A new version of the security distribution Kali Linux has been released.

We are incredibly excited to announce our fourth and final release of 2019, Kali Linux 2019.4, which is available immediately for download.

2019.4 includes some exciting new updates:

A new default desktop environment, Xfce
New GTK3 theme (for Gnome and Xfce)
Introduction of “Kali Undercover” mode
Kali Documentation has a new home and is now Git powered
Public Packaging – getting your tools into Kali
Kali NetHunter KeX – Full Kali desktop on Android
BTRFS during setup
Added PowerShell
The kernel is upgraded to version 5.3.9
… Plus the normal bugs fixes and updates.

New Desktop Environment and GTK3 Theme
There are a ton of updates to go over for this release, but the most in your face item that everyone is going to notice first are the changes to the desktop environment and theme. So let’s cover that first.

An update to the desktop environment has been a long time coming. We have been talking about how to address this, what we wanted to do, experimenting on different approaches, and so on for months now.

Kali Undercover
With the change to the environment, we thought we would take a side step and do something fun. Thanks to Robert, who leads our penetration testing team, for suggesting a Kali theme that looks like Windows to the casual view, we have created the Kali Undercover theme.

Kali-Docs is now on Markdown and new home (/docs/)
This may not be as flashy as the new theme, but the changes to the docs we have done is just as significant.

BTRFS during setup
Another significant new addition to the documentation is the use of BTRFS as your root file system. This is an amazing approach documented by Re4son, that when done gives you the ability to do file system rollbacks after upgrades.

PowerShell
On to other features, in case you missed it PowerShell is now in Kali. This has been really great to bring the ability to execute PowerShell scripts directly on Kali.



Kali Linux 2019.4 Release Announcement