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

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.

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