Kali linux old versions

We release fresh images of Kali Linux every few months as a result of accumulative fixes, major security updates, installer updates, etc.

Please see bugs.kali.org/changelog_page.php for the most up-to-date log of changes.

Kali 2021.3 – 14th September, 2021 – The third 2021 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 5.10.0, Xfce 4.16.3.
Kali 2021.2 – 1st June, 2021 – The second 2021 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 5.10.0, Xfce 4.16.2.
Kali 2021.1 – 24th February, 2021 – The first 2021 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 5.10.0, Xfce 4.16.1.

Kali 2020.4 – 18th November, 2020 – The fourth 2020 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 5.9.0, Xfce 4.14.4.
Kali 2020.3 – 18th August, 2020 – The third 2020 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 5.7.0, Xfce 4.14.4.
Kali 2020.2 – 12th May, 2020 – The second 2020 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 5.5.0, Xfce 4.14.4.
Kali 2020.1b – 18th March, 2020 – Minor bug fix release (Offline setup issue).
Kali 2020.1a – 13th February, 2020 – Minor bug fix release (xserver-xorg issue).
Kali 2020.1 – 28th January, 2020 – The first 2020 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 5.4.0, Xfce 4.14.2.

Kali 2019.4 – 26th November, 2019 – The fourth 2019 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 5.3.9, Xfce 4.14.1.
Kali 2019.3 – 2nd September, 2019 – The third 2019 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 5.2.9, GNOME 3.30.2.
Kali 2019.2 – 21st May, 2019 – The second 2019 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 4.19.28, GNOME 3.30.2.
Kali 2019.1a – 4th March, 2019 – Minor bug fix release (VMware Installer).
Kali 2019.1 – 18th February, 2019 – The first 2019 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 4.19.13, GNOME 3.30.2.

Kali 2018.4 – 29th October, 2018 – The fourth 2018 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 4.18.0, GNOME 3.30.1.
Kali 2018.3 – 27th August, 2018 – The third 2018 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 4.17.0, GNOME 3.28.2.
Kali 2018.2 – 30th April, 2018 – The second 2018 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 4.15.0, GNOME 3.28.0.
Kali 2018.1 – 6th February, 2018 – The first 2018 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 4.14.12, GNOME 3.26.2.

Kali 2017.3 – 21st November, 2017 – The third 2017 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 4.13, GNOME 3.26.
Kali 2017.2 – 20th September, 2017 – The second 2017 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 4.12, GNOME 3.25.
Kali 2017.1 – 25th April, 2017 – The first 2017 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 4.9, GNOME 3.22.

Kali 2016.2 – 31st August, 2016 – The second 2016 Kali Rolling release. Kernel 4.6, GNOME 3.20.2.
Kali 2016.1 – 21st January, 2016 – The first Kali Rolling release. Kernel 4.3, GNOME 3.18.

Kali 2.0 – 11th August, 2015 – Major release, “safi«, now a rolling distribution, major UI changes.

Kali 1.1.0a – 13th March, 2015 – No fanfare release fixing kernel ABI inconsistencies in the installers.
Kali 1.1.0 — 9th Febuary, 2015 — First dot release in 2 years. New kernel, new tools and updates.
Kali 1.0.9a — 6th October, 2014 — Security bug fix release covering shellshock and Debian apt vulnerabilities.
Kali 1.0.9 — 25th August, 2014 — Bug fix release including installer and a set of tool updates and package fixes.
Kali 1.0.8 — 22nd July, 2014 — EFI Support for our) and package fixes.
Kali 1.0.7 — 27th May, 2014 — Kernel 3.14, tool updates, package fixes, Kali Live Encrypted USB Persistence.
Kali 1.0.6 — 9th January, 2014 — Kernel 3.12, cryptsetup nuke option, Amazon AMI, ARM build scripts.
Kali 1.0.5 — 5th September, 2013 — Bug fix rollup. LVM Encrypted installs, Software Defined Radio (SDR) tools.
Kali 1.0.4 — 25th July, 2013 — Bug fix rollup. Penetration testing tool additions and updates.
Kali 1.0.3 — 26th April, 2013 — Bug fix rollup. New accessibility features. Added live Desktop installer.
Kali 1.0.2 — 27th March, 2013 — Minor Bug fix release and update roll-up.
Kali 1.0.1 — 14th March, 2013 — Minor Bug fix release (USB Keyboard).
Kali 1.0.0 — 13th March, 2013 — Initial release, “moto«.

Legacy Operating Systems releases.

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Kali linux old versions

Kali Linux is based on years of knowledge and experience of building a pentestion testing Operating Systems, which has spanned over multiple previous projects. During all these project’s life-time, there has been only a few different developers, as the team has always been small. As a result, Kali has been years in the making and has come a long way.

The first project was called Whoppix, which stood for WhiteHat Knoppix. As can be inferred from the name, it was based on Knoppix for the underlining OS. Whoppix had releases ranging from v2.0 to v2.7.

This made way for the next project, WHAX (or the long hand, WhiteHat Slax). The name change was because the base OS changed from Knoppix to Slax. WHAX started at v3, as a nod towards it carrying on from Whoppix.

There was a similar OS being produced at the same time, Auditor Security Collection (often getting shorted to just Auditor), once again using Knoppix, and efforts were combined (with WHAX) to produce BackTrack. BackTrack was based on Slackware from v1 to v3, but switched to Ubuntu later on with v4 to v5.

Using the experience gained from all of this, Kali Linux came after BackTrack in 2013. Kali started off using Debian stable as the engine under the hood before moving to Debian testing when Kali became a rolling OS.

Below is a rough overview of how Kali Linux came to be:

Date	Project Released	Base OS
2004-August	Whoppix v2	Knoppix
2005-July	WHAX v3	Slax
2006-May	BackTrack v1	Slackware Live CD 10.2.0
2007-March	BackTrack v2	Slackware Live CD 11.0.0
2008-June	BackTrack v3	Slackware Live CD 12.0.0
2010-January	BackTrack v4 (Pwnsauce)	Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)
2011-May	BackTrack v5 (Revolution)	Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)
2013-March	Kali Linux v1 (Moto)	Debian 7 (Wheezy)
2015-August	Kali Linux v2 (Sana)	Debian 8 (Jessie)
2016-January	Kali Linux Rolling	Debian Testing

This is only the major releases, there were minor ones to address bug fixes, releases, and tools updates.

Updated on: 2021-Sep-27
Author: g0tmi1k

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