The Tails development team has released the beta version of its Tails 5.0 for public testing. The official version of Tails 5.0 will be released next month and it is based on the latest Debian GNU/Linux 11 "Bullseye" operating system.
Tails 5.0 Beta is released with the following updates:
Changes and upgrades:
- Update to Debian 11 (Bullseye)
- GNOME 3.38
- OnionCircuits 0.7
- Pidgin 2.14.1
- Mozilla Thunderbird 91.7.0
- LibreOffice 7.0.4
- Inkscape 1.0.2
- GIMP 2.20.22
- Audacity 2.4.2
- X.Org 1.20.11
- Remove Python 2
- Tor Browser 11.0.10
- Driver-free printing and scanning
fix the problem
- Fix language translation in welcome screen
- Fixed opening Veracrypt volumes with long passwords
Known Issues
- WhisperBack cannot send error reports
- Tails installer sometimes fails to install or upgrade Tails
- Additional Software sometimes fails to install packages on first launch after configuration
- OpenPGP Applet is unavailable: its icon cannot be displayed
- Tails 5.0 Beta takes more time to launch than previous versions
Tails 5.0 is still in beta, so do not use this version in any production environment.
More details can be found here: https://tails.boum.org/news/index.en.html