Kali Linux

Kali Linux, The Most Advanced Penetration Testing Distribution. Ever.

Website: https://www.kali.org

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2025-07-29 08:24:16 UTC

Kali Linux & Containerization (Apple's Container): If you’re an Apple user, you may have heard of Apple’s upcoming feature Containerization during WWDC 2025.
https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-apple-container-containerization/
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2025-05-09 11:44:20 UTC

For more than 20 years, @npub17hn…m23e has been providing critical infrastructure for major FOSS projects. In particular, it hosts Kali Linux ARM build servers and GitLab runners: https://www.kali.org/blog/ampere/.
Now they are facing a difficult time and need help to keep going. To learn more, please read the announcement from its director Lance Albertson: https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/

2025-04-28 15:14:12 UTC

⚠️ Warning ⚠️
Kali has a new signing key! 🔑
(Manual action required! 🫣)
If you are getting:
> Missing key 827C8569F2518CC677FECA1AED65462EC8D5E4C5, which is needed to verify signature.
You need to download and install the new key manually, here’s the one-liner:
```
sudo wget https://archive.kali.org/archive-keyring.gpg -O /usr/share/keyrings/kali-archive-keyring.gpg
```
Blog post: A New Kali Linux Archive Signing Key ~ https://www.kali.org/blog/new-kali-archive-signing-key/

2024-10-24 15:32:32 UTC

End of an era!
A quick update to let everyone know that our i386 kernel and images will no longer be released. A process that started in 2003 is now complete for us. The last i386 CPUs appear to have been made in 2007.
Full details on the blog: https://www.kali.org/blog/end-of-i386-kernel-and-images/
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2024-10-17 00:00:29 UTC

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I would suggest reaching out to offsec about that.

2024-10-16 23:33:03 UTC

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Just tag us amigo, always happy to jump in and answer questions. Frankly I am surprised anyone is concerned about it with as I mentioned it’s not really a change considering it’s been PE for a while now.
We are nerds enough that when red dots show up telling us someone tagged us, we typically respond.

2024-10-16 23:26:27 UTC

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Just a reminder - OffSec has been owned by private equity for over 5 years now. I think we have done a pretty damn good job keeping Kali available with no registration, no email needed to download, no telemetrics, no broadcasting on startup, fully free to use, able to access it privately, etc.
Overall, I don't personally see any indication that anything is changing on our front. So doomerism all you want I suppose if its fun, but we have over a decade of proof doing the right thing here with Kali that we intend to continue to build off of.

2024-09-11 15:58:26 UTC

We are excited to announce the release of Kali Linux 2024.3, available for download and update now!
This release has been focused on multiple transitions, such as GCC 14, glibc 2.40, and Python 3.12. Please check out the blog post for full details.
https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2024-3-release/
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