1.2 “Eggshell” 12 October 2026 Added the CarotOS Store, refreshed the desktop with the Arc theme and Papirus icons, and added background selection to the welcome wizard.
Added CarotOS Store: 51 applications in seven categories, installation and removal through apt, light and dark themes, Turkish and English interface Added Welcome Wizard: a desktop background page with three options, plus USB Inspector and Store pages; the wizard now has fifteen pages Added USB Inspector: starts in the background at login Added Poligon: guest, create-account and sign-in options Added New CarotOS backgrounds for the login screen and the desktop; the boot splash shows version 1.2 Changed The desktop theme is now Arc with Papirus icons; light or dark is chosen in the welcome wizard, and dark is the default Changed A fresh installation now starts with one of the new CarotOS backgrounds as the default 1.1 “Eggshell” 2 September 2026 Added CarotOS Poligon: practice pentesting in an isolated range with student and teacher applications.
Added CarotOS Poligon: student/teacher applications for practicing with hydra, nmap, john, sqlmap and tshark Added Defense tasks in Poligon using ufw and fail2ban Fixed tshark failed with an access error under a regular user account; the wireshark group is now added automatically Fixed The username shown when booting in "Try Live" mode read "Debian Live User" 1.0 “Eggshell” 19 August 2026 First stable release. Debian 13 “trixie” base, XFCE desktop, ten security tools and four original applications.
Added Security Panel: a graphical interface for the ten tools, with field documentation and live output Added Welcome Wizard: an eleven-page bilingual introduction with theme and language selection Added System Health: twenty checks across six categories, a health score, twelve one-click fixes Added USB Inspector: checks connected devices for autorun.inf, double extensions and hidden extensions Added BIOS and UEFI installation, with a signed shim for Secure Boot Added Full firmware set for Wi-Fi, audio and graphics hardware Added Turkish as the default language, with English available Fixed nikto did not run on an installed system; a missing dependency was added Fixed The language chosen in the wizard was not applied after the session restarted Fixed Panel and menu icons were missing under some themes No earlier releases — 1.0 is the first stable one. Intermediate builds from development were never published.
