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Author: Sarah Stevenson
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Subject: Re: [Tails-project] [tor-project] Tails report for October 2019
Congratulations on the awesome Monero donation!!!

Sarah



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> On Nov 12, 2019, at 6:23 AM, sajolida <sajolida@???> wrote:
>
> Releases
> ========
>
> * Tails 4.0 was released on October 22 (major release).
>
> https://tails.boum.org/news/version_4.0/
>
> * Tails 4.1 is scheduled for December 3.
>
> The following changes were introduced in Tails 4.0:
>
> - Replace *KeePassX* with *KeePassXC*, which is more actively developed.
> - Remove *Scribus*.
> - Usability improvements to *Tails Greeter*
> - Tails 4.0 starts 20% faster.
> - Tails 4.0 requires about 250 MB less of RAM.
> - Tails 4.0 is 47 MB smaller to download than Tails 3.16, despite all
> these changes.
> - Add support for *Thunderbolt* devices.
> - ... and a lot more!
>
> Code
> ====
>
> * We finished integrating _Tor Browser_ 9.0 into Tails. (#16356).
>
> * Rafael Bonifaz from the Centro de Autonomía Digital published some
> scripts to run a Mumble server and Mumble clients from Tails.
>
>
> https://autonomia.digital/es/tails/mumble/anonymity/2019/10/09/tails-mumble.html
>
> Documentation and website
> =========================
>
> - We improved our documentation on verifying Tails using OpenPGP.
> (#16175 and #15697)
>
> https://tails.boum.org/install/download#openpgp
>
> - We improved a lot our manual upgrade documentation, which all users
> have to follow to upgrade to Tails 4.0:
>
> - We merged /upgrade and /doc/upgrade.
>
> - We wrote full scenarios to do manual upgrades from:
>
>    - Windows: https://tails.boum.org/upgrade/win-overview/
>    - macOS: https://tails.boum.org/upgrade/mac-overview/
>    - Linux: https://tails.boum.org/upgrade/linux-overview/

>
> Hot topics on our help desk
> ===========================
>
> 1. A lot of people reported having issues installing Tails with Etcher
> on MacOS. (#17185)
>
> 1. We got also numerous reports from people having trouble to import PGP
> keys with Seahorse. (#17183)
>
> 1. And some users are facing a graphic issue on computers with two GPU
> caused by MAC spoofing running udevadm trigger. (#17199)
>
> Infrastructure
> ==============
>
> * We have published the technical design documentation that describes
> the setup of our translation platform.
>
> https://tails.boum.org/contribute/design/translation_platform/
>
> * We upgraded the SMTP relay behind _WhisperBack_ to a v3 Onion service.
>
> * We made progress towards upgrading _Chutney_ for our test sui.
> (#16792)
>
> Funding
> =======
>
> - We launched our end-of-year donation campaign:
>
>  - We blogged about why supporting Tails is more important than
>    ever and our achievements in 2019.

>
>    https://tails.boum.org/news/2019-fundraiser/
>    https://tails.boum.org/news/achievements_in_2019/

>
>  - We received a very generous anonymous donation of 300 Moneros
>    (around 15 000€)!

>
> Outreach
> ========
>
> Past events
> -----------
>
> * Tails was presented in Thessaloniki during 2 days for radical
> technologies:
>
> https://anopoli.espivblogs.net/2019/10/03/2-days-for-radical-technologies/
>
> * intrigeri attended the Mozilla Festival on October 26-27 in
> London (UK). We held a booth there, talked with lots of people
> including a number of Tails users, and ran a "Discover Tails and
> translate it into your own language" session.
>
> https://www.mozillafestival.org/
>
> * There were a Tails workshop and a talk about the last 10 years of
> Tails at the privacyweek in Vienna.
>
> https://privacyweek.at/
>
> On-going discussions
> ====================
>
> * We've started discussing how we will adapt to the fact Firefox
> will now be released every 4 weeks.
>
> Press and testimonials
> ======================
>
> * 2019-10-24: ris announced the release of Tails 4.0 in Linux Weekly
> News.
>
> https://lwn.net/Articles/802876/
>
> * 2019-10-23: heise.de published a review of Tails 4.0.
>
>
> https://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Tails-4-0-mit-neuem-Linux-und-aktualsierten-Anwendungen-4565641.html
>
> Translations
> ============
>
> * We have issued a call for translations.
>
> https://tails.boum.org/news/call-for-translations/
>
> * We have published a documentation for translators who
> want to use our new web based translation platform.
>
> https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/translate/with_translation_platform/
>
> ## All the website
>
> - fr: 89% (5318) strings translated, 2% strings fuzzy
> - es: 51% (3067) strings translated, 5% strings fuzzy
> - de: 35% (2128) strings translated, 11% strings fuzzy
> - it: 31% (1837) strings translated, 8% strings fuzzy
> - fa: 28% (1694) strings translated, 11% strings fuzzy
> - pt: 23% (1364) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy
>
> ## Core pages of the website
>
> - fr: 93% (1667) strings translated, 4% strings fuzzy
> - es: 85% (1523) strings translated, 6% strings fuzzy
> - de: 64% (1139) strings translated, 16% strings fuzzy
> - it: 60% (1071) strings translated, 18% strings fuzzy
> - pt: 44% (793) strings translated, 14% strings fuzzy
> - fa: 33% (598) strings translated, 14% strings fuzzy
>
> Metrics
> =======
>
> * Tails has been started more than 794 831 times this month.
> This makes 25 640 boots a day on average.
>
> --
> sajolida
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