<h1 id="features">New features</h1>

<h2>Data deletion when deactivating a feature of the Persistent Storage</h2>

After you turn off a feature of the Persistent Storage, you can now click the **Delete Data** button to delete the data stored for this feature.

[[!img delete-data.png link="no" alt="Persistent Storage settings with message:
Persistent Folder. The data of this feature is still saved. Delete Data?"]]

<h2>Passphrase suggestion when creating the Persistent Storage</h2>

When creating the Persistent Storage, a random and very secure passphrase is now displayed as a suggestion:

[[!img diceware.png link="no" alt="We recommend a long passphrase of 5 to 7 random words. For example: Ella Grim Inca Brief Facts Panda"]]

This passphrase uses the diceware method to give very strong security guarantees while being possible to memorize.

For example, a six-word passphrase like we suggest would take 3&#8239;505 years to crack at a trillion guesses a second.

Learn more about the maths in [The Intercept: Passphrases That You Can Memorize — But That Even the NSA Can’t Guess](https://theintercept.com/2015/03/26/passphrases-can-memorize-attackers-cant-guess/).

- Update *Tor Browser* to [12.0.5](https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1205/).

Update the *Linux* kernel to 6.1.20. This improves the support for newer hardware: graphics, Wi-Fi, and so on.

- Use a new icon for the backup utility for the Persistent Storage.

We fixed several reliability issues with the Persistent Storage:

We improved the error message when a feature of the Persistent Storage fails to activate from the Welcome Screen to clarify which feature is affected.

[[!img failure-to-activate.png link="no" alt="Welcome Screen with error
message: Failed to activate some features of the Persistent Storage:
Persistent Folder."]]

After starting Tails, the feature that failed to activate is marked as such
in the Persistent Storage settings. You can try turning the feature off and
on again or deleting its data to reset it entirely.

[[!img activation-failed.png link="no" alt="Persistent Storage settings with
error message: Persistent Folder. Activation failed. Try again."]]

We made the activation of the Persistent Storage more reliable in 2 error cases. ([[!tails_ticket 19376]] and [[!tails_ticket 19331]])

We added a progress indicator while turning on a new feature to clarify that it can take some time. ([[!tails_ticket 19291]])