Tails report for September and October 2022 https://tails.boum.org/news/report_2022_10/
Highlights
Here's a glimpse at what happened in Tails in September and October.
Analyzing results of usability tests
We analyzed the results of the usability tests we did in São Paulo:
* first-time use https-everywhere://lists.autistici.org/message/20221012.181235.a673efeb.en.html * Tor Connection https://lists.autistici.org/message/20221012.140611.7e58f067.en.html
Then we prioritized the issues identified there and planned to fix a bunch of them in the next few months.
New features
Our developers brought 3 major new features to beta quality:
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New Persistent Storage, completely redesigned and vastly more usable
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Wayland and better Unsafe Browser, for better security in depth and usability
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QR code scanning for Tor bridges
We will only release these features officially in Tails 5.8 (December 2022), but you cantry them already in Tails 5.8~beta1 https://tails.boum.org/news/test_5.8-beta1/!
Donation campaign
We launched our end-of-year donation campaign.
Donations from passionate people like you are our most valuable source of funding because they guarantee our independence. We are a very small nonprofit and our yearly budget is ridiculously small compared to the value of Tails.
Donate now https://tails.boum.org/donate/index.en.htmlto fight surveillance and censorship!
Releases
Tails 5.5 was released on October 17 https://tails.boum.org/news/version_5.5/index.en.html, including:
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Update/Thunderbird/to102.3.0 https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/102.3.0/releasenotes/.
/Thunderbird/102 is a major update withmany changes to the navigation, folder icons, and address book https://blog.thunderbird.net/2022/06/thunderbird-102-released-a-serious-upgrade-to-your-communication/.
/Thunderbird/102 also includes important usability improvements to the OpenPGP feature. When composing an email, you can now see whether it will be encrypted or not. If encryption is impossible, a key assistant helps you solve key issues.
Thunderbird composer window with encryption turned on and notification about a missing key and how to resolve the issue.
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Always ask to configure a screen locking password when pressing Ctrl+L and no administration pasword was set. (#19090 https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/19090)
Tails 5.6 was released on October 25 https://tails.boum.org/news/version_5.6/index.en.html.
Metrics
Tails has been started more than 698 160 times in September, and 736 378 times in October. This makes 23 517 boots a day on average.