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Tails 7.1

Changes and updates

  • Change the home page of Tor Browser in Tails to an offline page, very similar to the home page of Tor Browser outside of Tails, instead of an online page from our website.

  • Improve the message when an administration password is required to open an application but no administration password was set in the Welcome Screen.

  • Update Tor Browser to 14.5.8.

  • Update the Tor client to 0.4.8.19.

  • Update Thunderbird to 140.3.0.

  • Remove the package ifupdown.

Fixed problems

  • Hide the message "Your connection to Tor is not being managed by Tor Browser" in new tabs of Tor Browser. (#21215)

For more details, read our changelog.

Get Tails 7.1

To upgrade your Tails USB stick and keep your Persistent Storage

  • Automatic upgrades are available from Tails 7.0 or later to 7.1.

  • 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 7.1 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 7.1 directly:

Tails 7.0

We are very excited to present you Tails 7.0, the first version of Tails based on Debian 13 (Trixie) and GNOME 48 (Bengaluru). Tails 7.0 brings new versions of many applications included in Tails.

Dedication

Tails 7.0 is dedicated to the memory of Lunar (1982–2024). Lunar was a traveling companion for Tails, a Tor volunteer, Free Software hacker, and community organizer.

Lunar has always been by our side throughout Tails' history. From the first baby steps of the project that eventually became Tails, to the merge with Tor, he's provided sensible technical suggestions, out-of-the-box product design ideas, outreach support, and caring organizational advice.

Outside of Tor, Lunar worked on highly successful Free Software projects such as the Debian project, the Linux distribution on which Tails is based, and the Reproducible Builds project, which helps us verify the integrity of Tails releases.

Lunar will be deeply missed, both in our community and in the many other communities he participated in.

See also what other projects have written about Lunar.

Changes and updates

Faster startup

Tails 7.0 starts 10–15 seconds faster on most computers.

We achieve this by changing the compression algorithm of the Tails USB and ISO images from xz to zstd. As a consequence, the image is 10% bigger than it would be with the previous algorithm.

While testing this change, we noticed that Tails on USB sticks of poor quality can also start 20 seconds slower than on quality USB sticks.

If you are in a place where counterfeit electronics are common, we recommend that you buy your USB stick from an international supermarket chain, which should have a more reliable supply chain.

Included software

  • Replace GNOME Terminal with GNOME Console.

  • Replace GNOME Image Viewer with GNOME Loupe.

  • Update Tor Browser to 14.5.7.

  • Update the Tor client to 0.4.8.17.

  • Update Thunderbird to 128.14.0esr.

  • Update Electrum from 4.3.4 to 4.5.8.

  • Update OnionShare from 2.6.2 to 2.6.3.

  • Update KeePassXC from 2.7.4 to 2.7.10.

  • Update Kleopatra from 4:22.12 to 4:24.12

  • Update Inkscape from 1.2.2 to 1.4.

  • Update GIMP from 2.10.34 to 3.0.4.

  • Update Audacity from 3.2.4 to 3.7.3.

  • Update Text Editor from 43.2 to 48.3.

  • Update Document Scanner from 42.5 to 46.0.

Changes in GNOME

  • Many sections of the Settings utility have been redesigned, for example Accessibility, Sound, and Mouse & Keyboard in GNOME 44

    Accessibility settings also include new accessibility features, such as Overamplication and Always Show Scrollbars.

  • The Activities button has been replaced with a dynamic workspace indicator in GNOME 45.

  • The Screen Reader has been improved in different ways, for example, with better table navigation and a sleep mode in GNOME 46.

  • A new option to preserve battery health is available in the power settings in GNOME 48.

Removals

  • Remove the Places menu.

    You can access the same shortcuts from the sidebar of the Files browser.

  • Remove Kleopatra from the Favorites menu.

    To start Kleopatra, choose Apps ▸ Accessories ▸ Kleopatra.

  • Remove unar.

    The File Roller utility still opens most RAR archives.

  • Remove the aircrack-ng package.

    You can still install aircrack-ng using the Additional Software feature.

  • Remove the Power Statistics utility.

  • Remove the sq package.

  • Remove the obsolete Network Connection option from the Welcome Screen.

Hardware support

  • Update the Linux kernel to 6.12.43.

    This improves support for newer hardware: graphics, Wi-Fi, and so on.

