The the skull in the root prompt has been replaced with a simple ㉿.

Shell Prompt Changes – A few tweaks on Shell prompt to improve your productivity.

This is ideal for users who are doing complete offline standalone image (ISO) installation and require all of Kali’s tools to be pre-installed.

New Kali Everything ISO Image – A new flavor of Kali Linux, the “ kali-linux-everything” is available for use.

This was a major issue in 2021.x releases. drag ‘n’ drop, copy/paste) are now working properly.

VMware i3 Improvements – If you’re running Kali in a guest VM with the i3 desktop environment( kali-desktop-i3), the VMware’s host-guest features (e.g.

Refreshed Browser Landing Page – In this update there is a fresh new look for the default browser landing page.

Additionally, the installer theme was refreshed.

Theme Updates – This release includes new wallpapers for login, boot displays, and desktop.

The summary of new features and improvements in Kali Linux 2022.1 are listed below. Most feature improvements are additions to 2021.4 release that came out in December 2021. In Kali Linux 2022.1 release, there are various visual updates and tweaks to previous features and addition of new tools to the OS. Kali Linux 2022.1 was released on 14 February 2022, just in time for Valentine’s Day!.

New version of kali linux