# Parrot Linux

> Free security & privacy Linux distribution for penetration testers


## Posts

- [Parrot 5.2 Release Notes](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-5-2-release-notes/): We're proud to say that the new version of Parrot OS 5.2 is available for download.
- [Parrot 5.1 Release Notes](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-5-1-release-notes/): We're proud to say that the new version of Parrot OS 5.1 is available for download.
- [A hidden gem from a technical POV](https://parrotlinux.org/a-hidden-gem-from-a-technical-pov/): An overview of our updater
- [Parrot 5.0 Press Release](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-5-0-press-release/): We are proud to announce the release of Parrot OS 5.0.
- [Parrot 4.11 Release Notes](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-4-11-release-notes/): Parrot 4.11 is now available for download, read the release notes
- [Parrot 4.10 Release Notes](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-4-10-release-notes/): Parrot 4.10 is now available for download, read the release notes
- [Parrot OS + HackTheBox](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-hackthebox/): The partnership between Parrot OS and HackTheBox is now official. Read the press release
- [Parrot 4.9 Release Notes](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-4-9-release-notes/): Parrot 4.9 is now available for download, read the release notes
- [Parrot 4.8 Release Notes](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-4-8-release-notes/): Parrot 4.8 is now available for download, read the release notes
- [The Parrot Project needs your help](https://parrotlinux.org/the-parrot-project-needs-your-help/): The Parrot Project needs your help! We need your help to going through our work. Giving such a complex service to millions of people…
- [Parrot 4.7 release notes](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-4-7-release-notes/): Parrot 4.7 development notes We are proud to announce the release of Parrot 4.7, which represents an important step forward for our project. How…
- [New Kernel and other goodies](https://parrotlinux.org/kernel-5/): Hey Guys, ParrotOS has received some large updates: The Kernel has been updated to 5.2 Mate is now 1.22.1 Chromium received some security updates through the rolling-security repos…
- [Repository Changes](https://parrotlinux.org/repository-changes/): Hey some of you may have noticed your source list URIs went from deb.parrotsec.org to deb.parrot.sh :slight_smile: this is part of the migration from…
- [Infrastructure Outage](https://parrotlinux.org/infrastructure-outage/): Hey guys, on Sunday July 21, 2019, we attempted to migrate the master node from Debian stretch to buster . During the migration we had a bug with lxd which prevented the containers…
- [Parrot 4.6 release notes](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-4-6-release-notes/): Parrot 4.6 development notes We are proud to announce the release of Parrot 4.6, after 3 months of heavy development. This has been an…
- [Parrot 4.5 release notes](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-4-5-release-notes/): Parrot 4.5 development notes Parrot 4.5 is officially released, and there are some major changes under the hood.     Dropped 32bit architecture images…
- [The Parrot CDN](https://parrotlinux.org/the-parrot-cdn/): the Parrot CDN Hello mates, we are proud to announce the release of our dedicated CDN (Content Delivery Network) It consists of several servers…
- [Parrot OS needs your help to scale out!](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-needs-your-help-to-scale-out/): It seems like every day now that you receive an email from your favorite startup, notifying you that their product has just been launched,…
- [Parrot 4.4 Release Notes](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-4-4-release-notes/): Parrot 4.4 Development Goals The Parrot 4.4 development process involved the ideas of many people from our community, and the goal of this new…
- [Parrot 4.3 Release Notes](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-4-3-release-notes/): 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…
- [Parrot 4.2.2 release notes](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-4-2-release-notes/): We are proud to announce the release of Parrot 4.2. It was a very problematic release for our team because of the many important…
