A new version of Tails, a portable operating system that offers security from snooping and censorship, has been released.
Tails 5.17.1
This release is an emergency release to fix a critical vulnerability in Tor Browser.
We'd like to dedicate this Tails release to Debian developer Abraham Raji who tragically lost his life in an accident on the 13th of September, 2023.
Changes and updates
Update Tor Browser to 12.5.4 which fixes CVE-2023-4863: Heap buffer overflow in libwebp.
Update Tor to 0.4.8.5.
For more details, read our changelog.
Known issues
None specific to this release.
See the list of long-standing issues.
