Official Kali Linux Sites
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The Kali Linux project uses various subdomains of kali.org, each with a specific purpose. This article lists the official Kali sites and the purpose each one of them serves. Note that these sites are the only official Kali Linux sites and are the only authoritative sources of information available for the distribution.
The sites listed below are the ONLY official outlets for the Kali Linux distribution.
Public Websites
The main Kali Linux website is our primary means of communicating news about the Kali Linux project, general introductory information, and general updates about the project and its ongoing development.
Blog posts about new tools, features, tips, tricks, and tutorials can be found here. This should be your one and only source to download the official Kali Linux distribution. Both these have an RSS feed: Blog and Torrents
Despite our best efforts at making Kali Linux perfect, bugs and errors are inevitable. We are always open to making improvements and can only effectively do so when issues or tools suggestions are reported to us. You are encouraged to submit bug reports at bugs.kali.org to help us make Kali Linux even better.
More information on submitting bug reports to the Kali Linux project can be found in this article.
Should any site be down for you, you can check their status here.
arm.kali.org & nethunter.kali.org
Automatically generated sites for their designated platforms to give high level overview as well as low level detailed understanding.
Documentation
Where you are right now. The Kali Linux OS documentation site contains a basic set of Kali Linux-related documentation and tutorials, which we continually work to update and improve.
The core of Kali Linux is the comprehensive toolset, drawn from many different sources in the security and forensics software community. The tools site provides both an up-to-date listing of the tools which are available in Kali Linux, as well as providing a quick reference to each of them. From here, the versions of the tools can be tracked against their upstream sources.
Community
If you run into an issue or situation that isn’t directly covered in the official Kali Linux OS documentation, there is a good chance that a member of the Kali Linux Forums will know the answer. The Kali forum has members from all over the world, covering the entire range of skill levels, and are open and willing to help newcomers who are willing to learn.
More information on the Kali Linux Forums can be found in this article.
We have an active Discord server, which are you welcome to chat in real-time all about Kali Linux.
If Discord is not your thing, but you still want to chat real-time all about Kali Linux, then Internet Relay Chat (IRC) may work for you! Please check our IRC rules before posting.
We also have a few development bots running if you want to see the internal workings a bit more!
Mirrors
A redirector, which will point to your closest mirror, when you try and download a package (think apt).
Another redirector, which will point to your closest mirror, when you try and download a image.
A mirror that utilizes Cloudflare’s content delivery network (CDN).
Mirrors which match, are Kali mirrors which are run by us.
If for any reason a user needs an old copy of Kali Linux, then this is the site for them. Images & packages from some of the first Kali releases can be found as well as more recent releases.
This tracks Kali mirror network, either ran by us or community contributed. This will monitor how “fresh” (aka up-to-date/in-sync) a mirror is.
Development
The Kali Linux Package Tracker site allows you to follow the evolution of Kali Linux both with email updates and a comprehensive web interface. The tracker can also help in identifying which versions of various tools and packages are in our repository at any given moment.
Many packages have a test that is associated with it to ensure that they run. This site shows all of those tests and whether they pass or fail.
build-*.kali.org & images-*.kali.org
Machines used to generate packages and images
This is the heart of our Kali development. It is responsible for orchestrating the build machines to process our packages and images, as well as migrating packages from branches. It is also the first piece of our mirror setup.
This runs various daily checks to help QA Kali.
This is what builds the packages for our bleeding edge branch.
A lab to help manually test Kali for its QA process.
Infrastructure
backup.kali.org
A copy of any important data is archived here.
dzaa.kali.org
Used to monitor the status of our systems and services.
bittorrent.kali.org / tracker.kali.org
Our BitTorrent tracker used only for images.
External
This site is the Kali Linux project’s official git repository and is publicly accessible. Most users will never need to interact with it directly, but users who wish to more closely monitor the development of Kali Linux, or people who want to know when they should run sudo apt full-upgrade -y, can peruse or clone the repository.
New or experienced users of Kali may wish to gain a greater knowledge of Kali, which is covered in this site. Kali Training lets users go through the Kali Linux Revealed book and complete practice tests associated with the content of chapters. This is all to prepare for the KLCP (Kali Linux Certified Professional) exam.
video.infosec.exchange/c/kalilinux
A PeerTube instance, which has all our created videos hosted on.
Social Media Networks
We’re on social platforms too, if you want to to follow us for any announcements and news:
Marketplaces and Stores
These include the following marketplaces:
- Akamai Marketplace (formerly known as Linode Marketplace)
- Amazon AWS Marketplace
- Docker Hub
- Microsoft App Store (WSL)
- Microsoft Azure Marketplace
Updated on: 2025-May-21
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