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2008.1-r1 released, beta testers wanted |
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Written by anonym
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Aug 05, 2008 at 11:23 PM |
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It has been reported that one of the advertised features of Incognito doesn't work in the 2008.1 release, the possibility to run Incognito in Microsoft Windows through the QEMU installation it ships with. The problem was a single backslash (\) in a script that the new QEMU version (0.9.1) didn't like, but which the previous version (0.9) didn't mind. Because of this I'm releasing Incognito 2008.1 revision 1, which fixes this issue (plus a few unimportant cosmetic changes that no one really should notice or care about). Those of you that have already downloaded 2008.1 but don't use this feature do not need to download 2008.1-r1. While every Incognito release is more or less a beta release at this stage, it has dawned to me that these kinds of silly mistakes probably can be avoided if there were some beta testers around and some sort of Quality Assurance procedure before every official release. At the moment the only one doing this is me, on two different systems plus the occasional system I happen to get my hands on, and in a few virtual machines (QEMU and VMWare). Clearly this is not good practice. Would you like to be a beta tester for upcoming releases? If so, please send me an email (see the Contact section for how to do that). Right now I'm in particular interested in a few users of Microsoft Windows so that the above feature can be tested. I don't have access to a Microsoft Windows install myself and barely any one I know use it (great, isn't it!) so I cannot test this myself reliably. Sorry for the inconvenience. |
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Written by anonym
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Aug 02, 2008 at 09:16 PM |
Two days short of being release in July as promised earlier, here is Incognito 2008.1! Yes, the versioning scheme has changed into something hopefully less confusing for non-developers. Without further ado, here's the changelog:
2008.1 changes since 2008.0 (i.e. 20080109.1)
- Added an Incognito Walkthrough which will launch upon start up.
- Added language support for Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Russian and
Swedish.
- Chinese and Japanese fonts should work better now. The new fonts
unfortunately increased the size of the ISO image quite a bit.
- Incognito now works in VMWare and includes device drivers and
open-vm-tools which should enhace the user experience greatly.
There's also a VMWare Virtual Appliance available from the
download section of the website.
- Preliminary support for VirtualBox has been added. But it does not
work out of the box (see the Incognito walkthrough for more info).
- New artwork. A huge thanks goes to dr|z3d for the work on the logo.
- Added kvkbd, an on-screen virtual keyboard suitable for entering
passwords when hardware keyloggers could be present.
- Added KeePassX, a password manager and generator.
- Added GNU Privacy assistant, a graphical user interface for GnuPG.
- Removed the Ksirc IRC client as it leaks to much information through
ctcp (local time, useragent etc). XChat and Pidgin are the preferred
IRC clients as they don't leak this information.
- Removed the Kopete instant messenger. Similarly, we have Pidgin for
this, and Kopete leaks information in IRC just like Ksirc does.
- Added Torbutton 1.2.0 as a replacement for the Firefox extensions
NoScript and CS Lite, which is both easier to use and more secure.
- Tor 0.2.0.30
- TorK 0.29.2
- Vidalia 1.6
- Firefox 2.0.0.16
- Thunderbird 2.0.0.14
- NetworkManager 0.6.6
- TrueCrypt 6.0a
- Linux kernel 2.4.24 (with Gentoo patches) with tons of drivers
added. In particular it's now possible to mount other storage media
for users willing to take that risk.
- New portage snapshot (2008-07-06) and major update of software base
including KDE 3.5.9.
- New (less confusing) versioning scheme: YEAR.INCREMENTALNUMBER,
with 2008.1 as this release (think of 20080109.1 as 2008.0).
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