Parrot 6.1 Released

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According to the official Parrot OS Facebook group, Parrot 6.1 has been released.

https://deb.parrot.sh/parrot/iso/6.1/ or https://parrotsec.org/download/

2024-06-05_12-07
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That is super awesome… thanks @Masmer …I knew something would be coming out soon. I was just checking about it this week…Have an awesome day

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I’m installing it on a fresh VM.

Here are the noted changes between 6.0 and 6.1.

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Good morning all,
last night I decided to upgrade my Parrot home drive. Now normally I would do a complete wipe and re-install when upgrading, This time I didn’t feel like the messing around, so I went for the old favourite [sudo apt update && apt full-upgrade]
well watching paint dry would have been quicker, my 15 yr old dell with its max 4gb ram and T series intel CPU took nearly 4 hrs, it finished just before midnight local time, so I switched off and went to bed. This morning I booted in to have a play, and I am quite impressed with my new installation.
Well done to all involved.

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Yeah, it’s good to see progress.

Preliminary minor gripes:

The new 6.1 installer still suffers from a few of the earlier reported 6.0 bugs.

  • The Calamares installer still disregards any user input hostname. If “Parrot” is not wanted, this must be fixed after installation.

  • As it always has been since 4.x, clicking the “Allow auto-login” in Calamares does not work. I usually use full disk LUKs encryption and enter a long, complicated password to boot Parrot. Waiting for another login screen is inconvenient (to me).

  • Also, the problem with having duplicate sources in repositories was not fixed and needs to be fixed by the user after installation.

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The Calamares installer still disregards any user input hostname. If “Parrot” is not wanted, this must be fixed after installation.

I assume that calamares’s version on Debian is still the same.

As it always has been since 4.x, clicking the “Allow auto-login” in Calamares does not work. I usually use full disk LUKs encryption and enter a long, complicated password to boot Parrot. Waiting for another login screen is inconvenient (to me).

That’s a known issue but very low priority to dig this to be honest.