The developers have released version 6.1 of the Linux distribution Tails, which is designed for anonymous movement on the Internet. In it they essentially correct some annoying errors and bring the software base up to date.
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The Tor browser for anonymous surfing is now available in version 13.0.13, while Thunderbird is in version 115.9.0. The corrected errors include, among other things, that Onion Circuits assumed that the connection to the Tor network was not yet established if the Tor Control port could not be connected. Error messages could appear when playing videos.
More bug fixes in Tails
When changing the passphrase for the persistent storage, error messages could also occur, even if the change worked later after the user interface had waited for it. Persistent storage settings now display all enabled custom features. Tails Cloner can now install and upgrade devices that have multiple mounted partitions. The developers have also integrated countermeasures to possible side channel attacks on Intel CPUs called RFDS (Register File Data Sampling), they write in the Version announcement for Tails 6.1.
The updated Tails images represent that Play and carry around for USB sticks as well as for Burn to DVDs or use in virtual machines as ISO-Images ready.
Tails 6.0 was released at the end of February. This brought major changes: the Tails maintainers migrated the base to Debian 12 / Bookworm and introduced the more modern desktop environment Gnome 43.
(dmk)