Tails 6.13 (stable) has been released. (06-March-2025) Home | Downloads | Hashes | Changelog | Documentation | Support | FAQ | Known issues | News | Spoiler Tails 6.13 2025-03-06 New features Detection of problems with Wi-Fi hardware Problems with Wi-Fi are unfortunately quite common in Tails and Linux in general. To help troubleshoot hardware compatibility issues with Wi-Fi interfaces, the Tor Connection assistant now reports when no Wi-Fi hardware is detected. https://tails.net/news/version_6.13/no-wi-fi.png Changes and updates Update Tor Browser to 14.0.7. Update the Tor client to 0.4.8.14. Fixed problems Detect partitioning errors also when Tails is started for the first time. (#20797) This solves some failures when creating the Persistent Storage on a new Tails USB stick. Fix the Configure and Show Log buttons in the notification when installing additional software fails. (#20781) https://tails.net/news/version_6.12/additional_software.png For more details, read our changelog.
Tails 6.14.1 (stable) has been released. (03-April-2025) Home | Downloads | Hashes | Changelog | Documentation | Support | FAQ | Known issues | News | Spoiler Tails 6.14.1 2025-04-03 Today, we are releasing 6.14.1 instead of 6.14 because we discovered an important issue while testing 6.14 on Tuesday and had to start the release process again to fix it. New features More flexible confinement of Tor Browser We improved the confinement technology that we use to protect your files from possible security vulnerabilities in the Tor Browser. Until now, Tor Browser could only save downloads to and read files from a limited number of folders. With Tails 6.14.1, you can safely access any folder in your Home folder or Persistent Storage from the Tor Browser. This new integration also solves other usability and accessibility issues: The Large Text accessibility feature works in Tor Browser. (#19266) The Cursor Size accessibility feature works in Tor Browser. (#19572) The minimize and maximize buttons are available again in the title bar. (#19328) These improvements rely on 2 security technologies: the flexibility of the new XDG Desktop Portals of Flatpak allowed us to relax the AppArmor confinement, improving usability without compromising on security. Changes and updates Update Tor Browser to 14.0.9. Update the Tor client to 0.4.8.16. Fixed problems Fix the Welcome Screen freezing after unlocking the Persistent Storage. (#20783) Add a clearer border to the Kleopatra window when on a white background. (#20861) Fix the error when closing the check for upgrades from About Tails. (#20861) For more details, read our changelog.
Tails 6.14.2 (stable) has been released. (15-April-2025) Home | Downloads | Hashes | Changelog | Documentation | Support | FAQ | Known issues | News | Spoiler Tails 6.14.2 2025-04-15 This release is an emergency release to fix security vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel and the implementation of the Perl programming language. Changes and updates Update Linux to 6.1.133, which fixes multiple security vulnerabilities that may lead to a privilege escalation or information leaks. Update Perl to 5.36.0-7+deb12u2, which fixes a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability, which may result in denial of service, or potentially the execution of arbitrary code. For more details, read our changelog.
Tails 6.15 (stable) has been released. (01-May-2025) Home | Downloads | Hashes | Changelog | Documentation | Support | FAQ | Known issues | News | Spoiler Tails 6.15 2025-05-01 Changes and updates Update Tor Browser to 14.5.1. Update the Linux kernel to 6.1.135. Fixed problems Make sure Tails cannot store data in UEFI variables or ACPI tables when crashing. (#20813) Fix the appearance of the GRUB Boot Loader with Secure Boot. (#20899) For more details, read our changelog.
Tails 6.15.1 (stable) has been released. (20-May-2025) Home | Downloads | Hashes | Changelog | Documentation | Support | FAQ | Known issues | News | Spoiler Tails 6.15.1 2025-05-20 This release is an emergency release to fix important security vulnerabilities in Tor Browser. Changes and updates Update Tor Browser to 14.5.2, which fixes Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2025-37. These vulnerabilities allow an attacker to perform an out-of-bounds read or write on a JavaScript object, but don't allow breaking out of the Firefox sandbox. Update Thunderbird to 128.10.1. Remove the Tor Browser and Tor Browser (persistent) folders: they are not necessary anymore, thanks to the more flexible confinement of Tor Browser we introduced in Tails 6.14.1. (#15028) Fixed problems Fix the Unsafe Browser appearing in the window list with the Tor Browser icon. (#20934) Make reporting an error using WhisperBack more robust. (#20921) Fix USB tethering. (#20940) For more details, read our changelog.
Tails 6.16 (stable) has been released. (28-May-2025) Home | Downloads | Hashes | Changelog | Documentation | Support | FAQ | Known issues | News | Spoiler Tails 6.16 2025-05-28 Changes and updates Update Tor Browser to 14.5.3. Update the Linux kernel to 6.1.140. For more details, read our changelog.
