- meterpreter
  - many more advanced commands
  - in-memory process migration
  - disable/enable user input (keyboard/mouse)
  - check remote idle time
  - pivot through hosts
  - interact with processes, threads, files, and the registry
  - load DLLs into remote processes
  - dump SAM database hashes
  - irb mode
- msfconsole
  - multiple concurrent sessions
  - session backgrounding
  - exploit backgrounding
  - multiple concurrent exploits
    - especially useful for passive exploits, like clientside bugs
  - irb mode
- msfopcode
  - new command line interface to opcode db
- msfd
  - daemonized version of msfconsole
  - all clients share the same framework instance