Tails 6.0 warns you about errors when reading or writing from your Tails USB stick.
These alerts can help you diagnose hardware failures on your USB stick and backup your Persistent Storage before it's too late.
When you plug in an external storage device, a USB stick or an external hard disk, Tails 6.0 mounts it automatically. If the storage device contains an encrypted partition, Tails 6.0 offers you to unlock the encryption automatically.
This feature also simplifies how to unlock VeraCrypt encrypted volumes.
If an attacker manages to plug a malicious USB device in your computer, they could run software that breaks the security built in Tails without your knowledge.
To protect from such attacks while you are away from your computer, Tails 6.0 ignores any USB device that is plugged in while your screen is locked.
You can only use new USB devices if they are plugged in while the screen is unlocked.
From the system menu of Tails 6.0, you can now switch between:
GNOME 43 introduces a new shortcut in the system menu that makes it easier to take a screenshot or record a screencast.
Thanks to changes in both Thunderbird and Gmail, it's much easier to configure a Gmail account in Thunderbird in Tails 6.0.
When creating a Persistent Storage, suggested passphrases are now also generated in Catalan, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Thanks to jawlensky who created the
word lists for Catalan, Italian, and Spanish for Tails, but also made them
available to all users of diceware
.
Tails 6.0 updates most of the applications included in Tails, among others:
gedit
to gnome-text-editor
The extension of GNOME Shell that we used to provide this feature is not well integrated into GNOME and created other problems. (#19920)
Secure deletion is not reliable enough on USB sticks and Solid-State Drives (SSDs) for us to keep advertising this feature.
We updated our documentation on secure deletion to new recommendations: use encrypted volumes, overwrite the entire device, or disintegrate it physically.
The developers of MAT2, the metadata removal library used by Metadata Cleaner are not providing this option anymore.
You can still install GtkHash as Additional Software.
For more details, read our changelog.
We tried to include OnionShare 2.6 in Tails 6.0, but it has several issues that had security implications. (#20135 and #20140)
All other users have to do a manual upgrade.
Follow our installation instructions:
The Persistent Storage on the USB stick will be lost if you install instead of upgrading.
If you don't need installation or upgrade instructions, you can download Tails 6.0 directly:
For support and feedback, visit the Support section on the Tails website.