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We are happy to announce the release of Kali Linux 2017.2, available now for your downloading pleasure. This release is a roll-up of all updates and fixes since our 2017.1 release in April. In tangible terms, if you were to install Kali from your 2017.1 ISO, after logging in to the desktop and running ‘apt update && apt full-upgrade’, you would be faced with something similiar to this daunting message.

New and Updated Packages in Kali 2017.2
In addition to all of the standard security and package updates that come to us via Debian Testing, we have also added more than a dozen new tools to the repositories, a few of which are listed below. There are some really nice additions so we encourage you to ‘apt install’ the ones that pique your interest and check them out.

hurl – a useful little hexadecimal and URL encoder/decoder
phishery – phishery lets you inject SSL-enabled basic auth phishing URLs into a .docx Word document
ssh-audit – an SSH server auditor that checks for encryption types, banners, compression, and more
apt2 – an Automated Penetration Testing Toolkit that runs its own scans or imports results from various scanners, and takes action on them
bloodhound – uses graph theory to reveal the hidden or unintended relationships within Active Directory
crackmapexec – a post-exploitation tool to help automate the assessment of large Active Directory networks
dbeaver – powerful GUI database manager that supports the most popular databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite, and many more
brutespray – automatically attempts default credentials on discovered services