Tails folks: > > Releases > ======== > > Tails 0.17.2 was released on April 9th. > > https://tails.boum.org/news/version_0.17.2/index.en.html
Hooray! Thanks for your great work on this project! > > > Metrics > ======= > > - 121 183 connections of Tails to the Tor network. This makes a boot > every 21 seconds on average (this is an approximation from the > requests made to the security announcements feed when Tails is > connected to Tor). > Fantastic job. > - 71 reports were received through WhisperBack. Is there a common complaint or are most of these automated? > > - 1515 comments were posted on the forum, with 76 signed by Tails. This > means there has been much more activity on the forum, and that we are > having a hard time coping with it, but also that anonymous > contributors are providing more and more good answers without our > help. Quite nice. Is English the primary language? > > > Code > ==== > > - We had a highly successful "low-hanging fruits" week: at least 16 > tickets were touched, and at least five persons attended one session > or more. > > https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-April/002834.html > > - The persistence feature to remember installed packages (has matured a > lot) and should be ready for Tails 0.18. > > https://tails.boum.org/todo/remember_installed_packages/ Will it be possible to ensure that this isn't abused for persistent rootkits? Also, I wonder if there is a way to verify the packages as being both up to date and actually valid packages from a valid repo? > > http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/feature%2Fremember%5Finstalled%5Fpackages > > - Support for Obfs3 bridges (has been added). > This is fantastic! > > http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/feature%2Fobfs3 > > - Torbutton 1.5.x can now be included in Tails. We also reorganized and > cleaned our iceweasel prefs to look a bit more like the ones from TBB. > > > http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/feature%2Ftorbutton%2D1%2E5%2Ex > > - GNOME accessibility themes were installed to provide high contrast and > large print themes. > Thanks for this too - I know a nearly blind Tails user who really appreciates having these kinds of accessibility improvements. > > http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/feature%2Fgnome%2Daccessibility%2Dthemes > > - The "About GNOME" menu entry has been customized to provide > information about the running version of Tails. > > > http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/feature%2Fabout%5Ftails > > - A branch is ready to disable wireless devices other than Wi-Fi, > Bluetooth, WWAN, and WiMAX by default. > > > http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/feature%2Fset%2Dwireless%2Ddevices%2Dstate > I generally want Bluetooth, WWAN and WiMax disabled, while I often want Wi-Fi, I don't want it on without having joined the network previously. This is especially true when the MAC address is not completely randomized at every if-up or every boot. > - Some initial work was done to not start the browser automatically > anymore. > > > http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/feature%2Fdont%5Fautostart%5Ficeweasel > > - The audio preview when having the mouse pointer on an audio file in > Nautilus has been disabled. > Sounds good. ;-) > > http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/feature%2Fdisable%5Faudio%5Fpreview > > - The support for non-obfsproxy proxy has been fixed. > > https://tails.boum.org/todo/non-obfsproxy_proxy/ > http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads > /bugfix%2Fnon%2Dobfsproxy%5Fproxy > > - IPv6 is not disabled anymore. It turns out that the IPv6 leaks we > wanted to fix actually don't exist. > > > http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/feature%2Fenable%2DIPv6 > Unless I'm mistaken, without a random MAC address, IPv6 has some pretty bad privacy concerns, no? > - GNOME screenshot has been installed. > > > http://git.immerda.ch/?p=amnesia.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/feature%2Fgnome%2Dscreenshot > > > Documentation and website > ========================= > > - "Getting started..." is now the homepage for the Tails documentation > accessible from the desktop. > > - The content of the /bugs section of the website was moved to /todo. > > - A bug concerning MD5 Reborned Hasher Hasher has been documented. > > > https://tails.boum.org/doc/get/verify_the_iso_image_using_other_operating_systems/index.en.html > > - The instructions for manual installation on Mac have been brought back > online and the instructions for Linux and Windows have been improved. > > > https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/manual_usb_installation/mac/index.en.html > > - The introduction of the bug reporting instructions have been improved. > > https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/bug_reporting/index.en.html > > > Translation > =========== > > - A solution was proposed to distribute translation workflows in either > Git or Transifex. > > https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/translate/ > > - Tails USB installer: update translations for Arabic, German, Greek, > Spanish, Farsi, Finnish, Italian, Latvian, Dutch, Polish, and Chinese. > > - WhisperBack: update translations for Arabic, German, Greek, Spanish, > Euskera, Finnish, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, > Russian, Swedish, Chinese Spanish, Korean, Polish, and Russian. New > translations: Swedish. > > > On-going discussions > ==================== > > - "Debian derivatives & DebConf13", about what we can propose for > DebConf13 > > https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-April/002994.html > http://debconf13.debconf.org/ > > - "secure and simple network time (hack)", about tlsdate, a possible > segmentation fault and its future in Tails > > https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-April/002843.html I'm interested in moving this forward - what more needs to be discussed after I upload version 0.0.7? If there are specific changes, I'd like to know soon as I'd like to put out the release soon. > > - "Discussion on minitube", about replacing minitube with smtube > > https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-April/002877.html > > - "GNOME proxy settings, again", about dropping all GNOME proxy settings > > https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-April/002853.html > > > Infrastructure > ============== > > - Tails 0.17.2 was the first release assisted with automated tests! > - Cucumber is used to describe the tests to perform. > - 82 tests have been written so far > > - Huge progress was made on our automatic building infrastructure, based > on Jenkins. > > https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-April/002902.html > > > Funding > ======= > > - The grant application we did with OpenITP (Sponsor Echo) was rejected. > But our proposal made it to their finalist set. What? That is really sad. Did they explain why? > > > http://openitp.org/?q=openitp_first_round_of_2013_project_funding_now_open_for_proposals > > - We started to work on another grant application for more long-term > funding with sponsor Foxtrot. > > - The list of bounties that are going to be funded through the Tor > project program is closed. It will be made public soon. > Great, I can't wait to see it. All the best, jacob _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
