Releases
Tails 3.7 was released on May 9 (minor release).
Tails 3.8 is scheduled for June 26th.
Code
Documentation and website
We wrote a FAQ about why we don't provide a checksum to verify Tails downloads.
We merged the former /install/os into /install to streamline a bit more our installation instructions.
We changed the style of the purple headers that we had on our homepage to look less like buttons. We're now consistently using green for clickable elements and purple for non-clickable elements.
We improved the display of command line examples in our installation instructions for macOS.
We published some first items of a documentation style guide.
User experience
We did some moderated user testing of the Additional Software beta.
We wrote a scope of work together with Simply Secure to work on explaining what it Tails and got it approved by the OTF usability lab. (#9814) It covers:
- Defining brand attributes for Tails
- Writing a new tagline
- Structuring an explanation of the main properties of Tails
- Ideating on visuals to support the explanation of Tails
- Reviewing our current introductory pages and proposing more approachable copy samples and tone guidelines
We started reviewing collectively the persona skeletons that were defined last August. We started with Kim, the surveilled at home.
We documented some resources that we use for user testing.
Hot topics on our help desk
Help desk has seen the same issues than last month:
Users are still affected by a loss of persistence.conf
We received also several reports about keyboard and mouse not working after upgrading
A few users reported the disappearance of a part of their keyring
And some users had trouble with obfs4 bridges
Infrastructure
We continued working on the integration of the translation platform with our infrastructure #10034.
With the help of our mirror operators we've started to remove rsync.torproject.org from the mirrors synchronization chain #15162.
We started working on hosting our website ourselves (#14588): we've identified potential issues, evaluated corresponding solutions, designed a migration plan and started working on it.
We made progress on having our automated test suite run on current Debian testing/sid but hit a new, major and concerning blocking issue regarding the state of SikuliX in Debian (#15460, Debian bug #897215, Debian bug #897333). We could definitely use help from Debian package maintainers; bonus points if you know anything about packaging Java code!
Funding
- The proposal that we sent to NLnet on distributing USB images was rejected.
Outreach
Past events
- intrigeri and a few other Tails contributors attended Cryptorave in São Paulo (Brazil). See the corresponding reports:
Translation
All the website
- de: 54% (3097) strings translated, 6% strings fuzzy, 47% words translated
- es: 59% (3370) strings translated, 1% strings fuzzy, 49% words translated
- fa: 36% (2096) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy, 38% words translated
- fr: 90% (5181) strings translated, 1% strings fuzzy, 89% words translated
- it: 32% (1879) strings translated, 6% strings fuzzy, 28% words translated
- pt: 28% (1625) strings translated, 7% strings fuzzy, 24% words translated
Total original words: 60238
Core pages of the website
- de: 79% (1530) strings translated, 11% strings fuzzy, 78% words translated
- es: 97% (1872) strings translated, 0% strings fuzzy, 94% words translated
- fa: 33% (641) strings translated, 11% strings fuzzy, 33% words translated
- fr: 99% (1910) strings translated, 0% strings fuzzy, 99% words translated
- it: 67% (1297) strings translated, 15% strings fuzzy, 66% words translated
- pt: 45% (882) strings translated, 12% strings fuzzy, 49% words translated
Total original words: 17498
Metrics
- Tails has been started more than 677 422 times this month. This makes 21852 boots a day on average.
- 8 650 downloads of the OpenPGP signature of Tails ISO from our website.
- 77 bug reports were received through WhisperBack.