1 tails (2.3) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
5 -- anonym <anonym@riseup.net> Sat, 19 Mar 2016 13:41:07 +0100
7 tails (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=medium
10 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.4. (Closes: #11254)
11 - Upgrade bind9-related packages to 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u6
12 - Upgrade libotr to 4.1.0-2+deb8u1
13 - Upgrade samba-related packages to 2:4.1.17+dfsg-2+deb8u2.
14 - Upgrade libgraphite2 to 1.3.6-1~deb8u1.
16 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Thu, 17 Mar 2016 15:03:52 +0100
18 tails (2.2) unstable; urgency=medium
20 * Major new features and changes
21 - Replace Vidalia (which has been unmaintained for years) with:
23 * the Tor Status GNOME Shell extension, which adds a System Status
24 icon indicating whether Tor is ready or not.
25 * Onion Circuits, a simple Tor circuit monitoring tool.
28 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.3 (Closes: #11189).
29 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u4.
30 - Upgrade cpio to 2.11+dfsg-4.1+deb8u1.
31 - Upgrade glibc to 2.19-18+deb8u3.
32 - Upgrade libav to 6:11.6-1~deb8u1.
33 - Upgrade libgraphite2 to 1.3.5-1~deb8u1.
34 - Upgrade libjasper1 to 1.900.1-debian1-2.4+deb8u1.
35 - Upgrade libreoffice to 4.3.3-2+deb8u3.
36 - Upgrade libssh2 to 1.4.3-4.1+deb8u1.
37 - Upgrade openssl to 1.0.1k-3+deb8u4.
38 - Upgrade perl to 5.20.2-3+deb8u4.
39 - Upgrade python-imaging, python-pil to 2.6.1-2 2.6.1-2+deb8u2.
42 - Hide "Laptop Mode Tools Configuration" menu entry. We don't
43 support configuring l-m-t in Tails, and it doesn't work out of
44 the box. (Closes: #11074)
46 * Actually write a string when saving bug report to
47 disk. (Closes: #11133)
48 * Add missing argument to OpenPGP dialog so the optional OpenPGP
49 key can be added again. (Closes: #11033)
52 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.24-1~deb8u+1.
53 - Add support for viewing DRM protected DVD videos using
54 libdvdcss2. Patch series submitted by Austin English
55 <austinenglish@gmail.com>. (Closes: #7674)
56 - Automatically save KeePassX database after every change by default.
58 - Implement Tor stream isolation for WhisperBack
59 - Delete unused tor-tsocks-mua.conf previously used by Claws
60 Mail. (Closes: #10904)
61 - Add set -u to all gettext:ized shell scripts. In gettext-base <
62 1.8.2, like the one we had in Wheezy, gettext.sh references the
63 environment variable ZSH_VERSION, which we do not set. This has
64 prevented us from doing `set -u` without various hacks. (Closes:
66 - Also set -e in some shell scripts which lacked it for no good
68 - Make Git verify the integrity of transferred objects. (Closes:
70 - Remove LAlt+Shift and LShift+RShift keyboard layout toggling
71 shortcuts. (Closes: #10913, #11042)
74 - Reorder the execution of feature to decrease peak disk
75 usage. (Closes: #10503)
76 - Paste into the GTK file chooser, instead of typing. (Closes:
78 - Pidgin: wait a bit for text to have stopped scrolling before we
79 click on it. (Closes: #10783)
80 - Fix step that runs commands in GNOME Terminal, that was broken
81 on Jessie when a Terminal is running already. (Closes: #11176)
82 - Let ruby-rjb guess JAVA_HOME instead fixing on one jvm
83 version. (Closes: #11190)
86 - Upgrade build system to Debian Jessie. This includes migrating to a
87 new Vagrant basebox based on Debian Jessie.
88 - Rakefile: print git status when there are uncommitted
89 changes. Patch submitted by Austin English
90 <austinenglish@gmail.com>. (Closes: #11108)
91 - .gitignore: add .rake_tasks~. Patch submitted by Austin English
92 <austinenglish@gmail.com>. (Closes: #11134)
93 - config/amnesia: use --show-field over sed filtering. Patch
94 submitted by Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>.
95 - Umount and clean up leftover temporary directories from old
96 builds. (Closes: #10772)
98 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 07 Mar 2016 18:09:50 +0100
100 tails (2.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium
102 * Major new features and changes
103 - Enable the Tor Browser's font fingerprinting protection
104 (Closes: #11000). We do it for all browsers (including
105 the Unsafe Browser and I2P Browser mainly to avoid making our
106 automated test suite overly complex. This implied to set an appropriate
107 working directory when launching the Tor Browser, to accommodate for
108 the assumptions it makes about this.
111 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.2 (Closes: #11105).
114 - Repair 32-bit UEFI support (Closes: #11007); bugfix on 2.0.
115 - Add libgnome2-bin to installed packages list to provide gnome-open,
116 which fixes URL handling at least in KeePassX, Electrum and Icedove
117 (Closes: #11031); bugfix on 2.0. Thanks to segfault for the patch!
120 - Refactor and de-duplicate the chrooted browsers' configuration:
121 prefs.js, userChrome.css (Closes: #9896).
122 - Make the -profile Tor Launcher workaround simpler (Closes: #7943).
123 - Move Torbutton environment configuration to the tor-browser script,
124 instead of polluting the default system environment with it.
125 - Refresh patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile
127 - Propagate Tor Launcher options via the wrapper.
128 - Move tor-launcher script to /usr/local/bin.
129 - Move tor-launcher-standalone to /usr/local/lib.
130 - Move Tor Launcher env configuration closer to the place where it is used,
131 for simplicity's sake.
134 - Mass update browser and Tor Launcher related images due to font change,
135 caused by Tor Browser 5.5's font fingerprinting protection
136 (Closes: #11097). And then, use separate PrintToFile.png for the browsers,
137 and Evince, since it cannot be shared anymore.
138 - Adjust to the refactored chrooted browsers configuration handling.
139 - Test that Tor Launcher uses the correct Tor Browser libraries.
140 - Allow more slack when verifying that the date that was set.
141 - Bump a bit the timeout used when waiting for the remote shell.
142 - Bump timeout for the process to disappear, when closing Evince.
143 - Bump timeout when saving persistence configuration.
144 - Bump timeout for bootstrapping I2P.
147 - Remove no longer relevant places.sqlite cleanup procedure.
149 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Fri, 12 Feb 2016 13:00:15 +0000
151 tails (2.0) unstable; urgency=medium
153 * Major new features and changes
154 - Upgrade to Debian 8 (Jessie).
155 - Migrate to GNOME Shell in Classic mode.
156 - Use systemd as PID 1, and convert all custom initscripts to systemd units.
157 - Remove the Windows camouflage feature: our call for help to port
158 it to GNOME Shell (issued in January, 2015) was unsuccessful.
159 - Remove Claws Mail: Icedove is now the default email client
161 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5 (Closes: #10858, #10983).
164 - Minimally sandbox many services with systemd's namespacing features.
165 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u3.
166 - Upgrade Git to 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u1.
167 - Upgrade Perl to 5.20.2-3+deb8u3.
168 - Upgrade bind9-related packages to 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u5.
169 - Upgrade FUSE to 2.9.3-15+deb8u2.
170 - Upgrade isc-dhcp-client tot 4.3.1-6+deb8u2.
171 - Upgrade libpng12-0 to 1.2.50-2+deb8u2.
172 - Upgrade OpenSSH client to 1:6.7p1-5+deb8u1.
175 - Restore the logo in the "About Tails" dialog.
176 - Don't tell the user that "Tor is ready" before htpdate is done
178 - Upgrader wrapper: make the check for free memory more accurate
179 (Closes: #10540, #8263).
180 - Allow the desktop user, when active, to configure printers;
181 fixes regression introduced in Tails 1.1 (Closes: #8443).
182 - Close Vidalia before we restart Tor. Otherwise Vidalia will be running
183 and showing errors while we make sure that Tor bootstraps, which could
185 - Allow Totem to read DVDs, by installing apparmor-profiles-extra
186 from jessie-backports (Closes: #9990).
187 - Make memory erasure on shutdown more robust (Closes: #9707, #10487):
188 · don't forcefully overcommit memory
189 · don't kill the allocating task
190 · make sure the kernel doesn't starve from memory
191 · make parallel sdmem handling faster and more robust
192 - Don't offer the option, in Tor Browser, to open a downloaded file with
193 an external application (Closes: #9285). Our AppArmor confinement was
194 blocking most such actions anyway, resulting in poor UX; bugfix on 1.3.
195 Accordingly, remove the now-obsolete exception we had in the Tor
196 Browser AppArmor profile, that allowed executing seahorse-tool.
197 - Fix performance issue in Tails Upgrader, that made it very slow to apply
198 an automatic upgrade; bugfix on 1.7 (Closes: #10757).
199 - Use our wrapper script to start Icedove from the GNOME menus.
200 - Make it possible to localize our Icedove wrapper script.
201 - List Icedove persistence option in the same position where Claws Mail
202 used to be, in the persistent volume assistant (Closes: #10832).
203 - Fix Electrum by installing the version from Debian Testing
204 (Closes: #10754). We need version >=2.5.4-2, see #9713;
205 bugfix on 2.0~beta1. And, explicitly install python-qt4 to enable
206 Electrum's GUI: it's a Recommends, and we're not pulling it ourselves
207 via other means anymore.
208 - Restore default file associations (Closes: #10798);
210 - Update 'nopersistent' boot parameter to 'nopersistence'; bugfix on 0.12
211 (Closes: #10831). Thanks to live-media=removable, this had no security
213 - Repair dotfiles persistence feature, by adding a symlink from
214 /lib/live/mount/persistence to /live/persistence; bugfix on 2.0~beta1
216 - Fix ability to re-configure an existing persistent volume using
217 the GUI; bugfix on 2.0~beta1 (Closes: #10809).
218 - Associate armored OpenPGP public keys named *.key with Seahorse,
219 to workaround https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93656;
220 bugfix on 1.1 (Closes: #10889).
221 - Update the list of enabled GNOME Shell extensions, which might fix
222 the "GNOME Shell sometimes leaves Classic mode" bug seen in 2.0~beta1:
223 · Remove obsolete "Alternative Status Menu", that is not shipped
225 · Explicitly enable the GNOME Shell extensions that build
227 - Make _get_tg_setting() compatible with set -u (Closes: #10785).
228 - laptop-mode-tools: don't control autosuspend. Some USB input
229 devices don't support autosuspend. This change might help fix
230 #10850, but even if it doesn't, it makes sense to me that we
231 don't let laptop-mode-tools fiddle with this on a Live system
232 (Closes (for now): #10850).
235 - Remove obsolete code from various places.
237 · hide all windows while logging in
238 · resize and re-position the panel when the screen size grows
239 · PostLogin: log into the Journal instead of a dedicated log file
240 · use localectl to set the system locale and keyboard mapping
241 · delete the Live user's password if no administration password is set
243 · port to GDBus greeter interface, and adjust to other GDM
246 · port to UDisks2, and from Qt4 to GTK3
247 · adapt to work on other GNU/Linux operating systems than Tails
248 · clean up enough upstream code and packaging bits to make it
249 deserve being uploaded to Debian
250 · rename everything from liveusb-creator to tails-installer
251 - Port tails-perl5lib to GTK3 and UDisks2. In passing, do some minor
252 refactoring and a GUI improvement.
253 - Persistent Volume Assistant:
254 · port to GTK3 and UDisks2
255 · handle errors when deleting persistent volume (Closes: #8435)
256 · remove obsolete workarounds
257 - Don't install UDisks v1.
258 - Adapt custom udev and polkit rules to UDisks v2 (Closes: #9054, #9270).
259 - Adjust import-translations' post-import step for Tails Installer,
260 to match how its i18n system works nowadays.
261 - Use socket activation for CUPS, to save some boot time.
262 - Set memlockd.service's OOMScoreAdjust to -1000.
263 - Don't bother creating /var/lib/live in tails-detect-virtualization.
264 If it does not exist at this point, we have bigger and more
266 - Simplify the virtualization detection & reporting system, and do it
267 as a non-root user with systemd-detect-virt rather than virt-what.
268 - Replace rsyslog with the systemd Journal (Closes: #8320), and adjust
269 WhisperBack's logs handling accordingly.
270 - Drop tails-save-im-environment.
271 It's not been used since we stopped automatically starting the web browser.
272 - Add a hook that aborts the build if any *.orig file is found. Such files
273 appear mainly when a patch of ours is fuzzy. In most cases they are no big
274 deal, but in some cases they end up being taken into account
276 - Replace the tor+http shim with apt-transport-tor (Closes: #8198).
277 - Install gnome-tweak-tool.
278 - Don't bother testing if we're using dependency based boot.
279 - Drop workaround to start spice-vdagent in GDM (Closes: #8025).
280 This has been fixed in Jessie proper.
281 - Don't install ipheth-utils anymore. It seems to be obsolete
282 in current desktop environments.
283 - Stop installing the buggy unrar-free, superseded in Jessie (Closes: #5838)
284 - Drop all custom fontconfig configuration, and configure fonts rendering
286 - Drop zenity patch (zenity-fix-whitespacing-box-sizes.diff),
287 that was applied upstream.
288 - Install libnet-dbus-perl (currently 1.1.0) from jessie-backports,
289 it brings new features we need.
290 - Have the security check and the upgrader wait for Tor having bootstrapped
291 with systemd unit ordering.
292 - Get rid of tails-security-check's wrapper.
293 Its only purpose was to wait for Tor to have bootstrapped,
294 which is now done via systemd.
295 - Don't allow the amnesia and tails-upgrade-frontend users to run
296 tor-has-bootstrapped as root with sudo. They don't need it anymore,
297 thanks to using systemd for starting relevant units only once Tor
299 - Install python-nautilus, that enables MAT's context menu item in Nautilus.
301 - Configure GDM with a snippet file instead of patching its
302 greeter.dconf-defaults.
304 · port to Python 3 and GObject Introspection (Closes: #7755)
305 · migrate from the gnutls module to the ssl one
306 · use PGP/MIME for better attachments handling
307 · migrate from the gnupginterface module to the gnupg one
308 · natively support SOCKS ⇒ don't wrap with torsocks anymore
310 · don't try to include the obsolete .xession-errors in bug reports
312 - chroot-browser.sh: don't use static DISPLAY.
313 - Simplify debugging:
314 · don't hide the emergency shutdown's stdout
315 · tails-unblock-network: trace commands so that they end up in the Journal
316 - Configure the console codeset at ISO build time, instead of setting it
317 to a constant via the Greeter's PostLogin.default.
318 - Order the AppArmor policy compiling in a way that is less of a blocker
320 - Include the major KMS modules in the initramfs. This helps seamless
321 transition to X.Org when booting, and back to text mode on shutdown,
322 can help for proper graphics hardware reinitialization post-kexec,
323 and should improve GNOME Shell support in some virtual machines.
324 - Always show the Universal Access menu icon in the GNOME panel.
325 - Drop notification for not-migrated-yet persistence configuration,
326 and persistence settings disabled due to wrong access rights.
327 That migration happened more two years ago.
328 - Remove the restricted network detector, that has been broken for too long;
329 see #10560 for next steps (Closes: #8328).
330 - Remove unsupported, never completed kiosk mode support.
331 - clock_gettime_monotonic: use Perl's own function to get the integer part,
332 instead of forking out to sed.
333 - Don't (try to) disable lvm2 initscripts anymore. Both the original reason
334 and the implementation are obsolete on Jessie.
335 - Lower potential for confusion (#8443), by removing system-config-printer.
336 One GUI to configure printers is enough (Closes: #8505).
337 - Add "set -u" to tails-unblock-network.
338 - Add a systemd target whose completion indicates that Tor has bootstrapped,
339 and use it everywhere sensible (Closes: #9393).
340 - Disable udev's 75-persistent-net-generator.rules, to preventing races
341 between MAC spoofing and interface naming.
342 - Replace patch against NetworkManager.conf with drop-in files.
343 - Replace resolvconf with simpler NetworkManager and dhclient configuration.
345 - Replace patching of the gdomap, i2p, hdparm, tor and ttdnsd initscripts
346 with 'systemctl disable' (Closes: #9881).
347 - Replace patches that wrapped apps with torsocks with dynamic patching with
348 a hook, to ease maintenance. Also, patch D-Bus services as needed
350 - Notify the user if running Tails inside non-free virtualization software
351 that does not try to hide its nature (Closes: #5315).
352 Thanks to Austin English <austinenglish@gmail.com> for the patch.
353 - Declare htpdate.service as being needed for time-sync.target, to ensure
354 that "services where correct time is essential should be ordered after
356 - Convert some of the X session startup programs to `systemd --user' units.
357 - Let the Pidgin wrapper pass through additional command-line arguments
359 - Move out of the $PATH a bunch of programs that users should generally
360 not run directly: connect-socks, end-profile, getTorBrowserUserAgent,
361 generate-tor-browser-profile, kill-boot-profile, tails-spoof-mac,
362 tails-set-wireless-devices-state, tails-configure-keyboard,
363 do_not_ever_run_me, boot-profile, tails-unblock-network,
364 tor-controlport-filter, tails-virt-notify-user, tails-htp-notify-user,
365 udev-watchdog-wrapper (Closes: #10658)
366 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.23-2~deb8u+1.
367 - Disable I2P's time syncing support.
368 - Install Torbirdy from official Jessie backports, instead of from
369 our own APT repository (Closes: #10804).
370 - Make GNOME Disks' passphrase strength checking new feature work,
371 by installing cracklib-runtime (Closes: #10862).
372 - Add support for Japanese in Tor Browser.
373 - Install xserver-xorg-video-intel from Jessie Backports (currently:
374 2.99.917-2~bpo8+1). This adds support for recent chips such as
375 Intel Broadwell's HD Graphics (Closes: #10841).
376 - Improve a little bit post-Greeter network unblocking:
377 · Sleep a bit longer between deleting the blacklist, and triggering udev;
378 this might help cure #9012.
379 · Increase logging, so that we get more information next time someone
381 · Touch /etc/modprobe.d/ after deleting the blacklist; this might help,
382 in case all this is caused by some aufs bug.
383 - Enable and use the Debian jessie-proposed-updates APT repository,
384 anticipating on the Jessie 8.3 point-release (Closes: #10897).
385 - Upgrade most firmware packages to 20160110-1.
386 - Upgrade Intel CPU microcodes to 3.20151106.1~deb8u1.
387 - Disable IPv6 for the default wired connection, so that
388 NetworkManager does not spam the logs with IPv6 router
389 solicitation failure. Note that this does not fix the problem
390 for other connections (Partially closes: #10939).
393 - Adapt to the new desktop environment and applications' look.
394 - Adapt new changed nmcli syntax and output.
395 - New NetworkManager connection files must be manually loaded in Jessie.
396 - Adapt to new pkexec behavior.
397 - Adapt to how we now disable networking.
398 - Use sysctl instead of echo:ing into /proc/sys.
399 - Use oom_score_adj instead of the older oom_adj.
400 - Adapt everything depending on logs to the use of the Journal.
402 - Check that the system partition is an EFI System Partition.
403 - Add ldlinux.c32 to the list of bootloader files that are expected
404 to be modified when we run syslinux (Closes: #9053).
405 - Use apt(8) instead of apt-get(8).
406 - Don't hide the cursor after opening the GNOME apps menu.
407 - Convert the remote shell to into a systemd native service and a Python 3,
408 script that uses the sd_notify facility (Closes: #9057). Also, set its
409 OOM score adjustment value via its unit file, and not from the test suite.
410 - Adjust to match where screenshots are saved nowadays.
411 - Check that all system units have started (Closes: #8262)
412 - Simplify the "too small device" test.
413 - Spawn `poweroff' and `halt' in the background, and don't wait for them
414 to return: anything else would be racy vs. the remote shell's stopping.
415 - Bump video memory allocated to the system under test, to fix out of video
417 - When configuring the CPU to lack PAE support, use a qemu32 CPU instead
418 of a Pentium one: the latter makes GNOME Shell crash.
419 See #8778 for details about how Mesa's CPU features detection has
420 room for improvement.
421 - Adjust free(1) output parsing for Jessie.
422 - vm-execute: rename --type option to --spawn.
423 - Add method to set the X.Org clipboard, and install its dependency
425 - Paste URLs in one go, to work around issue with lost key presses
426 in the browser (Closes: #10467).
427 - Reliably wait for Synaptic's search button to fade in.
428 - Take into account that the sticky bit is not set on block devices
430 - Ensure that we can use a NetworkManager connection stored in persistence
432 - Use a stricter regexp when extracting logs for dropped packets.
433 - Clone the host CPU for the test suite guests (Closes: #8778).
434 - Run ping as root (aufs does not support file capabilities so we don't
435 get cap_net_raw+ep, and if built on a filesystem that does support
436 file capabilities, then /bin/ping is not setupd root).
437 - Escape regexp special characters when constructing the firewall log
438 parsing regexp, and pass -P to grep, since Ruby uses PCRE.
439 - Adjust is_persistent?() helper to findmnt changes in Jessie.
440 - Rework in depth how we measure pattern coverage in memory, with more
441 reliable Linux OOM and VM settings, fundamental improvements
442 in what exactly we measure, and custom OOM adjutments for fillram
443 processes (Closes: #9705).
444 - Use blkid instead of parted to determine the filesystem type.
445 - Use --kiosk mode instead of --fullscreen in virt-viewer, to remove
446 the tiny border of the in-viewer menu.
447 - Remove now redundant desktop screenshot directory scenario.
448 - Adapt GNOME notification handling for Debian Jessie (Closes: #8782)
449 - Disable screen blanking in the automated test suite, which occasionally
450 breaks some test cases (Closes: #10403).
451 - Move upgrade scenarios to the feature dedicated to them.
452 - Don't make libvirt storage volumes executable.
453 - Refactor the PAUSE_ON_FAIL functionality, so that we can use `pause()`
454 as a breakpoint when debugging.
455 - Drop non-essential Totem test that is mostly a duplicate, and too painful
456 to be worth automating on Jessie.
457 - Retry Totem HTTPS test with a new Tor circuit on failure.
458 - Replace iptables status regexp-based parser with a new XML-based
459 status analyzer: the previous implementation could not be adjusted
460 to the new ip6tables' output (Closes: #9704).
461 - Don't reboot in one instance when it is not needed.
462 - Optimize memory erasure anti-test: block the boot to save CPU on the host.
463 - Update I2P tests for Jessie, and generally make them more robust.
464 - Update Electrum tests for 2.5.4-2 (Closes: #10758).
465 - Add workaround for libvirt vs. guestfs permissions issue, to allow
466 running the test suite on current Debian sid.
467 - Fix buggy code, that happened to work by mistake, in the Seahorse
468 test cases; bugfix on 1.8.
469 - Update test suite images due to CSS change on Tails' website.
470 - Adapt Tor Browser tests to work with the 5.5 series.
471 - Automatically test downloading files in Tor Browser.
472 - Remove obsolete scenario, that tested opening a downloaded file with
473 an external application, which we do not support anymore.
474 - Improve robustness of the "Tails OpenPGP keys" scenario (Closes: #10378).
475 - Automatically test the "Diable all networking" feature (Closes: #10430).
476 - Automatically test that SSH works over LAN (Closes: #9087).
477 - Bump some statuc sleeps to fix a few race conditions (Closes: #5330).
478 - Automatically test that an emergency shutdown triggers on boot
479 medium removal (Closes: #5472).
480 - Make the AppArmor checks actually detect errors (Closes: #10926).
483 - Bump amount of disk space needed to build Tails with Vagrant.
484 The addition of the Japanese Tor Browser tarball made us reach
485 the limit of the previous value.
487 * Adjustments for Debian 8 (Jessie) with no or very little user-visible impact
488 - Free the fixed UIDs/GIDs we need before creating the corresponding users.
489 - Replace the real gnome-backgrounds with a fake, equivs generated one
490 (Closes: #8055). Jessie's gnome-shell depends on gnome-backgrounds,
491 which is too fat to ship considering we're not using it.
492 - AppArmor: adjust CUPS profile to support our Live system environment
494 · Mangle lib/live/mount/overlay/... as usual for aufs.
495 · Pass the the attach_disconnected flag, that's needed for compatibility
497 - Make sure we don't ship geoclue* (Closes: #7949).
498 - Drop deprecated GDM configuration file.
499 - Don't add the Live user to the deprecated 'fuse' group.
500 - Drop hidepid mount option for /proc (Closes: #8256). In its current,
501 simplistic form it cannot be supported by systemd.
502 - Don't manually load acpi-cpufreq at boot time. It fails to load
503 whenever no device it supports is present, which makes the
504 systemd-modules-load.service fail. These days, the kernel
505 should just automatically load such modules when they are needed.
506 - Drop sysvinit-specific (sensigs.omit.d) tweaks for memlockd.
507 - Disable the GDM unit file's Restart=always, that breaks our "emergency
508 shutdown on boot medium removal" feature.
509 - Update the implementation of the memory erasure on shutdown feature:
510 · check for rebooting state using systemctl, instead of the obsolete
511 $RUNLEVEL (Closes: #8306)
512 · the kexec-load initscript normally silently exits unless systemd is
513 currently running a reboot job. This is not the case when the emergency
514 shutdown has been triggered, so we removed this check
515 · migrate tails-kexec to the /lib/systemd/system-shutdown/ facility
516 · don't (try to) switch to tty1 on emergency shutdown: it apparently
517 requires data that we haven't locked into memory, and then it blocks
518 the whole emergency shutdown process
519 - Display a slightly darker version of the desktop wallpaper on the screen
520 saver, instead of the default flashy "Debian 8" branding (Closes: #9038).
521 - Disable software autorun from external media.
522 - Disable a few unneeded D-Bus services. Some of these services are
523 automatically started (via D-Bus activation) when GNOME Shell tries
524 to use them. The only "use" I've seen for them, except eating
525 precious RAM, is to display "No appointment today" in the calendar pop-up.
527 - Prevent NetworkManager services from starting at boot time
528 (Closes: #8313). We start them ourselves after changing the MAC address.
529 - Unfuzzy all patches (Closes: #8268) and drop a few obsolete ones.
530 - Adapt IBus configuration for Jessie (Closes: #8270), i.e. merge the two
531 places where we configure keyboard layout and input methods: both are now
532 configured in the same place in Jessie's GNOME.
533 - Migrate panel launchers to the favorite apps list (Closes: #7992).
534 - Drop pre-GNOME Shell menu tweaks.
535 - Hide "Log out" button in the GNOME Shell menu (Closes: #8364).
536 - Add a custom shutdown-helper GNOME Shell extension (Closes: #8302, #5684
537 and #5878) that removes the press-Alt-to-turn-shutdown-button-into-Suspend
538 functionality from the GNOME user menu, and makes Restart and Shutdown
539 immediate, without further user interaction. Accordingly remove our custom
540 Shutdown Helper panel applet (#8302).
541 - Drop GNOME Panel configuration, now deprecated.
542 - Disable GNOME Shell's screen lock feature.
543 We're not there yet (see #5684).
544 - Disable GNOME Shell screen locker's user switch feature.
545 - Explicitly install libany-moose-perl (Closes: #8051).
546 It's needed by our OpenPGP applet. On Wheezy, this package was pulled
547 by some other dependency. This is not the case anymore on Jessie.
548 - Don't install notification-daemon nor gnome-mag: GNOME Shell has taken
549 over this functionality (Closes: #7481).
550 - Don't install ntfsprogs: superseded on Jessie.
551 - Don't install barry-util: not part of Jessie.
552 - Link udev-watchdog dynamically, and lock it plus its dependencies
554 - Migrate from gdm-simple-greeter to a custom gdm-tails session
556 - Update Plymouth installation and configuration:
557 · install the plymouth packages via chroot_local-hooks: lb 2.x's "standard"
558 packages list pulls console-common in, which plymouth now conflicts with
559 · don't patch the plymouth initscript anymore, that was superseded
560 by native systemd unit files
561 · mask the plymouth-{halt,kexec,poweroff,reboot,shutdown} services,
562 to prevent them from occupying the active TTY with an (empty) splash
563 screen on shutdown/reboot, that would hide the messages we want to show
564 to the user via tails-kexec (Closes: #9032)
565 - Migrate GNOME keyboard layout settings from libgnomekbd to input-sources
567 - Explicitly install syslinux-efi, that we need and is not automatically
568 pulled by anything else anymore.
