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:

  • Improve Upgrades (#8415 and #15281)
  • Support Secure Boot (#6560)
  • Migrate to GitLab (#15878)

• 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.