Hi,
we've just published the Tails report for June, 2017:
https://tails.boum.org/news/report_2017_06/
I'm attaching a simplified HTML version for your offline reading
pleasure :)
Cheers,
--
intrigeri
Tails - Tails report for June, 2017
Tails report for June, 2017
Releases
Code
Reproducible Builds
User experience
Infrastructure
Improving communication & transparency wrt. our core teams' priorities
HTTPS mirror pool
Reproducible builds
Sysadmin
tails-support mailing list
Funding
Outreach
Past events
Upcoming events
Press and testimonials
Translation
All programs
All the website
Core pages of the website
Metrics
Releases
Tails 3.0 was released on June 13 (major release).
Tails 3.1 is scheduled for August 8.
Tails 3.0 is the first version of Tails based on Debian 9 (Stretch).
It brings a completely new startup and shutdown experience, a lot of
polishing to the desktop, security improvements in depth, and major
upgrades to a lot of the included software. We cannot list all the
improvements it brings here (see the
announcement), but let's still highlight a few
major changes:
Tails Greeter, the application to configure Tails at startup, has
been completely redesigned for ease of use.
The shutdown experience has also been redesigned in order to be
more reliable and more discrete.
Tails 3.0 works on 64-bit computers
only and not on 32-bit computers anymore.
Code
Thanks to
multiprocess
Firefox, we started working on
sandboxing Tor Browser's content renderer processes more strictly with AppArmor.
We now have a working draft and are waiting for our
pull request
to be merged upstream.
We started fixing regressions introduced in Tails 3.0, such as
SSH_AUTH_SOCK occasionally not being set in GNOME Terminal
and
Tails Installer rejects working USB drives, pretending they're not removable.
Our Help Desk and Foundation Team met and prioritized the remaining ones
from a user-centric point of view.
Reproducible Builds
We are still working on making Tails ISO images build reproducibly.
We've seen some images build in such a deterministic manner in March and
even during a testing session. However, in some build environments it
does not work reliably yet and some new issues have manifested
themselves which need to be fixed until we can claim that our ISO
images are really reproducible, such as
Comment changes in POT files make ISO non reproducible.
Besides, we need to draw a line wrt. what kind of build environment
variations we want to support.
Furthermore, we are still working on documenting the new release process and
verification options for our users
(#12616, #12629, #12630).
User experience
We discussed strategies to porting our Download and Verify extension
for Firefox to Web
Extensions,
a requirement for the upcoming Firefox 57 (November 14), as this will
affect the design of our download instructions.
We finished the redesign of Tails Installer to get rid of the
initial splash screen. (#8859)
We installed a prototype of
Piwik,
a free web analytics platform, to evaluate how well it would work
against our privacy constraints and metrics needs.
We agreed on increasing the size of the system partition from 2.5 to 4
GiB minimum starting from Tails 3.2 (October 3) to allow for more
automatic upgrades before a manual upgrade is needed. (#12705)
Infrastructure
Improving communication & transparency wrt. our core teams' priorities
We have
set up
some infrastructure bits so that all contributors have more visibility
and power over our core teams's priorities.
HTTPS mirror pool
We've switched our mirror pool to mirrors serving files over HTTPS
only (#12837). Our round-robin fallback DNS
pool is still serving files over HTTP, and we are currently thinking
about how to switch those to HTTPS too (#12833).
Reproducible builds
Remaining issues on our CI infrastructure include:
Retrieving ISO build artifacts sometimes fails on Jenkins
/var/lib/libvirt/images sometimes gets filled on isobuilders, take 2
Not enough space in /var/lib/jenkins on isobuilders
reproducibly_build_Tails_ISO_* Jenkins jobs are buggy when building from a tag
Sysadmin
We kept our systems up and running,
which was not always easy since we've deployed our updated
infrastructure for reproducible builds before upgrading our capacity
accordingly, not mentioning a kernel regression caused by the initial
Stack Clash fix that broke our CI.
We deployed some
work done by groente, who is in the
process of joining our sysadmin team.
tails-support mailing list
We closed the tails-support@??? mailing
list.
