The Kali Linux (successor of BackTrack) developers are back from the DEF CON Vegas and Black Hat conferences for security professionals and ethical hackers, and, as they promised earlier this year, they’re now announcing the availability of Kali Linux 2016.2.
What’s Kali Linux 2016.2? Well, it’s an updated Live ISO image of the popular GNU/Linux distribution designed for ethical hackers and security professionals who want to harden the security of their networks, which contains the latest software versions and enhancements for those who want to deploy the OS on new systems.
It’s been quite some time since the last update to the official Kali Linux Live ISOs and new software releases are announced each day, which means that the packages included in the previous Kali Linux images are very old, and bugs and improvements are always implemented in the most recent versions of the respective security tools.
“Since our last release several months ago, there’s a few hundred new or updated packages which have been pushed to the Kali reports. This means that anyone downloading an ISO even 3 months old has somewhat of a long “apt-get dist-upgrade” ahead of them,” reads today’s announcement.
New Kali Linux ISOs to be released weekly
Besides bringing new, updated Live ISOs of Kali Linux to those who need them the most, the team is also pleased to announce the availability of multiple variants of the GNU/Linux distribution with various popular desktop environments, including KDE, Xfce, MATE, LXDE, and Enlightenment, all available for 64-bit platforms only.
But wait, that’s not all, as from today onwards, the Kali Linux team promises to release updated Live ISO images with new software versions and the latest security patches every week. That sounds very good and exciting for those of us involved in various security-related projects, and Kali Linux is now the most advanced distro for penetration testing.
You can now download the latest Kali Linux 2016.2 ISOs via our website. In related news, the Kali Linux team announced the deprecation of the “sana” release and repositories, and they also promise to bring us some very excited news in the coming weeks, so keep an eye open on this page for the latest Kali Linux stories.
