Matriux is a popular security distribution based on Debian. A new version of it is now available: http://www.matriux.com/index.php?page=download



Even though there are no official statements made by Offensive Security, it is almost confirmed that that very next versions of Backtrack 5 ( called Backtrack 5 r2) is scheduled to be released on March.


A tweet from Devon Kearns (Offsec instructor, BackTrack developer, Exploit-DB admin and author) to Rob Fuller gives much more details about the release.

@mubix yep, R2 comes out March 1st. New kernel (3.2.4) will hit the repos a few days before that.

This versions is to be called as Backtrack 5 r2
It will get released in March and is actually scheduled to be released on March 1st
Kernel is going to be 3.2.4


You can see the tweet over here