Tails 5.5 is out (2022-10-17)

General Discussion
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Changes and updates

  • Update Thunderbird to 102.3.0.Thunderbird 102 is a major update with many changes to the navigation, folder icons, and address book.Thunderbird 102 also includes important usability improvements to the OpenPGP feature. When composing an email, you can now see whether it will be encrypted or not. If encryption is impossible, a key assistant helps you solve key issues.Thunderbird composer window with encryption turned on and notification about a missing key and how to resolve the issue.
  • Update Tor Browser to 11.5.4.
  • Update the Linux kernel to 5.10.140. This should improve the support for newer hardware: graphics, Wi-Fi, and so on.
  • Make the wget command line utility use a different Tor circuit every time.

Fixed problems

  • Always ask to configure a screen locking password when pressing Ctrl+L and no administration pasword was set. (#19090)
  • Add standard fields to /etc/os-release. (#12372)

Known issues

None specific to this release.

See the list of long-standing issues.

Get Tails 5.5

To upgrade your Tails USB stick and keep your persistent storage

  • Automatic upgrades are available from Tails 5.0 or later to 5.5.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 5.5 directly:

What’s coming up?

Tails 5.6 is scheduled for October 25.

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

Posted 2022-10-17

= Changelog =

tails (5.5) unstable; urgency=medium

  • Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.5.4 (ESR 91.13 + ESR 102.3 backports)
    (tails/tails!930)

    Closes issues:

    • Upgrade to Tor Browser 11.5.4 (ESR 91.13 + ESR 102.3 backports)
      (tails/tails#19125)

    Commits:

    • Fetch Tor Browser from our own archive
    • Upgrade Tor Browser to 11.5.4-build2

  • Upgrade to Thunderbird 102 (tails/tails!928)

    Closes issues:

    • Upgrade to Thunderbird 102 (tails/tails#19156)

    Commits:

    • adapt test suite to new UI
    • JS hardening in Thunderbird
    • Enable OAuth2
    • Update Thunderbird patches from
      tails/thunderbird@4efe2ce285c552c1808120d54a11f4be9e57527f
    • Update Thunderbird patches from
      tails/thunderbird@4efe2ce285c552c1808120d54a11f4be9e57527f
    • Thunderbird patches update doc: update examples
    • Thunderbird patches update doc: push upstream tags too
    • Thunderbird patches update doc: document how to verify
    • Thunderbird patches update doc: add missing commit and push steps
    • Thunderbird patches update doc: don’t suggest we’re still trying to upstream
      patches
    • Thunderbird patches update doc: adjust to Bullseye
    • Drop useless step

  • import-translations: use new remote (tails/tails!927)

    Closes issues:

    • App translations supported by Tor Project moving from Transifex to weblate
      (tails/tails#19150)

    Commits:

    • import-translations: drop support for standalone WhisperBack project
    • import-translations: use new remote

  • GitLab CI: ensure all website core pages exist (tails/tails!926)

    Commits:

    • Make code more readable
    • GitLab CI: ensure all website core pages exist

  • GitLab CI: build our website on master and branches targeting master
    (tails/tails!924)

    Commits:

    • GitLab CI: build our website on master and branches targeting master
    • build-website: remove check now done in GitLab CI

  • Test suite: remove Cucumber test scenarios and build website checks that are
    now covered by GitLab CI (tails/tails!923)

    Closes issues:

    • Remove Cucumber test scenarios that are now covered by GitLab CI
      (tails/tails#17992)

    Commits:

    • build-website: remove check now done in GitLab CI
    • Test suite: remove Cucumber test scenarios that are now covered by GitLab CI

  • Upgrade to Bullseye 11.5 and Linux 5.10.140 (tails/tails!920)

    Closes issues:

    • Upgrade Linux to 5.10.140 (tails/tails#19127)
    • Upgrade to Bullseye 11.5 (tails/tails#19082)

    Commits:

    • Test suite: relax timeouts
    • Test suite: bump timeout
    • Refresh patch
    • Upgrade to Bullseye 11.5 and Linux 5.10.140

  • Test suite: fix virt-viewer active?() check to work with all versions
    (tails/tails!919)

    Closes issues:

    • virt-viewer 11.0 breaks our test suite (tails/tails#19064)

    Commits:

    • Test suite: fix virt-viewer active?() check to work with all versions

  • Fix screen lock keyboard shortcut (tails/tails!918)

    Closes issues:

    • Super+L sometimes starts the screensaver when it should ask for a screen lock
      password (tails/tails#19090)

    Commits:

    • Fix screen lock keyboard shortcut

  • Test suite: make localized Unsafe Browser tests faster and easier to maintain
    (tails/tails!917)

    Closes issues:

    • Localized Unsafe Browser tests are slow and hard to maintain
      (tails/tails#19041)

    Commits:

    • Test suite: add comment
    • Make Gherkin scenario outline placeholder more descriptive
    • Test suite: make localized Unsafe Browser tests faster and easier to maintain
    • Test suite: remove dead code

  • Add standard fields to /etc/os-release (tails/tails!914)

    Commits:

    • Add standard fields to /etc/os-release

  • Build system: make our website cache volume smaller (tails/tails!913)

    Commits:

    • Build system: make our website cache volume smaller

  • Use “torsocks --isolate” everywhere we use torsocks (tails/tails!912)

    Commits:

    • Use “torsocks --isolate” everywhere we use torsocks

  • Fix devel FTBFS with uBlock 1.44.0+dfsg-1 (tails/tails!910)

    Commits:

    • Refresh patch

  • Post-release doc updates (tails/tails!907)

    Commits:

    • call for testers has meaningful date
    • warning: tb-build-05 not serving files over HTTP
    • cleanup script that waits for new TBB release

  • GitLab CI: run the Bandit security oriented static analyzer for Python
    (tails/tails!904)

    Commits:

    • Check re.match’s return value in a way that always returns a boolean
    • Add typing information
    • GitLab CI: also check shell and Python files that have no shebang
    • GitLab CI: run the Bandit security oriented static analyzer for Python
    • Lint comments format
    • Ignore Bandit false positives
    • Remove obsolete Emacs “coding: UTF-8” configuration
    • WhisperBack: only load global configuration file
    • Add configuration for the Bandit security oriented static analyzer for Python

  • Make it easy to re-run failed test suite scenarios (tails/tails!901)

    Closes issues:

    • run_test_suite wrapper that retries failed tests (tails/tails#19072)

    Commits:

    • RM tip: run all test scenarios
    • RM tip: multiple test suite runs overnight
    • set rerun file from ruby

– Tails developers tails@boum.org Thu, 13 Oct 2022 11:55:08 +0200

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