Tails 6.17 (stable) has been released. (25-June-2025) Home | Downloads | Hashes | Changelog | Documentation | Support | FAQ | Known issues | News | Spoiler tails (6.17) unstable; urgency=medium * Resolve “Upgrade the Tor Browser for 6.17” (tails/tails!2252) Closes issues: - Upgrade the Tor Browser for 6.17 (tails/tails#21023) Commits: - Fetch Tor Browser from our archive - Upgrade Tor Browser to 14.5.4-build1 (refs: tails#21023) * Unsafe Browser: don't display the contents of about:tor on new tabs (tails/tails!2214) Closes issues: - Unsafe Browser homepage for new tabs is the Tor Browser's (tails/tails#21004) Commits: - Unsafe Browser: don't display the contents of about:tor on new tabs * Update uBlock Origin (tails/tails!2254) Closes issues: - uBlock Origin is not up-to-date (tails/tails#21036) Commits: - Bump debian snapshot * Don't include a useless copy of CPU microcode in the SquashFS (refs: tails#21001) (tails/tails!2232) Closes issues: - Remove useless CPU microcodes from SquashFS (tails/tails#21001) Commits: - Don't include CPU microcode in the SquashFS (refs: tails#21001) * Fix typos (tails/tails!2230) Commits: - Fix typo in filename - Fix typos and style - Fix a/an typos - Fix typos * onion-grater: Write 250 OK in the same syscall as its \r\n (tails/tails!222 Commits: - more ruff fixes - ruff format - Write 250 OK in the same syscall as its \r\n * Migrate the tails-dev chat room from XMPP to Matrix (tails/tails!2224) Commits: - Migrate the tails-dev chat room from XMPP to Matrix * Ensure we install custom packages for flatpak, gnome-settings-daemon, and gnome-shell (tails/tails!2223) Commits: - Make regexp stricter - shfmt - Ensure we install custom packages for flatpak, gnome-settings-daemon, and gnome-shell * Merge branch 'master' into 'stable' (tails/tails!2222) Closes issues: - Virtualization doc: take into account Microsoft Recall (tails/tails#21000) - Document better the lack of support for Apple chips (tails/tails#20807) - Clarify that data is not securely erased from the USB stick when installing (tails/tails#20749) Commits: - Translated using Weblate (Spanish) - Weblate commit - Weblate commit - Weblate commit - updated PO files - Use Microsoft Recall as an example - Warn earlier that we only have solutions for Linux - updated PO files - Document better the lack of support for Apple chips - Apple is at M4 already - updated PO files - Data is not securely erased when installing - Translated using Weblate (Catalan) - Migrate the tails-dev chat room from XMPP to Matrix - Overwrite style.css - Translated using Weblate (Portuguese) * Vagrant: upgrade to po4a/bookworm and ikiwiki/trixie (tails/tails!2220) Commits: - shfmt - Drop obsolete variable - Vagrant: upgrade to po4a/bookworm and ikiwiki/trixie * Release process, website build: require ikiwiki from Trixie and po4a 0.69 from Bookworm (tails/tails!2219) Commits: - GitLab CI: use ikiwiki:trixie container image - Refresh PO files with ikiwiki/trixie and po4a/bookworm - Fix typos - Release process, website build: require ikiwiki from Trixie and po4a 0.69 from Bookworm * Refresh org.boum.tails.TorBrowser Flatpak manifest (tails/tails!220 Commits: - shfmt - Document why we can't remove this - Refresh org.boum.tails.TorBrowser flatpak manifest * CI: ignore flatpak 1.16.1-1~bpo12+1 (tails/tails!2206) Closes issues: - neede-package-updates: flatpak 1.16.1-1~bpo12+1 (tails/tails#20999) Commits: - CI: ignore flatpak 1.16.1-1~bpo12+1 * screen-locker: Add “Show Password” checkbox (tails/tails!2201) Closes issues: - “Show password” checkbox for tails-screen-locker dialog (tails/tails#20965) Commits: - Appease ruff check - Appease ruff format - screen-locker: Add “Show Password” checkbox * htpdate pool: replace unreliable www.gnu.org with mullvad.net (tails/tails!2200) Closes issues: - www.gnu.org is unreliable in htpdate pool (tails/tails#20992) Commits: - htpdate pool: replace unreliable www.gnu.org with mullvad.net * Improve website navigation: 2025 edition (tails/tails!2046) Closes issues: - Have a secondary navigation in our documentation (tails/tails#20393) - Consider using a hamburger menu to navigate the website on mobile (tails/tails#20065) - Use a bigger font everywhere on our website (tails/tails#17665) - H1 and H2 headings are hard to differentiate (tails/tails#20805) - Use a variable font on our website (tails/tails#1618 - Add H1 heading at the beginning of page content (tails/tails#7506) - Add WCAG “skip to main content” quick link (tails/tails#7507) - Move Contribute from our top navigation to the footer only (tails/tails#20835) - Start integrating our doc for contributors with Tor's, identifying other problems in this section along the way (tails/tails#2076 Commits: - shfmt - Fix link to contact page - Fix link to upgrade doc - Fix link to upgrade doc - Remove stray PO files - Avoid having different