1 [[!meta title="Tails report for March, 2014"]]
6 Tails 0.23 was released on March 19.
11 - Tails has been started more than 261 878 times in March.
12 This make 8 448 boots a day in average.
13 - 19 076 downloads of the OpenPGP signature of Tails ISO.
14 - 80 reports were received through WhisperBack.
19 - The Cookie Monster extension was [[!tails_gitweb_branch
20 feature/6790-remove-cookie-monster desc="removed from our browser"]].
21 [[!tails_ticket 6790]]
23 - The new support for bridges was [[!tails_gitweb_branch feature/bridge-mode
24 desc="completed"]]. It now uses Tor Launcher to configure Tor when needed.
26 - A bookmark to the Tor Stack Exchange was [[!tails_gitweb_commit
27 dd3604cb96039874f76ac335c62470752687f447 desc="added to our browser"]].
29 - A launcher for our documentation was [[!tails_gitweb_branch
30 bugfix/tails-documentation-launcher desc="added to the Tails menu"]].
32 - Some race conditions when starting automatic upgrades were
33 [[!tails_gitweb_branch bugfix/6592-fix-races-with-check-for-upgrades
34 desc="fixed"]]. [[!tails_ticket 6592]]
36 - The wikileaks.de server was [[!tails_gitweb_commit
37 5762c9dbffef63a0fc4634c8cff2c7396032ecd7 desc="removed from Pidgin"]].
39 - The #tor IRC channel was [[!tails_gitweb_commit
40 0910dee7e1dbf873a4d7d4650b0e5d5b315eeb2f desc="removed from Pidgin"]].
42 - We [[!tails_gitweb_branch feature/better-iso-cleanup desc="cleaned up a bit
43 our ISO images"]] to make them a bit smaller.
45 - A bug in the localization of Tor Launcher was [[!tails_gitweb_branch
46 bugfix/6885-tor-launcher-localisation desc="fixed"]].
48 - We now [[!tails_gitweb_branch feature/linux-3.12 desc="install Linux 3.12"]]
49 from deb.tails.boum.org not to install Linux 3.13.5-1 from testing yet.
51 - Some work as been done towards [[!tails_gitweb_branch feature/wheezy
52 desc="Tails Wheezy"]], for example on the menus and launchers, the integration
53 of Seahorse Nautilus, network-manager, and the migration from GConf to dconf.
55 Documentation and website
56 =========================
58 - A new contribute [[page|contribute/how/sysadmin]] for sysadmins to
59 improve the infrastructure behind
60 Tails was [[!tails_gitweb_branch doc/6182-contribute-how-sysadmin
63 - Our sample `rtorrent.rc` was improved. [[!tails_ticket 6995]]
65 - A sample configuration for Tails mirror using nginx was
66 [[!tails_gitweb_commit 4ea4c3e desc="added"]]. [[!tails_ticket 6993]]
68 - A "News" link was [[!tails_gitweb_commit
69 f85563928fedfefb3878cab96d5288ffdbf57b0c desc="added to the sidebar"]].
71 - The expectations for our mirrors in terms of bandwidth were
72 [[!tails_gitweb_commit 3c434520d7462b6210c262bcdb3620b0a4467cf7
75 - The instructions to securely delete the persistent volume were
76 [[!tails_gitweb_commit adae16ddf1727b80ddfdd6d9c505b87846255138
79 - The instructions to manually backup the persistent volume were
80 [[!tails_gitweb_commit 4074e297bc9c83984270aacd4e4f1c70dd338834
83 - gpgApplet was [[!tails_gitweb_commit f4bf2155d635400e5dfe969996a62989c8af67b7
84 desc="renamed"]] "Tails OpenPGP Applet".
86 - "Tails browser" was consistently renamed "Tor browser". [[!tails_ticket 6574]]
88 - Our list of related projects was updated:
89 - [Freepto](http://www.freepto.mx/) was added.
90 - [Liberté Linux](http://dee.su/liberte) is in a sleeping state.
91 - [uVirtus](http://uvirtus.org/) is abandoned.
93 - The content of our Troubleshooting page was merging into the main
96 - Email commands to interact with Redmine were [[!tails_gitweb_commit
97 c0cd62c46f8ef1d4682c1a72b80ed45b21083578 desc="documented"]].
99 - The documentation for MAC spoofing was
100 [[completed|doc/first_steps/startup_options/mac_spoofing]].
105 - The German team which started to work earlier this year, got more volunteers
106 on board and more work done.
108 - People volunteered on the tails-l10n mailing-list to translate our website into
109 Italian, Spanish, Turkish, and Portuguese (Portugal).
114 - The mailing-list for early testers, tails-testers@boum.org, was
115 [[announced|news/tails-testers]] and already joined by 35 people.
