Just before the year starts to wrap up, we are getting the final 2024 release out! This contains a wide range of updates and changes, which are in already in effect, ready for immediate .
The summary of the is:
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- - Reminder about using
ssh1if required - - Now able to synchronize your favorite colors
- - Updates to the app, kernels, installer, store and website !
- a year ago , it took a bit of time to become the , but finally it’s here. Every new version of Python brings along some deprecations or subtle changes of behavior, which in turn breaks some Python packages, and we have to investigate and fix all the issues reported by our QA system. Hence the delay.
There is a major change with this new Python version: installing third-party Python packages via
pipis now strongly discouraged and disallowed by default . This change has been coming for a long time, . Now it’s finally effective.
pipusers, fear not! It’s not the end of the world: there is . If you still have a hard time running a third-party Python application in Kali, please reach out to us via our & , Debian stopped building ai386kernel (and OS images, as a consequence). Kali Linux, being based on Debian, .
With time, surely more and more i386 packages will disappear, but nobody really knows in advance which packages and ecosystems will go first, and how long others will remain. In particular, one of the biggest areas that keeps i386 alive is gaming: old games that were compiled for 32-bit x86 are still around, and enjoyed by gamers. As a consequence, there are people out there putting effort into keeping it working, and we can hope that a baseline of i386 packages will remain functional for the time being.
If you are impacted by this change and need more guidance to run your i386 binaries on Kali Linux, please reach out to us via our . This tool is a simple menu that allows you to configure various aspects of Kali. In the Hardening section, you can configure SSH for Wide Compatibility (instead of the default Strong Security), and that’s all you need to do to maximize the capabilities of your SSH client.
With that said, when some legacy features are not even compiled in the SSH client anymore (as is the case with DSA keys), you will need to resort to another SSH client:
ssh1. or our .
Raspberry Pi Imager Customizations Support
The moment that Pi users have been waiting for has arrived! We are thrilled to announce that Kali’s Raspberry Pi images now support applying customizations directly from the
For those who might not be familiar with the Raspberry Pi Imager, it was
With this latest release, you can now apply these customizations to all Raspberry Pi images — with the exception of the PiTail images, which are highly specialized with their own network and user settings. Unfortunately, due to these customizations, applying them via the Raspberry Pi Imager software is not supported for PiTail images. But for everything else, the sky’s the limit!
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GNOME 47
We are excited to announce that the latest update to the GNOME Desktop,
- New system-monitor panel extension
. With this refresh we are now running a Discourse-powered forum with a new set of moderators thanks to our community moderators from Discord. We are very happy with the activity we have seen on it so far and hope to see you there!
For more information, please check out our
New Tools in Kali
As always, we have various new tools added (to the network repositories) - 14 this time! Summarizing what has been added:
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- - Generate username lists for companies on LinkedIn
- - Secure SHell (SSH) client for legacy SSH1 protocol
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- - RouterOS Security Inspector (Submitted by - Go-based CLI tool for testing for web cache poisoning (Submitted by - An advanced Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF/XSRF) audit and exploitation toolkit.
- , we are very glad to introduce the Mana toolkit replacement, Wifipumpkin3. After years of silence regarding android restrictions, , which allows you to create a fake AP with working internet, even on mobile network!
in action if you want to see the results.
Sticking with the Kali NetHunter app, @yesimxev has added a new tab, kernel, which will allow people to flash their kernel without using recovery - direct from the app!
Store
has had a (long overdue) update.
We hope to work on the store more over the next few Kali releases.
At the same time, we have generated new , so please do not be alarmed of the change.
- GPG Key:
AA 12 5C D4 16 57 56 83 93 BD 57 5E E1 4B 60 F8 EF 29 08 9C - Repo Certificate:
aa:cb:a8:f5:23:89:39:f9
We have also bump’d privileged extension app to the latest version upstream too.
Installer
The Kali NetHunter installer has had some work on it too!
It now has a new home in its own & ) - the original method - and (which is - the items that - Some devices, like OnePlus 7 may have multiple items to download (for multiple Android versions)
- Which - Overview of ROMs and Android versions
- Which and how many )
- Added support to Xiaomi Mi 9 Lite / CC9 (pyxis)
- Updated support for Nokia 6.1 & 6.1 Plus (drg)
- Updated support for Realme C11 (RMX2185) (Thanks too.
And to go with it, .
Kali ARM SBC Updates
Alongside the customizable Raspberry Pi images, we have packed in several other improvements:
- Raspberry Pi 500 Support: The Raspberry Pi 5 image should also have support for the recently announced has had a few various major updates to existing pages as well as new pages:
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This does not include numerous minor tweaking, or typo fixing!
Kali Blog Recap
Recapping since since our last release, we did the following
Community Shout-Outs
These are people from the public who have helped Kali and
- Raspberry Pi 500 Support: The Raspberry Pi 5 image should also have support for the recently announced has had a few various major updates to existing pages as well as new pages:
Anyone can help out, anyone can get back in May 2024, which is now public: 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
You should now be on Kali Linux 2024.4 We can do a quick check by doing:
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ grep VERSION /etc/os-release
VERSION_ID="2024.4"
VERSION="2024.4"
VERSION_CODENAME=kali-rolling
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ uname -v
#1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Kali 6.11.2-1kali1 (2024-10-15)
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ uname -r
6.11.2-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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