Today we are pushing out the first Kali Linux or since the - Updated wallpapers and GRUB theme
Edit: , beginning with this release (2022.1) going forwards, our yearly 20xx.1 versions will be the only releases to have the main visual updates. Using a yearly lifecycle, it makes it easier to recognize the different versions of Kali Linux over time. This update includes new wallpapers for desktop, login, and boot displays, in addition to a refreshed installer theme which you may have seen if you have recently . Examples of this problem may be when writing a professional pentesting report or collaborating on debugging code and sharing the terminal, the right-side prompt (which had the exit code and the number of background processes) may of gotten in the way. So it has been removed from our default shell, ZSH. Along with this, the skull in the root prompt has been replaced with a simple ㉿. For those that miss the root skull (?), you can easily edit your ~/.zshrc:
┌──(root㉿kali)-[~]
└─# sed -i 's/prompt_symbol=㉿/prompt_symbol=?/' ~/.zshrc
┌──(root㉿kali)-[~]
└─# source ~/.zshrc
┌──(root?kali)-[~]
└─#
If you do a fresh install of Kali 2022.1, you will have these changes. If you are upgrading, you will need to manually apply these edits by doing the following:
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ cp -i /etc/skel/.{bash,zsh}rc ~/
Refreshed Browser Landing Page
This release comes with a fresh new look for the default landing page shipped inside Kali. Utilizing the refreshed documentation sites (), the search function will help you find almost anything you could need using Kali Linux!
Kali Everything Image: Everything in one place
This release will welcome a new flavor, the “kali-linux-everything” image. This allows for a complete offline standalone image (ISO), for those who require all of Kali’s tools to be pre-installed. Unlike and give it a try!
To learn more about the grouping of Kali’s packages, please see our documentation about applications at this point in time, due to a known limitation.
Kali-Tweaks: Legacy SSH Made Easy
There is a new setting in the kali-tweaks Hardening section! It is now possible to configure Kali’s SSH client for Wide Compatibility, which means that old algorithms and ciphers are enabled. Thanks to that, connecting to old servers that use those is now straightforward, no need to pass additional options explicitly on the command-line.
The purpose of this setting is to make it easier to discover vulnerable SSH servers, just like and 4.20.1-1.
Accessibility: Talk To Me
We have always tried to support as many users of Kali as possible. This is true from our , the sound in the installer broke. This was due to a packaging bug in the sound driver, and unfortunately this issue went unnoticed for a while. This is now fixed. Big thanks to isfr8585 who reported the - Fast and multi-purpose DNS toolkit allow to run multiple DNS queries
Kali ARM Updates
A list of packages that were previously not available for the arm64 architecture, and that have been added in this release:
Bluetooth should now be fixed on the RaspberryPi images, aside from the Zero 2 W, which we are still hunting down a fix for and will release an updated image when it is ready. There was a change with the bootloader that changed the serial device name being used.
Image file names have changed to be a bit more verbose with their naming, instead of using short-hand or nicknames of devices.
The build scripts now have a who helped to clean up our kali-docs
Anyone can help out, anyone can get already!
Seasoned Kali Linux users are already aware of this, but for the ones who are not, we do also produce . But we gladly take :
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ echo "deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main non-free contrib" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ sudo apt update && sudo apt -y full-upgrade
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ cp -rbi /etc/skel/. ~
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ [ -f /var/run/reboot-required ] && sudo reboot -f
You should now be on Kali Linux 2022.1. We can do a quick check by doing:
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ grep VERSION /etc/os-release
VERSION="2022.1"
VERSION_ID="2022.1"
VERSION_CODENAME="kali-rolling"
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ uname -v
#1 SMP Debian 5.15.15-2kali1 (2022-01-31)
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ uname -r
5.15.0-kali3-amd64
NOTE: The output of uname -r may be different depending on the system . We will never be able to fix what we do not know is broken! And & !
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