On October 12, we started our [[yearly donation campaign|news/2018-fundraiser]].Today, we summarize what we achieved with your help in 2018 and renew our call for donations.
We completely redesigned our [[download page|install/download]] and verification extension to make it easier to get and verify Tails. It is also now possible to verify Tails from Chrome.
We released 11 new versions of Tails to continue offering improvements and security fixes as soon as possible, including 4 emergency releases. This year we've faced critical security issues like Spectre, Meltdown, EFAIL, and issues in Firefox and are working hard to always have your back covered!
We made the build of Tails completely [[reproducible|news/reproducible_Tails]], which brings even more trust in the ISO images that we are distributing, a faster release process, and slightly smaller upgrades.
We greatly diversified our sources of income. Thanks to all of you, the share of donations that we got from individuals increased from 17% to 34%. This made our organization more robust and independent.
We attended 12 conferences and connected to free software and Internet freedom communities in 8 different countries, including Chaos Computer Congress (Germany), FOSDEM (Belgium), Internet Freedom Festival (Spain), Tor Meeting (Italy and Mexico), Debian Conference (Taiwan), and CryptoRave (Brazil).
We grew our pool of regular contractors with 4 new workers, mostly to work on our core code and infrastructure. These include several very skilled Debian developers.
All of this is made possible by donations from people like you. And because they help us to plan our work, we particularly appreciate monthly and yearly donations, even the smallest ones.