Hi,

Tails report for February 2023 https://tails.boum.org/news/report_2023_02/

Highlights

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@bokonon https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/bokononjoined our team, as our Fundraising Lead. bokonon will help us develop and grow our fundraising initiatives, to support the work we do to accomplish ourmission https://tails.boum.org/contribute/mission/.

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We prepared usability tests planned in Ecuador in March.

Releases

Wereleased Tails 5.10 on February 16 https://tails.boum.org/news/version_5.10/index.en.html.

As part of our focus on polishing user experience, Tails now asks for confirmation when starting without unlocking the Persistent Storage. Because we humans sometimes forget stuff. It's OK :)

Tails 5.10 fixed a few problems introduced in Tails 5.8 in December, and some more:

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Fixed another case of Persistent Storage not activating. (#19432 https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/19432)

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Avoid opening the Persistent Storage settings each time after login. (#19410 https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/19410)

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Solve a possible privilege escalation through a symlink attack.

Metrics

Tails has been started more than 652 918 times this month. This makes 23 318 boots a day on average.