1 tails (0.21~rc1) unstable; urgency=low
4 - Don't grant access to the Tor control port for the desktop user
5 (amnesia). Else, an attacker able to run arbitrary code as this user
6 could obtain the public IP with a get_info command.
7 · Vidalia is now run as a dedicated user.
8 · Remove the amnesia user from the debian-tor group.
9 · Remove the Vidalia launcher in the Applications menu.
10 The Vidalia instance it starts is useless, since it can't connect
11 to the Tor control port.
12 - Don't allow the desktop user to directly change persistence settings.
13 Else, an attacker able to run arbitrary code as this user could
14 leverage this feature to gain persistent root access, as long as
15 persistence is enabled.
16 · Fully rework the persistent filesystem and files ownership
18 · Run the Persistent Volume Assistant as a dedicated user, that is
19 granted the relevant udisks and filesystem -level credentials.
20 · At persistence activation time, don't trust existing persistence
21 configuration files, migrate to the new ownership and permissions,
22 migrate every known-safe existing settings and backup what's left.
23 Warn the user when not all persistence settings could be migrated.
24 · Persistent Volume Assistant uses the new ownership and permissions
25 scheme when initializing a new persistent volume, and refuses to
26 read persistence.conf if it, or the parent directory, hasn't the
28 · Make boot medium 'system internal' for udisks with bilibop.
29 Once Tails is based on Wheezy, this will further complete the
30 protection (see #6172 for details).
33 - Add a persistence preset for printing settings (Closes: #5686).
34 Reload CUPS configuration after persistence activation.
35 - Support SD card connected through a SDIO host adapter (Closes: #6324).
36 · Rebrand Tails USB installer to Tails installer.
37 · Display devices brand, model and size in the Installer
39 · Ask for confirmation before installing Tails onto a device
41 · Add support for SDIO and MMC block devices to the Tails Installer
42 (Closes: #5744) and the Persistent Volume Assistant (Closes: #6325).
43 · Arm the udev watchdog when booted from SD (plugged in SDIO) too
47 - Add a KeePassX launcher to the top GNOME panel (Closes: #6290).
48 - Rework bug reporting workflow: point the desktop launcher to
49 the troubleshooting page.
50 - Make /home world-readable at build time, regardless of the Git
51 working copy permissions. This makes the build process more robust
52 against strict umasks.
53 - Add signing capabilities to the tails-build script (Closes: #6267).
54 This is in turn used to sign ISO images built by our Jenkins setup
56 - Simplify the ikiwiki setup and make more pages translatable.
57 - Exclude the version string in GnuPG's ASCII armored output.
58 - Prefer stronger ciphers (AES256,AES192,AES,CAST5) when encrypting
60 - Use the same custom Startpage search URL than the TBB.
61 This apparently disables the new broken "family" filter.
62 - Enable oldstable-proposed-updates APT sources to install packages
63 scheduled for the next Squeeze point-release. Accordingly update
65 - Update AdBlock Plus patterns.
68 - Look for "/tmp/.X11-unix/X${1#:}" too when detecting displays in use.
69 - Adapt tests to match the Control Port access security fix:
70 · Take into account that the amnesia user isn't part of the debian-tor
72 · Run as root the checks to see if a process is running: this
73 is required to see other users' processes.
75 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Thu, 17 Oct 2013 14:13:27 +0200
77 tails (0.20.1) unstable; urgency=low
80 - Install Tor 0.2.4.17-rc-1~d60.squeeze+1 from the Tor project's repository.
81 - Install Iceweasel 17.0.9esr with Torbrowser patches.
82 - Install Linux kernel 3.10-3 (version 3.10.11-1) from sid.
85 - Remount persistence devices read-only at shutdown/reboot time
87 - Greeter: display a warning icon on admin password mismatch and on
88 persistence unlocking failure. Thanks to Andres Gomez Ramirez
89 <andres.gomez@cern.ch> for the fix!
90 - Don't torsocksify Pidgin.
91 Instead we disable Pidgin's GNOME integration to get the "Global proxy
92 configuration", which we set to use Tor. This fixes the I2P IRC account.
93 - Additional software: fix typo in notification.
94 - Allow installing "Priority: standard" packages that we do not install
95 by default: remove them late in the build process instead of assigning
96 them a -1 APT pinning level.
99 - Update AdBlock Plus patterns.
100 - Use more unique ISO file name when building from Jenkins.
101 - Additional software: point to the system log on upgrade failure.
102 - Set SOCKS5_USER and SOCKS5_PASSWORD in the connect-socks wrapper (used
103 by Git). Else, Tor 0.2.4's IsolateSOCKSAuth and connect-proxy
104 sometimes play together in some way that makes connect-proxy ask for
105 a password to connect to the SocksPort. SOCKS5_USER and
106 SOCKS5_PASSWORD are passed through unchanged if they were manually set
108 - Use our custom connect-socks wrapper for SSH. Else, Tor 0.2.4's
109 IsolateSOCKSAuth and connect-proxy sometimes play together in some way
110 that makes connect-proxy ask for a password to connect to the
111 SocksPort. Note that connect-socks uses the default SocksPort too, so
112 no change here wrt. our connection isolation design.
115 - Import new translations from Transifex.
118 - Fix old ISO checking for consistent error reporting.
119 - Remove custom persistence test from manual test suite.
120 It was removed for the GUI in t-p-s 0.33.
122 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2013 15:49:36 +0200
124 tails (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
127 - Install Linux kernel 3.10.3-1 from Debian unstable.
128 - Iceweasel 17.0.8esr + Torbrowser patches.
131 - Prevent Iceweasel from displaying a warning when leaving HTTPS web sites.
132 - Make Iceweasel use the correct, localized search engine.
133 - Fix Git access to https:// repositories.
136 - Install Dasher, a predictive text entry tool.
137 - Add a wrapper around TrueCrypt which displays a warning about it soon
138 being deprecated in Tails.
139 - Remove Pidgin libraries for all protocols but IRC and Jabber/XMPP.
140 Many of the other protocols Pidgin support are broken in Tails and
141 haven't got any security auditting.
142 - Disable the pre-defined Pidgin accounts so they do not auto-connect
144 - Include information about Alsa in WhisperBack reports.
145 - Explicitly restrict access to ptrace. While this setting was enabled
146 by default in Debian's Linux 3.9.6-1, it will later disabled in 3.9.7-1.
147 It's unclear what will happen next, so let's explicitly enable it ourselves.
148 - Do not display dialog when a message is sent in Claws Mail.
149 - Sync iceweasel preferences with the Torbrowser's.
152 - Many translation updates all over the place.
153 - Merge all Tails-related POT files into one, and make use of intltoolize
154 for better integration with Transifex.
156 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:19:57 +0200
158 tails (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
161 - Install Linux kernel 3.9.5-1 from Debian unstable.
162 Features of particular interest for Tails are the Yama LSM
163 (ptrace scope restrictions) and improved hardware support.
164 As a corollary, install initramfs-tools from there too.
165 - Iceweasel 17.0.7esr + Torbrowser patches.
166 - Unblock Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, WWAN and WiMAX; block every other type of
167 wireless device. Next steps are described on the
168 todo/protect_against_external_bus_memory_forensics ticket.
171 - Fix write access to boot medium at the block device level,
172 by installing bilibop-udev. Thanks to quidame for his support.
173 - tails-greeter l10n-related fixes, thanks to winterfairy:
174 · Fix so translations is applied on password mismatch messages.
175 · Separate forward and login buttons and make them translatable.
176 - Fix link to documentation when no sudo password is set.
177 - gpgApplet: partial fix for clipboard emptying after a wrong passphrase
179 - Workaround aufs bug in Unsafe Browser script.
182 - Drop GNOME proxy settings: we did not find any use of it we were keen
183 to support, other than two programs (Seahorse, Pidgin) that are now run
185 - Format newly created persistent volumes as ext4.
186 - GnuPG: don't connect to the keyserver specified by the key owner.
187 This feature opens the door to a variety of subtle attacks.
188 - GnuPG: locate keys only from local keyrings.
189 This is probably the default, but better safe than sorry.
190 - Install virt-what from Wheezy.
191 The version from Squeeze does not detect at least Parallels for Mac v.8.
192 - Upgrade live-boot and live-config to the 3.0.x final version from Wheezy.
193 · Remove /live and /lib/live/image compatibility symlinks.
194 · Add /live/overlay -> /lib/live/mount/overlay symlink.
195 The live-boot changes (commit d2b2a461) brought to fix Debian bug
196 #696495 revert some of our previous changes (commit 77dab1cb), and as
197 a result, at the time live-persist runs, no tmpfs is mounted on
198 /live/overlay, which breaks the aufs mount. So, let's just ensure
199 /live/overlay points to a tmpfs.
200 · Really disable policykit and sudo live-config hooks.
201 ... by making it believe they've already been run.
202 This workarounds new live-config's default behavior.
205 - Many translation updates all over the place.
208 - Re-enable previously disabled boot device permissions test.
210 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:36:20 +0200
212 tails (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
215 - Support obfs3 bridges.
216 - Automatically install a custom list of additional packages chosen by
217 the user at the beginning of every working session, and upgrade them
218 once a network connection is established (technology preview).
221 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.6esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1.
222 - Update Torbrowser patches to current maint-2.4 branch (567682b).
223 - Isolate DOM storage to first party URI, and enable DOM storage:
224 don't set dom.storage.enabled anymore, and set Torbutton's
225 disable_domstorage to false.
226 - Isolate the image cache per url bar domain.
227 - Torbutton 1.5.2, and various prefs hacks to fix breakage:
228 · Add .saved version of the Torbutton preferences the TBB also sets.
229 · Set TOR_SOCKS_HOST and TOR_SOCKS_PORT.
230 · Move some prefs (network.proxy.*, extensions.autoDisableScopes,
231 extensions.foxyproxy.last-version) to user.js.
232 Else, with Torbutton 1.5.x, these ones are not taken into account.
233 · Set network.proxy.socks_version.
234 Else we get the meaningless user_pref("network.proxy.socks_version", 9063);
235 in prefs.js after the initial startup.
236 · Set extensions.foxyproxy.socks_remote_dns to true.
237 Else, it overrides the various ways we set network.proxy.socks_remote_dns,
238 which in turn makes Torbutton think it should start in non-Tor mode.
239 · Also pass the TOR_SOCKS_* environment variables to iceweasel when
240 generating the profile: Torbutton behaves differently depending on
241 these variables, so we don't want the initial profile generation to be
242 done without them. In practice, this has no implication that we could
243 see right now, but better safe than sorry.
244 · Import all version overrides from the TBB prefs.
245 Else, the User-Agent sent in the HTTP headers is fine, but real
246 values leak with JavaScript, as demonstrated by ip-check's "Browser
248 · Move a bunch of settings to user_pref(), that are not applied otherwise.
249 For some, this fixes a regression in 0.18~rc1.
250 For other, the bug was already present in Tails 0.17.2.
251 - HTTPS Everywhere 3.2.
252 - Update prefs to match the TBB's, fix bugs, and take advantage of the latest
254 · Increase pipeline randomization.
255 · Fix @font-face handling of local() fonts.
256 Also disable fallback font rendering.
257 · Explicitly disable SPDY v2 and v3.
258 · Update http pipelining prefs.
259 - Make prefs organization closer to the TBB's:
260 · Remove Torbutton prefs that we set at their default value.
261 · Import Torbutton preferences from the TBB.
262 · Organize iceweasel config files in sections the same way as the TBB.
264 · Don't set extensions.torbutton.clear_cookies nor
265 extensions.torbutton.saved.share_proxy_settings:
266 we don't care about toggling anymore.
267 · Don't set extensions.torbutton.saved.download_retention nor
268 extensions.torbutton.saved.search_suggest:
269 these settings are not used in Torbutton anymore.
270 - Update unsafe browser prefs mangling accordingly.
271 - Move network.protocol-handler.warn-external.* to user_pref().
272 Else they're not applied.
273 These prefs are actually ignored by Firefox these days -- the TBB
274 design doc reads "They are set still anyway out of respect for the
275 dead". Let's go on doing the same.
276 - Update extensions.adblockplus.currentVersion.
277 - Fetch xul-ext-https-everywhere (3.2-2) and xul-ext-noscript (2.6.6.1-1)
278 from Debian unstable. They were uploaded there, and accordingly removed
282 - Linux 3.2.41-2+deb7u2.
283 - Fixed swapped filenames of tails-{reboot,shutdown}.desktop.
284 Thanks to Mikko Harhanen for the patch.
285 - Only add ClientTransportPlugin to torrc when bridge mode is enabled.
