Highlights

• On our first month back from vacation, we continued making it easier to recover from common failure modes without requiring technical expertise:

  • we drafted an implementation of our design to detect, report, and repair corruption of the Persistent Storage

  • we finished implementing our plans to improve the detection of and recovery from low-memory situations. Going from prototype to implementation, this work was a great example of the 90-90 rule in action: the first 90% of the work consumed the first 90% of our time, and the remaining 10% accounted for the other 90% of our time

• Over the past year, we have been close downstream of the Tor Project's design and implementation of Arti. This month, we reached a significant milestone in our collaboration: we prepared a prototype of Tails in which multiple applications use Arti.

• freiheitsfoo, one of our longest supporters, renewed their sponsorship of Tails! Welcome aboard for another year of resisting censorship and surveillance online!

Releases

📢We released Tails 6.5!

In Tails 6.5, we brought:

• an updated Tor Browser with cool letterboxing improvements, and the latest Debian (12.6)

• repairs to first-boot partitioning that many users were facing issues with after Tails 6.4

• fixes to connecting via mobile broadband, LTE, and PPPoE DS. This has been a persistent issue in the Tails 6 series so far.

To know more, check out the Tails 6.5 release notes and the changelog.

Metrics

Tails was started more than 779,262 times this month. That's a daily average of over 25,946 boots.

Changes and updates

• Update Tor Browser to 13.5.2.

• Update Thunderbird to 115.14.0.

• Update many firmware packages. This improves the support for newer hardware: graphics, Wi-Fi, and so on.

• Detect new types of errors when resizing the system partition fails (the first time Tails is started) and report the following error message.

  Something went wrong when starting your Tails USB stick for the first time:
  resizing the system partition failed
  
  It will be impossible to create a Persistent Storage or apply automatic upgrades.

  Affected users can try to install Tails again or use a different USB stick.

Fixed problems

Persistent Storage

• Increase the maximum waiting time to 4 minutes when unlocking the Persistent Storage before returning an error. (#20475)

• Made the creation of the Persistent Storage more robust after starting a Tails USB stick for the first time. (#20451)

• Prevent the Persistent Storage settings from freezing after opening a link to the documentation. (#20438)

• Prevent Additional Software from crashing when installing virtual packages. (#20477)

Networking

• Fix connecting to the Tor network using default bridges. (#20467)

• Allow enabling multiple network interfaces again. (#20128)

Tails Cloner

• Remove 30 seconds of waiting time when installing by cloning. (#20131)

For more details, read our changelog.

Get Tails 6.6

To upgrade your Tails USB stick and keep your Persistent Storage

• Automatic upgrades are available from Tails 6.0 or later to 6.6.

• If you cannot do an automatic upgrade or if Tails fails to start after an automatic upgrade, please try to do a manual upgrade.

To install Tails 6.6 on a new USB stick

Follow our installation instructions:

• Install from Windows

• Install from macOS

• Install from Linux

• Install from Debian or Ubuntu using the command line and GnuPG

To download only

If you don't need installation or upgrade instructions, you can download Tails 6.6 directly:

• For USB sticks (USB image)

• For DVDs and virtual machines (ISO image)

Today, we added documentation on our website to install Dangerzone in Tails.

When you receive untrusted documents, for example, email attachments, Dangerzone allows you to convert them into safe PDFs before opening.

Dangerzone is particularly useful for journalists who might receive dangerous documents from anonymous sources or download them from the Internet.

Dangerzone is an essential tool and is built by great people. It was first written by Micah Lee to protect investigative journalists while working at The Intercept. Dangerzone is now maintained by Freedom of the Press Foundation, a non-profit that protects public-interest journalism. Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras are on its Board of Directors.

It's totally the kind of software that aligns with our mission. The only reason why we are not including Dangerzone in Tails by default is because Dangerzone is too big and not available in Debian.

So, we collaborated with Alex Pyrgiotis from Freedom of the Press Foundation to make it as easy as possible to install Dangerzone in Tails as Additional Software. The setup requires using the command line, but, after that, Dangerzone will install automatically every time you start Tails.

Dangerzone will allow more investigative journalists to use the safe environment that Tails provides when manipulating sensitive documents.

