[Tails-dev] Releasing Tails 4.7 vs. the GitLab transition
Hi folks, I must say I'm pretty much impressed by the GitLab transition. I've only started a few days ago to get a feeling what a GitLab world looks like for us, and there were a few blockers, but with some help from the sysadmins team, we managed to get around them (basically cheating by letting me trigger website rebuilds on my own, until we have appropriate triggers/hooks, so that I wouldn't be relying on other humans at some critical times). A few commits are staged in #17746 but mostly orthogonal to the GitLab transition, and some more work needs to happen as documented in #17747, but all in all, that was a pretty smooth ride for such an intimidating transition (you might know by now I'm erring on the conservative side by nature). Lots of bugs were filed directly during the release process, since the interface is so much more fluid and intuitive and responsive than Redmine's. Of course, we might still improve workflows, metadata, etc. and get more used to it and fluent and all that, but I really do enjoy the new GitLab world so far! Congratulations, everyone! And thanks! Cheers, kibi (done by 18:00 CEST, first time ever — with a new all time low record regarding hours spent on the release — and no annoying delays for once!) -- Cyril 'kibi' Brulebois (c...@riseup.net) signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://www.autistici.org/mailman/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org.
[Tails-dev] [Tails-news] Tails 4.7 is out
This release fixes [many security vulnerabilities](https://tails.boum.org/security/Numerous_security_holes_in_4.6/). You should upgrade as soon as possible. # Changes and updates * Update _Tor Browser_ to [9.5](https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-95). * Update _Thunderbird_ to [68.8.0](https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/68.8.0/releasenotes/). # Fixed problems * Make the installation of Additional Software more robust. ([#17278](https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17278)) * Clarify the error message when entering an incorrect password to unlock a VeraCrypt volume: _Wrong passphrase or parameters_ instead of _Error unlocking volume_. ([#17668](https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17668)) * Clean up confusing comments in `/etc/tor/torrc`. ([#17706](https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17706)) For more details, read our [changelog](https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/blob/master/debian/changelog). # Known issues None specific to this release. See the list of [long-standing issues](https://tails.boum.org/support/known_issues/index.en.html). # Get Tails 4.7 ## To upgrade your Tails USB stick and keep your persistent storage * Automatic upgrades are available from Tails 4.2 or later to 4.7. * If you cannot do an automatic upgrade or if Tails fails to start after an automatic upgrade, please try to do a [manual upgrade](https://tails.boum.org/doc/upgrade/index.en.html#manual). ## To install Tails on a new USB stick Follow our installation instructions: * [Install from Windows](https://tails.boum.org/install/win/index.en.html) * [Install from macOS](https://tails.boum.org/install/mac/index.en.html) * [Install from Linux](https://tails.boum.org/install/linux/index.en.html) All the data on this USB stick will be lost. ## To download only If you don't need installation or upgrade instructions, you can download Tails 4.7 directly: * [For USB sticks (USB image)](https://tails.boum.org/install/download/index.en.html) * [For DVDs and virtual machines (ISO image)](https://tails.boum.org/install/download-iso/index.en.html) # What's coming up? Tails 4.8 is [scheduled](https://tails.boum.org/contribute/calendar/) for June 30. Have a look at our [roadmap](https://tails.boum.org/contribute/roadmap) to see where we are heading to. We need your help and there are many ways to [contribute to Tails](https://tails.boum.org/contribute/index.en.html) ([donating](https://tails.boum.org/donate/?r=4.7) is only one of them). Come [talk to us](https://tails.boum.org/about/contact/index.en.html#tails-dev)! URL: https://tails.boum.org/news/version_4.7/index.en.html ___ amnesia-news mailing list amnesia-n...@boum.org https://www.autistici.org/mailman/listinfo/amnesia-news To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to amnesia-news-unsubscr...@boum.org. ___ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://www.autistici.org/mailman/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org.
[Tails-dev] Tails 4.8 release, testing schedule
Hi, We haven't decided otherwise at the moment, so by default I'll be the release manager for Tails 4.8, scheduled to be released on 2020-06-30 (Mozilla seems to still agree :)). Two releases in the same calendar month, woohoo! This will be a bugfix release. Manual testers, please report whether you are available for testing on 2020-06-30 (and possibly the day before) to me privately. Cheers, -- Cyril 'kibi' Brulebois (c...@riseup.net) signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://www.autistici.org/mailman/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org.
Re: [Tails-dev] Experience with deskop surface
Hi, breschnew (2020-05-27): > Please integrate in Preferences an option, were a user can switch > graphics effects on or off > (i.e.: Shadow pointer, shadow under window, see windows while moving > etc.) > > reason is, that these effects use a tremendous amount of cpu power on > laptops. I agree it would be great if Tails worked better on older/slower hardware. In the case at hand, the behavior you're describing suggests a computer+drivers without hardware acceleration for at least some graphics features used by GNOME Shell, which would make GNOME fallback to software rendering, which indeed can use lots of CPU power. You can disable some of these costly graphics effects in GNOME Tweaks (gnome-tweaks package), but not all of them. Ideally, GNOME would detect such a situation, and automatically disable costly graphics effects (animations, see window content while moving, etc.). It would be nice if someone checked if upstream already considered this. Meanwhile, I see the Ubuntu Desktop team is working actively on reducing GNOME Shell's CPU usage: https://trello.com/c/pe5mRmx7/2-gnome-shell-performance-high-cpu-gpu-usage So there's a chance that Tails 5.0 works better in this respect :) ___ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://www.autistici.org/mailman/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org.
