----- Original Message ----- From: "Tails folks" <ta...@boum.org> To: "The Tails public development discussion list" <tails-dev@boum.org>, tor-repo...@lists.torproject.org Sent: Thursday, 12 December, 2013 6:59:19 AM GMT +10:00 Brisbane Subject: [tor-reports] Tails report for November, 2013
Metrics ======= - Tails has been started more than 205 802 times in November. This make 6 860 boots a day in average. - 6 270 downloads of the OpenPGP signature of Tails ISO. - 80 reports were received through WhisperBack. Code ==== Some of the newest contributors were particularly active this month: - We have a new and active maintainer for I2P in Tails. Big up to Kytv! So I2P was updated to 0.9.8.1, and the I2P configuration and integration was improved in several ways. https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/log/?h=feature%2Fi2p%2D0%2E9%2E8%2E1 - SCIM was replaced by IBus as input method to fix internationalization issues in Tails Greeter (Closes 6206). Thanks to WinterFairy! http://git.tails.boum.org/winterfairy/tails/log/?h=bugfix/ibus https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/6206 - Kevin C. Krinke has been actively working on a replacement of the clock with configurable timezone. Many thanks! http://kevin.c.krinke.ca/builds/tailsclock - A script has been written to automate the importation process of completed translations from Transifex. Thanks to WinterFairy! https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/log/?h=feature%2Fimport%2Dtranslations - The keyboard selection for some languages in Tails Greeter was fixed. Closes 5741. Again thanks to WinterFairy! http://git.tails.boum.org/greeter/log/?h=bugfix/5469-default-country-and-translation https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5741 We kept on working on some major features, some are about to be released: - The real-world deployment of incremental updates has been made ready for beta testing and will be the default way to upgrade Tails, on point-releases at least. https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/log/?h=feature%2Fincremental%2Dupgrades - The second round of upgrade towards a safer persistence was prepared. - A lot of work has been done towards MAC spoofing. See the latest of our design. https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/log/?h=feature%2Fspoof%2Dmac https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/macchanger/ - The migration to Firefox 24 and Torbutton 1.6 was completed (Closes 6370 and 6371). https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/6370 https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/6371 Regarding security: - The serious security upgrade to NSS 3.15.3 was prepared but we unfortunately didn't have time to make a point release just for that. See CVE-2013-1741, CVE-2013-5605 and CVE-2013-5606. - More IP and MAC addresses are sanitized in WhisperBack reports (Closes 6391). https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/6391 Regarding user experience: - DPMS screen blanking has been disabled (Closes 5617). https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/log/?h=bugfix%2Fdisable%2Ddpms https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5617 - The default system partition size is now 2.5GB. https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/log/?h=feature%2Fbigger%2Dsystem%2Dpartition - The bug that prevented Vidalia to show up sometimes was fixed. https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/log/?h=bugfix%2Fvidalia%5Ffails%5Fto%5Fstart And also: - Tails now have its own shell and perl libraries where we factorize some of our code. https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/plain/config%2Fchroot%5Flocal%2Dincludes%2Fusr%2Flocal%2Flib%2Ftails%2Dshell%2Dlibrary https://git-tails.immerda.ch/perl5lib - Upgrade to Linux 3.11 and got back to Linux 3.10 because 3.11 breaks the shutdown process on some hardware. - Uploaded a few packages and backports we need into Debian. - Tails Installer does not fail anymore if the `tmp` directory exists on the destination filesystem. https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/log/?h=bugfix%2Fdont%2Dfail%2Dupgrade%2Dif%2Dtmp%2Ddir%2Dexists%2Don%2Ddestination Documentation and website ========================= - A draft FAQ was create to answer some questions asked on our previous forum. https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/faq/ https://tails.boum.org/forum/ - A calendar was created to centralize all the important dates for the community. https://tails.boum.org/contribute/calendar/ - A glossary was created on the website to define terms specific to our process. https://tails.boum.org/contribute/glossary/ - The roles on the Contribute page were described. https://tails.boum.org/contribute/index.en.html - Two new contribution pages were added: graphics and user_interface. https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/graphics/ https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/user_interface/ - Instructions to change the persistence passphrase were drafted. https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/log/?h=doc%2Fchange%5Fpersistence%5Fpassphrase - The release schedule was updated to match current practice more closely. https://tails.boum.org/contribute/release_schedule/ - The documentation for translators now points to Git tutorials. https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/translate/ Infrastructure ============== - We have organized donations of UEFI hardware, and purchased some more. - Recovered from disk breakage on our main server. - Surveyed operators of HTTP mirrors for SNI availability. The results look good, next step is to get a certificate for `dl.amnesia.boum.org`. On-going discussions ==================== - 2.0 milestone += supporting USB devices exposed as non-removable? https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-November/003999.html - Tor Launcher extension https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-November/004011.html - WhisperBack launcher should give a hint on its use https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-November/004295.html - Glossary for contributors https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-November/004353.html Funding ======= - ThinkPenguin.com donated hardware for us to investigate on UEFI support. Many thanks! - We have been working on a proposal with sponsor Golf. Outreach ======== - We submitted a talk for 30C3 but it was rejected. - 2013-11-28: Helping Human Rights Defenders to Communicate Securely: TAILS, National Democratic Institute, USA at the World Forum for Democracy http://www.coe.int/en/web/world-forum-democracy/lab4_ Press and testimonials ====================== - 2013-11: The German-speaking ADMIN magazine reviews Tails. http://www.admin-magazin.de/Das-Heft/2013/11/Tails-0.20 -- Tails folks _______________________________________________ tor-reports mailing list tor-repo...@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-reports _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev