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TAILS Linux 1.3.1 is out (March 23, 2015) Home: https://tails.boum.org/ Announcement: https://tails.boum.org/news/version_1.3.1/index.en.html Changelog[1]: https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/plain/debian/changelog Transition to a new OpenPGP signing k
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  1. TAILS Linux 1.3.1 is out (March 23, 2015)
  2.  
  3. Home:
  4. https://tails.boum.org/
  5.  
  6. Announcement:
  7. https://tails.boum.org/news/version_1.3.1/index.en.html
  8.  
  9. Changelog[1]:
  10. https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/plain/debian/changelog
  11.  
  12. Transition to a new OpenPGP signing key:
  13. https://tails.boum.org/news/signing_key_transition/index.en.html
  14. https://tails.boum.org/tails-signing.key
  15.  
  16. Numerous security holes in Tails 1.3:
  17. https://tails.boum.org/security/Numerous_security_holes_in_1.3/index.en.html
  18.  
  19. Download:
  20. https://tails.boum.org/download/index.en.html
  21.  
  22. Direct Download - Latest Release - 1.3.1 ISO image:
  23. http://dl.amnesia.boum.org/tails/stable/tails-i386-1.3.1/tails-i386-1.3.1.iso
  24.  
  25. Direct Download - Cryptographic Signature:
  26. https://tails.boum.org/torrents/files/tails-i386-1.3.1.iso.sig
  27.  
  28. SHA256 checksum for ISO/Direct Download:
  29. 897fc177af159610136816e0396e85c36922da4ce86a74da3fe47c5bae7832cf
  30.  
  31. Verify the ISO image:
  32. https://tails.boum.org/download/index.en.html#index3h1
  33.  
  34. BitTorrent download:
  35. https://tails.boum.org/torrents/files/tails-i386-1.3.1.torrent
  36.  
  37. BitTorrent Cryptographic signature:
  38. https://tails.boum.org/torrents/files/tails-i386-1.3.1.torrent.sig
  39.  
  40. "Seed back! Seeding back the image once you have downloaded it is also a nice and easy way of helping spread Tails."
  41.  
  42. The Tails-dev Archives:
  43. https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/
  44.  
  45. [1] Changelog:
  46.  
  47. tails (1.3.1) unstable; urgency=medium
  48.  
  49.   * Security fixes
  50.     - Upgrade Tor Browser to 4.0.5, based on Firefox 31.5.3 ESR. This addresses:
  51.       · https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-28/
  52.       · https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-29/
  53.     - Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt7-1.
  54.     - Upgrade libxfont to 1:1.4.5-5.
  55.     - Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1e-2+deb7u15.
  56.     - Upgrade tcpdump to 4.3.0-1+deb7u2.
  57.     - Upgrade bsdtar to 3.0.4-3+wheezy1.
  58.     - Upgrade CUPS to 1.5.3-5+deb7u5.
  59.     - Upgrade file and libmagic to 5.11-2+deb7u8.
  60.     - Upgrade GnuPG to 1.4.12-7+deb7u7.
  61.     - Upgrade libarchive to 3.0.4-3+wheezy1.
  62.     - Upgrade libav to 6:0.8.17-1.
  63.     - Upgrade FreeType 2 to 2.4.9-1.1+deb7u1.
  64.     - Upgrade libgcrypt11 1.5.0-5+deb7u3.
  65.     - Upgrade libgnutls26 to 2.12.20-8+deb7u3.
  66.     - Upgrade libgtk2-perl to 2:1.244-1+deb7u1.
  67.     - Upgrade ICU to 4.8.1.1-12+deb7u2.
  68.     - Upgrade NSS to 2:3.14.5-1+deb7u4.
  69.     - Upgrade libssh2 to 1.4.2-1.1+deb7u1.
  70.  
  71.   * Bugfixes
  72.     - Upgrade Tor to 0.2.5.11-1~d70.wheezy+1+tails1. Changes include:
  73.       · Directory authority changes.
