1 [[!meta date="Fri Sep 6 09:09:39 2013"]]
2 [[!meta title="Tails report for August, 2013"]]
9 Tails 0.20 [[was released|news/version_0.20]] on the 9th of August.
10 Tails 0.20.1 release is
11 [scheduled](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-August/003502.html)
17 - 190 521 connections of Tails to the Tor network. This makes a boot
18 every 14 seconds on average. This is an approximation from the
19 requests made to the security announcements feed when Tails is
22 - 93 non-empty bug reports were received through WhisperBack.
24 - 57 222 downloads of the OpenPGP signature of Tails ISO from
30 - A new contributor (a.kuckartz) has started to debug what appears to
31 be incompatibilities between our Vagrant setup and the current state
32 of Debian unstable ([[!tails_ticket 6221]]).
34 - Some initial steps [[!tails_gitweb_branch
35 bugfix/fix_virtualbox_dkms_build desc="were taken"]] to get
36 VirtualBox guest modules back ([[!tails_ticket 5972]]).
38 - A branch to [[!tails_gitweb_branch
39 bugfix/unmount-persistent-volume-on-shutdown desc="properly umount
40 the persistent volume on shutdown"]] was prepared. Thanks to Steven
41 J. Murdoch for the [[!tails_ticket 6228 desc="useful bug report"]].
43 - The additional software upgrade notification failure message
44 [[!tails_gitweb_branch
45 bugfix/additional-software-upgrade-failed-message desc="now points
46 the user to the system log"]] so that they have a chance to debug it
47 ([[!tails_ticket 6211]]).
49 - The I2P IRC network preset in Pidgin [[!tails_gitweb_branch
50 bugfix/i2p-irc-in-pidgin desc="was corrected"]].
52 - Some initial work to [[!tails_gitweb_branch
53 feature/consistent-peristence-path desc="have a consistent
54 persistence path"]] was done ([[!tails_ticket 5854]]).
56 - Some sanity checks in our test suite [[!tails_gitweb_branch
57 test/fix-iso-reporting desc="were fixed"]].
58 Another [[!tails_gitweb_branch test/firewall-check-tag desc="set of
59 test suite improvements"]] has seen progress.
61 - Starting with Tails 0.20.1, bug reports sent with WhisperBack will
62 [[!tails_gitweb_branch feature/tails-bugs desc="be sent to
63 a dedicated (encrypted) mailing-list"]].
65 - GnuPG now [[!tails_gitweb_branch feature/GnuPG-no-emit-version
66 desc="uses --no-emit-version"]].
68 - Switch to [[!tails_gitweb_branch feature/linux-3.10-2 desc="Linux
69 3.10-2"]] from Debian unstable.
71 Documentation and Website
72 =========================
74 - A new contributor (Vigdis) posted drafts to [document why Tor is
75 slow](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-August/003421.html)
76 and [update the persistence path in the
77 documentation](https://git-tails.immerda.ch/vigdis/tails/log/?h=doc/update-persistence-path).
78 Congrats! ([[!tails_ticket 5641]])
80 - A new contributor (carmie) proposed [logo
81 ideas](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-August/003382.html)
82 ([[!tails_ticket 5797]]). Thanks!
84 - The installation documentation [[!tails_gitweb_commit
85 91b796c9180b26cc22460c62e2fe3dfbafce4d95 desc="was improved"]] to
86 mention USB sticks and SD card adapters with read-only switches.
87 Some [[!tails_gitweb_commit 5fb52dfaed1fcd2dd40b4b93bcb5dd38bba32573
88 desc="style improvements"]] were done too.
90 - The website now [[advertises|about]] the use of Tails as
91 a censorship circumvention tool, too.
93 - A workaround to verify ISO integrity on other operating systems
94 [[!tails_gitweb_commit 91efa6597619e156fc764caece9a52c7f5c5624a
95 desc="was documented"]].
97 - The manual USB installation documentation [[!tails_gitweb_commit
98 58c80f43dc48c610bc847d12400b610e8fb0adfc desc="now recommends"]]
99 using `dd` instead of `cat` (so that those who need it can easily
100 prefix it with `sudo`).
102 - A revised cold-boot attack documentation [was
103 drafted](https://git-tails.immerda.ch/mercedes508/tails/log/?h=doc/cold-boot-attack)
105 review](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-August/003427.html).
107 - The shiny new tails-support mailing-list [[was documented|support]].
109 - The [[news]] page now has a form to subscribe to amnesia-news and
116 discussed](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-August/003367.html)
118 [proposals](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-July/003339.html)
119 to [[!tails_ticket 6165 desc="improve the visibility of links"]] on
120 top of the contribute page.
122 - Jacob Appelbaum [started
123 a discussion](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-August/003393.html)
124 about Tahoe-LAFS, Tor and Tails. It should now be clear what kind of
125 work is needed to make some integration possible.
128 [suggested](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-August/003468.html)
129 to tweak the GnuPG configuration in various ways.
132 [discussed](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-August/003492.html)
133 how to handle divergence of bundled packages due to point-releases.
138 - To make our infrastructure more reliable, we are still
139 [[!tails_ticket 6185 desc="organizing to get a system"]] that will
140 act as a fail-over for our main server.
142 - We better shared access to the round-robin DNS that gathers our HTTP
143 mirrors. (Many thanks to those who host the mirrors, by the way!)
145 - We created a bunch of [sysadmin
146 tickets](https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/tails/issues?query_id=113)
147 as a step towards being able to ask for help in this area first, and
148 towards being able to actually share the work with the volunteers
149 that will show up once we have sent our call for help. Stay tuned!
154 - The short-term funding project we have with sponsor Bravo is still
155 slowly going through the paperwork stage.
157 - The bounties program is moving forward (slower than we may have
160 - We keep working on a funding proposal to be sent to sponsor Foxtrot.