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Major Changes
- kloak (Anti Keystroke Deanonymization ): Added defenses against Mouse Fingerprinting.
- Non-Qubes-Whonix only.
- Qubes-Whonix: Unsupported due to this Qubes issue. (related: Qubes-Whonix Security Disadvantages - Help Wanted!)
- Censorship circumvention
- Snowflake, a pluggable Tor transport is now installed by default.
- Anon Connection Wizard (ACW) and Tor Control Panel (TCP) can configure Snowflake.
- Update default bridges as per Tor Browser 13.0a2.
- Whonix CLI
- Fix automatically starting setup-wizard to prompt user to enable Tor at first start of Whonix-Gateway.
- Fix: Same environment variables as if using bash (instead zsh which is the default since Whonix 17). (Thanks to @nyxnor!)
- Qubes-Whonix:
- improved Qubes UpdatesProxy checks
- hint if “provides network” box might be unchecked
- Connectivity:
- Fix MTU problem by allowing RELATED fragmentation-needed ICMP by enabling
GATEWAY_ALLOW_INCOMING_ICMP_FRAG_NEEDED=1by default.
- Fix MTU problem by allowing RELATED fragmentation-needed ICMP by enabling
- Updated Tor Browser to 12.5.3.
- Whonix CI testing maintenance. (Thanks to Rob Stringer!)
- systemd tmpfiles.d improvement
- work towards Whonix Windows Installer
- Whonix Linux Installer: many improvements (Thanks to @grass for contributing to this!)
- work towards Whonix-Host Operating System Live ISO, Whonix-Host Installer