Kali 2.0

After quite some time the heros at Offensive Security released a new version of the well known Kali distribution.

Read below to find the news and how to install/convert it.

The new features in Kali 2.0

Kali is now a "rolling distribution", means continously updating the Kali distro from the Debian Testing "after making sure that all packages are installable".
Kali is now based on Debian Jessie (4.0 Kernel)
Kali now natively supports KDE, GNOME3, Xfce, MATE, e17, lxde and i3wm. (the minimum RAM requirements for a full GNOME 3 session has increased to 768 MB)
Check the ready build VMware and VirtualBox images.
Upgrading from Kali 1.0 to Kali 2.0:

cat << EOF > /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://http.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib
deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security/ sana/updates main contrib non-free
EOF

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade # get a coffee, or 10.
reboot

The Metasploit Community/Pro package had to be removed by request from Rapid7 and now "only" the open-source metasploit-framework is added. But you can manually install the Pro version after installing it from the Rapid7 page.
Starting up the Metasploit Framework has slightly changed:

# Start the Postgresql Database
/etc/init.d/postgresql start

# Initialize the Metasploit Framework Database
msfdb init

# Run msfconsole
msfconsole