Releases

Tails 0.20.1 was released on September 19.

Tails 0.21 has been scheduled for October 29.

Tails 0.22 has been scheduled for December 11.

Metrics

Tails has been started more than 174 269 times in September. This makes a boot every 15 seconds on average.
14 166 downloads of the OpenPGP signature of Tails ISO.

We had a low-hanging fruits session on Saturday 21.
A launcher for KeePassX was added to the desktop (#6290).
It is now possible to install Tails on SD cards using SDIO hardware (#6324).
Some issues were fixed for the migration to Tails Wheezy.
The problem that prevented some packages to be installable on Tails was solved.
Tails USB Installer:
- Rebranded to Tails Installer.
- Display a confirmation dialog before installing Tails (#6293).
- Display device vendor, model and size (#6292).
- Any .iso file present in the Tails partition will be skipped during cloning (#5300). Many thanks to Sina for providing a patch!
The information icon when a bad passphrase is entered in Tails Greeter was replaced by a proper warning icon (#5332). Many thanks to Andres Gomez for providing a patch!
The persistent volume is now properly umounted on shutdown (#6228).
Tails now ships Tor 0.2.4.
Tails now includes Linux 3.10.11.
A minor fix to our automated test suite was proposed.

A branch to improve the bug reporting workflow was submitted.
A plan to restructure the documentation for Mac was drafted (#6319).
A mockup for the new contribute section has been designed incrementally.
The documentation on cold boot attacks and ways to shutdown has been rewritten (#6008). Many thanks to mercedes508 for working on that!
The documentation explaining why Tor is slow has been refined (#5641).

You can download nightly builds of different branches of Tails on http://nightly.tails.boum.org/.
- They have more unique names than previous builds.
- They are signed with OpenPGP key 0xD83A438B2F916605 (#6193).
We have started looking what UEFI hardware we need to do research and tests in this area. We would not mind a 13-inch 2011 MacBook Pro (MacBookPro8,1) or similar. We would not refuse a recent netbook that boots off UEFI, either.

We finally signed our short-term contract with sponsor Bravo. That will keep us very busy until the end of the year, and will address some of the stumbling blocks on the road towards Tails 1.0!
We paid the first bounty of our bounty program. This one automated the migration of our ikiwiki tickets to Redmine.

2013-09-12: In Inside the Effort to Crowdfund NSA-Proof Email and Chat Services by DJ Pangburn, Riseup birds write (about the TBB) "Combined with the TAILS project, which Riseup supports, there is nothing better."
2013-09-05: In How to remain secure against NSA surveillance, Bruce Schneier wrote: "Since I started working with Snowden's documents, I have been using GPG, Silent Circle, Tails, OTR, TrueCrypt, BleachBit, and a few other things I'm not going to write about."