It's also the first time that we recommend installing a 3rd party package that is not available in Debian. We know that a lot of software that would be useful for our users is not readily available in Debian. If this first experiment is successful, we might document more such packages.

Changements et mises à jour

• Rendre l'installation avec Tails Cloner plus rapide de 30 secondes. (!1588)

• Mise à jour du Navigateur Tor vers la version 13.5.1, incluant un letterboxing amélioré.

• Mise à jour de Debian vers la version 12.6.

Problèmes corrigés

• Correction de la préparation pour la première utilisation qui cassait souvent le démarrage BIOS legacy et la création du stockage persistant. ([[! Tails_ticket 20451]]))

• Correction de la langue du Navigateur Tor lors du lancement depuis Connexion à Tor. (#20318)

• Correction de la connexion via réseau haut débit mobile, LTE et PPPoE DSL. (#20291, #20433)

Pour plus de détails, lisez notre liste des changements.

Problèmes connus

• Il est impossible de se connecter avec les ponts Tor par défaut déjà inclus dans Tails. (#20467)

  Pour utiliser un pont par défaut dans Tails 6.5, scanner le QR code d'un de ces ponts :

  

  Si cela échoue, configurez un pont personnalisé.

Obtenir Tails 6.5

Pour mettre à jour votre clé USB Tails et conserver votre stockage persistant

• Mises à jour automatiques disponibles depuis Tails 6.0 ou plus récent vers la version 6.5.

• Si vous ne pouvez pas faire une mise à jour automatique ou si le démarrage de Tails échoue après une mise à jour automatique, merci d'essayer de faire une mise à jour manuelle.

Pour installer Tails 6.5 sur une nouvelle clé USB

Suivez nos instructions d'installation :

• Installer depuis Windows

• Installer depuis macOS

• Installer depuis Linux

• Installer depuis Debian ou Ubuntu en utilisant la ligne de commande et GnuPG

Pour seulement télécharger

Si vous n'avez pas besoin d'instructions d'installation ou de mise à jour, vous pouvez télécharger directement Tails 6.5 :

• Pour clés USB (image USB)

• Pour DVD et machines virtuelles (image ISO)

Highlights

• The European summer is here, and with it are summer holidays! We took some time off for some quality rest and recreation. How we vacationed: music festivals in Milan, hiking in the Alps, the Sierra Nevada, and the High Sierra, and biking in the Pyrenees. We do love the mountains! ⛰️

• But before we went away for some quality R&R, we continued making it easier for Tails users to recover from the most common failure modes without requiring technical expertise:

  • We finalized a design to detect corruption of the Persistent Storage on a Tails USB stick, reporting it to users, and repairing it.

  • We made incremental progress towards warning Tails users when they have low available memory. We don't detect all the problematic cases yet but, when we do, GNOME gently notifies the user.

• We have been working on a new user journey for backups. In June, we finished designing all interfaces and solicited feedback. The proposal was well received by 2 volunteers who have contributed code related to backups.

Releases

📢 We released Tails 6.4!

In Tails 6.4, we brought:

• even stronger cryptographic protections, as Tails now stores a random seed on the Tails USB stick
• fixes to make unlocking the Persisted Storage smoother
• more reliable installation of Additional Software, due to a switch to using HTTPS addresses instead of onion addresses for the Debian and Tails APT repositories

To know more, check out the Tails 6.4 release notes and the changelog.

Metrics

Tails was started more than 775,377 times this month. That's a daily average of over 25,946 boots.

Nouvelles fonctionnalités

Graine aléatoire

Tails stocke désormais une graine aléatoire sur la clé USB pour renforcer toute la cryptographie.

Avoir un générateur de nombres aléatoires sûr est essentiel pour pas mal de cryptographie utilisée dans Tails, par exemple, dans le stockage persistant, Tor ou HTTPS.

Cette graine aléatoire est stockée en dehors du stockage persistant ce qui permet à toutes les personnes utilisant Tails de bénéficier d'une cryptographie plus forte.

Changements et mises à jour

• Passage à l'utilisation d'adresses HTTPS au lieu d'adresses onion pour les dépôts APT de Debian et Tails. Cela rend la fonctionnalité Logiciels supplémentaires plus fiable.

• Mise à jour du Navigateur Tor vers la version 13.0.16.

• Mise à jour du client Tor vers la version 0.4.8.12.

