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:
*
New Persistent Storage, completely redesigned and vastly more usable
*
Wayland and better Unsafe Browser, for better security in depth and
usability
*
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.html>to 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:
*
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.
*
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.
