1 [[!meta title="Tails report for April, 2017"]]
2 [[!meta date="Wed, 31 May 2017 12:34:56 +0000"]]
3 [[!pagetemplate template="news.tmpl"]]
10 * [[Tails 2.12 was released on April 19th|news/version_2.12]] (major release).
12 * Tails 3.0 is [[scheduled for June 13th|contribute/calendar]].
14 The following changes were introduced in Tails 2.12:
16 - We installed again *GNOME Sound Recorder* to provide a very simple
17 application for recording sound in addition to the more complex
18 *Audacity*. Sound clips recorded using *GNOME Sound Recorder* are
19 saved to the *Recordings* folder.
21 - We removed [*I2P*](//geti2p.net/), an alternative anonymity network,
22 because we unfortunately have failed to find a developer to maintain
23 *I2P* in Tails. Maintaining software like *I2P* well-integrated in
24 Tails takes time and effort and our team is too busy with other
27 - Upgrade *Linux* to 4.9.13. This should improve the support for newer
28 hardware (graphics, Wi-Fi, etc.).
30 Documentation and website
31 =========================
33 - Cody Brownstein documented how to [[change the password of an encrypted
34 partition|doc/encryption_and_privacy/encrypted_volumes#change]].
36 - Cody Brownstein documented how to [[delete the files corresponding to a
37 persistence feature that has been deselected|doc/first_steps/persistence/configure#deselect]].
39 - We added instructions on how to burn DVDs from macOS *El Capitan* or
45 - We collected [[intercept interviews|blueprint/intercept_interviews]]
46 of users using Tails world-wide to better understand our users, their needs,
47 and what they like or dislike in Tails. We already have seven great story
48 from Western Europe, North America, Latin America, and Africa.
53 - We upgraded some of our systems to Debian 9 (Stretch), in order to
54 help identify remaining issues before it becomes the new Debian stable
57 - We made good progress towards using our Vagrant build system on our
58 Continuous Integration infrastructure, to make it match what
59 developers use. This is part of our work on Reproducible ISO Builds.
61 - We are interviewing a candidate to join our system administration team.
63 - The mechanism that we designed for the [[distribution and activation of the
64 revocation certificate of the Tails signing
65 key|doc/about/openpgp_keys/signing_key_revocation]] is now deployed and 23
66 people own a share of the revocation certificate. It allows revoking the
67 Tails signing key even if very bad things happens to most of the team while
68 making it hard for isolated and malicious individuals to revoke the signing
69 key when not needed. We still encourage experts to review this mechanism and
70 other projects to adopt similar practices.
75 - We are working towards adding a [[!tails_ticket 6972 desc="sponsors
76 page"]] to our website, and are talking with a couple potential
79 - We are still in the process of discussing our proposal with OTF, and
80 reworking it accordingly.
82 - We were nominated for the [MIT Media Lab Disobedience
83 Award](https://www.media.mit.edu/disobedience/).
91 - de: 55% (3182) strings translated, 5% strings fuzzy, 50% words translated
92 - fa: 39% (2246) strings translated, 8% strings fuzzy, 43% words translated
93 - fr: 82% (4686) strings translated, 1% strings fuzzy, 81% words translated
94 - it: 27% (1591) strings translated, 3% strings fuzzy, 25% words translated
95 - pt: 26% (1537) strings translated, 8% strings fuzzy, 24% words translated
97 Total original words: 58888
99 [[Core PO files|contribute/l10n_tricks/core_po_files.txt]]
100 ==========================================================
102 - de: 82% (1544) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy, 83% words translated
103 - fa: 37% (701) strings translated, 10% strings fuzzy, 39% words translated
104 - fr: 98% (1836) strings translated, 1% strings fuzzy, 98% words translated
105 - it: 79% (1479) strings translated, 11% strings fuzzy, 78% words translated
106 - pt: 49% (916) strings translated, 13% strings fuzzy, 50% words translated
108 Total original words: 17063
114 * Tails has been started more than 672644 times this month. This makes 21698 boots a day on average.
115 * 16930 downloads of the OpenPGP signature of Tails ISO from our website.
116 * 160 bug reports were received through WhisperBack.