Download Tails 5.22

Tails stands for The amnesic incognito live system and is a live Linux distribution that focuses on privacy and anonymity. It uses Debian GNU/Linux as a base and adds a Gnome environment with Tor, Tor Browser, Pidgin, Thunderbird, Electrum, LibreOffice, GPG and KeePassXC. For more information please refer to this page. Version 5 is based on Debian 11 and, among other things, OpenPGP has been replaced by Kleopatra. The following changes and improvements have been made in version 5.22:

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 in 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.