- [Parrot 4.2 beta](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-4-2-beta/): Parrot 4.2 is almost ready Parrot 4.2 Development Discussion Parrot 4.2 Beta Testers Program Download links for the beta images are available in the beta testers program page The f…
- [Parrot 4.0 release notes](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-4-0-release-notes/): Parrot 4.0 is now available for download. The development process of this version required a lot of time, and many important updates make this…
- [Parrot 3.11 release notes](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-3-11-release-notes/): Parrot 3.11 is now available for download. This new release introduces many improvements and security fixes compared to the previous versions. It includes by…
- [meltdown/spectre security patches](https://parrotlinux.org/meltdown-spectre-security-patches/): Meltdown and Spectre exploit critical vulnerabilities in modern processors. These hardware vulnerabilities allow programs to steal data which is currently processed on the computer…
- [Parrot 3.10 is out](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-3-10-is-out/): We are proud to announce the release of Parrot 3.10, the latest version of our security oriented GNU/Linux distribution. The first big news is…
- [Firefox 57 lands on Parrot](https://parrotlinux.org/firefox-57-lands-on-parrot/): We are proud to announce the release of Firefox 57 in our stable branch. It includes the new quantum engine that makes it a very fast and powerful browser. Read the official releas…
- [Apt 1.6 with seccomp support](https://parrotlinux.org/apt-1-6-with-seccomp-support/): Julian Andres Klode has recently released a new version of APT, the advanced debian package manager, with some interesting new features. The most important feature is the seccomp s…
- [Parrot 3.9 release notes](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-3-9-release-notes/): Parrot 3.9 is now ready, and it includes some important new features that were introduced to make the system more secure and reliable. The…
- [Parrot 3.9 - Call for beta testers](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-3-9-call-for-beta-testers/): The first Release Candidate images are ready to be downloaded by you. Yes, you! We did our best to prepare these preview images including all the updates and the new features intro…
- [PSA: WPA2 Key Reinstallation Attack fix released](https://parrotlinux.org/psa-wpa2-key-reinstallation-attack-fix-released/): Parrot Linux Advisory: WPA packages updated! We are happy to announce that the wpa source package that provides wpasupplicant, hostapd and wpagui is now updated to version 2.4-1…
- [Parrot 3.8 Release Notes](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-3-8-release-notes/): What i personally love about this project is its little but awesome developers community, and this summer was more productive than ever. I am…
- [Vote Parrot as the new featured project on SourceForge](https://parrotlinux.org/vote-parrot-as-the-new-featured-project-on-sourceforge/): SourceForge, one of the biggest open source hosting platforms has a list of featured projects on its homepage. The Parrot Project is up to be selected as the new SourceForge commun…
- [Parrot at Open Source India 2017 (13-14 October)](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-at-open-source-india-2017-13-14-october/): One of our project ambassadors will attend the Open Source India 2017 conference . The following is his official announcement: Hello Dosto, we are coming to Open Source India 2017.…
- [Parrot now hosting the RACHEL Archive](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-now-hosting-the-rachel-archive/): Hello Parrots, we have put together a little collection of open source books about software development, IT security and computer engineering they are hosted on all our mirror serv…
- [Parrot 3.7 Release Notes](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-3-7-release-notes/): Take a Debian core and configure it to be lightweight with a classic but complete desktop environment, put a beautiful dark theme on it…
- [No internet connection when upgrading to parrot 3.7](https://parrotlinux.org/no-internet-connection-when-upgrading-to-parrot-3-7/): Parrot 3.7 introduces many significant changes to the core of the system, first of all it is based on debian 10 (the new testing branch) and we have noticed that the update breaks …
- [Fix file manager background color](https://parrotlinux.org/fix-file-manager-background-color/): Some recent updates to our parrot themes are causing an old dconf setting to be activated, here a quick tip to restore the background color used by the theme. To fix it we need to …
