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tails (2.10) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium

  * Dummy.

 -- anonym <anonym@riseup.net>  Fri, 13 Jan 2017 14:22:56 +0100

tails (2.10~rc1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Major new features and changes
    - Upgrade the Linux kernel to 4.8.0-0.bpo.2 (Closes: #11886).
    - Install OnionShare from jessie-backports. Also install
      python3-stem from jessie-backports to allow the use of ephemeral
      onion services (Closes: #7870).
    - Completely rewrite tor-controlport-filter. Now we can safely
      support OnionShare, Tor Browser's per-tab circuit view and
      similar.
      * Port to python3.
      * Handle multiple sessions simultaneously.
      * Separate data (filters) from code.
      * Use python3-stem to allow our filter to be a lot more
        oblivious of the control language (Closes: #6788).
      * Allow restricting STREAM events to only those generated by the
        subscribed client application.
      * Allow rewriting commands and responses arbitrarily.
      * Make tor-controlport-filter reusable for others by e.g. making
        it possible to pass the listen port, and Tor control
        cookie/socket paths as arguments (Closes: #6742). We hear
        Whonix plan to use it! :)
    - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.9.8-2~d80.jessie+1, the new stable series
      (Closes: #12012).

  * Security fixes
    - Upgrade Icedove to 1:45.6.0-1~deb8u1+tail1s.

  * Minor improvements
    - Enable and use the Debian Jessie proposed-updates APT
      repository, anticipating on the Jessie 8.7 point-release
      (Closes: #12124).
    - Enable the per-tab circuit view in Tor Browser (Closes: #9365).
    - Change syslinux menu entries from "Live" to "Tails" (Closes:
      #11975). Also replace the confusing "failsafe" wording with
      "Troubleshooting Mode" (Closes: #11365).
    - Make OnionCircuits use the filtered control port (Closes:
      #9001).
    - Make  tor-launcher use the filtered control port.
    - Run OnionCircuits directly as the Live user, instead of a
      separate user. This will make it compatible with the Orca screen
      reader (Closes: #11197).
    - Run tor-controlport-filter on port 9051, and the unfiltered one
      on 9052. This simplifies client configurations and assumptions
      made in many applications that use Tor's ControlPort. It's the
      exception that we connect to the unfiltered version, so this
      seems like the more sane approach.
    - Remove tor-arm (Nyx) (Closes: #9811).
    - Remove AddTrust_External_Root.pem from our website CA bundle. We
      now only use Let's Encrypt (Closes: #11811).
    - Configure APT to use Debian's Onion services instead of the
      clearnet ones (Closes: #11556).
    - Replaced AdBlock Plus with uBlock Origin (Closes: #9833). This
      incidentally also makes our filter lists lighter by
      de-duplicating common patterns among the EasyList filters
      (Closes: #6908). Thanks to spriver for this first major code
      contribution!
    - Install OpenPGP Applet 1.0 (and libgtk3-simplelist-perl) from
      Jessie backports (Closes: #11899).
    - Add support for exFAT (Closes: #9659).
    - Disable unprivileged BPF. Since upgrading to kernel 4.6,
      unprivileged users can use the bpf() syscall, which is a
      security concern, even with JIT disabled. So we disable that.
      This feature wasn't available before Linux 4.6, so disabling it
      should not cause any regressions (Closes: #11827).
    - Add and enable AppArmor profiles for OnionCircuits and OnoinShare.
    - Raise the maximum number of loop devices to 32 (Closes: #12065).
    - Drop kernel.dmesg_restrict customization: it's enabled by
      default since 4.8.4-1~exp1 (Closes: #11886).
    - Upgrade Electrum to 2.7.9-1.

  * Bugfixes
    - Tails Greeter:
      * use gdm-password instead of gdm-autologin, to fix switching to
        the VT where the desktop session lives on Stretch (Closes:
        #11694)
      * Fix more options scrolledwindow size in Stretch (Closes:
        #11919)
    - Tails Installer: remove unused code warning about missing
      extlinux in Tails Installer (Closes: #11196).
    - Update APT pinning to cover all binary packages built from
      src:mesa so we ensure installing mesa from jessie-backports
      (Closes: #11853).
    - Install xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu. This should help supporting
      newer AMD graphics adapters. (Closes #11850)
    - Fix firewall startup during early boot, by referring to the
      "amnesia" user via its UID (Closes: #7018).
    - Include all amd64-microcodes.

  * Build system
    - Be more careful when unmounting the tmpfs used as workspace
      during builds, fixing an issue that made Jenkins' ISO builders
      prone to failures (Closes: #12009).
    - Upgrade the Vagrant basebox to 20170105. The only big change is
      that we now install the backported kernel in the builder VM, to
      make building possible on Debian Sid (Closes: #12081).

  * Test suite
    - Replace the filesystem shares support with a helper for easily
      sharing files from the host to the guest using virtual disks
      (Closes: #5571).
    - Do not test sending email when testing POP3. We cannot clean
      that email up (easily) since when we use POP3 deletions won't
      affect the remote inbox, only our local one, resulting in the
      quota being reached eventually (Closes: #12006).
    - Have APT tests configure APT to use non-onion sources. Our test
      suite uses Chutney to create a virtual, private Tor network, and
      thus doesn't support connections to Onion services running in
      the real Tor network (Refs: #11556).
    - Allow connections to Tor's control port during stream isolation
      tests, but only for those applications where we expect that.

 -- Tails Developers <tails@boum.org>  Thu, 12 Jan 2017 23:50:39 +0100

tails (2.9.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Security fixes
    - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.0.8 based on Firefox 45.6. If you pay
      close attention you'll see that we import -build1 but there was
      a -build2. The only change is Tor Button 1.9.5.13 which makes
      some changes to the donation campaign banner in `about:tor`,
      which we safely can skip. (Closes: #12028)
    - Upgrade Icedove to 45.5.1-1~deb8u1+tails1. (Closes: #12029)
    - Upgrade APT-related packages to 1.0.9.8.4.

  * Minor improvements
    - Switch to DuckDuckGo as the default search engine in the tor
      Browser. This is what Tor Browser has, and Disconnect.me (the
      previous default) has been re-directing to DDG for some time,
      which has been confusing users. In addition, we localize the DDG
      user interface for the locales with availablelangpacks. (Closes:
      #11913)
    - Improve the display name for the Wikipedia search plugin.
    - Enable contrib and non-free for our own APT repos.
    - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.8.10. (Closes: #12015)
    - Upgrade obfs4proxy to 0.0.7-1~tpo1.

  * Bugfixes
    - AppArmor Totem profile: add permissions needed to avoid warning
      on startup. (Closes: #11984)
    - Upgrade the VirtualBox Guest additions and modules to version
      5.1.8. This should prevent Xorg from crashing unless the video
      memory for the VMs are significantly bumped. (Closes: #11965)
      Users will still have to enable I/O APIC due to a bug in Linux.
    - Drop unwanted search plugins from the Tor Browser langpacks.
      Otherwise they are only removed from English locales. Note that
      the langpacks contain copies of the English plugins, not
      localized versions, so we actually lose nothing.

  * Test suite
    - Add support for SikuliX, which recently hit Debian Unstable,
      while still supporting Sikuli for Jessie users. (Closes: #11991)
    - Fix some instances where we were trying to use the mouse outside
      of the Sikuli screen.
    - Use "TorBirdy" instead of "amnesia branding" as the "anchor"
      addon.  I.e. the addon that we use to find the other ones. The
      "amnesia branding" addon has been removed, so we must use
      something else. (Fixup: #11906)
    - Dogtailify "the support documentation page opens in Tor Browser"
      step. We previously relied on Sikuli, and the image was made
      outdated thanks to our donation campaign. No more! (Closes:
      #11911)
    - Resolve dl.amnesia.boum.org instead of picking a static address.
      Just hours after updating the dustri.org IP address, its web
      server went down => test suite failures. Let's make this test as
      robust as actually downloading the Tails ISO image -- if that
      fails, we probably have more serious problems on our hands than
      a failing test suite. (Closes: #11960)
    - Switch MAT scenario from testing PDFs to PNGs. Also add
      anti-test and test using using a tool *different* from MAT, the
      tool being tested here. (Closes: #11901)

 -- Tails Developers <tails@boum.org>  Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:19:16 +0100

tails (2.7.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Security fixes
    - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.0.7 (build3) based on Firefox 45.5.1.
    - Upgrade gstreamer0.10-based packages to 0.10.31-3+nmu4+deb8u2.
    - Upgrade imagemagick-based packages to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u6.
    - Upgrade libicu52 to 52.1-8+deb8u4.
    - Upgrade vim-based packages to 2:7.4.488-7+deb8u1.

  * Minor improvements
    - Reserve 64 MiB for the kernel and 128 MiB for privileged
      processes before the memory is wiped. We hope that this might
      help (but not solve, sadly) some crashes experienced while
      wiping the memory.

  * Build system
    - Make the wiki shipped inside Tails build deterministically
      (Closes: #11966):
      * Enable ikiwiki's "deterministic" option, and require it when
        building.
      * Use our custom backport of discount (2.2.1-1~bpo8+1~0.tails1),
        to fix reproducibility issues (Debian#782315). This can be
        dropped once our ISO builders use Stretch.
      * Install ikiwiki from our builder-jessie APT suite, to make the
        pagestats plugin output deterministic.
    - refresh-translations: don't update PO files unless something
      other than POT-Creation-Date was changed. (Closes: #11967)
    - Fix Vagrant's is_release? check. Per auto/build, we consider it
      a release when we build from detached head, and HEAD is tagged.
    - Enforce `cleanall` when building a release. I.e. don't allow the
      user supplied options to override this behaviour. This is
      important since Vagrant caches wiki builds, and we do not want
      leftovers from a previous builds ending up in a release. Also,
      this is required for making Tails images build reproducibly.
    - Make the build system's `cleanall` option really clean
      everything.  At the moment it doesn't clean the cached wiki
      build (which basically was its only job).
    - import-package: support contrib and non-free sections.

