Releases Tails 3.3 was released on November 14th (minor release). We will not make an emergency release for the latest Tor Browser update, because Tails is not affected. Tails 3.5 is scheduled for January 16th. Code We fixed issues regarding reproducible builds (#14924, #14946, #14933) and later realized that one of them fixes did not work in some corner cases… that include the ISO images we build for the Tails official releases. Sadly, due to an internal communication mishap we've announced that Tails 3.3 was reproducible before we had learned about this remaining problem. We uploaded a new version of tails-installer (5.0.2) to Debian and Ubuntu. This version has a simpler interface than previous versions. Documentation and website We have documented internally how active Tails contributors can be sponsored to attend events on behalf of Tails and are now working towards publishing this documentation so that all contributors are aware of this option (#14727). User experience We almost finished the work on the new download page and verification extension for Firefox and Chrome. We're stuck blocked by security reviews and improvements on the JavaScript code. Our survey on file storage encryption was answered 1012 times between October 17 and December 1. It was a huge success and we'll not move on to analyzing the results. Hot topics on our help desk #14993: Ublock is not working in Tails 3.3 #12328: Tails Firefox Add-on is not working in last Firefox Infrastructure Our test suite covers 209 scenarios, 2 more that in October. Cyril Brulebois (kibi) published a blog post about his early work on reproducible builds. Funding We submitted a funding request for the Secure Operating Systems Summit that we are organizing with Qubes OS, Subgraph OS and Whonix. We applied to the "Good of the Internet" call for proposals by RIPE NCC. Our proposal is titled "Interoperability and communication continuity between mobile, laptop and desktop computers, in privacy and security-sensitive environments". We continued to run our donation campaign. Outreach Past events Some of us attended the Reproducible Builds World summit in Berlin, Germany (report). intrigeri attended the OTF summit in Valencia, then followed-up with people he has met there. ignifugo gave a talk about Tails at a greek hackerspace. Upcoming events Many Tails people will be at the 34th Chaos Communication Congress, aka. 34C3 in Leipzig (December 27 to December 30). 2018-01-11: Tor & Tails meetup in Mexico City. More details later... On-going discussions We started a discussion about basing Tails on quarterly snapshots of Debian Testing segfault started discussion the implementation of VeraCrypt/TrueCrypt support in GNOME Disks with upstream Press and testimonials Tails was mentioned in a conference about journalism and surveillance organised by the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute. Direct link to the precise moment (tails was presented as something "extremely useful"). Translation All the website de: 54% (2902) strings translated, 7% strings fuzzy, 47% words translated fa: 39% (2103) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy, 41% words translated fr: 89% (4742) strings translated, 0% strings fuzzy, 84% words translated it: 38% (2022) strings translated, 5% strings fuzzy, 33% words translated pt: 24% (1292) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy, 20% words translated Total original words: 57402 Core pages of the website de: 80% (1506) strings translated, 12% strings fuzzy, 79% words translated fa: 34% (647) strings translated, 11% strings fuzzy, 34% words translated fr: 99% (1864) strings translated, 0% strings fuzzy, 99% words translated it: 76% (1444) strings translated, 13% strings fuzzy, 77% words translated pt: 45% (851) strings translated, 16% strings fuzzy, 46% words translated Total original words: 17062 Metrics Tails has been started more than 655.776 times this month. This makes 21.859 boots a day on average. 12.371 downloads of the OpenPGP signature of Tails ISO from our website. 99 bug reports were received through WhisperBack. Continue reading...
