zerotracepen (4.2)

  • Major changes

    • Switch to a redesigned upgrade system (Closes: #15281), which:

      • removes the need for manual upgrades caused by lack of disk space
        on the Zero Trace Pen device
      • uses less RAM

    • Bump snapshot of the Debian archive to 2019122802

    • Security fixes

    • Upgrade Tor Browser to 9.0.3 (Closes: #17402)

    • Upgrade Linux to 5.3.15-1 (Closes: #17332)
      and upgrade the aufs module to 5.3-20191223

    • Upgrade Thunderbird to 1:68.3.0-2~deb10u1

    • Upgrade libsasl2 to 2.1.27+dfsg-1+deb10u1

    • Upgrade python3-ecdsa to 0.13-3+deb10u1

    • Bugfixes

    • KeePassXC:

      • Open ~/Persistent/keepassx.kdbx by default again (Closes: #17212)
      • Open the database specified by the user on the command-line, if any
      • Fix database renaming prompt

    • Upgrader:

      • Ensure debugging info lands in the Journal before we refer to it
      • Catch more download errors

    • Upgrade amd64-microcode to 3.20191218.1, which removes firmware
      updates that cause issues

    • Minor improvements and updates

    • Add metadata analysis tools used by SecureDrop (Closes: #17178)

    • Refresh the signing key before checking for available upgrades
      (Closes: #15279)

    • Port the Upgrader and perl5lib to a set of dependencies that are
      faster and have a lower memory footprint (Closes: #17152)

    • Ensure IUKs don't include files of our website if their content
      has not changed (refs: #15290)

    • Zero heap memory at allocation time and at free time (Closes: #17236)

    • Build system

    • Import the Upgrader and perl5lib codebases into zerotracepen.git
      (part of #7036)

    • lint_po: ignore pre-existing rply cache file that can cause
      trouble if it's corrupted (Closes: #17359)

    • Move generate-languages-list to auto/scripts

    • import-translations: work around the lack of usable branches
      in Tor's translation.git (Closes: #17279)

    • Build released IUKs on Jenkins and verify that they match
      those built locally by the Release Manager (Closes: #15287)

    • Don't download every localized Tor Browser tarball: instead,
      use the new tarball that includes every langpacks (Closes: #17400)

    • Test suite

    • Adapt for the "one single SquashFS diff" upgrade scheme

    • Chutney: update to upstream 33cbff7fc73aa51a785197c5f4afa5a91d81de9c
      (Closes: #16792)

    • Fix tagging of Chutney exit relays and bridge authorities

    • Tag Chutney clients as such

    • Wait for all Chutney nodes to have bootstrapped before assuming
      the simulated Tor network is ready

    • Don't try to save tor control sockets as artifacts

    • Add a crude script to generate IUKs for our test suite

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