1 tails (0.20.1) unstable; urgency=low
4 - Install Tor 0.2.4.17-rc-1~d60.squeeze+1 from the Tor project's repository.
5 - Install Iceweasel 17.0.9esr with Torbrowser patches.
6 - Install Linux kernel 3.10-3 (version 3.10.11-1) from sid.
9 - Remount persistence devices read-only at shutdown/reboot time
11 - Greeter: display a warning icon on admin password mismatch and on
12 persistence unlocking failure. Thanks to Andres Gomez Ramirez
13 <andres.gomez@cern.ch> for the fix!
14 - Don't torsocksify Pidgin.
15 Instead we disable Pidgin's GNOME integration to get the "Global proxy
16 configuration", which we set to use Tor. This fixes the I2P IRC account.
17 - Additional software: fix typo in notification.
18 - Allow installing "Priority: standard" packages that we do not install
19 by default: remove them late in the build process instead of assigning
20 them a -1 APT pinning level.
23 - Update AdBlock Plus patterns.
24 - Use more unique ISO file name when building from Jenkins.
25 - Additional software: point to the system log on upgrade failure.
26 - Set SOCKS5_USER and SOCKS5_PASSWORD in the connect-socks wrapper (used
27 by Git). Else, Tor 0.2.4's IsolateSOCKSAuth and connect-proxy
28 sometimes play together in some way that makes connect-proxy ask for
29 a password to connect to the SocksPort. SOCKS5_USER and
30 SOCKS5_PASSWORD are passed through unchanged if they were manually set
32 - Use our custom connect-socks wrapper for SSH. Else, Tor 0.2.4's
33 IsolateSOCKSAuth and connect-proxy sometimes play together in some way
34 that makes connect-proxy ask for a password to connect to the
35 SocksPort. Note that connect-socks uses the default SocksPort too, so
36 no change here wrt. our connection isolation design.
39 - Import new translations from Transifex.
42 - Fix old ISO checking for consistent error reporting.
43 - Remove custom persistence test from manual test suite.
44 It was removed for the GUI in t-p-s 0.33.
46 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2013 15:49:36 +0200
48 tails (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
51 - Install Linux kernel 3.10.3-1 from Debian unstable.
52 - Iceweasel 17.0.8esr + Torbrowser patches.
55 - Prevent Iceweasel from displaying a warning when leaving HTTPS web sites.
56 - Make Iceweasel use the correct, localized search engine.
57 - Fix Git access to https:// repositories.
60 - Install Dasher, a predictive text entry tool.
61 - Add a wrapper around TrueCrypt which displays a warning about it soon
62 being deprecated in Tails.
63 - Remove Pidgin libraries for all protocols but IRC and Jabber/XMPP.
64 Many of the other protocols Pidgin support are broken in Tails and
65 haven't got any security auditting.
66 - Disable the pre-defined Pidgin accounts so they do not auto-connect
68 - Include information about Alsa in WhisperBack reports.
69 - Explicitly restrict access to ptrace. While this setting was enabled
70 by default in Debian's Linux 3.9.6-1, it will later disabled in 3.9.7-1.
71 It's unclear what will happen next, so let's explicitly enable it ourselves.
72 - Do not display dialog when a message is sent in Claws Mail.
73 - Sync iceweasel preferences with the Torbrowser's.
76 - Many translation updates all over the place.
77 - Merge all Tails-related POT files into one, and make use of intltoolize
78 for better integration with Transifex.
80 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:19:57 +0200
82 tails (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
85 - Install Linux kernel 3.9.5-1 from Debian unstable.
86 Features of particular interest for Tails are the Yama LSM
87 (ptrace scope restrictions) and improved hardware support.
88 As a corollary, install initramfs-tools from there too.
89 - Iceweasel 17.0.7esr + Torbrowser patches.
90 - Unblock Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, WWAN and WiMAX; block every other type of
91 wireless device. Next steps are described on the
92 todo/protect_against_external_bus_memory_forensics ticket.
95 - Fix write access to boot medium at the block device level,
96 by installing bilibop-udev. Thanks to quidame for his support.
97 - tails-greeter l10n-related fixes, thanks to winterfairy:
98 · Fix so translations is applied on password mismatch messages.
99 · Separate forward and login buttons and make them translatable.
100 - Fix link to documentation when no sudo password is set.
101 - gpgApplet: partial fix for clipboard emptying after a wrong passphrase
103 - Workaround aufs bug in Unsafe Browser script.
106 - Drop GNOME proxy settings: we did not find any use of it we were keen
107 to support, other than two programs (Seahorse, Pidgin) that are now run
109 - Format newly created persistent volumes as ext4.
110 - GnuPG: don't connect to the keyserver specified by the key owner.
111 This feature opens the door to a variety of subtle attacks.
112 - GnuPG: locate keys only from local keyrings.
113 This is probably the default, but better safe than sorry.
114 - Install virt-what from Wheezy.
115 The version from Squeeze does not detect at least Parallels for Mac v.8.
116 - Upgrade live-boot and live-config to the 3.0.x final version from Wheezy.
117 · Remove /live and /lib/live/image compatibility symlinks.
118 · Add /live/overlay -> /lib/live/mount/overlay symlink.
119 The live-boot changes (commit d2b2a461) brought to fix Debian bug
120 #696495 revert some of our previous changes (commit 77dab1cb), and as
121 a result, at the time live-persist runs, no tmpfs is mounted on
122 /live/overlay, which breaks the aufs mount. So, let's just ensure
123 /live/overlay points to a tmpfs.
124 · Really disable policykit and sudo live-config hooks.
125 ... by making it believe they've already been run.
126 This workarounds new live-config's default behavior.
129 - Many translation updates all over the place.
132 - Re-enable previously disabled boot device permissions test.
134 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:36:20 +0200
136 tails (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
139 - Support obfs3 bridges.
140 - Automatically install a custom list of additional packages chosen by
141 the user at the beginning of every working session, and upgrade them
142 once a network connection is established (technology preview).
145 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.6esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1.
146 - Update Torbrowser patches to current maint-2.4 branch (567682b).
147 - Isolate DOM storage to first party URI, and enable DOM storage:
148 don't set dom.storage.enabled anymore, and set Torbutton's
149 disable_domstorage to false.
150 - Isolate the image cache per url bar domain.
151 - Torbutton 1.5.2, and various prefs hacks to fix breakage:
152 · Add .saved version of the Torbutton preferences the TBB also sets.
153 · Set TOR_SOCKS_HOST and TOR_SOCKS_PORT.
154 · Move some prefs (network.proxy.*, extensions.autoDisableScopes,
155 extensions.foxyproxy.last-version) to user.js.
156 Else, with Torbutton 1.5.x, these ones are not taken into account.
157 · Set network.proxy.socks_version.
158 Else we get the meaningless user_pref("network.proxy.socks_version", 9063);
159 in prefs.js after the initial startup.
160 · Set extensions.foxyproxy.socks_remote_dns to true.
161 Else, it overrides the various ways we set network.proxy.socks_remote_dns,
162 which in turn makes Torbutton think it should start in non-Tor mode.
163 · Also pass the TOR_SOCKS_* environment variables to iceweasel when
164 generating the profile: Torbutton behaves differently depending on
165 these variables, so we don't want the initial profile generation to be
166 done without them. In practice, this has no implication that we could
167 see right now, but better safe than sorry.
168 · Import all version overrides from the TBB prefs.
169 Else, the User-Agent sent in the HTTP headers is fine, but real
170 values leak with JavaScript, as demonstrated by ip-check's "Browser
172 · Move a bunch of settings to user_pref(), that are not applied otherwise.
173 For some, this fixes a regression in 0.18~rc1.
174 For other, the bug was already present in Tails 0.17.2.
175 - HTTPS Everywhere 3.2.
176 - Update prefs to match the TBB's, fix bugs, and take advantage of the latest
178 · Increase pipeline randomization.
179 · Fix @font-face handling of local() fonts.
180 Also disable fallback font rendering.
181 · Explicitly disable SPDY v2 and v3.
182 · Update http pipelining prefs.
183 - Make prefs organization closer to the TBB's:
184 · Remove Torbutton prefs that we set at their default value.
185 · Import Torbutton preferences from the TBB.
186 · Organize iceweasel config files in sections the same way as the TBB.
188 · Don't set extensions.torbutton.clear_cookies nor
189 extensions.torbutton.saved.share_proxy_settings:
190 we don't care about toggling anymore.
191 · Don't set extensions.torbutton.saved.download_retention nor
192 extensions.torbutton.saved.search_suggest:
193 these settings are not used in Torbutton anymore.
194 - Update unsafe browser prefs mangling accordingly.
195 - Move network.protocol-handler.warn-external.* to user_pref().
196 Else they're not applied.
197 These prefs are actually ignored by Firefox these days -- the TBB
198 design doc reads "They are set still anyway out of respect for the
199 dead". Let's go on doing the same.
200 - Update extensions.adblockplus.currentVersion.
201 - Fetch xul-ext-https-everywhere (3.2-2) and xul-ext-noscript (2.6.6.1-1)
202 from Debian unstable. They were uploaded there, and accordingly removed
206 - Linux 3.2.41-2+deb7u2.
207 - Fixed swapped filenames of tails-{reboot,shutdown}.desktop.
208 Thanks to Mikko Harhanen for the patch.
209 - Only add ClientTransportPlugin to torrc when bridge mode is enabled.
210 This should bring back support for proxies of type other than obfsproxy.
213 - Set kernel.dmesg_restrict=1, and make /proc/<pid>/ invisible
214 and restricted for other users. It makes it slightly harder for an attacker
215 to gather information that may allow them to escalate privileges.
216 - Install gnome-screenshot.
217 - Don't disable IPv6 on all network interfaces anymore.
218 It turns out the IPv6 leaks we wanted to fix actually don't exist.
219 - Add a "About Tails" launcher in the System menu.
220 - Install GNOME accessibility themes.
221 - Use 'Getting started...' as the homepage for Tails documentation button.
222 - Stop relying on the obsolete /live/image compatibility symlink.
223 - Disable audio preview in Nautilus.
224 - Wheezy was released => Squeeze is now oldstable.
225 - Pick Tor from deb.torproject.org regardless of the release name they
226 advertise. At some point we needed it, their APT repository still thought
227 that stable == Squeeze.
228 - Add Wheezy APT sources.
229 - Install Linux and related packages from Wheezy.
230 Debian sid just got Linux 3.8, and we don't want to switch to a new kernel
232 - Fetch laptop-mode-tools from Wheezy.
233 Wheezy has the version we've been installing in 0.18~rc1,
234 while a newer one was uploaded to sid in the meantime.
235 - Fetch a few packages from Wheezy instead of unstable.
236 Namely: spice-vdagent, libregexp-common-perl, macchanger, service-wrapper,
237 libservice-wrapper-java and libservice-wrapper-jni.
238 Wheezy has the versions we've been installing for a while, so let's
239 avoid having unstable push a newer one to us uselessly at some point.
240 Note that at the time of this writing, the versions in sid and in Wheezy
241 are the same, so this commit is effectively a no-op as of today: it is
242 merely a safeguard for the future.
245 - Many translation updates all over the place.
248 - Make Vagrant's build-tails script support Jenkins too.
251 - Fix Unsafe Browser test broken by hidepid.
253 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 13 May 2013 22:17:38 +0200
255 tails (0.17.2) unstable; urgency=low
258 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.5esr-0+tails2~bpo60+1.
259 - Stop displaying obsolete context menu entries ("Open Tor URL" and friends).
262 - Update Linux to 3.2.41-2
265 - Use more reliable OpenPGP keyservers:
266 · use the hkps pool in GnuPG (and import their SSL CA)
267 · use hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net in Seahorse (as it does not support
269 - Keep udisks users (GNOME Disk Utility, tails-persistence-setup, etc.)
270 from resetting the system partition's attributes when manipulating the
271 partition table. To this end, backport the relevant bugfix from Wheezy
272 into parted 2.3-5+tails1. This allowed to remove the sgdisk-based
273 workaround in tais-persistence-setup, and to stop installing
274 python-parted. All this is a first needed step to fix
275 todo/make_system_disk_read-only in a future release.
