Re: [Tails-dev] Tails upgrade - Windows - Persistent storage

[intrigeri]

Hi,

Prestigio Multiduo (2024-04-23):
> I'm sorry for disturbing ya all but, please... Upgrade-ing Tails (with
> keeping Persistent storage)
> should be much easier and at the same time should be doable from another
> computer that isn't running Tor so that the new version of Tails will
> download much faster.

Sure.

> for example when you click on this link (on Windows):
> https://tails.net/upgrade/windows/index.en.html
>
> there should be way to download and upgrade Tails from Windows while keeping
> Persistent storage.

Note that if you follow these instructions, as requested, the *download*
happens on Windows, without Tor. But yeah, there's the need for an
extra "intermediary Tails", which is of course burdensome.

Unfortunately, in the current state of our on-disk partition layout
and boot process, and given how the landscape of live USB installers
on Windows looks like, it does not look realistic to drop the need for
that intermediary Tails any time soon. Sorry!

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Re: [Tails-dev] Paranoid magical

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Hi sajolida,

intrigeri (2024-03-07):
> I understand you're talking about a Windows setting called Fast
> Startup (as opposed to the Fast Boot BIOS option that we document
> already). Correct? For avoidance of doubt, could you perhaps share
> a screenshot or link to some online doc about the setting you changed?
>
> @sajolida, I think this might explain a great number of Wi-Fi problems
> I see reported by users. AFAICT we don't document this yet. I'll let
> you judge whether this has a place in the Wi-Fi troubleshooting
> instructions or similar! :)

Kristian confirmed privately that this is about this setting,
for which Lenovo has instructions for Windows 8.1, 10, and 11:

https://support.lenovo.com/gt/en/solutions/ht501793-how-to-turn-on-or-off-fast-startup-in-windows-1081

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Re: [Tails-dev] Paranoid magical

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Kristian (2024-03-06):
> Figured it out due to you saying possible windows never turns off!

:)

> Problem was "fast boot" in windows 10 settings.

Oh great, thanks for reporting back!

I understand you're talking about a Windows setting called Fast
Startup (as opposed to the Fast Boot BIOS option that we document
already). Correct? For avoidance of doubt, could you perhaps share
a screenshot or link to some online doc about the setting you changed?

@sajolida, I think this might explain a great number of Wi-Fi problems
I see reported by users. AFAICT we don't document this yet. I'll let
you judge whether this has a place in the Wi-Fi troubleshooting
instructions or similar! :)

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Re: [Tails-dev] Paranoid magical

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Hi,

Kristian (2024-03-03):
> Hello. Tails only find my wireless adapter (Intel ax 200)if I have plugged
> the USB in windows and reboot.
>
> If I shutdown and then plugin USB. Tails doesn't find my wireless.

I can think of innocuous explanations for this behavior. For example,
it could be that Windows does some sort of initialization of this USB
wireless adapter that is necessary for it to work, and that survives
a reboot (possibly because it's never fully powered off).

To investigate this further, we'll need you to send 2 reports with
WhisperBack (https://tails.net/doc/first_steps/whisperback/), that
both reference this conversation:

 - one after rebooting from Windows and connecting to Wi-Fi
 - one after reproducing the "Tails doesn't find my wireless" problem

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Re: [Tails-dev] Cron /usr/local/bin/tails-website-last-month-stats '/var/log/nginx/tails.boum.org'

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Hi,

sajolida (2024-02-02):
> Cron Daemon:
>> Boots in January: grep: access.log.11.gz: binary file matches
>> grep: access.log.10.gz: binary file matches
>> 782686
>
> That's a pretty low number.
>
> Did the unusual grep output affect the counting?


Yes, the 2 log files that expose this error message (that were renamed
since then by logrotate) have an unusually low boot number. The dates
match the server outages we had in January. I see binary junk instead
of logs in the middle of these files. So grep gives up and does not
parse the remaining of the file. I added --text to force it to
continue and I can now tell by how much the number above is short.

So boots in January are actually:

  782686 + (24309-5155) + (18084-13661) = 806263

I'll record this in our spreadsheet.

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Re: [Tails-dev] Tails for arm64 (with support for Apple Silicon)

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Hi,

NoisyCoil via Tails-dev (2024-01-19):
> The reason why I made this port is first, for fun.

I hope you had tons of fun! (I know I would have had :)

> But then also, to provide a PoC that Tails can already run on Apple Silicon 
> machines and that with some effort from various projects (Tails in providing 
> arm64 mirrors and packages, Tor in finally providing an official arm64 
> release of the Tor Browser, Debian in packaging the Asahi kernel and Mesa 
> libraries - until the Asahi changes get merged upstream), bringing Tails back 
> to Apple machines, and bringing it for the first time to arm64 hardware, is 
> just around the corner.

Thanks a lot! Such exploratory work is super useful. Not only in terms
of estimating how much it would take to get this ready for production
use, but also because it tells us what's the best we can currently
hope for, in terms of UX, if hypothetically all those blockers
were solved.

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[Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 5.22

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Hi,

boyska will be the RM for Tails 5.22.

The current plan is:
 - Monday, January 29: build images, start testing
 - Tuesday, January 30: releasing

@testers, please let the RM know how much time you'll have for manual QA
from Monday 17:00 to Tuesday 11:00 (Europe/Berlin)

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Re: [Tails-dev] Technical Issue

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Hi,

Logan Moon via Tails-dev (2023-12-14):
> Hello, I sent a message ten days ago and never got a response. Is this a good 
> email to ask about technical issues?

Not really. I see you reported the problem to our support email since, thanks!

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Re: [Tails-dev] Lock the location services switch

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Hi,

Thanks a lot!

I've recorded this in a new issue:
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/20071

I would happily review a tested MR that implemented these changes:
https://tails.net/contribute/how/code/

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[Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 5.20

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Hi,

Tails 5.20 is scheduled for November 28.

anonym will be the RM for Tails 5.20

The current plan is:
 - Monday, Nov 27: build images, start testing
 - Tuesday, Nov 28: releasing

@testers, please let the RM know how much time you'll have for manual QA 
from Monday 17:00 to Tuesday 11:00 (Europe/Berlin)

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[Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 5.18

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Hi,

We let you know who will be the RM for Tails 5.18 once we decide.

The current plan is:
- Monday, October 2: build images, start testing
- Tuesday, October 3: release

@testers, please tails...@boum.org know how much time you'll have for
manual QA from Monday 17:00 to Tuesday 11:00 (Europe/Berlin)

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[Tails-dev] Tails is hiring a Linux generalist

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Hello!

The Foundations Team at Tails is hiring a Linux generalist.
The Foundations Team is responsible for maintaining, releasing, and improving
Tails. We work remotely, and do not have a traditional office space.

Full job description and instructions on how to apply:

https://tails.net/jobs/Linux_generalist/

Please share this with anyone you know who might be a fit!

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[Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 5.17

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Hi,

I will be the RM for Tails 5.17.

