Download Tails 5.19
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 Version 5 is based on Debian 11 and, among other things, OpenPGP has been replaced by Kleopatra.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 5.19:
Closing a Tor circuit from Onion Circuits
You can now close a given Tor circuit from the Onion Circuits interface. This can help replace a particularly slow Tor circuit or troubleshoot issues on the Tor network. To close a Tor circuit:
When you close a circuit that is being used by an application, your application gets disconnected from this destination service. For example, when you close a circuit while Tor Browser is downloading a file, the download fails.
For example, if you download the same file again, Tor uses a new circuit.
Addition of sq-keyring-linter
At the request of people who use SecureDrop to provide secure whistleblowing platforms across the world, we added the sq-keyring-linter package. sq-keyring-linter improves the cryptographic parameters of PGP keys stored in their airgapped machines.
Changes and updates
- Update Tor Browser to 13.0.1.
- Update the Tor client to 0.4.8.7.
- Update Thunderbird to 115.4.1.
- Update the Linux kernel to 6.1.55.
For more details, read our changelog. See the list of long standing issues.
| Version number | 5.19 |
| Release status | Final |
| Operating systems | Linux |
| Website | Tails |
| Download | https://tails.boum.org/install/index.en.html |
| License type | Prerequisites (GNU/BSD/etc.) |