  * Test suite
    - Wait a bit between opening the shutdown applet menu, and
      clicking one of its widgets. (Closes: #11616).
    - Adapt Icedove test after removing the amnesia branding add-on.
      (Closes: #11906)
    - Replace --pause-on-fail with --interactive-debugging. It does
      the same thing, but also offers an interactive Ruby shell, via
      pry, with the Cucumber world context.

 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org>  Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:27:37 +0100

tails (2.7) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Security fixes
    - Upgrade to Linux 4.7. (Closes: #11885, #11818)
    - Upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.9. (Closes: #11832, #11891)
    - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.0.6 based on Firefox 45.5. (Closes: #11910)
    - Upgrade Icedove to 1:45.4.0-1~deb8u1+tails1. (Closes: #11854,
      #11860)
    - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u5.
    - Upgrade openssl to 1.0.1t-1+deb8u5.
    - Upgrade libarchive to 3.1.2-11+deb8u3.
    - Upgrade bind9 to 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u8.
    - Upgrade libav to 6:11.8-1~deb8u1.
    - Upgrade ghostscript to 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u3.
    - Upgrade c-ares to 1.10.0-2+deb8u1.
    - Upgrade nspr to 2:4.12-1+debu8u1.
    - Upgrade nss to 2:3.26-1+debu8u1.
    - Upgrade tar to 1.27.1-2+deb8u1.
    - Upgrade curl to 7.38.0-4+deb8u5.
    - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u7.
    - Upgrade opendjk-7 to 7u111-2.6.7-2~deb8u1.
    - Upgrade mat to 0.5.2-3+deb8u1.
    - Upgrade libxslt to 1.1.28-2+deb8u2.
    - Upgrade pillow to 2.6.1-2+deb8u3.

  * Minor improvements
    - Ship Let's encrypt intermediate certificate to prepare the
      the next certificate renewal of our website. Also unify the
      way our upgrades and security checkers verify this SSL
      certificate using our dedicated perl lib code. (Closes: #11810)

  * Bugfixes
    - Fix multiarch support in Synaptic. (Closes: #11820)
    - Set default spelling language to en_US in Icedove. (Closes: #11037)

  * Build system
    - Disable debootstrap merged-usr option. (Closes: #11903)

  * Test suite
    - Add test for incremental upgrades. (Closes: #6309)
    - Add tests for Icedove. (Closes: #6304)
    - Decrease timeout to Tails Greeter to speed up testing of branches
      where it is broken. (Closes: #11449)
    - Add a ID field to the remote shell responses to filter out
      unrelated ones. (Closes: #11846)
    - Reliabily wait for the Greeter PostLogin script. (Closes: #5666)
    - Reliabily type the kernel command line in the prompt at the boot
      menu to ensure the remote shell is started. (Closes: #10777)
    - Remove DVDROM device when not used, to workaround QEMU/Libvirt
      compatibility issue. (Closes: #11874)

 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org>  Sun, 13 Nov 2016 14:46:04 +0100

tails (2.6) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Major new features and changes
    - Install Tor 0.2.8.7. (Closes: #11351)
    - Enable kASLR in the Linux kernel. (Closes: #11281)
    - Upgrade Icedove to 1:45.2.0-1~deb8u1+tails1: (Closes: #11714)
      · Drop auto-fetched configurations using Oauth2.  They do not
        work together with Torbirdy since it disables needed
        functionality (like JavaScript and cookies) in the embedded
        browser. This should make auto-configuration work for GMail
        again, for instance.  (Closes: ##11536)
      · Pin Icedove to be installed from our APT repo. Debian's
        Icedove packages still do not have our secure Icedove
        autoconfig wizard patches applied, so installing them would be
        a serious security regression. (Closes: #11613)
      · Add missing icedove-l10n-* packages to our custom APT
        repository (Closes: #11550)
    - Upgrade to Linux 4.6: (Closes: #10298)
      · Install the 686 kernel flavour instead of the obsolete 586
        one.
      · APT, dpkg: add amd64 architecture. The amd64 kernel flavour is
        not built anymore for the i386 architecture, so we need to use
        multiarch now.
      · Build and install the out-of-tree aufs4 module. (Closes: #10298)
      · Disable kernel modesetting for QXL: it's not compatible with
        Jessie's QXL X.Org driver.

  * Security fixes
    - Hopefully fixed an issue which would sometimes make the Greeter
      ignore the "disable networking" or "bridge mode"
      options. (Closes: #11593)

  * Minor improvements
    - Install firmware-intel-sound and firmware-ti-connectivity.  This
      adds support for some sound cards and Wi-Fi adapters.  (Closes:
      #11502)
    - Install OpenPGP Applet from Debian. (Closes: #10190)
    - Port the "About Tails" dialog to python3.
    - Run our initramfs memory erasure hook earlier (Closes:
      #10733). The goal here is to:
      · save a few seconds on shutdown (it might matter especially for
        the emergency one);
      · work in a less heavily multitasking / event-driven
        environment, for more robust operation.
    - Install rngd, and make rng-tools initscript return success when
      it can't find any hardware RNG device. Most Tails systems around
      probably have no such device, and we don't want systemd to
      believe they failed to boot properly. (Closes: #5650)
    - Don't force using the vboxvideo X.Org driver. According to our
      tests, this forced setting is:
       · harmful: it breaks X startup when the vboxvideo *kernel*
         driver is loaded;
       · useless: X.Org now autodetects the vboxvideo X.Org driver and
         uses it when running in VirtualBox and the vboxvideo kernel
         is not present.
    - Port boot-profile to python3 (Closes: #10083). Thanks to
      heartsucker <heartsucker@autistici.org> for the patch!
    - Include /proc/cmdline and the content of persistent APT sources
      in WhisperBack bug reports. (Closes: #11675, #11635)
    - Disable non-free APT sources at boot time. (Closes: #10130)
    - Have a dedicated page for the homepage of Tor Browser in
      Tails. (Closes: # 11725)
    - Only build the VirtualBox kernel modules for the 32-bit kernel.
      It's both hard and useless to build it for 64-bit in the current
      state of things, as long as we're shipping a 32-bit userspace.
      Also, install virtualbox-* from jessie-backports, since the
      version in Jessie is not compatible with Linux 4.x.

  * Build system
    - Don't install+remove dpatch during the build. It's not been
      needed in this hook for ages.
    - Bump BUILD_SPACE_REQUIREMENT: at least one of us needed that to
      build feature/10298-linux-4.x-aufs with the gzipcomp option.

  * Test suite
    - Send Tails Installer's debug log to the Cucumber debug log on
      failure. This is meant to debug #10720 since I can't
      reproduce it locally.
    - Give the system under testing 2 vCPUs. (Closes: #6729)
    - Split scenarios from checks.feature. (Closes: #5707)
    - Add retry-logic to the Synaptic tests. (Closes: #10412, #10441,
      #10991)
    - Run usb_upgrade.feature earlier, when there is enough free disk
      space left. (Closes: #11582)
    - Use more recent virtual hardware in the system under test,
      i.e. USB 3.0 (nec-xhci) on a pc-i440fx-2.5 machine. Switching
      USB controllers has helped with problems we see on Jenkins when
      booting from USB (#11588). Also, there are chances that more
      recent virtual hardware sees more testing these days, so it
      sounds potentially useful to "upgrade".
    - Add support for Cucumber 2.4. (Closes: #11690)
    - Always write {pretty,debug} logs and JSON output to the artifact
      directory.
    - Disable info level logging on Chutney nodes to save disk
      space. For our network all these add up to > 1 GiB and we didn't
      take this into account when budgeting RAM to the isotesters on
      Jenkins.

 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org>  Tue, 20 Sep 2016 04:16:33 +0200

tails (2.5) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Major new features and changes
    - Upgrade Icedove to 1:45.1.0-1~deb8u1+tails2. (Closes: #11530)
      · Fix long delay causing bad UX in the autoconfig wizard,
        when it does not manage to guess proper settings on some domains.
        (Closes: #11486)
      · Better support sending email through some ISPs, such as Riseup.
        (Closes: #10933)
      · Fix spurious error message when creating an account and providing
        its password. (Closes: #11550)

  * Security fixes
    - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.0.3 based on Firefox 45.3. (Closes: #11611)
    - Upgrade GIMP to 2.8.14-1+deb8u1.
    - Upgrade libav to 6:11.7-1~deb8u1.
    - Upgrade expat to 2.1.0-6+deb8u3.
    - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u6.
    - Upgrade libmodule-build-perl to 0.421000-2+deb8u1.
    - Upgrade perl to 5.20.2-3+deb8u6.
    - Upgrade Pidgin to 2.11.0-0+deb8u1.
    - Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:4.3.3-2+deb8u5.
    - Upgrade libxslt1.1 to 1.1.28-2+deb8u1.
    - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt25-2+deb8u3.
    - Upgrade OpenSSH to 1:6.7p1-5+deb8u3.
    - Upgrade p7zip to 9.20.1~dfsg.1-4.1+deb8u2.

