This release is an emergency release to fix a critical vulnerability in Tor Browser.

We'd like to dedicate this Tails release to Debian developer Abraham Raji who tragically lost his life in an accident on the 13th of September, 2023.

Changes and updates

• Update Tor Browser to 12.5.4 which fixes CVE-2023-4863: Heap buffer overflow in libwebp.

• Update Tor to 0.4.8.5.

For more details, read our changelog.

Known issues

None specific to this release.

See the list of long-standing issues.

Get Tails 5.17.1

To upgrade your Tails USB stick and keep your Persistent Storage

• Automatic upgrades are available from Tails 5.0 or later to 5.17.1.

  You can reduce the size of the download of future automatic upgrades by doing a manual upgrade to the latest version.

• 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:

• Install from Windows
• Install from macOS
• Install from Linux
• Install from Debian or Ubuntu using the command line and GnuPG

To download only

If you don't need installation or upgrade instructions, you can download Tails 5.17.1 directly:

• For USB sticks (USB image)
• For DVDs and virtual machines (ISO image)