The current plan is:

- Monday, September 4: build images, start testing
- Tuesday, September 5: releasing

@testers, please let me know how much time you'll have for manual QA
from Monday 17:00 to Tuesday 11:00 (Europe/Berlin).

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Re: [Tails-dev] Tor Browser 13.0a1 (Desktop)

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Hi,

FTR on Tails side this upgrade is tracked on
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/19478

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Re: [Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 5.12

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Hi,

The Tor Browser release has been delayed more than usual,
so here is the new best case scenario:

- Tuesday-Wednesday, April 18-19: build
- Wednesday-Friday, April 19-21: QA (and possibly release, if I manage to 
coordinate
  with boyska so he can take over the last part of the release process)
- Saturday, April 22: release

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[Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 5.12

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Hi,

I'll be the Release Manager for Tails 5.12.

The current plan is:

 - Mon, April 17: build 5.12 images, start testing
 - Tue, April 18: finish testing, release

@developers: due to unavailability of core FT members during the
2 preceding weeks, code changes must be merged by Wednesday, April 5.
The only exception I already know we'll definitely need is the Tor
Browser upgrade (#19559). If you need other exceptions, please say so
as early as you can realistically anticipate.

@testers, please let me know how much time you'll have for manual QA
on:

 - Mon, April 17: late afternoon, evening
 - Tue, April 18: by 09:00 UTC

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Re: [Tails-dev] Tor Browser 12.0.4 Candidate Builds Available

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Hi,

Richard Pospesel (2023-03-18):
> The sigs are there now. Sorry, it's been a rough week due to Android 
> backports and illness on my end. Continue to expect 
> .asc sigs in the same directory.

Thanks a lot, take care!
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Re: [Tails-dev] Tor Browser 12.0.4 Candidate Builds Available

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Hi Richard,

Richard Pospesel (2023-03-17):
> Tor Browser 12.0.4 release candidate builds are now available for testing:
>
> - 
> https://tb-build-05.torproject.org/~richard/builds/release/unsigned/12.0.4-build2/

Thanks!

Usually there's a detached signature (.asc) for
sha256sums-unsigned-build.txt in that directory, that we use to avoid
relying purely on HTTPS. But I don't see that file here.

To avoid delaying our release even further I'm going to go ahead
anyway, but I'd like to know if we should adjust our expectations for
future releases.

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Re: [Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 5.11

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Hi,

boyska and I decided to postpone the release a bit, to give us time to
fix a regression identified this morning. So here's the new plan. I am
confident we won't have to change it again, but who knows.

Code changes for 5.11 must be either merged into stable,
or clearly ready to be merged, by Saturday, 11:00 UTC.

I plan to go through most of the release process on Saturday afternoon.
I expect images will be ready to test around Saturday, 17:00 UTC.

@nodens and @moire: please let me know how much manual QA you can do
between Saturday, 16:00 UTC, and Monday, 11:00 UTC.

@FT: please book time to do manual and automated QA on Monday morning
(and afternoon, for segfault).

And then I'll publish the release on Monday around 16:00 UTC.

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[Tails-dev] Tails report for February 2023

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Hi,

Tails report for February 2023 


 Highlights

 *

   @bokonon joined our team, as
   our Fundraising Lead. bokonon will help us develop and grow our
   fundraising initiatives, to support the work we do to accomplish
   ourmission .

 *

   We prepared usability tests planned in Ecuador in March.


 Releases

Wereleased Tails 5.10 on February 16 
.


As part of our focus on polishing user experience, Tails now asks for 
confirmation when starting without unlocking the Persistent Storage. 
Because we humans sometimes forget stuff. It's OK :)


Tails 5.10 fixed a few problems introduced in Tails 5.8 in December, and 
some more:


 *

   Fixed another case of Persistent Storage not activating. (#19432
   )

 *

   Avoid opening the Persistent Storage settings each time after login.
   (#19410 )

 *

   Solve a possible privilege escalation through a symlink attack.


 Metrics

Tails has been started more than 652 918 times this month. This makes 
23 318 boots a day on average.

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Re: [Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 5.11

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Hi,

intrigeri (2023-02-16):
> Tails 5.11 is scheduled for March 15.
>
> Dear manual testers, please let me know privately when you're
> available on Tuesday, March 14, afternoon/evening UTC.

Best case I'll start building late afternoon and we can test tomorrow.

But that's pretty optimistic at this stage. If I had to bet on
something more realistic, I would say I build tomorrow (Wednesday),
testing happens on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, and I release
whenever I find time for it after that. I'm not excluding the
possibility to move the whole release process to Saturday+Sunday,
or even next week, depending on how things develop.

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Re: [Tails-dev] Announcement: Roadmap:YYYYQN labels

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Hi,

Since then, we identified the need for a tool to track issues that are
on our roadmap for a given year, but we're not sure about the timeline
yet, so we can't easily assign them to a specific quarter.

To address this, I created these labels: ~Roadmap:2023XX, ~Roadmap:2024XX.

Happy roadmapping!

Credits: Disoj

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Re: [Tails-dev] Preparing the next monthly report

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Hi,

> We should start writing the monthly report for last month.

I'm the curator for our February 2023 report.

I intend to publish it on March 9, but it could be that I have to
this to March 13-14.

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[Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 5.11

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Hi,

Tails 5.11 is scheduled for March 15.

Dear manual testers, please let me know privately when you're
available on Tuesday, March 14, afternoon/evening UTC.

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Re: [Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 5.10

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Hi,

intrigeri (2023-02-13):
> Things are still in flux, but at this stage it seems we'll need the
> manual QA to happen on Tuesday (late afternoon / evening UTC) or
> Wednesday (morning UTC).

… or rather Wednesday (afternoon / evening UTC) or Thursday (morning
UTC).

Context: To the best of my knowledge, we won't have automated test
results of the branch that integrates the new Tor Browser (!1046)
before 18:00 UTC today, so in the best case I'll start the release
process tonight, or, more likely, first thing tomorrow morning.

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Re: [Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 5.10

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Hi,

Things are still in flux, but at this stage it seems we'll need the
manual QA to happen on Tuesday (late afternoon / evening UTC) or
Wednesday (morning UTC).

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Re: [Tails-dev] Announcement: Roadmap:YYYYQN labels

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intrigeri (2023-02-02):
>  - the QN milestones
>
>These milestones were never fully integrated into our workflow and
>tooling, and they don't work for some of our teams, so they are now
>obsoleted by the new labels, which should hopefully work for
>every team.
>
>I'll migrate the issues and MRs that have these milestones to the
>new labels (either this week or next week). After which I'll delete
>the QN milestones.

