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@@ -36,21 +36,21 @@ In November, **314 ISOs** were tested by our Jenkins instance.
(#10445)
We found out that Sikuli was sometimes leaving PNG files in the Jenkins
workspaces, and we worked on a fix. (
#
10476)
workspaces, and we worked on a fix. (
[[!tails_ticket
10476
]]
)
We are being short again in disk space and need to anticipate that future
infrastructure features will require more, so we're sorting out what's the real
needs of our isotesters on this side, now that we have more data points.
(
#
10396)
(
[[!tails_ticket
10396
]]
)
We are also short on isotesters to really test every single automatically
built ISO image. So we're discussing if we need new hardware to cope with the
load, and if so, which kind. (
#
9264)
load, and if so, which kind. (
[[!tails_ticket
9264
]]
)
Meanwhile, our automated test suite will still be a bit more efficient
on testing branches that actually change Tails' code, while testing
only some subset for the branches that only change our website or
documentation. (
#
10492)
documentation. (
[[!tails_ticket
10492
]]
)
We spent a lot of the CI time gathering statistics about the test suite
runs in Jenkins in order to help the team writing the tests to identify
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@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ In November, **314 ISOs** were tested by our Jenkins instance.
notifications to contributors.
We discovered that lately our isostesters were not always getting back
online after being rebooted and are investigating why. (
#
10601)
online after being rebooted and are investigating why. (
[[!tails_ticket
10601
]]
)
## B.3. Extend the coverage of our test suite
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@@ -71,21 +71,27 @@ In November, **314 ISOs** were tested by our Jenkins instance.
* B.3.11. Fix newly identified issues to make our test suite more robust and faster
- Increased the number of Tor circuit retries in the test suite (
#
10375).
- Increased the number of Tor circuit retries in the test suite (
[[!tails_ticket
10375
]]
).
- Work is in progress to make some test cases, that cause false
positives, more robust: SSH (#10498), Git (#10444), Windows
Camouflage (#10493), Seahorse (#9095, #10500, #10501).
positives, more robust:
SSH ([[!tails_ticket 10498]]),
Git ([[!tails_ticket 10444]]),
Windows Camouflage ([[!tails_ticket 10493]]),
Seahorse ([[!tails_ticket 9095]], [[!tails_ticket 10500]], [[!tails_ticket 10501]]).
- More such fragile test cases were identified, and are momentarily
disabled in our Jenkins environment. They will be worked on later:
Electrum tests (#10475) due to us shipping a too old version of
Electrum, connecting to the #i2p IRC channel
(#10474), Synaptic (#10441), APT (#10496), ICMP filtering
(#10499), whois (#10523), `wait_until_tor_is_working` helper
(#10497), time synchronization (#10440, #10494, #10495), Pidgin
connecting to OFTC (#10443), watching a WebM video over HTTPS
(#10442).
Electrum tests ([[!tails_ticket 10475]]) due to us shipping a too old version of Electrum,
connecting to the #i2p IRC channel ([[!tails_ticket 10474]]),
Synaptic ([[!tails_ticket 10441]]),
APT ([[!tails_ticket 10496]]),
ICMP filtering ([[!tails_ticket 10499]]),
whois ([[!tails_ticket 10523]]),
`wait_until_tor_is_working` helper ([[!tails_ticket 10497]]),
time synchronization ([[!tails_ticket 10440]], [[!tails_ticket 10494]], [[!tails_ticket 10495]]),
Pidgin connecting to OFTC ([[!tails_ticket 10443]]),
watching a WebM video over HTTPS ([[!tails_ticket 10442]]).
# C. Scale our infrastructure
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@@ -113,49 +119,49 @@ We settled on a date for a sysadmin sprint in December.
We finished porting Tails to GNOME Shell by fixing the remaining
identified regression: raw HTML was displayed in desktop notifications
(
#
7989).
(
[[!tails_ticket
7989
]]
).
## D.2. Take advantage of systemd to improve the internals of Tails
The Tor daemon is now managed with systemd, that completes supervision
of critical services (
#
5750).
of critical services (
[[!tails_ticket
5750
]]
).
