Kali Linux 2017.3 Released With Powerful New Tools

Kali Linux is a Penetration Testing Distribution based on Debian. Developed by Offensive Security. It is the world’s most capable and famous security testing platform, utilized by security experts in an extensive variety of specializations, including penetration testing, forensics, reverse engineering, and vulnerability assessment.

                                             

                                                         

Kali Linux 2017.3

With the New release they include all patches, fixes, updates, and improvements since from the last release, if you are kali lover then it’s time to Upgrade by using following Commands.

apt update
apt dist-upgrade
reboot

Improvements in New release

With the new release, the kernel has been updated to 4.13.10 and many other new improvements.

• CIFS now uses SMB 3.0 by default.
• EXT4 directories can now contain 2 billion entries instead of the old 10 million limit.
• TLS support is now built into the kernel itself.

Also with the new update, they have provided package updates for Reaver, PixieWPS, Burp Suite, Cuckoo, The Social Engineering Toolkit. You can check the complete Changeloghere.

Valuable New Tools

With Kali Linux 2017.2 around eight new tools added, now with Kali Linux 2017.3, they have added Four more tools to the distribution now.

Tools are primarily focused on open source information gathering and the tools are not available the in the default installation.After installation, we need to update the Distro with an apt update.