TAILS Linux 1.8 is out (Dec 15, 2015)

# 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://tails.boum.org/
https://tails.boum.org/news/version_1.8/index.en.html
https://tails.boum.org/security/Numerous_security_holes_in_1.7/index.en.html
https://tails.boum.org/download/index.en.html
https://twitter.com/tails_live

** Changelog:

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

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

#####################################################################

Tor Browser 5.0.5 is released (Dec 15, 2015)

"A new stable release for Tor Browser is available."

https://www.torproject.org/
https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-505-released

"Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security."

Learn More: https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en