Highlights

In August:

We continued making it easier for Tails users to recover from the most common failure modes:
- we released the first iteration of our design to detect a partition table corruption and advise users about it.
- we worked on implementing detection of the Persistent Storage corruption on a Tails USB stick, reporting it to users, and repairing it.
We resumed our work to design a better backup feature for the Persistent Storage. We integrated the valuable feedback received in July on our design proposal for the improved backup feature (mockups on Gitlab).
We published instructions for installing Dangerzone in Tails. Dangerzone will help Tails users convert suspicious documents to safe PDFs. This was a significant milestone: this is the first time that we have recommended installing a 3rd party package that is not available in Debian.

Releases

In Tails 6.6, we brought:

improved hardware support for graphics, WiFi etc.
an updated Tor Browser and fixed issues with connecting to the Tor network using default bridges
fixes that make the Persisten Storage more robust.

To know more, check out the Tails 6.6 release notes and the changelog.

Tails was started more than 767,542 times this month. That's a daily average of over 24,759 boots.