1 [[!meta title="Tails report for September, 2019"]]
2 [[!meta date="Tue, 08 Oct 2019 15:06:24 +0000"]]
3 [[!pagetemplate template="news.tmpl"]]
10 * [[Tails 3.16 was released on September 4|news/version_3.16]] (major release).
12 * Tails 4.0 is [[scheduled for October 22|contribute/calendar]].
14 These are some of the changes that were introduced in Tails 3.16:
16 * Removed pre-generated Pidgin accounts
17 * Removed LibreOffice Math
18 * Upgraded Tor Browser to 8.5.5
23 * We started to integrate _Tor Browser_ 9.0 ([[!tails_ticket 16356]]).
25 * We started working on the upgrade to _Thunderbird_ 68
26 ([[!tails_ticket 16771]]).
28 * We did lots of work to improve the reliability of our test suite.
30 * We did some initial research and tests on using _Portals_ to improve
31 the UX of saving downloaded files from _Tor Browser_ ([[!tails_ticket
32 10422]], [[!tails_ticket 15678]]).
34 * We did some initial research on redesigning, in a Wayland-compatible
35 way, our current sudo-based privilege separation model
36 ([[!tails_ticket 12213]] and subtasks).
38 * We improved the UX of the _Greeter_ and fixed a few of its most
39 annoying bugs ([[!tails_ticket 16095]] and the tickets it blocks).
40 This work will hopefully land in time for Tails 4.0 :)
42 Documentation and website
43 =========================
45 - We rewrote completely the instructions to [[backup the persistent
46 volume|doc/first_steps/persistence/backup]].
48 - We documented how to do right-click on Mac. ([[!tails_ticket 15718]])
50 - We proposed to use Trimage to compress better the images on our
51 website. ([[!tails_ticket 17099]])
53 - We agreed on having a "People" page. ([[!tails_ticket 17046]])
58 - We published a job offer on [[illustrations on what is Tails and how
59 it works|jobs/illustrations_how_tails_work]].
61 - We did some stats on how good people upgrade their Tails, with data
62 from April 2019. ([[!tails_ticket 17069#note-4]])
64 - 16.6% of boots (3800/day) had no direct automatic upgrade path to
65 the latest version because they were more than 3 months old.
67 - 3.8% of boots (860/day) were stuck before 3.6, which had broken all
68 automatic upgrades. The impact of breaking all automatic upgrades in
69 3.6 was still huge even 1 year later.
71 Hot topics on our help desk
72 ===========================
74 * Unfortunately we had some problems with [[!tails_ticket 17110 desc="our
75 WhisperBack system"]], and because of that, some users were prevented
77 We are looking into how to prevent so much downtime the next time.
79 * [[!tails_ticket 15548 desc="Tails can't establish a connection with
80 obfs4 bridges and a hardware clock too far away from UTC"]] is still
83 * Graphics cards still give problems to some users ([[!tails_ticket 16447]])
89 * We upgraded our very old Jenkins to the current LTS version
90 ([[!tails_ticket 10068]]). This in turn allowed us to implement
91 a bunch of improvements and bugfixes that had been blocked by this
94 * We kept working on making our [web translation
95 platform](https://translate.tails.boum.org/) ready for prime-time.
101 - We submitted a joint grant proposal with Tor and the
102 Guardian Project to the DRL Internet Freedom program.
104 - We added Monero and Zcash as cryptocurrencies in which you can [[donate
105 to Tails|donate#cryptos]].
107 - We received a $1 000 donation from TOP10VPN.
109 - We prepared most of the content for our upcoming donation campaign:
110 banner, blog posts, email, tweets, etc. ([[!tails_ticket 16096]])
118 * sajolida attended the 1st [Café
119 Internet](https://internetfreedomfestival.org/wiki/index.php/Ciudad_de_Mexico)
120 on September 19 in Mexico City.
125 * intrigeri will facilitate a "Discover Tails and translate it into
126 your own language" session at the [Mozilla
127 Festival](https://www.mozillafestival.org/) on October 26-27
135 - de: 38% (2189) strings translated, 10% strings fuzzy, 35% words translated
136 - es: 54% (3095) strings translated, 4% strings fuzzy, 45% words translated
137 - fa: 30% (1721) strings translated, 11% strings fuzzy, 32% words translated
138 - fr: 90% (5148) strings translated, 2% strings fuzzy, 89% words translated
139 - it: 33% (1887) strings translated, 8% strings fuzzy, 29% words translated
140 - pt: 24% (1383) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy, 20% words translated
142 Total original words: 59107
144 ## [[Core pages of the website|contribute/l10n_tricks/core_po_files.txt]]
146 - de: 66% (1178) strings translated, 15% strings fuzzy, 68% words translated
147 - es: 88% (1572) strings translated, 4% strings fuzzy, 88% words translated
148 - fa: 34% (606) strings translated, 14% strings fuzzy, 31% words translated
149 - fr: 94% (1669) strings translated, 3% strings fuzzy, 94% words translated
150 - it: 62% (1114) strings translated, 17% strings fuzzy, 63% words translated
151 - pt: 45% (801) strings translated, 14% strings fuzzy, 47% words translated
153 Total original words: 16513
158 * Tails has been started more than 746 622 times this month. This makes 24 887 boots a day on average.
160 [[How do we know this?|support/faq#boot-statistics]]