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3 [[!meta title="Tails report for May, 2013"]]
10 Tails 0.18 [[was released|news/version_0.18]] on May 18.
15 - 128 676 connections of Tails to the Tor network. This makes a boot
16 every 21 seconds on average (this is an approximation from the
17 requests made to the security announcements feed when Tails is
20 - 51 non-empty bug reports were received through WhisperBack.
22 - 630 comments were posted on the forum, with 143 signed by Tails.
27 - We had a ["low-hanging fruits"
28 session](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-May/003076.html)
29 on May 22, that was attended by three persons.
31 - Some important bugs [were fixed in
32 tails-greeter](https://git-tails.immerda.ch/greeter),
33 thanks to winterfairy!
36 Linux 3.8 was developed and merged. It triggered a bug in the
37 Persistent Volume Assistant, that [was
38 fixed](https://git-tails.immerda.ch/persistence-setup/commit/?id=c94d7432e649ff9b7974559b28b881ddf89f3ed0).
40 - The automatic re-installation of additional software packages
45 is now installed, and the old
46 compatibility symlinks
49 live-config 3.x final.
51 - A bug that made it a pain to use our OpenPGP applet
55 was done to remove GNOME proxy settings.
58 update virt-what was proposed.
64 preliminary work was done to get our nice custom boot
67 - A smtube backport was
70 - Some post-Wheezy work
74 - More precise plans [were
75 drawn](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-May/003099.html)
76 about the future of tails-greeter.
78 - Various TBB settings
81 Documentation and Website
82 =========================
84 - The end-user documentation about
85 feature/set-wireless-devices-state was reviewed and improved.
87 - The Tails [[specification and design document|contribute/design]]
88 received various minor updates and improvements, as did the release
89 process documentation.
91 - Tons of old forum posts were cleaned up, as part of our effort to
92 import valuable existing knowledge from there into the upcoming
98 - We've discussed inclusion of Martus in Tails.
100 - [Deanonymization potential by the desktop
101 user](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-May/003078.html).
103 - [Adding support for keeping entry
104 guards](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-May/003111.html).
106 - [Removing Iceweasel popups that confuse (some)
107 users](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-May/003109.html).
112 Various bits were updated to reflect the fact that Debian Wheezy
118 - We went on working on a grant application for more long-term
119 funding with sponsor Foxtrot.
121 - Draft contracts were sent to the bounties candidates. Some have
122 started working on their bounty!