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Tails report for June, 2017
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<li class="L1"><a href="#index1h1">Releases</a>
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<li class="L1"><a href="#index2h1">Code</a>
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<li class="L2"><a href="#index1h2">Reproducible Builds</a>
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<li class="L1"><a href="#index3h1">User experience</a>
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<li class="L1"><a href="#index4h1">Infrastructure</a>
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<li class="L2"><a href="#index2h2">Improving communication & transparency wrt. our core teams' priorities</a>
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<li class="L2"><a href="#index3h2">HTTPS mirror pool</a>
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<li class="L2"><a href="#index4h2">Reproducible builds</a>
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<li class="L2"><a href="#index5h2">Sysadmin</a>
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<li class="L2"><a href="#index6h2">tails-support mailing list</a>
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<li class="L1"><a href="#index5h1">Funding</a>
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<li class="L1"><a href="#index6h1">Outreach</a>
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<li class="L2"><a href="#index7h2">Past events</a>
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<li class="L2"><a href="#index8h2">Upcoming events</a>
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<li class="L1"><a href="#index7h1">Press and testimonials</a>
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<li class="L1"><a href="#index8h1">Translation</a>
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<li class="L2"><a href="#index9h2">All programs</a>
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<li class="L2"><a href="#index10h2">All the website</a>
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<li class="L2"><a href="#index11h2">Core pages of the website</a>
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<li class="L1"><a href="#index9h1">Metrics</a>
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<h1><a name="index1h1"></a>Releases</h1>
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<li><p><a href="../version_3.0/index.en.html">Tails 3.0 was released on June 13</a> (major release).</p></li>
<li><p>Tails 3.1 is <a href="../../contribute/calendar/">scheduled for August 8</a>.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Tails 3.0 is the first version of Tails based on Debian 9 (Stretch).
It brings a completely new startup and shutdown experience, a lot of
polishing to the desktop, security improvements in depth, and major
upgrades to a lot of the included software. We cannot list all the
improvements it brings here (see the
<a href="../version_3.0/index.en.html">announcement</a>), but let's still highlight a few
major changes:</p>
<ul>
<li><em>Tails Greeter</em>, the application to configure Tails at startup, has
been completely redesigned for ease of use.</li>
<li>The shutdown experience has also been redesigned in order to be
more reliable and more discrete.</li>
<li>Tails 3.0 works on <span class="definition"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/x86%2D64">64-bit computers</a></span>
only and not on 32-bit computers anymore.</li>
</ul>
<h1><a name="index2h1"></a>Code</h1>
<p>Thanks to
<a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Multiprocess_Firefox">multiprocess</a>
Firefox, we started working on
<a href="https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/12679">sandboxing Tor Browser's content renderer processes more strictly with AppArmor</a>.
We now have a working draft and are waiting for our
<a href="https://github.com/micahflee/torbrowser-launcher/pull/280">pull request</a>
to be merged upstream.</p>
<p>We started fixing regressions introduced in Tails 3.0, such as
<a href="https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/12481">SSH_AUTH_SOCK occasionally not being set in GNOME Terminal</a>
and
<a href="https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/12696">Tails Installer rejects working USB drives, pretending they're not removable</a>.
Our Help Desk and Foundation Team met and prioritized the remaining ones
from a user-centric point of view.</p>
<h2><a name="index1h2"></a>Reproducible Builds</h2>
<p>We are still working on making Tails ISO images build reproducibly.
We've seen some images build in such a deterministic manner in March and
even during a testing session. However, in some build environments it
does not work reliably yet and some new issues have manifested
themselves which need to be fixed until we can claim that our ISO
images are really reproducible, such as
<a href="https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/12641">Comment changes in POT files make ISO non reproducible</a>.
