1 tails (1.7) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
3 * Dummy entry for next major release.
5 -- intrigeri <intrigeri@debian.org> Sat, 22 Sep 2015 18:54:32 +0200
7 tails (1.6) unstable; urgency=medium
10 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.3. (Closes: #10223)
11 - Upgrade bind9-based packages to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u7.
12 - Upgrade liblcms1 to 1.19.dfsg2-1.2+deb7u1.
13 - Upgrade libldap-2.4-2 to 2.4.31-2+deb7u1.
14 - Upgrade libslp1 to 1.2.1-9+deb7u1.
15 - Upgrade ssl-cert to 1.0.32+deb7u1.
18 - Fix a corner case for the MAC spoofing panic mode. If panic mode
19 failed to disable the specific device that couldn't be spoofed
20 (by unloading the module) we disable networking. Previously we
21 only stopped NetworkManager. The problem is that NM isn't even
22 started at this time, but will specifically be started when
23 we're done with MAC spoofing. Therefore, let's completely
24 disable NetworkManager so it cannot possibly be
25 started. (Closes: #10160)
26 - Avoid use of uninitialized value in restricted-network-detector.
27 If NetworkManager decides that a wireless connection has timed
28 out before "supplicant connection state" has occued, our idea of
29 the state is `undef`, so it cannot be used in a string
30 comparison. Hence, let's initialize the state to the empty
31 string instead of `undef`. Also fix the state
32 recording. Apparently NetworkManager can say a few different
33 things when it logs the device state transitions. (Closes:
37 - Remove workaround for localizing search engine plugins. The
38 workaround has recently become unnecessary, possibly due to the
39 changes made for the seach bar after the Tor Browser was rebased
40 on Firefox 38esr. (Closes: #9146)
41 - Refer to the I2P Browser in the I2P notifications. Instead of
42 some obscure links that won't work in the Tor Browser, where
43 users likely will try them, and which I believe will open them
44 by default. (Closes: #10182)
45 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.22. Also set the I2P apparmor profile to
46 enforce mode. (Closes: #9830)
49 - Test that udev-watchdog is monitoring the correct device when
50 booted from USB. (Closes: #9890)
51 - Remove unused 'gksu' step. This causes a false-positive to be
52 found for #5330. (Closes: #9877)
53 - Make --capture capture individual videos for failed scenarios
54 only, and --capture-all to capture videos for all scenarios.
56 - Use the more efficient x264 encoding when capturing videos using
57 the --capture* options. (Closes: #10001)
58 - Make --old-iso default to --iso if omitted. Using the same ISO
59 for the USB upgrade tests most often still does what we want,
60 e.g. test that the current version of Tails being tested has a
61 working Tails installer. Hence this seems like a reasonable
62 default. (Closes: #10147)
63 - Avoid nested FindFailed exceptions in waitAny()/findAny(), and
64 throw a new dedicated FindAnyFailed exception if these fail
65 instead. Rjb::throw doesn't block Ruby's execution until the
66 Java exception has been received by Ruby, so strange things can
67 happen and we must avoid it. (Closes: #9633)
68 - Fix the Download Management page in our browsers. Without the
69 browser.download.panel.shown pref set, the progress being made
70 will not update until after the browser has been restarted.
72 - Add a 'pretty_debug' (with an alias: 'debug') Cucumber formatter
73 that deals with debugging instead of printing it to STDERR via
74 the `--debug` option (which now has been removed). This gives us
75 the full flexibility of Cucumber's formatter system, e.g. one
76 easy-to-read formatter can print to the terminal, while we get
77 the full debug log printed to a file. (Closes: #9491)
78 - Import logging module in otr-bot.py. Our otr-bot.py does not use
79 logging but the jabberbot library makes logging calls, causing a
80 one-off message “No handlers could be found for logger
81 "jabberbot"” to be printed to the console. This commit
82 effectively prevents logging/outputting anything to the terminal
83 which is at a level lower than CRITICAL. (Closes: 9375)
84 - Force new Tor circuit and reload web site on browser
85 timeouts. (Closes: #10116)
86 - Focus Pidgin's buddy list before trying to access the tools
87 menu. (Closes: #10217)
88 - Optimize IRC test using waitAny. If connecting to IRC fails,
89 such as when OFTC is blocking Tor, waiting 60 seconds to connect
90 while a a Reconnect button is visible is sub-optimal. It would
91 be better to try forcing a new Tor circuit and clicking the
92 reconnect button. (Closes: #9653)
93 - Wait for (and focus if necessary) Pidgin's Certificate windows.
96 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 20 Sep 2015 17:47:26 +0000
98 tails (1.5.1) unstable; urgency=medium
101 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.2. (Closes: #10112)
102 - Upgrade gdk-pixbuf packages to 2.26.1-1+deb7u1.
103 - Upgrade libnss3 to 2:3.14.5-1+deb7u5.
106 - Refresh Tor Browser AppArmor profile patch. The old one doesn't
107 apply on top of testing's torbrowser-launcher anymore.
110 - Make sure Jenkins creates new jobs to build the testing branch
111 after freezes. (Closes: #9925)
113 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Fri, 28 Aug 2015 01:52:14 +0200
115 tails (1.5) unstable; urgency=medium
117 * Major new features and changes
118 - Move LAN web browsing from Tor Browser to the Unsafe Browser,
119 and forbid access to the LAN from the former. (Closes: #7976)
120 - Install a 32-bit GRUB EFI boot loader. This at least works
121 on some Intel Baytrail systems. (Closes: #8471)
124 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0, and integrate it:
125 · Disable Tiles in all browsers' new tab page.
126 · Don't use geo-specific search engine prefs in our browsers.
127 · Hide Tools -> Set Up Sync, Tools -> Apps (that links to the Firefox
128 Marketplace), and the "Share this page" button in the Tool bar.
129 · Generate localized Wikipedia search engine plugin icons so the
130 English and localized versions can be distinguished in the new
131 search bar. (Closes: #9955)
132 - Fix panic mode on MAC spoofing failure. (Closes: #9531)
133 - Deny Tor Browser access to global tmp directories with AppArmor,
134 and give it its own $TMPDIR. (Closes: #9558)
135 - Tails Installer: don't use a predictable file name for the subprocess
136 error log. (Closes: #9349)
137 - Pidgin AppArmor profile: disable the launchpad-integration abstraction,
138 which is too wide-open.
139 - Use aliases so that our AppArmor policy applies to
140 /lib/live/mount/overlay/ and /lib/live/mount/rootfs/*.squashfs/ as well as
141 it applies to /. And accordingly:
142 · Upgrade AppArmor packages to 2.9.0-3~bpo70+1.
143 · Install rsyslog from wheezy-backports, since the version from Wheezy
144 conflicts with AppArmor 2.9.
145 · Stop installing systemd for now: the migration work is being done in
146 the feature/jessie branch, and it conflicts with rsyslog from
148 · Drop apparmor-adjust-user-tmp-abstraction.diff: obsoleted.
149 · apparmor-adjust-tor-profile.diff: simplify and de-duplicate rules.
150 · Take into account aufs whiteouts in the system_tor profile.
151 · Adjust the Vidalia profile to take into account Live-specific paths.
152 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u3.
153 - Upgrade bind9-host, dnsutils and friends to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u6.
154 - Upgrade cups-filters to 1.0.18-2.1+deb7u2.
155 - Upgrade ghostscript to 9.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u2.
156 - Upgrade libexpat1 to 2.1.0-1+deb7u2.
157 - Upgrade libicu48 to 4.8.1.1-12+deb7u3.
158 - Upgrade libwmf0.2-7 to 0.2.8.4-10.3+deb7u1.
159 - Upgrade openjdk-7 to 7u79-2.5.6-1~deb7u1.
162 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.6.10-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.
165 - Tails Installer: let the user know when it has rejected a candidate
166 destination device because it is too small. (Closes: #9130)
167 - Tails Installer: prevent users from trying to "upgrade" a device
168 that contains no Tails, or that was not installed with Tails Installer.
170 - Install libotr5 and pidgin-otr 4.x from wheezy-backports. This adds
171 support for the OTRv3 protocol and for multiple concurrent connections
172 to the same account. (Closes: #9513)
173 - Skip warning dialog when starting Tor Browser while being offline,
174 in case it is already running. Thanks to Austin English for the patch!
176 - Install the apparmor-profiles package (Closes: #9539), but don't ship
177 a bunch of AppArmor profiles we don't use, to avoid increasing
178 boot time. (Closes: #9757)
179 - Ship a /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home.d/tails snippet, instead
180 of patching /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home.
181 - live-boot: don't mount tmpfs twice on /live/overlay, so that the one which
182 is actually used as the read-write branch of the root filesystem's union
183 mount, is visible. As a consequence:
184 · One can now inspect how much space is used, at a given time, in the
185 read-write branch of the root filesystem's union mount.
186 · We can make sure our AppArmor policy works fine when that filesystem
187 is visible, which is safer in case e.g. live-boot's behavior changes
188 under our feet in the future... or in case these "hidden" files are
189 actually accessible somehow already.
192 - Add our jenkins-tools repository as a Git submodule, and replace
193 check_po.sh with a symlink pointing to the same script in that submodule.
194 Adjust the automated test suite accordingly. (Closes: #9567)
195 - Bump amount of RAM needed for Vagrant RAM builds to 7.5 GiB. In
196 particular the inclusion of the Tor Browser 5.0 series has recently
197 increased the amount of space needed to build Tails. (Closes: #9901)
200 - Test that the Tor Browser cannot access LAN resources.
201 - Test that the Unsafe Browser can access the LAN.
202 - Installer: test new behavior when trying to upgrade an empty device, and
203 when attempting to upgrade a non-Tails FAT partition on GPT; also, take
204 into account that all unsupported upgrade scenarios now trigger
206 - Request a new Tor circuit and re-run the Seahorse and GnuPG CLI tests
207 on failure. (Closes: #9518, #9709)
208 - run_test_suite: remove control chars from log file even when cucumber
209 exits with non-zero. (Closes: #9376)
210 - Add compatibility with cucumber 2.0 and Debian Stretch. (Closes: #9667)
211 - Use custom exception when 'execute_successfully' fails.
212 - Retry looking up whois info on transient failure. (Closes: #9668)
213 - Retry wget on transient failure. (Closes: #9715)
214 - Test that Tor Browser cannot access files in /tmp.
215 - Allow running the test suite without ntp installed. There are other means
216 to have an accurate host system clock, e.g. systemd-timesyncd and tlsdate.
218 - Bump timeout in the Totem feature.
219 - Grep memory dump using the --text option. This is necessary with recent
220 versions of grep, such as the one in current Debian sid, otherwise it
221 will count only one occurrence of the pattern we're looking for.
223 - Include execute_successfully's error in the exception, instead
224 of writing it to stdout via puts. (Closes: #9795)
225 - Test that udev-watchdog is actually monitoring the correct device.
227 - IUK: workaround weird Archive::Tar behaviour on current sid.
228 - Test the SocksPort:s given in torrc in the Unsafe Browser.
229 This way we don't get any sneaky errors in case we change them and
230 forget to update this test.
231 - Directly verify AppArmor blocking of the Tor Browser by looking in
232 the audit log: Firefox 38 does no longer provide any graphical feedback
233 when the kernel blocks its access to files the user wants to access.
234 - Update browser-related automated test suite images, and workaround
235 weirdness introduced by the new Tor Browser fonts.
236 - Test that Pidgin, Tor Browser, Totem and Evince cannot access ~/.gnupg
237 via alternate, live-boot generated paths.
238 - Adjust tests to cope with our new AppArmor aliases.
239 - Bump memory allocated to the system under test to 2 GB. (Closes: #9883)
241 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 10 Aug 2015 19:12:58 +0200
243 tails (1.4.1) unstable; urgency=medium
246 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.5.3, based on Firefox 31.8.0 ESR. (Closes: #9649)
247 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.6.9-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails2, which includes a circuit
248 isolation bugfix. (Closes: #9560)
249 - AppArmor: deny Tor Browser access to the list of recently used files.
251 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u17.
252 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1.
253 - Upgrade CUPS to 1.5.3-5+deb7u6.
254 - Upgrade FUSE to 2.9.0-2+deb7u2.
255 - Upgrade libsqlite3-0 to 3.7.13-1+deb7u2.
256 - Upgrade ntfs-3g and ntfsprogs to 1:2012.1.15AR.5-2.1+deb7u2.
257 - Upgrade p7zip-full to 9.20.1~dfsg.1-4+deb7u1.
260 - Fix automatic upgrades in Windows Camouflage mode. (Closes: #9413)
261 - Don't ship the snakeoil SSL key pair generated by ssl-cert in the ISO.
263 - Partially fix the truncated notifications issue. (#7249)
266 - Disable the hwclock.sh initscript at reboot/shutdown time.
267 This is an additional safety measure to ensure that the hardware clock
268 is not modified. (Closes: #9364)
269 - Stop shipping /var/cache/man/*, to make ISOs and IUKs smaller.
271 - Update torbrowser-AppArmor-profile.patch to apply cleanly on top of the
272 profile shipped with torbrowser-launcher 0.2.0-1.
273 - Add the jessie/updates APT repo and set appropriate pinning.
274 - Upgrade Electrum to 1.9.8-4~bpo70+1.
275 - Upgrade kernel firmware packages to 0.44.
278 - Install the Linux kernel from Debian Jessie. (Closes: #9341)
279 - Remove files that are not under version control when building in Jenkins.
281 - Don't modify files in the source tree before having possibly merged
282 the base branch into it. (Closes: #9406)
283 - Make it so eatmydata is actually used during a greater part of the build
284 process. This includes using eatmydata from wheezy-backports.
285 (Closes: #9419, #9523)
286 - release script: adjust to support current Debian sid.
289 - Test the system clock sanity check we do at boot. (Closes: #9377)
290 - Remove the impossible "Clock way in the past" scenarios.
291 Thanks to config/chroot_local-includes/lib/live/config/0001-sane-clock,
292 these scenarios cannot happen, and since we test that it works they
293 can be safely removed.
294 - Test that the hardware clock is not modified at shutdown. (Closes: #9557)
295 - Pidgin: retry looking for the roadmap URL in the topic.
296 - Avoid showing Pidgin's tooltips during test, potentially confusing Sikuli.
298 - Test all OpenPGP keys shipped with Tails. (Closes: #9402)
299 - Check that notification-daemon is running when looking for notifications
300 fails. (Closes: #9332)
301 - Allow using the cucumber formatters however we want. (Closes: #9424)
302 - Enable Spice in the guest, and blacklist the psmouse kernel module,
303 to help with lost mouse events. (Closes: #9425)
304 - Automate testing Torbutton's 'New Identity' feature. (Closes: #9286)
305 - Test that Seahorse is configured to use the correct keyserver.
307 - Always export TMPDIR back to the test suite's shell environment.
309 - Make OpenPGP tests more reliable:
310 · Retry accessing the OpenPGP applet menus on failure. (Closes: #9355)
311 · Retry accessing menus in Seahorse on failure. (Closes: #9344)
312 - Focus the Pidgin conversation window before any attempt to interact
313 with it. (Closes: #9317)
314 - Use convertkey from the (backported to Jessie) Debian package,
315 instead of our own copy of that script. (Closes: #9066)
316 - Make the memory erasure tests more robust (Closes: #9329):
317 · Bump /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes when running fillram.
318 · Actually set oom_adj for the remote shell when running fillram.
319 · Try to be more sure that we OOM kill fillram.
320 · Run fillram as non-root.
321 - Only try to build the storage pool if TailsToasterStorage isn't found.
324 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 28 Jun 2015 19:46:25 +0200
326 tails (1.4) unstable; urgency=medium
329 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.5.1, based on Firefox 31.7.0 ESR, which
330 introduces many major new features for usability, security and
331 privacy. Unfortunately its per-tab circuit view did not make it
332 into Tails yet since it requires exposing more Tor state to the
333 user running the Tor Browser than we are currently comfortable
334 with. (Closes: #9031, #9369)
335 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.6.7-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails2. Like in the Tor
336 bundled with the Tor Browser, we patch it so that circuits used
337 for SOCKSAuth streams have their lifetime increased indefinitely
338 while in active use. This currently only affects the Tor Browser
339 in Tails, and should improve the experience on certain web sites
340 that otherwise would switch language or log you out every ten
341 minutes or so when Tor switches circuit. (Closes: #7934)
344 - tor-browser wrapper script: avoid offering avenues to arbitrary
345 code execution to e.g. an exploited Pidgin. AppArmor Ux rules
346 don't sanitize $PATH, which can lead to an exploited application
347 (that's allowed to run this script unconfined, e.g. Pidgin)
348 having this script run arbitrary code, violating that
349 application's confinement. Let's prevent that by setting PATH to
350 a list of directories where only root can write. (Closes: #9370)
351 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt9-3.
352 - Upgrade curl to 7.26.0-1+wheezy13.
353 - Upgrade dpkg to 1.16.16.
354 - Upgrade gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad to 0.10.23-7.1+deb7u2.
355 - Upgrade libgd2-xpm to 2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-6.1+deb7u1.
356 - Upgrade openldap to 2.4.31-2.
357 - Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u4.
358 - Upgrade libruby1.9.1 to 1.9.3.194-8.1+deb7u5.
359 - Upgrade libtasn1-3 to 2.13-2+deb7u2.
360 - Upgrade libx11 to 2:1.5.0-1+deb7u2.
361 - Upgrade libxml-libxml-perl to 2.0001+dfsg-1+deb7u1.
362 - Upgrade libxml2 to 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy4.
363 - Upgrade OpenJDK to 7u79-2.5.5-1~deb7u1.
364 - Upgrade ppp to 2.4.5-5.1+deb7u2.
367 - Disable security warnings when connecting to POP3 and IMAP ports.
369 - Make the Windows 8 browser theme compatible with the Unsafe and I2P
370 browsers. (Closes: #9138)
371 - Hide Torbutton's "Tor Network Settings..." context menu entry.
373 - Upgrade the syslinux packages to support booting Tails on
374 Chromebook C720-2800. (Closes: #9044)
375 - Enable localization in Tails Upgrader. (Closes: #9190)
376 - Make sure the system clock isn't before the build date during
377 early boot. Our live-config hook that imports our signing keys
378 depend on that the system clock isn't before the date when the
379 keys where created. (Closes: #9149)
380 - Set GNOME's OpenPGP keys via desktop.gnome.crypto.pgp to prevent
381 us from getting GNOME's default keyserver in addition to our
383 - Prevent Firefox from crashing when Orca is enabled: grant
384 it access to assistive technologies in its Apparmor
385 profile. (Closes: #9261)
386 - Add Jessie APT source. (Closes: #9278)
387 - Fix set_simple_config_key(). If the key already existed in the
388 config file before the call, all other lines would be removed
389 due to the sed option -n and p combo. (Closes: #9122)
390 - Remove illegal instance of local outside of function definition.
391 Together with `set -e` that error has prevented this script from
392 restarting Vidalia, like it should. (Closes: #9328)
395 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.19-3~deb7u+1.
396 - Install Tor Browser's bundled Torbutton instead of custom .deb.
397 As of Torbutton 1.9.1.0 everything we need has been upstreamed.
398 - Install Tor Browser's bundled Tor Launcher instead of our
399 in-tree version. With Tor 0.2.6.x our custom patches for the
400 ClientTransportPlugin hacks are not needed any more. (Closes:
402 - Don't install msmtp and mutt. (Closes: #8727)
403 - Install fonts-linuxlibertine for improved Vietnamese support in
404 LibreOffice. (Closes: #8996)
405 - Remove obsoletete #i2p-help IRC channel from the Pidgin
406 configuration (Closes: #9137)
407 - Add Gedit shortcut to gpgApplet's context menu. Thanks to Ivan
408 Bliminse for the patch. (Closes: #9069).
409 - Install printer-driver-gutenprint to support more printer
410 models. (Closes: #8994).
411 - Install paperkey for off-line OpenPGP key backup. (Closes: #8957)
412 - Hide the Tor logo in Tor Launcher. (Closes: #8696)
413 - Remove useless log() instance in tails-unblock-network. (Closes:
415 - Install cdrdao: this enables Brasero to burn combined data/audio
416 CDs and to do byte-to-byte disc copy.
417 - Hide access to the Add-ons manager in the Unsafe Browser. It's
418 currently broken (#9307) but we any way do not want users to
419 install add-ons in the Unsafe Browser. (Closes: #9305)
420 - Disable warnings on StartTLS for POP3 and IMAP (Will-fix: #9327)
421 The default value of this option activates warnings on ports
422 23,109,110,143. This commit disables the warnings for POP3 and
423 IMAP as these could be equally used in encrypted StartTLS
424 connections. (Closes: #9327)
425 - Completely rework how we localize our browser by generating our
426 branding add-on, and search plugins programatically. This
427 improves the localization for the ar, es, fa, ko, nl, pl, ru,
428 tr, vi and zh_CN locales by localizing the Startpage and
429 Disconnect.me search plugins. Following Tor Browser 4.5's recent
430 switch, we now use Disconnect.me as the default search
431 engine. (Closes: #9309)
432 * Actively set Google as the Unsafe Browser's default search
436 - Encode in Git which APT suites to include when building Tails.
438 - Clean up the list of packages we install. (Closes: #6073)
439 - Run auto/{build,clean,config} under `set -x' for improved
441 - Zero-pad our ISO images so their size is divisible by 2048.
442 The data part of an ISO image's sectors is 2048 bytes, which
443 implies that ISO images should always have a size divisible
444 by 2048. Some applications, e.g. VirtualBox, use this as a sanity
445 check, treating ISO images for which this isn't true as garbage.
446 Our isohybrid post-processing does not ensure this,
447 however. Also Output ISO size before/after isohybrid'ing and
448 truncate'ing it. This will help detect if/when truncate is
449 needed at all, so that we can report back to syslinux
450 maintainers more useful information. (Closes: #8891)
451 - Vagrant: raise apt-cacher-ng's ExTreshold preference to 50. The
452 goal here is to avoid Tor Browser tarballs being deleted by
453 apt-cacher-ng's daily expiration cronjob: they're not listed in
454 any APT repo's index file, so acng will be quite eager to clean
458 - Bring dependency checks up-to-date (Closes: #8988).
459 - Adapt test suite to be run on Debian Jessie, which includes
460 removing various Wheezy-specific workarounds, adding a few
461 specific to Jessie, migrating from ffmpeg to libav, and
462 more. (Closes: #8165)
463 - Test that MAT can see that a PDF is dirty (Closes: #9136).
464 - Allow throwing Timeout::Error in try_for() blocks, as well as
465 nested try_for() (Closes: #9189, #9290).
