Kali Linux 2025.2, second release of the year, now available for download with 13 new tools and an extended car hacking toolkit.
Designed for cyber security professionals and moral hackers, black linx distribution safety audit, penetration testing and network research facilities.
The Kali team has added many new features and refined Dystro’s user interfaces. Notable changes include:
- Name and updated car hacking toolset
- Black menu and ui refresh
- Kali Nathunter updated
- Additional Hacking Equipment
Name and extended car hacking toolkit
In this release, Cain Arsenal was renamed the carcanel to better reflect its purpose as a car hacking toolset and now has a more user -friendly interface.
The black team also added new equipment, including:
- hlcand: Revised Slcand for ELM327
- Win information: Decode your Vin identifier
- Caringcaribou: Really provide listener, dump, fasar, send, UDS and XCP module
- Icsim: Provide a great simulator to play with VCAN and test the carcanel toolset without the need of hardware
Black menu and ui refresh
The black menu was also reorganized to align with Mater ATT and CK framework, making it easier for both red and blue teams to find the right equipment.
The menu structure was previously based on old systems such as wheax and backtrack, which unfortunately lacked proper design scheme and it was difficult to add scale and new tools, resulting in confusion when trying to detect similar tools.
The black team said, “Now, we have created a new system and automated many aspects, making it easier for us to manage, and it makes you easier to search for items.
“Currently Kali Purple still follows the Nist CSF (National Institute of Standards and Technology Critical Infrastructure Cybercharity), rather than Matter D3 Fend.”
The GNOME is updated in version 48, which features notification stacking, performance improvement, dynamic triple buffering and a promotion image viewer. It also includes digital welfare equipment for battery health protection and HDR support.
The user interface is refined to a sharp look with better themes, and the document reader avins is replaced with the new paper app.
KDE Plasma has now reached the version 6.3, which packs partial scaling, a large overhaul of accurate screen colors when using nightlight, more accurate CPU uses in the system monitor, information centers with more information, such as GPU data or battery cycle calculations, and many more adaptation facilities.
New equipment in black linux 2025.2
This new black linux also adds 23 new toys to test:
Kali Nathunter Update
In addition to a revived car hacking toolset, Kali Linux 2025.2 wireless injections, de-authentications, and WPA2 handshake capture support the first smartwatch, Tiktwatch Pro 3 (All variants with BCM43436B0 chipset).
Black team too Shared a teaser The specialty of Kali Nathunter KX running on Android Auto Head Units and started the new and updated Kali Nathunter Curnell, including:
- (New) Xiaomi Redmi 4/4x (A13) (by @Momboteq,
- (New) Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 (A15) (by) @Madra 273,
- (Updated) Realme c15 (A10) (by @Frostleaft07,
- (Updated) Samsung Galaxy S10 (A14, A15/Exynos9820) (by @V0lk3n,
- (Updated) Samsung Galaxy S9 (A13/exynos9810) (by @V0lk3n,
How to get black linux 2025.2
To start using Kali Linux 2025.2, upgrade your current installation, Select a platformOr Download ISO images directlyFor new install and live distribution.
Black users updating from the previous version can use the following command to upgrade to the latest version.
echo "deb kali-rolling main contrib non-free non-free-firmware" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt -y full-upgrade
cp -vrbi /etc/skel/. ~/
( -f /var/run/reboot-required ) && sudo reboot -f
If you are using black on WSL, consider upgrading to WSL2 for better support of graphical applications. To check your WSL version, run the ‘WSL -L -V’ in the Windows Command Prompt.
Once upgraded, you can check whether the upgrade has been successful using the following command: grep VERSION /etc/os-release,
You can check full Changelog for Kali Linux 2025.2 On Kali’s website,
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