We also polished code that was previously ported to systemd:
* Introduced a dedicated systemd target for "Tor has bootstrapped"
state (
#
9393).
* Call out to the shell less often in htpdate.service (
#
10612).
* Converted the `21-gdm_unit_file` hook to a drop-in override (
#
10606).
state (
[[!tails_ticket
9393
]]
).
* Call out to the shell less often in htpdate.service (
[[!tails_ticket
10612
]]
).
* Converted the `21-gdm_unit_file` hook to a drop-in override (
[[!tails_ticket
10606
]]
).
## D.3. Update our test suite for Tails Jessie
This is about ticket
#
7563 and subtasks. Good progress was made
This is about ticket
[[!tails_ticket
7563
]]
and subtasks. Good progress was made
on this front in November.
These were resolved:
* Updated the memory erasure automated tests for Jessie (
#9705, #
8317);
* Updated the memory erasure automated tests for Jessie (
[[!tails_ticket 9705]], [[!tails_ticket
8317
]]
);
in passing, made it more robust and accurate.
* Disabled screen blanking during the test suite, since it broke some
tests on Jessie (
#
10403); and in passing, we have refactored how we
tests on Jessie (
[[!tails_ticket
10403
]]
); and in passing, we have refactored how we
re-use GNOME/X's environment from scripts in our codebase.
* Fixed the "I open the address" step by pasting URLs instead of
typing them char by char (
#
10467).
* Updated the "Connect to server" tests for Jessie (
#
10325).
* Adapted GNOME notification handling (
#
8782) and applications menu
handling (
#
9706) for Jessie in the test suite.
typing them char by char (
[[!tails_ticket
10467
]]
).
* Updated the "Connect to server" tests for Jessie (
[[!tails_ticket
10325
]]
).
* Adapted GNOME notification handling (
[[!tails_ticket
8782
]]
) and applications menu
handling (
[[!tails_ticket
9706
]]
) for Jessie in the test suite.
* Ported tests that used syslog to instead use the systemd Journal.
* Updated Icedove tests for Jessie.
Additionally, we made progress on:
* With respect to "iptables_parse is buggy for IPv6" (
#
9704): sadly,
* With respect to "iptables_parse is buggy for IPv6" (
[[!tails_ticket
9704
]]
): sadly,
we could not find an iptables rules parser in Ruby (to nicely
integrate into our test suite's codebase) that clearly states that
it's compatible with IPv6. So we started looking for candidate
solutions in Python and Perl.
* The GnuPG keyserver interaction test cases are being updated for
Jessie (
#
9791).
Jessie (
[[!tails_ticket
9791
]]
).
* Updating tests for: USB installation and upgrade, Tor Browser
tests, ICMP filtering.
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@@ -184,51 +190,51 @@ A lot of other porting to Jessie work was done, that does not really
fit into any of the above categories:
* Merged and forward-ported changes introduced up to Tails 1.7.
* Ported our automatic (incremental) upgrade system to Jessie (
#
8083),
and made its check for free memory smarter (
#8263, #
10540).
* Fixed synchronizing OpenPGP keys in Seahorse (
#
9792).
* Fixed Totem access to the network (
#10593, #
10603).
* Ensured we use a current version of obfs4proxy (
#
10605).
* Ported our automatic (incremental) upgrade system to Jessie (
[[!tails_ticket
8083
]]
),
and made its check for free memory smarter (
[[!tails_ticket 8263]], [[!tails_ticket
10540
]]
).
* Fixed synchronizing OpenPGP keys in Seahorse (
[[!tails_ticket
9792
]]
).
* Fixed Totem access to the network (
[[!tails_ticket 10593]], [[!tails_ticket
10603
]]
).
* Ensured we use a current version of obfs4proxy (
[[!tails_ticket
10605
]]
).
* Made AppArmor profile for cupsd work in read-only persistence mode
(
#
10591).
(
[[!tails_ticket
10591
]]
).
* Fixed string encoding regression that was introduced when porting
WhisperBack to Python 3 (
#
10577).
WhisperBack to Python 3 (
[[!tails_ticket
10577
]]
).
