diff --git a/config/chroot_apt/preferences b/config/chroot_apt/preferences
index f0169edb5e23c98be05161d07751ac80601d3100..12ca9011e1c310685a69ed0378b008ca3f4749e9 100644
--- a/config/chroot_apt/preferences
+++ b/config/chroot_apt/preferences
@@ -171,6 +171,10 @@ Package: *
 Pin: release o=Debian,n=jessie-updates
 Pin-Priority: 990
 
+Package: *
+Pin: release o=Debian,n=jessie-proposed-updates
+Pin-Priority: 990
+
 Package: *
 Pin: release o=Debian,n=jessie
 Pin-Priority: 990
diff --git a/config/chroot_sources/jessie-proposed-updates.binary b/config/chroot_sources/jessie-proposed-updates.binary
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0c471f447724737fe4963fa65705c7e807cd980c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/chroot_sources/jessie-proposed-updates.binary
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+jessie-proposed-updates.chroot
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/config/chroot_sources/jessie-proposed-updates.chroot b/config/chroot_sources/jessie-proposed-updates.chroot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..009c96f26383bd1d744bcf30fe0429bbc405a854
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/chroot_sources/jessie-proposed-updates.chroot
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie-proposed-updates main contrib non-free
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 2158a5a90cc682424ffb72d3589faab2acaa1c78..977228ea91caa35d8acacb7a890c591f9fa484c9 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ tails (2.0~rc1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     - Upgrade libxml2 to 2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u1.
     - Upgrade Samba-related packages to 2:4.1.17+dfsg-2+deb8u1.
     - Upgrade libldb1 to 2:1.1.17-2+deb8u1.
+    - Upgrade KeePassX to 0.4.3+dfsg-0.1+deb8u1.
+    - Upgrade Perl to 5.20.2-3+deb8u2.
 
   * Bugfixes
     - Don't offer the option, in Tor Browser, to open a downloaded file with
@@ -82,6 +84,10 @@ tails (2.0~rc1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
         sees #9012.
       · Touch /etc/modprobe.d/ after deleting the blacklist; this might help,
         in case all this is caused by some aufs bug.
+    - Enable and use the Debian jessie-proposed-updates APT repository,
+      anticipating on the Jessie 8.3 point-release (Closes: #10897).
+    - Upgrade most firmware packages to 20160110-1.
+    - Upgrade Intel CPU microcodes to 3.20151106.1~deb8u1.
 
   * Test suite
     - Update I2P tests for Jessie, and generally make them more robust.