This is a fork of the original project.
Original: http://proxychains.sourceforge.net/ (v3.1)
Fork: https://github.com/rofl0r/proxychains-ng/ (v4.2.0)

Changelog:

Version 4.8.1:

• fix regression in 4.8 install-config Makefile target

Version 4.8:

• fix for odd cornercase where getaddrinfo was used with AI_NUMERICHOST
  to test for a numeric ip instead of resolving it (fixes nmap).
• allow usage with programs that rely on LD_PRELOAD themselves
• reject wrong entries in config file
• print version number on startup

Version 4.7:

• new round_robin chaintype by crass.
• fix bug with lazy allocation when GCC constructor was not used.
• new configure flag --fat-binary to create a "fat" binary/library on OS X
• return EBADF rather than EINTR in close hook.
  it's legal for a program to retry close() calls when they receive
  EINTR, which could cause an infinite loop, as seen in chromium.

Version 4.6:

• some cosmetic fixes to Makefile, fix a bug when non-numeric ip was
  used as proxy server address.

Version 4.5:

• hook close() to prevent OpenSSH from messing with internal infrastructure.
  this caused ssh client to segfault when proxified.

Version 4.4:

• FreeBSD port
• fixes some installation issues on Debian and Mac.

Version 4.3:

• fixes programs that do dns-lookups in child processes (fork()ed),
  like irssi. to achieve this, support for compilation without pthreads
  was sacrified.
• fixes thread safety for gethostent() calls.
• improved DNS handling speed, since hostent db is cached.

Version 4.2:

• fixes compilation issues with ubuntu 12.04 toolchain
• fixes segfault in rare codepath

Version 4.1

• support for mac os x (all archs)
• all internal functions are threadsafe when compiled with -DTHREAD_SAFE
  (default).

Version 4.0

• replaced dnsresolver script (which required a dynamically linked "dig"
  binary to be present) with remote DNS lookup.
  this speeds up any operation involving DNS, as the old script had to use TCP.
  additionally it allows to use .onion urls when used with TOR.
• removed broken autoconf build system with a simple Makefile.
  there's a ./configure script though for convenience.
  it also adds support for a config file passed via command line switches/
  environment variables.

And this software comes straight from Debian. So we're unlikely to replace one by the other at the Kali level. This should be suggested to the Debian maintainers.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/proxychains
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?repeatmerged=no&src=proxychains

It could be packaged separately though, reclassifying it that way.

@kali-team, please could this be packaged up.
@author, If you want to help the packaging process, you can check the documentation here ~ https://www.kali.org/docs/development/public-packaging

I believe this is in Debian as "proxychains4" ~ https://packages.debian.org/buster/proxychains4

This package is already in Debian / Kali:
Source package: proxychains-ng
Binary package: proxychains4

And proxychains4 is now installed with metapackages like kali-tools-web, kali-tools-post-exploitation, kali-linux-headless.