286 This should bring back support for proxies of type other than obfsproxy.
289 - Set kernel.dmesg_restrict=1, and make /proc/<pid>/ invisible
290 and restricted for other users. It makes it slightly harder for an attacker
291 to gather information that may allow them to escalate privileges.
292 - Install gnome-screenshot.
293 - Don't disable IPv6 on all network interfaces anymore.
294 It turns out the IPv6 leaks we wanted to fix actually don't exist.
295 - Add a "About Tails" launcher in the System menu.
296 - Install GNOME accessibility themes.
297 - Use 'Getting started...' as the homepage for Tails documentation button.
298 - Stop relying on the obsolete /live/image compatibility symlink.
299 - Disable audio preview in Nautilus.
300 - Wheezy was released => Squeeze is now oldstable.
301 - Pick Tor from deb.torproject.org regardless of the release name they
302 advertise. At some point we needed it, their APT repository still thought
303 that stable == Squeeze.
304 - Add Wheezy APT sources.
305 - Install Linux and related packages from Wheezy.
306 Debian sid just got Linux 3.8, and we don't want to switch to a new kernel
308 - Fetch laptop-mode-tools from Wheezy.
309 Wheezy has the version we've been installing in 0.18~rc1,
310 while a newer one was uploaded to sid in the meantime.
311 - Fetch a few packages from Wheezy instead of unstable.
312 Namely: spice-vdagent, libregexp-common-perl, macchanger, service-wrapper,
313 libservice-wrapper-java and libservice-wrapper-jni.
314 Wheezy has the versions we've been installing for a while, so let's
315 avoid having unstable push a newer one to us uselessly at some point.
316 Note that at the time of this writing, the versions in sid and in Wheezy
317 are the same, so this commit is effectively a no-op as of today: it is
318 merely a safeguard for the future.
321 - Many translation updates all over the place.
324 - Make Vagrant's build-tails script support Jenkins too.
327 - Fix Unsafe Browser test broken by hidepid.
329 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Mon, 13 May 2013 22:17:38 +0200
331 tails (0.17.2) unstable; urgency=low
334 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.5esr-0+tails2~bpo60+1.
335 - Stop displaying obsolete context menu entries ("Open Tor URL" and friends).
338 - Update Linux to 3.2.41-2
341 - Use more reliable OpenPGP keyservers:
342 · use the hkps pool in GnuPG (and import their SSL CA)
343 · use hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net in Seahorse (as it does not support
345 - Keep udisks users (GNOME Disk Utility, tails-persistence-setup, etc.)
346 from resetting the system partition's attributes when manipulating the
347 partition table. To this end, backport the relevant bugfix from Wheezy
348 into parted 2.3-5+tails1. This allowed to remove the sgdisk-based
349 workaround in tais-persistence-setup, and to stop installing
350 python-parted. All this is a first needed step to fix
351 todo/make_system_disk_read-only in a future release.
354 - Disable NoScript's HTML5 media click-to-play for better user experience.
357 - Tails USB installer: update translations for French, German, Spanish,
358 Finnish, Greek, Italian, Latvian, Dutch, Polish and Chinese.
359 - Tails Greeter: update translations for Farsi, Chinese, French;
360 new translations: Finnish, Norwegian Bokmål, Galician.
361 - tails-persistence-setup: update Farsi and Chinese translations;
362 import new translations for Finnish and Swedish.
363 - WhisperBack: update translations for Arabic, French, German, Greek,
364 Spanish, Korean, Polish, Russian. New translations: Finnish, Chinese.
367 - Add automated testing framework (Sikuli, Cucumber, libvirt -based)
368 with a bunch of tests.
370 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:17:26 +0200
372 tails (0.17.1) unstable; urgency=low
375 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.4esr-0+tails1~bpo60+1.
378 - Update Linux to 3.2.39-2.
379 It includes the drm and agp subsystems from Linux 3.4.29.
380 - Don't install xserver-xorg-video-rendition backport.
381 xserver-xorg-video-rendition has been removed from squeeze-backports
382 due to an upstream tarball mismatch discover when merging backports
383 into the main Debian archive, and xserver-xorg-video-all still depends
384 on it, so we explicitly install all drivers from -all but -rendition
385 as a (hopefully temporary) workaround.
388 - Remove Indymedia IRC account, until we ship a version of Pidgin
389 with SASL support, that is when Tails is based on Wheezy.
392 - Don't ship the wiki's todo and bugs on ISO images.
394 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:54:11 +0100
396 tails (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
399 - Install the KeePassX password manager, with a configuration and
400 documentation that makes it easy to persist the password database.
403 - Upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.3esr-1+tails1~bpo60+1.
404 - Install xul-ext-adblock-plus from squeeze-backports.
405 - Do not allow listing all available fonts.
406 Set browser.display.max_font_attempts and browser.display.max_font_count
407 to enable the Torbrowser Limit-the-number-of-fonts-per-document patch.
408 - Set default spellchecker dictionary to English (USA),
409 and localize it according to locale with our custom branding extension.
410 - Disable the add-ons automatic update feature.
411 - Make the generated profile world-readable.
412 - Remove NoScript click-to-play confirmation.
413 - Sync some prefs set by Torbutton, to be ready when it stops setting these.
414 - Disable navigation timing.
415 - Disable SPDY. It stores state and may have keepalive issues.
416 - More aggressive iceweasel HTTP pipelining settings.
417 - Enable WebGL (as click-to-play only).
418 - Disable network.http.connection-retry-timeout.
419 - Disable full path information for plugins.
420 - Remove NoScript blocks of WebFonts.
421 - Disable DOM storage in Torbutton.
422 Since we don't apply the 0026-Isolate-DOM-storage-to-first-party-URI.patch
423 Torbrowser patch yet, and still disable DOM storage, we need to tell
424 Torbutton not to use it.
425 - Synchronize iceweasel's general.useragent.override with TBB based on FF17.
426 The User-Agent settings are not kept up-to-date anymore in Torbutton, so
427 we have to keep in sync manually with TBB's settings.
428 - Remove obsolete APT pining for Torbutton.
429 It's not maintained in Debian anymore, so we now fetch it from our own
431 - Fetch FoxyProxy from Debian experimental and libnspr4-0d from
432 squeeze-backports, for compatibility with Iceweasel 17.
433 - Rebase bookmarks file on top of the default iceweasel 17 one.
434 - Explicitly disable AdBlock Plus "correct typos" feature.
435 This feature connects to http://urlfixer.org/.
436 It is disabled by default in 2.2-1, but let's be careful.
439 - Upgrade to live-boot 3.0~b11-1 and live-config 3.0.12-1.
440 Accordingly update the 9980-permissions hook, live-persist,
441 unsafe-browser and boot-profile.
442 Add compatibility symlinks from /live to /lib/live, and from /live/image
443 to /lib/live/mount/medium, to ease the transition.
444 - Check for errors when sourcing live-boot files, e.g. to detect when
445 they have been renamed upstream.
446 - Don't add "quiet" to the kernel command-line ourselves.
447 Else, it appears twice as live-build's lb_binary_syslinux adds it too.
448 Historically, we've been adding it ourselves on top of that because
449 lb_binary_yaboot does not add it, but since we gave up the PowerPC support
450 attempt, we're now only interested in syslinux, so let's make it easier
451 for the general case, e.g. when one wants to remove the "quiet" parameter
452 as suggested by our "Tails does not start" debugging documentation.
453 - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.4.
456 - Many bugfixes brought by the Debian Squeeze 6.0.7 point-release.
457 - Use the regular GnuPG agent + pinentry-gtk2 instead of Seahorse
458 as a GnuPG agent. This fixes usage of OpenPGP in Claws Mail,
459 and brings support for OpenPGP smartcards.
460 - Enable I2P hidden mode.
461 Else, killing I2P ungracefully is bad for the I2P network.
462 - live-persist: move error() function before the first potential usecase.
463 - Add missing executable bit on restart-tor and restart-vidalia.
464 - Add shutdown and reboot launchers to the menu.
465 This workarounds the lack of a shutdown helper applet in camouflage mode.
466 - Remove Pidgin's MXit and Sametime support.
467 ... at least until CVE-2013-0273, CVE-2013-0272 and CVE-2013-0271 are
468 fixed in Debian stable. While we're at it, don't force file removal in
469 these "set -e" build scripts: fail hard, instead of silently ignoring
470 the fact that files may have moved or disappeared.
473 - Install recent Intel and AMD microcode from squeeze-backports,
474 explicitly excluding the iucode-tool package that's not a good idea
476 - Install firmware loader for Qualcomm Gobi USB chipsets.
477 This is needed to have various mobile broadband chipsets work.
478 - Upgrade barry to 0.18.3-5~bpo60+1.
479 This much improved new version supports more hardware & ISP,
480 and does not display dozens of spurious error messages at boot time.
483 - Remove APT local cache (/Var/cache/apt/{,src}pkgcache.bin).
485 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:37:57 +0100
487 tails (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
490 - Replace the too-easy-to-misclick shutdown button with a better
491 "Shutdown Helper" Gnome applet.
492 - Display ~/Persistent in GNOME Places and GtkFileChooser if it is mounted.
493 - Set Unsafe Browser's window title to "Unsafe Browser".
494 - Install ekeyd to support the EntropyKey.
495 - Install font for Sinhala.
496 - Update Poedit to 1.5.4.
497 - Kill Vidalia when restarting Tor.
498 Doing this as early as possible exposes Vidalia's "broken onion" icon
500 - Hide the persistence setup launchers in kiosk mode.
501 - Add a shell library for Tor functions.
502 These are shared among multiple of our scripts.
503 - Install dictionaries for supported languages.
504 Install hunspell dictionaries when possible,
505 fall back on myspell ones else.
508 - Disable IPv6 on all network interfaces.
509 This is a workaround for the IPv6 link-local multicast leak that was recently
510 discovered. Tails has no local service that listens on IPv6, so there should be
511 no regression, hopefully, unless one wants to play with OnionCat and VoIP,
512 but those of us should know how to workaround this anyway.
513 - live-persist: Fix variable mismatch, fixing probe white-list.
514 Tails may previously have been able to list GPT partitions labelled
515 "TailsData" on hard drives (!) as valid persistence volumes...
516 - live-persist: Fix --media option when no devices are attached.
517 Earlier, if it was set to e.g. 'removable-usb' and no USB storage was
518 connected, $whitelistdev would be empty, which is interpreted like
519 all devices are ok by the rest of the code.
520 - Fix SCIM in the autostarted web browser: save IM environment variables
521 to a file during Desktop session startup, and export them into the
522 autostarted browser's environment.
523 - Talk of DVD, not of CD, in the shutdown messages.
524 - Make tordate work in bridge mode with an incorrect clock.
525 When using a bridge Tor reports TLS cert lifetime errors (e.g. when
526 the system clock is way off) with severity "info", but when no bridge
527 is used the severity is "warn". tordate/20-time.sh depends on grepping
528 these error messages, so we termporarily increase Tor's logging
529 severity when using bridge mode. If we don't do this tordate will
530 sleep forever, leaving Tor in a non-working state.
531 · White-list root to use Tor's ControlPort.
532 · Add logging for is_clock_way_off().
533 · Remove Tor's log before time syncing.
534 We depend on grepping stuff from the Tor log (especially for
535 tordate/20-time.sh), so deleting it seems like a Good Thing(TM).
536 · Stop Tor before messing with its log or data dir.
537 - live-persist: limit searched devices the same way as live-boot.
538 If no --media argument is specified, use live-boot's
539 "(live-media|bootfrom)=removable(|-usb)" argument to limit devices
540 searched for a persistent volume.
541 - tails-greeter: do not pass media=removable to live-persist.
542 Now that we have autodetection with kernel command-line,
543 it should not be needed anymore.
544 - Start memlockd after configuring it,
545 instead of starting it before and restarting it after.
546 This avoids running memlockd twice, and prevents other possibly
547 surprising race-conditions.
548 As a consequence, also have tails-sdmem-on-media-removal start after the
549 memlockd service *and* tails-reconfigure-memlockd: to start the watchdog,
550 we need memlockd to be properly configured *and* running.
553 - Set iceweasel homepage to the news section on the Tails website.
554 ... using the localized one when possible.
555 - Hide the iceweasel add-on bar by default.
556 Now that we don't want to ship the Monkeysphere addon anymore,
557 that was the only one displayed in there, we can as well hide the whole bar.
558 - Don't hide the AdBlock-Plus button in the add-on bar anymore. Now that
559 we hide the whole addon bar, we can get rid of this old
561 - Do not install a placeholder (fake) FireGPG iceweasel extension anymore.
