Feature #17304

Write release notes for 4.6

Added by sajolida 2019-12-03 15:46:02 . Updated 2020-05-05 22:25:47 .

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
cbrownstein
Category:
Target version:
Tails_4.6
Start date:
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Feature Branch:
web/release-4.6
Type of work:
End-user documentation
Blueprint:

Starter:
Affected tool:
Deliverable for:

Description

Files

favorites.png (38883 B) sajolida, 2020-05-05 16:54:25
japanese.png (26976 B) sajolida, 2020-05-05 16:54:26

Subtasks

Related issues

Blocks Tails - Feature #17247: Core work 2020Q1 → 2020Q2: Technical writing Confirmed

History

#1 Updated by sajolida 2019-12-03 15:48:16

  • blocks Feature #17247: Core work 2020Q1 → 2020Q2: Technical writing added

#2 Updated by CyrilBrulebois 2020-05-04 12:58:43

Hey @sajolida,

Preliminary changelog:

tails (4.6) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium

  * Major changes
    - Upgrade Tor Browser to 9.0.10-build2 (Closes: <del><a class='issue tracker-1 status-3 priority-4 priority-default closed child' href='/code/issues/17660' title='Upgrade Tor Browser to 9.0.10'>Bug #17660</a></del>).

  * Security fixes

  * Bugfixes
    - Switch Japanese input method from Anthy to Mozc (Closes: <del><a class='issue tracker-1 status-3 priority-4 priority-default closed child' href='/code/issues/16719' title='Switch from ibus-anthy to Mozc'>Bug #16719</a></del>).
    - Install the libu2f-udev package, for U2F device support.
    - Update our list of 'Favorites' applications (Closes: <del><a class='issue tracker-2 status-3 priority-4 priority-default closed child' href='/code/issues/16990' title='Update our list of &#34;Favorites&#34; applications'>Feature #16990</a></del>).

  * Minor improvements and updates

  * Build system
    - lint_po: support locales with "@" in their name, such as ru@petr1708
      (Closes: <del><a class='issue tracker-1 status-3 priority-4 priority-default closed child' href='/code/issues/17554' title='lint_po bails out when fed locales with an &#34;@&#34; e.g. ru@petr1708'>Bug #17554</a></del>).
    - perl5lib: declare missing test dependencies (Closes: <del><a class='issue tracker-1 status-3 priority-4 priority-default closed child' href='/code/issues/17591' title='perl5lib: missing packages in buster'>Bug #17591</a></del>).
    - iuk: declare missing test dependencies (Closes: <del><a class='issue tracker-1 status-3 priority-4 priority-default closed child' href='/code/issues/17592' title='iuk: missing packages in buster'>Bug #17592</a></del>).
    - Upgrade to po4a 0.55 for Tails images and Vagrant box (Closes: <del><a class='issue tracker-1 status-3 priority-5 priority-default closed child' href='/code/issues/17005' title='Upgrade to po4a 0.55 in Tails itself, in the Vagrant build box, on {translate,www}.lizard, and on RM&#39;s systems'>Bug #17005</a></del>).

  * Test suite
    - Print disk usage information when the test suite fails with “No
      space left” errors.
    - Ensure no zombie processes are left around, by cleaning subprocesses
      correctly (Closes: <del><a class='issue tracker-1 status-3 priority-5 priority-default closed child' href='/code/issues/17551' title='Test suite has defunct processes after sikuli removal'>Bug #17551</a></del>).
    - Prevent webrick from becoming a zombie process.
    - Avoid test suite getting stuck due to a zero timeout.
    - Fix obsoletion warnings (Closes: <del><a class='issue tracker-1 status-3 priority-4 priority-default closed child' href='/code/issues/17552' title='Test suite produces obsoletion warnings with Ruby 2.7'>Bug #17552</a></del>).
    - Add root check and --allow-non-root option (Closes: <del><a class='issue tracker-1 status-3 priority-4 priority-default closed child' href='/code/issues/17613' title='Don&#39;t allow test suite to be run as non-root'>Bug #17613</a></del>). Let's
      make it clear running the test suite requires root privileges in
      the general case.

 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org>  Mon, 04 May 2020 14:27:16 +0200

#3 Updated by sajolida 2020-05-05 05:36:12

  • Feature Branch set to web/release-4.6

Thanks for sending the Changelog early! I still couldn’t download an image but here are the release notes.

The tweet:

Tails 4.6 is out: https://tails.boum.org/news/version_4.6/

It updates our list of *Favorites* applications, adds support for Universal 2nd Factor USB security keys, and improve the input method for Japanese.

Tomorrow I’ll try to take a screenshot of the new Favorites submenu and add it to the release notes so you can use it for the tweet.

#4 Updated by CyrilBrulebois 2020-05-05 14:10:10

Yes, the publication process was immensely slow, see https://redmine.tails.boum.org/code/issues/17647#note-10 & friends. :(

Thanks for the notes, I’ll look at them once I get some more tests done.

#5 Updated by sajolida 2020-05-05 16:54:30

  • File favorites.png added
  • File japanese.png added
  • Status changed from Confirmed to Needs Validation
  • Assignee changed from sajolida to cbrownstein

And here are the screenshots. You can put them both on the tweet or only favorites.png. I’ll leave it to your Twitter expertise :)

#6 Updated by CyrilBrulebois 2020-05-05 22:25:47

  • Status changed from Needs Validation to Resolved
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

Applied in changeset commit:tails|833b1610591925461c77446ec00c9e4425d39ccb.