- [Parrot 3.7 release date](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-3-7-release-date/): We are ready to release new updated system images for Parrot 3.7.   The release is scheduled for this sunday (09/07/2025)   This new…
- [Debian and Devuan](https://parrotlinux.org/debian-and-devuan/): Some days ago we have posted a bizarre proposal on our social channels about a possible migration from Debian to Devuan to get rid…
- [Parrot 3.6 is here](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-3-6-is-here/): After some months of hard work we were finally able to release Parrot 3.6. In this new version we didn’t wanted to introduce new…
- [Welcome to our new Parrot Mirror Director](https://parrotlinux.org/welcome-to-our-new-parrot-mirror-director/): How many of you have noticed that your sources.list was automatically switched to mirrordirector.archive.parrotsec.org and the system upgrades were taken from strange servers which…
- [Parrot Linux installfest, Thessaloniki-Greece, April 8th, 2017](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-security-installfest-thessaloniki-greece-april-8th-2017/): It’s been a long time since our meeting in Greece. We decided to do an installfest for people who don’t have it installed. The main idea was to help people to install Parrot securi…
- [Parrot 3.5 is here](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-3-5-is-here/): Hello Parrots, Palinuro here. I am proud to announce the official release of the new Parrot 3.5 ISO files. This update took a lot…
- [reconfigure mysql, mariadb or postgresql passwords](https://parrotlinux.org/reconfigure-mysql-mariadb-or-postgresql-passwords/): Introduction {#introduction.sectionedit1} Parrot includes several SQL engines, but when they are pre-installed, the default password is not configured and the access to its root us…
- [Parrot 3.5 release date](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-3-5-release-date/): Our development process is almost finished and Parrot 3.5 is ready to be released, the final system images will be released in March 8 2017. The changelog containing a full list of…
- [Parrot 3.5 - Call For Betatesters](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-3-5-call-for-betatesters/): Now it’s your turn! The first Release Candidate images are ready to be downloaded by you. Yes, you! We did our best to prepare these preview images including all the updates and th…
- [including arm64 support](https://parrotlinux.org/including-arm64-support/): Hello parrots, now we officially support the arm64 (aarch64) architecture, it will be heavily tested in these days. The first arm device to receive arm64 support will be the pine64…
- [Parrot 3.4 released](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-3-4-released/): Parrot 3.4.1 was released. It was divided into 2 releases, infact we have released parrot 3.4 on january 1, and then the 3.4.1 release…
- [Parrot 3.3 released](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-3-3-released/): We are sorry for all the silence behind our development process of these days, but we were secretly working on 2 main projects, the perfect plan to conquer the world and the new Pa…
- [Parrot Project Constitution](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-project-constitution/): Hello everyone, as you may know, our development group has a very informal structure which works pretty well on smaller communities, but this model introduces a big problem when th…
- [Linux 4.8.11 released](https://parrotlinux.org/linux-4-8-11-released/): 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 th…
- [[done] Pentesting Course in Bari, Italy - 28/11/2025](https://parrotlinux.org/pentesting-course-in-bari-italy-28112016/): Official Link Subscription Module   DESCRIZIONE DEL CORSO Il penetration testing è un corso pratico di valutazione della sicurezza di un sistema o di una rete che simula l’att…
- [[done] Pentesting Dojo in Bari, Italy - 29/11/2025](https://parrotlinux.org/pentesting-dojo-in-bari-italy-29112016/): Official Link Subscription Module DESCRIZIONE DEL CORSO Il Pentesting Dojo è un corso pratico di valutazione della sicurezza di un sistema o di una rete che simula l’attacco di un …
- [[Community tips] Use the Parrot Alternate Installer](https://parrotlinux.org/community-tips-use-the-parrot-alternate-installer/): We all want that nice little prompt of a reverse shell. Which requires a dedicated IP or a host that doesn’t filtered a lot custom ports that we define. Not a lot of ISP’s provide …
