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| 2022-03-27 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Parrot 5.0 |
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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 project's latest version, Parrot 5.0, introduces some new container options and drops the KDE Plasma and Xfce editions. "Parrot's main focus on the latest release was on making the system extremely stable and flexible. The system now follows a Long Term Support release model, but provides the latest version of all its tools via extensive backporting, and is never out of date. Parrot 5.0 was designed with cloud and customizability in mind, and provides several container options to leverage powerful orchestration tools during complex pentest scenarios. The Parrot offering has been simplified, and a new Architect edition has been introduced to allow maximum customizability of the system. Parrot 5.0 keeps the former Home and Security editions, and introduces a new special HTB edition inspired by the popular PwnBox by HackTheBox. The KDE and Xfce alternatives are no longer available." Download (SHA512, pkglist): Parrot-home-5.0_amd64.iso (2,391MB, torrent), Parrot-security-5.0_amd64.iso (4,532MB, torrent), Parrot-architect-5.0_amd64.iso (343MB, torrent). |
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| 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.
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| 2024-10-23 |
Distribution Release: Parrot 6.2 |
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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 project's latest release, version 6.2, introduces several package upgrades and a new tool called Rocket. "Parrot team is happy to introduce you to Rocket, a launcher written entirely in Python using PyQt6 for the GUI, to launch Docker containers, specifically some security tools in our repository on Docker Hub (and others, from other repositories). This application runs on ParrotOS, but is also compatible with other distributions, and can also run on Windows and MacOS. It only requires the installation of docker.io to interface with Docker and allow the user to manage containers. Instead of typing and downloading a specific tool, through Rocket you can select a tool from the list, and then downloading the Docker image and launching the container is taken care of by the application." Additional information can be found in the release notes. Download (SHA512, pkglist): Parrot-home-6.2_amd64.iso (2,483MB, torrent), Parrot-security-6.2_amd64.iso (5,188MB, torrent). |
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| 2024-06-05 |
Distribution Release: Parrot 6.1 |
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Lorenzo Faletra has announced the release of Parrot 6.1, the latest stable version of the project's Linux distribution that ships with an arsenal of tools, utilities and libraries designed for IT security professionals. It is based on Debian 12: "We are excited to announce the release of Parrot 6.1, the new version of our operating system that includes in it numerous improvements and updates that makes the system more performing and stable. This new release brings with it a lot of improvements and an update of several packages, as well as libraries, in particular the following ones: Anonsurf 4.2 - improved stability and fixed issues in the launcher script for better anonymity and user experience; re-introduction of parrot-updater - the update reminder popup was re-introduced to the system to assist keeping the system up to date; nmap - patched to fix several errors in its mssql scanning lua script; burpsuite 2024.2.1.3 - updated to the latest version and fixed a Java version inconsistency on some machines; sqlmap 1.8.3 - upgraded to the latest version for better SQL injection detection and testing capabilities...." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information and upgrade instructions. Download (SHA512, signature, pkglist): Parrot-home-6.1_amd64.iso (2,288MB, torrent), Parrot-security-6.1_amd64.iso (4,961MB, torrent). |
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| 2024-01-24 |
Distribution Release: Parrot 6.0 |
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Parrot 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 project's latest release is based on Debian 12, uses version 6.5 of the Linux kernel, and improves wireless networking support. "Debian 12: The system has been updated to be based on the newly released Debian 12, offering enhanced stability and features. Linux Kernel 6.5: Incorporates the latest Linux kernel with additional patches for network sniffing and injection, enhancing cybersecurity capabilities, and of course better performance and native support for the latest Intel and AMD CPUs. Advanced DKMS and Wi-Fi Drivers: Includes backported DKMS modules for Linux kernel 6.5, covering extra Wi-Fi drivers for improved network analysis and the latest Nvidia drivers for better hardware compatibility. Pentesting tools updated: All penetration testing tools have been updated, ensuring users have access to the latest methods and techniques." Additional information can be found in the distribution's release notes. Download: Parrot-security-6.0_amd64.iso (5,040MB, SHA512, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2023-02-15 |
Distribution Release: Parrot 5.2 |
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Lorenzo Faletra has announced the release of Parrot 5.2, an updated version of the project's Linux distribution based on Debian's "Testing" branch. The new release updates the Linux kernel to version 6.0.12: "We are proud to introduce the latest version of Parrot. Parrot 5.2 includes several new features and improvements made since version 5.1; these mostly include security and stability updates. What's new: the Calamares installer has received several important updates to fix common installation issues; the Linux kernel has been updated to version 6.0; several security updates have been included to fix important bugs to Firefox, Chromium, sudo, dbus, nginx, libssl, OpenJDK and X.Org; Anonsurf, our popular anonymity tool, now includes better support to TOR bridges; wireless drivers for several Broadcom and Realtek cards not supported by Debian received a major upgrade to include support for the 6.x Linux kernel, along with VirtualBox and NVIDIA drivers...." Continue to the release announcement for more details and upgrade instructions. Download (SHA512, signature, pkglist): Parrot-home-5.2_amd64.iso (2,403MB, torrent), Parrot-security-5.2_amd64.iso (4,877MB, torrent). |