117 - We are ready to welcome new contributors to [[improve the infrastructure behind
118 Tails|contribute/how/sysadmin]], and drafted a call on that topic.
120 - Three branches were merged to improve our automated test suite:
121 - [[!tails_gitweb_branch test/5959-antitest-memory-erasure]]
122 - [[!tails_gitweb_branch test/sniffer-vs-mac-spoof]]
123 - [[!tails_gitweb_branch test/tor-is-ready-notification]]
125 - Our manual test suite for the browser [[!tails_gitweb_commit
126 e1845741a11cfaace228b79778a5a01a505fe871 desc="was reorganized"]] to better
127 match the tests conducted for the TBB.
132 - [SHA256sum replacement or
133 patch](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2014-March/005186.html),
134 about a possible replacement for our hash extension for Firefox.
136 - [Feedback wanted on planned implementation of Feature #5301 - Clone or Backup
138 Volume](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2014-March/005225.html)
140 - [Testing EHLO messages: simplification
141 proposal](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2014-March/005227.html)
144 0.23..1.1](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2014-March/005234.html)
146 - [Upgrading the Linux kernel for
147 1.0?](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2014-March/005237.html)
150 https://tails.boum.org/contribute/index.en.html](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2014-March/005298.html),
151 about restructuring the links on the Contribute page.
153 - [More tails.boum.org HTTP response
154 headers?](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2014-March/005278.html)
159 - We were [awarded](https://twitter.com/accessnow/status/441043400708857856) the
160 [Access Innovation Prize](https://www.accessnow.org/prize).
162 - We submitted a proposal to the Knight Foundation [News
163 Challenge](https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/submissions/improve-tails-to-limit-the-impact-of-security-flaws-isolate-critical-applications-and-provide-same-day-security-updates).
165 - The [crowdfunding campaign](https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/) by the
166 Freedom of the Press Foundation was extended and revived thanks to [some
167 new](https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/blog/2014/02/why-its-vital-public-fund-open-source-encryption-tools)
168 [articles](https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/blog/2014/04/help-support-little-known-privacy-tool-has-been-critical-journalists-reporting-nsa)
171 - We applied to be audited through the [OpenITP Peer Review
172 Board](https://prb.openitp.org).
174 - We are still the process of signing the contract for a grant we were awarded
175 by OpenITP at the end of 2013.
180 - We organized a [[news/logo_contest]] to have a new logo in time
181 for Tails 1.0. We received [[36 proposals|blueprint/logo]]! Tails contributors
182 started to vote on their favourite proposals.
184 - We scheduled two usability testing sessions together with [Silicon
185 Sentier](http://siliconsentier.org/) on May 21 and May 28 in Paris.
187 - We scheduled a public hackfest. It will take place at
188 [IRILL](http://www.irill.org/) (Paris, France) on July 5 and 6.
190 - We made progress on the organization of the 2014 edition of the
191 yearly Tails contributors summit. We could make use of more
194 Press and testimonials
195 ======================
197 * 2014-03-17: In [Index Freedom of Expression Awards: Digital activism
199 Tails](http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2014/03/index-freedom-expression-awards-digital-activism-nominee-tails/),
200 Alice Kirkland interviews the Tails project about our nomination for
201 the *Censorship’s Freedom of Expression Awards*.
203 * 2014-03-13: In his [Les 7 clés pour protéger ses
204 communications](http://www.tdg.ch/high-tech/web/Les-7-cles-pour-proteger-ses-communications/story/25588689)
205 article (in French) published by the *Tribune de Genève*, Simon Koch
206 recommends using Tails.
208 * 2014-03-12: In his [Happy 25th Birthday World Wide Web - Let's Not
210 It](http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mike-harris/world-wide-web_b_4947687.html?utm_hp_ref=uk)
211 article published by the Huffington Post, Mike Harris writes that
212 "Increasing numbers of activists are using high-tech tools such as
213 Tor or Tails to encrypt their internet browsing and email".
215 * 2014-03-12: In his [US and UK Spy Agencies Are "Enemies of the
216 Internet"](http://motherboard.vice.com/read/us-and-uk-spy-agencies-are-enemies-of-the-internet)
217 article, published in the Motherboard section of the Vice network,
218 Joseph Cox covers Reporters Without Borders' [latest
219 report](https://en.rsf.org/enemies-of-the-internet-2014-11-03-2014,45985.html),
220 and writes "If you're a journalist working on anything more
221 sensitive than London Fashion Week or League 2 football, you might
222 want to consider using the Linux-based 'Tails' operating
225 * 2014-03-08: [Reporters Without Borders](http://en.rsf.org/)'s
226 Grégoire Pouget blogs about Tails: [FIC 2014 : Comment être
227 réellement anonyme sur
228 Internet](http://blog.barbayellow.com/2014/03/08/fic-2014-comment-etre-reellement-anonyme-sur-internet/)
231 * 2014-03-03: In the March edition of the Linux Journal, that
232 [celebrates 20 years of this
233 journal](http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/march-2014-issue-linux-journal-20-years-linux-journal),
234 Kyle demonstrates Tails.