On Thursday, 1 February 2018 02:44:13 UTC, Andrew David Wong wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > Dear Qubes Community, > > We're pleased to announce the fourth release candidate for Qubes 4.0! > This release contains important safeguards against the [Spectre and > Meltdown attacks][qsb-37], as well as bug fixes for many of the issues > discovered in the [previous release candidate][4.0-rc3]. A full list of > the Qubes 4.0 issues closed so far is available [here][closed-issues]. > Further details about this release, including full installation > instructions, are available in the [Qubes 4.0 release > notes][release-notes]. The new installation image is available on the > [Downloads] page. > > As always, we're immensely grateful to our community of testers for > taking the time to [discover and report bugs]. Thanks to your efforts, > we're able to fix these bugs *before* the final release of Qubes 4.0. We > encourage you to continue diligently testing this fourth release > candidate so that we can work together to improve Qubes 4.0 before the > stable release. > > Major changes in Qubes 4.0-rc4 > - ------------------------------ > > The Qubes VM Manager is back by popular demand! The returning Qubes > Manager will be slightly different from the 3.2 version. Specifically, > it will not duplicate functionality that is already provided by the new > 4.0 widgets. Specific examples include attaching and detaching block > devices, attaching and detaching the microphone, and VM CPU usage. > > In addition, the default TemplateVMs have been upgraded to Fedora 26 and > Debian 9. > > The Qubes 4.0 stable release > - ---------------------------- > > If the testing of 4.0-rc4 does not reveal any major problems, we hope to > declare it the stable 4.0 release without any further significant > changes. In this scenario, any bugs discovered during the testing > process would be fixed in subsequent updates. > > If, on the other hand, a major issue is discovered, we will continue > with the standard [release schedule], and Qubes 4.0 stable will be a > separate, later release. > > Current Qubes 4.0 Users > - ----------------------- > > Current users of Qubes 4.0-rc3 can upgrade in-place by downloading the > latest updates from the testing repositories in both > [dom0][dom0-testing] and [TemplateVMs][domU-testing]. As explained in > [QSB #37][qsb-37], Qubes 4.0-rc4 uses PVH instead of HVM for almost all > VMs without PCI devices by default as a security measure against > Meltdown, and this change will also be released as a patch for existing > Qubes 4.0 installations in the coming days. Therefore, current Qubes 4.0 > users will benefit from this change whether they upgrade in-place from a > previous release candidate or perform a clean installation of 4.0-rc4. > > If you wish to upgrade in-place and have manually changed your VM > settings, please note the following: > > 1. By default, Qubes 4.0-rc3 used kernel 4.9.x. However, PVH mode will > require kernel >= 4.11. This is fine, because we will include kernel > 4.14 in the PVH update. However, if you have manually changed the > kernel setting for any of your VMs, the update will not automatically > override that setting. Those VMs will still be using an old kernel, > so they will not work in PVH mode. Therefore, you must must either > change their settings to use the new kernel or change the VM mode > back to HVM. > > 2. If you have created a Windows VM, and you rely on it running in HVM > mode, you must explicitly set its mode to HVM (since the default mode > after applying the PVH update will be PVH rather than HVM). You can > do this either through the VM Settings GUI or by using the > `qvm-prefs` command-line tool to change the `virt_mode` property. > > > [qsb-37]: https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/01/11/qsb-37/ > [4.0-rc3]: https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2017/11/27/qubes-40-rc3/ > [closed-issues]: > https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues?q=is%3Aissue+milestone%3A%22Release+4.0%22+is%3Aclosed > [release-notes]: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/releases/4.0/release-notes/ > [discover and report bugs]: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/reporting-bugs/ > [release schedule]: > https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/version-scheme/#release-schedule > [4.0-bugs]: > https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A%22Release+4.0%22+label%3Abug > [dom0-testing]: > https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/software-update-dom0/#testing-repositories > [domU-testing]: > https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/software-update-vm/#testing-repositories > [Downloads]: https://www.qubes-os.org/downloads/ > > This announcement is also available on the Qubes website: > https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/01/31/qubes-40-rc4/ > > - -- > Andrew David Wong (Axon) > Community Manager, Qubes OS > https://www.qubes-os.org > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEZQ7rCYX0j3henGH1203TvDlQMDAFAlpyfsUACgkQ203TvDlQ > MDDB3w/+M0JJTT1cWeQNe1fZgQXkKE9dY/lJD3E+/llFjxHrA1QpjYoo2txWHj6a > oM9pbH9qDCdhFxyU9z3wejMaMuseav5xOhg9BgtO2qeWyCCEwPap4EFgwEnn6wzF > HjNtDxkxtgenJtf9833OI5uRNiejp9zuW3NvlisAVaAYmCi+ZT3ksaJFidVpkna7 > APzxTUb1lqUdzpcGWAhr+LaYzABwPFoV/XBMSOzYij5SCT/EtaL3CETHb7a6H2Hb > 1K6ovNLK7jrE3Qb6F+g2teO4ACtsaO0Us5IPbczZAp4TEY22Vrc8IK5t6AmbWm06 > HkhNo8YKMe747OtIIeMDftvCQd/34fwXVltc6mMcdAwYOuFyIvttRHMhzsXyusTz > kezqIM/zWHvZs9qdiO9nbGx1K+pJSLP52kklwqUXl2irzIv46DErXgeYW4x06LRH > EcMC9jf+gW1g4Fevrco0ikDMLBhbuQsUtE5spdn2rSZJ+sGW2xjwTfAEuU9wOW2/ > xKHvFpTaNMAssCBeY73Hyk5Gu1VbCNsd2oeST7HpB5SLL8JxmWnRJKkfuysbl7Ix > liEgsvfqdJA4PsUOACTanwUd1T8iSk8D4IqG6L5HFROHiSlUtAoTNuVvB5OXQvVj > KJw6SlKysuiaMLE5pOWxlony3uia7zM0MpbVWg9bqLYvclNUeNg= > =9apA > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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