With 2023 coming to an end and before the holiday season starts, we thought today would be a good time to a new image or since the - Now marketplaces on Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure have ARM64 option
Otherwise, if you want to see how we generate these images, see our with adding support to our now includes a Hyper-V environment!
If you are not too familiar with Vagrant, think of it as a command-line interface for VMware, VirtualBox, and now Hyper-V.
At a higher level, in the same way that Docker uses Dockerfile, Vagrant uses Vagrantfile.
These files go on to define how to create the virtual machine and further provisions, such as which operating system to use, CPU, RAM, storage, networking, and also any scripts or commands that the VM should execute to further install and configure.
If this is something you like the sound of, we have further reading on our documentation:
We also have our , or automated using if you wish to tinker and customize any aspect of it, such as changing the default desktop environment, packages, settings etc.
Please note, Nexmon support is not yet working with the in-built Wi-Fi (so no monitor mode or frame injection without an external card).
You can keep an eye on progress by checking our came out to show off our initial work of Kali Linux on the Raspberry Pi 5.
GNOME 45
With GNOME 45 hot off the press, Kali Linux is now supporting it! And is looking pretty in the process!
- Full-height sidebars in many updated apps
- Highly improved speed of search in nautilus file manager
- Unfortunately the update for
nautiluswas not ready for this release, but it will arrive as a later update soon
- Unfortunately the update for
- Improved settings** app (
gnome-control-center) - Updated color-schemes for
gnome-text-editor - Updated themes for
shell,libadwaita,gtk-3andgtk-4 - Updated
gnome-shellextensions - Shell updates, including a new workspace indicator, replacing the previous “Activities” button
- It is also possible to scroll your mouse wheel while hovering over the indicator to switch between workspaces
and Cloudflare (kali.download). It is responsible for redirecting every request to its nearest mirror, based on a few factors such as geographic location, mirror speed, and . Unfortunately, the project has been unmaintained since 2015, and so after 10 years in production, it was really time to say good-bye. Today, we are now using from VideoLAN in order to distribute the VLC media player. And over these years, it has been adopted by a growing number of FOSS projects such as GNOME, Jenkins, Lineage OS, and many others.
As it happens, our use-case of Mirrorbits is different to what it was originally created for: distributing VLC, or in other words, a rather small set of static files. Kali Linux being a complete Linux distribution, it means that we distribute a huge number of files (at times there can be millions of files in our repo). Being a rolling distribution means that Mirrorbits must cope with fast-changing metadata in the repository. We also need to distribute Kali over both HTTP and HTTPS, which was not well supported.
Thus, the transition to Mirrorbits was not trivial, it did not work “out-of-the-box” for us, and we had to rework some pieces here and there, and basically hammer at it until it does the job. But it was well worth it, and in the end our modifications were clean enough that we could submit it all !
Much more could be written on the topic, and we plan a longer blog post dedicated to it. But for now, enough’s been said.
New Tools in Kali
It would not be a Kali release if there were not any new tools added! A quick run down of what has been added (to the network repositories):
- - TAXII 2 client library
- - Finds geolocation on all image URLs and directories
- - Modern and malleable post-exploitation command and control framework
- - Scans shell command history to detect mistakenly written passwords, API keys, and secrets
- - Lightweight HTTP file upload service
- - RLI Next Gen (Rling), a faster multi-threaded, feature rich alternative to rli
- - Semi-automatic OSINT framework and package manager
- - Credit to:
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Kali ARM Updates
There are not a lot of changes to the ARM images this release, aside from the previously mentioned Raspberry Pi 5 support. However, they are no less important.
- The Raspberry Pi Zero W image now properly starts up into the command line interface instead of launching X.
- Accessing network configuration remotely now properly works again.
- with answers that we commonly keep seeing crop up.
Our (new)
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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!):
- - Help testing the Raspberry Pi 5 image
- - Helped testing base images
Anyone can help out, anyone can get . Thanks to Jing Luo for reaching out and hosting this mirror!
If you have the disk space and bandwidth, - Friday, 8th December 2023 18:00 -> 19:00 link & already!
Seasoned Kali Linux users are already aware of this, but for the ones who are not, we do also have . We also welcome any :
┌──(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 2023.4!
We can do a quick check by doing:
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ grep VERSION /etc/os-release
VERSION="2023.4"
VERSION_ID="2023.4"
VERSION_CODENAME="kali-rolling"
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ uname -v
#1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.5.6-1kali1 (2023-10-09)
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ uname -r
6.5.0-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 social networks are not bug trackers!
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