  * Minor improvements
    - htpdate: replace obsolete and unreliable URIs in HTP pools, and decrease
      timeout for HTTP operations for more robust time synchronization.
      (Closes: #11577)
    - Hide settings panel for the Online Accounts component of GNOME,
      that we don't support. (Closes: #11545)
    - Vastly improve graphics performance in KVM guest with QXL driver.
      (Closes: #11500)
    - Fix graphics artifacts in Tor Browser in KVM guest with QXL driver.
      (Closes: #11489)

  * Build system
    - Wrap Pidgin in a more maintainable way. (Closes: #11567)

  * Test suite
    - Add a test scenario for the persistence "dotfiles" feature.
      (Closes: #10840)
    - Improve robustness of most APT, Git, SFTP and SSH scenarios,
      enough to enable them on Jenkins. (Closes: #10444, #10496, #10498)
    - Improve robustness of checking for persistence partition. (Closes: #11558)
    - Treat Tails booting from /dev/sda as OK, to support all cases
      including a weird one caused by hybrid ISO images. (Closes: #10504)
    - Bump a bunch of timeouts to cope with the occasional slowness on Jenkins.
    - Only query A records when exercising DNS lookups, to improve robustness.

 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org>  Sun, 31 Jul 2016 16:50:35 +0000

tails (2.4) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Major new features and changes
    - Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.0.1 based on Firefox 45.2. (Closes:
      #11403, #11513).
    - Enable Icedove's automatic configuration wizard. We patch the
      wizard to only use secure protocols when probing, and only
      accept secure protocols, while keeping the improvements done by
      TorBirdy in its own non-automatic configuration wizard. (Closes:
      #6158, #11204)

  * Security fixes
    - Upgrade bsdtar and libarchive13 to 3.1.2-11+deb8u1.
    - Upgrade icedove to 38.8.0-1~deb8u1+tails3.
    - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u3.
    - Upgrade libexpat1 to 2.1.0-6+deb8u2.
    - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u3.
    - Upgrade gdk-pixbuf-based packages to 2.31.1-2+deb8u5.
    - Upgrade libidn11 to 1.29-1+deb8u1.
    - Upgrade libndp0 to 1.4-2+deb8u1.
    - Upgrade poppler-based packages to 0.26.5-2+deb8u1.
    - Upgrade librsvg2-2 to 2.40.5-1+deb8u2.
    - Upgrade libsmbclient to 2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u3.
    - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1k-3+deb8u5.
    - Upgrade libtasn1-6 to 4.2-3+deb8u2.
    - Upgrade libxml2 to 2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u2.
    - Upgrade openjdk-7-jre to 7u101-2.6.6-1~deb8u1.

  * Bugfixes
    - Enable Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery for IPv4. If any
      system on the path to the remote host has a MTU smaller than the
      standard Ethernet one, then Tails will receive an ICMP packet
      asking it to send smaller packets. Our firewall will drop such
      ICMP packets to the floor, and then the TCP connection won't
      work properly. This can happen to any TCP connection, but so far
      it's been reported as breaking obfs4 for actual users. Thanks to
      Yawning for the help! (Closes: #9268)
    - Make Tails Upgrader ship other locales than English. (Closes:
      #10221)
    - Make it possible to add local USB printers again. Bugfix on
      Tails 2.0. (Closes #10965).

  * Minor improvements
    - Remove custom SSH ciphers and MACs settings. (Closes: #7315)
    - Bring back "minimize" and "maximize" buttons in titlebars by
      default. (Closes: #11270)
    - Icedove improvements:
      * Stop patching in our default into Torbirdy. We've upstreamed
        some parts, and the rest we set with pref branch overrides in
        /etc/xul-ext/torbirdy.js. (Closes: #10905)
      * Use hkps keyserver in Enigmail. (Closes: #10906)
      * Default to POP if persistence is enabled, IMAP is
        not. (Closes: #10574)
      * Disable remote email account creation in Icedove. (Closes:
        #10464)
    - Firewall hardening (Closes: #11391):
      * Don't accept RELATED packets. This enables quite a lot of code
        in the kernel that we don't need. Let's reduce the attack
        surface a bit.
      * Restrict debian-tor user to NEW TCP syn packets. It doesn't
        need to do more, so let's do a little bit of security in
        depth.
      * Disable netfilter's nf_conntrack_helper.
      * Fix disabling of automatic conntrack helper assignment.
    - Kernel hardening:
      * Set various kernel boot options: slab_nomerge slub_debug=FZ
        mce=0 vsyscall=none. (Closes: #11143)
      * Remove the kernel .map files. These are only useful for kernel
        debugging and slightly make things easier for malware, perhaps
        and otherwise just occupy disk space. Also stop exposing
        kernel memory addresses through /proc etc. (Closes: #10951)
    - Drop zenity hacks to "focus" the negative answer. Jessie's
      zenity introduced the --default-cancel option, finally!
      (Closes: #11229)
    - Drop useless APT pinning for Linux.
    - Remove gnome-tweak-tool. (Closes: #11237)
    - Install python-dogtail, to enable accessibility technologies in
      our automated test suite (see below). (Part of: #10721)
    - Install libdrm and mesa from jessie-backports. (Closes: #11303)
    - Remove hledger. (Closes: #11346)
    - Don't pre-configure the #tails chan on the default OFTC account.
      (Part of: #11306)
    - Install onioncircuits from jessie-backports. (Closes: #11443)
    - Remove nmh. (Closes: #10477)
    - Drop Debian experimental APT source: we don't use it.
    - Use APT codenames (e.g. "stretch") instead of suites, to be
      compatible with our tagged APT snapshots.
    - Drop module-assistant hook and its cleanup. We've not been using
      it since 2010.
    - Remove 'Reboot' and 'Power Off' entries from Applications →
      System Tools. (Closes: #11075)
    - Pin our custom APT repo to the same level as Debian ones, and
      explicitly pin higher the packages we want to pull from our custom
      APT repo, when needed.
    - config/chroot_local-hooks/59-libdvd-pkg: verify libdvdcss
      package installation. (Closes: #11420)
    - Make Tails Upgrader use our new mirror pool design. (Closes:
      #11123)
    - Drop custom OpenSSH client ciphers and MACs settings. We did a
      pretty bad job at maintaining them compared to the Debian
      upstream. (Closes: #7315)
    - Install jessie-backports version of all binary packages built
      from src:hplip. This adds support for quite a few new
      printers.
    - Install printer-driver-postscript-hp, which adds support for
      some more printers.

  * Build system
    - Use a freezable APT repo when building Tails. This is a first
      step towards reproducible builds, and improves our QA and
      development processes by making our builds more predictable. For
      details, see: https://tails.boum.org/contribute/APT_repository/
    - There has been a massive amount of improvements to the
      Vagrant-based build system, and now it could be considered the
      de-facto build system for Tails! Improvements and fixes include:
      * Migrate Vagrant to use libvirt/KVM instead of
        Virtualbox. (Closes: #6354)
      * Make apt-get stuff non-interactive while provisioning.
        Because there is no interaction, so that will results in
        errors.
      * Bump disk space (=> RAM for RAM builds) needed to build with
        Vagrant. Since the Jessie migration it seems impossible to
        keep this low enough to fit in 8 GiB or RAM. For this reason
        we also drop the space optimization where we build inside a
        crazy aufs stack; now we just build in a tmpfs.
      * Clean up apt-cacher-ng cache on vm:provision to save disk
        space on the builder.
      * Add convenient Rake task for SSH:ing into the builder VM:
        `rake vm:ssh`.
      * Add rake task for generating a new Vagrant base box.
      * Automatically provision the VM on build to keep things up-to-date.
      * Don't enable extproxy unless explicitly given as an
        option. Previously it would automatically be enabled when
        `http_proxy` is set in the environment, unlike what is
        documented. This will hopefully lead to fewer surprises for users
        who e.g. point http_proxy to a torified polipo, or similar.
      * Re-fetch tags when running build-tails with Vagrant. That
        should fix an annoyance related to #7182 that I frequently
        encounter: when I, as the RM, rebuild the release image the
        second time from the force-updated tag, the build system would
        not have the force-updated tag. (Closes: #7182)
      * Make sure we use the intended locale in the Tails builder VM.
        Since we communicate via SSH, and e.g. Debian forward the
        locale env vars by default, we have to take some steps
        ensuring we do not do that.
    - Pull monkeysphere from stretch to avoid failing to install under
      eatmydata. Patch submitted by Cyril Brulebois <cyril@debamax.com>.

