Parrot OS 6.4 has been launched, bringing a ton of updates and under-the-hood enhancements, together with the most recent Linux Lengthy-Time period Help kernel, model 6.12, which landed final 12 months.

When you’ve got not heard of it earlier than, Parrot OS is a Linux distribution primarily based on Debian that focuses on safety and privateness. It’s a full toolkit for penetration testers, digital forensics consultants, and extra.

The event crew additionally up to date a mountain of safety instruments. Main gamers like Metasploit jumped to model 6.4.71, PowerShell Empire hit 6.1.2, and the net utility safety proxy Caido is now at 0.48.1.

This launch additionally brings an up to date browser, Firefox 140 ESR, full with Parrot’s personal privateness enhancements. The crew needed to wrestle with this replace, as Firefox modified the way it hundreds configurations.

They put a intelligent repair in place to routinely restore their customized privateness settings after any Firefox replace, so its telemetry doesn’t telephone house. Plus, a bunch of Microsoft’s developer instruments, like PowerShell 7.5 and .NET SDKs, at the moment are instantly installable from Parrot’s repositories.

A couple of new launchers have been added to the menu, and Rocket, the communication platform has lastly been added to the official repos. To put in it in your system, you simply run this:

sudo apt set up rocket

Getting the brand new model is easy. If you’re already operating Parrot, to improve, you merely must open a terminal and run a single command.

sudo parrot-upgrade
# or
sudo apt replace && sudo apt full-upgrade

There are updates to many system packages like curl (now 8.14.1), the Go language toolchain golang-go (2:1.23), and systemd (as much as 254.26). The included Chromium browser additionally made a leap to model 138.0.7204.92.

The crew says it is fairly probably that 6.4 would be the final launch within the 6.x department earlier than they roll out model 7.

The following main model is already in growth and can be constructed on high of the upcoming Debian 13, with plans to introduce assist for various desktop environments and even RISC-V structure.

Full launch notes can be found right here, and you’ll set up Parrot OS from right here.