Kali Linux 2026.1 released

Kali Linux has been released in version 2026.1.

The summary of the changelog since the 2025.4 release from December is:

2026 Theme Refresh - Our yearly theme refresh
BackTrack Mode For Kali-Undercover - New mode celebrating BackTrack’s 20th anniversary
Kali’s 13th Birthday Event - A little community event
New Tools - 8 new programs

The new added tools are:

AdaptixC2 - Extensible post-exploitation and adversarial emulation framework
Atomic-Operator - Execute Atomic Red Team tests across multiple operating system environments
Fluxion - Security auditing and social-engineering research tool
GEF - Modern experience for GDB with advanced debugging capabilities
MetasploitMCP - MCP server for Metasploit
SSTImap - Automatic SSTI detection tool with interactive interface
WPProbe - Fast WordPress plugin enumeration tool
XSStrike - Advanced XSS scanner

You can upgrade your existing rolling release using

sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade -y

Happy hacking! :-)

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