1 [[!meta date="Tue May 7 12:26:39 2013"]]
2 [[!meta title="Tails report for April, 2013"]]
9 Tails 0.17.2 [[was released|news/version_0.17.2]] on April 9th.
14 - 121 183 connections of Tails to the Tor network. This makes a boot
15 every 21 seconds on average (this is an approximation from the
16 requests made to the security announcements feed when Tails is
19 - 71 bug reports were received through WhisperBack.
21 - 984 comments were posted on the forum, with 76 signed by Tails.
22 This means there has been much more activity on the forum, and that
23 we are having a hard time coping with it, but also that anonymous
24 contributors are providing more and more good answers without our
30 - We had a highly successful ["low-hanging fruits"
31 week](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-April/002834.html):
32 at least 16 tickets were touched, and at least five persons attended
35 - The persistence feature to [[todo/remember_installed_packages]]
36 ([[!tails_gitweb_branch feature/remember_installed_packages desc="has
37 matured a lot"]]) and should be ready for Tails 0.18.
39 - Support for Obfs3 bridges ([[!tails_gitweb_branch feature/obfs3
40 desc="has been added"]]).
42 - Torbutton 1.5.x [[!tails_gitweb_branch feature/torbutton-1.5.x
43 desc="can now be included"]] in Tails. We also reorganized and cleaned
44 our iceweasel prefs to look a bit more like the ones from TBB.
46 - GNOME accessibility themes [[!tails_gitweb_branch
47 feature/gnome-accessibility-themes desc="were installed"]] to provide
48 high contrast and large print themes.
50 - The "About GNOME" menu entry [[!tails_gitweb_branch
51 feature/about_tails desc="has been customized"]] to provide
52 information about the running version of Tails.
54 - A [[!tails_gitweb_branch feature/set-wireless-devices-state
55 desc="branch is ready"]] to disable wireless devices other than
56 Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, WWAN, and WiMAX by default.
58 - Some initial work [[!tails_gitweb_branch
59 feature/dont_autostart_iceweasel desc="was done"]] to not start the
60 browser automatically anymore.
62 - The audio preview when having the mouse pointer on an audio file in
63 Nautilus [[!tails_gitweb_branch feature/disable_audio_preview
64 desc="has been disabled"]].
66 - The support for [[todo/non-obfsproxy_proxy]] [[!tails_gitweb_branch
67 bugfix/non-obfsproxy_proxy desc="has been fixed"]].
69 - IPv6 is [[!tails_gitweb_branch feature/enable-IPv6 desc="not disabled
70 anymore"]]. It turns out that the IPv6 leaks we wanted to fix actually
73 - GNOME screenshot [[!tails_gitweb_branch feature/gnome-screenshot
74 desc="has been installed"]].
76 Documentation and Website
77 =========================
79 - "Getting started..." is now the homepage for the Tails documentation
80 accessible from the desktop.
82 - The content of the /bugs section of the website was moved to /todo.
84 - A [[bug concerning MD5 Reborned
85 Hasher|/doc/get/verify_the_iso_image_using_other_operating_systems]]
86 Hasher has been documented.
88 - The instructions for [[manual installation on
89 Mac|/doc/first_steps/installation/manual/mac]] have been brought
90 back online and the instructions for Linux and Windows have been
93 - The introduction of the [[bug reporting
94 instructions|/doc/first_steps/bug_reporting]] have been improved.
99 - A solution was proposed to distribute [[translation
100 workflows|/contribute/how/translate]] in either Git or Transifex.
102 - Tails USB installer: update translations for Arabic, German, Greek, Spanish,
103 Farsi, Finnish, Italian, Latvian, Dutch, Polish, and Chinese.
105 - WhisperBack: update translations for Arabic, German, Greek, Spanish,
106 Euskera, Finnish, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese,
107 Russian, Swedish, Chinese Spanish, Korean, Polish, and Russian. New
108 translations: Swedish.
113 - [Debian derivatives &
114 DebConf13](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-April/002994.html),
115 about what we can propose for [DebConf13](http://debconf13.debconf.org/)
117 - [secure and simple network time
118 (hack)](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-April/002843.html),
119 about tlsdate, a possible segmentation fault and its future in Tails
122 minitube](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-April/002877.html),
123 about replacing minitube with smtube
125 - [GNOME proxy settings,
126 again](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-April/002853.html),
127 about dropping all GNOME proxy settings
132 - Tails 0.17.2 was the first release assisted with automated tests!
133 * Cucumber is used to describe the tests to perform.
134 * 82 tests have been written so far
137 made](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-April/002902.html)
138 on our automatic building infrastructure, based on Jenkins.
143 - The grant application we did with
144 [OpenITP](http://openitp.org/?q=openitp_first_round_of_2013_project_funding_now_open_for_proposals)
145 (Sponsor Echo) was rejected. But our proposal made it to their
148 - We started to work on another grant application for more long-term
149 funding with sponsor Foxtrot.
151 - The list of bounties that are going to be funded through the Tor
152 project program is closed. It will be made public soon.