Kali Linux 2026.2

It's the final week of Q2, and Kali Linux 2026.2 is here - right on schedule. We have been heads down since our last release, and we are ready to share what we have been working on. This release is a mix of desktop refreshes, infrastructure improvements, and quality-of-life changes that we think you will appreciate. The summary of the changelog since the 2026.1 release from March is: desktop environments - bump to GNOME 50 and KDE Plasma 6.6; helper scripts consistency - consistency to our little launches at starting services; APT format - goodbye sources.list, hello sources.list.d/kali.source; VM boot optimisation - smaller initrd + faster boot times = happy virtual machine users; reboot warning - heads-up, polkit and xrdp upgrades require a system reboot; Kali kernel incoming - staying with 6.19 for now, how to get 7.0 early; build scripts incoming - heads-up with some changes on the way; new tools - as always, various new shiny packages have been added (9). Official announcement Download Kali Linux
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2022.3 2022-08-09 00:00:00
2022.4 2022-12-06 00:00:00
2023.1 2023-03-13 00:00:00
2023.2 2023-05-31 00:00:00
2023.3 2023-08-24 00:00:00
2023.04 2023-12-05 00:00:00
2024.1 2024-02-28 00:00:00
2024.2 2024-06-05 00:00:00
2024.3 2024-09-11 00:00:00
2024.4 2024-12-16 00:00:00
2025.1a 2025-03-19 00:00:00
2025.2 2025-06-13 00:00:00
2025.3 2025-09-24 00:00:00
2025.4 2025-12-12 00:00:00
2026.1 2026-03-24 00:00:00
2026.2 2026-06-29 00:00:00
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