562 It was shipped from 0.10 (early 2012) to 0.15 (late November),
563 so the migration period should be over now.
564 - Don't install xul-ext-monkeysphere anymore.
565 The implication of the current keyserver policy are not well
566 understood, Monkeysphere is little used in Tails, and we're not sure
567 anymore it would be our first bet for the web browser profile with no
568 CA. Let's keep the various configuration bits (e.g. FoxyProxy,
569 patching MSVA), though, so that advanced users who are used to have
570 Monkeysphere in Tails just have to install the package.
573 - Install the "standard" task with tasksel for better consistency in the
574 Tails ISO images built in various environments.
575 - Install p7zip-full. It's a dep by file-roller, but we explicily use it
576 elsewhere, and it's better to be safe than sorry.
577 - Remove pinning of libvpx0 to sid.
578 This package is part of Squeeze, and not from testing/sid.
579 We have been shipping the version from Squeeze for a while.
580 - Remove config/chroot_local-packages/ from .gitignore.
581 The documented way for "external" contributors to add custom packages
582 is to put them in chroot_local-packages, and once we pull we import
583 any such package into our APT repo and rewrite the
584 history appropriately.
585 Also, the ability to add packages in there and not see them in "git
586 status" makes it very easy to build tainted ISO images with
587 non-standard packages, which makes some of us fear can lead to hard to
589 - Make it clearer what can and cannot be done in terms of local packages.
591 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:47:42 +0100
593 tails (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
596 - Persistence for browser bookmarks.
597 - Support for obfsproxy bridges.
600 - Add the Hangul (Korean) Input Method Engine for SCIM.
601 - Add vendor-specific dpkg origin information. This makes dpkg-vendor
602 return correct information.
603 - Install pcscd and libccid from squeeze-backports. This is needed to
604 support, to some extent, some OpenPGP SmartCard readers.
605 - Install HPIJS PPD files and the IJS driver (hpijs).
606 This adds support for some printers, such as Xerox DocumentCenter400.
607 - Optimize fonts display for LCD.
608 - Update TrueCrypt to version 7.1a.
611 - Do not use pdnsd anymore. It has been orphaned in Debian, has quite
612 some bugs in there, and apparently Tor's DNSPort's own caching is
614 - Remove useless iceweasel cookies exceptions. They are useless as
615 per-session cookies are allowed.
616 - Do not run setupcon on X. This call is only needed on the Linux
617 console, no need to annoy the user with a weird "Press enter to
618 activate this console" when the open a root shell in a GNOME
620 - Allow the tails-iuk-get-target-file user to connect to the SOCKSPort
621 dedicated for Tails-specific software.
622 - Fix gpgApplet menu display in Windows camouflage mode.
623 - Fix Tor reaching an inactive state if it's restarted in "bridge mode",
624 e.g. during the time sync' process.
627 - Update iceweasel to 10.0.11esr-1+tails1.
628 - User profile is now generated at build time in order to support persistent
630 - Update HTTPS Everywhere to version 3.0.4.
631 - Update NoScript to version 2.6.
632 - Fix bookmark to I2P router console.
633 - Re-enable Monkeysphere extension to connect to the validation agent.
636 - The Tails USB installer, tails-persistence-setup and tails-greeter
637 are now translated into Bulgarian.
638 - Update Chinese translation for tails-greeter.
639 - Update Euskadi translation for WhisperBack.
642 - Custom packages are now retrieved from Tails APT repository instead
643 of bloating the Git repository.
644 - Allow '~' in wiki filenames. This makes it possible to ship
645 update-description files for release candidates.
646 - Document how to create incremental update kit.
647 - Handle release candidates when generating custom APT sources.
648 - Remove pinning for xul-ext-adblock-plus.
649 It is obsolete since we've added this package to our APT repository.
651 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:59:17 +0100
653 tails (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
656 - Enable Tor stream isolation; several new SocksPorts with
657 appropriate Isolate* options have been added for different use
658 cases (i.e. applications). All application's have been
659 reconfigured to use these new SocksPorts, which should increase
660 anonymity by making it more difficulte to correlate traffic from
661 different applications or "online identities".
662 - The web browser now has the anonymity enhancing patches from the
664 - gpgApplet can now handle public-key cryptography.
665 - Install an additional, PAE-enabled kernel with NX-bit
666 support. This kernel is auto-selected when the hardware supports
668 * provide executable space protection, preventing certain types of
669 buffer overflows from being exploitable.
670 * enable more than 4 GiB of system memory.
671 * make all processors/cores available, including their
672 power-saving functionality.
673 - Add a persistence preset for NetworkManager connections.
676 - On kexec reboot, make the boot quiet only if debug=wipemem was not
678 - Update torproject.org's APT repo key.
679 - Update the embedded Tails signing key.
680 - Use symlinks instead of duplicating localized searchplugins.
681 - Rewrite Tails firewall using ferm. Tails firewall was written in
682 very unsophisticated iptables-save/restore format. As more feature
683 creeped in, it started to be quite unreadable.
684 - Optimize VirtualBox modules build at runtime to avoid installing the
685 userspace utils N times.
686 - Drop most of Vidalia's configuration. Our custom lines just caused
687 trouble (with multiple SocksPorts) and the default works well.
688 - Blacklist PC speaker module. On some computers, having the pcspkr
689 module loaded means loud beeps at bootup, shutdown and when using
690 the console. As it draws useless attention to Tails users, it is
691 better to prevent Linux from loading it by default.
692 - Remove all addons from the Unsafe Browser. No addons are essential
693 for the Unsafe Browser's intent. If anything they will modify the
694 network fingerprint compared to a normal Iceweasel install, which
696 - Prevent some unwanted packages to be installed at all, rather than
697 uninstalling them later. This should speed up the build a bit.
698 - Add a symlink from /etc/live/config to /etc/live/config.d. This
699 makes the system compatible with live-config 3.0.4-1, without
700 breaking backward compatibility with various parts of the system
701 that use the old path.
702 - Do not run unecessary scripts during shutdown sequence, to make
704 - Make live-persist deal with persistent ~/.gconf subdirs so that
705 any options saved therein actually get persistent.
706 - Prevent memlockd unload on shutdown, to make sure that all
707 necessary tools for memory wiping are available when the new
709 - Patch initscripts headers instead of fiddling with update-rc.d. We
710 now let insserv figure out the correct ordering for the services
711 during startup and shutdown, i.e. use dependency-based boot
713 - Remove the last absolute path in our isolinux config, which makes
714 it easier to migrate from isolinux to syslinux (just rename the
715 directory), and hence might make it easier for 3rd party USB
716 installers (like the Universal USB Installer) to support Tails.
719 - Include `seq` in the ramdisk environment: it is used to wipe more
720 memory. This fixes the long-standing bug about Tails not cleaning
721 all memory on shutdown.
722 - Fix Yelp crashing on internal links
723 - Allow amnesia user to use Tor's TransPort. This firewall exception
724 is necessary for applications that doesn't have in-built SOCKS
725 support and cannot use torsocks. One such example is Claws Mail,
726 which uses tsocks since torsocks makes it leak the hostname. This
727 exception, together with Tor's automatic .onion mapping makes
728 Claws Mail able to use hidden service mail providers again.
729 - Force threads locking support in Python DBus binding. Without this
730 liveusb-creator doesn't work with a PAE-enabled kernel.
731 - Fix localized search plugins for 'es' and 'pt'
732 - Fix live-boot's readahead, which caused an unnecessary pause
734 - Factorize GCC wanted / available version numbers in VirtualBox
735 modules building hook. This, incidentally, fixes a bug caused by
736 duplication and not updating all instances.
737 - Fix tordate vs. Tor 0.2.3.x. Since 0.2.3.x Tor doesn't download a
738 consensus for clocks that are more than 30 days in the past or 2
739 days in the future (see commits f4c1fa2 and 87622e4 in Tor's git
740 repo). For such clock skews we set the time to the Tor authority's
741 cert's valid-after date to ensure that a consensus can be
745 - Update to version 0.2.3.24-rc-1~~squeeze+1, a new major
746 version. It's not a stable release, but we have been assured by
747 the Tor developers that this is the right move.
748 - Stop setting custom value for the Tor LongLivedPorts
749 setting. Gobby's port was upstreamed in Tor 0.2.3.x.
752 - Update to 10.0.10esr-1+tails1, which has all the anonymity enhancing
753 patches from the TorBrowser applied.
754 - Install iceweasel from our own repo, http://deb.tails.boum.org.
755 - Fix Iceweasel's file associations. No more should you be suggested
756 to open a PDF in the GIMP.
759 - Use curl instead of wget, and add a --proxy option passed through
761 - Remove the --fullrequest option, we don't need it anymore.
762 - Remove --dns-timeout option, we don't need it anymore.
763 - Change --proxy handling to support Debian Squeeze's curl.
764 - Clarify what happens if --proxy is not used.
765 - Compute the median of the diffs more correctly.
768 - Update Linux to 3.2.32-1.
771 - Update vidalia to 0.2.20-1+tails1.
772 - Update bundled WhisperBack package to 1.6.2:
773 * Raise the socket library timeout to 120 seconds
774 * Use smtplib's timeout parameter
775 * Fix error output when calling send a 2nd time
776 - Update liveusb-creator to 3.11.6-3.
777 - Update i2p to 0.9.2.
778 - Update tails-persistence-setup to 0.20-1, which should make it
779 possible to install Tails on large (>= 32 GiB) USB drives.
780 - Install console-setup and keyboard-configuration from unstable
781 (required by new initramfs-tools).
782 - Update tails-greeter to 0.7.3:
783 * Import pt_BR translation.
784 * Let langpanel usable during option selection stage
785 * Print less debugging messages by default
786 (below are changes in tails-greeter 0.7.2:)
787 * Use correct test operators.
788 * Generate language codes of available locales at package build
790 * Read list of language codes from where we have saved it at
792 * Drop tails-lang-helper, not used anymore.
793 * Do not compile locales at login time anymore. Tails now ships
795 - Import live-config{,-sysvinit} 3.0.8-1. live-config >= 3.0.9-1
796 has basically nothing useful for us, and it migrates to new paths
797 brought by live-boot 3.0~b7, which we're not ready for yet (see:
798 todo/newer_live-boot).
801 - Fix Tails specific Iceweasel localization for pt-BR
802 - Add Japanese input system: scim-anthy.
803 - whisperback is now also translated into German, Hebrew, Hungarian,
805 - tails-persistence-setup is now also translated into Arabic.
806 - tails-greeter is now also translated into Arabic, Hebrew, Basque,
807 Hungarian, Italian and Chinese.
810 - Catch more errors in during build time:
811 - Ensure that all local hooks start with 'set -e'.
812 - Fail hard if adduser fails in local hooks.
813 - Fail hard if 'rm' fails in local hooks.
814 - vagrant: Ensure we have the set of Perl packages needed by our
816 - vagrant: Configure live-build to ship with ftp.us.debian.org.
817 Using cdn.debian.net leads to bad interactions with Tor.
818 - vagrant: Don't use gzip compression when building from a tag, i.e.
820 - vagrant: Optionally use bootstrap stage cache for faster builds
821 via the 'cache' build option.
822 - vagrant: Make sure release builds are clean, i.e. they don't use
823 any potentially dangerous build options.
824 - vagrant: Disable live-build package caching. This build system is
825 meant to use an external caching proxy, so live-build's cache just
826 wastes RAM (for in-memory builds) or disk space.
827 - vagrant: use aufs magic instead of copying source into tmpfs.
828 This reduces the amount of RAM required for building Tails in.
829 - vagrant: Allow in-memory builds when a VM with enough memory is
832 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:34:56 +0000
834 tails (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
837 - Use white-list/principle of least privelege approach for local services.
838 Only users that need a certain local (i.e. hosted on loopback) service
839 (according to our use cases) are granted access to it by our firewall;
840 all other users are denied access.
841 - Ship a first version of the incremental update system. Updates are not
842 currently triggered automatically, but this will allow tests to be done
846 - Enable four workspaces in the Windows XP camouflage. This allows
847 users to quickly switch to a more innocent looking workspace in case
848 they are working on sensitive data and attract unwanted attention.
849 The workspace switcher applet isn't there, though, since there's no
850 such thing in Windows XP, so switching is only possible via keyboard
852 - Ship with precompiled locales instead of generating them upon login.
853 - Add support for wireless regulation.
854 - Use color for Git output, not intended for machine consumption,
855 written to the terminal.
