Another quarter, another drop - Kali 2025.3 is now here! Bringing you another round of updates, new features and introducing some new tools - pushing Kali further.
The summary of the is:
- - Monitor mode and injection for Raspberry Pi’s in-built Wi-Fi
- - Creating VMs for multiple platforms from a single source configuration
- - Packer uses pre-seed to automate the Kali installer - we made sure they are all consistent.
- - Vagrant images are VMs which a few tweaks done to them. We added these modification to our existing VM build-scripts.
For more information, please keep reading our blog post: , we changed how we package our Raspberry Pi kernel, as well as bump to a new major version. Now Nexmon support is back as well as supporting Raspberry Pi 5!
Other devices can also use Nexmon, its not limited to Raspberry Pis.
To find out more, please see our previous blog post: : Debian “trixie” 13 is the which use this architecture is very limited:
- Raspberry Pi 1 (Original)
- Raspberry Pi Zero W
- ODROID-W, which already is End-Of-Life.
We cannot justify the amount of resources, both human power as well as hardware, required to support such a limited amount of legacy hardware. We would much rather put the time into RISC-V…
Configurable VPN IP panel plugin (Xfce)
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To configure it, right-click the VPN-IP plugin and open the preferences dialog, where you can set the new interface at the end of the “Command” parameter. If you don’t see the VPN-IP plugin, you can find it in the panel preferences by searching for the “Generic Monitor” plugin in the “Items” tab.
New Tools in Kali
It would not be a Kali release if there were not any new tools added! A quick run down of the 10 tools which have been added to the network repositories:
- - The server section of caido - a web security auditing toolkit
- - An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal
- - Multiplayer pivoting solution
- - MCP configuration to connect AI agent to Kali
- - Setup “dummy” Wi-Fi networks, establishing connections, and disconnecting from them
There have also been numerous packages updates and new libraries as well.
As a heads up, we are looking at altering the tools which get installed by default in Kali 2025.4, via the kali-linux-default metapackage.
Kali NetHunter Updates
Kali NetHunter team and the community has been busy working away on Kali on mobile devices, with Kali NetHunter, !
Wireless Injection
patched the broadcom firmware, released Hijacker arm64 version to avoid app crashes. The install guide is available here for .
CARsenal Update
Kali NetHunter Car Hacking, CARsenal, continues to expand with a lot of change and new features by @V0lk3n!
You will need to run the setup again, to apply all the new changes and install any new packages.
Even if it’s a “Car Hacking” toolset, we discourage you from trying this on your daily driver. Use it on a controlled environment. Either OffSec or the Kali team will not take responsibility for your actions, especially if you break your car.
What’s New?
- Main - Settings has been moved to menu bar and all service commands can be edited by long pressing oranges buttons. New
RFCOMM Connectservice. - Tools - Settings has been moved to menu bar. When configuring your settings, tools buttons will be updated with it, and all tools commands can be edited by long pressing oranges buttons.
- CAN-USB - Settings as been moved to menu bar. When configuring your settings,
Runbutton will be updated with it. - Caring Caribou - All modules and sub-modules as been added to
Caribou, excepteddoipwhich should come in 2025.4 update andDCMwhich is replaced byUDS. All module spinner have been merged intomodulesandsubmodulesspinner. Settings parameters is now displayed depending of the module/submodule chosen. - ICSim rewrite -
ICSimis renamed toSimulator, andUDSimhas been added to it - enjoy more simulation for learning and testing purpose! Also a new feature to hide/display the controls view and to make ICSim/UDSim a float-able window has been added! Keep the simulator in front of your eyes while running tools from CARsenal or NetHunter Terminal! - New MSF tab - A new MSF tab has been added, providing automotive modules for for 2025.3 content (no change for the kernel documentation part).
- New Kernel Supporting CAN - OnePlus6 for LineageOS 22.2 (Android 15). Note that it was made for OnePlus6 and not it’s 6T variant. This will be updated soon as well to support it.
What to come next?
Expect to see for 2025.4 more UI update, better MSF screen terminal, Simulator update and more! We are also planning to make series of videos demonstrating CARsenal, If you notice a bug or simply wish to have a feature added to CARsenal, get in touch!
Modules in Magisk
Kernel modules install with Magisk is now supported and are included in the released install images. It is still in experimental state. Credits to @yesimxev and who made a lot of code updates improving UI, stability and more!
Bellow is a list of changes:
- Boot animation is now fixed
- Improved/Added API 21 to API 34+
- Made
busybox_nhavailable in Android (SU) shell - Made the
bootkali" and “killkali” scripts available in Android (SU) shell - Removed the non-working ‘Deauth’ tab (fragment)
- Replaced many deprecated libraries
- Replaced the deprecated ‘AsyncTask’ with ‘Executer’ which improves threading and background tasks making the application for stable and improve performance
- Updated all libraries in use to latest
- Updated BusyBox binaries
- Updated Gradle / JAVA
- Updated the “Audio” fragment
- Updated the “GPS” fragment
- Updated the kernel “Modules” fragment
- Updated vulnerable database list (WPS)
- WP3: Fix templates not showing in the Spinner
Playground
@yesimxev had fun on his car radio again. Let’s combine a Kali NetHunter phone, RTL-SDR, and a car radio. The result? in multiple colors (thanks ”
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Kali Blog Recap
Since our last release, we did the following
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!):
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New Kali Mirrors
First, we have a new machine to host our tier-0 mirror
archive.kali.org! The tier-0 mirror is the source from where all the other mirrors sync. This new machine has more bandwidth; we went from 500 Mb/s to 3 Gb/s, in other words we increased capacity by 6! In practical terms, it means mirrors will sync faster, which is especially relevant for “big syncs”, when a lot of new packages land in the repository at once. Faster mirror syncs means users get new packages faster, and it means smoother operations overall. This is a very welcome upgrade, long overdue!
Now, for the list of new Kali mirrors, this release cycle was again busy, we welcomed 6 new mirrors in Asia:
- China: , thanks to YAO Ge.
- China: , thanks to Palve.
- China: , thanks to Miao Wang.
- Japan: , thanks to Seungha Lee.
- South Korea: , thanks to Wonchan Lee.
- South Korea: , thanks to MinJun Park.
We also welcomed a pair of mirrors sponsored by
- United States: .
Get Kali Linux 2025.3
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 .
As always, should you come across any bugs in Kali, please submit a report on our ? Use our
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