Done, so:

>I suppose some teams will have to accordingly update links to
>filtered boards and similar. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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[Tails-dev] Announcement: Roadmap:YYYYQN labels

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Hi,

After a discussion with Disoj and boyska, we'll now track our roadmap
using quarterly *labels* called Roadmap:QN:

  
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/groups/tails/-/labels?subscribed==roadmap%3A

These labels replace:

 - the yearly labels we were using to track our roadmap so far
   (e.g. ~2022 and ~2023)

   I'm going to leave alone the issues with these labels: that's
   useful historical info, and these issues will get another QN
   label if they land on our updated roadmap.   

 - the QN milestones

   These milestones were never fully integrated into our workflow and
   tooling, and they don't work for some of our teams, so they are now
   obsoleted by the new labels, which should hopefully work for
   every team.

   I'll migrate the issues and MRs that have these milestones to the
   new labels (either this week or next week). After which I'll delete
   the QN milestones.

   I suppose some teams will have to accordingly update links to
   filtered boards and similar. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Re: [Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 5.9

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Hi,

In the end, boyska will be the Release Manager for 5.9.

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[Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 5.9

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Hi,

At this stage we don't know when we'll release Tails 5.9:
there's no Tor Browser release calendar for 2023 Q1 yet.

However, judging by recent experience, chances are that it happens
on 2023-01-24, 1 week after the Firefox 102.7 release.

We don't know who'll be the RM yet.

Dear manual testers, please let tails...@boum.org know how much
testing you can do on:

 - Monday, January 23: afternoon/evening CET
 - Tuesday, January 24: morning CET

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Re: [Tails-dev] [tor-dev] Applications team no longer updating gitolite repos

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Hi,

heads up for developers:

Richard Pospesel (2022-12-06):
> With the 12.0 release almost out the door, the applications team will no 
> longer be pushing commits to our 
> git.torproject.org (gitolite) repos. All future code updates will only be 
> pushed to our various gitlab.torproject.org 
> (Gitlab) repos.

… this implies we need to update the remotes we use locally, e.g.:

- https://git.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-build.git
  → https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build.git

- https://git.torproject.org/tor-browser.git
  → https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser.git

I've updated a bunch of URLs on our master branch accordingly (65fa5942aa).

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Re: [Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 5.8

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Hi,

boyska (2022-11-22):
> Tails 5.8 should be released on December 20. we still don't know who 
> will be the RM.

I'll be the RM.

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Re: [Tails-dev] KeepassXC

[intrigeri]

Hi,

deleeete via Tails-dev (2022-11-16):
> Issue I'm having is the Version of KeepassXC included in the latest Releases 
> is just one version too old (it's from *Oct 22, 2020*)

Tails is based on Debian stable.

We could upgrade KeePassXC if a newer version was available in
bullseye-backports (which is not the case at the moment).

More likely this will have to wait until Tails 6.0.

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Re: [Tails-dev] Upcoming release: 5.8~beta1

[intrigeri]

Hi,

5.8~beta1 is mostly released¹.

We rarely do beta/RCs these days so I'll explain how this impacts
development work until 5.8 is out:

 - work meant to be included in the *next* stable release, e.g. 5.7
   or a potential 5.6.1:
- forked off the stable branch
- config/base_branch contains "stable"
- target branch of merge request is "stable"

 - work meant to be included in the next *major* release, i.e. Tails 5.8:
- forked off the testing branch
- config/base_branch contains "testing"
- target branch of merge request is "testing"

 - work meant to be included in a future, post-5.8, major release:
- forked off the devel branch
- config/base_branch contains "devel"
- target branch of merge request is "devel"

[1] I'll hold on before I announce it widely (amnesia-news@, Tor blog
post, Twitter) until sajolida had time to improve the call for
testing, e.g. to mention the QR code feature that was merged late.

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Re: [Tails-dev] Preparing the next monthly report

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> We should start writing the monthly report for last month.

I intend to write and publish the monthly report on November 10.

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Re: [Tails-dev] Tor Browser 11.5.6 emergency release

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Hi,

Richard Pospesel (2022-10-26):
> This update only changes the Snowflake bridge line, so if you don't care 
> about 
> Snowflake, then y'all can ignore this release.

Thanks for the very clear heads-up!

Indeed, we don't support Snowflake yet, so we can safely ignore
this release.

Good luck with the emergency release on Tor Browser side ♥
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Re: [Tails-dev] Preparing the next monthly report

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Hi,

intrigeri (2022-10-13):
> Most teams haven't sent their report yet, so I'm postponing this.
> I hope I'll have enough data to write the report at some point
> next week.

This did not happen yet, so I'll write a single report for September
and October.
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[Tails-dev] Upcoming release: 5.8~beta1

[intrigeri]

Hi,

We've decided to postpone 5.8~beta1 to next week (likely Nov 3),
because there's a chance we have to publish an emergency 5.6.1 release
around Nov 1-2, and we can't really afford to release a 5.8~beta2
immediately after that (that would be 4 releases in a row).

@sysadmins, this means we're now out of "pre-release & release mode",
feel free to deploy disruptive changes that you're confident you can
stabilize by Nov 1st :)

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[Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 5.7

[intrigeri]

Hi,

Tails 5.7 should be released on October 22. boyska will be the RM.

Dear manual testers, please let tails...@boum.org know how much QA
you can do:

  - preferably on November 21 (afternoon/evening CET)
  - if needed, on November 22 (morning CET)

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Re: [Tails-dev] Preparing the next monthly report

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Hi,

intrigeri (2022-10-05):
> I'm the curator for our September report.
>
> I intend to publish it on Sept 13, looking forward to the great
> contents you'll share until then :)

Most teams haven't sent their report yet, so I'm postponing this.
I hope I'll have enough data to write the report at some point
next week.

Cheers!
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Re: [Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 5.5

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Hi,

intrigeri (2022-09-29):
> boyska (2022-08-25):
>> Tails 5.5 should be released on September 20. I will be the RM.
>
> It's been postponed to October 10. I'll be the RM.

It's been postponed again. At this point we don't know exactly when we
can release 5.5, nor who'll be the RM.

I believe that in the best case scenario, we'll release on Thursday,
Oct 13.

We'll try our best to keep you informed as we receive new info and
coordinate with each other.

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Re: [Tails-dev] Preparing the next monthly report

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Hi,

nore...@tails.boum.org (2022-10-01):

> We should start writing the monthly report for last month.
>
> A blueprint with the current report, who is responsible to curate it

I'm the curator for our September report.

I intend to publish it on Sept 13, looking forward to the great
contents you'll share until then :)

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Re: [Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 5.5

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Hi,

boyska (2022-08-25):
> Tails 5.5 should be released on September 20. I will be the RM.

It's been postponed to October 10. I'll be the RM.

So let's do this again:

Dear manual testers, please let tails...@boum.org know how much
testing you can do:

 - preferably on October 9 (evening CEST)
 - if needed, on October 10 (morning CEST)

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Re: [Tails-dev] Consider adding -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 to some applications (e.g., web browser)?

[intrigeri]

Hi,

jvoisin (2022-09-19):
> Do you have a link to the bug you opened intrigeri?

https://bugs.debian.org/1020275

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Re: [Tails-dev] Consider adding -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 to some applications (e.g., web browser)?

