Kali Linux 2023.4 Released – What’s New!

Kali Linux 2023.4, the latest version of Offensive Security’s renowned operating system, has been released, and it includes the advanced Gnome 45 desktop environment and 15 new tools, with enhancements to existing ones.

Kali Linux is a Linux distribution intended for network security analysis, ethical hacking, and penetration testing. It is based on the Debian Testing branch, and the majority of the packages it utilizes are obtained from the Debian repositories.

Before we wrap up the year, it’s time to get out one last Kali release for 2023.

Announcing Kali 2023.4! https://t.co/ta6f7p1Oxk for a focus on the addition of Hyper-V support to Vagrant, ARM64 Cloud images, support for the Pi 5, and an update to Gnome 45. Check it out! pic.twitter.com/CqjgyPZ6TN

— Kali Linux (@kalilinux) December 5, 2023

New Updates in Kali Linux 2023.4

Cloud ARM64 – Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure have ARM64 option
Vagrant Hyper-V – Vagrant Hyper-V Support
Raspberry Pi 5 – Kali on the latest Raspberry Pi foundation device
GNOME 45 – Kali theme is on the latest versions

GNOME 45 is now here

The new updates are as follows:

Full-height sidebars in many updated apps
Highly improved speed of search in nautilus file manager
The update for nautilus will arrive soon
Improved settings** app (gnome-control-center)
Updated color schemes for gnome-text-editor
Updated themes for shell, libadwaita, gtk-3 and gtk-4
Updated gnome-shell extensions
Shell updates, including a new workspace indicator, replacing the previous “Activities” button
Scrolling your mouse wheel while hovering over the indicator is also possible to switch between workspaces.

Internal Infrastructure:

Peak at what is going on behind the scenes with mirrorbits. Mirrorbits is incredibly reliable software that was first released ten years ago. It is based on modern technology, specifically Go and Redis.

It was created by Ludovic Fauvet of VideoLAN; it served as a means of distributing the VLC media player. Additionally, an increasing number of FOSS projects, including GNOME, Jenkins, Lineage OS, and many more, have adopted it throughout the years.

15 New Tools:

The fifteen new tools included in this version are as follows:

cabby – TAXII client implementation
cti-taxii-client – TAXII 2 client library
enum4linux-ng – Next generation version of enum4linux with additional features (a Windows/Samba enumeration tool)
exiflooter – Finds geolocation on all image URLs and directories
h8mail – Email OSINT & Password breach hunting tool
Havoc – Modern and malleable post-exploitation command and control framework
OpenTAXII – TAXII server implementation
PassDetective – Scans shell command history to detect mistakenly written passwords, API keys, and secrets
Portspoof – All 65535 TCP ports are always open & emulates services
Raven – Lightweight HTTP file upload service
ReconSpider – Most Advanced Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Framework
rling – RLI Next Gen (Rling), a faster multi-threaded, feature-rich alternative to rli
Sigma-Cli – List and convert Sigma rules into query languages
sn0int – Semi-automatic OSINT framework and package manager
SPIRE – SPIFFE Runtime Environment is a toolchain of APIs for establishing trust between software systems.

Miscellaneous:

The newsletter provider has been changed to SubStack.
The VMware issue in Offensive Security’s pre-gen VMs is fixed.
KDE has issues in virtual machines, with functions like shared clipboard not working.
Support for the QT6 themes was added.
Python v3.12 PIP install change is coming soon.

ARM Updates:

The Raspberry Pi Zero W image now starts in the command line interface, not X.
Remote network configuration access is fixed.
For the ARM64 platform, the eyewitness is now available.

New Kali Mirrors:

Japan: repo.jing.rocks
Serbia: mirror1.sox.rs

To Download Kali Linux 2023.4

If you already use Kali Linux, you can easily update to the newest version through the steps listed below:-

┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ echo "deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free non-free-firmware" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list
[...]

┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ sudo apt update && sudo apt -y full-upgrade
[...]

┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ cp -vrbi /etc/skel/. ~/
[...]

┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ [ -f /var/run/reboot-required ] && sudo reboot -f

You can visit Kali Linux’s official website to get the most recent version of Kali Linux (Kali Linux 2023.4), either in 32-bit or 64-bit, depending on your requirements.

You can learn advanced hacking tools with Kali Linux and how to conduct various attacks using the tool.

Kali Linux 2023.4 Released – What’s New! – GBHackers