466 - Read test suite configuration files from the features/config/local.d
467 directory. (Closes: #9220)
468 - Kill virt-viewer with SIGTERM, not SIGINT, to prevent hordes of
469 zombie processes from appearing. (Closes: #9139)
470 - Kill Xvfb with SIGTERM, not SIGKILL, on test suite exit to allow
471 it to properly clean up. (Closes: #8707)
472 - Split SSH & SFTP configs in the test suite. (Closes: #9257)
473 - Improve how we start subprocesses in the test suite, mostly by
474 bypassing the shell for greater security and robustness (Closes:
476 - Add Electrum test feature. (Closes #8963)
477 - Test that Tails Installer detects when USB devices are
478 removed. (Closes: #9131)
479 - Test Tails Installer with devices which are too small. (Closes:
481 - Test that the Report an Error launcher works in German. (Closes:
483 - Verify that no extensions are installed in the Unsafe Browser
484 using about:support instead of about:addons, which is broken
485 (#9307). (Closes: #9306)
486 - Retry GNOME application menu actions when they glitch. The
487 GNOME application menus seem to have issues with clicks or
488 hovering actions not registering, and hence sometimes submenus
489 are not opened when they should, and sometimes clicks on the
490 final application shortcut are lost. There seems to be a
491 correlation between this and CPU load on the host running the
492 test suite. We workaround this by simply re-trying the last
493 action when it seems to fail. (Closes: #8928)
494 - Work around Seahorse GUI glitchiness (Closes: #9343):
495 * When Seahorse appears to be frozen--apparently due to network
496 issues--it can often be worked around by refreshing the screen
497 or activating a new window.
498 * Open Seahorse's preferences dialog using the mouse.
499 * Access menu entries with the mouse.
500 - Wait for systray icons to finish loading before interacting with
501 the systray. (Closes: #9258)
502 - Test suite configuration: generalize local.d support to *.d. We
503 now load features/config/*.d/*.yml.
504 - Use code blocks in "After Scenario" hooks. This is much simpler
505 to use (and more readable!) compared to hooking functions and
506 arguments like we used to do.
507 - Create filesystem share sources in the temporary directory and
508 make them world-readable. (Closes: #8950)
510 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 11 May 2015 16:45:04 +0200
512 tails (1.3.2) unstable; urgency=medium
515 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.0.6, based on Firefox 31.6.0 ESR.
516 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u16.
519 - Make Florence usable with touchpads by forcing syndaemon to
520 always use the `-t` option, which only disables tapping and
521 scrolling and not mouse movements (Closes: #9011).
522 - Make tails-spoof-mac log the correct macchanger exit code on
523 failure (Closes: #8687).
525 · Ignore devices with less than 3.5 GB of storage since they
526 do not fit a Tails installation (Closes: #6538).
527 · Remove devices from the device list as they are unplugged
531 - Install obfs4proxy 0.0.4-1~tpo1, which adds support for
532 client-mode ScrambleSuit.
533 - Don't start Vidalia if Windows Camouflage is enabled. (Closes:
536 · Remove "Add-ons" from the Tools menu, and hide "Keyboard
537 Shortcuts" and "Take a Tour" since they point to resources on
538 the open Internet (Closes: #7970).
539 · Hide TorButton button from the customize toolbar options, and
540 remove configs whose only purpose was to make Torbutton "green"
545 · Test non-LAN SSH, and SFTP via GNOME's "Connect to Server"
547 · Verify that Tails' Tor binary has the expected Tor authorities
548 hard coded (Closes: #8960).
550 · Programmatically determine the supported languages when testing
551 the Unsafe Browser (Closes: #8918).
552 · Rename --temp-dir to --tmpdir and make it behave more like
553 mktemp, and honour TMPDIR if set in the environment. (Closes:
556 · Make --temp-dir (now --tmpdir) actually work.
558 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 30 Mar 2015 16:54:20 +0200
560 tails (1.3.1) unstable; urgency=medium
563 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.0.5, based on Firefox 31.5.3 ESR. This addresses:
564 · https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-28/
565 · https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-29/
566 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt7-1.
567 - Upgrade libxfont to 1:1.4.5-5.
568 - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u15.
569 - Upgrade tcpdump to 4.3.0-1+deb7u2.
570 - Upgrade bsdtar to 3.0.4-3+wheezy1.
571 - Upgrade CUPS to 1.5.3-5+deb7u5.
572 - Upgrade file and libmagic to 5.11-2+deb7u8.
573 - Upgrade GnuPG to 1.4.12-7+deb7u7.
574 - Upgrade libarchive to 3.0.4-3+wheezy1.
575 - Upgrade libav to 6:0.8.17-1.
576 - Upgrade FreeType 2 to 2.4.9-1.1+deb7u1.
577 - Upgrade libgcrypt11 1.5.0-5+deb7u3.
578 - Upgrade libgnutls26 to 2.12.20-8+deb7u3.
579 - Upgrade libgtk2-perl to 2:1.244-1+deb7u1.
580 - Upgrade ICU to 4.8.1.1-12+deb7u2.
581 - Upgrade NSS to 2:3.14.5-1+deb7u4.
582 - Upgrade libssh2 to 1.4.2-1.1+deb7u1.
585 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.5.11-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Changes include:
586 · Directory authority changes.
587 · Fix assertion errors that may trigger under high DNS load.
588 · No longer break on HUP with seccomp2 enabled.
589 · and more - please consult the upstream changelog.
590 - Upgrade Tor Launcher to 0.2.7.2, and update the test suite accordingly
591 (Closes: #8964, #6985). Changes include:
592 · Ask about bridges before proxy in wizard.
593 · Hide logo if TOR_HIDE_BROWSER_LOGO set.
594 · Remove firewall prompt from wizard.
595 · Feedback when “Copy Tor Log” is clicked.
596 · Improve behavior if tor exits.
597 · Add option to hide TBB's logo
598 · Change "Tor Browser Bundle" to "Tor Browser"
599 · Update translations from Transifex.
600 - Fix the Tor Launcher killer. (Closes: #9067)
601 - Allow Seahorse to communicate with keyservers when run from Tails
602 OpenPGP Applet. (Closes: #6394)
603 - SSH client: don't proxy connections to 172.17.* to 172.31.*.
605 - Repair config/chroot_local-packages feature, that was broken in Tails 1.3
606 by 19-install-tor-browser-AppArmor-profile. (Closes: #8910)
607 - language_statistics.sh: count original words instead of translated words.
608 Otherwise we get >100% translation if translated strings are longer than
609 original strings. (Closes: #9016)
612 - Only ship the new Tails signing key, and have Tails Upgrader stop trusting
613 the old one. Update the documentation and test suite accordingly.
614 (Closes: #8735, #8736, #8882, #8769, #8951)
615 - Polish and harden a bit the WhisperBack configuration (Closes: #8991):
616 · Only allow the `amnesia' user to run tails-debugging info as root
618 · Fix spelling and grammar mistakes, improve phrasing a bit.
619 · Quote variables consistently.
623 · Chatting over XMPP in Pidgin, both peer-to-peer and in a multi-user
624 chatroom. (Closes: #8002)
625 · Chatting with OTR enabled over XMPP in Pidgin. (Closes: #8001)
626 · Check that Pidgin only responds to the expected CTCP requests.
628 · Fetching keys using Seahorse started via the OpenPGP Applet.
629 · Sync'ing keys using Seahorse.
631 · Fix a race condition between the remote shell's and Tails Greeter's
632 startup, by making sure the remote shell is ready before we start
634 · Kill virt-viewer properly. (Closes: #9070)
635 · Make sure the display is stopped on destroy_and_undefine().
636 Where we had it earlier, it could be skipped if anything else in the
637 block threw an exception.
638 · Fix wrong use of "$@". (Closes: #9071)
639 · Enable the pipefail option in run_test_suite.
640 · Improve the GNOME screenshot test's robustness. (Closes: #8952)
642 · turn the focus_pidgin_window() helper into a more generic
643 VM.focus_xorg_window() one.
644 · Reorganize the Display class.
645 · Use clearer method to check process status in the Display class.
646 - New developer-oriented features:
647 · Add a --log-to-file option to run_test_suite. (Closes: #8894)
648 · Add helpers for generating random strings.
649 · Make it possible to hook arbitrary calls on scenario end. This is useful
650 for dynamically adding cleanup functions, instead of having
651 to explicitly deal with them in some After hook.
653 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 23 Mar 2015 12:34:56 +0000
655 tails (1.3) unstable; urgency=medium
658 - Produce the Tails image in hybrid mode (again) so that the same
659 image can be installed both on DVD *and* "hard disks" like USB
660 storage and similar. (Closes: #8510)
661 - Confine the Tor Browser using AppArmor. (Closes: #5525)
662 - Install the Electrum bitcoin client from wheezy-backports, and
663 add a persistence preset for the Live user's bitcoin wallet. If
664 electrum is started without the persistence preset enabled, a
665 warning is shown. (Closes: #6739)
668 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.0.4 (based on Firefox 31.5.0esr)
672 - Have tor_bootstrap_progress echo 0 if no matching log line is
673 found. (Closes: #8257)
674 - Always pass arguments through wrappers (connect-socks, totem,
675 wget, whois) with "$@". $* doesn't handle arguments with
676 e.g. embedded spaces correctly. (Closes: #8603, #8830)
677 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt4-3.
680 - Install a custom-built Tor package with Seccomp enabled;
681 enable the Seccomp sandbox when no pluggable transport is used.
683 - Install obfs4proxy instead of obfsproxy, which adds support for
684 the obfs4 Tor pluggable transport. (Closes: #7980)
685 - Install GnuPG v2 and associated tools from wheezy-backports,
686 primarily for its improved support for OpenPGP smartcards. It
687 lives side-by-side with GnuPG v1, which still is the
688 default. (Closes: #6241)
689 - Install ibus-unikey, a Vietnamese input method for IBus. (Closes:
691 - Install torsocks (2.x) from wheezy-backports. (Closes: #8220)
692 - Install keyringer from Debian Jessie. (Closes: #7752)
693 - Install pulseaudio-utils.
694 - Remove all traces of Polipo: we don't use it anymore. This
695 closes #5379 and #6115 because:
696 * Have APT directly use the Tor SOCKS proxy. (Closes: #8194)
697 * Wrap wget with torsocks. (Closes: #6623)
698 * Wrap Totem to torify it with torsocks. (Closes: #8219)
699 * Torify Git with tsocks, instead of setting GIT_PROXY_COMMAND.
701 - Use torsocks for whois and Gobby, instead of torify.
702 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.18-1~deb7u+1.
703 - Refactor the Unsafe and I2P browser code into a common shell
704 library. A lot of duplicated code is now shared, and the code
705 has been cleaned up and made more reliable. Several
706 optimizations of memory usage and startup time were also
707 implemented. (Closes: #7951)
708 - Invert Exit and About in gpgApplet context menu. This is a
709 short-term workaround for making it harder to exit the
710 application by mistake (e.g. a double right-click). (Closes:
712 - Implement new touchpad settings. This enables tap-to-click,
713 2-fingers scrolling, and disable while typing. We don't enable
714 reverse scrolling nor horizontal scrolling. (Closes: #7779)
715 - Include the mount(8) output and live-additional-software.conf in
716 WhisperBack bug reports (Closes: #8719, #8491).
717 - Reduce brightness and saturation of background color. (Closes:
719 - Have ALSA output sound via PulseAudio by default. This gives us
720 centralized sound volume controls, and... allows to easily, and
721 automatically, test that audio output works from Tor Browser,
722 thanks to the PulseAudio integration into the GNOME sound
724 - Import the new Tails signing key, which we will use for Tails
725 1.3.1, and have Tails Upgrader trust both it and the "old"
726 (current) Tails signing key. (Closes: #8732)
727 - tails-security-check: error out when passed an invalid CA file.
728 Unfortunately, the underlying HTTPS stack we use here fails open
729 in those case, so we have to check it ourselves. Currently, we
730 check that the file exists, is readable, is a plain file and is
731 not empty. Also support specifying the CA file via an
732 environment variable. This will ease development and bug-fixing
734 - Fix racy code in Tails Installer that sometimes made the
735 automated test suite stall for scenarios installing Tails
736 to USB disks. (Closes: #6092)
737 - Make it possible to use Tails Upgrader to upgrade a Tails
738 installation that has cruft files on the system partition.
742 - Install syslinux-utils from our builder-wheezy APT repository in
743 Vagrant. We need version 6.03~pre20 to make the Tails ISO image
745 - Update deb.tails.boum.org apt repo signing key. (Closes: #8747)
746 - Revert "Workaround build failure in lb_source, after creating
747 the ISO." This is not needed anymore given the move to the Tor
748 SOCKS proxy. (Closes: #5307)
749 - Remove the bootstrap stage usage option and disable all
750 live-build caching in Vagrant. It introduces complexity and
751 potential for strange build inconsistencies for a meager
752 reduction in build time. (Closes: #8725)
753 - Hardcode the mirrors used at build and boot time in auto/config.
754 Our stuff will be more consistent, easier to reproduce, and our
755 QA process will be more reliable if we all use the same mirrors
756 at build time as the ones we configure in the ISO. E.g. we won't
757 have issues such as #8715 again. (Closes: #8726)
758 - Don't attempt to retrieve source packages from local-packages so
759 local packages can be installed via
760 config/chroot_local-packages. (Closes: #8756)
761 - Use our own Tor Browser archive when building an ISO. (Closes:
765 - Use libguestfs instead of parted when creating partitions and
766 filsystems, and to check that only the expected files
767 persist. We also switch to qcow2 as the default disk image
768 format everywhere to reduce disk usage, enable us to use
769 snapshots that includes the disks (in the future), and to use
770 the same steps for creating disks in all tests. (Closes: #8673)
771 - Automatically test that Tails ignores persistence volumes stored
772 on non-removable media, and doesn't enable swaps. (Closes:
774 - Actually make sure that Tails can boot from live systems stored
775 on a hard drive. Running the 'I start Tails from DVD ...' step
776 will override the earlier 'the computer is set to boot from ide
777 drive "live_hd"' step, so let's make the "from DVD" part
778 optional; it will be the default any way.
779 - Make it possible to use an old iso with different persistence
780 presets. (Closes: #8091)
781 - Hide the cursor between steps when navigating the GNOME
782 applications menu. This makes it a bit more robust, again:
783 sometimes the cursor is partially hiding the menu entry we're
784 looking for, hence preventing Sikuli from finding it (in
785 particular when it's "Accessories", since we've just clicked on
786 "Applications" which is nearby). (Closes: #8875)
787 - Ensure that the test will fail if "apt-get X" commands fail.
788 - Test 'Tor is ready' notification in a separate scenario. (Closes:
790 - Add automated tests for torified wget and whois. This should
791 help us identify future regressions such as #8603 in their
793 - Add automated test for opening an URL from Pidgin.
794 - And add automated tests for the Tor Browser's AppArmor
796 - Test that "Report an Error Launcher" opens the support
798 - Test that the Unsafe Browser:
799 * starts in various locales.
800 * complains when DNS isn't configured.
801 * tears down its chroot on shutdown.
802 * runs as the correct user.
803 * has no plugins or add-ons installed.
804 * has no unexpected bookmarks.
805 * has no proxy configured.
806 - Bump the "I2P router console is ready" timeout in its test to
807 deal with slow Internet connections.
808 - Make the automatic tests of gpgApplet more robust by relying
809 more on graphical elements instead of keyboard shortcuts and
810 static sleep():s. (Closes: #5632)
811 - Make sure that enough disk space is available when creating
812 virtual storage media. (Closes: #8907)
813 - Test that the Unsafe Browser doesn't generate any non-user
814 initiated traffic, and in particular that it doesn't check for
815 upgrades, which is a regression test for #8694. (Closes: #8702)
816 - Various robustness improvements to the Synaptic tests. (Closes:
818 - Automatically test Git. (Closes: #6307)
819 - Automatically test GNOME Screenshot, which is a regression test
820 for #8087. (Closes: #8688)
821 - Fix a quoting issue with `tails_persistence_enabled?`. (Closes:
823 - Introduce an improved configuration system that also can store
824 local secrets, like user credentials needed for some
825 tests. (Closes: #6301, #8188)
826 - Actually verify that we successfully set the time in our time
827 syncing tests. (Closes: #5836)
828 - Automatically test Tor. This includes normal functionality and
829 the use pluggable transports, that our Tor enforcement is
830 effective (e.g. only the Tor network or configured bridges are
831 contacted) and that our stream isolation configuration is
832 working. (Closes: #5644, #6305, #7821)
834 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 23 Feb 2015 17:14:00 +0100
836 tails (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=medium
839 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt2-1.
840 - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.0.3 (based on Firefox 31.4.0esr)
842 - Fail safe by entering panic mode if macchanger exits with an
843 error, since in this situation we have to treat the
844 driver/device state as undefined. Also, we previously just
845 exited the script in this case, not triggering the panic mode
846 and potentially leaking the real MAC address (Closes: #8571).
847 - Disable upgrade checking in the Unsafe Browser. Until now the
848 Unsafe Browser has checked for upgrades of the Tor Browser in
849 the clear (Closes: #8694).
852 - Fix startup of the Unsafe Browser in some locales (Closes: #8693).
853 - Wait for notification-daemon to run before showing the MAC
854 spoofing panic mode notifications. Without this, the "Network
855 card disabled" notification is sometimes lost when MAC spoofing
856 fails. Unfortunately this only improves the situation, but
857 doesn't fix it completely (see #8685).
858 - Log that we're going to stop NetworkManager before trying to do
859 it in the MAC spoofing scripts. Without this we wouldn't get the
860 log message in case stopping NetworkManager fails (thanks to
862 - Set GNOME Screenshot preferences to save the screenshots in
863 /home/amnesia (Closes: #8087).
864 - Do not suspend to RAM when closing the lid on battery power
866 - Properly update the Tails Installer's status when plugging in a
867 USB drive after it has started (Closes: #8353).
868 - Make rsync compare file contents by using --checksum for more
869 reliable generation of the squashfs filesystem in
870 IUKs. Previously it used the default, which is checking
871 timestamps and file size, but that doesn't play well with the
872 Tor browser files, that have a fixed mtime, which could result
873 in updated files not ending up in the IUK.
876 - Finish migrating tails-security-check's and tails-iuk's pinning
877 to our website's new X.509 certificate authority (Closes: #8404).
880 - Update to Vagrant build box tails-builder-20141201. The only
881 change is the removal of a reference to an ISO image which
882 doesn't exist (except on the system that generated the build
883 box) which causes an error for some users (Closes: #7644).
884 - Generate the list of packages used during build, after building
885 with Jenkins (Closes: #8518). This allows tracking their status
886 on the Debian reproducible build front:
887 https://reproducible.debian.net/index_pkg_sets.html#tails
889 * Automated test suite
890 - Check PO files with i18nspector (Closes: #8359).
891 - Fix the expected image of a check.tp.o failure. Previously we
892 looked for the "Sorry. You are not using Tor." text, but it
893 seems it recently changed enough for Sikuli to not find it. To
894 prevent future errors of the same kind we'll look for the
895 crossed-over onion icon instead (Closes: #8533).
896 - Bump timeout when waiting for Tor to re-bootstrap. We have a
897 dreaded issue with timeouts that are multiple of 2 minutes, and
898 then Tor succeeds soon after, so in order to allow for this
899 timeout to be reached twice, and then possibly succeed, let's
900 use N*2 minutes + 30 seconds, with N=2.
902 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 14 Jan 2015 16:12:26 +0100
904 tails (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=medium
907 - Create a CA bundle for Tails Upgrader at ISO build time, and
908 patch Tails Upgrader to use it. Specifically this will make it
909 possible to check for Tails upgrades after our website changes
910 certificate around the 2014 to 2015 transition (Partially fixes
913 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 15 Dec 2014 10:05:17 +0100
915 tails (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
918 - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.0-4, i.e. 3.16.7-1.
919 - Install Tor Browser 4.0.2 (based on Firefox 31.3.0esr).
922 - Install syslinux-utils, to get isohybrid back (Closes: #8155).
923 - Update xserver-xorg-input-evdev to 1:2.7.0-1+tails1 which
924 includes a patch that restores mouse scrolling in KVM/Spice
926 - Set Torbutton logging preferences to the defaults (Closes:
927 #8160). With the default settings, no site-specific information is
929 - Use the correct stack of rootfs:s for the chroot browsers (Closes:
930 #8152, #8158). After installing incremental upgrades Tails' root
931 filesystem consists of a stack squashfs:s, not only
932 filesystem.squashfs. When not stacking them correct we may end up
933 using the Tor Browser (Firefox) from an older version of Tails, or
934 with no Tor Browser at all, as in the upgrade from Tails 1.1.2 to
935 1.2, when we migrated from Iceweasel to the Tor Browser. Based on
936 a patch contributed by sanic.
937 - Use the Tor Browser for MIME type that GNOME associates with
938 Iceweasel (Closes: #8153). Open URLs from Claws Mail, KeePassX
939 etc. should be possible again.
940 - Update patch to include all Intel CPU microcodes (Closes: #8189).
941 - AppArmor: allow Pidgin to run Tor Browser unconfined, with
942 scrubbed environment (Closes: #8186). Links opened in Pidgin are
943 now handled by the Tor Browser.
944 - Install all localized Iceweasel search plugins (Closes: #8139).
945 - When generating the boot profile, ignore directories in
946 process_IN_ACCESS as well (Closes: #7925). This allows ut to
947 update the squashfs-ordering again in Tails 1.2.1.
948 - gpgApplet: Don't pass already encoded data to GTK2 (Closes:
949 #7968). It's now possible to clearsign text including non-ASCII
951 - Do not run the PulseAudio initscript, neither at startup nor
952 shutdown (Closes: #8082).
955 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.17-1~deb7u+1.
956 - Make GnuPG configuration closer to the best practices one
958 - Have GnuPG directly use the Tor SOCKS port (Closes: #7416).
959 - Remove TrueCrypt support and documentat how to open TrueCrypt
960 volumes using cryptsetup (Closes: #5373).
961 - Install hopenpgp-tools from Debian Jessie.
964 - Add gettext >= 0.18.3 as a Tails build dependency. We need it for
965 xgettext JavaScript support in feature/jessie.
967 * Automated test suite
968 - Don't click to open a sub-menu in the GNOME applications menu
970 - When testing the Windows camouflage, look for individual systray
971 applets, to avoid relying on their ordering (Closes: #8059).
972 - Focus the Pidgin Buddy List before looking for something
973 happening in it (Closes: #8161).
974 - Remove workaround for showing the TBB's menu bar (Closes #8028).
976 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 02 Dec 2014 11:34:03 +0100
978 tails (1.2) unstable; urgency=medium
981 - Migrate from Iceweasel to the Tor Browser from the Tor Browser
982 Bundle 4.0 (based on Firefox 31.2.0esr). This fixes the POODLE
984 The installation in Tails is made global (multi-profile), uses
985 the system-wide Tor instance, disables the Tor Browser updater,
986 and keeps the desired deviations previously present in Iceweasel,
987 e.g. we install the AdBlock Plus add-on, but not Tor Launcher (since
988 we run it as a standalone XUL application), among other things.
