New Release: Tails 5.2

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by tails | July 12, 2022

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Changes and updates

Included software

  • Update Tor Browser to 11.5.

  • Update Thunderbird to 91.11.0.

Fixed problems

For more details, read our changelog.

Known issues

None specific to this release.

See the list of long-standing issues.

Get Tails 5.2

To upgrade your Tails USB stick and keep your persistent storage

  • Automatic upgrades are available from Tails 5.0 or later to 5.2.

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 5.2 directly:

What's coming up?

Tails 5.3 is scheduled for July 26.

Have a look at our roadmap to see where we are heading to.

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-52/
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= Announcement =

= Changes and updates =

Included software:

Update Tor Browser to 11.5.

Update Thunderbird to 91.11.0.

= Tails 5.2 Changelog =

"tails (5.2) unstable; urgency=medium

  • Upgrade Thunderbird to 91.11.0

  • Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.5 (tails/tails!889)

    Closes issues:

    • Upgrade to Tor Browser based on Firefox 91.11 (tails/tails#19029)

    Commits:

    • more bumping tor browser
    • bump torbrowser images
    • autobump
    • manual bump TorBrowserOverviewIcon.png
    • some more image bumping
    • l10n screenshot updated
    • bump duckduckgo prompt image
    • adapt tor browser screenshot
    • Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
    • Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.5
    • Revert “NIGHTLY ONLY! REMOVE ME!”
    • clean nightly dirt
    • install langpacks for nightlies, too (if possible)
    • NIGHTLY ONLY! REMOVE ME!
    • Revert “disable OnionAliases for Unsafe Browser”
    • use new TBB setting to disable onionrewrites altogether
    • take tbb 11.5 from nightlies
    • disable OnionAliases for Unsafe Browser
    • Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.5a13-build2

  • Adapt release process to new Tor blog platform (tails/tails!887)

    Closes issues:

    Commits:

    • Be explicit
    • Release process: suggest publishing a Tor blog even for bugfix releases
    • Release process: improve Tor blog post instructions
    • generate-Tor-blog-post: use actual template and also generate the Lektor header
    • generate-Tor-blog-post: refactor (extract code to function)
    • generate-Tor-blog-post: remove inline images too
    • Release process: adapt the Tor blog post process to Lektor
    • generate-Tor-blog-post: fix ikiwiki command

  • GitLab CI: clean up and refactor https-get-expired jobs (tails/tails!884)

    Commits:

    • GitLab CI: force running jobs when updating .gitlab-ci.yml
    • GitLab CI: factorize
    • GitLab CI: install golang in the same way we do during a Tails build
    • GitLab CI: remove duplicate call to “apt-get update”
    • GitLab CI: drop obsolete pinning to Buster

  • Git: ignore the early_patch= (aka. --early-patch) hook (tails/tails!882)

    Commits:

    • Git: ignore the early_patch= (aka. --early-patch) hook

  • Resolve “IUK test suite: features/frontend is broken (tails-transform-mirror-
    url fails)” (tails/tails!880)

    Closes issues:

    • IUK test suite: features/frontend is broken (tails-transform-mirror-url fails)
      (tails/tails#18661)

    Commits:

    • IUk test suite: Set Torsocks to allow outbound connections to the loopback
      interface
    • IUK test suite: Add test file
    • IUK test suite: disable certificate verification

  • Test suite: fix copying a new directory with late patch (tails/tails!877)

    Commits:

    • Test suite: fix copying a new directory with late patch

  • Resolve “Test “The included APT repository keys are up-to-date” does not check
    subkeys” (tails/tails!876)

    Closes issues:

    • Test “The included APT repository keys are up-to-date” does not check subkeys
      (tails/tails#19047)

    Commits:

    • check we have at least one relevant subkey
    • gpg checks deeper: both master keys and subkeys
    • consistent naming
    • Revert “Revert “check APT subkeys, too””

  • Test suite: misc bugfixes (tails/tails!872)

    Commits:

    • Test suite: also set the guest’s time when connected to the LAN but not to Tor
    • Test suite: move sleep where it was supposed to be

  • workaround persistent Tor bridges bug (tails/tails!870)

    Closes issues:

    • Tor Bridges persistence sometimes fails to save bridges during initial setup on
      Bullseye, at least in our test suite (tails/tails#18926)

    Commits:

    • workaround for bug only present in test suite

  • check APT subkeys, too (tails/tails!869)

    Closes issues:

    • Test “The included APT repository keys are up-to-date” does not check subkeys
      (tails/tails#19047)

    Commits:

    • check APT subkeys, too

  • Set Samba workgroup used by GTK applications to “localhost” (tails/tails!865)

    Closes issues:

    • Several applications ask Tor to resolve the “workgroup” hostname
      (tails/tails#19030)

    Commits:

    • Set Samba workgroup used by GTK applications to “localhost”

– Tails developers tails@boum.org Mon, 11 Jul 2022 08:13:08 +0000"

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