This release is an emergency release to fix a security vulnerability in sudo.

You should upgrade as soon as possible.

Changes and updates

Included software

• Update sudo to 1.8.27-1+deb10u3, which fixes CVE-2021-3156, a major vulnerability that allows normal users to gain root privileges.

Known issues

None specific to this release.

See the list of long-standing issues.

Get Tails 4.15.1

To upgrade your Tails USB stick and keep your persistent storage

• Automatic upgrades are available from Tails 4.2 or later to 4.15.1.
• If you cannot do an automatic upgrade or if Tails fails to start after an automatic upgrade, please try to do a manual upgrade.

To install Tails on a new USB stick

Follow our installation instructions:

• Install from Windows
• Install from macOS
• Install from Linux

To download only

If you don’t need installation or upgrade instructions, you can download Tails 4.15.1 directly:

• For USB sticks (USB image)
• For DVDs and virtual machines (ISO image)

What’s coming up?

Tails 4.16 is scheduled for February 23.

Have a look at our roadmap to see where we are heading to.

We need your help and there are many ways to contribute to Tails (donating is only one of them). Come talk to us!

转自 https://tails.boum.org/news/version_4.15.1/index.en.html