Upgrade to Debian 11 (Bullseye).
– Fixes opening a Veracrypt volume with a long passphrase (tails#17474)
– NetworkManager now uses its internal DHCP client
– Removes python2
– Software upgrades:
– GNOME 3.38
– Audacity 2.4.2
– bookletimposer 0.3
– GIMP 2.20.22
– Inkscape 1.0.2
– LibreOffice 7.0.4
– NetworkManager 1.30.0
– OnionCircuits 0.7
– Pidgin 2.14.1
– Thunderbird 91.7.0-2~deb11u1
– X.Org 1.20.11
Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0.10-build1 (tails#777)
Enable driverless printing and scanning (tails#18521)
Fix locales translation in the Welcome Screen (tails#18199, tails/tails!683)
Commits:
– all formats are shown
– translations appear again in Greeter
– when native l10n is not available, use english
– all languages are listed
Drop hack to kill GDM on login, not necessary anymore on Bullseye (tails#17952)
Have tor log to the Journal (tails#18842)
Have NetworkManager and MAC spoofing ignore veth* network interfaces (tails#18443)
Drop deprecated printer-driver-hpijs (tails#18225)
Fix devel branch FTBFS (tails/tails!773)
Commits:
– Preserve UIDs/GIDs stability
– Refresh list of standard packages
Drop obsolete patch (tails/tails!690)
Commits:
– Drop obsolete patch
Fix the Tails Installer in bullseye (tails/tails!679)
Commits:
– retry has shorter sleep times
– FIX self.sleep never existed
– retry getting udisks object upon failure
– don’t rescan devices: we already know!
– partition_device returns a UDI
– refactor detect_supported_drives
– retrying getting system partition helps
– race conditions? let’s increase sleep time!
Fix Scenario: Upgrading an old Tails USB installation from another Tails USB
drive (tails/tails!765)
Commits:
– apparently fix tails/tails#18840
– send tails installer log to syslog
Additional Software: synchronize APT data when needed directly from t-p-s
(tails/tails!764)
Commits:
– Test suite: restart Tails in the same way we expect the user to
– Test suite: don’t exit the persistence wizard once done, make saving settings
explicit
– Test suite: refactoring (convert step to method)
– Additional Software: synchronize APT data when needed directly from t-p-s
– Remove XXX:Bullseye: this is not going to happen
Update gdm-tails.json for Bullseye (tails/tails!689)
Commits:
– Add pointer accessibility support to gdm-tails.json
– gdm-tails.json: remove panelStyle
Update VeraCrypt test suite for Bullseye (tails/tails!686)
Commits:
– Test suite: trim expected image to account for GNOME mounted volume
notification
– Give exchange USB drive more space
– Test suite: update to new GNOME Disks UI
– Test suite: update Nautilus application name
– Test suite: update expected picture
— Tails developers <[email protected]> Mon, 04 Apr 2022 09:25:25 +0000
tails (4.28) unstable; urgency=medium
Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.0.7-build2 based on Firefox 91.7 (tails/tails!741)
Closes issues:
– Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.0.7 based on Firefox 91.7 (tails/tails#18853)
Commits:
– Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
– Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.0.7-build2
Upgrade to Thunderbird 91.6.1
Upgrade to tor 0.4.6.10 (tails/tails!737)
Closes issues:
– Upgrade to tor 0.4.6.10 (tails/tails#18835)
Commits:
– Upgrade to tor 0.4.6.10 (Closes #18835)
Enable obfs4proxy logging (tails/tails!734)
Commits:
– save obfs4proxy logs into artifacts
– enable obfs4proxy debug logging
– “obfs4proxy managed” is an option from the past
Minor fixes to custom-apt-cruft-check (tails/tails!733)
Commits:
– custom-apt-cruft-check: output nicer Markdown
– Give method a name closer to what it wraps
– ordered list
– fix wrong variable name
– markdown-ish
– we obey rubocop
Test suite: collect logs of tor & friends when we timed out waiting for TCA to
connect (tails/tails!732)
Closes issues:
– Test suite does not save tor log on “Timed out while waiting for TCA to connect
to Tor (Timeout::Error)” (tails/tails#18850)
Commits:
– Apply 2 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
– Test suite: collect logs of tor & friends when we timed out waiting for TCA to
connect
Test suite: ignore old APT repository signing key (tails/tails!731)
Closes issues:
– Test suite: ignore expiration date of 221F9A3C6FA3E09E182E060BC7988EA7A358D82E
(tails/tails#18836)
Commits:
– Test suite: ignore old APT repository signing key
Test suite can test on the real Tor network (tails/tails!725)
Closes issues:
– Test behavior on the real Tor network (tails/tails#18847)
Commits:
– move Jenkins-only code in the appropriate section
– better debug message
– shell oneliner converted to ruby
– Configure simulated Tor network: step -> function
– rubocop is happier
– Test suite: don’t try to save chutney data when it does not exist
– add at least one relevant scenario
– if +real-Tor, select relevant scenarios
– test suite runs with real Tor, if +real-Tor
– “default bridges” honors –disable-chutney
– Check adapted to –disable-chutney
– run_test_suite –disable-chutney
– chutney-specific conf moved into appropriate step
