We recently asked you to [give us a hand to fund our work in
2018](https://tails.boum.org/news/many_hands_make_tails/index.en.html).
**Today, we want to tell you what we accomplished in 2017.**
* **New features and userfriendly interfaces**
* We were particularly proud of [releasing Tails
3.0](https://tails.boum.org/news/version_3.0/index.en.html) almost at the same
time as Debian 9.0 (Stretch) which strengthens our commitment to the free
software communities without which Tails wouldn't exist.
* We added new features, like
[OnionShare](https://tails.boum.org/doc/anonymous_internet/onionshare/index.en.html)
for sharing files, and redesigned other core features, like _Tails Greeter_
and _Tails Installer_, to be much easier to use.
* **Security hardening**
* We now provide a
**[?](https://tails.boum.org/ikiwiki.cgi?do=create&from=news%2Fwhat_we_accomplished_in_2017&page=reproducible_tails)reproducible
build of the ISO image**: protect users and developers from a malicious build
of our ISO image. This effort was paid for by the Mozilla Open Source Support
award which we received in 2016.
* We promised to work on making all our mirrors use **HTTPS** and we're
proud to announce that our mirror pool now contains over 40 active and fast
mirrors. They all serve our files over an encrypted TLS connection when
downloading via the website with JavaScript enabled, when using our Download
And Verify Extension and when Tails is updated.
* **Community**
* We published our **[Social
contract](https://tails.boum.org/contribute/working_together/social_contract/)**,
the guiding principles that reflect the commitment to our ideals.
* **Fundraising**
* **Have more reliable and steady sources of income**: We created a page
presenting our [past, present and future
partners](https://tails.boum.org/partners/index.en.html) and hopefully inciting
more companies and individuals to make substantial donations.
Next to this selection of new features, we also work on recurring tasks:
* In 2017, we published seven Tails **releases**.
* We answered 122 bug reports on average each month through our _help desk_
and helped many people being safer online. Each user request costs us 6€ on
average to proceed. In 2017 our help desk was paid entirely out of donations.
* We maintain and update our **infrastructure**. You might not see this
effort, but it constitutes a crucial part of our work to verify that everything
is functioning correctly, build ISO images, test, make it possible to publish
emergency releases faster.
* Organizing our own **meetings** and attending conferences in our field is
critical to keep our community alive and relevant. But this is usually hard to
get funded by grants, so donations help us a lot here.
* In 2017, we attended **conferences** and connected to free software and
Internet freedom communities in 8 different countries: OTF Summit (USA), 33C3
(Germany), FOSDEM (Belgium), IFF (Spain), Tor dev (Netherlands), GUADEC (United
Kingdom), DebConf (Canada), CryptoRave (Brasil).
* Keeping Tails successful also implies quite a bit of **administration** to
raise funds, do accounting, organize work, write reports, etc.
Besides substantial donations, we would be able to better plan our future work
if we would receive many more monthly donations.
**If you can, we'd love for you to sign up for monthly donations at whatever
level suits you ($5 = formidable. $10 = wonderful. More money = magnificent.)**
If you like our work, please take one minute to keep Tails alive.
[Donate](https://tails.boum.org/donate?r=whatweaccomplished)
URL: https://tails.boum.org/news/what_we_accomplished_in_2017/index.en.html
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