Even without building anything new in Tails, publishing our **releases** every 6 weeks is a lot of work as it also implies fixing the problems found in previous versions, documenting the changes, migrating to newer versions of Debian, GNOME, and Tor Browser, and making sure that the **foundations** of Tails stay relevant. As the schedule of emergency releases is unpredictable, they are hard to fund through grants and we instead usually rely on donations.
Developing **new features** is not the biggest share of our budget. They are almost exclusively covered by grants or developed by volunteers. Since 2015, new features that were not funded by grants included:
In 2015, we worked a lot on **infrastructure**, for example to write an automated test suite to verify continuously the well-functioning of our ISO images, to automate the build of development ISO images for testing, etc. This work is invisible to the user but, for example, makes it much faster to publish emergency releases when we discover serious bugs.
Since 2015, we added Farsi and Italian translations to our website and worked on the prototype of a web translation platform to allow more translators to contribute and more diverse people to use Tails.