• Update Thunderbird to 115.12.0.

Problèmes corrigés

• Correction de davantage de problèmes lors du déverrouillage du stockage persistant. (#20020, #20344, #19913)

• Correction de la connexion à un réseau haut débit mobile sur certains matériels. (#20291)

• Activation à nouveau du lecteur PDF de Thunderbird qui avait été désactivé par sécurité dans Tails 6.3.

• Amélioration du message d' erreur de Tails Cloner lorsque la clé USB cible ne peut pas être démontée car elle est utilisée. (#19253)

• Correction de la page d'accueil du Navigateur Tor lors de l'utilisation de la fonctionnalité Nouvelle identité. Cela enlève le message d'erreur Le navigateur Tor a bloqué le chargement de votre page d'accueil. (#20381)

• Suppression d'une fenêtre redondante lors du déverrouillage d'un volume VeraCrypt en utilisant l'utilitaire Déverrouiller les volumes VeraCrypt. (#20281)

Pour plus de détails, lisez notre liste des changements.

Obtenir Tails 6.4

Pour mettre à jour votre clé USB Tails et conserver votre stockage persistant

• Mises à jour automatiques disponibles depuis Tails 6.0 ou plus récent vers la version 6.4.

  Vous pouvez réduire la taille du téléchargement des futures mises à jours automatiques en effectuant une mise à jour manuelle vers la dernière version.

• Si vous ne pouvez pas faire une mise à jour automatique ou si le démarrage de Tails échoue après une mise à jour automatique, merci d'essayer de faire une mise à jour manuelle.

Pour installer Tails 6.4 sur une nouvelle clé USB

Suivez nos instructions d'installation :

• Installer depuis Windows

• Installer depuis macOS

• Installer depuis Linux

• Installer depuis Debian ou Ubuntu en utilisant la ligne de commande et GnuPG

Pour seulement télécharger

Si vous n'avez pas besoin d'instructions d'installation ou de mise à jour, vous pouvez télécharger directement Tails 6.4 :

• Pour clés USB (image USB)

• Pour DVD et machines virtuelles (image ISO)

Highlights

• We met IRL! It has been close to 1.5 years since we devised our 3-year strategy goals. We reflected on our progress, concluded that we had a mixed bag of results, and emerged with a good sense of what's needed to be done. And all this while discovering the wonders of vegan Francesinha and wine 🌞

• Thanks to our volunteer translations teams, Tails' language diversity continued improving alongside the language support we added in Tails 6.2.

  Our French, Spanish, and Catalan teams reported more than 50 small issues on the content of our website, typos, inconsistency with the tools, and accessibility issues. We fixed all of them. In the process of this lovely synergy, we also identified opportunities to make this collaboration through Weblate smoother in the future.

• And, we also completed a bunch of home improvement projects:

  • We added an animation when expanding the collapsible sections in our warnings page. Changes should be more noticeable now. (Gitlab issue)

  • We also added a "Security/Fixed" pill on security advisories that are fixed. As an example, see our advisory on "Possible remote attack on onion services".

  • We also fixed the display of SVG images when JavaScript is disabled. Now, we are using PNG by default and adding some JavaScript to enhance images back to SVG when useful. (Gitlab issue)

  • We replaced the CSS framework Bootstrap on our website with custom and modern CSS code. The most challenging page to convert was our donation page, and the resulting code is 20% smaller.

Releases

📢 6.3 is out!

In Tails 6.3, you will find:

• improvements for configuring new printers
• Restart later as the default button at the end of an automatic upgrade; earlier it was Restart now
• and as usual, an updated Tor Browser

To know more, check out the Tails 6.3 release notes and the changelog.

Metrics

Tails was started more than 824,834 times this month. That's a daily average of over 27,495 boots.

Highlights

• Spoiler alert! We are working on friendlier ways to back up Persistent Storage. We are working on a new flow that adapts Tails Cloner to the different stages of making backups (setting up, reminding, and updating) and integrating it with the Persistent Storage settings.

• We continued investing in making our infrastructure and services more robust, usable, and secure:

  • We continued making the development at Tails more pleasurable. Our test suite is much kinder to Tails developers now.

  • We fixed all the broken links on our website (hundreds!). We have now implemented a monthly automated check for new broken links.

