Hi,
we've just published the Tails report for August:
https://tails.boum.org/news/report_2019_08/
I'm attaching a slightly cleaned up HTML version,
for those who prefer to read this offline.
Cheers,
--
intrigeri
Tails - Tails report for August, 2019
Tails report for August, 2019
2019-09-09
Releases
Code
Documentation and website
User experience
Infrastructure
Funding
Outreach
Press and testimonials
Translations
Metrics
In August, we celebrated the 10 years
birthday
of the first public announcement of amnesia, the project which would
eventually give birth to Tails after the merger with Incognito 🎂 :)
This led Edward Snowden to write this
testimonial:
“In 2013, when a small team of journalists and I went head to head
against @NSAGov to reveal the secret system of global mass
surveillance, we used @Tails_Live to communicate—to reduce the risk
of basic but deadly mistakes.
The NSA only learned of our plan when it hit the news.”
Releases
Tails 4.0~beta1 was released on August 7.
This is the first beta for the upcoming version of Tails based on
Debian 10 (Buster).
Many thanks to everyone who tried it and gave us feedback!
Tails 3.16 and 4.0~beta2 are scheduled for September 3.
Code
Preparations for Tails 4.0, based on Debian 10 "Buster"
Decreased by 200-300 MiB the amount of memory used by Tails
(#12092).
Fixed a regression that made the login process slower than in
Tails 3.x (#16805).
Test suite improvements
We fixed a number of issues that lead our test suite to report
false positives (#11592, #17004, #15321).
Use a more recent Dogtail, run it with Python 3, and take benefit
from the new UTF-8 support (#16976).
New automated tests
Installing Tails from a USB image with GNOME Disks (#16004)
VeraCrypt PIM feature (#15946)
We made good progress on persisting a seed for the Pseudorandom number generator across boots (#11897). There's now a good chance that this work is included
in a Tails release by the end of the year.
We completed the first iteration of our effort to [[tails_ticket
7036 desc="move the source code for our custom software to our main
Git repository"]]: the Greeter was
migrated. This will avoid quite some busywork, make it easier to
contribute to the affected code bases, and increase the value of our
reproducible builds, by removing some binary blobs from our set of
de facto trusted inputs.
Documentation and website
We finished updating all of our documentation to Tails based on Debian
10 (Buster). (#16282)
We improved the troubleshooting section when Tails doesn't start on
Mac. (#15127)
User experience
We reworked in depth our
plans to improve the user
experience of the network connection (configuration and startup).
Infrastructure
We upgraded to Gitolite v3.
We fixed a number of bugs in our web translation
platform, thanks to feedback
from early adopters. It should soon be officially ready for
production usage.
We spent lots of time fighting a DDoS against our Redmine. Not our
idea of fun :(
We scheduled the upgrade of our Jenkins (#10068).
Funding
We're working on a joint grant proposal with Tor and the
Guardian Project.
Outreach
Past events
carlosm2 organized a testing of
Tails 4.0~beta1
at the Rancho Electrónico (Ciudad de Mexico) on Saturday August 17.
Upcoming events
Press and testimonials
2019-08-04: In Attorney for Daniel Hale blasts indictment for leaking
classified drone documents,
David Gilmour from The Daily Dot explains that the indictment of Daniel Hale
for the leaks of the Drone Papers
focuses his use of anonymity tools like Tails and Tor. According to Hale's
attorneys Jesselyn Radack “These cases are criminalizing both
whistleblowing and journalistic best practices like using encryption and
protecting source anonymity”.
Translations
All the website
de: 41% (2301) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy, 38% words translated
es: 52% (2896) strings translated, 6% strings fuzzy, 44% words translated
fa: 31% (1780) strings translated, 12% strings fuzzy, 34% words translated
fr: 90% (5052) strings translated, 2% strings fuzzy, 89% words translated
it: 33% (1849) strings translated, 7% strings fuzzy, 29% words translated
pt: 25% (1436) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy, 22% words translated
Total original words: 58995
Core pages of the website
de: 69% (1227) strings translated, 13% strings fuzzy, 71% words translated
es: 79% (1404) strings translated, 10% strings fuzzy, 81% words translated
fa: 34% (607) strings translated, 13% strings fuzzy, 32% words translated
fr: 97% (1733) strings translated, 2% strings fuzzy, 97% words translated
it: 61% (1094) strings translated, 17% strings fuzzy, 64% words translated
pt: 44% (791) strings translated, 14% strings fuzzy, 47% words translated
Total original words: 16629
Metrics
Tails has been started more than 741 964 times this month. This makes 23 934 boots a day on average.
How do we know this?
