New features

• Add curl, a command line tool to download over HTTPS, FTP, and other protocols.

  curl can be useful for online investigations as an alternative to wget.

  Everything you do with curl goes through the Tor network. If you want to use curl on a local network, use /usr/bin/curl instead.

Changes and updates

• Use LUKS2 by default for all new Persistent Storage and LUKS encrypted volumes. LUKS2 provide stronger cryptography by default.

We will provide a migration plan from LUKS1 to LUKS2 for existing Persistent Storage in Tails 5.14 (early June).

• Update Tor Browser to 12.0.6.

Fixed problems

For more details, read our changelog.

Known issues

None specific to this release.

See the list of long-standing issues.

Get Tails 5.13

To upgrade your Tails USB stick and keep your persistent storage

• Automatic upgrades are available from Tails 5.0 or later to 5.13.

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

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 5.13 directly:

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

Support and feedback

For support and feedback, visit the Support section on the Tails website.