Security News > 2020 > May > Kali Linux 2020.2: New look, new packages, new installer options

Offensive Security has released Kali Linux 2020.2, the latest iteration of the popular open source penetration testing platform.

PowerShell has become more accessible: it has been moved from the Kali Linux's network repository to the kali-linux-large metapackage, meaning that it will be ready for use if users choose to install this metapackage during system setup or later, once Kali is up and running.

After recently switching the default "Root/toor" credentials to "Kali/kali" for desktop images and making the default user account a standard, unprivileged user, Offensive Security decided to do the same for ARM images.

New packages: the latest version of the GNOME desktop environment, Joplin, Nextnet, SpiderFoot, and Python 3.8.

The module for Python 2 has been re-included temporarily because some tools still need it Kali's Mobile pentesting platform, Kali NetHunter, got support for additional devices.

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