1 [[!meta title="Tails report for September, 2013"]]
6 Tails 0.20.1 [[was released|news/version_0.20.1]] on September 19.
9 [scheduled](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-September/003719.html)
13 [scheduled](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-September/003718.html)
19 - Tails has been started more than 174 269 times in September.
20 This makes a boot every 15 seconds on average.
22 - 14 166 downloads of the OpenPGP signature of Tails ISO.
27 - We had a [low-hanging fruits
28 session](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-September/003703.html)
30 - A [[!tails_gitweb_branch feature/keepassx_launcher desc="launcher for KeePassX"]]
31 was added to the desktop ([[!tails_ticket 6290]]).
32 - It is now possible to install Tails on SD cards using
33 [[!tails_gitweb_branch feature/sdio desc="SDIO"]] hardware
34 ([[!tails_ticket 6324]]).
35 - Some issues were fixed for the migration to [[!tails_gitweb_branch
36 feature/wheezy desc="Tails Wheezy"]].
37 - The problem that prevented [[!tails_gitweb_branch
38 bugfix/fix_packages_impossible_to_install desc="some packages"]] to be
39 installable on Tails was solved.
40 - Tails USB Installer:
41 - [Rebranded](http://git.tails.boum.org/liveusb-creator/log/?h=feature/sdio)
43 - Display a [confirmation
44 dialog](http://git.tails.boum.org/liveusb-creator/log/?h=feature/confirmation_dialog)
45 before installing Tails ([[!tails_ticket 6293]]).
46 - Display [device vendor, model and
47 size](http://git.tails.boum.org/liveusb-creator/log/?h=feature/list_device_name)
48 ([[!tails_ticket 6292]]).
49 - Any `.iso` file present in the Tails partition will be skipped during
50 cloning ([[!tails_ticket 5300]]). Many thanks to Sina for providing a patch!
51 - The information icon when a bad passphrase is entered in Tails Greeter
52 was replaced by a proper [warning
53 icon](http://git.tails.boum.org/greeter/commit/?id=7ce672d21fd94badf38f8a52279aa10fc7917df8)
54 ([[!tails_ticket 5332]]).
55 Many thanks to Andres Gomez for providing a patch!
56 - The persistent volume [[!tails_gitweb_branch
57 bugfix/unmount-persistent-volume-on-shutdown desc="is now properly umounted
58 on shutdown"]] ([[!tails_ticket 6228]]).
59 - Tails now [[!tails_gitweb_branch feature/tor-0.2.4 desc="ships Tor
61 - Tails now [[!tails_gitweb_branch feature/linux-3.10.11
62 desc="includes Linux 3.10.11"]].
63 - A minor fix to our automated test suite [[!tails_gitweb_branch
64 test/fix-detection-of-used-display desc="was proposed"]].
66 Documentation and website
67 =========================
69 - A branch to improve the [[!tails_gitweb_branch
70 doc/improve_bug_reporting_workflow desc="bug reporting workflow"]] was
72 - A plan to restructure the documentation for Mac was drafted
73 ([[!tails_ticket 6319]]).
74 - A mockup for the new [[contribute
75 section|blueprint/contribute_section]] has been designed
77 - The documentation on [[!tails_gitweb_branch doc/cold-boot-attack
78 desc="cold boot attacks"]] and ways to shutdown has been rewritten
79 ([[!tails_ticket 6008]]).
80 Many thanks to mercedes508 for working on that!
81 - The documentation [[!tails_gitweb_branch doc/explain_why_Tor_is_slow
82 desc="explaining why Tor is slow"]] has been refined
83 ([[!tails_ticket 5641]]).
88 - You can download nightly builds of different branches of Tails on
89 <http://nightly.tails.boum.org/>.
90 - They have more unique names than previous builds.
91 - They are signed with OpenPGP key 0xD83A438B2F916605
92 ([[!tails_ticket 6193]]).
93 - We have started looking what UEFI hardware we need to do research
94 and tests in this area. We would not mind a 13-inch 2011 MacBook Pro
95 (MacBookPro8,1) or similar. We would not refuse a recent netbook
96 that boots off UEFI, either.
101 - [Removing the clock applet from the
102 desktop](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-September/003680.html)
103 or [[!tails_ticket 6284 desc="Displaying localized timezone"]]
104 - [[!tails_ticket 5797 desc="Creating a logo for Tails"]], with new
106 [Carmie](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-September/003612.html)
108 Krinke](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-September/003563.html)
109 - [Emptying Trash on persistent
110 volume](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-September/003540.html)
115 - We finally signed our short-term contract with sponsor Bravo. That
116 will keep us very busy until the end of the year, and will address
117 some of the stumbling blocks on the road towards Tails 1.0!
119 - We paid the first bounty of our bounty program. This one automated the
120 migration of our ikiwiki tickets to
121 [Redmine](https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/tails/issues?query_id=108).
123 Press and testimonials
124 ======================
126 * 2013-09-12: In [Inside the Effort to Crowdfund NSA-Proof Email and
128 Services](http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/inside-the-effort-to-crowdfund-nsa-proof-email-and-chat-services)
129 by DJ Pangburn, Riseup birds write (about the TBB) "Combined with the
130 TAILS project, which Riseup supports, there is nothing better."
132 * 2013-09-05: In [How to remain secure against NSA
133 surveillance](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-remain-secure-surveillance),
134 Bruce Schneier wrote: "Since I started working with Snowden's
135 documents, I have been using GPG, Silent Circle, Tails, OTR,
136 TrueCrypt, BleachBit, and a few other things I'm not going to