569 - Workaround #7248 for GDM: use a solid blue background picture,
570 instead of a solid color fill, in the Greeter session.
571 - De-install gcc-4.8-base and gcc-4.9 at the end of the ISO build process.
572 - Revert the "Wrap syndaemon to always use -t" Wheezy-specific workaround.
573 - htpdate: run date(1) in a Jessie-compatible (and nicer) way.
574 - Remove obsolete dconf screenshot settings and the corresponding test.
575 - Drop our patched python-dbus{,-dev} package (Closes: #9177).
576 - live-persist: stop overriding live-boot's functions, we now have
577 a recent enough blkid.
578 - Adjust sdmem initramfs bits for Jessie:
579 · Directly call poweroff instead of halt -p.
580 · Don't pass -n to poweroff and reboot, it's not supported anymore.
581 - Wrap text in the Unsafe Browser startup warning dialog
582 (Jessie's zenity does not wrap it itself).
583 - Associate application/pgp-keys with Seahorse's "Import Key" application
585 - Install topIcons GNOME Shell extension (v28), to work around the fact
586 that a few of the applets we use hijack the notification area.
587 - "cd /" to fix permissions issue at tails-persistence-setup startup
589 - Install gstreamer1.0-libav, so that Totem can play H264-encoded videos.
590 - Adjust APT sources configuration:
591 · remove explicit jessie and jessie-updates sources:
592 automatically added by live-build
594 · add jessie-backports
595 - Firewall: white-list access to the accessibility daemon (Closes: #8075).
596 - Adjust to changed desktop notification behavior and supported feature set
598 · pass the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS used by the GNOME session
600 · update waiting for a notification handler: gnome-panel and nm-applet
601 are obsolete, GNOME Shell is now providing this facility, so instead
602 wait for a process that starts once GNOME Shell is ready, namely
603 ibus-daemon (Closes: #8685)
604 · port tails-warn-about-disabled-persistence and tails-virt-notify-user
605 to notification actions (instead of hyperlinks), and make the latter
606 transient; to this end, add support to Desktop::Notify for "hints"
607 and notification actions
608 · tails-security-check: use a dialog box instead of desktop notifications
609 · MAC spoofing failure notification: remove the link to the documentation;
610 it was broken on Tails/Wheezy already, see #10559 for next steps
611 - Don't explicitly install gnome-panel nor gnome-menus, so that they go away
612 whenever the Greeter does not pull them in anymore.
613 - Install gkbd-capplet, that provides gkbd-keyboard-display (Closes: #8363).
614 - Install Tor 0.2.7 from deb.torproject.org: we don't need to rebuild it
615 ourselves for seccomp support anymore.
616 - Wrap Seahorse with torsocks when it is started as a D-Bus service too
618 - Rename the AppArmor profile for Tor, so it applies to the system-wide
619 Tor service we run (Closes: #10528).
620 - Essentially revert ALSA state handling to how it was pre-Jessie, so that
621 mixer levels are unmuted and sanitized at boot time (Closes: #7591).
622 - Pass --yes to apt-get when installing imagemagick.
623 - Make removable devices, that we support installing Tails to, user writable:
624 Tails Installer requires raw block device access to such devices
625 (Closes: #8273). Similarly, allow the amnesia user, when active, to open
626 non-system devices for writing with udisks2. This is roughly udisks2's
627 equivalent of having direct write access to raw block storage devices.
628 Here too, Tails Installer uses this functionality.
629 - Disable networkd to prevent any risk of DNS leaks it might cause; and
630 disable timesyncd, as we have our own time synchronization mechanism.
631 They are not enabled by default in Jessie, but may be in Stretch,
632 so let's be explicit about it.
633 - Mask hwclock-save.service, to avoid sync'ing the system clock
634 to the hardware clock on shutdown (Closes: #9363).
635 - apparmor-adjust-cupsd-profile.diff: adjust to parse fine on Jessie
637 - Explicitly use tor@default.service when it's the one we mean.
638 - Refactor GNOME/X env exporting to Tails' shell library, and grab
639 more of useful bits of the desktop session environment.
640 Then, use the result in the test suite's remote shell.
641 - Stop tweaking /etc/modules. It's 2015, the kernel should load these things
642 automatically (Closes: #10609).
643 - Have systemd hardening let Tor modify its configuration (needed by Tor
644 Launcher), and start obfs4proy (Closes: #10696, #10724).
645 - Bump extensions.adblockplus.currentVersion and
646 extensions.enigmail.configuredVersion to match what we currently get
648 - I2P: switch from 'service' to 'systemctl' where possible.
650 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:06:33 +0100
652 tails (1.8.2) unstable; urgency=medium
655 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.7.
656 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u2.
657 - Upgrade foomatic-filters to 4.0.17-1+deb7u1.
658 - Upgrade git to 1:1.7.10.4-1+wheezy2.
659 - Upgrade Icedove to 38.5.0-1~deb7u1.
660 - Upgrade libxml2-related packages to 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy5.
661 - Upgrade OpenSSL-related packages to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u19.
662 - Upgrade libsmbclient to 2:3.6.6-6+deb7u6.
664 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 09 Jan 2016 16:27:27 +0100
666 tails (1.8.1) unstable; urgency=medium
669 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.6.
670 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u1
671 - Upgrade gdkpixbuf to 2.26.1-1+deb7u3
672 - Upgrade bind9 tools to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u8
675 - Fix time synchronization in bridge mode by refreshing our patch
676 against Tor's AppArmor profile.
678 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Fri, 18 Dec 2015 19:05:18 +0000
680 tails (1.8) unstable; urgency=medium
683 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.7.6-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.
684 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.5. (Closes: #10751)
685 - Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u5.
686 - Upgrade krb5-based packages to 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u6.
687 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u6.
688 - Upgrade wpasupplicant to 1.0-3+deb7u3.
689 - Upgrade libpng12-0 to 1.2.49-1+deb7u1.
690 - Upgrade openjdk-7 to 7u91-2.6.3-1~deb7u1.
691 - Upgrade libnspr4 to 2:4.9.2-1+deb7u3
692 - Upgrade dpkg to 1.16.17.
693 - Upgrade gnutls26 to 2.12.20-8+deb7u4.
694 - Upgrade Icedove to 1:38.0.1-1~deb7u1.
695 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u18.
698 - Upgrade to Electrum 2.5.4-2~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Now Electrum
699 should work again. Note that the documentation has not been
700 adapted to the slight changes in the Electrum account setup
704 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.23-2~deb7u+1.
705 - Rebase our patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile on top
706 of the one shipped in torbrowser-launcher 0.2.1-2.
707 - Warn if the claws-mail persistence is enabled and contains a
708 Claws Mail configuration when starting icedove. (Closes: #10458)
709 - Replace the Claws Mail GNOME launcher with Icedove. (Closes:
711 - Remove the Claws Mail persistence feature from the Persistence
712 Assistant. (Closes: #10742)
715 - Simplify ISO image naming rules by using the base rule we use
716 for Jenkins all the time, except when building from a tag
717 (i.e. building a release). (Closes: #10349)
720 - Lower the waiting time for USB installation in the test suite.
721 So far we were waiting up to one hour, which is just the same as
722 our Jenkins inactivity timeout, so in practice when Tails
723 Installer fails and displays an error message, instead of
724 reporting that the job failed (which is the point of the
725 exercise) we abort the job due to this timeout which
726 communicates less clearly that there's probably a bug. (Closes:
728 - Remove the check for the sound icon in the systray in the
729 Windows Camouflage tests. (Closes: #10493)
730 - Retry running whois when "LIMIT EXCEEDED" is in its output for
731 increased robustness. (Closes: #10523)
732 - Make Seahorse tests more robust. (Closes: #9095, #10501)
733 - Make the handling of Pidgin's account manager more robust.
736 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 14 Dec 2015 23:07:19 +0100
738 tails (1.7) unstable; urgency=medium
740 * Major new features and changes
741 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.4. (Closes: #10456)
742 - Add a technology preview of the Icedove Email client (a
743 rebranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird), including OpenPGP
744 support via the Enigmail add-on, general security and anonymity
745 improvements via the Torbirdy add-on, and complete persistence
746 support (which will be enabled automatically if you already have
747 Claws Mail persistence enabled). Icedove will replace Claws Mail
748 as the supported email client in Tails in a future
749 release. (Closes: #6151, #9498, #10285)
750 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.7.4-rc-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Among the many
751 improvement of this new Tor major release, the new
752 KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option allows us to drop the
753 bug15482.patch patch (taken from the Tor Browse bundle) that
754 enabled similar (but inferior) functionality for *all*
755 SocksPort:s -- now the same circuit is only kept alive for
756 extended periods for the SocksPort used by the Tor
757 Browser. (Closes: #10194, #10308)
758 - Add an option to Tails Greeter which disables networking
759 completely. This is useful when intending to use Tails for
760 offline work only. (Closes: #6811)
763 - Fix CVE-2015-7665, which could lead to a network interface's IP
764 address being exposed through wget. (Closes: #10364)
765 - Prevent a symlink attack on ~/.xsession-errors via
766 tails-debugging-info which could be used by the amnesia user to
767 read the contents of any file, no matter the
768 permissions. (Closes: #10333)
769 - Upgrade libfreetype6 to 2.4.9-1.1+deb7u2.
770 - Upgrade gdk-pixbuf packages to 2.26.1-1+deb7u2.
771 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u5.
772 - Upgrade openjdk-7 packages to 7u85-2.6.1-6~deb7u1.
773 - Upgrade unzip to 6.0-8+deb7u4.
776 - Add a temporary workaround for an issue in our code which checks
777 whether i2p has bootstrapped, which (due to some recent change
778 in either I2P or Java) could make it appear it had finished
779 prematurely. (Closes: #10185)
780 - Fix a logical bug in the persistence preset migration code while
781 real-only persistence is enabled. (Closes: #10431)
784 - Rework the wordings of the various installation and upgrade
785 options available in Tails installer in Wheezy. (Closes: #9672)
786 - Restart Tor if bootstrapping stalls for too long when not using
787 pluggable transports. (Closes: #9516)
788 - Install firmware-amd-graphics, and firmware-misc-nonfree instead
789 of firmware-ralink-nonfree, both from Debian Sid.
790 - Update the Tails signing key. (Closes: #10012)
791 - Update the Tails APT repo signing key. (Closes: #10419)
792 - Install the nmh package. (Closes: #10457)
793 - Explicitly run "sync" at the end of the Tails Upgrader's upgrade
794 process, and pass the "sync" option when remounting the system
795 partition as read-write. This might help with some issues we've
796 seen, such as #10239, and possibly for #8449 as well.
799 - Add initial automated tests for Icedove. (Closes: #10332)
800 - Add automated tests of the MAC spoofing feature. (Closes: #6302)
801 - Drop the concept of "background snapshots" and introduce a general
802 system for generating snapshots that can be shared between
803 features. This removes all silly hacks we previously used to
804 "skip" steps, and greatly improves performance and reliability
805 of the whole test suite. (Closes: #6094, #8008)
806 - Flush to the log file in debug_log() so the debugging info can
807 be viewed in real time when monitoring the debug log
808 file. (Closes: #10323)
809 - Force UTF-8 locale in automated test suite. Ruby will default to
810 the system locale, and if it is non-UTF-8, some String-methods
811 will fail when operating on non-ASCII strings. (Closes: #10359)
812 - Escape regexp used to match nick in CTCP replies. Our Pidgin
813 nick's have a 10% chance to include a ^, which will break that
814 regexp. We need to escape all characters in the nick. (Closes:
816 - Extract TBB languages from the Tails source code. This will
817 ensure that valid locales are tested. As an added bonus, the
818 code is greatly simplified. (Closes: #9897)
819 - Automatically test that tails-debugging-info is not susceptible
820 to the type of symlink attacks fixed by #10333.
821 - Save all test suite artifacts in a dedicated directory with more
822 useful infromation encoded in the path. This makes it easier to
823 see which artifacts belongs to which failed scenario and which
824 run. (Closes: #10151)
825 - Log all useful information via Cucumber's formatters instead of
826 printing to stderr, which is not included when logging to file
827 via `--out`. (Closes: #10342)
828 - Continue running the automated test suite's vnc server even if
829 the client disconnects. (Closes: #10345)
830 - Add more automatic tests for I2P. (Closes: #6406)
831 - Bump the Tor circuit retry count to 10. (Closes: #10375)
832 - Clean up dependencies: (Closes: #10208)
837 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 03 Nov 2015 01:09:41 +0100
839 tails (1.6) unstable; urgency=medium
842 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.3. (Closes: #10223)
843 - Upgrade bind9-based packages to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u7.
844 - Upgrade liblcms1 to 1.19.dfsg2-1.2+deb7u1.
845 - Upgrade libldap-2.4-2 to 2.4.31-2+deb7u1.
846 - Upgrade libslp1 to 1.2.1-9+deb7u1.
847 - Upgrade ssl-cert to 1.0.32+deb7u1.
850 - Fix a corner case for the MAC spoofing panic mode. If panic mode
851 failed to disable the specific device that couldn't be spoofed
852 (by unloading the module) we disable networking. Previously we
853 only stopped NetworkManager. The problem is that NM isn't even
854 started at this time, but will specifically be started when
855 we're done with MAC spoofing. Therefore, let's completely
856 disable NetworkManager so it cannot possibly be
857 started. (Closes: #10160)
858 - Avoid use of uninitialized value in restricted-network-detector.
859 If NetworkManager decides that a wireless connection has timed
860 out before "supplicant connection state" has occued, our idea of
861 the state is `undef`, so it cannot be used in a string
862 comparison. Hence, let's initialize the state to the empty
863 string instead of `undef`. Also fix the state
864 recording. Apparently NetworkManager can say a few different
865 things when it logs the device state transitions. (Closes:
869 - Remove workaround for localizing search engine plugins. The
870 workaround has recently become unnecessary, possibly due to the
871 changes made for the seach bar after the Tor Browser was rebased
872 on Firefox 38esr. (Closes: #9146)
873 - Refer to the I2P Browser in the I2P notifications. Instead of
874 some obscure links that won't work in the Tor Browser, where
875 users likely will try them, and which I believe will open them
876 by default. (Closes: #10182)
877 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.22. Also set the I2P apparmor profile to
878 enforce mode. (Closes: #9830)
881 - Test that udev-watchdog is monitoring the correct device when
882 booted from USB. (Closes: #9890)
883 - Remove unused 'gksu' step. This causes a false-positive to be
884 found for #5330. (Closes: #9877)
885 - Make --capture capture individual videos for failed scenarios
886 only, and --capture-all to capture videos for all scenarios.
888 - Use the more efficient x264 encoding when capturing videos using
889 the --capture* options. (Closes: #10001)
890 - Make --old-iso default to --iso if omitted. Using the same ISO
891 for the USB upgrade tests most often still does what we want,
892 e.g. test that the current version of Tails being tested has a
893 working Tails installer. Hence this seems like a reasonable
894 default. (Closes: #10147)
895 - Avoid nested FindFailed exceptions in waitAny()/findAny(), and
896 throw a new dedicated FindAnyFailed exception if these fail
897 instead. Rjb::throw doesn't block Ruby's execution until the
898 Java exception has been received by Ruby, so strange things can
899 happen and we must avoid it. (Closes: #9633)
900 - Fix the Download Management page in our browsers. Without the
901 browser.download.panel.shown pref set, the progress being made
902 will not update until after the browser has been restarted.
904 - Add a 'pretty_debug' (with an alias: 'debug') Cucumber formatter
905 that deals with debugging instead of printing it to STDERR via
906 the `--debug` option (which now has been removed). This gives us
907 the full flexibility of Cucumber's formatter system, e.g. one
908 easy-to-read formatter can print to the terminal, while we get
909 the full debug log printed to a file. (Closes: #9491)
910 - Import logging module in otr-bot.py. Our otr-bot.py does not use
911 logging but the jabberbot library makes logging calls, causing a
912 one-off message “No handlers could be found for logger
913 "jabberbot"” to be printed to the console. This commit
914 effectively prevents logging/outputting anything to the terminal
915 which is at a level lower than CRITICAL. (Closes: 9375)
916 - Force new Tor circuit and reload web site on browser
917 timeouts. (Closes: #10116)
918 - Focus Pidgin's buddy list before trying to access the tools
919 menu. (Closes: #10217)
920 - Optimize IRC test using waitAny. If connecting to IRC fails,
921 such as when OFTC is blocking Tor, waiting 60 seconds to connect
922 while a a Reconnect button is visible is sub-optimal. It would
923 be better to try forcing a new Tor circuit and clicking the
924 reconnect button. (Closes: #9653)
925 - Wait for (and focus if necessary) Pidgin's Certificate windows.
928 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 20 Sep 2015 17:47:26 +0000
930 tails (1.5.1) unstable; urgency=medium
933 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.2. (Closes: #10112)
934 - Upgrade gdk-pixbuf packages to 2.26.1-1+deb7u1.
935 - Upgrade libnss3 to 2:3.14.5-1+deb7u5.
938 - Refresh Tor Browser AppArmor profile patch. The old one doesn't
939 apply on top of testing's torbrowser-launcher anymore.
942 - Make sure Jenkins creates new jobs to build the testing branch
943 after freezes. (Closes: #9925)
945 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Fri, 28 Aug 2015 01:52:14 +0200
947 tails (1.5) unstable; urgency=medium
949 * Major new features and changes
950 - Move LAN web browsing from Tor Browser to the Unsafe Browser,
951 and forbid access to the LAN from the former. (Closes: #7976)
952 - Install a 32-bit GRUB EFI boot loader. This at least works
953 on some Intel Baytrail systems. (Closes: #8471)
956 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0, and integrate it:
957 · Disable Tiles in all browsers' new tab page.
958 · Don't use geo-specific search engine prefs in our browsers.
959 · Hide Tools -> Set Up Sync, Tools -> Apps (that links to the Firefox
960 Marketplace), and the "Share this page" button in the Tool bar.
961 · Generate localized Wikipedia search engine plugin icons so the
962 English and localized versions can be distinguished in the new
963 search bar. (Closes: #9955)
964 - Fix panic mode on MAC spoofing failure. (Closes: #9531)
965 - Deny Tor Browser access to global tmp directories with AppArmor,
966 and give it its own $TMPDIR. (Closes: #9558)
967 - Tails Installer: don't use a predictable file name for the subprocess
968 error log. (Closes: #9349)
969 - Pidgin AppArmor profile: disable the launchpad-integration abstraction,
970 which is too wide-open.
971 - Use aliases so that our AppArmor policy applies to
972 /lib/live/mount/overlay/ and /lib/live/mount/rootfs/*.squashfs/ as well as
973 it applies to /. And accordingly:
974 · Upgrade AppArmor packages to 2.9.0-3~bpo70+1.
975 · Install rsyslog from wheezy-backports, since the version from Wheezy
976 conflicts with AppArmor 2.9.
977 · Stop installing systemd for now: the migration work is being done in
978 the feature/jessie branch, and it conflicts with rsyslog from
980 · Drop apparmor-adjust-user-tmp-abstraction.diff: obsoleted.
981 · apparmor-adjust-tor-profile.diff: simplify and de-duplicate rules.
982 · Take into account aufs whiteouts in the system_tor profile.
983 · Adjust the Vidalia profile to take into account Live-specific paths.
984 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u3.
985 - Upgrade bind9-host, dnsutils and friends to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u6.
986 - Upgrade cups-filters to 1.0.18-2.1+deb7u2.
987 - Upgrade ghostscript to 9.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u2.
988 - Upgrade libexpat1 to 2.1.0-1+deb7u2.
989 - Upgrade libicu48 to 4.8.1.1-12+deb7u3.
990 - Upgrade libwmf0.2-7 to 0.2.8.4-10.3+deb7u1.
991 - Upgrade openjdk-7 to 7u79-2.5.6-1~deb7u1.
994 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.6.10-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.
997 - Tails Installer: let the user know when it has rejected a candidate
998 destination device because it is too small. (Closes: #9130)
999 - Tails Installer: prevent users from trying to "upgrade" a device
1000 that contains no Tails, or that was not installed with Tails Installer.
1002 - Install libotr5 and pidgin-otr 4.x from wheezy-backports. This adds
1003 support for the OTRv3 protocol and for multiple concurrent connections
1004 to the same account. (Closes: #9513)
1005 - Skip warning dialog when starting Tor Browser while being offline,
1006 in case it is already running. Thanks to Austin English for the patch!
1008 - Install the apparmor-profiles package (Closes: #9539), but don't ship
1009 a bunch of AppArmor profiles we don't use, to avoid increasing
1010 boot time. (Closes: #9757)
1011 - Ship a /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home.d/tails snippet, instead
1012 of patching /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home.
1013 - live-boot: don't mount tmpfs twice on /live/overlay, so that the one which
1014 is actually used as the read-write branch of the root filesystem's union
1015 mount, is visible. As a consequence:
1016 · One can now inspect how much space is used, at a given time, in the
1017 read-write branch of the root filesystem's union mount.
1018 · We can make sure our AppArmor policy works fine when that filesystem
1019 is visible, which is safer in case e.g. live-boot's behavior changes
1020 under our feet in the future... or in case these "hidden" files are
1021 actually accessible somehow already.
1024 - Add our jenkins-tools repository as a Git submodule, and replace
1025 check_po.sh with a symlink pointing to the same script in that submodule.
1026 Adjust the automated test suite accordingly. (Closes: #9567)
1027 - Bump amount of RAM needed for Vagrant RAM builds to 7.5 GiB. In
1028 particular the inclusion of the Tor Browser 5.0 series has recently
1029 increased the amount of space needed to build Tails. (Closes: #9901)
1032 - Test that the Tor Browser cannot access LAN resources.
1033 - Test that the Unsafe Browser can access the LAN.
1034 - Installer: test new behavior when trying to upgrade an empty device, and
1035 when attempting to upgrade a non-Tails FAT partition on GPT; also, take
1036 into account that all unsupported upgrade scenarios now trigger
1038 - Request a new Tor circuit and re-run the Seahorse and GnuPG CLI tests
1039 on failure. (Closes: #9518, #9709)
1040 - run_test_suite: remove control chars from log file even when cucumber
1041 exits with non-zero. (Closes: #9376)
1042 - Add compatibility with cucumber 2.0 and Debian Stretch. (Closes: #9667)
1043 - Use custom exception when 'execute_successfully' fails.
1044 - Retry looking up whois info on transient failure. (Closes: #9668)
1045 - Retry wget on transient failure. (Closes: #9715)
1046 - Test that Tor Browser cannot access files in /tmp.
1047 - Allow running the test suite without ntp installed. There are other means
1048 to have an accurate host system clock, e.g. systemd-timesyncd and tlsdate.
1050 - Bump timeout in the Totem feature.
1051 - Grep memory dump using the --text option. This is necessary with recent
1052 versions of grep, such as the one in current Debian sid, otherwise it
1053 will count only one occurrence of the pattern we're looking for.
1055 - Include execute_successfully's error in the exception, instead
1056 of writing it to stdout via puts. (Closes: #9795)
1057 - Test that udev-watchdog is actually monitoring the correct device.
1059 - IUK: workaround weird Archive::Tar behaviour on current sid.
1060 - Test the SocksPort:s given in torrc in the Unsafe Browser.
1061 This way we don't get any sneaky errors in case we change them and
1062 forget to update this test.
1063 - Directly verify AppArmor blocking of the Tor Browser by looking in
1064 the audit log: Firefox 38 does no longer provide any graphical feedback
1065 when the kernel blocks its access to files the user wants to access.
1066 - Update browser-related automated test suite images, and workaround
1067 weirdness introduced by the new Tor Browser fonts.
1068 - Test that Pidgin, Tor Browser, Totem and Evince cannot access ~/.gnupg
1069 via alternate, live-boot generated paths.
1070 - Adjust tests to cope with our new AppArmor aliases.
1071 - Bump memory allocated to the system under test to 2 GB. (Closes: #9883)
1073 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 10 Aug 2015 19:12:58 +0200
1075 tails (1.4.1) unstable; urgency=medium
1078 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.5.3, based on Firefox 31.8.0 ESR. (Closes: #9649)
1079 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.6.9-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails2, which includes a circuit
1080 isolation bugfix. (Closes: #9560)
1081 - AppArmor: deny Tor Browser access to the list of recently used files.
1083 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u17.
1084 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1.
1085 - Upgrade CUPS to 1.5.3-5+deb7u6.
1086 - Upgrade FUSE to 2.9.0-2+deb7u2.
1087 - Upgrade libsqlite3-0 to 3.7.13-1+deb7u2.
1088 - Upgrade ntfs-3g and ntfsprogs to 1:2012.1.15AR.5-2.1+deb7u2.
1089 - Upgrade p7zip-full to 9.20.1~dfsg.1-4+deb7u1.
1092 - Fix automatic upgrades in Windows Camouflage mode. (Closes: #9413)
1093 - Don't ship the snakeoil SSL key pair generated by ssl-cert in the ISO.
1095 - Partially fix the truncated notifications issue. (#7249)
1097 * Minor improvements
1098 - Disable the hwclock.sh initscript at reboot/shutdown time.
1099 This is an additional safety measure to ensure that the hardware clock
1100 is not modified. (Closes: #9364)
1101 - Stop shipping /var/cache/man/*, to make ISOs and IUKs smaller.
1103 - Update torbrowser-AppArmor-profile.patch to apply cleanly on top of the
1104 profile shipped with torbrowser-launcher 0.2.0-1.
1105 - Add the jessie/updates APT repo and set appropriate pinning.
1106 - Upgrade Electrum to 1.9.8-4~bpo70+1.
1107 - Upgrade kernel firmware packages to 0.44.
1110 - Install the Linux kernel from Debian Jessie. (Closes: #9341)
1111 - Remove files that are not under version control when building in Jenkins.
1113 - Don't modify files in the source tree before having possibly merged
1114 the base branch into it. (Closes: #9406)
1115 - Make it so eatmydata is actually used during a greater part of the build
1116 process. This includes using eatmydata from wheezy-backports.
1117 (Closes: #9419, #9523)
1118 - release script: adjust to support current Debian sid.
1121 - Test the system clock sanity check we do at boot. (Closes: #9377)
1122 - Remove the impossible "Clock way in the past" scenarios.
1123 Thanks to config/chroot_local-includes/lib/live/config/0001-sane-clock,
1124 these scenarios cannot happen, and since we test that it works they
1125 can be safely removed.
1126 - Test that the hardware clock is not modified at shutdown. (Closes: #9557)
1127 - Pidgin: retry looking for the roadmap URL in the topic.
1128 - Avoid showing Pidgin's tooltips during test, potentially confusing Sikuli.
1130 - Test all OpenPGP keys shipped with Tails. (Closes: #9402)
1131 - Check that notification-daemon is running when looking for notifications
1132 fails. (Closes: #9332)
1133 - Allow using the cucumber formatters however we want. (Closes: #9424)
1134 - Enable Spice in the guest, and blacklist the psmouse kernel module,
1135 to help with lost mouse events. (Closes: #9425)
1136 - Automate testing Torbutton's 'New Identity' feature. (Closes: #9286)
1137 - Test that Seahorse is configured to use the correct keyserver.
1139 - Always export TMPDIR back to the test suite's shell environment.
1141 - Make OpenPGP tests more reliable:
1142 · Retry accessing the OpenPGP applet menus on failure. (Closes: #9355)
1143 · Retry accessing menus in Seahorse on failure. (Closes: #9344)
1144 - Focus the Pidgin conversation window before any attempt to interact
1145 with it. (Closes: #9317)
1146 - Use convertkey from the (backported to Jessie) Debian package,
1147 instead of our own copy of that script. (Closes: #9066)
1148 - Make the memory erasure tests more robust (Closes: #9329):
1149 · Bump /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes when running fillram.
