Debian 13 "Trixie"
15 days ago
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- Debian 13 'trixie' was released on August 9th, 2025, after 2 years, 1 month, and 30 days of development.
- It will be supported for 5 years by the Debian Security and Long Term Support teams.
- Includes desktop environments like GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3, LXDE 13, LXQt 2.1.0, and Xfce 4.20.
- Contains over 14,100 new packages, totaling 69,830 packages, with 44,326 updated and 8,840 removed.
- Disk usage is 403 GB, comprising 1,463,291,186 lines of code.
- Notable software updates: Apache 2.4.64, Bash 5.2.37, Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, LibreOffice 25.2, and more.
- First official support for riscv64 architecture; total of seven architectures supported.
- i386 is no longer supported as a regular architecture; armel support will end with this release.
- Available for cloud services like Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, and others.
- Live images available for amd64 and arm64, with options for various desktop environments.
- Debian Installer improvements include better hardware support and new features like HTTP Boot.
- Upgrades from Debian 12 'bookworm' are handled by APT; backups are strongly recommended before upgrading.
- Documented issues include changes in OpenLDAP TLS support and other potential upgrade challenges.
- Debian is developed by volunteers worldwide, dedicated to free software and providing a universal OS.