  * Test suite
    - Add wrapper around dogtail (inside Tails) for "remote" usage in
      the automated test suite. This provides a simple interface for
      generating dogtail python code, sending it to the guest, and
      executing it, and should allow us to write more robust tests
      leveraging assistive technologies. (Closes: #10721)
    - A few previously sikuli-based tests has been migrated to use
      dogtail instead, e.g. GNOME Applications menu interaction.
    - Add a test for re-configuring an existing persistent volume.
      This is a regression test for #10809. (Closes: #10834)
    - Use a simulated Tor network provided by Chutney in the automated
      test suite. The main motivation here is improved robustness --
      since the "Tor network" we now use will exit from the host
      running the automated test suite, we won't have to deal with Tor
      network blocking, or unreliable circuits. Performance should
      also be improved. (Closes: #9521)
    - Drop the usage of Tor Check in our tests. It doesn't make sense
      now when we use Chutney since that always means it will report
      that Tor is not being used.
    - Stop testing obsolete pluggable transports.
    - Completely rewrite the firewall leak detector to something more
      flexible and expressive.
    - Run tcpdump with --immediate-mode for the network sniffer. With
      this option, "packets are delivered to tcpdump as soon as they
      arrive, rather than being buffered for efficiency" which is
      required to make the sniffing work reliable the way we use it.
    - Remove most scenarios testing "tordate". It just isn't working
      well in Tails, so we shouldn't expect the tests to actually work
      all of the time. (Closes: #10440)
    - Close Pidgin before we inspect or persist its accounts.xml.
      I've seen a case when that file is _not_ saved (and thus, not
      persisted) if we shut down the system while Pidgin is still
      running. (Closes: #11413)
    - Close the GNOME Notification bar by pressing ESC, instead of
      opening the Applications menu. The Applications menu often
      covers other elements that we're looking for on the
      screen. (Closes #11401)
    - Hide Florence keyboard window when it doesn't vanish by itself
      (Closes: #11398) and wait a bit less for Florence to disappear
      (Closes: #11464).

 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org>  Mon, 06 Jun 2016 20:10:56 +0200

tails (2.3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Security fixes
    - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.5. (Fixes: #11362)
    - Upgrade icedove to 38.7.0-1~deb8u1
    - Upgrade git to 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u2
    - Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u1
    - Upgrade pidgin-otr to 4.0.1-1+deb8u1
    - Upgrade srtp to 1.4.5~20130609~dfsg-1.1+deb8u1
    - Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u1
    - Upgrade samba to 2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u2
    - Upgrade openssh to 1:6.7p1-5+deb8u2

  * Bugfixes
    - Refresh Tor Browser's AppArmor profile patch against the one from
      torbrowser-launcher 0.2.4-1. (Fixes: #11264)
    - Pull monkeysphere from stretch to avoid failing to install under
      eatmydata. (Fixes: #11170)
    - Start gpg-agent with no-grab option due to issues with pinentry and
      GNOME's top bar. (Fixes: #11038)
    - Tails Installer: Update error message to match new name of 'Clone
      & Install'. (Fixes: #11238)
    - Onion Circuits:
      * Cope with a missing geoipdb. (Fixes: #11203)
      * Make both panes of the window scrollable. (Fixes #11192)
    - WhisperBack: Workaround socks bug. When the Tor fails to connect to
      the host, WisperBack used to display a ValueError.  This is caused by
      a socks bug that is solved in upstream's master but not in Tails.
      This commit workarounds this bug Unclear error message in WhisperBack
      when failing to connect to the server. (Fixes: #11136)

  * Minor improvements
    - Upgrade to Debian 8.4, a Debian point release with many minor upgrades
      and fixes to various packages . (Fixes: #11232)
    - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.25. (Fixes: #11363)
    - Pin pinentry-gtk2 to jessie-backports. The new version allows pasting
      passwords from the clipboard. (Fixes: #11239)
    - config/chroot_local-hooks/59-libdvd-pkg: cleanup /usr/src/libdvd-pkg.
      (Fixes: #11273)
    - Make the Tor Status "disconnected" icon more contrasted with the
      "connected" one. (Fixes: #11199)

  * Test suite
    - Add UTF-8 support to OTR Bot. (Fixes: #10866)
    - Don't explicitly depend on openjdk-7-jre or any JRE for that
      matter. Sikuli will pull in a suitable one, so depending on one
      ourselves is only risks causing trouble. (Fixes: #11335)

 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org>  Mon, 25 Apr 2016 14:12:22 +0200

tails (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Security fixes
    - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.4. (Closes: #11254)
    - Upgrade bind9-related packages to 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u6
    - Upgrade libotr to 4.1.0-2+deb8u1
    - Upgrade samba-related packages to 2:4.1.17+dfsg-2+deb8u2.
    - Upgrade libgraphite2 to 1.3.6-1~deb8u1.

 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org>  Thu, 17 Mar 2016 15:03:52 +0100

tails (2.2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Major new features and changes
    - Replace Vidalia (which has been unmaintained for years) with:
      (Closes: #6841)
      * the Tor Status GNOME Shell extension, which adds a System Status
        icon indicating whether Tor is ready or not.
      * Onion Circuits, a simple Tor circuit monitoring tool.

  * Security fixes
    - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.3 (Closes: #11189).
    - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u4.
    - Upgrade cpio to 2.11+dfsg-4.1+deb8u1.
    - Upgrade glibc to 2.19-18+deb8u3.
    - Upgrade libav to 6:11.6-1~deb8u1.
    - Upgrade libgraphite2 to 1.3.5-1~deb8u1.
    - Upgrade libjasper1 to 1.900.1-debian1-2.4+deb8u1.
    - Upgrade libreoffice to 4.3.3-2+deb8u3.
    - Upgrade libssh2 to 1.4.3-4.1+deb8u1.
    - Upgrade openssl to 1.0.1k-3+deb8u4.
    - Upgrade perl to 5.20.2-3+deb8u4.
    - Upgrade python-imaging, python-pil to 2.6.1-2 2.6.1-2+deb8u2.

  * Bugfixes
    - Hide "Laptop Mode Tools Configuration" menu entry. We don't
      support configuring l-m-t in Tails, and it doesn't work out of
      the box. (Closes: #11074)
    - WhisperBack:
      * Actually write a string when saving bug report to
        disk. (Closes: #11133)
      * Add missing argument to OpenPGP dialog so the optional OpenPGP
        key can be added again. (Closes: #11033)

  * Minor improvements
    - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.24-1~deb8u+1.
    - Add support for viewing DRM protected DVD videos using
      libdvdcss2. Patch series submitted by Austin English
      <austinenglish@gmail.com>. (Closes: #7674)
    - Automatically save KeePassX database after every change by default.
      (Closes: #11147)
    - Implement Tor stream isolation for WhisperBack
    - Delete unused tor-tsocks-mua.conf previously used by Claws
      Mail. (Closes: #10904)
    - Add set -u to all gettext:ized shell scripts. In gettext-base <
      1.8.2, like the one we had in Wheezy, gettext.sh references the
      environment variable ZSH_VERSION, which we do not set. This has
      prevented us from doing `set -u` without various hacks. (Closes:
      #9371)
    - Also set -e in some shell scripts which lacked it for no good
      reason.
    - Make Git verify the integrity of transferred objects. (Closes:
      #11107)
    - Remove LAlt+Shift and LShift+RShift keyboard layout toggling
      shortcuts. (Closes: #10913, #11042)

  * Test suite
    - Reorder the execution of feature to decrease peak disk
      usage. (Closes: #10503)
    - Paste into the GTK file chooser, instead of typing. (Closes:
      #10775)
    - Pidgin: wait a bit for text to have stopped scrolling before we
      click on it. (Closes: #10783)
    - Fix step that runs commands in GNOME Terminal, that was broken
      on Jessie when a Terminal is running already. (Closes: #11176)
    - Let ruby-rjb guess JAVA_HOME instead fixing on one jvm
      version. (Closes: #11190)

  * Build system
    - Upgrade build system to Debian Jessie. This includes migrating to a
      new Vagrant basebox based on Debian Jessie.
    - Rakefile: print git status when there are uncommitted
      changes. Patch submitted by Austin English
      <austinenglish@gmail.com>. (Closes: #11108)
    - .gitignore: add .rake_tasks~. Patch submitted by Austin English
      <austinenglish@gmail.com>. (Closes: #11134)
    - config/amnesia: use --show-field over sed filtering. Patch
      submitted by Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>.
    - Umount and clean up leftover temporary directories from old
      builds. (Closes: #10772)

 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org>  Mon, 07 Mar 2016 18:09:50 +0100

tails (2.0.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Major new features and changes
    - Enable the Tor Browser's font fingerprinting protection
      (Closes: #11000). We do it for all browsers (including
      the Unsafe Browser and I2P Browser mainly to avoid making our
      automated test suite overly complex. This implied to set an appropriate
      working directory when launching the Tor Browser, to accommodate for
      the assumptions it makes about this.

  * Security fixes
    - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.2 (Closes: #11105).

  * Bugfixes
    - Repair 32-bit UEFI support (Closes: #11007); bugfix on 2.0.
    - Add libgnome2-bin to installed packages list to provide gnome-open,
      which fixes URL handling at least in KeePassX, Electrum and Icedove
      (Closes: #11031); bugfix on 2.0. Thanks to segfault for the patch!

  * Minor improvements
    - Refactor and de-duplicate the chrooted browsers' configuration:
      prefs.js, userChrome.css (Closes: #9896).
    - Make the -profile Tor Launcher workaround simpler (Closes: #7943).
    - Move Torbutton environment configuration to the tor-browser script,
      instead of polluting the default system environment with it.
    - Refresh patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile
      (Closes: #11078).
    - Propagate Tor Launcher options via the wrapper.
    - Move tor-launcher script to /usr/local/bin.
    - Move tor-launcher-standalone to /usr/local/lib.
    - Move Tor Launcher env configuration closer to the place where it is used,
      for simplicity's sake.

  * Test suite
    - Mass update browser and Tor Launcher related images due to font change,
      caused by Tor Browser 5.5's font fingerprinting protection
      (Closes: #11097). And then, use separate PrintToFile.png for the browsers,
      and Evince, since it cannot be shared anymore.
    - Adjust to the refactored chrooted browsers configuration handling.
    - Test that Tor Launcher uses the correct Tor Browser libraries.
    - Allow more slack when verifying that the date that was set.
    - Bump a bit the timeout used when waiting for the remote shell.
    - Bump timeout for the process to disappear, when closing Evince.
    - Bump timeout when saving persistence configuration.
    - Bump timeout for bootstrapping I2P.