278 - Disable NoScript's HTML5 media click-to-play for better user experience.
281 - Tails USB installer: update translations for French, German, Spanish,
282 Finnish, Greek, Italian, Latvian, Dutch, Polish and Chinese.
283 - Tails Greeter: update translations for Farsi, Chinese, French;
284 new translations: Finnish, Norwegian Bokmål, Galician.
285 - tails-persistence-setup: update Farsi and Chinese translations;
286 import new translations for Finnish and Swedish.
287 - WhisperBack: update translations for Arabic, French, German, Greek,
288 Spanish, Korean, Polish, Russian. New translations: Finnish, Chinese.
291 - Add automated testing framework (Sikuli, Cucumber, libvirt -based)
292 with a bunch of tests.
294 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:17:26 +0200
296 tails (0.17.1) unstable; urgency=low
299 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.4esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1.
302 - Update Linux to 3.2.39-2.
303 It includes the drm and agp subsystems from Linux 3.4.29.
304 - Don't install xserver-xorg-video-rendition backport.
305 xserver-xorg-video-rendition has been removed from squeeze-backports
306 due to an upstream tarball mismatch discover when merging backports
307 into the main Debian archive, and xserver-xorg-video-all still depends
308 on it, so we explicitly install all drivers from -all but -rendition
309 as a (hopefully temporary) workaround.
312 - Remove Indymedia IRC account, until we ship a version of Pidgin
313 with SASL support, that is when Tails is based on Wheezy.
316 - Don't ship the wiki's todo and bugs on ISO images.
318 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:54:11 +0100
320 tails (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
323 - Install the KeePassX password manager, with a configuration and
324 documentation that makes it easy to persist the password database.
327 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.3esr-1+tails1~bpo60+1.
328 - Install xul-ext-adblock-plus from squeeze-backports.
329 - Do not allow listing all available fonts.
330 Set browser.display.max_font_attempts and browser.display.max_font_count
331 to enable the Torbrowser Limit-the-number-of-fonts-per-document patch.
332 - Set default spellchecker dictionary to English (USA),
333 and localize it according to locale with our custom branding extension.
334 - Disable the add-ons automatic update feature.
335 - Make the generated profile world-readable.
336 - Remove NoScript click-to-play confirmation.
337 - Sync some prefs set by Torbutton, to be ready when it stops setting these.
338 - Disable navigation timing.
339 - Disable SPDY. It stores state and may have keepalive issues.
340 - More aggressive iceweasel HTTP pipelining settings.
341 - Enable WebGL (as click-to-play only).
342 - Disable network.http.connection-retry-timeout.
343 - Disable full path information for plugins.
344 - Remove NoScript blocks of WebFonts.
345 - Disable DOM storage in Torbutton.
346 Since we don't apply the 0026-Isolate-DOM-storage-to-first-party-URI.patch
347 Torbrowser patch yet, and still disable DOM storage, we need to tell
348 Torbutton not to use it.
349 - Synchronize iceweasel's general.useragent.override with TBB based on FF17.
350 The User-Agent settings are not kept up-to-date anymore in Torbutton, so
351 we have to keep in sync manually with TBB's settings.
352 - Remove obsolete APT pining for Torbutton.
353 It's not maintained in Debian anymore, so we now fetch it from our own
355 - Fetch FoxyProxy from Debian experimental and libnspr4-0d from
356 squeeze-backports, for compatibility with Iceweasel 17.
357 - Rebase bookmarks file on top of the default iceweasel 17 one.
358 - Explicitly disable AdBlock Plus "correct typos" feature.
359 This feature connects to http://urlfixer.org/.
360 It is disabled by default in 2.2-1, but let's be careful.
363 - Upgrade to live-boot 3.0~b11-1 and live-config 3.0.12-1.
364 Accordingly update the 9980-permissions hook, live-persist,
365 unsafe-browser and boot-profile.
366 Add compatibility symlinks from /live to /lib/live, and from /live/image
367 to /lib/live/mount/medium, to ease the transition.
368 - Check for errors when sourcing live-boot files, e.g. to detect when
369 they have been renamed upstream.
370 - Don't add "quiet" to the kernel command-line ourselves.
371 Else, it appears twice as live-build's lb_binary_syslinux adds it too.
372 Historically, we've been adding it ourselves on top of that because
373 lb_binary_yaboot does not add it, but since we gave up the PowerPC support
374 attempt, we're now only interested in syslinux, so let's make it easier
375 for the general case, e.g. when one wants to remove the "quiet" parameter
376 as suggested by our "Tails does not start" debugging documentation.
377 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.4.
380 - Many bugfixes brought by the Debian Squeeze 6.0.7 point-release.
381 - Use the regular GnuPG agent + pinentry-gtk2 instead of Seahorse
382 as a GnuPG agent. This fixes usage of OpenPGP in Claws Mail,
383 and brings support for OpenPGP smartcards.
384 - Enable I2P hidden mode.
385 Else, killing I2P ungracefully is bad for the I2P network.
386 - live-persist: move error() function before the first potential usecase.
387 - Add missing executable bit on restart-tor and restart-vidalia.
388 - Add shutdown and reboot launchers to the menu.
389 This workarounds the lack of a shutdown helper applet in camouflage mode.
390 - Remove Pidgin's MXit and Sametime support.
391 ... at least until CVE-2013-0273, CVE-2013-0272 and CVE-2013-0271 are
392 fixed in Debian stable. While we're at it, don't force file removal in
393 these "set -e" build scripts: fail hard, instead of silently ignoring
394 the fact that files may have moved or disappeared.
397 - Install recent Intel and AMD microcode from squeeze-backports,
398 explicitly excluding the iucode-tool package that's not a good idea
400 - Install firmware loader for Qualcomm Gobi USB chipsets.
401 This is needed to have various mobile broadband chipsets work.
402 - Upgrade barry to 0.18.3-5~bpo60+1.
403 This much improved new version supports more hardware & ISP,
404 and does not display dozens of spurious error messages at boot time.
407 - Remove APT local cache (/Var/cache/apt/{,src}pkgcache.bin).
409 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:37:57 +0100
411 tails (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
414 - Replace the too-easy-to-misclick shutdown button with a better
415 "Shutdown Helper" Gnome applet.
416 - Display ~/Persistent in GNOME Places and GtkFileChooser if it is mounted.
417 - Set Unsafe Browser's window title to "Unsafe Browser".
418 - Install ekeyd to support the EntropyKey.
419 - Install font for Sinhala.
420 - Update Poedit to 1.5.4.
421 - Kill Vidalia when restarting Tor.
422 Doing this as early as possible exposes Vidalia's "broken onion" icon
424 - Hide the persistence setup launchers in kiosk mode.
425 - Add a shell library for Tor functions.
426 These are shared among multiple of our scripts.
427 - Install dictionaries for supported languages.
428 Install hunspell dictionaries when possible,
429 fall back on myspell ones else.
432 - Disable IPv6 on all network interfaces.
433 This is a workaround for the IPv6 link-local multicast leak that was recently
434 discovered. Tails has no local service that listens on IPv6, so there should be
435 no regression, hopefully, unless one wants to play with OnionCat and VoIP,
436 but those of us should know how to workaround this anyway.
437 - live-persist: Fix variable mismatch, fixing probe white-list.
438 Tails may previously have been able to list GPT partitions labelled
439 "TailsData" on hard drives (!) as valid persistence volumes...
440 - live-persist: Fix --media option when no devices are attached.
441 Earlier, if it was set to e.g. 'removable-usb' and no USB storage was
442 connected, $whitelistdev would be empty, which is interpreted like
443 all devices are ok by the rest of the code.
444 - Fix SCIM in the autostarted web browser: save IM environment variables
445 to a file during Desktop session startup, and export them into the
446 autostarted browser's environment.
447 - Talk of DVD, not of CD, in the shutdown messages.
448 - Make tordate work in bridge mode with an incorrect clock.
449 When using a bridge Tor reports TLS cert lifetime errors (e.g. when
450 the system clock is way off) with severity "info", but when no bridge
451 is used the severity is "warn". tordate/20-time.sh depends on grepping
452 these error messages, so we termporarily increase Tor's logging
453 severity when using bridge mode. If we don't do this tordate will
454 sleep forever, leaving Tor in a non-working state.
455 · White-list root to use Tor's ControlPort.
456 · Add logging for is_clock_way_off().
457 · Remove Tor's log before time syncing.
458 We depend on grepping stuff from the Tor log (especially for
459 tordate/20-time.sh), so deleting it seems like a Good Thing(TM).
460 · Stop Tor before messing with its log or data dir.
461 - live-persist: limit searched devices the same way as live-boot.
462 If no --media argument is specified, use live-boot's
463 "(live-media|bootfrom)=removable(|-usb)" argument to limit devices
464 searched for a persistent volume.
465 - tails-greeter: do not pass media=removable to live-persist.
466 Now that we have autodetection with kernel command-line,
467 it should not be needed anymore.
468 - Start memlockd after configuring it,
469 instead of starting it before and restarting it after.
470 This avoids running memlockd twice, and prevents other possibly
471 surprising race-conditions.
472 As a consequence, also have tails-sdmem-on-media-removal start after the
473 memlockd service *and* tails-reconfigure-memlockd: to start the watchdog,
474 we need memlockd to be properly configured *and* running.
477 - Set iceweasel homepage to the news section on the Tails website.
478 ... using the localized one when possible.
479 - Hide the iceweasel add-on bar by default.
480 Now that we don't want to ship the Monkeysphere addon anymore,
481 that was the only one displayed in there, we can as well hide the whole bar.
482 - Don't hide the AdBlock-Plus button in the add-on bar anymore. Now that
483 we hide the whole addon bar, we can get rid of this old
485 - Do not install a placeholder (fake) FireGPG iceweasel extension anymore.
486 It was shipped from 0.10 (early 2012) to 0.15 (late November),
487 so the migration period should be over now.
488 - Don't install xul-ext-monkeysphere anymore.
489 The implication of the current keyserver policy are not well
490 understood, Monkeysphere is little used in Tails, and we're not sure
491 anymore it would be our first bet for the web browser profile with no
492 CA. Let's keep the various configuration bits (e.g. FoxyProxy,
493 patching MSVA), though, so that advanced users who are used to have
494 Monkeysphere in Tails just have to install the package.
497 - Install the "standard" task with tasksel for better consistency in the
498 Tails ISO images built in various environments.
499 - Install p7zip-full. It's a dep by file-roller, but we explicily use it
500 elsewhere, and it's better to be safe than sorry.
501 - Remove pinning of libvpx0 to sid.
502 This package is part of Squeeze, and not from testing/sid.
503 We have been shipping the version from Squeeze for a while.
504 - Remove config/chroot_local-packages/ from .gitignore.
505 The documented way for "external" contributors to add custom packages
506 is to put them in chroot_local-packages, and once we pull we import
507 any such package into our APT repo and rewrite the
508 history appropriately.
509 Also, the ability to add packages in there and not see them in "git
510 status" makes it very easy to build tainted ISO images with
511 non-standard packages, which makes some of us fear can lead to hard to
513 - Make it clearer what can and cannot be done in terms of local packages.
515 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:47:42 +0100
517 tails (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
520 - Persistence for browser bookmarks.
521 - Support for obfsproxy bridges.
524 - Add the Hangul (Korean) Input Method Engine for SCIM.
525 - Add vendor-specific dpkg origin information. This makes dpkg-vendor
526 return correct information.
527 - Install pcscd and libccid from squeeze-backports. This is needed to
528 support, to some extent, some OpenPGP SmartCard readers.
529 - Install HPIJS PPD files and the IJS driver (hpijs).
530 This adds support for some printers, such as Xerox DocumentCenter400.
531 - Optimize fonts display for LCD.
532 - Update TrueCrypt to version 7.1a.
535 - Do not use pdnsd anymore. It has been orphaned in Debian, has quite
536 some bugs in there, and apparently Tor's DNSPort's own caching is
538 - Remove useless iceweasel cookies exceptions. They are useless as
539 per-session cookies are allowed.
