Tails

1PW · May 11, 2023

Tails 5.12 (Stable) has been released. (19-April-2023)

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tails (5.12) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Test suite: Try to catch another case of "Display output is not active"
    (tails/tails!1106)

    Closes issues:
      - Test suite breakage when restoring an old Bullseye snapshot: "Guest disabled
        display", "Display output is not active" (tails/tails#18953)

    Commits:
      - Test suite: Try to catch another case of "Display output is not active"

  * Test suite: Press escape to wake up the display (tails/tails!1089)

    Closes issues:
      - Test suite breakage when restoring an old Bullseye snapshot: "Guest disabled
        display", "Display output is not active" (tails/tails#18953)

    Commits:
      - Test suite: Retry restoring snapshot 3 times
      - Test suite: Press escape up wake up the display

  * Upgrade to Linux 6.1.20-1 (stable branch) (tails/tails!1080)

    Closes issues:
      - Upgrade to Linux 6.1.15 (tails/tails#19484)
      - Upgrade to Linux 6.1.20+ (tails/tails#19556)

    Commits:
      - Upgrade to Linux 6.1.20-1 from sid

  * Upgrade to Linux 6.1.20-1 from sid (devel branch) (tails/tails!1079)

    Commits:
      - Upgrade to Linux 6.1.20-1 from sid

  * Add icon for tails-backup (tails/tails!1111)

    Closes issues:
      - Have an icon for the backup utility (tails/tails#19363)

    Commits:
      - Update icon for Persistent Storage settings
      - Add icon for tails-backup

  * Additional Software: Fix launched apps not accessible via Dogtail
    (tails/tails!1092)

    Closes issues:
      - tca-portal, tails-additional-software: don't run apps as amnesia under the
        scope of the (root) systemd service (tails/tails#19131)
      - Additional Software is in English when launched from a notification
        (tails/tails#17365)
      - tails-additional-software-config and gedit started from a notification are not
        accessible ⇒ breaks test suite (tails/tails#19233)

    Commits:
      - Additional Software: Make tails-additional-software-config D-Bus activatable
      - Additional Software: Launch apps with gtk-launch

  * Resolve "myspace.com has become incompatible with our htpdate setup"
    (tails/tails!1085)

    Closes issues:
      - myspace.com has become incompatible with our htpdate setup (tails/tails#19561)

    Commits:
      - test-iuk: list 1 package per line, for nicer future diffs
      - test-iuk: make it breathe
      - test-iuk: refuse running unless in a throw-away container
      - convert shell script to set -eu
      - move test-iuk to its own file
      - refactor: put in its own file
      - retry on failures
      - replace myspace.com with facebook.com

  * Test suite: Fix step "persistent Greeter options were restored"
    (tails/tails!1084)

    Closes issues:
      - "Persistent Greeter options" test suite scenario always fails
        (tails/tails#19558)

    Commits:
      - Test suite: Avoid an unnecessary reboot
      - Test suite: Make clicking "Connect to Tor" button more robust
      - Test suite: Add alternative persian comma image
      - Test suite: Fix step "persistent Greeter options were restored"
      - Test suite: Translate Dogtail args to $lang_code
      - Remote shell: Support setting environment variables in remote commands
      - Test suite: Support configuring chutney start time

  * tps: Fix hook execution with --profiling option (tails/tails!1112)

    Commits:
      - tps: Fix hook execution with --profiling option

  * Shell library: Validate LANG before using it (tails/tails!1110)

    Closes issues:
      - Validate LANG in localization.sh (tails/tails#19576)

    Commits:
      - Shell library: Validate LANG before using it

  * Remove obsolete disabling of nf_conntrack_helper (tails/tails!1109)

    Closes issues:
      - Update disabling of netfilter's automatic conntrack helper assignment
        (tails/tails#19557)

    Commits:
      - Remove obsolete disabling of nf_conntrack_helper

  * Test suite: Fix Electrum test (tails/tails!1105)

    Closes issues:
      - Electrum test suite broken by !1010 (tails/tails#19589)

    Commits:
      - Test suite: Fix Electrum test

  * Test suite: Fix additional software scenario (tails/tails!1102)

    Closes issues:
      - Test suite: Scenario "Recovering in offline mode after Additional Software
        previously failed to upgrade and then succeed to upgrade when online" fails
        (tails/tails#19574)

    Commits:
      - Remove @fragile tags that were only justified by #19233, which was solved via
        !1092
      - Test suite: Fix additional software scenario

  * Additional Software: Use valid D-Bus name as app name (tails/tails!1099)

    Closes issues:
      - `gtk-launch org.boum.tails.additional-software-config.desktop` is broken
        (tails/tails#19584)

    Commits:
      - Design doc: update path
      - Additional Software: Use valid D-Bus name as app name

  * Test suite: allow the pattern to cover slightly less of the write cache
    (tails/tails!1098)

    Closes issues:
      - Test Suite: Feature "System memory erasure on shutdown" is fragile
        (tails/tails#19583)

    Commits:
      - Test suite: allow the pattern to cover even less of the write cache
      - Test suite: allow the pattern to cover slightly less of the write cache

  * Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.5 (tails/tails!1097)

    Closes issues:
      - Upgrade to Tor Browser 12.0.5, based on Firefox 102.10 (tails/tails#19559)

    Commits:
      - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
      - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.5-build2
      - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.5-build1

  * tps: Fix "python.UnknownError" returned for builtin errors (tails/tails!1095)

    Closes issues:
      - Buggy error handling in tps: OSError is not a valid D-Bus name
        (tails/tails#19578)

    Commits:
      - tps: Fix "python.UnknownError" returned for builtin errors

  * Welcome Screen: Support login kernel command-line option (tails/tails!1093)

    Commits:
      - Welcome Screen: Support login kernel command-line option

  * Welcome Screen: Don't allow unlocking with empty passphrase by pressing Enter
    (tails/tails!1091)

    Closes issues:
      - Welcome Screen: Don't allow unlocking with empty passphrase by pressing Enter
        (tails/tails#19570)

    Commits:
      - Welcome Screen: Don't allow unlocking with empty passphrase by pressing Enter

  * systemd: Use name in unit status messages (tails/tails!1088)

    Closes issues:
      - systemd: Use name instead of description in unit status messages
        (tails/tails#19568)

    Commits:
      - systemd: Use both name and description in unit status messages

  * Display a diceware suggestion when creating the Persistent Storage
    (tails/tails!1087)

    Closes issues:
      - Display a diceware suggestion when creating the Persistent Storage
        (tails/tails#18148)

