232)
9779 - Open Tails documentation in Tor Browser when online. (Closes: #15332)
9780 - Disable Enigmail's Memory Hole feature. (Closes: #15201)
9781 - Persistence Setup: stop depending on Synaptic. (Closes: #15263)
9784 - Additional Software Packages: fix the "incomplete online upgrade
9785 process" bug in offline mode (Closes: #14570)
9786 - Additional Software Packages: do not block Desktop opening.
9788 - Install OpenPGP Applet 1.1. (Closes: #6398).
9789 - Repair rng-tools using a real start-stop-daemon program.
9791 - Tails installer: fix bug with unicode status messages. (Closes: #15254)
9794 - Abort if tails-custom-apt-sources failed.
9795 - Abort the ISO build when DKMS modules are not built. (Closes: #14789).
9796 - Improve how we track dependencies in build hooks. (Closes: #14818)
9797 - Fix (potential) rare race condition during build.
9798 - Ensure the SquashFS has /etc/hostname properly configured.
9800 - Bump builder VM's RAM. (Closes: #15310)
9803 - Log the list of systemd jobs when systemctl is-system-running fails.
9805 - Allow more time for 'systemctl is-system-running' to succeed.
9806 - Only support SikuliX, not Sikuli.
9807 - Disable SPICE clipboard sharing.
9808 - Don't flood the debug logger with the journal contents.
9810 - Enter a name into the Thunderbird account configuration.
9812 - Fix the "I do not see ..." step's case. (Closes: #14929)
9813 - Mark scenarios that use the "The Report an Error launcher will…" step
9814 as fragile (Closes: #15321)
9815 - Test that Tor Browser opens docs when online. (Closes: #15332)
9816 - Adapt test after warning moved to after Unsafe Browser verification
9817 dialog. (Closes: #8775)
9818 - Dogtailify electrum.feature.
9819 - Add additional software packages feature. (Closes: #14572)
9820 - Disable test that is broken due to a Tor Browser bug. (refs: #15336)
9822 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 12 Mar 2018 21:28:29 +0100
9824 tails (3.5) unstable; urgency=medium
9827 - Upgrade amd64-microcode to 3.20171205.1, for the mitigation
9828 against Spectre (CVE-2017-5715) (Closes: #15148).
9829 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.5-build3 (Closes: #15197).
9830 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 1:52.5.2-2~deb9u1.0tails1 (Closes: #15033)
9831 - Upgrade gdk-pixbuf to 2.36.5-2+deb9u2.0tails1 (Closes: #15177).
9832 - Upgrade bind9 to 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3+deb9u4.
9833 - Upgrade libxml2 to 2.9.4+dfsg1-2.2+deb9u2.
9835 * Minor improvements
9836 - Upgrade Linux to 4.14.13, which is the first kernel that has the
9837 "[x86] microcode/AMD: Add support for fam17h microcode loading"
9838 commit, that's needed to load the AMD fam17h microcode for
9839 mitigating the Spectre vulnerability (CVE-2017-5715).
9842 - Drop Claws Mail persistence setting migration. Whenever
9843 persistent Claws Mail setting is enabled, this creates an empty
9844 ~/.icedove/ directory, that prevents Thunderbird from starting
9846 - Don't prevent the GNOME Applications button from opening its menu if
9847 time syncing resulted in a shift back in time (Closes: #14250).
9848 - Tails Installer: when cloning Tails to another USB drive, check
9849 if the target device has enough space *before* any destructive
9850 actions are made (Closes: #14622).
9851 - Tor Browser: make "Print to file" work again, for all locales
9852 (Closes: #13403, #15024).
9855 - Fix option passed to cmp: -q is not supported but --quiet is.
9856 Spotted on feature/buster that's the first branch that exercises
9857 this code, but there's no reason to fix it only there.
9860 - Adapt tests for Tor Launcher 0.2.14.3, i.e. the one shipped with
9861 Tor Browser 7.5 in Tails 3.5 (Closes: #15064).
9862 - Add support for creating arbitrarily sized partitions.
9863 - Add a "Try cloning Tails to a too small partition" scenario
9864 (regression test for #14622).
9866 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 23 Jan 2018 00:57:58 +0100
9868 tails (3.4) unstable; urgency=medium
9871 - Install Linux 4.14.0-3 from sid (Closes: #14976). This enables
9872 the kernel-side mitigations for Meltdown.
9873 - Upgrade curl to 7.52.1-5+deb9u3.
9874 - Upgrade enigmail to 2:1.9.9-1~deb9u1.
9875 - Upgrade gimp to 2.8.18-1+deb9u1.
9876 - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u4.
9877 - Upgrade libav (ffmpeg) to 7:3.2.9-1~deb9u1.
9878 - Upgrade libxcursor to 1:1.1.14-1+deb9u1.
9879 - Upgrade libxml-libxml-perl to 2.0128+dfsg-1+deb9u1.
9880 - Upgrade poppler to 0.48.0-2+deb9u1.
9881 - Upgrade rsync to 3.1.2-1 3.1.2-1+deb9u1.
9882 - Upgrade samba to 2:4.5.12+dfsg-2+deb9u1.
9883 - Upgrade sensible-utils to 0.0.9+deb9u1.
9884 - Upgrade tor to 0.3.1.9-1~d90.stretch+1.
9886 * Minor improvements
9887 - Display TopIcons systray on the left of the system menu. This
9888 fixes #14796 (on Buster, it is displayed in the middle of the
9889 screen, on the left of the clock) and an annoying UX problem we
9890 have on Stretch: OpenPGP applet is in the middle of icons that
9891 share the exact same (modern, GNOME Shell-like) behaviour, which
9892 is disturbing when opening one of the modern menus and moving
9893 the mouse left/right to the others, because in the middle one
9894 icon won't react as expected, and the nice blue bottom border
9895 continuity is broken.
9896 - Use the "intel" X.Org driver for integrated graphics in Intel
9897 i5-7300HQ (Closes: #14990).
9898 - Enable HashKnownHosts in the OpenSSH client (Closes: #14995).
9899 Debian enables HashKnownHosts by default via /etc/ssh/ssh_config
9900 for good reasons, let's not revert to the upstream default.
9901 - Pin the AppArmor feature set to the Stretch's kernel one. Linux
9902 4.14 brings new AppArmor mediation features and the policy
9903 shipped in Stretch may not be ready for it. So let's disable
9904 these new features to avoid breaking stuff: it's too hard to
9905 check if all the policy for apps we ship (and that users install
9906 themselves) has the right rules to cope with these new mediation
9910 - Don't delete downloaded debs after install (Closes: #10958).
9911 - Install xul-ext-ublock-origin from sid to make the dashboard
9912 work again(Closes: #14993). Thanks to cacahuatl
9913 <cacahuatl@autistici.org> for the patch!
9914 - Additional software feature: use debconf priority critical to
9915 prevent failure when installing packages otherwise requiring
9916 manual configuration (Closes: #6038)
9917 - Don't include anything under /lib/live/mount/medium/ in the
9918 readahead list (Closes: #14964). This fixes the boot time
9919 regression introduced in Tails 3.3.
9922 - Display a more helpful error message when the 'origin' remote
9923 does not point to the official Tails Git repository. This task
9924 calls git_base_branch_head() which relies on the fact 'origin'
9925 points to our official repo.
9926 - Vagrant: never build the wiki early. This has caused several
9927 issues throughout the years, the lastest instance being the
9928 reopening of #14933. (Closes: #14933)
9929 - Install libelf-dev during the time we need it for building DKMS modules.
9930 - Make the DKMS build hook verbose, and display DKMS modules build
9931 logs on failure. This hook is a recurring cause of headaches,
9932 let's simplify debugging.
9933 - Remove obsolete duplicate build of the virtualbox-guest DKMS
9937 - Log the list of systemd jobs when systemctl is-system-running
9938 fails (Closes: #14772). Listing the units is not enough: in most
9939 cases I've seen, is-system-running returns "starting" which
9940 means the job queue is not empty, and to debug that we need the
9942 - Only support SikuliX; drop support for Sikuli.
9943 - Disable SPICE clipboard sharing in the guest. It could only mess
9944 things up, and in fact has confused me by suddenly setting my
9945 *host's* clipboard to "ATTACK AT DAWN"... :)
9946 - Decode Base64.decode64 return value appropriately; it returns
9947 strings encoded in ASCII-8bit.
9948 - Don't flood the debug logger with the journal contents.
9949 - Handle case where $vm is undefined during an extremely early
9951 - Allow more time for 'systemctl is-system-running' to
9952 succeed. (Refs: #14772)
9953 - Make Sikuli attempt to find replacements on FindFailed by
9954 employing fuzz, or "lowering the similarity factor". The
9955 replacements (if found) are saved among the artifacts, and
9956 serves as potential drop-in-replacements for outdated
9957 images. The main use case for this is when the font
9958 configuration in Tails changes, which normally invalidates a
9959 large part of our images given that our default high similarity
9960 factor. We also add the `--fuzzy-image-matching` where the
9961 replacements are used in case of FindFailed, so the tests can
9962 proceed beyond the first FindFailed. The idea is that a full
9963 test suite run will produce replacements for potentially *all*
9965 - Fix our findAny() vs findfailed_hook. For findAny() it might be
9966 expected that some images won't be found, so we shouldn't use
9967 our findfailed_hook, which is about dealing with the situation
9968 where images need to be updated.
9969 - Make sure Pidgin's D-Bus policy changes are applied (Closes:
9970 #15007). Without the HUP there's a race that we sometimes lose.
9971 - Nump the Unsafe Browser's start page image (Closes: #15006).
9972 - Hot-plug a 'pcnet' network device instead of 'virtio' on Sid,
9973 since the latter is not detected on Sid (Closes: #14819).
9975 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 08 Jan 2018 16:57:07 +0100
9977 tails (3.3) unstable; urgency=medium
9980 - Upgrade the base system to the Debian Stretch 9.2 point-release
9981 which gives us tons of bugfixes (Closes: #14714).
9982 - Install Linux 4.13.0-1 (Closes: #14789).
9985 - Upgrade Thunderbird to 52.4.0 (Closes: #14963).
9986 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.0.10 (Closes: #14940).
9987 - Upgrade gdk-pixbuf to 2.36.5-2+deb9u1.0tails1 (Closes: #14729).
9989 * Minor improvements
9990 - Upgrade to Tor 0.3.1.8-2~d90.stretch+1, a new stable Tor series.
9991 - tails-documentation: rewrite in Python + use WebKit for display
9992 instead of the Tor Browser. Since Tor Browser 7.0.8 rendering of
9993 local pages (like our docs) fail (#14962) so this is probably a
9994 temporary workaround of that.
9995 - Replace the Unsafe Browser's warning pages with static,
9996 pure-HTML versions. This is truly a *temporary* workaround for
9998 - Update deb.tails.boum.org APT repo key (Closes: #14927)
9999 - Refresh Tor Browser AppArmor profile patch to apply on top of
10000 torbrowser-launcher 0.2.8-4's (Closes: #14923).
10001 - Drop obsolete manual enabling of AppArmor on the kernel
10002 command-line: it's now enabled by default, so the (Tails -
10003 Debian) delta gets smaller. :)
10006 - Install Tails Installer 5.0.2. Fixes:
10007 * Most notably, fix an issue preventing Tails Installer from
10008 installing to drives containing a non-Tails partition that
10009 (obviously) has affected a lot of users. (Closes: #14755).
10010 * Fix an issue that made the resulting installations unbootable
10011 if Tails Installer was using a too recent udisks2, e.g. the
10012 one currently in Debian Sid (Closes: #14809).
10013 * Code clean-ups (Closes: #14721, #14722, #14723).
10014 - Fix UEFI boot for USB sticks installed with Universal USB
10015 Installer (Closes: #8992).
10016 - Force Tor Browser and Thunderbird to enable accessibility
10017 support even if no a11y feature is enabled in GNOME yet (Closes:
10019 - Mark our custom Desktop launchers as trusted (Closes: #14793,
10021 - Add a systemd --user target for bits of GNOME
10022 EarlyInitialization managed by systemd, and make the keyboard
10023 layout configuration as part of it. This fixes an issue where
10024 the layout chosen in the Greeter sometimes wasn't applied in the
10025 GNOME session (Closes: #12543).
10028 - auto/{build,clean,config}: run with `set -eu`.
10029 - Add script to sanity check the website. Currently it ensures all
10030 blog posts and security advisories have valid Ikiwiki 'meta
10031 date' directives, since we depend on it for reproducibility.
10032 Also make passing this sanity check a pre-condition for building
10033 the website (Closes: #12726, #14767).
10034 - Abort the ISO build when DKMS modules were not built.
10035 - Take into account where DKMS modules get installed nowadays.
10036 - auto/build: normalize file timestamps in wiki/src before
10037 building. The copy of the website included in the ISO image has
10038 "Posted" timestamps that apparently match when we cloned the Git
10039 repository, which affects reproducibility. (Closes: #14933).
10040 - Fix reproducibility of builds of topic branches that lag behind
10041 their base branch with the mergebasebranch build option enabled.
10042 Two otherwise identical merge commits done at different times
10043 get different IDs, and we happen to embed in the ISO the ID of
10044 the commit we're building from. (Closes: #14946)
10047 - Bump timeout for "I can save the current page as", otherwise the
10048 "The Tor Browser directory is usable" scenario fails randomly
10049 when the system is under load.
10050 - New scenario: installing Tails to an eligible drive with an
10051 existing filesystem. This is a regression test for #14755.
10052 - New scenario: re-installing over an existing Tails installation.
10054 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 14 Nov 2017 04:53:27 +0100
10056 tails (3.2) unstable; urgency=medium
10059 - Upgrade Linux packages to the Debian kernel 4.12.0-2, based on
10060 mainline Linux 4.12.12 (Closes: #11831, #12732, #14673).
10063 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.0.6-build3 (Closes: #14696).
10064 - Upgrade to Thunderbird 52.3.0 (Closes: #12639).
10065 - Deny access to Pidgin's D-Bus service (Closes: #14612). That D-Bus
10066 interface is dangerous because it allows _any_ application running
10067 as `amnesia' that has access to the session bus to extract
10068 basically any information from Pidgin and to reconfigure it:
10069 https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/DbusHowto
10070 - Block loading of Bluetooth kernel modules (Closes: #14655) and
10071 block Bluetooth devices with rfkill (Closes: #14655).
10072 - Add localhost.localdomain to the hosts file to prevent loopback
10073 leaks to Tor circuits (Closes: #13574). Thanks to tailshark for
10076 * Minor improvements
10077 - Upgrade to Tails Installer 5.0.1 (Closes: #8859, #8860, #12707). This
10078 version gets rid of the splash screen, detects when Tails is already
10079 installed on the target device (and then proposes to upgrade),
10080 and generally improves the UX. It also increases the Tails partition
10081 size and refuses to install to devices smaller than 8 GB.
10082 - Deprecate Thunderbird's preferences/0000tails.js (Closes: #12680).
10083 - Install the BookletImposer PDF imposition toolkit (Closes: #12686).
10085 * Fallback to ~/Tor Browser for uploads (Closes: #8917).
10086 * Silence some common operations that always are denied and
10087 otherwise would spam the journal (Closes: #14606)
10088 - Shell library: remove now unused functions (Closes: #12685).
10089 - Add pppoe to the installed packages (Closes #13463). Thanks to geb
10091 - Replace syslinux:i386 with syslinux:amd64 in the ISO9660
10092 filesystem (Closes: #13513).
10093 - htpdate: fix date header regexp (Closes: #10495). It seems that
10094 some servers (sometimes) do not send their headers with first
10095 letter uppercased, hence a lot of failures to find the date in it.
10096 - Install aufs-dkms from Debian unstable (Closes: #12732).
10097 - Install vim-tiny instead of vim-nox (Closes: #12687). On Stretch,
10098 vim-nox started pulling ruby and rake in the ISO. I think vim-tiny
10099 would be good enough, and would save a few MiB in the ISO. Those
10100 who use vim more intensively and want another flavour of vim are
10101 likely to need persistence anyway, and can thus install a more
10102 featureful vim with the additional software packages feature.
10103 - Remove gksu and its and gconf's dependencies (Closes: #12738). We
10104 use pkexec instead of gksudo. gksu is unmaintained, buggy
10105 (e.g. #12000), and it is the only reason we ship GConf, which we
10106 want to remove. The other removals are:
10107 * libgnomevfs2-extra, which was previously used for SSH/FTP support in
10108 Nautilus, but isn't needed for that any more.
10109 * libgnome2-bin which provides gnome-open, which isn't required by
10110 any application in Tails (as far as we know).
10111 * Configurations and scripts that become obsolete because of these
10113 - Refresh torbrowser-AppArmor-profile.patch to apply cleanly on top
10114 of torbrowser-launcher 0.2.8-1 (Closes: #14602).
10115 - Switch from Florence to GNOME's on-screen keyboard (Closes: #8281)
10116 and incidentally improve accessibility in GTK+ 2.0 and Qt
10117 applications. This drops Florence and the corresponding GNOME
10119 - Make ./HACKING.mdwn a symlink again (Closes: #13600).
10120 - Implement refresh-translations --force .
10121 - Rework how we handle the individual POT files of our applications.
10122 Comparing the new temporary POT files we generate with the
10123 temporary POT files we generated last time (if ever, and if we
10124 did, for which branch?) is not relevant; these POT files are only
10125 used for merging into a new tails.pot and *that* one is relevant
10126 to diff against the old tails.pot.
10127 - Update the Tails signing key. (Closes: #11747)
10129 * Ensure reproducible permissions for /etc/hostname (Closes:
10131 * Patch desktop-file-utils to make its mimeinfo.cache reproducible
10133 * Patch glib2.0 to make its giomodule.cache reproducible (Closes:
10135 * Patch gdk-pixbuf to make its loaders.cache reproducible (Closes:
10137 * Patch gtk2.0 and gtk3.0 to make their immodules.cache
10138 reproducible (Closes: #13440).
10139 * Remove GCconf: it is a source of non-determinism in the
10140 filesystem (element order in /var/lib/gconf/defaults/%gconf-tree-*.xml)
10141 which made Tails unreproducible.
10142 * Ignore comment updates in POT files, which was a source of
10143 non-determinism and therefore prevented Tails from being
10144 reproducible (Closes: #12641).
10145 - Kernel hardening:
10146 * Increase mmap randomization to the maximum supported value
10147 (Closes: #11840). This improves ASLR effectiveness, and makes
10148 address-space fragmentation a bit worse.
10149 * Stop explicitly enabling kaslr: it's enabled by default in
10150 Debian, and this kernel parameter is not supported anymore.
10151 * Disable kexec, to make our attack surface a bit smaller.
10154 - Start Nautilus silently in the background when run as root
10155 (Closes: #12034). Otherwise, after closing Nautilus one gets the
10156 prompt back only after 5-15 seconds, which confuses users and makes
10157 our doc more complicated than it should.
10158 - Ensure pinentry-gtk2 run by Seahorse has the correct $DISPLAY set
10162 - build-manifest-extra-packages.yml: remove squashfs-tools version
10163 we don't use anymore (Closes: #12684). Apparently our
10164 apt-get/debootstrap wrapper tricks are enough to detect the
10165 version of squashfs-tools we actually install and use.
10166 - Merge base branch earlier, i.e. in auto/config instead of
10167 auto/build (Closes: #14459). Previously, a given build from a topic
10168 branch would mix inconsistent versions of things.
10169 - Fail builds started before SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (Closes:
10170 #12352). Such builds would not be reproducible, and this is an
10171 assumption (a reasonable one!) that we do all over the place, so
10172 let's fail early. While we're at it, let's fail if
10173 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is not set as well. Actually we would fail any
10174 way if that was the case when reaching our
10175 99-zzzzzz_reproducible-builds-post-processing build hook, but
10179 - Test the GNOME Root Terminal.
10180 - Take into account that Tails Installer 5.0.1 refuses to install
10181 Tails to devices smaller than 8 GiB. It'll still allow *upgrading*
10182 such sticks though.
10183 - Use 7200 MiB virtual USB drives when we really mean 8 GiB. In the
10184 real world, USB sticks labeled "8 GB" can be much smaller, so
10185 Tails Installer will accept anything that's at least 7200 MiB.
10186 This commit makes us exercise something closer to what happens in
10187 the real world, and incidentally it'll save storage space on our
10188 isotesters and improve test suite performance a bit. :)
10189 - Have unclutter poll every 0.1s instead of continuously. On current
10190 sid, virt-viewer eats a full CPU and doesn't do its job when
10191 "unclutter -idle 0" is running.
10192 - Adapt tests for Tails Installer 5.0.1.
10193 - Workaround Pidgin's DBus interface being blocked since we actually
10194 depend on it for some tests.
10195 - Test that Pidgin's DBus interface is blocked.
10196 - Save more data on test suite failures (Refs: #13541):
10197 * When Tor fails to bootstrap, save Tor logs and chutney nodes
10199 * When Htpdate fails to synchronize the clock, save its logs.
10200 * Always save the systemd journal on failure.
10201 - When testing emergency shutdown, wait longer for Tails to tell
10202 us it has finished wiping the memory. The goal here is to help
10203 us understand whether (Refs: #13462) is a bug in the emergency
10204 shutdown feature or in our test suite.
10205 - Restart nautilus-desktop if Desktop icons are not visible
10207 - Test suite: fix assert_raise() when using ruby-test-unit >=
10208 3.2.5 (Closes: #14654). ruby-test-unit 3.2.5 added native Java
10209 exception support for JRuby. The fact we defined the :Java
10210 constant was enough to trigger that JRuby-specific code, which
10212 - Test suite: take into account that click-to-play is not required
10213 anymore for WebM videos in Tor Browser (Closes: #14586).
10215 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:23:01 +0200
10217 tails (3.1) unstable; urgency=medium
10220 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.0.4-build1 (Closes: #13577).
10221 - Upgrade Linux to 4.9.30-2+deb9u3.
10222 - Upgrade libtiff to 4.0.8-2+deb9u1.
10223 - Upgrade bind9 to 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3+deb9u2.
10224 - Upgrate evince to 3.22.1-3+deb9u1.
10225 - Upgrade imagemagick 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u1.
10226 - Ensure Thunderbird cleans its temporary directory. (Closes: #13340).
10228 * Minor improvements
10229 - Patch gconf to produce reproducible XML output (refs: #12738). This is
10230 the temporary solution for #12738 in Tails 3.1 which will be reverted
10231 (and fixed permanently by removing gconf) in Tails 3.2.
10232 - Apply Debian bts patch to cracklib to produce reproducible dictionnaries
10234 - Upgrade to Debian 9.1 (Closes: #13178).
10237 - Replace faulty URL in htpdate neutral pool (Closes: #13472).
10238 - Keep installing a version of Enigmail compatible with Thunderbird 45.x
10240 - Fix the time syncing and Tor notifications translations (Closes: #13437).
10243 - Upgrade the Vagrant basebox for building ISO images to Stretch
10245 - Fix on-disk build by bumping Vagrant build VM memory to 768M
10247 - Fix rescue build option by exporting TAILS_BUILD_FAILURE_RESCUE
10251 - mark gnome screenshot scenario as fragile (refs: #13458)
10252 - mark UEFI scenario as fragile (refs: #13459).
10254 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 05 Aug 2017 15:25:51 +0200
10256 tails (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium
10259 - Upgrade tor to 0.3.0.9-1~d90.stretch+1 (Closes: #13253).
10260 - Upgrade Linux to 4.9.30-2+deb9u2.
10261 - Upgrade libc to 2.24-11+deb9u1.
10262 - Upgrade libexpat1 to 2.2.0-2+deb9u1.
10263 - Upgrade libgcrypt20 to 1.7.6-2+deb9u1.
10264 - Upgrade libgnutls30 to 3.5.8-5+deb9u1.
10265 - Enable Debian security APT sources (Closes: #12309).
10267 * Minor improvements
10268 - Use a higher resolution image in Tails persistence setup
10272 - Forcibly set $SSH_AUTH_SOCK before starting GNOME
10273 Shell. Apparently, due to a race condition, GNOME keyring
10274 sometimes fails to tell the session manager about the correct
10275 SSH_AUTH_SOCK, and thus GNOME Terminal hasn't this variable set
10276 and any ssh process started in there won't use the (perfectly
10277 working) SSH agent (Closes: #12481).
10278 - Fix issue that made Tails Installer rejects working USB drives,
10279 pretending they're not "removable" (Closes: #12696).
10280 - Make behavior of the power button and lid close actions in the Greeter
10281 consistent with the regular GNOME session (Closes: #13000).
10284 - Track the latest debian-security archive for the corresponding
10285 APT sources, and not for the unrelated jessie-updates (Closes:
10287 - Print APT sources used in the build VM, to help debugging issues
10290 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 04 Jul 2017 15:59:18 +0200
10292 tails (3.0) unstable; urgency=medium
10295 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.0.1 (Closes: #12635, #12657).
10296 - Upgrade to a new snapshot of the Debian and Torproject
10297 APT repositories: respectively 2017060904 and 2017060903
10300 * Minor improvements
10301 - Tor Browser: enable Electrolysis (e10s), i.e. render content in a separate
10302 child process, which will allow to improve performance and security
10303 further along the road. This required us to drop our branding add-on
10304 and re-implement its functionality in our Tor Browser wrapper
10306 - Clean obsolete cached packages when using the Additional Software Packages
10307 feature (Closes: #12400).
10308 - Improve KeePassX database migration handling (Closes: #12375).
10309 - Upgrade OnionShare to 0.9.2, from Debian sid as it has been removed
10310 from Stretch (Closes: #12610).
10311 - Upgrade Tor to 0.3.0.8 (Closes: #12656).
10312 - Drop obsolete bilibop patch, that was applied in 0.5.2.1.
10313 - Include disk space usage information in the WhisperBack bug reports.
10314 - Reorder technical details in WhisperBack bug reports in way that makes
10315 more sense when reading them.
10316 - Convert lc.py to Python 3.
10317 - Simplify some Python code thanks to subprocess.check_ouput.
10318 - Set the initial keyboard focus on the "Start Tails" button
10319 in Tails Greeter (Closes: #12509).
10320 - Convert Tails Greeter's Debian packaging to current best practices.
10323 - Fix persistent Thunderbird configuration migration when there is
10324 a mimeTypes.rdf, that doesn't contain any associations to "icedove"
10325 or "/usr/bin/iceweasel" (Closes: #12580).
10326 - Fix persistent browser bookmarks, by generating them from an sqlite dump
10328 - Use the "intel" X.Org driver for Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor
10329 x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Integrated Graphics Controller.
10330 - `exec' from our Thunderbird wrapper so it doesn't remain running.
10331 - Tails Installer: don't allow installing on non-removable drives
10333 - Fetch the torbrowser-launcher sources from Debian sid:
10334 it's been removed from Debian testing.
10335 Refresh torbrowser-AppArmor-profile.patch accordingly.
10336 - Unsafe Browser: remove the search bar, that's currently buggy
10337 and its presence only encourages unsupported usage (Closes: #12573).
10338 - Unsafe Browser: disable searching in the address bar. It can result
10339 in leaking hostnames and credentials to the default search
10340 engine operator (Closes: #12540).
10341 - Make our omni.ja modifications reproducible (Closes: #12620).
10342 - Generate the fontconfig cache in a reproducible manner (Closes: #12567).
10343 - Don't include torrents/rss.html in the ISO. It's not generated
10344 in a deterministic manner and is worthless in the ISO (Closes: #12619).
10345 - Improve the language → default keyboard layout mapping
10346 in Tails Greeter (Closes: #12547).
10347 - Don't close Tails Greeter's main window when Alt-F4 is pressed
10351 - Run emergency_shutdown.feature after usb_*.feature, to reduce disk
10352 space requirements (Closes: #12565).
10353 - Deal with server messages in Pidgin.
10354 - Improve Pidgin connectivity check robustness.
10355 - Flag the Synaptic test as fragile (i.e. #12586).
10356 - Optimization: only test once that Tails, booted on DVD, eventually
10357 shuts down after wiping memory.
10358 - Move tests about the shutdown applet to a dedicated feature,
10359 as they have nothing to do with Tails' "emergency" shutdown feature.
10360 - Adapt the network connectivity check to Stretch, and improve it to check
10361 both link and IP connectivity (Closes: #12602).
10362 - Apply a fix from upstream Git to mutter, to fix some of its interactions
10363 with dogtail (Closes: #11718).
10364 - Mark "Scenario: Watching a WebM video" as fragile (i.e. #10442).
10367 - Set create_box -e, to make the vagrant box generation a bit more robust.
10369 - Install kernel from backports and Tails build deps before performing
10370 APT upgrade, to avoid useless bandwidth usage (Closes: #12529).
10371 - Update submodules after merging the base branch (Closes: #12556).
10372 - Rakefile: fix date comparison in basebox:clean_old (Closes: #12575).
10373 - Rakefile: have basebox:clean_old delete baseboxes more than 4 months old
10375 - Also check for fuzzy patches' .orig files at the end of our build hooks,
10376 so we detect any fuzzy patches applied by hooks (Closes: #12617).
10377 - Remove .orig files for patches we allow to be fuzzy.
10378 - Don't pre-build the wiki when mergebasebranch is enabled.
10379 When pre-building the wiki, we modify the PO files which results in a
10380 conflict from the base branch merge in case it modifies the same
10381 files, which breaks the build (Closes: #12611).
10382 - Rakefile: add a task that removes all tails-builder-* libvirt volumes
10385 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 10 Jun 2017 14:39:10 +0000
10387 tails (3.0~rc1) unstable; urgency=medium
10390 - Install Thunderbird 1:45.8.0-3+tails2 and handle the Icedove → Thunderbird
10391 migration, including wrt. persistent data (Closes: #11712, #12242).
10392 This package also has the patch from
10393 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1281959 applied,
10394 to ease future integration of the Thunderbird AppArmor profile.
10395 Also, drop the Claws → Icedove migration path.
10396 - Upgrade to a new snapshot of the Debian and Torproject
10397 APT repositories: 2017051803 (Closes: #12554).
10398 - Upgrade Linux packages to the Debian kernel 4.9.0-3, based on
10399 mainline Linux 4.9.25.
10400 - Replace the kexec-based memory erasure feature with the Linux kernel's
10401 memory poisoning (Closes: #12354, #12428). The kexec-based implementation
10402 was not reliable enough and provided a poor UX. Instead, we now return
10403 to the initramfs on shutdown and unmount all filesystems there, so their
10404 content and corresponding caches are erased.
10405 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 7.0a4 based on Firefox 52.1.1esr (Closes:
10407 * Unfortunately e10s (multi-process Firefox) is disabled (#12569).
10408 * Unfortunately persistent bookmarks created for the first time
10409 in Tails 3.0~rc1 is broken (#12568).
10410 * Adds exceptions for the extensions Tails installs on top of
10411 the vanilla Tor Browser (Closes: #11419).
10412 - Upgrade tor to 0.3.0.7-1 (Closes: #12485) and log both to the
10413 usual file and the journal (Closes: #12412).
10414 - Merge the code that makes Tails almost build reproducibly (Refs:
10415 #5630); we still have issues with the fontconfig cache (Refs:
10418 * Minor improvements
10419 - Add a HACKING document for new code contributors (Closes:
10421 - Rename tor-controlport-filter to onion-grater (Closes: #12394)
10422 and import patches killing the delta against Whonix version
10424 - Improve onion-grater; thanks to Joy SN <joysn1980@yahoo.com>
10425 for the original patches (Closes: #12173):
10426 · add --listen-interface
10427 · make stdout/stderr unbuffered to ensure Python exceptions are logged
10428 · use yaml.safe_load()
10429 - Improve KeePassX database migration handling (refs: #12375).
10430 - Electrum: set coin selection strategy to 'Privacy' (Closes: #12177).
10431 - Allow Onion Circuits to access /proc/pid/status.
10432 - Make gdm-shell-tails.desktop more similar to the one shipped
10433 in gnome-shell 3.22.3-3 (refs: #12364).
10434 - Greeter: have the help window point to updated documentation,
10435 use WebKit2 instead of the deprecated WebKit, and hide the sidebar
10437 - Use exec to start KeePassX, i.e. avoid leaving the wrapper running.
10440 - Install xserver-xorg-legacy, to fix support for various graphics
10441 adapters that still don't work with rootless X.Org (Closes: #12542).
10442 - Use the "intel" X.Org driver for Intel Q35 and Intel Atom
10443 D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx graphics controllers (refs: #12219).
10444 - Give UEFI bootloaders upper-case filenames (Closes: #12511).
10445 Some UEFI firmware, such as the one in the ThinkPad X220, only recognize
10446 them if they have an upper-case name.
10447 - KeePassX: enable "Automatically save after each change" again,
10448 like we did in Tails 2.x (fixes a regression introduced
10450 - Install packages needed by the "Test speakers" functionality
10452 - Fix automatic upgrades when one is already applied (Closed:
10454 - When generating the network device blacklist, also blacklist
10455 network drivers from the staging directory (Closes: #12362).
10456 - htpdate pool: replace www.sarava.org with leap.se. The former
10457 has been down for a while and it's not clear when it's going to
10458 be stable again. The latter should be reliable.
10461 - Check that dirmngr used the configured keyserver (Closes: #12371).
10462 - Sanity check that Chutney starts all nodes in the network.
10463 - Disable the Sandbox option for all nodes, until Tor#21943
10464 is fixed (Closes: #12512).
10465 - Wait for the desktop icons to be displayed in the "Tails desktop is ready"
10466 step. Let's not try interacting with the desktop earlier.
10467 - Add tests for memory erasure on "normal" shutdown (refs: #12428).
10468 - Add tests for memory erasure on "emergency" shutdown, and run some
10469 with network enabled (refs: #12354).
10470 - Have eject_cdrom run eject(1) like it used to do in the past.
10471 Otherwise the machine is immediately halted and we cannot test
10472 whether memory has been erased.
10473 - Pass mount_USB_drive structured data instead of free-form text.
10474 - Test that MAC spoofing and "Disable network" works for
10475 hotplugged networking devices (Refs: #12362).
10478 - Generate the Vagrant base box locally as part of the build process,
10479 instead of downloading it: one less binary blob as input in the build
10480 process (refs: #12409).
10481 - Use Vagrant for builds on Jenkins too (Closes: #11972).
10482 - Tell build script to be more verbose.
10483 - Respect the 'ARTIFACTS' environment variable if set.
10484 - Add a second disk to handle the apt-cacher-ng cache, and store
10485 the corresponding logs in there (Closes: #11979).
10486 - Use APT snapshots in Vagrant build VMs, create/use a basebox that matches
10487 the branch/tag/commit being tested, and provision a new VM for each build
10488 (Closes: #11980, #11981).
10489 - Ship all build dependencies in the Vagrant basebox, to save some
10490 time when building ISOs.
10491 - Make basebox generation compatible with both GnuPG 1.x and 2.x.
10492 - Set LC_ALL=C, mostly to suppress some warnings.
10493 - Support forcing VM cleanup before/after build.
10494 - Add tasks for cleaning up old or all base boxes (refs: #12409).
10495 - Add build option useful for debugging build failures.
10496 - Remove obsolete build options.
10497 - Make auto/scripts/utils.sh more reusable, use it in Rakefile,
10498 auto/build and setup-tails-builder.
10499 - Add an option controlling whether to merge the base branch.
10500 - Add "rake test" target and import logics from puppet-tails'
10501 wrap_test_suite script.
10502 - Build Tails as a release simply when HEAD is tagged, i.e. we do not
10503 require building from a detached head any more.
10504 - Sanity check compression choice when building a release.
10505 - Use the host's resolv.conf when building the Vagrant base box.
10506 Since systemd-networkd is used to manage resolv.conf inside the base box,
10507 and it hasn't been initialized yet (we are not booting it, just chrooting
10508 into it) DNS is broken otherwise.
10509 - Release process: "release" a new base box when freezing.
10510 - Chown/scp artifacts with a single command to limit overhead and warnings
10511 noise caused by repeated SSH calls.
10512 - Add a build options to use a custom CPU model, and custom
10513 machine type, for reproducibility testing (refs: #12345).
10514 - Add support for installing Tor Browser nightly builds.
10516 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 20 May 2017 16:48:45 +0200
10518 tails (3.0~beta4) unstable; urgency=medium
10521 - All changes brought by Tails 2.12.
10522 - Upgrade to a new snapshot of the Debian and Torproject
10523 APT repositories (2017041704).
10525 * Security improvements
10526 - Enable the buddy page allocator free poisoning (Closes: #12089).
10527 - Enable slub/slab allocator free poisoning (Closes: #12090).
10528 - Create IUKs (automatic upgrades) in a reproducible manner
10531 * Minor improvements
10532 - Firewall: forbid the _apt user to talk to DNS ports. APT works very well
10533 without DNS access since we only have Onion APT sources, so let's silence
10535 - Replace Pidgin's "systray" icon with the guifications plugin
10536 (Closes: #11741). We're trying to remove as much as we can from
10537 the set of icons managed by TopIcons extension flavours, in the hope
10538 it's enough to cancel the problems we've seen with them (#10576, #11737).
10539 - Disable apt-daily.timer, that can only cause problems in our context
10541 - Do not let pppd-dns manage /etc/resolv.conf (Closes: #12401).
10542 - Ensure rootless X.Org can access /dev/fb0 when started by GDM.
10543 - Include the amdgpu module in the initramfs (refs: #12218).
10544 - Tails Greeter: don't mention 'firewall' anymore (#12382).
10545 - Tails Greeter: avoid the popover menu for Formats being cut,
10546 in most cases (Closes: #12249).
10547 - Tails Greeter: disable the screensaver (Closes: #12370).
10548 - Tails Greeter: fix behavior when pressing Enter in the language selection
10549 menu (Closes: #12359).
10552 - Install speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng to fix the Orca screen reader
10554 - Install xserver-xorg-video-intel and use it on a few graphics adapters
10555 that are not supported correctly by the modesetting driver (refs: #12219).
10556 More PCI IDs will be added as new affected hardware is reported.
10559 - Run on a Q35 2.8 machine (Closes: #11605).
10560 - Deprecate xtightvncviewer in favor of tigervnc-viewer.
10561 - Test the Unsafe Browser in 3 random supported languages, not all.
10562 This should be enough to identify most future regressions in this area,
10563 and will be much faster than testing them all.
10564 - Pidgin tests: switch to an image that doesn't depend on the
10565 topic of tails@conference.riseup.net.
10566 - Fix a problematic use of try_for.
10567 - Fix VM.select_virtual_desktop() and VM.do_focus().
10568 - Random Gherkin improvements.
10569 - Fix a focus issue for GNOME Terminal vs. Tails Installer.
10570 - Adjust to kernel memory poisoning being enabled, which breaks the way
10571 we used to test memory erasure (refs: #12354):
10572 · Drop "no memory erasure" and "memory erasure" tests, that can't work
10574 · Test erasure of memory freed by a killed userspace process.
10575 · Test that memory poisoning applies to unmounted tmpfs.
10576 · Test that memory poisoning applies to read and write cache
10577 for unmounted vfat and LUKS-encrypted ext4.
10578 · Run erase_memory a bit later, it requires less disk space nowadays.
10580 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2017 13:01:25 +0000
10582 tails (2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
10585 - Completely remove I2P. :( We have decided to remove I2P (see
10586 #11276) due to our failure of finding someone interested in
10587 maintaining it in Tails (Closes: #12263).
10588 - Upgrade the Linux kernel to 4.9.13-1~bpo8+1 (Closes: #12122).
10591 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.5.2 based on Firefox 45.9. (Closes:
10593 - Mount a dedicated filesystem on /var/tmp, to mitigate the
10594 hardlinks permissions open by the user-tmp abstraction. See
10595 https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/9949#note-23 for details
10597 - Protect against CVE-2017-2636 by disabling the n-hdlc kernel
10598 module (Closes: #12315).
10599 - Ensure /etc/resolv.conf is owned by root:root in the SquashFS.
10600 lb_chroot_resolv will "cp -a" it from the source tree, so it
10601 inherits its ownership from the whoever cloned the Git
10602 repository. This has two problems. First, this results in unsafe
10603 permissions on this file (e.g. a Vagrant build results in the
10604 'amnesia' user having write access to it).
10605 - Upgrade libjasper1 to 1.900.1-debian1-2.4+deb8u3
10606 - Upgrade gstreamer and its plugins to 1.4.4-2+deb8u1.
10607 - Upgrade eject to 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13.1+deb8u1.
10608 - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u8.
10609 - Upgrade pidgin to 2.11.0-0+deb8u2.
10610 - Upgrade samba to 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u5.
10613 * Minor improvements
10614 - Don't add the live user to the "audio" group. This should not be
10615 needed on a modern Linux desktop system anymore (Closes:
10617 - Install virtualbox-* 5.1.14-dfsg-3~bpo8+1 from our custom APT
10618 repository (Closes: #12307).
10619 - Install virtualbox-guest-* from sid. The version currently in
10620 jessie-backports is not compatible with Linux 4.9, and there's
10621 basically no chance that it gets updated (the maintainer asked
10622 for them to be *removed* from jessie-backports) (Closes:
10624 - Pull ttdnsd from our custom APT repository. It's gone from the
10625 TorProject one. We removed ttdnsd on feature/stretch already, so
10626 we'll need to pull it from our custom APT repository only for
10628 - Clean up libdvd-pkg build files, again. This cleanup operation
10629 was mistakenly removed in commit c4e8744 (Closes: #11273).
10630 - Install gnome-sound-recorder (Closes #10950). Thanks to Austin
10631 English <austinenglish@gmail.com> for the patch!
10632 - Stop restarting tor if bootstrapping stalls. It seems tor might
10633 have fixed the issues we used (see: #10238, #9516) to experience
10634 with the bootstrap process stalling and requiring a restart to
10635 kickstart it (Closes: #12411).
10636 - tor.sh: communicate via the UNIX socket instead of TCP port.
10637 This makes the library usable when run inside systemd units that
10638 have `PrivateNetwork=yes` set.