540 - Do not run setupcon on X. This call is only needed on the Linux
541 console, no need to annoy the user with a weird "Press enter to
542 activate this console" when the open a root shell in a GNOME
544 - Allow the tails-iuk-get-target-file user to connect to the SOCKSPort
545 dedicated for Tails-specific software.
546 - Fix gpgApplet menu display in Windows camouflage mode.
547 - Fix Tor reaching an inactive state if it's restarted in "bridge mode",
548 e.g. during the time sync' process.
551 - Update iceweasel to 10.0.11esr-1+tails1.
552 - User profile is now generated at build time in order to support persistent
554 - Update HTTPS Everywhere to version 3.0.4.
555 - Update NoScript to version 2.6.
556 - Fix bookmark to I2P router console.
557 - Re-enable Monkeysphere extension to connect to the validation agent.
560 - The Tails USB installer, tails-persistence-setup and tails-greeter
561 are now translated into Bulgarian.
562 - Update Chinese translation for tails-greeter.
563 - Update Euskadi translation for WhisperBack.
566 - Custom packages are now retrieved from Tails APT repository instead
567 of bloating the Git repository.
568 - Allow '~' in wiki filenames. This makes it possible to ship
569 update-description files for release candidates.
570 - Document how to create incremental update kit.
571 - Handle release candidates when generating custom APT sources.
572 - Remove pinning for xul-ext-adblock-plus.
573 It is obsolete since we've added this package to our APT repository.
575 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:59:17 +0100
577 tails (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
580 - Enable Tor stream isolation; several new SocksPorts with
581 appropriate Isolate* options have been added for different use
582 cases (i.e. applications). All application's have been
583 reconfigured to use these new SocksPorts, which should increase
584 anonymity by making it more difficulte to correlate traffic from
585 different applications or "online identities".
586 - The web browser now has the anonymity enhancing patches from the
588 - gpgApplet can now handle public-key cryptography.
589 - Install an additional, PAE-enabled kernel with NX-bit
590 support. This kernel is auto-selected when the hardware supports
592 * provide executable space protection, preventing certain types of
593 buffer overflows from being exploitable.
594 * enable more than 4 GiB of system memory.
595 * make all processors/cores available, including their
596 power-saving functionality.
597 - Add a persistence preset for NetworkManager connections.
600 - On kexec reboot, make the boot quiet only if debug=wipemem was not
602 - Update torproject.org's APT repo key.
603 - Update the embedded Tails signing key.
604 - Use symlinks instead of duplicating localized searchplugins.
605 - Rewrite Tails firewall using ferm. Tails firewall was written in
606 very unsophisticated iptables-save/restore format. As more feature
607 creeped in, it started to be quite unreadable.
608 - Optimize VirtualBox modules build at runtime to avoid installing the
609 userspace utils N times.
610 - Drop most of Vidalia's configuration. Our custom lines just caused
611 trouble (with multiple SocksPorts) and the default works well.
612 - Blacklist PC speaker module. On some computers, having the pcspkr
613 module loaded means loud beeps at bootup, shutdown and when using
614 the console. As it draws useless attention to Tails users, it is
615 better to prevent Linux from loading it by default.
616 - Remove all addons from the Unsafe Browser. No addons are essential
617 for the Unsafe Browser's intent. If anything they will modify the
618 network fingerprint compared to a normal Iceweasel install, which
620 - Prevent some unwanted packages to be installed at all, rather than
621 uninstalling them later. This should speed up the build a bit.
622 - Add a symlink from /etc/live/config to /etc/live/config.d. This
623 makes the system compatible with live-config 3.0.4-1, without
624 breaking backward compatibility with various parts of the system
625 that use the old path.
626 - Do not run unecessary scripts during shutdown sequence, to make
628 - Make live-persist deal with persistent ~/.gconf subdirs so that
629 any options saved therein actually get persistent.
630 - Prevent memlockd unload on shutdown, to make sure that all
631 necessary tools for memory wiping are available when the new
633 - Patch initscripts headers instead of fiddling with update-rc.d. We
634 now let insserv figure out the correct ordering for the services
635 during startup and shutdown, i.e. use dependency-based boot
637 - Remove the last absolute path in our isolinux config, which makes
638 it easier to migrate from isolinux to syslinux (just rename the
639 directory), and hence might make it easier for 3rd party USB
640 installers (like the Universal USB Installer) to support Tails.
643 - Include `seq` in the ramdisk environment: it is used to wipe more
644 memory. This fixes the long-standing bug about Tails not cleaning
645 all memory on shutdown.
646 - Fix Yelp crashing on internal links
647 - Allow amnesia user to use Tor's TransPort. This firewall exception
648 is necessary for applications that doesn't have in-built SOCKS
649 support and cannot use torsocks. One such example is Claws Mail,
650 which uses tsocks since torsocks makes it leak the hostname. This
651 exception, together with Tor's automatic .onion mapping makes
652 Claws Mail able to use hidden service mail providers again.
653 - Force threads locking support in Python DBus binding. Without this
654 liveusb-creator doesn't work with a PAE-enabled kernel.
655 - Fix localized search plugins for 'es' and 'pt'
656 - Fix live-boot's readahead, which caused an unnecessary pause
658 - Factorize GCC wanted / available version numbers in VirtualBox
659 modules building hook. This, incidentally, fixes a bug caused by
660 duplication and not updating all instances.
661 - Fix tordate vs. Tor 0.2.3.x. Since 0.2.3.x Tor doesn't download a
662 consensus for clocks that are more than 30 days in the past or 2
663 days in the future (see commits f4c1fa2 and 87622e4 in Tor's git
664 repo). For such clock skews we set the time to the Tor authority's
665 cert's valid-after date to ensure that a consensus can be
669 - Update to version 0.2.3.24-rc-1~~squeeze+1, a new major
670 version. It's not a stable release, but we have been assured by
671 the Tor developers that this is the right move.
672 - Stop setting custom value for the Tor LongLivedPorts
673 setting. Gobby's port was upstreamed in Tor 0.2.3.x.
676 - Update to 10.0.10esr-1+tails1, which has all the anonymity enhancing
677 patches from the TorBrowser applied.
678 - Install iceweasel from our own repo, http://deb.tails.boum.org.
679 - Fix Iceweasel's file associations. No more should you be suggested
680 to open a PDF in the GIMP.
683 - Use curl instead of wget, and add a --proxy option passed through
685 - Remove the --fullrequest option, we don't need it anymore.
686 - Remove --dns-timeout option, we don't need it anymore.
687 - Change --proxy handling to support Debian Squeeze's curl.
688 - Clarify what happens if --proxy is not used.
689 - Compute the median of the diffs more correctly.
692 - Update Linux to 3.2.32-1.
695 - Update vidalia to 0.2.20-1+tails1.
696 - Update bundled WhisperBack package to 1.6.2:
697 * Raise the socket library timeout to 120 seconds
698 * Use smtplib's timeout parameter
699 * Fix error output when calling send a 2nd time
700 - Update liveusb-creator to 3.11.6-3.
701 - Update i2p to 0.9.2.
702 - Update tails-persistence-setup to 0.20-1, which should make it
703 possible to install Tails on large (>= 32 GiB) USB drives.
704 - Install console-setup and keyboard-configuration from unstable
705 (required by new initramfs-tools).
706 - Update tails-greeter to 0.7.3:
707 * Import pt_BR translation.
708 * Let langpanel usable during option selection stage
709 * Print less debugging messages by default
710 (below are changes in tails-greeter 0.7.2:)
711 * Use correct test operators.
712 * Generate language codes of available locales at package build
714 * Read list of language codes from where we have saved it at
716 * Drop tails-lang-helper, not used anymore.
717 * Do not compile locales at login time anymore. Tails now ships
719 - Import live-config{,-sysvinit} 3.0.8-1. live-config >= 3.0.9-1
720 has basically nothing useful for us, and it migrates to new paths
721 brought by live-boot 3.0~b7, which we're not ready for yet (see:
722 todo/newer_live-boot).
725 - Fix Tails specific Iceweasel localization for pt-BR
726 - Add Japanese input system: scim-anthy.
727 - whisperback is now also translated into German, Hebrew, Hungarian,
729 - tails-persistence-setup is now also translated into Arabic.
730 - tails-greeter is now also translated into Arabic, Hebrew, Basque,
731 Hungarian, Italian and Chinese.
734 - Catch more errors in during build time:
735 - Ensure that all local hooks start with 'set -e'.
736 - Fail hard if adduser fails in local hooks.
737 - Fail hard if 'rm' fails in local hooks.
738 - vagrant: Ensure we have the set of Perl packages needed by our
740 - vagrant: Configure live-build to ship with ftp.us.debian.org.
741 Using cdn.debian.net leads to bad interactions with Tor.
742 - vagrant: Don't use gzip compression when building from a tag, i.e.
744 - vagrant: Optionally use bootstrap stage cache for faster builds
745 via the 'cache' build option.
746 - vagrant: Make sure release builds are clean, i.e. they don't use
747 any potentially dangerous build options.
748 - vagrant: Disable live-build package caching. This build system is
749 meant to use an external caching proxy, so live-build's cache just
750 wastes RAM (for in-memory builds) or disk space.
751 - vagrant: use aufs magic instead of copying source into tmpfs.
752 This reduces the amount of RAM required for building Tails in.
753 - vagrant: Allow in-memory builds when a VM with enough memory is
756 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:34:56 +0000
758 tails (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
761 - Use white-list/principle of least privelege approach for local services.
762 Only users that need a certain local (i.e. hosted on loopback) service
763 (according to our use cases) are granted access to it by our firewall;
764 all other users are denied access.
765 - Ship a first version of the incremental update system. Updates are not
766 currently triggered automatically, but this will allow tests to be done
770 - Enable four workspaces in the Windows XP camouflage. This allows
771 users to quickly switch to a more innocent looking workspace in case
772 they are working on sensitive data and attract unwanted attention.
773 The workspace switcher applet isn't there, though, since there's no
774 such thing in Windows XP, so switching is only possible via keyboard
776 - Ship with precompiled locales instead of generating them upon login.
777 - Add support for wireless regulation.
778 - Use color for Git output, not intended for machine consumption,
779 written to the terminal.
780 - Have ttdnsd use OpenDNS. Using Google's DNS servers was very
781 glitchy, and rarely succeeded when it should. It can probably be
782 attributed to Google's DNS, which is known to take issue with Tor
784 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.6, with many UI improvements and new translations.
785 - Include GDM logs and dmidecode informations in the reports.
786 - Allow to modify language and layout in the "Advanced options" screen
788 - GnuPG: bump cert-digest-algo to SHA512.
789 - Update torproject.org's APT repo key.
792 - Make Claws Mail save local/POP emails in its dot-directory. The
793 default is to save them at ~/Mail, which isn't included in our
794 current Claws Mail persistence preset.
795 - Fix the System Monitor applet.
796 - Remove broken ttdnsd from the default DNS resolution loop.
797 - Hide the 'TailsData' partition in desktop applications.
798 - Ship unrar-free again, so that the GNOME archive manager knows about
800 - Ship with an empty whitelist for Noscript.
801 - Disable FoxyProxy's advertisement on proxy error page.
802 - Fix slow browsing experience for offline documentation.
803 - Raise the socket timeout to 120 seconds in WhisperBack.
804 - Enable the ikiwiki trail plugin for the locally built wiki too.
807 - Upgrade iceweasel to 10.0.6esr-1 (Extended Support Release) and install it
808 and its dependencies from squeeze-backports.
811 - Upgrade Linux to 3.2.23-1.
814 - Update tor to version 0.2.2.39.
815 - Update Iceweasel to version 10.0.7esr-2.
816 - Update i2p to version 0.9.1.
819 - vagrant: Install Ikiwiki from Debian unstable. The 'mirrorlist'
820 patches have finally been merged in upstream Ikiwiki. So instead of
821 building Ikiwiki by hand, we can now install the package directly
822 from Debian unstable.
823 - Do not build the ikiwiki forum on the bundled static website copy.
825 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:19:25 +0200
827 tails (0.12.1) unstable; urgency=low
829 This is a brown paper bag release to fix two major problems introduced in
833 - Upgrade Torbutton to 1.4.6.