    Commits:
      - tps-frontend: Move passphrase suggestion code to passphrase_view.py
      - tps-frontend: Fix local variable 'passphrase' might be referenced before
        assignment
      - tps-frontend: Increase spacing between suggested passphrase and refresh button
      - tps-frontend: Add missing space to error message
      - tps-frontend: Fix indentation
      - tps-frontend: hide relevant UI elements when diceware fails
      - tps-frontend: give attribute an expressive name
      - Wait Bookworm to use the non-English wordlists
      - Determine passphrase suggestion width automatically
      - tps-frontend: Remove default passphrase suggestion
      - tps-frontend: refactoring
      - tps-frontend: hide 'for example' label when diceware suggestion fails
      - tps-frontend: don't break when wordlist directory doesn't exist
      - tps-frontend: Use a method to set a new passphrase hint
      - tps-frontend: Log the exceptions caused by diceware suggestion
      - tps-frontend: print stderr when diceware fails
      - tps-frontend: use a wordlist in the currently configured language when
        available
      - tps-frontend: adjust passphrase view UI
      - Display a diceware suggestion when creating the Persistent Storage

  * Fix race when starting tails-ibus-proxy.service (tails/tails!1086)

    Commits:
      - tails-dbus-proxy: Add missing PIDFile= property to systemd services
      - tails-ibus-proxy: Busy wait on ibus-daemon
      - tails-ibus-proxy: Fix missing whitespace (PEP-8)
      - Fix race when starting tails-ibus-proxy.service

  * Don't translate "known security vulnerabilities" (tails/tails!1081)

    Commits:
      - Don't translate "known security vulnerabilities"

  * Fix progress information inconsistencies when resuming an automatic upgrade
    download (tails/tails!1071)

    Closes issues:
      - Upgrader sometimes fails: Negative number not allowed in format_bytes at
        /usr/local/share/perl/5.32.1/Tails/IUK/Role/FormatByte.pm line 45 (Fix progress
        information inconsistencies when resuming an automatic upgrade download)
        (tails/tails#18435)

    Commits:
      - Revert "Upgrader: Avoid display the progress dialog initial text"
      - Untabify
      - Make code style more consistent
      - Add comment
      - Upgrader: Avoid display the progress dialog initial text
      - Tails::IUK::LWP::UserAgent::WithProgress: check if the temp file exists
      - Tails::IUK::LWP::UserAgent::WithProgress: always display the total amount of
        data downloaded

  * Persistent Storage design docs (tails/tails!1035)

    Closes issues:
      - Persistent Storage: Update design doc (tails/tails#19223)

    Commits:
      - Remove XXX comments
      - Remove glossary entry for tails-persistence-setup
      - Link to contribute/Persistent_Storage in contribute.mdwn
      - Persistent Storage design doc: Don't link to line numbers
      - Revert "Rename persistence.mdwn -> Persistent_Storage.mdwn"
      - Follow style guide
      - Fix sentence
      - Fix typo
      - Improve Persistent Storage contribute doc
      - Rename persistence.mdwn -> Persistent_Storage.mdwn
      - Move persistent-storage/HACKING.md to website
      - Update Additional Software design doc
      - Persistent Storage design doc: Add section on symlink attacks
      - Improve Persistent Storage design doc
      - better draft of Persistent Storage design docs

  * tps: Fix activation of feature in inconsistent state (tails/tails!1010)

    Closes issues:
      - Consider sync'ing data to disk after copying it to Persistent Storage when
        activating a feature (tails/tails#19368)
      - Seemingly spurious tps.configuration.mount.IsActiveException when deactivating
        a Persistent Storage feature (tails/tails#19331)
      - Delete corresponding data when a feature of the Persistent Storage is turned
        off in the settings (tails/tails#8447)
      - Switches of the new Persistent Storage are too slow to respond on some USB
        sticks (tails/tails#19291)
      - tps: Fix activation failing when in inconsistent state (tails/tails#19376)

    Commits:
      - Test suite: Update string
      - less ambiguous variable name
      - libtps.sh: Print JSON output
      - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
      - libtps.sh: Describe format returned by tps_get_features()
      - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
      - Make code easier to review
      - tps-frontend: Check if action row is defined
      - Fix comment
      - Explain stacklevel option
      - Use normal string instead of f-string
      - Fix comment
      - Update PO files.
      - Update to !1010
      - tps: Delete feature data via `rm -rf`
      - tps: Set HasData to True if we can't figure it out
      - tps-frontend: Ensure that the delete data button has the correct visibility
      - tps-frontend: Fix feature deactivated when IsActive changes to False
      - tps: Ensure that all feature properties are refreshed
      - Welcome Screen: Improve error message
      - Test suite: Use tpscli instead of parsing persistence.conf
      - Test suite: Fix "Given" used instead of "Then"
      - Test suite: Improve scenario "Feature activation fails"
      - Test suite: Use consistent wording
      - tps: Support reloading the service
      - Test suite: Improve comment and variable names
      - Test suite: Add another check that tps feature is deactivated immediately
      - Test suite: Use "active" instead of "enabled" for Persistent Storage
      - Test suite: Add scenario "Feature activation fails"
      - Welcome Screen: Show unlocked message when features failed to activate
      - Integrate tps-frontend Python files into our l10n framework
      - tps: Don't return an error in Unlock when features have unexpected state
      - Improve strings
      - tps-frontend: Don't insert hyphens when breaking lines in the error message
      - Test suite: Add scenario "Deleting data of a Persistent Storage feature"
      - tps-frontend: Remove unused imports
      - tps-frontend: Add accessible name to delete data button
      - tps-frontend: Make title of error dialogs bold
      - tps: Print stderr of failed commands in error messages
      - Test suite: Improve Gherkin of "Activating and deactivating Persistent Storage
        features" scenario
      - tps: Strip the "GDBus.Error:" prefix from errors displayed to users
      - tps: Check that enabling/disabling feature worked
      - tps: Fix ActivationFailedError raised instead of DeactivationFailedError
      - tps: Fix incorrect PropertiesChanged signal
      - tps: Add behave test for deleting feature
      - tps: Fix behave tests failing
      - tps: Fix no PropertiesChanged emitted for HasData
      - tps: Remove Error property
      - tps-frontend: Use IsEnabled property
      - tps: Don't raise AlreadyActivatedError and NotActivatedError
      - tps: Fix race condition when adding/removing features from config file
      - tps: Add new property Feature.IsEnabled
      - Welcome Screen: Mention which features failed to activate
      - tps-frontend: Move delete data button into first row
      - tps-frontend: Remove separator between first and second row
      - Welcome Screen: Document GtkInspector
      - Fix terminology
      - tps: Sync data copied to Persistent Storage
      - tps: Improve error in Welcome Screen when features failed to activate
      - tps-frontend: Show warning for features which failed to activate
      - tps: Remove features which failed to activate
      - tps: Store errors during service activation
      - tps: Make error message label selectable
      - tps-frontend: Use … instead of ... in button labels
      - tps-frontend: Confirm data deletion
      - tps: Treat Persistent directory with empty "Tor Browser" directory as empty
      - tps: Fix "return" used instead of "raise"
      - Add expander
      - tps: Support deleting data
      - tps-frontend: Show a spinner while activating/deactivating features
      - tps-frontend: Hide persistent folder button when feature is inactive
      - Also make on-deactived hooks work when run twice
      - tps behave-tests: Test deactivating feature with inconsistent state
      - tps: Make on-activated hooks work when run twice
      - Fix shellcheck source comments
      - tps: Fix deactivation of feature in inconsistent state
      - tps behave-tests: Test activating feature with inconsistent state
      - Revert "Don't try (and fail) to refresh features' IsActive when unlocking"
      - tps: Fix activation of feature in inconsistent state

