1 [[!meta date="Thu Mar 7 11:12:49 2013"]]
2 [[!meta title="Tails report for February, 2013"]]
9 [[Tails 0.17|news/version_0.17]] was released on February 25th.
14 - 99 275 connections of Tails to the Tor network. This makes a boot
15 every 24 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 - 63 reports were received through WhisperBack.
22 - 924 comments were posted on the forum, with 161 signed by Tails.
27 - Some progress has been done on a [[!tails_gitweb_branch
28 feature/remember_installed_packages desc="persistence feature to
29 packages installed with APT"]].
31 - A workaround has been proposed to temper a [[!tails_gitweb_branch
32 bugfix/less-aggressive-hard-disk-APM-on-AC desc="bug on APM handling
33 of some hard disks"]] that could damage them. See [[!debbug
36 - Two features that are known to be [[!tails_gitweb_branch
37 bugfix/disable-flawed-Pidgin-features desc="flawed in Pidin, MXit
38 and Sametime"]], have been disabled. See CVE-2013-0273,
39 CVE-2013-0272 and CVE-2013-0271.
41 - Shutdown and reboot launchers have been added to the menu to
42 [[!tails_gitweb_branch bugfix/shutdown_with_camouflage desc="fix the
43 lack of a shutdown helper applet in camouflage mode"]].
45 - Some progress was made on [[!tails_gitweb_branch feature/wheezy
46 desc="Tails based on Wheezy"]].
48 - The firmware loader for [[!tails_gitweb_branch feature/gobi-loader
49 desc="Qualcomm Gobi USB chipsets"]] was added to Tails 0.17.
51 - Some work has been done on getting the [[!tails_gitweb_branch
52 feature/torbrowser desc="Tails web browser"]] (now based on
53 Iceweasel 17 ESR + Torbrowser patches) ready for Tails 0.17.
55 - I2P was updated to [[!tails_gitweb_branch feature/i2p-0.9.4
58 - We have tested [[Yama and AppArmor LSB
59 stacking|todo/restrict_access_to_ptrace]] on Linux 3.7.8, and now
60 plan to have Yama enabled by default in the Debian kernel.
62 Documentation and Website
63 =========================
65 - The documentation on administration password was improved to be
66 [[!tails_gitweb_branch doc/administration_password desc="clearer
67 about opening a root terminal"]].
69 - A branch was started to [[!tails_gitweb_branch doc/sort_the_forum
70 desc="clean up the content of the forum"]].
72 - The /bugs and /todo sections of the website [[!tails_gitweb_commit
73 4332f98d370dfa2ca9e9e312823a56009e2ab0ca desc="will no longer be
74 shipped"]] in the ISO images.
76 - A link to check.torproject.org was added to the [[new default
77 browser homepage|/news]], to reassure users landing on it.
79 - The documentation on MAC Changer [[!tails_gitweb_commit
80 0d9718dad2f9ef577015b26194e81053402a459e desc="has been corrected"]]
81 to mention the fact that MAC addresses are sometimes sent over the
84 - Some more browser [[!tails_gitweb_commit
85 3e13999b6923ebfb3b25d7329ce0ce3d495ae63b desc="fingerprinting
86 issues" where documented]].
88 - Our [[income statement for 2012|doc/about/finances#index3h1]] was
91 - The browser [[homepage|news]] was lightened a bit.
93 - The [[!tails_gitweb_branch feature/set-wireless-devices-state
94 desc="design documentation"]] for
95 [[todo/set_wireless_devices_state]] was written.
101 - We have been debating on a [keyboard shortcut
102 overlap](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-February/002610.html)
103 between ALT+SHIFT+TAB that should change the window backward and
104 ALT+SHIFT which is the usual shortcut for switching between keyboard
105 layouts. That's particularly important for people switching between
106 Latin and non-Latin keyboards.
108 - There is now a [dedicated mailing
109 list](https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/mat-dev) for the development
110 of the Metadata Anonymization Toolkit (MAT).
112 - Runa's report on "Training Journalists in Istanbul" resulted in a
113 few discussion threads regarding, among others:
116 Iceweasel](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-February/002652.html)
118 homepage](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-February/002651.html)
119 - [Having an applet that informs about the version number of Tails
120 and hiding the download button on the News
121 page](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-February/002653.html)
122 - [Disabling all Pidgin accounts by
123 default](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-February/002654.html)
128 Quite some work was done on a new dedicated server of ours, called
131 - Various stuff that's customary for a virtualization host, like
132 a local APT proxy and a Puppet master, was setup.
133 - Our APT repository was [[migrated to
134 lizard|todo/migrate_APT_repository_to_lizard]]. Our primary
135 (private) rsync server,
136 [[too|todo/migrate_primary_rsync_server_to_lizard]].
137 - We now [[todo/run_a_BitTorrent_seed_on_lizard]].
138 - We now [[todo/run_another_WhisperBack_relay_on_lizard]].
139 - We now run [[!debpkg bitcoind]] on lizard.
140 - Our Puppet modules are now hosted on lizard. Some are [[already
141 publicly available|contribute/git]], but there's a bit of boring
142 work left to [[publish the others|todo/publish_our_Puppet_modules]].
143 We're happy to [share with nice
144 people](https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/sharedpuppetmodules)
145 the development and maintenance of most of the modules we use.
146 - A VM was setup to run Jenkins, that should some day be an important
147 part of [[todo/automated_builds_and_tests]].
152 We have been working on starting our bounties program.