- [[done] Open Lab in Rome - 07/11/2025](https://parrotlinux.org/open-lab-in-rome-07112016/): Hello parrots, we are happy to announce a new event in Rome, Italy. It was organized in collaboration with Roma2LUG, a Linux Users Group that gave us the possibility to meet all ou…
- [Ambassadors program started](https://parrotlinux.org/ambassadors-program-started/): We at Parrot Project have finally decided to start an Ambassadors Program to give our users the possibility to distinguish theireslves from the community and be a point of referenc…
- [New linux 4.7.6 kernel released](https://parrotlinux.org/new-linux-4-7-6-kernel-released/): Linux 4.7.6 is now our default kernel, it fixes some security bugs and comes with some improvements Upgrade your parrot system to get it Follow our documentation page to learn how …
- [How to compile a custom parrot kernel](https://parrotlinux.org/how-to-compile-a-custom-parrot-kernel/): Want to create a custom kernel by compiling the source code of the parrot linux kernel? We have recently finished our documentation page dedicated to this topic. Feel free to conta…
- [Parrot Servers Map](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-servers-map/): We at Parrot Linux have created a map of all our mirror servers, it is not geographically precise because of the high density of servers in some areas, but it is perfect to unde…
- [Parrot 3.2 released](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-3-2-released/): We have finished all the work on Parrot 3.2 and we are now proud to announce its official release. This new version comes after…
- [New website released](https://parrotlinux.org/new-website-released/): We have recently rewritten our website from scratch, it uses the MDL (Material Design Lite) library and it is designed to correctly integrate this blog and our new wiki that was re…
- [[done] Pentesting Dojo in Palermo](https://parrotlinux.org/pentesting-dojo-in-palermo/): Hello everyone, we are organizing a Pentesting Dojo here in Palermo (Italy). It is scheduled for September 17 at Teatro Gregotti , Viale delle scienze ED.17 , Palermo. The event is…
- [Parrot Development Notes #0](https://parrotlinux.org/parrot-development-notes-0/): Hi, Palinuro here. The development of Parrot 3.2 is proceeding fast and we have many new ideas to implement, first of all we are considering to drop gtkdialog and any other tool de…

## Pages

- [Raspberry Pi Images](https://parrotlinux.org/download/raspberry-pi-images/): From release 5.0, ParrotOS is also available for Raspberry Pi 2, 3 and 4. This version is available in Core, Home and Security editions. The use of a Raspberry Pi 4 is strongly rec
- [Architect Edition](https://parrotlinux.org/download/architect-edition/): ParrotOS with nothing pre-installed. Install any software and DE with this edition.
- [Cloud Edition](https://parrotlinux.org/download/cloud-edition/): Cloud Appliances are special editions of Parrot Linux made for embedded devices, cloud environments, virtual machines and other special deployments.
- [Hack The Box Edition](https://parrotlinux.org/download/hackthebox-edition/): Unleash the full power of your Pwnbox, a customized hacking cloud box based on ParrotOS Security Edition, on your computer or try it online at Hack The Box Academy.
- [Security Edition](https://parrotlinux.org/download/security-edition/): Parrot Security Edition is a special purpose operating system designed for Penetration Test and Red Team operations. It contains a full arsenal of ready to use pentesting tools.
- [Home Edition](https://parrotlinux.org/download/home-edition/): Parrot Home Edition is a general purpose operating system with the typical Parrot look and feel. This edition is designed for daily use, privacy and software development. Parrot To
- [Warrant Canary](https://parrotlinux.org/warrant-canary/): Warrant Canary Signed with: Lorenzo "Palinuro" Faletra GPG ID: B350 5059 3C2F 7656 40E6 DDDB 97CA A129 F4C6 B9A4 GPG KEY: https://cdn.palinuro.dev/canary/key-palinuro.gpg GPG KEY…
- [Privacy Policy](https://parrotlinux.org/privacy-policy/): Privacy Policy Parrot OS The Parrot operating system does not include trackers or telemetry from the Parrot team or its partners, and we do…
- [Store](https://parrotlinux.org/store/): Parrot Linux Store Custom swag for the cyber security enthusiasts. Express your geekness! Join Us On Social Media
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