856 - Have ttdnsd use OpenDNS. Using Google's DNS servers was very
857 glitchy, and rarely succeeded when it should. It can probably be
858 attributed to Google's DNS, which is known to take issue with Tor
860 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.6, with many UI improvements and new translations.
861 - Include GDM logs and dmidecode informations in the reports.
862 - Allow to modify language and layout in the "Advanced options" screen
864 - GnuPG: bump cert-digest-algo to SHA512.
865 - Update torproject.org's APT repo key.
868 - Make Claws Mail save local/POP emails in its dot-directory. The
869 default is to save them at ~/Mail, which isn't included in our
870 current Claws Mail persistence preset.
871 - Fix the System Monitor applet.
872 - Remove broken ttdnsd from the default DNS resolution loop.
873 - Hide the 'TailsData' partition in desktop applications.
874 - Ship unrar-free again, so that the GNOME archive manager knows about
876 - Ship with an empty whitelist for Noscript.
877 - Disable FoxyProxy's advertisement on proxy error page.
878 - Fix slow browsing experience for offline documentation.
879 - Raise the socket timeout to 120 seconds in WhisperBack.
880 - Enable the ikiwiki trail plugin for the locally built wiki too.
883 - Upgrade iceweasel to 10.0.6esr-1 (Extended Support Release) and install it
884 and its dependencies from squeeze-backports.
887 - Upgrade Linux to 3.2.23-1.
890 - Update tor to version 0.2.2.39.
891 - Update Iceweasel to version 10.0.7esr-2.
892 - Update i2p to version 0.9.1.
895 - vagrant: Install Ikiwiki from Debian unstable. The 'mirrorlist'
896 patches have finally been merged in upstream Ikiwiki. So instead of
897 building Ikiwiki by hand, we can now install the package directly
898 from Debian unstable.
899 - Do not build the ikiwiki forum on the bundled static website copy.
901 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:19:25 +0200
903 tails (0.12.1) unstable; urgency=low
905 This is a brown paper bag release to fix two major problems introduced in
909 - Upgrade Torbutton to 1.4.6.
910 - Upgrade AdBlock Plus to 2.1.
911 - Update AdBlock Plus patterns.
914 - Upgrade Linux to 3.2.21-3 (linux-image-3.2.0-3-486).
917 - Install MAT from Debian backports, drop custom package.
918 - Install python-pdfrw to re-add PDF support to the MAT.
919 - Upgrade tails-greeter to 0.7.1, which fixes the race condition that
920 broke administration password and locale settings on some systems.
923 - Remove the Tails specific plymouth theme. The theme interfers heavily with
924 the boot process on some hardware.
926 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:06:03 +0200
928 tails (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
931 - Add the Unsafe Web Browser, which has direct access to the Internet and
932 can be used to login to captive portals.
933 - The (previously experimental, now deemed stable) Windows camouflage can now
934 be enabled via a check box in Tails greeter.
937 - Upgrade to 0.2.2.37-1~~squeeze+1.
940 - Upgrade iceweasel to 10.0.5esr-1 (Extended Support Release) and install it
941 and its dependencies from squeeze-backports.
942 - Add a bookmark for the offline Tails documentation.
943 - Update AdBlock patterns.
946 - Allow using larger USB drives by increasing the mkfs timeout to 10 minutes.
947 - Tell the user what's going on when the Tails boot device cannot be found.
950 - Upgrade Linux to 3.2.20-1 (linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64).
954 - Install torsocks. Note that this makes `torify' use `torsocks' instead of
955 `tsocks'. The `tsocks' binary is dropped to avoid problems, but remaining
956 files (the library) are kept since ttdnsd depends on them.
957 - Fetch live-config-sysvinit from sid so that it matches live-config version.
958 - Update virtualbox backports to 4.1.10-dfsg-1~bpo60+1.
959 - Install pciutils (needed by virtualbox-guest-utils).
960 - Install mousetweaks. This is needed to use the mouse accessibility settings
961 in System -> Preferences -> Mouse -> Accessibility.
962 - Install the "hardlink" files deduplicator.
963 - Do not install cryptkeeper anymore. See todo/remove_cryptkeeper for reason.
964 Users of cryptkeeper are encouraged to install cryptkeeper via `apt-get
965 update; apt-get install --yes cryptkeeper`, open their volume and move
966 their to Tails' built-in persistence instead, as a one-time migration.
967 - Upgrade I2P to version 0.9.
968 - Don't install GParted. GNOME Disk Utility has been on par with GParted
969 since Squeeze was released.
970 - Upgrade live-boot to 3.0~a27-1+tails2~1.gbp319fe6.
971 - Upgrade live-config to 3.0~a39-1 and install it from Debian experimental.
972 - Upgrade tails-greeter to 0.7.
973 - Upgrade tails-persistence-setup to 0.17-1.
974 - Install libyaml-libyaml-perl.
975 - Upgrade MAT, the metadata anonymisation toolkit, 0.3.2-1~bpo60+1.
976 - Fetch python-pdfrw from backports, drop custom package.
978 * Internationalization
979 - The Tails website and documentation now has a (partial) Portuguese
983 - Tails can now be built without using a HTTP proxy.
984 - Tails can now easily be built by using Vagrant. See the updated
985 contribute/build page for instructions.
988 - Remove obsolete noswap boot parameter. live-boot now handles swap on an
990 - The squashfs.sort files generated with boot-profile should now be ok which
991 makes the generate images boot noticeably faster on optical media. See
992 bugs/weird_squashfs.sort_entries for more information.
993 - Set Tails specific syslinux and plymouth themes.
994 - Add NVidia KMS video drivers to the initrd in order to show our shiny new
995 plymouth theme on more systems.
997 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:37:00 +0200
999 tails (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * Major new features
1002 - Do not grant the desktop user root credentials by default.
1003 - A graphical boot menu (tails-greeter 0.6.3) allows choosing among
1004 many languages, and setting an optional sudoer password.
1005 - Support opt-in targeted persistence
1006 · tails-persistence-setup 0.14-1
1007 · live-boot 3.0~a25-1+tails1~5.gbp48d06c
1008 · live-config 3.0~a35-1
1009 - USB installer: liveusb-creator 3.11.6-1
1012 - Install iceweasel 10.0.4esr-1 (Extended Support Release).
1013 Let's stop tracking a too fast moving target.
1014 Debian Wheezy will ship ESR versions.
1015 - Install needed dependencies from squeeze-backports.
1018 bing appeared due to our upgrading iceweasel.
1019 Removing it makes things consistent with the way they have been
1020 until now, that is: let's keep only the general search engines
1021 we've been asked to add, plus Google, and a few specialized ones.
1022 · Replace Debian-provided DuckDuckGo search plugin with the "HTML SSL"
1023 one, version 20110219. This is the non-JavaScript, SSL, POST flavour.
1025 · Install localized search engines in the correct place.
1026 No need to copy them around at boot time anymore.
1027 · Remove Scroogle. RIP.
1028 - Enable TLS false start, like the TBB does since December.
1029 - Adblock Plus: don't count and save filter hits, supress first run dialog.
1030 - Install neither the GreaseMonkey add-on, nor any GreaseMonkey script.
1031 YouTube's HTML5 opt-in program is over.
1032 HTML5 video support is now autodetected and used.
1035 - Upgrade to 0.2.17-1+tails1: drop Do-not-warn-about-Tor-version.patch,
1037 - Set SkipVersionCheck=true.
1038 Thanks to chiiph for implementing this upstream (needs Vidalia 0.2.16+).
1040 * Internationalization
1041 - Install all available iceweasel l10n packages.
1042 - Remove syslinux language choosing menu.
1043 tails-greeter allows choosing a non-English language.
1044 - Add fonts for Hebrew, Thai, Khmer, Lao and Korean languages.
1046 - Setup text console at profile time.
1047 Context: Tails runs with text console autologin on.
1048 These consoles now wait, using a "Press enter to activate this console"
1049 message, for the user. When they press enter in there, they should have chosen
1050 their preferred keyboard layout in tails-greeter by now. Then, we run setupcon.
1051 As a result, the resulting shell is properly localized, and setupcon
1052 sets the correct keyboard layout, both according to the preferences expressed by
1053 the user in tails-greeter.
1054 - Don't use localepurge, don't remove any Scribus translations anymore,
1055 don't localize environment at live-config time:
1056 tails-greeter allows us to support many, many more languages.
1059 - Linux 3.2.15-1 (linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64).
1060 - Fix low sound level on MacBook5,2.
1061 - Disable laptop-mode-tools automatic modules. This modules set often
1062 needs some amount of hardware-specific tweaking to work properly.
1063 This makes them rather not well suited for a Live system.
1066 - Install GNOME keyring.
1067 This is needed so that NetworkManager remembers the WEP/WPA secrets
1068 for the time of a Tails session. Initialize GNOME keyring at user
1070 - Install usbutils to have the lsusb command.
1071 - Install the Traverso multitrack audio recorder and editor.
1074 - GNOME Terminal: keep 8192 scrollback lines instead of the smallish
1076 - Replaced tails-wifi initscript with laptop-mode-tools matching feature.
1077 - Disable gdomap service.
1078 - Fetch klibc-utils and libklibc from sid.
1079 The last initramfs-tools depends on these.
1080 - Set root password to "root" if debug=root is passed on the
1081 kernel cmdline. Allow setting root password on kernel cmdline via
1082 rootpw=. Looks like we implemented this feature twice.
1083 - Append a space on the kernel command line. This eases manually adding
1085 - Rename sudoers.d snippets to match naming scheme.
1086 Sudo credentials that shall be unconditionally granted to the Tails
1087 default user are named zzz_*, to make sure they are applied.
1088 - WhisperBack: also include /var/log/live-persist and
1089 /var/lib/gdm3/tails.persistence.
1090 - Add a wrapper to torify whois.
1091 - Rework the VirtualBox guest modules building hook to support
1093 - Consistently wait for nm-applet when waiting for user session to come up.
1094 Waiting for gnome-panel or notification-daemon worked worse.
1095 - Don't start the NetworkManager system service via init.
1096 Some Tails NM hooks need the user to be logged in to run properly.
1097 That's why tails-greeter starts NetworkManager at PostLogin time.
1098 - Also lock /bin/echo into memory. For some reason, kexec-load needs it.
1099 - Pidgin: don't use the OFTC hidden service anymore.
1100 It proved to be quite unreliable, being sometimes down for days.
1101 - Do not display storage volumes on Desktop, by disabling
1102 /apps/nautilus/desktop/volumes_visible GConf entry. Enabling that
1103 GConf setting avoids displaying the bind-mounted persistent
1104 directories on the Desktop, and reduces user confusion. It also is
1105 a first step towards a bigger UI change: GNOME3 does not manage the
1106 Desktop anymore, so volume icons and other Desktop icons are meant to
1107 disappear anyway. It implies we'll have to move all Desktop icons
1108 elsewhere. Let's start this move now: this will smooth the UI change
1109 Wheezy will carry for our users, by applying some of it progressively.
1112 - Don't build hybrid ISO images anymore. They boot less reliably on
1113 a variety of hardware, and are made less useful by us shipping
1114 a USB installer from now on.
1115 - Append .conf to live-config configuration filenames:
1116 live-config >3.0~a36-1 only takes into account files named *.conf
1117 in there. Accordingly update scripts that source these files.
1118 - Remove long-obsolete home-refresh script and its configuration.
1120 * Virtualization support
1121 - Support Spice and QXL: install the Spice agent from Debian sid,
1122 install xserver-xorg-video-qxl from squeeze-backports.
1124 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:54:00 +0200
1126 tails (0.10.2) unstable; urgency=low
1129 - Update to 10.0.2-1.
1130 - Disable HTTPS-Everywhere's SSL Observatory (plus first-run pop-up).
1131 - Revert "FoxyProxy: don't enclose regexps between ^ and $."
1132 Currently "http://www.i2p2.de" (and everything similar) is captured by
1133 the I2P filter, which is incorrect. It seems isMultiLine="false" does
1134 *not* make RE into ^RE$ any longer.
1135 - Remove file:// from NoScript's exception lists.
1136 This will fix the JavaScript toggles in the local copy of the documentation.
1137 - Update AdBlock patterns.
1140 - Upgrade I2P to 0.8.13.
1141 - Install libvpx0 from sid.
1142 - Fetch klibc-utils and libklibc from sid.
1143 The last initramfs-tools depends on these.
1146 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.2.7-1.
1147 - Install firmware-libertas.
1148 This adds support for wireless network cards with Marvell Libertas
1149 8xxx chips supported by the libertas_cs, libertas_sdio, libertas_spi,
1150 libertas_tf_usb, mwl8k and usb8xxx drivers.
