Note that if your SecureDrop instance failed to upgrade from 0.10.0 to 0.11.0, manual action is still required. Behavior change: The order of operations during nightly SecureDrop package updates will be changed to make the servers more resilient against package update failures.For security reasons, wireless support will be completely removed (rather than blacklisted) in this kernel release. Kernel upgrade / security: The Linux kernel on SecureDrop servers will be upgraded from version 4.4.162 to version 4.4.167.New feature: The securedrop-admin logs command will include information about installed packages to aid with debugging.Security: As a precaution to reduce the amount of metadata stored about sources, GPG key pairs generated for new sources for replies will no longer have an expiration date, and they will always use the same creation date.Because Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) will stop receiving security updates after April 30, it is of critical importance for the security of your SecureDrop instance to manually update the servers before then see details below. Support for Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial): SecureDrop 0.12.0 will be the first version to support Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) as the base operating system for the Application Server and the Monitor Server.New feature: You will be able to tick a “show password” checkbox on the login screen to show your password while you are typing.We will remove these instructions once the Firefox bug is resolved.

This feature, which is turned on by default, sometimes causes uploads to fail.

Behavior change: Due to a bug in Firefox in combination with the NoScript extension used by the Tor browser, this release will instruct sources to disable NoScript's “cross-site request sanitization” feature.

What’s coming in SecureDrop 0.12.0? For sources A complete list of changes can be found on GitHub. Changes that journalists and administrators should be aware of are summarized in this blog post. We will send out another notification through this blog, Twitter, and the support portal when the release is live.

The release of the next version of SecureDrop, 0.12.0, is scheduled for February 26, 2019.

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