Edited August 8, 2023 by 1PW

1PW · May 26, 2023

Tails 5.13 (Stable) was released. (16-May-2023)

tails (5.13) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Resolve "Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.6, based on Firefox 102.11"
    (tails/tails!1134)

    Closes issues:
      - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.6, based on Firefox 102.11 (tails/tails#19621)

    Commits:
      - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
      - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.6-build1

  * unsafe-browser: Explain why our use of flock is not vulnerable
    (tails/tails!1113)

    Closes issues:
      - Unsafe Browser - Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) via symlink - Arbitrary File
        Content Delete (tails/tails#19616)

    Commits:
      - Use /run/lock instead of /var/lock
      - unsafe-browser: Explain why our use of flock is not vulnerable

  * Make curl use Tor (tails/tails!1123)

    Closes issues:
      - Make curl work out of the box (tails/tails#19488)

    Commits:
      - test that curl works out of the box
      - Make curl use Tor

  * udisks2: Use LUKS2 by default (tails/tails!1115)

    Closes issues:
      - Persistent Storage: Use LUKS2 (tails/tails#15450)

    Commits:
      - Test suite: Increase timeout for changing the LUKS passphrase
      - Test suite: Check that Persistent Storage uses LUKS2
      - Test suite: record old version when installing one to disk
      - Test suite: move step definition to a more suitable place
      - udisks2: Use LUKS2 by default

  * tails-documentation: Check that joined path is below website path
    (tails/tails!1132)

    Closes issues:
      - tails-documentation - Limited Path Traversal (tails/tails#19576)

    Commits:
      - tails-documentation: Check that joined path is below website path

  * Test suite: Don't check for "Display output is not active" screen
    (tails/tails!1126)

    Closes issues:
      - Tests sometimes fail with "Display output is not active" after clicking login
        button in Welcome Screen (tails/tails#19639)

    Commits:
      - Test suite: Don't check for "Display output is not active" screen
      - Test suite: Print step status
      - Welcome Screen: Make error message more useful

  * Remove our public calendar (tails/tails!1125)

    Commits:
      - Add missing word
      - Fix broken links
      - Remove our public calendar

  * tps: Use argon2id (tails/tails!1120)

    Closes issues:
      - Persistent Storage: Use argon2id (tails/tails#19633)

    Commits:
      - Test suite: Check that Persistent Storage uses argon2id
      - tps: Reduce the number of triggered udev events
      - tps: Fix creation sometimes failing because udisks object is not ready
      - tps: Fix `udevadm trigger --settle` sometimes blocking forever
      - tps-frontend: Fix first job update sometimes ignored
      - tps: Send only one PropertiesChanged signal per job update
      - tps: Don't restrict CPU usage during Persistent Storage creation
      - tps: Keep the system responsive while creating Persistent Storage
      - tps: Use argon2id

  * tps: Fix stderr of failed commands not printed (tails/tails!1118)

    Commits:
      - tps: Fix stderr of failed commands not printed

  * Test suite: Avoid TCA scenario failing if the error panel is briefly shown
    (tails/tails!1114)

    Closes issues:
      - Fix "Scenario: The same Tor configuration is applied when the network is
        reconnected" failing (tails/tails#19591)

    Commits:
      - Test suite: Avoid TCA scenario failing if the error panel is briefly shown

  * tps: Fix InvalidBootDeviceError raised in finally block (tails/tails!1103)

    Closes issues:
      - "Persistent Greeter options" test suite scenario always fails
        (tails/tails#19558)
      - tps reports the need for "USB stick installed with a USB image or Tails
        Installer" in unrelated failure modes (tails/tails#19588)

    Commits:
      - tps: Fix InvalidBootDeviceError raised in finally block
      - tps: Remove unused exception

 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org>  Mon, 15 May 2023 12:22:05 +0200

Edited May 26, 2023 by 1PW

1PW · June 14, 2023

Tails 5.14 (stable) has been released. (13-June-2023)

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Changes and updates

Included software

Update Tor Browser to 12.0.7.

Usability improvements to the Persistent Storage

Change the button to create a Persistent Storage from the Welcome Screen to be a switch. (#19673)

Add back the description of some Persistent Storage features, and mention Kleopatra in the GnuPG feature. (#19642 and #19675)

Hide the duplicated Persistent bookmark in the Files browser. (#19646)

Fixed problems

For more details, read our changelog.

Avoid restarting the desktop environment when creating a Persistent Storage. (#19667)

Known issues

None specific to this release.

See the list of long-standing issues.

Edited June 14, 2023 by 1PW

1PW · July 20, 2023

Note: After issuing the stable release of Tails 5.15, a critical corrective replacement was released the following day.

Tails 5.15.1 (stable) has been released. (11-July-2023)

Download: https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/tails/stable/

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tails (5.15.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Emergency fix: fix whisperback reporting

 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org>  Tue, 11 Jul 2023 13:20:32 +0200

tails (5.15) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Resolve “Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.5.1” (tails/tails!1195)

    Closes issues:
      - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.5.1 (tails/tails#19724)

    Commits:
      - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
      - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.5.1-build1

  * onion-grater: fix the stream ownership check (tails/tails!1184)

    Closes issues:
      - onion-grater stream ownership check is very buggy resulting in restrict-stream-
        events being broken (tails/tails#19741)

    Commits:
      - spare typing
      - turn on debug automatically based on cmdline
      - no stream belongs to pid-based matching
      - onion-grater: log events dropped by restrict-stream-events
      - onion-grater: only use address comparison for event ownership
      - Test suite: test that Tor Browser's circuit view is working
      - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.5-build2
      - Test suite: wait longer for Unsafe Browser's zenity dialogs
      - Browsers: deal with another extension directory from TBB 12.5 (refs:
        tails/tails#19724)
      - Browsers: update to new fontconfig path for Tor Browser 12.5 (refs
        tails/tails#19742)
      - Test suite: remove useless torified_browsing.rb
      - Test suite: adapt test to Tor Browser's new file download UX (refs:
        tails/tails#19724)
      - Test suite: embed old image next to match in automatic image bumping mode
      - Defer lyrebird → obfs4proxy renaming
      - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.5.0-build1 (refs: tails/tails#19724)
      - Browsers: add new locales supported by Tor Browser 12.5 (refs:
        tails/tails#19724)
      - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.5a7 (refs: tails/tails#19724)
      - onion-grater: fix the stream ownership check (refs: tails/tails#19741)

Edited July 28, 2023 by 1PW

1PW · July 28, 2023

Tails domain changed to tails.net.

Welcome to tails.net!

