Changelog: https://tails.boum.org/news/version_2.12/index.en.html
tails 2.12
Major changes
- Completely removed I2P. We have decided to remove I2P (see #11276) due to our failure of finding someone interested in maintaining it in Tails (Closes: #12263).
- Upgrade the Linux kernel to 4.9.13-1~bpo8+1 (Closes: #12122).
Security fixes
- Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.5.2 based on Firefox 45.9. (Closes: #12444)
- Mount a dedicated filesystem on /var/tmp, to mitigate the hardlinks permissions open by the user-tmp abstraction. See https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/9949#note-23 for details (Closes: #12125).
- Protect against CVE-2017-2636 by disabling the n-hdlc kernel module (Closes: #12315).
- Ensure /etc/resolv.conf is owned by root:root in the SquashFS. lb_chroot_resolv will "cp -a" it from the source tree, so it inherits its ownership from the whoever cloned the Git repository. This has two problems. First, this results in unsafe permissions on this file (e.g. a Vagrant build results in the 'amnesia' user having write access to it).
- Upgrade libjasper1 to 1.900.1-debian1-2.4+deb8u3
- Upgrade gstreamer and its plugins to 1.4.4-2+deb8u1.
- Upgrade eject to 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13.1+deb8u1.
- Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u8.
- Upgrade pidgin to 2.11.0-0+deb8u2.
- Upgrade samba to 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u5.
Minor improvements
- Don't add the live user to the "audio" group. This should not be needed on a modern Linux desktop system anymore (Closes: #12209).
- Install virtualbox-* 5.1.14-dfsg-3~bpo8+1 from our custom APT repository (Closes: #12307).
- Install virtualbox-guest-* from sid. The version currently in jessie-backports is not compatible with Linux 4.9, and there's basically no chance that it gets updated (the maintainer asked for them to be removed from jessie-backports) (Closes: #12298).
- Pull ttdnsd from our custom APT repository. It's gone from the TorProject one. We removed ttdnsd on feature/stretch already, so we'll need to pull it from our custom APT repository only for the next 3 months.
- Clean up libdvd-pkg build files, again. This cleanup operation was mistakenly removed in commit c4e8744 (Closes: #11273).
- Install gnome-sound-recorder (Closes #10950). Thanks to Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com for the patch!
- Stop restarting tor if bootstrapping stalls. It seems tor might have fixed the issues we used (see: #10238, #9516) to experience with the bootstrap process stalling and requiring a restart to kickstart it (Closes: #12411).
- tor.sh: communicate via the UNIX socket instead of TCP port.
This makes the library usable when run inside systemd units that
have
PrivateNetwork=yes
set. - Get tor's bootstrap progress via GETINFO instead of log grep:ing.
- Upgrade tor to 0.2.9.10-1~d80.jessie+1
Bugfixes
- mirror-pool-dispatcher: bump maximum expected mirrors.json size to 32 KiB. This fixes an error where Tails Upgrader would complain with "cannot choose a download server" (Closes: #11735).
Known Issues as of 2.10 >
- https://tails.boum.org/support/known_issues/index.en.html
Problems starting Tails Problematic USB sticks
Problematic PC's
Acer Travelmate 8573T-254G50M
Acer Aspire 5315-ICL50 and Acer ES-1-331
ASUS VivoBook X202E
Compaq 615
Dell XPS L702X/03RG89, Samsung RV520, Samsung Series 7 Chrono
Dell Inspiron 8100
Dell Dimension 2400
Fujitsu Siemens Amilo A 1667G
HP Compaq dc5750 Microtower
HP Pavilion dv7
HP ProBook
Lenovo IdeaPad Y410p
Lenovo IdeaPad z585
Clevo W258CU laptop screens
ThinkPad X220, X121e, T420i, T410, T520, W520, T530, E325, and E530
Apple/Mac (older models)
GNOME desktop fails to start with some AMD/ATI Radeon graphic adapters
Tails Greeter fails to start with some AMD/ATI Radeon graphic adapters
Switchable graphics computers
Laptops with Intel 855GM graphic card
Laptops with Intel GM965/GL960 graphic card
Chainloading Tails from GRUB
Wi-Fi issues Broadcom Wi-Fi network interface needing broadcom-sta-dkms
Security issues Tails might not erase all the system memory on shutdown
Tails does not erase video memory
After using Tails Installer, the "emergency shutdown" doesn't work
Tails DVD eject failure
Tails fails to completely shutdown or restart
Browser fingerprint
Other issues Boot Loader Menu has display issues
Connecting to FTP servers is not possible
Tails fails to connect to certain Wi-Fi networks
The desktop crashes when run with the default QEMU emulated processor
Touchpad configurations
Bluetooth devices don't work
Tails does not boot after automatic upgrade
Slow graphics operations with recent NVidia hardware
Icons and information located on the top right corner of the screen disappeared
Tor Browser search engine with security slider set to High requires a click
Tails does not boot on Virtualbox 32-bit VM
-- Tails developers tails@boum.org Tue, 18 Apr 2017 17:41:46 +0200 --
EDIT: added known issues as of 2.10 release with troubleshooting url
Is there a reason electrum hasn't been updated to a newer version?