1153 - Revert "Set time to middle of [valid-after, fresh-until] from consensus."
1154 This reverts commit 18d23a500b9412b4b0fbe4e38a9398eb1a3eadef.
1155 With this vmid clocks that are E minutes back in time may cause issues
1156 (temporary Tor outages) after consensus updates that happen at the
1157 (60-E):th minute or later during any hour. Full analysis:
1158 https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2012-January/000873.html
1159 - Add the default user to the vboxsf group.
1160 This will allow the user to get full access to automounted VirtualBox
1161 shared folders as they are mounted with guid vboxsf and rwx group
1164 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:26:21 +0100
1166 tails (0.10.1) unstable; urgency=low
1169 - Make Startpage the default web search engine. Scroogle does not look
1170 reliable enough these days.
1173 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.5.1 (update link to bug reporting documentation).
1174 - Update MAT to 0.2.2-2~bpo60+1 (fixes a critical bug in the GUI).
1177 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.2.1-2
1179 * Time synchronization
1180 Serious rework that should fix most, if not all, of the infamous
1181 time-sync' related bugs some Tails users have experienced recently.
1182 - Make htpdate more resilient by using three server pools, and
1183 allowing some failure ratio.
1184 - Set time from Tor's unverified-consensus if needed.
1185 - Set time to middle of [valid-after, fresh-until] from consensus.
1186 - Many robustness, performance and fingerprinting-resistance improvements.
1187 - Display time-sync' notification much earlier.
1190 - Fix access to "dumb" git:// protocol by using a connect-socks wrapper
1191 as GIT_PROXY_COMMAND.
1192 - SSH client: fix access to SSH servers on the Internet by correcting
1193 Host / ProxyCommand usage.
1194 - Pidgin: use OFTC hidden service to workaround Tor blocking.
1195 - Claws Mail: disable draft autosaving.
1196 When composing PGP encrypted email, drafts are saved back to
1197 the server in plaintext. This includes both autosaved and manually
1199 - tails-security-check-wrapper: avoid eating all memory when offline.
1201 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:00:31 +0100
1203 tails (0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * Tor: upgrade to 0.2.2.35-1.
1208 - Install Iceweasel 9.0 from the Debian Mozilla team's APT repository.
1209 - Update Torbutton to 1.4.5.1-1.
1210 - Support viewing any YouTube video that is available in HTML5 format:
1211 install xul-ext-greasemonkey and the "Permanently Enable HTML5 on
1212 YouTube" GreaseMonkey script.
1213 - Stop using Polipo in Iceweasel. Its SOCKS support was fixed.
1214 - Install from Debian sid the iceweasel extensions we ship,
1215 for compatibility with FF9.
1216 - Use Scroogle (any languages) instead of Scroogle (English only) when
1217 booted in English. Many users choose English because their own
1218 language is not supported yet; let's not hide them search results in
1220 - Install Iceweasel language packs from Debian unstable:
1221 unfortunately they are not shipped on the mozilla.debian.net repository.
1222 - Install the NoScript Firefox extension; configure it the same way as
1224 - Disable third-party cookies.
1225 They can be used to track users, which is bad. Besides, this is what
1226 TBB has been doing for years.
1227 - FoxyProxy: allow direct connections to RFC1918 IPs.
1229 * Do not transparent proxy outgoing Internet connections through Tor.
1230 - Torify the SSH client using connect-proxy to all IPs but RFC1918 ones.
1231 - Torify APT using Polipo HTTP.
1232 - Torify wget in wgetrc.
1233 - Torify gobby clients using torsocks. It does not support proxies yet.
1234 - Torify tails-security-check using LWP::UserAgent's SOCKS proxy support.
1235 - Fix enabling of GNOME's HTTP proxy.
1238 - Upgrade Vidalia to 0.2.15-1+tails1.
1239 · New upstream release.
1240 · Do not warn about Tor version.
1241 - Upgrade MAT to 0.2.2-1~bpo60+1.
1242 - Upgrade VirtualBox guest software to 4.1.6-dfsg-2~bpo60+1,
1243 built against the ABI of X.Org backports.
1244 - Upgrade I2P to 0.8.11 using KillYourTV's Squeeze packages;
1245 additionally, fix its start script that was broken by the tordate merge.
1246 - Install unar (The Unarchiver) instead of the non-free unrar.
1247 - Install Nautilus Wipe instead of custom Nautilus scripts.
1250 - Upgrade Linux kernel to 3.1.6-1.
1251 - Upgrade to X.Org from squeeze-backports.
1252 - Install more, and more recent b43 firmwares.
1253 - Upgrade barry to 0.15-1.2~bpo60+1.
1255 * Internationalization
1256 - Add basic language support for Russian, Farsi and Vietnamese.
1257 - Install some Indic fonts.
1258 - Install some Russian fonts.
1259 - Add Alt+Shift shortcut to switch keyboard layout.
1262 - Support booting in "Windows XP -like camouflage mode":
1263 · Install homebrewn local .debs for a Windows XP look-alike Gnome theme.
1264 · Add the "Windows XP Bliss" desktop wallpaper.
1265 · Added a script that's sets up Gnome to look like Microsoft Windows XP.
1266 · Add Windows XP "camouflage" icons for some programs.
1267 · Make Iceweasel use the IE icon when Windows XP camouflage is enabled.
1268 · Add special launcher icons for the Windows XP theme so that they're
1270 - Decrease Florence focus zoom to 1.2.
1271 - Do not fetch APT translation files. Running apt-get update is heavy enough.
1272 - Add MSN support thanks to msn-pecan.
1273 - Add custom SSH client configuration:
1274 · Prefer strong ciphers and MACs.
1275 · Enable maximum compression level.
1276 · Explicitly disable X11 forwarding.
1277 · Connect as root by default, to prevent fingerprinting when username
1279 - Replace flawed FireGPG with a home-made GnuPG encryption applet;
1280 install a feature-stripped FireGPG that redirects users to
1281 the documentation, and don't run Seahorse applet anymore.
1282 - Enable Seahorse's GnuPG agent.
1283 - Blank screen when lid is closed, rather than shutting down the system.
1284 The shutdown "feature" has caused data losses for too many people, it seems.
1285 There are many other ways a Tails system can be shut down in a hurry
1287 - Import Tails signing key into the keyring.
1288 - Fix bug in the Pidgin nick generation that resulted in the nick
1289 "XXX_NICK_XXX" once out of twenty.
1290 - Pre-configure the #tor IRC discussion channel in Pidgin.
1291 - Fix "technology preview" of bridge support: it was broken by tordate merge.
1292 - Install dependencies of our USB installer to ease its development.
1293 - Make vidalia NM hook sleep only if Vidalia is already running.
1294 - Reintroduce the htpdate notification, telling users when it's safe
1295 to use Tor Hidden Services.
1296 - htpdate: omit -f argument to not download full pages.
1297 - htpdate: write success file even when not within {min,max}adjust.
1298 Otherwise htpdate will not "succeed" when the time diff is 0 (i.e.
1299 the clock was already correct) so the success file cannot be used
1300 as an indicator that the system time now is correct, which arguably
1301 is its most important purpose.
1304 - Name built images according to git tag.
1306 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:56:38 +0100
1308 tails (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1311 - Upgrade to 0.2.2.34 (fixes CVE-2011-2768, CVE-2011-2769).
1314 - Upgrade to 3.5.16-11 (fixes CVE-2011-3647, CVE-2011-3648, CVE-2011-3650).
1315 - Upgrade FireGPG to 0.8-1+tails2: notify users that the FireGPG Text
1316 Editor is the only safe place for performing cryptographic operations,
1317 and make it impossible to do otherwise. Other ways open up several
1318 severe attacks through JavaScript (e.g. leaking plaintext when
1319 decrypting, signing messages written by the attacker).
1320 - Install Cookie Monster extension instead of CS Lite.
1321 - Always ask where to save files.
1322 - Upgrade Torbutton to 1.4.4.1-1, which includes support for the in-browser
1323 "New identity" feature.
1326 - Install MAT, the metadata anonymisation toolkit.
1327 - Upgrade TrueCrypt to 7.1.
1328 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.5~rc1 (leads the user by the hand if an error
1329 occurs while sending the bugreport, proposes to save it after 2 faild
1330 attempts, numerous bugfixes).
1331 - Linux: upgrade to linux-image-3.0.0-2-486 (version 3.0.0-6); fixes
1332 a great number of bugs and security issues.
1335 - Fully rework date and time setting system.
1336 - Remove the htp user firewall exception.
1337 - Saner keyboard layouts for Arabic and Russian.
1338 - Use Plymouth text-only splash screen at boot time.
1339 - Color the init scripts output.
1340 - Suppress Tor's warning about applications doing their own DNS lookups.
1341 This is totally safe due to our Tor enforcement.
1342 - Disable hdparm boot-time service.
1343 We only want hdparm so that laptop-mode-tools can use it.
1344 - Run Claws Mail using torify.
1345 It's not as good as if Claws Mail supported SOCKS proxies itself,
1346 but still better than relying on the transparent netfilter torification.
1347 - Install HPLIP and hpcups for better printing support.
1349 * Erase memory at shutdown
1350 - Run many sdmem instances at once.
1351 In hope of erasing more memory until we come up with a proper fix for
1352 [[bugs/sdmem_does_not_clear_all_memory]].
1353 - Kill gdm3 instead of using its initscript on brutal shutdown.
1354 - Use absolute path to eject for more robust memory wipe on boot medium removal.
1357 - Exclude kernel and initramfs from being put into the SquashFS.
1358 Those files are already shipped where they are needed, that is in the ISO
1359 filesystem. Adapt kexec and memlockd bits.
1360 - Do not ship the GNOME icon theme cache.
1361 - Do not ship .pyc files.
1362 - Do not ship NEWS.Debian.gz files.
1365 - Re-implement hook that modifies syslinux config to make future
1368 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:26:38 +0100
1370 tails (0.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1373 - Update to 3.5.16-10 (fixes DSA-2313-1).
1374 - FireGPG: force crypto action results to appear in a new window, otherwise
1375 JavaScript can steal decrypted plaintext. Advice: always use FireGPG's
1376 text editor when writing text you want to encrypt. If you write it in a
1377 textbox the plaintext can be stolen through JavaScript before it is
1378 encrypted in the same way.
1379 - Update HTTPS Everywhere extension to 1.0.3-1.
1380 - Stop using the small version of the Tor check page. The small version
1381 incorrectly tells Tails users to upgrade their Torbrowser, which has
1382 confused some users.
1385 - Update Linux to 3.0.0-2 (fixes DSA-2310-1, CVE-2011-2905, CVE-2011-2909,
1386 CVE-2011-2723, CVE-2011-2699, CVE-2011-1162, CVE-2011-1161).
1387 - Update usb-modeswitch to 1.1.9-2~bpo60+1 and usb-modeswitch-data to
1388 20110805-1~bpo60+1 from Debian backports. This adds support for a few
1389 devices such as Pantech UMW190 CDMA modem.
1390 - Install libregexp-common-perl 2011041701-3 from Debian unstable. This
1391 fixes the bug: [[bugs/msva_does_not_use_configured_keyserver]].
1392 - Install hdparm so the hard drives can be spinned down in order to save
1394 - Install barry-util for better BlackBerry integration.
1395 - Debian security upgrades: OpenOffice.org (DSA-2315-1), openjdk-6
1396 (DSA-2311-1), policykit-1 (DSA-2319-1)
1398 * Protecting against memory recovery
1399 - Set more appropriate Linux VM config before wiping memory. These
1400 parameters should make the wipe process more robust and efficient.
1402 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:31:18 +0200
1404 tails (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * Rebase on the Debian Squeeze 6.0.2.1 point-release.
1409 - Update to 0.2.2.33-1.
1410 - Disabled ControlPort in favour of ControlSocket.
1411 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to Tor's LongLivedPorts list.
1415 - Start script now depends on HTP since I2P breaks if the clock jumps or is
1416 too skewed during bootstrap.
1419 - Update to 3.5.16-9 (fixes CVE-2011-2374, CVE-2011-2376, CVE-2011-2365,
1420 CVE-2011-2373, CVE-2011-2371, CVE-2011-0083, CVE-2011-2363, CVE-2011-0085,
1421 CVE-2011-2362, CVE-2011-2982, CVE-2011-2981, CVE-2011-2378, CVE-2011-2984,
1423 - Enable HTTP pipelining (like TBB).
1424 - Update HTTPS Everywhere extension to 1.0.1-1 from Debian unstable.
