This release fixes many security vulnerabilities. You should upgrade as soon as possible.

  1. New features
  2. Changes and updates
  3. Fixed problems
  4. Known issues
  5. Get Tails 4.3
  6. What's coming up?

New features

  • We included the trezor package, which provides a command line tool to use a Trezor hardware wallet for cryptocurrencies.

Changes and updates

  • Update Tor Browser to 9.0.5.

  • Update Thunderbird to 68.4.1.

  • Update Linux to 5.4.13. This should improve the support for newer hardware (graphics, Wi-Fi, etc.).

  • Update Tor to 0.4.2.6.

  • Update the VirtualBox Guest Additions to 6.1.2.

Fixed problems

  • Fix the progress bar and prevent closing the window while an upgrade is being applied. (#16603)

For more details, read our changelog.

Known issues

None specific to this release.

See the list of long-standing issues.

Get Tails 4.3

To upgrade your Tails USB stick and keep your persistent storage

  • Automatic upgrades are available from 4.2 and 4.2.2 to 4.3.

  • 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 on a new USB stick

Follow our installation instructions:

All the data on this USB stick will be lost.

To download only

If you don't need installation or upgrade instructions, you can directly download Tails 4.3:

What's coming up?

Tails 4.4 is scheduled for March 10.

Have a look at our roadmap to see where we are heading to.

We need your help and there are many ways to contribute to Tails (donating is only one of them). Come talk to us!