Releases

The following changes were introduced in 2.2:

Add support for viewing DVDs with DRM protection. (#7674)
Replace Vidalia, which has been unmaintained for years, with:
- a system status icon indicating whether Tails is connected to Tor or not,
- Onion Circuits to display a list of the current Tor circuits and connections.
Automatically save the database of KeePassX after every change to prevent data loss when shutting down. (#11147)
Disable the Alt + Shift and Left Shift + Right Shift keyboard shortcuts that used to switch to the next keyboard layout. You can still use Meta + Space to change keyboard layout. (#11042)
Fix optional PGP key feature of WhisperBack. (#11033)
Fix saving of WhisperBack report to a file when offline. (#11133)
Make Git verify the integrity of transferred objects. (#11107)

Code

segfault applied for a Google Summer of Code on Tails Server. Their goal is to make it easy to run onion services from inside Tails (web servers, chat servers, tools for collaborative edition, etc.).
We finished a script that allows running a Mumble, a VoIP server from Tails on an onion service. We are now discussing how and whether this should be integrated in Tails by default. (#11241)
Llama Tail and GoodCrypto started porting our shell scripts to Python.
We decided to drop our custom Ciphers and MACs settings for SSH.
u submitted some patches for TorBirdy to better support our improvements to the Thunderbird autoconfiguration assistant.

Many advanced users complained about the lack of a direct download link in our new installation assistant. We are working on adding one back while still protecting people from being lazy and skipping the ISO verification. (#11024)
We worked on speeding up the build of the website and almost reached our goal of 30%. (#11151)
We created a page that lists all our mailing lists and email addresses, their scope and policy.
We improved the instructions for resetting a USB stick and verifying the ISO image in Mac OS X.
We explained how to restart GNOME Shell. This is particularly useful when icons and information located on the top right corner of the screen disappear.

sajolida sent the slides, mockups, and notes from his UX session on connecting to Tor in Tails held at the Internet Freedom Festival.

intrigeri and Cyril Brulebois presented their design for our upcoming freezable APT repository. It will allow saving snapshots of all the packages that are used to build a given Tails. It's a necessary step to have reproducible builds and allow distributing better the source code of all the software in Tails.
anonym started using Dogtail to identify graphical user interface elements programmatically in our test suite, instead of based on screenshots.
bertagaz deployed an Icinga2 monitoring system to monitor our most important services.
We decided to drop the requirement for OpenPGP communication with HTTP mirror operators.
We clarified what needs to be done to have a proper review and merge process in Weblate.
839 ISO images were automatically built and tested by our continuous integration infrastructure.

Four of us participated to Internet Freedom Festival:
- Emma Peel gave a workshop on translating Tails to Spanish,
- sajolida did a session about the user experience of configuring Tor in Tails.
TetaLab organized a Tails release party on March 8th at 18:00 in Toulouse, France.
Six of us attended the Logan CIJ Symphosium where we participated on a panel 'Future of OS' with David Mirza Ahmad, Joanna Rutkowska, and Jacob Applebaum (recording). We also proposed a Tails workshop for journalists and maintained a table at the CryptoBar.
syl, Vigdis and gagz did a workshop about Tails and Tor at Insa, Rennes, France
gagz gave a conference and a workshop about privacy, Tor, and Tails during the Semaine de l'environnement, Rennes, France

2016-03-17: Tails – das Betriebssystem für gemäßigt Paranoide by Patrick Beuth in Zeit Online.
2016-03-15: In Best Linux Distro: Linux Experts Rate Distros Tails is ranked #5 by Bruce Byfield who adds that "even if you decide not to run Tails, its documentation is well worth reading as a primer in security".
2016-03-15: Wie der Computer zur Hochsicherheitszone wird by Jessica Binsch in Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German).
2016-03-14: Logan CIJ Symposium 2016: Technik, die entgeistert by Kristian Kißling in Linux-Magazin covers the panel we were participated in at the Logan CIJ Symposium on March 12 (in German).

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Tails has been started more than 568.280 times this month. This makes 18.331 boots a day on average.
11004 downloads of the OpenPGP signature of Tails ISO from our website.
181 bug reports were received through WhisperBack.