To continue making Tails more accessible to users globally, we built a [[translation platform|https://translate.tails.net/]] for our website.Since then, people started translations in Arabic, Catalan, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Polish, Russian, Serbian, and Turkish.
We removed less popular software and localization packages, which you can now install yourself using the Additional Software feature. Optimizations like these made the USB image of Tails 4.0 47 MB smaller than Tails 3.6, which was the bigger release ever.
Tails depends on a wider ecosystem of Free Software and privacy tools. We continuously contribute improvements to other projects which are either included in Tails or used on our infrastructure. Some of these projects, that we call "upstream", are:
For 9 years, we have been relying on the hosting services provided by the fine people of boum.org. Thank you! As they were reducing their activities, we had to migrate our services. Our website is now self-hosted and our mailing-lists are taken care of by 2 experienced and trusted autonomous server projects: [autistici.org](https://autistici.org) and [puscii.nl](https://puscii.nl).