It looks to me like what they have finally done is what I thought they should have been doing all along - they simply use the Debian installer, which has been able to deal with UEFI for ages. This is really the best news of all for me, because I have spent huge amounts of time fighting to get the previous Kali distributions properly loaded and configured on UEFI systems (NOT in Legacy boot mode).

To top it all off, the new distribution is UEFI compatible, and installed without any problem on the systems I have tried so far.The Kali developers have also added continuous notification and updates of the penetration testing tools that they add to Debian to create the Kali distribution.

Now Kali is based on the Debian testing distribution, so it is continuously updated. Kali was previously based on the Debian stable distribution, and basically had to track the major release cycles of Debian with their own major releases.

With this release, Kali-Rolling (2016.1), Kali Linux is now officially a rolling distribution.

This by itself already qualifies as very good news.

Kali Linux (the successor to BackTrack), well known as one of the premier distributions for digital forensics and penetration testing, announced a new release.

What a nice way to finish a week - three pieces of really good news all in one announcement!

New version of kali linux