Tails Linux 2.2 is out (Mar 8th, 2016)
Posted by Anonymous on Thu 10th Mar 2016 00:45
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Tails Linux 2.2 is out (Mar 8th, 2016)

= Announcements:

https://tails.boum.org/news/version_2.2/index.en.html
https://twitter.com/Tails_live/status/707271055786831874
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tails-22-out
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=09321

= Numerous security holes in Tails 2.0.1
https://tails.boum.org/security/Numerous_security_holes_in_2.0.1/index.en.html
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- About
https://tails.boum.org/about/index.en.html

- Getting Started
https://tails.boum.org/getting_started/index.en.html

- First steps with Tails
https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/index.en.html

- Documentation
https://tails.boum.org/doc/index.en.html

- Download, verify and install
https://tails.boum.org/download/index.en.html

- Upgrading a Tails USB stick or SD card
https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/upgrade/index.en.html

- Tails Installation Assistant
https://tails.boum.org/install/index.en.html

- Help & Support
https://tails.boum.org/support/index.en.html

- Contribute
https://tails.boum.org/contribute/index.en.html

- News
https://tails.boum.org/news/index.en.html

- Donate
https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/donate/index.en.html

- Known issues
https://tails.boum.org/support/known_issues/index.en.html

--- Tails user support mailing list:
https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-support
https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-support/

--- Tails development mailing list:
https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev/
https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev

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- Changelog:

https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/plain/debian/changelog

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


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What is Tails?

"Tails is a live system that aims to preserve your privacy and anonymity. It helps you to use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship almost anywhere you go and on any computer but leaving no trace unless you ask it to explicitly.

It is a complete operating system designed to be used from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card independently of the computer's original operating system. It is Free Software and based on Debian GNU/Linux.

Tails comes with several built-in applications pre-configured with security in mind: web browser, instant messaging client, email client, office suite, image and sound editor, etc."

- https://tails.boum.org/about/index.en.html
- https://twitter.com/tails_live
(unofficial) http://distrowatch.com/tails
(unofficial) https://www.reddit.com/r/tails

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What is Tor?

https://www.torproject.org/
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/
https://twitter.com/torproject
(Q&A) (unofficial?) https://tor.stackexchange.com/
(unofficial) https://www.reddit.com/r/tor

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2.2, anonymity, linux, operating system, tails