10639 - Get tor's bootstrap progress via GETINFO instead of log
10641 - Upgrade tor to 0.2.9.10-1~d80.jessie+1
10644 - mirror-pool-dispatcher: bump maximum expected mirrors.json size
10645 to 32 KiB. This fixes an error where Tails Upgrader would
10646 complain with "cannot choose a download server" (Closes:
10650 - Retry curl and APT operations up to 20 times to make the ISO
10651 build more robust wrt. unreliable Internet connectivity. Thanks
10652 to Arnaud <arnaud@preev.io> for the patch!
10653 - Install ikiwiki from jessie-backports, instead of our patched
10654 one. Our changes were merged in 3.20161219, and jessie-backports
10655 now has 3.20170111~bpo8+1 (Closes: #12051).
10656 - Fix FTBFS when installing a .deb via config/chroot_local-packages
10657 by being more flexible when matching local packages in the apt
10658 list file (Closes: #12374). Thanks to Arnaud <arnaud@preev.io>
10660 - auto/build: support Stretch's GnuPG v2 keyring filename.
10663 - Try possible fix for #11508. IPv6Packet:s' source is accessed by
10664 `.ipv6_saddr`, not `ip_saddr` (that's for IPv4Packet). So, let's
10665 just try and see which one of the two each packet has, because
10666 one of them must be there! Also, given that UDPPacket can be
10667 either IPv4 or IPv6 it seems safest to try to parse each packet
10668 as IPv6Packet first -- that way we keep looking at transport
10669 layer protocols for IPv4 only, and treat everything IPv6 as the
10670 same, which makes sense, since we should block all IPv6, so
10671 everything should be treated the same at all times.
10672 - Changes due to #12411:
10673 * Raise special exception for Tor bootstrap failures.
10674 * Remove obsolete debug logging now that we don't log anything
10675 interesting for `restart-tor` any more.
10677 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2017 17:41:46 +0200
10679 tails (3.0~beta3) unstable; urgency=medium
10681 * Major new features and changes
10682 - Make the "Formats" settings in Tails Greeter take effect (Closes: #12079,
10683 new feature that was broken since it was introduced in 3.0~alpha1).
10684 - Upgrade to a new snapshot of the Debian and Torproject
10685 APT repositories (2017031702).
10688 - Stop including I2P: we decided (#11276) to remove I2P, due to our failure
10689 at finding someone to maintain it in Tails (Closes: #12263).
10692 - Upgrade MAT to 0.6.1-4: fixes silent failure of the Nautilus
10693 contextual menu extension.
10694 - Ensure /etc/resolv.conf is owned by root:root in the SquashFS
10696 - Protect against CVE-2017-2636 by disabling the n-hdlc kernel module
10699 * Minor improvements
10700 - Reintroduce the X11 guest utilities for VirtualBox (regression
10701 introduced in 3.0~beta2).
10702 - Upgrade X.Org server and the modesetting driver (hopefully helps
10704 - Automate the migration from KeePassX databases generated on Tails 2.x
10705 to the format required by KeePassX 2.0.x (Closes: #10956, #12369).
10706 - Add keyboard shortcuts in Tails Greeter (Closes: #12186, #12063).
10707 - Install dbus-user-session (regression introduced in 3.0~beta2).
10708 - Manage temporary directories in a declarative way (tmpfiles.d).
10709 - Replace references to the /var/run compatibility symlink
10710 with the canonical /run.
10711 - Update our Torbirdy patchset to the latest one sent upstream.
10712 - Install mesa-utils, so that Qt 5 can detect whether software based
10713 rendering is needed.
10714 - Have Tails Greeter honor the "debug" kernel command-line option,
10715 for easier debugging (Closes: #12373).
10716 - Refactor Tails Greeter to reduce code duplication (Closes: #12247).
10719 - Fix sizing of zenity dialogs (Closes: #12313, regression introduced
10721 - Fix confusing, spurious error messages in command-line applications
10722 wrapped with torsocks:
10723 · Ship a /etc/mailname file with content "localhost".
10724 Otherwise something (Git? libc6?) tries to resolve the "amnesia" host
10725 name, which fails, and a confusing error message is displayed
10726 (Closes: #12205, regression introduced in 3.0~alpha1).
10727 · Have torsocks allow UDP connections to the loopback interface,
10728 with AllowOutboundLocalhost 2 (Closes: #11736).
10731 - Improve debugging info logging for PacketFu parsing issues,
10732 and implement a plausible fix (refs: #11508).
10733 - Try to make "double-click on desktop launcher" more reliable.
10734 - Fix selection of ISO in Tails Installer.
10735 - Re-enable the GnuPG tests that require a keyserver, pointing them
10736 to an Onion service we run on Chutney, that redirects all TCP traffic
10737 to a real, clearnet keyserver (Closes: #12211).
10738 - Implement a workaround for checking the configured keyserver in GnuPG,
10739 until a better fix is implemented (refs: #12371).
10740 - Fix the "Report an Error launcher" scenario in German.
10743 - Retry curl and APT operations up to 20 times to make the ISO build
10744 more robust wrt. unreliable Internet connectivity.
10745 Thanks to Arnaud <arnaud@preev.io> for the patch!
10746 - Install ikiwiki from jessie-backports, instead of our patched one
10748 - Clean up libdvd-pkg build files, again (Closes: #11273).
10749 - Rakefile: fix TAILS_OFFLINE_BUILD exported variable name.
10750 - Adjust apt-mirror to support branches based on feature/stretch
10751 that don't use frozen APT snapshots.
10753 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 19 Mar 2017 15:10:28 +0100
10755 tails (3.0~beta2) unstable; urgency=medium
10757 * All changes brought by Tails 2.11, except:
10758 - the test suite changes, that are not all compatible with this branch;
10759 - the "Tails 3.0 will require a 64-bit processor" notification:
10760 this advance warning is not useful on a release series
10761 that's 64-bit only.
10763 * Major new features and changes
10764 - Upgrade to a new snapshot of the Debian APT repositories (2017030802),
10765 and of the Torproject ones (2017030801).
10766 - Upgrade Linux to 4.9.0-2 (version 4.9.13-1).
10768 * Minor improvements
10769 - Improve GNOME Shell Window List styling. (Closes: #12233)
10772 - Make it possible to start graphical applications in the Root Terminal.
10776 - Improve robustness when dealing with notifications. (Closes: #11464)
10777 - Bump timeout when waiting for 'Tor is ready' notification.
10778 - Fix the incremental upgrade test.
10779 - Drop a few obsolete test cases, update a number of images.
10780 - Adapt firewall leak test to new DHCP source IP address.
10781 - Adjust Seahorse and Enigmail tests to the keyserver that is now used.
10783 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 08 Mar 2017 16:29:44 +0000
10785 tails (2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
10788 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.5.1 based on Firefox 45.8. (Closes:
10790 - Fix CVE-2017-6074 (local root privilege escalation) by disabling
10791 the 'dccp' module. (Closes: #12280)
10792 - Disable kernel modules for some uncommon network protocol. These
10793 are the ones recommended by CIS. (Part of: #6457)
10794 - Disable modules we blacklist for security reasons. Blacklisted
10795 (via `blacklist MODULENAME`) modules are only blocked from being
10796 loaded during the boot process, but are still loadable with an
10797 explicit `modprobe MODULENAME`, and (worse!) via kernel module
10799 - Upgrade linux-image-4.8.0-0.bpo.2-686-unsigned to 4.8.15-2~bpo8+2.
10800 - Upgrade bind9 to 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u10.
10801 - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u7.
10802 - Upgrade libevent-2.0-5 to 2.0.21-stable-2+deb8u1.
10803 - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u9.
10804 - Upgrade libjasper1 to 1.900.1-debian1-2.4+deb8u2.
10805 - Upgrade liblcms2-2 to 2.6-3+deb8u1.
10806 - Upgrade libxpm4 to 1:3.5.12-0+deb8u1.
10807 - Upgrade login to 1:4.2-3+deb8u3.
10808 - Upgrade ntfs-3g to 1:2014.2.15AR.2-1+deb8u3.
10809 - Upgrade openjdk-7-jre to 7u121-2.6.8-2~deb8u1.
10810 - Upgrade openssl to 1.0.1t-1+deb8u6.
10811 - Upgrade tcpdump to 4.9.0-1~deb8u1.
10812 - Upgrade vim to 2:7.4.488-7+deb8u2.
10813 - Upgrade libreoffice to 1:4.3.3-2+deb8u6.
10815 * Minor improvements
10816 - import-translations: also import PO files for French from
10817 Transifex. The translation team for French switched to Transifex
10818 even for our custom programs:
10819 https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-l10n/2016-November/004312.html
10820 - Notify the user, if running on a 32-bit processor, that it won't
10821 be supported in Tails 3.0 anymore. (Closes: #12193)
10822 - Notify I2P users that I2P will be removed in Tails
10823 2.12. (Closes: #12271)
10826 - Disable -proposed-updates at boot time. If a Debian point
10827 release happens right after a freeze but we have decided to
10828 enable it before the freeze to get (at least most of) it, then
10829 we get in the situation where -proposed-updates is enabled in
10830 the final release, which we don't want. We only want it enabled
10831 at build time. (Closes: #12169)
10832 - Ferm: Use the variable when referring to the Live user. The
10833 firewall will fail to start during early boot otherwise since
10834 the "amnesia" user hasn't been created yet. (Closes: #12208)
10835 - Tor Browser: Don't show offline warning when opening local
10836 documentation. (Closes: #12269)
10837 - tails-virt-notify-user: use the tails-documentation helper to
10838 improve UX when one is not connected to Tor yet, and display
10839 localized doc when available.
10840 - Fix rare issue causing automatic upgrades to not apply properly
10841 (Closes: #8449, and hopefully #11839 as well):
10842 * Allow the tails-install-iuk user to run "/usr/bin/nocache
10843 /bin/cp *" as root.
10844 * Install tails-iuk 2.8, which will use nocache for various file
10845 operations, and sync writes to the installation medium.
10846 - Install Linux 4.8.15 to prevent GNOME from freezing with Intel
10847 GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics. (Closes: #12217, but fixes tons
10848 of other small bugs)
10851 - Add 'offline' option, making it possible to build Tails offline
10852 (if all needed resources are present in your cache). (Closes:
10856 - Encapsulate exec_helper's class to not "pollute" the global
10857 namespace with all our helpers. This is an example of how we can
10858 work towards #9030.
10859 - Extend remote shell with *safe* file operations. Now we can
10860 read/write/append *any* characters without worrying that it will
10861 do crazy things by being passed through the shell, as was the
10862 case before. This commit also:
10863 * adds some better reporting of errors happening on the server
10864 side by communicating back the exception thrown.
10865 * removes the `user` parameter from the VM.file_* methods. They
10866 were not used, any way, and simply do not feel like they
10867 fit. I think the only reason we had it initially was because
10868 it was implemented via the command interface, where a user
10869 concept makes a lot of sense.
10870 - debug_log() Dogtail script content on failure.
10871 - Add a very precise timestamp to each debug_log().
10872 - Make robust_notification_wait() ensure the applet is closed. In
10873 robust_notification_wait() when we close the notification
10874 applet, other windows may change position, creating a racy
10875 situation for any immediately following action aimed at one such
10876 window. (Closes: #10381)
10877 - Fix I2P's Pidgin test. The initial conversation (that determines
10878 the title of the conversation window) is now made by a different
10879 IRC service than before.
10880 - Use lossless compression for the VNC viewer with --view.
10881 Otherwise the VNC viewer is not a good place to extract test
10882 suite images from, at least with xtigervncviewer.
10883 - Add optional pause() notification feature to the test suite. It
10884 will run a user-configurable arbitrary shell command when
10885 pause() is called, e.g. on failure when --interactive-debugging
10886 is used. This is pretty useful when multitasking with long test
10887 suite runs, so you immediately are notified when a test fails
10888 (or when you reached a temporary pause() breakpoint). (Closes:
10890 - Add the possibility to run Python code in a persistent session
10891 in the remote shell and use this for Dogtail to significantly
10892 improve its performance by saving state and reusing it between
10893 commands. This changes the semantics of the creation of Dogtail
10894 objects. Previously they just created the code that then would
10895 be run once an actionable method was called (.wait, .click etc),
10896 but now it works like in Python, that Dogtail will try to find
10897 the graphical element upon object creation. (Closes: #12059)
10898 - Test that we don't ship any -proposed-updates APT sources.
10900 - Make force_new_tor_circuit() respect NEWNYM rate limiting.
10901 - Add retry magic for lost click when opening Tails' documentation
10902 from the desktop launcher. (Closes: #12131)
10904 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 06 Mar 2017 17:14:52 +0100
10906 tails (3.0~beta1) experimental; urgency=medium
10908 * All changes brought by Tails 2.7.1, 2.9.1 and 2.10.
10910 * Major new features and changes
10911 - Redesigned Tails Greeter.
10912 - Upgrade to a new snapshot (2017013002) of the Debian and Torproject
10914 - Upgrade Linux to 4.9.0-1.
10917 - Reject packets sent on the LAN to the NetBIOS name service
10919 - Seahorse: use the Tor OnionBalance hidden service pool,
10920 which provides transport encryption and authentication of the keyserver.
10922 * Minor improvements
10923 - Include adwaita-qt* and enable it by default, so that Qt applications
10924 integrate nicely into a GNOME environment (Closes: #11790).
10925 - Add support for the TREZOR hardware wallet in Electrum (Closes: #10964).
10926 - AppArmor: allow all programs to read /etc/tor/torsocks.conf via
10927 abstractions/base, to ease maintenance.
10928 - Don't (try to) bind the Power button to the shutdown action
10930 - Enable natural scrolling (Closes: #11969).
10931 - Update uBlock Origin patterns + settings file.
10932 - live-persist: remove Squeeze → Wheezy migration code.
10933 - Update pre-existing persistent GnuPG configuration on login
10935 - Upgrader: use the alpha channel when the next version will be an
10936 alpha, beta, or RC. This will allow users of 3.0~betaN to upgrade to
10937 the next beta or RC, without having to type any command-line
10941 - Fix "upgrade from ISO" when run from a 32-bit system,
10942 such as Tails 2.x (Closes: #11873).
10943 - Fix ability to read videos over HTTPS with Totem (Closes: #11963).
10944 - Re-introduce default directories in $HOME, which fixes
10945 Spice file transfers (Closes: #11968).
10946 - Re-enable tap-to-click (Closes: #11993).
10947 - Lower systemd's DefaultTimeoutStopSec, to get rid of a long delay
10948 before memory wiping starts. This also prevents shutdown from ever
10949 being blocked by any buggy service that takes a while to stop
10951 - Drop Jessie APT sources.
10952 - Re-add VirtualBox DKMS modules.
10953 - Fix GnuPG communication with keyservers, by using the Tor OnionBalance
10954 hidden service pool (Closes: #12202).
10955 - Fix Enigmail communication with keyservers, by teaching Torbirdy
10956 not to break it (Closes: #11948):
10957 · Patch Torbirdy to allow not breaking keyserver communication when
10958 using GnuPG v2.1+, and to use a better default keyserver.
10959 · Torbirdy: enable the new behaviour made possible by the aforementioned
10960 patch (extensions.enigmail.already_torified).
10961 · Torbirdy: drop our custom keyserver configuration, since the
10962 aforementioned patch makes it the default.
10965 - Don't install gnome-system-log anymore (Closes: #12133).
10966 It's deprecated in GNOME, and mostly useless anyway as it's not
10967 Journal-aware. It's replacement (gnome-logs) is not usable
10968 enough in the context of Tails, and most users who can read logs
10969 should manage to do it with journalctl, so don't install it either.
10970 - Drop multiarch handling: Tails 3.0 will be amd64-only (Closes: #11961).
10973 - Disable eatmydata usage and caching: in current Stretch, debootstrap fails
10974 if we use eatmydata + the operation mode picked by live-build when caching
10975 is enabled (Closes: #12052).
10976 - Bump disk space (and memory for in-RAM builds) requirements.
10977 - Follow replacement of python-reportbug with python3-reportbug.
10978 - Don't try to deinstall packages that are unknown on Stretch.
10979 - Move AppArmor aliases to a dedicated file, and include it.
10980 This will avoid maintaining these settings as a patch.
10981 - Don't attempt to remove the usr.bin.chromium-browser AppArmor profile:
10982 it's not shipped in Debian anymore.
10985 - Add optional pause() notification (Closes: #12175).
10986 - Make the remote shell's file operations robust (Closes: #11887).
10987 - Update a number of test cases for Stretch, sometimes by converting
10989 - Drop usage and tests of read-only persistence.
10990 We won't have this option anymore, and it's not even sure we'll
10991 reintroduce it (Refs: #12093, Closes: #12055).
10992 - Adjust CONFIGURED_KEYSERVER_HOSTNAME to match current settings.
10993 - Test suite: clean up disks between features.
10995 * Adjustments for Debian 9 (Stretch) with no or very little user-visible impact
10996 - Adjust dpkg-divert path: it has moved.
10997 - Replace xfonts-wqy with fonts-wqy-microhei + fonts-wqy-zenhei.
10998 The former was removed from Debian testing, and the latter are recommended
10999 by task-chinese-s-desktop and task-chinese-t-desktop.
11000 - Install virtualbox* from sid.
11001 It was removed from testing due to https://bugs.debian.org/794466.
11002 - Drop deprecated settings from org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/power.
11003 - Update settings name in org/gnome/desktop/peripherals/touchpad, and drop
11005 - Adjust to changed Liferea's .desktop filename.
11006 - Also torify Liferea when started via its (new) D-Bus service.
11007 - Install hunspell-pt-br instead of hunspell-pt-pt.
11008 Tor Browser 6.5 moved from pt-PT to pt-BR, which is fine vs
11009 spellcheckers in Jessie since its hunspell-pt provides both -pt and
11010 -br, but in Stretch they are separate packages.
11011 - AppArmor: adjust usr.sbin.cupsd profile so it loads successfully
11013 - Migrate from netstat to ss.
11014 - Update extensions.enigmail.configuredVersion.
11015 - Remove the jessie-proposed-updates APT sources.
11017 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 01 Feb 2017 19:23:03 +0000
11019 tails (2.10) unstable; urgency=medium
11021 * Major new features and changes
11022 - Upgrade the Linux kernel to 4.8.0-0.bpo.2 (Closes: #11886).
11023 - Install OnionShare from jessie-backports. Also install
11024 python3-stem from jessie-backports to allow the use of ephemeral
11025 onion services (Closes: #7870).
11026 - Completely rewrite tor-controlport-filter. Now we can safely
11027 support OnionShare, Tor Browser's per-tab circuit view and
11030 * Handle multiple sessions simultaneously.
11031 * Separate data (filters) from code.
11032 * Use python3-stem to allow our filter to be a lot more
11033 oblivious of the control language (Closes: #6788).
11034 * Allow restricting STREAM events to only those generated by the
11035 subscribed client application.
11036 * Allow rewriting commands and responses arbitrarily.
11037 * Make tor-controlport-filter reusable for others by e.g. making
11038 it possible to pass the listen port, and Tor control
11039 cookie/socket paths as arguments (Closes: #6742). We hear
11040 Whonix plan to use it! :)
11041 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.9.9-1~d80.jessie+1, the new stable series
11045 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.5 based on Firefox 45.7 (Closes: #12159)
11046 - Upgrade Icedove to 1:45.6.0-1~deb8u1+tail1s.
11047 - Upgrade bind9-packages to 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u9.
11048 - Upgrade pcscd to 1.8.13-1+deb8u1.
11049 - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u8.
11050 - Upgrade libxml2 to 2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u4.
11051 - Upgrade tor to 0.2.9.9-1~d80.jessie+1.
11052 - Upgrade samba-libs to 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u2.
11054 * Minor improvements
11055 - Enable and use the Debian Jessie proposed-updates APT
11056 repository, anticipating on the Jessie 8.7 point-release
11058 - Enable the per-tab circuit view in Tor Browser (Closes: #9365).
11059 - Change syslinux menu entries from "Live" to "Tails" (Closes:
11060 #11975). Also replace the confusing "failsafe" wording with
11061 "Troubleshooting Mode" (Closes: #11365).
11062 - Make OnionCircuits use the filtered control port (Closes:
11064 - Make tor-launcher use the filtered control port.
11065 - Run OnionCircuits directly as the Live user, instead of a
11066 separate user. This will make it compatible with the Orca screen
11067 reader (Closes: #11197).
11068 - Run tor-controlport-filter on port 9051, and the unfiltered one
11069 on 9052. This simplifies client configurations and assumptions
11070 made in many applications that use Tor's ControlPort. It's the
11071 exception that we connect to the unfiltered version, so this
11072 seems like the more sane approach.
11073 - Remove tor-arm (Nyx) (Closes: #9811).
11074 - Remove AddTrust_External_Root.pem from our website CA bundle. We
11075 now only use Let's Encrypt (Closes: #11811).
11076 - Configure APT to use Debian's Onion services instead of the
11077 clearnet ones (Closes: #11556).
11078 - Replaced AdBlock Plus with uBlock Origin (Closes: #9833). This
11079 incidentally also makes our filter lists lighter by
11080 de-duplicating common patterns among the EasyList filters
11081 (Closes: #6908). Thanks to spriver for this first major code
11083 - Install OpenPGP Applet 1.0 (and libgtk3-simplelist-perl) from
11084 Jessie backports (Closes: #11899).
11085 - Add support for exFAT (Closes: #9659).
11086 - Disable unprivileged BPF. Since upgrading to kernel 4.6,
11087 unprivileged users can use the bpf() syscall, which is a
11088 security concern, even with JIT disabled. So we disable that.
11089 This feature wasn't available before Linux 4.6, so disabling it
11090 should not cause any regressions (Closes: #11827).
11091 - Add and enable AppArmor profiles for OnionCircuits and OnoinShare.
11092 - Raise the maximum number of loop devices to 32 (Closes: #12065).
11093 - Drop kernel.dmesg_restrict customization: it's enabled by
11094 default since 4.8.4-1~exp1 (Closes: #11886).
11095 - Upgrade Electrum to 2.7.9-1.
11096 - Make the Electrum proxy configuration apply after upgrading to
11097 2.7.9-1. These changes incidentally makes Electrum behave nicer:
11098 users will now not be presented the network configuration part
11099 of the setup wizard -- a server will be picked randomly, and
11100 Electrum will auto-connect. The automated test suite is adjusted
11101 accordingly (Closes: #12140).
11102 - Remove unused Browser profile seed file localstore.rdf which was
11103 made obsolete in Firefox 34.
11104 - Tor Browser: switch from pt-PT to pt-BR langpack. The upstream
11105 Tor Browser did this in version 6.5 (Refs: #12159).
11109 * use gdm-password instead of gdm-autologin, to fix switching to
11110 the VT where the desktop session lives on Stretch (Closes:
11112 * Fix more options scrolledwindow size in Stretch (Closes:
11114 - Tails Installer: remove unused code warning about missing
11115 extlinux in Tails Installer (Closes: #11196).
11116 - Update APT pinning to cover all binary packages built from
11117 src:mesa so we ensure installing mesa from jessie-backports
11119 - Install xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu. This should help supporting
11120 newer AMD graphics adapters. (Closes #11850)
11121 - Fix firewall startup during early boot, by referring to the
11122 "amnesia" user via its UID (Closes: #7018).
11123 - Include all amd64-microcodes.
11124 - refresh-translations: ignore
11125 config/chroot_local-includes/usr/share/doc/tails/website/.
11126 Otherwise, if the website has been built already, PO tools
11127 complain that there are files with translatable strings in
11128 there, which are not listed in POTFILES.in.
11129 - Make uBlock Origin's button appear on first run. Otherwise it
11130 will only appear on browser runs after the first one. This bug
11131 also affected Adblock Plus (Closes: #12145).
11134 - Be more careful when unmounting the tmpfs used as workspace
11135 during builds, fixing an issue that made Jenkins' ISO builders
11136 prone to failures (Closes: #12009).
11137 - Upgrade the Vagrant basebox to 20170105. The only big change is
11138 that we now install the backported kernel in the builder VM, to
11139 make building possible on Debian Sid (Closes: #12081).
11140 - Ensure the VirtualBox guest DKMS modules are built for the
11141 kernel we want them for. In some situations, depending on the
11142 version of the running kernel, the modules would not be built
11143 for the 686 kernel, which is the one that needs the VirtualBox
11144 guest modules. This commit ensures the VirtualBox guest modules
11145 are built and installed regardless of the how the build
11146 environment looks like (Closes: #12139).
11149 - Replace the filesystem shares support with a helper for easily
11150 sharing files from the host to the guest using virtual disks
11152 - Do not test sending email when testing POP3. We cannot clean
11153 that email up (easily) since when we use POP3 deletions won't
11154 affect the remote inbox, only our local one, resulting in the
11155 quota being reached eventually (Closes: #12006).
11156 - Have APT tests configure APT to use non-onion sources. Our test
11157 suite uses Chutney to create a virtual, private Tor network, and
11158 thus doesn't support connections to Onion services running in
11159 the real Tor network (Refs: #11556).
11160 - Allow connections to Tor's control port during stream isolation
11161 tests, but only for those applications where we expect that.
11162 - Fix Electrum tests after upgrading to 2.7.9-1.
11163 - Make encryption.feature pass for Tails 2.10~rc1.
11164 - Adapt tests after the Donation campaign was disabled (Refs:
11166 - Fix 'The "Tails documentation" link on the Desktop works'
11167 scenario. The TailsOfflineDocHomepage.png image doesn't match
11168 what we see any more (I have no clue why), so let's use Dogtail
11169 and solve this once and for all, hopefully.
11170 - Work around Tails freezing during memory wiping. These
11171 workarounds should be reverted once #11786 is fixed
11172 properly. (Refs: #10776, #11786)
11173 - Support both xtigervncviewer and xtightvncviewer for --view.
11174 xtightvncviewer is a transitional package in Sid, which depends
11175 on tigervnc-viewer (which ships xtigervncviewer), so by keeping
11176 the dep and supporting both binaries, --view will work on both
11177 Sid and Jessie (Closes: #12129).
11178 - Test suite: bump image after upgrading to Tor Browser 6.5 (Refs:
11180 - Add debugging info for when PacketFu misbehaves, and be more
11181 careful when to save pcap artifacts (Refs: #11508).
11183 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2017 11:38:37 +0100
11185 tails (2.9.1) unstable; urgency=medium
11188 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.0.8 based on Firefox 45.6. If you pay
11189 close attention you'll see that we import -build1 but there was
11190 a -build2. The only change is Tor Button 1.9.5.13 which makes
11191 some changes to the donation campaign banner in `about:tor`,
11192 which we safely can skip. (Closes: #12028)
11193 - Upgrade Icedove to 45.5.1-1~deb8u1+tails1. (Closes: #12029)
11194 - Upgrade APT-related packages to 1.0.9.8.4.
11196 * Minor improvements
11197 - Switch to DuckDuckGo as the default search engine in the tor
11198 Browser. This is what Tor Browser has, and Disconnect.me (the
11199 previous default) has been re-directing to DDG for some time,
11200 which has been confusing users. In addition, we localize the DDG
11201 user interface for the locales with availablelangpacks. (Closes:
11203 - Improve the display name for the Wikipedia search plugin.
11204 - Enable contrib and non-free for our own APT repos.
11205 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.8.10. (Closes: #12015)
11206 - Upgrade obfs4proxy to 0.0.7-1~tpo1.
11209 - AppArmor Totem profile: add permissions needed to avoid warning
11210 on startup. (Closes: #11984)
11211 - Upgrade the VirtualBox Guest additions and modules to version
11212 5.1.8. This should prevent Xorg from crashing unless the video
11213 memory for the VMs are significantly bumped. (Closes: #11965)
11214 Users will still have to enable I/O APIC due to a bug in Linux.
11215 - Drop unwanted search plugins from the Tor Browser langpacks.
11216 Otherwise they are only removed from English locales. Note that
11217 the langpacks contain copies of the English plugins, not
11218 localized versions, so we actually lose nothing.
11221 - Add support for SikuliX, which recently hit Debian Unstable,
11222 while still supporting Sikuli for Jessie users. (Closes: #11991)
11223 - Fix some instances where we were trying to use the mouse outside
11224 of the Sikuli screen.
11225 - Use "TorBirdy" instead of "amnesia branding" as the "anchor"
11226 addon. I.e. the addon that we use to find the other ones. The
11227 "amnesia branding" addon has been removed, so we must use
11228 something else. (Fixup: #11906)
11229 - Dogtailify "the support documentation page opens in Tor Browser"
11230 step. We previously relied on Sikuli, and the image was made
11231 outdated thanks to our donation campaign. No more! (Closes:
11233 - Resolve dl.amnesia.boum.org instead of picking a static address.
11234 Just hours after updating the dustri.org IP address, its web
11235 server went down => test suite failures. Let's make this test as
11236 robust as actually downloading the Tails ISO image -- if that
11237 fails, we probably have more serious problems on our hands than
11238 a failing test suite. (Closes: #11960)
11239 - Switch MAT scenario from testing PDFs to PNGs. Also add
11240 anti-test and test using using a tool *different* from MAT, the
11241 tool being tested here. (Closes: #11901)
11243 -- Tails Developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:19:16 +0100
11245 tails (2.7.1) unstable; urgency=medium
11248 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.0.7 (build3) based on Firefox 45.5.1.
11249 - Upgrade gstreamer0.10-based packages to 0.10.31-3+nmu4+deb8u2.
11250 - Upgrade imagemagick-based packages to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u6.
11251 - Upgrade libicu52 to 52.1-8+deb8u4.
11252 - Upgrade vim-based packages to 2:7.4.488-7+deb8u1.
11254 * Minor improvements
11255 - Reserve 64 MiB for the kernel and 128 MiB for privileged
11256 processes before the memory is wiped. We hope that this might
11257 help (but not solve, sadly) some crashes experienced while
11261 - Make the wiki shipped inside Tails build deterministically
11263 * Enable ikiwiki's "deterministic" option, and require it when
11265 * Use our custom backport of discount (2.2.1-1~bpo8+1~0.tails1),
11266 to fix reproducibility issues (Debian#782315). This can be
11267 dropped once our ISO builders use Stretch.
11268 * Install ikiwiki from our builder-jessie APT suite, to make the
11269 pagestats plugin output deterministic.
11270 - refresh-translations: don't update PO files unless something
11271 other than POT-Creation-Date was changed. (Closes: #11967)
11272 - Fix Vagrant's is_release? check. Per auto/build, we consider it
11273 a release when we build from detached head, and HEAD is tagged.
11274 - Enforce `cleanall` when building a release. I.e. don't allow the
11275 user supplied options to override this behaviour. This is
11276 important since Vagrant caches wiki builds, and we do not want
11277 leftovers from a previous builds ending up in a release. Also,
11278 this is required for making Tails images build reproducibly.
11279 - Make the build system's `cleanall` option really clean
11280 everything. At the moment it doesn't clean the cached wiki
11281 build (which basically was its only job).
11282 - import-package: support contrib and non-free sections.
11285 - Wait a bit between opening the shutdown applet menu, and
11286 clicking one of its widgets. (Closes: #11616).
11287 - Adapt Icedove test after removing the amnesia branding add-on.
11289 - Replace --pause-on-fail with --interactive-debugging. It does
11290 the same thing, but also offers an interactive Ruby shell, via
11291 pry, with the Cucumber world context.
11293 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:27:37 +0100
11295 tails (3.0~alpha1) experimental; urgency=medium
11297 * Major new features and changes
11298 - Upgrade to a snapshot of Debian 9 (Stretch) from 2016-11-15.
11299 - Switch userpace from 32-bit to 64-bit (Closes: #8183), and accordingly:
11300 · Memory erasure: drop the "one instance of sdmem per 2 GiB of RAM" tweak,
11301 that is not needed on x86-64.
11302 · Display a "sorry!" message when trying to boot on a 32-bit BIOS system
11304 - Switch GNOME Shell to its default black theme (Closes: #11789).
11306 * Minor improvements
11307 - Install the cirrus and modesetting X.Org drivers (Closes: #10962).
11308 - Install the 'amdgpu' driver for the AMD Radeon cards (refs: #11850).
11309 - Stop disabling kernel modesetting for QXL (refs: #11518).
11310 - Replace TopIcons with gnome-shell-extension-top-icons-plus.
11311 The former causes plenty of trouble and is apparently abandoned
11312 upstream. The latter is actively maintained upstream, and packaged
11313 in Debian. (refs: #10576)
11314 - Use torsocks to torify Git, and drop tsocks entirely. tsocks has been
11315 unmaintained for years in Debian, and was removed from testing
11316 for a while (Closes: #10955).
11317 - Replace Florence's "systray" icon with the Florence Indicator GNOME Shell
11318 extension (refs: #8312). And then, don't automatically start Florence:
11319 the Florence Indicator GNOME Shell extension will start it the first time
11320 one tries to display it. This should save a tiny bit of RAM.
11321 - Harden AppArmor Totem profiles.
11322 - Switch to the Debian-packaged aufs kernel module (Closes: #11829).
11323 - Configure the firewall to not allow root to connect to Tor at all,
11324 which is possible now that APT uses a dedicated user for network
11326 - Fix firewall startup during early boot, by referring to the "amnesia"
11327 user via its UID (refs: #7018).
11328 - Install hunspell dictionaries instead of myspell ones, for a few more
11329 languages: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Russian. Only Farsi keeps
11330 using a myspell dictionary for now.
11333 - Stop installing BookletImposer PDF imposition toolkit.
11334 It's unmaintained upstream and thus won't be part of Debian Stretch.
11335 - Stop installing ekeyd: it's unmaintained, very rarely used, poorly
11336 designed (dedicated daemon), and security sensitive (Closes: #7687).
11337 - Stop shipping ttdnsd. It was only useful for developers and power-users
11338 who can install it themselves as needed. It's been unmaintained upstream
11339 for many years. It's very buggy so we had to remove it from the DNS
11340 resolution loop years ago. It's not in Debian. And it's one of the only
11341 two bits of Tails that still relied on tsocks, that is RC-buggy,
11342 unmaintained in Debian, and not in Stretch at the moment. So it has
11343 become clear that the cost of keeping ttdnsd now outweighs the benefits
11344 it brought (refs: #10959).
11347 - Bump disk space (and memory for in-RAM builds) requirements.
11348 - Support new live-config configuration directory naming, again and again.
11349 - Use the lowest compression level for the SquashFS when compressing it
11350 with gzip. This makes our development builds faster, and the resulting
11351 ISO image only a little bit bigger (Closes: #9788).
11352 - Configure initramfs compression later, to make the build faster.
11355 - Various refactoring while we were at it.
11356 - Port tests to Dogtail: installation, upgrade, notification detection,
11357 Synaptic, Gobby, and some of Tor Browser.
11358 - Workaround GNOME Shell being buggy for Dogtail (refs: #11718).
11359 - Update a bunch of test suite images for Stretch.
11360 - Mark created disk as temporary when we don't need to keep it around.
11361 - Simplify adding NetworkManager connections, and rely more on the defaults.
11362 Not providing the complete configuration file makes us test something
11363 closer to what happens when a user adds a Wi-Fi connection themselves.
11364 - Adjust the minimum allowed memory pattern coverage before wiping.
11365 - Always sync the time from the host when restoring from a snapshot.
11366 Previously we wouldn't do it when the network was plugged but Tor wasn't
11367 running, which can cause issues if we *then* start Tor since the time
11369 - Adjust to the fact that we now support running as a 64-bit guest
11370 in VirtualBox, and simplify code since we now include a 64-bit userland.
11371 - Improve how we restart Tor/I2P after restoring from a snapshot.
11372 - Adjust PolicyKit tests for Stretch.
11373 - Work around Tails stopping on shut down due to #11730.
11374 This should be reverted once #11730 is fixed properly.
11375 - Update the screenshot scenario.
11376 - Fix pcap file saving on MAC spoofing failure (Closes: #11698).
11377 - Test that notifications are actually shown.
11378 - Drop obsolete workaround for Florence sometimes not being hidden
11379 on startup (#11398).
11380 - Avoid remote shell deadlock.
11381 - Install at-spi2-core from Debian Sid.
11382 With the current version in Stretch, at-spi-bus-launcher crashes on
11383 start, breaking parts of GNOME's accessibility, and Dogtail.
11384 For details, see https://bugs.debian.org/840618.
11385 - Check that the MAC address is spoofed for manually added persistent
11386 NetworkManager connections created on Jessie and Stretch (refs: #11931).
11387 - Use nc.traditional in tests that rely on its behaviour.
11388 - Adjust expected notification text to cope with #11941.
11390 * Adjustments for Debian 9 (Stretch) with no or very little user-visible impact
11391 - Adjust APT sources and pinning for Stretch.
11392 - Don't install gnome-media, which is not part of testing/sid anymore.
11393 We already install the only bits it was providing or depending on.
11394 - Don't install gnome-themes: it's gone in Stretch.
11395 - Stop installing GStreamer 0.10 explicitly: it won't be in Stretch,
11396 and some bits are gone already.
11397 - Refresh and unfuzzy patches for Stretch. Replace some of them with
11398 programmatic patching, as patches break the build whenever
11400 - Drop start_AppArmor_earlier.diff: on Stretch, AppArmor starts much earlier
11402 - Accept iceweasel-l10n-* that don't provide any search engine:
11403 on Stretch, at least iceweasel-l10n-ar_1%3a43.0.4-1_all.deb doesn't.
11404 - Stop deleting 75-persistent-net-generator.rules: obsolete in Stretch.
11405 It was removed in systemd (220-7).
11406 - Tell live-boot we're still using aufs: recent live-boot defaults
11407 to overlayfs, which we don't use yet.
11408 - Don't remove imagemagick in 11-localize_browser: cups-filters depends on it
11410 - Explicitly install bc: needed by our 2010-pidgin live-config hook.
11411 - Remove gcc-4.9-base and gcc-5 via a chroot hook, taking into account
11412 that GCC 5 is the default on Stretch.
11413 - Switch to openjdk-8-jre: openjdk-7-jre is not in Stretch anymore.
11414 - gcalctool was renamed to gnome-calculator.
11415 - Don't try to delete non-existing AppArmor profile for ntpd: it was moved
11416 to the ntp package in Stretch.
11417 - Build DKMS modules with GCC 5: Stretch hasn't 4.8 anymore.
11418 - Don't try to reload or disable an initscript that we don't patch,
11419 and that doesn't exist anymore.
11420 - Support the case when /usr/src/libdvd-pkg does not exist.
11421 Apparently this can happen on Stretch.
11422 - Adjust to the move of /etc/gnome/defaults.list in Stretch
11424 - Stop installing xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse. It's obsolete and conflicts
11425 with recent kernels: https://bugs.debian.org/831420
11426 - Install open-vm-tools from sid: it's been removed from testing.
11427 - Install the gobby package, instead of the (now gone) transitional
11429 - apparmor-adjust-tor-profile.diff: drop bits that are useless, and
11430 prevent Tor from starting, on Stretch.
11431 - Tor Daemon Status: declare compatibility with GNOME Shell 3.20.
11432 - Shutdown helper: declare compatibility with GNOME Shell 3.20.
11433 - Drop 43-adjust_path_to_ibus-unikey_binaries hook: it was a workaround
11434 for a bug (Debian#714932) that was fixed.
11435 - Use netcat-openbsd instead of connect-proxy for torifying SSH.
11436 connect-proxy seems barely maintained in Debian and was removed from
11437 testing due to https://bugs.debian.org/830423.
11438 - Don't disable gdomap service: we don't include it anymore.
11439 unar in Jessie depended on gnustep-base-runtime (that ships gdomap),
11440 but this is not the case in Stretch anymore.
11441 - Install system-config-printer-common instead of system-config-printer,
11442 and drop customization that were needed only for the latter:
11443 system-config-printer (1.5.7-2) extracts into a new -common package
11444 the bits needed by gnome-control-center (Closes: #11505).
11445 - Adjust haveged AppArmor profile to work with Linux 4.x on Stretch.
11446 - cupsd AppArmor profile: update list of backends, and add aufs-specific
11447 tweak that Stretch needs (refs: #11699).
11448 - Revert to GNOME's default font antialiasing/hinting.
11449 We fixed on rgba/slight when converting some manual fontconfig stuff
11450 to GNOME's layer on top of it, but at least from a fresh Stretch
11451 install (2016-08-24) we got grayscale/slight. It could be that some
11452 auto-detection is involved, so the values would be different depending
11453 on the actual hardware. Any way, let's try to decrease our delta here.
11454 - Adjust haveged arguments customization for Stretch (Closes: 11522).
11455 - Display the date in the desktop top bar, as we did in Jessie and older.
11457 - Drop patch to keep haveged, saned, spice-vdagent and laptop-mode running
11458 on shutdown. These patches are no-ops on Stretch, where these services
11459 have native systemd unit files. It's not worth porting these patches:
11460 saned is socket-activated so in most cases it does not have to be shut
11461 down, and we expect that the other ones can be stopped pretty quickly.
11462 Let's bring back this kind of optimization if, and only if, we identify
11463 an actual problem to fix in this area :)
11464 - Don't delete downloaded debs after install: apt(8) >= 1.2~exp1 deletes
11465 them by default, which is not nice for users who use it to preseed
11466 their persistent APT cache. (Closes: #10958)
11467 - Hide "OpenJDK Java 8 Policy Tool" from the Applications menu.
11468 - Don't ship GCC 6: we don't ship compilers in Tails usually.
11469 - Don't ship gcc-5-base: on Stretch we ship gcc-6-base instead.
11470 - Don't start shipping libdvdcss2-dbgsym nor paxctld.
11471 - Adjust default web browser customization: GNOME in Debian now defaults
11472 to Firefox ESR (refs: #11440).
11473 - Install libreoffice-gtk3: on Stretch this is needed to have Gtk+ 3 widgets
11474 and a Gtk/GNOMEish print dialog.