989 - Install AppArmor's userspace tools and apparmor-profiles-extra
990 from Wheezy Backports, and enable the AppArmor Linux Security
991 Module. This adds Mandatory Access Control for several critical
992 applications in Tails, including Tor, Vidalia, Pidgin, Evince
994 - Isolate I2P traffic from the Tor Browser by adding a dedicated
995 I2P Browser. It is set up similarly to the Unsafe Browser,
996 but further disables features that are irrelevant for I2P, like
997 search plugins and the AdBlock Plus addon, while keeping Tor Browser
998 security features like the NoScript and Torbutton addons.
999 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.5.8-rc-1~d70.wheezy+1.
1002 - Disable TCP timestamps (Closes: #6579).
1005 - Remove expired Pidgin certificates (Closes: #7730).
1006 - Use sudo instead of gksudo for running tails-upgrade-frontend to
1007 make stderr more easily accessible (Closes: #7431).
1008 - Run tails-persistence-setup with sudo instead of gksudo to make
1009 stderr more easily accessible, and allow the desktop user to
1010 pass the --verbose parameter (Closes: #7623).
1011 - Disable CUPS in the Unsafe Browser. This will prevent the
1012 browser from hanging for several minutes when accidentally
1013 pressing CTRL+P or trying to go to File -> Print (Closes: #7771).
1015 * Minor improvements
1016 - Install Linux 3.16-3 (version 3.16.5-1) from Debian
1017 unstable (Closes: #7886, #8100).
1018 - Transition away from TrueCrypt: install cryptsetup and friends
1019 from wheezy-backports (Closes: #5932), and make it clear that
1020 TrueCrypt will be removed in Tails 1.2.1 (Closes: #7739).
1021 - Install Monkeysign dependencies for qrcodes scanning.
1022 - Upgrade syslinux to 3:6.03~pre20+dfsg-2~bpo70+1, and install
1023 the new syslinux-efi package.
1024 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.15-1~deb7u+1
1025 - Enable Wheezy proposed-updates APT repository and setup APT
1026 pinnings to install packages from it.
1027 - Enable Tor's syscall sandbox. This feature (new in 0.2.5.x)
1028 should make Tor a bit harder to exploit. It is only be enabled
1029 when when no special Tor configuration is requested in Tails
1030 Greeter due to incompatibility with pluggable transports.
1031 - Start I2P automatically when the network connects via a
1032 NetworkManager hook, and "i2p" is present on the kernel command
1033 line. The router console is no longer opened automatically, but
1034 can be accessed through the I2P Browser (Closes: #7732).
1035 - Simplify the IPv6 ferm rules (Closes: #7668).
1036 - Include persistence.conf in WhisperBack reports (Closes: #7461)
1037 - Pin packages from testing to 500, so that they can be upgraded.
1038 - Don't set Torbutton environment vars globally (Closes: #5648).
1039 - Enable VirtualBox guest additions by default (Closes: #5730). In
1040 particular this enables VirtualBox's display management service.
1041 - In the Unsafe Browser, hide option for "Tor Browser Health
1042 report", and the "Get Addons" section in the Addon manager
1044 - Show Pidgin's formatting toolbar (Closes: #7356). Having the
1045 formatting toolbar displayed in Pidgin makes the OTR status more
1046 explicit by displaying it with words.
1048 * Automated test suite
1049 - Add --pause-on-fail to ease VM state debugging when tests
1051 - Add execute_successfully() and assert_vmcommand_success() for
1052 added robustness when executing some command in the testing VM.
1053 - Use Test::Unit::Assertions instead of our home-made assert().
1054 - Add test for persistent browser bookmarks.
1055 - Add basic tests for Pidgin, Totem and Evince, including their
1056 AppArmor enforcement.
1057 - Factorize some common step pattern into single steps.
1058 - Factorize running a command in GNOME Terminal.
1059 - Add common steps to copy a file and test for its existence.
1060 - Add a wait_and_double_click Sikuli helper method.
1061 - Add a VM.file_content method, to avoid repeating ourselves, and
1062 use it whenever easily doable.
1063 - Drop test that diffs syslinux' exithelp.cfg: we don't ship this
1065 - In the Unsafe Browser tests, rely on subtle timing less (Closes:
1067 - Use the same logic to determine when Tor is working in the test
1068 suite as in Tails itself. The idea is to avoid spamming the Tor
1069 control port during bootstrap, since we've seen problems with
1072 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:34:50 +0200
1074 tails (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=medium
1077 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.8.0esr-0+tails3~bpo70+1
1078 (fixes Mozilla#1064636).
1079 - Install Linux 3.16-1 from sid (Closes: #7886).
1080 - Upgrade file to 5.11-2+deb7u5 (fixes CVE-2014-0207,
1081 CVE-2014-0237, CVE-2014-0238, CVE-2014-3478, CVE-2014-3479,
1082 CVE-2014-3480, CVE-2014-3487, CVE-2014-3538 and CVE-2014-3587).
1083 - Upgrade curl to 7.26.0-1+wheezy10 (fixes CVE-2014-3613 and
1085 - Upgrade bind9-based packages to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u2
1086 (fixes CVE-2014-0591).
1087 - Upgrade gnupg to 1.4.12-7+deb7u6 (fixes CVE-2014-5270).
1088 - Upgrade apt to 0.9.7.9+deb7u5 (fixes CVE-2014-0487,
1089 CVE-2014-0488, CVE-2014-0489, CVE-2014-0490, and
1091 - Upgrade dbus to 1.6.8-1+deb7u4 (fixes CVE-2014-3635,
1092 CVE-2014-3636, CVE-2014-3637, CVE-2014-3638 and CVE-2014-3639).
1093 - Upgrade libav-based pacakges to 6:0.8.16-1 (fixes
1095 - Upgrade bash to 4.2+dfsg-0.1+deb7u1 (fixes CVE-2014-6271).
1097 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 23 Sep 2014 23:01:40 -0700
1099 tails (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
1102 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.8.0esr-0+tails1~bpo70+1
1103 (Firefox 24.8.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
1104 Also import the Tor Browser profile at commit
1105 271b64b889e5c549196c3ee91c888de88148560f from
1106 ttp/tor-browser-24.8.0esr-3.x-1.
1107 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.23-2~d70.wheezy+1 (fixes CVE-2014-5117).
1108 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.14.1-1~deb7u+1.
1109 - Upgrade Linux to 3.14.15-2 (fixes CVE-2014-3534, CVE-2014-4667
1111 - Upgrade CUPS-based packages to 1.5.3-5+deb7u4 (fixes
1112 CVE-2014-3537, CVE-2014-5029, CVE-2014-5030 and CVE-2014-5031).
1113 - Upgrade libnss3 to 2:3.14.5-1+deb7u1 (fixes CVE-2013-1741,
1114 CVE-2013-5606, CVE-2014-1491 and CVE-2014-1492).
1115 - Upgrade openssl to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u12 (fixes CVE-2014-3505,
1116 CVE-2014-3506, CVE-2014-3507, CVE-2014-3508, CVE-2014-3509,
1117 CVE-2014-3510, CVE-2014-3511, CVE-2014-3512 and CVE-2014-5139).
1118 - Upgrade krb5-based packages to 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u2 (fixes
1119 CVE-2014-4341, CVE-2014-4342, CVE-2014-4343, CVE-2014-4344 and
1121 - Upgrade libav-based packages to 6:0.8.15-1 (fixes CVE-2011-3934,
1122 CVE-2011-3935, CVE-2011-3946, CVE-2013-0848, CVE-2013-0851,
1123 CVE-2013-0852, CVE-2013-0860, CVE-2013-0868, CVE-2013-3672,
1124 CVE-2013-3674 and CVE-2014-2263.
1125 - Upgrade libgpgme11 to 1.2.0-1.4+deb7u1 (fixes CVE-2014-5117).
1126 - Upgrade python-imaging to 1.1.7-4+deb7u1 (fixes CVE-2014-3589).
1127 - Prevent dhclient from sending the hostname over the network
1129 - Override the hostname provided by the DHCP server (Closes: #7769).
1130 - Add an I2P boot parameter. Without adding "i2p" to the kernel
1131 command line, I2P will not be accessible for the Live user.
1132 - Stricter I2P firewall rules:
1133 * deny I2P from accessing the LAN
1134 * deny I2P from accessing the loopback device, except for select
1135 whitelisted services
1136 * allow I2P access to the Internet
1137 The ACCEPT rules will only be enabled when the string 'i2p' is
1138 passed at the boot prompt. The rules which DENY or REJECT
1139 access for the 'i2psvc' user will always be applied.
1140 - Disable I2P plugins, since it doesn't make much sense without
1141 persistence, and should eliminate some attack vectors.
1142 - Disable I2P's BOB port. No maintained I2P application uses it.
1145 - Fix condition clause in tails-security-check (Closes: #7657).
1146 - Don't ship OpenJDK 6: I2P prefers v7, and we don't need both.
1147 - Prevent Tails Installer from updating the system partition
1148 properties on MBR partitions (Closes: #7716).
1150 * Minor improvements
1151 - Upgrade to Torbutton 1.6.12.1.
1152 - Install gnome-user-guide (Closes: #7618).
1153 - Install cups-pk-helper (Closes: #7636).
1154 - Update the SquashFS sort file.
1155 - Compress the SquashFS more aggressively (Closes: #7706).
1156 - I2P: Keep POP3 email on server. The default in the I2P webmail
1157 app was to keep mail on the server, but that setting was changed
1158 recently. This configuration setting (susimail.config) will only
1159 be copied over in I2P 0.9.14 and newer.
1160 - Add a Close button to the Tails Installer launcher window.
1163 - Migrate Vagrant basebox to Debian Wheezy (Closes #7133, #6736).
1164 - Consistently use the same Debian mirror.
1165 - Disable runtime APT proxy configuration when using APT in
1166 binary_local-hooks (Closes: #7691).
1168 * Automated test suite
1169 - Automatically test hostname leaks (Closes: #7712).
1170 - Move autotest live-config hook to be run last. This way we'll
1171 notice if some earlier live-config hook cancels all hooks by
1172 running the automated test suite since the remote shell won't be
1173 running in that case.
1174 - Test that the I2P boot parameter does what it's supposed to do
1176 - Start applications by using the GNOME Applications menu instead
1177 of the GNOME Run Dialog (Closes: #5550, #7060).
1179 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:49:28 +0000
1181 tails (1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
1183 * Rebase on Debian Wheezy
1184 - Upgrade literally thousands of packages.
1185 - Migrate to GNOME3 fallback mode.
1186 - Install LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice.
1187 - Remove custom LSB logging: Wheezy has fancy colored init
1190 * Major new features
1191 - UEFI boot support.
1192 - Replace the Windows XP camouflage with an experimental Windows 8
1194 - Install Linux 3.14.12-1 from Debian unstable.
1195 - Bring back VirtualBox guest modules, installed from Wheezy
1196 backports. Full functionality is only available when using the
1200 - Fix write access to boot medium via udisks (#6172).
1201 - Don't allow the desktop user to pass arguments to
1202 tails-upgrade-frontend (Closes: #7410).
1203 - Make persistent file permissions safer (Closes #7443):
1204 * Make the content of /etc/skel non-world-readable. Otherwise,
1205 such files may be copied to /home/amnesia, and in turn to the
1206 persistent volume, with unsafe permissions. That's no big deal
1207 in /home/amnesia (that is itself not world-readable), *but*
1208 the root of the persistent volume has to be world-readable.
1209 * Have activate_custom_mounts create new directories with safe
1211 * Set strict permissions on /home/amnesia (Closes: #7463).
1212 * Fix permissions on persistent directories that were created
1213 with unsafe permissions (Closes: #7458).
1214 * Fix files ownership while copying persistence (Closes: #7216).
1215 The previous instructions to copy the persistent data were
1216 creating personal files that belong to root. I don't think
1217 there is a way of preserving the original ownership using
1218 Nautilus (unless doing a "move" instead of a "copy" but that's
1219 not what we are trying to do here).
1220 - Disable FoxyProxy's proxy:// protocol handler (Closes: #7479).
1221 FoxyProxy adds the proxy:// protocol handler, which can be used
1222 to configure the proxy via an URI. A malicious web page can
1223 include (or a malicious exit node can inject) some JavaScript
1224 code to visit such an URI and disable or otherwise change
1225 Iceweasel's proxy settings. While using this to disable
1226 proxying will be dealt with safely by our firewall, this could
1227 be used to defeat stream isolation, although the user must be
1228 tricked into accepting the new proxy settings.
1229 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.7.0esr-0+tails1~bpo70+1
1230 (Firefox 24.7.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
1231 - Upgrade to Linux 3.14.12-1 (fixes CVE-2014-4699).
1232 - Upgrade libav-based packages to 0.8.13-1 (fixes CVE-2014-4609).
1233 - Upgrade to libxml2 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy1 (fixes CVE-2014-0191).
1234 - Upgrade to dbus 1.6.8-1+deb7u3 (fixes CVE-2014-3477,
1235 CVE-2014-3532 and CVE-2014-3533).
1238 - Disable GNOME keyring's GnuPG functionality. (Closes: #7330) In
1239 feature/regular-gnupg-agent, we installed the regular GnuPG
1240 agent so that it is used instead of GNOME keyring's one. This is
1241 not enough on Wheezy, so let's disable the starting of the "gpg"
1242 component of GNOME keyring.
1243 - Make sure /etc/default/locale exists, with a sensible default
1244 value (Closes: #7333). Before Tails Greeter's PostLogin script
1245 are run, /etc/default/locale does not exist on Wheezy. Our
1246 tails-kexec initscript (and quite a few other scripts we run)
1247 depends on this file to exist. So, let's make sure it exists,
1248 with a sensible default value.
1249 - Create the tails-persistence-setup user with the same UID/GID it
1250 had on Tails/Squeeze. (Closes: #7343) Else, our various checks
1251 for safe access rights on persistence.conf fail.
1252 - Revert back to browsing the offline documentation using Iceweasel
1253 instead of Yelp (Closes: #7390, #7285).
1254 - Make the new NetworkManager configuration directory persistent,
1255 when the old one was, but disable the old one (Closes: #7338).
1256 - Before running tails-upgrade-frontend, chdir to a world-readable
1257 place (Closes: #7641). In particular, Archive::Tar::Wrapper,
1258 when called by tails-install-iuk, wants to chdir back to the
1259 original cwd after it has chdir'd elsewhere to do its job.
1261 * Minor improvements
1262 - Install seahorse-nautilus, replacing seahorse-plugins (Closes #5516).
1263 - Install hledger (custom backport, for now): our accountants need this.
1264 - Install stable Scribus instead of scribus-ng.
1265 - Install the printer driver for Epson Inkjet that use ESC/P-R.
1266 - Install the BookletImposer PDF imposition toolkit. It's tiny,
1267 and really helpful e.g. when producing booklets.
1268 - Install gtkhash and nautilus-gtkhash (Closes #6763).
1269 - Import new version of Tor Launcher:
1270 · Now based on upstream Tor Launcher 0.2.5.4.
1271 · Tor bug #11772: Proxy Type menu not set correctly
1272 · Tor bug #11699: Change &#160 to   in network-settings.dtd
1273 · Correctly handle startup paths that contain dot.
1274 - Upgrade to Torbutton 1.6.9.0.
1275 - Avoid shipping python2.6 in addition to python2.7.
1276 - Don't install Gobby 0.4 anymore. Gobby 0.5 has been available in
1277 Debian since Squeeze, now is a good time to drop the obsolete
1279 - Require a bit less free memory before checking for upgrades with
1280 Tails Upgrader. The general goal is to avoid displaying "Not
1281 enough memory available to check for upgrades" too often due to
1282 over-cautious memory requirements checked in the wrapper.
1283 - Make Tails Greeter's help window resolution-aware. Previously it
1284 used a static 800x600 which was problematic on lower resolutions,
1285 and sub-optimal on higher resolutions. Now it adapts itself
1286 according to the screen resolution.
1287 - Whisperback now sanitizes attached logs better with respect to
1288 DMI data, IPv6 addresses, and serial numbers (Closes #6797,
1290 - Integrate the new logo in Tails Installer (Closes #7095)
1291 - Also install linux-base and linux-compiler-gcc-4.8-x86 from
1292 sid. This way, we can get rid of our linux-compiler-gcc-4.8-x86
1293 3.12, and it makes things a bit more consistent.
1294 - Include the syslinux binary, and its MBR, in the ISO filesystem.
1295 This in turn allows Tails Installer to use this binary and MBR,
1296 which is critical for avoiding problems (such as #7345) on
1298 - Include syslinux.exe for win32 in utils/win32/ on the ISO
1299 filesystem (Closes: #7425).
1301 * Add consistent margins in GUI.
1302 * Always reset the target drive's MBR, without asking for
1303 confirmation, after installing or upgrading.
1304 * Install the bootloader using the syslinux binary found on the
1305 target device, once the Live OS has been extracted/copied
1307 - Enable double-clicking to pick entries in the language or
1308 keyboard layout lists in Tails Greeter.
1309 - Install backport of shared-mime-info 1.3 (Closes: #7079).
1310 - Make sanity-check prompts closable in Tails Persistence Setup
1312 - Fix quick search in Tails Greeter's Other languages window
1314 - Install systemd. It is not enabled by default, but having it
1315 around will help doing the migration work.
1316 - Enable AppArmor on the kernel command-line. This is a no-op
1317 without the userspace tools and with no profile shipped, but it
1318 will make it easier to fix this part of the situation.
1321 - Bump Vagrant builder's memory for RAM builds. Wheezy requires
1322 more space to build, and the resulting image is larger.
1323 - Fix Vagrant compatibility issue. Some classes' methods/fields
1324 have been renamed between Vagrant versions, so we need a simple
1325 compatibility layer to support all versions. Without this, it's
1326 not possible to issue e.g. a `build` command to an already
1327 running (i.e. `vm:up`:ed) Vagrant instance.
1328 - Move cpu and mem checks to the `build` task. Previously, when
1329 they were checked in `vm:up` *only* when issued while the VM
1330 already is up, so these checks weren't run if one issues a
1331 `build` when the VM is off. Now we'll fail earlier with a more
1332 informative error message, and it looks like a more logical home
1334 - Fix buggy memory checks for RAM building. We have to take into
1335 account which state the Vagrant VM is in for determining *where*
1336 we check if enough memory is available for a RAM build. If it's
1337 off, we check the host; if it's on we check the VM. Previously
1338 we always checked the host, which doesn't make sense when the VM
1341 * Automated test suite
1342 - Bump the tester VM's RAM by 256 MiB. There is not enough free
1343 RAM to run Tails Upgrader with just 1 GiB of RAM after the
1344 migration to Wheezy.
1345 - Always adjust OOM and memory overcommit settings. The kernel
1346 freezes seem to also happen for the amd64 kernel when filling
1348 - Add option to make Sikuli rety on FindFailed. This makes it
1349 possible to update manu images for Sikuli in just *one* test
1350 suite run, by continuously updating outdated pictures as we go.
1351 - Actually run "Upgrade from ISO" from a USB drive running the old
1352 version. That's what users do, and is buggy.
1353 - Automatically test persistent directories permissions (Closes: #7560).
1354 - Use read-write persistence when testing upgraded USB
1355 installations. Otherwise e.g. the permission fixes won't get
1356 applied, and the subsequent steps testing the permissions will
1358 - Actually check that the ISO's Tails is installed. The step
1359 "Tails is installed on USB drive $TARGET" only checks that the
1360 *running* Tails is installed on $TARGET, which obviously fails
1361 when doing an upgrade from ISO running an old Tails. That it
1362 worked for the same scenario running the current Tails is just
1364 - Use OpenJDK 7 to run our test suite (Closes #7175).
1365 - Use qemu-system-x86_64 directly, instead of kvm, for running the
1366 automated test suite (Closes: #7605).
1368 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 20 Jul 2014 23:16:13 +0200
1370 tails (1.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium
1373 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.6.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1
1374 (Firefox 24.6.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
1375 Also import the Tor Browser profile at commit
1376 90ba8fbaf6f23494f1a0e38d63153b3b7e65d3d3 from
1377 ttp/tor-browser-24.6.0esr-3.x-1.
1378 - Install Linux 3.14 from Debian unstable (fixes CVE-2014-3153 and
1380 - Install openssl from Squeeze LTS (fixes CVE-2014-0076,
1381 CVE-2014-0195, CVE-2014-0221, CVE-2014-3470 and CVE-2014-0224).
1382 - Install GnuTLS from Squeeze LTS (fixes CVE-2014-3466.).
1384 * Minor improvements
1385 - Add Squeeze LTS APT sources. It has been given a low pinning
1386 priority so explicit pinning must be used to actually install
1388 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.22-1~d60.squeeze+1.
1389 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.13-1~deb6u+1.
1391 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 08 Jun 2014 19:14:00 +0200
1393 tails (1.0) unstable; urgency=medium
1396 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.5.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1
1397 (Firefox 24.5.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
1398 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.21-1+tails1~d60.squeeze+1:
1399 * Based on 0.2.4.21-1~d60.squeeze+1.
1400 * Backport the fix for Tor bug #11464. It adds client-side blacklists for
1401 all Tor directory authority keys that was vulnerable to Heartbleed.
1402 This protects clients in case attackers were able to compromise a
1403 majority of the authority signing and identity keys.
1406 - Disable inbound I2P connections. Tails already restricts incoming
1407 connections, but this change tells I2P about it.
1408 - Fix link to the system requirements documentation page in the Tails
1409 Upgrader error shown when too little RAM is available.
1411 * Minor improvements
1412 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.12-2~deb6u+1.
1413 - Import TorBrowser profile. This was forgotten in Tails 0.23 and even
1414 though we didn't explicitly set those preferences in that release
1415 they defaulted to the same values. This future-proofs us in case the
1416 defaults would ever change.
1417 - Import new custom version of tor-launcher:
1418 * Based on upstream Tor Launcher 0.2.5.3.
1419 * Improve how Tor Launcher handles incomplete translation.
1420 (Tor bug #11483; more future-proof fix for Tails bug #6885)
1421 * Remove the bridge settings prompt. (Tor bug #11482; closes Tails
1423 * Always show bridge help button. (Tor bug #11484)
1424 - Integrate the new Tails logo into various places:
1427 * The "About Tails" dialog
1430 - Use the stable APT suite when building from the stable Git branch
1434 - Add test for the #7022 fix.
1436 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 27 Apr 2014 19:34:01 +0200
1438 tails (0.23) unstable; urgency=medium
1441 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.4.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1
1442 (Firefox 24.4.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
1444 * Major new features
1445 - Spoof the network interfaces' MAC address by default (Closes: #5421),
1446 as designed on https://tails.boum.org/contribute/design/MAC_address/.
