Source: Tails – Tails 4.2 is out
Category: Privacy
For years now, Kali has inherited the default root user policy from BackTrack. As part of our evaluation of Kali tools and policies we have decided to change this and move Kali to a “traditional default non-root user” model. This change will be part of the 2020.1 release, currently scheduled for late January. However, you will notice this change in the weekly images starting now.
Five years ago, the Python developers announced that they will stop supporting Python 2 in 2020. For a long time, nobody cared and Python 3 adoption was slow. But things have changed a lot lately as the deadline is right around the corner (1st January).
Source: How Kali deals with the upcoming Python 2 End-of-Life | Kali Linux
Source: Tails – Tails 4.1 is out
We are highly excited to announce our fourth and final release of 2019, Kali Linux 2019.4, which is available immediately for download.
Source: Tails – Tails 3.16 is out
We are pleased to announce that our third release of 2019, Kali Linux 2019.3, is available immediately for download. This release brings our kernel up to version 5.2.9, and includes various new features across the board with NetHunter, ARM and packages (plus the normal bugs fixes and updates).As promised in our roadmap blog post, there are both user facing and backend updates.
We love the Raspberry Pi, and judging by the response we got to a late night tweet we sent out last weekend a lot of you love the Pi too!Because of that, when the Pi 4 dropped we wanted to get Kali supported on it right away.
One feature in particular distinguishes DigitalOcean from other cloud offerings. A little while ago, they added support for custom images, which allows us to import virtual machines disks and use them as droplets. This is perfect for us, so we can use own versions of Kali Linux in their cloud.