14 DAY TRIAL // The Parrot Security team released a new version of their ethical hacking and penetration testing Linux-based operating system with numerous enhancements and noteworthy features for the security community.
After more than three months in development, the Parrot 4.6 operating system is now available with a Security edition featuring the KDE Plasma desktop environment alongside the existing MATE edition featuring the more lightweight MATE desktop environment. Both the KDE and MATE flavours are available in Home and Security editions.
"We love MATE but we'd heard great things about KDE and decided we could try and support two desktop environments," said Parrot Security team in the release notes. "We heard you and it is finally here! A Security edition featuring the KDE Plasma desktop environment."
Here's what's new in Parrot 4.6
Highlights of the Parrot 4.6 release include support for https-to-http downgrades for the APT package manager, which is now configured to serve signed index files via the secure HTTPS protocol by default, OpenNIC support in Anonsurf to let users switch from the system DNS servers to the OpenNIC DNS resolvers, as well as better OpenVPN support.
Parrot 4.6 also brings better support for the Snap package confinement developed by Canonical to enable easy distribution of Linux apps across multiple operating systems, updated AppArmor and FireJail profiles, and improved driver support for Nvidia GPUs, especially the Quadro series.
Some new additions are present as well in this release, such as the Cutter GUI for radare2, as well as Matrix and Riot.IM for all your federated instant messaging needs. Of course, numerous of the included security tools and core components have been updated to their latest versions. You can download Parrot 4.6 right now through our free Linux software portal.