Highlights

On our first month back from vacation, we continued making it easier to recover from common failure modes without requiring technical expertise:
- we drafted an implementation of our design to detect, report, and repair corruption of the Persistent Storage
- we finished implementing our plans to improve the detection of and recovery from low-memory situations. Going from prototype to implementation, this work was a great example of the 90-90 rule in action: the first 90% of the work consumed the first 90% of our time, and the remaining 10% accounted for the other 90% of our time
Over the past year, we have been close downstream of the Tor Project's design and implementation of Arti. This month, we reached a significant milestone in our collaboration: we prepared a prototype of Tails in which multiple applications use Arti.
freiheitsfoo, one of our longest supporters, renewed their sponsorship of Tails! Welcome aboard for another year of resisting censorship and surveillance online!

Releases

In Tails 6.5, we brought:

an updated Tor Browser with cool letterboxing improvements, and the latest Debian (12.6)
repairs to first-boot partitioning that many users were facing issues with after Tails 6.4
fixes to connecting via mobile broadband, LTE, and PPPoE DS. This has been a persistent issue in the Tails 6 series so far.

To know more, check out the Tails 6.5 release notes and the changelog.

Tails was started more than 779,262 times this month. That's a daily average of over 25,946 boots.