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[[!meta title="Tails 4.19 is out"]]
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[[!meta date="Tue, 01 Jun 2021 12:34:56 +0000"]]
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We worked very hard last week to get ready to release the work on the connection to Tor that we have been showing you in [[4.19~beta1|test_4.19-beta1]] and [[4.19~rc1|test_4.19-rc1]]. We made a lot of progress but didn't feel confident enough to release it today.
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So, we are releasing 4.19 as a regular upgrade and will release this work in 4.20. We will publish an updated rc2 in the coming days with even more improvements on the connection to Tor.
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<h1 id="changes">Changes and updates</h1>
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Stop pinning the TLS certificate of our website when doing automatic upgrades.
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We broke automatic upgrades twice recently; once in December in
[[4.14|news/version_4.15#broken-upgrades]] and again during a few days on
[[!tails_ticket 18324 desc="May 15"]]. These 2 times, it was the consequence
of a security feature: the pinning of the TLS certificate of our website when
doing automatic upgrades.
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We removed this feature because the recent problems proved us that this
feature was not worth it if it makes us break automatic upgrades that often.
([[!tails_ticket 18324]])
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Our upgrades are still as strongly authenticated as they are signed using
OpenPGP by our team.
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Add visual feedback when typing an administration password with <span class="code">sudo</span> in a terminal:
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amnesia@amnesia:~$ sudo -i
[sudo] password for amnesia: ********
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- Update *Tor Browser* to [10.0.17](https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-10017).
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- Update *Thunderbird* to [78.10.0](https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/78.10.0/releasenotes/).
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<h1 id="issues">Known issues</h1>
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None specific to this release.
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<h1 id="get">Get Tails 4.19</h1>
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To upgrade your Tails USB stick and keep your persistent storage
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Automatic upgrades are broken from Tails 4.14 and earlier. See the <a href="#broken-upgrades">known issue above</a>.
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- Automatic upgrades are available from Tails 4.14 or later to 4.19.
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If you cannot do an automatic upgrade or if Tails fails to start after an automatic upgrade, please try to do a [[manual upgrade|doc/upgrade/#manual]].
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