1150 · Actually set oom_adj for the remote shell when running fillram.
1151 · Try to be more sure that we OOM kill fillram.
1152 · Run fillram as non-root.
1153 - Only try to build the storage pool if TailsToasterStorage isn't found.
1156 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 28 Jun 2015 19:46:25 +0200
1158 tails (1.4) unstable; urgency=medium
1160 * Major new features
1161 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.5.1, based on Firefox 31.7.0 ESR, which
1162 introduces many major new features for usability, security and
1163 privacy. Unfortunately its per-tab circuit view did not make it
1164 into Tails yet since it requires exposing more Tor state to the
1165 user running the Tor Browser than we are currently comfortable
1166 with. (Closes: #9031, #9369)
1167 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.6.7-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails2. Like in the Tor
1168 bundled with the Tor Browser, we patch it so that circuits used
1169 for SOCKSAuth streams have their lifetime increased indefinitely
1170 while in active use. This currently only affects the Tor Browser
1171 in Tails, and should improve the experience on certain web sites
1172 that otherwise would switch language or log you out every ten
1173 minutes or so when Tor switches circuit. (Closes: #7934)
1176 - tor-browser wrapper script: avoid offering avenues to arbitrary
1177 code execution to e.g. an exploited Pidgin. AppArmor Ux rules
1178 don't sanitize $PATH, which can lead to an exploited application
1179 (that's allowed to run this script unconfined, e.g. Pidgin)
1180 having this script run arbitrary code, violating that
1181 application's confinement. Let's prevent that by setting PATH to
1182 a list of directories where only root can write. (Closes: #9370)
1183 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt9-3.
1184 - Upgrade curl to 7.26.0-1+wheezy13.
1185 - Upgrade dpkg to 1.16.16.
1186 - Upgrade gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad to 0.10.23-7.1+deb7u2.
1187 - Upgrade libgd2-xpm to 2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-6.1+deb7u1.
1188 - Upgrade openldap to 2.4.31-2.
1189 - Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u4.
1190 - Upgrade libruby1.9.1 to 1.9.3.194-8.1+deb7u5.
1191 - Upgrade libtasn1-3 to 2.13-2+deb7u2.
1192 - Upgrade libx11 to 2:1.5.0-1+deb7u2.
1193 - Upgrade libxml-libxml-perl to 2.0001+dfsg-1+deb7u1.
1194 - Upgrade libxml2 to 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy4.
1195 - Upgrade OpenJDK to 7u79-2.5.5-1~deb7u1.
1196 - Upgrade ppp to 2.4.5-5.1+deb7u2.
1199 - Disable security warnings when connecting to POP3 and IMAP ports.
1201 - Make the Windows 8 browser theme compatible with the Unsafe and I2P
1202 browsers. (Closes: #9138)
1203 - Hide Torbutton's "Tor Network Settings..." context menu entry.
1205 - Upgrade the syslinux packages to support booting Tails on
1206 Chromebook C720-2800. (Closes: #9044)
1207 - Enable localization in Tails Upgrader. (Closes: #9190)
1208 - Make sure the system clock isn't before the build date during
1209 early boot. Our live-config hook that imports our signing keys
1210 depend on that the system clock isn't before the date when the
1211 keys where created. (Closes: #9149)
1212 - Set GNOME's OpenPGP keys via desktop.gnome.crypto.pgp to prevent
1213 us from getting GNOME's default keyserver in addition to our
1214 own. (Closes: #9233)
1215 - Prevent Firefox from crashing when Orca is enabled: grant
1216 it access to assistive technologies in its Apparmor
1217 profile. (Closes: #9261)
1218 - Add Jessie APT source. (Closes: #9278)
1219 - Fix set_simple_config_key(). If the key already existed in the
1220 config file before the call, all other lines would be removed
1221 due to the sed option -n and p combo. (Closes: #9122)
1222 - Remove illegal instance of local outside of function definition.
1223 Together with `set -e` that error has prevented this script from
1224 restarting Vidalia, like it should. (Closes: #9328)
1226 * Minor improvements
1227 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.19-3~deb7u+1.
1228 - Install Tor Browser's bundled Torbutton instead of custom .deb.
1229 As of Torbutton 1.9.1.0 everything we need has been upstreamed.
1230 - Install Tor Browser's bundled Tor Launcher instead of our
1231 in-tree version. With Tor 0.2.6.x our custom patches for the
1232 ClientTransportPlugin hacks are not needed any more. (Closes:
1234 - Don't install msmtp and mutt. (Closes: #8727)
1235 - Install fonts-linuxlibertine for improved Vietnamese support in
1236 LibreOffice. (Closes: #8996)
1237 - Remove obsoletete #i2p-help IRC channel from the Pidgin
1238 configuration (Closes: #9137)
1239 - Add Gedit shortcut to gpgApplet's context menu. Thanks to Ivan
1240 Bliminse for the patch. (Closes: #9069).
1241 - Install printer-driver-gutenprint to support more printer
1242 models. (Closes: #8994).
1243 - Install paperkey for off-line OpenPGP key backup. (Closes: #8957)
1244 - Hide the Tor logo in Tor Launcher. (Closes: #8696)
1245 - Remove useless log() instance in tails-unblock-network. (Closes:
1247 - Install cdrdao: this enables Brasero to burn combined data/audio
1248 CDs and to do byte-to-byte disc copy.
1249 - Hide access to the Add-ons manager in the Unsafe Browser. It's
1250 currently broken (#9307) but we any way do not want users to
1251 install add-ons in the Unsafe Browser. (Closes: #9305)
1252 - Disable warnings on StartTLS for POP3 and IMAP (Will-fix: #9327)
1253 The default value of this option activates warnings on ports
1254 23,109,110,143. This commit disables the warnings for POP3 and
1255 IMAP as these could be equally used in encrypted StartTLS
1256 connections. (Closes: #9327)
1257 - Completely rework how we localize our browser by generating our
1258 branding add-on, and search plugins programatically. This
1259 improves the localization for the ar, es, fa, ko, nl, pl, ru,
1260 tr, vi and zh_CN locales by localizing the Startpage and
1261 Disconnect.me search plugins. Following Tor Browser 4.5's recent
1262 switch, we now use Disconnect.me as the default search
1263 engine. (Closes: #9309)
1264 * Actively set Google as the Unsafe Browser's default search
1268 - Encode in Git which APT suites to include when building Tails.
1270 - Clean up the list of packages we install. (Closes: #6073)
1271 - Run auto/{build,clean,config} under `set -x' for improved
1273 - Zero-pad our ISO images so their size is divisible by 2048.
1274 The data part of an ISO image's sectors is 2048 bytes, which
1275 implies that ISO images should always have a size divisible
1276 by 2048. Some applications, e.g. VirtualBox, use this as a sanity
1277 check, treating ISO images for which this isn't true as garbage.
1278 Our isohybrid post-processing does not ensure this,
1279 however. Also Output ISO size before/after isohybrid'ing and
1280 truncate'ing it. This will help detect if/when truncate is
1281 needed at all, so that we can report back to syslinux
1282 maintainers more useful information. (Closes: #8891)
1283 - Vagrant: raise apt-cacher-ng's ExTreshold preference to 50. The
1284 goal here is to avoid Tor Browser tarballs being deleted by
1285 apt-cacher-ng's daily expiration cronjob: they're not listed in
1286 any APT repo's index file, so acng will be quite eager to clean
1290 - Bring dependency checks up-to-date (Closes: #8988).
1291 - Adapt test suite to be run on Debian Jessie, which includes
1292 removing various Wheezy-specific workarounds, adding a few
1293 specific to Jessie, migrating from ffmpeg to libav, and
1294 more. (Closes: #8165)
1295 - Test that MAT can see that a PDF is dirty (Closes: #9136).
1296 - Allow throwing Timeout::Error in try_for() blocks, as well as
1297 nested try_for() (Closes: #9189, #9290).
1298 - Read test suite configuration files from the features/config/local.d
1299 directory. (Closes: #9220)
1300 - Kill virt-viewer with SIGTERM, not SIGINT, to prevent hordes of
1301 zombie processes from appearing. (Closes: #9139)
1302 - Kill Xvfb with SIGTERM, not SIGKILL, on test suite exit to allow
1303 it to properly clean up. (Closes: #8707)
1304 - Split SSH & SFTP configs in the test suite. (Closes: #9257)
1305 - Improve how we start subprocesses in the test suite, mostly by
1306 bypassing the shell for greater security and robustness (Closes:
1308 - Add Electrum test feature. (Closes #8963)
1309 - Test that Tails Installer detects when USB devices are
1310 removed. (Closes: #9131)
1311 - Test Tails Installer with devices which are too small. (Closes:
1313 - Test that the Report an Error launcher works in German. (Closes:
1315 - Verify that no extensions are installed in the Unsafe Browser
1316 using about:support instead of about:addons, which is broken
1317 (#9307). (Closes: #9306)
1318 - Retry GNOME application menu actions when they glitch. The
1319 GNOME application menus seem to have issues with clicks or
1320 hovering actions not registering, and hence sometimes submenus
1321 are not opened when they should, and sometimes clicks on the
1322 final application shortcut are lost. There seems to be a
1323 correlation between this and CPU load on the host running the
1324 test suite. We workaround this by simply re-trying the last
1325 action when it seems to fail. (Closes: #8928)
1326 - Work around Seahorse GUI glitchiness (Closes: #9343):
1327 * When Seahorse appears to be frozen--apparently due to network
1328 issues--it can often be worked around by refreshing the screen
1329 or activating a new window.
1330 * Open Seahorse's preferences dialog using the mouse.
1331 * Access menu entries with the mouse.
1332 - Wait for systray icons to finish loading before interacting with
1333 the systray. (Closes: #9258)
1334 - Test suite configuration: generalize local.d support to *.d. We
1335 now load features/config/*.d/*.yml.
1336 - Use code blocks in "After Scenario" hooks. This is much simpler
1337 to use (and more readable!) compared to hooking functions and
1338 arguments like we used to do.
1339 - Create filesystem share sources in the temporary directory and
1340 make them world-readable. (Closes: #8950)
1342 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 11 May 2015 16:45:04 +0200
1344 tails (1.3.2) unstable; urgency=medium
1347 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.0.6, based on Firefox 31.6.0 ESR.
1348 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u16.
1351 - Make Florence usable with touchpads by forcing syndaemon to
1352 always use the `-t` option, which only disables tapping and
1353 scrolling and not mouse movements (Closes: #9011).
1354 - Make tails-spoof-mac log the correct macchanger exit code on
1355 failure (Closes: #8687).
1357 · Ignore devices with less than 3.5 GB of storage since they
1358 do not fit a Tails installation (Closes: #6538).
1359 · Remove devices from the device list as they are unplugged
1362 * Minor improvements
1363 - Install obfs4proxy 0.0.4-1~tpo1, which adds support for
1364 client-mode ScrambleSuit.
1365 - Don't start Vidalia if Windows Camouflage is enabled. (Closes:
1368 · Remove "Add-ons" from the Tools menu, and hide "Keyboard
1369 Shortcuts" and "Take a Tour" since they point to resources on
1370 the open Internet (Closes: #7970).
1371 · Hide TorButton button from the customize toolbar options, and
1372 remove configs whose only purpose was to make Torbutton "green"
1377 · Test non-LAN SSH, and SFTP via GNOME's "Connect to Server"
1379 · Verify that Tails' Tor binary has the expected Tor authorities
1380 hard coded (Closes: #8960).
1382 · Programmatically determine the supported languages when testing
1383 the Unsafe Browser (Closes: #8918).
1384 · Rename --temp-dir to --tmpdir and make it behave more like
1385 mktemp, and honour TMPDIR if set in the environment. (Closes:
1388 · Make --temp-dir (now --tmpdir) actually work.
1390 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 30 Mar 2015 16:54:20 +0200
1392 tails (1.3.1) unstable; urgency=medium
1395 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.0.5, based on Firefox 31.5.3 ESR. This addresses:
1396 · https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-28/
1397 · https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-29/
1398 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt7-1.
1399 - Upgrade libxfont to 1:1.4.5-5.
1400 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u15.
1401 - Upgrade tcpdump to 4.3.0-1+deb7u2.
1402 - Upgrade bsdtar to 3.0.4-3+wheezy1.
1403 - Upgrade CUPS to 1.5.3-5+deb7u5.
1404 - Upgrade file and libmagic to 5.11-2+deb7u8.
1405 - Upgrade GnuPG to 1.4.12-7+deb7u7.
1406 - Upgrade libarchive to 3.0.4-3+wheezy1.
1407 - Upgrade libav to 6:0.8.17-1.
1408 - Upgrade FreeType 2 to 2.4.9-1.1+deb7u1.
1409 - Upgrade libgcrypt11 1.5.0-5+deb7u3.
1410 - Upgrade libgnutls26 to 2.12.20-8+deb7u3.
1411 - Upgrade libgtk2-perl to 2:1.244-1+deb7u1.
1412 - Upgrade ICU to 4.8.1.1-12+deb7u2.
1413 - Upgrade NSS to 2:3.14.5-1+deb7u4.
1414 - Upgrade libssh2 to 1.4.2-1.1+deb7u1.
1417 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.5.11-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Changes include:
1418 · Directory authority changes.
1419 · Fix assertion errors that may trigger under high DNS load.
1420 · No longer break on HUP with seccomp2 enabled.
1421 · and more - please consult the upstream changelog.
1422 - Upgrade Tor Launcher to 0.2.7.2, and update the test suite accordingly
1423 (Closes: #8964, #6985). Changes include:
1424 · Ask about bridges before proxy in wizard.
1425 · Hide logo if TOR_HIDE_BROWSER_LOGO set.
1426 · Remove firewall prompt from wizard.
1427 · Feedback when “Copy Tor Log” is clicked.
1428 · Improve behavior if tor exits.
1429 · Add option to hide TBB's logo
1430 · Change "Tor Browser Bundle" to "Tor Browser"
1431 · Update translations from Transifex.
1432 - Fix the Tor Launcher killer. (Closes: #9067)
1433 - Allow Seahorse to communicate with keyservers when run from Tails
1434 OpenPGP Applet. (Closes: #6394)
1435 - SSH client: don't proxy connections to 172.17.* to 172.31.*.
1437 - Repair config/chroot_local-packages feature, that was broken in Tails 1.3
1438 by 19-install-tor-browser-AppArmor-profile. (Closes: #8910)
1439 - language_statistics.sh: count original words instead of translated words.
1440 Otherwise we get >100% translation if translated strings are longer than
1441 original strings. (Closes: #9016)
1443 * Minor improvements
1444 - Only ship the new Tails signing key, and have Tails Upgrader stop trusting
1445 the old one. Update the documentation and test suite accordingly.
1446 (Closes: #8735, #8736, #8882, #8769, #8951)
1447 - Polish and harden a bit the WhisperBack configuration (Closes: #8991):
1448 · Only allow the `amnesia' user to run tails-debugging info as root
1450 · Fix spelling and grammar mistakes, improve phrasing a bit.
1451 · Quote variables consistently.
1455 · Chatting over XMPP in Pidgin, both peer-to-peer and in a multi-user
1456 chatroom. (Closes: #8002)
1457 · Chatting with OTR enabled over XMPP in Pidgin. (Closes: #8001)
1458 · Check that Pidgin only responds to the expected CTCP requests.
1460 · Fetching keys using Seahorse started via the OpenPGP Applet.
1461 · Sync'ing keys using Seahorse.
1463 · Fix a race condition between the remote shell's and Tails Greeter's
1464 startup, by making sure the remote shell is ready before we start
1465 GDM. (Closes: #8941)
1466 · Kill virt-viewer properly. (Closes: #9070)
1467 · Make sure the display is stopped on destroy_and_undefine().
1468 Where we had it earlier, it could be skipped if anything else in the
1469 block threw an exception.
1470 · Fix wrong use of "$@". (Closes: #9071)
1471 · Enable the pipefail option in run_test_suite.
1472 · Improve the GNOME screenshot test's robustness. (Closes: #8952)
1474 · turn the focus_pidgin_window() helper into a more generic
1475 VM.focus_xorg_window() one.
1476 · Reorganize the Display class.
1477 · Use clearer method to check process status in the Display class.
1478 - New developer-oriented features:
1479 · Add a --log-to-file option to run_test_suite. (Closes: #8894)
1480 · Add helpers for generating random strings.
1481 · Make it possible to hook arbitrary calls on scenario end. This is useful
1482 for dynamically adding cleanup functions, instead of having
1483 to explicitly deal with them in some After hook.
1485 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 23 Mar 2015 12:34:56 +0000
1487 tails (1.3) unstable; urgency=medium
1489 * Major new features
1490 - Produce the Tails image in hybrid mode (again) so that the same
1491 image can be installed both on DVD *and* "hard disks" like USB
1492 storage and similar. (Closes: #8510)
1493 - Confine the Tor Browser using AppArmor. (Closes: #5525)
1494 - Install the Electrum bitcoin client from wheezy-backports, and
1495 add a persistence preset for the Live user's bitcoin wallet. If
1496 electrum is started without the persistence preset enabled, a
1497 warning is shown. (Closes: #6739)
1500 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.0.4 (based on Firefox 31.5.0esr)
1504 - Have tor_bootstrap_progress echo 0 if no matching log line is
1505 found. (Closes: #8257)
1506 - Always pass arguments through wrappers (connect-socks, totem,
1507 wget, whois) with "$@". $* doesn't handle arguments with
1508 e.g. embedded spaces correctly. (Closes: #8603, #8830)
1509 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt4-3.
1511 * Minor improvements
1512 - Install a custom-built Tor package with Seccomp enabled;
1513 enable the Seccomp sandbox when no pluggable transport is used.
1515 - Install obfs4proxy instead of obfsproxy, which adds support for
1516 the obfs4 Tor pluggable transport. (Closes: #7980)
1517 - Install GnuPG v2 and associated tools from wheezy-backports,
1518 primarily for its improved support for OpenPGP smartcards. It
1519 lives side-by-side with GnuPG v1, which still is the
1520 default. (Closes: #6241)
1521 - Install ibus-unikey, a Vietnamese input method for IBus. (Closes:
1523 - Install torsocks (2.x) from wheezy-backports. (Closes: #8220)
1524 - Install keyringer from Debian Jessie. (Closes: #7752)
1525 - Install pulseaudio-utils.
1526 - Remove all traces of Polipo: we don't use it anymore. This
1527 closes #5379 and #6115 because:
1528 * Have APT directly use the Tor SOCKS proxy. (Closes: #8194)
1529 * Wrap wget with torsocks. (Closes: #6623)
1530 * Wrap Totem to torify it with torsocks. (Closes: #8219)
1531 * Torify Git with tsocks, instead of setting GIT_PROXY_COMMAND.
1533 - Use torsocks for whois and Gobby, instead of torify.
1534 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.18-1~deb7u+1.
1535 - Refactor the Unsafe and I2P browser code into a common shell
1536 library. A lot of duplicated code is now shared, and the code
1537 has been cleaned up and made more reliable. Several
1538 optimizations of memory usage and startup time were also
1539 implemented. (Closes: #7951)
1540 - Invert Exit and About in gpgApplet context menu. This is a
1541 short-term workaround for making it harder to exit the
1542 application by mistake (e.g. a double right-click). (Closes:
1544 - Implement new touchpad settings. This enables tap-to-click,
1545 2-fingers scrolling, and disable while typing. We don't enable
1546 reverse scrolling nor horizontal scrolling. (Closes: #7779)
1547 - Include the mount(8) output and live-additional-software.conf in
1548 WhisperBack bug reports (Closes: #8719, #8491).
1549 - Reduce brightness and saturation of background color. (Closes:
1551 - Have ALSA output sound via PulseAudio by default. This gives us
1552 centralized sound volume controls, and... allows to easily, and
1553 automatically, test that audio output works from Tor Browser,
1554 thanks to the PulseAudio integration into the GNOME sound
1556 - Import the new Tails signing key, which we will use for Tails
1557 1.3.1, and have Tails Upgrader trust both it and the "old"
1558 (current) Tails signing key. (Closes: #8732)
1559 - tails-security-check: error out when passed an invalid CA file.
1560 Unfortunately, the underlying HTTPS stack we use here fails open
1561 in those case, so we have to check it ourselves. Currently, we
1562 check that the file exists, is readable, is a plain file and is
1563 not empty. Also support specifying the CA file via an
1564 environment variable. This will ease development and bug-fixing
1566 - Fix racy code in Tails Installer that sometimes made the
1567 automated test suite stall for scenarios installing Tails
1568 to USB disks. (Closes: #6092)
1569 - Make it possible to use Tails Upgrader to upgrade a Tails
1570 installation that has cruft files on the system partition.
1574 - Install syslinux-utils from our builder-wheezy APT repository in
1575 Vagrant. We need version 6.03~pre20 to make the Tails ISO image
1577 - Update deb.tails.boum.org apt repo signing key. (Closes: #8747)
1578 - Revert "Workaround build failure in lb_source, after creating
1579 the ISO." This is not needed anymore given the move to the Tor
1580 SOCKS proxy. (Closes: #5307)
1581 - Remove the bootstrap stage usage option and disable all
1582 live-build caching in Vagrant. It introduces complexity and
1583 potential for strange build inconsistencies for a meager
1584 reduction in build time. (Closes: #8725)
1585 - Hardcode the mirrors used at build and boot time in auto/config.
1586 Our stuff will be more consistent, easier to reproduce, and our
1587 QA process will be more reliable if we all use the same mirrors
1588 at build time as the ones we configure in the ISO. E.g. we won't
1589 have issues such as #8715 again. (Closes: #8726)
1590 - Don't attempt to retrieve source packages from local-packages so
1591 local packages can be installed via
1592 config/chroot_local-packages. (Closes: #8756)
1593 - Use our own Tor Browser archive when building an ISO. (Closes:
1597 - Use libguestfs instead of parted when creating partitions and
1598 filsystems, and to check that only the expected files
1599 persist. We also switch to qcow2 as the default disk image
1600 format everywhere to reduce disk usage, enable us to use
1601 snapshots that includes the disks (in the future), and to use
1602 the same steps for creating disks in all tests. (Closes: #8673)
1603 - Automatically test that Tails ignores persistence volumes stored
1604 on non-removable media, and doesn't enable swaps. (Closes:
1606 - Actually make sure that Tails can boot from live systems stored
1607 on a hard drive. Running the 'I start Tails from DVD ...' step
1608 will override the earlier 'the computer is set to boot from ide
1609 drive "live_hd"' step, so let's make the "from DVD" part
1610 optional; it will be the default any way.
1611 - Make it possible to use an old iso with different persistence
1612 presets. (Closes: #8091)
1613 - Hide the cursor between steps when navigating the GNOME
1614 applications menu. This makes it a bit more robust, again:
1615 sometimes the cursor is partially hiding the menu entry we're
1616 looking for, hence preventing Sikuli from finding it (in
1617 particular when it's "Accessories", since we've just clicked on
1618 "Applications" which is nearby). (Closes: #8875)
1619 - Ensure that the test will fail if "apt-get X" commands fail.
1620 - Test 'Tor is ready' notification in a separate scenario. (Closes:
1622 - Add automated tests for torified wget and whois. This should
1623 help us identify future regressions such as #8603 in their
1625 - Add automated test for opening an URL from Pidgin.
1626 - And add automated tests for the Tor Browser's AppArmor
1628 - Test that "Report an Error Launcher" opens the support
1630 - Test that the Unsafe Browser:
1631 * starts in various locales.
1632 * complains when DNS isn't configured.
1633 * tears down its chroot on shutdown.
1634 * runs as the correct user.
1635 * has no plugins or add-ons installed.
1636 * has no unexpected bookmarks.
1637 * has no proxy configured.
1638 - Bump the "I2P router console is ready" timeout in its test to
1639 deal with slow Internet connections.
1640 - Make the automatic tests of gpgApplet more robust by relying
1641 more on graphical elements instead of keyboard shortcuts and
1642 static sleep():s. (Closes: #5632)
1643 - Make sure that enough disk space is available when creating
1644 virtual storage media. (Closes: #8907)
1645 - Test that the Unsafe Browser doesn't generate any non-user
1646 initiated traffic, and in particular that it doesn't check for
1647 upgrades, which is a regression test for #8694. (Closes: #8702)
1648 - Various robustness improvements to the Synaptic tests. (Closes:
1650 - Automatically test Git. (Closes: #6307)
1651 - Automatically test GNOME Screenshot, which is a regression test
1652 for #8087. (Closes: #8688)
1653 - Fix a quoting issue with `tails_persistence_enabled?`. (Closes:
1655 - Introduce an improved configuration system that also can store
1656 local secrets, like user credentials needed for some
1657 tests. (Closes: #6301, #8188)
1658 - Actually verify that we successfully set the time in our time
1659 syncing tests. (Closes: #5836)
1660 - Automatically test Tor. This includes normal functionality and
1661 the use pluggable transports, that our Tor enforcement is
1662 effective (e.g. only the Tor network or configured bridges are
1663 contacted) and that our stream isolation configuration is
1664 working. (Closes: #5644, #6305, #7821)
1666 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 23 Feb 2015 17:14:00 +0100
1668 tails (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=medium
1671 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt2-1.
1672 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.0.3 (based on Firefox 31.4.0esr)
1674 - Fail safe by entering panic mode if macchanger exits with an
1675 error, since in this situation we have to treat the
1676 driver/device state as undefined. Also, we previously just
1677 exited the script in this case, not triggering the panic mode
1678 and potentially leaking the real MAC address (Closes: #8571).
1679 - Disable upgrade checking in the Unsafe Browser. Until now the
1680 Unsafe Browser has checked for upgrades of the Tor Browser in
1681 the clear (Closes: #8694).
1684 - Fix startup of the Unsafe Browser in some locales (Closes: #8693).
1685 - Wait for notification-daemon to run before showing the MAC
1686 spoofing panic mode notifications. Without this, the "Network
1687 card disabled" notification is sometimes lost when MAC spoofing
1688 fails. Unfortunately this only improves the situation, but
1689 doesn't fix it completely (see #8685).
1690 - Log that we're going to stop NetworkManager before trying to do
1691 it in the MAC spoofing scripts. Without this we wouldn't get the
1692 log message in case stopping NetworkManager fails (thanks to
1694 - Set GNOME Screenshot preferences to save the screenshots in
1695 /home/amnesia (Closes: #8087).
1696 - Do not suspend to RAM when closing the lid on battery power
1698 - Properly update the Tails Installer's status when plugging in a
1699 USB drive after it has started (Closes: #8353).
1700 - Make rsync compare file contents by using --checksum for more
1701 reliable generation of the squashfs filesystem in
1702 IUKs. Previously it used the default, which is checking
1703 timestamps and file size, but that doesn't play well with the
1704 Tor browser files, that have a fixed mtime, which could result
1705 in updated files not ending up in the IUK.
1707 * Minor improvements
1708 - Finish migrating tails-security-check's and tails-iuk's pinning
1709 to our website's new X.509 certificate authority (Closes: #8404).
1712 - Update to Vagrant build box tails-builder-20141201. The only
1713 change is the removal of a reference to an ISO image which
1714 doesn't exist (except on the system that generated the build
1715 box) which causes an error for some users (Closes: #7644).
1716 - Generate the list of packages used during build, after building
1717 with Jenkins (Closes: #8518). This allows tracking their status
1718 on the Debian reproducible build front:
1719 https://reproducible.debian.net/index_pkg_sets.html#tails
1721 * Automated test suite
1722 - Check PO files with i18nspector (Closes: #8359).
1723 - Fix the expected image of a check.tp.o failure. Previously we
1724 looked for the "Sorry. You are not using Tor." text, but it
1725 seems it recently changed enough for Sikuli to not find it. To
1726 prevent future errors of the same kind we'll look for the
1727 crossed-over onion icon instead (Closes: #8533).
1728 - Bump timeout when waiting for Tor to re-bootstrap. We have a
1729 dreaded issue with timeouts that are multiple of 2 minutes, and
1730 then Tor succeeds soon after, so in order to allow for this
1731 timeout to be reached twice, and then possibly succeed, let's
1732 use N*2 minutes + 30 seconds, with N=2.