11475 - Explicitly install gtk2-engines-pixbuf, as it's not pulled automatically
11476 on Stretch, and it's needed to theme GTK+ 2 applications in a nice way
11478 - AppArmor gnome abstraction: allow reading /etc/xdg/*-mimeapps.list
11480 - Drop obsolete disabling of GNOME Keyring's GnuPG agent feature.
11481 That feature was removed upstream.
11482 - Explicitly select pinentry-gtk2 as our preferred pinentry program.
11483 On Stretch, gnome-keyring depends on pinentry-gnome3, and then that one
11484 is selected by default. It does not feel worth it to introduce a hackish
11485 solution such as a fake pinentry-gnome3 package, so let's ignore it and
11486 just make sure we are using the pinentry program we prefer
11488 - Drop keep_memlockd_on_shutdown.diff: it's been a no-op since Tails 2.0
11490 - Drop custom NetworkManager plugin configuration: these tweaks are not
11491 needed on Stretch anymore.
11492 - Disable new style network interface naming scheme.
11493 It has little value for a live system, so let's stick to what we are
11494 used to, and avoid having to adjust code/config/test suite
11496 - Drop obsolete NM configuration wrt. sending hostname in DHCP requests
11498 - Update APT pinning to cover all binary packages built from src:mesa
11500 - Don't try to install gnupg-curl: it doesn't exist anymore in Stretch.
11501 - Install seahorse-nautilus from sid. It's been removed from testing.
11502 - Drop workaround for Debian bug #645466, that was fixed in 2014
11504 - Allow the "_apt" user to use Tor: in Stretch, APT network operations
11505 are performed with the "_apt" user and not root.
11506 - Make sure that 'localhost' points to the IPv4 loopback address.
11507 - Make desktop launchers executable (Closes: #11927).
11508 - Disable Wayland usage in GDM (Closes: #11923).
11509 - Fix AppArmor profile for gst-plugin-scanner (Closes: #11928).
11510 - Change Nautilus' default zoom level to 'small' (Closes: #11716).
11511 The icons in GNOME Files and on the desktop are too huge otherwise. With
11512 this new setting, they are similar in size to what we had in Jessie.
11513 - Fix broken symlink preventing Enigmail from being enabled.
11514 - Configure NetworkManager to not touch MAC addresses (refs: #11931).
11515 Its default behaviour on Debian Stretch is to reset the MAC address to the
11516 permanent one, and we did not make up our mind yet wrt. replacing
11517 our custom MAC spoofing system with NM's own one (refs: #11293).
11518 - Patch NetworkManager so that it does not leak the hostname in DHCP
11519 requests (Closes: #11720).
11520 - Deal with the fact that the NetworkManager dispatcher scripts are now
11521 sometimes called with an empty first argument (Closes: #11938).
11522 - Upgrade to GnuPG 2.1.15-9, and accordingly:
11523 · Remove the CA certificate for sks-keyservers.net, that we installed
11524 in the system-wide CAs directory: it is now included in the dirmngr
11525 package. Stop trusting it for non-GnuPG operations.
11526 · Make dirmngr use the sks-keyservers.net CA certificate from Debian.
11527 · Move keyserver proxy configuration to dirmngr.conf, and drop the
11528 keyserver-options that are obsolete or now the default.
11530 -- intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2016 16:19:21 +0000
11532 tails (2.7) unstable; urgency=medium
11535 - Upgrade to Linux 4.7. (Closes: #11885, #11818)
11536 - Upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.9. (Closes: #11832, #11891)
11537 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.0.6 based on Firefox 45.5. (Closes: #11910)
11538 - Upgrade Icedove to 1:45.4.0-1~deb8u1+tails1. (Closes: #11854,
11540 - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u5.
11541 - Upgrade openssl to 1.0.1t-1+deb8u5.
11542 - Upgrade libarchive to 3.1.2-11+deb8u3.
11543 - Upgrade bind9 to 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u8.
11544 - Upgrade libav to 6:11.8-1~deb8u1.
11545 - Upgrade ghostscript to 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u3.
11546 - Upgrade c-ares to 1.10.0-2+deb8u1.
11547 - Upgrade nspr to 2:4.12-1+debu8u1.
11548 - Upgrade nss to 2:3.26-1+debu8u1.
11549 - Upgrade tar to 1.27.1-2+deb8u1.
11550 - Upgrade curl to 7.38.0-4+deb8u5.
11551 - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u7.
11552 - Upgrade opendjk-7 to 7u111-2.6.7-2~deb8u1.
11553 - Upgrade mat to 0.5.2-3+deb8u1.
11554 - Upgrade libxslt to 1.1.28-2+deb8u2.
11555 - Upgrade pillow to 2.6.1-2+deb8u3.
11557 * Minor improvements
11558 - Ship Let's encrypt intermediate certificate to prepare the
11559 the next certificate renewal of our website. Also unify the
11560 way our upgrades and security checkers verify this SSL
11561 certificate using our dedicated perl lib code. (Closes: #11810)
11564 - Fix multiarch support in Synaptic. (Closes: #11820)
11565 - Set default spelling language to en_US in Icedove. (Closes: #11037)
11568 - Disable debootstrap merged-usr option. (Closes: #11903)
11571 - Add test for incremental upgrades. (Closes: #6309)
11572 - Add tests for Icedove. (Closes: #6304)
11573 - Decrease timeout to Tails Greeter to speed up testing of branches
11574 where it is broken. (Closes: #11449)
11575 - Add a ID field to the remote shell responses to filter out
11576 unrelated ones. (Closes: #11846)
11577 - Reliabily wait for the Greeter PostLogin script. (Closes: #5666)
11578 - Reliabily type the kernel command line in the prompt at the boot
11579 menu to ensure the remote shell is started. (Closes: #10777)
11580 - Remove DVDROM device when not used, to workaround QEMU/Libvirt
11581 compatibility issue. (Closes: #11874)
11583 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2016 14:46:04 +0100
11585 tails (2.6) unstable; urgency=medium
11587 * Major new features and changes
11588 - Install Tor 0.2.8.7. (Closes: #11351)
11589 - Enable kASLR in the Linux kernel. (Closes: #11281)
11590 - Upgrade Icedove to 1:45.2.0-1~deb8u1+tails1: (Closes: #11714)
11591 · Drop auto-fetched configurations using Oauth2. They do not
11592 work together with Torbirdy since it disables needed
11593 functionality (like JavaScript and cookies) in the embedded
11594 browser. This should make auto-configuration work for GMail
11595 again, for instance. (Closes: ##11536)
11596 · Pin Icedove to be installed from our APT repo. Debian's
11597 Icedove packages still do not have our secure Icedove
11598 autoconfig wizard patches applied, so installing them would be
11599 a serious security regression. (Closes: #11613)
11600 · Add missing icedove-l10n-* packages to our custom APT
11601 repository (Closes: #11550)
11602 - Upgrade to Linux 4.6: (Closes: #10298)
11603 · Install the 686 kernel flavour instead of the obsolete 586
11605 · APT, dpkg: add amd64 architecture. The amd64 kernel flavour is
11606 not built anymore for the i386 architecture, so we need to use
11608 · Build and install the out-of-tree aufs4 module. (Closes: #10298)
11609 · Disable kernel modesetting for QXL: it's not compatible with
11610 Jessie's QXL X.Org driver.
11613 - Hopefully fixed an issue which would sometimes make the Greeter
11614 ignore the "disable networking" or "bridge mode"
11615 options. (Closes: #11593)
11617 * Minor improvements
11618 - Install firmware-intel-sound and firmware-ti-connectivity. This
11619 adds support for some sound cards and Wi-Fi adapters. (Closes:
11621 - Install OpenPGP Applet from Debian. (Closes: #10190)
11622 - Port the "About Tails" dialog to python3.
11623 - Run our initramfs memory erasure hook earlier (Closes:
11624 #10733). The goal here is to:
11625 · save a few seconds on shutdown (it might matter especially for
11626 the emergency one);
11627 · work in a less heavily multitasking / event-driven
11628 environment, for more robust operation.
11629 - Install rngd, and make rng-tools initscript return success when
11630 it can't find any hardware RNG device. Most Tails systems around
11631 probably have no such device, and we don't want systemd to
11632 believe they failed to boot properly. (Closes: #5650)
11633 - Don't force using the vboxvideo X.Org driver. According to our
11634 tests, this forced setting is:
11635 · harmful: it breaks X startup when the vboxvideo *kernel*
11637 · useless: X.Org now autodetects the vboxvideo X.Org driver and
11638 uses it when running in VirtualBox and the vboxvideo kernel
11640 - Port boot-profile to python3 (Closes: #10083). Thanks to
11641 heartsucker <heartsucker@autistici.org> for the patch!
11642 - Include /proc/cmdline and the content of persistent APT sources
11643 in WhisperBack bug reports. (Closes: #11675, #11635)
11644 - Disable non-free APT sources at boot time. (Closes: #10130)
11645 - Have a dedicated page for the homepage of Tor Browser in
11646 Tails. (Closes: # 11725)
11647 - Only build the VirtualBox kernel modules for the 32-bit kernel.
11648 It's both hard and useless to build it for 64-bit in the current
11649 state of things, as long as we're shipping a 32-bit userspace.
11650 Also, install virtualbox-* from jessie-backports, since the
11651 version in Jessie is not compatible with Linux 4.x.
11654 - Don't install+remove dpatch during the build. It's not been
11655 needed in this hook for ages.
11656 - Bump BUILD_SPACE_REQUIREMENT: at least one of us needed that to
11657 build feature/10298-linux-4.x-aufs with the gzipcomp option.
11660 - Send Tails Installer's debug log to the Cucumber debug log on
11661 failure. This is meant to debug #10720 since I can't
11662 reproduce it locally.
11663 - Give the system under testing 2 vCPUs. (Closes: #6729)
11664 - Split scenarios from checks.feature. (Closes: #5707)
11665 - Add retry-logic to the Synaptic tests. (Closes: #10412, #10441,
11667 - Run usb_upgrade.feature earlier, when there is enough free disk
11668 space left. (Closes: #11582)
11669 - Use more recent virtual hardware in the system under test,
11670 i.e. USB 3.0 (nec-xhci) on a pc-i440fx-2.5 machine. Switching
11671 USB controllers has helped with problems we see on Jenkins when
11672 booting from USB (#11588). Also, there are chances that more
11673 recent virtual hardware sees more testing these days, so it
11674 sounds potentially useful to "upgrade".
11675 - Add support for Cucumber 2.4. (Closes: #11690)
11676 - Always write {pretty,debug} logs and JSON output to the artifact
11678 - Disable info level logging on Chutney nodes to save disk
11679 space. For our network all these add up to > 1 GiB and we didn't
11680 take this into account when budgeting RAM to the isotesters on
11683 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 20 Sep 2016 04:16:33 +0200
11685 tails (2.5) unstable; urgency=medium
11687 * Major new features and changes
11688 - Upgrade Icedove to 1:45.1.0-1~deb8u1+tails2. (Closes: #11530)
11689 · Fix long delay causing bad UX in the autoconfig wizard,
11690 when it does not manage to guess proper settings on some domains.
11692 · Better support sending email through some ISPs, such as Riseup.
11694 · Fix spurious error message when creating an account and providing
11695 its password. (Closes: #11550)
11698 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.0.3 based on Firefox 45.3. (Closes: #11611)
11699 - Upgrade GIMP to 2.8.14-1+deb8u1.
11700 - Upgrade libav to 6:11.7-1~deb8u1.
11701 - Upgrade expat to 2.1.0-6+deb8u3.
11702 - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u6.
11703 - Upgrade libmodule-build-perl to 0.421000-2+deb8u1.
11704 - Upgrade perl to 5.20.2-3+deb8u6.
11705 - Upgrade Pidgin to 2.11.0-0+deb8u1.
11706 - Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:4.3.3-2+deb8u5.
11707 - Upgrade libxslt1.1 to 1.1.28-2+deb8u1.
11708 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt25-2+deb8u3.
11709 - Upgrade OpenSSH to 1:6.7p1-5+deb8u3.
11710 - Upgrade p7zip to 9.20.1~dfsg.1-4.1+deb8u2.
11712 * Minor improvements
11713 - htpdate: replace obsolete and unreliable URIs in HTP pools, and decrease
11714 timeout for HTTP operations for more robust time synchronization.
11716 - Hide settings panel for the Online Accounts component of GNOME,
11717 that we don't support. (Closes: #11545)
11718 - Vastly improve graphics performance in KVM guest with QXL driver.
11720 - Fix graphics artifacts in Tor Browser in KVM guest with QXL driver.
11724 - Wrap Pidgin in a more maintainable way. (Closes: #11567)
11727 - Add a test scenario for the persistence "dotfiles" feature.
11729 - Improve robustness of most APT, Git, SFTP and SSH scenarios,
11730 enough to enable them on Jenkins. (Closes: #10444, #10496, #10498)
11731 - Improve robustness of checking for persistence partition. (Closes: #11558)
11732 - Treat Tails booting from /dev/sda as OK, to support all cases
11733 including a weird one caused by hybrid ISO images. (Closes: #10504)
11734 - Bump a bunch of timeouts to cope with the occasional slowness on Jenkins.
11735 - Only query A records when exercising DNS lookups, to improve robustness.
11737 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 31 Jul 2016 16:50:35 +0000
11739 tails (2.4) unstable; urgency=medium
11741 * Major new features and changes
11742 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.0.1 based on Firefox 45.2. (Closes:
11744 - Enable Icedove's automatic configuration wizard. We patch the
11745 wizard to only use secure protocols when probing, and only
11746 accept secure protocols, while keeping the improvements done by
11747 TorBirdy in its own non-automatic configuration wizard. (Closes:
11751 - Upgrade bsdtar and libarchive13 to 3.1.2-11+deb8u1.
11752 - Upgrade icedove to 38.8.0-1~deb8u1+tails3.
11753 - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u3.
11754 - Upgrade libexpat1 to 2.1.0-6+deb8u2.
11755 - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u3.
11756 - Upgrade gdk-pixbuf-based packages to 2.31.1-2+deb8u5.
11757 - Upgrade libidn11 to 1.29-1+deb8u1.
11758 - Upgrade libndp0 to 1.4-2+deb8u1.
11759 - Upgrade poppler-based packages to 0.26.5-2+deb8u1.
11760 - Upgrade librsvg2-2 to 2.40.5-1+deb8u2.
11761 - Upgrade libsmbclient to 2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u3.
11762 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1k-3+deb8u5.
11763 - Upgrade libtasn1-6 to 4.2-3+deb8u2.
11764 - Upgrade libxml2 to 2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u2.
11765 - Upgrade openjdk-7-jre to 7u101-2.6.6-1~deb8u1.
11768 - Enable Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery for IPv4. If any
11769 system on the path to the remote host has a MTU smaller than the
11770 standard Ethernet one, then Tails will receive an ICMP packet
11771 asking it to send smaller packets. Our firewall will drop such
11772 ICMP packets to the floor, and then the TCP connection won't
11773 work properly. This can happen to any TCP connection, but so far
11774 it's been reported as breaking obfs4 for actual users. Thanks to
11775 Yawning for the help! (Closes: #9268)
11776 - Make Tails Upgrader ship other locales than English. (Closes:
11778 - Make it possible to add local USB printers again. Bugfix on
11779 Tails 2.0. (Closes #10965).
11781 * Minor improvements
11782 - Remove custom SSH ciphers and MACs settings. (Closes: #7315)
11783 - Bring back "minimize" and "maximize" buttons in titlebars by
11784 default. (Closes: #11270)
11785 - Icedove improvements:
11786 * Stop patching in our default into Torbirdy. We've upstreamed
11787 some parts, and the rest we set with pref branch overrides in
11788 /etc/xul-ext/torbirdy.js. (Closes: #10905)
11789 * Use hkps keyserver in Enigmail. (Closes: #10906)
11790 * Default to POP if persistence is enabled, IMAP is
11791 not. (Closes: #10574)
11792 * Disable remote email account creation in Icedove. (Closes:
11794 - Firewall hardening (Closes: #11391):
11795 * Don't accept RELATED packets. This enables quite a lot of code
11796 in the kernel that we don't need. Let's reduce the attack
11798 * Restrict debian-tor user to NEW TCP syn packets. It doesn't
11799 need to do more, so let's do a little bit of security in
11801 * Disable netfilter's nf_conntrack_helper.
11802 * Fix disabling of automatic conntrack helper assignment.
11803 - Kernel hardening:
11804 * Set various kernel boot options: slab_nomerge slub_debug=FZ
11805 mce=0 vsyscall=none. (Closes: #11143)
11806 * Remove the kernel .map files. These are only useful for kernel
11807 debugging and slightly make things easier for malware, perhaps
11808 and otherwise just occupy disk space. Also stop exposing
11809 kernel memory addresses through /proc etc. (Closes: #10951)
11810 - Drop zenity hacks to "focus" the negative answer. Jessie's
11811 zenity introduced the --default-cancel option, finally!
11813 - Drop useless APT pinning for Linux.
11814 - Remove gnome-tweak-tool. (Closes: #11237)
11815 - Install python-dogtail, to enable accessibility technologies in
11816 our automated test suite (see below). (Part of: #10721)
11817 - Install libdrm and mesa from jessie-backports. (Closes: #11303)
11818 - Remove hledger. (Closes: #11346)
11819 - Don't pre-configure the #tails chan on the default OFTC account.
11821 - Install onioncircuits from jessie-backports. (Closes: #11443)
11822 - Remove nmh. (Closes: #10477)
11823 - Drop Debian experimental APT source: we don't use it.
11824 - Use APT codenames (e.g. "stretch") instead of suites, to be
11825 compatible with our tagged APT snapshots.
11826 - Drop module-assistant hook and its cleanup. We've not been using
11828 - Remove 'Reboot' and 'Power Off' entries from Applications →
11829 System Tools. (Closes: #11075)
11830 - Pin our custom APT repo to the same level as Debian ones, and
11831 explicitly pin higher the packages we want to pull from our custom
11832 APT repo, when needed.
11833 - config/chroot_local-hooks/59-libdvd-pkg: verify libdvdcss
11834 package installation. (Closes: #11420)
11835 - Make Tails Upgrader use our new mirror pool design. (Closes:
11837 - Drop custom OpenSSH client ciphers and MACs settings. We did a
11838 pretty bad job at maintaining them compared to the Debian
11839 upstream. (Closes: #7315)
11840 - Install jessie-backports version of all binary packages built
11841 from src:hplip. This adds support for quite a few new
11843 - Install printer-driver-postscript-hp, which adds support for
11844 some more printers.
11847 - Use a freezable APT repo when building Tails. This is a first
11848 step towards reproducible builds, and improves our QA and
11849 development processes by making our builds more predictable. For
11850 details, see: https://tails.boum.org/contribute/APT_repository/
11851 - There has been a massive amount of improvements to the
11852 Vagrant-based build system, and now it could be considered the
11853 de-facto build system for Tails! Improvements and fixes include:
11854 * Migrate Vagrant to use libvirt/KVM instead of
11855 Virtualbox. (Closes: #6354)
11856 * Make apt-get stuff non-interactive while provisioning.
11857 Because there is no interaction, so that will results in
11859 * Bump disk space (=> RAM for RAM builds) needed to build with
11860 Vagrant. Since the Jessie migration it seems impossible to
11861 keep this low enough to fit in 8 GiB or RAM. For this reason
11862 we also drop the space optimization where we build inside a
11863 crazy aufs stack; now we just build in a tmpfs.
11864 * Clean up apt-cacher-ng cache on vm:provision to save disk
11865 space on the builder.
11866 * Add convenient Rake task for SSH:ing into the builder VM:
11868 * Add rake task for generating a new Vagrant base box.
11869 * Automatically provision the VM on build to keep things up-to-date.
11870 * Don't enable extproxy unless explicitly given as an
11871 option. Previously it would automatically be enabled when
11872 `http_proxy` is set in the environment, unlike what is
11873 documented. This will hopefully lead to fewer surprises for users
11874 who e.g. point http_proxy to a torified polipo, or similar.
11875 * Re-fetch tags when running build-tails with Vagrant. That
11876 should fix an annoyance related to #7182 that I frequently
11877 encounter: when I, as the RM, rebuild the release image the
11878 second time from the force-updated tag, the build system would
11879 not have the force-updated tag. (Closes: #7182)
11880 * Make sure we use the intended locale in the Tails builder VM.
11881 Since we communicate via SSH, and e.g. Debian forward the
11882 locale env vars by default, we have to take some steps
11883 ensuring we do not do that.
11884 - Pull monkeysphere from stretch to avoid failing to install under
11885 eatmydata. Patch submitted by Cyril Brulebois <cyril@debamax.com>.
11888 - Add wrapper around dogtail (inside Tails) for "remote" usage in
11889 the automated test suite. This provides a simple interface for
11890 generating dogtail python code, sending it to the guest, and
11891 executing it, and should allow us to write more robust tests
11892 leveraging assistive technologies. (Closes: #10721)
11893 - A few previously sikuli-based tests has been migrated to use
11894 dogtail instead, e.g. GNOME Applications menu interaction.
11895 - Add a test for re-configuring an existing persistent volume.
11896 This is a regression test for #10809. (Closes: #10834)
11897 - Use a simulated Tor network provided by Chutney in the automated
11898 test suite. The main motivation here is improved robustness --
11899 since the "Tor network" we now use will exit from the host
11900 running the automated test suite, we won't have to deal with Tor
11901 network blocking, or unreliable circuits. Performance should
11902 also be improved. (Closes: #9521)
11903 - Drop the usage of Tor Check in our tests. It doesn't make sense
11904 now when we use Chutney since that always means it will report
11905 that Tor is not being used.
11906 - Stop testing obsolete pluggable transports.
11907 - Completely rewrite the firewall leak detector to something more
11908 flexible and expressive.
11909 - Run tcpdump with --immediate-mode for the network sniffer. With
11910 this option, "packets are delivered to tcpdump as soon as they
11911 arrive, rather than being buffered for efficiency" which is
11912 required to make the sniffing work reliable the way we use it.
11913 - Remove most scenarios testing "tordate". It just isn't working
11914 well in Tails, so we shouldn't expect the tests to actually work
11915 all of the time. (Closes: #10440)
11916 - Close Pidgin before we inspect or persist its accounts.xml.
11917 I've seen a case when that file is _not_ saved (and thus, not
11918 persisted) if we shut down the system while Pidgin is still
11919 running. (Closes: #11413)
11920 - Close the GNOME Notification bar by pressing ESC, instead of
11921 opening the Applications menu. The Applications menu often
11922 covers other elements that we're looking for on the
11923 screen. (Closes #11401)
11924 - Hide Florence keyboard window when it doesn't vanish by itself
11925 (Closes: #11398) and wait a bit less for Florence to disappear
11928 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 06 Jun 2016 20:10:56 +0200
11930 tails (2.3) unstable; urgency=medium
11933 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.5. (Fixes: #11362)
11934 - Upgrade icedove to 38.7.0-1~deb8u1
11935 - Upgrade git to 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u2
11936 - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u1
11937 - Upgrade pidgin-otr to 4.0.1-1+deb8u1
11938 - Upgrade srtp to 1.4.5~20130609~dfsg-1.1+deb8u1
11939 - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u1
11940 - Upgrade samba to 2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u2
11941 - Upgrade openssh to 1:6.7p1-5+deb8u2
11944 - Refresh Tor Browser's AppArmor profile patch against the one from
11945 torbrowser-launcher 0.2.4-1. (Fixes: #11264)
11946 - Pull monkeysphere from stretch to avoid failing to install under
11947 eatmydata. (Fixes: #11170)
11948 - Start gpg-agent with no-grab option due to issues with pinentry and
11949 GNOME's top bar. (Fixes: #11038)
11950 - Tails Installer: Update error message to match new name of 'Clone
11951 & Install'. (Fixes: #11238)
11953 * Cope with a missing geoipdb. (Fixes: #11203)
11954 * Make both panes of the window scrollable. (Fixes #11192)
11955 - WhisperBack: Workaround socks bug. When the Tor fails to connect to
11956 the host, WisperBack used to display a ValueError. This is caused by
11957 a socks bug that is solved in upstream's master but not in Tails.
11958 This commit workarounds this bug Unclear error message in WhisperBack
11959 when failing to connect to the server. (Fixes: #11136)
11961 * Minor improvements
11962 - Upgrade to Debian 8.4, a Debian point release with many minor upgrades
11963 and fixes to various packages . (Fixes: #11232)
11964 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.25. (Fixes: #11363)
11965 - Pin pinentry-gtk2 to jessie-backports. The new version allows pasting
11966 passwords from the clipboard. (Fixes: #11239)
11967 - config/chroot_local-hooks/59-libdvd-pkg: cleanup /usr/src/libdvd-pkg.
11969 - Make the Tor Status "disconnected" icon more contrasted with the
11970 "connected" one. (Fixes: #11199)
11973 - Add UTF-8 support to OTR Bot. (Fixes: #10866)
11974 - Don't explicitly depend on openjdk-7-jre or any JRE for that
11975 matter. Sikuli will pull in a suitable one, so depending on one
11976 ourselves is only risks causing trouble. (Fixes: #11335)
11978 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 25 Apr 2016 14:12:22 +0200
11980 tails (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=medium
11983 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.4. (Closes: #11254)
11984 - Upgrade bind9-related packages to 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u6
11985 - Upgrade libotr to 4.1.0-2+deb8u1
11986 - Upgrade samba-related packages to 2:4.1.17+dfsg-2+deb8u2.
11987 - Upgrade libgraphite2 to 1.3.6-1~deb8u1.
11989 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Thu, 17 Mar 2016 15:03:52 +0100
11991 tails (2.2) unstable; urgency=medium
11993 * Major new features and changes
11994 - Replace Vidalia (which has been unmaintained for years) with:
11996 * the Tor Status GNOME Shell extension, which adds a System Status
11997 icon indicating whether Tor is ready or not.
11998 * Onion Circuits, a simple Tor circuit monitoring tool.
12001 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.3 (Closes: #11189).
12002 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u4.
12003 - Upgrade cpio to 2.11+dfsg-4.1+deb8u1.
12004 - Upgrade glibc to 2.19-18+deb8u3.
12005 - Upgrade libav to 6:11.6-1~deb8u1.
12006 - Upgrade libgraphite2 to 1.3.5-1~deb8u1.
12007 - Upgrade libjasper1 to 1.900.1-debian1-2.4+deb8u1.
12008 - Upgrade libreoffice to 4.3.3-2+deb8u3.
12009 - Upgrade libssh2 to 1.4.3-4.1+deb8u1.
12010 - Upgrade openssl to 1.0.1k-3+deb8u4.
12011 - Upgrade perl to 5.20.2-3+deb8u4.
12012 - Upgrade python-imaging, python-pil to 2.6.1-2 2.6.1-2+deb8u2.
12015 - Hide "Laptop Mode Tools Configuration" menu entry. We don't
12016 support configuring l-m-t in Tails, and it doesn't work out of
12017 the box. (Closes: #11074)
12019 * Actually write a string when saving bug report to
12020 disk. (Closes: #11133)
12021 * Add missing argument to OpenPGP dialog so the optional OpenPGP
12022 key can be added again. (Closes: #11033)
12024 * Minor improvements
12025 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.24-1~deb8u+1.
12026 - Add support for viewing DRM protected DVD videos using
12027 libdvdcss2. Patch series submitted by Austin English
12028 <austinenglish@gmail.com>. (Closes: #7674)
12029 - Automatically save KeePassX database after every change by default.
12031 - Implement Tor stream isolation for WhisperBack
12032 - Delete unused tor-tsocks-mua.conf previously used by Claws
12033 Mail. (Closes: #10904)
12034 - Add set -u to all gettext:ized shell scripts. In gettext-base <
12035 1.8.2, like the one we had in Wheezy, gettext.sh references the
12036 environment variable ZSH_VERSION, which we do not set. This has
12037 prevented us from doing `set -u` without various hacks. (Closes:
12039 - Also set -e in some shell scripts which lacked it for no good
12041 - Make Git verify the integrity of transferred objects. (Closes:
12043 - Remove LAlt+Shift and LShift+RShift keyboard layout toggling
12044 shortcuts. (Closes: #10913, #11042)
12047 - Reorder the execution of feature to decrease peak disk
12048 usage. (Closes: #10503)
12049 - Paste into the GTK file chooser, instead of typing. (Closes:
12051 - Pidgin: wait a bit for text to have stopped scrolling before we
12052 click on it. (Closes: #10783)
12053 - Fix step that runs commands in GNOME Terminal, that was broken
12054 on Jessie when a Terminal is running already. (Closes: #11176)
12055 - Let ruby-rjb guess JAVA_HOME instead fixing on one jvm
12056 version. (Closes: #11190)
12059 - Upgrade build system to Debian Jessie. This includes migrating to a
12060 new Vagrant basebox based on Debian Jessie.
12061 - Rakefile: print git status when there are uncommitted
12062 changes. Patch submitted by Austin English
12063 <austinenglish@gmail.com>. (Closes: #11108)
12064 - .gitignore: add .rake_tasks~. Patch submitted by Austin English
12065 <austinenglish@gmail.com>. (Closes: #11134)
12066 - config/amnesia: use --show-field over sed filtering. Patch
12067 submitted by Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>.
12068 - Umount and clean up leftover temporary directories from old
12069 builds. (Closes: #10772)
12071 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 07 Mar 2016 18:09:50 +0100
12073 tails (2.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium
12075 * Major new features and changes
12076 - Enable the Tor Browser's font fingerprinting protection
12077 (Closes: #11000). We do it for all browsers (including
12078 the Unsafe Browser and I2P Browser mainly to avoid making our
12079 automated test suite overly complex. This implied to set an appropriate
12080 working directory when launching the Tor Browser, to accommodate for
12081 the assumptions it makes about this.
12084 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.2 (Closes: #11105).
12087 - Repair 32-bit UEFI support (Closes: #11007); bugfix on 2.0.
12088 - Add libgnome2-bin to installed packages list to provide gnome-open,
12089 which fixes URL handling at least in KeePassX, Electrum and Icedove
12090 (Closes: #11031); bugfix on 2.0. Thanks to segfault for the patch!
12092 * Minor improvements
12093 - Refactor and de-duplicate the chrooted browsers' configuration:
12094 prefs.js, userChrome.css (Closes: #9896).
12095 - Make the -profile Tor Launcher workaround simpler (Closes: #7943).
12096 - Move Torbutton environment configuration to the tor-browser script,
12097 instead of polluting the default system environment with it.
12098 - Refresh patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile
12100 - Propagate Tor Launcher options via the wrapper.
12101 - Move tor-launcher script to /usr/local/bin.
12102 - Move tor-launcher-standalone to /usr/local/lib.
12103 - Move Tor Launcher env configuration closer to the place where it is used,
12104 for simplicity's sake.
12107 - Mass update browser and Tor Launcher related images due to font change,
12108 caused by Tor Browser 5.5's font fingerprinting protection
12109 (Closes: #11097). And then, use separate PrintToFile.png for the browsers,
12110 and Evince, since it cannot be shared anymore.
12111 - Adjust to the refactored chrooted browsers configuration handling.
12112 - Test that Tor Launcher uses the correct Tor Browser libraries.
12113 - Allow more slack when verifying that the date that was set.
12114 - Bump a bit the timeout used when waiting for the remote shell.
12115 - Bump timeout for the process to disappear, when closing Evince.
12116 - Bump timeout when saving persistence configuration.
12117 - Bump timeout for bootstrapping I2P.
12120 - Remove no longer relevant places.sqlite cleanup procedure.
12122 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Fri, 12 Feb 2016 13:00:15 +0000
12124 tails (2.0) unstable; urgency=medium
12126 * Major new features and changes
12127 - Upgrade to Debian 8 (Jessie).
12128 - Migrate to GNOME Shell in Classic mode.
12129 - Use systemd as PID 1, and convert all custom initscripts to systemd units.
12130 - Remove the Windows camouflage feature: our call for help to port
12131 it to GNOME Shell (issued in January, 2015) was unsuccessful.
12132 - Remove Claws Mail: Icedove is now the default email client
12134 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5 (Closes: #10858, #10983).
12137 - Minimally sandbox many services with systemd's namespacing features.
12138 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u3.
12139 - Upgrade Git to 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u1.
12140 - Upgrade Perl to 5.20.2-3+deb8u3.
12141 - Upgrade bind9-related packages to 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u5.
12142 - Upgrade FUSE to 2.9.3-15+deb8u2.
12143 - Upgrade isc-dhcp-client tot 4.3.1-6+deb8u2.
12144 - Upgrade libpng12-0 to 1.2.50-2+deb8u2.
12145 - Upgrade OpenSSH client to 1:6.7p1-5+deb8u1.
12148 - Restore the logo in the "About Tails" dialog.
12149 - Don't tell the user that "Tor is ready" before htpdate is done
12151 - Upgrader wrapper: make the check for free memory more accurate
12152 (Closes: #10540, #8263).
12153 - Allow the desktop user, when active, to configure printers;
12154 fixes regression introduced in Tails 1.1 (Closes: #8443).
12155 - Close Vidalia before we restart Tor. Otherwise Vidalia will be running
12156 and showing errors while we make sure that Tor bootstraps, which could
12158 - Allow Totem to read DVDs, by installing apparmor-profiles-extra
12159 from jessie-backports (Closes: #9990).
12160 - Make memory erasure on shutdown more robust (Closes: #9707, #10487):
12161 · don't forcefully overcommit memory
12162 · don't kill the allocating task
12163 · make sure the kernel doesn't starve from memory
12164 · make parallel sdmem handling faster and more robust
12165 - Don't offer the option, in Tor Browser, to open a downloaded file with
12166 an external application (Closes: #9285). Our AppArmor confinement was
12167 blocking most such actions anyway, resulting in poor UX; bugfix on 1.3.
12168 Accordingly, remove the now-obsolete exception we had in the Tor
12169 Browser AppArmor profile, that allowed executing seahorse-tool.
12170 - Fix performance issue in Tails Upgrader, that made it very slow to apply
12171 an automatic upgrade; bugfix on 1.7 (Closes: #10757).
12172 - Use our wrapper script to start Icedove from the GNOME menus.
12173 - Make it possible to localize our Icedove wrapper script.
12174 - List Icedove persistence option in the same position where Claws Mail
12175 used to be, in the persistent volume assistant (Closes: #10832).
12176 - Fix Electrum by installing the version from Debian Testing
12177 (Closes: #10754). We need version >=2.5.4-2, see #9713;
12178 bugfix on 2.0~beta1. And, explicitly install python-qt4 to enable
12179 Electrum's GUI: it's a Recommends, and we're not pulling it ourselves
12180 via other means anymore.
12181 - Restore default file associations (Closes: #10798);
12182 bugfix on 2.0~beta1.
12183 - Update 'nopersistent' boot parameter to 'nopersistence'; bugfix on 0.12
12184 (Closes: #10831). Thanks to live-media=removable, this had no security
12185 impact in practice.
12186 - Repair dotfiles persistence feature, by adding a symlink from
12187 /lib/live/mount/persistence to /live/persistence; bugfix on 2.0~beta1
12189 - Fix ability to re-configure an existing persistent volume using
12190 the GUI; bugfix on 2.0~beta1 (Closes: #10809).
12191 - Associate armored OpenPGP public keys named *.key with Seahorse,
12192 to workaround https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93656;
12193 bugfix on 1.1 (Closes: #10889).
12194 - Update the list of enabled GNOME Shell extensions, which might fix
12195 the "GNOME Shell sometimes leaves Classic mode" bug seen in 2.0~beta1:
12196 · Remove obsolete "Alternative Status Menu", that is not shipped
12198 · Explicitly enable the GNOME Shell extensions that build
12200 - Make _get_tg_setting() compatible with set -u (Closes: #10785).
12201 - laptop-mode-tools: don't control autosuspend. Some USB input
12202 devices don't support autosuspend. This change might help fix
12203 #10850, but even if it doesn't, it makes sense to me that we
12204 don't let laptop-mode-tools fiddle with this on a Live system
12205 (Closes (for now): #10850).
12207 * Minor improvements
12208 - Remove obsolete code from various places.
12210 · hide all windows while logging in
12211 · resize and re-position the panel when the screen size grows
12212 · PostLogin: log into the Journal instead of a dedicated log file
12213 · use localectl to set the system locale and keyboard mapping
12214 · delete the Live user's password if no administration password is set
12216 · port to GDBus greeter interface, and adjust to other GDM
12219 · port to UDisks2, and from Qt4 to GTK3
12220 · adapt to work on other GNU/Linux operating systems than Tails
12221 · clean up enough upstream code and packaging bits to make it
12222 deserve being uploaded to Debian
12223 · rename everything from liveusb-creator to tails-installer
12224 - Port tails-perl5lib to GTK3 and UDisks2. In passing, do some minor
12225 refactoring and a GUI improvement.
12226 - Persistent Volume Assistant:
12227 · port to GTK3 and UDisks2
12228 · handle errors when deleting persistent volume (Closes: #8435)
12229 · remove obsolete workarounds
12230 - Don't install UDisks v1.
12231 - Adapt custom udev and polkit rules to UDisks v2 (Closes: #9054, #9270).
12232 - Adjust import-translations' post-import step for Tails Installer,
12233 to match how its i18n system works nowadays.
12234 - Use socket activation for CUPS, to save some boot time.
12235 - Set memlockd.service's OOMScoreAdjust to -1000.
12236 - Don't bother creating /var/lib/live in tails-detect-virtualization.
12237 If it does not exist at this point, we have bigger and more
12238 noticeable problems.
12239 - Simplify the virtualization detection & reporting system, and do it
12240 as a non-root user with systemd-detect-virt rather than virt-what.
12241 - Replace rsyslog with the systemd Journal (Closes: #8320), and adjust
12242 WhisperBack's logs handling accordingly.
12243 - Drop tails-save-im-environment.
12244 It's not been used since we stopped automatically starting the web browser.
12245 - Add a hook that aborts the build if any *.orig file is found. Such files
12246 appear mainly when a patch of ours is fuzzy. In most cases they are no big
12247 deal, but in some cases they end up being taken into account
12249 - Replace the tor+http shim with apt-transport-tor (Closes: #8198).
12250 - Install gnome-tweak-tool.
12251 - Don't bother testing if we're using dependency based boot.
12252 - Drop workaround to start spice-vdagent in GDM (Closes: #8025).
12253 This has been fixed in Jessie proper.
12254 - Don't install ipheth-utils anymore. It seems to be obsolete
12255 in current desktop environments.
12256 - Stop installing the buggy unrar-free, superseded in Jessie (Closes: #5838)
12257 - Drop all custom fontconfig configuration, and configure fonts rendering
12259 - Drop zenity patch (zenity-fix-whitespacing-box-sizes.diff),
12260 that was applied upstream.
12261 - Install libnet-dbus-perl (currently 1.1.0) from jessie-backports,
12262 it brings new features we need.
12263 - Have the security check and the upgrader wait for Tor having bootstrapped
12264 with systemd unit ordering.
12265 - Get rid of tails-security-check's wrapper.
12266 Its only purpose was to wait for Tor to have bootstrapped,
12267 which is now done via systemd.
12268 - Don't allow the amnesia and tails-upgrade-frontend users to run
12269 tor-has-bootstrapped as root with sudo. They don't need it anymore,
12270 thanks to using systemd for starting relevant units only once Tor
12272 - Install python-nautilus, that enables MAT's context menu item in Nautilus.
12274 - Configure GDM with a snippet file instead of patching its
12275 greeter.dconf-defaults.
12277 · port to Python 3 and GObject Introspection (Closes: #7755)
12278 · migrate from the gnutls module to the ssl one
12279 · use PGP/MIME for better attachments handling
12280 · migrate from the gnupginterface module to the gnupg one
12281 · natively support SOCKS ⇒ don't wrap with torsocks anymore
12283 · don't try to include the obsolete .xession-errors in bug reports
12285 - chroot-browser.sh: don't use static DISPLAY.
12286 - Simplify debugging:
12287 · don't hide the emergency shutdown's stdout
12288 · tails-unblock-network: trace commands so that they end up in the Journal
12289 - Configure the console codeset at ISO build time, instead of setting it
12290 to a constant via the Greeter's PostLogin.default.
12291 - Order the AppArmor policy compiling in a way that is less of a blocker
12293 - Include the major KMS modules in the initramfs. This helps seamless
12294 transition to X.Org when booting, and back to text mode on shutdown,
12295 can help for proper graphics hardware reinitialization post-kexec,
12296 and should improve GNOME Shell support in some virtual machines.
12297 - Always show the Universal Access menu icon in the GNOME panel.
12298 - Drop notification for not-migrated-yet persistence configuration,
12299 and persistence settings disabled due to wrong access rights.
12300 That migration happened more two years ago.
12301 - Remove the restricted network detector, that has been broken for too long;
12302 see #10560 for next steps (Closes: #8328).
12303 - Remove unsupported, never completed kiosk mode support.
12304 - clock_gettime_monotonic: use Perl's own function to get the integer part,
12305 instead of forking out to sed.
12306 - Don't (try to) disable lvm2 initscripts anymore. Both the original reason
12307 and the implementation are obsolete on Jessie.
12308 - Lower potential for confusion (#8443), by removing system-config-printer.
12309 One GUI to configure printers is enough (Closes: #8505).
12310 - Add "set -u" to tails-unblock-network.
12311 - Add a systemd target whose completion indicates that Tor has bootstrapped,
12312 and use it everywhere sensible (Closes: #9393).
12313 - Disable udev's 75-persistent-net-generator.rules, to preventing races
12314 between MAC spoofing and interface naming.
12315 - Replace patch against NetworkManager.conf with drop-in files.
12316 - Replace resolvconf with simpler NetworkManager and dhclient configuration.
12318 - Replace patching of the gdomap, i2p, hdparm, tor and ttdnsd initscripts
12319 with 'systemctl disable' (Closes: #9881).
12320 - Replace patches that wrapped apps with torsocks with dynamic patching with
12321 a hook, to ease maintenance. Also, patch D-Bus services as needed
12323 - Notify the user if running Tails inside non-free virtualization software
12324 that does not try to hide its nature (Closes: #5315).
