This release fixes many security issues and users should upgrade as soon as possible.

Changes

New features

• You can now lock your screen by clicking on the button in the system menu.

  • If you set up an administration password when starting Tails, you can unlock your screen with your administration password.

  • Otherwise, you can set up a password to unlock your screen when locking your screen for the first time.

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• We improved a lot the backend of the Additional Software persistence feature. Your additional software is now:

  • Installed in the background after the session starts instead of blocking the opening of the desktop.
  • Always installed even if you are offline.

• Install pdf-redact-tools, a command line tool to clean metadata and redact PDF files by converting them to PNG images.

• An error message indicating the name of the graphics card is now displayed when Tails fails to start GNOME.

Upgrades and changes

• The Tails documentation launcher on the desktop now opens the documentation on our website if you are online.

• Install drivers for the Video Acceleration API to improve the display of videos on many graphics cards.

• Upgrade Electrum from 2.7.9 to 3.0.6.

• Upgrade Linux to 4.15.0.

• Upgrade Tor to 0.3.2.10.

• Upgrade Thunderbird 52.6.0.

  We also activated the AppArmor profile of Thunderbird from Debian to confine Thunderbird for security.

• Rewrite some internal scripts from shell scripting to Python, thanks to GoodCrypto.

Fixed problems

• Remove the display of debug and error messages when starting.

• Fix the ISO image selection being unavailable in Tails Installer in languages other than English. (#15233)

• Fix OpenPGP Applet being unresponsive when decrypting a lot of text. (#6398)

For more details, read our changelog.

Known issues

• Enigmail is unable to download OpenPGP keys for new contacts if you have the GnuPG persistence feature activated. You can still download OpenPGP keys using Passwords and Keys. (#15395)

• This release is not reproducible, due to various python files in /usr/local having different timestamps. (#15400)

See the list of long-standing issues.

Get Tails 3.6

• To install, follow our installation instructions.

• We do not provide automatic upgrades from older Tails installations for this release, as we've hit an old bug while generating the necessary files (#13426). You have to upgrade manually.

• Download Tails 3.6.

What's coming up?

Tails 3.7 is scheduled for May 8.

Have a look at our roadmap to see where we are heading to.

We need your help and there are many ways to contribute to Tails (donating is only one of them). Come talk to us!