1447 - Rework the way to configure how Tor connects to the network
1448 (bridges, proxy, fascist firewall): add an option to Tails Greeter,
1449 start Tor Launcher when needed (Closes: #5920, #5343).
1452 - Additional software: do not crash when persistence is disabled
1454 - Upgrade Pidgin to 2.10.9, that fixes some regressions introduced
1455 in the 2.10.8 security update (Closes: #6661).
1456 - Wait for Tor to have fully bootstrapped, plus a bit more time,
1457 before checking for upgrades (Closes: #6728) and unfixed known
1459 - Disable the Intel Management Engine Interface driver (Closes: #6460).
1460 We don't need it in Tails, it might be dangerous, and it causes bugs
1461 on various hardware such as systems that reboot when asked to shut down
1462 - Add a launcher for the Tails documentation. This makes it available
1463 in Windows Camouflage mode (Closes: #5374, #6767).
1464 - Remove the obsolete wikileaks.de account from Pidgin (Closes: #6807).
1466 * Minor improvements
1467 - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.4.21-1~d60.squeeze+1.
1468 - Upgrade obfsproxy to 0.2.6-2~~squeeze+1.
1469 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.11-1deb6u1.
1470 - Install 64-bit kernel instead of the 686-pae one (Closes: #5456).
1471 This is a necessary first step towards UEFI boot support.
1472 - Install Monkeysign (in a not-so-functional shape yet).
1473 - Disable the autologin text consoles (Closes: #5588). This was one of
1474 the blockers before a screen saver can be installed
1475 in a meaningful way (#5684).
1476 - Don't localize the text consoles anymore: it is broken on Wheezy,
1477 the intended users can as well use loadkeys, and we now do not have
1478 to trust setupcon to be safe for being run as root by the desktop user.
1479 - Make it possible to manually start IBus.
1480 - Reintroduce the possibility to switch identities in the Tor Browser,
1481 using a filtering proxy in front of the Tor ControlPort to avoid giving
1482 full control over Tor to the desktop user (Closes: #6383).
1483 - Incremental upgrades improvements:
1484 · Drop the Tails Upgrader launcher, to limit users' confusion
1486 · Lock down sudo credentials a bit.
1487 · Hide debugging information (Closes: #6505).
1488 · Include ~/.xsession-errors in WhisperBack bug reports.
1489 This captures the Tails Upgrader errors and debugging information.
1490 · Report more precisely why an incremental upgrade cannot be done
1492 · Various user interface and phrasing improvements.
1493 - Don't install the Cookie Monster browser extension (Closes: #6790).
1494 - Add a browser bookmark pointing to Tor's Stack Exchange (Closes: #6632).
1495 - Remove the preconfigured #tor channel from the Pidgin: apparently,
1496 too many Tails users go ask Tails questions there, without making
1497 it clear that they are running Tails, hence creating a user-support
1498 nightmare (Closes: #6679).
1499 - Use (most of) Tor Browser's mozconfig (Closes: #6474).
1500 - Rebase the browser on top of iceweasel 24.3.0esr-1, to get
1501 the certificate authorities added by Debian back (Closes: #6704).
1502 - Give access to the relevant documentation pages from Tails Greeter.
1503 - Hide Tails Greeter's password mismatch warning when entry is changed.
1504 - Persistent Volume Assistant:
1505 · Take into account our installer is now called Tails Installer.
1506 · Optimize window height (Closes: #5458).
1507 · Display device paths in a more user-friendly way (Closes: #5311).
1510 - Ease updating POT and PO files at release time, and importing translations
1511 from Transifex (Closes: #6288, #6207).
1512 - Drop custom poedit backport, install it from squeeze-backports-sloppy.
1513 - Make ISO and IUK smaller (Closes: #6390, #6425):
1514 · Exclude more files from being included in the ISO.
1515 · Remove *.pyc later so that they are not recreated.
1516 · Truncate log files later so that they are not filled again.
1517 · At ISO build time, set mtime to the epoch for large files whose content
1518 generally does not change between releases. This forces rsync
1519 to compare the actual content of these files, when preparing an IUK,
1520 instead of blindly adding it to the IUK merely because the mtime
1521 has changed, while the content is the same.
1522 - Make local hooks logging consistent.
1525 - Migrate from JRuby to native Ruby + rjb.
1526 - The test suite can now be run on Debian Wheezy + backports.
1527 - Fix buggy "persistence is not enabled" step (Closes: #5465).
1528 - Use IPv6 private address as of RFC 4193 for the test suite's virtual
1529 network. Otherwise dnsmasq from Wheezy complains, as it is not capable
1530 of handling public IPv6 addresses.
1531 - Delete volumes after each scenario unless tagged @keep_volumes.
1532 - Add an anti-test to make sure the memory erasure test works fine.
1533 - A *lot* of bugfixes, simplifications and robustness improvements.
1535 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 18 Mar 2014 00:58:50 +0100
1537 tails (0.22.1) unstable; urgency=medium
1540 - Upgrade the web browser to 24.3.0esr-0+tails1~bpo60+2
1541 (Firefox 24.3.0esr + Iceweasel patches + Torbrowser patches).
1542 - Upgrade NSS to 3.14.5-1~bpo60+1.
1543 - Upgrade Pidgin to 2.10.8.
1544 - Workaround browser size fingerprinting issue by using small icons
1545 in the web browser's navigation toolbar (Closes: #6377).
1546 We're actually hit by Tor#9268, and this is the best workaround gk
1547 and I were able to find when discussing this on Tor#10095.
1549 * Major new features
1550 - Check for upgrades availability using Tails Upgrader, and propose
1551 to apply an incremental upgrade whenever possible (Closes: #6014).
1552 · Run tails-update-frontend at session login time.
1553 · Have tails-security-check only report unfixed security issues.
1554 · Greatly improve the Tails Upgrader UI and strings phrasing.
1555 · Enable startup notification for Tails Upgrader.
1556 - Install Linux 3.12 (3.12.6-2) from Debian testing. Unfortunately,
1557 this breaks the memory wipe feature on some hardware (#6460), but
1558 it fixes quite a few security issues, and improves hardware support.
1559 - Update the build system to be compatible with Vagrant 1.2 and 1.3,
1560 in addition to the already supported versions (Closes: #6221).
1561 Thanks to David Isaac Wolinsky <isaac.wolinsky@gmail.com>.
1564 - Do not start IBus for languages that don't need it. This fixes
1565 the keybindings problems introduced in 0.22 (Closes: #6478).
1566 Thanks to WinterFairy.
1567 - Disable network.proxy.socks_remote_dns in the Unsafe Browser.
1568 Bugfix against 0.22 (Closes: #6479).
1569 - Fetch Tor Browser User-Agent from its own prefs, rather than from
1570 the obsolete Torbutton ones. Bugfix against 0.22 (Closes: #6477).
1571 - Upgrade Vagrant basebox to include up-to-date Debian archive keys
1572 (Closes: #6515, #6527).
1573 - Do not use a non-working proxy for downloading the Vagrant basebox
1575 - Use IE's icon in Windows camouflage mode.
1576 Bugfix against 0.22 (Closes: #6536).
1577 - Support "upgrading" a partial Tails installation (Closes: #6438)
1578 and fix missing confirmation dialog in Tails Installer (Closes: #6437).
1579 Thanks to Andres Gomez Ramirez <andres.gomez@cern.ch>.
1580 - Fix browser homepage in Spanish locales (Closes: #6612).
1582 * Minor improvements
1583 - Tor 0.2.4 is stable! Adapt APT sources accordingly.
1584 - Update Tor Browser to 24.2.0esr-1+tails1, that uses its own NSS
1585 library instead of the system one.
1586 - Update Torbutton to 1.6.5.3.
1587 - Do not start Tor Browser automatically, but notify when Tor is ready.
1588 Warn the user when they attempt to start Tor Browser before Tor is ready.
1589 - Import Tor Browser profile at
1590 3ed5d9511e783deb86835803a6f40e7d5a182a12 from ttp/tor-browser-24.2.0esr-1.
1591 - Use http.debian.net for Vagrant builds, instead of the mostly broken
1592 (and soon obsolete) cdn.debian.net.
1593 - Phrasing and UI improvements in tails-upgrade-frontend.
1594 - Style and robustness improvements in tails-security-check.
1595 - Make room for upcoming UEFI support in Tails Installer.
1597 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:08:13 +0100
1599 tails (0.22) unstable; urgency=medium
1603 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 24.2.0esr that fixes a few serious security issues.
1604 - Stop migrating persistence configuration and access rights. Instead,
1605 disable all persistence configuration files if the mountpoint has wrong
1606 access rights (Closes: #6413).
1607 - Upgrade to NSS 3.15.3 that fixes a few serious security issues affecting
1608 the browser, such as CVE-2013-1741, CVE-2013-5605 and CVE-2013-5606.
1610 * Major improvements
1611 - Switch to Iceweasel 24 (Closes: #6370).
1612 · Resync' (most) Iceweasel prefs with TBB 3.0-beta-1 and get rid
1613 of many obsolete or default settings.
1614 · Disable WebRTC (Closes: #6468).
1615 · Import TorBrowser profile at commit
1616 51bf06502c46ee6c1f587459e8370aef11a3422d from the tor-browser-24.2.0esr-1
1617 branch at https://git.torproject.org/tor-browser.git.
1618 - Switch to Torbutton 1.6.5 (Closes: #6371).
1619 · Prevent Torbutton from asking users to "upgrade TBB".
1620 · Use the same Tor SOCKS port as the TBB (9151) for our web browser.
1621 This should be enough to avoid being affected by Tor#8511.
1622 · Disable Torbutton 1.6's check for Tor.
1623 Unfortunately, the new check.torproject.org breaks the remote Tor
1624 check. We cannot use the local Tor check with the control port. So,
1625 the shortest and sanest path to fixing the check issue, because the
1626 remote Tor check is broken" seems to simply disable this check.
1627 Patch submitted upstream as Tor#10216.
1628 - Prepare incremental upgrades to be the next default way to upgrade Tails,
1629 on point-releases at least.
1632 - Deny X authentication only after Vidalia exits (Closes: #6389).
1633 - Disable DPMS screen blanking (Closes: #5617).
1634 - Fix checking of the persistent volume's ACL.
1635 - Sanitize more IP and MAC addresses in bug reports (Closes: #6391).
1636 - Do not fail USB upgrade when the "tmp" directory exists on the
1638 - Tails Installer: list devices with isohybrid Tails installed
1641 * Minor improvements
1642 - Create a configuration file for additional software if needed
1644 - Translations all over the place.
1645 - Enable favicons in Iceweasel.
1646 - Do not propose to make permanent NoScript exceptions.
1647 In Tails, every such thing is temporary, so better only display the menu
1648 entry that's about temporarily allowing something.
1649 - Clearer warning when deleting persistent volume (thanks to Andres Gomez
1650 Ramirez <andres.gomez@cern.ch> for the patch).
1651 - Make wording in Tails Installer more consistent.
1654 * Use IBus instead of SCIM (Closes: #5624, #6206).
1655 It makes it possible to input passwords in pinentry for at least Japanese,
1656 Chinese and Korean languages.
1657 * Add an import-translation script.
1658 This automates the importation process of completed translations
1660 * Always list optimal keyboard layout in the greeter (Closes: #5741).
1661 * Fix on-the-fly translation of the greeter in various languages
1665 * Update I2P to 0.9.8.1 (Closes: #6080, #5889).
1666 * Improve I2P configuration:
1667 - Disable IPv6 support in a nicer way.
1668 - Disable i2cp (allows java clients to communicate from outside the JVM). If
1669 this is unset an exception for port 7654 would need to be added to ferm.
1670 - Disable "in-network" updates (this is also done in the regular I2P
1672 - Disable the outproxies. Access to the Internet is already routed through
1673 Tor so these are unnecessary. If end-users have a good reason to go
1674 through one of the I2P outproxies they can turn them back on.
1675 * Add a couple of default I2P IRC channels to Pidgin.
1676 * Allow access to the local 'eepsite' through FoxyProxy.
1677 * Add firewall exceptions for the standard I2P ports.
1679 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 30 Nov 2013 16:47:18 +0100
1681 tails (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1684 - Don't grant access to the Tor control port for the desktop user
1685 (amnesia). Else, an attacker able to run arbitrary code as this user
1686 could obtain the public IP with a get_info command.
1687 · Vidalia is now run as a dedicated user.
1688 · Remove the amnesia user from the debian-tor group.
1689 · Remove the Vidalia launcher in the Applications menu.
1690 The Vidalia instance it starts is useless, since it can't connect
1691 to the Tor control port.
1692 - Don't allow the desktop user to directly change persistence settings.
1693 Else, an attacker able to run arbitrary code as this user could
1694 leverage this feature to gain persistent root access, as long as
1695 persistence is enabled.
1696 · Fully rework the persistent filesystem and files ownership
1698 · Run the Persistent Volume Assistant as a dedicated user, that is
1699 granted the relevant udisks and filesystem -level credentials.
1700 · At persistence activation time, don't trust existing persistence
1701 configuration files, migrate to the new ownership and permissions,
1702 migrate every known-safe existing settings and backup what's left.
1703 Warn the user when not all persistence settings could be migrated.
1704 · Persistent Volume Assistant uses the new ownership and permissions
1705 scheme when initializing a new persistent volume, and refuses to
1706 read persistence.conf if it, or the parent directory, hasn't the
1707 expected permissions.
1708 · Make boot medium 'system internal' for udisks with bilibop.
1709 Once Tails is based on Wheezy, this will further complete the
1710 protection (see #6172 for details).
1711 - Update Iceweasel to 17.0.10esr-0+tails2~bpo60+1.
1712 - Update Torbutton to 1.5.2-2, including a patch cherry-picked from
1713 upstream to make window resizing closer to what the design says.
1715 * Major new features
1716 - Add a persistence preset for printing settings (Closes: #5686).
1717 Reload CUPS configuration after persistence activation.
1718 - Support SD card connected through a SDIO host adapter (Closes: #6324).
1719 · Rebrand Tails USB installer to Tails installer.
1720 · Display devices brand, model and size in the Installer
1722 · Ask for confirmation before installing Tails onto a device
1724 · Add support for SDIO and MMC block devices to the Tails Installer
1725 (Closes: #5744) and the Persistent Volume Assistant (Closes: #6325).
1726 · Arm the udev watchdog when booted from SD (plugged in SDIO) too
1729 * Minor improvements
1730 - Provide a consistent path to the persistent volume mountpoint
1732 - Add a KeePassX launcher to the top GNOME panel (Closes: #6290).
1733 - Rework bug reporting workflow: point the desktop launcher to
1734 the troubleshooting page.
1735 - Make /home world-readable at build time, regardless of the Git
1736 working copy permissions. This makes the build process more robust
1737 against strict umasks.
1738 - Add signing capabilities to the tails-build script (Closes: #6267).
1739 This is in turn used to sign ISO images built by our Jenkins setup
1741 - Simplify the ikiwiki setup and make more pages translatable.
1742 - Exclude the version string in GnuPG's ASCII armored output.
1743 - Prefer stronger ciphers (AES256,AES192,AES,CAST5) when encrypting
1745 - Use the same custom Startpage search URL than the TBB.
1746 This apparently disables the new broken "family" filter.
1747 - Update AdBlock Plus patterns.
1748 - Install Linux from Debian testing.
1749 (That is, the same version that was shipped in 0.20.1.)
1752 - Look for "/tmp/.X11-unix/X${1#:}" too when detecting displays in use.
1753 - Adapt tests to match the Control Port access security fix:
1754 · Take into account that the amnesia user isn't part of the debian-tor
1756 · Run as root the checks to see if a process is running: this
1757 is required to see other users' processes.
1759 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2013 23:42:46 +0200
1761 tails (0.20.1) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * Major new features
1764 - Install Tor 0.2.4.17-rc-1~d60.squeeze+1 from the Tor project's repository.
1765 - Install Iceweasel 17.0.9esr with Torbrowser patches.
1766 - Install Linux kernel 3.10-3 (version 3.10.11-1) from sid.
1769 - Remount persistence devices read-only at shutdown/reboot time
1771 - Greeter: display a warning icon on admin password mismatch and on
1772 persistence unlocking failure. Thanks to Andres Gomez Ramirez
1773 <andres.gomez@cern.ch> for the fix!
1774 - Don't torsocksify Pidgin.
1775 Instead we disable Pidgin's GNOME integration to get the "Global proxy
1776 configuration", which we set to use Tor. This fixes the I2P IRC account.
1777 - Additional software: fix typo in notification.
1778 - Allow installing "Priority: standard" packages that we do not install
1779 by default: remove them late in the build process instead of assigning
1780 them a -1 APT pinning level.
1782 * Minor improvements
1783 - Update AdBlock Plus patterns.
1784 - Use more unique ISO file name when building from Jenkins.
1785 - Additional software: point to the system log on upgrade failure.
1786 - Set SOCKS5_USER and SOCKS5_PASSWORD in the connect-socks wrapper (used
1787 by Git). Else, Tor 0.2.4's IsolateSOCKSAuth and connect-proxy
1788 sometimes play together in some way that makes connect-proxy ask for
1789 a password to connect to the SocksPort. SOCKS5_USER and
1790 SOCKS5_PASSWORD are passed through unchanged if they were manually set
1791 by the user already.
1792 - Use our custom connect-socks wrapper for SSH. Else, Tor 0.2.4's
1793 IsolateSOCKSAuth and connect-proxy sometimes play together in some way
1794 that makes connect-proxy ask for a password to connect to the
1795 SocksPort. Note that connect-socks uses the default SocksPort too, so
1796 no change here wrt. our connection isolation design.
1799 - Import new translations from Transifex.
1802 - Fix old ISO checking for consistent error reporting.
1803 - Remove custom persistence test from manual test suite.
1804 It was removed for the GUI in t-p-s 0.33.
1806 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2013 15:49:36 +0200
1808 tails (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Major new features
1811 - Install Linux kernel 3.10.3-1 from Debian unstable.
1812 - Iceweasel 17.0.8esr + Torbrowser patches.
1815 - Prevent Iceweasel from displaying a warning when leaving HTTPS web sites.
1816 - Make Iceweasel use the correct, localized search engine.
1817 - Fix Git access to https:// repositories.
1819 * Minor improvements
1820 - Install Dasher, a predictive text entry tool.
1821 - Add a wrapper around TrueCrypt which displays a warning about it soon
1822 being deprecated in Tails.
1823 - Remove Pidgin libraries for all protocols but IRC and Jabber/XMPP.
1824 Many of the other protocols Pidgin support are broken in Tails and
1825 haven't got any security auditting.
1826 - Disable the pre-defined Pidgin accounts so they do not auto-connect
1828 - Include information about Alsa in WhisperBack reports.
1829 - Explicitly restrict access to ptrace. While this setting was enabled
1830 by default in Debian's Linux 3.9.6-1, it will later disabled in 3.9.7-1.
1831 It's unclear what will happen next, so let's explicitly enable it ourselves.
1832 - Do not display dialog when a message is sent in Claws Mail.
1833 - Sync iceweasel preferences with the Torbrowser's.
1836 - Many translation updates all over the place.
1837 - Merge all Tails-related POT files into one, and make use of intltoolize
1838 for better integration with Transifex.
1840 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:19:57 +0200
1842 tails (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * Major new features
1845 - Install Linux kernel 3.9.5-1 from Debian unstable.
1846 Features of particular interest for Tails are the Yama LSM
1847 (ptrace scope restrictions) and improved hardware support.
1848 As a corollary, install initramfs-tools from there too.
1849 - Iceweasel 17.0.7esr + Torbrowser patches.
1850 - Unblock Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, WWAN and WiMAX; block every other type of
1851 wireless device. Next steps are described on the
1852 todo/protect_against_external_bus_memory_forensics ticket.
1855 - Fix write access to boot medium at the block device level,
1856 by installing bilibop-udev. Thanks to quidame for his support.
1857 - tails-greeter l10n-related fixes, thanks to winterfairy:
1858 · Fix so translations is applied on password mismatch messages.
1859 · Separate forward and login buttons and make them translatable.
1860 - Fix link to documentation when no sudo password is set.
1861 - gpgApplet: partial fix for clipboard emptying after a wrong passphrase
1863 - Workaround aufs bug in Unsafe Browser script.
1865 * Minor improvements
1866 - Drop GNOME proxy settings: we did not find any use of it we were keen
1867 to support, other than two programs (Seahorse, Pidgin) that are now run
1869 - Format newly created persistent volumes as ext4.
1870 - GnuPG: don't connect to the keyserver specified by the key owner.
1871 This feature opens the door to a variety of subtle attacks.
1872 - GnuPG: locate keys only from local keyrings.
1873 This is probably the default, but better safe than sorry.
1874 - Install virt-what from Wheezy.
1875 The version from Squeeze does not detect at least Parallels for Mac v.8.
1876 - Upgrade live-boot and live-config to the 3.0.x final version from Wheezy.
1877 · Remove /live and /lib/live/image compatibility symlinks.
1878 · Add /live/overlay -> /lib/live/mount/overlay symlink.
1879 The live-boot changes (commit d2b2a461) brought to fix Debian bug
1880 #696495 revert some of our previous changes (commit 77dab1cb), and as
1881 a result, at the time live-persist runs, no tmpfs is mounted on
1882 /live/overlay, which breaks the aufs mount. So, let's just ensure
1883 /live/overlay points to a tmpfs.
1884 · Really disable policykit and sudo live-config hooks.
1885 ... by making it believe they've already been run.
1886 This workarounds new live-config's default behavior.
1889 - Many translation updates all over the place.
1892 - Re-enable previously disabled boot device permissions test.
1894 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:36:20 +0200
1896 tails (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1899 - Support obfs3 bridges.
1900 - Automatically install a custom list of additional packages chosen by
1901 the user at the beginning of every working session, and upgrade them
1902 once a network connection is established (technology preview).
1905 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.6esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1.
1906 - Update Torbrowser patches to current maint-2.4 branch (567682b).
1907 - Isolate DOM storage to first party URI, and enable DOM storage:
1908 don't set dom.storage.enabled anymore, and set Torbutton's
1909 disable_domstorage to false.
1910 - Isolate the image cache per url bar domain.
1911 - Torbutton 1.5.2, and various prefs hacks to fix breakage:
1912 · Add .saved version of the Torbutton preferences the TBB also sets.
1913 · Set TOR_SOCKS_HOST and TOR_SOCKS_PORT.
1914 · Move some prefs (network.proxy.*, extensions.autoDisableScopes,
1915 extensions.foxyproxy.last-version) to user.js.
1916 Else, with Torbutton 1.5.x, these ones are not taken into account.
1917 · Set network.proxy.socks_version.
