zerotracepen (2.5)

  • Major new features and changes

    • Upgrade Icedove to 1:45.1.0-1~deb8u1+zerotracepen2. (Closes: #11530)
      · Fix long delay causing bad UX in the autoconfig wizard,
      when it does not manage to guess proper settings on some domains.
      (Closes: #11486)
      · Better support sending email through some ISPs, such as Riseup.
      (Closes: #10933)
      · Fix spurious error message when creating an account and providing
      its password. (Closes: #11550)

    • Security fixes

    • Upgrade Tor Browser to 6.0.3 based on Firefox 45.3. (Closes: #11611)

    • Upgrade GIMP to 2.8.14-1+deb8u1.

    • Upgrade libav to 6:11.7-1~deb8u1.

    • Upgrade expat to 2.1.0-6+deb8u3.

    • Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u6.

    • Upgrade libmodule-build-perl to 0.421000-2+deb8u1.

    • Upgrade perl to 5.20.2-3+deb8u6.

    • Upgrade Pidgin to 2.11.0-0+deb8u1.

    • Upgrade LibreOffice to 1:4.3.3-2+deb8u5.

    • Upgrade libxslt1.1 to 1.1.28-2+deb8u1.

    • Upgrade Linux to 3.16.7-ckt25-2+deb8u3.

    • Upgrade OpenSSH to 1:6.7p1-5+deb8u3.

    • Upgrade p7zip to 9.20.1~dfsg.1-4.1+deb8u2.

    • Minor improvements

    • htpdate: replace obsolete and unreliable URIs in HTP pools, and decrease
      timeout for HTTP operations for more robust time synchronization.
      (Closes: #11577)

    • Hide settings panel for the Online Accounts component of GNOME,
      that we don't support. (Closes: #11545)

    • Vastly improve graphics performance in KVM guest with QXL driver.
      (Closes: #11500)

    • Fix graphics artifacts in Tor Browser in KVM guest with QXL driver.
      (Closes: #11489)

    • Build system

    • Wrap Pidgin in a more maintainable way. (Closes: #11567)

    • Test suite

    • Add a test scenario for the persistence "dotfiles" feature.
      (Closes: #10840)

    • Improve robustness of most APT, Git, SFTP and SSH scenarios,
      enough to enable them on Jenkins. (Closes: #10444, #10496, #10498)

    • Improve robustness of checking for persistence partition. (Closes: #11558)

    • Treat Zero Trace Pen booting from /dev/sda as OK, to support all cases
      including a weird one caused by hybrid ISO images. (Closes: #10504)

    • Bump a bunch of timeouts to cope with the occasional slowness on Jenkins.

    • Only query A records when exercising DNS lookups, to improve robustness.