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Hi,

David A. Wheeler (2022-09-18):
> Has anyone looked into adding -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 to some
> applications that directly interact with data from the Internet,
> such as t eh , web browser or parts of the Tor implementation?

I did not, thanks for the pointer!

I've just suggested the Tor Browser team to consider it:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/40625

As for the tor client, and other software that use the Debian build
system, it'll require changes to the Debian toolchain. I've just
sent a bug report against dpkg-dev to suggest it.

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Re: [Tails-dev] Tails Safety

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Hi,

stopcensorship5 via Tails-dev (2022-08-29):
> I am writing to find out if tails is a safe platiform to use for
> political activists or dissidents? I am not an expert on the Tails
> system itself but I did some research and came accross an article
> that said Tails was compromised by Facebook by exploiting
> a vulnerability in the video player in Tails which was used to
> expose users of the system. Has Tails patched that
> vulnerability/exploit

Yes.

> and is the system safe to use now or can governments use the same or similar 
> exploit to that of Facebook to find out the identity of Tails users?

See https://tails.boum.org/doc/about/warnings/ :)
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Re: [Tails-dev] Realtek™ RTL8812AU WiFi 5 (802.11ac) chipset

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Hi,

thegrimmnoob via Tails-dev (2022-08-04):
> Is it possible to add drivers for the Alfa ac1200 wifi adapter,
> Realtek™ RTL8812AU WiFi 5 (802.11ac) chipset?

Where do these drivers live?

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[Tails-dev] Security release: Tails 5.3.1

[intrigeri]

Hi,

I'll prepare Tails 5.3.1 tomorrow to fix tails#19075. I hope I'll
release by the end of my work day. It's possible I finish on
Wednesday though.

@nodens, can you be the TR?

The Foundations Team will take care of QA.

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Re: [Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 5.3

[intrigeri]

Hi,

The release schedule for Tails 5.3 has changed.

boyska will RM this release, starting today. We hope he'll able to
release on Tuesday, but this could end up being Wednesday.

Dear manual testers, please let tails-rm@ know how much QA you can do
on:

 - today (Monday), evening CEST
 - Tuesday, morning CEST

Also, @nodens: can you be the TR?
If so, please update your calendar accordingly :)

Thanks in advance,
cheers!
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[Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 5.3

[intrigeri]

Hi,

Tails 5.3 should be released on August 9.

Dear manual testers, please let tails...@boum.org know how much
testing you can do:

 - preferably on August 8 (afternoon/evening CEST)
 - if needed, on August 9 (morning CEST)

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Re: [Tails-dev] new addition

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Hi,

test10007 (2022-07-06):
> Would you please be so kind to add this page to the 5.2 release

Note that you're asking for this last minute request to suddenly get
higher priority than everything else we could possibly do in time for
5.2 :)

> A web tool for converting BIP39 mnemonic codes would be a great addition to 
> Electrum and is not too big file
> https://github.com/iancoleman/bip39

I could not find this tool in Debian. Regardless, to me it seems that
this functionality should instead live in Electrum, no? Has this been
requested there?

> Moreover do you think you could give a thought about adding Sparrow wallet too
> https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow

Please read https://tails.boum.org/support/faq/#new-software :)
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Re: [Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 5.2

[intrigeri]

Hi,

intrigeri (2022-06-04):
> Tails 5.2 is scheduled for 2022-06-28. boyska is the Release Manager.
>
> tails-manual-testers@, please tell boyska how much manual QA you'll be
> able to do for 5.2 (likely June 27, later afternoon CEST; and/or June
> 28, earlyish morning CEST).

This released got postponed to July 12 (or a bit later).
In the end, I'll be the release manager.

tails-manual-testers@, please tell me how much manual QA you'll be
able to do for 5.2 (likely July 11, afternoon-evening CEST; and
possibly July 12, early morning CEST).

@nodens, same question for the TR dance.

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[Tails-dev] Upcoming release: Tails 5.1.1

[intrigeri]

Hi,

We'll release Tails 5.1.1 to fix a security issue in tor.

I'll start the RM work today, aiming to finish it tomorrow.

Deal usual manual testers, please let me know how much QA
you can do between today, 16:00 UTC, and tomorrow, 10:00 UTC.

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[Tails-dev] Tails report for May 2022

[intrigeri]

Hi,

Here are a few highlights about what we did in May, among many other 
things:


*

We implemented many improvements to the Tor Connection assistant. This 
makes is much easier for people in Asia to circumvent censorship. For 
details, see the Tails 5.1 release notes [1].

*

We wrote a new homepage for the _Unsafe Browser_ when you are not 
connected to the Tor network yet. This new version makes it easier to 
understand how to sign in to the network using a captive portal.

*

We started organized training and usability tests sessions for August in 
Brazil.

*

Tails 5.0 was released on May 3 [2]. It was the first version of Tails 
based on Debian 11 (Bullseye) and brought new versions of a lot of the 
software included in Tails and new OpenPGP tools.

*

We started evaluating Mirrorbits to manage our download mirror pool. On 
top of decreasing the required maintenance work, this should make 
downloads of Tails faster and more reliable.

*

Tails has been started more than 769 997 times this month. This makes 
24 838 boots a day on average.


Cheers!

Links:
--
[1] https://tails.boum.org/news/version_5.1/index.en.html
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[Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 5.2

[intrigeri]

Hi,

Tails 5.2 is scheduled for 2022-06-28. boyska is the Release Manager.

tails-manual-testers@, please tell boyska how much manual QA you'll be
able to do for 5.2 (likely June 27, later afternoon CEST; and/or June
28, earlyish morning CEST).

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Re: [Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 5.1

[intrigeri]

Hi,

intrigeri (2022-06-02):
> It now seems somewhat realistic that Tor Browser tarballs are
> available tomorrow.
>
> If this happens, then my plan becomes:
>
>  - Friday: integrate new Tor Browser, take the rest of the day off
>while waiting for CI results

Done, CI is happy, merged.

So I'll do this:

>  - Saturday-Sunday: prepare and publish the release (I can do this on
>my own so nobody else has their week-end messed up)
>
>  - Monday: take the day off until the CW stand-up

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Re: [Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 5.1

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Nicolas Vigier (2022-06-03):
> I'm only starting a build now so I will probably not have tarballs until
> tomorrow morning. But Richard might have a build earlier, sometime today.

Thank you so much for the update!

It makes it easier for me to organize my week-end :)
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Re: [Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 5.1

[intrigeri]

Hi,

intrigeri (2022-06-02):
> I don't know yet how it'll look like in practice, sorry!

It now seems somewhat realistic that Tor Browser tarballs are
available tomorrow.

