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
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- "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
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- 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
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- 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