834 - Upgrade AdBlock Plus to 2.1.
835 - Update AdBlock Plus patterns.
838 - Upgrade Linux to 3.2.21-3 (linux-image-3.2.0-3-486).
841 - Install MAT from Debian backports, drop custom package.
842 - Install python-pdfrw to re-add PDF support to the MAT.
843 - Upgrade tails-greeter to 0.7.1, which fixes the race condition that
844 broke administration password and locale settings on some systems.
847 - Remove the Tails specific plymouth theme. The theme interfers heavily with
848 the boot process on some hardware.
850 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:06:03 +0200
852 tails (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
855 - Add the Unsafe Web Browser, which has direct access to the Internet and
856 can be used to login to captive portals.
857 - The (previously experimental, now deemed stable) Windows camouflage can now
858 be enabled via a check box in Tails greeter.
861 - Upgrade to 0.2.2.37-1~~squeeze+1.
864 - Upgrade iceweasel to 10.0.5esr-1 (Extended Support Release) and install it
865 and its dependencies from squeeze-backports.
866 - Add a bookmark for the offline Tails documentation.
867 - Update AdBlock patterns.
870 - Allow using larger USB drives by increasing the mkfs timeout to 10 minutes.
871 - Tell the user what's going on when the Tails boot device cannot be found.
874 - Upgrade Linux to 3.2.20-1 (linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64).
878 - Install torsocks. Note that this makes `torify' use `torsocks' instead of
879 `tsocks'. The `tsocks' binary is dropped to avoid problems, but remaining
880 files (the library) are kept since ttdnsd depends on them.
881 - Fetch live-config-sysvinit from sid so that it matches live-config version.
882 - Update virtualbox backports to 4.1.10-dfsg-1~bpo60+1.
883 - Install pciutils (needed by virtualbox-guest-utils).
884 - Install mousetweaks. This is needed to use the mouse accessibility settings
885 in System -> Preferences -> Mouse -> Accessibility.
886 - Install the "hardlink" files deduplicator.
887 - Do not install cryptkeeper anymore. See todo/remove_cryptkeeper for reason.
888 Users of cryptkeeper are encouraged to install cryptkeeper via `apt-get
889 update; apt-get install --yes cryptkeeper`, open their volume and move
890 their to Tails' built-in persistence instead, as a one-time migration.
891 - Upgrade I2P to version 0.9.
892 - Don't install GParted. GNOME Disk Utility has been on par with GParted
893 since Squeeze was released.
894 - Upgrade live-boot to 3.0~a27-1+tails2~1.gbp319fe6.
895 - Upgrade live-config to 3.0~a39-1 and install it from Debian experimental.
896 - Upgrade tails-greeter to 0.7.
897 - Upgrade tails-persistence-setup to 0.17-1.
898 - Install libyaml-libyaml-perl.
899 - Upgrade MAT, the metadata anonymisation toolkit, 0.3.2-1~bpo60+1.
900 - Fetch python-pdfrw from backports, drop custom package.
902 * Internationalization
903 - The Tails website and documentation now has a (partial) Portuguese
907 - Tails can now be built without using a HTTP proxy.
908 - Tails can now easily be built by using Vagrant. See the updated
909 contribute/build page for instructions.
912 - Remove obsolete noswap boot parameter. live-boot now handles swap on an
914 - The squashfs.sort files generated with boot-profile should now be ok which
915 makes the generate images boot noticeably faster on optical media. See
916 bugs/weird_squashfs.sort_entries for more information.
917 - Set Tails specific syslinux and plymouth themes.
918 - Add NVidia KMS video drivers to the initrd in order to show our shiny new
919 plymouth theme on more systems.
921 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:37:00 +0200
923 tails (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
926 - Do not grant the desktop user root credentials by default.
927 - A graphical boot menu (tails-greeter 0.6.3) allows choosing among
928 many languages, and setting an optional sudoer password.
929 - Support opt-in targeted persistence
930 · tails-persistence-setup 0.14-1
931 · live-boot 3.0~a25-1+tails1~5.gbp48d06c
932 · live-config 3.0~a35-1
933 - USB installer: liveusb-creator 3.11.6-1
936 - Install iceweasel 10.0.4esr-1 (Extended Support Release).
937 Let's stop tracking a too fast moving target.
938 Debian Wheezy will ship ESR versions.
939 - Install needed dependencies from squeeze-backports.
942 bing appeared due to our upgrading iceweasel.
943 Removing it makes things consistent with the way they have been
944 until now, that is: let's keep only the general search engines
945 we've been asked to add, plus Google, and a few specialized ones.
946 · Replace Debian-provided DuckDuckGo search plugin with the "HTML SSL"
947 one, version 20110219. This is the non-JavaScript, SSL, POST flavour.
949 · Install localized search engines in the correct place.
950 No need to copy them around at boot time anymore.
951 · Remove Scroogle. RIP.
952 - Enable TLS false start, like the TBB does since December.
953 - Adblock Plus: don't count and save filter hits, supress first run dialog.
954 - Install neither the GreaseMonkey add-on, nor any GreaseMonkey script.
955 YouTube's HTML5 opt-in program is over.
956 HTML5 video support is now autodetected and used.
959 - Upgrade to 0.2.17-1+tails1: drop Do-not-warn-about-Tor-version.patch,
961 - Set SkipVersionCheck=true.
962 Thanks to chiiph for implementing this upstream (needs Vidalia 0.2.16+).
964 * Internationalization
965 - Install all available iceweasel l10n packages.
966 - Remove syslinux language choosing menu.
967 tails-greeter allows choosing a non-English language.
968 - Add fonts for Hebrew, Thai, Khmer, Lao and Korean languages.
970 - Setup text console at profile time.
971 Context: Tails runs with text console autologin on.
972 These consoles now wait, using a "Press enter to activate this console"
973 message, for the user. When they press enter in there, they should have chosen
974 their preferred keyboard layout in tails-greeter by now. Then, we run setupcon.
975 As a result, the resulting shell is properly localized, and setupcon
976 sets the correct keyboard layout, both according to the preferences expressed by
977 the user in tails-greeter.
978 - Don't use localepurge, don't remove any Scribus translations anymore,
979 don't localize environment at live-config time:
980 tails-greeter allows us to support many, many more languages.
983 - Linux 3.2.15-1 (linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64).
984 - Fix low sound level on MacBook5,2.
985 - Disable laptop-mode-tools automatic modules. This modules set often
986 needs some amount of hardware-specific tweaking to work properly.
987 This makes them rather not well suited for a Live system.
990 - Install GNOME keyring.
991 This is needed so that NetworkManager remembers the WEP/WPA secrets
992 for the time of a Tails session. Initialize GNOME keyring at user
994 - Install usbutils to have the lsusb command.
995 - Install the Traverso multitrack audio recorder and editor.
998 - GNOME Terminal: keep 8192 scrollback lines instead of the smallish
1000 - Replaced tails-wifi initscript with laptop-mode-tools matching feature.
1001 - Disable gdomap service.
1002 - Fetch klibc-utils and libklibc from sid.
1003 The last initramfs-tools depends on these.
1004 - Set root password to "root" if debug=root is passed on the
1005 kernel cmdline. Allow setting root password on kernel cmdline via
1006 rootpw=. Looks like we implemented this feature twice.
1007 - Append a space on the kernel command line. This eases manually adding
1009 - Rename sudoers.d snippets to match naming scheme.
1010 Sudo credentials that shall be unconditionally granted to the Tails
1011 default user are named zzz_*, to make sure they are applied.
1012 - WhisperBack: also include /var/log/live-persist and
1013 /var/lib/gdm3/tails.persistence.
1014 - Add a wrapper to torify whois.
1015 - Rework the VirtualBox guest modules building hook to support
1017 - Consistently wait for nm-applet when waiting for user session to come up.
1018 Waiting for gnome-panel or notification-daemon worked worse.
1019 - Don't start the NetworkManager system service via init.
1020 Some Tails NM hooks need the user to be logged in to run properly.
1021 That's why tails-greeter starts NetworkManager at PostLogin time.
1022 - Also lock /bin/echo into memory. For some reason, kexec-load needs it.
1023 - Pidgin: don't use the OFTC hidden service anymore.
1024 It proved to be quite unreliable, being sometimes down for days.
1025 - Do not display storage volumes on Desktop, by disabling
1026 /apps/nautilus/desktop/volumes_visible GConf entry. Enabling that
1027 GConf setting avoids displaying the bind-mounted persistent
1028 directories on the Desktop, and reduces user confusion. It also is
1029 a first step towards a bigger UI change: GNOME3 does not manage the
1030 Desktop anymore, so volume icons and other Desktop icons are meant to
1031 disappear anyway. It implies we'll have to move all Desktop icons
1032 elsewhere. Let's start this move now: this will smooth the UI change
1033 Wheezy will carry for our users, by applying some of it progressively.
1036 - Don't build hybrid ISO images anymore. They boot less reliably on
1037 a variety of hardware, and are made less useful by us shipping
1038 a USB installer from now on.
1039 - Append .conf to live-config configuration filenames:
1040 live-config >3.0~a36-1 only takes into account files named *.conf
1041 in there. Accordingly update scripts that source these files.
1042 - Remove long-obsolete home-refresh script and its configuration.
1044 * Virtualization support
1045 - Support Spice and QXL: install the Spice agent from Debian sid,
1046 install xserver-xorg-video-qxl from squeeze-backports.
1048 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:54:00 +0200
1050 tails (0.10.2) unstable; urgency=low
1053 - Update to 10.0.2-1.
1054 - Disable HTTPS-Everywhere's SSL Observatory (plus first-run pop-up).
1055 - Revert "FoxyProxy: don't enclose regexps between ^ and $."
1056 Currently "http://www.i2p2.de" (and everything similar) is captured by
1057 the I2P filter, which is incorrect. It seems isMultiLine="false" does
1058 *not* make RE into ^RE$ any longer.
1059 - Remove file:// from NoScript's exception lists.
1060 This will fix the JavaScript toggles in the local copy of the documentation.
1061 - Update AdBlock patterns.
1064 - Upgrade I2P to 0.8.13.
1065 - Install libvpx0 from sid.
1066 - Fetch klibc-utils and libklibc from sid.
1067 The last initramfs-tools depends on these.
1070 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.2.7-1.
1071 - Install firmware-libertas.
1072 This adds support for wireless network cards with Marvell Libertas
1073 8xxx chips supported by the libertas_cs, libertas_sdio, libertas_spi,
1074 libertas_tf_usb, mwl8k and usb8xxx drivers.
1077 - Revert "Set time to middle of [valid-after, fresh-until] from consensus."
1078 This reverts commit 18d23a500b9412b4b0fbe4e38a9398eb1a3eadef.
1079 With this vmid clocks that are E minutes back in time may cause issues
1080 (temporary Tor outages) after consensus updates that happen at the
1081 (60-E):th minute or later during any hour. Full analysis:
1082 https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2012-January/000873.html
1083 - Add the default user to the vboxsf group.
1084 This will allow the user to get full access to automounted VirtualBox
1085 shared folders as they are mounted with guid vboxsf and rwx group
1088 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:26:21 +0100
1090 tails (0.10.1) unstable; urgency=low
1093 - Make Startpage the default web search engine. Scroogle does not look
1094 reliable enough these days.
1097 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.5.1 (update link to bug reporting documentation).
1098 - Update MAT to 0.2.2-2~bpo60+1 (fixes a critical bug in the GUI).
1101 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.2.1-2
1103 * Time synchronization
1104 Serious rework that should fix most, if not all, of the infamous
1105 time-sync' related bugs some Tails users have experienced recently.
1106 - Make htpdate more resilient by using three server pools, and
1107 allowing some failure ratio.
1108 - Set time from Tor's unverified-consensus if needed.
1109 - Set time to middle of [valid-after, fresh-until] from consensus.
1110 - Many robustness, performance and fingerprinting-resistance improvements.
1111 - Display time-sync' notification much earlier.
1114 - Fix access to "dumb" git:// protocol by using a connect-socks wrapper
1115 as GIT_PROXY_COMMAND.