1734 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 14 Jan 2015 16:12:26 +0100
1736 tails (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=medium
1739 - Create a CA bundle for Tails Upgrader at ISO build time, and
1740 patch Tails Upgrader to use it. Specifically this will make it
1741 possible to check for Tails upgrades after our website changes
1742 certificate around the 2014 to 2015 transition (Partially fixes
1745 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 15 Dec 2014 10:05:17 +0100
1747 tails (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1750 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.0-4, i.e. 3.16.7-1.
1751 - Install Tor Browser 4.0.2 (based on Firefox 31.3.0esr).
1754 - Install syslinux-utils, to get isohybrid back (Closes: #8155).
1755 - Update xserver-xorg-input-evdev to 1:2.7.0-1+tails1 which
1756 includes a patch that restores mouse scrolling in KVM/Spice
1758 - Set Torbutton logging preferences to the defaults (Closes:
1759 #8160). With the default settings, no site-specific information is
1761 - Use the correct stack of rootfs:s for the chroot browsers (Closes:
1762 #8152, #8158). After installing incremental upgrades Tails' root
1763 filesystem consists of a stack squashfs:s, not only
1764 filesystem.squashfs. When not stacking them correct we may end up
1765 using the Tor Browser (Firefox) from an older version of Tails, or
1766 with no Tor Browser at all, as in the upgrade from Tails 1.1.2 to
1767 1.2, when we migrated from Iceweasel to the Tor Browser. Based on
1768 a patch contributed by sanic.
1769 - Use the Tor Browser for MIME type that GNOME associates with
1770 Iceweasel (Closes: #8153). Open URLs from Claws Mail, KeePassX
1771 etc. should be possible again.
1772 - Update patch to include all Intel CPU microcodes (Closes: #8189).
1773 - AppArmor: allow Pidgin to run Tor Browser unconfined, with
1774 scrubbed environment (Closes: #8186). Links opened in Pidgin are
1775 now handled by the Tor Browser.
1776 - Install all localized Iceweasel search plugins (Closes: #8139).
1777 - When generating the boot profile, ignore directories in
1778 process_IN_ACCESS as well (Closes: #7925). This allows ut to
1779 update the squashfs-ordering again in Tails 1.2.1.
1780 - gpgApplet: Don't pass already encoded data to GTK2 (Closes:
1781 #7968). It's now possible to clearsign text including non-ASCII
1783 - Do not run the PulseAudio initscript, neither at startup nor
1784 shutdown (Closes: #8082).
1786 * Minor improvements
1787 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.17-1~deb7u+1.
1788 - Make GnuPG configuration closer to the best practices one
1790 - Have GnuPG directly use the Tor SOCKS port (Closes: #7416).
1791 - Remove TrueCrypt support and documentat how to open TrueCrypt
1792 volumes using cryptsetup (Closes: #5373).
1793 - Install hopenpgp-tools from Debian Jessie.
1796 - Add gettext >= 0.18.3 as a Tails build dependency. We need it for
1797 xgettext JavaScript support in feature/jessie.
1799 * Automated test suite
1800 - Don't click to open a sub-menu in the GNOME applications menu
1802 - When testing the Windows camouflage, look for individual systray
1803 applets, to avoid relying on their ordering (Closes: #8059).
1804 - Focus the Pidgin Buddy List before looking for something
1805 happening in it (Closes: #8161).
1806 - Remove workaround for showing the TBB's menu bar (Closes #8028).
1808 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 02 Dec 2014 11:34:03 +0100
1810 tails (1.2) unstable; urgency=medium
1812 * Major new features
1813 - Migrate from Iceweasel to the Tor Browser from the Tor Browser
1814 Bundle 4.0 (based on Firefox 31.2.0esr). This fixes the POODLE
1816 The installation in Tails is made global (multi-profile), uses
1817 the system-wide Tor instance, disables the Tor Browser updater,
1818 and keeps the desired deviations previously present in Iceweasel,
1819 e.g. we install the AdBlock Plus add-on, but not Tor Launcher (since
1820 we run it as a standalone XUL application), among other things.
1821 - Install AppArmor's userspace tools and apparmor-profiles-extra
1822 from Wheezy Backports, and enable the AppArmor Linux Security
1823 Module. This adds Mandatory Access Control for several critical
1824 applications in Tails, including Tor, Vidalia, Pidgin, Evince
1826 - Isolate I2P traffic from the Tor Browser by adding a dedicated
1827 I2P Browser. It is set up similarly to the Unsafe Browser,
1828 but further disables features that are irrelevant for I2P, like
1829 search plugins and the AdBlock Plus addon, while keeping Tor Browser
1830 security features like the NoScript and Torbutton addons.
1831 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.5.8-rc-1~d70.wheezy+1.
1834 - Disable TCP timestamps (Closes: #6579).
1837 - Remove expired Pidgin certificates (Closes: #7730).
1838 - Use sudo instead of gksudo for running tails-upgrade-frontend to
1839 make stderr more easily accessible (Closes: #7431).
1840 - Run tails-persistence-setup with sudo instead of gksudo to make
1841 stderr more easily accessible, and allow the desktop user to
1842 pass the --verbose parameter (Closes: #7623).
1843 - Disable CUPS in the Unsafe Browser. This will prevent the
1844 browser from hanging for several minutes when accidentally
1845 pressing CTRL+P or trying to go to File -> Print (Closes: #7771).
1847 * Minor improvements
1848 - Install Linux 3.16-3 (version 3.16.5-1) from Debian
1849 unstable (Closes: #7886, #8100).
1850 - Transition away from TrueCrypt: install cryptsetup and friends
1851 from wheezy-backports (Closes: #5932), and make it clear that
1852 TrueCrypt will be removed in Tails 1.2.1 (Closes: #7739).
1853 - Install Monkeysign dependencies for qrcodes scanning.
1854 - Upgrade syslinux to 3:6.03~pre20+dfsg-2~bpo70+1, and install
1855 the new syslinux-efi package.
1856 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.15-1~deb7u+1
1857 - Enable Wheezy proposed-updates APT repository and setup APT
1858 pinnings to install packages from it.
1859 - Enable Tor's syscall sandbox. This feature (new in 0.2.5.x)
1860 should make Tor a bit harder to exploit. It is only be enabled
1861 when when no special Tor configuration is requested in Tails
1862 Greeter due to incompatibility with pluggable transports.
1863 - Start I2P automatically when the network connects via a
1864 NetworkManager hook, and "i2p" is present on the kernel command
1865 line. The router console is no longer opened automatically, but
1866 can be accessed through the I2P Browser (Closes: #7732).
1867 - Simplify the IPv6 ferm rules (Closes: #7668).
1868 - Include persistence.conf in WhisperBack reports (Closes: #7461)
1869 - Pin packages from testing to 500, so that they can be upgraded.
1870 - Don't set Torbutton environment vars globally (Closes: #5648).
1871 - Enable VirtualBox guest additions by default (Closes: #5730). In
1872 particular this enables VirtualBox's display management service.
1873 - In the Unsafe Browser, hide option for "Tor Browser Health
1874 report", and the "Get Addons" section in the Addon manager
1876 - Show Pidgin's formatting toolbar (Closes: #7356). Having the
1877 formatting toolbar displayed in Pidgin makes the OTR status more
1878 explicit by displaying it with words.
1880 * Automated test suite
1881 - Add --pause-on-fail to ease VM state debugging when tests
1883 - Add execute_successfully() and assert_vmcommand_success() for
1884 added robustness when executing some command in the testing VM.
1885 - Use Test::Unit::Assertions instead of our home-made assert().
1886 - Add test for persistent browser bookmarks.
1887 - Add basic tests for Pidgin, Totem and Evince, including their
1888 AppArmor enforcement.
1889 - Factorize some common step pattern into single steps.
1890 - Factorize running a command in GNOME Terminal.
1891 - Add common steps to copy a file and test for its existence.
1892 - Add a wait_and_double_click Sikuli helper method.
1893 - Add a VM.file_content method, to avoid repeating ourselves, and
1894 use it whenever easily doable.
1895 - Drop test that diffs syslinux' exithelp.cfg: we don't ship this
1897 - In the Unsafe Browser tests, rely on subtle timing less (Closes:
1899 - Use the same logic to determine when Tor is working in the test
1900 suite as in Tails itself. The idea is to avoid spamming the Tor
1901 control port during bootstrap, since we've seen problems with
1904 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:34:50 +0200
1906 tails (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=medium
1909 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.8.0esr-0+tails3~bpo70+1
1910 (fixes Mozilla#1064636).
1911 - Install Linux 3.16-1 from sid (Closes: #7886).
1912 - Upgrade file to 5.11-2+deb7u5 (fixes CVE-2014-0207,
1913 CVE-2014-0237, CVE-2014-0238, CVE-2014-3478, CVE-2014-3479,
1914 CVE-2014-3480, CVE-2014-3487, CVE-2014-3538 and CVE-2014-3587).
1915 - Upgrade curl to 7.26.0-1+wheezy10 (fixes CVE-2014-3613 and
1917 - Upgrade bind9-based packages to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u2
1918 (fixes CVE-2014-0591).
1919 - Upgrade gnupg to 1.4.12-7+deb7u6 (fixes CVE-2014-5270).
1920 - Upgrade apt to 0.9.7.9+deb7u5 (fixes CVE-2014-0487,
1921 CVE-2014-0488, CVE-2014-0489, CVE-2014-0490, and
1923 - Upgrade dbus to 1.6.8-1+deb7u4 (fixes CVE-2014-3635,
1924 CVE-2014-3636, CVE-2014-3637, CVE-2014-3638 and CVE-2014-3639).
1925 - Upgrade libav-based pacakges to 6:0.8.16-1 (fixes
1927 - Upgrade bash to 4.2+dfsg-0.1+deb7u1 (fixes CVE-2014-6271).
1929 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 23 Sep 2014 23:01:40 -0700
1931 tails (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
1934 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.8.0esr-0+tails1~bpo70+1
1935 (Firefox 24.8.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
1936 Also import the Tor Browser profile at commit
1937 271b64b889e5c549196c3ee91c888de88148560f from
1938 ttp/tor-browser-24.8.0esr-3.x-1.
1939 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.23-2~d70.wheezy+1 (fixes CVE-2014-5117).
1940 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.14.1-1~deb7u+1.
1941 - Upgrade Linux to 3.14.15-2 (fixes CVE-2014-3534, CVE-2014-4667
1943 - Upgrade CUPS-based packages to 1.5.3-5+deb7u4 (fixes
1944 CVE-2014-3537, CVE-2014-5029, CVE-2014-5030 and CVE-2014-5031).
1945 - Upgrade libnss3 to 2:3.14.5-1+deb7u1 (fixes CVE-2013-1741,
1946 CVE-2013-5606, CVE-2014-1491 and CVE-2014-1492).
1947 - Upgrade openssl to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u12 (fixes CVE-2014-3505,
1948 CVE-2014-3506, CVE-2014-3507, CVE-2014-3508, CVE-2014-3509,
1949 CVE-2014-3510, CVE-2014-3511, CVE-2014-3512 and CVE-2014-5139).
1950 - Upgrade krb5-based packages to 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u2 (fixes
1951 CVE-2014-4341, CVE-2014-4342, CVE-2014-4343, CVE-2014-4344 and
1953 - Upgrade libav-based packages to 6:0.8.15-1 (fixes CVE-2011-3934,
1954 CVE-2011-3935, CVE-2011-3946, CVE-2013-0848, CVE-2013-0851,
1955 CVE-2013-0852, CVE-2013-0860, CVE-2013-0868, CVE-2013-3672,
1956 CVE-2013-3674 and CVE-2014-2263.
1957 - Upgrade libgpgme11 to 1.2.0-1.4+deb7u1 (fixes CVE-2014-5117).
1958 - Upgrade python-imaging to 1.1.7-4+deb7u1 (fixes CVE-2014-3589).
1959 - Prevent dhclient from sending the hostname over the network
1961 - Override the hostname provided by the DHCP server (Closes: #7769).
1962 - Add an I2P boot parameter. Without adding "i2p" to the kernel
1963 command line, I2P will not be accessible for the Live user.
1964 - Stricter I2P firewall rules:
1965 * deny I2P from accessing the LAN
1966 * deny I2P from accessing the loopback device, except for select
1967 whitelisted services
1968 * allow I2P access to the Internet
1969 The ACCEPT rules will only be enabled when the string 'i2p' is
1970 passed at the boot prompt. The rules which DENY or REJECT
1971 access for the 'i2psvc' user will always be applied.
1972 - Disable I2P plugins, since it doesn't make much sense without
1973 persistence, and should eliminate some attack vectors.
1974 - Disable I2P's BOB port. No maintained I2P application uses it.
1977 - Fix condition clause in tails-security-check (Closes: #7657).
1978 - Don't ship OpenJDK 6: I2P prefers v7, and we don't need both.
1979 - Prevent Tails Installer from updating the system partition
1980 properties on MBR partitions (Closes: #7716).
1982 * Minor improvements
1983 - Upgrade to Torbutton 1.6.12.1.
1984 - Install gnome-user-guide (Closes: #7618).
1985 - Install cups-pk-helper (Closes: #7636).
1986 - Update the SquashFS sort file.
1987 - Compress the SquashFS more aggressively (Closes: #7706).
1988 - I2P: Keep POP3 email on server. The default in the I2P webmail
1989 app was to keep mail on the server, but that setting was changed
1990 recently. This configuration setting (susimail.config) will only
1991 be copied over in I2P 0.9.14 and newer.
1992 - Add a Close button to the Tails Installer launcher window.
1995 - Migrate Vagrant basebox to Debian Wheezy (Closes #7133, #6736).
1996 - Consistently use the same Debian mirror.
1997 - Disable runtime APT proxy configuration when using APT in
1998 binary_local-hooks (Closes: #7691).
2000 * Automated test suite
2001 - Automatically test hostname leaks (Closes: #7712).
2002 - Move autotest live-config hook to be run last. This way we'll
2003 notice if some earlier live-config hook cancels all hooks by
2004 running the automated test suite since the remote shell won't be
2005 running in that case.
2006 - Test that the I2P boot parameter does what it's supposed to do
2008 - Start applications by using the GNOME Applications menu instead
2009 of the GNOME Run Dialog (Closes: #5550, #7060).
2011 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:49:28 +0000
2013 tails (1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
2015 * Rebase on Debian Wheezy
2016 - Upgrade literally thousands of packages.
2017 - Migrate to GNOME3 fallback mode.
2018 - Install LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice.
2019 - Remove custom LSB logging: Wheezy has fancy colored init
2022 * Major new features
2023 - UEFI boot support.
2024 - Replace the Windows XP camouflage with an experimental Windows 8
2026 - Install Linux 3.14.12-1 from Debian unstable.
2027 - Bring back VirtualBox guest modules, installed from Wheezy
2028 backports. Full functionality is only available when using the
2032 - Fix write access to boot medium via udisks (#6172).
2033 - Don't allow the desktop user to pass arguments to
2034 tails-upgrade-frontend (Closes: #7410).
2035 - Make persistent file permissions safer (Closes #7443):
2036 * Make the content of /etc/skel non-world-readable. Otherwise,
2037 such files may be copied to /home/amnesia, and in turn to the
2038 persistent volume, with unsafe permissions. That's no big deal
2039 in /home/amnesia (that is itself not world-readable), *but*
2040 the root of the persistent volume has to be world-readable.
2041 * Have activate_custom_mounts create new directories with safe
2043 * Set strict permissions on /home/amnesia (Closes: #7463).
2044 * Fix permissions on persistent directories that were created
2045 with unsafe permissions (Closes: #7458).
2046 * Fix files ownership while copying persistence (Closes: #7216).
2047 The previous instructions to copy the persistent data were
2048 creating personal files that belong to root. I don't think
2049 there is a way of preserving the original ownership using
2050 Nautilus (unless doing a "move" instead of a "copy" but that's
2051 not what we are trying to do here).
2052 - Disable FoxyProxy's proxy:// protocol handler (Closes: #7479).
2053 FoxyProxy adds the proxy:// protocol handler, which can be used
2054 to configure the proxy via an URI. A malicious web page can
2055 include (or a malicious exit node can inject) some JavaScript
2056 code to visit such an URI and disable or otherwise change
2057 Iceweasel's proxy settings. While using this to disable
2058 proxying will be dealt with safely by our firewall, this could
2059 be used to defeat stream isolation, although the user must be
2060 tricked into accepting the new proxy settings.
2061 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.7.0esr-0+tails1~bpo70+1
2062 (Firefox 24.7.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
2063 - Upgrade to Linux 3.14.12-1 (fixes CVE-2014-4699).
2064 - Upgrade libav-based packages to 0.8.13-1 (fixes CVE-2014-4609).
2065 - Upgrade to libxml2 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy1 (fixes CVE-2014-0191).
2066 - Upgrade to dbus 1.6.8-1+deb7u3 (fixes CVE-2014-3477,
2067 CVE-2014-3532 and CVE-2014-3533).
2070 - Disable GNOME keyring's GnuPG functionality. (Closes: #7330) In
2071 feature/regular-gnupg-agent, we installed the regular GnuPG
2072 agent so that it is used instead of GNOME keyring's one. This is
2073 not enough on Wheezy, so let's disable the starting of the "gpg"
2074 component of GNOME keyring.
2075 - Make sure /etc/default/locale exists, with a sensible default
2076 value (Closes: #7333). Before Tails Greeter's PostLogin script
2077 are run, /etc/default/locale does not exist on Wheezy. Our
2078 tails-kexec initscript (and quite a few other scripts we run)
2079 depends on this file to exist. So, let's make sure it exists,
2080 with a sensible default value.
2081 - Create the tails-persistence-setup user with the same UID/GID it
2082 had on Tails/Squeeze. (Closes: #7343) Else, our various checks
2083 for safe access rights on persistence.conf fail.
2084 - Revert back to browsing the offline documentation using Iceweasel
2085 instead of Yelp (Closes: #7390, #7285).
2086 - Make the new NetworkManager configuration directory persistent,
2087 when the old one was, but disable the old one (Closes: #7338).
2088 - Before running tails-upgrade-frontend, chdir to a world-readable
2089 place (Closes: #7641). In particular, Archive::Tar::Wrapper,
2090 when called by tails-install-iuk, wants to chdir back to the
2091 original cwd after it has chdir'd elsewhere to do its job.
2093 * Minor improvements
2094 - Install seahorse-nautilus, replacing seahorse-plugins (Closes #5516).
2095 - Install hledger (custom backport, for now): our accountants need this.
2096 - Install stable Scribus instead of scribus-ng.
2097 - Install the printer driver for Epson Inkjet that use ESC/P-R.
2098 - Install the BookletImposer PDF imposition toolkit. It's tiny,
2099 and really helpful e.g. when producing booklets.
2100 - Install gtkhash and nautilus-gtkhash (Closes #6763).
2101 - Import new version of Tor Launcher:
2102 · Now based on upstream Tor Launcher 0.2.5.4.
2103 · Tor bug #11772: Proxy Type menu not set correctly
2104 · Tor bug #11699: Change &#160 to   in network-settings.dtd
2105 · Correctly handle startup paths that contain dot.
2106 - Upgrade to Torbutton 1.6.9.0.
2107 - Avoid shipping python2.6 in addition to python2.7.
2108 - Don't install Gobby 0.4 anymore. Gobby 0.5 has been available in
2109 Debian since Squeeze, now is a good time to drop the obsolete
2111 - Require a bit less free memory before checking for upgrades with
2112 Tails Upgrader. The general goal is to avoid displaying "Not
2113 enough memory available to check for upgrades" too often due to
2114 over-cautious memory requirements checked in the wrapper.
2115 - Make Tails Greeter's help window resolution-aware. Previously it
2116 used a static 800x600 which was problematic on lower resolutions,
2117 and sub-optimal on higher resolutions. Now it adapts itself
2118 according to the screen resolution.
2119 - Whisperback now sanitizes attached logs better with respect to
2120 DMI data, IPv6 addresses, and serial numbers (Closes #6797,
2122 - Integrate the new logo in Tails Installer (Closes #7095)
2123 - Also install linux-base and linux-compiler-gcc-4.8-x86 from
2124 sid. This way, we can get rid of our linux-compiler-gcc-4.8-x86
2125 3.12, and it makes things a bit more consistent.
2126 - Include the syslinux binary, and its MBR, in the ISO filesystem.
2127 This in turn allows Tails Installer to use this binary and MBR,
2128 which is critical for avoiding problems (such as #7345) on
2130 - Include syslinux.exe for win32 in utils/win32/ on the ISO
2131 filesystem (Closes: #7425).
2133 * Add consistent margins in GUI.
2134 * Always reset the target drive's MBR, without asking for
2135 confirmation, after installing or upgrading.
2136 * Install the bootloader using the syslinux binary found on the
2137 target device, once the Live OS has been extracted/copied
2139 - Enable double-clicking to pick entries in the language or
2140 keyboard layout lists in Tails Greeter.
2141 - Install backport of shared-mime-info 1.3 (Closes: #7079).
2142 - Make sanity-check prompts closable in Tails Persistence Setup
2144 - Fix quick search in Tails Greeter's Other languages window
2146 - Install systemd. It is not enabled by default, but having it
2147 around will help doing the migration work.
2148 - Enable AppArmor on the kernel command-line. This is a no-op
2149 without the userspace tools and with no profile shipped, but it
2150 will make it easier to fix this part of the situation.
2153 - Bump Vagrant builder's memory for RAM builds. Wheezy requires
2154 more space to build, and the resulting image is larger.
2155 - Fix Vagrant compatibility issue. Some classes' methods/fields
2156 have been renamed between Vagrant versions, so we need a simple
2157 compatibility layer to support all versions. Without this, it's
2158 not possible to issue e.g. a `build` command to an already
2159 running (i.e. `vm:up`:ed) Vagrant instance.
2160 - Move cpu and mem checks to the `build` task. Previously, when
2161 they were checked in `vm:up` *only* when issued while the VM
2162 already is up, so these checks weren't run if one issues a
2163 `build` when the VM is off. Now we'll fail earlier with a more
2164 informative error message, and it looks like a more logical home
2166 - Fix buggy memory checks for RAM building. We have to take into
2167 account which state the Vagrant VM is in for determining *where*
2168 we check if enough memory is available for a RAM build. If it's
2169 off, we check the host; if it's on we check the VM. Previously
2170 we always checked the host, which doesn't make sense when the VM
2173 * Automated test suite
2174 - Bump the tester VM's RAM by 256 MiB. There is not enough free
2175 RAM to run Tails Upgrader with just 1 GiB of RAM after the
2176 migration to Wheezy.
2177 - Always adjust OOM and memory overcommit settings. The kernel
2178 freezes seem to also happen for the amd64 kernel when filling
2180 - Add option to make Sikuli rety on FindFailed. This makes it
2181 possible to update manu images for Sikuli in just *one* test
2182 suite run, by continuously updating outdated pictures as we go.
2183 - Actually run "Upgrade from ISO" from a USB drive running the old
2184 version. That's what users do, and is buggy.
2185 - Automatically test persistent directories permissions (Closes: #7560).
2186 - Use read-write persistence when testing upgraded USB
2187 installations. Otherwise e.g. the permission fixes won't get
2188 applied, and the subsequent steps testing the permissions will
2190 - Actually check that the ISO's Tails is installed. The step
2191 "Tails is installed on USB drive $TARGET" only checks that the
2192 *running* Tails is installed on $TARGET, which obviously fails
2193 when doing an upgrade from ISO running an old Tails. That it
2194 worked for the same scenario running the current Tails is just
2196 - Use OpenJDK 7 to run our test suite (Closes #7175).
2197 - Use qemu-system-x86_64 directly, instead of kvm, for running the
2198 automated test suite (Closes: #7605).
2200 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 20 Jul 2014 23:16:13 +0200
2202 tails (1.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium
2205 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.6.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1
2206 (Firefox 24.6.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
2207 Also import the Tor Browser profile at commit
2208 90ba8fbaf6f23494f1a0e38d63153b3b7e65d3d3 from
2209 ttp/tor-browser-24.6.0esr-3.x-1.
2210 - Install Linux 3.14 from Debian unstable (fixes CVE-2014-3153 and
2212 - Install openssl from Squeeze LTS (fixes CVE-2014-0076,
2213 CVE-2014-0195, CVE-2014-0221, CVE-2014-3470 and CVE-2014-0224).
2214 - Install GnuTLS from Squeeze LTS (fixes CVE-2014-3466.).
2216 * Minor improvements
2217 - Add Squeeze LTS APT sources. It has been given a low pinning
2218 priority so explicit pinning must be used to actually install
2220 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.22-1~d60.squeeze+1.
2221 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.13-1~deb6u+1.
2223 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 08 Jun 2014 19:14:00 +0200
2225 tails (1.0) unstable; urgency=medium
2228 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.5.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1
2229 (Firefox 24.5.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
2230 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.21-1+tails1~d60.squeeze+1:
2231 * Based on 0.2.4.21-1~d60.squeeze+1.
2232 * Backport the fix for Tor bug #11464. It adds client-side blacklists for
2233 all Tor directory authority keys that was vulnerable to Heartbleed.
2234 This protects clients in case attackers were able to compromise a
2235 majority of the authority signing and identity keys.
2238 - Disable inbound I2P connections. Tails already restricts incoming
2239 connections, but this change tells I2P about it.
2240 - Fix link to the system requirements documentation page in the Tails
2241 Upgrader error shown when too little RAM is available.
2243 * Minor improvements
2244 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.12-2~deb6u+1.
2245 - Import TorBrowser profile. This was forgotten in Tails 0.23 and even
2246 though we didn't explicitly set those preferences in that release
2247 they defaulted to the same values. This future-proofs us in case the
2248 defaults would ever change.
2249 - Import new custom version of tor-launcher:
2250 * Based on upstream Tor Launcher 0.2.5.3.
2251 * Improve how Tor Launcher handles incomplete translation.
2252 (Tor bug #11483; more future-proof fix for Tails bug #6885)
2253 * Remove the bridge settings prompt. (Tor bug #11482; closes Tails
2255 * Always show bridge help button. (Tor bug #11484)
2256 - Integrate the new Tails logo into various places:
2259 * The "About Tails" dialog
2262 - Use the stable APT suite when building from the stable Git branch
2266 - Add test for the #7022 fix.
2268 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 27 Apr 2014 19:34:01 +0200
2270 tails (0.23) unstable; urgency=medium
2273 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.4.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1
2274 (Firefox 24.4.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
2276 * Major new features
2277 - Spoof the network interfaces' MAC address by default (Closes: #5421),
2278 as designed on https://tails.boum.org/contribute/design/MAC_address/.
2279 - Rework the way to configure how Tor connects to the network
2280 (bridges, proxy, fascist firewall): add an option to Tails Greeter,
2281 start Tor Launcher when needed (Closes: #5920, #5343).
2284 - Additional software: do not crash when persistence is disabled
2286 - Upgrade Pidgin to 2.10.9, that fixes some regressions introduced
2287 in the 2.10.8 security update (Closes: #6661).
2288 - Wait for Tor to have fully bootstrapped, plus a bit more time,
2289 before checking for upgrades (Closes: #6728) and unfixed known
2291 - Disable the Intel Management Engine Interface driver (Closes: #6460).
2292 We don't need it in Tails, it might be dangerous, and it causes bugs
2293 on various hardware such as systems that reboot when asked to shut down
2294 - Add a launcher for the Tails documentation. This makes it available
2295 in Windows Camouflage mode (Closes: #5374, #6767).
2296 - Remove the obsolete wikileaks.de account from Pidgin (Closes: #6807).
2298 * Minor improvements
2299 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.21-1~d60.squeeze+1.
2300 - Upgrade obfsproxy to 0.2.6-2~~squeeze+1.
2301 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.11-1deb6u1.
2302 - Install 64-bit kernel instead of the 686-pae one (Closes: #5456).
2303 This is a necessary first step towards UEFI boot support.
2304 - Install Monkeysign (in a not-so-functional shape yet).