Besides, we need to draw a line wrt. what kind of build environment
variations we want to support.</p>
<p>Furthermore, we are still working on documenting the new release process and
verification options for our users
(<a href="https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/12616">#12616</a>, <a href="https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/12629">#12629</a>, <a href="https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/12630">#12630</a>).</p>
<h1><a name="index3h1"></a>User experience</h1>
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<li><p>We discussed strategies to <a href="https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-ux/2017-June/003394.html">porting our Download and Verify extension
for Firefox to <em>Web
Extensions</em></a>,
a requirement for the upcoming Firefox 57 (November 14), as this will
affect the design of our download instructions.</p></li>
<li><p>We finished the redesign of <em>Tails Installer</em> to get rid of the
initial splash screen. (<a href="https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/8859">#8859</a>)</p></li>
<li><p>We installed a <a href="https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-ux/2017-June/003398.html">prototype of
<em>Piwik</em></a>,
a free web analytics platform, to evaluate how well it would work
against our privacy constraints and metrics needs.</p></li>
<li><p>We agreed on increasing the size of the system partition from 2.5 to 4
GiB minimum starting from Tails 3.2 (October 3) to allow for more
automatic upgrades before a manual upgrade is needed. (<a href="https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/12705">#12705</a>)</p></li>
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<h1><a name="index4h1"></a>Infrastructure</h1>
<h2><a name="index2h2"></a>Improving communication & transparency wrt. our core teams' priorities</h2>
<p>We have
<a href="https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-project/2017-June/000873.html">set up</a>
some infrastructure bits so that all contributors have more visibility
and power over our core teams's priorities.</p>
<h2><a name="index3h2"></a>HTTPS mirror pool</h2>
<p>We've switched our mirror pool to mirrors serving files over HTTPS
only (<a href="https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/12837">#12837</a>). Our round-robin fallback DNS
pool is still serving files over HTTP, and we are currently thinking
about how to switch those to HTTPS too (<a href="https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/12833">#12833</a>).</p>
<h2><a name="index4h2"></a>Reproducible builds</h2>
<p>Remaining issues on our CI infrastructure include:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/12618">Retrieving ISO build artifacts sometimes fails on Jenkins</a></li>
<li><a href="https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/13302">/var/lib/libvirt/images sometimes gets filled on isobuilders, take 2</a></li>
<li><a href="https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/12595">Not enough space in /var/lib/jenkins on isobuilders</a></li>
<li><a href="https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/12681">reproducibly_build_Tails_ISO_* Jenkins jobs are buggy when building from a tag</a></li>
</ul>
<h2><a name="index5h2"></a>Sysadmin</h2>
<p>We <a href="https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/13232">kept our systems up and running</a>,
which was not always easy since we've deployed our updated
infrastructure for reproducible builds before upgrading our capacity
accordingly, not mentioning a kernel regression caused by the initial
<em>Stack Clash</em> fix that broke our CI.</p>
<p>We deployed <a href="https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/11523">some</a>
<a href="https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5894">work</a> done by groente, who is in the
process of joining our sysadmin team.</p>
<h2><a name="index6h2"></a>tails-support mailing list</h2>
<p>We closed the <a href="../closing_tails-support/index.en.html"><code>tails-support@boum.org</code> mailing
list</a>.</p>
<h1><a name="index5h1"></a>Funding</h1>
<ul>
<li><p>We've created a page listing our partners, previous and current <a href="../../partners/">grants, private companies and individuals who help keep Tails alive</a> by supporting us financially. <a href="../../partners/become/">Do you want to partner with us too?</a></p></li>
<li><p>We are making good progress on our proposal with OTF, and we hope
we'll be able to share great news soon :)</p></li>
<li><p>We kept working on migrating our European fiscal sponsor from Zwiebelfreunde
to <a href="https://techcultivation.org/">CCT, the Center for the Cultivation of Technology</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>We have bootstrapped a process to do our budget forecasting for next year.</p></li>
</ul>
<h1><a name="index6h1"></a>Outreach</h1>
<h2><a name="index7h2"></a>Past events</h2>
<ul>
<li>Tails was presented at
<a href="https://passageenseine.fr/">Pas Sage en Seine Festival</a>, in
Choisy-Le-Roi, France.</li>
<li>Tails was presented (among other tools) in an
<a href="http://48h.pigiste.org/">independent journalists event</a> in