2023-07-27

Today, we finished migrating our website to a new domain: tails.net.

After 14 years using a subdomain of boum.org, we finally found a new home that will be easier for everybody to remember and type. Tails will become easier to find for the people who require it the most.

The new domain also provides us more autonomy and possibilities for some technical work.

The former tails.boum.org domain will continue working until further notice, to avoid breaking upgrades and security notifications on older versions of Tails and external links on the Internet.

Please make sure to update any important pointers you might have or know about.

We want to thank boum.org for supporting the project for all these years. Their support was and continues to be very valuable.

Welcome to tails.net!

Today, we finished migrating our website to a new domain: tails.net.

After 14 years using a subdomain of boum.org, we finally found a new home that will be easier for everybody to remember and type. Tails will become easier to find by the people who need it the most.

The new domain also provides us more autonomy and possibilities for some technical work.

The former tails.boum.org domain will continue working until further notice, to avoid breaking upgrades and security notifications on older versions of Tails and external links on the Internet.

Please make sure to update any important pointers you might have or know about.

We want to thank boum.org for supporting the project for all these years. Their support was and continues to be very valuable!

URL: https://tails.boum.org/news/new_domain/index.en.html

1PW · August 8, 2023

Tails 5.16 (stable) has been released. (06-August-2023)

Download: https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/tails/stable/

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Changes and updates

Update Tor Browser to 12.5.2.

Update Thunderbird to 102.14.0.

Display the passphrase recommendation for the Persistent Storage in small caps only.

Capitalizing each word is more cumbersome and not more secure.

Fixed problems

Fix some failures while unlocking the Persistent Storage. (#19728)

Sometimes, upgrading the cryptographic parameters of the Persistent Storage was taking too long and made unlocking the Persistent Storage fail. We allowed the upgrade to take more time before reporting a failure.

Please keep reporting errors using WhisperBack if you have problems unlocking your Persistent Storage.

Fix the circuit view of Tor Browser that was sometimes not displayed. (#19897)

For more details, read our changelog.

Known issues

See the list of long-standing issues.

Edited August 17, 2023 by 1PW

1PW · August 17, 2023

Tails 5.16.1 (stable) has been released. (15-August-2023)

Download: https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/tails/stable/

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Changes and updates

Update the Linux kernel to 6.1.38.

This update fixes:

Downfall on Intel processors (CVE-2022-40982)

Inception on AMD processors (CVE-2023-20569)

These vulnerabilities could allow a malicious application running in Tails to access and steal data from another application in Tails, for example passwords stored in KeePassXC or private keys stored in Electrum.

This attack is unlikely, but could be performed by a strong attacker, such as a government or a hacking firm. We are not aware of this attack being used in the wild.

Fixed problems

For more details, read our changelog.

Known issues

None specific to this release.

See the list of long-standing issues.

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Edited August 17, 2023 by 1PW

1PW · September 5, 2023

Tails 5.17 (stable) has been released. (05-September-2023)

Download: https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/tails/stable/

Changes and updates

Rename Tails Installer as Tails Cloner. (#16907)

Install more printer drivers and enable all printers automatically. (#18254)

Update Tor Browser to 12.5.3.

Update Thunderbird to 102.15.0.

Fixed problems

Fix some failures while unlocking the Persistent Storage. (#19728)

Sometimes, upgrading the cryptographic parameters of the Persistent Storage was taking too long and made unlocking the Persistent Storage fail. We allowed the upgrade to take more time before reporting a failure.

Please keep reporting errors using WhisperBack if you have problems unlocking your Persistent Storage.

For more details, read our changelog.

1PW · September 15, 2023

Tails 5.17.1 (stable) has been released. (15-September-2023)

Download: https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/tails/stable/

Changes and updates

Update Tor Browser to 12.5.4 which fixes CVE-2023-4863: Heap buffer overflow in libwebp.

Update Tor to 0.4.8.5.

For more details, read our changelog.

1PW · October 3, 2023

tails (5.18) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Resolve “Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.5.6” (tails/tails!1253)

    Closes issues:
      - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.5.6 (tails/tails#19983)

    Commits:
      - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
      - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.5.6

  * Update tor to 0.4.8.6 (tails/tails!1252)

    Closes issues:
      - Upgrade to tor 0.4.8.6 (tails/tails#19977)

    Commits:
      - Update tor to 0.4.8.6

  * Upgrade to Linux linux-image-6.1.0-12-amd64 (currently version 6.1.52-1)
    (tails/tails!1250)

    Closes issues:
      - Upgrade to Linux 6.1.52 (DSA 5492-1) (tails/tails#19967)

    Commits:
      - Refresh webext-ublock-origin-firefox patch vs 1.51.0+dfsg-2
      - Update the snapshot of the Debian archive to 2023092602
      - Upgrade to Linux linux-image-6.1.0-12-amd64 (currently version 6.1.52-1)

  * Upgrade to Tor Browser 12.5.5 (tails/tails!1249)

    Closes issues:
      - Upgrade to Tor Browser 12.5.5 (tails/tails#19980)

    Commits:
      - Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
      - Get ready for upcoming “git-annex sync” behavior change
      - Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.5.5

  * Fix cryptsetup backport (tails/tails!1240)

    Commits:
      - Clarify reason why we install our cryptsetup backport
      - Temporarily pin our cryptsetup 2:2.6.1-4~deb11u1~tails1 backport
      - Needed package update: add exception for cryptsetup
      - Enable the fix-cryptsetup-backport APT overlay

  * Test suite: ensure node is focused after node.grabFocus (tails/tails!1235)

    Commits:
      - Test suite: drop grabFocus workaround + simplify
      - Test suite: drop grabFocus workaround + simplify
      - Test suite: mechanically drop workaround that is now part of grabFocus
      - Test suite: ensure node is focused after node.grabFocus

  * Defer the chutney bootstrap check until we need Tor (tails/tails!1179)

    Commits:
      - keep-snapshots is better avoided for release
      - move script to its own file
      - waiting chutney starts *after* the test suite started
      - test-rerun waits for chutney to be bootstrapped
      - Release process: document how to run `chutney wait_for_bootstrap`
      - Test suite: make --disable-chutney work again
      - Test suite: be more careful about when we require Chutney to have bootstrapped
      - Test suite: disable the network for the VM by default
      - Test suite: debug_log chutney events instead of puts:ing
      - Test suite: defer the chutney bootstrap check until we need Tor

 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org>  Mon, 02 Oct 2023 11:26:32 +0200

1PW · October 31, 2023

tails (5.19) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Upgrade to Tor Browser 13.0.1 based on Firefox 115.4 (tails/tails!1265)

    Closes issues:
      - Upgrade to Tor Browser 13.0.1 based on Firefox 115.4 (tails/tails#19994)

    Commits:
      - Tor Browser release process: adjust one more thing to the new tarball naming scheme
      - Upgrade Tor Browser to 13.0.1 (refs: tails/tails#19994)

  * Update to Thunderbird 115 and re-enable Thunderbird automated tests
    (tails/tails!1258)