If this happens, then my plan becomes:

 - Friday: integrate new Tor Browser, take the rest of the day off
   while waiting for CI results

 - Saturday-Sunday: prepare and publish the release (I can do this on
   my own so nobody else has their week-end messed up)

 - Monday: take the day off until the CW stand-up

Hoping to confirm a timeline tomorrow,
cheers!
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Re: [Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 5.1

[intrigeri]

Hi,

intrigeri (2022-05-30):
> I'll keep manual testers up-to-date once I have more info.

Tor Browser tarballs are not available yet, so the best case scenario
now looks like this:

 - June 2: start CI with new Tor Browser
 - June 3: build Tails images
 - June 3, later afternoon CEST: start manual QA
 - June 4: finish manual QA, release

I don't know yet how it'll look like in practice, sorry!
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Re: [Tails-dev] Preparing the next monthly report

[intrigeri]

> We should start writing the monthly report for last month.
>
> A blueprint with the current report, who is responsible to curate it, and
> a template with instructions on how to write it can be found on:
>
>   https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/blueprints/-/wikis/monthly_report/
>
> But *you* should make sure that the cool stuff that *you* did will be
> mentioned in there. The person who volunteered to curate the report
> will by default only include highlights from the (internal) team reports
> so if your work is not mentioned in any such report, then please contribute
> it yourself to the monthly report!

I'm the curator for our May month.

I intend to write it on June 9.

Cheers!
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Re: [Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 5.1

[intrigeri]

Hi,

boyska (2022-05-04):
> Tails 5.1 should be released on May 31.

This release is going to be delayed:

 - The Tor Browser release prep' work has not started
   (Git repo, 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/40505)

 - Today is a holiday at the Tor Project.

I expect I won't be able to start the Tails 5.1 release process today,
and even tomorrow is not a given.

I'll keep manual testers up-to-date once I have more info.

Cheers!
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Re: [Tails-dev] veracrypt issue

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test10007 via Tails-dev (2022-05-01):
> Your current included version of Veracrypt supports 64 numbers and letters in 
> the password field
>
> The new version of Veracrypt has upgraded to 128 numbers and letters

This was fixed in Tails 5.0 yesterday :)
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Re: [Tails-dev] We'll try to release Tails 5.0 (Bullseye) on May 3

[intrigeri]

Hi,

intrigeri (2022-04-21):
> We believe there's a good chance we manage to fix next week the
> blockers we've identified, and thus release 5.0 on May 3 (instead of
> 4.30 + 5.0~rc1).

We've fixed all the blockers so unless something really bad happens at
the last minute, we're going to release 5.0 on May 3.

I've updated https://tails.boum.org/contribute/calendar/ accordingly.
I've also created GitLab milestones for the 5.x releases that are
already scheduled, so you can now use them to plan your work :)

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[Tails-dev] We'll try to release Tails 5.0 (Bullseye) on May 3

[intrigeri]

Hi,

boyska and I just went through the list of 5.0 issues to classify
them as blockers/non-blockers:

https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/boards/4?label_name[]=Core%20Work%3AFoundations%20Team_title=Tails_5.0

We believe there's a good chance we manage to fix next week the
blockers we've identified, and thus release 5.0 on May 3 (instead of
4.30 + 5.0~rc1).

There are 2 issues we're not sure about though. We're going to ask UX
(sajolida)'s input about them.

We're using these label semantics on that board:

- P:Elevated → it's a blocker for 5.0
- P:High → it's a blocker for 5.0~rc1

We've been classifying issues as non-blockers quite "aggressively",
because:

 - Releasing 5.0 early avoids the need for another double-release,
   which frees 12-15h of FT capacity that we'll be able to spend
   elsewhere (e.g. 5.0 known issues, sponsor deliverables).

 - Even if they are regressions, they are not necessarily worse than
   dozens (if not hundreds) of other bugs we've been carrying for
   years. Even though of course, in some way, a bug one existing users
   are used to dealing with have a different standing than a new one.

And there's another thing, that we did not discuss on the team: we're
getting so little feedback about 5.0~beta1 that I don't think another
beta or RC will give us significantly more actionable data to
work with.

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Re: [Tails-dev] Requiring Bullseye or newer to run our test suite (#18837)

[intrigeri]

Hi,

intrigeri (2022-03-08):
> intrigeri (2022-02-22):
>> I plan to make our test suite require a host system that runs Debian
>> 11 (Bullseye) or newer in a few weeks.
>>
>> Can you think of any reason why we should delay this?
>
> Last call: any objection? :)

I've implemented this change in our documentation:
https://tails.boum.org/contribute/release_process/test/setup/

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Re: [Tails-dev] Preparing the next monthly report

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Hi,

nore...@tails.boum.org (2022-04-01):
> We should start writing the monthly report for last month.
>
> A blueprint with the current report, who is responsible to curate it

Zen Fu is the curator for our March report. Thanks in advance!
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Re: [Tails-dev] Possible bug in /usr/local/sbin/tails-additional-software (Tails 4.28)

[intrigeri]

Hi,

Daniel Leidert (2022-03-24):
> Am Donnerstag, dem 24.03.2022 um 08:34 +0100 schrieb intrigeri:
>> Could you please give us the steps to reproduce this?
>
> Sure.

Thanks!

> - enable the persistent storage and its additional software feature
> - start Tails and choose a root password
> - download the .deb package for Bisq from https://bisq.network/downloads/
> - open a root shell, try
>
> apt-get install /path/to/Bisq-64bit-1.8.4.deb
>
> This will fail in /usr/local/sbin/tails-additional-software with the error
> quoted above.

I see. It seems DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs sends different data to
apt_hook_pre(), when using "apt-get install /path/to/deb", than
what it does when using "apt-get install PACKAGE".

I think apt_hook_pre() should detect and ignore such actions, because
this installation method is not supported for Additional Software.

I don't see this reaching the top of our developers todo list any time
soon (if ever), but we would gladly consider a well-tested merge
request that implements this :)

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Re: [Tails-dev] Possible bug in /usr/local/sbin/tails-additional-software (Tails 4.28)

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Hi,

Daniel Leidert (2022-03-23):
> while trying to install the Bisq Debian package (https://bisq.network)
> manually, I see an error thrown by /usr/local/sbin/tails-additional-software 
> in
> apt_hook_pre() in line 456:
>
> ValueError: too many values to unpack

Could you please give us the steps to reproduce this?
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Re: [Tails-dev] Apple M1

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Hi,

Pavel Trousil (2022-03-17):
> Is there any plan in near future to make a version of Tails that
> would work on M1 chips?

There's no such plan for the near future. At the moment we lack the
resources and capacity to tackle this big project. Meanwhile, in the
surrounding FOSS community, other people are working on M1 support,
so hopefully when we're ready to tackle this, the dust will have
settled and most of the necessary bits will be ready for us to use :)

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Re: [Tails-dev] Spring cleaning our GitLab labels

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Hi,

intrigeri (2022-02-22):
> 1. Delete these labels
>
>- Camouflage: no open issues, probably never coming back
>- I2P: no open issues, probably never coming back
>- Handbook: only 2 open issues, can be tracked just fine with other
>  labels
>- Feed Reader: no open issues; can now be tracked with "Email
>  Client" since Thunderbird is our feed reader nowadays
>- Security Check: 1 open issue, 5 closed issues ⇒ not worth it
>- Verification Extension: we stopped using this a year ago
>  so at this point I think the drawbacks of keeping this label
>  outweigh the benefits of listing these 48 closed issues

Done.

