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<a href="https://tails.boum.org/news/report_2021_08/">Tails
report for August, 2021</a>
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<h1>Releases</h1>
<p>In august, we released 4.22~rc1 and <a
href="https://tails.boum.org/news/version_4.22/index.en.html">4.22</a>.
Having a release candidate helped us gather
feedback from users to build a more solid 4.22. Enjoy
it!</p>
<p>Tails 4.23 is <a
href="https://tails.boum.org/contribute/calendar/">scheduled
for October 5</a>.</p>
<h1>Highlights of the month</h1>
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<p>We migrated <a
href="https://tails.boum.org/support/talk/index.en.html">our
XMPP chat rooms</a> to <code>disroot.org</code>.
You do <em>not</em> need to have a
disroot.org account to join us on the talk chat, any
XMPP account is fine.
XMPP chat room is only used for users' mutual help,
and is not always monitored by our help desk. Write
an
email if you want to talk with Tails' help desk.</p>
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<p>The <a
href="https://tails.boum.org/contribute/working_together/roles/foundations_team/">Foundations
Team</a> met for
a sprint, which resulted in many bugs being fixed
and features being added. You can taste some of them
in
<a
href="https://tails.boum.org/news/version_4.22/index.en.html">4.22</a>,
but some of them haven't make it for the current
release:</p>
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<p>Improving the time zone selection user
interface (<a
href="https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/18514">#18514</a>).</p>
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<p>Redesigning Persistent Storage setting (<a
href="https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/17803">#17803</a>).</p>
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<p>Our joint proposal with Tor to DRL has been
accepted. This will help us do more user research
and implement UX improvements.</p>
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<p>We added Word Solver as a <a
href="https://tails.boum.org/sponsors/index.en.html">sponsor</a>.</p>
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<p>We are improving the speed of our Continous
Integration infrastructure. This is not immediately
visible to users, but helps making Tails'
development more enjoyable and sustainable.</p>
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<h1>Metrics</h1>
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<li>Tails has been started more than 675,177 times this
month. This makes 22,505 boots a day on average.</li>
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<p><a
href="https://tails.boum.org/support/faq/index.en.html#boot-statistics">How
do we know this?</a></p>
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