12325 Thanks to Austin English <austinenglish@gmail.com> for the patch.
12326 - Declare htpdate.service as being needed for time-sync.target, to ensure
12327 that "services where correct time is essential should be ordered after
12329 - Convert some of the X session startup programs to `systemd --user' units.
12330 - Let the Pidgin wrapper pass through additional command-line arguments
12332 - Move out of the $PATH a bunch of programs that users should generally
12333 not run directly: connect-socks, end-profile, getTorBrowserUserAgent,
12334 generate-tor-browser-profile, kill-boot-profile, tails-spoof-mac,
12335 tails-set-wireless-devices-state, tails-configure-keyboard,
12336 do_not_ever_run_me, boot-profile, tails-unblock-network,
12337 tor-controlport-filter, tails-virt-notify-user, tails-htp-notify-user,
12338 udev-watchdog-wrapper (Closes: #10658)
12339 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.23-2~deb8u+1.
12340 - Disable I2P's time syncing support.
12341 - Install Torbirdy from official Jessie backports, instead of from
12342 our own APT repository (Closes: #10804).
12343 - Make GNOME Disks' passphrase strength checking new feature work,
12344 by installing cracklib-runtime (Closes: #10862).
12345 - Add support for Japanese in Tor Browser.
12346 - Install xserver-xorg-video-intel from Jessie Backports (currently:
12347 2.99.917-2~bpo8+1). This adds support for recent chips such as
12348 Intel Broadwell's HD Graphics (Closes: #10841).
12349 - Improve a little bit post-Greeter network unblocking:
12350 · Sleep a bit longer between deleting the blacklist, and triggering udev;
12351 this might help cure #9012.
12352 · Increase logging, so that we get more information next time someone
12354 · Touch /etc/modprobe.d/ after deleting the blacklist; this might help,
12355 in case all this is caused by some aufs bug.
12356 - Enable and use the Debian jessie-proposed-updates APT repository,
12357 anticipating on the Jessie 8.3 point-release (Closes: #10897).
12358 - Upgrade most firmware packages to 20160110-1.
12359 - Upgrade Intel CPU microcodes to 3.20151106.1~deb8u1.
12360 - Disable IPv6 for the default wired connection, so that
12361 NetworkManager does not spam the logs with IPv6 router
12362 solicitation failure. Note that this does not fix the problem
12363 for other connections (Partially closes: #10939).
12366 - Adapt to the new desktop environment and applications' look.
12367 - Adapt new changed nmcli syntax and output.
12368 - New NetworkManager connection files must be manually loaded in Jessie.
12369 - Adapt to new pkexec behavior.
12370 - Adapt to how we now disable networking.
12371 - Use sysctl instead of echo:ing into /proc/sys.
12372 - Use oom_score_adj instead of the older oom_adj.
12373 - Adapt everything depending on logs to the use of the Journal.
12374 - Port to UDisks v2.
12375 - Check that the system partition is an EFI System Partition.
12376 - Add ldlinux.c32 to the list of bootloader files that are expected
12377 to be modified when we run syslinux (Closes: #9053).
12378 - Use apt(8) instead of apt-get(8).
12379 - Don't hide the cursor after opening the GNOME apps menu.
12380 - Convert the remote shell to into a systemd native service and a Python 3,
12381 script that uses the sd_notify facility (Closes: #9057). Also, set its
12382 OOM score adjustment value via its unit file, and not from the test suite.
12383 - Adjust to match where screenshots are saved nowadays.
12384 - Check that all system units have started (Closes: #8262)
12385 - Simplify the "too small device" test.
12386 - Spawn `poweroff' and `halt' in the background, and don't wait for them
12387 to return: anything else would be racy vs. the remote shell's stopping.
12388 - Bump video memory allocated to the system under test, to fix out of video
12390 - When configuring the CPU to lack PAE support, use a qemu32 CPU instead
12391 of a Pentium one: the latter makes GNOME Shell crash.
12392 See #8778 for details about how Mesa's CPU features detection has
12393 room for improvement.
12394 - Adjust free(1) output parsing for Jessie.
12395 - vm-execute: rename --type option to --spawn.
12396 - Add method to set the X.Org clipboard, and install its dependency
12398 - Paste URLs in one go, to work around issue with lost key presses
12399 in the browser (Closes: #10467).
12400 - Reliably wait for Synaptic's search button to fade in.
12401 - Take into account that the sticky bit is not set on block devices
12403 - Ensure that we can use a NetworkManager connection stored in persistence
12405 - Use a stricter regexp when extracting logs for dropped packets.
12406 - Clone the host CPU for the test suite guests (Closes: #8778).
12407 - Run ping as root (aufs does not support file capabilities so we don't
12408 get cap_net_raw+ep, and if built on a filesystem that does support
12409 file capabilities, then /bin/ping is not setupd root).
12410 - Escape regexp special characters when constructing the firewall log
12411 parsing regexp, and pass -P to grep, since Ruby uses PCRE.
12412 - Adjust is_persistent?() helper to findmnt changes in Jessie.
12413 - Rework in depth how we measure pattern coverage in memory, with more
12414 reliable Linux OOM and VM settings, fundamental improvements
12415 in what exactly we measure, and custom OOM adjutments for fillram
12416 processes (Closes: #9705).
12417 - Use blkid instead of parted to determine the filesystem type.
12418 - Use --kiosk mode instead of --fullscreen in virt-viewer, to remove
12419 the tiny border of the in-viewer menu.
12420 - Remove now redundant desktop screenshot directory scenario.
12421 - Adapt GNOME notification handling for Debian Jessie (Closes: #8782)
12422 - Disable screen blanking in the automated test suite, which occasionally
12423 breaks some test cases (Closes: #10403).
12424 - Move upgrade scenarios to the feature dedicated to them.
12425 - Don't make libvirt storage volumes executable.
12426 - Refactor the PAUSE_ON_FAIL functionality, so that we can use `pause()`
12427 as a breakpoint when debugging.
12428 - Drop non-essential Totem test that is mostly a duplicate, and too painful
12429 to be worth automating on Jessie.
12430 - Retry Totem HTTPS test with a new Tor circuit on failure.
12431 - Replace iptables status regexp-based parser with a new XML-based
12432 status analyzer: the previous implementation could not be adjusted
12433 to the new ip6tables' output (Closes: #9704).
12434 - Don't reboot in one instance when it is not needed.
12435 - Optimize memory erasure anti-test: block the boot to save CPU on the host.
12436 - Update I2P tests for Jessie, and generally make them more robust.
12437 - Update Electrum tests for 2.5.4-2 (Closes: #10758).
12438 - Add workaround for libvirt vs. guestfs permissions issue, to allow
12439 running the test suite on current Debian sid.
12440 - Fix buggy code, that happened to work by mistake, in the Seahorse
12441 test cases; bugfix on 1.8.
12442 - Update test suite images due to CSS change on Tails' website.
12443 - Adapt Tor Browser tests to work with the 5.5 series.
12444 - Automatically test downloading files in Tor Browser.
12445 - Remove obsolete scenario, that tested opening a downloaded file with
12446 an external application, which we do not support anymore.
12447 - Improve robustness of the "Tails OpenPGP keys" scenario (Closes: #10378).
12448 - Automatically test the "Diable all networking" feature (Closes: #10430).
12449 - Automatically test that SSH works over LAN (Closes: #9087).
12450 - Bump some statuc sleeps to fix a few race conditions (Closes: #5330).
12451 - Automatically test that an emergency shutdown triggers on boot
12452 medium removal (Closes: #5472).
12453 - Make the AppArmor checks actually detect errors (Closes: #10926).
12456 - Bump amount of disk space needed to build Tails with Vagrant.
12457 The addition of the Japanese Tor Browser tarball made us reach
12458 the limit of the previous value.
12460 * Adjustments for Debian 8 (Jessie) with no or very little user-visible impact
12461 - Free the fixed UIDs/GIDs we need before creating the corresponding users.
12462 - Replace the real gnome-backgrounds with a fake, equivs generated one
12463 (Closes: #8055). Jessie's gnome-shell depends on gnome-backgrounds,
12464 which is too fat to ship considering we're not using it.
12465 - AppArmor: adjust CUPS profile to support our Live system environment
12467 · Mangle lib/live/mount/overlay/... as usual for aufs.
12468 · Pass the the attach_disconnected flag, that's needed for compatibility
12470 - Make sure we don't ship geoclue* (Closes: #7949).
12471 - Drop deprecated GDM configuration file.
12472 - Don't add the Live user to the deprecated 'fuse' group.
12473 - Drop hidepid mount option for /proc (Closes: #8256). In its current,
12474 simplistic form it cannot be supported by systemd.
12475 - Don't manually load acpi-cpufreq at boot time. It fails to load
12476 whenever no device it supports is present, which makes the
12477 systemd-modules-load.service fail. These days, the kernel
12478 should just automatically load such modules when they are needed.
12479 - Drop sysvinit-specific (sensigs.omit.d) tweaks for memlockd.
12480 - Disable the GDM unit file's Restart=always, that breaks our "emergency
12481 shutdown on boot medium removal" feature.
12482 - Update the implementation of the memory erasure on shutdown feature:
12483 · check for rebooting state using systemctl, instead of the obsolete
12484 $RUNLEVEL (Closes: #8306)
12485 · the kexec-load initscript normally silently exits unless systemd is
12486 currently running a reboot job. This is not the case when the emergency
12487 shutdown has been triggered, so we removed this check
12488 · migrate tails-kexec to the /lib/systemd/system-shutdown/ facility
12489 · don't (try to) switch to tty1 on emergency shutdown: it apparently
12490 requires data that we haven't locked into memory, and then it blocks
12491 the whole emergency shutdown process
12492 - Display a slightly darker version of the desktop wallpaper on the screen
12493 saver, instead of the default flashy "Debian 8" branding (Closes: #9038).
12494 - Disable software autorun from external media.
12495 - Disable a few unneeded D-Bus services. Some of these services are
12496 automatically started (via D-Bus activation) when GNOME Shell tries
12497 to use them. The only "use" I've seen for them, except eating
12498 precious RAM, is to display "No appointment today" in the calendar pop-up.
12500 - Prevent NetworkManager services from starting at boot time
12501 (Closes: #8313). We start them ourselves after changing the MAC address.
12502 - Unfuzzy all patches (Closes: #8268) and drop a few obsolete ones.
12503 - Adapt IBus configuration for Jessie (Closes: #8270), i.e. merge the two
12504 places where we configure keyboard layout and input methods: both are now
12505 configured in the same place in Jessie's GNOME.
12506 - Migrate panel launchers to the favorite apps list (Closes: #7992).
12507 - Drop pre-GNOME Shell menu tweaks.
12508 - Hide "Log out" button in the GNOME Shell menu (Closes: #8364).
12509 - Add a custom shutdown-helper GNOME Shell extension (Closes: #8302, #5684
12510 and #5878) that removes the press-Alt-to-turn-shutdown-button-into-Suspend
12511 functionality from the GNOME user menu, and makes Restart and Shutdown
12512 immediate, without further user interaction. Accordingly remove our custom
12513 Shutdown Helper panel applet (#8302).
12514 - Drop GNOME Panel configuration, now deprecated.
12515 - Disable GNOME Shell's screen lock feature.
12516 We're not there yet (see #5684).
12517 - Disable GNOME Shell screen locker's user switch feature.
12518 - Explicitly install libany-moose-perl (Closes: #8051).
12519 It's needed by our OpenPGP applet. On Wheezy, this package was pulled
12520 by some other dependency. This is not the case anymore on Jessie.
12521 - Don't install notification-daemon nor gnome-mag: GNOME Shell has taken
12522 over this functionality (Closes: #7481).
12523 - Don't install ntfsprogs: superseded on Jessie.
12524 - Don't install barry-util: not part of Jessie.
12525 - Link udev-watchdog dynamically, and lock it plus its dependencies
12527 - Migrate from gdm-simple-greeter to a custom gdm-tails session
12529 - Update Plymouth installation and configuration:
12530 · install the plymouth packages via chroot_local-hooks: lb 2.x's "standard"
12531 packages list pulls console-common in, which plymouth now conflicts with
12532 · don't patch the plymouth initscript anymore, that was superseded
12533 by native systemd unit files
12534 · mask the plymouth-{halt,kexec,poweroff,reboot,shutdown} services,
12535 to prevent them from occupying the active TTY with an (empty) splash
12536 screen on shutdown/reboot, that would hide the messages we want to show
12537 to the user via tails-kexec (Closes: #9032)
12538 - Migrate GNOME keyboard layout settings from libgnomekbd to input-sources
12540 - Explicitly install syslinux-efi, that we need and is not automatically
12541 pulled by anything else anymore.
12542 - Workaround #7248 for GDM: use a solid blue background picture,
12543 instead of a solid color fill, in the Greeter session.
12544 - De-install gcc-4.8-base and gcc-4.9 at the end of the ISO build process.
12545 - Revert the "Wrap syndaemon to always use -t" Wheezy-specific workaround.
12546 - htpdate: run date(1) in a Jessie-compatible (and nicer) way.
12547 - Remove obsolete dconf screenshot settings and the corresponding test.
12548 - Drop our patched python-dbus{,-dev} package (Closes: #9177).
12549 - live-persist: stop overriding live-boot's functions, we now have
12550 a recent enough blkid.
12551 - Adjust sdmem initramfs bits for Jessie:
12552 · Directly call poweroff instead of halt -p.
12553 · Don't pass -n to poweroff and reboot, it's not supported anymore.
12554 - Wrap text in the Unsafe Browser startup warning dialog
12555 (Jessie's zenity does not wrap it itself).
12556 - Associate application/pgp-keys with Seahorse's "Import Key" application
12558 - Install topIcons GNOME Shell extension (v28), to work around the fact
12559 that a few of the applets we use hijack the notification area.
12560 - "cd /" to fix permissions issue at tails-persistence-setup startup
12562 - Install gstreamer1.0-libav, so that Totem can play H264-encoded videos.
12563 - Adjust APT sources configuration:
12564 · remove explicit jessie and jessie-updates sources:
12565 automatically added by live-build
12566 · add Debian testing
12567 · add jessie-backports
12568 - Firewall: white-list access to the accessibility daemon (Closes: #8075).
12569 - Adjust to changed desktop notification behavior and supported feature set
12571 · pass the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS used by the GNOME session
12573 · update waiting for a notification handler: gnome-panel and nm-applet
12574 are obsolete, GNOME Shell is now providing this facility, so instead
12575 wait for a process that starts once GNOME Shell is ready, namely
12576 ibus-daemon (Closes: #8685)
12577 · port tails-warn-about-disabled-persistence and tails-virt-notify-user
12578 to notification actions (instead of hyperlinks), and make the latter
12579 transient; to this end, add support to Desktop::Notify for "hints"
12580 and notification actions
12581 · tails-security-check: use a dialog box instead of desktop notifications
12582 · MAC spoofing failure notification: remove the link to the documentation;
12583 it was broken on Tails/Wheezy already, see #10559 for next steps
12584 - Don't explicitly install gnome-panel nor gnome-menus, so that they go away
12585 whenever the Greeter does not pull them in anymore.
12586 - Install gkbd-capplet, that provides gkbd-keyboard-display (Closes: #8363).
12587 - Install Tor 0.2.7 from deb.torproject.org: we don't need to rebuild it
12588 ourselves for seccomp support anymore.
12589 - Wrap Seahorse with torsocks when it is started as a D-Bus service too
12591 - Rename the AppArmor profile for Tor, so it applies to the system-wide
12592 Tor service we run (Closes: #10528).
12593 - Essentially revert ALSA state handling to how it was pre-Jessie, so that
12594 mixer levels are unmuted and sanitized at boot time (Closes: #7591).
12595 - Pass --yes to apt-get when installing imagemagick.
12596 - Make removable devices, that we support installing Tails to, user writable:
12597 Tails Installer requires raw block device access to such devices
12598 (Closes: #8273). Similarly, allow the amnesia user, when active, to open
12599 non-system devices for writing with udisks2. This is roughly udisks2's
12600 equivalent of having direct write access to raw block storage devices.
12601 Here too, Tails Installer uses this functionality.
12602 - Disable networkd to prevent any risk of DNS leaks it might cause; and
12603 disable timesyncd, as we have our own time synchronization mechanism.
12604 They are not enabled by default in Jessie, but may be in Stretch,
12605 so let's be explicit about it.
12606 - Mask hwclock-save.service, to avoid sync'ing the system clock
12607 to the hardware clock on shutdown (Closes: #9363).
12608 - apparmor-adjust-cupsd-profile.diff: adjust to parse fine on Jessie
12610 - Explicitly use tor@default.service when it's the one we mean.
12611 - Refactor GNOME/X env exporting to Tails' shell library, and grab
12612 more of useful bits of the desktop session environment.
12613 Then, use the result in the test suite's remote shell.
12614 - Stop tweaking /etc/modules. It's 2015, the kernel should load these things
12615 automatically (Closes: #10609).
12616 - Have systemd hardening let Tor modify its configuration (needed by Tor
12617 Launcher), and start obfs4proy (Closes: #10696, #10724).
12618 - Bump extensions.adblockplus.currentVersion and
12619 extensions.enigmail.configuredVersion to match what we currently get
12621 - I2P: switch from 'service' to 'systemctl' where possible.
12623 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:06:33 +0100
12625 tails (1.8.2) unstable; urgency=medium
12628 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.7.
12629 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u2.
12630 - Upgrade foomatic-filters to 4.0.17-1+deb7u1.
12631 - Upgrade git to 1:1.7.10.4-1+wheezy2.
12632 - Upgrade Icedove to 38.5.0-1~deb7u1.
12633 - Upgrade libxml2-related packages to 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy5.
12634 - Upgrade OpenSSL-related packages to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u19.
12635 - Upgrade libsmbclient to 2:3.6.6-6+deb7u6.
12637 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 09 Jan 2016 16:27:27 +0100
12639 tails (1.8.1) unstable; urgency=medium
12642 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.6.
12643 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u1
12644 - Upgrade gdkpixbuf to 2.26.1-1+deb7u3
12645 - Upgrade bind9 tools to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u8
12648 - Fix time synchronization in bridge mode by refreshing our patch
12649 against Tor's AppArmor profile.
12651 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Fri, 18 Dec 2015 19:05:18 +0000
12653 tails (1.8) unstable; urgency=medium
12656 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.7.6-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.
12657 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.5. (Closes: #10751)
12658 - Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u5.
12659 - Upgrade krb5-based packages to 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u6.
12660 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u6.
12661 - Upgrade wpasupplicant to 1.0-3+deb7u3.
12662 - Upgrade libpng12-0 to 1.2.49-1+deb7u1.
12663 - Upgrade openjdk-7 to 7u91-2.6.3-1~deb7u1.
12664 - Upgrade libnspr4 to 2:4.9.2-1+deb7u3
12665 - Upgrade dpkg to 1.16.17.
12666 - Upgrade gnutls26 to 2.12.20-8+deb7u4.
12667 - Upgrade Icedove to 1:38.0.1-1~deb7u1.
12668 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u18.
12671 - Upgrade to Electrum 2.5.4-2~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Now Electrum
12672 should work again. Note that the documentation has not been
12673 adapted to the slight changes in the Electrum account setup
12676 * Minor improvements
12677 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.23-2~deb7u+1.
12678 - Rebase our patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile on top
12679 of the one shipped in torbrowser-launcher 0.2.1-2.
12680 - Warn if the claws-mail persistence is enabled and contains a
12681 Claws Mail configuration when starting icedove. (Closes: #10458)
12682 - Replace the Claws Mail GNOME launcher with Icedove. (Closes:
12684 - Remove the Claws Mail persistence feature from the Persistence
12685 Assistant. (Closes: #10742)
12688 - Simplify ISO image naming rules by using the base rule we use
12689 for Jenkins all the time, except when building from a tag
12690 (i.e. building a release). (Closes: #10349)
12693 - Lower the waiting time for USB installation in the test suite.
12694 So far we were waiting up to one hour, which is just the same as
12695 our Jenkins inactivity timeout, so in practice when Tails
12696 Installer fails and displays an error message, instead of
12697 reporting that the job failed (which is the point of the
12698 exercise) we abort the job due to this timeout which
12699 communicates less clearly that there's probably a bug. (Closes:
12701 - Remove the check for the sound icon in the systray in the
12702 Windows Camouflage tests. (Closes: #10493)
12703 - Retry running whois when "LIMIT EXCEEDED" is in its output for
12704 increased robustness. (Closes: #10523)
12705 - Make Seahorse tests more robust. (Closes: #9095, #10501)
12706 - Make the handling of Pidgin's account manager more robust.
12709 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 14 Dec 2015 23:07:19 +0100
12711 tails (1.7) unstable; urgency=medium
12713 * Major new features and changes
12714 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.4. (Closes: #10456)
12715 - Add a technology preview of the Icedove Email client (a
12716 rebranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird), including OpenPGP
12717 support via the Enigmail add-on, general security and anonymity
12718 improvements via the Torbirdy add-on, and complete persistence
12719 support (which will be enabled automatically if you already have
12720 Claws Mail persistence enabled). Icedove will replace Claws Mail
12721 as the supported email client in Tails in a future
12722 release. (Closes: #6151, #9498, #10285)
12723 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.7.4-rc-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Among the many
12724 improvement of this new Tor major release, the new
12725 KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option allows us to drop the
12726 bug15482.patch patch (taken from the Tor Browse bundle) that
12727 enabled similar (but inferior) functionality for *all*
12728 SocksPort:s -- now the same circuit is only kept alive for
12729 extended periods for the SocksPort used by the Tor
12730 Browser. (Closes: #10194, #10308)
12731 - Add an option to Tails Greeter which disables networking
12732 completely. This is useful when intending to use Tails for
12733 offline work only. (Closes: #6811)
12736 - Fix CVE-2015-7665, which could lead to a network interface's IP
12737 address being exposed through wget. (Closes: #10364)
12738 - Prevent a symlink attack on ~/.xsession-errors via
12739 tails-debugging-info which could be used by the amnesia user to
12740 read the contents of any file, no matter the
12741 permissions. (Closes: #10333)
12742 - Upgrade libfreetype6 to 2.4.9-1.1+deb7u2.
12743 - Upgrade gdk-pixbuf packages to 2.26.1-1+deb7u2.
12744 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u5.
12745 - Upgrade openjdk-7 packages to 7u85-2.6.1-6~deb7u1.
12746 - Upgrade unzip to 6.0-8+deb7u4.
12749 - Add a temporary workaround for an issue in our code which checks
12750 whether i2p has bootstrapped, which (due to some recent change
12751 in either I2P or Java) could make it appear it had finished
12752 prematurely. (Closes: #10185)
12753 - Fix a logical bug in the persistence preset migration code while
12754 real-only persistence is enabled. (Closes: #10431)
12756 * Minor improvements
12757 - Rework the wordings of the various installation and upgrade
12758 options available in Tails installer in Wheezy. (Closes: #9672)
12759 - Restart Tor if bootstrapping stalls for too long when not using
12760 pluggable transports. (Closes: #9516)
12761 - Install firmware-amd-graphics, and firmware-misc-nonfree instead
12762 of firmware-ralink-nonfree, both from Debian Sid.
12763 - Update the Tails signing key. (Closes: #10012)
12764 - Update the Tails APT repo signing key. (Closes: #10419)
12765 - Install the nmh package. (Closes: #10457)
12766 - Explicitly run "sync" at the end of the Tails Upgrader's upgrade
12767 process, and pass the "sync" option when remounting the system
12768 partition as read-write. This might help with some issues we've
12769 seen, such as #10239, and possibly for #8449 as well.
12772 - Add initial automated tests for Icedove. (Closes: #10332)
12773 - Add automated tests of the MAC spoofing feature. (Closes: #6302)
12774 - Drop the concept of "background snapshots" and introduce a general
12775 system for generating snapshots that can be shared between
12776 features. This removes all silly hacks we previously used to
12777 "skip" steps, and greatly improves performance and reliability
12778 of the whole test suite. (Closes: #6094, #8008)
12779 - Flush to the log file in debug_log() so the debugging info can
12780 be viewed in real time when monitoring the debug log
12781 file. (Closes: #10323)
12782 - Force UTF-8 locale in automated test suite. Ruby will default to
12783 the system locale, and if it is non-UTF-8, some String-methods
12784 will fail when operating on non-ASCII strings. (Closes: #10359)
12785 - Escape regexp used to match nick in CTCP replies. Our Pidgin
12786 nick's have a 10% chance to include a ^, which will break that
12787 regexp. We need to escape all characters in the nick. (Closes:
12789 - Extract TBB languages from the Tails source code. This will
12790 ensure that valid locales are tested. As an added bonus, the
12791 code is greatly simplified. (Closes: #9897)
12792 - Automatically test that tails-debugging-info is not susceptible
12793 to the type of symlink attacks fixed by #10333.
12794 - Save all test suite artifacts in a dedicated directory with more
12795 useful infromation encoded in the path. This makes it easier to
12796 see which artifacts belongs to which failed scenario and which
12797 run. (Closes: #10151)
12798 - Log all useful information via Cucumber's formatters instead of
12799 printing to stderr, which is not included when logging to file
12800 via `--out`. (Closes: #10342)
12801 - Continue running the automated test suite's vnc server even if
12802 the client disconnects. (Closes: #10345)
12803 - Add more automatic tests for I2P. (Closes: #6406)
12804 - Bump the Tor circuit retry count to 10. (Closes: #10375)
12805 - Clean up dependencies: (Closes: #10208)
12810 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 03 Nov 2015 01:09:41 +0100
12812 tails (1.6) unstable; urgency=medium
12815 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.3. (Closes: #10223)
12816 - Upgrade bind9-based packages to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u7.
12817 - Upgrade liblcms1 to 1.19.dfsg2-1.2+deb7u1.
12818 - Upgrade libldap-2.4-2 to 2.4.31-2+deb7u1.
12819 - Upgrade libslp1 to 1.2.1-9+deb7u1.
12820 - Upgrade ssl-cert to 1.0.32+deb7u1.
12823 - Fix a corner case for the MAC spoofing panic mode. If panic mode
12824 failed to disable the specific device that couldn't be spoofed
12825 (by unloading the module) we disable networking. Previously we
12826 only stopped NetworkManager. The problem is that NM isn't even
12827 started at this time, but will specifically be started when
12828 we're done with MAC spoofing. Therefore, let's completely
12829 disable NetworkManager so it cannot possibly be
12830 started. (Closes: #10160)
12831 - Avoid use of uninitialized value in restricted-network-detector.
12832 If NetworkManager decides that a wireless connection has timed
12833 out before "supplicant connection state" has occued, our idea of
12834 the state is `undef`, so it cannot be used in a string
12835 comparison. Hence, let's initialize the state to the empty
12836 string instead of `undef`. Also fix the state
12837 recording. Apparently NetworkManager can say a few different
12838 things when it logs the device state transitions. (Closes:
12841 * Minor improvements
12842 - Remove workaround for localizing search engine plugins. The
12843 workaround has recently become unnecessary, possibly due to the
12844 changes made for the seach bar after the Tor Browser was rebased
12845 on Firefox 38esr. (Closes: #9146)
12846 - Refer to the I2P Browser in the I2P notifications. Instead of
12847 some obscure links that won't work in the Tor Browser, where
12848 users likely will try them, and which I believe will open them
12849 by default. (Closes: #10182)
12850 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.22. Also set the I2P apparmor profile to
12851 enforce mode. (Closes: #9830)
12854 - Test that udev-watchdog is monitoring the correct device when
12855 booted from USB. (Closes: #9890)
12856 - Remove unused 'gksu' step. This causes a false-positive to be
12857 found for #5330. (Closes: #9877)
12858 - Make --capture capture individual videos for failed scenarios
12859 only, and --capture-all to capture videos for all scenarios.
12861 - Use the more efficient x264 encoding when capturing videos using
12862 the --capture* options. (Closes: #10001)
12863 - Make --old-iso default to --iso if omitted. Using the same ISO
12864 for the USB upgrade tests most often still does what we want,
12865 e.g. test that the current version of Tails being tested has a
12866 working Tails installer. Hence this seems like a reasonable
12867 default. (Closes: #10147)
12868 - Avoid nested FindFailed exceptions in waitAny()/findAny(), and
12869 throw a new dedicated FindAnyFailed exception if these fail
12870 instead. Rjb::throw doesn't block Ruby's execution until the
12871 Java exception has been received by Ruby, so strange things can
12872 happen and we must avoid it. (Closes: #9633)
12873 - Fix the Download Management page in our browsers. Without the
12874 browser.download.panel.shown pref set, the progress being made
12875 will not update until after the browser has been restarted.
12877 - Add a 'pretty_debug' (with an alias: 'debug') Cucumber formatter
12878 that deals with debugging instead of printing it to STDERR via
12879 the `--debug` option (which now has been removed). This gives us
12880 the full flexibility of Cucumber's formatter system, e.g. one
12881 easy-to-read formatter can print to the terminal, while we get
12882 the full debug log printed to a file. (Closes: #9491)
12883 - Import logging module in otr-bot.py. Our otr-bot.py does not use
12884 logging but the jabberbot library makes logging calls, causing a
12885 one-off message “No handlers could be found for logger
12886 "jabberbot"” to be printed to the console. This commit
12887 effectively prevents logging/outputting anything to the terminal
12888 which is at a level lower than CRITICAL. (Closes: 9375)
12889 - Force new Tor circuit and reload web site on browser
12890 timeouts. (Closes: #10116)
12891 - Focus Pidgin's buddy list before trying to access the tools
12892 menu. (Closes: #10217)
12893 - Optimize IRC test using waitAny. If connecting to IRC fails,
12894 such as when OFTC is blocking Tor, waiting 60 seconds to connect
12895 while a a Reconnect button is visible is sub-optimal. It would
12896 be better to try forcing a new Tor circuit and clicking the
12897 reconnect button. (Closes: #9653)
12898 - Wait for (and focus if necessary) Pidgin's Certificate windows.
12901 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 20 Sep 2015 17:47:26 +0000
12903 tails (1.5.1) unstable; urgency=medium
12906 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.2. (Closes: #10112)
12907 - Upgrade gdk-pixbuf packages to 2.26.1-1+deb7u1.
12908 - Upgrade libnss3 to 2:3.14.5-1+deb7u5.
12911 - Refresh Tor Browser AppArmor profile patch. The old one doesn't
12912 apply on top of testing's torbrowser-launcher anymore.
12915 - Make sure Jenkins creates new jobs to build the testing branch
12916 after freezes. (Closes: #9925)
12918 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Fri, 28 Aug 2015 01:52:14 +0200
12920 tails (1.5) unstable; urgency=medium
12922 * Major new features and changes
12923 - Move LAN web browsing from Tor Browser to the Unsafe Browser,
12924 and forbid access to the LAN from the former. (Closes: #7976)
12925 - Install a 32-bit GRUB EFI boot loader. This at least works
12926 on some Intel Baytrail systems. (Closes: #8471)
12929 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0, and integrate it:
12930 · Disable Tiles in all browsers' new tab page.
12931 · Don't use geo-specific search engine prefs in our browsers.
12932 · Hide Tools -> Set Up Sync, Tools -> Apps (that links to the Firefox
12933 Marketplace), and the "Share this page" button in the Tool bar.
12934 · Generate localized Wikipedia search engine plugin icons so the
12935 English and localized versions can be distinguished in the new
12936 search bar. (Closes: #9955)
12937 - Fix panic mode on MAC spoofing failure. (Closes: #9531)
12938 - Deny Tor Browser access to global tmp directories with AppArmor,
12939 and give it its own $TMPDIR. (Closes: #9558)
12940 - Tails Installer: don't use a predictable file name for the subprocess
12941 error log. (Closes: #9349)
12942 - Pidgin AppArmor profile: disable the launchpad-integration abstraction,
12943 which is too wide-open.
12944 - Use aliases so that our AppArmor policy applies to
12945 /lib/live/mount/overlay/ and /lib/live/mount/rootfs/*.squashfs/ as well as
12946 it applies to /. And accordingly:
12947 · Upgrade AppArmor packages to 2.9.0-3~bpo70+1.
12948 · Install rsyslog from wheezy-backports, since the version from Wheezy
12949 conflicts with AppArmor 2.9.
12950 · Stop installing systemd for now: the migration work is being done in
12951 the feature/jessie branch, and it conflicts with rsyslog from
12953 · Drop apparmor-adjust-user-tmp-abstraction.diff: obsoleted.
12954 · apparmor-adjust-tor-profile.diff: simplify and de-duplicate rules.
12955 · Take into account aufs whiteouts in the system_tor profile.
12956 · Adjust the Vidalia profile to take into account Live-specific paths.
12957 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u3.
12958 - Upgrade bind9-host, dnsutils and friends to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u6.
12959 - Upgrade cups-filters to 1.0.18-2.1+deb7u2.
12960 - Upgrade ghostscript to 9.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u2.
12961 - Upgrade libexpat1 to 2.1.0-1+deb7u2.
12962 - Upgrade libicu48 to 4.8.1.1-12+deb7u3.
12963 - Upgrade libwmf0.2-7 to 0.2.8.4-10.3+deb7u1.
12964 - Upgrade openjdk-7 to 7u79-2.5.6-1~deb7u1.
12967 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.6.10-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.
12969 * Minor improvements
12970 - Tails Installer: let the user know when it has rejected a candidate
12971 destination device because it is too small. (Closes: #9130)
12972 - Tails Installer: prevent users from trying to "upgrade" a device
12973 that contains no Tails, or that was not installed with Tails Installer.
12975 - Install libotr5 and pidgin-otr 4.x from wheezy-backports. This adds
12976 support for the OTRv3 protocol and for multiple concurrent connections
12977 to the same account. (Closes: #9513)
12978 - Skip warning dialog when starting Tor Browser while being offline,
12979 in case it is already running. Thanks to Austin English for the patch!
12981 - Install the apparmor-profiles package (Closes: #9539), but don't ship
12982 a bunch of AppArmor profiles we don't use, to avoid increasing
12983 boot time. (Closes: #9757)
12984 - Ship a /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home.d/tails snippet, instead
12985 of patching /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home.
12986 - live-boot: don't mount tmpfs twice on /live/overlay, so that the one which
12987 is actually used as the read-write branch of the root filesystem's union
12988 mount, is visible. As a consequence:
12989 · One can now inspect how much space is used, at a given time, in the
12990 read-write branch of the root filesystem's union mount.
12991 · We can make sure our AppArmor policy works fine when that filesystem
12992 is visible, which is safer in case e.g. live-boot's behavior changes
12993 under our feet in the future... or in case these "hidden" files are
12994 actually accessible somehow already.
12997 - Add our jenkins-tools repository as a Git submodule, and replace
12998 check_po.sh with a symlink pointing to the same script in that submodule.
12999 Adjust the automated test suite accordingly. (Closes: #9567)
13000 - Bump amount of RAM needed for Vagrant RAM builds to 7.5 GiB. In
13001 particular the inclusion of the Tor Browser 5.0 series has recently
13002 increased the amount of space needed to build Tails. (Closes: #9901)
13005 - Test that the Tor Browser cannot access LAN resources.
13006 - Test that the Unsafe Browser can access the LAN.
13007 - Installer: test new behavior when trying to upgrade an empty device, and
13008 when attempting to upgrade a non-Tails FAT partition on GPT; also, take
13009 into account that all unsupported upgrade scenarios now trigger
13011 - Request a new Tor circuit and re-run the Seahorse and GnuPG CLI tests
13012 on failure. (Closes: #9518, #9709)
13013 - run_test_suite: remove control chars from log file even when cucumber
13014 exits with non-zero. (Closes: #9376)
13015 - Add compatibility with cucumber 2.0 and Debian Stretch. (Closes: #9667)
13016 - Use custom exception when 'execute_successfully' fails.
13017 - Retry looking up whois info on transient failure. (Closes: #9668)
13018 - Retry wget on transient failure. (Closes: #9715)
13019 - Test that Tor Browser cannot access files in /tmp.
13020 - Allow running the test suite without ntp installed. There are other means
13021 to have an accurate host system clock, e.g. systemd-timesyncd and tlsdate.
13023 - Bump timeout in the Totem feature.
13024 - Grep memory dump using the --text option. This is necessary with recent
13025 versions of grep, such as the one in current Debian sid, otherwise it
13026 will count only one occurrence of the pattern we're looking for.
13028 - Include execute_successfully's error in the exception, instead
13029 of writing it to stdout via puts. (Closes: #9795)
13030 - Test that udev-watchdog is actually monitoring the correct device.
13032 - IUK: workaround weird Archive::Tar behaviour on current sid.
13033 - Test the SocksPort:s given in torrc in the Unsafe Browser.
13034 This way we don't get any sneaky errors in case we change them and
13035 forget to update this test.
13036 - Directly verify AppArmor blocking of the Tor Browser by looking in
13037 the audit log: Firefox 38 does no longer provide any graphical feedback
13038 when the kernel blocks its access to files the user wants to access.
13039 - Update browser-related automated test suite images, and workaround
13040 weirdness introduced by the new Tor Browser fonts.
13041 - Test that Pidgin, Tor Browser, Totem and Evince cannot access ~/.gnupg
13042 via alternate, live-boot generated paths.
13043 - Adjust tests to cope with our new AppArmor aliases.
13044 - Bump memory allocated to the system under test to 2 GB. (Closes: #9883)
13046 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 10 Aug 2015 19:12:58 +0200
13048 tails (1.4.1) unstable; urgency=medium
13051 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.5.3, based on Firefox 31.8.0 ESR. (Closes: #9649)
13052 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.6.9-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails2, which includes a circuit
13053 isolation bugfix. (Closes: #9560)
13054 - AppArmor: deny Tor Browser access to the list of recently used files.
13056 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u17.
13057 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1.
13058 - Upgrade CUPS to 1.5.3-5+deb7u6.
13059 - Upgrade FUSE to 2.9.0-2+deb7u2.
13060 - Upgrade libsqlite3-0 to 3.7.13-1+deb7u2.
13061 - Upgrade ntfs-3g and ntfsprogs to 1:2012.1.15AR.5-2.1+deb7u2.
13062 - Upgrade p7zip-full to 9.20.1~dfsg.1-4+deb7u1.
13065 - Fix automatic upgrades in Windows Camouflage mode. (Closes: #9413)
13066 - Don't ship the snakeoil SSL key pair generated by ssl-cert in the ISO.
13068 - Partially fix the truncated notifications issue. (#7249)
13070 * Minor improvements
13071 - Disable the hwclock.sh initscript at reboot/shutdown time.
13072 This is an additional safety measure to ensure that the hardware clock
13073 is not modified. (Closes: #9364)
13074 - Stop shipping /var/cache/man/*, to make ISOs and IUKs smaller.
13076 - Update torbrowser-AppArmor-profile.patch to apply cleanly on top of the
13077 profile shipped with torbrowser-launcher 0.2.0-1.
13078 - Add the jessie/updates APT repo and set appropriate pinning.
13079 - Upgrade Electrum to 1.9.8-4~bpo70+1.
13080 - Upgrade kernel firmware packages to 0.44.
13083 - Install the Linux kernel from Debian Jessie. (Closes: #9341)
13084 - Remove files that are not under version control when building in Jenkins.
13086 - Don't modify files in the source tree before having possibly merged
13087 the base branch into it. (Closes: #9406)
13088 - Make it so eatmydata is actually used during a greater part of the build
13089 process. This includes using eatmydata from wheezy-backports.
13090 (Closes: #9419, #9523)
13091 - release script: adjust to support current Debian sid.
13094 - Test the system clock sanity check we do at boot. (Closes: #9377)
13095 - Remove the impossible "Clock way in the past" scenarios.
13096 Thanks to config/chroot_local-includes/lib/live/config/0001-sane-clock,
13097 these scenarios cannot happen, and since we test that it works they
13098 can be safely removed.
13099 - Test that the hardware clock is not modified at shutdown. (Closes: #9557)
13100 - Pidgin: retry looking for the roadmap URL in the topic.
13101 - Avoid showing Pidgin's tooltips during test, potentially confusing Sikuli.
13103 - Test all OpenPGP keys shipped with Tails. (Closes: #9402)
13104 - Check that notification-daemon is running when looking for notifications
13105 fails. (Closes: #9332)
13106 - Allow using the cucumber formatters however we want. (Closes: #9424)
13107 - Enable Spice in the guest, and blacklist the psmouse kernel module,
13108 to help with lost mouse events. (Closes: #9425)
13109 - Automate testing Torbutton's 'New Identity' feature. (Closes: #9286)
13110 - Test that Seahorse is configured to use the correct keyserver.
13112 - Always export TMPDIR back to the test suite's shell environment.
13114 - Make OpenPGP tests more reliable:
13115 · Retry accessing the OpenPGP applet menus on failure. (Closes: #9355)
13116 · Retry accessing menus in Seahorse on failure. (Closes: #9344)
13117 - Focus the Pidgin conversation window before any attempt to interact
13118 with it. (Closes: #9317)
13119 - Use convertkey from the (backported to Jessie) Debian package,
13120 instead of our own copy of that script. (Closes: #9066)
13121 - Make the memory erasure tests more robust (Closes: #9329):
13122 · Bump /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes when running fillram.
13123 · Actually set oom_adj for the remote shell when running fillram.
13124 · Try to be more sure that we OOM kill fillram.
13125 · Run fillram as non-root.
13126 - Only try to build the storage pool if TailsToasterStorage isn't found.
