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3 [[!meta title="Tails report for January, 2013"]]
10 Tails 0.16 [[was released on January 11th|news/version_0.16]].
12 The Tails 0.17 release is scheduled for late February. Back on tracks
13 with the [[6-weeks release cycle|contribute/release_schedule]] we
14 wanted to try, finally!
19 Tails has been started and successfully connected to the Tor network
20 around 100 865 times in January. That makes a boot every 27 seconds on
21 average. (This number is an approximation from the requests made for
22 the security announcements feed. The later is retrieved by Tails after
23 being connected to Tor to eventually encourage users to update.)
25 We received 24 reports through WhisperBack.
27 The forum activity has been a bit lower, but still quite high:
28 874 messages, 140 signed by Tails.
33 Our "Iceweasel with Torbrowser patches" packages have been [[rebased
34 on Iceweasel 17|todo/torbrowser_17]]. Many thanks to Mike Perry for
35 his support along the way!
37 Alessandro Grassi is still leading work on [[integrating
38 Minitube|todo/minitube]] in Tails. The Debian part was [fixed for
39 Wheezy](http://bugs.debian.org/699603). Jacob Appelbaum [has
40 volunteered](https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8064) to
41 audit Minitube anonymity for us (thanks a bunch!), and Alessandro has
43 audit](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-January/002537.html).
45 The persistence device search is now
46 similar to the live-boot
49 Some preliminary work was done to
50 make memory wipe faster
54 fixed a configuration bug that disabled the Torbrowser
55 protection against listing available fonts. This was no regression.
57 The Seahorse GnuPG agent was
58 replaced with the regular
59 gnupg-agent, to fix a long standing bug with Claws Mail. This adds
60 support for OpenPGP smartcards as a bonus.
62 Our Icedove patches were rebased against the 10.x series, and test
64 uploaded](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-January/002522.html).
65 We're still not there yet but this, added to TorBirdy soon arriving
66 into Debian, is a significant step towards [[replacing Claws Mail with
67 Icedove|todo/Return of Icedove?]].
69 It's now possible to build a Tails image based on Debian Wheezy.
70 There's still [[quite|todo/Wheezy]] [[some work|todo/tails-greeter vs. Wheezy]].
73 switches I2P to hidden mode is ready.
75 The buggy default Iceweasel spelling language
78 The next Tails ISO should be
79 a bit smaller... but don't get
83 install recent Intel and AMD microcode.
85 Quite some time was spent to help make Debian Wheezy an awesome
86 platform to use and built Tails upon.
88 Documentation and website
89 =========================
91 Some localization tricks [[were published|contribute/l10n_tricks]].
93 Tails accessibility features [[were
94 documented|doc/first_steps/accessibility]].
96 It [[has been explained|doc/about/fingerprint]] what one may expect
97 from the Tails fingerprint.
99 A script to check our PO files quality [[was writen|contribute/l10n_tricks/check_po.sh]].
104 We are discussing [how the browser homepage should be
105 like](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-January/002502.html).
107 It's likely that some anonymity-oriented distributions share a common
108 username and hostname in the future:
109 <https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-January/002457.html>.
111 We are discussing with upstream how to adapt TorBirdy for Tails'
113 <https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-January/002523.html>.
115 We're not sure whether it's worth keeping the Tails section in the
117 <https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-January/002511.html>.
119 It's still not totally clear what should be the defaults regarding MAC
121 <https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-January/002495.html>.
126 We have filed a grant application with Sponsor Bravo.
128 Our upcoming bounties program is being organized.