Tails OS 5.19 releases: privacy & anonymously OS

Tails OS is a live operating system that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card.

It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity and helps you to:

• use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship;
  all connections to the Internet are forced to go through the Tor network;
• leave no trace on the computer you are using unless you ask it explicitly;
• use state-of-the-art cryptographic tools to encrypt your files, emails and instant messaging.

Tails OS 5.19 has been released.

Changelog

New features

Closing a Tor circuit from Onion Circuits

You can now close a given Tor circuit from the Onion Circuits interface. This can help replace a particularly slow Tor circuit or troubleshoot issues on the Tor network.

To close a Tor circuit:

1. Connect to the Tor network.
2. Choose  ▸ Open Onion Circuits in the top navigation bar.
3. Right-click (on Mac, click with two fingers) on the circuit that you want to close.
4. Choose Close this circuit in the shortcut menu.

   When you close a circuit that is being used by an application, your application gets disconnected from this destination service.

   For example, when you close a circuit while Tor Browser is downloading a file, the download fails.

5. If you connect to the same destination server again, Tor uses a different circuit to replace the circuit that you closed.

   For example, if you download the same file again, Tor uses a new circuit.

Addition of sq-keyring-linter

At the request of people who use SecureDrop to provide secure whistleblowing platforms across the world, we added the sq-keyring-linter package. sq-keyring-linter improves the cryptographic parameters of PGP keys stored in their airgapped machines.

Changes and updates

• Update Tor Browser to 13.0.1.
• Update the Tor client to 0.4.8.7.
• Update Thunderbird to 115.4.1.
• Update the Linux kernel to 6.1.55.

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