This release fixes many security issues and users should upgrade as soon as possible.

Changes

New features

Upgrades and changes

• Update Tor Browser to 6.0.3, based on Firefox 45.3.

• Upgrade Icedove to 45.1. (#11530)

Fixed problems

• The automatic account configuration of Icedove used to freeze when connecting to some email providers. (#11486)

• In some cases sending an email with Icedove used to result in the error: "The message could not be sent using Outgoing server (SMTP) mail.riseup.net for an unknown reason." (#10933)

• A spurious error message used to sometimes appear when creating an account in Icedove and providing its password. (#11550)

• Fix some time synchronization problems, by replacing obsolete and unreliable servers, and decreasing a timeout. (#11577)

• KVM virtual machines with QXL video: vastly improve graphics performance and fix visual artifacts in Tor Browser. (#11500, #11489)

For more details, read our Changelog.

Known issues

See the list of long-standing issues.

Get Tails 2.5

• To install, follow our installation instructions.

• To upgrade, an automatic upgrade is available from 2.4 to 2.5.

  If you cannot do an automatic upgrade or if you fail to start after an automatic upgrade, please try to do a manual upgrade.

• Download Tails 2.5.

What's coming up?

Tails 2.6 is scheduled for September 13.

We need your help and there are many ways to contribute to Tails (donating is only one of them). Come talk to us!