New Release: Tails 5.13

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by tails | May 16, 2023

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New features

  • Add curl, a command line tool to download over HTTPS, FTP, and other protocols.

    curl can be useful for online investigations as an alternative to wget.

    Everything you do with curl goes through the Tor network. If you want to use curl on a local network, use /usr/bin/curl instead.

Changes and updates

  • Use LUKS2 by default for all new Persistent Storage and LUKS encrypted volumes. LUKS2 provide stronger cryptography by default.

We will provide a migration plan from LUKS1 to LUKS2 for existing Persistent Storage in Tails 5.14 (early June).

  • Update Tor Browser to 12.0.6.

Fixed problems

For more details, read our changelog.

Known issues

None specific to this release.

See the list of long-standing issues.

Get Tails 5.13

To upgrade your Tails USB stick and keep your persistent storage

  • Automatic upgrades are available from Tails 5.0 or later to 5.13.

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:

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 5.13 directly:

Support and feedback

For support and feedback, visit the Support section on the Tails website.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-513/
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Missing from the OP:

To install Tails 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 5.13 directly:

Posted 2023-05-16

Tags: announce

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My personal recommended edits:

= Direct Downloads =

@ wikimedia.org:

@ kernel.org:

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= Changelog =

tails (5.13) unstable; urgency=medium

  • Resolve “Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.6, based on Firefox 102.11”
    (tails/tails!1134)

    Closes issues:

    • Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.6, based on Firefox 102.11 (tails/tails#19621)

    Commits:

    • Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
    • Upgrade Tor Browser to 12.0.6-build1

  • unsafe-browser: Explain why our use of flock is not vulnerable
    (tails/tails!1113)

    Closes issues:

    • Unsafe Browser - Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) via symlink - Arbitrary File
      Content Delete (tails/tails#19616)

    Commits:

    • Use /run/lock instead of /var/lock
    • unsafe-browser: Explain why our use of flock is not vulnerable

  • Make curl use Tor (tails/tails!1123)

    Closes issues:

    • Make curl work out of the box (tails/tails#19488)

    Commits:

    • test that curl works out of the box
    • Make curl use Tor

  • udisks2: Use LUKS2 by default (tails/tails!1115)

    Closes issues:

    • Persistent Storage: Use LUKS2 (tails/tails#15450)

    Commits:

    • Test suite: Increase timeout for changing the LUKS passphrase
    • Test suite: Check that Persistent Storage uses LUKS2
    • Test suite: record old version when installing one to disk
    • Test suite: move step definition to a more suitable place
    • udisks2: Use LUKS2 by default

  • tails-documentation: Check that joined path is below website path
    (tails/tails!1132)

    Closes issues:

    • tails-documentation - Limited Path Traversal (tails/tails#19576)

    Commits:

    • tails-documentation: Check that joined path is below website path

  • Test suite: Don’t check for “Display output is not active” screen
    (tails/tails!1126)

    Closes issues:

    • Tests sometimes fail with “Display output is not active” after clicking login
      button in Welcome Screen (tails/tails#19639)

    Commits:

    • Test suite: Don’t check for “Display output is not active” screen
    • Test suite: Print step status
    • Welcome Screen: Make error message more useful

  • Remove our public calendar (tails/tails!1125)

    Commits:

    • Add missing word
    • Fix broken links
    • Remove our public calendar

  • tps: Use argon2id (tails/tails!1120)

    Closes issues:

    • Persistent Storage: Use argon2id (tails/tails#19633)

    Commits:

    • Test suite: Check that Persistent Storage uses argon2id
    • tps: Reduce the number of triggered udev events
    • tps: Fix creation sometimes failing because udisks object is not ready
    • tps: Fix udevadm trigger --settle sometimes blocking forever
    • tps-frontend: Fix first job update sometimes ignored
    • tps: Send only one PropertiesChanged signal per job update
    • tps: Don’t restrict CPU usage during Persistent Storage creation
    • tps: Keep the system responsive while creating Persistent Storage
    • tps: Use argon2id

  • tps: Fix stderr of failed commands not printed (tails/tails!1118)

    Commits:

    • tps: Fix stderr of failed commands not printed

  • Test suite: Avoid TCA scenario failing if the error panel is briefly shown
    (tails/tails!1114)

    Closes issues:

    • Fix “Scenario: The same Tor configuration is applied when the network is
      reconnected” failing (tails/tails#19591)

    Commits:

    • Test suite: Avoid TCA scenario failing if the error panel is briefly shown

  • tps: Fix InvalidBootDeviceError raised in finally block (tails/tails!1103)

    Closes issues:

    • “Persistent Greeter options” test suite scenario always fails
      (tails/tails#19558)
    • tps reports the need for “USB stick installed with a USB image or Tails
      Installer” in unrelated failure modes (tails/tails#19588)

    Commits:

    • tps: Fix InvalidBootDeviceError raised in finally block
    • tps: Remove unused exception

– Tails developers tails@boum.org Mon, 15 May 2023 12:22:05 +0200

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Regarding the first post, shouldn’t there be a “tails” tag in addition to the already present
“tor-browser” one? :face_with_monocle: