1 [[!meta title="Tails report for August, 2018"]]
2 [[!meta date="Tue, 11 Sep 2018 08:55:00 +0000"]]
3 [[!pagetemplate template="news.tmpl"]]
10 Once a year a dozen or two Tails contributors meet in person to shape
11 the project and define our priorities. This year, we met in August and
12 enjoyed one week of discussions, skill sharing and hands-on work
13 sessions. A great number of uninvited mosquitoes joined us as well but
14 we managed to find efficient mitigation measures :)
16 Read [the full report](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-project/2018-September/001178.html)!
21 * Tails 3.10 is [[scheduled for October 23|contribute/calendar]].
26 - We organized the [[contribute/working_together/roles/Foundations_Team]] biggest tasks for the end of the year: porting Tails to Buster, [[!tails_ticket 15349 desc="migrate away from vmdebootstrap"]], [[!tails_ticket 15460 desc="make our test suite work with Java 9+"]], [[!tails_ticket 8415 desc="migrate from `aufs` to `overlayfs`"]], [[!tails_ticket 15281 desc="improve the upgrade UX"]].
27 - We completed lots of work in time for TailsĀ 3.9:
28 - Updated *Tor Browser* to 8.0, based on *Firefox* 60 ESR.
29 - Updated *Thunderbird* from 52 to [60](https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/60.0/releasenotes/).
30 - Updated *Tor* to 0.3.4.7-rc.
31 - Updated *Linux* to 4.17 which also fixes the
32 [Foreshadow](https://foreshadowattack.eu/) attack.
33 - Use *Tor Browser* again for browsing the documentation offline.
34 ([[!tails_ticket 15720]])
35 - We fixed a number of regressions identified in TailsĀ 3.9~rc1.
36 - We worked on making our branch based on Debian 10 (Buster)
37 build again. ([[!tails_ticket 15857]])
39 Documentation and website
40 =========================
44 - [[Install additional software|doc/first_steps/additional_software]].
46 - [[Unlock VeraCrypt volumes|doc/encryption_and_privacy/veracrypt]].
48 - Fix [[Persistent folder disappearing and persistent feature
49 configurations not loading|support/known_issues#persistence-disappears]].
51 - Fix [[Tails behaving weirdly if an automatic upgrade is only
52 partially applied|support/known_issues#partial-upgrade]].
54 - Calculate the [[food budget for contributors attending events
55 on behalf of Tails|contribute/sponsorship_to_attend_events]].
60 - We presented a first version of our personas to the community and
61 agreed on focusing on Riou, The Censorship
62 Evader, as our primary persona.
64 <a href="https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/ux/-/raw/master/personas/posters.pdf"><img src="https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/ux/-/raw/master/personas/posters.png"></a>
66 - We completed the [[collaboration with Simply
67 Secure|blueprint/explain_tails/simsec]] on the Tails identity (aka.
68 "brand") and making it easier to understand what is Tails and how it
69 works. This work lays the foundation to:
71 - Redefining our visual style and tone.
72 - [[Explanation of Tails|blueprint/explain_tails]] on our home and about pages.
74 We will report on this in more details later.
76 - We improved the readability of our HTML tables. See for example
77 [[support/known_issues/graphics]].
79 Hot topics on our help desk
80 ===========================
82 Like in previous months, most users writing to Help Desk are having issues with hardware support.
84 1. Several users reported hard or soft lockups with recent Dell XPS
85 and other laptops with recent NVIDIA graphics cards. We're still
86 waiting for more test results before we can document a workaround.
87 ([[!tails_ticket 15774]])
89 1. Some problems were also reported with some Intel graphics cards on Tails 3.9~rc1.
90 This was fixed in Tails 3.9. ([[!tails_ticket 15821]])
92 1. Many users still lose temporarily their persistence configuration.
93 To fix this, see [[the documented workaround|support/known_issues/#persistence-disappears]].
98 - *DeepOnion* donated 0.154 btc.
100 - *Handshake Foundation* donated
109 - intrigeri and sajolida will be at [Tor meeting in Mexico
110 City](https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2018MexicoCity)
111 from September 29 to October 3 and will present Tails during the open
114 - sajolida will discuss Tails, user experience, and free software at the
115 Coloquio de Privacidad y Anonimato of UNAM in Mexico City on October
123 - de: 55% (3192) strings translated, 6% strings fuzzy, 48% words translated
124 - es: 57% (3331) strings translated, 1% strings fuzzy, 47% words translated
125 - fa: 36% (2094) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy, 38% words translated
126 - fr: 91% (5296) strings translated, 1% strings fuzzy, 89% words translated
127 - it: 32% (1874) strings translated, 6% strings fuzzy, 28% words translated
128 - pt: 27% (1614) strings translated, 7% strings fuzzy, 24% words translated
130 Total original words: 61403
132 ## [[Core pages of the website|contribute/l10n_tricks/core_po_files.txt]]
134 - de: 81% (1562) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy, 81% words translated
135 - es: 96% (1850) strings translated, 1% strings fuzzy, 93% words translated
136 - fa: 33% (639) strings translated, 11% strings fuzzy, 33% words translated
137 - fr: 98% (1894) strings translated, 0% strings fuzzy, 98% words translated
138 - it: 67% (1291) strings translated, 15% strings fuzzy, 66% words translated
139 - pt: 45% (877) strings translated, 12% strings fuzzy, 49% words translated
141 Total original words: 17456
146 * Tails has been started more than 669 403 times this month. This makes 22 313 boots a day on average.
147 * 6819 downloads of the OpenPGP signature of Tails ISO from our website.
148 * 74 bug reports were received through WhisperBack.
150 [[How do we know this?|support/faq#boot-statistics]]