Tails 4.4 Released with Important Security Fixes, App Updates

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Tails 4.4 released with important security fixes app updatesTails 4.4 is now available for download with several welcome improvements, including new app updates and fixes for security vulnerabilities, all of them making the deployment of this new release the recommended step going forward for everyone.

First and foremost, it’s the security side of this new Tails update.

As the developing team explains, many of the security issues discovered in Tails 4.3 have been corrected in this version, including vulnerabilities that affected OS components and pre-installed apps like Tor Browser and Mozilla Thunderbird. You can find a list of the patched vulnerabilities in the box after the jump, along with links to read more information about each of them.

And because it resolves security flaws in a number of pre-loaded apps that come bundled with Tails, version 4.4 also includes updates for these apps. So users installing it get Tor Browser version 9.0.6, Mozilla Thunderbird version 68.5.0, and Linux kernel 5.4.19, with the developing… (read more)

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