Recently these days the new update version of the Parrot 4.5 Linux distribution was carried out, which is based on Debian Testing and includes a selection of tools for verifying systems security, performing forensic analysis and reverse engineering.
The Parrot distribution positions itself as a portable laboratory with an environment for security experts and forensic scientists, which focuses on tools for verifying cloud systems and Internet devices.
This Linux distribution focused on computer security and forensics also includes cryptographic tools and software to provide secure network access, including TOR, I2P, anonsurf, gpg, tccf, zulucrypt, veracrypt, truecrypt, and luks.
For those readers who still do not know the distribution I can tell you that Parrot Security is a Debian-based Linux distribution developed by the Frozenbox Team and this distro 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 user to test in their laboratory.
Parrot is based on Debian's stretch branch, with a custom Linux kernel. Follow a mobile release development model.
The desktop environment used by the Linux Parrot OS distribution is MATE, and the default display manager is LightDM.
Main new features in the new version of Parrot 4.5
In this new release of the distribution une of the news that can be highlighted is that the developers decided to suspend the development of 32-bit images for x86 architecture (support for 32-bit ARM systems is preserved).
As many of us know, during the past year many of the Linux distributions have begun to direct their efforts and time to new processor architectures, so 32-bit development has stopped being carried out in many of them.
On this occasion the Parrot developers have taken this step and for now have decided to pause development until further notice or report the abandonment (it could be the most likely).
Another important point to note is that the Linux kernel has been updated to version 4.19 and the Metasploit framework to the new 5.0 branch.
Metadata packages added to quickly form a developer's environment in various programming languages: parrot-devel (vscodium, fervor, git-tail, meld y log), parrot-devel-tools (gcc, python3, ruby, jdk, cython3, rust, vala, mono, php, perl6) y parrot-devel-extra (go, node.js, atom, qtcreator, kdevelop, cmake, nasm, valgrind).
On the other hand, in addition to the installation and live images, a preconfigured environment has been configured in OVA format for release under the control of virtualization systems, such as VirtualBox and VMWare.
Finally, as many of you may know, the Parrot developers are working on images of the system for ARM devices, which in their download section we can see that they have three devices in mind for the moment: the Orange Pi, the Raspberry Pi and Pine 64.
Download and update Parrot OS
Si you want to get this new version of this distribution Linux only You must go to its official website and in the download section you can enjoy get link to download this new version.
Also, if you already have a previous version of Parrot OS installed, you can get the new version without having to reinstall.
All you have to do is open a terminal and run the following commands to update:
sudo apt update
sudo apt purge tomoyo-tools
sudo apt full-upgrade
sudo apt autoremove
At the end you will only have to restart your computer.
And well the team plans for Parrot LTS is that they are working on a version of Parrot LTS (a long-term support version) in order to provide long-term reliability to users for all architectures that the distribution supports.