Parrot OS: Parrot 4.3 Release Notes

11/03/2018 6:32 pm

Parrot OS: Parrot 4.3 Release Notes

Parrot 4.3 released!

Parrot 4.3 is now available for download. This release provides security and stability updates and is the starting point for our plan to develop an LTS edition of Parrot. They are working on a Parrot LTS branch, a long term support, release-based distribution to provide long term reliability to users for all architectures.

New Features

  • Linux was updated to the 4.18.10 version, and Linux 4.19 will be released soon.
  • Firefox 63 provides noticeable security and privacy features, but it is no longer available to 32bit systems, so they switched to firefox-esr on all the unsupported architectures.
  • Bug in the parrot menu configuration, that prevented several menu categories to show up, is fixed.
  • The Parrot .bashrc file was updated, now it provides better snap support, the ll alias now shows the size in a human readable format and it does no longer overwrite some global settings as it used to do before.
  • OpenJDK 11 is now the default java provider.
  • Anonsurf received important stability upgrades and now it does not mess up the dns configuration.
  • New Parrot icons. The Parrot edition of the MAIA icon theme was updated.
  • Parrot 4.3 provides the latest updates of Debian Testing and many improvements to our sandbox system, in fact both firejail and apparmor received significant updates, and now the whole system is smoother, more secure and more reliable.