Releases ======== Tails 0.17.2 was released on April 9th.
https://tails.boum.org/news/version_0.17.2/index.en.html Metrics ======= - 121 183 connections of Tails to the Tor network. This makes a boot every 21 seconds on average (this is an approximation from the requests made to the security announcements feed when Tails is connected to Tor). - 71 reports were received through WhisperBack. - 1515 comments were posted on the forum, with 76 signed by Tails. This means there has been much more activity on the forum, and that we are having a hard time coping with it, but also that anonymous contributors are providing more and more good answers without our help. Code ==== - We had a highly successful "low-hanging fruits" week: at least 16 tickets were touched, and at least five persons attended one session or more. https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-April/002834.html - The persistence feature to remember installed packages (has matured a lot) and should be ready for Tails 0.18. https://tails.boum.org/todo/remember_installed_packages/ http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/feature%2Fremember%5Finstalled%5Fpackages - Support for Obfs3 bridges (has been added). http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/feature%2Fobfs3 - Torbutton 1.5.x can now be included in Tails. We also reorganized and cleaned our iceweasel prefs to look a bit more like the ones from TBB. http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/feature%2Ftorbutton%2D1%2E5%2Ex - GNOME accessibility themes were installed to provide high contrast and large print themes. http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/feature%2Fgnome%2Daccessibility%2Dthemes - The "About GNOME" menu entry has been customized to provide information about the running version of Tails. http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/feature%2Fabout%5Ftails - A branch is ready to disable wireless devices other than Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, WWAN, and WiMAX by default. http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/feature%2Fset%2Dwireless%2Ddevices%2Dstate - Some initial work was done to not start the browser automatically anymore. http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/feature%2Fdont%5Fautostart%5Ficeweasel - The audio preview when having the mouse pointer on an audio file in Nautilus has been disabled. http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/feature%2Fdisable%5Faudio%5Fpreview - The support for non-obfsproxy proxy has been fixed. https://tails.boum.org/todo/non-obfsproxy_proxy/ http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads /bugfix%2Fnon%2Dobfsproxy%5Fproxy - IPv6 is not disabled anymore. It turns out that the IPv6 leaks we wanted to fix actually don't exist. http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/feature%2Fenable%2DIPv6 - GNOME screenshot has been installed. http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/feature%2Fgnome%2Dscreenshot Documentation and website ========================= - "Getting started..." is now the homepage for the Tails documentation accessible from the desktop. - The content of the /bugs section of the website was moved to /todo. - A bug concerning MD5 Reborned Hasher Hasher has been documented. https://tails.boum.org/doc/get/verify_the_iso_image_using_other_operating_systems/index.en.html - The instructions for manual installation on Mac have been brought back online and the instructions for Linux and Windows have been improved. https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/manual_usb_installation/mac/index.en.html - The introduction of the bug reporting instructions have been improved. https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/bug_reporting/index.en.html Translation =========== - A solution was proposed to distribute translation workflows in either Git or Transifex. https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/translate/ - Tails USB installer: update translations for Arabic, German, Greek, Spanish, Farsi, Finnish, Italian, Latvian, Dutch, Polish, and Chinese. - WhisperBack: update translations for Arabic, German, Greek, Spanish, Euskera, Finnish, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Chinese Spanish, Korean, Polish, and Russian. New translations: Swedish. On-going discussions ==================== - "Debian derivatives & DebConf13", about what we can propose for DebConf13 https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-April/002994.html http://debconf13.debconf.org/ - "secure and simple network time (hack)", about tlsdate, a possible segmentation fault and its future in Tails https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-April/002843.html - "Discussion on minitube", about replacing minitube with smtube https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-April/002877.html - "GNOME proxy settings, again", about dropping all GNOME proxy settings https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-April/002853.html Infrastructure ============== - Tails 0.17.2 was the first release assisted with automated tests! - Cucumber is used to describe the tests to perform. - 82 tests have been written so far - Huge progress was made on our automatic building infrastructure, based on Jenkins. https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-April/002902.html Funding ======= - The grant application we did with OpenITP (Sponsor Echo) was rejected. But our proposal made it to their finalist set. http://openitp.org/?q=openitp_first_round_of_2013_project_funding_now_open_for_proposals - We started to work on another grant application for more long-term funding with sponsor Foxtrot. - The list of bounties that are going to be funded through the Tor project program is closed. It will be made public soon. -- Tails folks _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