  * Build system
    - Remove no longer relevant places.sqlite cleanup procedure.

 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org>  Fri, 12 Feb 2016 13:00:15 +0000

tails (2.0) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Major new features and changes
    - Upgrade to Debian 8 (Jessie).
    - Migrate to GNOME Shell in Classic mode.
    - Use systemd as PID 1, and convert all custom initscripts to systemd units.
    - Remove the Windows camouflage feature: our call for help to port
      it to GNOME Shell (issued in January, 2015) was unsuccessful.
    - Remove Claws Mail: Icedove is now the default email client
      (Closes: #10167).
    - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5 (Closes: #10858, #10983).

  * Security fixes
    - Minimally sandbox many services with systemd's namespacing features.
    - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u3.
    - Upgrade Git to 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u1.
    - Upgrade Perl to 5.20.2-3+deb8u3.
    - Upgrade bind9-related packages to 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u5.
    - Upgrade FUSE to 2.9.3-15+deb8u2.
    - Upgrade isc-dhcp-client tot 4.3.1-6+deb8u2.
    - Upgrade libpng12-0 to 1.2.50-2+deb8u2.
    - Upgrade OpenSSH client to 1:6.7p1-5+deb8u1.

  * Bugfixes
    - Restore the logo in the "About Tails" dialog.
    - Don't tell the user that "Tor is ready" before htpdate is done
      (Closes: #7721).
    - Upgrader wrapper: make the check for free memory more accurate
      (Closes: #10540, #8263).
    - Allow the desktop user, when active, to configure printers;
      fixes regression introduced in Tails 1.1 (Closes: #8443).
    - Close Vidalia before we restart Tor. Otherwise Vidalia will be running
      and showing errors while we make sure that Tor bootstraps, which could
      take a while.
    - Allow Totem to read DVDs, by installing apparmor-profiles-extra
      from jessie-backports (Closes: #9990).
    - Make memory erasure on shutdown more robust (Closes: #9707, #10487):
      · don't forcefully overcommit memory
      · don't kill the allocating task
      · make sure the kernel doesn't starve from memory
      · make parallel sdmem handling faster and more robust
    - Don't offer the option, in Tor Browser, to open a downloaded file with
      an external application (Closes: #9285). Our AppArmor confinement was
      blocking most such actions anyway, resulting in poor UX; bugfix on 1.3.
      Accordingly, remove the now-obsolete exception we had in the Tor
      Browser AppArmor profile, that allowed executing seahorse-tool.
    - Fix performance issue in Tails Upgrader, that made it very slow to apply
      an automatic upgrade; bugfix on 1.7 (Closes: #10757).
    - Use our wrapper script to start Icedove from the GNOME menus.
    - Make it possible to localize our Icedove wrapper script.
    - List Icedove persistence option in the same position where Claws Mail
      used to be, in the persistent volume assistant (Closes: #10832).
    - Fix Electrum by installing the version from Debian Testing
      (Closes: #10754). We need version >=2.5.4-2, see #9713;
      bugfix on 2.0~beta1. And, explicitly install python-qt4 to enable
      Electrum's GUI: it's a Recommends, and we're not pulling it ourselves
      via other means anymore.
    - Restore default file associations (Closes: #10798);
      bugfix on 2.0~beta1.
    - Update 'nopersistent' boot parameter to 'nopersistence'; bugfix on 0.12
      (Closes: #10831). Thanks to live-media=removable, this had no security
      impact in practice.
    - Repair dotfiles persistence feature, by adding a symlink from
      /lib/live/mount/persistence to /live/persistence; bugfix on 2.0~beta1
      (Closes: #10784).
    - Fix ability to re-configure an existing persistent volume using
      the GUI; bugfix on 2.0~beta1 (Closes: #10809).
    - Associate armored OpenPGP public keys named *.key with Seahorse,
      to workaround https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93656;
      bugfix on 1.1 (Closes: #10889).
    - Update the list of enabled GNOME Shell extensions, which might fix
      the "GNOME Shell sometimes leaves Classic mode" bug seen in 2.0~beta1:
      · Remove obsolete "Alternative Status Menu", that is not shipped
        in Debian anymore.
      · Explicitly enable the GNOME Shell extensions that build
        the Classic mode.
    - Make _get_tg_setting() compatible with set -u (Closes: #10785).
    - laptop-mode-tools: don't control autosuspend. Some USB input
      devices don't support autosuspend. This change might help fix
      #10850, but even if it doesn't, it makes sense to me that we
      don't let laptop-mode-tools fiddle with this on a Live system
      (Closes (for now): #10850).

  * Minor improvements
    - Remove obsolete code from various places.
    - Tails Greeter:
      · hide all windows while logging in
      · resize and re-position the panel when the screen size grows
      · PostLogin: log into the Journal instead of a dedicated log file
      · use localectl to set the system locale and keyboard mapping
      · delete the Live user's password if no administration password is set
        (Closes: #5589)
      · port to GDBus greeter interface, and adjust to other GDM
        and GNOME changes
    - Tails Installer:
      · port to UDisks2, and from Qt4 to GTK3
      · adapt to work on other GNU/Linux operating systems than Tails
      · clean up enough upstream code and packaging bits to make it
        deserve being uploaded to Debian
      · rename everything from liveusb-creator to tails-installer
    - Port tails-perl5lib to GTK3 and UDisks2. In passing, do some minor
      refactoring and a GUI improvement.
    - Persistent Volume Assistant:
      · port to GTK3 and UDisks2
      · handle errors when deleting persistent volume (Closes: #8435)
      · remove obsolete workarounds
    - Don't install UDisks v1.
    - Adapt custom udev and polkit rules to UDisks v2 (Closes: #9054, #9270).
    - Adjust import-translations' post-import step for Tails Installer,
      to match how its i18n system works nowadays.
    - Use socket activation for CUPS, to save some boot time.
    - Set memlockd.service's OOMScoreAdjust to -1000.
    - Don't bother creating /var/lib/live in tails-detect-virtualization.
      If it does not exist at this point, we have bigger and more
      noticeable problems.
    - Simplify the virtualization detection & reporting system, and do it
      as a non-root user with systemd-detect-virt rather than virt-what.
    - Replace rsyslog with the systemd Journal (Closes: #8320), and adjust
      WhisperBack's logs handling accordingly.
    - Drop tails-save-im-environment.
      It's not been used since we stopped automatically starting the web browser.
    - Add a hook that aborts the build if any *.orig file is found. Such files
      appear mainly when a patch of ours is fuzzy. In most cases they are no big
      deal, but in some cases they end up being taken into account
      and break things.
    - Replace the tor+http shim with apt-transport-tor (Closes: #8198).
    - Install gnome-tweak-tool.
    - Don't bother testing if we're using dependency based boot.
    - Drop workaround to start spice-vdagent in GDM (Closes: #8025).
      This has been fixed in Jessie proper.
    - Don't install ipheth-utils anymore. It seems to be obsolete
      in current desktop environments.
    - Stop installing the buggy unrar-free, superseded in Jessie (Closes: #5838)
    - Drop all custom fontconfig configuration, and configure fonts rendering
      via dconf.
    - Drop zenity patch (zenity-fix-whitespacing-box-sizes.diff),
      that was applied upstream.
    - Install libnet-dbus-perl (currently 1.1.0) from jessie-backports,
      it brings new features we need.
    - Have the security check and the upgrader wait for Tor having bootstrapped
      with systemd unit ordering.
    - Get rid of tails-security-check's wrapper.
      Its only purpose was to wait for Tor to have bootstrapped,
      which is now done via systemd.
    - Don't allow the amnesia and tails-upgrade-frontend users to run
      tor-has-bootstrapped as root with sudo. They don't need it anymore,
      thanks to using systemd for starting relevant units only once Tor
      has bootstrapped.
    - Install python-nautilus, that enables MAT's context menu item in Nautilus.
      (Closes: #9151).
    - Configure GDM with a snippet file instead of patching its
      greeter.dconf-defaults.
    - WhisperBack:
      · port to Python 3 and GObject Introspection (Closes: #7755)
      · migrate from the gnutls module to the ssl one
      · use PGP/MIME for better attachments handling
      · migrate from the gnupginterface module to the gnupg one
      · natively support SOCKS ⇒ don't wrap with torsocks anymore
        (Closes: #9412)
      · don't try to include the obsolete .xession-errors in bug reports
        (Closes: #9966)
    - chroot-browser.sh: don't use static DISPLAY.
    - Simplify debugging:
      · don't hide the emergency shutdown's stdout
      · tails-unblock-network: trace commands so that they end up in the Journal
    - Configure the console codeset at ISO build time, instead of setting it
      to a constant via the Greeter's PostLogin.default.
    - Order the AppArmor policy compiling in a way that is less of a blocker
      during boot.
    - Include the major KMS modules in the initramfs. This helps seamless
      transition to X.Org when booting, and back to text mode on shutdown,
      can help for proper graphics hardware reinitialization post-kexec,
      and should improve GNOME Shell support in some virtual machines.
    - Always show the Universal Access menu icon in the GNOME panel.
    - Drop notification for not-migrated-yet persistence configuration,
      and persistence settings disabled due to wrong access rights.
      That migration happened more two years ago.
    - Remove the restricted network detector, that has been broken for too long;
      see #10560 for next steps (Closes: #8328).
    - Remove unsupported, never completed kiosk mode support.
    - clock_gettime_monotonic: use Perl's own function to get the integer part,
      instead of forking out to sed.
    - Don't (try to) disable lvm2 initscripts anymore. Both the original reason
      and the implementation are obsolete on Jessie.
    - Lower potential for confusion (#8443), by removing system-config-printer.
      One GUI to configure printers is enough (Closes: #8505).
    - Add "set -u" to tails-unblock-network.
    - Add a systemd target whose completion indicates that Tor has bootstrapped,
      and use it everywhere sensible (Closes: #9393).
    - Disable udev's 75-persistent-net-generator.rules, to preventing races
      between MAC spoofing and interface naming.
    - Replace patch against NetworkManager.conf with drop-in files.
    - Replace resolvconf with simpler NetworkManager and dhclient configuration.
      (Closes: #7708)
    - Replace patching of the gdomap, i2p, hdparm, tor and ttdnsd initscripts
      with 'systemctl disable' (Closes: #9881).
    - Replace patches that wrapped apps with torsocks with dynamic patching with
      a hook, to ease maintenance. Also, patch D-Bus services as needed
      (Closes: #10603).
    - Notify the user if running Tails inside non-free virtualization software
      that does not try to hide its nature (Closes: #5315).
      Thanks to Austin English <austinenglish@gmail.com> for the patch.
    - Declare htpdate.service as being needed for time-sync.target, to ensure
      that "services where correct time is essential should be ordered after
      this unit".
    - Convert some of the X session startup programs to `systemd --user' units.
    - Let the Pidgin wrapper pass through additional command-line arguments
      (Closes: #10383)
    - Move out of the $PATH a bunch of programs that users should generally
      not run directly: connect-socks, end-profile, getTorBrowserUserAgent,
      generate-tor-browser-profile, kill-boot-profile, tails-spoof-mac,
      tails-set-wireless-devices-state, tails-configure-keyboard,
      do_not_ever_run_me, boot-profile, tails-unblock-network,
      tor-controlport-filter, tails-virt-notify-user, tails-htp-notify-user,
      udev-watchdog-wrapper (Closes: #10658)
    - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.23-2~deb8u+1.
    - Disable I2P's time syncing support.
    - Install Torbirdy from official Jessie backports, instead of from
      our own APT repository (Closes: #10804).
    - Make GNOME Disks' passphrase strength checking new feature work,
      by installing cracklib-runtime (Closes: #10862).
    - Add support for Japanese in Tor Browser.
    - Install xserver-xorg-video-intel from Jessie Backports (currently:
      2.99.917-2~bpo8+1). This adds support for recent chips such as
      Intel Broadwell's HD Graphics (Closes: #10841).
    - Improve a little bit post-Greeter network unblocking:
      · Sleep a bit longer between deleting the blacklist, and triggering udev;
        this might help cure #9012.
      · Increase logging, so that we get more information next time someone
        sees #9012.
      · Touch /etc/modprobe.d/ after deleting the blacklist; this might help,
        in case all this is caused by some aufs bug.
    - Enable and use the Debian jessie-proposed-updates APT repository,
      anticipating on the Jessie 8.3 point-release (Closes: #10897).
    - Upgrade most firmware packages to 20160110-1.
    - Upgrade Intel CPU microcodes to 3.20151106.1~deb8u1.
    - Disable IPv6 for the default wired connection, so that
      NetworkManager does not spam the logs with IPv6 router
      solicitation failure. Note that this does not fix the problem
      for other connections (Partially closes: #10939).

