The new Kali 2021.1 version has been recently released.
The official post can be found here:
https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2021-1-release/
The summary of the news are:
- Xfce 4.16 – Our preferred and current default desktop environment has been updated and tweaked
- KDE 5.20 – Plasma also received a version bump
- Terminals – mate-terminal, terminator and tilix all had various work carried out on them
- Command Not Found – A helping hand to say if a program needs to be installed
- Partnership with more tool authors – BC Security & Joohoi have been producing great tools and we want to support them
- New tools & updates – Multiple new tools have been added to Kali and are ready for you
- Kali NetHunter – New BusyBox & Rucky version, and boot-animation
- Kali ARM – Preliminary support for Parallels on Apple Silicon (Apple M1) & Raspberry Pi 400 (WiFi Support)
To update you Kali Linux installation just run the usual commands:
$ echo "deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main non-free contrib" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list$ sudo apt update && sudo apt -y full-upgrade
$ [ -f /var/run/reboot-required ] && sudo reboot -f
$ grep VERSION /etc/os-release
VERSION="2021.1"
VERSION_ID="2021.1"
VERSION_CODENAME="kali-rolling"$ uname -v
#1 SMP Debian 5.10.13-1kali1 (2021-02-08)$ uname -r
5.10.0-kali3-amd64