Get Kali | Kali Linux Home of Kali Linux, an Advanced Penetration Testing Linux distribution used for Penetration Testing, Ethical Hacking and network security assessments
Kali WSL | Kali Linux Documentation Preparing a system for Windows Subsystem for LinuxModern WSL Distribution Architecture (2025) As of November 2024, there is a new distribution architecture for WSL that allows for use of tar compressed root filesystems to be imported into WSL To get started, ensure you are on the pre-release version of WSL: wsl --update --pre-release Once updated, you can now use wsl files as found on our
Kali NetHunter | Kali Linux Documentation Kali on your Android phoneKali NetHunter is a free Open-source Mobile Penetration Testing Platform for Android devices, based on Kali Linux Overview Kali NetHunter is available for un-rooted devices (NetHunter Rootless), for rooted devices that have a custom recovery (NetHunter Lite), and for rooted devices with custom recovery for which a NetHunter specific kernel is available (NetHunter
Updating Kali | Kali Linux Documentation When should you update Kali? If you have a default installation of Kali, you should be checking for updates every few weeks If you need a new version of a tool, or hear about a security update, that may speed up the timetable However, a good practice is that you ensure all tools work before an engagement and during that engagement you should not update As Kali is a rolling release, once in
Kali Linux Features Kali Linux Features What is Kali Linux, and what is a Penetration Testing Distribution? What is a penetration testing distribution? As legend tells it, years ago there was a penetration test in an isolated environment where the assessment team was not able to bring in any computers or have network access in or out of the target environment In order to do the work, the first penetration
Releases History | Kali Linux Kali 2021 4a - 23rd December, 2021 - Minor release, fixes audio issues in base-images Kali 2021 4 - 9th December, 2021 - The fourth 2021 Kali Rolling release Kernel 5 14 0, Xfce 4 16 3 Kali 2021 3a - 21st October, 2021 - No fanfare release, fixes minor issues with base-images (missing firmware, size and bug with USB encrypted persistence) Kali 2021 3 - 14th September, 2021 - The third 2021