* Restored association of application/pgp-keys MIME type with
Seahorse's "Import Key" application (
#
10571).
* Restored AppArmor confinement of Tor on Jessie (
#
10528) that briefly
Seahorse's "Import Key" application (
[[!tails_ticket
10571
]]
).
* Restored AppArmor confinement of Tor on Jessie (
[[!tails_ticket
10528
]]
) that briefly
disappeared with the upgrade to Tor 0.2.7.
* Adjusted to the fact that `.xsession-errors` does not exist anymore
on Jessie (
#
9966).
* Restored unmuting and sanitizing ALSA mixer levels at boot time (
#
7591).
on Jessie (
[[!tails_ticket
9966
]]
).
* Restored unmuting and sanitizing ALSA mixer levels at boot time (
[[!tails_ticket
7591
]]
).
* Wrote a test case to ensure that NetworkManager change of behaviour
wrt. watching configuration files does not affect us (
#
7966).
wrt. watching configuration files does not affect us (
[[!tails_ticket
7966
]]
).
And some code was cleaned up in passing:
* Removed obsolete bits of APT pinning (
#
10607).
* Removed obsolete bits of APT pinning (
[[!tails_ticket
10607
]]
).
* Removed obsolete workaround for the HashType enum in Tails Upgrader
(
#
7042).
(
[[!tails_ticket
7042
]]
).
* Dropped custom syslinux package with patches for Chromebooks, that
we had included in a Debian Jessie update (
#
9292).
we had included in a Debian Jessie update (
[[!tails_ticket
9292
]]
).
We researched some candidate changed and investigated a few potential
problems:
* Made sure the services we disable at boot time indeed don't start on
Jessie (
#
8313).
Jessie (
[[!tails_ticket
8313
]]
).
* Considered replacing some of our code with the GDM to GNOME session
keyboard layout pass-through (
#
8713).
* Clarified `ttdnsd.service` (
#
10608) and `laptop-mode.service`
(
#
9967) situation on Jessie.
keyboard layout pass-through (
[[!tails_ticket
8713
]]
).
* Clarified `ttdnsd.service` (
[[!tails_ticket
10608
]]
) and `laptop-mode.service`
(
[[!tails_ticket
9967
]]
) situation on Jessie.
* Looked for screen reader support regressions compared to Wheezy
(
#
8371).
(
[[!tails_ticket
8371
]]
).
* Made sure that we have no regression wrt. logging into a text
console on Jessie (
#
9408).
* Check if we need to keep memlockd running longer (
#
8260).
console on Jessie (
[[!tails_ticket
9408
]]
).
* Check if we need to keep memlockd running longer (
[[!tails_ticket
8260
]]
).
* Made sure that GNOME 3.14's captive portal handling is disabled on
Tails/Jessie (
#
10526).
* Evaluated the Caribou virtual keyboard in Tails/Jessie (
#
8281).
* Considered replacing sound-juicer with goobox (
#
8393).
Tails/Jessie (
[[!tails_ticket
10526
]]
).
* Evaluated the Caribou virtual keyboard in Tails/Jessie (
[[!tails_ticket
8281
]]
).
* Considered replacing sound-juicer with goobox (
[[!tails_ticket
8393
]]
).
# E. Release management
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@@ -239,8 +245,8 @@ problems:
* Improve the wording of the first screen of Tails Installer.
* Upgrade Tor Browser to version 5.0.4 (based on Firefox 38.4.0 ESR).
* Update Tor to 0.2.7.4.
* Restart Tor automatically if connecting to the Tor network takes too long. (
#
9516)
* Prevent wget from leaking the IP address when using the FTP protocol. (
#
10364)
* Restart Tor automatically if connecting to the Tor network takes too long. (
[[!tails_ticket
9516
]]
)
* Prevent wget from leaking the IP address when using the FTP protocol. (
[[!tails_ticket
10364
]]
)
* Prevent symlink attack on ~/.xsession-errors via tails-debugging-info.
* Force synchronization of data on the USB stick at the end of automatic upgrades.
* Make the "I2P is ready" notification more reliable.
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