[Tails-project] Tails report for June 2020

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Asunto: [Tails-project] Tails report for June 2020

Tails report for June, 2020 [1]

RELEASES

Tails 4.7 was released on June 2 [2]:

Make the installation of Additional Software more robust. (#17278 [3]) 
    *

Clarify the error message when entering an incorrect password to unlock
a VeraCrypt volume: _Wrong passphrase or parameters_ instead of _Error
unlocking volume_. (#17668 [4]) 
    *

Clean up confusing comments in /etc/tor/torrc. (#17706 [5])

Tails 4.8 was released on June 30 [6]:

We disabled the _Unsafe Browser_ by default and clarified that the
_Unsafe Browser_ can be used to deanonymize you [7]. 
    *

We added a new feature of the Persistent Storage to save the settings
from the Welcome Screen.

This feature is beta and only the additional setting to enable the
_Unsafe Browser_ is made persistent. The other settings (language,
keyboard, and other additional settings) will be made persistent in
Tails 4.9 (July 28). 
    *

Fix the _Find in page_ feature of _Thunderbird_. (#17328 [8]) 
    *

Fix shutting down automatically the laptop when resuming from suspend
with the Tails USB stick removed. (#16787 [9]) 
    *

Notify always when MAC address spoofing [10] fails and the network
interface is disabled. (#17779 [11]) 
    *

Fix the import of OpenPGP public keys in binary format (non armored)
from the _Files_ browser.

Tails 4.9 is scheduled for July 28 [12].

CODE

Adapted our test suite to our new homepage and to GitLab. (#17718 [13],
#17719 [14]) 
    *

Upgraded to tor 0.4.3. (#17741 [15]) 
    *

Automated post-release GitLab updates with gitlab-triage [16]. (#17589
[17], !36 [18])

DOCUMENTATION AND WEBSITE

@syster added a favicon to our website. (!37 [19]) 
    *

Documented the letterboxing feature of _Tor Browser_ [20]. (#17227 [21])

Interviewed 4 more candidates to the Technical Writer job offer [22]. 
    *

Added a shortcut on top of the cloning instructions [23] for people who
are already in Tails. 
    *

Reported a bug upstream to Etcher [24] about Windows manipulating the
system partition, leading to a failed verification. (#17634 [25])

HOT TOPICS ON OUR HELP DESK

A lot of people complained about having trouble starting Tails with
[AMD/ATI] Renoir GPUs, but it seems that a kernel update fixed that
problem in Tails 4.8 [26]. 
    *

Some MacBook users reported that Tails fails to boot with some recent
MacBooks [27]. A workaround was proposed but people were then affected
by their key combinations [28] or mouse and keyboard [29] not being
supported by GRUB. 
    *

There were still a couple of users reporting having problems to import
public PGP keys in Seahorse [30].

INFRASTRUCTURE

Decommissioned the system that used to host our Redmine. 
    *

Made it possible for core community members to propose changes to our
GitLab configuration with a merge request. (#17753 [31])

FUNDING

     * Submitted a full proposal to the OTF Core Infrastructure Fund [32]
to improve the user experience of connecting to Tor [33] and using Tails
to circumvent censorship.

OUTREACH

Published leaflets and their source on the website:

     * tails-leaflet-english.pdf [34]
     * tails-leaflet-french.pdf [35]
     * tails-leaflet-italian.pdf [36]
     * tails-leaflet-portuguese.pdf [37]
     * tails-leaflet-spanish.pdf [38]

PAST EVENTS

     * El Barracon Digital from El Progreso, Honduras, organized an
international online webinar on Tails: Privacidad y Anonimato Con Tails
[39].

UPCOMING EVENTS

     * El Rancho Electronico is organizing 2 online workshops about Tails
[40] on July 14 and July 21.

PRESS AND TESTIMONIALS

2020-06-23: Privacy-Focused OS Wants to Know How Facebook and the FBI
Hacked it [41] by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai in Motherboard. 
    *

2020-06-10: Facebook Helped the FBI Hack a Child Predator [42] by
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai in Motherboard.

TRANSLATIONS

ALL THE WEBSITE

     * fr: 84% (5415) strings translated, 8% strings fuzzy
     * es: 47% (3072) strings translated, 8% strings fuzzy
     * de: 30% (1988) strings translated, 13% strings fuzzy
     * it: 28% (1808) strings translated, 10% strings fuzzy
     * fa: 22% (1474) strings translated, 13% strings fuzzy
     * pt: 22% (1418) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy

CORE PAGES OF THE WEBSITE [43]

     * fr: 83% (1709) strings translated, 10% strings fuzzy
     * es: 77% (1585) strings translated, 10% strings fuzzy
     * it: 50% (1043) strings translated, 20% strings fuzzy
     * de: 50% (1041) strings translated, 21% strings fuzzy
     * pt: 39% (815) strings translated, 14% strings fuzzy
     * fa: 20% (415) strings translated, 15% strings fuzzy

CORE PAGES OF THE WEBSITE FOR LANGUAGES NOT ACTIVATED ON THE WEBSITE YET

     * zh_TW: 25% (447) strings translated, 12% strings fuzzy
     * zh: 12% (224) strings translated, 6% strings fuzzy
     * ru: 8% (160) strings translated, 5% strings fuzzy
     * pl: 8% (149) strings translated, 4% strings fuzzy
     * tr: 8% (148) strings translated, 4% strings fuzzy
     * ar: 7% (132) strings translated, 5% strings fuzzy
     * ca: 7% (131) strings translated, 5% strings fuzzy
     * id: 5% (99) strings translated, 3% strings fuzzy
     * sr_Latn: 4% (80) strings translated, 2% strings fuzzy

METRICS

     * Tails has been started more than 926 605 times this month. This
makes 30 887 boots a day on average.

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