Tails 5.18 is out! (2023-10-03)

General Discussion
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Tails 5.18 Announcement

Changes and updates

  • Update Tor Browser to 12.5.6.
  • Update Tor to 0.4.8.6.

For more details, read our changelog.

Known issues

None specific to this release.

See the list of long-standing issues.

Get Tails 5.18

To upgrade your Tails USB stick and keep your persistent storage

  • Automatic upgrades are available from Tails 5.0 or later to 5.18.You can reduce the size of the download of future automatic upgrades by doing a manual upgrade to the latest version.
  • 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:

The Persistent Storage on the USB stick will be lost if you install instead of upgrading.

To download only

If you don’t need installation or upgrade instructions, you can download Tails 5.18 directly:

Posted 2023-10-03

Direct Downloads

@ mirrors.wikimedia.org:

@ mirrors.edge.kernel.org:

Changelog

tails (5.18) unstable; urgency=medium

  • Resolve “Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.5.6” (tails/tails!1253)

    Closes issues:

    • Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.5.6 (tails/tails#19983)

    Commits:

    • Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
    • Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.5.6

  • Update tor to 0.4.8.6 (tails/tails!1252)

    Closes issues:

    • Upgrade to tor 0.4.8.6 (tails/tails#19977)

    Commits:

    • Update tor to 0.4.8.6

  • Upgrade to Linux linux-image-6.1.0-12-amd64 (currently version 6.1.52-1)
    (tails/tails!1250)

    Closes issues:

    • Upgrade to Linux 6.1.52 (DSA 5492-1) (tails/tails#19967)

    Commits:

    • Refresh webext-ublock-origin-firefox patch vs 1.51.0+dfsg-2
    • Update the snapshot of the Debian archive to 2023092602
    • Upgrade to Linux linux-image-6.1.0-12-amd64 (currently version 6.1.52-1)

  • Upgrade to Tor Browser 12.5.5 (tails/tails!1249)

    Closes issues:

    • Upgrade to Tor Browser 12.5.5 (tails/tails#19980)

    Commits:

    • Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
    • Get ready for upcoming “git-annex sync” behavior change
    • Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.5.5

  • Fix cryptsetup backport (tails/tails!1240)

    Commits:

    • Clarify reason why we install our cryptsetup backport
    • Temporarily pin our cryptsetup 2:2.6.1-4~deb11u1~tails1 backport
    • Needed package update: add exception for cryptsetup
    • Enable the fix-cryptsetup-backport APT overlay

  • Test suite: ensure node is focused after node.grabFocus (tails/tails!1235)

    Commits:

    • Test suite: drop grabFocus workaround + simplify
    • Test suite: drop grabFocus workaround + simplify
    • Test suite: mechanically drop workaround that is now part of grabFocus
    • Test suite: ensure node is focused after node.grabFocus

  • Defer the chutney bootstrap check until we need Tor (tails/tails!1179)

    Commits:

    • keep-snapshots is better avoided for release
    • move script to its own file
    • waiting chutney starts after test suite started
    • test-rerun waits for chutney to be bootstrapped
    • Release process: document how to run chutney wait_for_bootstrap
    • Test suite: make --disable-chutney work again
    • Test suite: be more careful about when we require Chutney to have bootstrapped
    • Test suite: disable the network for the VM by default
    • Test suite: debug_log chutney events instead of puts:ing
    • Test suite: defer the chutney bootstrap check until we need Tor

– Tails developers tails@boum.org Mon, 02 Oct 2023 11:26:32 +0200

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