2305 - Disable the autologin text consoles (Closes: #5588). This was one of
2306 the blockers before a screen saver can be installed
2307 in a meaningful way (#5684).
2308 - Don't localize the text consoles anymore: it is broken on Wheezy,
2309 the intended users can as well use loadkeys, and we now do not have
2310 to trust setupcon to be safe for being run as root by the desktop user.
2311 - Make it possible to manually start IBus.
2312 - Reintroduce the possibility to switch identities in the Tor Browser,
2313 using a filtering proxy in front of the Tor ControlPort to avoid giving
2314 full control over Tor to the desktop user (Closes: #6383).
2315 - Incremental upgrades improvements:
2316 · Drop the Tails Upgrader launcher, to limit users' confusion
2318 · Lock down sudo credentials a bit.
2319 · Hide debugging information (Closes: #6505).
2320 · Include ~/.xsession-errors in WhisperBack bug reports.
2321 This captures the Tails Upgrader errors and debugging information.
2322 · Report more precisely why an incremental upgrade cannot be done
2324 · Various user interface and phrasing improvements.
2325 - Don't install the Cookie Monster browser extension (Closes: #6790).
2326 - Add a browser bookmark pointing to Tor's Stack Exchange (Closes: #6632).
2327 - Remove the preconfigured #tor channel from the Pidgin: apparently,
2328 too many Tails users go ask Tails questions there, without making
2329 it clear that they are running Tails, hence creating a user-support
2330 nightmare (Closes: #6679).
2331 - Use (most of) Tor Browser's mozconfig (Closes: #6474).
2332 - Rebase the browser on top of iceweasel 24.3.0esr-1, to get
2333 the certificate authorities added by Debian back (Closes: #6704).
2334 - Give access to the relevant documentation pages from Tails Greeter.
2335 - Hide Tails Greeter's password mismatch warning when entry is changed.
2336 - Persistent Volume Assistant:
2337 · Take into account our installer is now called Tails Installer.
2338 · Optimize window height (Closes: #5458).
2339 · Display device paths in a more user-friendly way (Closes: #5311).
2342 - Ease updating POT and PO files at release time, and importing translations
2343 from Transifex (Closes: #6288, #6207).
2344 - Drop custom poedit backport, install it from squeeze-backports-sloppy.
2345 - Make ISO and IUK smaller (Closes: #6390, #6425):
2346 · Exclude more files from being included in the ISO.
2347 · Remove *.pyc later so that they are not recreated.
2348 · Truncate log files later so that they are not filled again.
2349 · At ISO build time, set mtime to the epoch for large files whose content
2350 generally does not change between releases. This forces rsync
2351 to compare the actual content of these files, when preparing an IUK,
2352 instead of blindly adding it to the IUK merely because the mtime
2353 has changed, while the content is the same.
2354 - Make local hooks logging consistent.
2357 - Migrate from JRuby to native Ruby + rjb.
2358 - The test suite can now be run on Debian Wheezy + backports.
2359 - Fix buggy "persistence is not enabled" step (Closes: #5465).
2360 - Use IPv6 private address as of RFC 4193 for the test suite's virtual
2361 network. Otherwise dnsmasq from Wheezy complains, as it is not capable
2362 of handling public IPv6 addresses.
2363 - Delete volumes after each scenario unless tagged @keep_volumes.
2364 - Add an anti-test to make sure the memory erasure test works fine.
2365 - A *lot* of bugfixes, simplifications and robustness improvements.
2367 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 18 Mar 2014 00:58:50 +0100
2369 tails (0.22.1) unstable; urgency=medium
2372 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.3.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+2
2373 (Firefox 24.3.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
2374 - Upgrade NSS to 3.14.5-1~bpo60+1.
2375 - Upgrade Pidgin to 2.10.8.
2376 - Workaround browser size fingerprinting issue by using small icons
2377 in the web browser's navigation toolbar (Closes: #6377).
2378 We're actually hit by Tor#9268, and this is the best workaround gk
2379 and I were able to find when discussing this on Tor#10095.
2381 * Major new features
2382 - Check for upgrades availability using Tails Upgrader, and propose
2383 to apply an incremental upgrade whenever possible (Closes: #6014).
2384 · Run tails-update-frontend at session login time.
2385 · Have tails-security-check only report unfixed security issues.
2386 · Greatly improve the Tails Upgrader UI and strings phrasing.
2387 · Enable startup notification for Tails Upgrader.
2388 - Install Linux 3.12 (3.12.6-2) from Debian testing. Unfortunately,
2389 this breaks the memory wipe feature on some hardware (#6460), but
2390 it fixes quite a few security issues, and improves hardware support.
2391 - Update the build system to be compatible with Vagrant 1.2 and 1.3,
2392 in addition to the already supported versions (Closes: #6221).
2393 Thanks to David Isaac Wolinsky <isaac.wolinsky@gmail.com>.
2396 - Do not start IBus for languages that don't need it. This fixes
2397 the keybindings problems introduced in 0.22 (Closes: #6478).
2398 Thanks to WinterFairy.
2399 - Disable network.proxy.socks_remote_dns in the Unsafe Browser.
2400 Bugfix against 0.22 (Closes: #6479).
2401 - Fetch Tor Browser User-Agent from its own prefs, rather than from
2402 the obsolete Torbutton ones. Bugfix against 0.22 (Closes: #6477).
2403 - Upgrade Vagrant basebox to include up-to-date Debian archive keys
2404 (Closes: #6515, #6527).
2405 - Do not use a non-working proxy for downloading the Vagrant basebox
2407 - Use IE's icon in Windows camouflage mode.
2408 Bugfix against 0.22 (Closes: #6536).
2409 - Support "upgrading" a partial Tails installation (Closes: #6438)
2410 and fix missing confirmation dialog in Tails Installer (Closes: #6437).
2411 Thanks to Andres Gomez Ramirez <andres.gomez@cern.ch>.
2412 - Fix browser homepage in Spanish locales (Closes: #6612).
2414 * Minor improvements
2415 - Tor 0.2.4 is stable! Adapt APT sources accordingly.
2416 - Update Tor Browser to 24.2.0esr-1+tails1, that uses its own NSS
2417 library instead of the system one.
2418 - Update Torbutton to 1.6.5.3.
2419 - Do not start Tor Browser automatically, but notify when Tor is ready.
2420 Warn the user when they attempt to start Tor Browser before Tor is ready.
2421 - Import Tor Browser profile at
2422 3ed5d9511e783deb86835803a6f40e7d5a182a12 from ttp/tor-browser-24.2.0esr-1.
2423 - Use http.debian.net for Vagrant builds, instead of the mostly broken
2424 (and soon obsolete) cdn.debian.net.
2425 - Phrasing and UI improvements in tails-upgrade-frontend.
2426 - Style and robustness improvements in tails-security-check.
2427 - Make room for upcoming UEFI support in Tails Installer.
2429 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:08:13 +0100
2431 tails (0.22) unstable; urgency=medium
2435 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 24.2.0esr that fixes a few serious security issues.
2436 - Stop migrating persistence configuration and access rights. Instead,
2437 disable all persistence configuration files if the mountpoint has wrong
2438 access rights (Closes: #6413).
2439 - Upgrade to NSS 3.15.3 that fixes a few serious security issues affecting
2440 the browser, such as CVE-2013-1741, CVE-2013-5605 and CVE-2013-5606.
2442 * Major improvements
2443 - Switch to Iceweasel 24 (Closes: #6370).
2444 · Resync' (most) Iceweasel prefs with TBB 3.0-beta-1 and get rid
2445 of many obsolete or default settings.
2446 · Disable WebRTC (Closes: #6468).
2447 · Import TorBrowser profile at commit
2448 51bf06502c46ee6c1f587459e8370aef11a3422d from the tor-browser-24.2.0esr-1
2449 branch at https://git.torproject.org/tor-browser.git.
2450 - Switch to Torbutton 1.6.5 (Closes: #6371).
2451 · Prevent Torbutton from asking users to "upgrade TBB".
2452 · Use the same Tor SOCKS port as the TBB (9151) for our web browser.
2453 This should be enough to avoid being affected by Tor#8511.
2454 · Disable Torbutton 1.6's check for Tor.
2455 Unfortunately, the new check.torproject.org breaks the remote Tor
2456 check. We cannot use the local Tor check with the control port. So,
2457 the shortest and sanest path to fixing the check issue, because the
2458 remote Tor check is broken" seems to simply disable this check.
2459 Patch submitted upstream as Tor#10216.
2460 - Prepare incremental upgrades to be the next default way to upgrade Tails,
2461 on point-releases at least.
2464 - Deny X authentication only after Vidalia exits (Closes: #6389).
2465 - Disable DPMS screen blanking (Closes: #5617).
2466 - Fix checking of the persistent volume's ACL.
2467 - Sanitize more IP and MAC addresses in bug reports (Closes: #6391).
2468 - Do not fail USB upgrade when the "tmp" directory exists on the
2470 - Tails Installer: list devices with isohybrid Tails installed
2473 * Minor improvements
2474 - Create a configuration file for additional software if needed
2476 - Translations all over the place.
2477 - Enable favicons in Iceweasel.
2478 - Do not propose to make permanent NoScript exceptions.
2479 In Tails, every such thing is temporary, so better only display the menu
2480 entry that's about temporarily allowing something.
2481 - Clearer warning when deleting persistent volume (thanks to Andres Gomez
2482 Ramirez <andres.gomez@cern.ch> for the patch).
2483 - Make wording in Tails Installer more consistent.
2486 * Use IBus instead of SCIM (Closes: #5624, #6206).
2487 It makes it possible to input passwords in pinentry for at least Japanese,
2488 Chinese and Korean languages.
2489 * Add an import-translation script.
2490 This automates the importation process of completed translations
2492 * Always list optimal keyboard layout in the greeter (Closes: #5741).
2493 * Fix on-the-fly translation of the greeter in various languages
2497 * Update I2P to 0.9.8.1 (Closes: #6080, #5889).
2498 * Improve I2P configuration:
2499 - Disable IPv6 support in a nicer way.
2500 - Disable i2cp (allows java clients to communicate from outside the JVM). If
2501 this is unset an exception for port 7654 would need to be added to ferm.
2502 - Disable "in-network" updates (this is also done in the regular I2P
2504 - Disable the outproxies. Access to the Internet is already routed through
2505 Tor so these are unnecessary. If end-users have a good reason to go
2506 through one of the I2P outproxies they can turn them back on.
2507 * Add a couple of default I2P IRC channels to Pidgin.
2508 * Allow access to the local 'eepsite' through FoxyProxy.
2509 * Add firewall exceptions for the standard I2P ports.
2511 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 30 Nov 2013 16:47:18 +0100
2513 tails (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2516 - Don't grant access to the Tor control port for the desktop user
2517 (amnesia). Else, an attacker able to run arbitrary code as this user
2518 could obtain the public IP with a get_info command.
2519 · Vidalia is now run as a dedicated user.
2520 · Remove the amnesia user from the debian-tor group.
2521 · Remove the Vidalia launcher in the Applications menu.
2522 The Vidalia instance it starts is useless, since it can't connect
2523 to the Tor control port.
2524 - Don't allow the desktop user to directly change persistence settings.
2525 Else, an attacker able to run arbitrary code as this user could
2526 leverage this feature to gain persistent root access, as long as
2527 persistence is enabled.
2528 · Fully rework the persistent filesystem and files ownership
2530 · Run the Persistent Volume Assistant as a dedicated user, that is
2531 granted the relevant udisks and filesystem -level credentials.
2532 · At persistence activation time, don't trust existing persistence
2533 configuration files, migrate to the new ownership and permissions,
2534 migrate every known-safe existing settings and backup what's left.
2535 Warn the user when not all persistence settings could be migrated.
2536 · Persistent Volume Assistant uses the new ownership and permissions
2537 scheme when initializing a new persistent volume, and refuses to
2538 read persistence.conf if it, or the parent directory, hasn't the
2539 expected permissions.
2540 · Make boot medium 'system internal' for udisks with bilibop.
2541 Once Tails is based on Wheezy, this will further complete the
2542 protection (see #6172 for details).
2543 - Update Iceweasel to 17.0.10esr-0+tails2~bpo60+1.
2544 - Update Torbutton to 1.5.2-2, including a patch cherry-picked from
2545 upstream to make window resizing closer to what the design says.
2547 * Major new features
2548 - Add a persistence preset for printing settings (Closes: #5686).
2549 Reload CUPS configuration after persistence activation.
2550 - Support SD card connected through a SDIO host adapter (Closes: #6324).
2551 · Rebrand Tails USB installer to Tails installer.
2552 · Display devices brand, model and size in the Installer
2554 · Ask for confirmation before installing Tails onto a device
2556 · Add support for SDIO and MMC block devices to the Tails Installer
2557 (Closes: #5744) and the Persistent Volume Assistant (Closes: #6325).
2558 · Arm the udev watchdog when booted from SD (plugged in SDIO) too
2561 * Minor improvements
2562 - Provide a consistent path to the persistent volume mountpoint
2564 - Add a KeePassX launcher to the top GNOME panel (Closes: #6290).
2565 - Rework bug reporting workflow: point the desktop launcher to
2566 the troubleshooting page.
2567 - Make /home world-readable at build time, regardless of the Git
2568 working copy permissions. This makes the build process more robust
2569 against strict umasks.
2570 - Add signing capabilities to the tails-build script (Closes: #6267).
2571 This is in turn used to sign ISO images built by our Jenkins setup
2573 - Simplify the ikiwiki setup and make more pages translatable.
2574 - Exclude the version string in GnuPG's ASCII armored output.
2575 - Prefer stronger ciphers (AES256,AES192,AES,CAST5) when encrypting
2577 - Use the same custom Startpage search URL than the TBB.
2578 This apparently disables the new broken "family" filter.
2579 - Update AdBlock Plus patterns.
2580 - Install Linux from Debian testing.
2581 (That is, the same version that was shipped in 0.20.1.)
2584 - Look for "/tmp/.X11-unix/X${1#:}" too when detecting displays in use.
2585 - Adapt tests to match the Control Port access security fix:
2586 · Take into account that the amnesia user isn't part of the debian-tor
2588 · Run as root the checks to see if a process is running: this
2589 is required to see other users' processes.
2591 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2013 23:42:46 +0200
2593 tails (0.20.1) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * Major new features
2596 - Install Tor 0.2.4.17-rc-1~d60.squeeze+1 from the Tor project's repository.
2597 - Install Iceweasel 17.0.9esr with Torbrowser patches.
2598 - Install Linux kernel 3.10-3 (version 3.10.11-1) from sid.
2601 - Remount persistence devices read-only at shutdown/reboot time
2603 - Greeter: display a warning icon on admin password mismatch and on
2604 persistence unlocking failure. Thanks to Andres Gomez Ramirez
2605 <andres.gomez@cern.ch> for the fix!
2606 - Don't torsocksify Pidgin.
2607 Instead we disable Pidgin's GNOME integration to get the "Global proxy
2608 configuration", which we set to use Tor. This fixes the I2P IRC account.
2609 - Additional software: fix typo in notification.
2610 - Allow installing "Priority: standard" packages that we do not install
2611 by default: remove them late in the build process instead of assigning
2612 them a -1 APT pinning level.
2614 * Minor improvements
2615 - Update AdBlock Plus patterns.
2616 - Use more unique ISO file name when building from Jenkins.
2617 - Additional software: point to the system log on upgrade failure.
2618 - Set SOCKS5_USER and SOCKS5_PASSWORD in the connect-socks wrapper (used
2619 by Git). Else, Tor 0.2.4's IsolateSOCKSAuth and connect-proxy
2620 sometimes play together in some way that makes connect-proxy ask for
2621 a password to connect to the SocksPort. SOCKS5_USER and
2622 SOCKS5_PASSWORD are passed through unchanged if they were manually set
2623 by the user already.
2624 - Use our custom connect-socks wrapper for SSH. Else, Tor 0.2.4's
2625 IsolateSOCKSAuth and connect-proxy sometimes play together in some way
2626 that makes connect-proxy ask for a password to connect to the
2627 SocksPort. Note that connect-socks uses the default SocksPort too, so
2628 no change here wrt. our connection isolation design.
2631 - Import new translations from Transifex.
2634 - Fix old ISO checking for consistent error reporting.
2635 - Remove custom persistence test from manual test suite.
2636 It was removed for the GUI in t-p-s 0.33.
2638 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2013 15:49:36 +0200
2640 tails (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * Major new features
2643 - Install Linux kernel 3.10.3-1 from Debian unstable.
2644 - Iceweasel 17.0.8esr + Torbrowser patches.
2647 - Prevent Iceweasel from displaying a warning when leaving HTTPS web sites.
2648 - Make Iceweasel use the correct, localized search engine.
2649 - Fix Git access to https:// repositories.
2651 * Minor improvements
2652 - Install Dasher, a predictive text entry tool.
2653 - Add a wrapper around TrueCrypt which displays a warning about it soon
2654 being deprecated in Tails.
2655 - Remove Pidgin libraries for all protocols but IRC and Jabber/XMPP.
2656 Many of the other protocols Pidgin support are broken in Tails and
2657 haven't got any security auditting.
2658 - Disable the pre-defined Pidgin accounts so they do not auto-connect
2660 - Include information about Alsa in WhisperBack reports.
2661 - Explicitly restrict access to ptrace. While this setting was enabled
2662 by default in Debian's Linux 3.9.6-1, it will later disabled in 3.9.7-1.
2663 It's unclear what will happen next, so let's explicitly enable it ourselves.
2664 - Do not display dialog when a message is sent in Claws Mail.
2665 - Sync iceweasel preferences with the Torbrowser's.
2668 - Many translation updates all over the place.
2669 - Merge all Tails-related POT files into one, and make use of intltoolize
2670 for better integration with Transifex.
2672 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:19:57 +0200
2674 tails (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * Major new features
2677 - Install Linux kernel 3.9.5-1 from Debian unstable.
2678 Features of particular interest for Tails are the Yama LSM
2679 (ptrace scope restrictions) and improved hardware support.
2680 As a corollary, install initramfs-tools from there too.
2681 - Iceweasel 17.0.7esr + Torbrowser patches.
2682 - Unblock Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, WWAN and WiMAX; block every other type of
2683 wireless device. Next steps are described on the
2684 todo/protect_against_external_bus_memory_forensics ticket.
2687 - Fix write access to boot medium at the block device level,
2688 by installing bilibop-udev. Thanks to quidame for his support.
2689 - tails-greeter l10n-related fixes, thanks to winterfairy:
2690 · Fix so translations is applied on password mismatch messages.
2691 · Separate forward and login buttons and make them translatable.
2692 - Fix link to documentation when no sudo password is set.
2693 - gpgApplet: partial fix for clipboard emptying after a wrong passphrase
2695 - Workaround aufs bug in Unsafe Browser script.
2697 * Minor improvements
2698 - Drop GNOME proxy settings: we did not find any use of it we were keen
2699 to support, other than two programs (Seahorse, Pidgin) that are now run
2701 - Format newly created persistent volumes as ext4.
2702 - GnuPG: don't connect to the keyserver specified by the key owner.
2703 This feature opens the door to a variety of subtle attacks.
2704 - GnuPG: locate keys only from local keyrings.
2705 This is probably the default, but better safe than sorry.
2706 - Install virt-what from Wheezy.
2707 The version from Squeeze does not detect at least Parallels for Mac v.8.
2708 - Upgrade live-boot and live-config to the 3.0.x final version from Wheezy.
2709 · Remove /live and /lib/live/image compatibility symlinks.
2710 · Add /live/overlay -> /lib/live/mount/overlay symlink.
2711 The live-boot changes (commit d2b2a461) brought to fix Debian bug
2712 #696495 revert some of our previous changes (commit 77dab1cb), and as
2713 a result, at the time live-persist runs, no tmpfs is mounted on
2714 /live/overlay, which breaks the aufs mount. So, let's just ensure
2715 /live/overlay points to a tmpfs.
2716 · Really disable policykit and sudo live-config hooks.
2717 ... by making it believe they've already been run.
2718 This workarounds new live-config's default behavior.
2721 - Many translation updates all over the place.
2724 - Re-enable previously disabled boot device permissions test.
2726 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:36:20 +0200
2728 tails (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2731 - Support obfs3 bridges.
2732 - Automatically install a custom list of additional packages chosen by
2733 the user at the beginning of every working session, and upgrade them
2734 once a network connection is established (technology preview).
2737 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.6esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1.
2738 - Update Torbrowser patches to current maint-2.4 branch (567682b).
2739 - Isolate DOM storage to first party URI, and enable DOM storage:
2740 don't set dom.storage.enabled anymore, and set Torbutton's
2741 disable_domstorage to false.
2742 - Isolate the image cache per url bar domain.
2743 - Torbutton 1.5.2, and various prefs hacks to fix breakage:
2744 · Add .saved version of the Torbutton preferences the TBB also sets.
2745 · Set TOR_SOCKS_HOST and TOR_SOCKS_PORT.
2746 · Move some prefs (network.proxy.*, extensions.autoDisableScopes,
2747 extensions.foxyproxy.last-version) to user.js.
2748 Else, with Torbutton 1.5.x, these ones are not taken into account.
2749 · Set network.proxy.socks_version.
2750 Else we get the meaningless user_pref("network.proxy.socks_version", 9063);
2751 in prefs.js after the initial startup.
2752 · Set extensions.foxyproxy.socks_remote_dns to true.
2753 Else, it overrides the various ways we set network.proxy.socks_remote_dns,
2754 which in turn makes Torbutton think it should start in non-Tor mode.
2755 · Also pass the TOR_SOCKS_* environment variables to iceweasel when
2756 generating the profile: Torbutton behaves differently depending on
2757 these variables, so we don't want the initial profile generation to be
2758 done without them. In practice, this has no implication that we could
2759 see right now, but better safe than sorry.
2760 · Import all version overrides from the TBB prefs.
2761 Else, the User-Agent sent in the HTTP headers is fine, but real
2762 values leak with JavaScript, as demonstrated by ip-check's "Browser
2764 · Move a bunch of settings to user_pref(), that are not applied otherwise.
2765 For some, this fixes a regression in 0.18~rc1.
2766 For other, the bug was already present in Tails 0.17.2.
2767 - HTTPS Everywhere 3.2.
2768 - Update prefs to match the TBB's, fix bugs, and take advantage of the latest
2770 · Increase pipeline randomization.
2771 · Fix @font-face handling of local() fonts.
2772 Also disable fallback font rendering.
2773 · Explicitly disable SPDY v2 and v3.
2774 · Update http pipelining prefs.
2775 - Make prefs organization closer to the TBB's:
2776 · Remove Torbutton prefs that we set at their default value.
2777 · Import Torbutton preferences from the TBB.
2778 · Organize iceweasel config files in sections the same way as the TBB.
2780 · Don't set extensions.torbutton.clear_cookies nor
2781 extensions.torbutton.saved.share_proxy_settings:
2782 we don't care about toggling anymore.
2783 · Don't set extensions.torbutton.saved.download_retention nor
2784 extensions.torbutton.saved.search_suggest:
2785 these settings are not used in Torbutton anymore.
2786 - Update unsafe browser prefs mangling accordingly.
2787 - Move network.protocol-handler.warn-external.* to user_pref().
2788 Else they're not applied.
2789 These prefs are actually ignored by Firefox these days -- the TBB
2790 design doc reads "They are set still anyway out of respect for the
2791 dead". Let's go on doing the same.
2792 - Update extensions.adblockplus.currentVersion.
2793 - Fetch xul-ext-https-everywhere (3.2-2) and xul-ext-noscript (2.6.6.1-1)
2794 from Debian unstable. They were uploaded there, and accordingly removed
2798 - Linux 3.2.41-2+deb7u2.
2799 - Fixed swapped filenames of tails-{reboot,shutdown}.desktop.
2800 Thanks to Mikko Harhanen for the patch.
2801 - Only add ClientTransportPlugin to torrc when bridge mode is enabled.
2802 This should bring back support for proxies of type other than obfsproxy.
2804 * Minor improvements
2805 - Set kernel.dmesg_restrict=1, and make /proc/<pid>/ invisible
2806 and restricted for other users. It makes it slightly harder for an attacker
2807 to gather information that may allow them to escalate privileges.
2808 - Install gnome-screenshot.
2809 - Don't disable IPv6 on all network interfaces anymore.
2810 It turns out the IPv6 leaks we wanted to fix actually don't exist.
2811 - Add a "About Tails" launcher in the System menu.
2812 - Install GNOME accessibility themes.
2813 - Use 'Getting started...' as the homepage for Tails documentation button.
2814 - Stop relying on the obsolete /live/image compatibility symlink.
2815 - Disable audio preview in Nautilus.
2816 - Wheezy was released => Squeeze is now oldstable.
2817 - Pick Tor from deb.torproject.org regardless of the release name they
2818 advertise. At some point we needed it, their APT repository still thought
2819 that stable == Squeeze.
2820 - Add Wheezy APT sources.
2821 - Install Linux and related packages from Wheezy.
2822 Debian sid just got Linux 3.8, and we don't want to switch to a new kernel
2824 - Fetch laptop-mode-tools from Wheezy.
2825 Wheezy has the version we've been installing in 0.18~rc1,
2826 while a newer one was uploaded to sid in the meantime.
2827 - Fetch a few packages from Wheezy instead of unstable.
2828 Namely: spice-vdagent, libregexp-common-perl, macchanger, service-wrapper,
2829 libservice-wrapper-java and libservice-wrapper-jni.
2830 Wheezy has the versions we've been installing for a while, so let's
2831 avoid having unstable push a newer one to us uselessly at some point.
2832 Note that at the time of this writing, the versions in sid and in Wheezy
2833 are the same, so this commit is effectively a no-op as of today: it is
2834 merely a safeguard for the future.
2837 - Many translation updates all over the place.
2840 - Make Vagrant's build-tails script support Jenkins too.
2843 - Fix Unsafe Browser test broken by hidepid.
2845 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 13 May 2013 22:17:38 +0200
2847 tails (0.17.2) unstable; urgency=low
2850 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.5esr-0+tails2~bpo60+1.
2851 - Stop displaying obsolete context menu entries ("Open Tor URL" and friends).
2854 - Update Linux to 3.2.41-2
2857 - Use more reliable OpenPGP keyservers:
2858 · use the hkps pool in GnuPG (and import their SSL CA)
2859 · use hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net in Seahorse (as it does not support
2861 - Keep udisks users (GNOME Disk Utility, tails-persistence-setup, etc.)
2862 from resetting the system partition's attributes when manipulating the
2863 partition table. To this end, backport the relevant bugfix from Wheezy
2864 into parted 2.3-5+tails1. This allowed to remove the sgdisk-based
2865 workaround in tais-persistence-setup, and to stop installing
2866 python-parted. All this is a first needed step to fix
2867 todo/make_system_disk_read-only in a future release.
2869 * Minor improvements
2870 - Disable NoScript's HTML5 media click-to-play for better user experience.
2873 - Tails USB installer: update translations for French, German, Spanish,
2874 Finnish, Greek, Italian, Latvian, Dutch, Polish and Chinese.
2875 - Tails Greeter: update translations for Farsi, Chinese, French;
2876 new translations: Finnish, Norwegian Bokmål, Galician.
2877 - tails-persistence-setup: update Farsi and Chinese translations;
2878 import new translations for Finnish and Swedish.
2879 - WhisperBack: update translations for Arabic, French, German, Greek,
2880 Spanish, Korean, Polish, Russian. New translations: Finnish, Chinese.
2883 - Add automated testing framework (Sikuli, Cucumber, libvirt -based)
2884 with a bunch of tests.
2886 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:17:26 +0200
2888 tails (0.17.1) unstable; urgency=low
2891 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.4esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1.
2894 - Update Linux to 3.2.39-2.
2895 It includes the drm and agp subsystems from Linux 3.4.29.
2896 - Don't install xserver-xorg-video-rendition backport.
