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Tails version 6.2 is now available. The Tor Browser and Tor Client have been updated to 13.0.14 and 0.4.8.11, respectively. The localization area on the Welcome Screen has been renamed Language and Formats. Tails Upgrader now defaults to upgrading later. Issues with Wi-Fi, SysRq keys, Spectre v4 mitigation, and Persistent Storage error messages have been resolved.



Tails - Tails 6.2

New features

We added 21 new languages to the Welcome Screen: Albanian, Armenian, Basque, Bengali, Bulgarian, Estonian, Galician, Icelandic, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Malay, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Serbian, Slovak, Swahili, Thai, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

Some of these languages only have little of our custom Tails applications translated, but other applications included in Tails are better translated.

If you want to translate Tails better in these languages or translate Tails into other languages, you can contribute to the  Tor Project Weblate.

New languages will be included automatically in future versions of Tails as soon as 25% of strings are translated.

Changes and updates

  • Update Tor Browser to  13.0.14.

  • Update the Tor client to 0.4.8.11.

  • Rename the localization section of the Welcome Screen as Language and Formats.

  • Make Upgrade later the default option in the dialog opened by Tails Upgrader.

  • Include more errors in the  detection of read and write errors on the USB stick.

Fixed problems

  • Fix a reliability issue that disabled Wi-Fi on some hardware. ( #20045)

  • Disable SysRq keys, which allowed crashing a Tails session from the keyboard and bypass the lock screen. ( #20334)

  • Disable Speculative Store Bypass to improve our mitigation of  Spectre v4. ( #20335)

  • Improve the error message when creating a Persistent Storage is impossible. ( #20328)

For more details, read our  changelog.

Get Tails 6.2

To upgrade your Tails USB stick and keep your Persistent Storage

  • Automatic upgrades are available from Tails 6.0 or later to 6.2.

    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.

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Tails - Tails 6.2