zerotracepen (3.9)

  • Major changes

    • Upgrade Tor Browser to 8.0 (Closes: #15803, #15907).
      Notable user-visible changes and relevant dezerotracepen:
      · Adjust to the fact Tor Browser 8.0a10 replaces firefox with a wrapper.
      · Don't use the bundled copy of libstdc++.so.6, ours is recent enough.
      · Drop obsolete Torbutton prefs (Closes: #15706).
      · Switch back to 128px icons (Closes: #15081).
      · AppArmor profile: take into account new Firefox binary path.

    • Upgrade Thunderbird to 60.0 (Closes: #15792).
      Notable user-visible changes and relevant dezerotracepen:
      · AppArmor profile: patch to avoid conflicting x modifiers for ps(1).

    • Upgrade tor to 0.3.4.7-rc (Closes: #15772).

    • Security fixes

    • Upgrade Linux to 4.17.17-1 and intel-microcode to 3.20180807a.1
      This fixes CVE-2018-3620 aka. Foreshadow aka. L1 Terminal Fault
      (Closes: #15796).

    • Upgrade OpenSSH to 1:7.4p1-10+deb9u4 (DSA-4280).

    • Bugfixes

    • Fix Totem on Intel graphics cards by inlining the backported mesa
      and dri-enumerate abstractions into its AppArmor profile: they are needed
      with recent Mesa and libdrm (Closes: #15821). Regression introduced
      in 3.9~rc1.

    • Fix unlocking "hidden" TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt volumes via GNOME Shell
      (Closes: #15843).

    • Fix confusing error message when unlocking TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt volumes
      (Closes: #15733).

    • Revert to Stretch's X.Org nouveau video driver (Closes: #15833).
      It seems that the regression brought by the upgraded one
      is worse than the improvements reported after our call for testing.
      Regression introduced in 3.9~rc1.

    • Use the intel X.Org driver for Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620.

    • Fix regressions introduced in 3.9~rc1 in/by Additional Software Packages:
      · Don't break new empty persistence configuration files creation when
      permissions are incorrect (Closes: #15802).
      · Fix UX when the user has specified a distribution or version
      for a given package in their live-additional-software.conf
      (Closes: #15822).
      · Don't show installation notifications on upgrade (Closes: #15879).

    • Make more Additional Software Packages strings translatable in the
      configuration dialog and PolicyKit messages.

    • Minor improvements and updates

    • Upgrade firmware-nonfree to 20180825-1.

    • Update the deb.torproject.org APT repository signing key.

    • Unlock VeraCrypt Volumes: add disclaimer (Closes: #15849).

    • Test suite

    • Update Thunderbird test suite for 60.0 (Closes: #15791).

    • Fix various robustness issues.

    • Make the Chutney nodes use a higher V3AuthVotingInterval to make client
      bootstrap more robust (Closes: #15799).

    • Update the Tor Launcher binary path.

    • Adjust to the fact "New Circuit for this Site" is now in the site
      information and not under the Torbutton anymore.

    • Delete unused images.