The release date for Tails 1.4.1 had been postponed because Mozilla changed their release schedule. It was released in the beginning of July. Once again, this report consists of non-code news :)
Releases ======== * The next release (1.5) is planned for August 11. https://tails.boum.org/contribute/calendar/ * We decided on a new version number scheme. https://tails.boum.org/contribute/release_schedule#versioning Documentation and website ========================= * A small note about non-free firmware was added to our licence page. https://tails.boum.org/doc/about/license * Our documentation for reviewers now explains how to do a good and nice review. https://tails.boum.org/contribute/merge_policy/review * We warn that *Tails OpenPGP Applet* can lead to encoding problems for emails. https://tails.boum.org/doc/encryption_and_privacy/gpgapplet/public-key_cryptography#encoding User experience =============== - On the Installation Assistant (https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/bootstrapping/assistant/): - We wrote a full synopsis of the installation process for Windows (https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/bootstrapping/assistant/windows/), submitted it for review, and started testing it (https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/9202). - We started writing an ikiwiki and Bootstrap prototype of the Installation Assistant in https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/log/?h=web/assistant. * People are working on the Greeter mockups (https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-ux/2015-June/000437.html). Infrastructure ============== * Our test suite covers 185 scenarios, 3 more than in May. We removed outdated scenarios again, so there are more than 3 new tests :) New tests add coverage for the Tor Browser's _New Identity_ feature and confirm that the hardware clock is not updated by Tails. Additionally, a huge amount of work was put into making our test suite more robust. * We decided to publicly archive the tails-support mailing list, since external websites were archiving it anyway. * Great progress was made towards automatically build all active branches (https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/6196) with Jenkins. Live deployment is now a matter of days. * We have specified (https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/8649) the requirements for our upcoming monitoring system. Funding ======= * If you want to help us develop and maintain Tails, please donate: https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/donate :) * We sent our final report for the Access Innovation Prize received in March 2014. * We submitted our second quarterly report to the Digital Defenders Partnership (https://digitaldefenders.org/). Outreach ======== * A workshop about Tails (http://www.lacantine-brest.net/event/atelier-datalove-tails-x-tor/) took place on June 18th in Brest, France. * Tchou and Fiodor Tonti gave a talk about Tails and UX (https://www.passageenseine.org/fr/programme/2015/jeudi-18-juin/grande-salle/atelier-design-tails) in Pas Sage en Seine 2015 at NUMA in Paris, France on June 18th. The video is online (https://www.passageenseine.org/fr/archives-et-videos/) and it has already received positive feedback. :) * A workshop about Tor and Tails (https://jardin-entropique.eu.org/ateliers) was held in Rennes, France, during the Jardin entropique event on June 28th. Upcoming events --------------- * A talk about Tails will take place during DebConf15 (http://debconf15.debconf.org/) in August in Heidelberg, Germany. * Please let us know if you organize an event about Tails, we'll be glad to announce it :) On-going discussions ==================== * We discussed our release versioning (https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2015-June/009132.html) and decided upon a new way to do it: always increment the first number with major Debian version, or whenever it makes sense for Tails only (user-visible changes); second number: even for bugfix releases, odd for major ones; an extra 3rd number will be added for emergency releases. * intrigeri started a discussion about tightening a bit the Evince and Totem AppArmor policy (https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2015-June/009007.html). * genghiskant proposed making a fork of Tails without non-free firmware (https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2015-June/009023.html). * We're talking about the design of a persistent Tor state (https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2015-June/009095.html). * We're also discussing the automated tests specification (https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2015-June/009123.html). Press and testimonials ====================== * We gave an interview to Amaelle Guiton from Libération about our relationship with the Tor ecosystem (http://www.liberation.fr/economie/2015/06/18/tor-mails-toi-de-tes-oignons_1332660). * We provided some data to Patrick Howell O'Neill from The Daily Dot for his article about The state of encryption tools, 2 years after Snowden leaks (https://www.dailydot.com/politics/encryption-since-snowden-trending-up/). Translation =========== All website PO files -------------------- - de: 18% (1256) strings translated, 0% strings fuzzy, 17% words translated - fr: 45% (3046) strings translated, 2% strings fuzzy, 43% words translated - pt: 28% (1861) strings translated, 3% strings fuzzy, 26% words translated Total original words: 76665 [[Core PO files|contribute/l10n_tricks/core_po_files.txt]] -------------------------------------- - de: 60% (791) strings translated, 1% strings fuzzy, 68% words translated - fr: 91% (1205) strings translated, 4% strings fuzzy, 92% words translated - pt: 84% (1119) strings translated, 8% strings fuzzy, 87% words translated Total original words: 14258 Metrics ======= * Tails has been started more than 391,084 times this month. This makes 13,036 boots a day on average. * 19,284 downloads of the OpenPGP signature of Tails ISO from our website. * 57 bug reports were received through WhisperBack. -- Report by BitingBird for Tails folks _______________________________________________ tor-reports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-reports
