Ready to hear the real news? Take a deep breath, it’s a long list.
But these bulletpoint items are essentially a side effect of the real changes that have taken place in our development backend. So, what’s new in Kali 2.0? There’s a new 4.0 kernel, now based on Debian Jessie, improved hardware and wireless driver coverage, support for a variety of Desktop Environments (gnome, kde, xfce, mate, e17, lxde, i3wm), updated desktop environment and tools - and the list goes on. Today is the day that Kali 2.0 is officially released. With the end of the cons, we now find ourselves smack in the middle of the most significant release of Kali since 2013. But the excitement doesn’t end for us just yet.
With the help of a few good people, the Dojo rooms were set up ready for the masses - where many generated their very own Kali 2.0 ISOs for the first time.
We’re still buzzing and recovering from the Black Hat and DEF CON conferences where we finished presenting our new (](/docs/development/dojo-mastering-live-build/), which was a blast. Our Next Generation Penetration Testing Platform