# Kali Linux: what changed from 2025 to 2026

- Product: Kali Linux (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/kali-linux)
- Vendor: OffSec
- Range: changelog entries numbered after 2025.4 up to and including 2026.2, stable releases only
- Entries below: 2 releases (newest first)
- Resolved: 2025 is 2025.4 and 2026 is 2026.2, the newest stable release of each major we track
- Carrying security changes: 0 · CVEs mentioned: 0 · Mentioning breaking changes: 0 · Removing or deprecating something: 0
- Page: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/kali-linux/compare/2025...2026

What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog.

Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'.

## What changed (0 changes, grouped by kind)

_No categorized changes yet; the release notes below are all there is._

_2 releases carry no categorized changes yet: 2026.2, 2026.1._

## Release notes

### 2026.2 — Kali Linux 2026.2 Release (GNOME 50, KDE 6.6, Helper Scripts, APT Formats & VM Boot Tweaking)

- Date: 2026-06-29
- Version: 2026.2
- Original notes: https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2026-2-release/
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/kali-linux/releases/2026.2

It’s the final week of Q2, and Kali Linux 2026.2 is here - right on schedule ;) We have been heads down since our last release, and we are ready to share what we have been working on. This release is…

### 2026.1 — Kali Linux 2026.1 Release (2026 Theme & BackTrack Mode)

- Date: 2026-03-24
- Version: 2026.1
- Original notes: https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2026-1-release/
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/kali-linux/releases/2026.1

New year, new release - Kali 2026.1 is here! There is everything from a fresh coat of paint to a nod to our roots, with normal ongoing improvements. Building on from December’s 2025.4 , the summary of…