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Login display:
Desktop:
Kali-Purple desktop:
New wallpapers:
Special thanks to @arszilla for not only suggesting two wallpaper variants but also contributing to the creation of one of the default wallpapers featured in this release. These additional images were crafted to complement the background colors of the Nord and Dracula color schemes. To access these wallpapers, simply install the kali-community-wallpapers package, which also offer many other stunning backgrounds created by our community contributors.
Other desktop changes
Xfce
We are excited to introduce a convenient enhancement to our Xfce desktop. Now, users can effortlessly copy their VPN IP address to the clipboard with just a click, simplifying the workflow and enhancing productivity for our users. To take advantage of this functionality, ensure that xclip is installed on your system (sudo apt update && sudo apt -y install xclip). With this improvement, managing your VPN connections on Kali Linux becomes even more seamless and intuitive.
Thank you @lucas.parsy for your contribution that made this feature possible!
Other Xfce changes:
- Kali-undercover updated to fix compatibility with latest Xfce
- Fixed a bug with
xfce-paneland Kali’s customizedcpugraphplug-in
Gnome-Shell
For Gnome desktop one notable change is the replacement of the eye-of-gnome (eog) image viewer with Loupe, continuing the transition to GTK4 based applications. Additionally, the latest update of Nautilus file manager arrived to Kali’s repositories, delivering a significant boost in file search speed and introducing a refreshed sidebar design.
Icon Theme
Following with the desktop enhancements, we’ve added a few new app icons, ensuring a fully themed experience for default installations of Kali Linux. Additionally, we’ve refreshed our icon theme with new symbolic icons, enhancing consistency system-wide.
Kali NetHunter Updates
We finally got our hands on a brand new Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra and yes!, NetHunter rootless runs like a dream. Fortunately, Android 14 lets us disable child process restrictions in developer settings so we no longer have to use the adb command line to enable KeX support. We have updated our documentation to reflect these changes.
@yesimxev managed to add the popular Bad Bluetooth HID attack the the NetHunter app for both phones and even smartwatches!
The icons for our NetHunter and NHTerm apps have received a makeover and @kimocoder & @martinvlba spent countless days updating the codebase to ensure compatibility with the latest Android version.
The community engagement is at an all time high, which is reflected by the following new kernels:
- Realme C15
- TicWatch Pro 3
- (Updated) Samsung Galaxy S9+
- Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC
Thanks heaps to everyone that contributed, we wouldn’t be here without you!
Stay tuned as there are many more kernels already on the way!
New Tools in Kali
The following new tools made it into this Kali release (via the network repositories):
- blue-hydra - Bluetooth device discovery service
- opentaxii - TAXII server implementation from EclecticIQ
- readpe - Command-line tools to manipulate Windows PE files
- snort - Flexible Network Intrusion Detection System
The focus was adding new libraries this release, and there is always numerous packages updates. Plus we also bump the Kali kernel to 6.6!
Community Packages
There has also been a tool submitted from the community which has been merged into Kali:
- above - Invisible protocol sniffer for finding vulnerabilities in the network
If you are wanting a tool in Kali quicker than what we can add, please see our blog post from a previous release.
Miscellaneous
Below are a few other things which have been updated in Kali, which we are calling out which do not have as much detail:
- Due to the ongoing
/usr-mergetransition in Debian, using 2023.4 or older versions of our netboot images will no longer work. Make sure to either grab weekly image or Kali 2024.1! - Friendly reminder, if you are getting “weird special characters” when trying to use keyboard shortcuts to copy/paste clipboard, the default is to use “ctrl+shift+c” and “ctrl+shift+v”.
- ctrl+c (without shift) in Unix is used to kill programs!
- Should you wish, you can alter the default behaviour in your favourite terminal program
Kali Website Updates
Kali Documentation
Our Kali documentation has had various updates:
- Installing VMware on Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3) Macs (Host) (updated)
- Kali Installation Sizes (updated)
A way to make a project even stronger is to help its documentation. Kali is no exception. If you are able to please do contributed.
