FYI: Users who manually installed Dove on macOS or GNU/Linux who used the sudo mv commands from the README are highly recommended to reinstall Dove with the updated steps, due to potential security issues. Thank you to @doomedguppy for discovering & reporting this issue on Phoenix, and thank you to @Gnu1 for the prompt response and fix.
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Updated to Phoenix 2025.01.27.1.
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Installed + hardened DKIM Verifier by default (See details - https://codeberg.org/celenity/Dove/issues/6 - Thanks to @boredsquirrel for the suggestion! 💜
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Disabled macOS Spotlight & the Windows File Indexer by default -
mail.spotlight.enable,mail.winsearch.enable,searchintegration.enable->false,mail.spotlight.firstRunDone&mail.winsearch.firstRunDone->true -
Permission is now always required for launching external apps. -
mail.external_protocol_requires_permission->true -
Disabled WebRTC by default for attack surface reduction -
media.peerconnection.enabled->false -
Users are now notified when downloads are initiated and completed by default. -
browser.download.manager.focusWhenStarting,browser.download.manager.showAlertOnComplete,browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting->true -
Added additional prefs for sanitizing data on exit -
privacy.clearHistory.cookiesAndStorage,privacy.clearOnShutdown.cookies,privacy.clearOnShutdown_v2.cookiesAndStorage, &privacy.clearSiteData.cookiesAndStorage->true -
Explicitly disable status bar spoofing -
dom.disable_window_status_change->true -
Re-enabled Thunderbird's Password Manager by default, as it's the only way to store account passwords... -
OfferToSaveLoginsDefault->true,signon.rememberSignons->true -
When saving a message to a file, underscores are now used in the filename instead of spaces by default... -
mail.save_msg_filename_underscores_for_space->true -
Other minor tweaks and fixes :)
Codeberg: See here for more details.
GitHub: See here for more details.
:)