[Whonix-devel] Whonix 6 Release Candidate

Fri Sep 27 00:39:42 CEST 2013

Is the changelog between 0.5.6 and 6?

For example, the Control Port Filter Proxy is a visible change which fixes
the New Identity bug and it's not in the list.

And why 6?

I'm very busy but hopefully I will test this release in a few days.

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> This will probably become the next version of Whonix.
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> Download links:
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> http://sourceforge.net/projects/whonixdevelopermetafiles/files/whonix-6/Whonix-Gateway-6.ova/download
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> http://sourceforge.net/projects/whonixdevelopermetafiles/files/whonix-6/Whonix-Workstation-6.ova/download
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> http://sourceforge.net/projects/whonixdevelopermetafiles/files/whonix-6/Whonix-Gateway-6.ova.asc/download
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> http://sourceforge.net/projects/whonixdevelopermetafiles/files/whonix-6/Whonix-Workstation-6.ova.asc/download
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> Changelog:
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> * Tor 0.2.4
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> * obfs3 installed by default
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> * higher console resolution 1024x768 (without X)
>
> * The current Tor Browser Bundle (TBB) Alpha, which will soon become
> the new TBB stable, will work out of the box in Whonix, even if you
> download and install it manually from torproject.org. This is useful
> for the case, that the Whonix Tor Browser updater breaks again,
> because torproject.org changed something. Tor over Tor will be prevented.
>
> * Graphical Whonix-Gateway. Optional. If you reduce Whonix-Gateway RAM
> below 500 MB (this and every other aspect of this feature can be
> configured), lets say to 128 MB, you automagically end up with the
> usual non-graphical Whonix-Gateway.
>
> * Whonix has now an updater. I can not promise, that you never have to
> download a new image, when next stable version of Whonix gets
> released, but we are on that way. Interested testers may have to
> download a new (test-)image from time to time, since we also need to
> test the out of the box user experience.
>
> * First Time Connection Wizard: Whonix now comes with Tor disabled by
> default and you have to run the Whonix First Time Connection Wizard,
> called whonixsetup. You will get a notice, to do so. This is useful
> for users who never want to connect to the public Tor network, because
> they want to hide the fact, that they are using Tor. This kind of
> users can now more easily set up (private) (obfuscated) bridges before
> ever trying to connect to the Tor network.
>
> * Fixed uwt. To do certain tasks such as installing the Adobe Flash
> plugin or running update-command-not-found you no longer need to
> "chmod -x /usr/local/bin/curl".
>
> * Manpages for scripts, which come with Whonix.
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> * /etc/whonix.d/ and /etc/whonix_firewall.d/ .d style configuration
> folders.
>
> * Deactivate the kgpg tray icon by default (#10), not perfect, but
> less confusing, since it will now hopefully start in foreground
>
> * Boot Clock Randomization
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> * Time Sanity Check
>
> * torbrowser: Downloading Tor Browser and signature from
> http://idnxcnkne4qt76tg.onion/dist/torbrowser/linux instead from
> https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser for better security when
> run inside Whonix. (Not sure if we can keep this, due to upstream
> weaknesses with hidden services scaling.)
>
> * optional Time Privacy wrapper
>
> * enable "apparmor=1 security=apparmor" by default (but didn't enable
> enforce mode or added any useful profiles)
>
> * moved blog to wordpress.com, better than sourceforge, because
> wordpress.com supports SSL, closed #23
>
> Cheers,
> adrelanos
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