Parrot (formerly Parrot Security OS) is a Debian-based, security-oriented distribution featuring a collection of utilities designed for penetration testing, computer forensics, reverse engineering, hacking, privacy, anonymity and cryptography. The product, developed by Frozenbox, comes with MATE as the default desktop environment.
Release history
13 releasesVersionCodenameReleased
7.2Latest
2026-05-09
7.1
2026-02-11
7.0
2025-12-24
6.4
2025-07-07
6.3
2025-02-01
6.3
2025-02-01
6.2
2024-10-24
6.1
2024-06-05
6.0
2024-01-24
5.3
2023-05-09
5.3
2023-05-03
5.2
2023-02-15
5.1
2022-09-29
Reviews
R
★★★★★
rick
2023-11-16
worthles POS OS, no bluetooth or wifi... garbage out of the box, go with kali linux or kali purple or debian tweolve because this is total bullshit and trash
J
★★★★★
Jack Rollens
2023-11-12
I have been using Linux since it came out. Unix before that. Kali and Parrot. Fantastic movement forward!!!!!