1 [[!meta date="Thu Apr 4 11:12:49 2013"]]
2 [[!meta title="Tails report for March, 2013"]]
9 Tails 0.17.1 [[was released|news/version_0.17.1]] on March 23rd.
14 - 115 798 connections of Tails to the Tor network. This makes a boot
15 every 23 seconds on average (this number is an approximation from
16 the requests made to the security announcements feed. The later is
17 retrieved by Tails after being connected to Tor to eventually
18 encourage users to update.)
20 - 75 reports were received through WhisperBack.
22 - 756 comments were posted on the forum, with 185 signed by Tails.
27 - Some progress has been done on a feature to
28 [[todo/remember_installed_packages]] ([[!tails_gitweb_branch
29 feature/remember_installed_packages desc="Git branch"]]).
31 - A [[todo/about_Tails_launcher]] was [[!tails_gitweb_branch
32 feature/about_tails desc="drafted"]], following-up on some feedback
33 from Runa's "Training Journalists in Istanbul report.
35 - The Indymedia IRC account [[!tails_gitweb_branch
36 bugfix/disable-indymedia-irc-account desc="was removed"]].
38 - Bugs and todo pages are not shipped any more in ISO images.
40 - Some work [[!tails_gitweb_branch bugfix/writable_boot_media
41 desc="was started"]] to [[make the system disk
42 read-only|todo/make_system_disk_read-only]] (which was supposedly
43 fixed months ago, but apparently it either was not, or there was
46 - Awesome progress [[!tails_gitweb_branch
47 feature/automated_tests/cucumber desc="was made"]] to [[automate
48 our test suite|todo/automated_builds_and_tests]] with
49 [[Cucumber|todo/automated_builds_and_tests/cucumber]].
51 - We [[!tails_gitweb_branch
52 bugfix/workaround-non-installable-xorg-backport desc="worked
53 around"]] an unfortunate regression caused by the [integration of
54 Debian backports into the main
55 archive](http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130320).
57 - NoScript's HTML5 media click-to-play [[!tails_gitweb_branch
58 feature/no-html5-click-to-play desc="was disabled"]].
60 - udisks users (GNOME Disk Utility, tails-persistence-setup, etc.)
61 won't reset the system partition's attributes when manipulating the
62 partition table [[!tails_gitweb_branch
63 bugfix/udisks-do-not-make-Tails-USB-unbootable desc="anymore"]].
65 - More reliable OpenPGP keyservers [[!tails_gitweb_branch
66 bugfix/use-more-reliable-keyserver desc="were configured"]].
68 Documentation and Website
69 =========================
71 - A *Tor check* link [[!tails_gitweb_branch
72 feature/are_you_using_tor_link desc="was added"]] to the [[web
73 browser homepage|news]]. This link hides the "Download Tails 0.17.1"
74 one, so it should both help people who want to do this check every
75 time they boot Tails, and clear up some confusion reported by Runa
76 about "oh, is this a new version available, should I update?"
78 - The reintroduction of hybrid ISO images to simplify Mac USB boot was
79 [worked on](https://github.com/kolohe/amnesia/tree/manual_usb_installation/mac).
81 - The AutoType feature of KeePassX [[has been
82 documented|/doc/encryption_and_privacy/manage_passwords#index4h1]] to
83 allow pasting complex passwords into Pinentry.
88 - Tails USB installer: update translations for French, German, Spanish,
89 Finnish, Greek, Italian, Latvian, Dutch, Polish and Chinese.
91 - Tails Greeter: update translations for Farsi, Chinese, French;
92 new translations: Finnish, Norwegian Bokmål, Galician.
94 - tails-persistence-setup: update Farsi and Chinese translations;
95 import new translations for Finnish and Swedish.
97 - WhisperBack: update translations for Arabic, French, German, Greek,
98 Spanish, Korean, Polish, Russian. New translations: Finnish, Chinese.
103 - Some discussions triggered by Runa's "Training Journalists in
104 Istanbul" report [went
105 on](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-March/thread.html).
107 - Some discussion [was
108 triggered](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-March/002709.html)
109 by a proposed branch that fixes how some buggy hard drives don't
110 well the Tails APM settings.
113 discussed](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-March/002716.html)
114 if and how to better deal, at Tails upgrade time, with the situation
115 when the user has added random files on the Tails system partition
116 (which is not supported).
118 - Some discussions about
119 [potentially](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-March/002747.html)
121 [hardware](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-March/002748.html) happened.
123 - A [discussion about the process to contribute to the
124 documentation](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-March/002751.html)
125 clarified why the current process works the way it does, and
126 resulted in a good compromise to be found.
129 discussing](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-March/002813.html)
130 with GDM developers if and how they intend to support the custom
131 greeter usecase that we depend on.
134 [decided](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-March/002794.html)
135 not to include a text web browser in Tails.
140 - Some work was put into foundations we need to set up Jenkins for our
141 needs, mainly on the Puppet modules side (e.g. code for safely
142 installing Jenkins plugins from the web, an improved Puppet module
145 - A VM to automatically build Tails was created, and the Puppet code
146 that describes its initial setup was written.
148 - We have setup a Debian package builder based on
149 [debomatic](https://launchpad.net/debomatic). It still has some
150 rough edges, but seems to basically do its job.
152 - The nice folks at [immerda](https://www.immerda.ch/) have setup most
153 of what's needed to host all our Git repositories in the same place,
154 in a way that makes it convenient for us to create new repositories,
155 manage access to it, and reintroduce IRC commit notifications.
161 - Tails now [[accepts Bitcoin donations|contribute/how/donate]].
163 - We will soon close the budget for our bounties program. Teaser:
164 a handful of great programs, that are useful to Tails, will see some
165 bonus activity in the next few months!
167 - We have filed a grant application that answers Sponsor Echo's call