entrusted-0.3.0

[yveszoundi]

This release is focused primarily on security concerns, while making reasonable compromises pertaining to usability, user convenience and performance. There is now a Live CD for arm64 along few user-visible features.

Overall changes

• Security
  • Implement custom seccomp security profile for "sandbox container execution"
    • This restricts what the application can do inside the container solution
    • This is enabled in the desktop, command-line and Web interfaces
  • Implement minimal security hardening options for the Live CD (kernel settings, hardened_malloc, SSH, etc.)
• Bug fixes
  • Address more scenarios that could result into known intermittent conversion failures
• Features
  • Experimental Live CD availability for aarch64/arm64
  • Option to cancel conversions that are not yet started
  • Ability to select the PDF result visual quality (low, medium, high)
    • The default value is set to medium (same behavior as in 0.2.6)
    • This can act as a "quick preview" mechanism with "low" settings, followed by a re-conversion
    • Higher visual quality settings impact memory usage, processing time and resulting file size
• Enhancements
  • Allow multiple language selection when creating searchable PDF results (OCR)
  • Set file upload limit to 500 MB for the Web interface (previously relying on unknown defaults…)
  • Improve few visual aspects of the Desktop and Web interfaces
• Maintenance
  • Upgrade software dependencies and cleanup code

General notes

• The installers or binaries are not signed for Mac OS or Windows, please ignore any warnings
• On Linux, the graphical interface is an AppImage artifact: it requires Fuse to run
• On Linux, if you prefer Flatpak, please check out the axtloss flatpaks project page (might not be the latest version)
• For the Live CD ISO image, you need at least 1 GB of RAM

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This discussion was created from the release entrusted-0.3.0.