Tras v4.28 which arrived less than a month ago, we already have a new version of this operating system destined for anonymity. On this occasion, what has been available for a few hours is Tails 5.0, the first installment to be based on Debian 11 Bullseye. The latest version of the system on which others as popular as Ubuntu are based arrived last August, and among its novelties we had the kernel uploaded to Linux 5.10, at that time the latest LTS.
But it is based on Debian 11 it is only one of its striking points. Among others that do not draw so much attention, we have that they now use Kleopatra as a new utility to replace OpenPGP, also known as Seahorse, to manage passwords. The reason for this change is that OpenPGP is no longer under active development, so it was difficult to maintain it in Tails 5.0 and future versions.
Tails 5.0 highlights
- The Persistent Storage Add-on Software feature is enabled by default to make setting up your first add-on software package faster and more robust.
- You can now use the Activities summary to access windows and applications. To access the Activities summary, you can use one of the following options, with which you can see the windows and applications in the overview:
- Click on the Activities button.
- Bring the mouse pointer to the top left corner.
- Press the Meta key on the keyboard.
- Software included:
- TorBrowser 11.0.11.
- GNOME 3.38 (previously 3.30).
- UpdateMat 0.12.
- Audacity 2.4.2. As in the rest of the distributions, nothing superior is included for the acquisition of Muse Group and its new policy of collecting telemetry.
- Disk Utility 2.10.22.
- Inkscape 1.0.
- Libre Office 7.0.
- Support for printing and scanning without drivers.
- Fixed problem unlocking VeraCrypt volumes with very long passwords.
- Full list of changes, here.
The new ISO image can now be downloaded from this link. Automatic updates are NOT supported. To update manually, follow the instructions that explain here.