zerotracepen (3.15)

  • Major changes

    • Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.5.4 (Closes: #16691).

    • Upgrade Thunderbird to 60.7.2 (Closes: #16834).

    • Security fixes

    • Upgrade Expat to 2.2.0-2+deb9u2 (DSA-4472-1).

    • Upgrade OpenSSL 1.0 to 1.0.2s-1~deb9u1 (DSA-4475-1).

    • Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.1.0k-1~deb9u1 (DSA-4475-1).

    • Upgrade Vim to 2:8.0.0197-4+deb9u3 (DSA-4467-1).

    • Bugfixes

    • Recompute CHS values for the hybrid MBR after first-boot
      repartitioning (Closes: #16389). Some legacy BIOS systems won't boot
      otherwise.

    • Strip debug symbols from the aufs kernel module smaller (refs: #16818).
      The primary target was getting the initramfs down under 32MB, hoping
      to repair boot of feature/buster on MacBookPro 8,1. In any cases,
      the user experience should be improved due to a faster boot for
      every user, and a shortened “black screen” duration (between the
      bootloader and the Plymouth splash screen).

    • Minor improvements and updates

    • Make “Unlock VeraCrypt Volumes” show an error message if locking
      fails (Closes: #15794).

    • Add support for booting Zero Trace Pen from a read only sdcard (fromiso),
      through Heads, allowing for measured boot on some tamper-evident
      hardware (https://github.com/osresearch/heads/issues/581).

    • Build system

    • Patch Thunderbird packages from Debian when building Zero Trace Pen images
      (Closes: #6156).

    • Improve tooling to maintain and update PO files (Closes: #15403),
      rewriting some tools and moving code to the jenkins-tools submodule.

    • Implement preliminary steps needed to make the ikiwiki PO plugin
      able to update PO files for languages that are disabled on the
      website (refs: #15355).