  * Test suite
    - Adapt to the new desktop environment and applications' look.
    - Adapt new changed nmcli syntax and output.
    - New NetworkManager connection files must be manually loaded in Jessie.
    - Adapt to new pkexec behavior.
    - Adapt to how we now disable networking.
    - Use sysctl instead of echo:ing into /proc/sys.
    - Use oom_score_adj instead of the older oom_adj.
    - Adapt everything depending on logs to the use of the Journal.
    - Port to UDisks v2.
    - Check that the system partition is an EFI System Partition.
    - Add ldlinux.c32 to the list of bootloader files that are expected
      to be modified when we run syslinux (Closes: #9053).
    - Use apt(8) instead of apt-get(8).
    - Don't hide the cursor after opening the GNOME apps menu.
    - Convert the remote shell to into a systemd native service and a Python 3,
      script that uses the sd_notify facility (Closes: #9057). Also, set its
      OOM score adjustment value via its unit file, and not from the test suite.
    - Adjust to match where screenshots are saved nowadays.
    - Check that all system units have started (Closes: #8262)
    - Simplify the "too small device" test.
    - Spawn `poweroff' and `halt' in the background, and don't wait for them
      to return: anything else would be racy vs. the remote shell's stopping.
    - Bump video memory allocated to the system under test, to fix out of video
      memory errors.
    - When configuring the CPU to lack PAE support, use a qemu32 CPU instead
      of a Pentium one: the latter makes GNOME Shell crash.
      See #8778 for details about how Mesa's CPU features detection has
      room for improvement.
    - Adjust free(1) output parsing for Jessie.
    - vm-execute: rename --type option to --spawn.
    - Add method to set the X.Org clipboard, and install its dependency
      (xsel) in the ISO.
    - Paste URLs in one go, to work around issue with lost key presses
      in the browser (Closes: #10467).
    - Reliably wait for Synaptic's search button to fade in.
    - Take into account that the sticky bit is not set on block devices
      on Jessie anymore.
    - Ensure that we can use a NetworkManager connection stored in persistence
      (Closes: #7966).
    - Use a stricter regexp when extracting logs for dropped packets.
    - Clone the host CPU for the test suite guests (Closes: #8778).
    - Run ping as root (aufs does not support file capabilities so we don't
      get cap_net_raw+ep, and if built on a filesystem that does support
      file capabilities, then /bin/ping is not setupd root).
    - Escape regexp special characters when constructing the firewall log
      parsing regexp, and pass -P to grep, since Ruby uses PCRE.
    - Adjust is_persistent?() helper to findmnt changes in Jessie.
    - Rework in depth how we measure pattern coverage in memory, with more
      reliable Linux OOM and VM settings, fundamental improvements
      in what exactly we measure, and custom OOM adjutments for fillram
      processes (Closes: #9705).
    - Use blkid instead of parted to determine the filesystem type.
    - Use --kiosk mode instead of --fullscreen in virt-viewer, to remove
      the tiny border of the in-viewer menu.
    - Remove now redundant desktop screenshot directory scenario.
    - Adapt GNOME notification handling for Debian Jessie (Closes: #8782)
    - Disable screen blanking in the automated test suite, which occasionally
      breaks some test cases (Closes: #10403).
    - Move upgrade scenarios to the feature dedicated to them.
    - Don't make libvirt storage volumes executable.
    - Refactor the PAUSE_ON_FAIL functionality, so that we can use `pause()`
      as a breakpoint when debugging.
    - Drop non-essential Totem test that is mostly a duplicate, and too painful
      to be worth automating on Jessie.
    - Retry Totem HTTPS test with a new Tor circuit on failure.
    - Replace iptables status regexp-based parser with a new XML-based
      status analyzer: the previous implementation could not be adjusted
      to the new ip6tables' output (Closes: #9704).
    - Don't reboot in one instance when it is not needed.
    - Optimize memory erasure anti-test: block the boot to save CPU on the host.
    - Update I2P tests for Jessie, and generally make them more robust.
    - Update Electrum tests for 2.5.4-2 (Closes: #10758).
    - Add workaround for libvirt vs. guestfs permissions issue, to allow
      running the test suite on current Debian sid.
    - Fix buggy code, that happened to work by mistake, in the Seahorse
      test cases; bugfix on 1.8.
    - Update test suite images due to CSS change on Tails' website.
    - Adapt Tor Browser tests to work with the 5.5 series.
    - Automatically test downloading files in Tor Browser.
    - Remove obsolete scenario, that tested opening a downloaded file with
      an external application, which we do not support anymore.
    - Improve robustness of the "Tails OpenPGP keys" scenario (Closes: #10378).
    - Automatically test the "Diable all networking" feature (Closes: #10430).
    - Automatically test that SSH works over LAN (Closes: #9087).
    - Bump some statuc sleeps to fix a few race conditions (Closes: #5330).
    - Automatically test that an emergency shutdown triggers on boot
      medium removal (Closes: #5472).
    - Make the AppArmor checks actually detect errors (Closes: #10926).

  * Build system
    - Bump amount of disk space needed to build Tails with Vagrant.
      The addition of the Japanese Tor Browser tarball made us reach
      the limit of the previous value.