Funding
We've created a page listing our partners, previous and current grants, private companies and individuals who help keep Tails alive by supporting us financially. Do you want to partner with us too?
We are making good progress on our proposal with OTF, and we hope
we'll be able to share great news soon :)
We kept working on migrating our European fiscal sponsor from Zwiebelfreunde
to CCT, the Center for the Cultivation of Technology.
We have bootstrapped a process to do our budget forecasting for next year.
Outreach
Past events
Tails was presented at
Pas Sage en Seine Festival, in
Choisy-Le-Roi, France.
Tails was presented (among other tools) in an
independent journalists event in
Rennes, France.
Tails 3.0 was presented at the annual festivities of the
EKH in Vienna, Austria.
Upcoming events
Tails contributors will attend
DebConf17, the annual conference
for Debian contributors and users interested in improving Debian.
A Tails contributor proposed a talk about Tails for the
BalCCon2k17
(Balkan Computer Congress).
Press and testimonials
The Tails 3.0 release was abundantly covered on the web.
Translation
All programs
ar: 47 translated messages, 9 fuzzy translations, 6 untranslated messages.
az: 47 translated messages, 9 fuzzy translations, 6 untranslated messages.
bg: 62 translated messages.
ca: 62 translated messages.
cs: 54 translated messages, 6 fuzzy translations, 2 untranslated messages.
cy: 44 translated messages, 11 fuzzy translations, 7 untranslated messages.
da: 62 translated messages.
de: 62 translated messages.
el: 62 translated messages.
en_GB: 62 translated messages.
es: 62 translated messages.
es_AR: 62 translated messages.
fa: 62 translated messages.
fi: 62 translated messages.
fr: 62 translated messages.
fr_CA: 62 translated messages.
he: 54 translated messages, 6 fuzzy translations, 2 untranslated messages.
hr_HR: 62 translated messages.
hu: 62 translated messages.
id: 62 translated messages.
is: 62 translated messages.
it: 62 translated messages.
ja: 62 translated messages.
km: 45 translated messages, 11 fuzzy translations, 6 untranslated messages.
ko: 62 translated messages.
lv: 62 translated messages.
nb: 62 translated messages.
nl: 62 translated messages.
nn: 62 translated messages.
pl: 62 translated messages.
pt: 62 translated messages.
pt_BR: 62 translated messages.
ro: 62 translated messages.
ru: 62 translated messages.
sk: 54 translated messages, 6 fuzzy translations, 2 untranslated messages.
sk_SK: 62 translated messages.
sl_SI: 47 translated messages, 9 fuzzy translations, 6 untranslated messages.
sq: 62 translated messages.
sr: 54 translated messages, 6 fuzzy translations, 2 untranslated messages.
sv: 62 translated messages.
tr: 62 translated messages.
uk: 62 translated messages.
vi: 62 translated messages.
zh: 0 translated messages, 62 untranslated messages.
zh_CN: 62 translated messages.
zh_HK: 62 translated messages.
zh_TW: 62 translated messages.
All the website
de: 57% (2863) strings translated, 6% strings fuzzy, 51% words translated
fa: 43% (2162) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy, 46% words translated
fr: 89% (4428) strings translated, 1% strings fuzzy, 87% words translated
it: 31% (1547) strings translated, 4% strings fuzzy, 27% words translated
pt: 26% (1335) strings translated, 8% strings fuzzy, 23% words translated
Total original words: 52933
Core pages of the website
de: 78% (1492) strings translated, 10% strings fuzzy, 79% words translated
fa: 36% (690) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy, 38% words translated
fr: 98% (1869) strings translated, 1% strings fuzzy, 98% words translated
it: 75% (1434) strings translated, 11% strings fuzzy, 76% words translated
pt: 46% (886) strings translated, 14% strings fuzzy, 48% words translated
Total original words: 17298
Metrics
Tails has been started more than 695 672 times this month.
This makes 23 189 boots a day on average.
15 508 downloads of the OpenPGP signature of the Tails ISO from our website.
215 bug reports were received through WhisperBack.
