Contribute to Tails by testing our release candidate for Tails 4.22 by the end of August!

  1. What's new in 4.22~rc1?
  2. What's new since 4.21?
  3. Get Tails 4.22~rc1
  4. What to test in Tails 4.22~rc1?
  5. Known issues in 4.22~rc1

What's new in 4.22~rc1?

Tails 4.22, scheduled for release on September 7, will allow users to manually set their correct time zone and clock. This helps users to work around a long-standing issue of Tails not being able to connect to Tor when obfs4 bridges are being used and the computer has a hardware clock that is set to a time zone that is east of UTC. See #15548.

Also, Tails 4.22 will allow users to save bridges to Persistent Storage so that the bridges do not need to be reentered every time Tails is restarted.

What's new since 4.21?

  • Update Thunderbird to 78.13

  • Tor Connection assistant will stop trying to connect to Tor when the error screen is displayed.

  • Offline documentation includes the Russian language translation.

For more details, read our changelog.

Get Tails 4.22~rc1

To upgrade your Tails USB stick and keep your Persistent Storage

If you are running Tails 4.19 or later, you can upgrade like this:

  1. Start Tails and set an administration password.

  2. Connect to the network and make sure Tor is connected successfully.

  3. Run this command in a Terminal:

    echo TAILS_CHANNEL=\"alpha\" | sudo tee -a /etc/os-release && \
     tails-upgrade-frontend-wrapper

    Enter the administration password when asked for the "password for amnesia".

  4. After the upgrade is applied, restart Tails and choose Applications ▸ Tails ▸ About Tails to verify that you are running Tails 4.22~rc1.

Download Tails 4.22~rc1

Download and install Tails 4.22~rc1 as usually.

All the data on this USB stick will be lost. Don't install Tails 4.22~rc1 on any USB stick that already has a Persistent Storage, upgrade instead.

Direct download

  • For USB sticks (USB image)
    OpenPGP signature
    SHA256SUM: 52930e1241809c0939754968e9d6925de4306a1dd3b727d5a2f0b33f5442859f

  • For DVDs and virtual machines (ISO image)
    OpenPGP signature
    SHA256SUM: 6e37811b753f480d709d7c88464ae1b2d7282470876e25513a49b987adafa87e

BitTorrent download

  • For USB sticks (USB image)

  • For DVDs and virtual machines (ISO image)

What to test in Tails 4.22~rc1?

We particularly would like to know if Tails successfully connects to Tor using bridges when the correct time zone and clock are set from within Tor Connection assistant.

Also, we want to make sure that bridges are properly saved to and restored from Persistent Storage when the Tor Bridges feature is enabled.

Tell us if anything is unclear, confusing, or not working as you would expect.

Please, send your feedback to tails-testers@boum.org (public mailing list).

Known issues in 4.22~rc1

None specific to this release.

Happy testing!