[tor-project] Tails report for February 2020

[sajolida]

https://tails.boum.org/news/report_2020_02/

Releases
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* Tails 4.3 was released on February 11. (bugfix release)

* Tails 4.4 is scheduled for March 12.

The following changes were introduced in Tails 4.3:

- We included the `trezor` package, which provides a command line tool
  to use a Trezor hardware wallet for cryptocurrencies.

- Fix the progress bar and prevent closing the window while an upgrade
  is being applied. (#16603)

Code
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- We made great progress on Secure boot support (#6560)
  and are now quite confident we can ship this in Tails 4.5 (April 7).

  Thanks to everyone who answered our call for testing!

- In order to make the development process a bit smoother, we improved
  the performance of our builds (#17439, #17386).

- We kept working on replacing Sikuli in our test suite (#15460), which
  will allow running it on recent Debian systems. We're almost there! :)

Hot topics on our help desk
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1. Users are still complaining about Seahorse failing to import public
   keys. (#17183)

1. Several users reported that Stefano Zacchiroli's public key being
   expired since 2020-02-07 broke our documentation about using the
   command line and GnuPG to install Tails. (#17475)

   https://tails.boum.org/install/expert/usb/

1. And people are still reporting GDM errors with Intel HD 630 (while
   their issue is usually with their NVidia Maxwell discreet GPU)
   (#16875)

Infrastructure
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- We've been working towards making our CI feedback loop shorter
  (#16960, #17439).

- We organized the sysadmin work we will need to do as part
  of migrating to GitLab.

Funding
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- We worked on the full proposal for the joint grant proposal with
  Tor and the Guardian Project to the DRL Internet Freedom program.

- We started working on a grant proposal to the Prototype Fund.

Jobs
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- Privacy loving Linux generalist:

  https://tails.boum.org/jobs/Linux_generalist/

On-going discussions
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- Reconsider the terminology around "persistence":

  https://lists.autistici.org/message/20200227.123500.9aee624d.en.html

Press and testimonials
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- 2020-02-26: Tails : le logiciel qui a permis à Snowden d’échapper aux
  services secrets by Tibor Van Cutsem in Solidaire:


https://www.solidaire.org/articles/tails-le-logiciel-qui-permis-snowden-d-echapper-aux-services-secrets

Translations
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Metrics
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* Tails has been started more than 808 936 times this month. This makes
  27 894 boots a day on average.

[[How do we know this?|support/faq#boot_statistics]]