2897 xserver-xorg-video-rendition has been removed from squeeze-backports
2898 due to an upstream tarball mismatch discover when merging backports
2899 into the main Debian archive, and xserver-xorg-video-all still depends
2900 on it, so we explicitly install all drivers from -all but -rendition
2901 as a (hopefully temporary) workaround.
2903 * Minor improvements
2904 - Remove Indymedia IRC account, until we ship a version of Pidgin
2905 with SASL support, that is when Tails is based on Wheezy.
2908 - Don't ship the wiki's todo and bugs on ISO images.
2910 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:54:11 +0100
2912 tails (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2915 - Install the KeePassX password manager, with a configuration and
2916 documentation that makes it easy to persist the password database.
2919 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.3esr-1+tails1~bpo60+1.
2920 - Install xul-ext-adblock-plus from squeeze-backports.
2921 - Do not allow listing all available fonts.
2922 Set browser.display.max_font_attempts and browser.display.max_font_count
2923 to enable the Torbrowser Limit-the-number-of-fonts-per-document patch.
2924 - Set default spellchecker dictionary to English (USA),
2925 and localize it according to locale with our custom branding extension.
2926 - Disable the add-ons automatic update feature.
2927 - Make the generated profile world-readable.
2928 - Remove NoScript click-to-play confirmation.
2929 - Sync some prefs set by Torbutton, to be ready when it stops setting these.
2930 - Disable navigation timing.
2931 - Disable SPDY. It stores state and may have keepalive issues.
2932 - More aggressive iceweasel HTTP pipelining settings.
2933 - Enable WebGL (as click-to-play only).
2934 - Disable network.http.connection-retry-timeout.
2935 - Disable full path information for plugins.
2936 - Remove NoScript blocks of WebFonts.
2937 - Disable DOM storage in Torbutton.
2938 Since we don't apply the 0026-Isolate-DOM-storage-to-first-party-URI.patch
2939 Torbrowser patch yet, and still disable DOM storage, we need to tell
2940 Torbutton not to use it.
2941 - Synchronize iceweasel's general.useragent.override with TBB based on FF17.
2942 The User-Agent settings are not kept up-to-date anymore in Torbutton, so
2943 we have to keep in sync manually with TBB's settings.
2944 - Remove obsolete APT pining for Torbutton.
2945 It's not maintained in Debian anymore, so we now fetch it from our own
2947 - Fetch FoxyProxy from Debian experimental and libnspr4-0d from
2948 squeeze-backports, for compatibility with Iceweasel 17.
2949 - Rebase bookmarks file on top of the default iceweasel 17 one.
2950 - Explicitly disable AdBlock Plus "correct typos" feature.
2951 This feature connects to http://urlfixer.org/.
2952 It is disabled by default in 2.2-1, but let's be careful.
2954 * Minor improvements
2955 - Upgrade to live-boot 3.0~b11-1 and live-config 3.0.12-1.
2956 Accordingly update the 9980-permissions hook, live-persist,
2957 unsafe-browser and boot-profile.
2958 Add compatibility symlinks from /live to /lib/live, and from /live/image
2959 to /lib/live/mount/medium, to ease the transition.
2960 - Check for errors when sourcing live-boot files, e.g. to detect when
2961 they have been renamed upstream.
2962 - Don't add "quiet" to the kernel command-line ourselves.
2963 Else, it appears twice as live-build's lb_binary_syslinux adds it too.
2964 Historically, we've been adding it ourselves on top of that because
2965 lb_binary_yaboot does not add it, but since we gave up the PowerPC support
2966 attempt, we're now only interested in syslinux, so let's make it easier
2967 for the general case, e.g. when one wants to remove the "quiet" parameter
2968 as suggested by our "Tails does not start" debugging documentation.
2969 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.4.
2972 - Many bugfixes brought by the Debian Squeeze 6.0.7 point-release.
2973 - Use the regular GnuPG agent + pinentry-gtk2 instead of Seahorse
2974 as a GnuPG agent. This fixes usage of OpenPGP in Claws Mail,
2975 and brings support for OpenPGP smartcards.
2976 - Enable I2P hidden mode.
2977 Else, killing I2P ungracefully is bad for the I2P network.
2978 - live-persist: move error() function before the first potential usecase.
2979 - Add missing executable bit on restart-tor and restart-vidalia.
2980 - Add shutdown and reboot launchers to the menu.
2981 This workarounds the lack of a shutdown helper applet in camouflage mode.
2982 - Remove Pidgin's MXit and Sametime support.
2983 ... at least until CVE-2013-0273, CVE-2013-0272 and CVE-2013-0271 are
2984 fixed in Debian stable. While we're at it, don't force file removal in
2985 these "set -e" build scripts: fail hard, instead of silently ignoring
2986 the fact that files may have moved or disappeared.
2989 - Install recent Intel and AMD microcode from squeeze-backports,
2990 explicitly excluding the iucode-tool package that's not a good idea
2992 - Install firmware loader for Qualcomm Gobi USB chipsets.
2993 This is needed to have various mobile broadband chipsets work.
2994 - Upgrade barry to 0.18.3-5~bpo60+1.
2995 This much improved new version supports more hardware & ISP,
2996 and does not display dozens of spurious error messages at boot time.
2999 - Remove APT local cache (/Var/cache/apt/{,src}pkgcache.bin).
3001 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:37:57 +0100
3003 tails (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * Minor improvements
3006 - Replace the too-easy-to-misclick shutdown button with a better
3007 "Shutdown Helper" Gnome applet.
3008 - Display ~/Persistent in GNOME Places and GtkFileChooser if it is mounted.
3009 - Set Unsafe Browser's window title to "Unsafe Browser".
3010 - Install ekeyd to support the EntropyKey.
3011 - Install font for Sinhala.
3012 - Update Poedit to 1.5.4.
3013 - Kill Vidalia when restarting Tor.
3014 Doing this as early as possible exposes Vidalia's "broken onion" icon
3016 - Hide the persistence setup launchers in kiosk mode.
3017 - Add a shell library for Tor functions.
3018 These are shared among multiple of our scripts.
3019 - Install dictionaries for supported languages.
3020 Install hunspell dictionaries when possible,
3021 fall back on myspell ones else.
3024 - Disable IPv6 on all network interfaces.
3025 This is a workaround for the IPv6 link-local multicast leak that was recently
3026 discovered. Tails has no local service that listens on IPv6, so there should be
3027 no regression, hopefully, unless one wants to play with OnionCat and VoIP,
3028 but those of us should know how to workaround this anyway.
3029 - live-persist: Fix variable mismatch, fixing probe white-list.
3030 Tails may previously have been able to list GPT partitions labelled
3031 "TailsData" on hard drives (!) as valid persistence volumes...
3032 - live-persist: Fix --media option when no devices are attached.
3033 Earlier, if it was set to e.g. 'removable-usb' and no USB storage was
3034 connected, $whitelistdev would be empty, which is interpreted like
3035 all devices are ok by the rest of the code.
3036 - Fix SCIM in the autostarted web browser: save IM environment variables
3037 to a file during Desktop session startup, and export them into the
3038 autostarted browser's environment.
3039 - Talk of DVD, not of CD, in the shutdown messages.
3040 - Make tordate work in bridge mode with an incorrect clock.
3041 When using a bridge Tor reports TLS cert lifetime errors (e.g. when
3042 the system clock is way off) with severity "info", but when no bridge
3043 is used the severity is "warn". tordate/20-time.sh depends on grepping
3044 these error messages, so we termporarily increase Tor's logging
3045 severity when using bridge mode. If we don't do this tordate will
3046 sleep forever, leaving Tor in a non-working state.
3047 · White-list root to use Tor's ControlPort.
3048 · Add logging for is_clock_way_off().
3049 · Remove Tor's log before time syncing.
3050 We depend on grepping stuff from the Tor log (especially for
3051 tordate/20-time.sh), so deleting it seems like a Good Thing(TM).
3052 · Stop Tor before messing with its log or data dir.
3053 - live-persist: limit searched devices the same way as live-boot.
3054 If no --media argument is specified, use live-boot's
3055 "(live-media|bootfrom)=removable(|-usb)" argument to limit devices
3056 searched for a persistent volume.
3057 - tails-greeter: do not pass media=removable to live-persist.
3058 Now that we have autodetection with kernel command-line,
3059 it should not be needed anymore.
3060 - Start memlockd after configuring it,
3061 instead of starting it before and restarting it after.
3062 This avoids running memlockd twice, and prevents other possibly
3063 surprising race-conditions.
3064 As a consequence, also have tails-sdmem-on-media-removal start after the
3065 memlockd service *and* tails-reconfigure-memlockd: to start the watchdog,
3066 we need memlockd to be properly configured *and* running.
3069 - Set iceweasel homepage to the news section on the Tails website.
3070 ... using the localized one when possible.
3071 - Hide the iceweasel add-on bar by default.
3072 Now that we don't want to ship the Monkeysphere addon anymore,
3073 that was the only one displayed in there, we can as well hide the whole bar.
3074 - Don't hide the AdBlock-Plus button in the add-on bar anymore. Now that
3075 we hide the whole addon bar, we can get rid of this old
3077 - Do not install a placeholder (fake) FireGPG iceweasel extension anymore.
3078 It was shipped from 0.10 (early 2012) to 0.15 (late November),
3079 so the migration period should be over now.
3080 - Don't install xul-ext-monkeysphere anymore.
3081 The implication of the current keyserver policy are not well
3082 understood, Monkeysphere is little used in Tails, and we're not sure
3083 anymore it would be our first bet for the web browser profile with no
3084 CA. Let's keep the various configuration bits (e.g. FoxyProxy,
3085 patching MSVA), though, so that advanced users who are used to have
3086 Monkeysphere in Tails just have to install the package.
3089 - Install the "standard" task with tasksel for better consistency in the
3090 Tails ISO images built in various environments.
3091 - Install p7zip-full. It's a dep by file-roller, but we explicily use it
3092 elsewhere, and it's better to be safe than sorry.
3093 - Remove pinning of libvpx0 to sid.
3094 This package is part of Squeeze, and not from testing/sid.
3095 We have been shipping the version from Squeeze for a while.
3096 - Remove config/chroot_local-packages/ from .gitignore.
3097 The documented way for "external" contributors to add custom packages
3098 is to put them in chroot_local-packages, and once we pull we import
3099 any such package into our APT repo and rewrite the
3100 history appropriately.
3101 Also, the ability to add packages in there and not see them in "git
3102 status" makes it very easy to build tainted ISO images with
3103 non-standard packages, which makes some of us fear can lead to hard to
3105 - Make it clearer what can and cannot be done in terms of local packages.
3107 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:47:42 +0100
3109 tails (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3111 * Major new features
3112 - Persistence for browser bookmarks.
3113 - Support for obfsproxy bridges.
3115 * Minor improvements
3116 - Add the Hangul (Korean) Input Method Engine for SCIM.
3117 - Add vendor-specific dpkg origin information. This makes dpkg-vendor
3118 return correct information.
3119 - Install pcscd and libccid from squeeze-backports. This is needed to
3120 support, to some extent, some OpenPGP SmartCard readers.
3121 - Install HPIJS PPD files and the IJS driver (hpijs).
3122 This adds support for some printers, such as Xerox DocumentCenter400.
3123 - Optimize fonts display for LCD.
3124 - Update TrueCrypt to version 7.1a.
3127 - Do not use pdnsd anymore. It has been orphaned in Debian, has quite
3128 some bugs in there, and apparently Tor's DNSPort's own caching is
3130 - Remove useless iceweasel cookies exceptions. They are useless as
3131 per-session cookies are allowed.
3132 - Do not run setupcon on X. This call is only needed on the Linux
3133 console, no need to annoy the user with a weird "Press enter to
3134 activate this console" when the open a root shell in a GNOME
3136 - Allow the tails-iuk-get-target-file user to connect to the SOCKSPort
3137 dedicated for Tails-specific software.
3138 - Fix gpgApplet menu display in Windows camouflage mode.
3139 - Fix Tor reaching an inactive state if it's restarted in "bridge mode",
3140 e.g. during the time sync' process.
3143 - Update iceweasel to 10.0.11esr-1+tails1.
3144 - User profile is now generated at build time in order to support persistent
3146 - Update HTTPS Everywhere to version 3.0.4.
3147 - Update NoScript to version 2.6.
3148 - Fix bookmark to I2P router console.
3149 - Re-enable Monkeysphere extension to connect to the validation agent.
3152 - The Tails USB installer, tails-persistence-setup and tails-greeter
3153 are now translated into Bulgarian.
3154 - Update Chinese translation for tails-greeter.
3155 - Update Euskadi translation for WhisperBack.
3158 - Custom packages are now retrieved from Tails APT repository instead
3159 of bloating the Git repository.
3160 - Allow '~' in wiki filenames. This makes it possible to ship
3161 update-description files for release candidates.
3162 - Document how to create incremental update kit.
3163 - Handle release candidates when generating custom APT sources.
3164 - Remove pinning for xul-ext-adblock-plus.
3165 It is obsolete since we've added this package to our APT repository.
3167 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:59:17 +0100
3169 tails (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * Major new features
3172 - Enable Tor stream isolation; several new SocksPorts with
3173 appropriate Isolate* options have been added for different use
3174 cases (i.e. applications). All application's have been
3175 reconfigured to use these new SocksPorts, which should increase
3176 anonymity by making it more difficulte to correlate traffic from
3177 different applications or "online identities".
3178 - The web browser now has the anonymity enhancing patches from the
3180 - gpgApplet can now handle public-key cryptography.
3181 - Install an additional, PAE-enabled kernel with NX-bit
3182 support. This kernel is auto-selected when the hardware supports
3184 * provide executable space protection, preventing certain types of
3185 buffer overflows from being exploitable.
3186 * enable more than 4 GiB of system memory.
3187 * make all processors/cores available, including their
3188 power-saving functionality.
3189 - Add a persistence preset for NetworkManager connections.
3191 * Minor improvements
3192 - On kexec reboot, make the boot quiet only if debug=wipemem was not
3194 - Update torproject.org's APT repo key.
3195 - Update the embedded Tails signing key.
3196 - Use symlinks instead of duplicating localized searchplugins.
3197 - Rewrite Tails firewall using ferm. Tails firewall was written in
3198 very unsophisticated iptables-save/restore format. As more feature
3199 creeped in, it started to be quite unreadable.
3200 - Optimize VirtualBox modules build at runtime to avoid installing the
3201 userspace utils N times.
3202 - Drop most of Vidalia's configuration. Our custom lines just caused
3203 trouble (with multiple SocksPorts) and the default works well.
3204 - Blacklist PC speaker module. On some computers, having the pcspkr
3205 module loaded means loud beeps at bootup, shutdown and when using
3206 the console. As it draws useless attention to Tails users, it is
3207 better to prevent Linux from loading it by default.
3208 - Remove all addons from the Unsafe Browser. No addons are essential
3209 for the Unsafe Browser's intent. If anything they will modify the
3210 network fingerprint compared to a normal Iceweasel install, which
3212 - Prevent some unwanted packages to be installed at all, rather than
3213 uninstalling them later. This should speed up the build a bit.
3214 - Add a symlink from /etc/live/config to /etc/live/config.d. This
3215 makes the system compatible with live-config 3.0.4-1, without
3216 breaking backward compatibility with various parts of the system
3217 that use the old path.
3218 - Do not run unecessary scripts during shutdown sequence, to make
3220 - Make live-persist deal with persistent ~/.gconf subdirs so that
3221 any options saved therein actually get persistent.
3222 - Prevent memlockd unload on shutdown, to make sure that all
3223 necessary tools for memory wiping are available when the new
3225 - Patch initscripts headers instead of fiddling with update-rc.d. We
3226 now let insserv figure out the correct ordering for the services
3227 during startup and shutdown, i.e. use dependency-based boot
3229 - Remove the last absolute path in our isolinux config, which makes
3230 it easier to migrate from isolinux to syslinux (just rename the
3231 directory), and hence might make it easier for 3rd party USB
3232 installers (like the Universal USB Installer) to support Tails.
3235 - Include `seq` in the ramdisk environment: it is used to wipe more
3236 memory. This fixes the long-standing bug about Tails not cleaning
3237 all memory on shutdown.
3238 - Fix Yelp crashing on internal links
3239 - Allow amnesia user to use Tor's TransPort. This firewall exception
3240 is necessary for applications that doesn't have in-built SOCKS
3241 support and cannot use torsocks. One such example is Claws Mail,
3242 which uses tsocks since torsocks makes it leak the hostname. This
3243 exception, together with Tor's automatic .onion mapping makes
3244 Claws Mail able to use hidden service mail providers again.
3245 - Force threads locking support in Python DBus binding. Without this
3246 liveusb-creator doesn't work with a PAE-enabled kernel.
3247 - Fix localized search plugins for 'es' and 'pt'
3248 - Fix live-boot's readahead, which caused an unnecessary pause
3250 - Factorize GCC wanted / available version numbers in VirtualBox
3251 modules building hook. This, incidentally, fixes a bug caused by
3252 duplication and not updating all instances.
3253 - Fix tordate vs. Tor 0.2.3.x. Since 0.2.3.x Tor doesn't download a
3254 consensus for clocks that are more than 30 days in the past or 2
3255 days in the future (see commits f4c1fa2 and 87622e4 in Tor's git
3256 repo). For such clock skews we set the time to the Tor authority's
3257 cert's valid-after date to ensure that a consensus can be
3261 - Update to version 0.2.3.24-rc-1~~squeeze+1, a new major
3262 version. It's not a stable release, but we have been assured by
3263 the Tor developers that this is the right move.
3264 - Stop setting custom value for the Tor LongLivedPorts
3265 setting. Gobby's port was upstreamed in Tor 0.2.3.x.
3268 - Update to 10.0.10esr-1+tails1, which has all the anonymity enhancing
3269 patches from the TorBrowser applied.
3270 - Install iceweasel from our own repo, http://deb.tails.boum.org.
3271 - Fix Iceweasel's file associations. No more should you be suggested
3272 to open a PDF in the GIMP.
3275 - Use curl instead of wget, and add a --proxy option passed through
3277 - Remove the --fullrequest option, we don't need it anymore.
3278 - Remove --dns-timeout option, we don't need it anymore.
3279 - Change --proxy handling to support Debian Squeeze's curl.
3280 - Clarify what happens if --proxy is not used.
3281 - Compute the median of the diffs more correctly.
3284 - Update Linux to 3.2.32-1.
3287 - Update vidalia to 0.2.20-1+tails1.
3288 - Update bundled WhisperBack package to 1.6.2:
3289 * Raise the socket library timeout to 120 seconds
3290 * Use smtplib's timeout parameter
3291 * Fix error output when calling send a 2nd time
3292 - Update liveusb-creator to 3.11.6-3.
3293 - Update i2p to 0.9.2.
3294 - Update tails-persistence-setup to 0.20-1, which should make it
3295 possible to install Tails on large (>= 32 GiB) USB drives.
3296 - Install console-setup and keyboard-configuration from unstable
3297 (required by new initramfs-tools).
3298 - Update tails-greeter to 0.7.3:
3299 * Import pt_BR translation.
3300 * Let langpanel usable during option selection stage
3301 * Print less debugging messages by default
3302 (below are changes in tails-greeter 0.7.2:)
3303 * Use correct test operators.
3304 * Generate language codes of available locales at package build
3306 * Read list of language codes from where we have saved it at
3308 * Drop tails-lang-helper, not used anymore.
3309 * Do not compile locales at login time anymore. Tails now ships
3311 - Import live-config{,-sysvinit} 3.0.8-1. live-config >= 3.0.9-1
3312 has basically nothing useful for us, and it migrates to new paths
3313 brought by live-boot 3.0~b7, which we're not ready for yet (see:
3314 todo/newer_live-boot).
3317 - Fix Tails specific Iceweasel localization for pt-BR
3318 - Add Japanese input system: scim-anthy.
3319 - whisperback is now also translated into German, Hebrew, Hungarian,
3321 - tails-persistence-setup is now also translated into Arabic.
3322 - tails-greeter is now also translated into Arabic, Hebrew, Basque,
3323 Hungarian, Italian and Chinese.
3326 - Catch more errors in during build time:
3327 - Ensure that all local hooks start with 'set -e'.
3328 - Fail hard if adduser fails in local hooks.
3329 - Fail hard if 'rm' fails in local hooks.
3330 - vagrant: Ensure we have the set of Perl packages needed by our
3332 - vagrant: Configure live-build to ship with ftp.us.debian.org.
3333 Using cdn.debian.net leads to bad interactions with Tor.
3334 - vagrant: Don't use gzip compression when building from a tag, i.e.
3336 - vagrant: Optionally use bootstrap stage cache for faster builds
3337 via the 'cache' build option.
3338 - vagrant: Make sure release builds are clean, i.e. they don't use
3339 any potentially dangerous build options.
3340 - vagrant: Disable live-build package caching. This build system is
3341 meant to use an external caching proxy, so live-build's cache just
3342 wastes RAM (for in-memory builds) or disk space.
3343 - vagrant: use aufs magic instead of copying source into tmpfs.
3344 This reduces the amount of RAM required for building Tails in.
3345 - vagrant: Allow in-memory builds when a VM with enough memory is
3348 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:34:56 +0000
3350 tails (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * Major new features
3353 - Use white-list/principle of least privelege approach for local services.
3354 Only users that need a certain local (i.e. hosted on loopback) service
3355 (according to our use cases) are granted access to it by our firewall;
3356 all other users are denied access.
3357 - Ship a first version of the incremental update system. Updates are not
3358 currently triggered automatically, but this will allow tests to be done
3361 * Minor improvements
3362 - Enable four workspaces in the Windows XP camouflage. This allows
3363 users to quickly switch to a more innocent looking workspace in case
3364 they are working on sensitive data and attract unwanted attention.
3365 The workspace switcher applet isn't there, though, since there's no
3366 such thing in Windows XP, so switching is only possible via keyboard
3368 - Ship with precompiled locales instead of generating them upon login.
3369 - Add support for wireless regulation.
3370 - Use color for Git output, not intended for machine consumption,
3371 written to the terminal.
3372 - Have ttdnsd use OpenDNS. Using Google's DNS servers was very
3373 glitchy, and rarely succeeded when it should. It can probably be
3374 attributed to Google's DNS, which is known to take issue with Tor
3376 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.6, with many UI improvements and new translations.
3377 - Include GDM logs and dmidecode informations in the reports.
3378 - Allow to modify language and layout in the "Advanced options" screen
3380 - GnuPG: bump cert-digest-algo to SHA512.
3381 - Update torproject.org's APT repo key.
3384 - Make Claws Mail save local/POP emails in its dot-directory. The
3385 default is to save them at ~/Mail, which isn't included in our
3386 current Claws Mail persistence preset.
3387 - Fix the System Monitor applet.
3388 - Remove broken ttdnsd from the default DNS resolution loop.
3389 - Hide the 'TailsData' partition in desktop applications.
3390 - Ship unrar-free again, so that the GNOME archive manager knows about
3392 - Ship with an empty whitelist for Noscript.
3393 - Disable FoxyProxy's advertisement on proxy error page.
3394 - Fix slow browsing experience for offline documentation.
3395 - Raise the socket timeout to 120 seconds in WhisperBack.
3396 - Enable the ikiwiki trail plugin for the locally built wiki too.
3399 - Upgrade iceweasel to 10.0.6esr-1 (Extended Support Release) and install it
3400 and its dependencies from squeeze-backports.
3403 - Upgrade Linux to 3.2.23-1.
3406 - Update tor to version 0.2.2.39.
3407 - Update Iceweasel to version 10.0.7esr-2.
3408 - Update i2p to version 0.9.1.
3411 - vagrant: Install Ikiwiki from Debian unstable. The 'mirrorlist'
3412 patches have finally been merged in upstream Ikiwiki. So instead of
3413 building Ikiwiki by hand, we can now install the package directly
3414 from Debian unstable.
3415 - Do not build the ikiwiki forum on the bundled static website copy.
3417 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:19:25 +0200
3419 tails (0.12.1) unstable; urgency=low
3421 This is a brown paper bag release to fix two major problems introduced in
3425 - Upgrade Torbutton to 1.4.6.
3426 - Upgrade AdBlock Plus to 2.1.
3427 - Update AdBlock Plus patterns.
3430 - Upgrade Linux to 3.2.21-3 (linux-image-3.2.0-3-486).
3433 - Install MAT from Debian backports, drop custom package.
3434 - Install python-pdfrw to re-add PDF support to the MAT.
3435 - Upgrade tails-greeter to 0.7.1, which fixes the race condition that
3436 broke administration password and locale settings on some systems.
3439 - Remove the Tails specific plymouth theme. The theme interfers heavily with
3440 the boot process on some hardware.
3442 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:06:03 +0200
3444 tails (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3446 * Major new features
3447 - Add the Unsafe Web Browser, which has direct access to the Internet and
3448 can be used to login to captive portals.
3449 - The (previously experimental, now deemed stable) Windows camouflage can now
3450 be enabled via a check box in Tails greeter.
3453 - Upgrade to 0.2.2.37-1~~squeeze+1.
3456 - Upgrade iceweasel to 10.0.5esr-1 (Extended Support Release) and install it
3457 and its dependencies from squeeze-backports.
3458 - Add a bookmark for the offline Tails documentation.
3459 - Update AdBlock patterns.
3462 - Allow using larger USB drives by increasing the mkfs timeout to 10 minutes.
3463 - Tell the user what's going on when the Tails boot device cannot be found.
3466 - Upgrade Linux to 3.2.20-1 (linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64).
3470 - Install torsocks. Note that this makes `torify' use `torsocks' instead of
3471 `tsocks'. The `tsocks' binary is dropped to avoid problems, but remaining
3472 files (the library) are kept since ttdnsd depends on them.
3473 - Fetch live-config-sysvinit from sid so that it matches live-config version.
3474 - Update virtualbox backports to 4.1.10-dfsg-1~bpo60+1.
3475 - Install pciutils (needed by virtualbox-guest-utils).
3476 - Install mousetweaks. This is needed to use the mouse accessibility settings
3477 in System -> Preferences -> Mouse -> Accessibility.
3478 - Install the "hardlink" files deduplicator.
3479 - Do not install cryptkeeper anymore. See todo/remove_cryptkeeper for reason.
3480 Users of cryptkeeper are encouraged to install cryptkeeper via `apt-get
3481 update; apt-get install --yes cryptkeeper`, open their volume and move
3482 their to Tails' built-in persistence instead, as a one-time migration.
3483 - Upgrade I2P to version 0.9.
3484 - Don't install GParted. GNOME Disk Utility has been on par with GParted
3485 since Squeeze was released.
3486 - Upgrade live-boot to 3.0~a27-1+tails2~1.gbp319fe6.
3487 - Upgrade live-config to 3.0~a39-1 and install it from Debian experimental.
3488 - Upgrade tails-greeter to 0.7.
3489 - Upgrade tails-persistence-setup to 0.17-1.
3490 - Install libyaml-libyaml-perl.
3491 - Upgrade MAT, the metadata anonymisation toolkit, 0.3.2-1~bpo60+1.
3492 - Fetch python-pdfrw from backports, drop custom package.
3494 * Internationalization
3495 - The Tails website and documentation now has a (partial) Portuguese
3499 - Tails can now be built without using a HTTP proxy.
3500 - Tails can now easily be built by using Vagrant. See the updated
3501 contribute/build page for instructions.
3504 - Remove obsolete noswap boot parameter. live-boot now handles swap on an
3506 - The squashfs.sort files generated with boot-profile should now be ok which
3507 makes the generate images boot noticeably faster on optical media. See
3508 bugs/weird_squashfs.sort_entries for more information.
3509 - Set Tails specific syslinux and plymouth themes.
3510 - Add NVidia KMS video drivers to the initrd in order to show our shiny new
3511 plymouth theme on more systems.
3513 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:37:00 +0200
3515 tails (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * Major new features
3518 - Do not grant the desktop user root credentials by default.
3519 - A graphical boot menu (tails-greeter 0.6.3) allows choosing among
3520 many languages, and setting an optional sudoer password.
