We’re almost half way through 2025 already, and we’ve got a lot to share with you in this release, Kali 2025.2.
The summary of the is:
- - Major upgrade with full set of ingestors
- - Car hacking tool set!
- structure – which means that finding the right tool for your task should now be a lot more intuitive for red and blue teams alike.
Previously the Kali menu structure followed what was in BackTrack… which followed WHAX before it. The previous structure was an in-house item, .
Currently Kali Purple still follows .
This is a big change, and we want your feedback! Think something should be renamed, moved, or see a tool that’s missing? Help us improve the menu by editing the structure directly — it’s all open and managed through a
GNOME 48
GNOME has been bumped up to version 48, and brings with it:
- Notification Stacking
- Performance Improvements
- Dynamic triple buffering
- Enhanced Image Viewer
- Digital Wellbeing
- Preserve Battery Health
- HDR (High Dynamic Range) Support
- Updated Text Editor
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New GNOME VPN IP Extension
Just like we did for Xfce back in
Huge thanks to
Whether you’re into tiling window madness or prefer a traditional desktop setup, Plasma 6.3 brings both flexibility and style. You can read more about all the new changes for Plasma desktop in their package ( and 1 background provided by
BloodHound Community Edition
If you’re doing Active Directory recon, this upgrade is a game changer. BloodHound just got a major upgrade – we’ve bumped it up to the latest version: BloodHound Community Edition (CE). With this update, we’re also shipping the full set of ingestors to support it:
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- BloodHound data collector for Microsoft Azure - - Python based ingestor for BloodHound CE
- - Prebuilt binaries for chisel
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- - Scan GitHub repositories and contributors to collect data (Submitted by - In-depth LDAP enumeration utility
- - Raw Kerberos interaction and abuses
- - CLI tool for testing web pages for template injection
There has also been numerous new libraries as well as packages updates as well, such as
PowerShelland by default across all desktop environments in Kali.
Why? Because being able to quickly send output to the clipboard from the terminal is incredibly useful — especially during reporting, note-taking, or sharing on-the-fly.
Here are a few quick examples:
CONSOLE┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~/Downloads]
└─$ ip a | grep inet | xclip -selection clipboard
Boom — now your IP info is in your clipboard, ready to paste.
Or maybe you’ve just cracked a hash and want to copy the flag:
CONSOLE┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~/Downloads]
└─$ grep FLAG crackme.txt | xclip -sel c
# Or pass it to the next command
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~/Downloads]
└─$ xclip -o -sel c | grep FLAG
No more mouse highlighting or right-click gymnastics. Just pipe it to xclip and paste wherever you need. Small tool, big quality-of-life boost.
Kali NetHunter Updates
Smartwatch Wi-Fi Injection
and team. Countless emails, lost brain cells, but it was worth it. Now Kali NetHunter on the TicWatch Pro 3 (all variants with bcm43436b0 chipset) supports wireless injection, de-authentication, and able to capture WPA2 handshakes! Check out the . It is now renamed as CARsenal, to better match the goal which is to provide a car hacking tool set.
Code got a lot of rewrite, and provide a more friendly UI.
Also it come with new tools such as:
- hlcand: Modified slcand for ELM327 use
- VIN Info: Decode your VIN identifier
- CaringCaribou: Actually provide Listener, Dump, Fuzzer, Send, UDS and XCP modules
- ICSim: Provide a great simulator to play with VCAN and test CARsenal toolset without hardware needed
Actual kernel with CAN support enabled:
- Samsung Galaxy S9 (A13/exynos9810)
- Samsung Galaxy S10 (A14 & A15/exynos9820)
- (NEW!) Realme C15 (A10)
- (NEW!) Redmi Note 11 (A15)
Its has been updated as well.
Android Radio
updates:
- (NEW!) Xiaomi Redmi 4/4X (A13) (by )
- Updated Realme C15 (A10) (by )
- Updated Samsung Galaxy S9 (A13/exynos9810) (by .
- Raspberry Pi devices have had their kernel upgraded to a 6.12 based kernel. This was made possible thanks to :
- Mirror replacement is fixed, so if you want to build a custom image pointing at a specific mirror, just follow the instructions in the README
- Occasionally there would be a build failure with no output. This was tracked down to the limit_cpu function and has been fixed so we no longer swallow the error code when there is one, and pass it on so when a failure happens we can know why.
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Kali Blog Recap
Since our last release, we did the following
Kali Team Updates
It’s also with a heavy heart to announce that both have stepped down and are no longer part of the has been doing a lot of heavy lifting with Kali NetHunter Pro since the start and has now fully joined the team.
, as Kali’s Community Leaders! You will see them in various places, such as our real-time chat and forums. Come and say hi to them.
Community Shout-Outs
These are people from the public who have helped Kali and the team for the last release. We want to praise them for their work (we like to give credit where due!):
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The ROKFOSS initiative, by and for Korean users
In South Korea, a group of users that go by the name of , along with a , sponsored by , thanks to “QuietSky”.
If you have the disk space and bandwidth,
Get Kali Linux 2025.2
Fresh Images:
So what are you waiting for? Go that you can use. 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 for our standard 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 .
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