Tails lets you:
- Use the Web anonymously and circumvent censorship
- All connections to the Web are compelled to undergo the Tor community
- Go away no hint on the pc you’re utilizing except you ask it explicitly
- Use state-of-the-art cryptographic instruments to encrypt your recordsdata, emails and instantaneous messaging
Tails is a stay system that goals to protect your privateness and anonymity. It lets you use the Web anonymously and circumvent censorship nearly wherever you go and on any laptop however leaving no hint except you ask it to explicitly.
It’s a full working system designed for use from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card independently of the pc’s authentic working system.
Tails comes with a number of built-in functions pre-configured with safety in thoughts: net browser, instantaneous messaging shopper, electronic mail shopper, workplace suite, picture and sound editor, and many others.
If you’re concerned with giving Tails a attempt in your present laptop with out working any threat, please take a look at our Information: Operating Linux From a USB Drive As a Digital Machine or Bootable Disk.
On-line anonymity and censorship circumvention with Tor
Tails depends on the Tor anonymity community to guard your privateness on-line:
- all software program is configured to connect with the Web by way of Tor
- if an software tries to connect with the Web straight, the connection is robotically blocked for safety.
Tor is free software program and an open community that helps you defend towards a type of community surveillance that threatens private freedom and privateness, confidential enterprise actions and relationships, and state safety generally known as site visitors evaluation.
Tor protects you by bouncing your communications round a distributed community of relays run by volunteers all world wide: it prevents someone watching your Web connection from studying what websites you go to, and it prevents the websites you go to from studying your bodily location.
Utilizing Tor you’ll be able to:
- be nameless on-line by hiding your location
- connect with companies that may be censored in any other case
- resist assaults that block the utilization of Tor utilizing circumvention instruments comparable to bridges
What’s New
We’re particularly proud to current you Tails 5.0, the primary model of Tails based mostly on Debian 11 (Bullseye). It brings new variations of a variety of the software program included in Tails and new OpenPGP instruments.
New options
Kleopatra
- We added Kleopatra to switch the OpenPGP Applet and the Password and Keys utility, often known as Seahorse.
- The OpenPGP Applet was not actively developped anymore and was difficult for us to maintain in Tails. The Password and Keys utility was additionally poorly maintained and Tails customers suffered from too lots of its points till now, like #17183.
- Kleopatra gives equal options in a single instrument and is extra actively developed.
Adjustments and updates
- The Extra Software program function of the Persistent Storage is enabled by default to make it quicker and extra sturdy to configure your first extra software program package deal.
- Now you can use the Actions overview to entry your home windows and functions. To entry the Actions overview, you’ll be able to both:
- Click on on the Actions button.
- Throw your mouse pointer to the top-left scorching nook.
- Press the Tremendous () key in your keyboard.
- You’ll be able to see your home windows and functions within the overview. You can too begin typing to look your functions, recordsdata, and folders.
Included software program
Most included software program has been upgraded in Debian 11, for instance:
- Replace Tor Browser to 11.0.11.
- Replace GNOME from 3.30 to three.38, with a lot of small enhancements to the desktop, the core GNOME utilities, and the locking display.
- Replace MAT from 0.8 to 0.12, which provides help to scrub metadata from SVG, WAV, EPUB, PPM, and Microsoft Workplace recordsdata.
- Replace Audacity from 2.2.2 to 2.4.2.
- Replace Disk Utility from 3.30 to three.38.
- Replace GIMP from 2.10.8 to 2.10.22.
- Replace Inkscape from 0.92 to 1.0.
- Replace LibreOffice from 6.1 to 7.0.
{Hardware} help
- The brand new help for driverless printing and scanning in Linux makes it simpler to make current printers and scanners work in Tails.
Fastened issues
- Repair unlocking VeraCrypt volumes which have very lengthy passphrases. (#17474)
- For extra particulars, learn our changelog.
Recognized points
- Extra Software program typically would not work when restarting for the primary time proper after making a Persistent Storage. (#18839)
- To unravel this, set up the identical extra software program package deal once more after restarting with the Persistent Storage for the primary time.
- Thunderbird shows a popup to decide on an software when opening hyperlinks. (#18913)
- Tails Installer typically fails to clone. (#18844)
Backup utility
- We added a utility to make a backup of the Persistent Storage to a different Tails USB stick.
Tor Connection
- Change the customized bridge interface to solely enable coming into 1 bridge. (#18550)
- Enable saving 1 customized bridge within the Persistent Storage. (#5461)
- Enable fixing the clock manually when connecting to Tor utilizing bridges fails. (#15548)
- Cut back the timeout that determines whether or not we will connect with Tor in any respect from 30 seconds to 10 seconds. Enhance the timeout to start out Tor solely from 120 seconds to 600 seconds. (#18501).
- Enable making an attempt once more to connect with Tor from the error display. (#18539)
Unsafe Browser
- Cease restarting Tor when exiting the Unsafe Browser. (#18562)
- Solely point out the Persistent Storage within the Unsafe Browser warning when there may be already a Persistent Storage. (#18551)
Others
- Guarantee that computerized upgrades are downloaded from a working mirror. (#15755)
- Add Russian to the offline documentation included in Tails.
Fastened issues
Tor Connection
- Repair connecting to Tor utilizing the default bridges. (#18462)
- Repair connecting to Tor when the Wi-Fi settings are saved within the Persistent Storage. (#18532)
- Cease making an attempt to connect with Tor within the background when Tor Connection reaches the error display. (#18740)