  * Adjustments for Debian 8 (Jessie) with no or very little user-visible impact
    - Free the fixed UIDs/GIDs we need before creating the corresponding users.
    - Replace the real gnome-backgrounds with a fake, equivs generated one
      (Closes: #8055). Jessie's gnome-shell depends on gnome-backgrounds,
      which is too fat to ship considering we're not using it.
    - AppArmor: adjust CUPS profile to support our Live system environment
      (Closes: #8261):
      · Mangle lib/live/mount/overlay/... as usual for aufs.
      · Pass the the attach_disconnected flag, that's needed for compatibility
        with PrivateTmp.
    - Make sure we don't ship geoclue* (Closes: #7949).
    - Drop deprecated GDM configuration file.
    - Don't add the Live user to the deprecated 'fuse' group.
    - Drop hidepid mount option for /proc (Closes: #8256). In its current,
      simplistic form it cannot be supported by systemd.
    - Don't manually load acpi-cpufreq at boot time. It fails to load
      whenever no device it supports is present, which makes the
      systemd-modules-load.service fail. These days, the kernel
      should just automatically load such modules when they are needed.
    - Drop sysvinit-specific (sensigs.omit.d) tweaks for memlockd.
    - Disable the GDM unit file's Restart=always, that breaks our "emergency
      shutdown on boot medium removal" feature.
    - Update the implementation of the memory erasure on shutdown feature:
      · check for rebooting state using systemctl, instead of the obsolete
        $RUNLEVEL (Closes: #8306)
      · the kexec-load initscript normally silently exits unless systemd is
        currently running a reboot job. This is not the case when the emergency
        shutdown has been triggered, so we removed this check
      · migrate tails-kexec to the /lib/systemd/system-shutdown/ facility
      · don't (try to) switch to tty1 on emergency shutdown: it apparently
        requires data that we haven't locked into memory, and then it blocks
        the whole emergency shutdown process
    - Display a slightly darker version of the desktop wallpaper on the screen
      saver, instead of the default flashy "Debian 8" branding (Closes: #9038).
    - Disable software autorun from external media.
    - Disable a few unneeded D-Bus services. Some of these services are
      automatically started (via D-Bus activation) when GNOME Shell tries
      to use them. The only "use" I've seen for them, except eating
      precious RAM, is to display "No appointment today" in the calendar pop-up.
      (Closes: #9037)
    - Prevent NetworkManager services from starting at boot time
      (Closes: #8313). We start them ourselves after changing the MAC address.
    - Unfuzzy all patches (Closes: #8268) and drop a few obsolete ones.
    - Adapt IBus configuration for Jessie (Closes: #8270), i.e. merge the two
      places where we configure keyboard layout and input methods: both are now
      configured in the same place in Jessie's GNOME.
    - Migrate panel launchers to the favorite apps list (Closes: #7992).
    - Drop pre-GNOME Shell menu tweaks.
    - Hide "Log out" button in the GNOME Shell menu (Closes: #8364).
    - Add a custom shutdown-helper GNOME Shell extension (Closes: #8302, #5684
      and #5878) that removes the press-Alt-to-turn-shutdown-button-into-Suspend
      functionality from the GNOME user menu, and makes Restart and Shutdown
      immediate, without further user interaction. Accordingly remove our custom
      Shutdown Helper panel applet (#8302).
    - Drop GNOME Panel configuration, now deprecated.
    - Disable GNOME Shell's screen lock feature.
      We're not there yet (see #5684).
    - Disable GNOME Shell screen locker's user switch feature.
    - Explicitly install libany-moose-perl (Closes: #8051).
      It's needed by our OpenPGP applet. On Wheezy, this package was pulled
      by some other dependency. This is not the case anymore on Jessie.
    - Don't install notification-daemon nor gnome-mag: GNOME Shell has taken
      over this functionality (Closes: #7481).
    - Don't install ntfsprogs: superseded on Jessie.
    - Don't install barry-util: not part of Jessie.
    - Link udev-watchdog dynamically, and lock it plus its dependencies
      in memory.
    - Migrate from gdm-simple-greeter to a custom gdm-tails session
      (Closes: #7599).
    - Update Plymouth installation and configuration:
      · install the plymouth packages via chroot_local-hooks: lb 2.x's "standard"
        packages list pulls console-common in, which plymouth now conflicts with
      · don't patch the plymouth initscript anymore, that was superseded
        by native systemd unit files
      · mask the plymouth-{halt,kexec,poweroff,reboot,shutdown} services,
        to prevent them from occupying the active TTY with an (empty) splash
        screen on shutdown/reboot, that would hide the messages we want to show
        to the user via tails-kexec (Closes: #9032)
    - Migrate GNOME keyboard layout settings from libgnomekbd to input-sources
      (Closes: #7898).
    - Explicitly install syslinux-efi, that we need and is not automatically
      pulled by anything else anymore.
    - Workaround #7248 for GDM: use a solid blue background picture,
      instead of a solid color fill, in the Greeter session.
    - De-install gcc-4.8-base and gcc-4.9 at the end of the ISO build process.
    - Revert the "Wrap syndaemon to always use -t" Wheezy-specific workaround.
    - htpdate: run date(1) in a Jessie-compatible (and nicer) way.
    - Remove obsolete dconf screenshot settings and the corresponding test.
    - Drop our patched python-dbus{,-dev} package (Closes: #9177).
    - live-persist: stop overriding live-boot's functions, we now have
      a recent enough blkid.
    - Adjust sdmem initramfs bits for Jessie:
      · Directly call poweroff instead of halt -p.
      · Don't pass -n to poweroff and reboot, it's not supported anymore.
    - Wrap text in the Unsafe Browser startup warning dialog
      (Jessie's zenity does not wrap it itself).
    - Associate application/pgp-keys with Seahorse's "Import Key" application
      (Closes: #10571).
    - Install topIcons GNOME Shell extension (v28), to work around the fact
      that a few of the applets we use hijack the notification area.
    - "cd /" to fix permissions issue at tails-persistence-setup startup
      (Closes: #8097).
    - Install gstreamer1.0-libav, so that Totem can play H264-encoded videos.
    - Adjust APT sources configuration:
      · remove explicit jessie and jessie-updates sources:
        automatically added by live-build
      · add Debian testing
      · add jessie-backports
    - Firewall: white-list access to the accessibility daemon (Closes: #8075).
    - Adjust to changed desktop notification behavior and supported feature set
      (Closes: #7989):
      · pass the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS used by the GNOME session
        to notify-send
      · update waiting for a notification handler: gnome-panel and nm-applet
        are obsolete, GNOME Shell is now providing this facility, so instead
        wait for a process that starts once GNOME Shell is ready, namely
        ibus-daemon (Closes: #8685)
      · port tails-warn-about-disabled-persistence and tails-virt-notify-user
        to notification actions (instead of hyperlinks), and make the latter
        transient; to this end, add support to Desktop::Notify for "hints"
        and notification actions
      · tails-security-check: use a dialog box instead of desktop notifications
      · MAC spoofing failure notification: remove the link to the documentation;
        it was broken on Tails/Wheezy already, see #10559 for next steps
    - Don't explicitly install gnome-panel nor gnome-menus, so that they go away
      whenever the Greeter does not pull them in anymore.
    - Install gkbd-capplet, that provides gkbd-keyboard-display (Closes: #8363).
    - Install Tor 0.2.7 from deb.torproject.org: we don't need to rebuild it
      ourselves for seccomp support anymore.
    - Wrap Seahorse with torsocks when it is started as a D-Bus service too
      (Closes: #9792).
    - Rename the AppArmor profile for Tor, so it applies to the system-wide
      Tor service we run (Closes: #10528).
    - Essentially revert ALSA state handling to how it was pre-Jessie, so that
      mixer levels are unmuted and sanitized at boot time (Closes: #7591).
    - Pass --yes to apt-get when installing imagemagick.
    - Make removable devices, that we support installing Tails to, user writable:
      Tails Installer requires raw block device access to such devices
      (Closes: #8273). Similarly, allow the amnesia user, when active, to open
      non-system devices for writing with udisks2. This is roughly udisks2's
      equivalent of having direct write access to raw block storage devices.
      Here too, Tails Installer uses this functionality.
    - Disable networkd to prevent any risk of DNS leaks it might cause; and
      disable timesyncd, as we have our own time synchronization mechanism.
      They are not enabled by default in Jessie, but may be in Stretch,
      so let's be explicit about it.
    - Mask hwclock-save.service, to avoid sync'ing the system clock
      to the hardware clock on shutdown (Closes: #9363).
    - apparmor-adjust-cupsd-profile.diff: adjust to parse fine on Jessie
      (Closes: #9963)
    - Explicitly use tor@default.service when it's the one we mean.
    - Refactor GNOME/X env exporting to Tails' shell library, and grab
      more of useful bits of the desktop session environment.
      Then, use the result in the test suite's remote shell.
    - Stop tweaking /etc/modules. It's 2015, the kernel should load these things
      automatically (Closes: #10609).
    - Have systemd hardening let Tor modify its configuration (needed by Tor
      Launcher), and start obfs4proy (Closes: #10696, #10724).
    - Bump extensions.adblockplus.currentVersion and
      extensions.enigmail.configuredVersion to match what we currently get
      on Jessie.
    - I2P: switch from 'service' to 'systemctl' where possible.

 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org>  Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:06:33 +0100

tails (1.8.2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Security fixes
    - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.7.
    - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u2.
    - Upgrade foomatic-filters to 4.0.17-1+deb7u1.
    - Upgrade git to 1:1.7.10.4-1+wheezy2.
    - Upgrade Icedove to 38.5.0-1~deb7u1.
    - Upgrade libxml2-related packages to 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy5.
    - Upgrade OpenSSL-related packages to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u19.
    - Upgrade libsmbclient to 2:3.6.6-6+deb7u6.

 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org>  Sat, 09 Jan 2016 16:27:27 +0100

tails (1.8.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Security fixes
    - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.6.
    - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u1
    - Upgrade gdkpixbuf to 2.26.1-1+deb7u3
    - Upgrade bind9 tools to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u8

  * Bugfixes
    - Fix time synchronization in bridge mode by refreshing our patch
      against Tor's AppArmor profile.