1116 - SSH client: fix access to SSH servers on the Internet by correcting
1117 Host / ProxyCommand usage.
1118 - Pidgin: use OFTC hidden service to workaround Tor blocking.
1119 - Claws Mail: disable draft autosaving.
1120 When composing PGP encrypted email, drafts are saved back to
1121 the server in plaintext. This includes both autosaved and manually
1123 - tails-security-check-wrapper: avoid eating all memory when offline.
1125 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:00:31 +0100
1127 tails (0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * Tor: upgrade to 0.2.2.35-1.
1132 - Install Iceweasel 9.0 from the Debian Mozilla team's APT repository.
1133 - Update Torbutton to 1.4.5.1-1.
1134 - Support viewing any YouTube video that is available in HTML5 format:
1135 install xul-ext-greasemonkey and the "Permanently Enable HTML5 on
1136 YouTube" GreaseMonkey script.
1137 - Stop using Polipo in Iceweasel. Its SOCKS support was fixed.
1138 - Install from Debian sid the iceweasel extensions we ship,
1139 for compatibility with FF9.
1140 - Use Scroogle (any languages) instead of Scroogle (English only) when
1141 booted in English. Many users choose English because their own
1142 language is not supported yet; let's not hide them search results in
1144 - Install Iceweasel language packs from Debian unstable:
1145 unfortunately they are not shipped on the mozilla.debian.net repository.
1146 - Install the NoScript Firefox extension; configure it the same way as
1148 - Disable third-party cookies.
1149 They can be used to track users, which is bad. Besides, this is what
1150 TBB has been doing for years.
1151 - FoxyProxy: allow direct connections to RFC1918 IPs.
1153 * Do not transparent proxy outgoing Internet connections through Tor.
1154 - Torify the SSH client using connect-proxy to all IPs but RFC1918 ones.
1155 - Torify APT using Polipo HTTP.
1156 - Torify wget in wgetrc.
1157 - Torify gobby clients using torsocks. It does not support proxies yet.
1158 - Torify tails-security-check using LWP::UserAgent's SOCKS proxy support.
1159 - Fix enabling of GNOME's HTTP proxy.
1162 - Upgrade Vidalia to 0.2.15-1+tails1.
1163 · New upstream release.
1164 · Do not warn about Tor version.
1165 - Upgrade MAT to 0.2.2-1~bpo60+1.
1166 - Upgrade VirtualBox guest software to 4.1.6-dfsg-2~bpo60+1,
1167 built against the ABI of X.Org backports.
1168 - Upgrade I2P to 0.8.11 using KillYourTV's Squeeze packages;
1169 additionally, fix its start script that was broken by the tordate merge.
1170 - Install unar (The Unarchiver) instead of the non-free unrar.
1171 - Install Nautilus Wipe instead of custom Nautilus scripts.
1174 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.1.6-1.
1175 - Upgrade to X.Org from squeeze-backports.
1176 - Install more, and more recent b43 firmwares.
1177 - Upgrade barry to 0.15-1.2~bpo60+1.
1179 * Internationalization
1180 - Add basic language support for Russian, Farsi and Vietnamese.
1181 - Install some Indic fonts.
1182 - Install some Russian fonts.
1183 - Add Alt+Shift shortcut to switch keyboard layout.
1186 - Support booting in "Windows XP -like camouflage mode":
1187 · Install homebrewn local .debs for a Windows XP look-alike Gnome theme.
1188 · Add the "Windows XP Bliss" desktop wallpaper.
1189 · Added a script that's sets up Gnome to look like Microsoft Windows XP.
1190 · Add Windows XP "camouflage" icons for some programs.
1191 · Make Iceweasel use the IE icon when Windows XP camouflage is enabled.
1192 · Add special launcher icons for the Windows XP theme so that they're
1194 - Decrease Florence focus zoom to 1.2.
1195 - Do not fetch APT translation files. Running apt-get update is heavy enough.
1196 - Add MSN support thanks to msn-pecan.
1197 - Add custom SSH client configuration:
1198 · Prefer strong ciphers and MACs.
1199 · Enable maximum compression level.
1200 · Explicitly disable X11 forwarding.
1201 · Connect as root by default, to prevent fingerprinting when username
1203 - Replace flawed FireGPG with a home-made GnuPG encryption applet;
1204 install a feature-stripped FireGPG that redirects users to
1205 the documentation, and don't run Seahorse applet anymore.
1206 - Enable Seahorse's GnuPG agent.
1207 - Blank screen when lid is closed, rather than shutting down the system.
1208 The shutdown "feature" has caused data losses for too many people, it seems.
1209 There are many other ways a Tails system can be shut down in a hurry
1211 - Import Tails signing key into the keyring.
1212 - Fix bug in the Pidgin nick generation that resulted in the nick
1213 "XXX_NICK_XXX" once out of twenty.
1214 - Pre-configure the #tor IRC discussion channel in Pidgin.
1215 - Fix "technology preview" of bridge support: it was broken by tordate merge.
1216 - Install dependencies of our USB installer to ease its development.
1217 - Make vidalia NM hook sleep only if Vidalia is already running.
1218 - Reintroduce the htpdate notification, telling users when it's safe
1219 to use Tor Hidden Services.
1220 - htpdate: omit -f argument to not download full pages.
1221 - htpdate: write success file even when not within {min,max}adjust.
1222 Otherwise htpdate will not "succeed" when the time diff is 0 (i.e.
1223 the clock was already correct) so the success file cannot be used
1224 as an indicator that the system time now is correct, which arguably
1225 is its most important purpose.
1228 - Name built images according to git tag.
1230 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:56:38 +0100
1232 tails (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1235 - Upgrade to 0.2.2.34 (fixes CVE-2011-2768, CVE-2011-2769).
1238 - Upgrade to 3.5.16-11 (fixes CVE-2011-3647, CVE-2011-3648, CVE-2011-3650).
1239 - Upgrade FireGPG to 0.8-1+tails2: notify users that the FireGPG Text
1240 Editor is the only safe place for performing cryptographic operations,
1241 and make it impossible to do otherwise. Other ways open up several
1242 severe attacks through JavaScript (e.g. leaking plaintext when
1243 decrypting, signing messages written by the attacker).
1244 - Install Cookie Monster extension instead of CS Lite.
1245 - Always ask where to save files.
1246 - Upgrade Torbutton to 1.4.4.1-1, which includes support for the in-browser
1247 "New identity" feature.
1250 - Install MAT, the metadata anonymisation toolkit.
1251 - Upgrade TrueCrypt to 7.1.
1252 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.5~rc1 (leads the user by the hand if an error
1253 occurs while sending the bugreport, proposes to save it after 2 faild
1254 attempts, numerous bugfixes).
1255 - Linux: upgrade to linux-image-3.0.0-2-486 (version 3.0.0-6); fixes
1256 a great number of bugs and security issues.
1259 - Fully rework date and time setting system.
1260 - Remove the htp user firewall exception.
1261 - Saner keyboard layouts for Arabic and Russian.
1262 - Use Plymouth text-only splash screen at boot time.
1263 - Color the init scripts output.
1264 - Suppress Tor's warning about applications doing their own DNS lookups.
1265 This is totally safe due to our Tor enforcement.
1266 - Disable hdparm boot-time service.
1267 We only want hdparm so that laptop-mode-tools can use it.
1268 - Run Claws Mail using torify.
1269 It's not as good as if Claws Mail supported SOCKS proxies itself,
1270 but still better than relying on the transparent netfilter torification.
1271 - Install HPLIP and hpcups for better printing support.
1273 * Erase memory at shutdown
1274 - Run many sdmem instances at once.
1275 In hope of erasing more memory until we come up with a proper fix for
1276 [[bugs/sdmem_does_not_clear_all_memory]].
1277 - Kill gdm3 instead of using its initscript on brutal shutdown.
1278 - Use absolute path to eject for more robust memory wipe on boot medium removal.
1281 - Exclude kernel and initramfs from being put into the SquashFS.
1282 Those files are already shipped where they are needed, that is in the ISO
1283 filesystem. Adapt kexec and memlockd bits.
1284 - Do not ship the GNOME icon theme cache.
1285 - Do not ship .pyc files.
1286 - Do not ship NEWS.Debian.gz files.
1289 - Re-implement hook that modifies syslinux config to make future
1292 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:26:38 +0100
1294 tails (0.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1297 - Update to 3.5.16-10 (fixes DSA-2313-1).
1298 - FireGPG: force crypto action results to appear in a new window, otherwise
1299 JavaScript can steal decrypted plaintext. Advice: always use FireGPG's
1300 text editor when writing text you want to encrypt. If you write it in a
1301 textbox the plaintext can be stolen through JavaScript before it is
1302 encrypted in the same way.
1303 - Update HTTPS Everywhere extension to 1.0.3-1.
1304 - Stop using the small version of the Tor check page. The small version
1305 incorrectly tells Tails users to upgrade their Torbrowser, which has
1306 confused some users.
1309 - Update Linux to 3.0.0-2 (fixes DSA-2310-1, CVE-2011-2905, CVE-2011-2909,
1310 CVE-2011-2723, CVE-2011-2699, CVE-2011-1162, CVE-2011-1161).
1311 - Update usb-modeswitch to 1.1.9-2~bpo60+1 and usb-modeswitch-data to
1312 20110805-1~bpo60+1 from Debian backports. This adds support for a few
1313 devices such as Pantech UMW190 CDMA modem.
1314 - Install libregexp-common-perl 2011041701-3 from Debian unstable. This
1315 fixes the bug: [[bugs/msva_does_not_use_configured_keyserver]].
1316 - Install hdparm so the hard drives can be spinned down in order to save
1318 - Install barry-util for better BlackBerry integration.
1319 - Debian security upgrades: OpenOffice.org (DSA-2315-1), openjdk-6
1320 (DSA-2311-1), policykit-1 (DSA-2319-1)
1322 * Protecting against memory recovery
1323 - Set more appropriate Linux VM config before wiping memory. These
1324 parameters should make the wipe process more robust and efficient.
1326 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:31:18 +0200
1328 tails (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * Rebase on the Debian Squeeze 6.0.2.1 point-release.
1333 - Update to 0.2.2.33-1.
1334 - Disabled ControlPort in favour of ControlSocket.
1335 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to Tor's LongLivedPorts list.
1339 - Start script now depends on HTP since I2P breaks if the clock jumps or is
1340 too skewed during bootstrap.
1343 - Update to 3.5.16-9 (fixes CVE-2011-2374, CVE-2011-2376, CVE-2011-2365,
1344 CVE-2011-2373, CVE-2011-2371, CVE-2011-0083, CVE-2011-2363, CVE-2011-0085,
1345 CVE-2011-2362, CVE-2011-2982, CVE-2011-2981, CVE-2011-2378, CVE-2011-2984,
1347 - Enable HTTP pipelining (like TBB).
1348 - Update HTTPS Everywhere extension to 1.0.1-1 from Debian unstable.
1349 - Suppress FoxyProxy update prompts.
1350 - Prevent FoxyProxy from "phoning home" after a detected upgrade.
1351 - Fixed a bunch of buggy regular expressions in FoxyProxy's configuration.
1352 See [[bugs/exploitable_typo_in_url_regex?]] for details. Note that none of
1353 these issues are critical due to the transparent proxy.
1354 - Add DuckDuckGo SSL search engine.
1357 - Update to torbutton 1.4.3-1 from Debian unstable.
1358 - Don't show Torbutton status in the status bar as it's now displayed in the
1362 - More random looking nicks in pidgin.
1363 - Add IRC account on chat.wikileaks.de:9999.
1366 - Upgrade htpdate script (taken from Git 7797fe9) that allows setting wget's
1367 --dns-timeout option.
1370 - Update Linux to 3.0.0-1. -686 is now deprecated in favour of -486 and
1371 -686-pae; the world is not ready for -pae yet, so we now ship -486.
1372 - Update OpenSSL to 0.9.8o-4squeeze2 (fixes CVE-2011-1945 (revoke
1373 compromised DigiNotar certificates), CVE-2011-1945).
1374 - Update Vidalia to 0.2.14-1+tails1 custom package.
