Parrot Security OS 3.1 released with Linux kernel 4.6 and PHP 7 support

To deliver an advanced experience to security professionals and ethical hackers around the world, Parrot Developers has released Parrot Security OS 3.1. The new Debianbased operating system works on Linux kernel 4.6 and comes preloaded with PHP 7 support.

As a successor to Parrot Security OS 3.0 that was released a month back, Parrot Security OS 3.1 comes with the new Linux kernel. The group behind the Linux distribution has also added QTCreator 4.0.2 and QT framework 5.6.1 to help white hat hackers. Likewise, there is support for GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 4.8.5, 4.9.3, 5.4.0 and 6.1.1 as well as CLANG 3.6-33 and 3.8-2.

To improve the user experience, the new Parrot Security OS version has switched from MySQL to the MariaDB database engine. There are some stability improvements and bug fixes to improve the overall platform for security assessments and penetration testing.

Apart from the major systemwide changes, the updated Parrot Security OS has some tweaks on the interface front. There is an updated Parrot core and menu in addition to some new tools. Drivers support on the platform has also been improved to let hackers use their new hardware with the operating system. Besides, the platform comes with new zuluCrypt and AnonSurf modules and includes Tor Browser launcher.

You can download Parrot Security OS 3.1 on your system directly from the official Parrot Developers website.