What’s new in SecureDrop Workstation 1.3.0?

This version improves the installation experience, allowing users to automatically import credentials during setup via the new --configure option in sdw-admin. It also updates the Fedora base template to version 42, which re-enables SELinux after it was temporarily disabled in the SecureDrop Workstation 1.2.1 release.

User-facing features

• Add --configure option to sdw-admin to simplify installation (#1349)

Platform and provisioning improvements

• Update Fedora base template to fedora-42-xfce (#1383)
• Start sd-proxy VM before starting client (#1340)

Internal changes

• Use quay.io to pull fedora images for CI and build processes (#1387, #1388)
• Update poetry to version 2.1.1 (#1368)
• Use OpenQA for testing (#1343, #1350, #1356)
• Updated tests against qubes-rpc to use qrexec-policy-graph (#1346, #1352)
• Updated dom0 tests to use pytest (#1329)
• Added script to build and deploy test packages from a PR (#1290)
• Version updater script fixes (#1318)

Acknowledgments

We’d like to thank the Qubes team for providing advice and guidance.

This release incorporates Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) contributions by Nathan Dyer, communications manager; Kunal Mehta; Erik Moeller; Cory Francis Myers; Vicki Niu, deputy release manager; Kevin O’Gorman, release manager; Francisco Rocha; and Rowen S.