[Tails-dev] Tails report for December, 2012

Releases
========

Tails 0.16~rc1 was released on December 14th.
<https://tails.boum.org/news/test_0.16~rc1z>

The Tails 0.16 release is scheduled for the first half of January.

People
======

We received 66 reports through Whisperback.

The forum activity has been steadily high:
1128 messages, 177 signed by Tails.

Some of us went to 29c3.
<https://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/>

Code
====

Many dictionaries for supported languages were installed.
<http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/feature/spell-checker>

A bug concerning memlockd was fixed.
<http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/bugfix/only-one-memlockd>

The regular GnuPG agent was added.
<http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/feature/regular-gnupg-agent>

The automatic update feature of Iceweasel extensions was disabled.
<http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/bugfix/disable-iceweasel-extensions-auto-update>

The move to using `live-boot` version 3 was worked on.
<http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/feature/live-boot-3.x>

The Minitube Youtube client was installed.
<http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube>
<http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/feature/minitube>

The Iceweasel Add-on bar was hidden by default.
<http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/feature/just_hide_iceweasel_add-on_bar>

The work on a better power-off button was completed and merged.
<http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=commit;h=0217cf30ad95efe798529aadcde952b49976c839>

A bug concerning the `--media` option of live-persist was fixed.
<http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/bugfix/strict_live-persist_media>

The `~/Persistent` directory was added to the *Places* menu of *GNOME*
and *GtkFileChooser*.
<http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/feature/persistent-directory-in-places>

The `xul-ext-monkeysphere` extension was removed.
<http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/bugfix/disable-iceweasel-extensions-auto-update>

The *News* section of the website was configured as the homepage of
Iceweasel.
<http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/feature/news-as-homepage>
<https://tails.boum.org/todo/set_iceweasel_homepage_to_Tails_news>

The Entropy Key daemon `ekeyd` was installed.
<http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/bugfix/disable-iceweasel-extensions-auto-update>

A new version of the MAT was announced.
<https://mat.boum.org/>
<https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2012-December/002355.html>

Documentation and website
=========================

Guidelines for writing documentation for Tails were written.
<https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/documentation/guidelines>

The documentation of our release process was improved.
<http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=commit;h=ef5f98e69e41794abcd8748529d81965d4aa8274>

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