Parrot 5.1 includes improvements for RPi 400, fixes, updates and more

For those readers who still do not know the distribution I can tell you that Parrot Security is a Linux distribution based on Debian developed by the Frozenbox Team and this distro tIt has a focus on computer security.

It is designed for penetration testing, vulnerability assessment and analysis, computer forensics, anonymous web browsing, and practicing cryptography. Parrot OS is intended to provide testing tools for penetration testing equipped with different types of tools for the user to test in his lab.

Parrot positions itself as a portable lab environment for security experts and forensic scientists, focusing on tools for testing cloud systems and IoT devices.

Main new features of Parrot 5.1

In this new version of Parrot 5.1 that is being presented, the developers did a lot of work on images for Docker containers, since nowthey redesigned these and within the improvements they achieved, it is mentioned that introduced its own image registry parrot.run, which can be used in addition to the default docker.io. All images are now sent in multiarch format and are compatible with amd64 and arm64 architectures.

The new version introduces the user interface with a better system tray icon and a configuration dialog window, it is fully compatible with Debian GNU/Linux systems without previous resolvconf configuration and offers an improved overall user experience.

“This is a major change in the way we manage our infrastructure, allowing us to implement better autoscaling, easier management, a smaller attack surface, and an overall better network with improved scalability and security. what we were looking for”

In addition, several packages were updated and supported, such as the new Golang 1.19 or Libreoffice 7.4, Also included are system updates for some of its key packages, such as Menu, which currently provides additional launchers for newly imported tools; o parrot-core, which provides a new Firefox profile with improved security hardening and some minor bug fixes in the zshrc configuration.

On the other hand, also Firefox profile has been updated to improve privacy and security, in this new version DuckDuckGo has been set as the default search engine, features related to sending telemetry to Mozilla were disabled. The bookmarks collection has been updated with new resources, including OSINT services, new learning sources, and other useful resources for developers, students, and security researchers.

Other changes that are included, is that reverse engineering tools have been updated, like rizin and rizin-cutter. Significant updates include metasploit, exploitdb, and other popular tools as well.

In addition, the IoT version implements significant performance improvements for the various Raspberry Pi boards and finally includes Wi-Fi support for the Raspberry Pi 400 board. Parrot Architect editing is also improved in this version.

Of the other changes that stand out in this new version:

• The AnonSurf 4.0 anonymization tool has been updated to redirect all traffic through Tor without separate proxy settings.
• The Linux kernel has been updated to version 5.18 (previously 5.16).

Finally, if you are interested in knowing more about this new release, you can consult the details In the following link.

Download and update Parrot OS

If you want to get this new version of this Linux distribution You just have to go to its official website and in the download section you can get the link to download this new version.

In addition, if you already have a previous version of Parrot OS installed (the 5.x branch) you can get the new version of Parrot 5.1 without having to reinstall the system on your computer. The only thing you have to do is open a terminal and run the following command to update:

sudo parrot-upgrade

It is also recommended to update the packages by:

sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade -t parrot-backports

At the end you will only have to restart your computer.