Tool Documentation
Our tool documentation is always getting various updates from us, but we received a great contribution from Daniel:
If you are wanting to help Kali, and give back, submitting to kali.org/tools is a great way to contributed.
Kali Blog Recap
Since our last release, we did the following blog posts:
Community Shout-Outs
These are people from the public who have helped Kali and the team for the last release. And we want to praise them for their work (we like to give credit where due!):
Anyone can help out, anyone can get involved!
New Kali Mirrors
We have some new mirrors! Plenty of new mirrors, in fact. The last quarter was quite incredible on this front, and now is the time to give credits.
Let’s start with North America:
- US: mirror.fcix.net sponsored by FCIX aka. the Fremont Cabal Internet Exchange. Thanks to Kenneth Finnegan for reaching out… one and a half year ago! Thankfully we rediscovered the email and that was worth it.
- Canada: mirror.xenyth.net sponsored by Xenyth Cloud, and thanks to Sepehr Ahmadi.
- Canada: mirror.quantum5.ca sponsored by Dynamic Quantum Networks, and thanks to Guanzhong Chen.
- Canada: mirror.accuris.ca sponsored by Accuris Technologies Ltd., thanks to Peter Potvin.
- Canada: mirror.0xem.ma sponsored by Emma Ruby.
Now for the rest of the world:
- Chile: elmirror.cl, sponsored by ElMirror, and thanks to Jonathan Gutierrez, who also maintains the other Kali Linux mirror in Chile: mirror.ufro.cl. As a reminder: we really lack mirrors in South America, any help would be welcome to help Kali reach this part of the world.
- China: mirrors.ustc.edu.cn, sponsored by the USTC aka. the University of Science and Technology of China, and thanks to Keyu Tao.
- France: mirror.johnnybegood.fr, sponsored by the Johnnybegood Society.
- Portugal: mirror.leitecastro.com, sponsored by Tomás Leite de Castro.
- South Korea: mirror.amuksa.com.
On top of that, as said above, there is now the Micro Mirror CDN that serves Kali images via 10 points of presence: 7 in the US, 1 in Colombia, 1 in the UK and 1 in Australia!
To wrap that up: THANK YOU to all of you, individuals and companies, who provide bandwidth and help us distribute Kali to everyone out there!
If you have the disk space and bandwidth, we always welcome new mirrors.
Kali Team Discord Chat
Since the launch of our Discord server with Kali 2022.3, we have been doing an hour long voice chat with a number of Kali team members. This is when anyone can ask questions (hopefully relating to Kali or the information security industry) to us.
The next session will happen a little later than normal, Friday, 22nd March 2024 18:00 -> 19:00 UTC/+0 GMT. It will once again be on OffSec’s Discord.
Please note, we will not be making a recording of this event - its live only.
Get Kali Linux 2024.1
Fresh Images: So what are you waiting for? Go get Kali already!
Seasoned Kali Linux users are already aware of this, but for the ones who are not, we do also produce weekly builds that you can use as well. If you cannot wait for our next release and you want the latest packages (or bug fixes) when you download the image, you can just use the weekly image instead. This way you will have fewer updates to do. Just know that these are automated builds that we do not QA like we do our standard release images. But we gladly take bug reports about those images because we want any issues to be fixed before our next release!
Existing Installs: If you already have an existing Kali Linux installation, remember you can always do a quick update:
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ echo "deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free non-free-firmware" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list
[...]
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ sudo apt update && sudo apt -y full-upgrade
[...]
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ cp -vrbi /etc/skel/. ~/
[...]
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ [ -f /var/run/reboot-required ] && sudo reboot -f
You should now be on Kali Linux 2024.1 We can do a quick check by doing:
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ grep VERSION /etc/os-release
VERSION="2024.1"
VERSION_ID="2024.1"
VERSION_CODENAME="kali-rolling"
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ uname -v
#1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Kali 6.6.9-1kali1 (2024-01-08)
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ uname -r
6.6.9-amd64
NOTE: The output of uname -r may be different depending on the system architecture.
As always, should you come across any bugs in Kali, please submit a report on our bug tracker. We will never be able to fix what we do not know is broken! And Social networks are not bug trackers!
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