Changes and updates

• Update Tor Browser to 12.5.6.

• Update Tor to 0.4.8.6.

For more details, read our changelog.

Known issues

None specific to this release.

See the list of long-standing issues.

Get Tails 5.18

To upgrade your Tails USB stick and keep your Persistent Storage

• Automatic upgrades are available from Tails 5.0 or later to 5.18.

  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:

• Install from Windows
• Install from macOS
• Install from Linux
• Install from Debian or Ubuntu using the command line and GnuPG

To download only

If you don't need installation or upgrade instructions, you can download Tails 5.18 directly:

• For USB sticks (USB image)
• For DVDs and virtual machines (ISO image)