The Parrot 4.11 release is available, based on the Debian Testing package base and including a collection of tools for system security testing, forensic analysis and reverse engineering. Several iso images are offered for download with the MATE environment (full 4.3 GB and reduced 1.9 GB), with the KDE desktop (2 GB) and with the Xfce desktop (1.7 GB).
The Parrot distribution is positioned as a portable lab environment for security experts and forensic scientists, focusing on tools for testing cloud systems and IoT devices. It also includes cryptographic tools and programs to provide secure access to the network, including TOR, I2P, anonsurf, gpg, tccf, zulucrypt, veracrypt, truecrypt and luks.
In the new release:
- Synchronized with the latest Debian Testing package database.
- The Linux kernel has been updated to version 5.10 (was 5.7).
- Cleaned up obsolete, non-working and unmaintained tools. The composition of metapackages intended for installation of thematic sets of packages at once has been revised.
- Added systemd rules to disable running services that can be dispensed with.
- Updated environments based on KDE Plasma and Xfce.
- Updated specialized tools such as Metasploit 6.0.36, Bettercap 2.29 and Routersploit 3.9.
- Added support for Fish and Zsh shells.
- Updated development environment VSCodium 1.54 (variant of VSCode without telemetry collection).
- Updated versions of Python 3.9, Go 1.15, GCC 10.2.1. Support for Python 2 has been dropped (/usr/bin/python now points to /usr/bin/python3).
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