Developers of a specialized Tails (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) distribution based on the Debian package base and designed to provide anonymous access to the network, published plans for the development of the project in 2021. The most notable change will be the translation of the user environment to use the Wayland protocol, which will increase the security of all graphical applications by improving control over how applications interact with the system. For example, unlike X11 in Wayland, input and output is isolated for each window, and the client is prevented from accessing the contents of other clients’ windows, and also cannot intercept input events associated with other windows.
Towards the end of the year, it is planned to have a Tails 5.0 release based on the Debian 11 (Bullseye) package base. Work is also planned to completely redesign the Tor startup process and configure Tor bridge nodes (bridge relay), which will simplify access to the anonymous network from countries trying to block Tor. Of the countries from which users most often connect to bridging nodes (alternative entry points that are not published on the directory server), dominated Russia, Iran, USA, Belarus and China.
Another notable change will be an improvement in the interface for configuring Persistent Storage. The Perl script responsible for working with persistent repositories is planned to be replaced with a new implementation written in Python and using the GTK library. You will now be able to save information about the selected Tor bridge nodes to permanent storage.