Tails 5.8 is the most important release of Tails in years. It includes both major redesign of existing features, important usability improvements, and hardened security.
The Persistent Storage hasn't changed much since its first release in 2012 because the code was hard to modify and improve. But, we learned from users that the Persistent Storage could do a lot more for you if it had more features and was easier to use.
Even if you won't notice any visual difference, Wayland brings more security in depth to Tails by making it harder for a compromised application in Tails to compromise or misuse another application.
For example, since [[Tails 4.8|news/version_4.8]], the *Unsafe Browser* was disabled by default because a security vulnerability in another application in Tails could start an invisible *Unsafe Browser*, reveal your IP address, and [[deanonymize you|doc/anonymous_internet/unsafe_browser#security]].
We are aware that the QR codes that are currently provided are too big to be easy to scan. We are [working with Tor](https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/40052)to make them smaller and easier to scan.