1425 - Suppress FoxyProxy update prompts.
1426 - Prevent FoxyProxy from "phoning home" after a detected upgrade.
1427 - Fixed a bunch of buggy regular expressions in FoxyProxy's configuration.
1428 See [[bugs/exploitable_typo_in_url_regex?]] for details. Note that none of
1429 these issues are critical due to the transparent proxy.
1430 - Add DuckDuckGo SSL search engine.
1433 - Update to torbutton 1.4.3-1 from Debian unstable.
1434 - Don't show Torbutton status in the status bar as it's now displayed in the
1438 - More random looking nicks in pidgin.
1439 - Add IRC account on chat.wikileaks.de:9999.
1442 - Upgrade htpdate script (taken from Git 7797fe9) that allows setting wget's
1443 --dns-timeout option.
1446 - Update Linux to 3.0.0-1. -686 is now deprecated in favour of -486 and
1447 -686-pae; the world is not ready for -pae yet, so we now ship -486.
1448 - Update OpenSSL to 0.9.8o-4squeeze2 (fixes CVE-2011-1945 (revoke
1449 compromised DigiNotar certificates), CVE-2011-1945).
1450 - Update Vidalia to 0.2.14-1+tails1 custom package.
1451 - Install accessibility tools:
1452 - gnome-mag: screen magnifier
1453 - gnome-orca: text-to-speech
1454 - Replace the onBoard virtual keyboard with Florence.
1455 - Install the PiTIVi non-linear audio/video editor.
1460 * Arbitrary DNS queries
1461 - Tor can not handle all types of DNS queries, so if the Tor resolver fails
1462 we fallback to ttdnsd. This is now possible with Tor 0.2.2.x, since we
1463 fixed Tor bug #3369.
1466 - Install ipheth-utils for iPhone tethering.
1467 - Install xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse (for mouse integration with the host OS
1469 - Install virtualbox-ose 4.x guest packages from Debian backports.
1472 - Switch gpg to use keys.indymedia.org's hidden service, without SSL.
1473 The keys.indymedia.org SSL certificate is now self-signed. The hidden
1474 service gives a good enough way to authenticate the server and encrypts
1475 the connection, and just removes the certificates management issue.
1476 - The squashfs is now compressed using XZ which reduces the image size quite
1478 - Remove Windows autorun.bat and autorun.inf. These files did open a static
1479 copy of our website, which is not accessible any longer.
1482 - Use the Git branch instead of the Debian version into the built image's
1484 - Allow replacing efficient XZ compression with quicker gzip.
1485 - Build and install documentation into the chroot (-> filesystem.squashfs).
1486 Rationale: our static website cannot be copied to a FAT32 filesystem due
1487 to filenames being too long. This means the documentation cannot be
1488 browsed offline from outside Tails. However, our installer creates GPT
1489 hidden partitions, so the doc would not be browseable from outside Tails
1490 anyway. The only usecase we really break by doing so is browsing the
1491 documentation while running a non-Tails system, from a Tails CD.
1493 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 09 Sep 2011 11:31:18 +0200
1495 tails (0.7.2) unstable; urgency=high
1498 - Disable Torbutton's external application launch warning.
1499 ... which advises using Tails. Tails *is* running Tails.
1500 - FoxyProxy: install from Debian instead of the older one we previously
1504 - haveged: install an official Debian backport instead of a custom backport.
1505 - unrar: install the version from Debian's non-free repository.
1506 Users report unrar-free does not work well enough.
1508 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:34:56 +0200
1510 tails (0.7.1) unstable; urgency=high
1512 * Vidalia: new 0.2.12-2+tails1 custom package.
1515 - Don't show Foxyproxy's status / icon in FF statusbar to prevent users
1516 from accidentaly / unconsciously put their anonymity at risk.
1517 - "amnesia branding" extension: bump Iceweasel compatibility to 4.0 to ease
1518 development of future releases.
1521 - Upgrade Linux kernel to Debian's 2.6.32-33: fixes tons of bugs,
1522 including the infamous missing mouse cursor one. Oh, and it closes
1523 a few security holes at well.
1524 - Install unrar-free.
1525 - Do not install pppoeconf (superseeded by NetworkManager).
1526 - Upgrade macchanger to Debian testing package to ease development of
1527 future Tails releases.
1528 - Debian security upgrades: x11-xserver-utils (DSA-2213-1), isc-dhcp
1529 (DSA-2216-1), libmodplug (DSA-2226-1), openjdk-6 (DSA-2224-1).
1531 * Protecting against memory recovery
1532 - Add Italian translation for tails-kexec. Thanks to Marco A. Calamari.
1533 - Make it clear what it may mean if the system does not power off
1535 - Use kexec's --reset-vga option that might fix display corruption issues
1538 * WhisperBack (encrypted bug reporting software)
1539 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.4.1:
1540 localizes the documentation wiki's URL,
1541 uses WebKit to display the bug reporting help page,
1542 now is usable on really small screens.
1543 - Extract wiki's supported languages at build time, save this
1544 information to /etc/amnesia/environment, source this file into the
1545 Live user's environment so that WhisperBack 1.4+ can make good use
1549 - Fix boot in Chinese.
1550 - Install mobile-broadband-provider-info for better 3G support.
1551 - Add back GNOME system icons to menus.
1552 - tails-security-check: avoid generating double-slashes in the Atom
1554 - Remove "vga=788" boot parameter which breaks the boot on some hardware.
1555 - Remove now useless "splash" boot parameter.
1556 - Fix a bunch of i386-isms.
1557 - Pass the noswap option to the kernel. This does not change actual Tails
1558 behaviour but prevents users from unnecessarily worrying because of
1559 the "Activating swap" boot message.
1560 - Make use of check.torproject.org's Arabic version.
1563 - Enable squeeze-backports. It is now ready and will be used soon.
1564 - Install eatmydata in the chroot.
1565 - Convert ikiwiki setup files to YAML.
1567 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:14:53 +0200
1569 tails (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1572 - Install foomatic-filters-ppds to support more printers.
1573 - Give the default user the right to manage printers.
1576 - Deinstall unwanted packages newly pulled by recent live-build.
1578 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:58:51 +0200
1580 tails (0.7~rc2) unstable; urgency=low
1582 ** SNAPSHOT build @824f39248a08f9e190146980fb1eb0e55d483d71 **
1584 * Rebase on Debian Squeeze 6.0.1 point-release.
1586 * Vidalia: new 0.2.10-3+tails5 custom package..
1589 - Install usb-modeswitch and modemmanager to support mobile broadband
1590 devices such as 3G USB dongles. Thanks to Marco A. Calamari for the
1594 - Website relocated to https://tails.boum.org/ => adapt various places.
1595 - Configure keyboard layout accordingly to the chosen language for
1596 Italian and Portuguese.
1598 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:44:25 +0100
1600 tails (0.7~rc1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
1602 ** SNAPSHOT build @98987f111fc097a699b526eeaef46bc75be5290a **
1604 * Rebase on Debian Squeeze.
1606 * T(A)ILS has been renamed to Tails.
1608 * Protecting against memory recovery
1609 New, safer way to wipe memory on shutdown which is now also used when
1610 the boot media is physically removed.
1613 - Update to 0.2.1.30-1.
1616 - Add HTTPS Everywhere 0.9.4 extension.
1617 - Better preserve Anonymity Set: spoof US English Browser and timezone
1618 the same way as the Tor Browser Bundle, disable favicons and picture
1620 - Install AdBlock Plus extension from Debian.
1621 - Add Tor-related bookmarks.
1622 - Support FTP, thanks to FoxyProxy.
1623 - Update AdBlock patterns.
1624 - Disable geolocation and the offline cache.
1627 - Update Vidalia to 0.2.10-3+tails4.
1628 - Install gnome-disk-utility (Palimpsest) and Seahorse plugins.
1629 - Add opt-in i2p support with Iceweasel integration through FoxyProxy.
1630 - onBoard: fix "really quits when clicking the close window icon" bug.
1631 - Optionally install TrueCrypt at boot time.
1632 - Install laptop-mode-tools for better use of battery-powered hardware.
1633 - Replace xsane with simple-scan which is part of GNOME and way easier
1635 - Upgrade WhisperBack to 1.3.1 (bugfixes, French translation).
1636 - Install scribus-ng instead of scribus. It is far less buggy in Squeeze.
1639 - Drop incoming packets by default.
1640 - Forbid queries to DNS resolvers on the LAN.
1641 - Set output policy to drop (defense-in-depth).
1644 - Install Atheros and Broadcom wireless firmwares.
1645 - Install libsane-hpaio and sane-utils, respectively needed for
1646 multi-function peripherals and some SCSI scanners.
1648 * live-boot 2.0.15-1+tails1.35f1a14
1649 - Cherry-pick our fromiso= bugfixes from upstream 3.x branch.
1652 - Many tiny user interface improvements.
1653 - More robust HTP time synchronization wrt. network failures.
1654 Also, display the logs when the clock synchronization fails.
1655 - Disable GNOME automatic media mounting and opening to protect against
1656 a class of attacks that was recently put under the spotlights.
1657 Also, this feature was breaking the "no trace is left on local
1658 storage devices unless explicitly asked" part of Tails specification.
1659 - Make configuration more similar to the Tor Browser Bundle's one.
1660 - GnuPG: default to stronger digest algorithms.
1661 - Many more or less proper hacks to get the built image size under 700MB.
1662 - Compress the initramfs using LZMA for faster boot.
1665 - Run lb build inside eatmydata fsync-less environment to greatly improve
1668 -- Tails developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:52:19 +0100
1670 tails (0.6.2) unstable; urgency=high
1672 * Tor: upgrade to 0.2.1.29 (fixes CVE-2011-0427).
1674 - Upgrade Linux kernel, dpkg, libc6, NSS, OpenSSL, libxml2 (fixes various
1676 - Upgrade Claws Mail to 3.7.6 (new backport).
1677 - Install Liferea, tcpdump and tcpflow.
1678 * Seahorse: use hkp:// transport as it does not support hkps://.
1679 * FireGPG: use hkps:// to connect to the configured keyserver.
1680 * Build system: take note of the Debian Live tools versions being used
1681 to make next point-release process faster.
1682 * APT: don't ship package indices.
1684 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:59:43 +0100
1686 tails (0.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * Tor: upgrade to 0.1.28 (fixes CVE-2010-1676)
1689 * Software: upgrade NSS, Xulrunner, glibc (fixes various security issues)
1690 * FireGPG: use the same keyserver as the one configured in gpg.conf.
1691 * Seahorse: use same keyserver as in gpg.conf.
1692 * HTP: display the logs when the clock synchronization fails.
1693 * Update HTP configuration: www.google.com now redirects to
1694 encrypted.google.com.
1695 * Use the light version of the "Are you using Tor?" webpage.
1696 * Update AdBlock patterns.
1698 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 24 Dec 2010 13:28:29 +0100
1700 tails (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * New OpenPGP signing-only key. Details are on the website:
1705 https://amnesia.boum.org/GnuPG_key/
1708 - Fixed torbutton has migrated to testing, remove custom package.
1711 - Query ssl.scroogle.org instead of lists.debian.org.
1712 - Don't run when the interface that has gone up is the loopback one.
1715 - Add shortcut to securely erase free space in a partition.
1716 - The nautilus-wipe shortcut user interface is now translatable.
1719 - Really fix virtualization warning display.
1720 - More accurate APT pinning.
1721 - Disable Debian sid APT source again since a fixed live-config has
1722 migrated to Squeeze since then.
1724 * live-boot: upgrade to 2.0.8-1+tails1.13926a
1725 - Sometimes fixes the smem at shutdown bug.
1726 - Now possible to create a second partition on the USB stick T(A)ILS is
1730 - Support RT2860 wireless chipsets by installing firmware-ralink from
1732 - Install firmware-linux-nonfree from backports.
1733 - Fix b43 wireless chipsets by having b43-fwcutter extract firmwares at
1737 - Install live-build and live-helper from Squeeze.
1738 - Update SquashFS sort file.
1740 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:53:17 +0200
1742 tails (0.6~rc3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
1744 ** SNAPSHOT build @a3ebb6c775d83d1a1448bc917a9f0995df93e44d **
1747 - Autostart Iceweasel with the GNOME session. This workarounds the
1748 "Iceweasel first page is not loaded" bug.
1751 - Upgrade htpdate script (taken from Git 7797fe9).
1754 - Disable ssh-agent auto-starting with X session: gnome-keyring is
1756 - Fix virtualization warning display.