1375 - Install accessibility tools:
1376 - gnome-mag: screen magnifier
1377 - gnome-orca: text-to-speech
1378 - Replace the onBoard virtual keyboard with Florence.
1379 - Install the PiTIVi non-linear audio/video editor.
1384 * Arbitrary DNS queries
1385 - Tor can not handle all types of DNS queries, so if the Tor resolver fails
1386 we fallback to ttdnsd. This is now possible with Tor 0.2.2.x, since we
1387 fixed Tor bug #3369.
1390 - Install ipheth-utils for iPhone tethering.
1391 - Install xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse (for mouse integration with the host OS
1393 - Install virtualbox-ose 4.x guest packages from Debian backports.
1396 - Switch gpg to use keys.indymedia.org's hidden service, without SSL.
1397 The keys.indymedia.org SSL certificate is now self-signed. The hidden
1398 service gives a good enough way to authenticate the server and encrypts
1399 the connection, and just removes the certificates management issue.
1400 - The squashfs is now compressed using XZ which reduces the image size quite
1402 - Remove Windows autorun.bat and autorun.inf. These files did open a static
1403 copy of our website, which is not accessible any longer.
1406 - Use the Git branch instead of the Debian version into the built image's
1408 - Allow replacing efficient XZ compression with quicker gzip.
1409 - Build and install documentation into the chroot (-> filesystem.squashfs).
1410 Rationale: our static website cannot be copied to a FAT32 filesystem due
1411 to filenames being too long. This means the documentation cannot be
1412 browsed offline from outside Tails. However, our installer creates GPT
1413 hidden partitions, so the doc would not be browseable from outside Tails
1414 anyway. The only usecase we really break by doing so is browsing the
1415 documentation while running a non-Tails system, from a Tails CD.
1417 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 09 Sep 2011 11:31:18 +0200
1419 tails (0.7.2) unstable; urgency=high
1422 - Disable Torbutton's external application launch warning.
1423 ... which advises using Tails. Tails *is* running Tails.
1424 - FoxyProxy: install from Debian instead of the older one we previously
1428 - haveged: install an official Debian backport instead of a custom backport.
1429 - unrar: install the version from Debian's non-free repository.
1430 Users report unrar-free does not work well enough.
1432 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:34:56 +0200
1434 tails (0.7.1) unstable; urgency=high
1436 * Vidalia: new 0.2.12-2+tails1 custom package.
1439 - Don't show Foxyproxy's status / icon in FF statusbar to prevent users
1440 from accidentaly / unconsciously put their anonymity at risk.
1441 - "amnesia branding" extension: bump Iceweasel compatibility to 4.0 to ease
1442 development of future releases.
1445 - Upgrade Linux kernel to Debian's 2.6.32-33: fixes tons of bugs,
1446 including the infamous missing mouse cursor one. Oh, and it closes
1447 a few security holes at well.
1448 - Install unrar-free.
1449 - Do not install pppoeconf (superseeded by NetworkManager).
1450 - Upgrade macchanger to Debian testing package to ease development of
1451 future Tails releases.
1452 - Debian security upgrades: x11-xserver-utils (DSA-2213-1), isc-dhcp
1453 (DSA-2216-1), libmodplug (DSA-2226-1), openjdk-6 (DSA-2224-1).
1455 * Protecting against memory recovery
1456 - Add Italian translation for tails-kexec. Thanks to Marco A. Calamari.
1457 - Make it clear what it may mean if the system does not power off
1459 - Use kexec's --reset-vga option that might fix display corruption issues
1462 * WhisperBack (encrypted bug reporting software)
1463 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.4.1:
1464 localizes the documentation wiki's URL,
1465 uses WebKit to display the bug reporting help page,
1466 now is usable on really small screens.
1467 - Extract wiki's supported languages at build time, save this
1468 information to /etc/amnesia/environment, source this file into the
1469 Live user's environment so that WhisperBack 1.4+ can make good use
1473 - Fix boot in Chinese.
1474 - Install mobile-broadband-provider-info for better 3G support.
1475 - Add back GNOME system icons to menus.
1476 - tails-security-check: avoid generating double-slashes in the Atom
1478 - Remove "vga=788" boot parameter which breaks the boot on some hardware.
1479 - Remove now useless "splash" boot parameter.
1480 - Fix a bunch of i386-isms.
1481 - Pass the noswap option to the kernel. This does not change actual Tails
1482 behaviour but prevents users from unnecessarily worrying because of
1483 the "Activating swap" boot message.
1484 - Make use of check.torproject.org's Arabic version.
1487 - Enable squeeze-backports. It is now ready and will be used soon.
1488 - Install eatmydata in the chroot.
1489 - Convert ikiwiki setup files to YAML.
1491 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:14:53 +0200
1493 tails (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1496 - Install foomatic-filters-ppds to support more printers.
1497 - Give the default user the right to manage printers.
1500 - Deinstall unwanted packages newly pulled by recent live-build.
1502 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:58:51 +0200
1504 tails (0.7~rc2) unstable; urgency=low
1506 ** SNAPSHOT build @824f39248a08f9e190146980fb1eb0e55d483d71 **
1508 * Rebase on Debian Squeeze 6.0.1 point-release.
1510 * Vidalia: new 0.2.10-3+tails5 custom package..
1513 - Install usb-modeswitch and modemmanager to support mobile broadband
1514 devices such as 3G USB dongles. Thanks to Marco A. Calamari for the
1518 - Website relocated to https://tails.boum.org/ => adapt various places.
1519 - Configure keyboard layout accordingly to the chosen language for
1520 Italian and Portuguese.
1522 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:44:25 +0100
1524 tails (0.7~rc1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
1526 ** SNAPSHOT build @98987f111fc097a699b526eeaef46bc75be5290a **
1528 * Rebase on Debian Squeeze.
1530 * T(A)ILS has been renamed to Tails.
1532 * Protecting against memory recovery
1533 New, safer way to wipe memory on shutdown which is now also used when
1534 the boot media is physically removed.
1537 - Update to 0.2.1.30-1.
1540 - Add HTTPS Everywhere 0.9.4 extension.
1541 - Better preserve Anonymity Set: spoof US English Browser and timezone
1542 the same way as the Tor Browser Bundle, disable favicons and picture
1544 - Install AdBlock Plus extension from Debian.
1545 - Add Tor-related bookmarks.
1546 - Support FTP, thanks to FoxyProxy.
1547 - Update AdBlock patterns.
1548 - Disable geolocation and the offline cache.
1551 - Update Vidalia to 0.2.10-3+tails4.
1552 - Install gnome-disk-utility (Palimpsest) and Seahorse plugins.
1553 - Add opt-in i2p support with Iceweasel integration through FoxyProxy.
1554 - onBoard: fix "really quits when clicking the close window icon" bug.
1555 - Optionally install TrueCrypt at boot time.
1556 - Install laptop-mode-tools for better use of battery-powered hardware.
1557 - Replace xsane with simple-scan which is part of GNOME and way easier
1559 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.3.1 (bugfixes, French translation).
1560 - Install scribus-ng instead of scribus. It is far less buggy in Squeeze.
1563 - Drop incoming packets by default.
1564 - Forbid queries to DNS resolvers on the LAN.
1565 - Set output policy to drop (defense-in-depth).
1568 - Install Atheros and Broadcom wireless firmwares.
1569 - Install libsane-hpaio and sane-utils, respectively needed for
1570 multi-function peripherals and some SCSI scanners.
1572 * live-boot 2.0.15-1+tails1.35f1a14
1573 - Cherry-pick our fromiso= bugfixes from upstream 3.x branch.
1576 - Many tiny user interface improvements.
1577 - More robust HTP time synchronization wrt. network failures.
1578 Also, display the logs when the clock synchronization fails.
1579 - Disable GNOME automatic media mounting and opening to protect against
1580 a class of attacks that was recently put under the spotlights.
1581 Also, this feature was breaking the "no trace is left on local
1582 storage devices unless explicitly asked" part of Tails specification.
1583 - Make configuration more similar to the Tor Browser Bundle's one.
1584 - GnuPG: default to stronger digest algorithms.
1585 - Many more or less proper hacks to get the built image size under 700MB.
1586 - Compress the initramfs using LZMA for faster boot.
1589 - Run lb build inside eatmydata fsync-less environment to greatly improve
1592 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:52:19 +0100
1594 tails (0.6.2) unstable; urgency=high
1596 * Tor: upgrade to 0.2.1.29 (fixes CVE-2011-0427).
1598 - Upgrade Linux kernel, dpkg, libc6, NSS, OpenSSL, libxml2 (fixes various
1600 - Upgrade Claws Mail to 3.7.6 (new backport).
1601 - Install Liferea, tcpdump and tcpflow.
1602 * Seahorse: use hkp:// transport as it does not support hkps://.
1603 * FireGPG: use hkps:// to connect to the configured keyserver.
1604 * Build system: take note of the Debian Live tools versions being used
1605 to make next point-release process faster.
1606 * APT: don't ship package indices.
1608 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:59:43 +0100
1610 tails (0.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * Tor: upgrade to 0.1.28 (fixes CVE-2010-1676)
1613 * Software: upgrade NSS, Xulrunner, glibc (fixes various security issues)
1614 * FireGPG: use the same keyserver as the one configured in gpg.conf.
1615 * Seahorse: use same keyserver as in gpg.conf.
1616 * HTP: display the logs when the clock synchronization fails.
1617 * Update HTP configuration: www.google.com now redirects to
1618 encrypted.google.com.
1619 * Use the light version of the "Are you using Tor?" webpage.
1620 * Update AdBlock patterns.
1622 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 24 Dec 2010 13:28:29 +0100
1624 tails (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * New OpenPGP signing-only key. Details are on the website:
1629 https://amnesia.boum.org/GnuPG_key/
1632 - Fixed torbutton has migrated to testing, remove custom package.
1635 - Query ssl.scroogle.org instead of lists.debian.org.
1636 - Don't run when the interface that has gone up is the loopback one.
1639 - Add shortcut to securely erase free space in a partition.
1640 - The nautilus-wipe shortcut user interface is now translatable.
1643 - Really fix virtualization warning display.
1644 - More accurate APT pinning.
1645 - Disable Debian sid APT source again since a fixed live-config has
1646 migrated to Squeeze since then.
1648 * live-boot: upgrade to 2.0.8-1+tails1.13926a
1649 - Sometimes fixes the smem at shutdown bug.
1650 - Now possible to create a second partition on the USB stick T(A)ILS is
1654 - Support RT2860 wireless chipsets by installing firmware-ralink from
1656 - Install firmware-linux-nonfree from backports.
1657 - Fix b43 wireless chipsets by having b43-fwcutter extract firmwares at
1661 - Install live-build and live-helper from Squeeze.
1662 - Update SquashFS sort file.
1664 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:53:17 +0200
1666 tails (0.6~rc3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
1668 ** SNAPSHOT build @a3ebb6c775d83d1a1448bc917a9f0995df93e44d **
1671 - Autostart Iceweasel with the GNOME session. This workarounds the
1672 "Iceweasel first page is not loaded" bug.
1675 - Upgrade htpdate script (taken from Git 7797fe9).
1678 - Disable ssh-agent auto-starting with X session: gnome-keyring is
1680 - Fix virtualization warning display.
1681 - Boot profile hook: write desktop file to /etc/skel.
1684 - Convert build system to live-build 2.0.1.
1685 - APT: fetch live-build and live-helper from Debian Live snapshots.
1686 - Remove dependency on live-build functions in chroot_local-hooks.
1687 This makes the build environment more robust and less dependent on
1688 live-build internals.
1689 - Remove hand-made rcS.d/S41tails-wifi: a hook now does this.
1690 - Measure time used by the lh build command.
1691 - Fix boot profile hook.
1692 - Boot profiling: wait a bit more: the current list does not include
1695 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 02 Oct 2010 23:06:46 +0200
1697 tails (0.6~rc2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
1699 ** SNAPSHOT build @c0ca0760ff577a1e797cdddf0e95c5d62a986ec8 **
1702 - Refreshed AdBlock patterns (20100926).
