Kali Linux 2020.1 Release
January 28, 2020
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Kali Linux Releases
We are here to kick off our first release of the decade, with Kali Linux 2020.1! Available for immediate download.
The following is a brief feature summary for this release:
Non-Root by default
Kali single installer image
Kali NetHunter Rootless
Improvements to theme & kali-undercover
New tools
Non-Root
Throughout the history of Kali (and its predecessors BackTrack, WHAX, and Whoppix), the default credentials have been . This is no more. We are no longer using the superuser account, root, as default in Kali 2020.1. The default user account is now a standard, unprivileged, user.root/toor
For more of the reasons behind this switch, please see our previous blog post. As you can imagine, this is a very large change, with years of history behind it. As a result, if you notice any issues with this, please do let us know on the bug tracker.
root/toor is dead. Long live .kali/kali
