Parrot OS is a continuous release distribution, and updates are available in repo as soon as they are stable and reliable. Some details about this 4.11 update:
- Debian is in the "freezing of features" state to prepare for the new stable release.
- Linux 5.10 is the default kernel of this new version of Parrot, with better hardware support for very recent hardware.
- Tool metapackages have been revised to provide cleaner metapackages, updated tools and a more consistent repository.
- Some tools used to escalate local Linux privileges were a security threat, so they were disabled (xspy is no longer an executable file in / usr / bin).
- XFCE has been updated with several improvements and fixes.
- Metasploit was updated on 6.0.36
- Bettercap has finally been updated to 2.29, and 2.30 will come very soon.
- The pump was repaired by the Parrot team to properly manage the services and to use the new wpvulndb server.
- Routersploit has been updated to make it work with python 3.9.
- Xspy has been fixed so that it is not executable on the host system.
- Support for Fish and Zsh is now available, including the latest zsh-autofill version.
- VSCodium, the open-source binary distribution of VSCode with telemetry removed at the source level, is still the default development tool and has been updated to the latest version (1.54).
- Geany (with some Parrot customizations) is also pre-installed for those running on less powerful hardware.
- Parrot now comes with Python 3.9. Python 2 is finally deprecated, and / usr / bin / python now points to / usr / bin / python3 by default.
- Parrot also includes Go 1.15, and Go 1.16 will come very soon.
- The default Gcc version is 10.2.1.
- Additional metapackages for developers will be coming soon.
You can update an existing system through APT using one of the following commands:
sudo parrot-upgrade
or
sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade