Kali Linux 2025.2 has officially launched on 13 June 2025—the second major update of the year. It introduces a smarter tool menu, fresh desktop enhancements, stronger pentesting utilities, and impressive NetHunter innovations.

What’s new in Kali Linux 2025.2?

🧭 MITRE-Aligned Kali Menu

The Kali menu has been thoroughly revamped to follow the MITRE ATT&CK framework. This improves organization and tool discovery for both attackers and defenders, and the menu is now fully managed via YAML—making future updates more streamlined.

🖥️ Desktop Enhancements: GNOME 48 & KDE Plasma 6.3

• GNOME 48 brings notification stacking, HDR support, dynamic triple buffering, a new “papers” document viewer, and a handy VPN‑IP panel indicator that lets you copy your VPN address with one click.
• KDE Plasma 6.3 delivers refined fractional scaling, accurate Night Light color, detailed GPU/battery monitoring, and enhanced customization across both tiling and classic desktop setups.
• Plus, all-new community wallpapers now ship via the kali-community-wallpapers package.

🛡️ BloodHound Community Edition

Kali Linux now ships with BloodHound CE, along with a full suite of ingestors such as azurehound, bloodhound-ce-python, and sharphound. This upgrade enhances Active Directory reconnaissance through a cleaner interface and faster performance.

📱 NetHunter Innovations

• Smartwatch Wi‑Fi Injection: The TicWatch Pro 3 (with bcm43436b0 chipset) can now perform wireless de-authentication and WPA2 handshake capture—directly from the wrist—thanks to NexMon-powered support.
• CARsenal Toolkit: Formerly known as CAN Arsenal, this toolkit is now rebranded and includes tools like hlcand, VIN Info, and CaringCaribou—all under a new, user-friendly interface.
• Android Radio Teaser: A sneak peek of NetHunter KeX on car head units hints at upcoming Android Auto compatibility.

🧰 New Tools & ARM Improvements

• 13 new tools have been added, including azurehound, binwalk3, bopscrk, crlfuzz, gitxray, rubeus, tinja, and more. Additionally, utilities like xclip are now pre-installed by default.
• ARM updates include a unified Raspberry Pi 5 64-bit image running on the 6.12 kernel, updated driver support across other SBCs, and enhancements from NexMon firmware.

📥 How to Install or Upgrade

Brand-new install: download the appropriate ISO or image from the official Kali download page.

Upgrade existing Kali:

sudo apt update && sudo apt -y full-upgrade
grep VERSION /etc/os-release  # should show VERSION_ID="2025.2"
uname -r                       # kernel 6.12.x-amd64

For further information on Kali Linux 2025.2 - read the official release announcement.