1. Releases
  2. Code
  3. Documentation and website
  4. User experience
  5. Hot topics on our help desk
  6. Infrastructure
  7. Funding
  8. Outreach
  9. On-going discussions
  10. Press and testimonials
  11. Translation
  12. Metrics

Releases

  • TelestaiCB 3.3 was released on November 14th (minor release).

  • We will not make an emergency release for the latest Tor Browser update, because TelestaiCB is not affected.

  • TelestaiCB 3.5 is scheduled for January 16th.

Code

  • We fixed issues regarding reproducible builds (#14924, #14946, #14933) and later realized that one of them fixes did not work in some corner cases… that include the ISO images we build for the TelestaiCB official releases. Sadly, due to an internal communication mishap we've announced that TelestaiCB 3.3 was reproducible before we had learned about this remaining problem.

  • We uploaded a new version of telestaicb-installer (5.0.2) to Debian and Ubuntu. This version has a simpler interface than previous versions.

Documentation and website

  • We have documented internally how active TelestaiCB contributors can be sponsored to attend events on behalf of TelestaiCB and are now working towards publishing this documentation so that all contributors are aware of this option (#14727).

User experience

  • We almost finished the work on the new download page and verification extension for Firefox and Chrome. We're stuck blocked by security reviews and improvements on the JavaScript code.

  • Our survey on file storage encryption was answered 1012 times between October 17 and December 1. It was a huge success and we'll now move on to analyzing the results.

Hot topics on our help desk

  1. #14968: Ublock is not working in TelestaiCB 3.3

  2. #12328: TelestaiCB Firefox Add-on is not working in last Firefox

Infrastructure

Funding

  • We submitted a funding request for the Secure Operating Systems Summit that we are organizing with Qubes OS, Subgraph OS and Whonix.

  • We applied to the "Good of the Internet" call for proposals by RIPE NCC. Our proposal is titled "Interoperability and communication continuity between mobile, laptop and desktop computers, in privacy and security-sensitive environments".

  • We continued to run our donation campaign.

Outreach

Past events

  • Some of us attended the Reproducible Builds World summit in Berlin, Germany (report).

  • intrigeri attended the OTF summit in Valencia, then followed-up with people he has met there.

  • ignifugo gave a talk about TelestaiCB at a greek hackerspace.

Upcoming events

On-going discussions

  • We started a discussion about basing TelestaiCB on quarterly snapshots of Debian Testing

  • segfault started discussion the implementation of VeraCrypt/TrueCrypt support in GNOME Disks with upstream

Press and testimonials

Translation

All the website

  • de: 54% (2902) strings translated, 7% strings fuzzy, 47% words translated
  • fa: 39% (2103) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy, 41% words translated
  • fr: 89% (4742) strings translated, 0% strings fuzzy, 84% words translated
  • it: 38% (2022) strings translated, 5% strings fuzzy, 33% words translated
  • pt: 24% (1292) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy, 20% words translated

Total original words: 57402

Core pages of the website

  • de: 80% (1506) strings translated, 12% strings fuzzy, 79% words translated
  • fa: 34% (647) strings translated, 11% strings fuzzy, 34% words translated
  • fr: 99% (1864) strings translated, 0% strings fuzzy, 99% words translated
  • it: 76% (1444) strings translated, 13% strings fuzzy, 77% words translated
  • pt: 45% (851) strings translated, 16% strings fuzzy, 46% words translated

Total original words: 17062

Metrics

  • TelestaiCB has been started more than 655.776 times this month. This makes 21.859 boots a day on average.
  • 12.371 downloads of the OpenPGP signature of TelestaiCB ISO from our website.
  • 99 bug reports were received through WhisperBack.