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 updates under the hood of a system that looks almost identical to its previous release, except for a new background designed by Federica Marasà and a new graphic theme (ARK-Dark).

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## Updated kernel and core packages

Parrot 4.2 is powered by the latest **Linux 4.18** debianized kernel with all the usual wireless patches.

A new version of the **Debian-Installer** now powers our netinstall images and the standard Parrot images.

**Firmware packages** were updated to add broader hardware support, including **wireless devices and AMD vega graphics**

**AppArmor and Firejail** profiles were adjusted to offer a good compromise of security and usability for most of the desktop and CLI applications and services

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## Important destkop updates

Parrot 4.2 now provides the latest **libreoffice 6.1** release, **Firefox 62** and many other important updates.

Desktop users will also find useful the inclusion of default **.vimrc and .emacs config** files with syntax highlight and line number columns.

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## Important tools updates

**Armitage** was finally updated and fixed, and the &#8220;missing RHOSTS error&#8221; was fixed.

We also imported the latest Metasploit 4.17.11 version. Wireshark 2.6, hashcat 4.2, edb-debugger 1.0 and many many other updated tools.

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## New documentation portal

We are working to drop our previous DokuWiki documentation portal and replace it with a full static documentation portal written in markdown which would be easier to maintain through our GIT server.

The new documentation portal can be visited [here https://www.parrotsec.org/docs](https://www.parrotsec.org/docs). feel free to contribute and expand our documentation by sending us a push request on [https://dev.parrotsec.org/parrot/documentation.](https://dev.parrotsec.org/parrot/documentation)

Parrot 4.2.2 release notes