1757 - Boot profile hook: write desktop file to /etc/skel.
1760 - Convert build system to live-build 2.0.1.
1761 - APT: fetch live-build and live-helper from Debian Live snapshots.
1762 - Remove dependency on live-build functions in chroot_local-hooks.
1763 This makes the build environment more robust and less dependent on
1764 live-build internals.
1765 - Remove hand-made rcS.d/S41tails-wifi: a hook now does this.
1766 - Measure time used by the lh build command.
1767 - Fix boot profile hook.
1768 - Boot profiling: wait a bit more: the current list does not include
1771 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 02 Oct 2010 23:06:46 +0200
1773 tails (0.6~rc2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
1775 ** SNAPSHOT build @c0ca0760ff577a1e797cdddf0e95c5d62a986ec8 **
1778 - Refreshed AdBlock patterns (20100926).
1779 - Set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true (untested yet)
1780 - Torbutton: install patched 1.2.5-1+tails1 to fix the User-Agent bug,
1781 disable extensions.torbutton.spoof_english again.
1784 - WhisperBack: upgrade to 1.3~beta3 (main change: let the user provide
1785 optional email address and OpenPGP key).
1787 - Update haveged backport to 0.9-3~amnesia+lenny1.
1788 - Update live-boot custom packages (2.0.6-1+tails1.6797e8): fixes bugs
1789 in persistency and smem-on-shutdown.
1790 - Update custom htpdate script. Taken from commit d778a6094cb3 in our
1791 custom Git repository: fixes setting of date/time.
1794 - Bugfix: failed builds are now (hopefully) detected.
1795 - Fix permissions on files in /etc/apt/ that are preserved in the image.
1796 - Install version 2.0~a21-1 of live-build and live-helper in the image.
1797 We are too late in the release process to upgrade to current Squeeze
1798 version (2.0~a29-1).
1801 - Pidgin/OTR: disable the automatic OTR initiation and OTR requirement.
1803 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:23:17 +0200
1805 tails (0.6~1.gbpef2878) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
1807 ** SNAPSHOT build @ef28782a0bf58004397b5fd303f938cc7d11ddaa **
1810 - Use a 2.6.32 kernel: linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.5-686 (2.6.32-23~bpo50+1)
1811 from backports.org. This should support far more hardware and
1812 especially a lot of wireless adapters.
1813 - Add firmware for RTL8192 wireless adapters.
1814 - Enable power management on all wireless interfaces on boot.
1819 - Install gfshare and ssss: two complementary implementations
1820 of Shamir's Secret Sharing.
1821 - Install tor-geoipdb.
1822 - Remove dialog, mc and xterm.
1825 - Set extensions.torbutton.spoof_english to its default true value
1826 in order to workaround a security issue:
1827 https://amnesia.boum.org/security/Iceweasel_exposes_a_rare_User-Agent/
1830 - Install the Iceweasel extension.
1831 - Use a hkps:// keyserver.
1834 - Install gnupg from backports.org so that hkps:// is supported.
1835 - Use a hkps:// keyserver.
1836 - Proxy traffic via polipo.
1837 - Prefer up-to-date digests and ciphers.
1839 * Vidalia: rebased our custom package against 0.2.10.
1842 - Built images are now named like this:
1843 tails-i386-lenny-0.5-20100925.iso
1844 - Use live-helper support for isohybrid options instead of doing the
1845 conversion ourselves. The default binary image type we build is now
1847 - Remove .deb built by m-a after they have been installed.
1848 - Setup custom GConf settings at build time rather than at boot time.
1849 - Move $HOME files to /etc/skel and let adduser deal with permissions.
1850 - Convert to live-boot / live-config / live-build 2.x branches.
1851 - Replaced our custom live-initramfs with a custom live-boot package;
1852 included version is 2.0.5-1+tails2.6797e8 from our Git repository:
1853 git clone git://git.immerda.ch/tails_live-boot.git
1854 - Install live-config* from the live-snapshots Lenny repository.
1855 Rationale: live-config binary packages differ depending on the target
1856 distribution, so that using Squeeze's live-config does not produce
1857 fully-working Lenny images.
1858 - Rename custom scripts, packages lists and syslinux menu entries from
1859 the amnesia-* namespace to the tails-* one.
1862 - Use (authenticated) HTP instead of NTP.
1863 - The htpdate script that is used comes from commit 43f5f83c0 in our
1864 custom repository: git://git.immerda.ch/tails_htp.git
1865 - Start Tor and Vidalia only once HTP is done.
1868 - Fix IPv6 firewall restore file. It was previously not used at all.
1869 - Use ftp.us.debian.org instead of the buggy GeoIP-powered
1871 - Gedit: don't autocreate backup copies.
1872 - Build images with syslinux>=4.01 that has better isohybrid support.
1873 - amnesia-security-check: got rid of the dependency on File::Slurp.
1874 - Take into account the migration of backports.org to backports.debian.org.
1875 - Make GnuPG key import errors fatal on boot.
1876 - Warn the user when T(A)ILS is running inside a virtual machine.
1877 - DNS cache: forget automapped .onion:s on Tor restart.
1879 * Documentation: imported Incognito's walkthrough, converted to
1880 Markdown, started the needed adaptation work.
1882 -- T(A)ILS developers <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 26 Sep 2010 11:06:50 +0200
1884 tails (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * The project has merged efforts with Incognito.
1887 It is now to be called "The (Amnesic) Incognito Live System".
1891 - Created the amnesia-news mailing-list.
1892 - Added a forum to the website.
1893 - Created a chatroom on IRC: #tails on irc.oftc.net
1896 - Workaround nasty NetworkManager vs. Tor bug that often
1897 prevented the system to connect to the Tor network: restart Tor and Vidalia
1898 when a network interface goes up.
1899 - onBoard now autodetects the keyboard layout... at least once some
1900 keys have been pressed.
1901 - New windows don't open in background anymore, thanks to
1903 - Memory wiping at shutdown is now lightning fast, and does not prevent
1904 the computer to halt anymore.
1905 - GNOME panel icons are right-aligned again.
1906 - Fixed permissions on APT config files.
1907 - Repaired mouse integration when running inside VirtualBox.
1910 - Torbutton: redirect to Scroogle when presented a Google captcha.
1911 - Revamped bookmarks
1912 . moved T(A)ILS own website to the personal toolbar
1913 . moved webmail links (that are expected to be more than 3 soon)
1914 to a dedicated folder.
1915 - Don't show AdBlock Plus icon in the toolbar.
1916 - Adblock Plus: updated patterns, configured to only update subscriptions
1917 once a year. Which means never, hopefully, as users do update their
1918 Live system on a regular basis, don't they?
1920 * Vidalia: rebased our custom package against 0.2.8.
1923 - Install Claws Mail from backports.org to use the X.509 CA
1924 certificates provided by Debian.
1925 - Enable PGP modules with basic configuration:
1926 . Automatically check signatures.
1927 . Use gpg-agent to manage passwords.
1928 . Display warning on start-up if GnuPG doesn't work.
1929 - Set the IO timeout to 120s (i.e. the double of the default 60s).
1932 - Automatically connect to irc.oftc.net with a randomized nickname,
1933 so as not to advertize the use of T(A)ILS; this nickname is made of:
1934 . a random firstname picked from the 2000 most registered by the U.S.
1935 social security administration in the 70s;
1936 . two random digits.
1937 Good old irc.indymedia.org is still configured - with same nickname -
1938 but is not enabled by default anymore.
1939 - Disabled MSN support, that is far too often affected by security flaws.
1941 * Build $HOME programmatically
1942 - Migrated all GConf settings, including the GNOME panel configuration,
1943 to XML files that are loaded at boot time.
1944 - Configure iceweasel profile skeleton in /etc/iceweasel.
1945 A brand new profile is setup from this skeleton once iceweasel is
1947 . build sqlite files at build time from plain SQL.
1948 . FireGPG: hard-code current firegpg version at build time to prevent
1949 the extension to think it was just updated.
1950 . stop shipping binary NSS files. These were here only to
1951 install CaCert's certificate, that is actually shipped by Debian's
1955 - Updated Debian Live snapshots APT repository URL.
1956 - Purge all devel packages at the end of the chroot configuration.
1957 - Make sure the hook that fixes permissions runs last.
1958 - Remove unwanted Iceweasel search plugins at build time.
1961 - Added a progress bar for boot time file readahead.
1962 - Readahead more (~37MB) stuff in foreground at boot time.
1963 - Make the APT pinning persist in the Live image.
1964 - localepurge: keep locales for all supported languages,
1965 don't bother when installing new packages.
1966 - Removed syslinux help menu: these help pages are either buggy or
1967 not understandable by non-geeks.
1968 - Fixed Windows autorun.
1969 - Disable a few live-initramfs scripts to improve boot time.
1970 - Firewall: forbid any IPv6 communication with the outside.
1971 - Virtualization support: install open-vm-tools.
1972 - WhisperBack: updated to 1.2.1, add a random bug ID to the sent
1974 - Prompt for CD removal on shutdown, not for USB device.
1976 * live-initramfs: new package built from our Git (e2890a04ff) repository.
1977 - Merged upstream changes up to 1.177.2-1.
1978 - New noprompt=usb feature.
1979 - Fix buggy memory wiping and shutdown.
1980 - Really reboot when asked, rather than shutting down the system.
1983 - Upgraded to a new custom, patched package (0.93.0-0ubuntu4~amnesia1).
1984 - Added an entry in the Applications menu.
1987 - Install vim-nox with basic configuration
1989 - Install monkeysphere and msva-perl
1990 - Replaced randomsound with haveged as an additional source of entropy.
1993 - Build ralink rt2570 wifi modules.
1994 - Build rt2860 wifi modules from Squeeze. This supports the RT2860
1995 wireless adapter, found particularly in the ASUS EeePC model 901
1997 - Build broadcom-sta-source wifi modules.
1998 - Bugfix: cpufreq modules were not properly added to /etc/modules.
1999 - Use 800x600 mode on boot rather than 1024x768 for compatibility
2000 with smaller displays.
2002 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:14:13 +0200
2004 amnesia (0.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2006 New release, mainly aimed at fixing live-initramfs security issue
2007 (Debian bug #568750), with an additional set of small enhancements as
2010 * live-initramfs: new custom package built from our own live-initramfs
2011 Git repository (commit 8b96e5a6cf8abc)
2012 - based on new 1.173.1-1 upstream release
2013 - fixed live-media=removable behaviour so that filesystem images found
2014 on non-removable storage are really never used (Debian bug #568750)
2016 * Vidalia: bring back our UI customizations (0.2.7-1~lenny+amnesia1)
2018 * APT: consistently use the GeoIP-powered cdn.debian.net
2020 * Software: make room so that {alpha, future} Squeeze images fit on
2022 - only install OpenOffice.org's calc, draw, impress, math and writer
2024 - removed OpenOffice.org's English hyphenation and thesaurus
2025 - removed hunspell, wonder why it was ever added
2028 - explicitly disable persistence, better safe than sorry
2029 - removed compulsory 15s timeout, live-initramfs knows how to wait for
2030 the Live media to be ready
2032 * Build system: don't cache rootfs anymore
2034 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:28:16 +0100
2036 amnesia (0.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * Brown paper bag bugfix release: have amnesia-security-check use
2039 entries publication time, rather than update time... else tagging
2040 a security issue as fixed, after releasing a new version, make this
2041 issue be announced to every user of this new, fixed version.
2043 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:58:41 +0100
2045 amnesia (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * We now only build and ship "Hybrid" ISO images, which can be either
2048 burnt on CD-ROM or dd'd to a USB stick or hard disk.
2050 * l10n: we now build and ship multilingual images; initially supported
2051 (or rather wanna-be-supported) languages are: ar, zh, de, en, fr, it,
2053 - install Iceweasel's and OpenOffice.org's l10n packages for every
2055 - stop installing localized help for OpenOffice.org, we can't afford it
2056 for enough languages
2057 - when possible, Iceweasel's homepage and default search engine are localized
2058 - added Iceweasel's "any language" Scroogle SSL search engine
2059 - when the documentation icon is clicked, display the local wiki in
2060 currently used language, if available
2061 - the Nautilus wipe script is now translatable
2062 - added gnome-keyboard-applet to the Gnome panel
2065 - replaced Icedove with claws mail, in a bit rough way; see
2066 https://amnesia.boum.org/todo/replace_icedove_with_claws/ for best
2067 practices and configuration advices
2068 - virtual keyboard: install onBoard instead of kvkbd
2069 - Tor controller: install Vidalia instead of TorK
2070 - install only chosen parts of Gnome, rather than gnome-desktop-environment
2071 - do not install xdialog, which is unused and not in Squeeze
2072 - stop installing grub as it breaks Squeeze builds (see Debian bug #467620)
2073 - install live-helper from snapshots repository into the Live image
2076 - do not install the NoScript extension anymore: it is not strictly
2077 necessary but bloodily annoying
2079 * Provide WhisperBack 1.2 for anonymous, GnuPG-encrypted bug reporting.
