Hi,
The Tails report for November 2020 is out:
https://tails.boum.org/news/report_2020_11/
Cheers!
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Tails report, November 2020
Tails report for November, 2020
Releases
Tails 4.13 was released on November 17.
Tails 4.14 is scheduled for December 15.
The following changes were introduced in Tails 4.13:
Update Thunderbird from 68.12 to 78.4.2. Thunderbird 78 replaces
the Enigmail extension with built-in support for OpenPGP encryption. If
you used Enigmail before Tails 4.13, follow our instructions to migrate from Enigmail to Thunderbird 78.
Add a button to restart Tails at the end of creating the Persistent Storage. (#16384)
Only include translations for languages that are available in the Welcome Screen. This reduces the size of the download by 5%. (#17139)
Make the root directory of the Persistent Storage only readable by the root user. (#7465)
Users of the Dotfiles feature of the Persistent Storage can
choose Places ▸ Dotfiles to open the
/live/persistence/TailsData_unlocked/dotfiles folder in the Files
browser.
Enable TCP timestamps. This might increase stability on slower Internet connections. (#17491)
Release management
A year ago, when we learned we had to switch to a 4-weeks release cycle to
follow Mozilla's lead, we acknowledged that the need to streamline our release
process, in order to make this part of our work more sustainable. In November,
the Tails Release Managers team had a sprint focused on this very topic, during
which we identified a great number of issues and fixed most of them! :)
For details, read the sprint
report.
Code
We had a meeting to prioritize & organize work on our next big things.
We decided to first focus on:
Wayland blockers, that can be addressed incrementally.
Deal with deprecation of Tor Launcher (#17215)
Rewrite Persistent Storage GUI frontend (#17803
We scheduled a sprint in January to bootstrap our work on the RIPE
grant and on Wayland blockers.
We re-bootstrapped our experiment on sharing our team's "front desk" workload.
We started reorganizing our team meetings.
We now require Debian 10 "Buster" or newer for running our test suite
(#17842), and started to take benefit from this change.
We automated a great part of the tests we do as part of release
quality assurance.
Documentation and website
Planned the deprecation of the Tails
Verification extension.
Documented how to use GMail in
Thunderbird.
(#17879)
Explained why is a bad idea to use an old version of
Tails in the FAQ. (#18001)
Recommended doing backups at the end of
our installation instructions. (#18000)
Decided to remove /support/learn. (#17920)
Updated our doc to Thunderbird 78 and wrote migration
instructions.
(#17147)
User experience
Published improved consent documents for user research: (#16534)
Consent form
Research information sheet
Cleaned our user research data for 2021/2022. (#17409)
Hot topics on our help desk
Touchpad and keyboard do not work in Asus computers
Some users lost their OpenPGP keys but could recover them from the backup file
Panda Wireless adaptors stopped working
Funding
The first numbers that we could analyze for the donation campaign look
very promising compared to the same period last year:
PayPal: 34% more donations, 28% more money
Bitcoin: 62% more donations
Monero: 205% more donations
We programmed our biggest Twitter campaign ever: 34 tweets, 1 tweet
every 2 days at most. Half of them are not direct calls to donate but
rather build up on the new Home and About pages to talk about the
main properties of Tails.
We decided not to blog about the donation campaign for now because our
team is seriously overworked. It doesn't seem to have impacted the
campaign significantly. We might still blog about achievements and
plans in December.
Our grant to RIPE on improving Tails for censorship
circumvention
was approved.
Outreach
Past events
Privacy Week 2020: Tails.
Tails was mentioned in another Privacy Week 2020 speech: How internet works
Tails was presented (among other tools) to journalism students at Sciences Po Rennes (Rennes, France).
Translations
All the website
de: 28% (1897) strings translated, 14% strings fuzzy
es: 51% (3392) strings translated, 6% strings fuzzy
fa: 21% (1396) strings translated, 13% strings fuzzy
fr: 78% (5224) strings translated, 8% strings fuzzy
it: 28% (1879) strings translated, 10% strings fuzzy
pt: 19% (1300) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy
Core pages of the website
de: 45% (970) strings translated, 23% strings fuzzy
es: 86% (1844) strings translated, 5% strings fuzzy
fa: 19% (426) strings translated, 15% strings fuzzy
fr: 76% (1633) strings translated, 12% strings fuzzy
it: 50% (1075) strings translated, 21% strings fuzzy
pt: 38% (822) strings translated, 14% strings fuzzy
Core pages of the website for languages not activated on the website yet
ar: 7% (165) strings translated, 8% strings fuzzy
ca: 8% (174) strings translated, 8% strings fuzzy
id: 6% (138) strings translated, 5% strings fuzzy
pl: 7% (166) strings translated, 6% strings fuzzy
ru: 8% (182) strings translated, 7% strings fuzzy
sr_Latn: 5% (114) strings translated, 4% strings fuzzy
tr: 8% (172) strings translated, 7% strings fuzzy
zh: 10% (222) strings translated, 8% strings fuzzy
zh_TW: 21% (460) strings translated, 13% strings fuzzy
Metrics
Tails has been started more than 947 384 times this month. This makes 31 579 boots a day on average.
How do we know this?
Posted 2020-12-16
