1 [[!meta title="Tails report for November, 2017"]]
2 [[!meta date="Thu, 14 Dec 2017 10:56:17 +0000"]]
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10 * [[Tails 3.3 was released on November 14th|news/version_3.3]] (minor release).
12 * We will not make an emergency release for the latest Tor Browser update, because Tails is [[!tails_ticket 15018 desc="not affected"]].
14 * Tails 3.5 is [[scheduled for January 16th|contribute/calendar]].
19 * We fixed issues regarding reproducible builds
20 ([[!tails_ticket 14924]], [[!tails_ticket 14946]],
21 [[!tails_ticket 14933]]) and later realized that one of them fixes
22 did not work in some corner cases… that include the ISO images we
23 build for the Tails official releases. Sadly, due to an internal
24 communication mishap we've announced that Tails 3.3 was reproducible
25 before we had learned about this remaining problem.
27 * We uploaded a new version of tails-installer (5.0.2) to Debian and Ubuntu.
28 This version has a simpler interface than previous versions.
30 Documentation and website
31 =========================
33 * We have documented internally how active Tails contributors can be
34 sponsored to attend events on behalf of Tails and are now working
35 towards publishing this documentation so that all contributors are
36 aware of this option ([[!tails_ticket 14727]]).
41 - We almost finished the work on the new download page and verification
42 extension for Firefox and Chrome. We're stuck blocked by security
43 reviews and improvements on the JavaScript code.
45 - Our survey on file storage encryption was answered 1012 times between
46 October 17 and December 1. It was a huge success and we'll now move on
47 to analyzing the results.
49 Hot topics on our help desk
50 ===========================
52 1. [[!tails_ticket 14968 desc="#14968: Ublock is not working in Tails 3.3"]]
54 1. [[!tails_ticket 12328 desc="#12328: Tails Firefox Add-on is not working in last
60 - Our test suite covers 209 scenarios, 2 more that in October.
61 - Cyril Brulebois (kibi) published a [blog post about his early work on reproducible builds](https://debamax.com/blog/2017/11/20/tails-early-work-on-reproducibility/).
66 * We submitted a funding request for the Secure Operating Systems
67 Summit that we are organizing with Qubes OS, Subgraph OS and Whonix.
69 * We applied to the "Good of the Internet" call for proposals by RIPE
70 NCC. Our proposal is titled "Interoperability and communication
71 continuity between mobile, laptop and desktop computers, in privacy
72 and security-sensitive environments".
74 * We continued to run our donation campaign.
82 * Some of us attended the Reproducible Builds World summit in Berlin, Germany
83 ([report](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2017-November/011849.html)).
85 * intrigeri attended the OTF summit in Valencia, then followed-up with
86 people he has met there.
88 * ignifugo gave a [talk about Tails at a greek hackerspace](https://www.hackerspace.gr/wiki/Introduction_to_TAILS).
93 * Many Tails people will be at the
94 [34th Chaos Communication Congress, aka. 34C3](https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2017/34C3-in-leipzig)
95 in Leipzig (December 27 to December 30).
97 * 2018-01-11: Tor & Tails meetup in Mexico City. More details later...
102 * We started a discussion about [basing Tails on quarterly snapshots of Debian Testing](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2017-November/011835.html)
104 * segfault started discussion the implementation of [VeraCrypt/TrueCrypt support in GNOME Disks](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2017-November/011855.html) with upstream
106 Press and testimonials
107 ======================
109 * Tails was mentioned in a [conference about journalism and surveillance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM4vflyaC58) organised by the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute. [Direct link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM4vflyaC58&t=3772) to the precise moment (tails was presented as something "extremely useful").
116 - de: 54% (2902) strings translated, 7% strings fuzzy, 47% words translated
117 - fa: 39% (2103) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy, 41% words translated
118 - fr: 89% (4742) strings translated, 0% strings fuzzy, 84% words translated
119 - it: 38% (2022) strings translated, 5% strings fuzzy, 33% words translated
120 - pt: 24% (1292) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy, 20% words translated
122 Total original words: 57402
124 ## [[Core pages of the website|contribute/l10n_tricks/core_po_files.txt]]
126 - de: 80% (1506) strings translated, 12% strings fuzzy, 79% words translated
127 - fa: 34% (647) strings translated, 11% strings fuzzy, 34% words translated
128 - fr: 99% (1864) strings translated, 0% strings fuzzy, 99% words translated
129 - it: 76% (1444) strings translated, 13% strings fuzzy, 77% words translated
130 - pt: 45% (851) strings translated, 16% strings fuzzy, 46% words translated
132 Total original words: 17062
137 * Tails has been started more than 655.776 times this month. This makes 21.859 boots a day on average.
138 * 12.371 downloads of the OpenPGP signature of Tails ISO from our website.
139 * 99 bug reports were received through WhisperBack.