Kali Linux Realeases History
We release fresh images of Kali Linux every few months as a result of accumulative fixes, major security updates, installer updates, etc.
Please see https://bugs.kali.org/changelog_page.php for the most up-to-date log of changes
- Kali 2018.4– 29th October, 2018 – The Fourth 2018 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 4.18.0, GNOME 3.30.1
- Kali 2018.3 – 27th August, 2018 – The Third 2018 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 4.17.0, GNOME 3.28.2
- Kali 2018.2– 30th April, 2018 – The Second 2018 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 4.15.0, GNOME 3.28.0
- Kali 2018.1 – 6th February, 2018 – The first 2018 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 4.14.12, GNOME 3.26.2
- Kali 2017.3 – 21st November, 2018 – The third 2018 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 4.12.0, GNOME 3.26
- Kali 2017.2 – 20th September, 2017 – The second 2017 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 4.9, GNOME 3.25
- Kali 2017.1 – 25th April, 2017 – The first2017 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 4.9, GNOME 3.22
- Kali 2016.2– 31th August, 2016 – The second Kali Rolling release. Kernel 4.6, GNOME 3.20.2
- Kali 2016.1 – 21st January, 2016 – The first Kali Rolling release. Kernel 4.3, GNOME 3.18
- Kali 2– 11th August, 2015 – Major release, "safi", now a rolling distribution, major UI changes
- Kali 1.1.0a – 13st March, 2015 – No fanfare release fixing kernel ABI inconsistencies in the installers.
- Kali 1.1.0 – 9th Febuary, 2015 – First dot release in 2 years. New kernel, new tools and updates.
- Kali 1.0.9a – 6th October, 2014 – Security BugFix release covering shellshock and Debian apt vulnerabilities
- Kali 1.0.9– 25st August, 2014 – BugFix release including installer and a set of tool updates and package fixes.
- Kali 1.0.8– 22nd July, 2014 - EFI Support for our "full" ISOs and a set of tool updates and package fixes.
- Kali 1.0.7– 27th May, 2014 – Kenerl 3.14, tool updates, package fixes Kali Live Encrypted USB Persistence.
- Kali 1.0.6– 9th January, 2014 – Kernel 3.12, cryptsetup nuke option, Amazon AMI, ARM build scripts
- Kali 1.0.5– 5th September, 2013 – BugFix rollup LVM Encrypted installs, Software Defined Radio (SDR) tools
- Kali 1.0.4– 25th July, 2013 – BugFix rollup Penetration testing tool additions and updates
- Kali 1.0.3– 26th April, 2013 – BugFix rollupNew accessibility features. Added live Desktop installer
- Kali 1.0.2- 27th March, 2013 - Minor BugFix release and update roll-up
- Kali 1.0.1- 14th March, 2013 - Minor BugFix release (USB Keyboard).
- Kali 1.0.1- 14th March, 2013 - Minor BugFix release (USB Keyboard).
- Kali 1.0.0- 13th March, 2013 - Initial release,"moto".
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