Releases Tails 2.5 was released on August 2. It includes a number of fixes for bugs and security holes. Code We updated our roadmap, listing our priorities for the next years. Use a dedicated homepage for Tor Browser in Tails to be able to customize what we are showing when people start Tails (#11725). We enabled address space layout randomization in the Linux kernel (kASLR) to improve protection from buffer overflow attacks. We installed rngd to improve the entropy of the random numbers generated on computers that have a hardware random number generator. Upgrade to Linux 4.6. This should improve the support for newer hardware (graphics, Wi-Fi, etc.) Improved the automatic configuration of Icedove for some use cases (#11536), and started writing automated tests for Icedove. We've successfully provided an AppArmor profile to Debian's Icedove package and started integrating it into Tails (#10750). We started porting Tails to Debian 9 (Stretch). Documentation and website We documented how to install Tails Installer in Ubuntu 16.04 (#11570). Unfortunately, this has to be done on the command line since Tails Installer is not listed in the new Ubuntu Software yet. But we are working on fixing this (#11569). Infrastructure 658 ISO images were automatically built and tested by our continuous integration infrastructure. We started porting Tails to Debian 9 (Stretch). Adjusting our test suite to make it able to provide feedback about our early Tails 3.0 ISO images is a critical part of this project. To do so, in the past we had to go through a tedious process of updating the dozens of pictures that we ask Sikuli to recognize; but this time, thanks to the work we recently did to support Dogtail in our test suite, we are able to remove many such pictures, and replace them with higher-level means of interacting with graphical user interfaces. So far we could remove 31 such images. This change brings two major benefits: it makes our test suite more robust, and it makes our project more sustainable, by decreasing the cost of porting Tails to future versions of Debian. Until recently, the parts of our test suite that rely on emulated USB storage devices were fragile on our Jenkins setup. This prevented us from running a number of tests there, e.g. those involving persistence. We kept working on it, as reported last month, both in Tails Installer itself and in our test suite (#11588, #11582). As a result, we were able to re-enable these tests on production branches in August. On-going discussions See the August 2016 online meeting minutes. We've had a great Tails contributors summit, attended by almost 20 people. Press and testimonials 2016-08-05: A step-by-step guide on how to download, install, and start using Tails, the world's most secure platform by Dan Patterson in TechRepublic. 2016-08-03: Tails 2.5 final περιηγηθείτε ανώνυμα στο Διαδίκτυο in iGuru News (in Greek). 2016-08-02: Tails 2.5 Anonymous Live CD Released with Tor Browser 6.0.3 and Icedove 45.1 by Marius Nestor in Softpedia. Translation All the website de: 57% (2880) strings translated, 4% strings fuzzy, 51% words translated fa: 46% (2344) strings translated, 7% strings fuzzy, 52% words translated fr: 79% (3987) strings translated, 4% strings fuzzy, 78% words translated it: 17% (885) strings translated, 2% strings fuzzy, 18% words translated pt: 31% (1593) strings translated, 8% strings fuzzy, 29% words translated Total original words: 50832 Core pages of the website de: 85% (1569) strings translated, 8% strings fuzzy, 85% words translated fa: 39% (724) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy, 40% words translated fr: 90% (1662) strings translated, 7% strings fuzzy, 91% words translated it: 47% (871) strings translated, 6% strings fuzzy, 53% words translated pt: 51% (947) strings translated, 12% strings fuzzy, 52% words translated Total original words: 16995 Metrics Tails has been started more than 589774 times this month. This makes 19025 boots a day on average. 10921 downloads of the OpenPGP signature of Tails ISO from our website. 111 bug reports were received through WhisperBack. Continue reading...