We are incredibly excited to announce the first release of 2020, Kali Linux 2020.1. It includes some exciting new updates:
Non-Root
Throughout the history of Kali (and its predecessors BackTrack, WHAX, and Whoppix), the default credentials have been root/toor
. This is no more. We are no longer using the superuser account, root, as default in Kali 2020.1. The default user account is now a standard, unprivileged, user.root/toor
is dead. Long live kali/kali
.
NetHunter Images
The mobile pen-testing platform, Kali NetHunter, has also had some new improvements. You are now no longer required to root your phone in order to run Kali NetHunter, but that does come with some limitations.
To suit everybody’s needs, Kali NetHunter now comes in the following three editions:
The NetHunter documentation page includes a more detailed comparison.
Upgrade to Kali Linux 2020.1
Existing Upgrades If you already have an existing Kali installation, remember you can always do a quick update:
kali@kali:~$ cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main non-free contrib
EOF
kali@kali:~$
kali@kali:~$ sudo apt update && sudo apt -y full-upgrade
kali@kali:~$
kali@kali:~$ [ -f /var/run/reboot-required ] && sudo reboot -f
kali@kali:~$
You should now be on Kali Linux 2020.1. We can do a quick check by doing:
kali@kali:~$ grep VERSION /etc/os-release
VERSION=”2020.1″
VERSION_ID=”2020.1″
VERSION_CODENAME=”kali-rolling”
kali@kali:~$
kali@kali:~$ uname -v
#1 SMP Debian 5.4.13-1kali1 (2020-01-20)
kali@kali:~$
kali@kali:~$ uname -r
5.4.0-kali3-amd64
kali@kali:~$
NOTE: The output of uname -r
may be different depending on architecture.
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