  • Increase the memory requirements from 2 GB of RAM to 3 GB. (#21114)

    Tails 7.0 displays a notification when the RAM requirements are not met.

    We estimate that less than 2% of users are affected.

Fixed problems

  • Fix selecting the correct keyboard for certain languages. (#12638)

For more details, read our changelog.

Get Tails 7.0

To upgrade your Tails USB stick and keep your Persistent Storage

  • Automatic upgrades are only available from Tails 7.0~rc1 and 7.0~rc2 to 7.0.

    All other users have to do a manual upgrade.

To install Tails 7.0 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 7.0 directly:

Tails 6.19

Changes and updates

  • Update Tor Browser to 14.5.6.

  • Update the Tor client to 0.4.8.17.

  • Update Thunderbird to 128.13.0.

Fixed problems

  • Remove irrelevant error message when configuring bridges in Tor Connection.

For more details, read our changelog.

Get Tails 6.19

To upgrade your Tails USB stick and keep your Persistent Storage

  • Automatic upgrades are available from Tails 6.0 or later to 6.19.

  • 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 6.19 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 6.19 directly:

Test 7.0~rc2

Tails 7.0~rc2 is the second release candidate of the upcoming Tails 7.0.

We plan to release Tails 7.0 officially on September 18 or on October 16. You can help us by testing this release candidate already.

Tails 7.0 will be the first version of Tails based on Debian 13 (Trixie) and GNOME 48. It will bring new versions of many applications included in Tails.

We have tested 7.0~rc2 with the same extensive automatic and manual test suites that we use for regular releases. But, Tails 7.0~rc2 might still contain undiscovered issues.

We will provide automatic security upgrades for Tails 7.0~rc2, like we do for regular versions.

Changes and updates

Changes since 7.0~rc1

  • Increase the memory requirements from 2 GB of RAM to 3 GB. (#21114)

    Tails 7.0~rc2 displays a notification when the RAM requirements are not met.

    We estimate that less than 2% of current users will be affected.

  • Remove the Places menu. (#21086)

  • Rename Root Terminal as Root Console. (#21110)

  • Skip the onboarding of Inkscape. (#21091)

Other changes compared with 6.18

Included software

  • Update the Tor client to 0.4.8.17.

  • Update Thunderbird to 128.13.0esr.

  • Update the Linux kernel to 6.12.41.

    This improves support for newer hardware: graphics, Wi-Fi, and so on.

  • Update Electrum from 4.3.4 to 4.5.8.

  • Update OnionShare from 2.6.2 to 2.6.3.

  • Update KeePassXC from 2.7.4 to 2.7.10.

  • Update Kleopatra from 4:22.12 to 4:24.12

  • Update Inkscape from 1.2.2 to 1.4.

  • Update GIMP from 2.10.34 to 3.0.4.

  • Update Audacity from 3.2.4 to 3.7.3.

  • Update Text Editor from 43.2 to 48.3.

  • Update Document Scanner from 42.5 to 46.0.

Removed software

Fixed problems

  • Fix selecting the correct keyboard for certain languages. (#12638)

For more details, see the list of closed issues on the 7.0 milestone in GitLab.

Known issues

  • Tails 7.0~rc2 takes longer to start.

    We plan to fix this in the final Tails 7.0.

For more details, see the list of issues on the 7.0 milestone in GitLab.

Send your feedback

Please, report any new problem to either:

Get Tails 7.0~rc2

Direct download

  • For USB sticks (USB image)

    OpenPGP signature

  • For DVDs and virtual machines (ISO image)

    OpenPGP signature

BitTorrent download

  • For USB sticks (USB image)

  • For DVDs and virtual machines (ISO image)

To upgrade your Tails USB stick and keep your Persistent Storage

You can do a manual upgrade to Tails 7.0~rc2.

Automatic upgrades are not available to Tails 7.0~rc2.

To install Tails 7.0~rc2 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.

Test 7.0~rc1

We are very excited to present you with a release candidate of the upcoming Tails 7.0.

We plan to release Tails 7.0 officially on October 16. You can help us by testing this release candidate already.

Tails 7.0 will be the first version of Tails based on Debian 13 (Trixie) and GNOME 48. It will bring new versions of many applications included in Tails.

We have tested 7.0~rc1 with the same extensive automatic and manual test suites that we use for regular releases. But, Tails 7.0~rc1 might still contain undiscovered issues.

