our kernel team is proud to announce the the release of our new linux kernel 4.8.11, while testing builds of linux 4.9 will be available soon

to install the new kernel make sure that you have our linux metapackages already installed (linux-image-amd64 or linux-image-686-pae) and upgrade your system with

sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade

if you don’t have our linux metapackage, you can install the specific packages with the following command

sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade && sudo apt install linux-image-4.8.0-parrot-amd64 linux-headers-4.8.0-parrot-amd64

or

sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade && sudo apt install linux-image-4.8.0-parrot-686-pae linux-headers-4.8.0-parrot-686-pae