Tails Linux 2.6 is out (Sept 20, 2016) - Announcements https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tails-26-out https://twitter.com/Tails_live/status/778369935684829184 https://tails.boum.org/news/version_2.6/index.en.html https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/amnesia-news/2016-September/000113.html - Home https://tails.boum.org/ - Tails 2.6 .ISO Direct Download & Sig @ boum.org http://dl.amnesia.boum.org/tails/stable/tails-i386-2.6/ http://dl.amnesia.boum.org/tails/stable/tails-i386-2.6/tails-i386-2.6.iso https://tails.boum.org/torrents/files/tails-i386-2.6.iso.sig - Tails 2.6 .ISO Direct Download & Sig @ archive.torproject.org (HTTPS!) https://archive.torproject.org/amnesia.boum.org/tails/stable/tails-i386-2.6/ https://archive.torproject.org/amnesia.boum.org/tails/stable/tails-i386-2.6/tails-i386-2.6.iso https://archive.torproject.org/amnesia.boum.org/tails/stable/tails-i386-2.6/tails-i386-2.6.iso.sig - Tails 2.6 .ISO Direct Download & Sig @ kernel.org (HTTPS!) https://mirrors.kernel.org/tails/stable/tails-i386-2.6/ https://mirrors.kernel.org/tails/stable/tails-i386-2.6/tails-i386-2.6.iso https://mirrors.kernel.org/tails/stable/tails-i386-2.6/tails-i386-2.6.iso.sig - Tails 2.6 .ISO Torrent & Sig https://tails.boum.org/torrents/files/ https://tails.boum.org/torrents/files/tails-i386-2.6.torrent https://tails.boum.org/torrents/files/tails-i386-2.6.packages https://tails.boum.org/torrents/files/tails-i386-2.6.iso.sig - Tails signing key https://tails.boum.org/tails-signing.key - Numerous security holes in Tails 2.5 https://tails.boum.org/security/Numerous_security_holes_in_2.5/index.en.html - Known issues https://tails.boum.org/support/known_issues/index.en.html - Tails Mailing Lists https://tails.boum.org/about/contact/index.en.html - Tails Chat https://tails.boum.org/support/chat/index.en.html - Tails Contributors Chat https://tails.boum.org/contribute/chat/ ######################################### - Changelog https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/plain/debian/changelog tails (2.6) unstable; urgency=medium * Major new features and changes - Install Tor 0.2.8.7. (Closes: #11351) - Enable kASLR in the Linux kernel. (Closes: #11281) - Upgrade Icedove to 1:45.2.0-1~deb8u1+tails1: (Closes: #11714) · Drop auto-fetched configurations using Oauth2. They do not work together with Torbirdy since it disables needed functionality (like JavaScript and cookies) in the embedded browser. This should make auto-configuration work for GMail again, for instance. (Closes: ##11536) · Pin Icedove to be installed from our APT repo. Debian's Icedove packages still do not have our secure Icedove autoconfig wizard patches applied, so installing them would be a serious security regression. (Closes: #11613) · Add missing icedove-l10n-* packages to our custom APT repository (Closes: #11550) - Upgrade to Linux 4.6: (Closes: #10298) · Install the 686 kernel flavour instead of the obsolete 586 one. · APT, dpkg: add amd64 architecture. The amd64 kernel flavour is not built anymore for the i386 architecture, so we need to use multiarch now. · Build and install the out-of-tree aufs4 module. (Closes: #10298) · Disable kernel modesetting for QXL: it's not compatible with Jessie's QXL X.Org driver. * Security fixes - Hopefully fixed an issue which would sometimes make the Greeter ignore the "disable networking" or "bridge mode" options. (Closes: #11593) * Minor improvements - Install firmware-intel-sound and firmware-ti-connectivity. This adds support for some sound cards and Wi-Fi adapters. (Closes: #11502) - Install OpenPGP Applet from Debian. (Closes: #10190) - Port the "About Tails" dialog to python3. - Run our initramfs memory erasure hook earlier (Closes: #10733). The goal here is to: · save a few seconds on shutdown (it might matter especially for the emergency one); · work in a less heavily multitasking / event-driven environment, for more robust operation. - Install rngd, and make rng-tools initscript return success when it can't find any hardware RNG device. Most Tails systems around probably have no such device, and we don't want systemd to believe they failed to boot properly. (Closes: #5650) - Don't force using the vboxvideo X.Org driver. According to our tests, this forced setting is: · harmful: it breaks X startup when the vboxvideo *kernel* driver is loaded; · useless: X.Org now autodetects the vboxvideo X.Org driver and uses it when running in VirtualBox and the vboxvideo kernel is not present. - Port boot-profile to python3 (Closes: #10083). Thanks to heartsucker for the patch! - Include /proc/cmdline and the content of persistent APT sources in WhisperBack bug reports. (Closes: #11675, #11635) - Disable non-free APT sources at boot time. (Closes: #10130) - Have a dedicated page for the homepage of Tor Browser in Tails. (Closes: # 11725) - Only build the VirtualBox kernel modules for the 32-bit kernel. It's both hard and useless to build it for 64-bit in the current state of things, as long as we're shipping a 32-bit userspace. Also, install virtualbox-* from jessie-backports, since the version in Jessie is not compatible with Linux 4.x. * Build system - Don't install+remove dpatch during the build. It's not been needed in this hook for ages. - Bump BUILD_SPACE_REQUIREMENT: at least one of us needed that to build feature/10298-linux-4.x-aufs with the gzipcomp option. * Test suite - Send Tails Installer's debug log to the Cucumber debug log on failure. This is meant to debug #10720 since I can't reproduce it locally. - Give the system under testing 2 vCPUs. (Closes: #6729) - Split scenarios from checks.feature. (Closes: #5707) - Add retry-logic to the Synaptic tests. (Closes: #10412, #10441, #10991) - Run usb_upgrade.feature earlier, when there is enough free disk space left. (Closes: #11582) - Use more recent virtual hardware in the system under test, i.e. USB 3.0 (nec-xhci) on a pc-i440fx-2.5 machine. Switching USB controllers has helped with problems we see on Jenkins when booting from USB (#11588). Also, there are chances that more recent virtual hardware sees more testing these days, so it sounds potentially useful to "upgrade". - Add support for Cucumber 2.4. (Closes: #11690) - Always write {pretty,debug} logs and JSON output to the artifact directory. - Disable info level logging on Chutney nodes to save disk space. For our network all these add up to > 1 GiB and we didn't take this into account when budgeting RAM to the isotesters on Jenkins. -- Tails developers Tue, 20 Sep 2016 04:16:33 +0200 ####################### # 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." - (official, Tails, Home) https://tails.boum.org/about/index.en.html - (official, Tails, Twitter) https://twitter.com/tails_live - (unofficial, Tails, Distrowatch) http://distrowatch.com/tails - (unofficial, Tails, Reddit) https://www.reddit.com/r/tails - (unofficial, Tails, Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tails_(operating_system) ####################### # What is Tor? - (official, Tor, Home) https://www.torproject.org/ - (official, Tor, Home, Blog) https://blog.torproject.org/blog/ - (official, Tor, Twitter) https://twitter.com/torproject - (unofficial, Tor, Reddit) https://www.reddit.com/r/tor - (unofficial, Tor, Stackexchange) https://tor.stackexchange.com/ - (unofficial, Tor, Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network) - (unofficial, Tor Project, Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_Project ####################### # Tags: 2.6, Anonymity, Linux, Operating System, Tails