2080 - added dependency on python-gnutls
2081 - install the SMTP hidden relay's certificate
2083 * amnesia-security-check: new program that tells users that the amnesia
2084 version they are running is affected by security flaws, and which ones
2085 they are; this program is run at Gnome session startup, after sleeping
2086 2 minutes to let Tor a chance to initialize.
2089 - uses the Desktop Notifications framework
2090 - fetches the security atom feed from the wiki
2091 - verifies the server certificate against its known CA
2092 - tries fetching the localized feed; if it fails, fetch the default
2095 * live-initramfs: new custom package built from our own live-initramfs
2096 Git repository (commit 40e957c4b89099e06421)
2097 - at shutdown time, ask the user to unplug the CD / USB stick, then run
2098 smem, wait for it to finish, then attempt to immediately halt
2101 - bumped dependency on live-helper to >= 2.0a6 and adapted our config
2102 - generate hybrid ISO images by default, when installed syslinux is
2104 - stop trying to support building several images in a row, it is still
2105 broken and less needed now that we ship hybrid ISO images
2106 - scripts/config: specify distribution when initializing defaults
2107 - updated Debian Live APT repository's signing key
2110 - disable virtualbox packages installing and module building on !i386
2111 && !amd64, as PowerPC is not a supported guest architecture
2112 - built and imported tor_0.2.1.20-1~~lenny+1_powerpc.deb
2115 - rough beginnings of a scratch Squeeze branch, currently unsupported
2116 - install gobby-infinote
2119 - updated GnuPG key with up-to-date signatures
2120 - more improvements on boot time from CD
2121 - enhanced the wipe in Nautilus UI (now asks for confirmation and
2122 reports success or failure)
2123 - removed the "restart Tor" launcher from the Gnome panel
2125 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:28:04 +0100
2127 amnesia (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * software: removed openvpn, added
2135 - lvm2 (with disabled initscript as it slows-down too much the boot in certain
2137 - NetworkManager 0.7 (from backports.org) to support non-DHCP networking
2139 - randomsound to enhance the kernel's random pool
2141 - install the latest stable release from deb.torproject.org
2142 - ifupdown script now uses SIGHUP signal rather than a whole tor
2143 restart, so that in the middle of it vidalia won't start it's own
2145 - configure Gnome proxy to use Tor
2147 - adblockplus: upgraded to 1.0.2
2148 - adblockplus: subscribe to US and DE EasyList extensions, updated patterns
2149 - firegpg is now installed from Debian Squeeze rather than manually; current
2150 version is then 0.7.10
2151 - firegpg: use better keyserver ... namely pool.sks-keyservers.net
2152 - added bookmark to Amnesia's own website
2153 - use a custom "amnesiabranding" extension to localize the default search
2154 engine and homepage depending on the current locale
2155 - updated noscript whitelist
2156 - disable overriden homepage redirect on iceweasel upgrade
2158 - nicer default configuration with verified irc.indymedia.org's SSL cert
2159 - do not parse incoming messages for formatting
2160 - hide formatting toolbar
2161 * hardware compatibility
2163 - beginning of support for the ppc architecture
2164 - load acpi-cpufreq, cpufreq_ondemand and cpufreq_powersave kernel
2166 * live-initramfs: custom, updated package based on upstream's 1.157.4-1, built
2167 from commit b0a4265f9f30bad945da of amnesia's custom live-initramfs Git
2169 - securely erases RAM on shutdown using smem
2170 - fixes the noprompt bug when running from USB
2171 - disables local swap partitions usage, wrongly enabled by upstream
2172 * fully support for running as a guest system in VirtualBox
2173 - install guest utils and X11 drivers
2174 - build virtualbox-ose kernel modules at image build time
2176 - new (translatable) wiki, using ikiwiki, with integrated bugs and todo
2177 tracking system a static version of the wiki is included in generated
2178 images and linked from the Desktop
2180 - adapt for live-helper 2.0, and depend on it
2181 - get amnesia version from debian/changelog
2182 - include the full version in ISO volume name
2183 - save .list, .packages and .buildlog
2184 - scripts/clean: cleanup any created dir in binary_local-includes
2185 - updated Debian Live snapshot packages repository URL and signing key
2186 - remove duplicated apt/preferences file, the live-helper bug has been
2188 * l10n: beginning of support for --language=en
2190 - improved boot time on CD by ordering files in the squashfs in the order they
2191 are used during boot
2192 - added a amnesia-version script to built images, that outputs the current
2194 - added a amnesia-debug script that prepares a tarball with information that
2195 could be useful for developpers
2196 - updated Amnesia GnuPG key to a new 4096R one
2197 - set time with NTP when a network interface is brought up
2198 - import amnesia's GnuPG pubkey into the live session user's keyring
2199 - do not ask DHCP for a specific hostname
2200 - install localepurge, only keep en, fr, de and es locales, which reduces the
2201 generated images' size by 100MB
2202 - added a hook to replace /sbin/swapon with a script that only runs
2204 - moved networking hooks responsibility from ifupdown to NetworkManager
2206 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:17:08 +0100
2208 amnesia (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * imported /home/amnesia, then:
2211 - more user-friendly shell, umask 077
2212 - updated panel, added launcher to restart Tor
2213 - mv $HOME/bin/* /usr/local/bin/
2214 - removed metacity sessions
2215 - removed gstreamer's registry, better keep this dynamically updated
2216 - rm .qt/qt_plugins_3.3rc, better keep this dynamically updated
2217 - removed .gnome/gnome-vfs/.trash_entry_cache
2218 - removed kconf_update log
2219 - removed and excluded Epiphany configuration (not installed)
2222 - enable caching in RAM
2223 - explicitly disable ssl v2, and enable ssl v3 + tls
2224 - removed prefs for the non-installed webdeveloper
2225 - removed the SSL Blacklist extension (not so useful, licensing issues)
2226 - deep profile directory cleanup
2227 - extensions cleanup: prefer Debian-packaged ones, cleanly reinstalled
2228 AddBlock Plus and CS Lite to allow upgrading them
2229 - updated pluginreg.dat and localstore.rdf
2230 - moved some settings to user.js
2231 - made cookie/JavaScript whitelists more consistent
2232 - force httpS on whitelisted sites
2233 - NoScript: marked google and gmail as untrusted
2234 - some user interface tweaks, mainly for NoScript
2235 - FireGPG: disable the buggy auto-detection feature, the link to firegpg's
2236 homepage in generated pgp messages and the GMail interface (which won't
2237 work without JavaScript anyway)
2238 - updated blocklist.xml
2239 - removed and excluded a bunch of files in the profile directory
2240 * icedove: clean the profile directory up just like we did for iceweasel
2241 * software: install msmtp and mutt
2243 - use rsync rather than tar
2246 - reviewed pidgin-otr security (see TODO)
2248 - stop calling home-refresh in lh_build
2249 - include home-refresh in generated images
2251 - fix permissions on local includes at build time
2252 - updated scripts/{build,clean} wrt. new $HOME handling
2253 - scripts/{build,config}: stop guessing BASEDIR, we must be run from
2254 the root of the source directory anyway
2255 - stop storing /etc/amnesia/version in Git, delete it at clean time
2257 - converted Changelog to the Debian format and location, updated
2258 build scripts accordingly
2259 - added a README symlink at the root of the source directory
2260 - basic debian/ directory (not working for building packages yet,
2261 but at least we can now use git-dch)
2262 - added debian/gbp.conf with our custom options for git-dch
2263 - config/amnesia: introduce new $AMNESIA_DEV_* variables to be used
2264 by developpers' scripts
2265 - added ./release script: a wrapper around git-dch, git-commit and git-tag
2267 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:42:03 +0200
2269 amnesia (0.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
2271 * Forked Privatix 9.03.15, by Markus Mandalka:
2272 http://mandalka.name/privatix/index.html.en
2273 Everything has since been rewritten or so heavily changed that nothing
2274 remains from the original code... apart of a bunch of Gnome settings.
2276 - install a bunch of non-free wifi firmwares
2277 - install xsane and add the live user to the scanner group
2278 - install aircrack-ng
2279 - install xserver-xorg-video-geode on i386 (eCafe support)
2280 - install xserver-xorg-video-all
2281 - install firmware-linux from backports.org
2282 - install system-config-printer
2283 - added instructions in README.eCAFE to support the Hercules eCAFE EC-800
2286 - configure pinning to support installing chosen packages from
2287 squeeze; the APT source for testing is hardcoded in chroot_sources/,
2288 since there is no way to use $LH_CHROOT_MIRROR in chroot_local-hooks
2289 - give backports.org priority 200, so that we track upgrades of packages
2290 installed from there
2291 * release: include the Changelog and TODO in the generated images,
2292 in the /usr/share/doc/amnesia/ directory
2293 * software: install gnomebaker when building Gnome-based live OS, to
2294 easily clone myself when running from CD
2296 - build i386 images when the build host is amd64
2297 - added a version file: /etc/amnesia/version
2298 - use snapshot live-* packages inside the images
2299 - setup timezone depending on the chosen build locale
2300 - rely on standard live-initramfs adduser to do our user setup
2301 (including sudo vs. Gnome/KDE, etc.)
2302 - stop "supporting" KDE
2303 - allow building several images at once
2304 - migrated most of lh_config invocations to scripts/config
2305 - append "noprompt" so that halting/rebooting work with splashy
2306 - moved our own variables to config/amnesia, using the namespace
2309 - default search engine is now Scroogle SSL, configured to search pages
2310 in French language; the English one is also installed
2311 - never ask to save passwords or forms content
2312 - configured the torbutton extension to use polipo
2313 - installed the CACert root certificate
2314 - installed the SSL Blacklist extension and the blacklist data
2315 - installed the FireGPG extension
2316 - installed the CS Lite extension
2317 - installed the NoScript extension
2318 - NoScript, CS Lite: replaced the default whitelists with a list of
2319 trusted, non-commercial Internet Service Providers
2320 - configure extensions (add to prefs.js):
2321 user_pref("extensions.torbutton.startup", true);
2322 user_pref("extensions.torbutton.startup_state", 1);
2323 user_pref("extensions.torbutton.tor_enabled", true);
2324 user_pref("noscript.notify.hide", true);
2325 user_pref("capability.policy.maonoscript.sites", "about:
2326 about:blank about:certerror about:config about:credits
2327 about:neterror about:plugins about:privatebrowsing
2328 about:sessionrestore chrome: resource:");
2329 user_pref("extensions.firegpg.no_updates", true);
2330 - install the NoScript plugin from Debian squeeze
2331 - delete urlclassifier3.sqlite on $HOME refresh: as we disabled
2332 "safebrowsing", this huge file is of no use
2333 - torbutton: install newer version from Squeeze
2334 * linux: removed non-686 kernel flavours when building i386 images
2335 * compatibility: append "live-media=removable live-media-timeout=15", to
2336 prevent blindly booting another debian-live installed on the hard disk
2340 - cryptkeeper: Gnome system tray applet to encrypt files with EncFS
2341 - kvkbd: virtual keyboard (installed from backports.org)
2342 - sshfs (and added live user to the fuse group)
2343 - less, secure-delete, wipe, seahorse, sshfs, ntfs-3g
2346 - enable the transparent proxy, the DNS resolver, and the control port
2347 - save authentication cookie to /tmp/control_auth_cookie, so that the
2348 live user can use Tork and co.
2349 - autostart Tork with Gnome
2350 - Tork: installed, disabled most notifications and startup tips
2351 - added a restart tor hook to if-up.d (used by Network Manager as well),
2352 so that Tor does work immediately even if the network cable was
2353 plugged late in/after the boot process
2355 - added a nautilus-script to wipe files and directories
2356 - bash with working completion for the live user
2357 * polipo: install and configure this HTTP proxy to forward requests
2359 * DNS: install and configure pdnsd to forward any DNS request through
2361 * firewall: force every outgoing TCP connection through the Tor
2362 transparent proxy, discard any outgoing UDP connection
2364 - set syslinux timeout to 4 seconds
2365 - use splashy for more user-friendly boot/halt sequences
2367 -- amnesia <amnesia@boum.org> Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:09:15 +0200