Highlights

• We met IRL! It has been close to 1.5 years since we devised our 3-year strategy goals. We reflected on our progress, concluded that we had a mixed bag of results, and emerged with a good sense of what's needed to be done. And all this while discovering the wonders of vegan Francesinha and wine 🌞

• Thanks to our volunteer translations teams, Tails' language diversity continued improving alongside the language support we added in Tails 6.2.

  Our French, Spanish, and Catalan teams reported more than 50 small issues on the content of our website, typos, inconsistency with the tools, and accessibility issues. We fixed all of them. In the process of this lovely synergy, we also identified opportunities to make this collaboration through Weblate smoother in the future.

• And, we also completed a bunch of home improvement projects:

  • We added an animation when expanding the collapsible sections in our warnings page. Changes should be more noticeable now. (Gitlab issue)

  • We also added a "Security/Fixed" pill on security advisories that are fixed. As an example, see our advisory on "Possible remote attack on onion services".

  • We also fixed the display of SVG images when JavaScript is disabled. Now, we are using PNG by default and adding some JavaScript to enhance images back to SVG when useful. (Gitlab issue)

  • We replaced the CSS framework Bootstrap on our website with custom and modern CSS code. The most challenging page to convert was our donation page, and the resulting code is 20% smaller.

Releases

📢 6.3 is out!

In Tails 6.3, you will find:

• improvements for configuring new printers
• Restart later as the default button at the end of an automatic upgrade; earlier it was Restart now
• and as usual, an updated Tor Browser

To know more, check out the Tails 6.3 release notes and the changelog.

Metrics

Tails was started more than 824,834 times this month. That's a daily average of over 27,495 boots.