  • Our new server is now breaking into a sweat! We deployed new internal services and made good progress in creating redundancies of our website and email systems.

• We have a new sponsor: Start Small Foundation! The generous (our largest ever, too) donation significantly prolongs our financial runway in the short to medium-term. We plan to use this platform to keep improving our infrastructure, and build on this platform to bring exciting, new functionality to Tails!

Releases

📢 We put Tails 6.2 out in the world!

Tails 6.2 carries:

• support for 21 new languages on the Welcome Screen!
• the final set of improvements for better detection of hardware failures on Tails USB sticks
• updates to Tor Browser and Tor client

To know more, check out the Tails 6.2 release notes and the changelog.

Also, we're always looking for volunteers to help increase Tails's language diversity. If that sounds like it could be you, do consider contributing to the Tor Project Weblate.

Metrics

Tails was started more than 821,380 times this month. That's a daily average of over 27,379 boots - the highest this year.

Changements et mises à jour

• Retour des traductions en roumain et en malayalam.

• Mise à jour du Navigateur Tor vers la version 13.0.15.

• Désactivation temporaire du lecteur PDF de Thunderbird pour protéger d'une vulnérabilité de sécurité relative à la gestion des polices dans les fichiers PDF. (CVE-2024-4367)

  Vous pouvez toujours ouvrir des fichiers PDF dans le Visionneur de documents depuis Thunderbird.

• Faire de Redémarrer plus tard le bouton par défaut, à la place de Redémarrer maintenant, à la fin d'une mise à jour automatique.

Problèmes corrigés

• Correction de la configuration de nouvelles imprimantes lorsque des imprimantes ont déjà été configurées dans le stockage persistant dans Tails 5.23 ou plus ancien. (#20271)

• Suppression du long délai entre l'écran de bienvenue et le bureau GNOME quand l'anonymisation d'adresse MAC échoue. (#17813)

Pour plus de détails, lisez notre liste des changements.

Obtenir Tails 6.3

Pour mettre à jour votre clé USB Tails et conserver votre stockage persistant

• Mises à jour automatiques disponibles depuis Tails 6.0 ou plus récent vers la version 6.3.

  Vous pouvez réduire la taille du téléchargement des futures mises à jours automatiques en effectuant une mise à jour manuelle vers la dernière version.

• Si vous ne pouvez pas faire une mise à jour automatique ou si le démarrage de Tails échoue après une mise à jour automatique, merci d'essayer de faire une mise à jour manuelle.

Pour installer Tails 6.3 sur une nouvelle clé USB

Suivez nos instructions d'installation :

• Installer depuis Windows

• Installer depuis macOS

• Installer depuis Linux

• Installer depuis Debian ou Ubuntu en utilisant la ligne de commande et GnuPG

Pour seulement télécharger

Si vous n'avez pas besoin d'instructions d'installation ou de mise à jour, vous pouvez télécharger directement Tails 6.3 :

• Pour clés USB (image USB)

• Pour DVD et machines virtuelles (image ISO)

Highlights

March spotlighted many vulnerabilities in FOSS infrastructure globally, sparking some welcome conversations around the sustainability requirements of FOSS projects.

• First, there was the RFDS Intel CPU vulnerability. The fixed CPU firmware shipped in Tails 6.1 addresses the vulnerability!

• Then, March ended with the xz/liblzma almost-apocalypse that the world avoided, including Tails users.

In March, we continued investing in the long-term sustainability of Tails:

• We improved the reliability of our test suite. With @segfault, we have been working extra hard to make our automated test suite more robust. We are going to keep working on improving the experience of development work at Tails in the coming months.

• We made good progress in improving redundancies for our most essential services. We added backend capacity, and deployed fallback options for our website. This had been a priority since earlier this year, when our website went down.

Releases

📢We put Tails 6.1 out in the world!

Tails 6.1 carries:

• updated Tor Browser and Thunderbird

• improvements to Tails Cloner: it can now unmount all filsystems on the target device. Since Tails 6.0 auto-mounts partitions on plugged removable media, this is quite an important fix!

• fixes to Video

To know more, check out the Tails 6.1 release notes and the changelog.

Metrics

Tails was started more than 873,028 times this month. That's a daily average of over 28,162 boots - the highest this year. Yet!