1918 Else we get the meaningless user_pref("network.proxy.socks_version", 9063);
1919 in prefs.js after the initial startup.
1920 · Set extensions.foxyproxy.socks_remote_dns to true.
1921 Else, it overrides the various ways we set network.proxy.socks_remote_dns,
1922 which in turn makes Torbutton think it should start in non-Tor mode.
1923 · Also pass the TOR_SOCKS_* environment variables to iceweasel when
1924 generating the profile: Torbutton behaves differently depending on
1925 these variables, so we don't want the initial profile generation to be
1926 done without them. In practice, this has no implication that we could
1927 see right now, but better safe than sorry.
1928 · Import all version overrides from the TBB prefs.
1929 Else, the User-Agent sent in the HTTP headers is fine, but real
1930 values leak with JavaScript, as demonstrated by ip-check's "Browser
1932 · Move a bunch of settings to user_pref(), that are not applied otherwise.
1933 For some, this fixes a regression in 0.18~rc1.
1934 For other, the bug was already present in Tails 0.17.2.
1935 - HTTPS Everywhere 3.2.
1936 - Update prefs to match the TBB's, fix bugs, and take advantage of the latest
1938 · Increase pipeline randomization.
1939 · Fix @font-face handling of local() fonts.
1940 Also disable fallback font rendering.
1941 · Explicitly disable SPDY v2 and v3.
1942 · Update http pipelining prefs.
1943 - Make prefs organization closer to the TBB's:
1944 · Remove Torbutton prefs that we set at their default value.
1945 · Import Torbutton preferences from the TBB.
1946 · Organize iceweasel config files in sections the same way as the TBB.
1948 · Don't set extensions.torbutton.clear_cookies nor
1949 extensions.torbutton.saved.share_proxy_settings:
1950 we don't care about toggling anymore.
1951 · Don't set extensions.torbutton.saved.download_retention nor
1952 extensions.torbutton.saved.search_suggest:
1953 these settings are not used in Torbutton anymore.
1954 - Update unsafe browser prefs mangling accordingly.
1955 - Move network.protocol-handler.warn-external.* to user_pref().
1956 Else they're not applied.
1957 These prefs are actually ignored by Firefox these days -- the TBB
1958 design doc reads "They are set still anyway out of respect for the
1959 dead". Let's go on doing the same.
1960 - Update extensions.adblockplus.currentVersion.
1961 - Fetch xul-ext-https-everywhere (3.2-2) and xul-ext-noscript (2.6.6.1-1)
1962 from Debian unstable. They were uploaded there, and accordingly removed
1966 - Linux 3.2.41-2+deb7u2.
1967 - Fixed swapped filenames of tails-{reboot,shutdown}.desktop.
1968 Thanks to Mikko Harhanen for the patch.
1969 - Only add ClientTransportPlugin to torrc when bridge mode is enabled.
1970 This should bring back support for proxies of type other than obfsproxy.
1972 * Minor improvements
1973 - Set kernel.dmesg_restrict=1, and make /proc/<pid>/ invisible
1974 and restricted for other users. It makes it slightly harder for an attacker
1975 to gather information that may allow them to escalate privileges.
1976 - Install gnome-screenshot.
1977 - Don't disable IPv6 on all network interfaces anymore.
1978 It turns out the IPv6 leaks we wanted to fix actually don't exist.
1979 - Add a "About Tails" launcher in the System menu.
1980 - Install GNOME accessibility themes.
1981 - Use 'Getting started...' as the homepage for Tails documentation button.
1982 - Stop relying on the obsolete /live/image compatibility symlink.
1983 - Disable audio preview in Nautilus.
1984 - Wheezy was released => Squeeze is now oldstable.
1985 - Pick Tor from deb.torproject.org regardless of the release name they
1986 advertise. At some point we needed it, their APT repository still thought
1987 that stable == Squeeze.
1988 - Add Wheezy APT sources.
1989 - Install Linux and related packages from Wheezy.
1990 Debian sid just got Linux 3.8, and we don't want to switch to a new kernel
1992 - Fetch laptop-mode-tools from Wheezy.
1993 Wheezy has the version we've been installing in 0.18~rc1,
1994 while a newer one was uploaded to sid in the meantime.
1995 - Fetch a few packages from Wheezy instead of unstable.
1996 Namely: spice-vdagent, libregexp-common-perl, macchanger, service-wrapper,
1997 libservice-wrapper-java and libservice-wrapper-jni.
1998 Wheezy has the versions we've been installing for a while, so let's
1999 avoid having unstable push a newer one to us uselessly at some point.
2000 Note that at the time of this writing, the versions in sid and in Wheezy
2001 are the same, so this commit is effectively a no-op as of today: it is
2002 merely a safeguard for the future.
2005 - Many translation updates all over the place.
2008 - Make Vagrant's build-tails script support Jenkins too.
2011 - Fix Unsafe Browser test broken by hidepid.
2013 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 13 May 2013 22:17:38 +0200
2015 tails (0.17.2) unstable; urgency=low
2018 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.5esr-0+tails2~bpo60+1.
2019 - Stop displaying obsolete context menu entries ("Open Tor URL" and friends).
2022 - Update Linux to 3.2.41-2
2025 - Use more reliable OpenPGP keyservers:
2026 · use the hkps pool in GnuPG (and import their SSL CA)
2027 · use hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net in Seahorse (as it does not support
2029 - Keep udisks users (GNOME Disk Utility, tails-persistence-setup, etc.)
2030 from resetting the system partition's attributes when manipulating the
2031 partition table. To this end, backport the relevant bugfix from Wheezy
2032 into parted 2.3-5+tails1. This allowed to remove the sgdisk-based
2033 workaround in tais-persistence-setup, and to stop installing
2034 python-parted. All this is a first needed step to fix
2035 todo/make_system_disk_read-only in a future release.
2037 * Minor improvements
2038 - Disable NoScript's HTML5 media click-to-play for better user experience.
2041 - Tails USB installer: update translations for French, German, Spanish,
2042 Finnish, Greek, Italian, Latvian, Dutch, Polish and Chinese.
2043 - Tails Greeter: update translations for Farsi, Chinese, French;
2044 new translations: Finnish, Norwegian Bokmål, Galician.
2045 - tails-persistence-setup: update Farsi and Chinese translations;
2046 import new translations for Finnish and Swedish.
2047 - WhisperBack: update translations for Arabic, French, German, Greek,
2048 Spanish, Korean, Polish, Russian. New translations: Finnish, Chinese.
2051 - Add automated testing framework (Sikuli, Cucumber, libvirt -based)
2052 with a bunch of tests.
2054 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:17:26 +0200
2056 tails (0.17.1) unstable; urgency=low
2059 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.4esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1.
2062 - Update Linux to 3.2.39-2.
2063 It includes the drm and agp subsystems from Linux 3.4.29.
2064 - Don't install xserver-xorg-video-rendition backport.
2065 xserver-xorg-video-rendition has been removed from squeeze-backports
2066 due to an upstream tarball mismatch discover when merging backports
2067 into the main Debian archive, and xserver-xorg-video-all still depends
2068 on it, so we explicitly install all drivers from -all but -rendition
2069 as a (hopefully temporary) workaround.
2071 * Minor improvements
2072 - Remove Indymedia IRC account, until we ship a version of Pidgin
2073 with SASL support, that is when Tails is based on Wheezy.
2076 - Don't ship the wiki's todo and bugs on ISO images.
2078 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:54:11 +0100
2080 tails (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2083 - Install the KeePassX password manager, with a configuration and
2084 documentation that makes it easy to persist the password database.
2087 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.3esr-1+tails1~bpo60+1.
2088 - Install xul-ext-adblock-plus from squeeze-backports.
2089 - Do not allow listing all available fonts.
2090 Set browser.display.max_font_attempts and browser.display.max_font_count
2091 to enable the Torbrowser Limit-the-number-of-fonts-per-document patch.
2092 - Set default spellchecker dictionary to English (USA),
2093 and localize it according to locale with our custom branding extension.
2094 - Disable the add-ons automatic update feature.
2095 - Make the generated profile world-readable.
2096 - Remove NoScript click-to-play confirmation.
2097 - Sync some prefs set by Torbutton, to be ready when it stops setting these.
2098 - Disable navigation timing.
2099 - Disable SPDY. It stores state and may have keepalive issues.
2100 - More aggressive iceweasel HTTP pipelining settings.
2101 - Enable WebGL (as click-to-play only).
2102 - Disable network.http.connection-retry-timeout.
2103 - Disable full path information for plugins.
2104 - Remove NoScript blocks of WebFonts.
2105 - Disable DOM storage in Torbutton.
2106 Since we don't apply the 0026-Isolate-DOM-storage-to-first-party-URI.patch
2107 Torbrowser patch yet, and still disable DOM storage, we need to tell
2108 Torbutton not to use it.
2109 - Synchronize iceweasel's general.useragent.override with TBB based on FF17.
2110 The User-Agent settings are not kept up-to-date anymore in Torbutton, so
2111 we have to keep in sync manually with TBB's settings.
2112 - Remove obsolete APT pining for Torbutton.
2113 It's not maintained in Debian anymore, so we now fetch it from our own
2115 - Fetch FoxyProxy from Debian experimental and libnspr4-0d from
2116 squeeze-backports, for compatibility with Iceweasel 17.
2117 - Rebase bookmarks file on top of the default iceweasel 17 one.
2118 - Explicitly disable AdBlock Plus "correct typos" feature.
2119 This feature connects to http://urlfixer.org/.
2120 It is disabled by default in 2.2-1, but let's be careful.
2122 * Minor improvements
2123 - Upgrade to live-boot 3.0~b11-1 and live-config 3.0.12-1.
2124 Accordingly update the 9980-permissions hook, live-persist,
2125 unsafe-browser and boot-profile.
2126 Add compatibility symlinks from /live to /lib/live, and from /live/image
2127 to /lib/live/mount/medium, to ease the transition.
2128 - Check for errors when sourcing live-boot files, e.g. to detect when
2129 they have been renamed upstream.
2130 - Don't add "quiet" to the kernel command-line ourselves.
2131 Else, it appears twice as live-build's lb_binary_syslinux adds it too.
2132 Historically, we've been adding it ourselves on top of that because
2133 lb_binary_yaboot does not add it, but since we gave up the PowerPC support
2134 attempt, we're now only interested in syslinux, so let's make it easier
2135 for the general case, e.g. when one wants to remove the "quiet" parameter
2136 as suggested by our "Tails does not start" debugging documentation.
2137 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.4.
2140 - Many bugfixes brought by the Debian Squeeze 6.0.7 point-release.
2141 - Use the regular GnuPG agent + pinentry-gtk2 instead of Seahorse
2142 as a GnuPG agent. This fixes usage of OpenPGP in Claws Mail,
2143 and brings support for OpenPGP smartcards.
2144 - Enable I2P hidden mode.
2145 Else, killing I2P ungracefully is bad for the I2P network.
2146 - live-persist: move error() function before the first potential usecase.
2147 - Add missing executable bit on restart-tor and restart-vidalia.
2148 - Add shutdown and reboot launchers to the menu.
2149 This workarounds the lack of a shutdown helper applet in camouflage mode.
2150 - Remove Pidgin's MXit and Sametime support.
2151 ... at least until CVE-2013-0273, CVE-2013-0272 and CVE-2013-0271 are
2152 fixed in Debian stable. While we're at it, don't force file removal in
2153 these "set -e" build scripts: fail hard, instead of silently ignoring
2154 the fact that files may have moved or disappeared.
2157 - Install recent Intel and AMD microcode from squeeze-backports,
2158 explicitly excluding the iucode-tool package that's not a good idea
2160 - Install firmware loader for Qualcomm Gobi USB chipsets.
2161 This is needed to have various mobile broadband chipsets work.
2162 - Upgrade barry to 0.18.3-5~bpo60+1.
2163 This much improved new version supports more hardware & ISP,
2164 and does not display dozens of spurious error messages at boot time.
2167 - Remove APT local cache (/Var/cache/apt/{,src}pkgcache.bin).
2169 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:37:57 +0100
2171 tails (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * Minor improvements
2174 - Replace the too-easy-to-misclick shutdown button with a better
2175 "Shutdown Helper" Gnome applet.
2176 - Display ~/Persistent in GNOME Places and GtkFileChooser if it is mounted.
2177 - Set Unsafe Browser's window title to "Unsafe Browser".
2178 - Install ekeyd to support the EntropyKey.
2179 - Install font for Sinhala.
2180 - Update Poedit to 1.5.4.
2181 - Kill Vidalia when restarting Tor.
2182 Doing this as early as possible exposes Vidalia's "broken onion" icon
2184 - Hide the persistence setup launchers in kiosk mode.
2185 - Add a shell library for Tor functions.
2186 These are shared among multiple of our scripts.
2187 - Install dictionaries for supported languages.
2188 Install hunspell dictionaries when possible,
2189 fall back on myspell ones else.
2192 - Disable IPv6 on all network interfaces.
2193 This is a workaround for the IPv6 link-local multicast leak that was recently
2194 discovered. Tails has no local service that listens on IPv6, so there should be
2195 no regression, hopefully, unless one wants to play with OnionCat and VoIP,
2196 but those of us should know how to workaround this anyway.
2197 - live-persist: Fix variable mismatch, fixing probe white-list.
2198 Tails may previously have been able to list GPT partitions labelled
2199 "TailsData" on hard drives (!) as valid persistence volumes...
2200 - live-persist: Fix --media option when no devices are attached.
2201 Earlier, if it was set to e.g. 'removable-usb' and no USB storage was
2202 connected, $whitelistdev would be empty, which is interpreted like
2203 all devices are ok by the rest of the code.
2204 - Fix SCIM in the autostarted web browser: save IM environment variables
2205 to a file during Desktop session startup, and export them into the
2206 autostarted browser's environment.
2207 - Talk of DVD, not of CD, in the shutdown messages.
2208 - Make tordate work in bridge mode with an incorrect clock.
2209 When using a bridge Tor reports TLS cert lifetime errors (e.g. when
2210 the system clock is way off) with severity "info", but when no bridge
2211 is used the severity is "warn". tordate/20-time.sh depends on grepping
2212 these error messages, so we termporarily increase Tor's logging
2213 severity when using bridge mode. If we don't do this tordate will
2214 sleep forever, leaving Tor in a non-working state.
2215 · White-list root to use Tor's ControlPort.
2216 · Add logging for is_clock_way_off().
2217 · Remove Tor's log before time syncing.
2218 We depend on grepping stuff from the Tor log (especially for
2219 tordate/20-time.sh), so deleting it seems like a Good Thing(TM).
2220 · Stop Tor before messing with its log or data dir.
2221 - live-persist: limit searched devices the same way as live-boot.
2222 If no --media argument is specified, use live-boot's
2223 "(live-media|bootfrom)=removable(|-usb)" argument to limit devices
2224 searched for a persistent volume.
2225 - tails-greeter: do not pass media=removable to live-persist.
2226 Now that we have autodetection with kernel command-line,
2227 it should not be needed anymore.
2228 - Start memlockd after configuring it,
2229 instead of starting it before and restarting it after.
2230 This avoids running memlockd twice, and prevents other possibly
2231 surprising race-conditions.
2232 As a consequence, also have tails-sdmem-on-media-removal start after the
2233 memlockd service *and* tails-reconfigure-memlockd: to start the watchdog,
2234 we need memlockd to be properly configured *and* running.
2237 - Set iceweasel homepage to the news section on the Tails website.
2238 ... using the localized one when possible.
2239 - Hide the iceweasel add-on bar by default.
2240 Now that we don't want to ship the Monkeysphere addon anymore,
2241 that was the only one displayed in there, we can as well hide the whole bar.
2242 - Don't hide the AdBlock-Plus button in the add-on bar anymore. Now that
2243 we hide the whole addon bar, we can get rid of this old
2245 - Do not install a placeholder (fake) FireGPG iceweasel extension anymore.
2246 It was shipped from 0.10 (early 2012) to 0.15 (late November),
2247 so the migration period should be over now.
2248 - Don't install xul-ext-monkeysphere anymore.
2249 The implication of the current keyserver policy are not well
2250 understood, Monkeysphere is little used in Tails, and we're not sure
2251 anymore it would be our first bet for the web browser profile with no
2252 CA. Let's keep the various configuration bits (e.g. FoxyProxy,
2253 patching MSVA), though, so that advanced users who are used to have
2254 Monkeysphere in Tails just have to install the package.
2257 - Install the "standard" task with tasksel for better consistency in the
2258 Tails ISO images built in various environments.
2259 - Install p7zip-full. It's a dep by file-roller, but we explicily use it
2260 elsewhere, and it's better to be safe than sorry.
2261 - Remove pinning of libvpx0 to sid.
2262 This package is part of Squeeze, and not from testing/sid.
2263 We have been shipping the version from Squeeze for a while.
2264 - Remove config/chroot_local-packages/ from .gitignore.
2265 The documented way for "external" contributors to add custom packages
2266 is to put them in chroot_local-packages, and once we pull we import
2267 any such package into our APT repo and rewrite the
2268 history appropriately.
2269 Also, the ability to add packages in there and not see them in "git
2270 status" makes it very easy to build tainted ISO images with
2271 non-standard packages, which makes some of us fear can lead to hard to
2273 - Make it clearer what can and cannot be done in terms of local packages.
2275 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:47:42 +0100
2277 tails (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * Major new features
2280 - Persistence for browser bookmarks.
2281 - Support for obfsproxy bridges.
2283 * Minor improvements
2284 - Add the Hangul (Korean) Input Method Engine for SCIM.
2285 - Add vendor-specific dpkg origin information. This makes dpkg-vendor
2286 return correct information.
2287 - Install pcscd and libccid from squeeze-backports. This is needed to
2288 support, to some extent, some OpenPGP SmartCard readers.
2289 - Install HPIJS PPD files and the IJS driver (hpijs).
2290 This adds support for some printers, such as Xerox DocumentCenter400.
2291 - Optimize fonts display for LCD.
2292 - Update TrueCrypt to version 7.1a.
2295 - Do not use pdnsd anymore. It has been orphaned in Debian, has quite
2296 some bugs in there, and apparently Tor's DNSPort's own caching is
2298 - Remove useless iceweasel cookies exceptions. They are useless as
2299 per-session cookies are allowed.
2300 - Do not run setupcon on X. This call is only needed on the Linux
2301 console, no need to annoy the user with a weird "Press enter to
2302 activate this console" when the open a root shell in a GNOME
2304 - Allow the tails-iuk-get-target-file user to connect to the SOCKSPort
2305 dedicated for Tails-specific software.
2306 - Fix gpgApplet menu display in Windows camouflage mode.
2307 - Fix Tor reaching an inactive state if it's restarted in "bridge mode",
2308 e.g. during the time sync' process.
2311 - Update iceweasel to 10.0.11esr-1+tails1.
2312 - User profile is now generated at build time in order to support persistent
2314 - Update HTTPS Everywhere to version 3.0.4.
2315 - Update NoScript to version 2.6.
2316 - Fix bookmark to I2P router console.
2317 - Re-enable Monkeysphere extension to connect to the validation agent.
2320 - The Tails USB installer, tails-persistence-setup and tails-greeter
2321 are now translated into Bulgarian.
2322 - Update Chinese translation for tails-greeter.
2323 - Update Euskadi translation for WhisperBack.
2326 - Custom packages are now retrieved from Tails APT repository instead
2327 of bloating the Git repository.
2328 - Allow '~' in wiki filenames. This makes it possible to ship
2329 update-description files for release candidates.
2330 - Document how to create incremental update kit.
2331 - Handle release candidates when generating custom APT sources.
2332 - Remove pinning for xul-ext-adblock-plus.
2333 It is obsolete since we've added this package to our APT repository.
2335 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:59:17 +0100
2337 tails (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * Major new features
2340 - Enable Tor stream isolation; several new SocksPorts with
2341 appropriate Isolate* options have been added for different use
2342 cases (i.e. applications). All application's have been
2343 reconfigured to use these new SocksPorts, which should increase
2344 anonymity by making it more difficulte to correlate traffic from
2345 different applications or "online identities".
2346 - The web browser now has the anonymity enhancing patches from the
2348 - gpgApplet can now handle public-key cryptography.
2349 - Install an additional, PAE-enabled kernel with NX-bit
2350 support. This kernel is auto-selected when the hardware supports
2352 * provide executable space protection, preventing certain types of
2353 buffer overflows from being exploitable.
2354 * enable more than 4 GiB of system memory.
2355 * make all processors/cores available, including their
2356 power-saving functionality.
2357 - Add a persistence preset for NetworkManager connections.
2359 * Minor improvements
2360 - On kexec reboot, make the boot quiet only if debug=wipemem was not
2362 - Update torproject.org's APT repo key.
2363 - Update the embedded Tails signing key.
2364 - Use symlinks instead of duplicating localized searchplugins.
2365 - Rewrite Tails firewall using ferm. Tails firewall was written in
2366 very unsophisticated iptables-save/restore format. As more feature
2367 creeped in, it started to be quite unreadable.
2368 - Optimize VirtualBox modules build at runtime to avoid installing the
2369 userspace utils N times.
2370 - Drop most of Vidalia's configuration. Our custom lines just caused
2371 trouble (with multiple SocksPorts) and the default works well.
2372 - Blacklist PC speaker module. On some computers, having the pcspkr
2373 module loaded means loud beeps at bootup, shutdown and when using
2374 the console. As it draws useless attention to Tails users, it is
2375 better to prevent Linux from loading it by default.
2376 - Remove all addons from the Unsafe Browser. No addons are essential
2377 for the Unsafe Browser's intent. If anything they will modify the
2378 network fingerprint compared to a normal Iceweasel install, which
2380 - Prevent some unwanted packages to be installed at all, rather than
2381 uninstalling them later. This should speed up the build a bit.
2382 - Add a symlink from /etc/live/config to /etc/live/config.d. This
2383 makes the system compatible with live-config 3.0.4-1, without
2384 breaking backward compatibility with various parts of the system
2385 that use the old path.
2386 - Do not run unecessary scripts during shutdown sequence, to make
2388 - Make live-persist deal with persistent ~/.gconf subdirs so that
2389 any options saved therein actually get persistent.
2390 - Prevent memlockd unload on shutdown, to make sure that all
2391 necessary tools for memory wiping are available when the new
2393 - Patch initscripts headers instead of fiddling with update-rc.d. We
2394 now let insserv figure out the correct ordering for the services
2395 during startup and shutdown, i.e. use dependency-based boot
2397 - Remove the last absolute path in our isolinux config, which makes
2398 it easier to migrate from isolinux to syslinux (just rename the
2399 directory), and hence might make it easier for 3rd party USB
2400 installers (like the Universal USB Installer) to support Tails.
