Hi,
(replying here and fully quoting, with permission from Never Nada.)
Never Nada:
> I'm testing Tails 4.0 beta. It works fine and faster. I know it is
> not the right place, but can Tails 4.0 be shipped with Linux 5.3
> instead of the planned Linux 5.2.x?
Linux 5.3 final is not in Debian yet, so currently this is not an
option. However, it would become a possibility if 5.3 is uploaded to
Debian unstable in time for the Tails 4.0 code freeze (October 11).
It could happen but I'm not counting on it at this point. It could
also happen that a bit later in October, 5.3 lands in sid, which
important security fixes.
Once this blocker is gone, we'll need to make a decision ourselves,
which involves multiple factors that are documented there:
https://tails.boum.org/contribute/Linux_kernel/
> Some important longs standing issues are solved in the Linux 5.3
> kernal, like modern Macbook keyboard en Trackpads issues.
Awesome!
> I hope […], so we don't have to wait weeks or even months to have
> those issues fixed.
Regarding the waiting time: even if Tails 4.0 is shipped with Linux
5.2 in the end, there's a high probability that Tails 4.1, scheduled
6 weeks later (Dec 3), will include 5.3: most likely, at some point
during the Tails 4.1 development cycle, the only way to get recent
security fixes against Linux 5.x, using a Debian kernel, will be to
upgrade to 5.3, simply because there won't be a 5.2 with these fixes
anywhere in Debian :)
Cheers,
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intrigeri