 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org>  Fri, 18 Dec 2015 19:05:18 +0000

tails (1.8) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Security fixes
    - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.7.6-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1.
    - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.5. (Closes: #10751)
    - Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0+deb7u5.
    - Upgrade krb5-based packages to 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u6.
    - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u6.
    - Upgrade wpasupplicant to 1.0-3+deb7u3.
    - Upgrade libpng12-0 to 1.2.49-1+deb7u1.
    - Upgrade openjdk-7 to 7u91-2.6.3-1~deb7u1.
    - Upgrade libnspr4 to 2:4.9.2-1+deb7u3
    - Upgrade dpkg to 1.16.17.
    - Upgrade gnutls26 to 2.12.20-8+deb7u4.
    - Upgrade Icedove to 1:38.0.1-1~deb7u1.
    - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u18.

  * Bugfixes
    - Upgrade to Electrum 2.5.4-2~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Now Electrum
      should work again. Note that the documentation has not been
      adapted to the slight changes in the Electrum account setup
      wizard yet.

  * Minor improvements
    - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.23-2~deb7u+1.
    - Rebase our patch against the Tor Browser AppArmor profile on top
      of the one shipped in torbrowser-launcher 0.2.1-2.
    - Warn if the claws-mail persistence is enabled and contains a
      Claws Mail configuration when starting icedove. (Closes: #10458)
    - Replace the Claws Mail GNOME launcher with Icedove. (Closes:
      #10739)
    - Remove the Claws Mail persistence feature from the Persistence
      Assistant. (Closes: #10742)

  * Build system
    - Simplify ISO image naming rules by using the base rule we use
      for Jenkins all the time, except when building from a tag
      (i.e. building a release).  (Closes: #10349)

  * Test suite
    - Lower the waiting time for USB installation in the test suite.
      So far we were waiting up to one hour, which is just the same as
      our Jenkins inactivity timeout, so in practice when Tails
      Installer fails and displays an error message, instead of
      reporting that the job failed (which is the point of the
      exercise) we abort the job due to this timeout which
      communicates less clearly that there's probably a bug. (Closes:
      #10718)
    - Remove the check for the sound icon in the systray in the
      Windows Camouflage tests. (Closes: #10493)
    - Retry running whois when "LIMIT EXCEEDED" is in its output for
      increased robustness. (Closes: #10523)
    - Make Seahorse tests more robust. (Closes: #9095, #10501)
    - Make the handling of Pidgin's account manager more robust.
      (Closes: #10506)

 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org>  Mon, 14 Dec 2015 23:07:19 +0100

tails (1.7) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Major new features and changes
    - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.4. (Closes: #10456)
    - Add a technology preview of the Icedove Email client (a
      rebranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird), including OpenPGP
      support via the Enigmail add-on, general security and anonymity
      improvements via the Torbirdy add-on, and complete persistence
      support (which will be enabled automatically if you already have
      Claws Mail persistence enabled). Icedove will replace Claws Mail
      as the supported email client in Tails in a future
      release. (Closes: #6151, #9498, #10285)
    - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.7.4-rc-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Among the many
      improvement of this new Tor major release, the new
      KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option allows us to drop the
      bug15482.patch patch (taken from the Tor Browse bundle) that
      enabled similar (but inferior) functionality for *all*
      SocksPort:s -- now the same circuit is only kept alive for
      extended periods for the SocksPort used by the Tor
      Browser. (Closes: #10194, #10308)
    - Add an option to Tails Greeter which disables networking
      completely. This is useful when intending to use Tails for
      offline work only. (Closes: #6811)

  * Security fixes
    - Fix CVE-2015-7665, which could lead to a network interface's IP
      address being exposed through wget. (Closes: #10364)
    - Prevent a symlink attack on ~/.xsession-errors via
      tails-debugging-info which could be used by the amnesia user to
      read the contents of any file, no matter the
      permissions. (Closes: #10333)
    - Upgrade libfreetype6 to 2.4.9-1.1+deb7u2.
    - Upgrade gdk-pixbuf packages to 2.26.1-1+deb7u2.
    - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u5.
    - Upgrade openjdk-7 packages to 7u85-2.6.1-6~deb7u1.
    - Upgrade unzip to 6.0-8+deb7u4.

  * Bugfixes
    - Add a temporary workaround for an issue in our code which checks
      whether i2p has bootstrapped, which (due to some recent change
      in either I2P or Java) could make it appear it had finished
      prematurely. (Closes: #10185)
    - Fix a logical bug in the persistence preset migration code while
      real-only persistence is enabled. (Closes: #10431)

  * Minor improvements
    - Rework the wordings of the various installation and upgrade
      options available in Tails installer in Wheezy. (Closes: #9672)
    - Restart Tor if bootstrapping stalls for too long when not using
      pluggable transports. (Closes: #9516)
    - Install firmware-amd-graphics, and firmware-misc-nonfree instead
      of firmware-ralink-nonfree, both from Debian Sid.
    - Update the Tails signing key. (Closes: #10012)
    - Update the Tails APT repo signing key. (Closes: #10419)
    - Install the nmh package. (Closes: #10457)
    - Explicitly run "sync" at the end of the Tails Upgrader's upgrade
      process, and pass the "sync" option when remounting the system
      partition as read-write. This might help with some issues we've
      seen, such as #10239, and possibly for #8449 as well.

  * Test suite
    - Add initial automated tests for Icedove. (Closes: #10332)
    - Add automated tests of the MAC spoofing feature. (Closes: #6302)
    - Drop the concept of "background snapshots" and introduce a general
      system for generating snapshots that can be shared between
      features. This removes all silly hacks we previously used to
      "skip" steps, and greatly improves performance and reliability
      of the whole test suite. (Closes: #6094, #8008)
    - Flush to the log file in debug_log() so the debugging info can
      be viewed in real time when monitoring the debug log
      file. (Closes: #10323)
    - Force UTF-8 locale in automated test suite. Ruby will default to
      the system locale, and if it is non-UTF-8, some String-methods
      will fail when operating on non-ASCII strings. (Closes: #10359)
    - Escape regexp used to match nick in CTCP replies. Our Pidgin
      nick's have a 10% chance to include a ^, which will break that
      regexp. We need to escape all characters in the nick. (Closes:
      #10219)
    - Extract TBB languages from the Tails source code. This will
      ensure that valid locales are tested. As an added bonus, the
      code is greatly simplified. (Closes: #9897)
    - Automatically test that tails-debugging-info is not susceptible
      to the type of symlink attacks fixed by #10333.
    - Save all test suite artifacts in a dedicated directory with more
      useful infromation encoded in the path. This makes it easier to
      see which artifacts belongs to which failed scenario and which
      run. (Closes: #10151)
    - Log all useful information via Cucumber's formatters instead of
      printing to stderr, which is not included when logging to file
      via `--out`. (Closes: #10342)
    - Continue running the automated test suite's vnc server even if
      the client disconnects. (Closes: #10345)
    - Add more automatic tests for I2P. (Closes: #6406)
    - Bump the Tor circuit retry count to 10. (Closes: #10375)
    - Clean up dependencies: (Closes: #10208)
      * libxslt1-dev
      * radvd
      * x11-apps

 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org>  Tue, 03 Nov 2015 01:09:41 +0100

tails (1.6) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Security fixes
    - Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.0.3. (Closes: #10223)
    - Upgrade bind9-based packages to 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu2+deb7u7.
    - Upgrade liblcms1 to 1.19.dfsg2-1.2+deb7u1.
    - Upgrade libldap-2.4-2 to 2.4.31-2+deb7u1.
    - Upgrade libslp1 to 1.2.1-9+deb7u1.
    - Upgrade ssl-cert to 1.0.32+deb7u1.

  * Bugfixes
    - Fix a corner case for the MAC spoofing panic mode. If panic mode
      failed to disable the specific device that couldn't be spoofed
      (by unloading the module) we disable networking. Previously we
      only stopped NetworkManager. The problem is that NM isn't even
      started at this time, but will specifically be started when
      we're done with MAC spoofing. Therefore, let's completely
      disable NetworkManager so it cannot possibly be
      started. (Closes: #10160)
    - Avoid use of uninitialized value in restricted-network-detector.
      If NetworkManager decides that a wireless connection has timed
      out before "supplicant connection state" has occued, our idea of
      the state is `undef`, so it cannot be used in a string
      comparison. Hence, let's initialize the state to the empty
      string instead of `undef`. Also fix the state
      recording. Apparently NetworkManager can say a few different
      things when it logs the device state transitions. (Closes:
      #7689)

  * Minor improvements
    - Remove workaround for localizing search engine plugins. The
      workaround has recently become unnecessary, possibly due to the
      changes made for the seach bar after the Tor Browser was rebased
      on Firefox 38esr. (Closes: #9146)
    - Refer to the I2P Browser in the I2P notifications. Instead of
      some obscure links that won't work in the Tor Browser, where
      users likely will try them, and which I believe will open them
      by default. (Closes: #10182)
    - Upgrade I2P to 0.9.22. Also set the I2P apparmor profile to
      enforce mode. (Closes: #9830)

  * Test suite
    - Test that udev-watchdog is monitoring the correct device when
      booted from USB. (Closes: #9890)
    - Remove unused 'gksu' step. This causes a false-positive to be
      found for #5330. (Closes: #9877)
    - Make --capture capture individual videos for failed scenarios
      only, and --capture-all to capture videos for all scenarios.
      (Closes: #10148)
    - Use the more efficient x264 encoding when capturing videos using