

The Kali Linux team also announced that they upgraded the open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-desktop packages for VMware users. The number of virtual workspaces was increased to 4.

The developers also configured the Task Manager to show “icons only”, changed the appearance of “Buttons” and assigned it to the workplaces overview.

With the new release, the panel layout is tweaked to optimize the horizontal space and add two new widgets – showing CPU usage and VPN IP. The default desktop environment on the new Kali Linux is the same as before, Xfce that received a bunch of enhancements in this release.
