Kali Linux, the popular penetration testing live CD, has reached an important milestone: version 2.0.
So, what’s new in Kali 2.0? There’s a new 4.0 kernel, now based on Debian Jessie, improved hardware and wireless driver coverage, support for a variety of Desktop Environments (gnome, kde, xfce, mate, e17, lxde, i3wm), updated desktop environment and tools – and the list goes on. But these bulletpoint items are essentially a side effect of the real changes that have taken place in our development backend.
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Kali Linux 2.0 is updated to include newer packages of the many tools that it has come to be known for. In an effort to keep these utilities up-to-date, Kali Linux is now based on a rolling distribution to pull the latest packages from Debian Testing.
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Kali Linux 2.0 has many more changes and updated images for various hardware including VMware/VirtualBox and ARM images for Chromebooks and other platforms. You can learn more about the latest release from the Kali Linux 2.0 announcement.