1703 - Set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true (untested yet)
1704 - Torbutton: install patched 1.2.5-1+tails1 to fix the User-Agent bug,
1705 disable extensions.torbutton.spoof_english again.
1708 - WhisperBack: upgrade to 1.3~beta3 (main change: let the user provide
1709 optional email address and OpenPGP key).
1711 - Update haveged backport to 0.9-3~amnesia+lenny1.
1712 - Update live-boot custom packages (2.0.6-1+tails1.6797e8): fixes bugs
1713 in persistency and smem-on-shutdown.
1714 - Update custom htpdate script. Taken from commit d778a6094cb3 in our
1715 custom Git repository: fixes setting of date/time.
1718 - Bugfix: failed builds are now (hopefully) detected.
1719 - Fix permissions on files in /etc/apt/ that are preserved in the image.
1720 - Install version 2.0~a21-1 of live-build and live-helper in the image.
1721 We are too late in the release process to upgrade to current Squeeze
1722 version (2.0~a29-1).
1725 - Pidgin/OTR: disable the automatic OTR initiation and OTR requirement.
1727 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:23:17 +0200
1729 tails (0.6~1.gbpef2878) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
1731 ** SNAPSHOT build @ef28782a0bf58004397b5fd303f938cc7d11ddaa **
1734 - Use a 2.6.32 kernel: linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.5-686 (2.6.32-23~bpo50+1)
1735 from backports.org. This should support far more hardware and
1736 especially a lot of wireless adapters.
1737 - Add firmware for RTL8192 wireless adapters.
1738 - Enable power management on all wireless interfaces on boot.
1743 - Install gfshare and ssss: two complementary implementations
1744 of Shamir's Secret Sharing.
1745 - Install tor-geoipdb.
1746 - Remove dialog, mc and xterm.
1749 - Set extensions.torbutton.spoof_english to its default true value
1750 in order to workaround a security issue:
1751 https://amnesia.boum.org/security/Iceweasel_exposes_a_rare_User-Agent/
1754 - Install the Iceweasel extension.
1755 - Use a hkps:// keyserver.
1758 - Install gnupg from backports.org so that hkps:// is supported.
1759 - Use a hkps:// keyserver.
1760 - Proxy traffic via polipo.
1761 - Prefer up-to-date digests and ciphers.
1763 * Vidalia: rebased our custom package against 0.2.10.
1766 - Built images are now named like this:
1767 tails-i386-lenny-0.5-20100925.iso
1768 - Use live-helper support for isohybrid options instead of doing the
1769 conversion ourselves. The default binary image type we build is now
1771 - Remove .deb built by m-a after they have been installed.
1772 - Setup custom GConf settings at build time rather than at boot time.
1773 - Move $HOME files to /etc/skel and let adduser deal with permissions.
1774 - Convert to live-boot / live-config / live-build 2.x branches.
1775 - Replaced our custom live-initramfs with a custom live-boot package;
1776 included version is 2.0.5-1+tails2.6797e8 from our Git repository:
1777 git clone git://git.immerda.ch/tails_live-boot.git
1778 - Install live-config* from the live-snapshots Lenny repository.
1779 Rationale: live-config binary packages differ depending on the target
1780 distribution, so that using Squeeze's live-config does not produce
1781 fully-working Lenny images.
1782 - Rename custom scripts, packages lists and syslinux menu entries from
1783 the amnesia-* namespace to the tails-* one.
1786 - Use (authenticated) HTP instead of NTP.
1787 - The htpdate script that is used comes from commit 43f5f83c0 in our
1788 custom repository: git://git.immerda.ch/tails_htp.git
1789 - Start Tor and Vidalia only once HTP is done.
1792 - Fix IPv6 firewall restore file. It was previously not used at all.
1793 - Use ftp.us.debian.org instead of the buggy GeoIP-powered
1795 - Gedit: don't autocreate backup copies.
1796 - Build images with syslinux>=4.01 that has better isohybrid support.
1797 - amnesia-security-check: got rid of the dependency on File::Slurp.
1798 - Take into account the migration of backports.org to backports.debian.org.
1799 - Make GnuPG key import errors fatal on boot.
1800 - Warn the user when T(A)ILS is running inside a virtual machine.
1801 - DNS cache: forget automapped .onion:s on Tor restart.
1803 * Documentation: imported Incognito's walkthrough, converted to
1804 Markdown, started the needed adaptation work.
1806 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 26 Sep 2010 11:06:50 +0200
1808 tails (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * The project has merged efforts with Incognito.
1811 It is now to be called "The (Amnesic) Incognito Live System".
1815 - Created the amnesia-news mailing-list.
1816 - Added a forum to the website.
1817 - Created a chatroom on IRC: #tails on irc.oftc.net
1820 - Workaround nasty NetworkManager vs. Tor bug that often
1821 prevented the system to connect to the Tor network: restart Tor and Vidalia
1822 when a network interface goes up.
1823 - onBoard now autodetects the keyboard layout... at least once some
1824 keys have been pressed.
1825 - New windows don't open in background anymore, thanks to
1827 - Memory wiping at shutdown is now lightning fast, and does not prevent
1828 the computer to halt anymore.
1829 - GNOME panel icons are right-aligned again.
1830 - Fixed permissions on APT config files.
1831 - Repaired mouse integration when running inside VirtualBox.
1834 - Torbutton: redirect to Scroogle when presented a Google captcha.
1835 - Revamped bookmarks
1836 . moved T(A)ILS own website to the personal toolbar
1837 . moved webmail links (that are expected to be more than 3 soon)
1838 to a dedicated folder.
1839 - Don't show AdBlock Plus icon in the toolbar.
1840 - Adblock Plus: updated patterns, configured to only update subscriptions
1841 once a year. Which means never, hopefully, as users do update their
1842 Live system on a regular basis, don't they?
1844 * Vidalia: rebased our custom package against 0.2.8.
1847 - Install Claws Mail from backports.org to use the X.509 CA
1848 certificates provided by Debian.
1849 - Enable PGP modules with basic configuration:
1850 . Automatically check signatures.
1851 . Use gpg-agent to manage passwords.
1852 . Display warning on start-up if GnuPG doesn't work.
1853 - Set the IO timeout to 120s (i.e. the double of the default 60s).
1856 - Automatically connect to irc.oftc.net with a randomized nickname,
1857 so as not to advertize the use of T(A)ILS; this nickname is made of:
1858 . a random firstname picked from the 2000 most registered by the U.S.
1859 social security administration in the 70s;
1860 . two random digits.
1861 Good old irc.indymedia.org is still configured - with same nickname -
1862 but is not enabled by default anymore.
1863 - Disabled MSN support, that is far too often affected by security flaws.
1865 * Build $HOME programmatically
1866 - Migrated all GConf settings, including the GNOME panel configuration,
1867 to XML files that are loaded at boot time.
1868 - Configure iceweasel profile skeleton in /etc/iceweasel.
1869 A brand new profile is setup from this skeleton once iceweasel is
1871 . build sqlite files at build time from plain SQL.
1872 . FireGPG: hard-code current firegpg version at build time to prevent
1873 the extension to think it was just updated.
1874 . stop shipping binary NSS files. These were here only to
1875 install CaCert's certificate, that is actually shipped by Debian's
1879 - Updated Debian Live snapshots APT repository URL.
1880 - Purge all devel packages at the end of the chroot configuration.
1881 - Make sure the hook that fixes permissions runs last.
1882 - Remove unwanted Iceweasel search plugins at build time.
1885 - Added a progress bar for boot time file readahead.
1886 - Readahead more (~37MB) stuff in foreground at boot time.
1887 - Make the APT pinning persist in the Live image.
1888 - localepurge: keep locales for all supported languages,
1889 don't bother when installing new packages.
1890 - Removed syslinux help menu: these help pages are either buggy or
1891 not understandable by non-geeks.
1892 - Fixed Windows autorun.
1893 - Disable a few live-initramfs scripts to improve boot time.
1894 - Firewall: forbid any IPv6 communication with the outside.
1895 - Virtualization support: install open-vm-tools.
1896 - WhisperBack: updated to 1.2.1, add a random bug ID to the sent
1898 - Prompt for CD removal on shutdown, not for USB device.
1900 * live-initramfs: new package built from our Git (e2890a04ff) repository.
1901 - Merged upstream changes up to 1.177.2-1.
1902 - New noprompt=usb feature.
1903 - Fix buggy memory wiping and shutdown.
1904 - Really reboot when asked, rather than shutting down the system.
1907 - Upgraded to a new custom, patched package (0.93.0-0ubuntu4~amnesia1).
1908 - Added an entry in the Applications menu.
1911 - Install vim-nox with basic configuration
1913 - Install monkeysphere and msva-perl
1914 - Replaced randomsound with haveged as an additional source of entropy.
1917 - Build ralink rt2570 wifi modules.
1918 - Build rt2860 wifi modules from Squeeze. This supports the RT2860
1919 wireless adapter, found particularly in the ASUS EeePC model 901
1921 - Build broadcom-sta-source wifi modules.
1922 - Bugfix: cpufreq modules were not properly added to /etc/modules.
1923 - Use 800x600 mode on boot rather than 1024x768 for compatibility
1924 with smaller displays.
1926 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:14:13 +0200
1928 amnesia (0.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
1930 New release, mainly aimed at fixing live-initramfs security issue
1931 (Debian bug #568750), with an additional set of small enhancements as
1934 * live-initramfs: new custom package built from our own live-initramfs
1935 Git repository (commit 8b96e5a6cf8abc)
1936 - based on new 1.173.1-1 upstream release
1937 - fixed live-media=removable behaviour so that filesystem images found
1938 on non-removable storage are really never used (Debian bug #568750)
1940 * Vidalia: bring back our UI customizations (0.2.7-1~lenny+amnesia1)
1942 * APT: consistently use the GeoIP-powered cdn.debian.net
1944 * Software: make room so that {alpha, future} Squeeze images fit on
1946 - only install OpenOffice.org's calc, draw, impress, math and writer
1948 - removed OpenOffice.org's English hyphenation and thesaurus
1949 - removed hunspell, wonder why it was ever added
1952 - explicitly disable persistence, better safe than sorry
1953 - removed compulsory 15s timeout, live-initramfs knows how to wait for
1954 the Live media to be ready
1956 * Build system: don't cache rootfs anymore
1958 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:28:16 +0100
1960 amnesia (0.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * Brown paper bag bugfix release: have amnesia-security-check use
1963 entries publication time, rather than update time... else tagging
1964 a security issue as fixed, after releasing a new version, make this
1965 issue be announced to every user of this new, fixed version.
1967 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:58:41 +0100
1969 amnesia (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * We now only build and ship "Hybrid" ISO images, which can be either
1972 burnt on CD-ROM or dd'd to a USB stick or hard disk.
1974 * l10n: we now build and ship multilingual images; initially supported
1975 (or rather wanna-be-supported) languages are: ar, zh, de, en, fr, it,
1977 - install Iceweasel's and OpenOffice.org's l10n packages for every
1979 - stop installing localized help for OpenOffice.org, we can't afford it
1980 for enough languages
1981 - when possible, Iceweasel's homepage and default search engine are localized
1982 - added Iceweasel's "any language" Scroogle SSL search engine
1983 - when the documentation icon is clicked, display the local wiki in
1984 currently used language, if available
1985 - the Nautilus wipe script is now translatable
1986 - added gnome-keyboard-applet to the Gnome panel
1989 - replaced Icedove with claws mail, in a bit rough way; see
1990 https://amnesia.boum.org/todo/replace_icedove_with_claws/ for best
1991 practices and configuration advices
1992 - virtual keyboard: install onBoard instead of kvkbd
1993 - Tor controller: install Vidalia instead of TorK
1994 - install only chosen parts of Gnome, rather than gnome-desktop-environment
1995 - do not install xdialog, which is unused and not in Squeeze
1996 - stop installing grub as it breaks Squeeze builds (see Debian bug #467620)
1997 - install live-helper from snapshots repository into the Live image
2000 - do not install the NoScript extension anymore: it is not strictly
2001 necessary but bloodily annoying
2003 * Provide WhisperBack 1.2 for anonymous, GnuPG-encrypted bug reporting.