We will provide automatic security upgrades for Tails 7.0~rc1, like we do for regular versions.

Changes and updates

  • Replace GNOME Terminal with GNOME Console. (#20161)

    We broke the Root Terminal while working on this change.

    To open a root terminal, execute the following command in a regular Console.

    sudo -i

  • Replace GNOME Image Viewer with GNOME Loupe (#20640)

  • Remove Kleopatra from the Favorites menu. (#21072)

    To start Kleopatra choose Apps ▸ Accessories ▸ Kleopatra.

  • Remove the obsolete Network Connection option from the Welcome Screen. (#21074)

Included software

  • Update the Tor client to 0.4.8.17.

  • Update Thunderbird to 128.13.0esr.

  • Update the Linux kernel to 6.12.38.

    This improves support for newer hardware: graphics, Wi-Fi, and so on.

  • Update Electrum from 4.3.4 to 4.5.8.

  • Update OnionShare from 2.6.2 to 2.6.3.

  • Update KeePassXC from 2.7.4 to 2.7.10.

  • Update Kleopatra from 4:22.12 to 4:24.12

  • Update Inkscape from 1.2.2 to 1.4.

  • Update GIMP from 2.10.34 to 3.0.4.

  • Update Audacity from 3.2.4 to 3.7.3.

  • Update Text Editor from 43.2 to 48.3.

  • Update Document Scanner from 42.5 to 46.0.

Removed software

Fixed problems

  • Fix selecting the correct keyboard for certain languages. (#12638)

For more details, see the list of closed issues on the 7.0 milestone in GitLab.

Known issues

  • Tails 7.0~rc1 requires 3 GB of RAM instead of 2 GB to run smoothly. (#18040)

    We estimated that less than 2% of current users will be affected.

  • Tails 7.0~rc1 takes longer to start.

    We plan to fix this in the final Tails 7.0.

For more details, see the list of issues on the 7.0 milestone in GitLab.

Send your feedback

Please, report any new problem to either:

Get Tails 7.0~rc1

Direct download

  • For USB sticks (USB image)

    OpenPGP signature

  • For DVDs and virtual machines (ISO image)

    OpenPGP signature

BitTorrent download

  • For USB sticks (USB image)

  • For DVDs and virtual machines (ISO image)

To upgrade your Tails USB stick and keep your Persistent Storage

You can do a manual upgrade to Tails 7.0~rc1.

Automatic upgrades are not available to Tails 7.0~rc1.

To install Tails 7.0~rc1 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.

Tails 6.18

New features

WebTunnel bridges

You can now use WebTunnel bridges to connect to the Tor network from Tails.

WebTunnel is a bridge technology that is particularly good at circumventing censorship and might work from places where obfs4 bridges are blocked. WebTunnel disguises your connection as ordinary web traffic.

To get WebTunnel bridges, visit https://bridges.torproject.org/.

Changes and updates

For more details, read our changelog.

Get Tails 6.18

To upgrade your Tails USB stick and keep your Persistent Storage

  • Automatic upgrades are available from Tails 6.0 or later to 6.18.

  • 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 6.18 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 6.18 directly:

Tails 6.17

Changes and updates

  • Add a Show Password option when setting the screen locking password.

  • Update the uBlock Origin extension for Tor Browser to 1.62.0.

  • Update Tor Browser to 14.5.4.

Fixed problems

  • Display an empty page instead of the homepage of Tor Browser when opening new tabs in the Unsafe Browser. (#21004)

  • Remove duplicated CPU microcode to reduce image size. (#21001)

For more details, read our changelog.

Get Tails 6.17

To upgrade your Tails USB stick and keep your Persistent Storage

  • Automatic upgrades are available from Tails 6.0 or later to 6.17.

  • 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 6.17 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 6.17 directly:

Tails 6.16

Changes and updates

  • Update Tor Browser to 14.5.3.

  • Update the Linux kernel to 6.1.140.

For more details, read our changelog.

Get Tails 6.16

To upgrade your Tails USB stick and keep your Persistent Storage

  • Automatic upgrades are available from Tails 6.0 or later to 6.16.

