Download Tails 5.9

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 Version 5 is based on Debian 11 and, among other things, OpenPGP has been replaced by Kleopatra.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 also been made in version 5.9:

Changes and updates

• Update Tor Browser to 102.7.
• Update the Tor client to 0.4.7.13.
• Simplify the error screen of the Tor Connection assistant when connecting automatically.
• Improve the wording of the backup utility for the Persistent Storage.
• Remove the confirmation dialog when starting the Unsafe Browser.

Fixed problems

• Fix support for some graphics cards:
  • Update the Linux kernel to 6.0.12. This improves the support for newer hardware in general: graphics, Wi-Fi, and so on. (#18467)
  • Remove from the Troubleshooting Mode 2 boot options that break support for some graphics cards: nomodeset and vga=normal. (#19321)

  Please let us know if the support for your graphics cards has been fixed or is still broken.

• Fix starting AppImages that use the Qt toolkit like Feather and Bitcoin-Qt. (#19326)
• Fix clipboard encryption and decryption in Kleopatra. (#19329)
• Fix at least 2 cases of Persistent Storage not activating:
  • When activation takes longer (#19347)
  • When the Dotfiles feature includes symbolic links (#19346)

  Please keep reporting issues with the new Persistent Storage. We give them top priority!

• Fix 3 clipboard operations with KeePassXC:
  • Copying a passphrase to unlock a database (#19237)
  • Using the auto-type feature (#19339)
  • Clearing passwords automatically from the clipboard after 10 seconds
• Fix the display of the applications menu that was broken in some GTK3 applications installed as Additional Software. (#19371)
• Localize the homepage of Tor Browser when started from the Tor Connection assistant. (#19369)

For more details, read our changelog.