TAILS Linux 1.8 is out (Dec 15, 2015)

[grandpaflo]

# 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

 

[grandpaflo]

From the Tails-Development Mailing List:

Hi,

Tor Browser 5.0.5 (included in Tails 1.8) lacks a few critical
security fixes from Firefox 38.5, and Tor Browser 5.0.6 was released
to address them. It looks exactly like the kind of problems that we
generally want to fix without waiting 6 weeks.

bertagaz and I are up to being the RM:s for an emergency 1.8.1
release, *except*:

* for bandwidth reasons, it would be very helpful if someone _else_
(that can't be anyone but anonym I guess) prepared a branch for the
actual Tor Browser update ASAP today;

* manual test suite: whatever part of it we decided to "run" will
likely happen tomorrow (Saturday), and we *will* need help;
volunteers among those with testing credentials?

Cheers,
--
intrigeri

- https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2015-December/009924.html

So.. if you haven't downloaded 1.8, I would wait for version 1.8.1.