2403 - Include `seq` in the ramdisk environment: it is used to wipe more
2404 memory. This fixes the long-standing bug about Tails not cleaning
2405 all memory on shutdown.
2406 - Fix Yelp crashing on internal links
2407 - Allow amnesia user to use Tor's TransPort. This firewall exception
2408 is necessary for applications that doesn't have in-built SOCKS
2409 support and cannot use torsocks. One such example is Claws Mail,
2410 which uses tsocks since torsocks makes it leak the hostname. This
2411 exception, together with Tor's automatic .onion mapping makes
2412 Claws Mail able to use hidden service mail providers again.
2413 - Force threads locking support in Python DBus binding. Without this
2414 liveusb-creator doesn't work with a PAE-enabled kernel.
2415 - Fix localized search plugins for 'es' and 'pt'
2416 - Fix live-boot's readahead, which caused an unnecessary pause
2418 - Factorize GCC wanted / available version numbers in VirtualBox
2419 modules building hook. This, incidentally, fixes a bug caused by
2420 duplication and not updating all instances.
2421 - Fix tordate vs. Tor 0.2.3.x. Since 0.2.3.x Tor doesn't download a
2422 consensus for clocks that are more than 30 days in the past or 2
2423 days in the future (see commits f4c1fa2 and 87622e4 in Tor's git
2424 repo). For such clock skews we set the time to the Tor authority's
2425 cert's valid-after date to ensure that a consensus can be
2429 - Update to version 0.2.3.24-rc-1~~squeeze+1, a new major
2430 version. It's not a stable release, but we have been assured by
2431 the Tor developers that this is the right move.
2432 - Stop setting custom value for the Tor LongLivedPorts
2433 setting. Gobby's port was upstreamed in Tor 0.2.3.x.
2436 - Update to 10.0.10esr-1+tails1, which has all the anonymity enhancing
2437 patches from the TorBrowser applied.
2438 - Install iceweasel from our own repo, http://deb.tails.boum.org.
2439 - Fix Iceweasel's file associations. No more should you be suggested
2440 to open a PDF in the GIMP.
2443 - Use curl instead of wget, and add a --proxy option passed through
2445 - Remove the --fullrequest option, we don't need it anymore.
2446 - Remove --dns-timeout option, we don't need it anymore.
2447 - Change --proxy handling to support Debian Squeeze's curl.
2448 - Clarify what happens if --proxy is not used.
2449 - Compute the median of the diffs more correctly.
2452 - Update Linux to 3.2.32-1.
2455 - Update vidalia to 0.2.20-1+tails1.
2456 - Update bundled WhisperBack package to 1.6.2:
2457 * Raise the socket library timeout to 120 seconds
2458 * Use smtplib's timeout parameter
2459 * Fix error output when calling send a 2nd time
2460 - Update liveusb-creator to 3.11.6-3.
2461 - Update i2p to 0.9.2.
2462 - Update tails-persistence-setup to 0.20-1, which should make it
2463 possible to install Tails on large (>= 32 GiB) USB drives.
2464 - Install console-setup and keyboard-configuration from unstable
2465 (required by new initramfs-tools).
2466 - Update tails-greeter to 0.7.3:
2467 * Import pt_BR translation.
2468 * Let langpanel usable during option selection stage
2469 * Print less debugging messages by default
2470 (below are changes in tails-greeter 0.7.2:)
2471 * Use correct test operators.
2472 * Generate language codes of available locales at package build
2474 * Read list of language codes from where we have saved it at
2476 * Drop tails-lang-helper, not used anymore.
2477 * Do not compile locales at login time anymore. Tails now ships
2479 - Import live-config{,-sysvinit} 3.0.8-1. live-config >= 3.0.9-1
2480 has basically nothing useful for us, and it migrates to new paths
2481 brought by live-boot 3.0~b7, which we're not ready for yet (see:
2482 todo/newer_live-boot).
2485 - Fix Tails specific Iceweasel localization for pt-BR
2486 - Add Japanese input system: scim-anthy.
2487 - whisperback is now also translated into German, Hebrew, Hungarian,
2489 - tails-persistence-setup is now also translated into Arabic.
2490 - tails-greeter is now also translated into Arabic, Hebrew, Basque,
2491 Hungarian, Italian and Chinese.
2494 - Catch more errors in during build time:
2495 - Ensure that all local hooks start with 'set -e'.
2496 - Fail hard if adduser fails in local hooks.
2497 - Fail hard if 'rm' fails in local hooks.
2498 - vagrant: Ensure we have the set of Perl packages needed by our
2500 - vagrant: Configure live-build to ship with ftp.us.debian.org.
2501 Using cdn.debian.net leads to bad interactions with Tor.
2502 - vagrant: Don't use gzip compression when building from a tag, i.e.
2504 - vagrant: Optionally use bootstrap stage cache for faster builds
2505 via the 'cache' build option.
2506 - vagrant: Make sure release builds are clean, i.e. they don't use
2507 any potentially dangerous build options.
2508 - vagrant: Disable live-build package caching. This build system is
2509 meant to use an external caching proxy, so live-build's cache just
2510 wastes RAM (for in-memory builds) or disk space.
2511 - vagrant: use aufs magic instead of copying source into tmpfs.
2512 This reduces the amount of RAM required for building Tails in.
2513 - vagrant: Allow in-memory builds when a VM with enough memory is
2516 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:34:56 +0000
2518 tails (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * Major new features
2521 - Use white-list/principle of least privelege approach for local services.
2522 Only users that need a certain local (i.e. hosted on loopback) service
2523 (according to our use cases) are granted access to it by our firewall;
2524 all other users are denied access.
2525 - Ship a first version of the incremental update system. Updates are not
2526 currently triggered automatically, but this will allow tests to be done
2529 * Minor improvements
2530 - Enable four workspaces in the Windows XP camouflage. This allows
2531 users to quickly switch to a more innocent looking workspace in case
2532 they are working on sensitive data and attract unwanted attention.
2533 The workspace switcher applet isn't there, though, since there's no
2534 such thing in Windows XP, so switching is only possible via keyboard
2536 - Ship with precompiled locales instead of generating them upon login.
2537 - Add support for wireless regulation.
2538 - Use color for Git output, not intended for machine consumption,
2539 written to the terminal.
2540 - Have ttdnsd use OpenDNS. Using Google's DNS servers was very
2541 glitchy, and rarely succeeded when it should. It can probably be
2542 attributed to Google's DNS, which is known to take issue with Tor
2544 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.6, with many UI improvements and new translations.
2545 - Include GDM logs and dmidecode informations in the reports.
2546 - Allow to modify language and layout in the "Advanced options" screen
2548 - GnuPG: bump cert-digest-algo to SHA512.
2549 - Update torproject.org's APT repo key.
2552 - Make Claws Mail save local/POP emails in its dot-directory. The
2553 default is to save them at ~/Mail, which isn't included in our
2554 current Claws Mail persistence preset.
2555 - Fix the System Monitor applet.
2556 - Remove broken ttdnsd from the default DNS resolution loop.
2557 - Hide the 'TailsData' partition in desktop applications.
2558 - Ship unrar-free again, so that the GNOME archive manager knows about
2560 - Ship with an empty whitelist for Noscript.
2561 - Disable FoxyProxy's advertisement on proxy error page.
2562 - Fix slow browsing experience for offline documentation.
2563 - Raise the socket timeout to 120 seconds in WhisperBack.
2564 - Enable the ikiwiki trail plugin for the locally built wiki too.
2567 - Upgrade iceweasel to 10.0.6esr-1 (Extended Support Release) and install it
2568 and its dependencies from squeeze-backports.
2571 - Upgrade Linux to 3.2.23-1.
2574 - Update tor to version 0.2.2.39.
2575 - Update Iceweasel to version 10.0.7esr-2.
2576 - Update i2p to version 0.9.1.
2579 - vagrant: Install Ikiwiki from Debian unstable. The 'mirrorlist'
2580 patches have finally been merged in upstream Ikiwiki. So instead of
2581 building Ikiwiki by hand, we can now install the package directly
2582 from Debian unstable.
2583 - Do not build the ikiwiki forum on the bundled static website copy.
2585 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:19:25 +0200
2587 tails (0.12.1) unstable; urgency=low
2589 This is a brown paper bag release to fix two major problems introduced in
2593 - Upgrade Torbutton to 1.4.6.
2594 - Upgrade AdBlock Plus to 2.1.
2595 - Update AdBlock Plus patterns.
2598 - Upgrade Linux to 3.2.21-3 (linux-image-3.2.0-3-486).
2601 - Install MAT from Debian backports, drop custom package.
2602 - Install python-pdfrw to re-add PDF support to the MAT.
2603 - Upgrade tails-greeter to 0.7.1, which fixes the race condition that
2604 broke administration password and locale settings on some systems.
2607 - Remove the Tails specific plymouth theme. The theme interfers heavily with
2608 the boot process on some hardware.
2610 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:06:03 +0200
2612 tails (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * Major new features
2615 - Add the Unsafe Web Browser, which has direct access to the Internet and
2616 can be used to login to captive portals.
2617 - The (previously experimental, now deemed stable) Windows camouflage can now
2618 be enabled via a check box in Tails greeter.
2621 - Upgrade to 0.2.2.37-1~~squeeze+1.
2624 - Upgrade iceweasel to 10.0.5esr-1 (Extended Support Release) and install it
2625 and its dependencies from squeeze-backports.
2626 - Add a bookmark for the offline Tails documentation.
2627 - Update AdBlock patterns.
2630 - Allow using larger USB drives by increasing the mkfs timeout to 10 minutes.
2631 - Tell the user what's going on when the Tails boot device cannot be found.
2634 - Upgrade Linux to 3.2.20-1 (linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64).
2638 - Install torsocks. Note that this makes `torify' use `torsocks' instead of
2639 `tsocks'. The `tsocks' binary is dropped to avoid problems, but remaining
2640 files (the library) are kept since ttdnsd depends on them.
2641 - Fetch live-config-sysvinit from sid so that it matches live-config version.
2642 - Update virtualbox backports to 4.1.10-dfsg-1~bpo60+1.
2643 - Install pciutils (needed by virtualbox-guest-utils).
2644 - Install mousetweaks. This is needed to use the mouse accessibility settings
2645 in System -> Preferences -> Mouse -> Accessibility.
2646 - Install the "hardlink" files deduplicator.
2647 - Do not install cryptkeeper anymore. See todo/remove_cryptkeeper for reason.
2648 Users of cryptkeeper are encouraged to install cryptkeeper via `apt-get
2649 update; apt-get install --yes cryptkeeper`, open their volume and move
2650 their to Tails' built-in persistence instead, as a one-time migration.
2651 - Upgrade I2P to version 0.9.
2652 - Don't install GParted. GNOME Disk Utility has been on par with GParted
2653 since Squeeze was released.
2654 - Upgrade live-boot to 3.0~a27-1+tails2~1.gbp319fe6.
2655 - Upgrade live-config to 3.0~a39-1 and install it from Debian experimental.
2656 - Upgrade tails-greeter to 0.7.
2657 - Upgrade tails-persistence-setup to 0.17-1.
2658 - Install libyaml-libyaml-perl.
2659 - Upgrade MAT, the metadata anonymisation toolkit, 0.3.2-1~bpo60+1.
2660 - Fetch python-pdfrw from backports, drop custom package.
2662 * Internationalization
2663 - The Tails website and documentation now has a (partial) Portuguese
2667 - Tails can now be built without using a HTTP proxy.
2668 - Tails can now easily be built by using Vagrant. See the updated
2669 contribute/build page for instructions.
2672 - Remove obsolete noswap boot parameter. live-boot now handles swap on an
2674 - The squashfs.sort files generated with boot-profile should now be ok which
2675 makes the generate images boot noticeably faster on optical media. See
2676 bugs/weird_squashfs.sort_entries for more information.
2677 - Set Tails specific syslinux and plymouth themes.
2678 - Add NVidia KMS video drivers to the initrd in order to show our shiny new
2679 plymouth theme on more systems.
2681 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:37:00 +0200
2683 tails (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * Major new features
2686 - Do not grant the desktop user root credentials by default.
2687 - A graphical boot menu (tails-greeter 0.6.3) allows choosing among
2688 many languages, and setting an optional sudoer password.
2689 - Support opt-in targeted persistence
2690 · tails-persistence-setup 0.14-1
2691 · live-boot 3.0~a25-1+tails1~5.gbp48d06c
2692 · live-config 3.0~a35-1
2693 - USB installer: liveusb-creator 3.11.6-1
2696 - Install iceweasel 10.0.4esr-1 (Extended Support Release).
2697 Let's stop tracking a too fast moving target.
2698 Debian Wheezy will ship ESR versions.
2699 - Install needed dependencies from squeeze-backports.
2702 bing appeared due to our upgrading iceweasel.
2703 Removing it makes things consistent with the way they have been
2704 until now, that is: let's keep only the general search engines
2705 we've been asked to add, plus Google, and a few specialized ones.
2706 · Replace Debian-provided DuckDuckGo search plugin with the "HTML SSL"
2707 one, version 20110219. This is the non-JavaScript, SSL, POST flavour.
2709 · Install localized search engines in the correct place.
2710 No need to copy them around at boot time anymore.
2711 · Remove Scroogle. RIP.
2712 - Enable TLS false start, like the TBB does since December.
2713 - Adblock Plus: don't count and save filter hits, supress first run dialog.
2714 - Install neither the GreaseMonkey add-on, nor any GreaseMonkey script.
2715 YouTube's HTML5 opt-in program is over.
2716 HTML5 video support is now autodetected and used.
2719 - Upgrade to 0.2.17-1+tails1: drop Do-not-warn-about-Tor-version.patch,
2721 - Set SkipVersionCheck=true.
2722 Thanks to chiiph for implementing this upstream (needs Vidalia 0.2.16+).
2724 * Internationalization
2725 - Install all available iceweasel l10n packages.
2726 - Remove syslinux language choosing menu.
2727 tails-greeter allows choosing a non-English language.
2728 - Add fonts for Hebrew, Thai, Khmer, Lao and Korean languages.
2730 - Setup text console at profile time.
2731 Context: Tails runs with text console autologin on.
2732 These consoles now wait, using a "Press enter to activate this console"
2733 message, for the user. When they press enter in there, they should have chosen
2734 their preferred keyboard layout in tails-greeter by now. Then, we run setupcon.
2735 As a result, the resulting shell is properly localized, and setupcon
2736 sets the correct keyboard layout, both according to the preferences expressed by
2737 the user in tails-greeter.
2738 - Don't use localepurge, don't remove any Scribus translations anymore,
2739 don't localize environment at live-config time:
2740 tails-greeter allows us to support many, many more languages.
2743 - Linux 3.2.15-1 (linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64).
2744 - Fix low sound level on MacBook5,2.
2745 - Disable laptop-mode-tools automatic modules. This modules set often
2746 needs some amount of hardware-specific tweaking to work properly.
2747 This makes them rather not well suited for a Live system.
2750 - Install GNOME keyring.
2751 This is needed so that NetworkManager remembers the WEP/WPA secrets
2752 for the time of a Tails session. Initialize GNOME keyring at user
2754 - Install usbutils to have the lsusb command.
2755 - Install the Traverso multitrack audio recorder and editor.
2758 - GNOME Terminal: keep 8192 scrollback lines instead of the smallish
2760 - Replaced tails-wifi initscript with laptop-mode-tools matching feature.
2761 - Disable gdomap service.
2762 - Fetch klibc-utils and libklibc from sid.
2763 The last initramfs-tools depends on these.
2764 - Set root password to "root" if debug=root is passed on the
2765 kernel cmdline. Allow setting root password on kernel cmdline via
2766 rootpw=. Looks like we implemented this feature twice.
2767 - Append a space on the kernel command line. This eases manually adding
2769 - Rename sudoers.d snippets to match naming scheme.
2770 Sudo credentials that shall be unconditionally granted to the Tails
2771 default user are named zzz_*, to make sure they are applied.
2772 - WhisperBack: also include /var/log/live-persist and
2773 /var/lib/gdm3/tails.persistence.
2774 - Add a wrapper to torify whois.
2775 - Rework the VirtualBox guest modules building hook to support
2777 - Consistently wait for nm-applet when waiting for user session to come up.
2778 Waiting for gnome-panel or notification-daemon worked worse.
2779 - Don't start the NetworkManager system service via init.
2780 Some Tails NM hooks need the user to be logged in to run properly.
2781 That's why tails-greeter starts NetworkManager at PostLogin time.
2782 - Also lock /bin/echo into memory. For some reason, kexec-load needs it.
2783 - Pidgin: don't use the OFTC hidden service anymore.
2784 It proved to be quite unreliable, being sometimes down for days.
2785 - Do not display storage volumes on Desktop, by disabling
2786 /apps/nautilus/desktop/volumes_visible GConf entry. Enabling that
2787 GConf setting avoids displaying the bind-mounted persistent
2788 directories on the Desktop, and reduces user confusion. It also is
2789 a first step towards a bigger UI change: GNOME3 does not manage the
2790 Desktop anymore, so volume icons and other Desktop icons are meant to
2791 disappear anyway. It implies we'll have to move all Desktop icons
2792 elsewhere. Let's start this move now: this will smooth the UI change
2793 Wheezy will carry for our users, by applying some of it progressively.
2796 - Don't build hybrid ISO images anymore. They boot less reliably on
2797 a variety of hardware, and are made less useful by us shipping
2798 a USB installer from now on.
2799 - Append .conf to live-config configuration filenames:
2800 live-config >3.0~a36-1 only takes into account files named *.conf
2801 in there. Accordingly update scripts that source these files.
2802 - Remove long-obsolete home-refresh script and its configuration.
2804 * Virtualization support
2805 - Support Spice and QXL: install the Spice agent from Debian sid,
2806 install xserver-xorg-video-qxl from squeeze-backports.
2808 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:54:00 +0200
2810 tails (0.10.2) unstable; urgency=low
2813 - Update to 10.0.2-1.
2814 - Disable HTTPS-Everywhere's SSL Observatory (plus first-run pop-up).
2815 - Revert "FoxyProxy: don't enclose regexps between ^ and $."
2816 Currently "http://www.i2p2.de" (and everything similar) is captured by
2817 the I2P filter, which is incorrect. It seems isMultiLine="false" does
2818 *not* make RE into ^RE$ any longer.
2819 - Remove file:// from NoScript's exception lists.
2820 This will fix the JavaScript toggles in the local copy of the documentation.
2821 - Update AdBlock patterns.
2824 - Upgrade I2P to 0.8.13.
2825 - Install libvpx0 from sid.
2826 - Fetch klibc-utils and libklibc from sid.
2827 The last initramfs-tools depends on these.
2830 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.2.7-1.
2831 - Install firmware-libertas.
2832 This adds support for wireless network cards with Marvell Libertas
2833 8xxx chips supported by the libertas_cs, libertas_sdio, libertas_spi,
2834 libertas_tf_usb, mwl8k and usb8xxx drivers.
2837 - Revert "Set time to middle of [valid-after, fresh-until] from consensus."
2838 This reverts commit 18d23a500b9412b4b0fbe4e38a9398eb1a3eadef.
2839 With this vmid clocks that are E minutes back in time may cause issues
2840 (temporary Tor outages) after consensus updates that happen at the
2841 (60-E):th minute or later during any hour. Full analysis:
2842 https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2012-January/000873.html
2843 - Add the default user to the vboxsf group.
2844 This will allow the user to get full access to automounted VirtualBox
2845 shared folders as they are mounted with guid vboxsf and rwx group
2848 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:26:21 +0100
2850 tails (0.10.1) unstable; urgency=low
2853 - Make Startpage the default web search engine. Scroogle does not look
2854 reliable enough these days.
2857 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.5.1 (update link to bug reporting documentation).
2858 - Update MAT to 0.2.2-2~bpo60+1 (fixes a critical bug in the GUI).
2861 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.2.1-2
2863 * Time synchronization
2864 Serious rework that should fix most, if not all, of the infamous
2865 time-sync' related bugs some Tails users have experienced recently.
2866 - Make htpdate more resilient by using three server pools, and
2867 allowing some failure ratio.
2868 - Set time from Tor's unverified-consensus if needed.
2869 - Set time to middle of [valid-after, fresh-until] from consensus.
2870 - Many robustness, performance and fingerprinting-resistance improvements.
2871 - Display time-sync' notification much earlier.
2874 - Fix access to "dumb" git:// protocol by using a connect-socks wrapper
2875 as GIT_PROXY_COMMAND.
2876 - SSH client: fix access to SSH servers on the Internet by correcting
2877 Host / ProxyCommand usage.
2878 - Pidgin: use OFTC hidden service to workaround Tor blocking.
2879 - Claws Mail: disable draft autosaving.
2880 When composing PGP encrypted email, drafts are saved back to
2881 the server in plaintext. This includes both autosaved and manually
2883 - tails-security-check-wrapper: avoid eating all memory when offline.
2885 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:00:31 +0100
2887 tails (0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * Tor: upgrade to 0.2.2.35-1.
2892 - Install Iceweasel 9.0 from the Debian Mozilla team's APT repository.
2893 - Update Torbutton to 1.4.5.1-1.
2894 - Support viewing any YouTube video that is available in HTML5 format:
2895 install xul-ext-greasemonkey and the "Permanently Enable HTML5 on
2896 YouTube" GreaseMonkey script.
2897 - Stop using Polipo in Iceweasel. Its SOCKS support was fixed.
2898 - Install from Debian sid the iceweasel extensions we ship,
2899 for compatibility with FF9.
2900 - Use Scroogle (any languages) instead of Scroogle (English only) when
2901 booted in English. Many users choose English because their own
2902 language is not supported yet; let's not hide them search results in
2904 - Install Iceweasel language packs from Debian unstable:
2905 unfortunately they are not shipped on the mozilla.debian.net repository.
2906 - Install the NoScript Firefox extension; configure it the same way as
2908 - Disable third-party cookies.
2909 They can be used to track users, which is bad. Besides, this is what
2910 TBB has been doing for years.
2911 - FoxyProxy: allow direct connections to RFC1918 IPs.
2913 * Do not transparent proxy outgoing Internet connections through Tor.
2914 - Torify the SSH client using connect-proxy to all IPs but RFC1918 ones.
2915 - Torify APT using Polipo HTTP.
2916 - Torify wget in wgetrc.
2917 - Torify gobby clients using torsocks. It does not support proxies yet.
2918 - Torify tails-security-check using LWP::UserAgent's SOCKS proxy support.
2919 - Fix enabling of GNOME's HTTP proxy.
2922 - Upgrade Vidalia to 0.2.15-1+tails1.
2923 · New upstream release.
2924 · Do not warn about Tor version.
2925 - Upgrade MAT to 0.2.2-1~bpo60+1.
2926 - Upgrade VirtualBox guest software to 4.1.6-dfsg-2~bpo60+1,
2927 built against the ABI of X.Org backports.