    Closes issues:
      - Fix and re-enable “I can send emails, and receive emails over IMAP” automated
        test: Certificate handling on Jenkins needs updating for Thunderbird 102
        (tails/tails#19193)
      - Update to Thunderbird 115 (tails/tails#19885)

    Commits:
      - Test suite: remove unused step
      - Test suite: adapt steps for changes in Thunderbird 115 (refs:
        tails/tails#19885)
      - Test suite: don't import isotesters' snake oil SSL cert anymore
      - Test suite: re-enable “I can send emails, and receive emails over IMAP” test
      - Update Thunderbird patches from
        tails/thunderbird@b8b54f4bb25b028171be3b7548f2b7d309d5b61d

  * Refresh Thunderbird patch (tails/tails!1257)

    Commits:
      - Refresh Thunderbird patch

  * Tor Browser 13 (tails/tails!1232)

    Closes issues:
      - Upgrade to Tor Browser 13 based on Firefox 115 (tails/tails#19478)

    Commits:
      - Test suite: adapt test to Tor Browser's download dialog having random roles
      - Browsers: hide the bookmark toolbar
      - Escape “.” that's meant as a literal char, rather than a special regepx char
      - Test suite: don't assign an assignment :)
      - Test suite: add image due to new Italian translation
      - Test suite: move browser-related scenarios from common_steps.rb to browser.rb
      - Test suite: don't use translated strings in Dogtail
      - Test suite: adapt scenario for Tor Browser's New Identity feature vs version
        13.0
      - Test suite: rename step
      - Fix indentation
      - Tor Browser: hide Tor donation campaign in about:tor
      - 10-tbb: don't create the profile directory outside of create_default_profile()
      - Test suite: make sure the browser URL bar is focused and ready for interaction
      - Test suite: refactor
      - Simplify
      - Test suite: bump images for Tor Browser 13.0
      - Upgrade Tor Browser to final 13.0 (refs: tails/tails#19478)
      - Update (last time!) AppArmor policy for Tor Browser 13 (refs:
        tails/tails#19478)
      - onion-grater: log the rewrite of CIRC CLOSED events when tor-browser-mode is
        enabled
      - Update AppArmor policy for Tor Browser 13
      - onion-grater: make the circuit leak prevention compatible with Tor Browser 13
      - Upgrade Tor Browser to 13.0a6 (refs: tails/tails#19478)
      - Upgrade Tor Browser to 13.0a5-build1 (refs: tails/tails#19478)
      - Test suite: adapt test to Tor Browser 13.0a4's file download UX (refs:
        tails/tails#19478)
      - Upgrade Tor Browser to 13.0a4 (refs: tails/tails#19478)
      - Update (again) AppArmor policy for Tor Browser 13 (refs: tails/tails#19478)
      - Test suite: bump images
      - Test suite: optimize
      - Test suite: fix test where method names were mixed up
      - Test suite: German uses a new separator in Tor Browser 13
      - Adapt for the new Tor Browser tarball naming scheme.
      - Upgrade Tor Browser to 13.0a3-build1 (refs: tails/tails#19478)
      - onion-grater: craft correct empty answers for `getinfo circuit-status`
      - Clean up unnecessary json data
      - Tor Browser: allows subscribing to CIRC events via onion-grater
      - Unsafe Browser: disable uBlock Origin
      - Update AppArmor policy for Tor Browser 13 (refs: tails/tails#19478)
      - Browsers: hide warning when downloading files
      - Test suite: revert from setting browser url with Dogtail's .text= to
        @screen.paste()
      - 10-tbb: sanity check that we migrated everything from TBB's profile
      - 10-tbb: clean up TorBrowser sub-dir properly
      - 10-tbb: remove potential residual file from inside omni.ja
      - 10-tbb: adapt for upgrade to Tor Browser 13 (refs: tails/tails#19478)
      - Upgrade Tor Browser to 13.0a2-build2

  * add image for new translation (tails/tails!1264)

    Closes issues:
      - Fix “Tails is localized for every tier-1 language, Examples (#6)”
        (tails/tails#20002)

    Commits:
      - add image for new translation

  * Upgrade to Linux 6.1.55-1 (tails/tails!1266)

    Closes issues:
      - Upgrade to Linux 6.1.55 (tails/tails#20004)

    Commits:
      - Upgrade to linux-image-6.1.0-13-amd64 (currently at version 6.1.55-1)

  * Avoid errors when publishing UDFs (tails/tails!1260)

    Commits:
      - run test from the right directory
      - fix: diff-index exit code
      - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)
      - less git commit errors
      - manually check test UDFs
      - More checks where I do errors

  * Upgrade to Bullseye 11.8, tor 0.4.8.7, and OnionCircuits 0.8 (tails/tails!1259)

    Closes issues:
      - Onion Circuits: please allow copying relay information (tails/tails#12114)
      - OnionCircuits uses deprecated functions (tails/tails#19917)
      - Replicate Vidalia's ability to close arbitrary circuits (tails/tails#8927)
      - Release Onion Circuits 0.8 (tails/tails#19963)
      - Upgrade to tor 0.4.8.7 (tails/tails#19978)
      - Upgrade to Bullseye 11.8 (tails/tails#19957)

    Commits:
      - Add comment
      - onion-grater: allow OnionCircuits to close arbitrary circuits
      - Install OnionCircuits from SID (currently 0.8)
      - Upgrade to tor 0.4.8.7
      - Upgrade to Bullseye 11.8

1PW · November 11, 2023

Security audit of Persistent Storage and Tor integration 2023-11-10

In March 2023, Radically Open Security conducted a security audit on the major improvements that we released in Tails 5.8 (December 2022) on the Persistent Storage, the Unsafe Browser, and the Wayland integration.

To better protect our users, we addressed most of the security vulnerabilities as soon as they were discovered and reported to us, without waiting for the audit to be complete and public. We can now share with you the final report.

More…

At the time of this posting, Tails 5.19 is still the current release version.