widths for each element in smaller screens - Don't shrink doc index on smaller screen - Improve right padding - Simplify HTML - Improve vertical rhythm - Add back feed links - Remove artificial category - Don't translate /upgrade anymore - Animate caret - Allow collapsing accordions - Add authoritative reference - Add timestamp - Add license information for fonts - Remove dead CSS - Remove unused images - Tails is now made by TPI - Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s) - Update core pages - Update PO files - Fix broken links - Document headings - Prevent too much vertical space between page title and first heading - Remove dead page - Use consistent headings in inline news - Update PO files - Update PO files - Redesign the headings scale - Fix headings level - Add back custom CSS - Fix navigation for the section “Download, installation, and upgrade” - Display pointer on caret - Prevent jump to top of the page - Separate the click on the caret from the click to open the page - Fix vertical rhythm - Force margin between doc index and footer - Remove dead pages from po_translatable_pages - Remove useless template - Remove dead CSS - Adapt custom CSS to navigation and font changes - Add back 'meta' directives - Simplify - Remove deprecated reporting mechanism - Update PO files - Add all navigation elements to core pages - Rescue translations - Remove duplicated aria-label - Rename PO files - Add <h1> at the beginning of page content - Add a skip navigation link - Improve the underlining of links in footer - Remove /contribute from our main navigation - Display display on mobile - Improve page structure for accessibility - Improve scanability of doc index - Use a variable font size - Add caret to identify parent topics - Add padding on top of page title - Fix vertical alignment of crumbs and language switcher - Prevent language switcher from wrapping below the crumbs - Add bottom padding - Use float instead of flex - Add horizontal scroll to long commands instead of overflowing - Improve compatibility with different page width - Move doc index to a better place - Fix alignment of languages in RTL - Make the doc index responsive - Give more space to long commands - Remove dead code - Use a bigger font everywhere on our website (#17665) - Use Source Sans everywhere - Rework the basic HTML structure of pages - Indent templates - Remove noise from Ikiwiki templates - Display language switcher below breadcrumbs when they wrap - Prototype documentation index - Remove cruft - Use consistent tree style - Add missing subpage - Move /about/contact under /doc/about - Remove external link from doc index - Improve index - Avoid linking to subtrees - Move all navigation elements to a dedicated folder - Expand banner and footer to entire width - Remove striped background * Update Chutney (2025Q2 edition) (tails/tails!2033) Closes issues: - Upgrade Chutney (2025Q2 edition) (tails/tails#18215) - chutney: `ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'cgitb'` (tails/tails#20761) Commits: - Test suite: fallback to kill approach when chutney stop fails - Test suite: log when resorting to kill leftover Chutney processes - Test suite: adapt pgrep/pkill regex vs newer Chutney - Test suite: refactor again - Test suite: refactor - Test suite: only keep the last Chutney data dir as artifact on failure - Test suite: bump the number of Chutney dirauths to 4 - Chutney: drop usage of typeguard.check_type() - Test suite: disable info-level logging for Chutney nodes - Test suite: don't repeat scenario name and exception with --interactive- debugging - Test suite: improve handling of leftover tor processes from previous runs - Test suite: make the output on Chutney bootstrap failure more manageable - Test suite: add option to make cmd_helper() less verbose on error - Test suite: also save the Chutney data directory as artifact on Chutney bootstrap failure - Test suite: raise new CommandFailed exception on cmd_helper() failure - Reset Chutney to most recent revision (refs: tails#18215) -- Tails developers <tails@boum.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:31:50 +0200
Tails 6.18 (stable) has been released. (24-July-2025) Home | Downloads | Hashes | Changelog | Documentation | Support | FAQ | Known issues | News | Spoiler Tails 6.18 New features WebTunnel bridges You can now use WebTunnel bridges to connect to the Tor network from Tails. WebTunnel is a bridge technology that is particularly good at circumventing censorship and might work in places where obfs4 bridges are blocked. WebTunnel disguises your connection as ordinary web traffic. To get WebTunnel bridges, visit https://bridges.torproject.org/. https://tails.net/news/version_6.18/webtunnel.png Changes and updates Update Tor Browser to 14.5.5. Update Thunderbird to 128.12.0. For more details, read our changelog.