> 2. Merge these labels:
>
>- "C: Installation", "C: Installation Assistant", "C: Installer"
>  → "C: Installation"

Done.

> 3. Rename these labels:
>
>- "T: Test" → something that is harder to confuse with "C: Test
>  suite"; ideas welcome; if nothing convincing arises I'll skip
>  this one.

Note done, by lack of proposals.

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Re: [Tails-dev] Tor vs Tails browser fingerprint

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Hi,

Asdf Zxcv (2022-03-10):
> The regular Tor Browser Bundle contains HTTPS Everywhere and NoScript as
> extensions by default. The Tails OS version of the Tor Browser contains an
> extra extension called Ublock Origin, which blocks ads.
>
> The issue here is that Tails users would have a different browser
> fingerprint from other Tor users, and this is a serious problem, because
> the overall Tails userbase is orders of magnitude smaller than the overall
> Tor userbase, making this a highly unique fingerprint.
>
> Either the Tor devs should add Ublock Origin to the browser, or the Tails
> devs should remove it.

This has been discussed numerous times in the past.
The status quo reflects the conclusions of these discussions.

I see no new information in your message that would encourage
me to start this discussion again.

> This difference between the two browsers is not acceptable,

It might help if you explained in which threat model this applies.
Even better if you explain how it matters to our personas:
https://tails.boum.org/contribute/personas/

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Re: [Tails-dev] Requiring Bullseye or newer to run our test suite (#18837)

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Hi,

intrigeri (2022-02-22):
> I plan to make our test suite require a host system that runs Debian
> 11 (Bullseye) or newer in a few weeks.
>
> Can you think of any reason why we should delay this?

Last call: any objection? :)

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Re: [Tails-dev] Spring cleaning our GitLab labels

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Hi,

Zen Fu (2022-02-22):
> I'm not sure how important such historical metadata is, though, so maybe
> it's not a problem.

For the labels I proposed to delete, IMO historical metadata will
probably never be useful again. But if affected people have doubts
about this for some of these labels, then I would lean towards being
conservative and deprecate them instead of deleting them.

> If it's desired to maintain such historical metadata, one alternative
> could be to rename them and add some flag that means they're deprecated,
> like described here[2].

This does not achieve one of my goals here: e.g. when I type "install"
in the label selection entry field, the filtered list GitLab gives me
would still have 3 labels, 2 of them being marked as deprecated, while
with my proposal, I would see only 1, which is the one I want.
Same for "security".

But I can live with that too if folks prefer :)

Thanks for making this explicit: I had it in mind when I wrote my
original proposal but forgot to make it clear.

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[Tails-dev] Spring cleaning our GitLab labels

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Hi,

We've been using GitLab since a while and I think it's a good time to
make our set of labels a bit leaner and easier to use.

I want to focus on low hanging fruits here. I don't think it's a good
time to take a step down and do a full revamp of our labels.

I propose we:

1. Delete these labels

   - Camouflage: no open issues, probably never coming back
   - I2P: no open issues, probably never coming back
   - Handbook: only 2 open issues, can be tracked just fine with other
 labels
   - Feed Reader: no open issues; can now be tracked with "Email
 Client" since Thunderbird is our feed reader nowadays
   - Security Check: 1 open issue, 5 closed issues ⇒ not worth it
   - Verification Extension: we stopped using this a year ago
 so at this point I think the drawbacks of keeping this label
 outweigh the benefits of listing these 48 closed issues

2. Merge these labels:

   - "C: Installation", "C: Installation Assistant", "C: Installer"
 → "C: Installation"

3. Rename these labels:

   - "T: Test" → something that is harder to confuse with "C: Test
 suite"; ideas welcome; if nothing convincing arises I'll skip
 this one.

I'm ready to drop any of these ideas if there are objections from
people who use these labels.

I plan to proceed no earlier than in 2 weeks.

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[Tails-dev] Requiring Bullseye or newer to run our test suite (#18837)

[intrigeri]

Hi,

I plan to make our test suite require a host system that runs Debian
11 (Bullseye) or newer in a few weeks.

Can you think of any reason why we should delay this?

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Re: [Tails-dev] Hello

[intrigeri]

Hi,

k0dard via Tails-dev (2022-02-15):
> I modified the java script code (toggle.js) in the [top starter
> issue](https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/18469) so
> that one menu item hides the other... How can I submit the code
> proposal ?

Thanks! See the "Submit your work" section on
https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/code/

Cheers,
-- 
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[Tails-dev] Tails report for January 2022

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Tails report for January 2022 


 Releases

Tails 4.26 was released on January 11 
.


Among other changes, it added a shortcut to open the /Tor Connection/ 
assistant when starting /Tor Browser/ if Tails is not connected to the 
Tor network yet.



 Usability improvements


   Installation pages

We fixed all the low-hanging fruits among the issues identified in 
December during usability tests of first-time use 
:


 * #18764 :
   "Start in macOS" is confusing when obvious
 * #18765 :
   QR code in steps is unclear
 * #18771 :
   Add screenshot of Plymouth to installation steps
 * #18773 :
   Update time estimates in overview

After which we started a bigger project to restructure our installation 
pages. Stay tuned!



   Connecting to Tor

Polishing the user experience of connecting to Tor from Tails is one of 
our top priorities for 2021-2023. We are continuously designing and 
implementing improvements in this area. Here's the January 2021 edition :)


We noticed a while ago, thanks to usability tests, that users not 
accustomed to the GNOME desktop have difficulties connecting to Wi-Fi. 
So we made this more discoverable last year, by making Wi-Fi settings 
reachable from /Tor Connection/. Unfortunately, while our initial 
implementation looked OK in a simplified test environment, it turns out 
it was not working in real user scenarios, so we fixed it (#18587 
).



 Metrics

Tails has been started more than 773 496 times this month. This makes 
24 951 boots a day on average.

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[Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 4.28

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Hi,

Tails 4.28 should be released on March 8.

At this point we don't know who the Release Manager for that release
will be.

Dear manual testers, please let tails...@boum.org know
_how much_ manual testing you do on March 7 (evening CET)
and March 8 (morning CET). Thanks in advance!

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Re: [Tails-dev] Update pluggable transport obfs4 executable

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Hi,

s7r (2022-01-25):

> Hello,
>
> The obfs4 executable shipped currently misses a fix (commit 
> `393aca86cc3b1a5263018c10f87ece09ac3fd5ed`) that should in theory make 
> the traffic truly indistinguishable.
>
> This is the Tor Browser ticket:
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40791

This looks like a duplicate of
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/40416
no?