1PW · November 15, 2023

Tails 5.19.1 (stable) has been released. (15-November-2023)

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tails (5.19.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Upgrade tor to 0.4.8.9 (tails/tails!1285)

    Closes issues:
      - Upgrade to tor 0.4.8.9 (tails/tails#20031)

    Commits:
      - Upgrade tor to 0.4.8.9 (refs: tails/tails#20031)

  * upgrade to tor 0.4.8.8 (tails/tails!1281)

    Closes issues:
      - Upgrade to tor 0.4.8.8 (tails/tails#20018)

    Commits:
      - upgrade to tor 0.4.8.8

  * Test suite: adapt to subtle UI change in Thunderbird 115.4.1 (tails/tails!1271)

    Closes issues:
      - Thunderbird test fails: can't find received test email in the UI while it's
        there (tails/tails#20008)

    Commits:
      - Test suite: adapt to subtle UI change in Thunderbird 115.4.1

  * Help the RM when we FTBFS during the release process due to an unused APT source
    (tails/tails!1269)

    Closes issues:
      - FTBFS during the release process when an unused APT source is configured
        (tails/tails#20009)

    Commits:
      - Use clearer grep --recursive instead of rgrep
      - Help the RM when we FTBFS during the release process due to an unused APT source

 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org>  Tue, 14 Nov 2023 11:55:39 +0100

Edited November 15, 2023 by 1PW

1PW · November 28, 2023

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tails (5.20) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Upgrade Thunderbird to 1:115.5.0-1~deb11u1

  * Upgrade Tor Browser to 13.0.4 (refs: tails/tails#20043) (tails/tails!1295)

    Closes issues:
      - Upgrade to Tor Browser 13.0.4 based on Firefox 115.5 (tails/tails#20043)

    Commits:
      - Upgrade Tor Browser to 13.0.4 (refs: tails/tails#20043)

  * fixing line numbers in diff for #20033 (tails/tails!1298)

    Commits:
      - fixing line numbers in diff for #20033

  * GitLab CI: ensure Rubocop compliance (tails/tails!1301)

    Closes issues:
      - Run Rubocop in GitLab CI (tails/tails#19307)

    Commits:
      - Fix regression introduced by partial renaming in
        5b46d28df4f40418cd6cde90b1fbbc9dd48b3c14
      - Test suite: remove duplicate step
      - Manually correct Rubocop offense
      - Test suite: simplifications prompted by Rubocop
      - Rubocop: replace obsolete parameters with their new names
      - Manually correct or disable Rubocop offenses
      - GitLab CI: test Rubocop compliance
      - rubocop --regenerate-todo
      - Manually correct or disable Rubocop offenses
      - Rubocop: relax a few limits
      - Manually correct or disable Rubocop offenses
      - rubocop --autocorrect--all
      - Rubocop: use 88 chars max line length
      - Rubocop: target Ruby 3.1 (Bookworm)
      - Test suite: work around the OSK not showing on new tabs
      - Rubocop: silence false positive
      - Test suite: fix more Rubocop offenses
      - Lint
      - Explain why we're retrying and future nicer workaround
      - Test suite: give some time when verifying that each action we took happened
      - Test suite: verify that ctrl+a selected all of the address bar
      - Test suite: don't focus the address bar in “open new tab” step
      - Test suite: make browser helper work for all browsers
      - Test suite: make Dogtail code work in all locales
      - Test suite: retry inputting the URL into the browser navigation bar if it
        failed (refs: tails/tails#20017)

  * Test suite: remove obsolete localization of UnsafeBrowserStartPage.png
    (tails/tails!1299)

    Closes issues:
      - Test suite: clean up obsolete localization of UnsafeBrowserStartPage.png
        (tails/tails#20038)

    Commits:
      - Test suite: remove obsolete localization of UnsafeBrowserStartPage.png

  * explain locale descriptions RM process (tails/tails!1297)

    Closes issues:
      - Explain how to inspect the locale-descriptions diff during the release process
        (tails/tails#20037)

    Commits:
      - clarify what to do when inspecting
      - Update PO files.
      - comment po-to-mozilla.toml
      - clarifies relationship between code and process

  * Draft: Resolve “devel branch FTBFS since the upgrade to uBlock 1.53”
    (tails/tails!1296)

    Commits:
      - Ensure tails-debugging-info does not crash in case lsblk returns a non-zero
        exit code
      - Include more information about the boot device partition and filesystem layout
        in WhisperBack reports
      - partitioning: always “set -x”
      - Include /var/log/boot.log in WhisperBack reports
      - automailer supports content-type: html
      - automailer: multiple x-attach fields
      - Test suite: give sysadmins a chance to update OpenPGP keys before we fail

  * tps: various bug fixes (tails/tails!1294)

    Closes issues:
      - tpsd: TypeError: exceptions must derive from BaseException (tails/tails#20011)

    Commits:
      - Simplify
      - tps: use logger object consistently
      - Remove now unused variable
      - tps: don't log exception object twice
      - tps: fix reporting of errors about refreshing state of features
      - tps: Fix “return” used instead of “raise”

  * Emacs: configure the perlnavigator Perl Language Server when used with the
    Eglot LSP client (tails/tails!1291)

    Commits:
      - Emacs: configure the perlnavigator Perl Language Server when used in
        combination with the Eglot LSP client

  * misc whisperback improvements (tails/tails!1290)

    Closes issues:
      - Whisperback is only displayed in English (tails/tails#20040)
      - Too many WhisperBack reports without description (tails/tails#19351)
      - tails-debugging-info is available to amnesia-level attacker (tails/tails#19997)

    Commits:
      - Fix what these comments are about
      - Remove useless comment
      - remove useless a11y code
      - sort import modules better with isort
      - Update comment
      - WhisperBack: remove useless shebangs on files that are not meant to be executed
      - Remove unused variable
      - Remove unused variable
      - WhisperBack: reformat with black
      - WhisperBack: remove useless inheritance from object class
      - WhisperBack: remove About dialog
      - Improve phrasing
      - Sort imports
      - hidden_msg → details
      - add a middle “technical details” frame
      - headers are not editable
      - remove dead code
      - remove useless instance variable
      - Test suite: fix typo in WhisperBack name, improve phrasing of scenarios and
        steps
      - put fields in bold, html markup only if needed
      - use whisperback css to clean padding
      - add trailing ellipsis
      - more space between textareas
      - ignore temporary files
      - improve python linting
      - don't maximize automatically
      - UI matches design more closely
      - report has more prefilled data
      - tps sends more informative reports
      - TPS sends prefill data to WhisperBack
      - whisperback supports being prefilled
      - redesign Whisperback UI
      - Test whisperback
      - automatic tests changed to reflect #19997
      - fix whisperback localization
      - only whisperback can read debug logs

  * Make WhisperBack reports quicker to triage and possibly more actionable wrt.
    unusual or buggy boot device partition topology (tails/tails!1289)

    Commits:
      - Ensure tails-debugging-info does not crash in case lsblk returns a non-zero
        exit code
      - Include more information about the boot device partition and filesystem layout
        in WhisperBack reports
      - partitioning: always “set -x”
      - Include /var/log/boot.log in WhisperBack reports

  * Ensure uBlock does not download and enable additional per-region/language
    blocklists (tails/tails!1287)

    Closes issues:
      - uBlock enables and downloads per-region/language additional blocklists
        (tails/tails#20022)

    Commits:
      - code slightly more readable
      - extra newline makes reading easier
      - Avoid fingerprinting by refreshing uBlock lists
      - Ensure uBlock does not download and enable additional per-region/language
        blocklists

  * automailer: more featuresss (tails/tails!1286)

    Commits:
      - automailer supports content-type: html
      - automailer: multiple x-attach fields

  * Update the Electrum incentive during our fundraiser (tails/tails!1283)

    Closes issues:
      - Update the language for Electrum incentive during the donation campaign
        (tails/tails#17822)

