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= Announcements:
https://tails.boum.org/news/version_2.3/index.en.html [boum.org]
https://twitter.com/Tails_live/status/724993326672285697 [twitter.com]

= Download:
https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html [torproject.org]
https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/5.5.5/ [torproject.org]

= Changelog:
https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/plain/debian/changelog [immerda.ch]

tails (2.3) unstable; urgency=medium

    * Security fixes
- Upgrade Tor Browser to 5.5.5. (Fixes: #11362)
- Upgrade icedove to 38.7.0-1~deb8u1
- Upgrade git to 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u2
- Upgrade libgd3 to 2.1.0-5+deb8u1
- Upgrade pidgin-otr to 4.0.1-1+deb8u1
- Upgrade srtp to 1.4.5~20130609~dfsg-1.1+deb8u1
- Upgrade imagemagick to 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u1
- Upgrade samba to 2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u2
- Upgrade openssh to 1:6.7p1-5+deb8u2

    * Bugfixes
- Refresh Tor Browser's AppArmor profile patch against the one from
    torbrowser-launcher 0.2.4-1. (Fixes: #11264)
- Pull monkeysphere from stretch to avoid failing to install under
    eatmydata. (Fixes: #11170)
- Start gpg-agent with no-grab option due to issues with pinentry and
    GNOME's top bar. (Fixes: #11038)
- Tails Installer: Update error message to match new name of 'Clone
    & Install'. (Fixes: #11238)
- Onion Circuits:
    * Cope with a missing geoipdb. (Fixes: #11203)
    * Make both panes of the window scrollable. (Fixes #11192)
- WhisperBack: Workaround socks bug. When the Tor fails to connect to
    the host, WisperBack used to display a ValueError. This is caused by
    a socks bug that is solved in upstream's master but not in Tails.
    This commit workarounds this bug Unclear error message in WhisperBack
    when failing to connect to the server. (Fixes: #11136)

    * Minor improvements
- Upgrade to Debian 8.4, a Debian point release with many minor upgrades
    and fixes to various packages . (Fixes: #11232)
- Upgrade I2P to 0.9.25. (Fixes: #11363)
- Pin pinentry-gtk2 to jessie-backports. The new version allows pasting
    passwords from the clipboard. (Fixes: #11239)
- config/chroot_local-hooks/59-libdvd-pkg: cleanup /usr/src/libdvd-pkg.
    (Fixes: #11273)
- Make the Tor Status "disconnected" icon more contrasted with the
    "connected" one. (Fixes: #11199)

    * Test suite
- Add UTF-8 support to OTR Bot. (Fixes: #10866)
- Don't explicitly depend on openjdk-7-jre or any JRE for that
    matter. Sikuli will pull in a suitable one, so depending on one
    ourselves is only risks causing trouble. (Fixes: #11335)

  -- Tails developers Mon, 25 Apr 2016 14:12:22 +0200

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