3521 - Support opt-in targeted persistence
3522 · tails-persistence-setup 0.14-1
3523 · live-boot 3.0~a25-1+tails1~5.gbp48d06c
3524 · live-config 3.0~a35-1
3525 - USB installer: liveusb-creator 3.11.6-1
3528 - Install iceweasel 10.0.4esr-1 (Extended Support Release).
3529 Let's stop tracking a too fast moving target.
3530 Debian Wheezy will ship ESR versions.
3531 - Install needed dependencies from squeeze-backports.
3534 bing appeared due to our upgrading iceweasel.
3535 Removing it makes things consistent with the way they have been
3536 until now, that is: let's keep only the general search engines
3537 we've been asked to add, plus Google, and a few specialized ones.
3538 · Replace Debian-provided DuckDuckGo search plugin with the "HTML SSL"
3539 one, version 20110219. This is the non-JavaScript, SSL, POST flavour.
3541 · Install localized search engines in the correct place.
3542 No need to copy them around at boot time anymore.
3543 · Remove Scroogle. RIP.
3544 - Enable TLS false start, like the TBB does since December.
3545 - Adblock Plus: don't count and save filter hits, supress first run dialog.
3546 - Install neither the GreaseMonkey add-on, nor any GreaseMonkey script.
3547 YouTube's HTML5 opt-in program is over.
3548 HTML5 video support is now autodetected and used.
3551 - Upgrade to 0.2.17-1+tails1: drop Do-not-warn-about-Tor-version.patch,
3553 - Set SkipVersionCheck=true.
3554 Thanks to chiiph for implementing this upstream (needs Vidalia 0.2.16+).
3556 * Internationalization
3557 - Install all available iceweasel l10n packages.
3558 - Remove syslinux language choosing menu.
3559 tails-greeter allows choosing a non-English language.
3560 - Add fonts for Hebrew, Thai, Khmer, Lao and Korean languages.
3562 - Setup text console at profile time.
3563 Context: Tails runs with text console autologin on.
3564 These consoles now wait, using a "Press enter to activate this console"
3565 message, for the user. When they press enter in there, they should have chosen
3566 their preferred keyboard layout in tails-greeter by now. Then, we run setupcon.
3567 As a result, the resulting shell is properly localized, and setupcon
3568 sets the correct keyboard layout, both according to the preferences expressed by
3569 the user in tails-greeter.
3570 - Don't use localepurge, don't remove any Scribus translations anymore,
3571 don't localize environment at live-config time:
3572 tails-greeter allows us to support many, many more languages.
3575 - Linux 3.2.15-1 (linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64).
3576 - Fix low sound level on MacBook5,2.
3577 - Disable laptop-mode-tools automatic modules. This modules set often
3578 needs some amount of hardware-specific tweaking to work properly.
3579 This makes them rather not well suited for a Live system.
3582 - Install GNOME keyring.
3583 This is needed so that NetworkManager remembers the WEP/WPA secrets
3584 for the time of a Tails session. Initialize GNOME keyring at user
3586 - Install usbutils to have the lsusb command.
3587 - Install the Traverso multitrack audio recorder and editor.
3590 - GNOME Terminal: keep 8192 scrollback lines instead of the smallish
3592 - Replaced tails-wifi initscript with laptop-mode-tools matching feature.
3593 - Disable gdomap service.
3594 - Fetch klibc-utils and libklibc from sid.
3595 The last initramfs-tools depends on these.
3596 - Set root password to "root" if debug=root is passed on the
3597 kernel cmdline. Allow setting root password on kernel cmdline via
3598 rootpw=. Looks like we implemented this feature twice.
3599 - Append a space on the kernel command line. This eases manually adding
3601 - Rename sudoers.d snippets to match naming scheme.
3602 Sudo credentials that shall be unconditionally granted to the Tails
3603 default user are named zzz_*, to make sure they are applied.
3604 - WhisperBack: also include /var/log/live-persist and
3605 /var/lib/gdm3/tails.persistence.
3606 - Add a wrapper to torify whois.
3607 - Rework the VirtualBox guest modules building hook to support
3609 - Consistently wait for nm-applet when waiting for user session to come up.
3610 Waiting for gnome-panel or notification-daemon worked worse.
3611 - Don't start the NetworkManager system service via init.
3612 Some Tails NM hooks need the user to be logged in to run properly.
3613 That's why tails-greeter starts NetworkManager at PostLogin time.
3614 - Also lock /bin/echo into memory. For some reason, kexec-load needs it.
3615 - Pidgin: don't use the OFTC hidden service anymore.
3616 It proved to be quite unreliable, being sometimes down for days.
3617 - Do not display storage volumes on Desktop, by disabling
3618 /apps/nautilus/desktop/volumes_visible GConf entry. Enabling that
3619 GConf setting avoids displaying the bind-mounted persistent
3620 directories on the Desktop, and reduces user confusion. It also is
3621 a first step towards a bigger UI change: GNOME3 does not manage the
3622 Desktop anymore, so volume icons and other Desktop icons are meant to
3623 disappear anyway. It implies we'll have to move all Desktop icons
3624 elsewhere. Let's start this move now: this will smooth the UI change
3625 Wheezy will carry for our users, by applying some of it progressively.
3628 - Don't build hybrid ISO images anymore. They boot less reliably on
3629 a variety of hardware, and are made less useful by us shipping
3630 a USB installer from now on.
3631 - Append .conf to live-config configuration filenames:
3632 live-config >3.0~a36-1 only takes into account files named *.conf
3633 in there. Accordingly update scripts that source these files.
3634 - Remove long-obsolete home-refresh script and its configuration.
3636 * Virtualization support
3637 - Support Spice and QXL: install the Spice agent from Debian sid,
3638 install xserver-xorg-video-qxl from squeeze-backports.
3640 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:54:00 +0200
3642 tails (0.10.2) unstable; urgency=low
3645 - Update to 10.0.2-1.
3646 - Disable HTTPS-Everywhere's SSL Observatory (plus first-run pop-up).
3647 - Revert "FoxyProxy: don't enclose regexps between ^ and $."
3648 Currently "http://www.i2p2.de" (and everything similar) is captured by
3649 the I2P filter, which is incorrect. It seems isMultiLine="false" does
3650 *not* make RE into ^RE$ any longer.
3651 - Remove file:// from NoScript's exception lists.
3652 This will fix the JavaScript toggles in the local copy of the documentation.
3653 - Update AdBlock patterns.
3656 - Upgrade I2P to 0.8.13.
3657 - Install libvpx0 from sid.
3658 - Fetch klibc-utils and libklibc from sid.
3659 The last initramfs-tools depends on these.
3662 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.2.7-1.
3663 - Install firmware-libertas.
3664 This adds support for wireless network cards with Marvell Libertas
3665 8xxx chips supported by the libertas_cs, libertas_sdio, libertas_spi,
3666 libertas_tf_usb, mwl8k and usb8xxx drivers.
3669 - Revert "Set time to middle of [valid-after, fresh-until] from consensus."
3670 This reverts commit 18d23a500b9412b4b0fbe4e38a9398eb1a3eadef.
3671 With this vmid clocks that are E minutes back in time may cause issues
3672 (temporary Tor outages) after consensus updates that happen at the
3673 (60-E):th minute or later during any hour. Full analysis:
3674 https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2012-January/000873.html
3675 - Add the default user to the vboxsf group.
3676 This will allow the user to get full access to automounted VirtualBox
3677 shared folders as they are mounted with guid vboxsf and rwx group
3680 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:26:21 +0100
3682 tails (0.10.1) unstable; urgency=low
3685 - Make Startpage the default web search engine. Scroogle does not look
3686 reliable enough these days.
3689 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.5.1 (update link to bug reporting documentation).
3690 - Update MAT to 0.2.2-2~bpo60+1 (fixes a critical bug in the GUI).
3693 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.2.1-2
3695 * Time synchronization
3696 Serious rework that should fix most, if not all, of the infamous
3697 time-sync' related bugs some Tails users have experienced recently.
3698 - Make htpdate more resilient by using three server pools, and
3699 allowing some failure ratio.
3700 - Set time from Tor's unverified-consensus if needed.
3701 - Set time to middle of [valid-after, fresh-until] from consensus.
3702 - Many robustness, performance and fingerprinting-resistance improvements.
3703 - Display time-sync' notification much earlier.
3706 - Fix access to "dumb" git:// protocol by using a connect-socks wrapper
3707 as GIT_PROXY_COMMAND.
3708 - SSH client: fix access to SSH servers on the Internet by correcting
3709 Host / ProxyCommand usage.
3710 - Pidgin: use OFTC hidden service to workaround Tor blocking.
3711 - Claws Mail: disable draft autosaving.
3712 When composing PGP encrypted email, drafts are saved back to
3713 the server in plaintext. This includes both autosaved and manually
3715 - tails-security-check-wrapper: avoid eating all memory when offline.
3717 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:00:31 +0100
3719 tails (0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * Tor: upgrade to 0.2.2.35-1.
3724 - Install Iceweasel 9.0 from the Debian Mozilla team's APT repository.
3725 - Update Torbutton to 1.4.5.1-1.
3726 - Support viewing any YouTube video that is available in HTML5 format:
3727 install xul-ext-greasemonkey and the "Permanently Enable HTML5 on
3728 YouTube" GreaseMonkey script.
3729 - Stop using Polipo in Iceweasel. Its SOCKS support was fixed.
3730 - Install from Debian sid the iceweasel extensions we ship,
3731 for compatibility with FF9.
3732 - Use Scroogle (any languages) instead of Scroogle (English only) when
3733 booted in English. Many users choose English because their own
3734 language is not supported yet; let's not hide them search results in
3736 - Install Iceweasel language packs from Debian unstable:
3737 unfortunately they are not shipped on the mozilla.debian.net repository.
3738 - Install the NoScript Firefox extension; configure it the same way as
3740 - Disable third-party cookies.
3741 They can be used to track users, which is bad. Besides, this is what
3742 TBB has been doing for years.
3743 - FoxyProxy: allow direct connections to RFC1918 IPs.
3745 * Do not transparent proxy outgoing Internet connections through Tor.
3746 - Torify the SSH client using connect-proxy to all IPs but RFC1918 ones.
3747 - Torify APT using Polipo HTTP.
3748 - Torify wget in wgetrc.
3749 - Torify gobby clients using torsocks. It does not support proxies yet.
3750 - Torify tails-security-check using LWP::UserAgent's SOCKS proxy support.
3751 - Fix enabling of GNOME's HTTP proxy.
3754 - Upgrade Vidalia to 0.2.15-1+tails1.
3755 · New upstream release.
3756 · Do not warn about Tor version.
3757 - Upgrade MAT to 0.2.2-1~bpo60+1.
3758 - Upgrade VirtualBox guest software to 4.1.6-dfsg-2~bpo60+1,
3759 built against the ABI of X.Org backports.
3760 - Upgrade I2P to 0.8.11 using KillYourTV's Squeeze packages;
3761 additionally, fix its start script that was broken by the tordate merge.
3762 - Install unar (The Unarchiver) instead of the non-free unrar.
3763 - Install Nautilus Wipe instead of custom Nautilus scripts.
3766 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.1.6-1.
3767 - Upgrade to X.Org from squeeze-backports.
3768 - Install more, and more recent b43 firmwares.
3769 - Upgrade barry to 0.15-1.2~bpo60+1.
3771 * Internationalization
3772 - Add basic language support for Russian, Farsi and Vietnamese.
3773 - Install some Indic fonts.
3774 - Install some Russian fonts.
3775 - Add Alt+Shift shortcut to switch keyboard layout.
3778 - Support booting in "Windows XP -like camouflage mode":
3779 · Install homebrewn local .debs for a Windows XP look-alike Gnome theme.
3780 · Add the "Windows XP Bliss" desktop wallpaper.
3781 · Added a script that's sets up Gnome to look like Microsoft Windows XP.
3782 · Add Windows XP "camouflage" icons for some programs.
3783 · Make Iceweasel use the IE icon when Windows XP camouflage is enabled.
3784 · Add special launcher icons for the Windows XP theme so that they're
3786 - Decrease Florence focus zoom to 1.2.
3787 - Do not fetch APT translation files. Running apt-get update is heavy enough.
3788 - Add MSN support thanks to msn-pecan.
3789 - Add custom SSH client configuration:
3790 · Prefer strong ciphers and MACs.
3791 · Enable maximum compression level.
3792 · Explicitly disable X11 forwarding.
3793 · Connect as root by default, to prevent fingerprinting when username
3795 - Replace flawed FireGPG with a home-made GnuPG encryption applet;
3796 install a feature-stripped FireGPG that redirects users to
3797 the documentation, and don't run Seahorse applet anymore.
3798 - Enable Seahorse's GnuPG agent.
3799 - Blank screen when lid is closed, rather than shutting down the system.
3800 The shutdown "feature" has caused data losses for too many people, it seems.
3801 There are many other ways a Tails system can be shut down in a hurry
3803 - Import Tails signing key into the keyring.
3804 - Fix bug in the Pidgin nick generation that resulted in the nick
3805 "XXX_NICK_XXX" once out of twenty.
3806 - Pre-configure the #tor IRC discussion channel in Pidgin.
3807 - Fix "technology preview" of bridge support: it was broken by tordate merge.
3808 - Install dependencies of our USB installer to ease its development.
3809 - Make vidalia NM hook sleep only if Vidalia is already running.
3810 - Reintroduce the htpdate notification, telling users when it's safe
3811 to use Tor Hidden Services.
3812 - htpdate: omit -f argument to not download full pages.
3813 - htpdate: write success file even when not within {min,max}adjust.
3814 Otherwise htpdate will not "succeed" when the time diff is 0 (i.e.
3815 the clock was already correct) so the success file cannot be used
3816 as an indicator that the system time now is correct, which arguably
3817 is its most important purpose.
3820 - Name built images according to git tag.
3822 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:56:38 +0100
3824 tails (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3827 - Upgrade to 0.2.2.34 (fixes CVE-2011-2768, CVE-2011-2769).
3830 - Upgrade to 3.5.16-11 (fixes CVE-2011-3647, CVE-2011-3648, CVE-2011-3650).
3831 - Upgrade FireGPG to 0.8-1+tails2: notify users that the FireGPG Text
3832 Editor is the only safe place for performing cryptographic operations,
3833 and make it impossible to do otherwise. Other ways open up several
3834 severe attacks through JavaScript (e.g. leaking plaintext when
3835 decrypting, signing messages written by the attacker).
3836 - Install Cookie Monster extension instead of CS Lite.
3837 - Always ask where to save files.
3838 - Upgrade Torbutton to 1.4.4.1-1, which includes support for the in-browser
3839 "New identity" feature.
3842 - Install MAT, the metadata anonymisation toolkit.
3843 - Upgrade TrueCrypt to 7.1.
3844 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.5~rc1 (leads the user by the hand if an error
3845 occurs while sending the bugreport, proposes to save it after 2 faild
3846 attempts, numerous bugfixes).
3847 - Linux: upgrade to linux-image-3.0.0-2-486 (version 3.0.0-6); fixes
3848 a great number of bugs and security issues.
3851 - Fully rework date and time setting system.
3852 - Remove the htp user firewall exception.
3853 - Saner keyboard layouts for Arabic and Russian.
3854 - Use Plymouth text-only splash screen at boot time.
3855 - Color the init scripts output.
3856 - Suppress Tor's warning about applications doing their own DNS lookups.
3857 This is totally safe due to our Tor enforcement.
3858 - Disable hdparm boot-time service.
3859 We only want hdparm so that laptop-mode-tools can use it.
3860 - Run Claws Mail using torify.
3861 It's not as good as if Claws Mail supported SOCKS proxies itself,
3862 but still better than relying on the transparent netfilter torification.
3863 - Install HPLIP and hpcups for better printing support.
3865 * Erase memory at shutdown
3866 - Run many sdmem instances at once.
3867 In hope of erasing more memory until we come up with a proper fix for
3868 [[bugs/sdmem_does_not_clear_all_memory]].
3869 - Kill gdm3 instead of using its initscript on brutal shutdown.
3870 - Use absolute path to eject for more robust memory wipe on boot medium removal.
3873 - Exclude kernel and initramfs from being put into the SquashFS.
3874 Those files are already shipped where they are needed, that is in the ISO
3875 filesystem. Adapt kexec and memlockd bits.
3876 - Do not ship the GNOME icon theme cache.
3877 - Do not ship .pyc files.
3878 - Do not ship NEWS.Debian.gz files.
3881 - Re-implement hook that modifies syslinux config to make future
3884 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:26:38 +0100
3886 tails (0.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
3889 - Update to 3.5.16-10 (fixes DSA-2313-1).
3890 - FireGPG: force crypto action results to appear in a new window, otherwise
3891 JavaScript can steal decrypted plaintext. Advice: always use FireGPG's
3892 text editor when writing text you want to encrypt. If you write it in a
3893 textbox the plaintext can be stolen through JavaScript before it is
3894 encrypted in the same way.
3895 - Update HTTPS Everywhere extension to 1.0.3-1.
3896 - Stop using the small version of the Tor check page. The small version
3897 incorrectly tells Tails users to upgrade their Torbrowser, which has
3898 confused some users.
3901 - Update Linux to 3.0.0-2 (fixes DSA-2310-1, CVE-2011-2905, CVE-2011-2909,
3902 CVE-2011-2723, CVE-2011-2699, CVE-2011-1162, CVE-2011-1161).
3903 - Update usb-modeswitch to 1.1.9-2~bpo60+1 and usb-modeswitch-data to
3904 20110805-1~bpo60+1 from Debian backports. This adds support for a few
3905 devices such as Pantech UMW190 CDMA modem.
3906 - Install libregexp-common-perl 2011041701-3 from Debian unstable. This
3907 fixes the bug: [[bugs/msva_does_not_use_configured_keyserver]].
3908 - Install hdparm so the hard drives can be spinned down in order to save
3910 - Install barry-util for better BlackBerry integration.
3911 - Debian security upgrades: OpenOffice.org (DSA-2315-1), openjdk-6
3912 (DSA-2311-1), policykit-1 (DSA-2319-1)
3914 * Protecting against memory recovery
3915 - Set more appropriate Linux VM config before wiping memory. These
3916 parameters should make the wipe process more robust and efficient.
3918 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:31:18 +0200
3920 tails (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3922 * Rebase on the Debian Squeeze 6.0.2.1 point-release.
3925 - Update to 0.2.2.33-1.
3926 - Disabled ControlPort in favour of ControlSocket.
3927 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to Tor's LongLivedPorts list.
3931 - Start script now depends on HTP since I2P breaks if the clock jumps or is
3932 too skewed during bootstrap.
3935 - Update to 3.5.16-9 (fixes CVE-2011-2374, CVE-2011-2376, CVE-2011-2365,
3936 CVE-2011-2373, CVE-2011-2371, CVE-2011-0083, CVE-2011-2363, CVE-2011-0085,
3937 CVE-2011-2362, CVE-2011-2982, CVE-2011-2981, CVE-2011-2378, CVE-2011-2984,
3939 - Enable HTTP pipelining (like TBB).
3940 - Update HTTPS Everywhere extension to 1.0.1-1 from Debian unstable.
3941 - Suppress FoxyProxy update prompts.
3942 - Prevent FoxyProxy from "phoning home" after a detected upgrade.
3943 - Fixed a bunch of buggy regular expressions in FoxyProxy's configuration.
3944 See [[bugs/exploitable_typo_in_url_regex?]] for details. Note that none of
3945 these issues are critical due to the transparent proxy.
3946 - Add DuckDuckGo SSL search engine.
3949 - Update to torbutton 1.4.3-1 from Debian unstable.
3950 - Don't show Torbutton status in the status bar as it's now displayed in the
3954 - More random looking nicks in pidgin.
3955 - Add IRC account on chat.wikileaks.de:9999.
3958 - Upgrade htpdate script (taken from Git 7797fe9) that allows setting wget's
3959 --dns-timeout option.
3962 - Update Linux to 3.0.0-1. -686 is now deprecated in favour of -486 and
3963 -686-pae; the world is not ready for -pae yet, so we now ship -486.
3964 - Update OpenSSL to 0.9.8o-4squeeze2 (fixes CVE-2011-1945 (revoke
3965 compromised DigiNotar certificates), CVE-2011-1945).
3966 - Update Vidalia to 0.2.14-1+tails1 custom package.
3967 - Install accessibility tools:
3968 - gnome-mag: screen magnifier
3969 - gnome-orca: text-to-speech
3970 - Replace the onBoard virtual keyboard with Florence.
3971 - Install the PiTIVi non-linear audio/video editor.
3976 * Arbitrary DNS queries
3977 - Tor can not handle all types of DNS queries, so if the Tor resolver fails
3978 we fallback to ttdnsd. This is now possible with Tor 0.2.2.x, since we
3979 fixed Tor bug #3369.
3982 - Install ipheth-utils for iPhone tethering.
3983 - Install xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse (for mouse integration with the host OS
3985 - Install virtualbox-ose 4.x guest packages from Debian backports.
3988 - Switch gpg to use keys.indymedia.org's hidden service, without SSL.
3989 The keys.indymedia.org SSL certificate is now self-signed. The hidden
3990 service gives a good enough way to authenticate the server and encrypts
3991 the connection, and just removes the certificates management issue.
3992 - The squashfs is now compressed using XZ which reduces the image size quite
3994 - Remove Windows autorun.bat and autorun.inf. These files did open a static
3995 copy of our website, which is not accessible any longer.
3998 - Use the Git branch instead of the Debian version into the built image's
4000 - Allow replacing efficient XZ compression with quicker gzip.
4001 - Build and install documentation into the chroot (-> filesystem.squashfs).
4002 Rationale: our static website cannot be copied to a FAT32 filesystem due
4003 to filenames being too long. This means the documentation cannot be
4004 browsed offline from outside Tails. However, our installer creates GPT
4005 hidden partitions, so the doc would not be browseable from outside Tails
4006 anyway. The only usecase we really break by doing so is browsing the
4007 documentation while running a non-Tails system, from a Tails CD.
4009 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 09 Sep 2011 11:31:18 +0200
4011 tails (0.7.2) unstable; urgency=high
4014 - Disable Torbutton's external application launch warning.
4015 ... which advises using Tails. Tails *is* running Tails.
4016 - FoxyProxy: install from Debian instead of the older one we previously
4020 - haveged: install an official Debian backport instead of a custom backport.
4021 - unrar: install the version from Debian's non-free repository.
4022 Users report unrar-free does not work well enough.
4024 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:34:56 +0200
4026 tails (0.7.1) unstable; urgency=high
4028 * Vidalia: new 0.2.12-2+tails1 custom package.
4031 - Don't show Foxyproxy's status / icon in FF statusbar to prevent users
4032 from accidentaly / unconsciously put their anonymity at risk.
4033 - "amnesia branding" extension: bump Iceweasel compatibility to 4.0 to ease
4034 development of future releases.
4037 - Upgrade Linux kernel to Debian's 2.6.32-33: fixes tons of bugs,
4038 including the infamous missing mouse cursor one. Oh, and it closes
4039 a few security holes at well.
4040 - Install unrar-free.
4041 - Do not install pppoeconf (superseeded by NetworkManager).
4042 - Upgrade macchanger to Debian testing package to ease development of
4043 future Tails releases.
4044 - Debian security upgrades: x11-xserver-utils (DSA-2213-1), isc-dhcp
4045 (DSA-2216-1), libmodplug (DSA-2226-1), openjdk-6 (DSA-2224-1).
4047 * Protecting against memory recovery
4048 - Add Italian translation for tails-kexec. Thanks to Marco A. Calamari.
4049 - Make it clear what it may mean if the system does not power off
4051 - Use kexec's --reset-vga option that might fix display corruption issues
4054 * WhisperBack (encrypted bug reporting software)
4055 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.4.1:
4056 localizes the documentation wiki's URL,
4057 uses WebKit to display the bug reporting help page,
4058 now is usable on really small screens.
4059 - Extract wiki's supported languages at build time, save this
4060 information to /etc/amnesia/environment, source this file into the
4061 Live user's environment so that WhisperBack 1.4+ can make good use
4065 - Fix boot in Chinese.
4066 - Install mobile-broadband-provider-info for better 3G support.
4067 - Add back GNOME system icons to menus.
4068 - tails-security-check: avoid generating double-slashes in the Atom
4070 - Remove "vga=788" boot parameter which breaks the boot on some hardware.
4071 - Remove now useless "splash" boot parameter.
4072 - Fix a bunch of i386-isms.
4073 - Pass the noswap option to the kernel. This does not change actual Tails
4074 behaviour but prevents users from unnecessarily worrying because of
4075 the "Activating swap" boot message.
4076 - Make use of check.torproject.org's Arabic version.
4079 - Enable squeeze-backports. It is now ready and will be used soon.
4080 - Install eatmydata in the chroot.
4081 - Convert ikiwiki setup files to YAML.
4083 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:14:53 +0200
4085 tails (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4088 - Install foomatic-filters-ppds to support more printers.
4089 - Give the default user the right to manage printers.
4092 - Deinstall unwanted packages newly pulled by recent live-build.
4094 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:58:51 +0200
4096 tails (0.7~rc2) unstable; urgency=low
4098 ** SNAPSHOT build @824f39248a08f9e190146980fb1eb0e55d483d71 **
4100 * Rebase on Debian Squeeze 6.0.1 point-release.
4102 * Vidalia: new 0.2.10-3+tails5 custom package..
4105 - Install usb-modeswitch and modemmanager to support mobile broadband
4106 devices such as 3G USB dongles. Thanks to Marco A. Calamari for the
4110 - Website relocated to https://tails.boum.org/ => adapt various places.
4111 - Configure keyboard layout accordingly to the chosen language for
4112 Italian and Portuguese.
4114 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:44:25 +0100
4116 tails (0.7~rc1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4118 ** SNAPSHOT build @98987f111fc097a699b526eeaef46bc75be5290a **
4120 * Rebase on Debian Squeeze.
4122 * T(A)ILS has been renamed to Tails.
4124 * Protecting against memory recovery
4125 New, safer way to wipe memory on shutdown which is now also used when
4126 the boot media is physically removed.
4129 - Update to 0.2.1.30-1.
4132 - Add HTTPS Everywhere 0.9.4 extension.
4133 - Better preserve Anonymity Set: spoof US English Browser and timezone
4134 the same way as the Tor Browser Bundle, disable favicons and picture
4136 - Install AdBlock Plus extension from Debian.
4137 - Add Tor-related bookmarks.
4138 - Support FTP, thanks to FoxyProxy.
4139 - Update AdBlock patterns.
4140 - Disable geolocation and the offline cache.
4143 - Update Vidalia to 0.2.10-3+tails4.
4144 - Install gnome-disk-utility (Palimpsest) and Seahorse plugins.
4145 - Add opt-in i2p support with Iceweasel integration through FoxyProxy.
4146 - onBoard: fix "really quits when clicking the close window icon" bug.
4147 - Optionally install TrueCrypt at boot time.
4148 - Install laptop-mode-tools for better use of battery-powered hardware.
4149 - Replace xsane with simple-scan which is part of GNOME and way easier
4151 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.3.1 (bugfixes, French translation).
4152 - Install scribus-ng instead of scribus. It is far less buggy in Squeeze.
4155 - Drop incoming packets by default.
4156 - Forbid queries to DNS resolvers on the LAN.
4157 - Set output policy to drop (defense-in-depth).
4160 - Install Atheros and Broadcom wireless firmwares.
4161 - Install libsane-hpaio and sane-utils, respectively needed for
4162 multi-function peripherals and some SCSI scanners.
4164 * live-boot 2.0.15-1+tails1.35f1a14
4165 - Cherry-pick our fromiso= bugfixes from upstream 3.x branch.
4168 - Many tiny user interface improvements.
4169 - More robust HTP time synchronization wrt. network failures.
4170 Also, display the logs when the clock synchronization fails.
4171 - Disable GNOME automatic media mounting and opening to protect against
4172 a class of attacks that was recently put under the spotlights.
4173 Also, this feature was breaking the "no trace is left on local
4174 storage devices unless explicitly asked" part of Tails specification.
4175 - Make configuration more similar to the Tor Browser Bundle's one.