    Commits:
      - Make comment match updated frequency
      - Clarify test instructions
      - Document how to test the incentives
      - Update the Electrum incentive during our fundraiser

  * Fix IUK test suite and make it test what it was meant to (tails/tails!1282)

    Closes issues:
      - iuk test suite fails on sid: “A: constructing full path: invalid argument.”
        (tails/tails#20029)

    Commits:
      - IUK test suite: fix the ownership test
      - IUK test suite: fix test for existence of file in SquashFS
      - IUK test suite: ensure we can read the files we're going to pack
      - IUK test suite: fix argument matching

  * Test suite: retry inputting the URL into the browser navigation bar if it
    failed (tails/tails!1277)

    Closes issues:
      - Make opening URLs in the browser in the test suite reliable again
        (tails/tails#20017)

    Commits:
      - Test suite: work around the OSK not showing on new tabs
      - Rubocop: silence false positive
      - Test suite: fix more Rubocop offenses
      - Lint
      - Explain why we're retrying and future nicer workaround
      - Test suite: give some time when verifying that each action we took happened
      - Test suite: verify that ctrl+a selected all of the address bar
      - Test suite: don't focus the address bar in “open new tab” step
      - Test suite: make browser helper work for all browsers
      - Test suite: make Dogtail code work in all locales
      - Test suite: retry inputting the URL into the browser navigation bar if it
        failed (refs: tails/tails#20017)

  * Test suite: give sysadmins a chance to update OpenPGP keys before failing
    (tails/tails!1275)

    Commits:
      - Test suite: give sysadmins a chance to update OpenPGP keys before we fail

  * Tor blog post: shift all headings 1 level further (tails/tails!1270)

    Commits:
      - Tor blog post: shift all headings 1 level further

  * Test suite: allow Thunderbird to connect to test email server even if it's
    within RFC1918 range (tails/tails!1268)

    Commits:
      - Test suite: allow Thunderbird to connect to test email server even if it's
        within RFC1918 range
      - Refactoring: extract code to method
      - Move method to a more appropriate location

  * Add script to recover lost translations (tails/tails!1263)

    Commits:
      - Improve script documentation
      - Do not try to recover obsolete translations
      - use wrapwidth also for parsing.
      - also copy msgstr.
      - Simplify logic.
      - Use argparser and add width support.
      - merge does too much ⇾ create a own copy method.
      - Add Recover-lost-translationy.py

  * simplify locale-descriptions update during RM (tails/tails!1187)

    Commits:
      - fix pipeline doctest dependencies
      - fix output
      - output is sanitized and checked
      - doctest
      - suggest mozilla-compatible locales
      - clarify doc
      - update locale descriptions
      - always show the second suggestion block
      - fix dependencies
      - documentation available to people that need to fix
      - integrate with Gitlab CI
      - more detailed process
      - non-copypastable suggestions are more exhaustive
      - separate generate and suggest usecases
      - map more languages using semi-automated tool
      - black reformatting
      - comments clarifying language
      - automatically get suggestions
      - refactor code
      - some languages needs to be added anyway
      - fix spanish
      - follow new process, new mozilla descriptions file
      - change approach: only partially automated
      - automatically generate locale list

 -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org>  Mon, 27 Nov 2023 12:54:50 +0100

Edited November 28, 2023 by 1PW

1PW · December 22, 2023

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Tails 5.21
Changes and updates

Help troubleshoot when resizing the system partition fails the first time Tails is started.

Translate the date displayed in the top navigation bar.

Update Tor Browser to 13.0.7.

Update the Tor client to 0.4.8.10.

Fixed problems

Fix Tor Browser crashing when clicking on the UBlock icon. (#20061)

Make time synchronization more reliable. (#19923)

@BenWestgate fixed several issues in the backup feature of Tails Cloner:

Remove the message about doing a backup when no USB stick is plugged in. (#20063)

Update available options when plugging in another USB stick. (#20042)

Point to backup instructions when choosing to clone the Persistent Storage. (!1305)

For more details, read our changelog.

1PW · January 17

Tails report for December 2023: 2024-01-16

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news

Tails report for December 2023

Tails report for December 2023 2024-01-16

Highlights

Releases

Metrics

Happy 2024, Tails-y folks! We wish you a year full of nourishing energies, forceful resistance, and great health ✊🏽

Highlights

2023 was an eventful year at Tails. We kicked off the 1st year of our 3-year strategic plan with 16 releases of Tails, significant improvements to core Tails features like the new Persistent Storage, and researching cool, new features we want to bring to you. In parallel, we started moving into a new home and made investments to become a more sustainable project and a healthier workplace. Read more about 2023 at Tails here. If you'd rather listen, check out our presentation at State of the Onion 2023!

We are raising funds for our work in 2024, but our annual fundraising campaign has fallen short of our goal. So, we've extended our fundraiser till January 20, 2024. If you find our work useful and can contribute, we'd appreciate your help. Every contribution, no matter the size, makes a big difference. Donate now!

Talking about contributions that make a difference, we remain ever so grateful to our sponsors! Last month, wordsolver.co renewed their sponsorship of Tails. This is the 3rd year of their support for Tails' mission! Thank you 💜

Releases

We released Tails 5.21. In 5.21:

Tor client and Tor Browser are up-to-date

we improved Tails's handling of date and time: you'll find localized dates in the top navigation, and separately, we replaced the unpunctual web servers in our htpdate pool

the backup feature of Tails Cloner is friendlier to use. Thanks, @BenWestgate!

And lots more.

Metrics

Tails was started more than 815,559 times this month. That's a daily average of over 26,300 boots.

1PW · January 31

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Tails 5.22 2024-01-30

New features

In Tor Browser, you can now save files to more folders: Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, and Videos. You can also upload files from these folders.

When your Persistent Storage is broken, Tails now tries to repair its file system when you unlock it on the Welcome Screen.

Changes and updates

Report the write speed after cloning a Persistent Storage from Tails Cloner.

Do not try to unlock or delete a Persistent Storage on a read-only USB stick.

Update Tor Browser to 13.0.9.

Update Thunderbird to 115.7.

Fixed problems

Stop leaking the first-level domain of visited websites in WhisperBack reports. The problem was first introduced in Tails 5.15.1 (July 2023). (!1344)

Make installing Tails with Tails Cloner more robust by fixing occasional errors AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'props'. Thanks to Ben Westgate! (!1312)

Fix saving the Additional Software configuration when creating a Persistent Storage. (!1350)

Fix help link when resizing the system partition fails the first time Tails is started. (!1341)

For more details, read our changelog.

1PW · February 27

Quote

Changes and updates

Included software

Tails 6.0 updates most of the applications included in Tails, among others:

Tor Browser to 13.0.10.

Electrum from 4.0.9 to 4.3.4

Improve support for the Lightning protocol and hardware wallets.

KeePassXC from 2.6.2 to 2.7.4

Add entry tags.

Support dark mode.

Redesign history view.

Metadata Cleaner from 1.0.2 to 2.4.0

Redesign the whole user interface.

