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- Tails 5.7 is out
New features
Metadata Cleaner
We added Metadata Cleaner, a new tool to clean metadata from your files.
When we switched to MAT 0.8.0 in Tails 4.0, MAT lost its graphical interface and was only accessible from the contextual menu of the Files browser. It became especially hard for new users of Tails to learn how to clean their files. Metadata Cleaner fixes this by providing a simple and easily discoverable graphic interface to remove metadata.
Metadata Cleaner works on the same file formats and is as secure as MAT because Metadata Cleaner also uses MAT in the background to do the actual cleaning.
Changes and updates
Update Tor Browser to 11.5.8.
Update tor to 0.4.7.11.
Remove
pdf-redact-tools
, which was broken. (#19250)
Fixed problems
We fixed 2 small usability issues in Tor Connection:
Explain better how to use the Unsafe Browser to sign in to a local network. (#19168)
Remove the (easier) and (safer) comments in the first screen. (#19166)
For more details, read our changelog.
Known issues
Progress bar of Tor Connection getting stuck around 50%
When using a custom Tor obfs4
bridge, the progress bar of Tor Connection
sometimes gets stuck halfway through and becomes extremely
slow. (#19173)
To fix this, you can either:
Close and reopen Tor Connection to speed up the initial connection.
Try a different
obfs4
bridge.We believe that this issue should not happen with an up-to-date bridge running
obfs4proxy
version 0.0.12 or later.
See the list of long-standing issues.
Get Tails 5.7
To upgrade your Tails USB stick and keep your Persistent Storage
Automatic upgrades are available from Tails 5.0 or later to 5.7.
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
The Persistent Storage on the USB stick will be lost if you install instead of upgrading.
To download only
If you don't need installation or upgrade instructions, you can download Tails 5.7 directly:
What's coming up?
Tails 5.8 is scheduled for December 20.