New Release: Tails 5.10

by tails | February 16, 2023

Changes and updates

Fixed problems

  • Avoid crashing when the download of an upgrade is stopped and resumed. (#18435)

  • Solve a possible privilege escalation through a symlink attack. (#19424)

    Dennis's Brinkrolf discovered that an adversary who could already run arbitrary code as the amnesia user in Tails 5.9, could have escalated their privileges to reading arbitrary files on the system. It might have been possible to use this as part of an exploit chain to gain root privileges.

Persistent Storage

  • Avoid opening the Persistent Storage settings each time after login. (#19410)

  • Solve some cases of failure to activate the Persistent Storage by bumping the unlocking timeout to 120 seconds. (#19432)

For more details, read our changelog.

Known issues

None specific to this release.

See the list of long-standing issues.

Get Tails 5.10

To upgrade your Tails USB stick and keep your persistent storage

  • Automatic upgrades are available from Tails 5.0 or later to 5.10.

    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 5.10 directly:

What's coming up?

Tails 5.11 is scheduled for March 14.

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.

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