Whonix 17.2.3.7 - Point Release!

Patrick · September 30, 2024, 8:47am

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Major Changes

updated Kicksecure, with many changes not duplicated here, see Kicksecure 17.2.3.7 - Point Release! - News - Kicksecure Forums
anon-connection-wizard / tor-control-panel:
- updated snowflake config lines
anon-gw-anonymizer-config:
- new anon-dns to enable DNS when for the snowflake pluggable transport
- improved anon-log command
anon-ws-disable-stacked-tor:
- code simplification: /usr/sbin/tor simply executes /usr/bin/tor.
kloak:
- many improvements (Thanks to @arraybolt3!)
  - forked from upstream, now maintained by Whonix project (because unfortunately unmaintained upstream at time of writing)
  - Add -p option for disabling rescue key sequence
  - can now be compiled on non-Intel/AMD64 architectures such as ARM64
  - added support for new devices attached after kloak starts (adapted from Add support for new devices attached after kloak starts by skyzzuu · Pull Request #67 · vmonaco/kloak · GitHub)
  - Use monotonic time for delay tracking which fixes sdwdate can cause system time to jump backwards causing issue with kloak freezing the keyboard
  - Added compiler hardening flags, fix all GCC warnings
  - code cleanup, reliability improvements
onion-grater:
- Fix Bisq 2 support (Thanks to Alva Swanson!)
qubes-whonix:
- move bind-dirs configuration from qubes-whonix package to individual packages
whonix-welcome-page:
- added documentation search boxes (Thanks to Hans!)
- removed metager (at time of writing login-only) (Thanks to Hans!)
- improved style
- point out that the whonix-welcome-page is a local homepage
update Tor Browser to version 13.5.5
Whonix Windows Installer.
- Work towards Whonix Windows Installer.
KVM:
- <dns enable="no"/> (Thanks to @nurmagoz!).

Full difference of all changes

https://github.com/Whonix/derivative-maker/compare/17.2.0.7-developers-only…17.2.3.7-developers-only