Hello :) * Tails report for November 2023 https://tails.net/news/report_2023_11/*
Highlights
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We had asked Radically Open Security https://www.radicallyopensecurity.com/ to audit Tails. The results of the audit https://tails.net/news/audit_by_ROS/index.en.html reinforced Tails credentials as a "solid" operating system for preserving anonymity.
We were super proactive with addressing the reported vulnerabilities, fixing them all within 3 weeks of being reported. This is a reminder that as good as Tails is, it needs to be updated regularly!
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We undertook a bunch of home improvement projects for our new address https://tails.net/news/new_domain/index.en.html. Highlights:
o the language switcher on the website is more prominent, and also in the website footer, o warning buttons display warnings better - in a new colour, and with wrapped text, o our redesigned security page https://tails.net/security/index.en.html better showcases the history of our security advisories. *
We have a new sponsor: igaming.com https://www.igaming.com/ joined our mission! Our donors also received the quarterly newsletter with early insights into upcoming Tails features. You, too, could subscribe while making your next donation https://tails.net/donate/index.en.html. Help make our ongoing fundraiser https://tails.net/news/gift_of_privacy/index.en.html a success!
Releases
November featured 2 new versions of Tails: 5.19.1 and 5.20.
5.19.1 https://tails.net/news/version_5.19.1/index.en.html was an emergency release. We updated the Tor client to bring the fix to the TROVE-2023-006 vulnerability https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/team/-/wikis/NetworkTeam/TROVE to Tails users.
And in 5.20 https://tails.net/news/version_5.20/index.en.html, we:
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brought the usual, latest updates to Tor Browser and Thunderbird,
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fixed a security vulnerability in uBlock Origin to protect Tails users from advanced browser fingerprinting techniques, and
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continued making Persistent Storage more usable, and made it even easier to report issues when it doesn't work through improvements to WhisperBack.
Metrics
Tails was started more than 825,741 times this month. That's a daily average of over 27,520 boots