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Whonix News File Format

Version 0.2 used by Whonix 0.5.6

First line contains version and may not contain any spaces!

0.3.0

news text here
some more news text
...

How to create a valid Whonix News File

Manually

(1). safe as whonix_news

.

(2). sign

gpg --clearsign whonix_news

(3). test

gpg --verify whonix_news.asc

Using Maintainer Script

https://github.com/{{project_name_short}}/derivative-maker/blob/master/release/upload_download_readme

Extra implementation info

Signing and verification (as sanity check) of [https://github.com/{{project_name_short}}/derivative-maker/blob/master/release/whonix_news whonix_news] is automated by [https://github.com/{{project_name_short}}/derivative-maker/blob/master/release/upload_whonix_news upload_whonix_news].

[https://github.com/{{project_name_short}}/derivative-maker/blob/master/whonix_shared/usr/lib/whonix/systemcheck/50_check-whonix-news 50_check-whonix-news] will find out the current installing version by:

## Read only FIRST line.
read -r INSTALLED_WHONIX_VERSION < /usr/local/share/whonix/version
## Remove ALL spaces.
INSTALLED_WHONIX_VERSION="${INSTALLED_WHONIX_VERSION//[[:space:]]}"

While phrasing the whonix_news, it is not required to remove the OpenPGP Signature, because the function verify_whonix_news in [https://github.com/{{project_name_short}}/derivative-maker/blob/master/whonix_shared/usr/lib/whonix/systemcheck/50_check-whonix-news 50_check-whonix-news] will use gpg --decrypt to get plain text, which will result in the Whonix News File Format.

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