Download Tails 4.25

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 its 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† The development team has released version 4.25 and the changelog for that release looks like this:

Backup utility

We added a utility to make a backup of the Persistent Storage to another Tails USB stick. This utility automates the process described until now in our documentation on making a backup of your Persistent Storagewhich used the command line.It’s pretty basic and we still want to do something better in #7049but we didn’t want to wait more because we know that backups are a big issue for our users.

External Hard Disk

We added a new entry called Tails (External Hard Disk) to the GRUB boot loader. You can use it to start Tails from an external hard disk or one of the few USB sticks that used to return the following error when starting Tails:
Unable to find a medium containing a live file system

Changes and updates

• Update Tor Browser to 11.0.2†
• Update Tor to 0.4.6.8.
• Add a shortcut to restart Tails when the Unsafe Browser was not enabled in the Welcome Screen.
• Add a link from the error screen of the Tor Connection assistant to our documentation on troubleshooting connecting to Tor†

Fixed problems

For more details, read our changelog†

• Fix the display problems in the Unsafe Browser. †#18668†

Known issues

• Remove the guest additions of VirtualBox. †#18643†

  This breaks the support for mouse pointer integration, shared folders, and shared clipboard. The VirtualBox guest additions are badly maintained in Debian and not compatible anymore with some recent updates in Debian. We will add them back as soon as the packages in Debian work again in Tails.

See the list of long standing issues†