13129 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 28 Jun 2015 19:46:25 +0200
13131 tails (1.4) unstable; urgency=medium
13133 * Major new features
13134 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.5.1, based on Firefox 31.7.0 ESR, which
13135 introduces many major new features for usability, security and
13136 privacy. Unfortunately its per-tab circuit view did not make it
13137 into Tails yet since it requires exposing more Tor state to the
13138 user running the Tor Browser than we are currently comfortable
13139 with. (Closes: #9031, #9369)
13140 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.6.7-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails2. Like in the Tor
13141 bundled with the Tor Browser, we patch it so that circuits used
13142 for SOCKSAuth streams have their lifetime increased indefinitely
13143 while in active use. This currently only affects the Tor Browser
13144 in Tails, and should improve the experience on certain web sites
13145 that otherwise would switch language or log you out every ten
13146 minutes or so when Tor switches circuit. (Closes: #7934)
13149 - tor-browser wrapper script: avoid offering avenues to arbitrary
13150 code execution to e.g. an exploited Pidgin. AppArmor Ux rules
13151 don't sanitize $PATH, which can lead to an exploited application
13152 (that's allowed to run this script unconfined, e.g. Pidgin)
13153 having this script run arbitrary code, violating that
13154 application's confinement. Let's prevent that by setting PATH to
13155 a list of directories where only root can write. (Closes: #9370)
13156 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt9-3.
13157 - Upgrade curl to 7.26.0-1+wheezy13.
13158 - Upgrade dpkg to 1.16.16.
13159 - Upgrade gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad to 0.10.23-7.1+deb7u2.
13160 - Upgrade libgd2-xpm to 2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-6.1+deb7u1.
13161 - Upgrade openldap to 2.4.31-2.
13162 - Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u4.
13163 - Upgrade libruby1.9.1 to 1.9.3.194-8.1+deb7u5.
13164 - Upgrade libtasn1-3 to 2.13-2+deb7u2.
13165 - Upgrade libx11 to 2:1.5.0-1+deb7u2.
13166 - Upgrade libxml-libxml-perl to 2.0001+dfsg-1+deb7u1.
13167 - Upgrade libxml2 to 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy4.
13168 - Upgrade OpenJDK to 7u79-2.5.5-1~deb7u1.
13169 - Upgrade ppp to 2.4.5-5.1+deb7u2.
13172 - Disable security warnings when connecting to POP3 and IMAP ports.
13174 - Make the Windows 8 browser theme compatible with the Unsafe and I2P
13175 browsers. (Closes: #9138)
13176 - Hide Torbutton's "Tor Network Settings..." context menu entry.
13178 - Upgrade the syslinux packages to support booting Tails on
13179 Chromebook C720-2800. (Closes: #9044)
13180 - Enable localization in Tails Upgrader. (Closes: #9190)
13181 - Make sure the system clock isn't before the build date during
13182 early boot. Our live-config hook that imports our signing keys
13183 depend on that the system clock isn't before the date when the
13184 keys where created. (Closes: #9149)
13185 - Set GNOME's OpenPGP keys via desktop.gnome.crypto.pgp to prevent
13186 us from getting GNOME's default keyserver in addition to our
13187 own. (Closes: #9233)
13188 - Prevent Firefox from crashing when Orca is enabled: grant
13189 it access to assistive technologies in its Apparmor
13190 profile. (Closes: #9261)
13191 - Add Jessie APT source. (Closes: #9278)
13192 - Fix set_simple_config_key(). If the key already existed in the
13193 config file before the call, all other lines would be removed
13194 due to the sed option -n and p combo. (Closes: #9122)
13195 - Remove illegal instance of local outside of function definition.
13196 Together with `set -e` that error has prevented this script from
13197 restarting Vidalia, like it should. (Closes: #9328)
13199 * Minor improvements
13200 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.19-3~deb7u+1.
13201 - Install Tor Browser's bundled Torbutton instead of custom .deb.
13202 As of Torbutton 1.9.1.0 everything we need has been upstreamed.
13203 - Install Tor Browser's bundled Tor Launcher instead of our
13204 in-tree version. With Tor 0.2.6.x our custom patches for the
13205 ClientTransportPlugin hacks are not needed any more. (Closes:
13207 - Don't install msmtp and mutt. (Closes: #8727)
13208 - Install fonts-linuxlibertine for improved Vietnamese support in
13209 LibreOffice. (Closes: #8996)
13210 - Remove obsoletete #i2p-help IRC channel from the Pidgin
13211 configuration (Closes: #9137)
13212 - Add Gedit shortcut to gpgApplet's context menu. Thanks to Ivan
13213 Bliminse for the patch. (Closes: #9069).
13214 - Install printer-driver-gutenprint to support more printer
13215 models. (Closes: #8994).
13216 - Install paperkey for off-line OpenPGP key backup. (Closes: #8957)
13217 - Hide the Tor logo in Tor Launcher. (Closes: #8696)
13218 - Remove useless log() instance in tails-unblock-network. (Closes:
13220 - Install cdrdao: this enables Brasero to burn combined data/audio
13221 CDs and to do byte-to-byte disc copy.
13222 - Hide access to the Add-ons manager in the Unsafe Browser. It's
13223 currently broken (#9307) but we any way do not want users to
13224 install add-ons in the Unsafe Browser. (Closes: #9305)
13225 - Disable warnings on StartTLS for POP3 and IMAP (Will-fix: #9327)
13226 The default value of this option activates warnings on ports
13227 23,109,110,143. This commit disables the warnings for POP3 and
13228 IMAP as these could be equally used in encrypted StartTLS
13229 connections. (Closes: #9327)
13230 - Completely rework how we localize our browser by generating our
13231 branding add-on, and search plugins programatically. This
13232 improves the localization for the ar, es, fa, ko, nl, pl, ru,
13233 tr, vi and zh_CN locales by localizing the Startpage and
13234 Disconnect.me search plugins. Following Tor Browser 4.5's recent
13235 switch, we now use Disconnect.me as the default search
13236 engine. (Closes: #9309)
13237 * Actively set Google as the Unsafe Browser's default search
13241 - Encode in Git which APT suites to include when building Tails.
13243 - Clean up the list of packages we install. (Closes: #6073)
13244 - Run auto/{build,clean,config} under `set -x' for improved
13246 - Zero-pad our ISO images so their size is divisible by 2048.
13247 The data part of an ISO image's sectors is 2048 bytes, which
13248 implies that ISO images should always have a size divisible
13249 by 2048. Some applications, e.g. VirtualBox, use this as a sanity
13250 check, treating ISO images for which this isn't true as garbage.
13251 Our isohybrid post-processing does not ensure this,
13252 however. Also Output ISO size before/after isohybrid'ing and
13253 truncate'ing it. This will help detect if/when truncate is
13254 needed at all, so that we can report back to syslinux
13255 maintainers more useful information. (Closes: #8891)
13256 - Vagrant: raise apt-cacher-ng's ExTreshold preference to 50. The
13257 goal here is to avoid Tor Browser tarballs being deleted by
13258 apt-cacher-ng's daily expiration cronjob: they're not listed in
13259 any APT repo's index file, so acng will be quite eager to clean
13263 - Bring dependency checks up-to-date (Closes: #8988).
13264 - Adapt test suite to be run on Debian Jessie, which includes
13265 removing various Wheezy-specific workarounds, adding a few
13266 specific to Jessie, migrating from ffmpeg to libav, and
13267 more. (Closes: #8165)
13268 - Test that MAT can see that a PDF is dirty (Closes: #9136).
13269 - Allow throwing Timeout::Error in try_for() blocks, as well as
13270 nested try_for() (Closes: #9189, #9290).
13271 - Read test suite configuration files from the features/config/local.d
13272 directory. (Closes: #9220)
13273 - Kill virt-viewer with SIGTERM, not SIGINT, to prevent hordes of
13274 zombie processes from appearing. (Closes: #9139)
13275 - Kill Xvfb with SIGTERM, not SIGKILL, on test suite exit to allow
13276 it to properly clean up. (Closes: #8707)
13277 - Split SSH & SFTP configs in the test suite. (Closes: #9257)
13278 - Improve how we start subprocesses in the test suite, mostly by
13279 bypassing the shell for greater security and robustness (Closes:
13281 - Add Electrum test feature. (Closes #8963)
13282 - Test that Tails Installer detects when USB devices are
13283 removed. (Closes: #9131)
13284 - Test Tails Installer with devices which are too small. (Closes:
13286 - Test that the Report an Error launcher works in German. (Closes:
13288 - Verify that no extensions are installed in the Unsafe Browser
13289 using about:support instead of about:addons, which is broken
13290 (#9307). (Closes: #9306)
13291 - Retry GNOME application menu actions when they glitch. The
13292 GNOME application menus seem to have issues with clicks or
13293 hovering actions not registering, and hence sometimes submenus
13294 are not opened when they should, and sometimes clicks on the
13295 final application shortcut are lost. There seems to be a
13296 correlation between this and CPU load on the host running the
13297 test suite. We workaround this by simply re-trying the last
13298 action when it seems to fail. (Closes: #8928)
13299 - Work around Seahorse GUI glitchiness (Closes: #9343):
13300 * When Seahorse appears to be frozen--apparently due to network
13301 issues--it can often be worked around by refreshing the screen
13302 or activating a new window.
13303 * Open Seahorse's preferences dialog using the mouse.
13304 * Access menu entries with the mouse.
13305 - Wait for systray icons to finish loading before interacting with
13306 the systray. (Closes: #9258)
13307 - Test suite configuration: generalize local.d support to *.d. We
13308 now load features/config/*.d/*.yml.
13309 - Use code blocks in "After Scenario" hooks. This is much simpler
13310 to use (and more readable!) compared to hooking functions and
13311 arguments like we used to do.
13312 - Create filesystem share sources in the temporary directory and
13313 make them world-readable. (Closes: #8950)
13315 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 11 May 2015 16:45:04 +0200
13317 tails (1.3.2) unstable; urgency=medium
13320 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.0.6, based on Firefox 31.6.0 ESR.
13321 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u16.
13324 - Make Florence usable with touchpads by forcing syndaemon to
13325 always use the `-t` option, which only disables tapping and
13326 scrolling and not mouse movements (Closes: #9011).
13327 - Make tails-spoof-mac log the correct macchanger exit code on
13328 failure (Closes: #8687).
13330 · Ignore devices with less than 3.5 GB of storage since they
13331 do not fit a Tails installation (Closes: #6538).
13332 · Remove devices from the device list as they are unplugged
13335 * Minor improvements
13336 - Install obfs4proxy 0.0.4-1~tpo1, which adds support for
13337 client-mode ScrambleSuit.
13338 - Don't start Vidalia if Windows Camouflage is enabled. (Closes:
13341 · Remove "Add-ons" from the Tools menu, and hide "Keyboard
13342 Shortcuts" and "Take a Tour" since they point to resources on
13343 the open Internet (Closes: #7970).
13344 · Hide TorButton button from the customize toolbar options, and
13345 remove configs whose only purpose was to make Torbutton "green"
13350 · Test non-LAN SSH, and SFTP via GNOME's "Connect to Server"
13352 · Verify that Tails' Tor binary has the expected Tor authorities
13353 hard coded (Closes: #8960).
13355 · Programmatically determine the supported languages when testing
13356 the Unsafe Browser (Closes: #8918).
13357 · Rename --temp-dir to --tmpdir and make it behave more like
13358 mktemp, and honour TMPDIR if set in the environment. (Closes:
13361 · Make --temp-dir (now --tmpdir) actually work.
13363 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 30 Mar 2015 16:54:20 +0200
13365 tails (1.3.1) unstable; urgency=medium
13368 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.0.5, based on Firefox 31.5.3 ESR. This addresses:
13369 · https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-28/
13370 · https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-29/
13371 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt7-1.
13372 - Upgrade libxfont to 1:1.4.5-5.
13373 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u15.
13374 - Upgrade tcpdump to 4.3.0-1+deb7u2.
13375 - Upgrade bsdtar to 3.0.4-3+wheezy1.
13376 - Upgrade CUPS to 1.5.3-5+deb7u5.
13377 - Upgrade file and libmagic to 5.11-2+deb7u8.
13378 - Upgrade GnuPG to 1.4.12-7+deb7u7.
13379 - Upgrade libarchive to 3.0.4-3+wheezy1.
13380 - Upgrade libav to 6:0.8.17-1.
13381 - Upgrade FreeType 2 to 2.4.9-1.1+deb7u1.
13382 - Upgrade libgcrypt11 1.5.0-5+deb7u3.
13383 - Upgrade libgnutls26 to 2.12.20-8+deb7u3.
13384 - Upgrade libgtk2-perl to 2:1.244-1+deb7u1.
13385 - Upgrade ICU to 4.8.1.1-12+deb7u2.
13386 - Upgrade NSS to 2:3.14.5-1+deb7u4.
13387 - Upgrade libssh2 to 1.4.2-1.1+deb7u1.
13390 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.5.11-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Changes include:
13391 · Directory authority changes.
13392 · Fix assertion errors that may trigger under high DNS load.
13393 · No longer break on HUP with seccomp2 enabled.
13394 · and more - please consult the upstream changelog.
13395 - Upgrade Tor Launcher to 0.2.7.2, and update the test suite accordingly
13396 (Closes: #8964, #6985). Changes include:
13397 · Ask about bridges before proxy in wizard.
13398 · Hide logo if TOR_HIDE_BROWSER_LOGO set.
13399 · Remove firewall prompt from wizard.
13400 · Feedback when “Copy Tor Log” is clicked.
13401 · Improve behavior if tor exits.
13402 · Add option to hide TBB's logo
13403 · Change "Tor Browser Bundle" to "Tor Browser"
13404 · Update translations from Transifex.
13405 - Fix the Tor Launcher killer. (Closes: #9067)
13406 - Allow Seahorse to communicate with keyservers when run from Tails
13407 OpenPGP Applet. (Closes: #6394)
13408 - SSH client: don't proxy connections to 172.17.* to 172.31.*.
13410 - Repair config/chroot_local-packages feature, that was broken in Tails 1.3
13411 by 19-install-tor-browser-AppArmor-profile. (Closes: #8910)
13412 - language_statistics.sh: count original words instead of translated words.
13413 Otherwise we get >100% translation if translated strings are longer than
13414 original strings. (Closes: #9016)
13416 * Minor improvements
13417 - Only ship the new Tails signing key, and have Tails Upgrader stop trusting
13418 the old one. Update the documentation and test suite accordingly.
13419 (Closes: #8735, #8736, #8882, #8769, #8951)
13420 - Polish and harden a bit the WhisperBack configuration (Closes: #8991):
13421 · Only allow the `amnesia' user to run tails-debugging info as root
13423 · Fix spelling and grammar mistakes, improve phrasing a bit.
13424 · Quote variables consistently.
13428 · Chatting over XMPP in Pidgin, both peer-to-peer and in a multi-user
13429 chatroom. (Closes: #8002)
13430 · Chatting with OTR enabled over XMPP in Pidgin. (Closes: #8001)
13431 · Check that Pidgin only responds to the expected CTCP requests.
13433 · Fetching keys using Seahorse started via the OpenPGP Applet.
13434 · Sync'ing keys using Seahorse.
13436 · Fix a race condition between the remote shell's and Tails Greeter's
13437 startup, by making sure the remote shell is ready before we start
13438 GDM. (Closes: #8941)
13439 · Kill virt-viewer properly. (Closes: #9070)
13440 · Make sure the display is stopped on destroy_and_undefine().
13441 Where we had it earlier, it could be skipped if anything else in the
13442 block threw an exception.
13443 · Fix wrong use of "$@". (Closes: #9071)
13444 · Enable the pipefail option in run_test_suite.
13445 · Improve the GNOME screenshot test's robustness. (Closes: #8952)
13447 · turn the focus_pidgin_window() helper into a more generic
13448 VM.focus_xorg_window() one.
13449 · Reorganize the Display class.
13450 · Use clearer method to check process status in the Display class.
13451 - New developer-oriented features:
13452 · Add a --log-to-file option to run_test_suite. (Closes: #8894)
13453 · Add helpers for generating random strings.
13454 · Make it possible to hook arbitrary calls on scenario end. This is useful
13455 for dynamically adding cleanup functions, instead of having
13456 to explicitly deal with them in some After hook.
13458 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 23 Mar 2015 12:34:56 +0000
13460 tails (1.3) unstable; urgency=medium
13462 * Major new features
13463 - Produce the Tails image in hybrid mode (again) so that the same
13464 image can be installed both on DVD *and* "hard disks" like USB
13465 storage and similar. (Closes: #8510)
13466 - Confine the Tor Browser using AppArmor. (Closes: #5525)
13467 - Install the Electrum bitcoin client from wheezy-backports, and
13468 add a persistence preset for the Live user's bitcoin wallet. If
13469 electrum is started without the persistence preset enabled, a
13470 warning is shown. (Closes: #6739)
13473 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.0.4 (based on Firefox 31.5.0esr)
13477 - Have tor_bootstrap_progress echo 0 if no matching log line is
13478 found. (Closes: #8257)
13479 - Always pass arguments through wrappers (connect-socks, totem,
13480 wget, whois) with "$@". $* doesn't handle arguments with
13481 e.g. embedded spaces correctly. (Closes: #8603, #8830)
13482 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt4-3.
13484 * Minor improvements
13485 - Install a custom-built Tor package with Seccomp enabled;
13486 enable the Seccomp sandbox when no pluggable transport is used.
13488 - Install obfs4proxy instead of obfsproxy, which adds support for
13489 the obfs4 Tor pluggable transport. (Closes: #7980)
13490 - Install GnuPG v2 and associated tools from wheezy-backports,
13491 primarily for its improved support for OpenPGP smartcards. It
13492 lives side-by-side with GnuPG v1, which still is the
13493 default. (Closes: #6241)
13494 - Install ibus-unikey, a Vietnamese input method for IBus. (Closes:
13496 - Install torsocks (2.x) from wheezy-backports. (Closes: #8220)
13497 - Install keyringer from Debian Jessie. (Closes: #7752)
13498 - Install pulseaudio-utils.
13499 - Remove all traces of Polipo: we don't use it anymore. This
13500 closes #5379 and #6115 because:
13501 * Have APT directly use the Tor SOCKS proxy. (Closes: #8194)
13502 * Wrap wget with torsocks. (Closes: #6623)
13503 * Wrap Totem to torify it with torsocks. (Closes: #8219)
13504 * Torify Git with tsocks, instead of setting GIT_PROXY_COMMAND.
13506 - Use torsocks for whois and Gobby, instead of torify.
13507 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.18-1~deb7u+1.
13508 - Refactor the Unsafe and I2P browser code into a common shell
13509 library. A lot of duplicated code is now shared, and the code
13510 has been cleaned up and made more reliable. Several
13511 optimizations of memory usage and startup time were also
13512 implemented. (Closes: #7951)
13513 - Invert Exit and About in gpgApplet context menu. This is a
13514 short-term workaround for making it harder to exit the
13515 application by mistake (e.g. a double right-click). (Closes:
13517 - Implement new touchpad settings. This enables tap-to-click,
13518 2-fingers scrolling, and disable while typing. We don't enable
13519 reverse scrolling nor horizontal scrolling. (Closes: #7779)
13520 - Include the mount(8) output and live-additional-software.conf in
13521 WhisperBack bug reports (Closes: #8719, #8491).
13522 - Reduce brightness and saturation of background color. (Closes:
13524 - Have ALSA output sound via PulseAudio by default. This gives us
13525 centralized sound volume controls, and... allows to easily, and
13526 automatically, test that audio output works from Tor Browser,
13527 thanks to the PulseAudio integration into the GNOME sound
13529 - Import the new Tails signing key, which we will use for Tails
13530 1.3.1, and have Tails Upgrader trust both it and the "old"
13531 (current) Tails signing key. (Closes: #8732)
13532 - tails-security-check: error out when passed an invalid CA file.
13533 Unfortunately, the underlying HTTPS stack we use here fails open
13534 in those case, so we have to check it ourselves. Currently, we
13535 check that the file exists, is readable, is a plain file and is
13536 not empty. Also support specifying the CA file via an
13537 environment variable. This will ease development and bug-fixing
13539 - Fix racy code in Tails Installer that sometimes made the
13540 automated test suite stall for scenarios installing Tails
13541 to USB disks. (Closes: #6092)
13542 - Make it possible to use Tails Upgrader to upgrade a Tails
13543 installation that has cruft files on the system partition.
13547 - Install syslinux-utils from our builder-wheezy APT repository in
13548 Vagrant. We need version 6.03~pre20 to make the Tails ISO image
13550 - Update deb.tails.boum.org apt repo signing key. (Closes: #8747)
13551 - Revert "Workaround build failure in lb_source, after creating
13552 the ISO." This is not needed anymore given the move to the Tor
13553 SOCKS proxy. (Closes: #5307)
13554 - Remove the bootstrap stage usage option and disable all
13555 live-build caching in Vagrant. It introduces complexity and
13556 potential for strange build inconsistencies for a meager
13557 reduction in build time. (Closes: #8725)
13558 - Hardcode the mirrors used at build and boot time in auto/config.
13559 Our stuff will be more consistent, easier to reproduce, and our
13560 QA process will be more reliable if we all use the same mirrors
13561 at build time as the ones we configure in the ISO. E.g. we won't
13562 have issues such as #8715 again. (Closes: #8726)
13563 - Don't attempt to retrieve source packages from local-packages so
13564 local packages can be installed via
13565 config/chroot_local-packages. (Closes: #8756)
13566 - Use our own Tor Browser archive when building an ISO. (Closes:
13570 - Use libguestfs instead of parted when creating partitions and
13571 filsystems, and to check that only the expected files
13572 persist. We also switch to qcow2 as the default disk image
13573 format everywhere to reduce disk usage, enable us to use
13574 snapshots that includes the disks (in the future), and to use
13575 the same steps for creating disks in all tests. (Closes: #8673)
13576 - Automatically test that Tails ignores persistence volumes stored
13577 on non-removable media, and doesn't enable swaps. (Closes:
13579 - Actually make sure that Tails can boot from live systems stored
13580 on a hard drive. Running the 'I start Tails from DVD ...' step
13581 will override the earlier 'the computer is set to boot from ide
13582 drive "live_hd"' step, so let's make the "from DVD" part
13583 optional; it will be the default any way.
13584 - Make it possible to use an old iso with different persistence
13585 presets. (Closes: #8091)
13586 - Hide the cursor between steps when navigating the GNOME
13587 applications menu. This makes it a bit more robust, again:
13588 sometimes the cursor is partially hiding the menu entry we're
13589 looking for, hence preventing Sikuli from finding it (in
13590 particular when it's "Accessories", since we've just clicked on
13591 "Applications" which is nearby). (Closes: #8875)
13592 - Ensure that the test will fail if "apt-get X" commands fail.
13593 - Test 'Tor is ready' notification in a separate scenario. (Closes:
13595 - Add automated tests for torified wget and whois. This should
13596 help us identify future regressions such as #8603 in their
13597 torifying wrappers.
13598 - Add automated test for opening an URL from Pidgin.
13599 - And add automated tests for the Tor Browser's AppArmor
13601 - Test that "Report an Error Launcher" opens the support
13603 - Test that the Unsafe Browser:
13604 * starts in various locales.
13605 * complains when DNS isn't configured.
13606 * tears down its chroot on shutdown.
13607 * runs as the correct user.
13608 * has no plugins or add-ons installed.
13609 * has no unexpected bookmarks.
13610 * has no proxy configured.
13611 - Bump the "I2P router console is ready" timeout in its test to
13612 deal with slow Internet connections.
13613 - Make the automatic tests of gpgApplet more robust by relying
13614 more on graphical elements instead of keyboard shortcuts and
13615 static sleep():s. (Closes: #5632)
13616 - Make sure that enough disk space is available when creating
13617 virtual storage media. (Closes: #8907)
13618 - Test that the Unsafe Browser doesn't generate any non-user
13619 initiated traffic, and in particular that it doesn't check for
13620 upgrades, which is a regression test for #8694. (Closes: #8702)
13621 - Various robustness improvements to the Synaptic tests. (Closes:
13623 - Automatically test Git. (Closes: #6307)
13624 - Automatically test GNOME Screenshot, which is a regression test
13625 for #8087. (Closes: #8688)
13626 - Fix a quoting issue with `tails_persistence_enabled?`. (Closes:
13628 - Introduce an improved configuration system that also can store
13629 local secrets, like user credentials needed for some
13630 tests. (Closes: #6301, #8188)
13631 - Actually verify that we successfully set the time in our time
13632 syncing tests. (Closes: #5836)
13633 - Automatically test Tor. This includes normal functionality and
13634 the use pluggable transports, that our Tor enforcement is
13635 effective (e.g. only the Tor network or configured bridges are
13636 contacted) and that our stream isolation configuration is
13637 working. (Closes: #5644, #6305, #7821)
13639 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 23 Feb 2015 17:14:00 +0100
13641 tails (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=medium
13644 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt2-1.
13645 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.0.3 (based on Firefox 31.4.0esr)
13647 - Fail safe by entering panic mode if macchanger exits with an
13648 error, since in this situation we have to treat the
13649 driver/device state as undefined. Also, we previously just
13650 exited the script in this case, not triggering the panic mode
13651 and potentially leaking the real MAC address (Closes: #8571).
13652 - Disable upgrade checking in the Unsafe Browser. Until now the
13653 Unsafe Browser has checked for upgrades of the Tor Browser in
13654 the clear (Closes: #8694).
13657 - Fix startup of the Unsafe Browser in some locales (Closes: #8693).
13658 - Wait for notification-daemon to run before showing the MAC
13659 spoofing panic mode notifications. Without this, the "Network
13660 card disabled" notification is sometimes lost when MAC spoofing
13661 fails. Unfortunately this only improves the situation, but
13662 doesn't fix it completely (see #8685).
13663 - Log that we're going to stop NetworkManager before trying to do
13664 it in the MAC spoofing scripts. Without this we wouldn't get the
13665 log message in case stopping NetworkManager fails (thanks to
13667 - Set GNOME Screenshot preferences to save the screenshots in
13668 /home/amnesia (Closes: #8087).
13669 - Do not suspend to RAM when closing the lid on battery power
13671 - Properly update the Tails Installer's status when plugging in a
13672 USB drive after it has started (Closes: #8353).
13673 - Make rsync compare file contents by using --checksum for more
13674 reliable generation of the squashfs filesystem in
13675 IUKs. Previously it used the default, which is checking
13676 timestamps and file size, but that doesn't play well with the
13677 Tor browser files, that have a fixed mtime, which could result
13678 in updated files not ending up in the IUK.
13680 * Minor improvements
13681 - Finish migrating tails-security-check's and tails-iuk's pinning
13682 to our website's new X.509 certificate authority (Closes: #8404).
13685 - Update to Vagrant build box tails-builder-20141201. The only
13686 change is the removal of a reference to an ISO image which
13687 doesn't exist (except on the system that generated the build
13688 box) which causes an error for some users (Closes: #7644).
13689 - Generate the list of packages used during build, after building
13690 with Jenkins (Closes: #8518). This allows tracking their status
13691 on the Debian reproducible build front:
13692 https://reproducible.debian.net/index_pkg_sets.html#tails
13694 * Automated test suite
13695 - Check PO files with i18nspector (Closes: #8359).
13696 - Fix the expected image of a check.tp.o failure. Previously we
13697 looked for the "Sorry. You are not using Tor." text, but it
13698 seems it recently changed enough for Sikuli to not find it. To
13699 prevent future errors of the same kind we'll look for the
13700 crossed-over onion icon instead (Closes: #8533).
13701 - Bump timeout when waiting for Tor to re-bootstrap. We have a
13702 dreaded issue with timeouts that are multiple of 2 minutes, and
13703 then Tor succeeds soon after, so in order to allow for this
13704 timeout to be reached twice, and then possibly succeed, let's
13705 use N*2 minutes + 30 seconds, with N=2.
13707 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 14 Jan 2015 16:12:26 +0100
13709 tails (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=medium
13712 - Create a CA bundle for Tails Upgrader at ISO build time, and
13713 patch Tails Upgrader to use it. Specifically this will make it
13714 possible to check for Tails upgrades after our website changes
13715 certificate around the 2014 to 2015 transition (Partially fixes
13718 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 15 Dec 2014 10:05:17 +0100
13720 tails (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
13723 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.0-4, i.e. 3.16.7-1.
13724 - Install Tor Browser 4.0.2 (based on Firefox 31.3.0esr).
13727 - Install syslinux-utils, to get isohybrid back (Closes: #8155).
13728 - Update xserver-xorg-input-evdev to 1:2.7.0-1+tails1 which
13729 includes a patch that restores mouse scrolling in KVM/Spice
13731 - Set Torbutton logging preferences to the defaults (Closes:
13732 #8160). With the default settings, no site-specific information is
13734 - Use the correct stack of rootfs:s for the chroot browsers (Closes:
13735 #8152, #8158). After installing incremental upgrades Tails' root
13736 filesystem consists of a stack squashfs:s, not only
13737 filesystem.squashfs. When not stacking them correct we may end up
13738 using the Tor Browser (Firefox) from an older version of Tails, or
13739 with no Tor Browser at all, as in the upgrade from Tails 1.1.2 to
13740 1.2, when we migrated from Iceweasel to the Tor Browser. Based on
13741 a patch contributed by sanic.
13742 - Use the Tor Browser for MIME type that GNOME associates with
13743 Iceweasel (Closes: #8153). Open URLs from Claws Mail, KeePassX
13744 etc. should be possible again.
13745 - Update patch to include all Intel CPU microcodes (Closes: #8189).
13746 - AppArmor: allow Pidgin to run Tor Browser unconfined, with
13747 scrubbed environment (Closes: #8186). Links opened in Pidgin are
13748 now handled by the Tor Browser.
13749 - Install all localized Iceweasel search plugins (Closes: #8139).
13750 - When generating the boot profile, ignore directories in
13751 process_IN_ACCESS as well (Closes: #7925). This allows ut to
13752 update the squashfs-ordering again in Tails 1.2.1.
13753 - gpgApplet: Don't pass already encoded data to GTK2 (Closes:
13754 #7968). It's now possible to clearsign text including non-ASCII
13756 - Do not run the PulseAudio initscript, neither at startup nor
13757 shutdown (Closes: #8082).
13759 * Minor improvements
13760 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.17-1~deb7u+1.
13761 - Make GnuPG configuration closer to the best practices one
13763 - Have GnuPG directly use the Tor SOCKS port (Closes: #7416).
13764 - Remove TrueCrypt support and documentat how to open TrueCrypt
13765 volumes using cryptsetup (Closes: #5373).
13766 - Install hopenpgp-tools from Debian Jessie.
13769 - Add gettext >= 0.18.3 as a Tails build dependency. We need it for
13770 xgettext JavaScript support in feature/jessie.
13772 * Automated test suite
13773 - Don't click to open a sub-menu in the GNOME applications menu
13775 - When testing the Windows camouflage, look for individual systray
13776 applets, to avoid relying on their ordering (Closes: #8059).
13777 - Focus the Pidgin Buddy List before looking for something
13778 happening in it (Closes: #8161).
13779 - Remove workaround for showing the TBB's menu bar (Closes #8028).
13781 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 02 Dec 2014 11:34:03 +0100
13783 tails (1.2) unstable; urgency=medium
13785 * Major new features
13786 - Migrate from Iceweasel to the Tor Browser from the Tor Browser
13787 Bundle 4.0 (based on Firefox 31.2.0esr). This fixes the POODLE
13789 The installation in Tails is made global (multi-profile), uses
13790 the system-wide Tor instance, disables the Tor Browser updater,
13791 and keeps the desired deviations previously present in Iceweasel,
13792 e.g. we install the AdBlock Plus add-on, but not Tor Launcher (since
13793 we run it as a standalone XUL application), among other things.
13794 - Install AppArmor's userspace tools and apparmor-profiles-extra
13795 from Wheezy Backports, and enable the AppArmor Linux Security
13796 Module. This adds Mandatory Access Control for several critical
13797 applications in Tails, including Tor, Vidalia, Pidgin, Evince
13799 - Isolate I2P traffic from the Tor Browser by adding a dedicated
13800 I2P Browser. It is set up similarly to the Unsafe Browser,
13801 but further disables features that are irrelevant for I2P, like
13802 search plugins and the AdBlock Plus addon, while keeping Tor Browser
13803 security features like the NoScript and Torbutton addons.
13804 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.5.8-rc-1~d70.wheezy+1.
13807 - Disable TCP timestamps (Closes: #6579).
13810 - Remove expired Pidgin certificates (Closes: #7730).
13811 - Use sudo instead of gksudo for running tails-upgrade-frontend to
13812 make stderr more easily accessible (Closes: #7431).
13813 - Run tails-persistence-setup with sudo instead of gksudo to make
13814 stderr more easily accessible, and allow the desktop user to
13815 pass the --verbose parameter (Closes: #7623).
13816 - Disable CUPS in the Unsafe Browser. This will prevent the
13817 browser from hanging for several minutes when accidentally
13818 pressing CTRL+P or trying to go to File -> Print (Closes: #7771).
13820 * Minor improvements
13821 - Install Linux 3.16-3 (version 3.16.5-1) from Debian
13822 unstable (Closes: #7886, #8100).
13823 - Transition away from TrueCrypt: install cryptsetup and friends
13824 from wheezy-backports (Closes: #5932), and make it clear that
13825 TrueCrypt will be removed in Tails 1.2.1 (Closes: #7739).
13826 - Install Monkeysign dependencies for qrcodes scanning.
13827 - Upgrade syslinux to 3:6.03~pre20+dfsg-2~bpo70+1, and install
13828 the new syslinux-efi package.
13829 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.15-1~deb7u+1
13830 - Enable Wheezy proposed-updates APT repository and setup APT
13831 pinnings to install packages from it.
13832 - Enable Tor's syscall sandbox. This feature (new in 0.2.5.x)
13833 should make Tor a bit harder to exploit. It is only be enabled
13834 when when no special Tor configuration is requested in Tails
13835 Greeter due to incompatibility with pluggable transports.
13836 - Start I2P automatically when the network connects via a
13837 NetworkManager hook, and "i2p" is present on the kernel command
13838 line. The router console is no longer opened automatically, but
13839 can be accessed through the I2P Browser (Closes: #7732).
13840 - Simplify the IPv6 ferm rules (Closes: #7668).
13841 - Include persistence.conf in WhisperBack reports (Closes: #7461)
13842 - Pin packages from testing to 500, so that they can be upgraded.
13843 - Don't set Torbutton environment vars globally (Closes: #5648).
13844 - Enable VirtualBox guest additions by default (Closes: #5730). In
13845 particular this enables VirtualBox's display management service.
13846 - In the Unsafe Browser, hide option for "Tor Browser Health
13847 report", and the "Get Addons" section in the Addon manager
13849 - Show Pidgin's formatting toolbar (Closes: #7356). Having the
13850 formatting toolbar displayed in Pidgin makes the OTR status more
13851 explicit by displaying it with words.
13853 * Automated test suite
13854 - Add --pause-on-fail to ease VM state debugging when tests
13856 - Add execute_successfully() and assert_vmcommand_success() for
13857 added robustness when executing some command in the testing VM.
13858 - Use Test::Unit::Assertions instead of our home-made assert().
13859 - Add test for persistent browser bookmarks.
13860 - Add basic tests for Pidgin, Totem and Evince, including their
13861 AppArmor enforcement.
13862 - Factorize some common step pattern into single steps.
13863 - Factorize running a command in GNOME Terminal.
13864 - Add common steps to copy a file and test for its existence.
13865 - Add a wait_and_double_click Sikuli helper method.
13866 - Add a VM.file_content method, to avoid repeating ourselves, and
13867 use it whenever easily doable.
13868 - Drop test that diffs syslinux' exithelp.cfg: we don't ship this
13870 - In the Unsafe Browser tests, rely on subtle timing less (Closes:
13872 - Use the same logic to determine when Tor is working in the test
13873 suite as in Tails itself. The idea is to avoid spamming the Tor
13874 control port during bootstrap, since we've seen problems with
13877 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:34:50 +0200
13879 tails (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=medium
13882 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.8.0esr-0+tails3~bpo70+1
13883 (fixes Mozilla#1064636).
13884 - Install Linux 3.16-1 from sid (Closes: #7886).
13885 - Upgrade file to 5.11-2+deb7u5 (fixes CVE-2014-0207,
13886 CVE-2014-0237, CVE-2014-0238, CVE-2014-3478, CVE-2014-3479,
13887 CVE-2014-3480, CVE-2014-3487, CVE-2014-3538 and CVE-2014-3587).
13888 - Upgrade curl to 7.26.0-1+wheezy10 (fixes CVE-2014-3613 and
13890 - Upgrade bind9-based packages to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u2
13891 (fixes CVE-2014-0591).
13892 - Upgrade gnupg to 1.4.12-7+deb7u6 (fixes CVE-2014-5270).
13893 - Upgrade apt to 0.9.7.9+deb7u5 (fixes CVE-2014-0487,
13894 CVE-2014-0488, CVE-2014-0489, CVE-2014-0490, and
13896 - Upgrade dbus to 1.6.8-1+deb7u4 (fixes CVE-2014-3635,
13897 CVE-2014-3636, CVE-2014-3637, CVE-2014-3638 and CVE-2014-3639).
13898 - Upgrade libav-based pacakges to 6:0.8.16-1 (fixes
13900 - Upgrade bash to 4.2+dfsg-0.1+deb7u1 (fixes CVE-2014-6271).
13902 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 23 Sep 2014 23:01:40 -0700
13904 tails (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
13907 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.8.0esr-0+tails1~bpo70+1
13908 (Firefox 24.8.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
13909 Also import the Tor Browser profile at commit
13910 271b64b889e5c549196c3ee91c888de88148560f from
13911 ttp/tor-browser-24.8.0esr-3.x-1.
13912 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.23-2~d70.wheezy+1 (fixes CVE-2014-5117).
13913 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.14.1-1~deb7u+1.
13914 - Upgrade Linux to 3.14.15-2 (fixes CVE-2014-3534, CVE-2014-4667
13915 and CVE-2014-4943).
13916 - Upgrade CUPS-based packages to 1.5.3-5+deb7u4 (fixes
13917 CVE-2014-3537, CVE-2014-5029, CVE-2014-5030 and CVE-2014-5031).
13918 - Upgrade libnss3 to 2:3.14.5-1+deb7u1 (fixes CVE-2013-1741,
13919 CVE-2013-5606, CVE-2014-1491 and CVE-2014-1492).
13920 - Upgrade openssl to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u12 (fixes CVE-2014-3505,
13921 CVE-2014-3506, CVE-2014-3507, CVE-2014-3508, CVE-2014-3509,
13922 CVE-2014-3510, CVE-2014-3511, CVE-2014-3512 and CVE-2014-5139).
13923 - Upgrade krb5-based packages to 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u2 (fixes
13924 CVE-2014-4341, CVE-2014-4342, CVE-2014-4343, CVE-2014-4344 and
13926 - Upgrade libav-based packages to 6:0.8.15-1 (fixes CVE-2011-3934,
13927 CVE-2011-3935, CVE-2011-3946, CVE-2013-0848, CVE-2013-0851,
13928 CVE-2013-0852, CVE-2013-0860, CVE-2013-0868, CVE-2013-3672,
13929 CVE-2013-3674 and CVE-2014-2263.
13930 - Upgrade libgpgme11 to 1.2.0-1.4+deb7u1 (fixes CVE-2014-5117).
13931 - Upgrade python-imaging to 1.1.7-4+deb7u1 (fixes CVE-2014-3589).
13932 - Prevent dhclient from sending the hostname over the network
13934 - Override the hostname provided by the DHCP server (Closes: #7769).
13935 - Add an I2P boot parameter. Without adding "i2p" to the kernel
13936 command line, I2P will not be accessible for the Live user.
13937 - Stricter I2P firewall rules:
13938 * deny I2P from accessing the LAN
13939 * deny I2P from accessing the loopback device, except for select
13940 whitelisted services
13941 * allow I2P access to the Internet
13942 The ACCEPT rules will only be enabled when the string 'i2p' is
13943 passed at the boot prompt. The rules which DENY or REJECT
13944 access for the 'i2psvc' user will always be applied.
13945 - Disable I2P plugins, since it doesn't make much sense without
13946 persistence, and should eliminate some attack vectors.
13947 - Disable I2P's BOB port. No maintained I2P application uses it.
13950 - Fix condition clause in tails-security-check (Closes: #7657).
13951 - Don't ship OpenJDK 6: I2P prefers v7, and we don't need both.
13952 - Prevent Tails Installer from updating the system partition
13953 properties on MBR partitions (Closes: #7716).
13955 * Minor improvements
13956 - Upgrade to Torbutton 1.6.12.1.
13957 - Install gnome-user-guide (Closes: #7618).
13958 - Install cups-pk-helper (Closes: #7636).
13959 - Update the SquashFS sort file.
13960 - Compress the SquashFS more aggressively (Closes: #7706).
13961 - I2P: Keep POP3 email on server. The default in the I2P webmail
13962 app was to keep mail on the server, but that setting was changed
13963 recently. This configuration setting (susimail.config) will only
13964 be copied over in I2P 0.9.14 and newer.
13965 - Add a Close button to the Tails Installer launcher window.
13968 - Migrate Vagrant basebox to Debian Wheezy (Closes #7133, #6736).
13969 - Consistently use the same Debian mirror.
13970 - Disable runtime APT proxy configuration when using APT in
13971 binary_local-hooks (Closes: #7691).
13973 * Automated test suite
13974 - Automatically test hostname leaks (Closes: #7712).
13975 - Move autotest live-config hook to be run last. This way we'll
13976 notice if some earlier live-config hook cancels all hooks by
13977 running the automated test suite since the remote shell won't be
13978 running in that case.
13979 - Test that the I2P boot parameter does what it's supposed to do
13981 - Start applications by using the GNOME Applications menu instead
13982 of the GNOME Run Dialog (Closes: #5550, #7060).
13984 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:49:28 +0000
13986 tails (1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
13988 * Rebase on Debian Wheezy
13989 - Upgrade literally thousands of packages.
13990 - Migrate to GNOME3 fallback mode.
13991 - Install LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice.
13992 - Remove custom LSB logging: Wheezy has fancy colored init
13995 * Major new features
13996 - UEFI boot support.
13997 - Replace the Windows XP camouflage with an experimental Windows 8
13999 - Install Linux 3.14.12-1 from Debian unstable.