2928 - Upgrade I2P to 0.8.11 using KillYourTV's Squeeze packages;
2929 additionally, fix its start script that was broken by the tordate merge.
2930 - Install unar (The Unarchiver) instead of the non-free unrar.
2931 - Install Nautilus Wipe instead of custom Nautilus scripts.
2934 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.1.6-1.
2935 - Upgrade to X.Org from squeeze-backports.
2936 - Install more, and more recent b43 firmwares.
2937 - Upgrade barry to 0.15-1.2~bpo60+1.
2939 * Internationalization
2940 - Add basic language support for Russian, Farsi and Vietnamese.
2941 - Install some Indic fonts.
2942 - Install some Russian fonts.
2943 - Add Alt+Shift shortcut to switch keyboard layout.
2946 - Support booting in "Windows XP -like camouflage mode":
2947 · Install homebrewn local .debs for a Windows XP look-alike Gnome theme.
2948 · Add the "Windows XP Bliss" desktop wallpaper.
2949 · Added a script that's sets up Gnome to look like Microsoft Windows XP.
2950 · Add Windows XP "camouflage" icons for some programs.
2951 · Make Iceweasel use the IE icon when Windows XP camouflage is enabled.
2952 · Add special launcher icons for the Windows XP theme so that they're
2954 - Decrease Florence focus zoom to 1.2.
2955 - Do not fetch APT translation files. Running apt-get update is heavy enough.
2956 - Add MSN support thanks to msn-pecan.
2957 - Add custom SSH client configuration:
2958 · Prefer strong ciphers and MACs.
2959 · Enable maximum compression level.
2960 · Explicitly disable X11 forwarding.
2961 · Connect as root by default, to prevent fingerprinting when username
2963 - Replace flawed FireGPG with a home-made GnuPG encryption applet;
2964 install a feature-stripped FireGPG that redirects users to
2965 the documentation, and don't run Seahorse applet anymore.
2966 - Enable Seahorse's GnuPG agent.
2967 - Blank screen when lid is closed, rather than shutting down the system.
2968 The shutdown "feature" has caused data losses for too many people, it seems.
2969 There are many other ways a Tails system can be shut down in a hurry
2971 - Import Tails signing key into the keyring.
2972 - Fix bug in the Pidgin nick generation that resulted in the nick
2973 "XXX_NICK_XXX" once out of twenty.
2974 - Pre-configure the #tor IRC discussion channel in Pidgin.
2975 - Fix "technology preview" of bridge support: it was broken by tordate merge.
2976 - Install dependencies of our USB installer to ease its development.
2977 - Make vidalia NM hook sleep only if Vidalia is already running.
2978 - Reintroduce the htpdate notification, telling users when it's safe
2979 to use Tor Hidden Services.
2980 - htpdate: omit -f argument to not download full pages.
2981 - htpdate: write success file even when not within {min,max}adjust.
2982 Otherwise htpdate will not "succeed" when the time diff is 0 (i.e.
2983 the clock was already correct) so the success file cannot be used
2984 as an indicator that the system time now is correct, which arguably
2985 is its most important purpose.
2988 - Name built images according to git tag.
2990 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:56:38 +0100
2992 tails (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2995 - Upgrade to 0.2.2.34 (fixes CVE-2011-2768, CVE-2011-2769).
2998 - Upgrade to 3.5.16-11 (fixes CVE-2011-3647, CVE-2011-3648, CVE-2011-3650).
2999 - Upgrade FireGPG to 0.8-1+tails2: notify users that the FireGPG Text
3000 Editor is the only safe place for performing cryptographic operations,
3001 and make it impossible to do otherwise. Other ways open up several
3002 severe attacks through JavaScript (e.g. leaking plaintext when
3003 decrypting, signing messages written by the attacker).
3004 - Install Cookie Monster extension instead of CS Lite.
3005 - Always ask where to save files.
3006 - Upgrade Torbutton to 1.4.4.1-1, which includes support for the in-browser
3007 "New identity" feature.
3010 - Install MAT, the metadata anonymisation toolkit.
3011 - Upgrade TrueCrypt to 7.1.
3012 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.5~rc1 (leads the user by the hand if an error
3013 occurs while sending the bugreport, proposes to save it after 2 faild
3014 attempts, numerous bugfixes).
3015 - Linux: upgrade to linux-image-3.0.0-2-486 (version 3.0.0-6); fixes
3016 a great number of bugs and security issues.
3019 - Fully rework date and time setting system.
3020 - Remove the htp user firewall exception.
3021 - Saner keyboard layouts for Arabic and Russian.
3022 - Use Plymouth text-only splash screen at boot time.
3023 - Color the init scripts output.
3024 - Suppress Tor's warning about applications doing their own DNS lookups.
3025 This is totally safe due to our Tor enforcement.
3026 - Disable hdparm boot-time service.
3027 We only want hdparm so that laptop-mode-tools can use it.
3028 - Run Claws Mail using torify.
3029 It's not as good as if Claws Mail supported SOCKS proxies itself,
3030 but still better than relying on the transparent netfilter torification.
3031 - Install HPLIP and hpcups for better printing support.
3033 * Erase memory at shutdown
3034 - Run many sdmem instances at once.
3035 In hope of erasing more memory until we come up with a proper fix for
3036 [[bugs/sdmem_does_not_clear_all_memory]].
3037 - Kill gdm3 instead of using its initscript on brutal shutdown.
3038 - Use absolute path to eject for more robust memory wipe on boot medium removal.
3041 - Exclude kernel and initramfs from being put into the SquashFS.
3042 Those files are already shipped where they are needed, that is in the ISO
3043 filesystem. Adapt kexec and memlockd bits.
3044 - Do not ship the GNOME icon theme cache.
3045 - Do not ship .pyc files.
3046 - Do not ship NEWS.Debian.gz files.
3049 - Re-implement hook that modifies syslinux config to make future
3052 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:26:38 +0100
3054 tails (0.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
3057 - Update to 3.5.16-10 (fixes DSA-2313-1).
3058 - FireGPG: force crypto action results to appear in a new window, otherwise
3059 JavaScript can steal decrypted plaintext. Advice: always use FireGPG's
3060 text editor when writing text you want to encrypt. If you write it in a
3061 textbox the plaintext can be stolen through JavaScript before it is
3062 encrypted in the same way.
3063 - Update HTTPS Everywhere extension to 1.0.3-1.
3064 - Stop using the small version of the Tor check page. The small version
3065 incorrectly tells Tails users to upgrade their Torbrowser, which has
3066 confused some users.
3069 - Update Linux to 3.0.0-2 (fixes DSA-2310-1, CVE-2011-2905, CVE-2011-2909,
3070 CVE-2011-2723, CVE-2011-2699, CVE-2011-1162, CVE-2011-1161).
3071 - Update usb-modeswitch to 1.1.9-2~bpo60+1 and usb-modeswitch-data to
3072 20110805-1~bpo60+1 from Debian backports. This adds support for a few
3073 devices such as Pantech UMW190 CDMA modem.
3074 - Install libregexp-common-perl 2011041701-3 from Debian unstable. This
3075 fixes the bug: [[bugs/msva_does_not_use_configured_keyserver]].
3076 - Install hdparm so the hard drives can be spinned down in order to save
3078 - Install barry-util for better BlackBerry integration.
3079 - Debian security upgrades: OpenOffice.org (DSA-2315-1), openjdk-6
3080 (DSA-2311-1), policykit-1 (DSA-2319-1)
3082 * Protecting against memory recovery
3083 - Set more appropriate Linux VM config before wiping memory. These
3084 parameters should make the wipe process more robust and efficient.
3086 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:31:18 +0200
3088 tails (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * Rebase on the Debian Squeeze 6.0.2.1 point-release.
3093 - Update to 0.2.2.33-1.
3094 - Disabled ControlPort in favour of ControlSocket.
3095 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to Tor's LongLivedPorts list.
3099 - Start script now depends on HTP since I2P breaks if the clock jumps or is
3100 too skewed during bootstrap.
3103 - Update to 3.5.16-9 (fixes CVE-2011-2374, CVE-2011-2376, CVE-2011-2365,
3104 CVE-2011-2373, CVE-2011-2371, CVE-2011-0083, CVE-2011-2363, CVE-2011-0085,
3105 CVE-2011-2362, CVE-2011-2982, CVE-2011-2981, CVE-2011-2378, CVE-2011-2984,
3107 - Enable HTTP pipelining (like TBB).
3108 - Update HTTPS Everywhere extension to 1.0.1-1 from Debian unstable.
3109 - Suppress FoxyProxy update prompts.
3110 - Prevent FoxyProxy from "phoning home" after a detected upgrade.
3111 - Fixed a bunch of buggy regular expressions in FoxyProxy's configuration.
3112 See [[bugs/exploitable_typo_in_url_regex?]] for details. Note that none of
3113 these issues are critical due to the transparent proxy.
3114 - Add DuckDuckGo SSL search engine.
3117 - Update to torbutton 1.4.3-1 from Debian unstable.
3118 - Don't show Torbutton status in the status bar as it's now displayed in the
3122 - More random looking nicks in pidgin.
3123 - Add IRC account on chat.wikileaks.de:9999.
3126 - Upgrade htpdate script (taken from Git 7797fe9) that allows setting wget's
3127 --dns-timeout option.
3130 - Update Linux to 3.0.0-1. -686 is now deprecated in favour of -486 and
3131 -686-pae; the world is not ready for -pae yet, so we now ship -486.
3132 - Update OpenSSL to 0.9.8o-4squeeze2 (fixes CVE-2011-1945 (revoke
3133 compromised DigiNotar certificates), CVE-2011-1945).
3134 - Update Vidalia to 0.2.14-1+tails1 custom package.
3135 - Install accessibility tools:
3136 - gnome-mag: screen magnifier
3137 - gnome-orca: text-to-speech
3138 - Replace the onBoard virtual keyboard with Florence.
3139 - Install the PiTIVi non-linear audio/video editor.
3144 * Arbitrary DNS queries
3145 - Tor can not handle all types of DNS queries, so if the Tor resolver fails
3146 we fallback to ttdnsd. This is now possible with Tor 0.2.2.x, since we
3147 fixed Tor bug #3369.
3150 - Install ipheth-utils for iPhone tethering.
3151 - Install xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse (for mouse integration with the host OS
3153 - Install virtualbox-ose 4.x guest packages from Debian backports.
3156 - Switch gpg to use keys.indymedia.org's hidden service, without SSL.
3157 The keys.indymedia.org SSL certificate is now self-signed. The hidden
3158 service gives a good enough way to authenticate the server and encrypts
3159 the connection, and just removes the certificates management issue.
3160 - The squashfs is now compressed using XZ which reduces the image size quite
3162 - Remove Windows autorun.bat and autorun.inf. These files did open a static
3163 copy of our website, which is not accessible any longer.
3166 - Use the Git branch instead of the Debian version into the built image's
3168 - Allow replacing efficient XZ compression with quicker gzip.
3169 - Build and install documentation into the chroot (-> filesystem.squashfs).
3170 Rationale: our static website cannot be copied to a FAT32 filesystem due
3171 to filenames being too long. This means the documentation cannot be
3172 browsed offline from outside Tails. However, our installer creates GPT
3173 hidden partitions, so the doc would not be browseable from outside Tails
3174 anyway. The only usecase we really break by doing so is browsing the
3175 documentation while running a non-Tails system, from a Tails CD.
3177 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 09 Sep 2011 11:31:18 +0200
3179 tails (0.7.2) unstable; urgency=high
3182 - Disable Torbutton's external application launch warning.
3183 ... which advises using Tails. Tails *is* running Tails.
3184 - FoxyProxy: install from Debian instead of the older one we previously
3188 - haveged: install an official Debian backport instead of a custom backport.
3189 - unrar: install the version from Debian's non-free repository.
3190 Users report unrar-free does not work well enough.
3192 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:34:56 +0200
3194 tails (0.7.1) unstable; urgency=high
3196 * Vidalia: new 0.2.12-2+tails1 custom package.
3199 - Don't show Foxyproxy's status / icon in FF statusbar to prevent users
3200 from accidentaly / unconsciously put their anonymity at risk.
3201 - "amnesia branding" extension: bump Iceweasel compatibility to 4.0 to ease
3202 development of future releases.
3205 - Upgrade Linux kernel to Debian's 2.6.32-33: fixes tons of bugs,
3206 including the infamous missing mouse cursor one. Oh, and it closes
3207 a few security holes at well.
3208 - Install unrar-free.
3209 - Do not install pppoeconf (superseeded by NetworkManager).
3210 - Upgrade macchanger to Debian testing package to ease development of
3211 future Tails releases.
3212 - Debian security upgrades: x11-xserver-utils (DSA-2213-1), isc-dhcp
3213 (DSA-2216-1), libmodplug (DSA-2226-1), openjdk-6 (DSA-2224-1).
3215 * Protecting against memory recovery
3216 - Add Italian translation for tails-kexec. Thanks to Marco A. Calamari.
3217 - Make it clear what it may mean if the system does not power off
3219 - Use kexec's --reset-vga option that might fix display corruption issues
3222 * WhisperBack (encrypted bug reporting software)
3223 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.4.1:
3224 localizes the documentation wiki's URL,
3225 uses WebKit to display the bug reporting help page,
3226 now is usable on really small screens.
3227 - Extract wiki's supported languages at build time, save this
3228 information to /etc/amnesia/environment, source this file into the
3229 Live user's environment so that WhisperBack 1.4+ can make good use
3233 - Fix boot in Chinese.
3234 - Install mobile-broadband-provider-info for better 3G support.
3235 - Add back GNOME system icons to menus.
3236 - tails-security-check: avoid generating double-slashes in the Atom
3238 - Remove "vga=788" boot parameter which breaks the boot on some hardware.
3239 - Remove now useless "splash" boot parameter.
3240 - Fix a bunch of i386-isms.
3241 - Pass the noswap option to the kernel. This does not change actual Tails
3242 behaviour but prevents users from unnecessarily worrying because of
3243 the "Activating swap" boot message.
3244 - Make use of check.torproject.org's Arabic version.
3247 - Enable squeeze-backports. It is now ready and will be used soon.
3248 - Install eatmydata in the chroot.
3249 - Convert ikiwiki setup files to YAML.
3251 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:14:53 +0200
3253 tails (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3256 - Install foomatic-filters-ppds to support more printers.
3257 - Give the default user the right to manage printers.
3260 - Deinstall unwanted packages newly pulled by recent live-build.
3262 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:58:51 +0200
3264 tails (0.7~rc2) unstable; urgency=low
3266 ** SNAPSHOT build @824f39248a08f9e190146980fb1eb0e55d483d71 **
3268 * Rebase on Debian Squeeze 6.0.1 point-release.
3270 * Vidalia: new 0.2.10-3+tails5 custom package..
3273 - Install usb-modeswitch and modemmanager to support mobile broadband
3274 devices such as 3G USB dongles. Thanks to Marco A. Calamari for the
3278 - Website relocated to https://tails.boum.org/ => adapt various places.
3279 - Configure keyboard layout accordingly to the chosen language for
3280 Italian and Portuguese.
3282 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:44:25 +0100
3284 tails (0.7~rc1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3286 ** SNAPSHOT build @98987f111fc097a699b526eeaef46bc75be5290a **
3288 * Rebase on Debian Squeeze.
3290 * T(A)ILS has been renamed to Tails.
3292 * Protecting against memory recovery
3293 New, safer way to wipe memory on shutdown which is now also used when
3294 the boot media is physically removed.
3297 - Update to 0.2.1.30-1.
3300 - Add HTTPS Everywhere 0.9.4 extension.
3301 - Better preserve Anonymity Set: spoof US English Browser and timezone
3302 the same way as the Tor Browser Bundle, disable favicons and picture
3304 - Install AdBlock Plus extension from Debian.
3305 - Add Tor-related bookmarks.
3306 - Support FTP, thanks to FoxyProxy.
3307 - Update AdBlock patterns.
3308 - Disable geolocation and the offline cache.
3311 - Update Vidalia to 0.2.10-3+tails4.
3312 - Install gnome-disk-utility (Palimpsest) and Seahorse plugins.
3313 - Add opt-in i2p support with Iceweasel integration through FoxyProxy.
3314 - onBoard: fix "really quits when clicking the close window icon" bug.
3315 - Optionally install TrueCrypt at boot time.
3316 - Install laptop-mode-tools for better use of battery-powered hardware.
3317 - Replace xsane with simple-scan which is part of GNOME and way easier
3319 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.3.1 (bugfixes, French translation).
3320 - Install scribus-ng instead of scribus. It is far less buggy in Squeeze.
3323 - Drop incoming packets by default.
3324 - Forbid queries to DNS resolvers on the LAN.
3325 - Set output policy to drop (defense-in-depth).
3328 - Install Atheros and Broadcom wireless firmwares.
3329 - Install libsane-hpaio and sane-utils, respectively needed for
3330 multi-function peripherals and some SCSI scanners.
3332 * live-boot 2.0.15-1+tails1.35f1a14
3333 - Cherry-pick our fromiso= bugfixes from upstream 3.x branch.
3336 - Many tiny user interface improvements.
3337 - More robust HTP time synchronization wrt. network failures.
3338 Also, display the logs when the clock synchronization fails.
3339 - Disable GNOME automatic media mounting and opening to protect against
3340 a class of attacks that was recently put under the spotlights.
3341 Also, this feature was breaking the "no trace is left on local
3342 storage devices unless explicitly asked" part of Tails specification.
3343 - Make configuration more similar to the Tor Browser Bundle's one.
3344 - GnuPG: default to stronger digest algorithms.
3345 - Many more or less proper hacks to get the built image size under 700MB.
3346 - Compress the initramfs using LZMA for faster boot.
3349 - Run lb build inside eatmydata fsync-less environment to greatly improve
3352 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:52:19 +0100
3354 tails (0.6.2) unstable; urgency=high
3356 * Tor: upgrade to 0.2.1.29 (fixes CVE-2011-0427).
3358 - Upgrade Linux kernel, dpkg, libc6, NSS, OpenSSL, libxml2 (fixes various
3360 - Upgrade Claws Mail to 3.7.6 (new backport).
3361 - Install Liferea, tcpdump and tcpflow.
3362 * Seahorse: use hkp:// transport as it does not support hkps://.
3363 * FireGPG: use hkps:// to connect to the configured keyserver.
3364 * Build system: take note of the Debian Live tools versions being used
3365 to make next point-release process faster.
3366 * APT: don't ship package indices.
3368 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:59:43 +0100
3370 tails (0.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
3372 * Tor: upgrade to 0.1.28 (fixes CVE-2010-1676)
3373 * Software: upgrade NSS, Xulrunner, glibc (fixes various security issues)
3374 * FireGPG: use the same keyserver as the one configured in gpg.conf.
3375 * Seahorse: use same keyserver as in gpg.conf.
3376 * HTP: display the logs when the clock synchronization fails.
3377 * Update HTP configuration: www.google.com now redirects to
3378 encrypted.google.com.
3379 * Use the light version of the "Are you using Tor?" webpage.
3380 * Update AdBlock patterns.
3382 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 24 Dec 2010 13:28:29 +0100
3384 tails (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * New OpenPGP signing-only key. Details are on the website:
3389 https://amnesia.boum.org/GnuPG_key/
3392 - Fixed torbutton has migrated to testing, remove custom package.
3395 - Query ssl.scroogle.org instead of lists.debian.org.
3396 - Don't run when the interface that has gone up is the loopback one.
3399 - Add shortcut to securely erase free space in a partition.
3400 - The nautilus-wipe shortcut user interface is now translatable.
3403 - Really fix virtualization warning display.
3404 - More accurate APT pinning.
3405 - Disable Debian sid APT source again since a fixed live-config has
3406 migrated to Squeeze since then.
3408 * live-boot: upgrade to 2.0.8-1+tails1.13926a
3409 - Sometimes fixes the smem at shutdown bug.
3410 - Now possible to create a second partition on the USB stick T(A)ILS is
3414 - Support RT2860 wireless chipsets by installing firmware-ralink from
3416 - Install firmware-linux-nonfree from backports.
3417 - Fix b43 wireless chipsets by having b43-fwcutter extract firmwares at
3421 - Install live-build and live-helper from Squeeze.
3422 - Update SquashFS sort file.
3424 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:53:17 +0200
3426 tails (0.6~rc3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3428 ** SNAPSHOT build @a3ebb6c775d83d1a1448bc917a9f0995df93e44d **
3431 - Autostart Iceweasel with the GNOME session. This workarounds the
3432 "Iceweasel first page is not loaded" bug.
3435 - Upgrade htpdate script (taken from Git 7797fe9).
3438 - Disable ssh-agent auto-starting with X session: gnome-keyring is
3440 - Fix virtualization warning display.
3441 - Boot profile hook: write desktop file to /etc/skel.
3444 - Convert build system to live-build 2.0.1.
3445 - APT: fetch live-build and live-helper from Debian Live snapshots.
3446 - Remove dependency on live-build functions in chroot_local-hooks.
3447 This makes the build environment more robust and less dependent on
3448 live-build internals.
3449 - Remove hand-made rcS.d/S41tails-wifi: a hook now does this.
3450 - Measure time used by the lh build command.
3451 - Fix boot profile hook.
3452 - Boot profiling: wait a bit more: the current list does not include
3455 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 02 Oct 2010 23:06:46 +0200
3457 tails (0.6~rc2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3459 ** SNAPSHOT build @c0ca0760ff577a1e797cdddf0e95c5d62a986ec8 **
3462 - Refreshed AdBlock patterns (20100926).
3463 - Set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true (untested yet)
3464 - Torbutton: install patched 1.2.5-1+tails1 to fix the User-Agent bug,
3465 disable extensions.torbutton.spoof_english again.
3468 - WhisperBack: upgrade to 1.3~beta3 (main change: let the user provide
3469 optional email address and OpenPGP key).
3471 - Update haveged backport to 0.9-3~amnesia+lenny1.
3472 - Update live-boot custom packages (2.0.6-1+tails1.6797e8): fixes bugs
3473 in persistency and smem-on-shutdown.
3474 - Update custom htpdate script. Taken from commit d778a6094cb3 in our
3475 custom Git repository: fixes setting of date/time.
3478 - Bugfix: failed builds are now (hopefully) detected.
3479 - Fix permissions on files in /etc/apt/ that are preserved in the image.
3480 - Install version 2.0~a21-1 of live-build and live-helper in the image.
3481 We are too late in the release process to upgrade to current Squeeze
3482 version (2.0~a29-1).
3485 - Pidgin/OTR: disable the automatic OTR initiation and OTR requirement.