2004 - added dependency on python-gnutls
2005 - install the SMTP hidden relay's certificate
2007 * amnesia-security-check: new program that tells users that the amnesia
2008 version they are running is affected by security flaws, and which ones
2009 they are; this program is run at Gnome session startup, after sleeping
2010 2 minutes to let Tor a chance to initialize.
2013 - uses the Desktop Notifications framework
2014 - fetches the security atom feed from the wiki
2015 - verifies the server certificate against its known CA
2016 - tries fetching the localized feed; if it fails, fetch the default
2019 * live-initramfs: new custom package built from our own live-initramfs
2020 Git repository (commit 40e957c4b89099e06421)
2021 - at shutdown time, ask the user to unplug the CD / USB stick, then run
2022 smem, wait for it to finish, then attempt to immediately halt
2025 - bumped dependency on live-helper to >= 2.0a6 and adapted our config
2026 - generate hybrid ISO images by default, when installed syslinux is
2028 - stop trying to support building several images in a row, it is still
2029 broken and less needed now that we ship hybrid ISO images
2030 - scripts/config: specify distribution when initializing defaults
2031 - updated Debian Live APT repository's signing key
2034 - disable virtualbox packages installing and module building on !i386
2035 && !amd64, as PowerPC is not a supported guest architecture
2036 - built and imported tor_0.2.1.20-1~~lenny+1_powerpc.deb
2039 - rough beginnings of a scratch Squeeze branch, currently unsupported
2040 - install gobby-infinote
2043 - updated GnuPG key with up-to-date signatures
2044 - more improvements on boot time from CD
2045 - enhanced the wipe in Nautilus UI (now asks for confirmation and
2046 reports success or failure)
2047 - removed the "restart Tor" launcher from the Gnome panel
2049 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:28:04 +0100
2051 amnesia (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * software: removed openvpn, added
2059 - lvm2 (with disabled initscript as it slows-down too much the boot in certain
2061 - NetworkManager 0.7 (from backports.org) to support non-DHCP networking
2063 - randomsound to enhance the kernel's random pool
2065 - install the latest stable release from deb.torproject.org
2066 - ifupdown script now uses SIGHUP signal rather than a whole tor
2067 restart, so that in the middle of it vidalia won't start it's own
2069 - configure Gnome proxy to use Tor
2071 - adblockplus: upgraded to 1.0.2
2072 - adblockplus: subscribe to US and DE EasyList extensions, updated patterns
2073 - firegpg is now installed from Debian Squeeze rather than manually; current
2074 version is then 0.7.10
2075 - firegpg: use better keyserver ... namely pool.sks-keyservers.net
2076 - added bookmark to Amnesia's own website
2077 - use a custom "amnesiabranding" extension to localize the default search
2078 engine and homepage depending on the current locale
2079 - updated noscript whitelist
2080 - disable overriden homepage redirect on iceweasel upgrade
2082 - nicer default configuration with verified irc.indymedia.org's SSL cert
2083 - do not parse incoming messages for formatting
2084 - hide formatting toolbar
2085 * hardware compatibility
2087 - beginning of support for the ppc architecture
2088 - load acpi-cpufreq, cpufreq_ondemand and cpufreq_powersave kernel
2090 * live-initramfs: custom, updated package based on upstream's 1.157.4-1, built
2091 from commit b0a4265f9f30bad945da of amnesia's custom live-initramfs Git
2093 - securely erases RAM on shutdown using smem
2094 - fixes the noprompt bug when running from USB
2095 - disables local swap partitions usage, wrongly enabled by upstream
2096 * fully support for running as a guest system in VirtualBox
2097 - install guest utils and X11 drivers
2098 - build virtualbox-ose kernel modules at image build time
2100 - new (translatable) wiki, using ikiwiki, with integrated bugs and todo
2101 tracking system a static version of the wiki is included in generated
2102 images and linked from the Desktop
2104 - adapt for live-helper 2.0, and depend on it
2105 - get amnesia version from debian/changelog
2106 - include the full version in ISO volume name
2107 - save .list, .packages and .buildlog
2108 - scripts/clean: cleanup any created dir in binary_local-includes
2109 - updated Debian Live snapshot packages repository URL and signing key
2110 - remove duplicated apt/preferences file, the live-helper bug has been
2112 * l10n: beginning of support for --language=en
2114 - improved boot time on CD by ordering files in the squashfs in the order they
2115 are used during boot
2116 - added a amnesia-version script to built images, that outputs the current
2118 - added a amnesia-debug script that prepares a tarball with information that
2119 could be useful for developpers
2120 - updated Amnesia GnuPG key to a new 4096R one
2121 - set time with NTP when a network interface is brought up
2122 - import amnesia's GnuPG pubkey into the live session user's keyring
2123 - do not ask DHCP for a specific hostname
2124 - install localepurge, only keep en, fr, de and es locales, which reduces the
2125 generated images' size by 100MB
2126 - added a hook to replace /sbin/swapon with a script that only runs
2128 - moved networking hooks responsibility from ifupdown to NetworkManager
2130 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:17:08 +0100
2132 amnesia (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * imported /home/amnesia, then:
2135 - more user-friendly shell, umask 077
2136 - updated panel, added launcher to restart Tor
2137 - mv $HOME/bin/* /usr/local/bin/
2138 - removed metacity sessions
2139 - removed gstreamer's registry, better keep this dynamically updated
2140 - rm .qt/qt_plugins_3.3rc, better keep this dynamically updated
2141 - removed .gnome/gnome-vfs/.trash_entry_cache
2142 - removed kconf_update log
2143 - removed and excluded Epiphany configuration (not installed)
2146 - enable caching in RAM
2147 - explicitly disable ssl v2, and enable ssl v3 + tls
2148 - removed prefs for the non-installed webdeveloper
2149 - removed the SSL Blacklist extension (not so useful, licensing issues)
2150 - deep profile directory cleanup
2151 - extensions cleanup: prefer Debian-packaged ones, cleanly reinstalled
2152 AddBlock Plus and CS Lite to allow upgrading them
2153 - updated pluginreg.dat and localstore.rdf
2154 - moved some settings to user.js
2155 - made cookie/JavaScript whitelists more consistent
2156 - force httpS on whitelisted sites
2157 - NoScript: marked google and gmail as untrusted
2158 - some user interface tweaks, mainly for NoScript
2159 - FireGPG: disable the buggy auto-detection feature, the link to firegpg's
2160 homepage in generated pgp messages and the GMail interface (which won't
2161 work without JavaScript anyway)
2162 - updated blocklist.xml
2163 - removed and excluded a bunch of files in the profile directory
2164 * icedove: clean the profile directory up just like we did for iceweasel
2165 * software: install msmtp and mutt
2167 - use rsync rather than tar
2170 - reviewed pidgin-otr security (see TODO)
2172 - stop calling home-refresh in lh_build
2173 - include home-refresh in generated images
2175 - fix permissions on local includes at build time
2176 - updated scripts/{build,clean} wrt. new $HOME handling
2177 - scripts/{build,config}: stop guessing BASEDIR, we must be run from
2178 the root of the source directory anyway
2179 - stop storing /etc/amnesia/version in Git, delete it at clean time
2181 - converted Changelog to the Debian format and location, updated
2182 build scripts accordingly
2183 - added a README symlink at the root of the source directory
2184 - basic debian/ directory (not working for building packages yet,
2185 but at least we can now use git-dch)
2186 - added debian/gbp.conf with our custom options for git-dch
2187 - config/amnesia: introduce new $AMNESIA_DEV_* variables to be used
2188 by developpers' scripts
2189 - added ./release script: a wrapper around git-dch, git-commit and git-tag
2191 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:42:03 +0200
2193 amnesia (0.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
2195 * Forked Privatix 9.03.15, by Markus Mandalka:
2196 http://mandalka.name/privatix/index.html.en
2197 Everything has since been rewritten or so heavily changed that nothing
2198 remains from the original code... apart of a bunch of Gnome settings.
2200 - install a bunch of non-free wifi firmwares
2201 - install xsane and add the live user to the scanner group
2202 - install aircrack-ng
2203 - install xserver-xorg-video-geode on i386 (eCafe support)
2204 - install xserver-xorg-video-all
2205 - install firmware-linux from backports.org
2206 - install system-config-printer
2207 - added instructions in README.eCAFE to support the Hercules eCAFE EC-800
2210 - configure pinning to support installing chosen packages from
2211 squeeze; the APT source for testing is hardcoded in chroot_sources/,
2212 since there is no way to use $LH_CHROOT_MIRROR in chroot_local-hooks
2213 - give backports.org priority 200, so that we track upgrades of packages
2214 installed from there
2215 * release: include the Changelog and TODO in the generated images,
2216 in the /usr/share/doc/amnesia/ directory
2217 * software: install gnomebaker when building Gnome-based live OS, to
2218 easily clone myself when running from CD
2220 - build i386 images when the build host is amd64
2221 - added a version file: /etc/amnesia/version
2222 - use snapshot live-* packages inside the images
2223 - setup timezone depending on the chosen build locale
2224 - rely on standard live-initramfs adduser to do our user setup
2225 (including sudo vs. Gnome/KDE, etc.)
2226 - stop "supporting" KDE
2227 - allow building several images at once
2228 - migrated most of lh_config invocations to scripts/config
2229 - append "noprompt" so that halting/rebooting work with splashy
2230 - moved our own variables to config/amnesia, using the namespace
2233 - default search engine is now Scroogle SSL, configured to search pages
2234 in French language; the English one is also installed
2235 - never ask to save passwords or forms content
2236 - configured the torbutton extension to use polipo
2237 - installed the CACert root certificate
2238 - installed the SSL Blacklist extension and the blacklist data
2239 - installed the FireGPG extension
2240 - installed the CS Lite extension
2241 - installed the NoScript extension
2242 - NoScript, CS Lite: replaced the default whitelists with a list of
2243 trusted, non-commercial Internet Service Providers
2244 - configure extensions (add to prefs.js):
2245 user_pref("extensions.torbutton.startup", true);
2246 user_pref("extensions.torbutton.startup_state", 1);
2247 user_pref("extensions.torbutton.tor_enabled", true);
2248 user_pref("noscript.notify.hide", true);
2249 user_pref("capability.policy.maonoscript.sites", "about:
2250 about:blank about:certerror about:config about:credits
2251 about:neterror about:plugins about:privatebrowsing
2252 about:sessionrestore chrome: resource:");
2253 user_pref("extensions.firegpg.no_updates", true);
2254 - install the NoScript plugin from Debian squeeze
2255 - delete urlclassifier3.sqlite on $HOME refresh: as we disabled
2256 "safebrowsing", this huge file is of no use
2257 - torbutton: install newer version from Squeeze
2258 * linux: removed non-686 kernel flavours when building i386 images
2259 * compatibility: append "live-media=removable live-media-timeout=15", to
2260 prevent blindly booting another debian-live installed on the hard disk
2264 - cryptkeeper: Gnome system tray applet to encrypt files with EncFS
2265 - kvkbd: virtual keyboard (installed from backports.org)
2266 - sshfs (and added live user to the fuse group)
2267 - less, secure-delete, wipe, seahorse, sshfs, ntfs-3g
2270 - enable the transparent proxy, the DNS resolver, and the control port
2271 - save authentication cookie to /tmp/control_auth_cookie, so that the
2272 live user can use Tork and co.
2273 - autostart Tork with Gnome
2274 - Tork: installed, disabled most notifications and startup tips
2275 - added a restart tor hook to if-up.d (used by Network Manager as well),
2276 so that Tor does work immediately even if the network cable was
2277 plugged late in/after the boot process
2279 - added a nautilus-script to wipe files and directories
2280 - bash with working completion for the live user
2281 * polipo: install and configure this HTTP proxy to forward requests
2283 * DNS: install and configure pdnsd to forward any DNS request through
2285 * firewall: force every outgoing TCP connection through the Tor
2286 transparent proxy, discard any outgoing UDP connection
2288 - set syslinux timeout to 4 seconds
2289 - use splashy for more user-friendly boot/halt sequences
2291 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:09:15 +0200