Privacy-focused Linux distro Tails 5 Beta now available for download with many critical security bug fixes

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