3487 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:23:17 +0200
3489 tails (0.6~1.gbpef2878) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3491 ** SNAPSHOT build @ef28782a0bf58004397b5fd303f938cc7d11ddaa **
3494 - Use a 2.6.32 kernel: linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.5-686 (2.6.32-23~bpo50+1)
3495 from backports.org. This should support far more hardware and
3496 especially a lot of wireless adapters.
3497 - Add firmware for RTL8192 wireless adapters.
3498 - Enable power management on all wireless interfaces on boot.
3503 - Install gfshare and ssss: two complementary implementations
3504 of Shamir's Secret Sharing.
3505 - Install tor-geoipdb.
3506 - Remove dialog, mc and xterm.
3509 - Set extensions.torbutton.spoof_english to its default true value
3510 in order to workaround a security issue:
3511 https://amnesia.boum.org/security/Iceweasel_exposes_a_rare_User-Agent/
3514 - Install the Iceweasel extension.
3515 - Use a hkps:// keyserver.
3518 - Install gnupg from backports.org so that hkps:// is supported.
3519 - Use a hkps:// keyserver.
3520 - Proxy traffic via polipo.
3521 - Prefer up-to-date digests and ciphers.
3523 * Vidalia: rebased our custom package against 0.2.10.
3526 - Built images are now named like this:
3527 tails-i386-lenny-0.5-20100925.iso
3528 - Use live-helper support for isohybrid options instead of doing the
3529 conversion ourselves. The default binary image type we build is now
3531 - Remove .deb built by m-a after they have been installed.
3532 - Setup custom GConf settings at build time rather than at boot time.
3533 - Move $HOME files to /etc/skel and let adduser deal with permissions.
3534 - Convert to live-boot / live-config / live-build 2.x branches.
3535 - Replaced our custom live-initramfs with a custom live-boot package;
3536 included version is 2.0.5-1+tails2.6797e8 from our Git repository:
3537 git clone git://git.immerda.ch/tails_live-boot.git
3538 - Install live-config* from the live-snapshots Lenny repository.
3539 Rationale: live-config binary packages differ depending on the target
3540 distribution, so that using Squeeze's live-config does not produce
3541 fully-working Lenny images.
3542 - Rename custom scripts, packages lists and syslinux menu entries from
3543 the amnesia-* namespace to the tails-* one.
3546 - Use (authenticated) HTP instead of NTP.
3547 - The htpdate script that is used comes from commit 43f5f83c0 in our
3548 custom repository: git://git.immerda.ch/tails_htp.git
3549 - Start Tor and Vidalia only once HTP is done.
3552 - Fix IPv6 firewall restore file. It was previously not used at all.
3553 - Use ftp.us.debian.org instead of the buggy GeoIP-powered
3555 - Gedit: don't autocreate backup copies.
3556 - Build images with syslinux>=4.01 that has better isohybrid support.
3557 - amnesia-security-check: got rid of the dependency on File::Slurp.
3558 - Take into account the migration of backports.org to backports.debian.org.
3559 - Make GnuPG key import errors fatal on boot.
3560 - Warn the user when T(A)ILS is running inside a virtual machine.
3561 - DNS cache: forget automapped .onion:s on Tor restart.
3563 * Documentation: imported Incognito's walkthrough, converted to
3564 Markdown, started the needed adaptation work.
3566 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 26 Sep 2010 11:06:50 +0200
3568 tails (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * The project has merged efforts with Incognito.
3571 It is now to be called "The (Amnesic) Incognito Live System".
3575 - Created the amnesia-news mailing-list.
3576 - Added a forum to the website.
3577 - Created a chatroom on IRC: #tails on irc.oftc.net
3580 - Workaround nasty NetworkManager vs. Tor bug that often
3581 prevented the system to connect to the Tor network: restart Tor and Vidalia
3582 when a network interface goes up.
3583 - onBoard now autodetects the keyboard layout... at least once some
3584 keys have been pressed.
3585 - New windows don't open in background anymore, thanks to
3587 - Memory wiping at shutdown is now lightning fast, and does not prevent
3588 the computer to halt anymore.
3589 - GNOME panel icons are right-aligned again.
3590 - Fixed permissions on APT config files.
3591 - Repaired mouse integration when running inside VirtualBox.
3594 - Torbutton: redirect to Scroogle when presented a Google captcha.
3595 - Revamped bookmarks
3596 . moved T(A)ILS own website to the personal toolbar
3597 . moved webmail links (that are expected to be more than 3 soon)
3598 to a dedicated folder.
3599 - Don't show AdBlock Plus icon in the toolbar.
3600 - Adblock Plus: updated patterns, configured to only update subscriptions
3601 once a year. Which means never, hopefully, as users do update their
3602 Live system on a regular basis, don't they?
3604 * Vidalia: rebased our custom package against 0.2.8.
3607 - Install Claws Mail from backports.org to use the X.509 CA
3608 certificates provided by Debian.
3609 - Enable PGP modules with basic configuration:
3610 . Automatically check signatures.
3611 . Use gpg-agent to manage passwords.
3612 . Display warning on start-up if GnuPG doesn't work.
3613 - Set the IO timeout to 120s (i.e. the double of the default 60s).
3616 - Automatically connect to irc.oftc.net with a randomized nickname,
3617 so as not to advertize the use of T(A)ILS; this nickname is made of:
3618 . a random firstname picked from the 2000 most registered by the U.S.
3619 social security administration in the 70s;
3620 . two random digits.
3621 Good old irc.indymedia.org is still configured - with same nickname -
3622 but is not enabled by default anymore.
3623 - Disabled MSN support, that is far too often affected by security flaws.
3625 * Build $HOME programmatically
3626 - Migrated all GConf settings, including the GNOME panel configuration,
3627 to XML files that are loaded at boot time.
3628 - Configure iceweasel profile skeleton in /etc/iceweasel.
3629 A brand new profile is setup from this skeleton once iceweasel is
3631 . build sqlite files at build time from plain SQL.
3632 . FireGPG: hard-code current firegpg version at build time to prevent
3633 the extension to think it was just updated.
3634 . stop shipping binary NSS files. These were here only to
3635 install CaCert's certificate, that is actually shipped by Debian's
3639 - Updated Debian Live snapshots APT repository URL.
3640 - Purge all devel packages at the end of the chroot configuration.
3641 - Make sure the hook that fixes permissions runs last.
3642 - Remove unwanted Iceweasel search plugins at build time.
3645 - Added a progress bar for boot time file readahead.
3646 - Readahead more (~37MB) stuff in foreground at boot time.
3647 - Make the APT pinning persist in the Live image.
3648 - localepurge: keep locales for all supported languages,
3649 don't bother when installing new packages.
3650 - Removed syslinux help menu: these help pages are either buggy or
3651 not understandable by non-geeks.
3652 - Fixed Windows autorun.
3653 - Disable a few live-initramfs scripts to improve boot time.
3654 - Firewall: forbid any IPv6 communication with the outside.
3655 - Virtualization support: install open-vm-tools.
3656 - WhisperBack: updated to 1.2.1, add a random bug ID to the sent
3658 - Prompt for CD removal on shutdown, not for USB device.
3660 * live-initramfs: new package built from our Git (e2890a04ff) repository.
3661 - Merged upstream changes up to 1.177.2-1.
3662 - New noprompt=usb feature.
3663 - Fix buggy memory wiping and shutdown.
3664 - Really reboot when asked, rather than shutting down the system.
3667 - Upgraded to a new custom, patched package (0.93.0-0ubuntu4~amnesia1).
3668 - Added an entry in the Applications menu.
3671 - Install vim-nox with basic configuration
3673 - Install monkeysphere and msva-perl
3674 - Replaced randomsound with haveged as an additional source of entropy.
3677 - Build ralink rt2570 wifi modules.
3678 - Build rt2860 wifi modules from Squeeze. This supports the RT2860
3679 wireless adapter, found particularly in the ASUS EeePC model 901
3681 - Build broadcom-sta-source wifi modules.
3682 - Bugfix: cpufreq modules were not properly added to /etc/modules.
3683 - Use 800x600 mode on boot rather than 1024x768 for compatibility
3684 with smaller displays.
3686 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:14:13 +0200
3688 amnesia (0.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3690 New release, mainly aimed at fixing live-initramfs security issue
3691 (Debian bug #568750), with an additional set of small enhancements as
3694 * live-initramfs: new custom package built from our own live-initramfs
3695 Git repository (commit 8b96e5a6cf8abc)
3696 - based on new 1.173.1-1 upstream release
3697 - fixed live-media=removable behaviour so that filesystem images found
3698 on non-removable storage are really never used (Debian bug #568750)
3700 * Vidalia: bring back our UI customizations (0.2.7-1~lenny+amnesia1)
3702 * APT: consistently use the GeoIP-powered cdn.debian.net
3704 * Software: make room so that {alpha, future} Squeeze images fit on
3706 - only install OpenOffice.org's calc, draw, impress, math and writer
3708 - removed OpenOffice.org's English hyphenation and thesaurus
3709 - removed hunspell, wonder why it was ever added
3712 - explicitly disable persistence, better safe than sorry
3713 - removed compulsory 15s timeout, live-initramfs knows how to wait for
3714 the Live media to be ready
3716 * Build system: don't cache rootfs anymore
3718 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:28:16 +0100
3720 amnesia (0.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * Brown paper bag bugfix release: have amnesia-security-check use
3723 entries publication time, rather than update time... else tagging
3724 a security issue as fixed, after releasing a new version, make this
3725 issue be announced to every user of this new, fixed version.
3727 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:58:41 +0100
3729 amnesia (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3731 * We now only build and ship "Hybrid" ISO images, which can be either
3732 burnt on CD-ROM or dd'd to a USB stick or hard disk.
3734 * l10n: we now build and ship multilingual images; initially supported
3735 (or rather wanna-be-supported) languages are: ar, zh, de, en, fr, it,
3737 - install Iceweasel's and OpenOffice.org's l10n packages for every
3739 - stop installing localized help for OpenOffice.org, we can't afford it
3740 for enough languages
3741 - when possible, Iceweasel's homepage and default search engine are localized
3742 - added Iceweasel's "any language" Scroogle SSL search engine
3743 - when the documentation icon is clicked, display the local wiki in
3744 currently used language, if available
3745 - the Nautilus wipe script is now translatable
3746 - added gnome-keyboard-applet to the Gnome panel
3749 - replaced Icedove with claws mail, in a bit rough way; see
3750 https://amnesia.boum.org/todo/replace_icedove_with_claws/ for best
3751 practices and configuration advices
3752 - virtual keyboard: install onBoard instead of kvkbd
3753 - Tor controller: install Vidalia instead of TorK
3754 - install only chosen parts of Gnome, rather than gnome-desktop-environment
3755 - do not install xdialog, which is unused and not in Squeeze
3756 - stop installing grub as it breaks Squeeze builds (see Debian bug #467620)
3757 - install live-helper from snapshots repository into the Live image
3760 - do not install the NoScript extension anymore: it is not strictly
3761 necessary but bloodily annoying
3763 * Provide WhisperBack 1.2 for anonymous, GnuPG-encrypted bug reporting.
3764 - added dependency on python-gnutls
3765 - install the SMTP hidden relay's certificate
3767 * amnesia-security-check: new program that tells users that the amnesia
3768 version they are running is affected by security flaws, and which ones
3769 they are; this program is run at Gnome session startup, after sleeping
3770 2 minutes to let Tor a chance to initialize.
3773 - uses the Desktop Notifications framework
3774 - fetches the security atom feed from the wiki
3775 - verifies the server certificate against its known CA
3776 - tries fetching the localized feed; if it fails, fetch the default
3779 * live-initramfs: new custom package built from our own live-initramfs
3780 Git repository (commit 40e957c4b89099e06421)
3781 - at shutdown time, ask the user to unplug the CD / USB stick, then run
3782 smem, wait for it to finish, then attempt to immediately halt
3785 - bumped dependency on live-helper to >= 2.0a6 and adapted our config
3786 - generate hybrid ISO images by default, when installed syslinux is
3788 - stop trying to support building several images in a row, it is still
3789 broken and less needed now that we ship hybrid ISO images
3790 - scripts/config: specify distribution when initializing defaults
3791 - updated Debian Live APT repository's signing key
3794 - disable virtualbox packages installing and module building on !i386
3795 && !amd64, as PowerPC is not a supported guest architecture
3796 - built and imported tor_0.2.1.20-1~~lenny+1_powerpc.deb
3799 - rough beginnings of a scratch Squeeze branch, currently unsupported
3800 - install gobby-infinote
3803 - updated GnuPG key with up-to-date signatures
3804 - more improvements on boot time from CD
3805 - enhanced the wipe in Nautilus UI (now asks for confirmation and
3806 reports success or failure)
3807 - removed the "restart Tor" launcher from the Gnome panel
3809 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:28:04 +0100
3811 amnesia (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3813 * software: removed openvpn, added
3819 - lvm2 (with disabled initscript as it slows-down too much the boot in certain
3821 - NetworkManager 0.7 (from backports.org) to support non-DHCP networking
3823 - randomsound to enhance the kernel's random pool
3825 - install the latest stable release from deb.torproject.org
3826 - ifupdown script now uses SIGHUP signal rather than a whole tor
3827 restart, so that in the middle of it vidalia won't start it's own
3829 - configure Gnome proxy to use Tor
3831 - adblockplus: upgraded to 1.0.2
3832 - adblockplus: subscribe to US and DE EasyList extensions, updated patterns
3833 - firegpg is now installed from Debian Squeeze rather than manually; current
3834 version is then 0.7.10
3835 - firegpg: use better keyserver ... namely pool.sks-keyservers.net
3836 - added bookmark to Amnesia's own website
3837 - use a custom "amnesiabranding" extension to localize the default search
3838 engine and homepage depending on the current locale
3839 - updated noscript whitelist
3840 - disable overriden homepage redirect on iceweasel upgrade
3842 - nicer default configuration with verified irc.indymedia.org's SSL cert
3843 - do not parse incoming messages for formatting
3844 - hide formatting toolbar
3845 * hardware compatibility
3847 - beginning of support for the ppc architecture
3848 - load acpi-cpufreq, cpufreq_ondemand and cpufreq_powersave kernel
3850 * live-initramfs: custom, updated package based on upstream's 1.157.4-1, built
3851 from commit b0a4265f9f30bad945da of amnesia's custom live-initramfs Git
3853 - securely erases RAM on shutdown using smem
3854 - fixes the noprompt bug when running from USB
3855 - disables local swap partitions usage, wrongly enabled by upstream
3856 * fully support for running as a guest system in VirtualBox
3857 - install guest utils and X11 drivers
3858 - build virtualbox-ose kernel modules at image build time
3860 - new (translatable) wiki, using ikiwiki, with integrated bugs and todo
3861 tracking system a static version of the wiki is included in generated
3862 images and linked from the Desktop
3864 - adapt for live-helper 2.0, and depend on it
3865 - get amnesia version from debian/changelog
3866 - include the full version in ISO volume name
3867 - save .list, .packages and .buildlog
3868 - scripts/clean: cleanup any created dir in binary_local-includes
3869 - updated Debian Live snapshot packages repository URL and signing key
3870 - remove duplicated apt/preferences file, the live-helper bug has been
3872 * l10n: beginning of support for --language=en
3874 - improved boot time on CD by ordering files in the squashfs in the order they
3875 are used during boot
3876 - added a amnesia-version script to built images, that outputs the current
3878 - added a amnesia-debug script that prepares a tarball with information that
3879 could be useful for developpers
3880 - updated Amnesia GnuPG key to a new 4096R one
3881 - set time with NTP when a network interface is brought up
3882 - import amnesia's GnuPG pubkey into the live session user's keyring
3883 - do not ask DHCP for a specific hostname
3884 - install localepurge, only keep en, fr, de and es locales, which reduces the
3885 generated images' size by 100MB
3886 - added a hook to replace /sbin/swapon with a script that only runs
3888 - moved networking hooks responsibility from ifupdown to NetworkManager
3890 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:17:08 +0100
3892 amnesia (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3894 * imported /home/amnesia, then:
3895 - more user-friendly shell, umask 077
3896 - updated panel, added launcher to restart Tor
3897 - mv $HOME/bin/* /usr/local/bin/
3898 - removed metacity sessions
3899 - removed gstreamer's registry, better keep this dynamically updated
3900 - rm .qt/qt_plugins_3.3rc, better keep this dynamically updated
3901 - removed .gnome/gnome-vfs/.trash_entry_cache
3902 - removed kconf_update log
3903 - removed and excluded Epiphany configuration (not installed)
3906 - enable caching in RAM
3907 - explicitly disable ssl v2, and enable ssl v3 + tls
3908 - removed prefs for the non-installed webdeveloper
3909 - removed the SSL Blacklist extension (not so useful, licensing issues)
3910 - deep profile directory cleanup
3911 - extensions cleanup: prefer Debian-packaged ones, cleanly reinstalled
3912 AddBlock Plus and CS Lite to allow upgrading them
3913 - updated pluginreg.dat and localstore.rdf
3914 - moved some settings to user.js
3915 - made cookie/JavaScript whitelists more consistent
3916 - force httpS on whitelisted sites
3917 - NoScript: marked google and gmail as untrusted
3918 - some user interface tweaks, mainly for NoScript
3919 - FireGPG: disable the buggy auto-detection feature, the link to firegpg's
3920 homepage in generated pgp messages and the GMail interface (which won't
3921 work without JavaScript anyway)
3922 - updated blocklist.xml
3923 - removed and excluded a bunch of files in the profile directory
3924 * icedove: clean the profile directory up just like we did for iceweasel
3925 * software: install msmtp and mutt
3927 - use rsync rather than tar
3930 - reviewed pidgin-otr security (see TODO)
3932 - stop calling home-refresh in lh_build
3933 - include home-refresh in generated images
3935 - fix permissions on local includes at build time
3936 - updated scripts/{build,clean} wrt. new $HOME handling
3937 - scripts/{build,config}: stop guessing BASEDIR, we must be run from
3938 the root of the source directory anyway
3939 - stop storing /etc/amnesia/version in Git, delete it at clean time
3941 - converted Changelog to the Debian format and location, updated
3942 build scripts accordingly
3943 - added a README symlink at the root of the source directory
3944 - basic debian/ directory (not working for building packages yet,
3945 but at least we can now use git-dch)
3946 - added debian/gbp.conf with our custom options for git-dch
3947 - config/amnesia: introduce new $AMNESIA_DEV_* variables to be used
3948 by developpers' scripts
3949 - added ./release script: a wrapper around git-dch, git-commit and git-tag
3951 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:42:03 +0200
3953 amnesia (0.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3955 * Forked Privatix 9.03.15, by Markus Mandalka:
3956 http://mandalka.name/privatix/index.html.en
3957 Everything has since been rewritten or so heavily changed that nothing
3958 remains from the original code... apart of a bunch of Gnome settings.
3960 - install a bunch of non-free wifi firmwares
3961 - install xsane and add the live user to the scanner group
3962 - install aircrack-ng
3963 - install xserver-xorg-video-geode on i386 (eCafe support)
3964 - install xserver-xorg-video-all
3965 - install firmware-linux from backports.org
3966 - install system-config-printer
3967 - added instructions in README.eCAFE to support the Hercules eCAFE EC-800
3970 - configure pinning to support installing chosen packages from
3971 squeeze; the APT source for testing is hardcoded in chroot_sources/,
3972 since there is no way to use $LH_CHROOT_MIRROR in chroot_local-hooks
3973 - give backports.org priority 200, so that we track upgrades of packages
3974 installed from there
3975 * release: include the Changelog and TODO in the generated images,
3976 in the /usr/share/doc/amnesia/ directory
3977 * software: install gnomebaker when building Gnome-based live OS, to
3978 easily clone myself when running from CD
3980 - build i386 images when the build host is amd64
3981 - added a version file: /etc/amnesia/version
3982 - use snapshot live-* packages inside the images
3983 - setup timezone depending on the chosen build locale
3984 - rely on standard live-initramfs adduser to do our user setup
3985 (including sudo vs. Gnome/KDE, etc.)
3986 - stop "supporting" KDE
3987 - allow building several images at once
3988 - migrated most of lh_config invocations to scripts/config
3989 - append "noprompt" so that halting/rebooting work with splashy
3990 - moved our own variables to config/amnesia, using the namespace
3993 - default search engine is now Scroogle SSL, configured to search pages
3994 in French language; the English one is also installed
3995 - never ask to save passwords or forms content
3996 - configured the torbutton extension to use polipo
3997 - installed the CACert root certificate
3998 - installed the SSL Blacklist extension and the blacklist data
3999 - installed the FireGPG extension
4000 - installed the CS Lite extension
4001 - installed the NoScript extension
4002 - NoScript, CS Lite: replaced the default whitelists with a list of
4003 trusted, non-commercial Internet Service Providers
4004 - configure extensions (add to prefs.js):
4005 user_pref("extensions.torbutton.startup", true);
4006 user_pref("extensions.torbutton.startup_state", 1);
4007 user_pref("extensions.torbutton.tor_enabled", true);
4008 user_pref("noscript.notify.hide", true);
4009 user_pref("capability.policy.maonoscript.sites", "about:
4010 about:blank about:certerror about:config about:credits
4011 about:neterror about:plugins about:privatebrowsing
4012 about:sessionrestore chrome: resource:");
4013 user_pref("extensions.firegpg.no_updates", true);
4014 - install the NoScript plugin from Debian squeeze
4015 - delete urlclassifier3.sqlite on $HOME refresh: as we disabled
4016 "safebrowsing", this huge file is of no use
4017 - torbutton: install newer version from Squeeze
4018 * linux: removed non-686 kernel flavours when building i386 images
4019 * compatibility: append "live-media=removable live-media-timeout=15", to
4020 prevent blindly booting another debian-live installed on the hard disk
4024 - cryptkeeper: Gnome system tray applet to encrypt files with EncFS
4025 - kvkbd: virtual keyboard (installed from backports.org)
4026 - sshfs (and added live user to the fuse group)
4027 - less, secure-delete, wipe, seahorse, sshfs, ntfs-3g
4030 - enable the transparent proxy, the DNS resolver, and the control port
4031 - save authentication cookie to /tmp/control_auth_cookie, so that the
4032 live user can use Tork and co.
4033 - autostart Tork with Gnome
4034 - Tork: installed, disabled most notifications and startup tips
4035 - added a restart tor hook to if-up.d (used by Network Manager as well),
4036 so that Tor does work immediately even if the network cable was
4037 plugged late in/after the boot process
4039 - added a nautilus-script to wipe files and directories
4040 - bash with working completion for the live user
4041 * polipo: install and configure this HTTP proxy to forward requests
4043 * DNS: install and configure pdnsd to forward any DNS request through
4045 * firewall: force every outgoing TCP connection through the Tor
4046 transparent proxy, discard any outgoing UDP connection
4048 - set syslinux timeout to 4 seconds
4049 - use splashy for more user-friendly boot/halt sequences
4051 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:09:15 +0200