This release fixes many security vulnerabilities. You should upgrade as soon as possible.

  1. Changes and upgrades
  2. Fixed problems
  3. Known issues
  4. Get Tails 4.4
  5. What's coming up?

Changes and upgrades

  • Update Tor Browser to 9.0.6.

  • Update Thunderbird to 68.5.0.

  • Update Linux to 5.4.19. This should improve the support for newer hardware (graphics, Wi-Fi, etc.).

Fixed problems

  • Tentatively fix Wi-Fi interfaces with Realtek RTL8822BE and RTL8822CE chipsets. (#17323)

    If you had a problem with Wi-Fi starting from Tails 4.1, please let us know whether your problem was fixed or not.

For more details, read our changelog.

Known issues

JavaScript sometimes enabled in the Safest security level of Tor Browser

Tor is aware of a technical issue that allows JavaScript execution in the Safest security level of Tor Browser in some situations.

Until then, do the following to completely disable JavaScript instead of setting the security level:

  1. Open the address about:config in Tor Browser.

  2. Click the I accept the risk! button.

  3. At the top of the page, search for javascript.enabled.

  4. Double-click on the javascript.enabled line in the results to set its value to false.

See the list of long-standing issues.

Get Tails 4.4

To upgrade your Tails USB stick and keep your Persistent Storage

  • Automatic upgrades are available from 4.2, 4.2.2, and 4.3 to 4.4.

  • 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 on a new USB stick

Follow our installation instructions:

All the data on this USB stick will be lost.

To download only

If you don't need installation or upgrade instructions, you can directly download Tails 4.4:

What's coming up?

Tails 4.5 is scheduled for April 7.

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