SageOS v5.2

SageOS v5.2

Follow-up release after v5.1 — a real bug fix plus 8 new mission pack categories.

What's new

• New mission packs: osint, opsec, malware, reveng (and others) added to sage-pkg alongside the existing networking/web/password/wireless/sniffing/forensics/ad categories — 14 categories total. Still lean-by-default: only Active Directory pre-installed.
• Real bug fix — "Unable to locate package" on fresh boot: SageOS ships with empty apt lists to keep the ISO lean, but sage-pkg install never ran apt-get update first — so ANY apt-based mission pack failed on a truly fresh boot until the user manually ran apt update. Fixed: sage-pkg now auto-detects empty package lists and transparently runs apt-get update once per boot, the first time it's actually needed.
• Verified end-to-end in QEMU on a clean live boot (not chroot): booted to login, DHCP obtained an IP, sage-pkg status correctly showed only ad installed, and sage-pkg install osint succeeded from a completely cold apt cache (recon-ng via apt, amass via GitHub release fetch, sherlock via pip).

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sage / sageos (or root / sageos)

Verify your download

sha256sum sageos-5.2.iso
7d6f0a80bc86f60f1480c1b063546b20df6d4397b476947afb941efe5179084c

Torrent / Magnet

Torrent file: sageos-5.2.iso.torrent (attached below, HTTP webseed to this release)

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:526676c263b6ead291331eab0232fafa0f96ff80&dn=sageos-5.2.iso&tr=udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce&tr=udp://open.tracker.cl:1337/announce

Full source

sageos-5.2-full-source.zip — complete rootfs configs, custom SageOS tooling, the live-boot initramfs/init script, bootloader configs, and a MANIFEST.md documenting the full boot flow and design principles. Structured for both human and AI-assisted development.