Support dark mode.

Add support for AIFF and HEIC files.

Text Editor from gedit to gnome-text-editor

Support dark mode.

Inkscape from 1.0.2 to 1.2.2

Audacity from 2.4.2 to 3.2.4

Gimp from 2.10.22 to 2.10.34

Kleopatra from 4:20.08 to 4:22.12

Removed features

Remove the icons on the desktop.

The extension of GNOME Shell that we used to provide this feature is not well integrated into GNOME and created other problems. (#19920)

Remove the item Wipe and Wipe available disk space from the shortcut menu of the Files browser.

Secure deletion is not reliable enough on USB sticks and Solid-State Drives (SSDs) for us to keep advertising this feature.

We updated our documentation on secure deletion to new recommendations: use encrypted volumes, overwrite the entire device, or disintegrate it physically.

Remove the item Remove metadata from the shortcut menu of the Files browser.

The developers of MAT2, the metadata removal library used by Metadata Cleaner, are not providing this option anymore.

Remove GtkHash

You can still install GtkHash as Additional Software.

Fixed problems

Fix several issues with special characters and non-Latin scripts in the screen keyboard. (#18076)

For more details, read our changelog.

Edited February 27 by 1PW

1PW · March 27

Tails 6.1 2024-03-27

Changes and updates

Update Tor Browser to 13.0.13. This includes the changes brought by 13.0.12.

Update Thunderbird to 115.9.0.

Fixed problems

Fix Onion Circuits. #20233

Fix Welcome Screen, frequently showing a “Welcome to Tails!” is not responding error. #20236

Fix Videos showing an error message during playback. #20243

Fix problems with changing the passphrase of the Persistent Storage. #20217

Tails Cloner can now install and upgrade to devices with multiple mounted partitions. #20149

The Persistent Storage settings now display all enabled custom Persistent Storage features. #19267

Mitigate the RFDS Intel CPU vulnerabilities. #20274

For more details, read our changelog.

1PW · May 16

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Tails 6.3 2024-05-16

Changes and updates

Add back translations in Romanian and Malayalam.

Update Tor Browser to 13.0.15.

Disable temporarily the PDF reader of Thunderbird to protect from a security vulnerability related to the handling of fonts in PDF files. (CVE-2024-4367)

You can still open PDF files in the Document Viewer from Thunderbird.

Make Restart later the default button, instead of Restart now, at the end of an automatic upgrade.

Fixed problems

Fix the configuration of new printers when some printers were already configured in the Persistent Storage in Tails 5.23 or earlier. (#20271)

Remove the long delay between the Welcome Screen and the GNOME desktop when MAC address anonymization fails. (#17813)

For more details, read our changelog.

1PW · June 20

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English

news

Tails 6.4

Tails 6.4 2024-06-18

New features

Random seed

Tails now stores a random seed on the USB stick to strengthen all cryptography.

Having a secure random number generator is critical to some of the cryptography used in Tails, for example, in the Persistent Storage, Tor, or HTTPS.

This random seed is stored outside of the Persistent Storage so that all users can benefit from stronger cryptography.

Changes and updates

Switch to using HTTPS addresses instead of an onion addresses for the Debian and Tails APT repositories. This makes the Additional Software feature more reliable.

Update Tor Browser to 13.0.16.

Update the Tor client to 0.4.8.12.

Update Thunderbird to 115.12.0.

Fixed problems

Fix more issues when unlocking the Persistent Storage. (#20020, #20344, #19913)

Fix connecting to a mobile broadband network on some hardware. (#20291)

Enable again the PDF reader of Thunderbird that we disabled in Tails 6.3 for security.

Improve the error message of Tails Cloner when the target USB stick cannot be unmounted because it is being used. (#19253)

Fix the homepage of Tor Browser when using the New Identity feature. This removes the error message Tor Browser blocked your homepage from loading. (#20381)

Remove the redundant dialog when unlocking a VeraCrypt volume using the Unlock VeraCrypt Volumes utility. (#20281)

For more details, read our changelog.

1PW · July 21

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Tails 6.5
Changes and updates

Make installation with Tails Cloner 30 seconds faster. (!1588)

Update Tor Browser to 13.5.1, including improved letterboxing.

Update Debian to 12.6.

Fixed problems

Fix preparation for first use, often breaking legacy BIOS boot and creation of Persistent Storage. (#20451)

Fix the language of Tor Browser when started from Tor Connection. (#20318)

Fix connection via mobile broadband, LTE, and PPPoE DSL. (#20291, #20433)

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1PW · August 14

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Changes and updates

Update Tor Browser to 13.5.2.

Update Thunderbird to 115.14.0.

Update many firmware packages. This improves the support for newer hardware: graphics, Wi-Fi, and so on.

Detect new types of errors when resizing the system partition fails (the first time Tails is started) and report the following error message.

Something went wrong when starting your Tails USB stick for the first time:
resizing the system partition failed

It will be impossible to create a Persistent Storage or apply automatic upgrades.

Affected users can try to install Tails again or use a different USB stick.

Fixed problems

Persistent Storage

Increase the maximum waiting time to 4 minutes when unlocking the Persistent Storage before returning an error. (#20475)

Made the creation of the Persistent Storage more robust after starting a Tails USB stick for the first time. (#20451)

Prevent the Persistent Storage settings from freezing after opening a link to the documentation. (#20438)

Prevent Additional Software from crashing when installing virtual packages. (#20477)

Networking

Fix connecting to the Tor network using default bridges. (#20467)

Allow enabling multiple network interfaces again. (#20128)

Tails Cloner

Remove 30 seconds of waiting time when installing by cloning. (#20131)

For more details, read our changelog.

1PW · September 17

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Changes and updates

Update Tor Browser to 13.5.3.

Update Thunderbird to 115.15.0.

Update OnionShare from 2.2 to 2.6, which includes a feature to create an anonymous chat room.

Fixed problems

Keep the firewall on even during shutdown. (#20536)

Stop reporting an error when starting an old Tails USB stick with a system partition of 2.5 GB. (#20519)

For more details, read our changelog.

1PW · Wednesday at 02:30 AM

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Tails 6.8 2024-10-08

New features

File system repair when unlocking the Persistent Storage

When the file system of the Persistent Storage has errors, Tails now offers you to repair the file system when unlocking from the Welcome Screen.

Because not all file system errors can be safely recovered this way, we wrote comprehensive documentation on how to recover data from the Persistent Storage using complementary techniques.

Changes and updates

Update Tor Browser to 13.5.6.

Improve the notification when a network interface is disabled because MAC address anonymization failed.

Fixed problems

Increase the maximum waiting time to 8 minutes when unlocking the Persistent Storage before returning an error. (#20475)

Hide shown password while unlocking Persistent Storage. (#20498)

Better handle failures in when sending WhisperBack error messages:

Fix input fields when Tails is not connected to Tor. (#19731)

Fix accessibility of input fields with screen reader. (#19903)

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