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Tails 0.22 released @ Dec 11, 2013
Posted by Anonymous on Wed 11th Dec 2013 17:57
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  1. Tails 0.22 released @ Dec 11, 2013
  2. ============
  3. CHANGELOG
  4.  
  5. tails (0.22) unstable; urgency=medium
  6.  
  7.   [Tails developers]
  8.   * Security fixes
  9.     - Upgrade to Iceweasel 24.2.0esr that fixes a few serious security issues.
  10.     - Stop migrating persistence configuration and access rights. Instead,
  11.       disable all persistence configuration files if the mountpoint has wrong
  12.       access rights (Closes: #6413).
  13.     - Upgrade to NSS 3.15.3 that fixes a few serious security issues affecting
  14.       the browser, such as CVE-2013-1741, CVE-2013-5605 and CVE-2013-5606.
  15.  
  16.   * Major improvements
  17.     - Switch to Iceweasel 24 (Closes: #6370).
  18.       · Resync' (most) Iceweasel prefs with TBB 3.0-beta-1 and get rid
  19.         of many obsolete or default settings.
  20.       · Disable WebRTC (Closes: #6468).
  21.       · Import TorBrowser profile at commit
  22.         51bf06502c46ee6c1f587459e8370aef11a3422d from the tor-browser-24.2.0esr-1
  23.         branch at https://git.torproject.org/tor-browser.git.
  24.     - Switch to Torbutton 1.6.5 (Closes: #6371).
  25.       · Prevent Torbutton from asking users to "upgrade TBB".
  26.       · Use the same Tor SOCKS port as the TBB (9151) for our web browser.
  27.         This should be enough to avoid being affected by Tor#8511.
  28.       · Disable Torbutton 1.6's check for Tor.
  29.         Unfortunately, the new check.torproject.org breaks the remote Tor
  30.         check. We cannot use the local Tor check with the control port. So,
  31.         the shortest and sanest path to fixing the check issue, because the
  32.         remote Tor check is broken" seems to simply disable this check.
  33.         Patch submitted upstream as Tor#10216.
  34.     - Prepare incremental upgrades to be the next default way to upgrade Tails,
  35.       on point-releases at least.
  36.  
  37.   * Bugfixes
  38.     - Deny X authentication only after Vidalia exits (Closes: #6389).
  39.     - Disable DPMS screen blanking (Closes: #5617).
  40.     - Fix checking of the persistent volume's ACL.
  41.     - Sanitize more IP and MAC addresses in bug reports (Closes: #6391).
  42.     - Do not fail USB upgrade when the "tmp" directory exists on the
  43.       destination device.
  44.     - Tails Installer: list devices with isohybrid Tails installed
  45.       (Closes: #6462).
  46.  
  47.   * Minor improvements
  48.     - Create a configuration file for additional software if needed
  49.       (Closes: #6436).
  50.     - Translations all over the place.
  51.     - Enable favicons in Iceweasel.
  52.     - Do not propose to make permanent NoScript exceptions.
  53.       In Tails, every such thing is temporary, so better only display the menu
  54.       entry that's about temporarily allowing something.
  55.     - Clearer warning when deleting persistent volume (thanks to Andres Gomez
  56.       Ramirez <andres.gomez@cern.ch> for the patch).
  57.     - Make wording in Tails Installer more consistent.
  58.  
  59.   [ WinterFairy ]
  60.   * Use IBus instead of SCIM (Closes: #6206).
  61.     It makes it possible to input passwords in pinentry for at least Japanese,
  62.     Chinese and Korean languages.
  63.   * Add an import-translation script.
  64.     This automates the importation process of completed translations
  65.     from Transifex.
  66.   * Always list optimal keyboard layout in the greeter (Closes: #5741).
  67.   * Fix on-the-fly translation of the greeter in various languages
  68.     (Closes: #5469).
  69.  
  70.   [ Kytv]
  71.   * Update I2P to 0.9.8.1 (Closes: #6080, #5889).
  72.   * Improve I2P configuration:
  73.     - Disable IPv6 support in a nicer way.
  74.     - Disable i2cp (allows java clients to communicate from outside the JVM). If
  75.       this is unset an exception for port 7654 would need to be added to ferm.
  76.     - Disable "in-network" updates (this is also done in the regular I2P
  77.       packages).
  78.     - Disable the outproxies. Access to the Internet is already routed through
  79.       Tor so these are unnecessary. If end-users have a good reason to go
  80.       through one of the I2P outproxies they can turn them back on.
  81.   * Add a couple of default I2P IRC channels to Pidgin.
  82.   * Allow access to the local 'eepsite' through FoxyProxy.
  83.   * Add firewall exceptions for the standard I2P ports.
  84.  
  85.  -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org>  Sat, 30 Nov 2013 16:47:18 +0100
  86.  
  87. ###
  88.  
  89. Home:
  90. https://tails.boum.org/
  91.  
  92. V.0.22 News:
  93. https://tails.boum.org/news/version_0.22/index.en.html
  94.  
  95. Download:
  96. https://tails.boum.org/download/index.en.html
  97.  
  98. ###
  99.  
  100. Numerous security holes in Tails 0.21
  101.  
  102. https://tails.boum.org/security/Numerous_security_holes_in_0.21/index.en.html
  103.  
  104. ###
  105.  
  106. Latest release
  107. http://dl.amnesia.boum.org/tails/stable/tails-i386-0.22/tails-i386-0.22.iso
  108.  
  109. Cryptographic signature
  110. https://tails.boum.org/torrents/files/tails-i386-0.22.iso.sig
  111.  
  112. If you're not sure what the cryptographic signature is, please read the part on verifying the ISO image.
  113. https://tails.boum.org/download/index.en.html#verify
  114.  
  115. BitTorrent download
  116. https://tails.boum.org/torrents/files/tails-i386-0.22.torrent
  117.  
  118. Cryptographic signature
  119.  
  120. The cryptographic signature of the ISO image is also included in the Torrent.
  121.  
  122. Additionally, you can verify the signature of the Torrent file itself before downloading it.
  123. https://tails.boum.org/torrents/files/tails-i386-0.22.torrent.sig
  124.  
  125. ###
  126.  
  127. https://tails.boum.org/tails-signing.key

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