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- Tails report for November, 2017
Releases
Tails 3.3 was released on November 14th (minor release).
We will not make an emergency release for the latest Tor Browser update, because Tails is not affected.
Tails 3.5 is scheduled for January 16th.
Code
We fixed issues regarding reproducible builds (#14924, #14946, #14933) and later realized that one of them fixes did not work in some corner cases… that include the ISO images we build for the Tails official releases. Sadly, due to an internal communication mishap we've announced that Tails 3.3 was reproducible before we had learned about this remaining problem.
We uploaded a new version of tails-installer (5.0.2) to Debian and Ubuntu. This version has a simpler interface than previous versions.
Documentation and website
- We have documented internally how active Tails contributors can be sponsored to attend events on behalf of Tails and are now working towards publishing this documentation so that all contributors are aware of this option (#14727).
User experience
We almost finished the work on the new download page and verification extension for Firefox and Chrome. We're stuck blocked by security reviews and improvements on the JavaScript code.
Our survey on file storage encryption was answered 1012 times between October 17 and December 1. It was a huge success and we'll now move on to analyzing the results.
Hot topics on our help desk
Infrastructure
- Our test suite covers 209 scenarios, 2 more that in October.
- Cyril Brulebois (kibi) published a blog post about his early work on reproducible builds.
Funding
We submitted a funding request for the Secure Operating Systems Summit that we are organizing with Qubes OS, Subgraph OS and Whonix.
We applied to the "Good of the Internet" call for proposals by RIPE NCC. Our proposal is titled "Interoperability and communication continuity between mobile, laptop and desktop computers, in privacy and security-sensitive environments".
We continued to run our donation campaign.
Outreach
Past events
Some of us attended the Reproducible Builds World summit in Berlin, Germany (report).
intrigeri attended the OTF summit in Valencia, then followed-up with people he has met there.
ignifugo gave a talk about Tails at a greek hackerspace.
Upcoming events
Many Tails people will be at the 34th Chaos Communication Congress, aka. 34C3 in Leipzig (December 27 to December 30).
2018-01-11: Tor & Tails meetup in Mexico City. More details later...
On-going discussions
We started a discussion about basing Tails on quarterly snapshots of Debian Testing
segfault started discussion the implementation of VeraCrypt/TrueCrypt support in GNOME Disks with upstream
Press and testimonials
- Tails was mentioned in a conference about journalism and surveillance organised by the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute. Direct link to the precise moment (tails was presented as something "extremely useful").
Translation
All the website
- de: 54% (2902) strings translated, 7% strings fuzzy, 47% words translated
- fa: 39% (2103) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy, 41% words translated
- fr: 89% (4742) strings translated, 0% strings fuzzy, 84% words translated
- it: 38% (2022) strings translated, 5% strings fuzzy, 33% words translated
- pt: 24% (1292) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy, 20% words translated
Total original words: 57402
Core pages of the website
- de: 80% (1506) strings translated, 12% strings fuzzy, 79% words translated
- fa: 34% (647) strings translated, 11% strings fuzzy, 34% words translated
- fr: 99% (1864) strings translated, 0% strings fuzzy, 99% words translated
- it: 76% (1444) strings translated, 13% strings fuzzy, 77% words translated
- pt: 45% (851) strings translated, 16% strings fuzzy, 46% words translated
Total original words: 17062
Metrics
- Tails has been started more than 655.776 times this month. This makes 21.859 boots a day on average.
- 12.371 downloads of the OpenPGP signature of Tails ISO from our website.
- 99 bug reports were received through WhisperBack.