  74.       · Fix assertion errors that may trigger under high DNS load.
  75.       · No longer break on HUP with seccomp2 enabled.
  76.       · and more - please consult the upstream changelog.
  77.     - Upgrade Tor Launcher to 0.2.7.2, and update the test suite accordingly
  78.       (Closes: #8964, #6985). Changes include:
  79.       · Ask about bridges before proxy in wizard.
  80.       · Hide logo if TOR_HIDE_BROWSER_LOGO set.
  81.       · Remove firewall prompt from wizard.
  82.       · Feedback when “Copy Tor Log” is clicked.
  83.       · Improve behavior if tor exits.
  84.       · Add option to hide TBB's logo
  85.       · Change "Tor Browser Bundle" to "Tor Browser"
  86.       · Update translations from Transifex.
  87.     - Fix the Tor Launcher killer. (Closes: #9067)
  88.     - Allow Seahorse to communicate with keyservers when run from Tails
  89.       OpenPGP Applet. (Closes: #6394)
  90.     - SSH client: don't proxy connections to 172.17.* to 172.31.*.
  91.       (Closes: #6558)
  92.     - Repair config/chroot_local-packages feature, that was broken in Tails 1.3
  93.       by 19-install-tor-browser-AppArmor-profile. (Closes: #8910)
  94.     - language_statistics.sh: count original words instead of translated words.
  95.       Otherwise we get >100% translation if translated strings are longer than
  96.       original strings. (Closes: #9016)
  97.  
  98.   * Minor improvements
  99.     - Only ship the new Tails signing key, and have Tails Upgrader stop trusting
  100.       the old one. Update the documentation and test suite accordingly.
  101.       (Closes: #8735, #8736, #8882, #8769, #8951)
  102.     - Polish and harden a bit the WhisperBack configuration (Closes: #8991):
  103.       · Only allow the `amnesia' user to run tails-debugging info as root
  104.         with no arguments.
  105.       · Fix spelling and grammar mistakes, improve phrasing a bit.
  106.       · Quote variables consistently.
  107.  
  108.   * Test suite
  109.     - New tests:
  110.       · Chatting over XMPP in Pidgin, both peer-to-peer and in a multi-user
  111.         chatroom. (Closes: #8002)
  112.       · Chatting with OTR enabled over XMPP in Pidgin. (Closes: #8001)
  113.       · Check that Pidgin only responds to the expected CTCP requests.
  114.         (Closes: #8966)
  115.       · Fetching keys using Seahorse started via the OpenPGP Applet.
  116.       · Sync'ing keys using Seahorse.
  117.     - Bugfixes:
  118.       · Fix a race condition between the remote shell's and Tails Greeter's
  119.         startup, by making sure the remote shell is ready before we start
  120.         GDM. (Closes: #8941)
  121.       · Kill virt-viewer properly. (Closes: #9070)
  122.       · Make sure the display is stopped on destroy_and_undefine().
  123.         Where we had it earlier, it could be skipped if anything else in the
  124.         block threw an exception.
  125.       · Fix wrong use of "$@". (Closes: #9071)
  126.       · Enable the pipefail option in run_test_suite.
  127.       · Improve the GNOME screenshot test's robustness. (Closes: #8952)
  128.     - Refactoring:
  129.       · turn the focus_pidgin_window() helper into a more generic
  130.         VM.focus_xorg_window() one.
  131.       · Reorganize the Display class.
  132.       · Use clearer method to check process status in the Display class.
  133.     - New developer-oriented features:
  134.       · Add a --log-to-file option to run_test_suite. (Closes: #8894)
  135.       · Add helpers for generating random strings.
  136.       · Make it possible to hook arbitrary calls on scenario end. This is useful
  137.         for dynamically adding cleanup functions, instead of having
  138.         to explicitly deal with them in some After hook.
  139.  
  140.  -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org>  Mon, 23 Mar 2015 12:34:56 +0000

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