**Malicious actors upped the ante in 2023.**

**But, we also made plans to call their ante.**

Here's the progress we made in the first year of the plan.

Product development

**The Persistent Storage got even better at storing encrypted data.**

But the new Persistent Storage wasn't all fun and games for Tails users. It was buggy and we worked extra hard to fix the issues our users faced.

[[!img version_5.12/delete-data.png alt="" caption="New button to delete the data of a Persistent Storage feature"]]

[[!img doc/persistent_storage/backup/clone.png alt="" caption="Option to clone the current Persistent Storage in Tails Installer"]]

<div class="center"><img src="https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/password_strength.png" alt="" style="width: 66%"/></div>

**Improvements to the [[Tor Connection|news/version_4.20]] make it easier to
circumvent censorship.**

The Tor Connection Assistant is slicker. We improved the error messaging when connecting automatically to the Tor network and the handling of captive portals.

[[!img version_5.19/close_circuit.png alt="" caption="Option to close a circuit in Onion Circuits"]]

We also asked [Radically Open Security](https://www.radicallyopensecurity.com/) to do a security audit of Tails. Their [[findings|news/audit_by_ROS]] affirmed our cutting-edge security.

PS: Keeping Tails updated is your best defense against online surveillance and censorship!

**And we started moving to our new home!**

🎉 ✨ tails.net ✨ 🎉

We completed a bunch of home improvement projects. So our new home is even more welcoming to folks speaking different languages, we overhauled the language switcher. We just added Catalan translations too. *Gràcies per ser aquí!*

We completed a bunch of home improvement projects. So our new home is even more welcoming to folks speaking different languages, we overhauled the language switcher. We just added Catalan translations too. *Gràcies per ser aquí!*

<div class="center">[[!img language_switcher.png alt=""]]</div>

High footfall areas of the website got a new carpet too. Check out our new [[Contribute|contribute]], [[Support|support]], and [[Contact us|doc/about/contact]] pages.

A huge shout-out to the volunteers who made these possible: [@jawlensky](https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/jawlensky) for the website redesign and to our [[Catalan translations team|contribute/how/translate/team/ca]]!