14000 - Bring back VirtualBox guest modules, installed from Wheezy
14001 backports. Full functionality is only available when using the
14005 - Fix write access to boot medium via udisks (#6172).
14006 - Don't allow the desktop user to pass arguments to
14007 tails-upgrade-frontend (Closes: #7410).
14008 - Make persistent file permissions safer (Closes #7443):
14009 * Make the content of /etc/skel non-world-readable. Otherwise,
14010 such files may be copied to /home/amnesia, and in turn to the
14011 persistent volume, with unsafe permissions. That's no big deal
14012 in /home/amnesia (that is itself not world-readable), *but*
14013 the root of the persistent volume has to be world-readable.
14014 * Have activate_custom_mounts create new directories with safe
14016 * Set strict permissions on /home/amnesia (Closes: #7463).
14017 * Fix permissions on persistent directories that were created
14018 with unsafe permissions (Closes: #7458).
14019 * Fix files ownership while copying persistence (Closes: #7216).
14020 The previous instructions to copy the persistent data were
14021 creating personal files that belong to root. I don't think
14022 there is a way of preserving the original ownership using
14023 Nautilus (unless doing a "move" instead of a "copy" but that's
14024 not what we are trying to do here).
14025 - Disable FoxyProxy's proxy:// protocol handler (Closes: #7479).
14026 FoxyProxy adds the proxy:// protocol handler, which can be used
14027 to configure the proxy via an URI. A malicious web page can
14028 include (or a malicious exit node can inject) some JavaScript
14029 code to visit such an URI and disable or otherwise change
14030 Iceweasel's proxy settings. While using this to disable
14031 proxying will be dealt with safely by our firewall, this could
14032 be used to defeat stream isolation, although the user must be
14033 tricked into accepting the new proxy settings.
14034 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.7.0esr-0+tails1~bpo70+1
14035 (Firefox 24.7.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
14036 - Upgrade to Linux 3.14.12-1 (fixes CVE-2014-4699).
14037 - Upgrade libav-based packages to 0.8.13-1 (fixes CVE-2014-4609).
14038 - Upgrade to libxml2 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy1 (fixes CVE-2014-0191).
14039 - Upgrade to dbus 1.6.8-1+deb7u3 (fixes CVE-2014-3477,
14040 CVE-2014-3532 and CVE-2014-3533).
14043 - Disable GNOME keyring's GnuPG functionality. (Closes: #7330) In
14044 feature/regular-gnupg-agent, we installed the regular GnuPG
14045 agent so that it is used instead of GNOME keyring's one. This is
14046 not enough on Wheezy, so let's disable the starting of the "gpg"
14047 component of GNOME keyring.
14048 - Make sure /etc/default/locale exists, with a sensible default
14049 value (Closes: #7333). Before Tails Greeter's PostLogin script
14050 are run, /etc/default/locale does not exist on Wheezy. Our
14051 tails-kexec initscript (and quite a few other scripts we run)
14052 depends on this file to exist. So, let's make sure it exists,
14053 with a sensible default value.
14054 - Create the tails-persistence-setup user with the same UID/GID it
14055 had on Tails/Squeeze. (Closes: #7343) Else, our various checks
14056 for safe access rights on persistence.conf fail.
14057 - Revert back to browsing the offline documentation using Iceweasel
14058 instead of Yelp (Closes: #7390, #7285).
14059 - Make the new NetworkManager configuration directory persistent,
14060 when the old one was, but disable the old one (Closes: #7338).
14061 - Before running tails-upgrade-frontend, chdir to a world-readable
14062 place (Closes: #7641). In particular, Archive::Tar::Wrapper,
14063 when called by tails-install-iuk, wants to chdir back to the
14064 original cwd after it has chdir'd elsewhere to do its job.
14066 * Minor improvements
14067 - Install seahorse-nautilus, replacing seahorse-plugins (Closes #5516).
14068 - Install hledger (custom backport, for now): our accountants need this.
14069 - Install stable Scribus instead of scribus-ng.
14070 - Install the printer driver for Epson Inkjet that use ESC/P-R.
14071 - Install the BookletImposer PDF imposition toolkit. It's tiny,
14072 and really helpful e.g. when producing booklets.
14073 - Install gtkhash and nautilus-gtkhash (Closes #6763).
14074 - Import new version of Tor Launcher:
14075 · Now based on upstream Tor Launcher 0.2.5.4.
14076 · Tor bug #11772: Proxy Type menu not set correctly
14077 · Tor bug #11699: Change &#160 to   in network-settings.dtd
14078 · Correctly handle startup paths that contain dot.
14079 - Upgrade to Torbutton 1.6.9.0.
14080 - Avoid shipping python2.6 in addition to python2.7.
14081 - Don't install Gobby 0.4 anymore. Gobby 0.5 has been available in
14082 Debian since Squeeze, now is a good time to drop the obsolete
14083 0.4 implementation.
14084 - Require a bit less free memory before checking for upgrades with
14085 Tails Upgrader. The general goal is to avoid displaying "Not
14086 enough memory available to check for upgrades" too often due to
14087 over-cautious memory requirements checked in the wrapper.
14088 - Make Tails Greeter's help window resolution-aware. Previously it
14089 used a static 800x600 which was problematic on lower resolutions,
14090 and sub-optimal on higher resolutions. Now it adapts itself
14091 according to the screen resolution.
14092 - Whisperback now sanitizes attached logs better with respect to
14093 DMI data, IPv6 addresses, and serial numbers (Closes #6797,
14095 - Integrate the new logo in Tails Installer (Closes #7095)
14096 - Also install linux-base and linux-compiler-gcc-4.8-x86 from
14097 sid. This way, we can get rid of our linux-compiler-gcc-4.8-x86
14098 3.12, and it makes things a bit more consistent.
14099 - Include the syslinux binary, and its MBR, in the ISO filesystem.
14100 This in turn allows Tails Installer to use this binary and MBR,
14101 which is critical for avoiding problems (such as #7345) on
14102 "Upgrade from ISO".
14103 - Include syslinux.exe for win32 in utils/win32/ on the ISO
14104 filesystem (Closes: #7425).
14106 * Add consistent margins in GUI.
14107 * Always reset the target drive's MBR, without asking for
14108 confirmation, after installing or upgrading.
14109 * Install the bootloader using the syslinux binary found on the
14110 target device, once the Live OS has been extracted/copied
14112 - Enable double-clicking to pick entries in the language or
14113 keyboard layout lists in Tails Greeter.
14114 - Install backport of shared-mime-info 1.3 (Closes: #7079).
14115 - Make sanity-check prompts closable in Tails Persistence Setup
14117 - Fix quick search in Tails Greeter's Other languages window
14119 - Install systemd. It is not enabled by default, but having it
14120 around will help doing the migration work.
14121 - Enable AppArmor on the kernel command-line. This is a no-op
14122 without the userspace tools and with no profile shipped, but it
14123 will make it easier to fix this part of the situation.
14126 - Bump Vagrant builder's memory for RAM builds. Wheezy requires
14127 more space to build, and the resulting image is larger.
14128 - Fix Vagrant compatibility issue. Some classes' methods/fields
14129 have been renamed between Vagrant versions, so we need a simple
14130 compatibility layer to support all versions. Without this, it's
14131 not possible to issue e.g. a `build` command to an already
14132 running (i.e. `vm:up`:ed) Vagrant instance.
14133 - Move cpu and mem checks to the `build` task. Previously, when
14134 they were checked in `vm:up` *only* when issued while the VM
14135 already is up, so these checks weren't run if one issues a
14136 `build` when the VM is off. Now we'll fail earlier with a more
14137 informative error message, and it looks like a more logical home
14139 - Fix buggy memory checks for RAM building. We have to take into
14140 account which state the Vagrant VM is in for determining *where*
14141 we check if enough memory is available for a RAM build. If it's
14142 off, we check the host; if it's on we check the VM. Previously
14143 we always checked the host, which doesn't make sense when the VM
14144 is already started.
14146 * Automated test suite
14147 - Bump the tester VM's RAM by 256 MiB. There is not enough free
14148 RAM to run Tails Upgrader with just 1 GiB of RAM after the
14149 migration to Wheezy.
14150 - Always adjust OOM and memory overcommit settings. The kernel
14151 freezes seem to also happen for the amd64 kernel when filling
14153 - Add option to make Sikuli rety on FindFailed. This makes it
14154 possible to update manu images for Sikuli in just *one* test
14155 suite run, by continuously updating outdated pictures as we go.
14156 - Actually run "Upgrade from ISO" from a USB drive running the old
14157 version. That's what users do, and is buggy.
14158 - Automatically test persistent directories permissions (Closes: #7560).
14159 - Use read-write persistence when testing upgraded USB
14160 installations. Otherwise e.g. the permission fixes won't get
14161 applied, and the subsequent steps testing the permissions will
14163 - Actually check that the ISO's Tails is installed. The step
14164 "Tails is installed on USB drive $TARGET" only checks that the
14165 *running* Tails is installed on $TARGET, which obviously fails
14166 when doing an upgrade from ISO running an old Tails. That it
14167 worked for the same scenario running the current Tails is just
14169 - Use OpenJDK 7 to run our test suite (Closes #7175).
14170 - Use qemu-system-x86_64 directly, instead of kvm, for running the
14171 automated test suite (Closes: #7605).
14173 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 20 Jul 2014 23:16:13 +0200
14175 tails (1.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium
14178 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.6.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1
14179 (Firefox 24.6.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
14180 Also import the Tor Browser profile at commit
14181 90ba8fbaf6f23494f1a0e38d63153b3b7e65d3d3 from
14182 ttp/tor-browser-24.6.0esr-3.x-1.
14183 - Install Linux 3.14 from Debian unstable (fixes CVE-2014-3153 and
14185 - Install openssl from Squeeze LTS (fixes CVE-2014-0076,
14186 CVE-2014-0195, CVE-2014-0221, CVE-2014-3470 and CVE-2014-0224).
14187 - Install GnuTLS from Squeeze LTS (fixes CVE-2014-3466.).
14189 * Minor improvements
14190 - Add Squeeze LTS APT sources. It has been given a low pinning
14191 priority so explicit pinning must be used to actually install
14193 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.22-1~d60.squeeze+1.
14194 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.13-1~deb6u+1.
14196 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 08 Jun 2014 19:14:00 +0200
14198 tails (1.0) unstable; urgency=medium
14201 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.5.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1
14202 (Firefox 24.5.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
14203 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.21-1+tails1~d60.squeeze+1:
14204 * Based on 0.2.4.21-1~d60.squeeze+1.
14205 * Backport the fix for Tor bug #11464. It adds client-side blacklists for
14206 all Tor directory authority keys that was vulnerable to Heartbleed.
14207 This protects clients in case attackers were able to compromise a
14208 majority of the authority signing and identity keys.
14211 - Disable inbound I2P connections. Tails already restricts incoming
14212 connections, but this change tells I2P about it.
14213 - Fix link to the system requirements documentation page in the Tails
14214 Upgrader error shown when too little RAM is available.
14216 * Minor improvements
14217 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.12-2~deb6u+1.
14218 - Import TorBrowser profile. This was forgotten in Tails 0.23 and even
14219 though we didn't explicitly set those preferences in that release
14220 they defaulted to the same values. This future-proofs us in case the
14221 defaults would ever change.
14222 - Import new custom version of tor-launcher:
14223 * Based on upstream Tor Launcher 0.2.5.3.
14224 * Improve how Tor Launcher handles incomplete translation.
14225 (Tor bug #11483; more future-proof fix for Tails bug #6885)
14226 * Remove the bridge settings prompt. (Tor bug #11482; closes Tails
14228 * Always show bridge help button. (Tor bug #11484)
14229 - Integrate the new Tails logo into various places:
14232 * The "About Tails" dialog
14235 - Use the stable APT suite when building from the stable Git branch
14239 - Add test for the #7022 fix.
14241 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 27 Apr 2014 19:34:01 +0200
14243 tails (0.23) unstable; urgency=medium
14246 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.4.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1
14247 (Firefox 24.4.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
14249 * Major new features
14250 - Spoof the network interfaces' MAC address by default (Closes: #5421),
14251 as designed on https://tails.boum.org/contribute/design/MAC_address/.
14252 - Rework the way to configure how Tor connects to the network
14253 (bridges, proxy, fascist firewall): add an option to Tails Greeter,
14254 start Tor Launcher when needed (Closes: #5920, #5343).
14257 - Additional software: do not crash when persistence is disabled
14259 - Upgrade Pidgin to 2.10.9, that fixes some regressions introduced
14260 in the 2.10.8 security update (Closes: #6661).
14261 - Wait for Tor to have fully bootstrapped, plus a bit more time,
14262 before checking for upgrades (Closes: #6728) and unfixed known
14264 - Disable the Intel Management Engine Interface driver (Closes: #6460).
14265 We don't need it in Tails, it might be dangerous, and it causes bugs
14266 on various hardware such as systems that reboot when asked to shut down
14267 - Add a launcher for the Tails documentation. This makes it available
14268 in Windows Camouflage mode (Closes: #5374, #6767).
14269 - Remove the obsolete wikileaks.de account from Pidgin (Closes: #6807).
14271 * Minor improvements
14272 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.21-1~d60.squeeze+1.
14273 - Upgrade obfsproxy to 0.2.6-2~~squeeze+1.
14274 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.11-1deb6u1.
14275 - Install 64-bit kernel instead of the 686-pae one (Closes: #5456).
14276 This is a necessary first step towards UEFI boot support.
14277 - Install Monkeysign (in a not-so-functional shape yet).
14278 - Disable the autologin text consoles (Closes: #5588). This was one of
14279 the blockers before a screen saver can be installed
14280 in a meaningful way (#5684).
14281 - Don't localize the text consoles anymore: it is broken on Wheezy,
14282 the intended users can as well use loadkeys, and we now do not have
14283 to trust setupcon to be safe for being run as root by the desktop user.
14284 - Make it possible to manually start IBus.
14285 - Reintroduce the possibility to switch identities in the Tor Browser,
14286 using a filtering proxy in front of the Tor ControlPort to avoid giving
14287 full control over Tor to the desktop user (Closes: #6383).
14288 - Incremental upgrades improvements:
14289 · Drop the Tails Upgrader launcher, to limit users' confusion
14291 · Lock down sudo credentials a bit.
14292 · Hide debugging information (Closes: #6505).
14293 · Include ~/.xsession-errors in WhisperBack bug reports.
14294 This captures the Tails Upgrader errors and debugging information.
14295 · Report more precisely why an incremental upgrade cannot be done
14297 · Various user interface and phrasing improvements.
14298 - Don't install the Cookie Monster browser extension (Closes: #6790).
14299 - Add a browser bookmark pointing to Tor's Stack Exchange (Closes: #6632).
14300 - Remove the preconfigured #tor channel from the Pidgin: apparently,
14301 too many Tails users go ask Tails questions there, without making
14302 it clear that they are running Tails, hence creating a user-support
14303 nightmare (Closes: #6679).
14304 - Use (most of) Tor Browser's mozconfig (Closes: #6474).
14305 - Rebase the browser on top of iceweasel 24.3.0esr-1, to get
14306 the certificate authorities added by Debian back (Closes: #6704).
14307 - Give access to the relevant documentation pages from Tails Greeter.
14308 - Hide Tails Greeter's password mismatch warning when entry is changed.
14309 - Persistent Volume Assistant:
14310 · Take into account our installer is now called Tails Installer.
14311 · Optimize window height (Closes: #5458).
14312 · Display device paths in a more user-friendly way (Closes: #5311).
14315 - Ease updating POT and PO files at release time, and importing translations
14316 from Transifex (Closes: #6288, #6207).
14317 - Drop custom poedit backport, install it from squeeze-backports-sloppy.
14318 - Make ISO and IUK smaller (Closes: #6390, #6425):
14319 · Exclude more files from being included in the ISO.
14320 · Remove *.pyc later so that they are not recreated.
14321 · Truncate log files later so that they are not filled again.
14322 · At ISO build time, set mtime to the epoch for large files whose content
14323 generally does not change between releases. This forces rsync
14324 to compare the actual content of these files, when preparing an IUK,
14325 instead of blindly adding it to the IUK merely because the mtime
14326 has changed, while the content is the same.
14327 - Make local hooks logging consistent.
14330 - Migrate from JRuby to native Ruby + rjb.
14331 - The test suite can now be run on Debian Wheezy + backports.
14332 - Fix buggy "persistence is not enabled" step (Closes: #5465).
14333 - Use IPv6 private address as of RFC 4193 for the test suite's virtual
14334 network. Otherwise dnsmasq from Wheezy complains, as it is not capable
14335 of handling public IPv6 addresses.
14336 - Delete volumes after each scenario unless tagged @keep_volumes.
14337 - Add an anti-test to make sure the memory erasure test works fine.
14338 - A *lot* of bugfixes, simplifications and robustness improvements.
14340 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 18 Mar 2014 00:58:50 +0100
14342 tails (0.22.1) unstable; urgency=medium
14345 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.3.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+2
14346 (Firefox 24.3.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
14347 - Upgrade NSS to 3.14.5-1~bpo60+1.
14348 - Upgrade Pidgin to 2.10.8.
14349 - Workaround browser size fingerprinting issue by using small icons
14350 in the web browser's navigation toolbar (Closes: #6377).
14351 We're actually hit by Tor#9268, and this is the best workaround gk
14352 and I were able to find when discussing this on Tor#10095.
14354 * Major new features
14355 - Check for upgrades availability using Tails Upgrader, and propose
14356 to apply an incremental upgrade whenever possible (Closes: #6014).
14357 · Run tails-update-frontend at session login time.
14358 · Have tails-security-check only report unfixed security issues.
14359 · Greatly improve the Tails Upgrader UI and strings phrasing.
14360 · Enable startup notification for Tails Upgrader.
14361 - Install Linux 3.12 (3.12.6-2) from Debian testing. Unfortunately,
14362 this breaks the memory wipe feature on some hardware (#6460), but
14363 it fixes quite a few security issues, and improves hardware support.
14364 - Update the build system to be compatible with Vagrant 1.2 and 1.3,
14365 in addition to the already supported versions (Closes: #6221).
14366 Thanks to David Isaac Wolinsky <isaac.wolinsky@gmail.com>.
14369 - Do not start IBus for languages that don't need it. This fixes
14370 the keybindings problems introduced in 0.22 (Closes: #6478).
14371 Thanks to WinterFairy.
14372 - Disable network.proxy.socks_remote_dns in the Unsafe Browser.
14373 Bugfix against 0.22 (Closes: #6479).
14374 - Fetch Tor Browser User-Agent from its own prefs, rather than from
14375 the obsolete Torbutton ones. Bugfix against 0.22 (Closes: #6477).
14376 - Upgrade Vagrant basebox to include up-to-date Debian archive keys
14377 (Closes: #6515, #6527).
14378 - Do not use a non-working proxy for downloading the Vagrant basebox
14380 - Use IE's icon in Windows camouflage mode.
14381 Bugfix against 0.22 (Closes: #6536).
14382 - Support "upgrading" a partial Tails installation (Closes: #6438)
14383 and fix missing confirmation dialog in Tails Installer (Closes: #6437).
14384 Thanks to Andres Gomez Ramirez <andres.gomez@cern.ch>.
14385 - Fix browser homepage in Spanish locales (Closes: #6612).
14387 * Minor improvements
14388 - Tor 0.2.4 is stable! Adapt APT sources accordingly.
14389 - Update Tor Browser to 24.2.0esr-1+tails1, that uses its own NSS
14390 library instead of the system one.
14391 - Update Torbutton to 1.6.5.3.
14392 - Do not start Tor Browser automatically, but notify when Tor is ready.
14393 Warn the user when they attempt to start Tor Browser before Tor is ready.
14394 - Import Tor Browser profile at
14395 3ed5d9511e783deb86835803a6f40e7d5a182a12 from ttp/tor-browser-24.2.0esr-1.
14396 - Use http.debian.net for Vagrant builds, instead of the mostly broken
14397 (and soon obsolete) cdn.debian.net.
14398 - Phrasing and UI improvements in tails-upgrade-frontend.
14399 - Style and robustness improvements in tails-security-check.
14400 - Make room for upcoming UEFI support in Tails Installer.
14402 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:08:13 +0100
14404 tails (0.22) unstable; urgency=medium
14408 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 24.2.0esr that fixes a few serious security issues.
14409 - Stop migrating persistence configuration and access rights. Instead,
14410 disable all persistence configuration files if the mountpoint has wrong
14411 access rights (Closes: #6413).
14412 - Upgrade to NSS 3.15.3 that fixes a few serious security issues affecting
14413 the browser, such as CVE-2013-1741, CVE-2013-5605 and CVE-2013-5606.
14415 * Major improvements
14416 - Switch to Iceweasel 24 (Closes: #6370).
14417 · Resync' (most) Iceweasel prefs with TBB 3.0-beta-1 and get rid
14418 of many obsolete or default settings.
14419 · Disable WebRTC (Closes: #6468).
14420 · Import TorBrowser profile at commit
14421 51bf06502c46ee6c1f587459e8370aef11a3422d from the tor-browser-24.2.0esr-1
14422 branch at https://git.torproject.org/tor-browser.git.
14423 - Switch to Torbutton 1.6.5 (Closes: #6371).
14424 · Prevent Torbutton from asking users to "upgrade TBB".
14425 · Use the same Tor SOCKS port as the TBB (9151) for our web browser.
14426 This should be enough to avoid being affected by Tor#8511.
14427 · Disable Torbutton 1.6's check for Tor.
14428 Unfortunately, the new check.torproject.org breaks the remote Tor
14429 check. We cannot use the local Tor check with the control port. So,
14430 the shortest and sanest path to fixing the check issue, because the
14431 remote Tor check is broken" seems to simply disable this check.
14432 Patch submitted upstream as Tor#10216.
14433 - Prepare incremental upgrades to be the next default way to upgrade Tails,
14434 on point-releases at least.
14437 - Deny X authentication only after Vidalia exits (Closes: #6389).
14438 - Disable DPMS screen blanking (Closes: #5617).
14439 - Fix checking of the persistent volume's ACL.
14440 - Sanitize more IP and MAC addresses in bug reports (Closes: #6391).
14441 - Do not fail USB upgrade when the "tmp" directory exists on the
14442 destination device.
14443 - Tails Installer: list devices with isohybrid Tails installed
14446 * Minor improvements
14447 - Create a configuration file for additional software if needed
14449 - Translations all over the place.
14450 - Enable favicons in Iceweasel.
14451 - Do not propose to make permanent NoScript exceptions.
14452 In Tails, every such thing is temporary, so better only display the menu
14453 entry that's about temporarily allowing something.
14454 - Clearer warning when deleting persistent volume (thanks to Andres Gomez
14455 Ramirez <andres.gomez@cern.ch> for the patch).
14456 - Make wording in Tails Installer more consistent.
14459 * Use IBus instead of SCIM (Closes: #5624, #6206).
14460 It makes it possible to input passwords in pinentry for at least Japanese,
14461 Chinese and Korean languages.
14462 * Add an import-translation script.
14463 This automates the importation process of completed translations
14465 * Always list optimal keyboard layout in the greeter (Closes: #5741).
14466 * Fix on-the-fly translation of the greeter in various languages
14470 * Update I2P to 0.9.8.1 (Closes: #6080, #5889).
14471 * Improve I2P configuration:
14472 - Disable IPv6 support in a nicer way.
14473 - Disable i2cp (allows java clients to communicate from outside the JVM). If
14474 this is unset an exception for port 7654 would need to be added to ferm.
14475 - Disable "in-network" updates (this is also done in the regular I2P
14477 - Disable the outproxies. Access to the Internet is already routed through
14478 Tor so these are unnecessary. If end-users have a good reason to go
14479 through one of the I2P outproxies they can turn them back on.
14480 * Add a couple of default I2P IRC channels to Pidgin.
14481 * Allow access to the local 'eepsite' through FoxyProxy.
14482 * Add firewall exceptions for the standard I2P ports.
14484 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 30 Nov 2013 16:47:18 +0100
14486 tails (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
14489 - Don't grant access to the Tor control port for the desktop user
14490 (amnesia). Else, an attacker able to run arbitrary code as this user
14491 could obtain the public IP with a get_info command.
14492 · Vidalia is now run as a dedicated user.
14493 · Remove the amnesia user from the debian-tor group.
14494 · Remove the Vidalia launcher in the Applications menu.
14495 The Vidalia instance it starts is useless, since it can't connect
14496 to the Tor control port.
14497 - Don't allow the desktop user to directly change persistence settings.
14498 Else, an attacker able to run arbitrary code as this user could
14499 leverage this feature to gain persistent root access, as long as
14500 persistence is enabled.
14501 · Fully rework the persistent filesystem and files ownership
14503 · Run the Persistent Volume Assistant as a dedicated user, that is
14504 granted the relevant udisks and filesystem -level credentials.
14505 · At persistence activation time, don't trust existing persistence
14506 configuration files, migrate to the new ownership and permissions,
14507 migrate every known-safe existing settings and backup what's left.
14508 Warn the user when not all persistence settings could be migrated.
14509 · Persistent Volume Assistant uses the new ownership and permissions
14510 scheme when initializing a new persistent volume, and refuses to
14511 read persistence.conf if it, or the parent directory, hasn't the
14512 expected permissions.
14513 · Make boot medium 'system internal' for udisks with bilibop.
14514 Once Tails is based on Wheezy, this will further complete the
14515 protection (see #6172 for details).
14516 - Update Iceweasel to 17.0.10esr-0+tails2~bpo60+1.
14517 - Update Torbutton to 1.5.2-2, including a patch cherry-picked from
14518 upstream to make window resizing closer to what the design says.
14520 * Major new features
14521 - Add a persistence preset for printing settings (Closes: #5686).
14522 Reload CUPS configuration after persistence activation.
14523 - Support SD card connected through a SDIO host adapter (Closes: #6324).
14524 · Rebrand Tails USB installer to Tails installer.
14525 · Display devices brand, model and size in the Installer
14527 · Ask for confirmation before installing Tails onto a device
14529 · Add support for SDIO and MMC block devices to the Tails Installer
14530 (Closes: #5744) and the Persistent Volume Assistant (Closes: #6325).
14531 · Arm the udev watchdog when booted from SD (plugged in SDIO) too
14534 * Minor improvements
14535 - Provide a consistent path to the persistent volume mountpoint
14537 - Add a KeePassX launcher to the top GNOME panel (Closes: #6290).
14538 - Rework bug reporting workflow: point the desktop launcher to
14539 the troubleshooting page.
14540 - Make /home world-readable at build time, regardless of the Git
14541 working copy permissions. This makes the build process more robust
14542 against strict umasks.
14543 - Add signing capabilities to the tails-build script (Closes: #6267).
14544 This is in turn used to sign ISO images built by our Jenkins setup
14546 - Simplify the ikiwiki setup and make more pages translatable.
14547 - Exclude the version string in GnuPG's ASCII armored output.
14548 - Prefer stronger ciphers (AES256,AES192,AES,CAST5) when encrypting
14550 - Use the same custom Startpage search URL than the TBB.
14551 This apparently disables the new broken "family" filter.
14552 - Update AdBlock Plus patterns.
14553 - Install Linux from Debian testing.
14554 (That is, the same version that was shipped in 0.20.1.)
14557 - Look for "/tmp/.X11-unix/X${1#:}" too when detecting displays in use.
14558 - Adapt tests to match the Control Port access security fix:
14559 · Take into account that the amnesia user isn't part of the debian-tor
14561 · Run as root the checks to see if a process is running: this
14562 is required to see other users' processes.
14564 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2013 23:42:46 +0200
14566 tails (0.20.1) unstable; urgency=low
14568 * Major new features
14569 - Install Tor 0.2.4.17-rc-1~d60.squeeze+1 from the Tor project's repository.
14570 - Install Iceweasel 17.0.9esr with Torbrowser patches.
14571 - Install Linux kernel 3.10-3 (version 3.10.11-1) from sid.
14574 - Remount persistence devices read-only at shutdown/reboot time
14576 - Greeter: display a warning icon on admin password mismatch and on
14577 persistence unlocking failure. Thanks to Andres Gomez Ramirez
14578 <andres.gomez@cern.ch> for the fix!
14579 - Don't torsocksify Pidgin.
14580 Instead we disable Pidgin's GNOME integration to get the "Global proxy
14581 configuration", which we set to use Tor. This fixes the I2P IRC account.
14582 - Additional software: fix typo in notification.
14583 - Allow installing "Priority: standard" packages that we do not install
14584 by default: remove them late in the build process instead of assigning
14585 them a -1 APT pinning level.
14587 * Minor improvements
14588 - Update AdBlock Plus patterns.
14589 - Use more unique ISO file name when building from Jenkins.
14590 - Additional software: point to the system log on upgrade failure.
14591 - Set SOCKS5_USER and SOCKS5_PASSWORD in the connect-socks wrapper (used
14592 by Git). Else, Tor 0.2.4's IsolateSOCKSAuth and connect-proxy
14593 sometimes play together in some way that makes connect-proxy ask for
14594 a password to connect to the SocksPort. SOCKS5_USER and
14595 SOCKS5_PASSWORD are passed through unchanged if they were manually set
14596 by the user already.
14597 - Use our custom connect-socks wrapper for SSH. Else, Tor 0.2.4's
14598 IsolateSOCKSAuth and connect-proxy sometimes play together in some way
14599 that makes connect-proxy ask for a password to connect to the
14600 SocksPort. Note that connect-socks uses the default SocksPort too, so
14601 no change here wrt. our connection isolation design.
14604 - Import new translations from Transifex.
14607 - Fix old ISO checking for consistent error reporting.
14608 - Remove custom persistence test from manual test suite.
14609 It was removed for the GUI in t-p-s 0.33.
14611 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2013 15:49:36 +0200
14613 tails (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
14615 * Major new features
14616 - Install Linux kernel 3.10.3-1 from Debian unstable.
14617 - Iceweasel 17.0.8esr + Torbrowser patches.
14620 - Prevent Iceweasel from displaying a warning when leaving HTTPS web sites.
14621 - Make Iceweasel use the correct, localized search engine.
14622 - Fix Git access to https:// repositories.
14624 * Minor improvements
14625 - Install Dasher, a predictive text entry tool.
14626 - Add a wrapper around TrueCrypt which displays a warning about it soon
14627 being deprecated in Tails.
14628 - Remove Pidgin libraries for all protocols but IRC and Jabber/XMPP.
14629 Many of the other protocols Pidgin support are broken in Tails and
14630 haven't got any security auditting.
14631 - Disable the pre-defined Pidgin accounts so they do not auto-connect
14633 - Include information about Alsa in WhisperBack reports.
14634 - Explicitly restrict access to ptrace. While this setting was enabled
14635 by default in Debian's Linux 3.9.6-1, it will later disabled in 3.9.7-1.
14636 It's unclear what will happen next, so let's explicitly enable it ourselves.
14637 - Do not display dialog when a message is sent in Claws Mail.
14638 - Sync iceweasel preferences with the Torbrowser's.
14641 - Many translation updates all over the place.
14642 - Merge all Tails-related POT files into one, and make use of intltoolize
14643 for better integration with Transifex.
14645 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:19:57 +0200
14647 tails (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
14649 * Major new features
14650 - Install Linux kernel 3.9.5-1 from Debian unstable.
14651 Features of particular interest for Tails are the Yama LSM
14652 (ptrace scope restrictions) and improved hardware support.
14653 As a corollary, install initramfs-tools from there too.
14654 - Iceweasel 17.0.7esr + Torbrowser patches.
14655 - Unblock Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, WWAN and WiMAX; block every other type of
14656 wireless device. Next steps are described on the
14657 todo/protect_against_external_bus_memory_forensics ticket.
14660 - Fix write access to boot medium at the block device level,
14661 by installing bilibop-udev. Thanks to quidame for his support.
14662 - tails-greeter l10n-related fixes, thanks to winterfairy:
14663 · Fix so translations is applied on password mismatch messages.
14664 · Separate forward and login buttons and make them translatable.
14665 - Fix link to documentation when no sudo password is set.
14666 - gpgApplet: partial fix for clipboard emptying after a wrong passphrase
14668 - Workaround aufs bug in Unsafe Browser script.
14670 * Minor improvements
14671 - Drop GNOME proxy settings: we did not find any use of it we were keen
14672 to support, other than two programs (Seahorse, Pidgin) that are now run
14674 - Format newly created persistent volumes as ext4.
14675 - GnuPG: don't connect to the keyserver specified by the key owner.
14676 This feature opens the door to a variety of subtle attacks.
14677 - GnuPG: locate keys only from local keyrings.
14678 This is probably the default, but better safe than sorry.
14679 - Install virt-what from Wheezy.
14680 The version from Squeeze does not detect at least Parallels for Mac v.8.
14681 - Upgrade live-boot and live-config to the 3.0.x final version from Wheezy.
14682 · Remove /live and /lib/live/image compatibility symlinks.
14683 · Add /live/overlay -> /lib/live/mount/overlay symlink.
14684 The live-boot changes (commit d2b2a461) brought to fix Debian bug
14685 #696495 revert some of our previous changes (commit 77dab1cb), and as
14686 a result, at the time live-persist runs, no tmpfs is mounted on
14687 /live/overlay, which breaks the aufs mount. So, let's just ensure
14688 /live/overlay points to a tmpfs.
14689 · Really disable policykit and sudo live-config hooks.
14690 ... by making it believe they've already been run.
14691 This workarounds new live-config's default behavior.
14694 - Many translation updates all over the place.
14697 - Re-enable previously disabled boot device permissions test.
14699 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:36:20 +0200
14701 tails (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
14704 - Support obfs3 bridges.
14705 - Automatically install a custom list of additional packages chosen by
14706 the user at the beginning of every working session, and upgrade them
14707 once a network connection is established (technology preview).
14710 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.6esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1.
14711 - Update Torbrowser patches to current maint-2.4 branch (567682b).
14712 - Isolate DOM storage to first party URI, and enable DOM storage:
14713 don't set dom.storage.enabled anymore, and set Torbutton's
14714 disable_domstorage to false.
14715 - Isolate the image cache per url bar domain.
14716 - Torbutton 1.5.2, and various prefs hacks to fix breakage:
14717 · Add .saved version of the Torbutton preferences the TBB also sets.
14718 · Set TOR_SOCKS_HOST and TOR_SOCKS_PORT.
14719 · Move some prefs (network.proxy.*, extensions.autoDisableScopes,
14720 extensions.foxyproxy.last-version) to user.js.
14721 Else, with Torbutton 1.5.x, these ones are not taken into account.
14722 · Set network.proxy.socks_version.
14723 Else we get the meaningless user_pref("network.proxy.socks_version", 9063);
14724 in prefs.js after the initial startup.
14725 · Set extensions.foxyproxy.socks_remote_dns to true.
14726 Else, it overrides the various ways we set network.proxy.socks_remote_dns,
14727 which in turn makes Torbutton think it should start in non-Tor mode.
14728 · Also pass the TOR_SOCKS_* environment variables to iceweasel when
14729 generating the profile: Torbutton behaves differently depending on
14730 these variables, so we don't want the initial profile generation to be
14731 done without them. In practice, this has no implication that we could
14732 see right now, but better safe than sorry.
14733 · Import all version overrides from the TBB prefs.
14734 Else, the User-Agent sent in the HTTP headers is fine, but real
14735 values leak with JavaScript, as demonstrated by ip-check's "Browser
14737 · Move a bunch of settings to user_pref(), that are not applied otherwise.
14738 For some, this fixes a regression in 0.18~rc1.
14739 For other, the bug was already present in Tails 0.17.2.
14740 - HTTPS Everywhere 3.2.
14741 - Update prefs to match the TBB's, fix bugs, and take advantage of the latest
14742 Torbrowser patches:
14743 · Increase pipeline randomization.
14744 · Fix @font-face handling of local() fonts.
14745 Also disable fallback font rendering.
14746 · Explicitly disable SPDY v2 and v3.
14747 · Update http pipelining prefs.
14748 - Make prefs organization closer to the TBB's:
14749 · Remove Torbutton prefs that we set at their default value.
14750 · Import Torbutton preferences from the TBB.
14751 · Organize iceweasel config files in sections the same way as the TBB.
14753 · Don't set extensions.torbutton.clear_cookies nor
14754 extensions.torbutton.saved.share_proxy_settings:
14755 we don't care about toggling anymore.
14756 · Don't set extensions.torbutton.saved.download_retention nor
14757 extensions.torbutton.saved.search_suggest:
14758 these settings are not used in Torbutton anymore.
14759 - Update unsafe browser prefs mangling accordingly.
14760 - Move network.protocol-handler.warn-external.* to user_pref().
14761 Else they're not applied.
14762 These prefs are actually ignored by Firefox these days -- the TBB
14763 design doc reads "They are set still anyway out of respect for the
14764 dead". Let's go on doing the same.
14765 - Update extensions.adblockplus.currentVersion.
14766 - Fetch xul-ext-https-everywhere (3.2-2) and xul-ext-noscript (2.6.6.1-1)
14767 from Debian unstable. They were uploaded there, and accordingly removed
14771 - Linux 3.2.41-2+deb7u2.
14772 - Fixed swapped filenames of tails-{reboot,shutdown}.desktop.
14773 Thanks to Mikko Harhanen for the patch.
14774 - Only add ClientTransportPlugin to torrc when bridge mode is enabled.
14775 This should bring back support for proxies of type other than obfsproxy.
14777 * Minor improvements
14778 - Set kernel.dmesg_restrict=1, and make /proc/<pid>/ invisible
14779 and restricted for other users. It makes it slightly harder for an attacker
14780 to gather information that may allow them to escalate privileges.
14781 - Install gnome-screenshot.
14782 - Don't disable IPv6 on all network interfaces anymore.
14783 It turns out the IPv6 leaks we wanted to fix actually don't exist.
14784 - Add a "About Tails" launcher in the System menu.
14785 - Install GNOME accessibility themes.
14786 - Use 'Getting started...' as the homepage for Tails documentation button.
14787 - Stop relying on the obsolete /live/image compatibility symlink.
14788 - Disable audio preview in Nautilus.
14789 - Wheezy was released => Squeeze is now oldstable.
14790 - Pick Tor from deb.torproject.org regardless of the release name they
14791 advertise. At some point we needed it, their APT repository still thought
14792 that stable == Squeeze.
14793 - Add Wheezy APT sources.
14794 - Install Linux and related packages from Wheezy.
14795 Debian sid just got Linux 3.8, and we don't want to switch to a new kernel
14797 - Fetch laptop-mode-tools from Wheezy.
14798 Wheezy has the version we've been installing in 0.18~rc1,
14799 while a newer one was uploaded to sid in the meantime.
14800 - Fetch a few packages from Wheezy instead of unstable.
14801 Namely: spice-vdagent, libregexp-common-perl, macchanger, service-wrapper,
14802 libservice-wrapper-java and libservice-wrapper-jni.
14803 Wheezy has the versions we've been installing for a while, so let's
14804 avoid having unstable push a newer one to us uselessly at some point.
14805 Note that at the time of this writing, the versions in sid and in Wheezy
14806 are the same, so this commit is effectively a no-op as of today: it is
14807 merely a safeguard for the future.
14810 - Many translation updates all over the place.
14813 - Make Vagrant's build-tails script support Jenkins too.
14816 - Fix Unsafe Browser test broken by hidepid.
14818 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 13 May 2013 22:17:38 +0200
14820 tails (0.17.2) unstable; urgency=low
14823 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.5esr-0+tails2~bpo60+1.
14824 - Stop displaying obsolete context menu entries ("Open Tor URL" and friends).
14827 - Update Linux to 3.2.41-2
14830 - Use more reliable OpenPGP keyservers:
14831 · use the hkps pool in GnuPG (and import their SSL CA)
14832 · use hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net in Seahorse (as it does not support
14834 - Keep udisks users (GNOME Disk Utility, tails-persistence-setup, etc.)
14835 from resetting the system partition's attributes when manipulating the
14836 partition table. To this end, backport the relevant bugfix from Wheezy
14837 into parted 2.3-5+tails1. This allowed to remove the sgdisk-based
14838 workaround in tais-persistence-setup, and to stop installing
14839 python-parted. All this is a first needed step to fix
14840 todo/make_system_disk_read-only in a future release.
14842 * Minor improvements
14843 - Disable NoScript's HTML5 media click-to-play for better user experience.
14846 - Tails USB installer: update translations for French, German, Spanish,
14847 Finnish, Greek, Italian, Latvian, Dutch, Polish and Chinese.
14848 - Tails Greeter: update translations for Farsi, Chinese, French;
14849 new translations: Finnish, Norwegian Bokmål, Galician.
14850 - tails-persistence-setup: update Farsi and Chinese translations;
14851 import new translations for Finnish and Swedish.
14852 - WhisperBack: update translations for Arabic, French, German, Greek,
14853 Spanish, Korean, Polish, Russian. New translations: Finnish, Chinese.
14856 - Add automated testing framework (Sikuli, Cucumber, libvirt -based)
14857 with a bunch of tests.
14859 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:17:26 +0200
14861 tails (0.17.1) unstable; urgency=low
14864 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.4esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1.
14867 - Update Linux to 3.2.39-2.
14868 It includes the drm and agp subsystems from Linux 3.4.29.
14869 - Don't install xserver-xorg-video-rendition backport.
14870 xserver-xorg-video-rendition has been removed from squeeze-backports
14871 due to an upstream tarball mismatch discover when merging backports
14872 into the main Debian archive, and xserver-xorg-video-all still depends
14873 on it, so we explicitly install all drivers from -all but -rendition
14874 as a (hopefully temporary) workaround.
14876 * Minor improvements
14877 - Remove Indymedia IRC account, until we ship a version of Pidgin
14878 with SASL support, that is when Tails is based on Wheezy.
14881 - Don't ship the wiki's todo and bugs on ISO images.
14883 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:54:11 +0100
14885 tails (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
14888 - Install the KeePassX password manager, with a configuration and
14889 documentation that makes it easy to persist the password database.