On Tails side:
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/18800

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Re: [Tails-dev] LUKS 2 vulnerability

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Hi,

> Hi, does the new LUKS 2 vulnerability affect all previous and current version 
> of Tails?

No, for the reasons mentioned by gagz, and also because
Tails still uses LUKS1 for its Persistent Storage:
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/15450
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Re: [Tails-dev] (no subject)

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Hi,

Don. Sergio (2022-01-08):
> I have problems starting Tails on my Mac, I have correctly followed
> all the steps including the instructions if it doesn’t work, but it
> still won’t start, is there any way you can help me ?

This mailing list is for Tails development.

To report this problem, see
https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/bug_reporting/ :)
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[Tails-dev] Fwd: [tbb-dev] New Signing PGP Subkey

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Hi,

tl;dr: if you occasionally take care of updating Tor Browser in Tails,
run:

gpg --recv-keys EF6E286DDA85EA2A4BA7DE684E2C6E8793298290

Matthew Finkel (2021-12-14):
> Hello everyone,
>
> Please be aware that a new PGP subkey will be used for signing Tor
> Browser packages beginning with Tor Browser 11.5a1.
>
> Please refresh your keychain from keys.openpgp.org, as needed.
>
> You may download it from
> https://keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by-fingerprint/EF6E286DDA85EA2A4BA7DE684E2C6E8793298290.
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Re: [Tails-dev] Tor Browser 11.0.3 (Windows/macOS/Linux) is ready for testing

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Hi,

Georg Koppen (2021-12-18):
> We are happy to announce the first Tor Browser 11.0.3 release candidate
> for wider testing. Packages can be found at:
>
> https://people.torproject.org/~gk/builds/11.0.3-build1/
>
> Tor Browser 11.0.3 updates Firefox to 91.4.1esr and picks up a number of 
> bug fixes for our 11.0 stable series. In particular, this release should 
> fix various extension related and crash issues Windows users were 
> experiencing. Additionally, Linux users especially on Ubuntu and Fedora 
> systems were reporting fonts not properly rendering. We believe those 
> problems will be solved in the 11.0.3 release as well.
>
> We used the opportunity to upgrade various components to their 
> respective latest versions as well: Tor to 0.4.6.9, OpenSSL to 1.1.1m, 
> and snowflake for enhanced censorship resistance.

I skimmed over the changelog and found nothing in there that would
deserve an extra, unscheduled (aka. "emergency") Tails release.
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Re: [Tails-dev] Experiment started: GitLab CI (tails/sysadmin#17740)

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Hi,

intrigeri (2021-06-21):
> Update: at today's Core Workers meeting, we decided to turn GitLab CI
> off for the tails/tails project until sysadmins have capacity to make
> it work reliably in production.
>
> This experiment did help us identify the blockers :)

Zen Fu kindly fixed the main blocker so I've re-enabled GitLab CI
for the tails/tails project as an experiment.

Note that sysadmins are not maintaining the current GitLab CI runner
as if it were in production, so things will break and developers
shan't complain to sysadmins.

I'll re-evaluate in a week or two. If the setup is too fragile, we can
try boyska's idea of making the CI pipeline run only manually.

Please report any trouble to me.

This is tracked on
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/18697

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Re: [Tails-dev] Windows Camouflage Feature Help

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Hi,

sajolida (2021-11-24):
> My opinion is "no", in favor of #7148 but I'd like to hear more from the
> rest of the team.

I agree.

Note that #7148 is a GNOME preference (dconf/gsettings),
so either we implement it in an ad-hoc way, or we implement
the more general
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17367.

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[Tails-dev] Running GitLab CI locally in unprivileged podman containers

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Hi,

Here's how I run GitLab CI jobs locally in unprivileged podman
containers (I really would prefer not to run a Docker daemon on my
laptop). In a nutshell:

1. Install necessary packages:

   sudo apt install gitlab-runner podman-docker mmdebstrap

2. Create a suitable gitlab-runner-helper container

   I used the attached script, heavily based on
   /usr/lib/gitlab-runner/mk-prebuilt-images.sh

   Run it as your normal user, not as root.

3. Profit!

   For example:

   gitlab-runner exec docker --docker-host "unix:///run/user/$(id 
-u)/podman/podman.sock" check-po-meta-date

Disclaimers
===

- I had to pin the docker.io package to -1, because it's recommended
  by docker-compose, which is itself recommended by podman-docker.
  Otherwise you end up with a Docker daemon.

- This is from memory and there might be missing steps. It could be
  nice if someone reproduced this, fixed whatever needs to be fixed,
  and migrated it into /contribute/ on our website.

- Some stuff is hardcoded in the attached script (GitLab runner
  version, HTTP proxy), which is not ideal.

- If it's not running yet, you might need to explicitly enable the
  podman.socket user unit:

  systemctl --user --now enable podman.socket

Cheers!

#!/bin/bash

set -eu
set -o pipefail

REVISION=13.3.1

export http_proxy="http://127.0.0.1:3142;

rm -rf ~/.cache/gitlab-runner/*

## Spinner:
## http://mebsd.com/coding-snipits/bash-spinner-example-freebsd-loading-spinner.html
i=1;
sp="/-\|";
tee_spinner() {
local L
while read -r L; do
printf "%s\b" "${sp:i++%${#sp}:1}"   # spinner/bash
printf "%s\n" "$L" >>"$1"
done
printf "\b\n"
}

cd ~/.cache/gitlab-runner

BLOG="$HOME/.cache/gitlab-runner/cdebootstrap.log"
rm -f "${BLOG}"

printf "I: Generating GitLab Runner Docker image. This may take a while...\n"
printf "I: mmdebstrap; saving build log to %s " "${BLOG}"
mmdebstrap -v \
--variant=apt \
--include="bash,ca-certificates,git,git-lfs,netcat-traditional,dumb-init" \
--aptopt='Acquire::http { Proxy "http://127.0.0.1:3142;; }' \
bullseye ./stable.tar.xz \
2>&1 | tee_spinner "${BLOG}"

printf "I: Building Docker image "
cp -v  /usr/bin/gitlab-runner-helper .
cp -vr /usr/lib/gitlab-runner/* .
docker build --no-cache --rm --force-rm \
-t gitlab-runner-helper:${REVISION} -f ./Dockerfile .

printf "I: docker create "
docker create --name=gitlab-runner-helper-${REVISION} gitlab-runner-helper:${REVISION} /bin/sh
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Re: [Tails-dev] missing image on https://tails.boum.org/doc/anonymous_internet/Tor_Browser/index.en.html

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Hi,

conan (2021-11-01):
> on 
> https://tails.boum.org/doc/anonymous_internet/Tor_Browser/index.en.html#fingerprint
>
> ?htw2-tails.png
> seems missing.

I suspect this will be fixed by emmapeel's MR:
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/merge_requests/641

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Re: [Tails-dev] Adding 'age' encryption tool to Tails

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Hi,

codesoap--- via Tails-dev (2021-10-30):
> lately I'm beginning to use 'age' in many scenarios where I used gpg
> previously.