4176 - GnuPG: default to stronger digest algorithms.
4177 - Many more or less proper hacks to get the built image size under 700MB.
4178 - Compress the initramfs using LZMA for faster boot.
4181 - Run lb build inside eatmydata fsync-less environment to greatly improve
4184 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:52:19 +0100
4186 tails (0.6.2) unstable; urgency=high
4188 * Tor: upgrade to 0.2.1.29 (fixes CVE-2011-0427).
4190 - Upgrade Linux kernel, dpkg, libc6, NSS, OpenSSL, libxml2 (fixes various
4192 - Upgrade Claws Mail to 3.7.6 (new backport).
4193 - Install Liferea, tcpdump and tcpflow.
4194 * Seahorse: use hkp:// transport as it does not support hkps://.
4195 * FireGPG: use hkps:// to connect to the configured keyserver.
4196 * Build system: take note of the Debian Live tools versions being used
4197 to make next point-release process faster.
4198 * APT: don't ship package indices.
4200 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:59:43 +0100
4202 tails (0.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
4204 * Tor: upgrade to 0.1.28 (fixes CVE-2010-1676)
4205 * Software: upgrade NSS, Xulrunner, glibc (fixes various security issues)
4206 * FireGPG: use the same keyserver as the one configured in gpg.conf.
4207 * Seahorse: use same keyserver as in gpg.conf.
4208 * HTP: display the logs when the clock synchronization fails.
4209 * Update HTP configuration: www.google.com now redirects to
4210 encrypted.google.com.
4211 * Use the light version of the "Are you using Tor?" webpage.
4212 * Update AdBlock patterns.
4214 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 24 Dec 2010 13:28:29 +0100
4216 tails (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * New OpenPGP signing-only key. Details are on the website:
4221 https://amnesia.boum.org/GnuPG_key/
4224 - Fixed torbutton has migrated to testing, remove custom package.
4227 - Query ssl.scroogle.org instead of lists.debian.org.
4228 - Don't run when the interface that has gone up is the loopback one.
4231 - Add shortcut to securely erase free space in a partition.
4232 - The nautilus-wipe shortcut user interface is now translatable.
4235 - Really fix virtualization warning display.
4236 - More accurate APT pinning.
4237 - Disable Debian sid APT source again since a fixed live-config has
4238 migrated to Squeeze since then.
4240 * live-boot: upgrade to 2.0.8-1+tails1.13926a
4241 - Sometimes fixes the smem at shutdown bug.
4242 - Now possible to create a second partition on the USB stick T(A)ILS is
4246 - Support RT2860 wireless chipsets by installing firmware-ralink from
4248 - Install firmware-linux-nonfree from backports.
4249 - Fix b43 wireless chipsets by having b43-fwcutter extract firmwares at
4253 - Install live-build and live-helper from Squeeze.
4254 - Update SquashFS sort file.
4256 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:53:17 +0200
4258 tails (0.6~rc3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4260 ** SNAPSHOT build @a3ebb6c775d83d1a1448bc917a9f0995df93e44d **
4263 - Autostart Iceweasel with the GNOME session. This workarounds the
4264 "Iceweasel first page is not loaded" bug.
4267 - Upgrade htpdate script (taken from Git 7797fe9).
4270 - Disable ssh-agent auto-starting with X session: gnome-keyring is
4272 - Fix virtualization warning display.
4273 - Boot profile hook: write desktop file to /etc/skel.
4276 - Convert build system to live-build 2.0.1.
4277 - APT: fetch live-build and live-helper from Debian Live snapshots.
4278 - Remove dependency on live-build functions in chroot_local-hooks.
4279 This makes the build environment more robust and less dependent on
4280 live-build internals.
4281 - Remove hand-made rcS.d/S41tails-wifi: a hook now does this.
4282 - Measure time used by the lh build command.
4283 - Fix boot profile hook.
4284 - Boot profiling: wait a bit more: the current list does not include
4287 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 02 Oct 2010 23:06:46 +0200
4289 tails (0.6~rc2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4291 ** SNAPSHOT build @c0ca0760ff577a1e797cdddf0e95c5d62a986ec8 **
4294 - Refreshed AdBlock patterns (20100926).
4295 - Set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true (untested yet)
4296 - Torbutton: install patched 1.2.5-1+tails1 to fix the User-Agent bug,
4297 disable extensions.torbutton.spoof_english again.
4300 - WhisperBack: upgrade to 1.3~beta3 (main change: let the user provide
4301 optional email address and OpenPGP key).
4303 - Update haveged backport to 0.9-3~amnesia+lenny1.
4304 - Update live-boot custom packages (2.0.6-1+tails1.6797e8): fixes bugs
4305 in persistency and smem-on-shutdown.
4306 - Update custom htpdate script. Taken from commit d778a6094cb3 in our
4307 custom Git repository: fixes setting of date/time.
4310 - Bugfix: failed builds are now (hopefully) detected.
4311 - Fix permissions on files in /etc/apt/ that are preserved in the image.
4312 - Install version 2.0~a21-1 of live-build and live-helper in the image.
4313 We are too late in the release process to upgrade to current Squeeze
4314 version (2.0~a29-1).
4317 - Pidgin/OTR: disable the automatic OTR initiation and OTR requirement.
4319 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:23:17 +0200
4321 tails (0.6~1.gbpef2878) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4323 ** SNAPSHOT build @ef28782a0bf58004397b5fd303f938cc7d11ddaa **
4326 - Use a 2.6.32 kernel: linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.5-686 (2.6.32-23~bpo50+1)
4327 from backports.org. This should support far more hardware and
4328 especially a lot of wireless adapters.
4329 - Add firmware for RTL8192 wireless adapters.
4330 - Enable power management on all wireless interfaces on boot.
4335 - Install gfshare and ssss: two complementary implementations
4336 of Shamir's Secret Sharing.
4337 - Install tor-geoipdb.
4338 - Remove dialog, mc and xterm.
4341 - Set extensions.torbutton.spoof_english to its default true value
4342 in order to workaround a security issue:
4343 https://amnesia.boum.org/security/Iceweasel_exposes_a_rare_User-Agent/
4346 - Install the Iceweasel extension.
4347 - Use a hkps:// keyserver.
4350 - Install gnupg from backports.org so that hkps:// is supported.
4351 - Use a hkps:// keyserver.
4352 - Proxy traffic via polipo.
4353 - Prefer up-to-date digests and ciphers.
4355 * Vidalia: rebased our custom package against 0.2.10.
4358 - Built images are now named like this:
4359 tails-i386-lenny-0.5-20100925.iso
4360 - Use live-helper support for isohybrid options instead of doing the
4361 conversion ourselves. The default binary image type we build is now
4363 - Remove .deb built by m-a after they have been installed.
4364 - Setup custom GConf settings at build time rather than at boot time.
4365 - Move $HOME files to /etc/skel and let adduser deal with permissions.
4366 - Convert to live-boot / live-config / live-build 2.x branches.
4367 - Replaced our custom live-initramfs with a custom live-boot package;
4368 included version is 2.0.5-1+tails2.6797e8 from our Git repository:
4369 git clone git://git.immerda.ch/tails_live-boot.git
4370 - Install live-config* from the live-snapshots Lenny repository.
4371 Rationale: live-config binary packages differ depending on the target
4372 distribution, so that using Squeeze's live-config does not produce
4373 fully-working Lenny images.
4374 - Rename custom scripts, packages lists and syslinux menu entries from
4375 the amnesia-* namespace to the tails-* one.
4378 - Use (authenticated) HTP instead of NTP.
4379 - The htpdate script that is used comes from commit 43f5f83c0 in our
4380 custom repository: git://git.immerda.ch/tails_htp.git
4381 - Start Tor and Vidalia only once HTP is done.
4384 - Fix IPv6 firewall restore file. It was previously not used at all.
4385 - Use ftp.us.debian.org instead of the buggy GeoIP-powered
4387 - Gedit: don't autocreate backup copies.
4388 - Build images with syslinux>=4.01 that has better isohybrid support.
4389 - amnesia-security-check: got rid of the dependency on File::Slurp.
4390 - Take into account the migration of backports.org to backports.debian.org.
4391 - Make GnuPG key import errors fatal on boot.
4392 - Warn the user when T(A)ILS is running inside a virtual machine.
4393 - DNS cache: forget automapped .onion:s on Tor restart.
4395 * Documentation: imported Incognito's walkthrough, converted to
4396 Markdown, started the needed adaptation work.
4398 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 26 Sep 2010 11:06:50 +0200
4400 tails (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4402 * The project has merged efforts with Incognito.
4403 It is now to be called "The (Amnesic) Incognito Live System".
4407 - Created the amnesia-news mailing-list.
4408 - Added a forum to the website.
4409 - Created a chatroom on IRC: #tails on irc.oftc.net
4412 - Workaround nasty NetworkManager vs. Tor bug that often
4413 prevented the system to connect to the Tor network: restart Tor and Vidalia
4414 when a network interface goes up.
4415 - onBoard now autodetects the keyboard layout... at least once some
4416 keys have been pressed.
4417 - New windows don't open in background anymore, thanks to
4419 - Memory wiping at shutdown is now lightning fast, and does not prevent
4420 the computer to halt anymore.
4421 - GNOME panel icons are right-aligned again.
4422 - Fixed permissions on APT config files.
4423 - Repaired mouse integration when running inside VirtualBox.
4426 - Torbutton: redirect to Scroogle when presented a Google captcha.
4427 - Revamped bookmarks
4428 . moved T(A)ILS own website to the personal toolbar
4429 . moved webmail links (that are expected to be more than 3 soon)
4430 to a dedicated folder.
4431 - Don't show AdBlock Plus icon in the toolbar.
4432 - Adblock Plus: updated patterns, configured to only update subscriptions
4433 once a year. Which means never, hopefully, as users do update their
4434 Live system on a regular basis, don't they?
4436 * Vidalia: rebased our custom package against 0.2.8.
4439 - Install Claws Mail from backports.org to use the X.509 CA
4440 certificates provided by Debian.
4441 - Enable PGP modules with basic configuration:
4442 . Automatically check signatures.
4443 . Use gpg-agent to manage passwords.
4444 . Display warning on start-up if GnuPG doesn't work.
4445 - Set the IO timeout to 120s (i.e. the double of the default 60s).
4448 - Automatically connect to irc.oftc.net with a randomized nickname,
4449 so as not to advertize the use of T(A)ILS; this nickname is made of:
4450 . a random firstname picked from the 2000 most registered by the U.S.
4451 social security administration in the 70s;
4452 . two random digits.
4453 Good old irc.indymedia.org is still configured - with same nickname -
4454 but is not enabled by default anymore.
4455 - Disabled MSN support, that is far too often affected by security flaws.
4457 * Build $HOME programmatically
4458 - Migrated all GConf settings, including the GNOME panel configuration,
4459 to XML files that are loaded at boot time.
4460 - Configure iceweasel profile skeleton in /etc/iceweasel.
4461 A brand new profile is setup from this skeleton once iceweasel is
4463 . build sqlite files at build time from plain SQL.
4464 . FireGPG: hard-code current firegpg version at build time to prevent
4465 the extension to think it was just updated.
4466 . stop shipping binary NSS files. These were here only to
4467 install CaCert's certificate, that is actually shipped by Debian's
4471 - Updated Debian Live snapshots APT repository URL.
4472 - Purge all devel packages at the end of the chroot configuration.
4473 - Make sure the hook that fixes permissions runs last.
4474 - Remove unwanted Iceweasel search plugins at build time.
4477 - Added a progress bar for boot time file readahead.
4478 - Readahead more (~37MB) stuff in foreground at boot time.
4479 - Make the APT pinning persist in the Live image.
4480 - localepurge: keep locales for all supported languages,
4481 don't bother when installing new packages.
4482 - Removed syslinux help menu: these help pages are either buggy or
4483 not understandable by non-geeks.
4484 - Fixed Windows autorun.
4485 - Disable a few live-initramfs scripts to improve boot time.
4486 - Firewall: forbid any IPv6 communication with the outside.
4487 - Virtualization support: install open-vm-tools.
4488 - WhisperBack: updated to 1.2.1, add a random bug ID to the sent
4490 - Prompt for CD removal on shutdown, not for USB device.
4492 * live-initramfs: new package built from our Git (e2890a04ff) repository.
4493 - Merged upstream changes up to 1.177.2-1.
4494 - New noprompt=usb feature.
4495 - Fix buggy memory wiping and shutdown.
4496 - Really reboot when asked, rather than shutting down the system.
4499 - Upgraded to a new custom, patched package (0.93.0-0ubuntu4~amnesia1).
4500 - Added an entry in the Applications menu.
4503 - Install vim-nox with basic configuration
4505 - Install monkeysphere and msva-perl
4506 - Replaced randomsound with haveged as an additional source of entropy.
4509 - Build ralink rt2570 wifi modules.
4510 - Build rt2860 wifi modules from Squeeze. This supports the RT2860
4511 wireless adapter, found particularly in the ASUS EeePC model 901
4513 - Build broadcom-sta-source wifi modules.
4514 - Bugfix: cpufreq modules were not properly added to /etc/modules.
4515 - Use 800x600 mode on boot rather than 1024x768 for compatibility
4516 with smaller displays.
4518 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:14:13 +0200
4520 amnesia (0.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
4522 New release, mainly aimed at fixing live-initramfs security issue
4523 (Debian bug #568750), with an additional set of small enhancements as
4526 * live-initramfs: new custom package built from our own live-initramfs
4527 Git repository (commit 8b96e5a6cf8abc)
4528 - based on new 1.173.1-1 upstream release
4529 - fixed live-media=removable behaviour so that filesystem images found
4530 on non-removable storage are really never used (Debian bug #568750)
4532 * Vidalia: bring back our UI customizations (0.2.7-1~lenny+amnesia1)
4534 * APT: consistently use the GeoIP-powered cdn.debian.net
4536 * Software: make room so that {alpha, future} Squeeze images fit on
4538 - only install OpenOffice.org's calc, draw, impress, math and writer
4540 - removed OpenOffice.org's English hyphenation and thesaurus
4541 - removed hunspell, wonder why it was ever added
4544 - explicitly disable persistence, better safe than sorry
4545 - removed compulsory 15s timeout, live-initramfs knows how to wait for
4546 the Live media to be ready
4548 * Build system: don't cache rootfs anymore
4550 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:28:16 +0100
4552 amnesia (0.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
4554 * Brown paper bag bugfix release: have amnesia-security-check use
4555 entries publication time, rather than update time... else tagging
4556 a security issue as fixed, after releasing a new version, make this
4557 issue be announced to every user of this new, fixed version.
4559 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:58:41 +0100
4561 amnesia (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4563 * We now only build and ship "Hybrid" ISO images, which can be either
4564 burnt on CD-ROM or dd'd to a USB stick or hard disk.
4566 * l10n: we now build and ship multilingual images; initially supported
4567 (or rather wanna-be-supported) languages are: ar, zh, de, en, fr, it,
4569 - install Iceweasel's and OpenOffice.org's l10n packages for every
4571 - stop installing localized help for OpenOffice.org, we can't afford it
4572 for enough languages
4573 - when possible, Iceweasel's homepage and default search engine are localized
4574 - added Iceweasel's "any language" Scroogle SSL search engine
4575 - when the documentation icon is clicked, display the local wiki in
4576 currently used language, if available
4577 - the Nautilus wipe script is now translatable
4578 - added gnome-keyboard-applet to the Gnome panel
4581 - replaced Icedove with claws mail, in a bit rough way; see
4582 https://amnesia.boum.org/todo/replace_icedove_with_claws/ for best
4583 practices and configuration advices
4584 - virtual keyboard: install onBoard instead of kvkbd
4585 - Tor controller: install Vidalia instead of TorK
4586 - install only chosen parts of Gnome, rather than gnome-desktop-environment
4587 - do not install xdialog, which is unused and not in Squeeze
4588 - stop installing grub as it breaks Squeeze builds (see Debian bug #467620)
4589 - install live-helper from snapshots repository into the Live image
4592 - do not install the NoScript extension anymore: it is not strictly
4593 necessary but bloodily annoying
4595 * Provide WhisperBack 1.2 for anonymous, GnuPG-encrypted bug reporting.
4596 - added dependency on python-gnutls
4597 - install the SMTP hidden relay's certificate
4599 * amnesia-security-check: new program that tells users that the amnesia
4600 version they are running is affected by security flaws, and which ones
4601 they are; this program is run at Gnome session startup, after sleeping
4602 2 minutes to let Tor a chance to initialize.
4605 - uses the Desktop Notifications framework
4606 - fetches the security atom feed from the wiki
4607 - verifies the server certificate against its known CA
4608 - tries fetching the localized feed; if it fails, fetch the default
4611 * live-initramfs: new custom package built from our own live-initramfs
4612 Git repository (commit 40e957c4b89099e06421)
4613 - at shutdown time, ask the user to unplug the CD / USB stick, then run
4614 smem, wait for it to finish, then attempt to immediately halt
4617 - bumped dependency on live-helper to >= 2.0a6 and adapted our config
4618 - generate hybrid ISO images by default, when installed syslinux is
4620 - stop trying to support building several images in a row, it is still
4621 broken and less needed now that we ship hybrid ISO images
4622 - scripts/config: specify distribution when initializing defaults
4623 - updated Debian Live APT repository's signing key
4626 - disable virtualbox packages installing and module building on !i386
4627 && !amd64, as PowerPC is not a supported guest architecture
4628 - built and imported tor_0.2.1.20-1~~lenny+1_powerpc.deb
4631 - rough beginnings of a scratch Squeeze branch, currently unsupported
4632 - install gobby-infinote
4635 - updated GnuPG key with up-to-date signatures
4636 - more improvements on boot time from CD
4637 - enhanced the wipe in Nautilus UI (now asks for confirmation and
4638 reports success or failure)
4639 - removed the "restart Tor" launcher from the Gnome panel
4641 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:28:04 +0100
4643 amnesia (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4645 * software: removed openvpn, added
4651 - lvm2 (with disabled initscript as it slows-down too much the boot in certain
4653 - NetworkManager 0.7 (from backports.org) to support non-DHCP networking
4655 - randomsound to enhance the kernel's random pool
4657 - install the latest stable release from deb.torproject.org
4658 - ifupdown script now uses SIGHUP signal rather than a whole tor
4659 restart, so that in the middle of it vidalia won't start it's own
4661 - configure Gnome proxy to use Tor
4663 - adblockplus: upgraded to 1.0.2
4664 - adblockplus: subscribe to US and DE EasyList extensions, updated patterns
4665 - firegpg is now installed from Debian Squeeze rather than manually; current
4666 version is then 0.7.10
4667 - firegpg: use better keyserver ... namely pool.sks-keyservers.net
4668 - added bookmark to Amnesia's own website
4669 - use a custom "amnesiabranding" extension to localize the default search
4670 engine and homepage depending on the current locale
4671 - updated noscript whitelist
4672 - disable overriden homepage redirect on iceweasel upgrade
4674 - nicer default configuration with verified irc.indymedia.org's SSL cert
4675 - do not parse incoming messages for formatting
4676 - hide formatting toolbar
4677 * hardware compatibility
4679 - beginning of support for the ppc architecture
4680 - load acpi-cpufreq, cpufreq_ondemand and cpufreq_powersave kernel
4682 * live-initramfs: custom, updated package based on upstream's 1.157.4-1, built
4683 from commit b0a4265f9f30bad945da of amnesia's custom live-initramfs Git
4685 - securely erases RAM on shutdown using smem
4686 - fixes the noprompt bug when running from USB
4687 - disables local swap partitions usage, wrongly enabled by upstream
4688 * fully support for running as a guest system in VirtualBox
4689 - install guest utils and X11 drivers
4690 - build virtualbox-ose kernel modules at image build time
4692 - new (translatable) wiki, using ikiwiki, with integrated bugs and todo
4693 tracking system a static version of the wiki is included in generated
4694 images and linked from the Desktop
4696 - adapt for live-helper 2.0, and depend on it
4697 - get amnesia version from debian/changelog
4698 - include the full version in ISO volume name
4699 - save .list, .packages and .buildlog
4700 - scripts/clean: cleanup any created dir in binary_local-includes
4701 - updated Debian Live snapshot packages repository URL and signing key
4702 - remove duplicated apt/preferences file, the live-helper bug has been
4704 * l10n: beginning of support for --language=en
4706 - improved boot time on CD by ordering files in the squashfs in the order they
4707 are used during boot
4708 - added a amnesia-version script to built images, that outputs the current
4710 - added a amnesia-debug script that prepares a tarball with information that
4711 could be useful for developpers
4712 - updated Amnesia GnuPG key to a new 4096R one
4713 - set time with NTP when a network interface is brought up
4714 - import amnesia's GnuPG pubkey into the live session user's keyring
4715 - do not ask DHCP for a specific hostname
4716 - install localepurge, only keep en, fr, de and es locales, which reduces the
4717 generated images' size by 100MB
4718 - added a hook to replace /sbin/swapon with a script that only runs
4720 - moved networking hooks responsibility from ifupdown to NetworkManager
4722 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:17:08 +0100
4724 amnesia (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4726 * imported /home/amnesia, then:
4727 - more user-friendly shell, umask 077
4728 - updated panel, added launcher to restart Tor
4729 - mv $HOME/bin/* /usr/local/bin/
4730 - removed metacity sessions
4731 - removed gstreamer's registry, better keep this dynamically updated
4732 - rm .qt/qt_plugins_3.3rc, better keep this dynamically updated
4733 - removed .gnome/gnome-vfs/.trash_entry_cache
4734 - removed kconf_update log
4735 - removed and excluded Epiphany configuration (not installed)
4738 - enable caching in RAM
4739 - explicitly disable ssl v2, and enable ssl v3 + tls
4740 - removed prefs for the non-installed webdeveloper
4741 - removed the SSL Blacklist extension (not so useful, licensing issues)
4742 - deep profile directory cleanup
4743 - extensions cleanup: prefer Debian-packaged ones, cleanly reinstalled
4744 AddBlock Plus and CS Lite to allow upgrading them
4745 - updated pluginreg.dat and localstore.rdf
4746 - moved some settings to user.js
4747 - made cookie/JavaScript whitelists more consistent
4748 - force httpS on whitelisted sites
4749 - NoScript: marked google and gmail as untrusted
4750 - some user interface tweaks, mainly for NoScript
4751 - FireGPG: disable the buggy auto-detection feature, the link to firegpg's
4752 homepage in generated pgp messages and the GMail interface (which won't
4753 work without JavaScript anyway)
4754 - updated blocklist.xml
4755 - removed and excluded a bunch of files in the profile directory
4756 * icedove: clean the profile directory up just like we did for iceweasel
4757 * software: install msmtp and mutt
4759 - use rsync rather than tar
4762 - reviewed pidgin-otr security (see TODO)
4764 - stop calling home-refresh in lh_build
4765 - include home-refresh in generated images
4767 - fix permissions on local includes at build time
4768 - updated scripts/{build,clean} wrt. new $HOME handling
4769 - scripts/{build,config}: stop guessing BASEDIR, we must be run from
4770 the root of the source directory anyway
4771 - stop storing /etc/amnesia/version in Git, delete it at clean time
4773 - converted Changelog to the Debian format and location, updated
4774 build scripts accordingly
4775 - added a README symlink at the root of the source directory
4776 - basic debian/ directory (not working for building packages yet,
4777 but at least we can now use git-dch)
4778 - added debian/gbp.conf with our custom options for git-dch
4779 - config/amnesia: introduce new $AMNESIA_DEV_* variables to be used
4780 by developpers' scripts
4781 - added ./release script: a wrapper around git-dch, git-commit and git-tag
4783 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:42:03 +0200
4785 amnesia (0.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4787 * Forked Privatix 9.03.15, by Markus Mandalka:
4788 http://mandalka.name/privatix/index.html.en
4789 Everything has since been rewritten or so heavily changed that nothing
4790 remains from the original code... apart of a bunch of Gnome settings.
4792 - install a bunch of non-free wifi firmwares
4793 - install xsane and add the live user to the scanner group
4794 - install aircrack-ng
4795 - install xserver-xorg-video-geode on i386 (eCafe support)
4796 - install xserver-xorg-video-all
4797 - install firmware-linux from backports.org
4798 - install system-config-printer
4799 - added instructions in README.eCAFE to support the Hercules eCAFE EC-800
4802 - configure pinning to support installing chosen packages from
4803 squeeze; the APT source for testing is hardcoded in chroot_sources/,
4804 since there is no way to use $LH_CHROOT_MIRROR in chroot_local-hooks
4805 - give backports.org priority 200, so that we track upgrades of packages
4806 installed from there
4807 * release: include the Changelog and TODO in the generated images,
4808 in the /usr/share/doc/amnesia/ directory
4809 * software: install gnomebaker when building Gnome-based live OS, to
4810 easily clone myself when running from CD
4812 - build i386 images when the build host is amd64
4813 - added a version file: /etc/amnesia/version
4814 - use snapshot live-* packages inside the images
4815 - setup timezone depending on the chosen build locale
4816 - rely on standard live-initramfs adduser to do our user setup
4817 (including sudo vs. Gnome/KDE, etc.)
4818 - stop "supporting" KDE
4819 - allow building several images at once
4820 - migrated most of lh_config invocations to scripts/config
4821 - append "noprompt" so that halting/rebooting work with splashy
4822 - moved our own variables to config/amnesia, using the namespace
4825 - default search engine is now Scroogle SSL, configured to search pages
4826 in French language; the English one is also installed
4827 - never ask to save passwords or forms content
4828 - configured the torbutton extension to use polipo
4829 - installed the CACert root certificate
4830 - installed the SSL Blacklist extension and the blacklist data
4831 - installed the FireGPG extension
4832 - installed the CS Lite extension
4833 - installed the NoScript extension
4834 - NoScript, CS Lite: replaced the default whitelists with a list of
4835 trusted, non-commercial Internet Service Providers
4836 - configure extensions (add to prefs.js):
4837 user_pref("extensions.torbutton.startup", true);
4838 user_pref("extensions.torbutton.startup_state", 1);
4839 user_pref("extensions.torbutton.tor_enabled", true);
4840 user_pref("noscript.notify.hide", true);
4841 user_pref("capability.policy.maonoscript.sites", "about:
4842 about:blank about:certerror about:config about:credits
4843 about:neterror about:plugins about:privatebrowsing
4844 about:sessionrestore chrome: resource:");
4845 user_pref("extensions.firegpg.no_updates", true);
4846 - install the NoScript plugin from Debian squeeze
4847 - delete urlclassifier3.sqlite on $HOME refresh: as we disabled
4848 "safebrowsing", this huge file is of no use
4849 - torbutton: install newer version from Squeeze
4850 * linux: removed non-686 kernel flavours when building i386 images
4851 * compatibility: append "live-media=removable live-media-timeout=15", to
4852 prevent blindly booting another debian-live installed on the hard disk
4856 - cryptkeeper: Gnome system tray applet to encrypt files with EncFS
4857 - kvkbd: virtual keyboard (installed from backports.org)
4858 - sshfs (and added live user to the fuse group)
4859 - less, secure-delete, wipe, seahorse, sshfs, ntfs-3g
4862 - enable the transparent proxy, the DNS resolver, and the control port
4863 - save authentication cookie to /tmp/control_auth_cookie, so that the
4864 live user can use Tork and co.
4865 - autostart Tork with Gnome
4866 - Tork: installed, disabled most notifications and startup tips
4867 - added a restart tor hook to if-up.d (used by Network Manager as well),
4868 so that Tor does work immediately even if the network cable was
4869 plugged late in/after the boot process
4871 - added a nautilus-script to wipe files and directories
4872 - bash with working completion for the live user
4873 * polipo: install and configure this HTTP proxy to forward requests
4875 * DNS: install and configure pdnsd to forward any DNS request through
4877 * firewall: force every outgoing TCP connection through the Tor
4878 transparent proxy, discard any outgoing UDP connection
4880 - set syslinux timeout to 4 seconds
4881 - use splashy for more user-friendly boot/halt sequences
4883 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:09:15 +0200