A new version of Tails, a portable operating system that offers security from snooping and censorship, has been released.

Tails 5.13

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.

Tails 5.13