  • 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 6.16 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 6.16 directly:

Stronger together: What we've accomplished since the Tails-Tor merger

Nine months ago Tails and Tor set out to unite forces for Internet Freedom. The goal was to integrate Tails into the organizational structure of the Tor Project to pool resources instead of duplicating them, and deliver a more robust shield against censorship and surveillance. Today we're happy to report that we're already seeing the transformative impact of our united efforts.

Delivering on our promises

The integration of two organizations requires careful planning and collaboration. When we first began our discussions, we made it a point to focus on better serving the shared communities that depend on Tor and Tails. The merger has already delivered on our core commitments in concrete ways:

Countering censorship and surveillance more effectively

Our combined anti-censorship expertise is yielding immediate results. Whenever a new or previously unknown censorship event occurs, we can figure out how best to tackle the issues. China is one such example in action: When obfs4 bridges increasingly became the target of censors, our teams were able to jointly coordinate a strategic response, determining whether to address the issue through improved bridge distribution mechanisms or by adding support for newer pluggable transports in Tails itself. This kind of coordinated response to censorship events was more challenging and time-consuming when we operated separately.

More robust treatment of overlapping threat models

We've ensured that Tails' specific needs are now directly integrated into Arti development, creating a more comprehensive solution for users who need both network and system-level security in high-risk environments. Having both Tor Browser and Tails developers collaborate more closely means that Tails users benefit from smoother, earlier releases that provide user protections faster.

Expanded training and outreach opportunities

Empowering our users through access and digital rights education has been a top priority for both Tails and Tor. Earlier this year, we successfully ran a Tails training in partnership with the Open Culture Foundation the day before RightsCon 2025, reaching activists and journalists who urgently need these tools. By tapping into Tor's Privacy Resilience Grants, we're now supporting more groups in the Global South to run Tails trainings directly in their communities, expanding Tails' reach to new territories and user groups.

Operational resilience to advance our shared mission

The benefits extend far beyond individual projects. Our unified sysadmin team has created a comprehensive 5-year roadmap for merging our digital infrastructures, eliminating redundancies while strengthening both organizations' technological foundations. We've already merged critical services including calendars, GitLab projects, password stores, and documentation systems, with security policies, monitoring systems, and authentication mechanisms currently in progress.

The merger has also clarified roles and responsibilities across teams while providing Tails teams with access to the Tor Project's mature organizational structure and improving system monitoring and management. Our expanded fundraising capacity means we can pursue larger grants and coordinate funding requests that support both tools simultaneously. It allows us to stay resilient in a dynamic fundraising landscape, and maximize the impact of every dollar.

This is a meaningful achievement for every supporter: Your donations now go further toward creating real-world impact rather than duplicating administrative overhead. Our resources are now fully directed toward developing stronger privacy tools and reaching more people who need protection from surveillance and censorship.

Upcoming changes for PayPal donors

Tails, just like Tor, has always been powered by your donations. As part of our organizational merge, we are taking the opportunity to upgrade the way we manage donations, donor records, and communication with you about your donations.

If you have made a donation to Tails through PayPal, your information will be imported into Tor's CiviCRM Customer Relationship Management (CRM) database, which collects only the minimal amount of information and hosts all donor data on Tor infrastructure. Rest assured that Tor will never sell or share your data. Ever. You can read the Tor Project's privacy policy here.

The following information will be imported:

  • Name
  • Email
  • Address, if given
  • Past donation history

All of this data will be merged by June 30, 2025. Once the data is completely merged, all PayPal monthly donations will be terminated. If you have an active monthly donation to Tails through PayPal, please watch out for a message from us about migrating your donation.

What you can do today

Thank you for being defenders of online privacy, anonymity, and censorship circumvention tools. We invite all our supporters to join us as part of the unified Tor community, working together to safeguard the digital human rights of individuals worldwide. Please consider renewing your donation today for the Tor Project and help make privacy possible.


Donate


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Tails 6.15.1

This release is an emergency release to fix important security vulnerabilities in Tor Browser.

Changes and updates

Fixed problems

  • Fix the Unsafe Browser appearing in the window list with the Tor Browser icon. (#20934)

  • Make reporting an error using WhisperBack more robust. (#20921)

  • Fix USB tethering. (#20940)

For more details, read our changelog.

Get Tails 6.15.1

To upgrade your Tails USB stick and keep your Persistent Storage

  • Automatic upgrades are available from Tails 6.0 or later to 6.15.1.

  • 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 6.15.1 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 6.15.1 directly: