Parrot 7.4 Release Notes

Key points

Parrot OS 7.4 is available. The project describes it as a consolidation release that gathers several months of application rewrites, desktop work and package maintenance: AnonSurf is rebuilt, a new first-run tool arrives, Rocket reaches 2.0, and the ARM images and build system are tidied up.

Existing installations upgrade with:

sudo parrot-upgrade

AnonSurf 6.0

• Rewritten with a Go backend and daemon and a new Qt6/QML interface for Plasma. Starting, stopping, boot handling and new Tor identities now go through systemd units instead of shell scripts.
• Changes to DNS, firewall, IPv6 and Tor configuration are applied and rolled back as a transaction, and interrupted sessions recover at boot before Tor starts. Tor can be restarted without briefly falling back to clearnet routing.
• Existing direct TCP/UDP connections to public IPv4 addresses are blocked rather than moved into Tor, so TCP applications must reconnect. ICMP is no longer redirected into Tor.
• The command line gains JSON output, DNS, public IP and Tor status checks and Nyx monitoring. The optional SafeKill action closes selected applications and cleans caches with BleachBit; unsaved work may be lost.
• The anonsurf-gtk package transitions to anonsurf-gui.

New and updated tools

• Parrot Discovery is a new first-run welcome and setup application: a guided checklist of tool profiles and everyday applications, installed through APT and Flatpak commands the user reviews first.
• Rocket 2.0 has a redesigned PySide6 interface with a searchable tool catalogue and a Dockerfile manager. It prefers rootless Podman; falling back to Docker needs the user's approval for the session, and it never switches to rootful Podman by itself.
• mcpwn 1.3 adds per-tool timeouts, output-preview limits, accepted exit codes, and Subfinder and dnsx tools. Tool arguments are no longer written to execution logs.
• Parrot Updater 2.2.0 keeps its terminal output visible after an update finishes.

Images and hardware

• Official optimised ISO files target amd64v3 (x86-64-v3, roughly machines built after 2015) and arm64v8.2 (for example Raspberry Pi 5 and Apple Silicon).
• New arm64 ISO images and a first Orange Pi beta, aimed at the Orange Pi 5 Ultra only for now. That image creates the user account on first boot and ships without shared credentials or pre-generated SSH host keys.
• VM builds add an arm64 target for UTM on Apple Silicon.

Desktop and fixes

• parrot-core 7.4.1 moves KDE defaults into /etc/xdg, disables Baloo indexing by default and fixes upgrades that could lose theme assets.
• A malformed PATH in /etc/profile was corrected, so commands under /usr/sbin are found again in login shells.
• parrot-menu-security enables install-on-demand menu entries but does not install the security tools itself; administrators can change this with ShowInstallableLaunchers in /etc/parrot-menu/launcher.conf.

Versions

• Linux kernel 7.1.13, Metasploit Framework 6.5.4, airgeddon 12.02, bettercap 2.41.7, jadx 1.5.5, ligolo-ng 0.9.1, theHarvester 4.10.1 and naabu 2.6.1, among about 40 updated packages.

Summary by DistroNews, based on the original post.