14892 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.3esr-1+tails1~bpo60+1.
14893 - Install xul-ext-adblock-plus from squeeze-backports.
14894 - Do not allow listing all available fonts.
14895 Set browser.display.max_font_attempts and browser.display.max_font_count
14896 to enable the Torbrowser Limit-the-number-of-fonts-per-document patch.
14897 - Set default spellchecker dictionary to English (USA),
14898 and localize it according to locale with our custom branding extension.
14899 - Disable the add-ons automatic update feature.
14900 - Make the generated profile world-readable.
14901 - Remove NoScript click-to-play confirmation.
14902 - Sync some prefs set by Torbutton, to be ready when it stops setting these.
14903 - Disable navigation timing.
14904 - Disable SPDY. It stores state and may have keepalive issues.
14905 - More aggressive iceweasel HTTP pipelining settings.
14906 - Enable WebGL (as click-to-play only).
14907 - Disable network.http.connection-retry-timeout.
14908 - Disable full path information for plugins.
14909 - Remove NoScript blocks of WebFonts.
14910 - Disable DOM storage in Torbutton.
14911 Since we don't apply the 0026-Isolate-DOM-storage-to-first-party-URI.patch
14912 Torbrowser patch yet, and still disable DOM storage, we need to tell
14913 Torbutton not to use it.
14914 - Synchronize iceweasel's general.useragent.override with TBB based on FF17.
14915 The User-Agent settings are not kept up-to-date anymore in Torbutton, so
14916 we have to keep in sync manually with TBB's settings.
14917 - Remove obsolete APT pining for Torbutton.
14918 It's not maintained in Debian anymore, so we now fetch it from our own
14920 - Fetch FoxyProxy from Debian experimental and libnspr4-0d from
14921 squeeze-backports, for compatibility with Iceweasel 17.
14922 - Rebase bookmarks file on top of the default iceweasel 17 one.
14923 - Explicitly disable AdBlock Plus "correct typos" feature.
14924 This feature connects to http://urlfixer.org/.
14925 It is disabled by default in 2.2-1, but let's be careful.
14927 * Minor improvements
14928 - Upgrade to live-boot 3.0~b11-1 and live-config 3.0.12-1.
14929 Accordingly update the 9980-permissions hook, live-persist,
14930 unsafe-browser and boot-profile.
14931 Add compatibility symlinks from /live to /lib/live, and from /live/image
14932 to /lib/live/mount/medium, to ease the transition.
14933 - Check for errors when sourcing live-boot files, e.g. to detect when
14934 they have been renamed upstream.
14935 - Don't add "quiet" to the kernel command-line ourselves.
14936 Else, it appears twice as live-build's lb_binary_syslinux adds it too.
14937 Historically, we've been adding it ourselves on top of that because
14938 lb_binary_yaboot does not add it, but since we gave up the PowerPC support
14939 attempt, we're now only interested in syslinux, so let's make it easier
14940 for the general case, e.g. when one wants to remove the "quiet" parameter
14941 as suggested by our "Tails does not start" debugging documentation.
14942 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.4.
14945 - Many bugfixes brought by the Debian Squeeze 6.0.7 point-release.
14946 - Use the regular GnuPG agent + pinentry-gtk2 instead of Seahorse
14947 as a GnuPG agent. This fixes usage of OpenPGP in Claws Mail,
14948 and brings support for OpenPGP smartcards.
14949 - Enable I2P hidden mode.
14950 Else, killing I2P ungracefully is bad for the I2P network.
14951 - live-persist: move error() function before the first potential usecase.
14952 - Add missing executable bit on restart-tor and restart-vidalia.
14953 - Add shutdown and reboot launchers to the menu.
14954 This workarounds the lack of a shutdown helper applet in camouflage mode.
14955 - Remove Pidgin's MXit and Sametime support.
14956 ... at least until CVE-2013-0273, CVE-2013-0272 and CVE-2013-0271 are
14957 fixed in Debian stable. While we're at it, don't force file removal in
14958 these "set -e" build scripts: fail hard, instead of silently ignoring
14959 the fact that files may have moved or disappeared.
14962 - Install recent Intel and AMD microcode from squeeze-backports,
14963 explicitly excluding the iucode-tool package that's not a good idea
14965 - Install firmware loader for Qualcomm Gobi USB chipsets.
14966 This is needed to have various mobile broadband chipsets work.
14967 - Upgrade barry to 0.18.3-5~bpo60+1.
14968 This much improved new version supports more hardware & ISP,
14969 and does not display dozens of spurious error messages at boot time.
14972 - Remove APT local cache (/Var/cache/apt/{,src}pkgcache.bin).
14974 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:37:57 +0100
14976 tails (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
14978 * Minor improvements
14979 - Replace the too-easy-to-misclick shutdown button with a better
14980 "Shutdown Helper" Gnome applet.
14981 - Display ~/Persistent in GNOME Places and GtkFileChooser if it is mounted.
14982 - Set Unsafe Browser's window title to "Unsafe Browser".
14983 - Install ekeyd to support the EntropyKey.
14984 - Install font for Sinhala.
14985 - Update Poedit to 1.5.4.
14986 - Kill Vidalia when restarting Tor.
14987 Doing this as early as possible exposes Vidalia's "broken onion" icon
14989 - Hide the persistence setup launchers in kiosk mode.
14990 - Add a shell library for Tor functions.
14991 These are shared among multiple of our scripts.
14992 - Install dictionaries for supported languages.
14993 Install hunspell dictionaries when possible,
14994 fall back on myspell ones else.
14997 - Disable IPv6 on all network interfaces.
14998 This is a workaround for the IPv6 link-local multicast leak that was recently
14999 discovered. Tails has no local service that listens on IPv6, so there should be
15000 no regression, hopefully, unless one wants to play with OnionCat and VoIP,
15001 but those of us should know how to workaround this anyway.
15002 - live-persist: Fix variable mismatch, fixing probe white-list.
15003 Tails may previously have been able to list GPT partitions labelled
15004 "TailsData" on hard drives (!) as valid persistence volumes...
15005 - live-persist: Fix --media option when no devices are attached.
15006 Earlier, if it was set to e.g. 'removable-usb' and no USB storage was
15007 connected, $whitelistdev would be empty, which is interpreted like
15008 all devices are ok by the rest of the code.
15009 - Fix SCIM in the autostarted web browser: save IM environment variables
15010 to a file during Desktop session startup, and export them into the
15011 autostarted browser's environment.
15012 - Talk of DVD, not of CD, in the shutdown messages.
15013 - Make tordate work in bridge mode with an incorrect clock.
15014 When using a bridge Tor reports TLS cert lifetime errors (e.g. when
15015 the system clock is way off) with severity "info", but when no bridge
15016 is used the severity is "warn". tordate/20-time.sh depends on grepping
15017 these error messages, so we termporarily increase Tor's logging
15018 severity when using bridge mode. If we don't do this tordate will
15019 sleep forever, leaving Tor in a non-working state.
15020 · White-list root to use Tor's ControlPort.
15021 · Add logging for is_clock_way_off().
15022 · Remove Tor's log before time syncing.
15023 We depend on grepping stuff from the Tor log (especially for
15024 tordate/20-time.sh), so deleting it seems like a Good Thing(TM).
15025 · Stop Tor before messing with its log or data dir.
15026 - live-persist: limit searched devices the same way as live-boot.
15027 If no --media argument is specified, use live-boot's
15028 "(live-media|bootfrom)=removable(|-usb)" argument to limit devices
15029 searched for a persistent volume.
15030 - tails-greeter: do not pass media=removable to live-persist.
15031 Now that we have autodetection with kernel command-line,
15032 it should not be needed anymore.
15033 - Start memlockd after configuring it,
15034 instead of starting it before and restarting it after.
15035 This avoids running memlockd twice, and prevents other possibly
15036 surprising race-conditions.
15037 As a consequence, also have tails-sdmem-on-media-removal start after the
15038 memlockd service *and* tails-reconfigure-memlockd: to start the watchdog,
15039 we need memlockd to be properly configured *and* running.
15042 - Set iceweasel homepage to the news section on the Tails website.
15043 ... using the localized one when possible.
15044 - Hide the iceweasel add-on bar by default.
15045 Now that we don't want to ship the Monkeysphere addon anymore,
15046 that was the only one displayed in there, we can as well hide the whole bar.
15047 - Don't hide the AdBlock-Plus button in the add-on bar anymore. Now that
15048 we hide the whole addon bar, we can get rid of this old
15050 - Do not install a placeholder (fake) FireGPG iceweasel extension anymore.
15051 It was shipped from 0.10 (early 2012) to 0.15 (late November),
15052 so the migration period should be over now.
15053 - Don't install xul-ext-monkeysphere anymore.
15054 The implication of the current keyserver policy are not well
15055 understood, Monkeysphere is little used in Tails, and we're not sure
15056 anymore it would be our first bet for the web browser profile with no
15057 CA. Let's keep the various configuration bits (e.g. FoxyProxy,
15058 patching MSVA), though, so that advanced users who are used to have
15059 Monkeysphere in Tails just have to install the package.
15062 - Install the "standard" task with tasksel for better consistency in the
15063 Tails ISO images built in various environments.
15064 - Install p7zip-full. It's a dep by file-roller, but we explicily use it
15065 elsewhere, and it's better to be safe than sorry.
15066 - Remove pinning of libvpx0 to sid.
15067 This package is part of Squeeze, and not from testing/sid.
15068 We have been shipping the version from Squeeze for a while.
15069 - Remove config/chroot_local-packages/ from .gitignore.
15070 The documented way for "external" contributors to add custom packages
15071 is to put them in chroot_local-packages, and once we pull we import
15072 any such package into our APT repo and rewrite the
15073 history appropriately.
15074 Also, the ability to add packages in there and not see them in "git
15075 status" makes it very easy to build tainted ISO images with
15076 non-standard packages, which makes some of us fear can lead to hard to
15078 - Make it clearer what can and cannot be done in terms of local packages.
15080 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:47:42 +0100
15082 tails (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
15084 * Major new features
15085 - Persistence for browser bookmarks.
15086 - Support for obfsproxy bridges.
15088 * Minor improvements
15089 - Add the Hangul (Korean) Input Method Engine for SCIM.
15090 - Add vendor-specific dpkg origin information. This makes dpkg-vendor
15091 return correct information.
15092 - Install pcscd and libccid from squeeze-backports. This is needed to
15093 support, to some extent, some OpenPGP SmartCard readers.
15094 - Install HPIJS PPD files and the IJS driver (hpijs).
15095 This adds support for some printers, such as Xerox DocumentCenter400.
15096 - Optimize fonts display for LCD.
15097 - Update TrueCrypt to version 7.1a.
15100 - Do not use pdnsd anymore. It has been orphaned in Debian, has quite
15101 some bugs in there, and apparently Tor's DNSPort's own caching is
15103 - Remove useless iceweasel cookies exceptions. They are useless as
15104 per-session cookies are allowed.
15105 - Do not run setupcon on X. This call is only needed on the Linux
15106 console, no need to annoy the user with a weird "Press enter to
15107 activate this console" when the open a root shell in a GNOME
15109 - Allow the tails-iuk-get-target-file user to connect to the SOCKSPort
15110 dedicated for Tails-specific software.
15111 - Fix gpgApplet menu display in Windows camouflage mode.
15112 - Fix Tor reaching an inactive state if it's restarted in "bridge mode",
15113 e.g. during the time sync' process.
15116 - Update iceweasel to 10.0.11esr-1+tails1.
15117 - User profile is now generated at build time in order to support persistent
15119 - Update HTTPS Everywhere to version 3.0.4.
15120 - Update NoScript to version 2.6.
15121 - Fix bookmark to I2P router console.
15122 - Re-enable Monkeysphere extension to connect to the validation agent.
15125 - The Tails USB installer, tails-persistence-setup and tails-greeter
15126 are now translated into Bulgarian.
15127 - Update Chinese translation for tails-greeter.
15128 - Update Euskadi translation for WhisperBack.
15131 - Custom packages are now retrieved from Tails APT repository instead
15132 of bloating the Git repository.
15133 - Allow '~' in wiki filenames. This makes it possible to ship
15134 update-description files for release candidates.
15135 - Document how to create incremental update kit.
15136 - Handle release candidates when generating custom APT sources.
15137 - Remove pinning for xul-ext-adblock-plus.
15138 It is obsolete since we've added this package to our APT repository.
15140 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:59:17 +0100
15142 tails (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
15144 * Major new features
15145 - Enable Tor stream isolation; several new SocksPorts with
15146 appropriate Isolate* options have been added for different use
15147 cases (i.e. applications). All application's have been
15148 reconfigured to use these new SocksPorts, which should increase
15149 anonymity by making it more difficulte to correlate traffic from
15150 different applications or "online identities".
15151 - The web browser now has the anonymity enhancing patches from the
15152 TorBrowser applied.
15153 - gpgApplet can now handle public-key cryptography.
15154 - Install an additional, PAE-enabled kernel with NX-bit
15155 support. This kernel is auto-selected when the hardware supports
15157 * provide executable space protection, preventing certain types of
15158 buffer overflows from being exploitable.
15159 * enable more than 4 GiB of system memory.
15160 * make all processors/cores available, including their
15161 power-saving functionality.
15162 - Add a persistence preset for NetworkManager connections.
15164 * Minor improvements
15165 - On kexec reboot, make the boot quiet only if debug=wipemem was not
15167 - Update torproject.org's APT repo key.
15168 - Update the embedded Tails signing key.
15169 - Use symlinks instead of duplicating localized searchplugins.
15170 - Rewrite Tails firewall using ferm. Tails firewall was written in
15171 very unsophisticated iptables-save/restore format. As more feature
15172 creeped in, it started to be quite unreadable.
15173 - Optimize VirtualBox modules build at runtime to avoid installing the
15174 userspace utils N times.
15175 - Drop most of Vidalia's configuration. Our custom lines just caused
15176 trouble (with multiple SocksPorts) and the default works well.
15177 - Blacklist PC speaker module. On some computers, having the pcspkr
15178 module loaded means loud beeps at bootup, shutdown and when using
15179 the console. As it draws useless attention to Tails users, it is
15180 better to prevent Linux from loading it by default.
15181 - Remove all addons from the Unsafe Browser. No addons are essential
15182 for the Unsafe Browser's intent. If anything they will modify the
15183 network fingerprint compared to a normal Iceweasel install, which
15185 - Prevent some unwanted packages to be installed at all, rather than
15186 uninstalling them later. This should speed up the build a bit.
15187 - Add a symlink from /etc/live/config to /etc/live/config.d. This
15188 makes the system compatible with live-config 3.0.4-1, without
15189 breaking backward compatibility with various parts of the system
15190 that use the old path.
15191 - Do not run unecessary scripts during shutdown sequence, to make
15193 - Make live-persist deal with persistent ~/.gconf subdirs so that
15194 any options saved therein actually get persistent.
15195 - Prevent memlockd unload on shutdown, to make sure that all
15196 necessary tools for memory wiping are available when the new
15197 kernel has kexec'd.
15198 - Patch initscripts headers instead of fiddling with update-rc.d. We
15199 now let insserv figure out the correct ordering for the services
15200 during startup and shutdown, i.e. use dependency-based boot
15202 - Remove the last absolute path in our isolinux config, which makes
15203 it easier to migrate from isolinux to syslinux (just rename the
15204 directory), and hence might make it easier for 3rd party USB
15205 installers (like the Universal USB Installer) to support Tails.
15208 - Include `seq` in the ramdisk environment: it is used to wipe more
15209 memory. This fixes the long-standing bug about Tails not cleaning
15210 all memory on shutdown.
15211 - Fix Yelp crashing on internal links
15212 - Allow amnesia user to use Tor's TransPort. This firewall exception
15213 is necessary for applications that doesn't have in-built SOCKS
15214 support and cannot use torsocks. One such example is Claws Mail,
15215 which uses tsocks since torsocks makes it leak the hostname. This
15216 exception, together with Tor's automatic .onion mapping makes
15217 Claws Mail able to use hidden service mail providers again.
15218 - Force threads locking support in Python DBus binding. Without this
15219 liveusb-creator doesn't work with a PAE-enabled kernel.
15220 - Fix localized search plugins for 'es' and 'pt'
15221 - Fix live-boot's readahead, which caused an unnecessary pause
15223 - Factorize GCC wanted / available version numbers in VirtualBox
15224 modules building hook. This, incidentally, fixes a bug caused by
15225 duplication and not updating all instances.
15226 - Fix tordate vs. Tor 0.2.3.x. Since 0.2.3.x Tor doesn't download a
15227 consensus for clocks that are more than 30 days in the past or 2
15228 days in the future (see commits f4c1fa2 and 87622e4 in Tor's git
15229 repo). For such clock skews we set the time to the Tor authority's
15230 cert's valid-after date to ensure that a consensus can be
15234 - Update to version 0.2.3.24-rc-1~~squeeze+1, a new major
15235 version. It's not a stable release, but we have been assured by
15236 the Tor developers that this is the right move.
15237 - Stop setting custom value for the Tor LongLivedPorts
15238 setting. Gobby's port was upstreamed in Tor 0.2.3.x.
15241 - Update to 10.0.10esr-1+tails1, which has all the anonymity enhancing
15242 patches from the TorBrowser applied.
15243 - Install iceweasel from our own repo, http://deb.tails.boum.org.
15244 - Fix Iceweasel's file associations. No more should you be suggested
15245 to open a PDF in the GIMP.
15248 - Use curl instead of wget, and add a --proxy option passed through
15250 - Remove the --fullrequest option, we don't need it anymore.
15251 - Remove --dns-timeout option, we don't need it anymore.
15252 - Change --proxy handling to support Debian Squeeze's curl.
15253 - Clarify what happens if --proxy is not used.
15254 - Compute the median of the diffs more correctly.
15257 - Update Linux to 3.2.32-1.
15260 - Update vidalia to 0.2.20-1+tails1.
15261 - Update bundled WhisperBack package to 1.6.2:
15262 * Raise the socket library timeout to 120 seconds
15263 * Use smtplib's timeout parameter
15264 * Fix error output when calling send a 2nd time
15265 - Update liveusb-creator to 3.11.6-3.
15266 - Update i2p to 0.9.2.
15267 - Update tails-persistence-setup to 0.20-1, which should make it
15268 possible to install Tails on large (>= 32 GiB) USB drives.
15269 - Install console-setup and keyboard-configuration from unstable
15270 (required by new initramfs-tools).
15271 - Update tails-greeter to 0.7.3:
15272 * Import pt_BR translation.
15273 * Let langpanel usable during option selection stage
15274 * Print less debugging messages by default
15275 (below are changes in tails-greeter 0.7.2:)
15276 * Use correct test operators.
15277 * Generate language codes of available locales at package build
15279 * Read list of language codes from where we have saved it at
15280 package build time.
15281 * Drop tails-lang-helper, not used anymore.
15282 * Do not compile locales at login time anymore. Tails now ships
15284 - Import live-config{,-sysvinit} 3.0.8-1. live-config >= 3.0.9-1
15285 has basically nothing useful for us, and it migrates to new paths
15286 brought by live-boot 3.0~b7, which we're not ready for yet (see:
15287 todo/newer_live-boot).
15290 - Fix Tails specific Iceweasel localization for pt-BR
15291 - Add Japanese input system: scim-anthy.
15292 - whisperback is now also translated into German, Hebrew, Hungarian,
15293 Italian and Korean.
15294 - tails-persistence-setup is now also translated into Arabic.
15295 - tails-greeter is now also translated into Arabic, Hebrew, Basque,
15296 Hungarian, Italian and Chinese.
15299 - Catch more errors in during build time:
15300 - Ensure that all local hooks start with 'set -e'.
15301 - Fail hard if adduser fails in local hooks.
15302 - Fail hard if 'rm' fails in local hooks.
15303 - vagrant: Ensure we have the set of Perl packages needed by our
15305 - vagrant: Configure live-build to ship with ftp.us.debian.org.
15306 Using cdn.debian.net leads to bad interactions with Tor.
15307 - vagrant: Don't use gzip compression when building from a tag, i.e.
15309 - vagrant: Optionally use bootstrap stage cache for faster builds
15310 via the 'cache' build option.
15311 - vagrant: Make sure release builds are clean, i.e. they don't use
15312 any potentially dangerous build options.
15313 - vagrant: Disable live-build package caching. This build system is
15314 meant to use an external caching proxy, so live-build's cache just
15315 wastes RAM (for in-memory builds) or disk space.
15316 - vagrant: use aufs magic instead of copying source into tmpfs.
15317 This reduces the amount of RAM required for building Tails in.
15318 - vagrant: Allow in-memory builds when a VM with enough memory is
15321 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:34:56 +0000
15323 tails (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
15325 * Major new features
15326 - Use white-list/principle of least privelege approach for local services.
15327 Only users that need a certain local (i.e. hosted on loopback) service
15328 (according to our use cases) are granted access to it by our firewall;
15329 all other users are denied access.
15330 - Ship a first version of the incremental update system. Updates are not
15331 currently triggered automatically, but this will allow tests to be done
15334 * Minor improvements
15335 - Enable four workspaces in the Windows XP camouflage. This allows
15336 users to quickly switch to a more innocent looking workspace in case
15337 they are working on sensitive data and attract unwanted attention.
15338 The workspace switcher applet isn't there, though, since there's no
15339 such thing in Windows XP, so switching is only possible via keyboard
15341 - Ship with precompiled locales instead of generating them upon login.
15342 - Add support for wireless regulation.
15343 - Use color for Git output, not intended for machine consumption,
15344 written to the terminal.
15345 - Have ttdnsd use OpenDNS. Using Google's DNS servers was very
15346 glitchy, and rarely succeeded when it should. It can probably be
15347 attributed to Google's DNS, which is known to take issue with Tor
15349 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.6, with many UI improvements and new translations.
15350 - Include GDM logs and dmidecode informations in the reports.
15351 - Allow to modify language and layout in the "Advanced options" screen
15353 - GnuPG: bump cert-digest-algo to SHA512.
15354 - Update torproject.org's APT repo key.
15357 - Make Claws Mail save local/POP emails in its dot-directory. The
15358 default is to save them at ~/Mail, which isn't included in our
15359 current Claws Mail persistence preset.
15360 - Fix the System Monitor applet.
15361 - Remove broken ttdnsd from the default DNS resolution loop.
15362 - Hide the 'TailsData' partition in desktop applications.
15363 - Ship unrar-free again, so that the GNOME archive manager knows about
15365 - Ship with an empty whitelist for Noscript.
15366 - Disable FoxyProxy's advertisement on proxy error page.
15367 - Fix slow browsing experience for offline documentation.
15368 - Raise the socket timeout to 120 seconds in WhisperBack.
15369 - Enable the ikiwiki trail plugin for the locally built wiki too.
15372 - Upgrade iceweasel to 10.0.6esr-1 (Extended Support Release) and install it
15373 and its dependencies from squeeze-backports.
15376 - Upgrade Linux to 3.2.23-1.
15379 - Update tor to version 0.2.2.39.
15380 - Update Iceweasel to version 10.0.7esr-2.
15381 - Update i2p to version 0.9.1.
15384 - vagrant: Install Ikiwiki from Debian unstable. The 'mirrorlist'
15385 patches have finally been merged in upstream Ikiwiki. So instead of
15386 building Ikiwiki by hand, we can now install the package directly
15387 from Debian unstable.
15388 - Do not build the ikiwiki forum on the bundled static website copy.
15390 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:19:25 +0200
15392 tails (0.12.1) unstable; urgency=low
15394 This is a brown paper bag release to fix two major problems introduced in
15398 - Upgrade Torbutton to 1.4.6.
15399 - Upgrade AdBlock Plus to 2.1.
15400 - Update AdBlock Plus patterns.
15403 - Upgrade Linux to 3.2.21-3 (linux-image-3.2.0-3-486).
15406 - Install MAT from Debian backports, drop custom package.
15407 - Install python-pdfrw to re-add PDF support to the MAT.
15408 - Upgrade tails-greeter to 0.7.1, which fixes the race condition that
15409 broke administration password and locale settings on some systems.
15412 - Remove the Tails specific plymouth theme. The theme interfers heavily with
15413 the boot process on some hardware.
15415 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:06:03 +0200
15417 tails (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
15419 * Major new features
15420 - Add the Unsafe Web Browser, which has direct access to the Internet and
15421 can be used to login to captive portals.
15422 - The (previously experimental, now deemed stable) Windows camouflage can now
15423 be enabled via a check box in Tails greeter.
15426 - Upgrade to 0.2.2.37-1~~squeeze+1.
15429 - Upgrade iceweasel to 10.0.5esr-1 (Extended Support Release) and install it
15430 and its dependencies from squeeze-backports.
15431 - Add a bookmark for the offline Tails documentation.
15432 - Update AdBlock patterns.
15435 - Allow using larger USB drives by increasing the mkfs timeout to 10 minutes.
15436 - Tell the user what's going on when the Tails boot device cannot be found.
15439 - Upgrade Linux to 3.2.20-1 (linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64).
15443 - Install torsocks. Note that this makes `torify' use `torsocks' instead of
15444 `tsocks'. The `tsocks' binary is dropped to avoid problems, but remaining
15445 files (the library) are kept since ttdnsd depends on them.
15446 - Fetch live-config-sysvinit from sid so that it matches live-config version.
15447 - Update virtualbox backports to 4.1.10-dfsg-1~bpo60+1.
15448 - Install pciutils (needed by virtualbox-guest-utils).
15449 - Install mousetweaks. This is needed to use the mouse accessibility settings
15450 in System -> Preferences -> Mouse -> Accessibility.
15451 - Install the "hardlink" files deduplicator.
15452 - Do not install cryptkeeper anymore. See todo/remove_cryptkeeper for reason.
15453 Users of cryptkeeper are encouraged to install cryptkeeper via `apt-get
15454 update; apt-get install --yes cryptkeeper`, open their volume and move
15455 their to Tails' built-in persistence instead, as a one-time migration.
15456 - Upgrade I2P to version 0.9.
15457 - Don't install GParted. GNOME Disk Utility has been on par with GParted
15458 since Squeeze was released.
15459 - Upgrade live-boot to 3.0~a27-1+tails2~1.gbp319fe6.
15460 - Upgrade live-config to 3.0~a39-1 and install it from Debian experimental.
15461 - Upgrade tails-greeter to 0.7.
15462 - Upgrade tails-persistence-setup to 0.17-1.
15463 - Install libyaml-libyaml-perl.
15464 - Upgrade MAT, the metadata anonymisation toolkit, 0.3.2-1~bpo60+1.
15465 - Fetch python-pdfrw from backports, drop custom package.
15467 * Internationalization
15468 - The Tails website and documentation now has a (partial) Portuguese
15472 - Tails can now be built without using a HTTP proxy.
15473 - Tails can now easily be built by using Vagrant. See the updated
15474 contribute/build page for instructions.
15477 - Remove obsolete noswap boot parameter. live-boot now handles swap on an
15479 - The squashfs.sort files generated with boot-profile should now be ok which
15480 makes the generate images boot noticeably faster on optical media. See
15481 bugs/weird_squashfs.sort_entries for more information.
15482 - Set Tails specific syslinux and plymouth themes.
15483 - Add NVidia KMS video drivers to the initrd in order to show our shiny new
15484 plymouth theme on more systems.
15486 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:37:00 +0200
15488 tails (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
15490 * Major new features
15491 - Do not grant the desktop user root credentials by default.
15492 - A graphical boot menu (tails-greeter 0.6.3) allows choosing among
15493 many languages, and setting an optional sudoer password.
15494 - Support opt-in targeted persistence
15495 · tails-persistence-setup 0.14-1
15496 · live-boot 3.0~a25-1+tails1~5.gbp48d06c
15497 · live-config 3.0~a35-1
15498 - USB installer: liveusb-creator 3.11.6-1
15501 - Install iceweasel 10.0.4esr-1 (Extended Support Release).
15502 Let's stop tracking a too fast moving target.
15503 Debian Wheezy will ship ESR versions.
15504 - Install needed dependencies from squeeze-backports.
15507 bing appeared due to our upgrading iceweasel.
15508 Removing it makes things consistent with the way they have been
15509 until now, that is: let's keep only the general search engines
15510 we've been asked to add, plus Google, and a few specialized ones.
15511 · Replace Debian-provided DuckDuckGo search plugin with the "HTML SSL"
15512 one, version 20110219. This is the non-JavaScript, SSL, POST flavour.
15514 · Install localized search engines in the correct place.
15515 No need to copy them around at boot time anymore.
15516 · Remove Scroogle. RIP.
15517 - Enable TLS false start, like the TBB does since December.
15518 - Adblock Plus: don't count and save filter hits, supress first run dialog.
15519 - Install neither the GreaseMonkey add-on, nor any GreaseMonkey script.
15520 YouTube's HTML5 opt-in program is over.
15521 HTML5 video support is now autodetected and used.
15524 - Upgrade to 0.2.17-1+tails1: drop Do-not-warn-about-Tor-version.patch,
15526 - Set SkipVersionCheck=true.
15527 Thanks to chiiph for implementing this upstream (needs Vidalia 0.2.16+).
15529 * Internationalization
15530 - Install all available iceweasel l10n packages.
15531 - Remove syslinux language choosing menu.
15532 tails-greeter allows choosing a non-English language.
15533 - Add fonts for Hebrew, Thai, Khmer, Lao and Korean languages.
15534 - Add bidi support.
15535 - Setup text console at profile time.
15536 Context: Tails runs with text console autologin on.
15537 These consoles now wait, using a "Press enter to activate this console"
15538 message, for the user. When they press enter in there, they should have chosen
15539 their preferred keyboard layout in tails-greeter by now. Then, we run setupcon.
15540 As a result, the resulting shell is properly localized, and setupcon
15541 sets the correct keyboard layout, both according to the preferences expressed by
15542 the user in tails-greeter.
15543 - Don't use localepurge, don't remove any Scribus translations anymore,
15544 don't localize environment at live-config time:
15545 tails-greeter allows us to support many, many more languages.
15548 - Linux 3.2.15-1 (linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64).
15549 - Fix low sound level on MacBook5,2.
15550 - Disable laptop-mode-tools automatic modules. This modules set often
15551 needs some amount of hardware-specific tweaking to work properly.
15552 This makes them rather not well suited for a Live system.
15555 - Install GNOME keyring.
15556 This is needed so that NetworkManager remembers the WEP/WPA secrets
15557 for the time of a Tails session. Initialize GNOME keyring at user
15559 - Install usbutils to have the lsusb command.
15560 - Install the Traverso multitrack audio recorder and editor.
15563 - GNOME Terminal: keep 8192 scrollback lines instead of the smallish
15565 - Replaced tails-wifi initscript with laptop-mode-tools matching feature.
15566 - Disable gdomap service.
15567 - Fetch klibc-utils and libklibc from sid.
15568 The last initramfs-tools depends on these.
15569 - Set root password to "root" if debug=root is passed on the
15570 kernel cmdline. Allow setting root password on kernel cmdline via
15571 rootpw=. Looks like we implemented this feature twice.
15572 - Append a space on the kernel command line. This eases manually adding
15574 - Rename sudoers.d snippets to match naming scheme.
15575 Sudo credentials that shall be unconditionally granted to the Tails
15576 default user are named zzz_*, to make sure they are applied.
15577 - WhisperBack: also include /var/log/live-persist and
15578 /var/lib/gdm3/tails.persistence.
15579 - Add a wrapper to torify whois.
15580 - Rework the VirtualBox guest modules building hook to support
15582 - Consistently wait for nm-applet when waiting for user session to come up.
15583 Waiting for gnome-panel or notification-daemon worked worse.
15584 - Don't start the NetworkManager system service via init.
15585 Some Tails NM hooks need the user to be logged in to run properly.
15586 That's why tails-greeter starts NetworkManager at PostLogin time.
15587 - Also lock /bin/echo into memory. For some reason, kexec-load needs it.
15588 - Pidgin: don't use the OFTC hidden service anymore.
15589 It proved to be quite unreliable, being sometimes down for days.
15590 - Do not display storage volumes on Desktop, by disabling
15591 /apps/nautilus/desktop/volumes_visible GConf entry. Enabling that
15592 GConf setting avoids displaying the bind-mounted persistent
15593 directories on the Desktop, and reduces user confusion. It also is
15594 a first step towards a bigger UI change: GNOME3 does not manage the
15595 Desktop anymore, so volume icons and other Desktop icons are meant to
15596 disappear anyway. It implies we'll have to move all Desktop icons
15597 elsewhere. Let's start this move now: this will smooth the UI change
15598 Wheezy will carry for our users, by applying some of it progressively.
15601 - Don't build hybrid ISO images anymore. They boot less reliably on
15602 a variety of hardware, and are made less useful by us shipping
15603 a USB installer from now on.
15604 - Append .conf to live-config configuration filenames:
15605 live-config >3.0~a36-1 only takes into account files named *.conf
15606 in there. Accordingly update scripts that source these files.
15607 - Remove long-obsolete home-refresh script and its configuration.
15609 * Virtualization support
15610 - Support Spice and QXL: install the Spice agent from Debian sid,
15611 install xserver-xorg-video-qxl from squeeze-backports.
15613 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:54:00 +0200
15615 tails (0.10.2) unstable; urgency=low
15618 - Update to 10.0.2-1.
15619 - Disable HTTPS-Everywhere's SSL Observatory (plus first-run pop-up).
15620 - Revert "FoxyProxy: don't enclose regexps between ^ and $."
15621 Currently "http://www.i2p2.de" (and everything similar) is captured by
15622 the I2P filter, which is incorrect. It seems isMultiLine="false" does
15623 *not* make RE into ^RE$ any longer.
15624 - Remove file:// from NoScript's exception lists.
15625 This will fix the JavaScript toggles in the local copy of the documentation.
15626 - Update AdBlock patterns.
15629 - Upgrade I2P to 0.8.13.
15630 - Install libvpx0 from sid.
15631 - Fetch klibc-utils and libklibc from sid.
15632 The last initramfs-tools depends on these.
15635 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.2.7-1.
15636 - Install firmware-libertas.
15637 This adds support for wireless network cards with Marvell Libertas
15638 8xxx chips supported by the libertas_cs, libertas_sdio, libertas_spi,
15639 libertas_tf_usb, mwl8k and usb8xxx drivers.
15642 - Revert "Set time to middle of [valid-after, fresh-until] from consensus."
15643 This reverts commit 18d23a500b9412b4b0fbe4e38a9398eb1a3eadef.
15644 With this vmid clocks that are E minutes back in time may cause issues
15645 (temporary Tor outages) after consensus updates that happen at the
15646 (60-E):th minute or later during any hour. Full analysis:
15647 https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2012-January/000873.html
15648 - Add the default user to the vboxsf group.
15649 This will allow the user to get full access to automounted VirtualBox
15650 shared folders as they are mounted with guid vboxsf and rwx group
15653 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:26:21 +0100
15655 tails (0.10.1) unstable; urgency=low
15658 - Make Startpage the default web search engine. Scroogle does not look
15659 reliable enough these days.
15662 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.5.1 (update link to bug reporting documentation).
15663 - Update MAT to 0.2.2-2~bpo60+1 (fixes a critical bug in the GUI).
15666 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.2.1-2
15668 * Time synchronization
15669 Serious rework that should fix most, if not all, of the infamous
15670 time-sync' related bugs some Tails users have experienced recently.
15671 - Make htpdate more resilient by using three server pools, and
15672 allowing some failure ratio.
15673 - Set time from Tor's unverified-consensus if needed.
15674 - Set time to middle of [valid-after, fresh-until] from consensus.
15675 - Many robustness, performance and fingerprinting-resistance improvements.
15676 - Display time-sync' notification much earlier.
15679 - Fix access to "dumb" git:// protocol by using a connect-socks wrapper
15680 as GIT_PROXY_COMMAND.
15681 - SSH client: fix access to SSH servers on the Internet by correcting
15682 Host / ProxyCommand usage.
15683 - Pidgin: use OFTC hidden service to workaround Tor blocking.
15684 - Claws Mail: disable draft autosaving.
15685 When composing PGP encrypted email, drafts are saved back to
15686 the server in plaintext. This includes both autosaved and manually
15688 - tails-security-check-wrapper: avoid eating all memory when offline.
15690 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:00:31 +0100
15692 tails (0.10) unstable; urgency=low
15694 * Tor: upgrade to 0.2.2.35-1.
15697 - Install Iceweasel 9.0 from the Debian Mozilla team's APT repository.
15698 - Update Torbutton to 1.4.5.1-1.
15699 - Support viewing any YouTube video that is available in HTML5 format:
15700 install xul-ext-greasemonkey and the "Permanently Enable HTML5 on
15701 YouTube" GreaseMonkey script.
15702 - Stop using Polipo in Iceweasel. Its SOCKS support was fixed.
15703 - Install from Debian sid the iceweasel extensions we ship,
15704 for compatibility with FF9.
15705 - Use Scroogle (any languages) instead of Scroogle (English only) when
15706 booted in English. Many users choose English because their own
15707 language is not supported yet; let's not hide them search results in
15708 their own language.
15709 - Install Iceweasel language packs from Debian unstable:
15710 unfortunately they are not shipped on the mozilla.debian.net repository.
15711 - Install the NoScript Firefox extension; configure it the same way as
15713 - Disable third-party cookies.
15714 They can be used to track users, which is bad. Besides, this is what
15715 TBB has been doing for years.
15716 - FoxyProxy: allow direct connections to RFC1918 IPs.
15718 * Do not transparent proxy outgoing Internet connections through Tor.
15719 - Torify the SSH client using connect-proxy to all IPs but RFC1918 ones.
15720 - Torify APT using Polipo HTTP.
15721 - Torify wget in wgetrc.
15722 - Torify gobby clients using torsocks. It does not support proxies yet.
15723 - Torify tails-security-check using LWP::UserAgent's SOCKS proxy support.
15724 - Fix enabling of GNOME's HTTP proxy.
15727 - Upgrade Vidalia to 0.2.15-1+tails1.
15728 · New upstream release.
15729 · Do not warn about Tor version.
15730 - Upgrade MAT to 0.2.2-1~bpo60+1.
15731 - Upgrade VirtualBox guest software to 4.1.6-dfsg-2~bpo60+1,
15732 built against the ABI of X.Org backports.
15733 - Upgrade I2P to 0.8.11 using KillYourTV's Squeeze packages;
15734 additionally, fix its start script that was broken by the tordate merge.
15735 - Install unar (The Unarchiver) instead of the non-free unrar.
15736 - Install Nautilus Wipe instead of custom Nautilus scripts.
15739 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.1.6-1.
15740 - Upgrade to X.Org from squeeze-backports.
15741 - Install more, and more recent b43 firmwares.
15742 - Upgrade barry to 0.15-1.2~bpo60+1.
15744 * Internationalization
15745 - Add basic language support for Russian, Farsi and Vietnamese.
15746 - Install some Indic fonts.
15747 - Install some Russian fonts.
15748 - Add Alt+Shift shortcut to switch keyboard layout.
15751 - Support booting in "Windows XP -like camouflage mode":
15752 · Install homebrewn local .debs for a Windows XP look-alike Gnome theme.
15753 · Add the "Windows XP Bliss" desktop wallpaper.
15754 · Added a script that's sets up Gnome to look like Microsoft Windows XP.
15755 · Add Windows XP "camouflage" icons for some programs.
15756 · Make Iceweasel use the IE icon when Windows XP camouflage is enabled.
15757 · Add special launcher icons for the Windows XP theme so that they're
15759 - Decrease Florence focus zoom to 1.2.
15760 - Do not fetch APT translation files. Running apt-get update is heavy enough.
15761 - Add MSN support thanks to msn-pecan.
15762 - Add custom SSH client configuration:
15763 · Prefer strong ciphers and MACs.
15764 · Enable maximum compression level.
15765 · Explicitly disable X11 forwarding.
15766 · Connect as root by default, to prevent fingerprinting when username
15768 - Replace flawed FireGPG with a home-made GnuPG encryption applet;
15769 install a feature-stripped FireGPG that redirects users to
15770 the documentation, and don't run Seahorse applet anymore.
15771 - Enable Seahorse's GnuPG agent.
15772 - Blank screen when lid is closed, rather than shutting down the system.
15773 The shutdown "feature" has caused data losses for too many people, it seems.
15774 There are many other ways a Tails system can be shut down in a hurry
15776 - Import Tails signing key into the keyring.
15777 - Fix bug in the Pidgin nick generation that resulted in the nick
15778 "XXX_NICK_XXX" once out of twenty.
15779 - Pre-configure the #tor IRC discussion channel in Pidgin.
15780 - Fix "technology preview" of bridge support: it was broken by tordate merge.
15781 - Install dependencies of our USB installer to ease its development.
15782 - Make vidalia NM hook sleep only if Vidalia is already running.
15783 - Reintroduce the htpdate notification, telling users when it's safe
15784 to use Tor Hidden Services.
15785 - htpdate: omit -f argument to not download full pages.
15786 - htpdate: write success file even when not within {min,max}adjust.
15787 Otherwise htpdate will not "succeed" when the time diff is 0 (i.e.
15788 the clock was already correct) so the success file cannot be used
15789 as an indicator that the system time now is correct, which arguably
15790 is its most important purpose.
15793 - Name built images according to git tag.
15795 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:56:38 +0100
15797 tails (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
15800 - Upgrade to 0.2.2.34 (fixes CVE-2011-2768, CVE-2011-2769).
15803 - Upgrade to 3.5.16-11 (fixes CVE-2011-3647, CVE-2011-3648, CVE-2011-3650).
15804 - Upgrade FireGPG to 0.8-1+tails2: notify users that the FireGPG Text
15805 Editor is the only safe place for performing cryptographic operations,
15806 and make it impossible to do otherwise. Other ways open up several
15807 severe attacks through JavaScript (e.g. leaking plaintext when
15808 decrypting, signing messages written by the attacker).