Rennes, France.</li>
<li>Tails 3.0 was presented at the annual festivities of the
<a href="http://med-user.net/~ekh/">EKH</a> in Vienna, Austria.</li>
</ul>
<h2><a name="index8h2"></a>Upcoming events</h2>
<ul>
<li><p>Tails contributors will attend
<a href="https://debconf17.debconf.org/">DebConf17</a>, the annual conference
for Debian contributors and users interested in improving Debian.</p></li>
<li><p>A Tails contributor proposed a talk about Tails for the
<a href="https://2k17.balccon.org/index.php?title=BalCCon2k17">BalCCon2k17</a>
(Balkan Computer Congress).</p></li>
</ul>
<h1><a name="index7h1"></a>Press and testimonials</h1>
<p>The Tails 3.0 release was abundantly covered on the web.</p>
<h1><a name="index8h1"></a>Translation</h1>
<h2><a name="index9h2"></a>All programs</h2>
<ul>
<li>ar: 47 translated messages, 9 fuzzy translations, 6 untranslated messages.</li>
<li>az: 47 translated messages, 9 fuzzy translations, 6 untranslated messages.</li>
<li>bg: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>ca: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>cs: 54 translated messages, 6 fuzzy translations, 2 untranslated messages.</li>
<li>cy: 44 translated messages, 11 fuzzy translations, 7 untranslated messages.</li>
<li>da: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>de: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>el: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>en_GB: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>es: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>es_AR: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>fa: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>fi: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>fr: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>fr_CA: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>he: 54 translated messages, 6 fuzzy translations, 2 untranslated messages.</li>
<li>hr_HR: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>hu: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>id: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>is: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>it: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>ja: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>km: 45 translated messages, 11 fuzzy translations, 6 untranslated messages.</li>
<li>ko: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>lv: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>nb: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>nl: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>nn: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>pl: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>pt: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>pt_BR: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>ro: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>ru: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>sk: 54 translated messages, 6 fuzzy translations, 2 untranslated messages.</li>
<li>sk_SK: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>sl_SI: 47 translated messages, 9 fuzzy translations, 6 untranslated messages.</li>
<li>sq: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>sr: 54 translated messages, 6 fuzzy translations, 2 untranslated messages.</li>
<li>sv: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>tr: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>uk: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>vi: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>zh: 0 translated messages, 62 untranslated messages.</li>
<li>zh_CN: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>zh_HK: 62 translated messages.</li>
<li>zh_TW: 62 translated messages.</li>
</ul>
<h2><a name="index10h2"></a>All the website</h2>
<ul>
<li>de: 57% (2863) strings translated, 6% strings fuzzy, 51% words translated</li>
<li>fa: 43% (2162) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy, 46% words translated</li>
<li>fr: 89% (4428) strings translated, 1% strings fuzzy, 87% words translated</li>
<li>it: 31% (1547) strings translated, 4% strings fuzzy, 27% words translated</li>
<li>pt: 26% (1335) strings translated, 8% strings fuzzy, 23% words translated</li>
</ul>
<p>Total original words: 52933</p>
<h2><a name="index11h2"></a><a href="../../contribute/l10n_tricks/core_po_files.txt">Core pages of the website</a></h2>
<ul>
<li>de: 78% (1492) strings translated, 10% strings fuzzy, 79% words translated</li>
<li>fa: 36% (690) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy, 38% words translated</li>
<li>fr: 98% (1869) strings translated, 1% strings fuzzy, 98% words translated</li>
<li>it: 75% (1434) strings translated, 11% strings fuzzy, 76% words translated</li>
<li>pt: 46% (886) strings translated, 14% strings fuzzy, 48% words translated</li>
</ul>
<p>Total original words: 17298</p>
<h1><a name="index9h1"></a>Metrics</h1>
<ul>
<li>Tails has been started more than 695 672 times this month.
This makes 23 189 boots a day on average.</li>
<li>15 508 downloads of the OpenPGP signature of the Tails ISO from our website.</li>
<li>215 bug reports were received through WhisperBack.</li>
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