Archive note: this announcement was originally published by the Parrot project on December 12, 2016 and is kept here for reference. parrotlinux.org is an independent site, not the project's official website. For current information see the latest release notes.
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