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| 2021-03-29 |
Distribution Release: Parrot 4.11 |
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The Parrot team have announced a new version, 4.11, of the distributions Home and Security editions. Parrot is based on Debian's "Testing" branch and features a wide range of updates, particularly to the kernel. "Linux 5.10 is the default kernel of this new Parrot version, with better hardware support for very recent hardware. We plan to release Linux 5.11 as soon as possible as a later update. We have finally purged many old, broken and unmaintained tools, and revisited many of the existing ones. Our tool metapackages were revisited as well to reflect this little revolution. Parrot 4.11 provides cleaner metapackages, updated tools and a more consistent repository. Previous Parrot versions used to have un-needed services shut down by default, but such services happened to re-enable randomly after system updates. We have enforced some systemd rules to prevent this happening." Further information on Parrot 4.11 can be found in the project's release notes. Download (pkglist): Parrot-home-4.11_amd64.iso (1,997MB, SHA256, torrent), Parrot-security-4.11_amd64.iso (4,307MB, SHA256, torrent). |
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| 2020-08-17 |
Distribution Release: Parrot 4.10 |
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Lorenzo Faletra has announced the release of Parrot 4.10, an updated build of the project's distribution set based on Debian's "Testing" branch. The new version comes with AnonSurf 3.0 and it also updates the Linux kernel to version 5.7.10: "We are proud to announce the release of Parrot OS 4.10. This new version includes many important updates to make the distribution more reliable and more secure. AnonSurf 3.0 is ready, and it has many important features. It is now subdivided into three modules - GUI, Daemon and Utilities. The GUI is written in NIM, a blazing-fast programming language, very easy to write and read, that compiles in native C code. It uses Gintro GTK for the interface and it has several features to let the user control the AnonSurf behavior. You can start, stop and reload AnonSurf, and you can easily configure AnonSurf to automatically start at boot. It is easy to monitor the status of Tor and see the traffic, the logs and some usage statistics thanks to its integration with NYX." Read the complete release notes for more information and screenshots. Download (SHA512, signature, pkglist): Parrot-home-4.10_amd64.iso (1,839MB, torrent), Parrot-kde-home-4.10_amd64.iso (2,037MB, torrent), Parrot-security-4.10_amd64.iso (4,114MB, torrent), Parrot-kde-security-4.10_amd64.iso (4,247MB, torrent). |
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| 2020-04-30 |
Distribution Release: Parrot 4.9 |
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Lorenzo Faletra has announced the release of Parrot 4.9, the latest stable version of the project's distribution set based on Debian's "Testing" branch. It comes in "Home" and "Security" editions both of which are available with either KDE Plasma or MATE desktops. "Parrot 4.9 is now available for download and it ships some important updates we are particularly proud of. Some new features introduced in Parrot 4.8 has also introduced some weird bugs that required some extra time to be spotted and fixed. We originally wanted to release Parrot 4.8.1 to address them, but then a huge amount of updates from Debian, like the removal of many Python 2 libraries and tools and the introduction of a new Linux kernel version made the 4.9 release a more appealing idea. We have also introduced a new, more friendly installer and a new look and feel to the login screen to make the system more appealing to newcomers and more comfortable for those users already aboard." Read the rest of the release notes for further details. Download (SHA512, signature, pkglist): Parrot-security-4.9_x64.iso (3,818MB, torrent), Parrot-kde-security-4.9_x64.iso (3,941MB, torrent), Parrot-home-4.9_x64.iso (1,692MB, torrent), Parrot-kde-4.9_x64.iso (2,099MB, torrent). |
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| 2020-03-23 |
Distribution Release: Parrot 4.8 |
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Lorenzo Faletra has announced the release of Parrot 4.8, an updated build of the project's Debian-based, security-oriented distribution set designed for penetration testing, digital forensics and privacy protection, as well as standard home desktops: "Parrot 4.8 is here. Parrot is based on Debian 'Testing', meaning that Parrot 4.8 includes all the updates that landed in the Debian 'Testing' repository between September 2019 and March 2020. Some noticeable updates include: Linux kernel 5.4, MATE 1.24, revision of sandbox, updated Anonsurf, Aircrack 1.6.... We wanted to stress the importance of containers and Parrot as a service, since we want anyone to be able to use the Parrot tools on their favorite desktop operating system or in the cloud. Now we offer docker containers that can be run on any docker-supported operating system. A detailed description of the whole Parrot for docker project, the available containers, their usage and a quick reference is available here." Here are the complete release notes. Download (SHA512, signature, pkglist): Parrot-security-4.8_x64.iso (3,841MB, torrent), Parrot-kde-security-4.8_x64.iso (3,977MB, torrent), Parrot-home-4.8_x64.iso (1,676MB, torrent), Parrot-kde-4.8_x64.iso (2,091MB, torrent). |
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