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The Tails operating system, which is a portable operating system that provides protection against censorship and snooping, has been updated with a new version.



Tails 5.22

New features

  • In Tor Browser, you can now save files to more folders: Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, and Videos. You can also upload files from these folders.

  • When your Persistent Storage is broken, Tails now tries to repair its file system when you unlock it in the Welcome Screen.

Changes and updates

  • Report the write speed after cloning a Persistent Storage from Tails Cloner.

  • Do not try to unlock or delete a Persistent Storage on a read-only USB stick.

  • Update Tor Browser to  13.0.9.

  • Update Thunderbird to  115.7.

Fixed problems

  • Stop leaking the first-level domain of visited websites in WhisperBack reports. The problem was first introduced in Tails 5.15.1 (July 2023). ( !1344)

  • Make installing Tails with Tails Cloner more robust by fixing occasional errors AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'props'. Thanks to Ben Westgate! ( !1312)

  • Fix saving the Additional Software configuration when creating a Persistent Storage. ( !1350)

  • Fix help link when resizing the system partition fails the first time Tails is started. ( !1341)

For more details, read our  changelog.

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