1 [[!meta title="Tails report for November, 2013"]]
6 - Tails has been started more than 205 802 times in November.
7 This make 6 860 boots a day in average.
8 - 6 270 downloads of the OpenPGP signature of Tails ISO.
9 - 80 reports were received through WhisperBack.
14 Some of the newest contributors were particularly active this month:
16 - We have a new and active maintainer for I2P in Tails. Big up to Kytv! So I2P
17 was [[!tails_gitweb_branch feature/i2p-0.9.8.1 desc="updated"]] to 0.9.8.1,
18 and the I2P configuration and integration was improved in several ways.
20 [replaced](http://git.tails.boum.org/winterfairy/tails/log/?h=bugfix/ibus)
21 by IBus as input method to better support various input methods
22 (Closes [[!tails_ticket 5624]] and [[!tails_ticket 6206]]). Thanks to WinterFairy!
23 - Kevin C. Krinke has been actively working on a [replacement of the
24 clock](http://kevin.c.krinke.ca/builds/tailsclock) with configurable
25 timezone. Many thanks!
26 - A script has been written to automate the [[!tails_gitweb_branch
27 feature/import-translations desc="importation process"]] of completed
28 translations from Transifex. Thanks to WinterFairy!
29 - The keyboard selection for some languages in Tails Greeter was
30 [fixed](http://git.tails.boum.org/greeter/log/?h=bugfix/5469-default-country-and-translation)
31 (Closes [[!tails_ticket 5741]]). Again thanks to WinterFairy!
33 We kept on working on some major features, some are about to be released:
35 - The real-world deployment of incremental updates has been
36 [[!tails_gitweb_branch feature/incremental-upgrades desc="made
37 ready for beta testing"]] and
38 will be the default way to upgrade Tails, on point-releases at least.
39 - The second round of upgrade towards a [[safer
40 persistence|doc/first_steps/persistence/upgrade]] was [[!tails_gitweb_branch
41 bugfix/safer-persistence desc="prepared"]].
42 - A lot of work has been done towards [[!tails_gitweb_branch feature/spoof-mac
43 desc="MAC spoofing"]]. See the latest [[blueprint|blueprint/macchanger]] of
45 - The migration to Firefox 24 and Torbutton 1.6 was completed (Closes
46 [[!tails_ticket 6370]] and [[!tails_ticket 6371]]).
50 - The serious security upgrade to NSS 3.15.3 was prepared but we unfortunately
51 didn't have time to make a point release just for that. See CVE-2013-1741,
52 CVE-2013-5605 and CVE-2013-5606.
53 - More IP and MAC addresses are sanitized in WhisperBack reports (Closes
54 [[!tails_ticket 6391]]).
56 Regarding user experience:
58 - DPMS screen blanking has been [[!tails_gitweb_branch bugfix/disable-dpms
59 desc="disabled"]] (Closes [[!tails_ticket 5617]]).
60 - The default system partition size is now [[!tails_gitweb_branch
61 feature/bigger-system-partition desc="2.5GB"]].
62 - The bug that prevented Vidalia to show up sometimes was
63 [[!tails_gitweb_branch bugfix/vidalia_fails_to_start desc="fixed"]].
67 - Tails now have its own [[!tails_gitweb
68 config/chroot_local-includes/usr/local/lib/tails-shell-library
69 desc="shell"]] and [perl](https://git-tails.immerda.ch/perl5lib) libraries
70 where we factorize some of our code.
71 - Upgrade to Linux 3.11 and got back to Linux 3.10 because 3.11 breaks the
72 shutdown process on some hardware.
73 - Uploaded a few packages and backports we need into Debian.
74 - Tails Installer [[!tails_gitweb_branch
75 bugfix/dont-fail-upgrade-if-tmp-dir-exists-on-destination
76 desc="does not fail anymore"]] if the `tmp` directory exists on
77 the destination filesystem.
79 Documentation and website
80 =========================
82 - A [[draft FAQ|blueprint/faq]] was create to answer some questions asked on
83 our previous [[forum|forum]].
84 - A [[calendar|contribute/calendar]] was created to centralize all the
85 important dates for the community.
86 - A [[glossary|contribute/glossary]] was created on the website to define
87 terms specific to our process.
88 - The roles on the Contribute page were [[described|contribute]].
89 - Two new contribution pages were added: [[graphics|contribute/how/graphics]]
90 and [[user_interface|contribute/how/user_interface]].
91 - Instructions to change the persistence passphrase were
92 [[!tails_gitweb_branch doc/change_persistence_passphrase desc="drafted"]].
93 - The [[contribute/release_schedule]] was updated to match current
94 practice more closely.
95 - The [[documentation for translators|contribute/how/translate]] now
96 points to Git tutorials.
101 - We have organized donations of UEFI hardware, and purchased
103 - Recovered from disk breakage on our main server.
104 - Surveyed operators of HTTP mirrors for SNI availability.
105 The results look good, next step is to get a certificate for
106 `dl.amnesia.boum.org`.
111 - [2.0 milestone += supporting USB devices exposed as
112 non-removable?](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-November/003999.html)
114 extension](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-November/004011.html)
115 - [WhisperBack launcher should give a hint on its
116 use](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-November/004295.html)
118 contributors](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-November/004353.html)
123 - ThinkPenguin.com donated hardware for us to investigate on UEFI support.
125 - We have been working on a proposal with sponsor Golf.
130 - We submitted a talk for 30C3 but it was rejected.
131 - 2013-11-28: [Helping Human Rights Defenders to Communicate Securely: TAILS,
132 National Democratic Institute,
133 USA](http://www.coe.int/en/web/world-forum-democracy/lab4_) at the World
136 Press and testimonials
137 ======================
139 - 2013-11: The German-speaking ADMIN magazine [reviews
140 Tails](http://www.admin-magazin.de/Das-Heft/2013/11/Tails-0.20).