Kali Linux 2023.2 system released: Xfce version supports PipeWire, transforming i3 desktop

On June 5th, Offensive Security announced the launch of a new version of the GNU/Linux distribution, Kali Linux 2023.2, bringing new features, updates and tools as well as many improvements.

Kali Linux 2023.2 comes just two and a half months after the 10th anniversary release of Kali Linux 2023.1, which introduces support for the PipeWire multimedia backend for Kali Linux’s flagship version, which features the lightweight Xfce desktop environment.

PipeWire replaces PulseAudio in the Xfce version, providing a better audio experience. Existing Kali Linux installations that perform full updates using the sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade commands will also receive PipeWire support.

The Xfce version of Kali Linux also adds the extension GtkHash to the Thunar file manager, which supports fast calculation of checksums of files. On the other hand, GNOME products have been updated to the latest GNOME 44 version and a new Tiling Assistant extension has been added to improve the default tiling experience of the GNOME desktop.

Kali Linux 2023.2 also brings comprehensive improvements to i3 products, including a tiled window manager with a new lock screen, on/off menu and two desktop variants, one with tiled windows, Another one with a floating window.

Several new hacking tools have been added to this release, including Cilium-cli for installing, managing, and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters, Cosign for container signing, Eksctl as the official CLI for Amazon EKS, and Evilginx as an independent middleman - a man-in-the-middle attack framework for phishing login credentials and session cookies, allowing two-factor authentication to be bypassed.

Other new tools include the open source phishing toolkit GoPhish, the fast HTTP header analyzer Humble for security, the tool Slim (toolkit) for shrinking container images, the tool Syft for generating software bills of materials from containers, and the file system, and Terraform, a tool for creating, changing, and improving infrastructure securely and predictably.

The list of new tools in Kali Linux 2023.2 continues to include eBPF-based security observability and runtime execution tool Tetragon; extensible, open source and free security incident response platform TheHive; universal and extensible WSGI-based Wsgidav, a WebDAV server; Trivy, a tool for finding vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOMs in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, cloud, and more.

In addition to this, the Kali menu has received some updates and improvements, new Hyper-V VM images have been adopted, additional firmware has been added on all ARM images, and the Kali WSL rootfs build script has been overhauled.

IT Home attaches Kali Linux 2023.2 official website download (Click this link), you can find various versions suitable for ARM, VM, cloud or mobile platforms.

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