Tails 4.4 Released with Important Security Fixes, App Updates

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Tails 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.
 
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 team highlighting the support for new hardware.
 
There are obviously several other fixes as well, including for a problem hitting Wi-Fi interfaces with Realtek RTL8822BE and RTL8822CE chipsets.
 
“Fix missing firmware for RTL8822BE/RTL8822CE (See: #17323). Use the tails-workarounds provided firmwares until the firmware-realtek package is updated with the patch by Sjoerd Simons (Debian#935969). Note: This might not be sufficient to support those cards,” the changelog reads.
 
There are no known issues that are specific to this update but on the other hand, there are several other problems inherited from the previous updates, and you can check them out in full here.

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