Could you please describe such scenarios, so we can check how closely
they match our design goals and personas?

The good news is that I think users can already add "age" to their
Additional Software: apt install age/bullseye

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Re: [Tails-dev] Preparing the next monthly report

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Hi,

> A blueprint with the current report, who is responsible to curate it, and
> a template with instructions on how to write it can be found on:

anonym is the curator for our October report.

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Re: [Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 4.24

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Hi,

boyska (2021-10-07):
> Tails 4.24 is scheduled for November 2.
> We haven't fully decided who is gonna be the release manager yet: I am 
> listed as RM in the calendar, but this might change.

I'll be the RM for 4.24, unless anonym takes it over a week before the
release.

Any change meant to be included in this release must be merged
by Friday, Oct 29, 10:00 UTC.

This release should include a major upgrade: Tor Browser based on
Firefox 91. We won't have the capacity to do a release candidate
but we should be able to at least call for testing of a nightly build.

Dear technical writers, please account for the corresponding potential
doc updates.

> Dear manual testers, please tell tails...@boum.org how much manual
> testing you can do on:
>
>   - November 1, later afternoon CET
>   - November 2, morning CET

Ping about this :)
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Re: [Tails-dev] Tails 5.0 alpha ISO and 5.0 release date

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Hi,

gu...@boum.org (2021-09-24):
> You wrote us that you'll make clearer plans in August-September. We
> didn't find updates publickly available. Is there already clearer plans?

Yes, somewhat:
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/14578#note_176989

The main unknown right now is who is going to start working on this,
and when. We're still discussing this on the Foundations Team.

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Re: [Tails-dev] using tails on microsoft surface

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Hi,

paul seßbrügger (2021-09-07):
> I hope you’re all good. I’m a big fan of tails and appreciate what
> you guys doing.

Thanks, this is heart-warming!

> Unfortunately tails is not working on my Microsoft surface laptop. I red in 
> reddit that more people have this problem,
> So I wanted to ask if you can help me with that or if I maybe just have to 
> wait until you update tails to make it
> Accessable also for newer computers.

In general we don't have resources to add support ourselves for
specific computers, so we rely on work happening upstream and
in Debian.

However, if you find out what needs to be added/changed in Tails to
fix this, we can certainly check if it's feasible (for example, we
could add missing firmware).

> So in my case my mouse and keyboard is not reacting after rebooting.

In any case, it could be useful to other users to know this is to be
expected (via our known issues page). I'm putting you in touch with
our Help Desk, who will ask you more information we need for this to
happen, starting with… which Microsoft Surface laptop, exactly,
as I see there are plenty:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Surface#Surface_Laptop_line
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Re: [Tails-dev] rake build fails - NoMethodError: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass

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Hi,

Tymek Majewski via Tails-dev (2021-08-25):
> I'm trying to follow https://tails.boum.org/contribute/build/
> but I haven't managed to get far as `make rake` fails quickly.
>
> I'm not from a rake background so it would take me aaages to figure this one 
> out on my own and I hope you can help.
>
> Full output:
> ~
> tmaj@myhost:~/dev/tails$ rake build && rake vm:halt
> rake aborted!
> NoMethodError: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass
> /home/tmaj/dev/tails/Rakefile:152:in `vm_state'
> /home/tmaj/dev/tails/Rakefile:183:in `enough_free_memory_for_ram_build?'
> /home/tmaj/dev/tails/Rakefile:210:in `block in '
> Tasks: TOP => build => parse_build_options
> (See full trace by running task with --trace)

So it fails at this line:

  ifstatus_line['not created']

… apparently because status_line is nil.

I suggest you add some debugging to the vm_state method,
in order to figure out why status_line is nil. I would start
by printing the value of the "out" variable.

Cheers!
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Re: [Tails-dev] Can't connect to bridges

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Hi,

Ahmad Hakim (2021-08-16):
> i'm using Tor in Tails and want to connect Tor into Bridges..i'm
> already using almost 10 different obfs4 but still can't connect

Please retry with Tails 4.22~rc1. Chances are you need to use the new
"Fix Clock" feature.

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Re: [Tails-dev] Problem

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Hi,

Jacob Wise via Tails-dev (2021-08-21):
> Can’t connect to tor even with bridges straight from tor

Thanks for sharing your findings! It helps us improve Tails.

Please retry with Tails 4.22~rc1. If this does not work either,
please describe exactly what you did and what was the result.

Thanks in advance!
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Re: [Tails-dev] Tor Connection Assistant: Redo setup wizard

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Hi,

Marlon Otto via Tails-dev (2021-08-23):
> it would be useful, if there was the ability to redo the setup
> wizard from the Tor Connection Assistant. I've chosen "easier"  at
> the first startup and would like to change it to "safer".

Thanks for sharing your findings! It helps us improve Tails.

This is tracked there:
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/18345
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Re: [Tails-dev] Pronouns

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Hi,

2 weeks later, here's a friendly ping about this:

intrigeri (2021-08-03):
> tl;dR: even if you personally don't care much about what pronouns are
> used for you _please_ document your pronouns on GitLab. This will help
> make our community a better place.
>
> intrigeri (2021-08-02):
>> If you want, you can now add your pronouns to your GitLab account so
>> that your pronouns appear next to your name in your profile:
>> https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/help/user/profile/index.md#add-your-gender-pronouns
>
> Since then, sajolida helped me (thanks!) realize 2 things:
>
> - For this to make a real difference in terms of community culture, we
>   need to reach a critical mass of people who have documented their
>   pronouns: otherwise, without a reliable enough source of
>   information, folks may stop looking for pronouns before
>   they communicate.
>
> - We should avoid having minorities document their pronouns more than
>   cismen. For example, this would reinforce the "unless otherwise
>   specified, male is the default aka. the norm" crap.

Thanks in advance,
Cheers!
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[Tails-dev] Heads up: update your personal test suite configuration

[intrigeri]

Hi,

If you run our test suite locally, you have 2 XMPP accounts configured in
features/config/local.yml. Most likely they are riseup.net accounts.

Riseup will soon stop their XMPP service, so you have to create 2 new
XMPP accounts elsewhere and update your features/config/local.yml
accordingly.

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[Tails-dev] Release schedule for Tails 4.22

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Hi,

Tails 4.22 is scheduled for September 7.
anonym will be the release manager.

Dear manual testers, please tell tails...@boum.org how much manual
testing you can do on:

 - September 6, later afternoon CEST
 - September 7, morning CEST

Cheers!
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[Tails-dev] Announcement: public XMPP chat rooms were migrated

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Hi,

Our public XMPP chat rooms at conference.riseup.net are
now deprecated.

To connect to the new chat rooms, see:

 - https://tails.boum.org/contribute/chat/
 - https://tails.boum.org/support/chat/

Cheers!
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