Releases
Tails 3.14.1 was released on June 20 (emergency release) to fix a critical security vulnerability in the JavaScript engine of Firefox and Tor Browser.
Tails 3.14.2 was released on June 20 (emergency release). to fix a critical vulnerability in Tor Browser, a sandbox escape, that we couldn't fix in time for 3.14.1.
Tails 3.16 is scheduled for September 3.
Code
- We published a new version of the verification extension with a non-minified Forge library, as per an updated Mozilla policy. (#16686)
Documentation and website
- We tested all our documentation against the beta version of Tails 4.0, based on Debian 10 (Buster) and started fixing it.
Infrastructure
Our web translation platform reached an important milestone: translations done there will now automatically appear on the Tails website within hours. Expect a more detailed announcement and documentation for translators soon! :)
As part of our ongoing effort to migrate to better maintained Puppet modules, we ported our infrastructure to puppetlabs-apt.
We programmed an automated reminder to send our Code of Conduct to all our public mailing lists every 3 months.
Funding
We applied to the Mozilla Open Source Support to:
We applied to the ISC Project to work on:
- Explain better what Tails is (#9814)
We improved the visibility of the "Other ways to donate" on our donation page.
Outreach
Past events
Estrella Soria gave a workshop about Tails from a cyberfeminist perspective on June 18 in the Virgen de los Deseos social center in La Paz, Bolivia.
Another Tails workshop was held in Guadalajara, Mexico on June 29, as part of the 'Cuidarnos en red(es)' day of Digital self-defense at Huizache.
Translations
All the website
- fr: 90% (5054) strings translated, 2% strings fuzzy, 89% words translated
- es: 52% (2911) strings translated, 6% strings fuzzy, 45% words translated
- de: 41% (2303) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy, 38% words translated
- it: 35% (1961) strings translated, 7% strings fuzzy, 31% words translated
- fa: 32% (1806) strings translated, 11% strings fuzzy, 34% words translated
- pt: 26% (1464) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy, 22% words translated
Total original words: 58995
Core pages of the website
- fr: 97% (1736) strings translated, 1% strings fuzzy, 98% words translated
- es: 79% (1420) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy, 82% words translated
- de: 68% (1228) strings translated, 13% strings fuzzy, 71% words translated
- it: 65% (1161) strings translated, 15% strings fuzzy, 66% words translated
- pt: 46% (820) strings translated, 13% strings fuzzy, 48% words translated
- fa: 35% (626) strings translated, 13% strings fuzzy, 32% words translated
Total original words: 16629
Metrics
- Tails has been started more than 751 230 times this month. This makes 25 041 boots a day on average.
- 8018 downloads of the OpenPGP signature of a Tails USB image or ISO from our website.