UPDATE: Tsurugi Linux 2019.2

Tsurugi Linux 2019.2 has now been released. I briefly mentioned it in my older post titled List of Operating Systems for OSINT. This post discusses the updates made to the latest version of Tsurugi Linux such as bug fixes, updates and addition of new tools.

What is Tsurugi Linux?

Tsurugi Linux, also named Tsurugi LAB is a heavily customized Linux distribution designed to support your DFIR investigations, malware analysis and Open Source INTelligence (OSINT) activities. The system is based on a 64 bits Ubuntu LTS (Long Time Support) and the patched kernel is based on 5.1.15 version.

Tsurugi Linux 2019.2 change log:

• Full upgrade
• New kernel V5.4.2 (with forensic patch)
• New Firefox bookmarks
• New menu icons
• New tool: adb2rec, adb2recGUI, bulk_evtx_parse, bulk_evtx_searcher, crunch, EventLogs, Facebook Information (fbi), fred, gnome-web-photo, googleTransPy, h8mail, imageDifferenceHash_dirlist, iodine, kazam, libusbmuxd-tools, magicrescue, OpenTimestamps, PhoneInfoga, PowerShell, prefetch.py, pypykatz, r2dec-js, r2ghidra-dec, searchScreenshots, smbtimeline, sshpass, sysmon_parser, twint, unoconv, vsc_mount, WhatsAppKeyDBExtract, xvnc4viewer and ncdu.
• New Tsurugi sword sound button
• Installed Python 3.6.8
• Updated: Android Debug Bridge tools, Autopsy, bulk_extractor, CherryTree, cmake, CyberChef, Electrum, Firefox plugins, Guymager, Linux firmware, lynis, Maltego, openvpn, plaso, plaso libraries, radare2, tesseract, The Sleuth Kit (TSK), tor-browser, video2ocr, volatility, and youtube-dl
• Tuning Caja default configuration,
• Tuning custom dashboard
• Tuning RAM saturation workaround
• Tuning Show local USB devices logs
• Tuning post-install process
• Fix Software boutique
• Fix Software updater
• Fix some NTFS mount problems using the file manager
• Minor bugs fix
• Removed skiptracer
• Global system cleaning
• Added more bugs to fix later

Download Tsurugi Linux:

Tsurugi Linux 2019.2 can be downloaded from this link. Additionally, this is the author provided release information about Tsurugi Linux [64-bit]:
Filename: tsurugi_lab_2019.2.iso
Filename: TSURUGI_LINUX_2019.2_VM.ova
Release date: 19/12/2019