15809 - Install Cookie Monster extension instead of CS Lite.
15810 - Always ask where to save files.
15811 - Upgrade Torbutton to 1.4.4.1-1, which includes support for the in-browser
15812 "New identity" feature.
15815 - Install MAT, the metadata anonymisation toolkit.
15816 - Upgrade TrueCrypt to 7.1.
15817 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.5~rc1 (leads the user by the hand if an error
15818 occurs while sending the bugreport, proposes to save it after 2 faild
15819 attempts, numerous bugfixes).
15820 - Linux: upgrade to linux-image-3.0.0-2-486 (version 3.0.0-6); fixes
15821 a great number of bugs and security issues.
15824 - Fully rework date and time setting system.
15825 - Remove the htp user firewall exception.
15826 - Saner keyboard layouts for Arabic and Russian.
15827 - Use Plymouth text-only splash screen at boot time.
15828 - Color the init scripts output.
15829 - Suppress Tor's warning about applications doing their own DNS lookups.
15830 This is totally safe due to our Tor enforcement.
15831 - Disable hdparm boot-time service.
15832 We only want hdparm so that laptop-mode-tools can use it.
15833 - Run Claws Mail using torify.
15834 It's not as good as if Claws Mail supported SOCKS proxies itself,
15835 but still better than relying on the transparent netfilter torification.
15836 - Install HPLIP and hpcups for better printing support.
15838 * Erase memory at shutdown
15839 - Run many sdmem instances at once.
15840 In hope of erasing more memory until we come up with a proper fix for
15841 [[bugs/sdmem_does_not_clear_all_memory]].
15842 - Kill gdm3 instead of using its initscript on brutal shutdown.
15843 - Use absolute path to eject for more robust memory wipe on boot medium removal.
15846 - Exclude kernel and initramfs from being put into the SquashFS.
15847 Those files are already shipped where they are needed, that is in the ISO
15848 filesystem. Adapt kexec and memlockd bits.
15849 - Do not ship the GNOME icon theme cache.
15850 - Do not ship .pyc files.
15851 - Do not ship NEWS.Debian.gz files.
15854 - Re-implement hook that modifies syslinux config to make future
15855 development easier.
15857 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:26:38 +0100
15859 tails (0.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
15862 - Update to 3.5.16-10 (fixes DSA-2313-1).
15863 - FireGPG: force crypto action results to appear in a new window, otherwise
15864 JavaScript can steal decrypted plaintext. Advice: always use FireGPG's
15865 text editor when writing text you want to encrypt. If you write it in a
15866 textbox the plaintext can be stolen through JavaScript before it is
15867 encrypted in the same way.
15868 - Update HTTPS Everywhere extension to 1.0.3-1.
15869 - Stop using the small version of the Tor check page. The small version
15870 incorrectly tells Tails users to upgrade their Torbrowser, which has
15871 confused some users.
15874 - Update Linux to 3.0.0-2 (fixes DSA-2310-1, CVE-2011-2905, CVE-2011-2909,
15875 CVE-2011-2723, CVE-2011-2699, CVE-2011-1162, CVE-2011-1161).
15876 - Update usb-modeswitch to 1.1.9-2~bpo60+1 and usb-modeswitch-data to
15877 20110805-1~bpo60+1 from Debian backports. This adds support for a few
15878 devices such as Pantech UMW190 CDMA modem.
15879 - Install libregexp-common-perl 2011041701-3 from Debian unstable. This
15880 fixes the bug: [[bugs/msva_does_not_use_configured_keyserver]].
15881 - Install hdparm so the hard drives can be spinned down in order to save
15883 - Install barry-util for better BlackBerry integration.
15884 - Debian security upgrades: OpenOffice.org (DSA-2315-1), openjdk-6
15885 (DSA-2311-1), policykit-1 (DSA-2319-1)
15887 * Protecting against memory recovery
15888 - Set more appropriate Linux VM config before wiping memory. These
15889 parameters should make the wipe process more robust and efficient.
15891 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:31:18 +0200
15893 tails (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
15895 * Rebase on the Debian Squeeze 6.0.2.1 point-release.
15898 - Update to 0.2.2.33-1.
15899 - Disabled ControlPort in favour of ControlSocket.
15900 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to Tor's LongLivedPorts list.
15904 - Start script now depends on HTP since I2P breaks if the clock jumps or is
15905 too skewed during bootstrap.
15908 - Update to 3.5.16-9 (fixes CVE-2011-2374, CVE-2011-2376, CVE-2011-2365,
15909 CVE-2011-2373, CVE-2011-2371, CVE-2011-0083, CVE-2011-2363, CVE-2011-0085,
15910 CVE-2011-2362, CVE-2011-2982, CVE-2011-2981, CVE-2011-2378, CVE-2011-2984,
15912 - Enable HTTP pipelining (like TBB).
15913 - Update HTTPS Everywhere extension to 1.0.1-1 from Debian unstable.
15914 - Suppress FoxyProxy update prompts.
15915 - Prevent FoxyProxy from "phoning home" after a detected upgrade.
15916 - Fixed a bunch of buggy regular expressions in FoxyProxy's configuration.
15917 See [[bugs/exploitable_typo_in_url_regex?]] for details. Note that none of
15918 these issues are critical due to the transparent proxy.
15919 - Add DuckDuckGo SSL search engine.
15922 - Update to torbutton 1.4.3-1 from Debian unstable.
15923 - Don't show Torbutton status in the status bar as it's now displayed in the
15927 - More random looking nicks in pidgin.
15928 - Add IRC account on chat.wikileaks.de:9999.
15931 - Upgrade htpdate script (taken from Git 7797fe9) that allows setting wget's
15932 --dns-timeout option.
15935 - Update Linux to 3.0.0-1. -686 is now deprecated in favour of -486 and
15936 -686-pae; the world is not ready for -pae yet, so we now ship -486.
15937 - Update OpenSSL to 0.9.8o-4squeeze2 (fixes CVE-2011-1945 (revoke
15938 compromised DigiNotar certificates), CVE-2011-1945).
15939 - Update Vidalia to 0.2.14-1+tails1 custom package.
15940 - Install accessibility tools:
15941 - gnome-mag: screen magnifier
15942 - gnome-orca: text-to-speech
15943 - Replace the onBoard virtual keyboard with Florence.
15944 - Install the PiTIVi non-linear audio/video editor.
15949 * Arbitrary DNS queries
15950 - Tor can not handle all types of DNS queries, so if the Tor resolver fails
15951 we fallback to ttdnsd. This is now possible with Tor 0.2.2.x, since we
15952 fixed Tor bug #3369.
15955 - Install ipheth-utils for iPhone tethering.
15956 - Install xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse (for mouse integration with the host OS
15957 in VMWare and KVM).
15958 - Install virtualbox-ose 4.x guest packages from Debian backports.
15961 - Switch gpg to use keys.indymedia.org's hidden service, without SSL.
15962 The keys.indymedia.org SSL certificate is now self-signed. The hidden
15963 service gives a good enough way to authenticate the server and encrypts
15964 the connection, and just removes the certificates management issue.
15965 - The squashfs is now compressed using XZ which reduces the image size quite
15967 - Remove Windows autorun.bat and autorun.inf. These files did open a static
15968 copy of our website, which is not accessible any longer.
15971 - Use the Git branch instead of the Debian version into the built image's
15973 - Allow replacing efficient XZ compression with quicker gzip.
15974 - Build and install documentation into the chroot (-> filesystem.squashfs).
15975 Rationale: our static website cannot be copied to a FAT32 filesystem due
15976 to filenames being too long. This means the documentation cannot be
15977 browsed offline from outside Tails. However, our installer creates GPT
15978 hidden partitions, so the doc would not be browseable from outside Tails
15979 anyway. The only usecase we really break by doing so is browsing the
15980 documentation while running a non-Tails system, from a Tails CD.
15982 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 09 Sep 2011 11:31:18 +0200
15984 tails (0.7.2) unstable; urgency=high
15987 - Disable Torbutton's external application launch warning.
15988 ... which advises using Tails. Tails *is* running Tails.
15989 - FoxyProxy: install from Debian instead of the older one we previously
15993 - haveged: install an official Debian backport instead of a custom backport.
15994 - unrar: install the version from Debian's non-free repository.
15995 Users report unrar-free does not work well enough.
15997 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:34:56 +0200
15999 tails (0.7.1) unstable; urgency=high
16001 * Vidalia: new 0.2.12-2+tails1 custom package.
16004 - Don't show Foxyproxy's status / icon in FF statusbar to prevent users
16005 from accidentaly / unconsciously put their anonymity at risk.
16006 - "amnesia branding" extension: bump Iceweasel compatibility to 4.0 to ease
16007 development of future releases.
16010 - Upgrade Linux kernel to Debian's 2.6.32-33: fixes tons of bugs,
16011 including the infamous missing mouse cursor one. Oh, and it closes
16012 a few security holes at well.
16013 - Install unrar-free.
16014 - Do not install pppoeconf (superseeded by NetworkManager).
16015 - Upgrade macchanger to Debian testing package to ease development of
16016 future Tails releases.
16017 - Debian security upgrades: x11-xserver-utils (DSA-2213-1), isc-dhcp
16018 (DSA-2216-1), libmodplug (DSA-2226-1), openjdk-6 (DSA-2224-1).
16020 * Protecting against memory recovery
16021 - Add Italian translation for tails-kexec. Thanks to Marco A. Calamari.
16022 - Make it clear what it may mean if the system does not power off
16024 - Use kexec's --reset-vga option that might fix display corruption issues
16027 * WhisperBack (encrypted bug reporting software)
16028 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.4.1:
16029 localizes the documentation wiki's URL,
16030 uses WebKit to display the bug reporting help page,
16031 now is usable on really small screens.
16032 - Extract wiki's supported languages at build time, save this
16033 information to /etc/amnesia/environment, source this file into the
16034 Live user's environment so that WhisperBack 1.4+ can make good use
16038 - Fix boot in Chinese.
16039 - Install mobile-broadband-provider-info for better 3G support.
16040 - Add back GNOME system icons to menus.
16041 - tails-security-check: avoid generating double-slashes in the Atom
16043 - Remove "vga=788" boot parameter which breaks the boot on some hardware.
16044 - Remove now useless "splash" boot parameter.
16045 - Fix a bunch of i386-isms.
16046 - Pass the noswap option to the kernel. This does not change actual Tails
16047 behaviour but prevents users from unnecessarily worrying because of
16048 the "Activating swap" boot message.
16049 - Make use of check.torproject.org's Arabic version.
16052 - Enable squeeze-backports. It is now ready and will be used soon.
16053 - Install eatmydata in the chroot.
16054 - Convert ikiwiki setup files to YAML.
16056 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:14:53 +0200
16058 tails (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
16061 - Install foomatic-filters-ppds to support more printers.
16062 - Give the default user the right to manage printers.
16065 - Deinstall unwanted packages newly pulled by recent live-build.
16067 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:58:51 +0200
16069 tails (0.7~rc2) unstable; urgency=low
16071 ** SNAPSHOT build @824f39248a08f9e190146980fb1eb0e55d483d71 **
16073 * Rebase on Debian Squeeze 6.0.1 point-release.
16075 * Vidalia: new 0.2.10-3+tails5 custom package..
16078 - Install usb-modeswitch and modemmanager to support mobile broadband
16079 devices such as 3G USB dongles. Thanks to Marco A. Calamari for the
16083 - Website relocated to https://tails.boum.org/ => adapt various places.
16084 - Configure keyboard layout accordingly to the chosen language for
16085 Italian and Portuguese.
16087 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:44:25 +0100
16089 tails (0.7~rc1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
16091 ** SNAPSHOT build @98987f111fc097a699b526eeaef46bc75be5290a **
16093 * Rebase on Debian Squeeze.
16095 * T(A)ILS has been renamed to Tails.
16097 * Protecting against memory recovery
16098 New, safer way to wipe memory on shutdown which is now also used when
16099 the boot media is physically removed.
16102 - Update to 0.2.1.30-1.
16105 - Add HTTPS Everywhere 0.9.4 extension.
16106 - Better preserve Anonymity Set: spoof US English Browser and timezone
16107 the same way as the Tor Browser Bundle, disable favicons and picture
16109 - Install AdBlock Plus extension from Debian.
16110 - Add Tor-related bookmarks.
16111 - Support FTP, thanks to FoxyProxy.
16112 - Update AdBlock patterns.
16113 - Disable geolocation and the offline cache.
16116 - Update Vidalia to 0.2.10-3+tails4.
16117 - Install gnome-disk-utility (Palimpsest) and Seahorse plugins.
16118 - Add opt-in i2p support with Iceweasel integration through FoxyProxy.
16119 - onBoard: fix "really quits when clicking the close window icon" bug.
16120 - Optionally install TrueCrypt at boot time.
16121 - Install laptop-mode-tools for better use of battery-powered hardware.
16122 - Replace xsane with simple-scan which is part of GNOME and way easier
16124 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.3.1 (bugfixes, French translation).
16125 - Install scribus-ng instead of scribus. It is far less buggy in Squeeze.
16128 - Drop incoming packets by default.
16129 - Forbid queries to DNS resolvers on the LAN.
16130 - Set output policy to drop (defense-in-depth).
16133 - Install Atheros and Broadcom wireless firmwares.
16134 - Install libsane-hpaio and sane-utils, respectively needed for
16135 multi-function peripherals and some SCSI scanners.
16137 * live-boot 2.0.15-1+tails1.35f1a14
16138 - Cherry-pick our fromiso= bugfixes from upstream 3.x branch.
16141 - Many tiny user interface improvements.
16142 - More robust HTP time synchronization wrt. network failures.
16143 Also, display the logs when the clock synchronization fails.
16144 - Disable GNOME automatic media mounting and opening to protect against
16145 a class of attacks that was recently put under the spotlights.
16146 Also, this feature was breaking the "no trace is left on local
16147 storage devices unless explicitly asked" part of Tails specification.
16148 - Make configuration more similar to the Tor Browser Bundle's one.
16149 - GnuPG: default to stronger digest algorithms.
16150 - Many more or less proper hacks to get the built image size under 700MB.
16151 - Compress the initramfs using LZMA for faster boot.
16154 - Run lb build inside eatmydata fsync-less environment to greatly improve
16157 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:52:19 +0100
16159 tails (0.6.2) unstable; urgency=high
16161 * Tor: upgrade to 0.2.1.29 (fixes CVE-2011-0427).
16163 - Upgrade Linux kernel, dpkg, libc6, NSS, OpenSSL, libxml2 (fixes various
16165 - Upgrade Claws Mail to 3.7.6 (new backport).
16166 - Install Liferea, tcpdump and tcpflow.
16167 * Seahorse: use hkp:// transport as it does not support hkps://.
16168 * FireGPG: use hkps:// to connect to the configured keyserver.
16169 * Build system: take note of the Debian Live tools versions being used
16170 to make next point-release process faster.
16171 * APT: don't ship package indices.
16173 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:59:43 +0100
16175 tails (0.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
16177 * Tor: upgrade to 0.1.28 (fixes CVE-2010-1676)
16178 * Software: upgrade NSS, Xulrunner, glibc (fixes various security issues)
16179 * FireGPG: use the same keyserver as the one configured in gpg.conf.
16180 * Seahorse: use same keyserver as in gpg.conf.
16181 * HTP: display the logs when the clock synchronization fails.
16182 * Update HTP configuration: www.google.com now redirects to
16183 encrypted.google.com.
16184 * Use the light version of the "Are you using Tor?" webpage.
16185 * Update AdBlock patterns.
16187 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 24 Dec 2010 13:28:29 +0100
16189 tails (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
16193 * New OpenPGP signing-only key. Details are on the website:
16194 https://amnesia.boum.org/GnuPG_key/
16197 - Fixed torbutton has migrated to testing, remove custom package.
16200 - Query ssl.scroogle.org instead of lists.debian.org.
16201 - Don't run when the interface that has gone up is the loopback one.
16204 - Add shortcut to securely erase free space in a partition.
16205 - The nautilus-wipe shortcut user interface is now translatable.
16208 - Really fix virtualization warning display.
16209 - More accurate APT pinning.
16210 - Disable Debian sid APT source again since a fixed live-config has
16211 migrated to Squeeze since then.
16213 * live-boot: upgrade to 2.0.8-1+tails1.13926a
16214 - Sometimes fixes the smem at shutdown bug.
16215 - Now possible to create a second partition on the USB stick T(A)ILS is
16219 - Support RT2860 wireless chipsets by installing firmware-ralink from
16221 - Install firmware-linux-nonfree from backports.
16222 - Fix b43 wireless chipsets by having b43-fwcutter extract firmwares at
16226 - Install live-build and live-helper from Squeeze.
16227 - Update SquashFS sort file.
16229 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:53:17 +0200
16231 tails (0.6~rc3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
16233 ** SNAPSHOT build @a3ebb6c775d83d1a1448bc917a9f0995df93e44d **
16236 - Autostart Iceweasel with the GNOME session. This workarounds the
16237 "Iceweasel first page is not loaded" bug.
16240 - Upgrade htpdate script (taken from Git 7797fe9).
16243 - Disable ssh-agent auto-starting with X session: gnome-keyring is
16244 more user-friendly.
16245 - Fix virtualization warning display.
16246 - Boot profile hook: write desktop file to /etc/skel.
16249 - Convert build system to live-build 2.0.1.
16250 - APT: fetch live-build and live-helper from Debian Live snapshots.
16251 - Remove dependency on live-build functions in chroot_local-hooks.
16252 This makes the build environment more robust and less dependent on
16253 live-build internals.
16254 - Remove hand-made rcS.d/S41tails-wifi: a hook now does this.
16255 - Measure time used by the lh build command.
16256 - Fix boot profile hook.
16257 - Boot profiling: wait a bit more: the current list does not include
16260 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 02 Oct 2010 23:06:46 +0200
16262 tails (0.6~rc2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
16264 ** SNAPSHOT build @c0ca0760ff577a1e797cdddf0e95c5d62a986ec8 **
16267 - Refreshed AdBlock patterns (20100926).
16268 - Set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true (untested yet)
16269 - Torbutton: install patched 1.2.5-1+tails1 to fix the User-Agent bug,
16270 disable extensions.torbutton.spoof_english again.
16273 - WhisperBack: upgrade to 1.3~beta3 (main change: let the user provide
16274 optional email address and OpenPGP key).
16276 - Update haveged backport to 0.9-3~amnesia+lenny1.
16277 - Update live-boot custom packages (2.0.6-1+tails1.6797e8): fixes bugs
16278 in persistency and smem-on-shutdown.
16279 - Update custom htpdate script. Taken from commit d778a6094cb3 in our
16280 custom Git repository: fixes setting of date/time.
16283 - Bugfix: failed builds are now (hopefully) detected.
16284 - Fix permissions on files in /etc/apt/ that are preserved in the image.
16285 - Install version 2.0~a21-1 of live-build and live-helper in the image.
16286 We are too late in the release process to upgrade to current Squeeze
16287 version (2.0~a29-1).
16290 - Pidgin/OTR: disable the automatic OTR initiation and OTR requirement.
16292 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:23:17 +0200
16294 tails (0.6~1.gbpef2878) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
16296 ** SNAPSHOT build @ef28782a0bf58004397b5fd303f938cc7d11ddaa **
16299 - Use a 2.6.32 kernel: linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.5-686 (2.6.32-23~bpo50+1)
16300 from backports.org. This should support far more hardware and
16301 especially a lot of wireless adapters.
16302 - Add firmware for RTL8192 wireless adapters.
16303 - Enable power management on all wireless interfaces on boot.
16306 - Install inkscape.
16308 - Install gfshare and ssss: two complementary implementations
16309 of Shamir's Secret Sharing.
16310 - Install tor-geoipdb.
16311 - Remove dialog, mc and xterm.
16314 - Set extensions.torbutton.spoof_english to its default true value
16315 in order to workaround a security issue:
16316 https://amnesia.boum.org/security/Iceweasel_exposes_a_rare_User-Agent/
16319 - Install the Iceweasel extension.
16320 - Use a hkps:// keyserver.
16323 - Install gnupg from backports.org so that hkps:// is supported.
16324 - Use a hkps:// keyserver.
16325 - Proxy traffic via polipo.
16326 - Prefer up-to-date digests and ciphers.
16328 * Vidalia: rebased our custom package against 0.2.10.
16331 - Built images are now named like this:
16332 tails-i386-lenny-0.5-20100925.iso
16333 - Use live-helper support for isohybrid options instead of doing the
16334 conversion ourselves. The default binary image type we build is now
16336 - Remove .deb built by m-a after they have been installed.
16337 - Setup custom GConf settings at build time rather than at boot time.
16338 - Move $HOME files to /etc/skel and let adduser deal with permissions.
16339 - Convert to live-boot / live-config / live-build 2.x branches.
16340 - Replaced our custom live-initramfs with a custom live-boot package;
16341 included version is 2.0.5-1+tails2.6797e8 from our Git repository:
16342 git clone git://git.immerda.ch/tails_live-boot.git
16343 - Install live-config* from the live-snapshots Lenny repository.
16344 Rationale: live-config binary packages differ depending on the target
16345 distribution, so that using Squeeze's live-config does not produce
16346 fully-working Lenny images.
16347 - Rename custom scripts, packages lists and syslinux menu entries from
16348 the amnesia-* namespace to the tails-* one.
16351 - Use (authenticated) HTP instead of NTP.
16352 - The htpdate script that is used comes from commit 43f5f83c0 in our
16353 custom repository: git://git.immerda.ch/tails_htp.git
16354 - Start Tor and Vidalia only once HTP is done.
16357 - Fix IPv6 firewall restore file. It was previously not used at all.
16358 - Use ftp.us.debian.org instead of the buggy GeoIP-powered
16360 - Gedit: don't autocreate backup copies.
16361 - Build images with syslinux>=4.01 that has better isohybrid support.
16362 - amnesia-security-check: got rid of the dependency on File::Slurp.
16363 - Take into account the migration of backports.org to backports.debian.org.
16364 - Make GnuPG key import errors fatal on boot.
16365 - Warn the user when T(A)ILS is running inside a virtual machine.
16366 - DNS cache: forget automapped .onion:s on Tor restart.
16368 * Documentation: imported Incognito's walkthrough, converted to
16369 Markdown, started the needed adaptation work.
16371 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 26 Sep 2010 11:06:50 +0200
16373 tails (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
16375 * The project has merged efforts with Incognito.
16376 It is now to be called "The (Amnesic) Incognito Live System".
16380 - Created the amnesia-news mailing-list.
16381 - Added a forum to the website.
16382 - Created a chatroom on IRC: #tails on irc.oftc.net
16385 - Workaround nasty NetworkManager vs. Tor bug that often
16386 prevented the system to connect to the Tor network: restart Tor and Vidalia
16387 when a network interface goes up.
16388 - onBoard now autodetects the keyboard layout... at least once some
16389 keys have been pressed.
16390 - New windows don't open in background anymore, thanks to
16391 a patched Metacity.
16392 - Memory wiping at shutdown is now lightning fast, and does not prevent
16393 the computer to halt anymore.
16394 - GNOME panel icons are right-aligned again.
16395 - Fixed permissions on APT config files.
16396 - Repaired mouse integration when running inside VirtualBox.
16399 - Torbutton: redirect to Scroogle when presented a Google captcha.
16400 - Revamped bookmarks
16401 . moved T(A)ILS own website to the personal toolbar
16402 . moved webmail links (that are expected to be more than 3 soon)
16403 to a dedicated folder.
16404 - Don't show AdBlock Plus icon in the toolbar.
16405 - Adblock Plus: updated patterns, configured to only update subscriptions
16406 once a year. Which means never, hopefully, as users do update their
16407 Live system on a regular basis, don't they?
16409 * Vidalia: rebased our custom package against 0.2.8.
16412 - Install Claws Mail from backports.org to use the X.509 CA
16413 certificates provided by Debian.
16414 - Enable PGP modules with basic configuration:
16415 . Automatically check signatures.
16416 . Use gpg-agent to manage passwords.
16417 . Display warning on start-up if GnuPG doesn't work.
16418 - Set the IO timeout to 120s (i.e. the double of the default 60s).
16421 - Automatically connect to irc.oftc.net with a randomized nickname,
16422 so as not to advertize the use of T(A)ILS; this nickname is made of:
16423 . a random firstname picked from the 2000 most registered by the U.S.
16424 social security administration in the 70s;
16425 . two random digits.
16426 Good old irc.indymedia.org is still configured - with same nickname -
16427 but is not enabled by default anymore.
16428 - Disabled MSN support, that is far too often affected by security flaws.
16430 * Build $HOME programmatically
16431 - Migrated all GConf settings, including the GNOME panel configuration,
16432 to XML files that are loaded at boot time.
16433 - Configure iceweasel profile skeleton in /etc/iceweasel.
16434 A brand new profile is setup from this skeleton once iceweasel is
16435 started after boot.
16436 . build sqlite files at build time from plain SQL.
16437 . FireGPG: hard-code current firegpg version at build time to prevent
16438 the extension to think it was just updated.
16439 . stop shipping binary NSS files. These were here only to
16440 install CaCert's certificate, that is actually shipped by Debian's
16444 - Updated Debian Live snapshots APT repository URL.
16445 - Purge all devel packages at the end of the chroot configuration.
16446 - Make sure the hook that fixes permissions runs last.
16447 - Remove unwanted Iceweasel search plugins at build time.
16450 - Added a progress bar for boot time file readahead.
16451 - Readahead more (~37MB) stuff in foreground at boot time.
16452 - Make the APT pinning persist in the Live image.
16453 - localepurge: keep locales for all supported languages,
16454 don't bother when installing new packages.
16455 - Removed syslinux help menu: these help pages are either buggy or
16456 not understandable by non-geeks.
16457 - Fixed Windows autorun.
16458 - Disable a few live-initramfs scripts to improve boot time.
16459 - Firewall: forbid any IPv6 communication with the outside.
16460 - Virtualization support: install open-vm-tools.
16461 - WhisperBack: updated to 1.2.1, add a random bug ID to the sent
16463 - Prompt for CD removal on shutdown, not for USB device.
16465 * live-initramfs: new package built from our Git (e2890a04ff) repository.
16466 - Merged upstream changes up to 1.177.2-1.
16467 - New noprompt=usb feature.
16468 - Fix buggy memory wiping and shutdown.
16469 - Really reboot when asked, rather than shutting down the system.
16472 - Upgraded to a new custom, patched package (0.93.0-0ubuntu4~amnesia1).
16473 - Added an entry in the Applications menu.
16476 - Install vim-nox with basic configuration
16478 - Install monkeysphere and msva-perl
16479 - Replaced randomsound with haveged as an additional source of entropy.
16482 - Build ralink rt2570 wifi modules.
16483 - Build rt2860 wifi modules from Squeeze. This supports the RT2860
16484 wireless adapter, found particularly in the ASUS EeePC model 901
16486 - Build broadcom-sta-source wifi modules.
16487 - Bugfix: cpufreq modules were not properly added to /etc/modules.
16488 - Use 800x600 mode on boot rather than 1024x768 for compatibility
16489 with smaller displays.
16491 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:14:13 +0200
16493 amnesia (0.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
16495 New release, mainly aimed at fixing live-initramfs security issue
16496 (Debian bug #568750), with an additional set of small enhancements as
16499 * live-initramfs: new custom package built from our own live-initramfs
16500 Git repository (commit 8b96e5a6cf8abc)
16501 - based on new 1.173.1-1 upstream release
16502 - fixed live-media=removable behaviour so that filesystem images found
16503 on non-removable storage are really never used (Debian bug #568750)
16505 * Vidalia: bring back our UI customizations (0.2.7-1~lenny+amnesia1)
16507 * APT: consistently use the GeoIP-powered cdn.debian.net
16509 * Software: make room so that {alpha, future} Squeeze images fit on
16511 - only install OpenOffice.org's calc, draw, impress, math and writer
16513 - removed OpenOffice.org's English hyphenation and thesaurus
16514 - removed hunspell, wonder why it was ever added
16517 - explicitly disable persistence, better safe than sorry
16518 - removed compulsory 15s timeout, live-initramfs knows how to wait for
16519 the Live media to be ready
16521 * Build system: don't cache rootfs anymore
16523 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:28:16 +0100
16525 amnesia (0.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
16527 * Brown paper bag bugfix release: have amnesia-security-check use
16528 entries publication time, rather than update time... else tagging
16529 a security issue as fixed, after releasing a new version, make this
16530 issue be announced to every user of this new, fixed version.
16532 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:58:41 +0100
16534 amnesia (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
16536 * We now only build and ship "Hybrid" ISO images, which can be either
16537 burnt on CD-ROM or dd'd to a USB stick or hard disk.
16539 * l10n: we now build and ship multilingual images; initially supported
16540 (or rather wanna-be-supported) languages are: ar, zh, de, en, fr, it,
16542 - install Iceweasel's and OpenOffice.org's l10n packages for every
16544 - stop installing localized help for OpenOffice.org, we can't afford it
16545 for enough languages
16546 - when possible, Iceweasel's homepage and default search engine are localized
16547 - added Iceweasel's "any language" Scroogle SSL search engine
16548 - when the documentation icon is clicked, display the local wiki in
16549 currently used language, if available
16550 - the Nautilus wipe script is now translatable
16551 - added gnome-keyboard-applet to the Gnome panel
16554 - replaced Icedove with claws mail, in a bit rough way; see
16555 https://amnesia.boum.org/todo/replace_icedove_with_claws/ for best
16556 practices and configuration advices
16557 - virtual keyboard: install onBoard instead of kvkbd
16558 - Tor controller: install Vidalia instead of TorK
16559 - install only chosen parts of Gnome, rather than gnome-desktop-environment
16560 - do not install xdialog, which is unused and not in Squeeze
16561 - stop installing grub as it breaks Squeeze builds (see Debian bug #467620)
16562 - install live-helper from snapshots repository into the Live image
16565 - do not install the NoScript extension anymore: it is not strictly
16566 necessary but bloodily annoying
16568 * Provide WhisperBack 1.2 for anonymous, GnuPG-encrypted bug reporting.
16569 - added dependency on python-gnutls
16570 - install the SMTP hidden relay's certificate
16572 * amnesia-security-check: new program that tells users that the amnesia
16573 version they are running is affected by security flaws, and which ones
16574 they are; this program is run at Gnome session startup, after sleeping
16575 2 minutes to let Tor a chance to initialize.
16578 - uses the Desktop Notifications framework
16579 - fetches the security atom feed from the wiki
16580 - verifies the server certificate against its known CA
16581 - tries fetching the localized feed; if it fails, fetch the default
16584 * live-initramfs: new custom package built from our own live-initramfs
16585 Git repository (commit 40e957c4b89099e06421)
16586 - at shutdown time, ask the user to unplug the CD / USB stick, then run
16587 smem, wait for it to finish, then attempt to immediately halt
16590 - bumped dependency on live-helper to >= 2.0a6 and adapted our config
16591 - generate hybrid ISO images by default, when installed syslinux is
16593 - stop trying to support building several images in a row, it is still
16594 broken and less needed now that we ship hybrid ISO images
16595 - scripts/config: specify distribution when initializing defaults
16596 - updated Debian Live APT repository's signing key
16599 - disable virtualbox packages installing and module building on !i386
16600 && !amd64, as PowerPC is not a supported guest architecture
16601 - built and imported tor_0.2.1.20-1~~lenny+1_powerpc.deb
16604 - rough beginnings of a scratch Squeeze branch, currently unsupported
16605 - install gobby-infinote
16608 - updated GnuPG key with up-to-date signatures
16609 - more improvements on boot time from CD
16610 - enhanced the wipe in Nautilus UI (now asks for confirmation and
16611 reports success or failure)
16612 - removed the "restart Tor" launcher from the Gnome panel
16614 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:28:04 +0100
16616 amnesia (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
16618 * software: removed openvpn, added
16624 - lvm2 (with disabled initscript as it slows-down too much the boot in certain
16626 - NetworkManager 0.7 (from backports.org) to support non-DHCP networking
16628 - randomsound to enhance the kernel's random pool
16630 - install the latest stable release from deb.torproject.org
16631 - ifupdown script now uses SIGHUP signal rather than a whole tor
16632 restart, so that in the middle of it vidalia won't start it's own
16634 - configure Gnome proxy to use Tor
16636 - adblockplus: upgraded to 1.0.2
16637 - adblockplus: subscribe to US and DE EasyList extensions, updated patterns
16638 - firegpg is now installed from Debian Squeeze rather than manually; current
16639 version is then 0.7.10
16640 - firegpg: use better keyserver ... namely pool.sks-keyservers.net
16641 - added bookmark to Amnesia's own website
16642 - use a custom "amnesiabranding" extension to localize the default search
16643 engine and homepage depending on the current locale
16644 - updated noscript whitelist
16645 - disable overriden homepage redirect on iceweasel upgrade
16647 - nicer default configuration with verified irc.indymedia.org's SSL cert
16648 - do not parse incoming messages for formatting
16649 - hide formatting toolbar
16650 * hardware compatibility
16652 - beginning of support for the ppc architecture
16653 - load acpi-cpufreq, cpufreq_ondemand and cpufreq_powersave kernel
16655 * live-initramfs: custom, updated package based on upstream's 1.157.4-1, built
16656 from commit b0a4265f9f30bad945da of amnesia's custom live-initramfs Git
16658 - securely erases RAM on shutdown using smem
16659 - fixes the noprompt bug when running from USB
16660 - disables local swap partitions usage, wrongly enabled by upstream
16661 * fully support for running as a guest system in VirtualBox
16662 - install guest utils and X11 drivers
16663 - build virtualbox-ose kernel modules at image build time
16665 - new (translatable) wiki, using ikiwiki, with integrated bugs and todo
16666 tracking system a static version of the wiki is included in generated
16667 images and linked from the Desktop
16669 - adapt for live-helper 2.0, and depend on it
16670 - get amnesia version from debian/changelog
16671 - include the full version in ISO volume name
16672 - save .list, .packages and .buildlog
16673 - scripts/clean: cleanup any created dir in binary_local-includes
16674 - updated Debian Live snapshot packages repository URL and signing key
16675 - remove duplicated apt/preferences file, the live-helper bug has been
16677 * l10n: beginning of support for --language=en
16679 - improved boot time on CD by ordering files in the squashfs in the order they
16680 are used during boot
16681 - added a amnesia-version script to built images, that outputs the current
16683 - added a amnesia-debug script that prepares a tarball with information that
16684 could be useful for developpers
16685 - updated Amnesia GnuPG key to a new 4096R one
16686 - set time with NTP when a network interface is brought up
16687 - import amnesia's GnuPG pubkey into the live session user's keyring
16688 - do not ask DHCP for a specific hostname
16689 - install localepurge, only keep en, fr, de and es locales, which reduces the
16690 generated images' size by 100MB
16691 - added a hook to replace /sbin/swapon with a script that only runs
16693 - moved networking hooks responsibility from ifupdown to NetworkManager
16695 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:17:08 +0100
16697 amnesia (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
16699 * imported /home/amnesia, then:
16700 - more user-friendly shell, umask 077
16701 - updated panel, added launcher to restart Tor
16702 - mv $HOME/bin/* /usr/local/bin/
16703 - removed metacity sessions
16704 - removed gstreamer's registry, better keep this dynamically updated
16705 - rm .qt/qt_plugins_3.3rc, better keep this dynamically updated
16706 - removed .gnome/gnome-vfs/.trash_entry_cache
16707 - removed kconf_update log
16708 - removed and excluded Epiphany configuration (not installed)
16711 - enable caching in RAM
16712 - explicitly disable ssl v2, and enable ssl v3 + tls
16713 - removed prefs for the non-installed webdeveloper
16714 - removed the SSL Blacklist extension (not so useful, licensing issues)
16715 - deep profile directory cleanup
16716 - extensions cleanup: prefer Debian-packaged ones, cleanly reinstalled
16717 AddBlock Plus and CS Lite to allow upgrading them
16718 - updated pluginreg.dat and localstore.rdf
16719 - moved some settings to user.js
16720 - made cookie/JavaScript whitelists more consistent
16721 - force httpS on whitelisted sites
16722 - NoScript: marked google and gmail as untrusted
16723 - some user interface tweaks, mainly for NoScript
16724 - FireGPG: disable the buggy auto-detection feature, the link to firegpg's
16725 homepage in generated pgp messages and the GMail interface (which won't
16726 work without JavaScript anyway)
16727 - updated blocklist.xml
16728 - removed and excluded a bunch of files in the profile directory
16729 * icedove: clean the profile directory up just like we did for iceweasel
16730 * software: install msmtp and mutt
16732 - use rsync rather than tar
16735 - reviewed pidgin-otr security (see TODO)
16737 - stop calling home-refresh in lh_build
16738 - include home-refresh in generated images
16740 - fix permissions on local includes at build time
16741 - updated scripts/{build,clean} wrt. new $HOME handling
16742 - scripts/{build,config}: stop guessing BASEDIR, we must be run from
16743 the root of the source directory anyway
16744 - stop storing /etc/amnesia/version in Git, delete it at clean time
16746 - converted Changelog to the Debian format and location, updated
16747 build scripts accordingly
16748 - added a README symlink at the root of the source directory
16749 - basic debian/ directory (not working for building packages yet,
16750 but at least we can now use git-dch)
16751 - added debian/gbp.conf with our custom options for git-dch
16752 - config/amnesia: introduce new $AMNESIA_DEV_* variables to be used
16753 by developpers' scripts
16754 - added ./release script: a wrapper around git-dch, git-commit and git-tag
16756 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:42:03 +0200
16758 amnesia (0.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
16760 * Forked Privatix 9.03.15, by Markus Mandalka:
16761 http://mandalka.name/privatix/index.html.en
16762 Everything has since been rewritten or so heavily changed that nothing
16763 remains from the original code... apart of a bunch of Gnome settings.
16764 * hardware support:
16765 - install a bunch of non-free wifi firmwares
16766 - install xsane and add the live user to the scanner group
16767 - install aircrack-ng
16768 - install xserver-xorg-video-geode on i386 (eCafe support)
16769 - install xserver-xorg-video-all
16770 - install firmware-linux from backports.org
16771 - install system-config-printer
16772 - added instructions in README.eCAFE to support the Hercules eCAFE EC-800
16775 - configure pinning to support installing chosen packages from
16776 squeeze; the APT source for testing is hardcoded in chroot_sources/,
16777 since there is no way to use $LH_CHROOT_MIRROR in chroot_local-hooks
16778 - give backports.org priority 200, so that we track upgrades of packages
16779 installed from there
16780 * release: include the Changelog and TODO in the generated images,
16781 in the /usr/share/doc/amnesia/ directory
16782 * software: install gnomebaker when building Gnome-based live OS, to
16783 easily clone myself when running from CD
16785 - build i386 images when the build host is amd64
16786 - added a version file: /etc/amnesia/version
16787 - use snapshot live-* packages inside the images
16788 - setup timezone depending on the chosen build locale
16789 - rely on standard live-initramfs adduser to do our user setup
16790 (including sudo vs. Gnome/KDE, etc.)
16791 - stop "supporting" KDE
16792 - allow building several images at once
16793 - migrated most of lh_config invocations to scripts/config
16794 - append "noprompt" so that halting/rebooting work with splashy
16795 - moved our own variables to config/amnesia, using the namespace
16798 - default search engine is now Scroogle SSL, configured to search pages
16799 in French language; the English one is also installed
16800 - never ask to save passwords or forms content
16801 - configured the torbutton extension to use polipo
16802 - installed the CACert root certificate
16803 - installed the SSL Blacklist extension and the blacklist data
16804 - installed the FireGPG extension
16805 - installed the CS Lite extension
16806 - installed the NoScript extension
16807 - NoScript, CS Lite: replaced the default whitelists with a list of
16808 trusted, non-commercial Internet Service Providers
16809 - configure extensions (add to prefs.js):
16810 user_pref("extensions.torbutton.startup", true);
16811 user_pref("extensions.torbutton.startup_state", 1);
16812 user_pref("extensions.torbutton.tor_enabled", true);
16813 user_pref("noscript.notify.hide", true);
16814 user_pref("capability.policy.maonoscript.sites", "about:
16815 about:blank about:certerror about:config about:credits
16816 about:neterror about:plugins about:privatebrowsing
16817 about:sessionrestore chrome: resource:");
16818 user_pref("extensions.firegpg.no_updates", true);
16819 - install the NoScript plugin from Debian squeeze
16820 - delete urlclassifier3.sqlite on $HOME refresh: as we disabled
16821 "safebrowsing", this huge file is of no use
16822 - torbutton: install newer version from Squeeze
16823 * linux: removed non-686 kernel flavours when building i386 images
16824 * compatibility: append "live-media=removable live-media-timeout=15", to
16825 prevent blindly booting another debian-live installed on the hard disk
16827 - gnome-app-install
16829 - cryptkeeper: Gnome system tray applet to encrypt files with EncFS
16830 - kvkbd: virtual keyboard (installed from backports.org)
16831 - sshfs (and added live user to the fuse group)
16832 - less, secure-delete, wipe, seahorse, sshfs, ntfs-3g
16835 - enable the transparent proxy, the DNS resolver, and the control port
16836 - save authentication cookie to /tmp/control_auth_cookie, so that the
16837 live user can use Tork and co.
16838 - autostart Tork with Gnome
16839 - Tork: installed, disabled most notifications and startup tips
16840 - added a restart tor hook to if-up.d (used by Network Manager as well),
16841 so that Tor does work immediately even if the network cable was
16842 plugged late in/after the boot process
16844 - added a nautilus-script to wipe files and directories
16845 - bash with working completion for the live user
16846 * polipo: install and configure this HTTP proxy to forward requests
16848 * DNS: install and configure pdnsd to forward any DNS request through
16850 * firewall: force every outgoing TCP connection through the Tor
16851 transparent proxy, discard any outgoing UDP connection
16853 - set syslinux timeout to 4 seconds
16854 - use splashy for more user-friendly boot/halt sequences
16856 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:09:15 +0200