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Pre-Release Announcement

SecureDrop 2.5.0: Pre-Release Announcement

October 11, 2022

SecureDrop 2.5.0 is scheduled to be released on Oct 18, 2022. We will
send out another notification through this blog, Twitter, Mastodon,
and the support portal when the release is live. Changes that
journalists and administrators should be aware of are summarized in
this blog post. A complete list of changes can be found on GitHub.

What's coming in SecureDrop 2.5.0?

For sources

  * Usability: Fixed an issue with how organization names containing
    special characters are displayed (Issue, Pull Request)
  * Usability: Some potentially offensive words have been removed
    from the list that is used to generate codenames (Pull Request)

For journalists and administrators

  * Authentication: After logging in, the journalist's session
    details are now stored on the server rather than on-device, and
    session behavior has been made consistent across the Journalist
    Interface and the API (Pull Request)
  * Usability: The template password database for Journalist and
    Admin Workstations has been updated with more accurate
    descriptions (Issue, Pull Request)
  * Localization: A phrase in the Journalist Interface that was
    always shown in English is now translatable (Pull Request)

For developers

  * Documentation: Developer documentation has been removed from the
    main project documentation, and moved to its own site at
    developers.securedrop.org (Issue, Pull Request)
  * Dependency updates: The following dependencies have been updated:
      + mako from 1.07 to 1.2.2 (Pull Request)
      + secrets module is now used instead of random (Pull Request)

What administrators will need to do

SecureDrop Application and Monitor Servers will be updated to
SecureDrop 2.5.0 automatically within 24 hours of the release. As
with previous releases, we will provide instructions for performing
the workstation updates at the time of the release.

Questions and comments

If you have questions or comments regarding this release, please
contact us:

  * Via our Support Portal, if you are a member (membership is
    available to SecureDrop administrators on request);
  * Via securedrop@freedom.press (GPG encrypted) for sensitive
    security issues (please use judiciously);
  * Via our community forums.

We also encourage you to file non-sensitive issues you encounter in
our GitHub repository (issue report form).

Thank you for using SecureDrop!

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