Tails 6.3

Changes and updates

  • Add back translations in Romanian and Malayalam.

  • Update Tor Browser to 13.0.15.

  • Disable temporarily the PDF reader of Thunderbird to protect from a security vulnerability related to the handling of fonts in PDF files. (CVE-2024-4367)

    You can still open PDF files in the Document Viewer from Thunderbird.

  • Make Restart later the default button, instead of Restart now, at the end of an automatic upgrade.

Fixed problems

  • Fix the configuration of new printers when some printers were already configured in the Persistent Storage in Tails 5.23 or earlier. (#20271)

  • Remove the long delay between the Welcome Screen and the GNOME desktop when MAC address anonymization fails. (#17813)

For more details, read our changelog.

Get Tails 6.3

To upgrade your Tails USB stick and keep your Persistent Storage

  • Automatic upgrades are available from Tails 6.0 or later to 6.3.

    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 6.3 on a new USB stick

Follow our installation instructions:

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 6.3 directly: