Kali Linux is constantly evolving with new features being added to the distribution all the time. In an ongoing effort, we are attempting to document common, new, or interesting features available in Kali Linux as best as we can. This has prompted the setup of our Official Kali Linux Documentation website. We believe the fastest way to get to know Kali Linux is to follow the documentation site and explore the new features available.On our multi-language documentation site, you will find out what makes Kali Linux different from standard Linux distributions, how to install Kali on different types of hardware including ARM devices, how to create your own custom Kali Linux ISOs, and much more.
The documentation site is in a constant state of work in progress and is is translated by Kali Linux community members in their free time, on a best-effort basis. As such, translated documents may fall behind the original English translations. If in doubt of accuracy, know that the English versions are the most up-to-date. If you would like to help with translations, contact us.
We generate fresh Kali Linux image files every few months, which we make available for download. This page provides the links to download Kali Linux in it’s latest release. For a release history, check our Kali Linux Releases page. Please note: remaining torrent files for the 2016.2 release will be posted in the next few hours.
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Penetration Testing Training with Kali Linux
Founded in 2007, the penetration testing and information security training company Offensive Security was born out of the belief that the best way to achieve sound defensive security is through an offensive approach. The team is made up of security professionals with extensive experience with attacking systems to see how they respond. They share this information through information security trainings, free penetration testing tools, and security publications.
Penetration Testing with Kali Linux
Penetration Testing with Kali Linux is the Offensive Security flagship ethical hacking course, designed and written by the Kali Linux developers. With years of experience in penetration testing, security research, tool development, and international Black Hat trainings, we have the experience and passion to teach you all about penetration testing. Penetration Testing with Kali Linux is also the only official security course revolving around the Kali Linux distribution.
Unlike most security training programs and certifications, Penetration Testing with Kali Linux is a performance based online course. Our certification process does not involve easy to remember multiple choice questions, but rather hands on penetration testing of live machines in a controlled, monitored lab environment. This makes the OSCP certification one of the hardest, and most sought after, professional certifications in the field.
Official Kali Linux Documentation
Documenting all the Things
Kali Linux is constantly evolving with new features being added to the distribution all the time. In an ongoing effort, we are attempting to document common, new, or interesting features available in Kali Linux as best as we can. This has prompted the setup of our Official Kali Linux Documentationwebsite. We believe the fastest way to get to know Kali Linux is to follow the documentation site and explore the new features available.
On our multi-language documentation site, you will find out what makes Kali Linux different from standard Linux distributions, how to install Kali on different types of hardware including ARM devices, how to create your own custom Kali Linux ISOs, and much more.
The documentation site is in a constant state of work in progress and is is translated by Kali Linux community members in their free time, on a best-effort basis. As such, translated documents may fall behind the original English translations. If in doubt of accuracy, know that the English versions are the most up-to-date. If you would like to help with translations, contact us.
Kali Linux Community and Support Policy
Kali Linux Community Support
Kali Linux, through BackTrack, has a diverse and vibrant community including security professionals and enthusiasts alike. Over the years of Kali development (and previously BackTrack Linux) our approach to Kali Linux support has become more focused. While Kali Linux is a Penetration Testing Linux distribution, we do not provide penetration testing support, or even tool usage support, as some might expect. We limit our support to Kali Linux operating system and packaging issues and encourage users to search for answers to their penetration testing related issues in better suited support channels. This allows us to focus all our attention on developing Kali Linux and maintaining our high quality development cycle.
Official Kali Linux Community Support Channels
To eliminate any doubt or confusion, we have listed below, all of the official links and channels related to the Kali Linux distribution and release. Any other source outside this list is not official and should not be trusted to represent Kali Linux.
Kali Linux RSS Feed
For those users who want to get the latest information on Kali blog posts or releases, our main site has an RSS feed available. Subscribing to the RSS feed will ensure you are immediately notified of any news and updates in the world of Kali.
About Kali Linux
About the Kali Linux Distribution
Kali Linux is an open source project that is maintained and funded by Offensive Security, a provider of world-class information security training and penetration testing services. In addition to Kali Linux, Offensive Security also maintains the Exploit Database and the free online course, Metasploit Unleashed.
Kali Linux Core Developers
Mati Aharoni (muts) is the lead Kali developer, trainer and founder of Offensive Security. With over 10 years of experience as a professional penetration tester, Mati has uncovered several major security flaws and is actively involved in the offensive security arena.
Devon Kearns (dookie) is an Offensive Security instructor, Kali Linux developer, the administrator of the Exploit Database, co-creator of the Metasploit Unleashed project, exploitation fanatic, and co-author of Metasploit: The Penetration Tester’s Guide.
Raphaël Hertzog (buxy) is an experienced Debian developer and consultant, author of the well known Debian Administrator’s Handbook. He’s the packaging wizard in our team and manages our continuously growing development infrastructure.
Kali Linux Developers and Forum Moderators
bolexxx has been administering the Kali forums (and previously BackTrack forums) for over 7 years now, keeping the forums running and spam free.
steev does our ARM development for Kali Linux. Steev has been working with and on arm devices since 2009 and is also a co-lead of the Gentoo ARM team.
g0tmi1k has been a helping hand and active member since the days of remote-exploit and was promoted to a staff member in 2010.
Sickness is an object of torture and abuse in Offensive Security, and often gets the bad end of our masochistic jokes. He also does kernel exploit stuff.
Kali Linux 2016.2 Release
We’re well recovered from the Black Hat and DEF CON Vegas conferences and as promised, we’re launching our second Kali Rolling ISO release aka Kali 2016.2. This release brings a whole bunch of interesting news and updates into the world of Kali and we’re excited to tell you all about it.
New KDE, MATE, LXDE, e17, and Xfce Builds
Although users are able to build and customize their Kali Linux ISOs however they wish, we often hear people comment about how they would love to see Kali with $desktop_environment instead of GNOME. We then engage with those people passionately, about how they can use live-build to customize not only their desktop environment but pretty much every aspect of their ISO, together with the ability to run scripted hooks at every stage of the ISO creation process – but more often than not, our argument is quickly lost in random conversation. As such, we’ve decided to expand our “full” 64bit releases with additional Desktop Environment flavored ISOs, specifically KDE, Mate, LXDE and Enlightenment. These can now be downloaded via our Kali Download page.
Kali Linux Weekly ISOs
Constantly keeping Kali on the bleeding edge means frequent updates to packages on an ongoing basis. Since our last release several months ago, there’s a few hundred new or updated packages which have been pushed to the Kali repos. This means that anyone downloading an ISO even 3 months old has somewhat of a long “apt-get dist-upgrade” ahead of them. To help avoid this situation, from this release onwards, we’ll be publishing updated weekly builds of Kali that will be available to download via our mirrors. Speaking of mirrors, we are always in need of support in this area – if you’re capable of running a high-bandwidth mirror and would like to support our project, please check out our Kali Mirrors page.
Bug Fixes and OS Improvements
During these past few months, we’ve been busy adding new relevant tools to Kali as well as fixing various bugs and implementing OS enhancements. For example, something as simple as adding HTTPS support in busybox now allows us to preseed Kali installations securely over SSL. This is a quick and cool feature to speed up your installations and make them (almost) unattended, even if you don’t have a custom built ISO.
To set a preseed file during an install process, choose the “install” option, then hit “tab” and enter the preseed directive, together with a URL pointing to your actual preseed file.
preseed/url=https://www.kali.org/dojo/preseed.cfg
Kali “sana” Repositories Retired
We announced the “sana” release EOL a few months ago along with its public repositories. We’ve given a few months grace and are now finally purging the “sana” repositories from our servers. For anyone who still needs them, they can be found archived at old.kali.org.
Exciting News Coming Up!
We are really excited about these changes to Kali as we continue to improve and expand the best Linux-based penetration testing framework around. Beyond these distribution changes, there have been a number of other project-related events such as the multitude of times that Kali has been featured on the hit USA network series Mr Robot and the Official Kali Linux Twitter account becoming a verified account.
We have a lot of exciting announcements that will be coming in the next few weeks, so if you are not already following us on Twitter, be sure to do so! If you are attending the ekoparty conference we will be there doing the Kali Dojo, so be sure to drop by and say hello. And as always, if you find any issues in this new release of Kali, be sure to report it on our bug tracker.
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