Kali Linux 2024.3 Release (Multiple transitions)

With summer coming to an end, so are package migrations, and Kali 2024.3 can now be released. You can now start .

The summary of the is:

• - 11x new tools in your arsenal

Our focus has been on a lot of behind the scenes updates and optimizations since the last release. There have been some messy migrations, with multiple stacks, all interrelating (transition have been like buses, all coming at once!). After the , we invite you to read that again if you are an avid user of pip.

But that will be for the next Kali release, 2024.4, due by the end of the year. In the meantime, this new release 2024.3 still has Python 3.11 as the default Python interpreter.

An unfortunate consequence of this situation is that, as the whole Python 3.12 stack did not enter has been busy again!
Here is a highlight of what new tools have been added (to the network repositories):

• - Grep Rough AUDIT: source code auditing tool


• - Extract and decrypt all credentials from all domain computers (Submitted by - Info and security scanner for e-mail servers (Submitted by - Network service exploitation tool that helps automate assessing the security of large networks (Submitted by - Network scanner & diagnostic tool with modern TUI (Submitted by - Private and flexible writing app that adapts to the way you think


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It goes without saying, that there has been numerous packages updates and new libraries as well.

Again, we want to shout out Arszilla and his multiple contributions. Always remember, you can contribute as well! We are always open for engagement from you if you want to get involved.

As hinted in is now also at 6.8.

Kali NetHunter Updates

Kali NetHunter 2024.3 has been held back for the the time being, as we are busy upating the build infrastructure.
We will release the updated images when they are ready (hopefully in a few weeks), and talk whats new with them in the next Kali release 2024.4 (Bye Mana!).

Fortunately, we can say there are new supported devices!
We are excited to release Kali NetHunter Pro images for devices with a Qualcomm Snapdragon SDM845 SoC (System on a Chip), such as:

• OnePlus 6/6T


• SHIFT SHIFT6mq


• Xiaomi Pocophone F1 (aka Poco F1)

Thanks to featuring

As always, a big thanks to all the mirrors who support Kali distribution all around the world. If you have the disk space and bandwidth, 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 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

┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]

└─$ grep VERSION /etc/os-release

VERSION="2024.3"

VERSION_ID="2024.3"

VERSION_CODENAME="kali-rolling"

┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]

└─$ uname -v

#1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Kali 6.8.11-1kali2 (2024-05-30)

┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]

└─$ uname -r

6.8.11-amd64