Tails, or The Amnesic Incognito Live System, is a security-focused Debian-based Linux distribution aimed at preserving privacy and anonymity.

Release Released Security Support Latest
6 10 months ago
(27 Feb 2024)
Yes 6.8
(08 Oct 2024)
5 2 years and 8 months ago
(03 May 2022)
Ended 10 months ago
(27 Feb 2024)
5.20
(28 Nov 2023)
4 5 years ago
(22 Oct 2019)
Ended 2 years and 8 months ago
(02 May 2022)
4.29
(04 Apr 2022)
3 7 years ago
(13 Jun 2017)
Ended 5 years ago
(21 Oct 2019)
3.16
(03 Sep 2019)
2 8 years and 11 months ago
(27 Jan 2016)
Ended 7 years ago
(10 Jul 2017)
2.12
(18 Apr 2017)
1 10 years ago
(29 Apr 2014)
Ended 8 years and 11 months ago
(25 Jan 2016)
1.8.2
(09 Jan 2016)

Tails provides upgrades every six weeks and only supports the latest release.

You should be running one of the supported release numbers listed above in the rightmost column.

cat /etc/amnesia/version


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