.. _ch-whats-new: What's new in Debian |RELEASE| ======================================================== The `Wiki <https://wiki.debian.org/NewInTrixie>`__ has more information about this topic. .. _supported-archs: Supported architectures ---------------------------------------------- The following are the officially supported architectures for Debian |RELEASE|: - 32-bit PC (``i386``) and 64-bit PC (``amd64``) - 64-bit ARM (``arm64``) - ARM EABI (``armel``) - ARMv7 (EABI hard-float ABI, ``armhf``) - 64-bit little-endian MIPS (``mips64el``) - 64-bit little-endian PowerPC (``ppc64el``) - 64-bit little-endian RISC-V (``riscv64``) - IBM System z (``s390x``) You can read more about port status, and port-specific information for your architecture at the `Debian port web pages <https://www.debian.org/ports/>`__. .. _new-in-distro: What's new in the distribution? -------------------------------------------------------------- .. INFO: Make sure to update the package numbers in the source/conf.py file This new release of Debian again comes with a lot more software than its predecessor |OLDRELEASENAME|; the distribution includes over |PACKAGES-NEW| new packages, for a total of over |PACKAGES-TOTAL| packages. Most of the software in the distribution has been updated: over |PACKAGES-UPDATED| software packages (this is |PACKAGES-UPDATE-PERCENT| of all packages in |OLDRELEASENAME|). Also, a significant number of packages (over |PACKAGES-REMOVED|, |PACKAGES-REMOVED-PERCENT| of the packages in |OLDRELEASENAME|) have for various reasons been removed from the distribution. You will not see any updates for these packages and they will be marked as "obsolete" in package management front-ends; see :ref:`obsolete`. .. _news-from-riscv64-release: Official support for riscv64 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This release for the first time officially supports the riscv64 architecture, allowing users to run Debian on 64-bit RISC-V hardware and benefit from all Debian 13 features. The `Wiki <https://wiki.debian.org/RISC-V>`__ provides more details about riscv64 support in Debian. .. _major-packages: Desktops and well known packages ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Debian again ships with several desktop applications and environments. Among others it now includes the desktop environments GNOME 43, KDE Plasma 5.27, LXDE 11, LXQt 1.2.0, MATE 1.26, and Xfce 4.18. Productivity applications have also been upgraded, including the office suites: - LibreOffice is upgraded to version 7.4; - GNUcash is upgraded to 4.13; Among many others, this release also includes the following software updates: +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Package | Version in | Version in |RELEASE| | | | |OLDRELEASE| | (|RELEASENAME|) | | | (|OLDRELEASENAME|) | | +======================+======================+======================+ | Apache | 2.4.62 | 2.4.63 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Bash | 5.2.15 | 5.2.37 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | BIND DNS Server | 9.18 | 9.20 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Cryptsetup | 2.6 | 2.7 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Emacs | 28.2 | 30.1 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Exim default | 4.96 | 4.98 | | e-mail server | | | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | GNU Compiler | 12.2 | 14.2 | | Collection as | | | | default compiler | | | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | GIMP | 2.10.34 | 3.0.0 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | GnuPG | 2.2.40 | 2.2.46 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Inkscape | 1.2.2 | 1.4 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | the GNU C library | 2.36 | 2.41 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Linux kernel image | 6.1 series | 6.12 series | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | LLVM/Clang toolchain | 13.0.1 and 14.0 | 19 (default), 17 and | | | (default) and 15.0.6 | 18 available | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | MariaDB | 10.11 | 11.4 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Nginx | 1.22 | 1.26 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | OpenJDK | 17 | 21 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | OpenLDAP | 2.5.13 | 2.6.9 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | OpenSSH | 9.2p1 | 9.9p1 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | OpenSSL | 3.0 | 3.4 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Perl | 5.36 | 5.40 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | PHP | 8.2 | 8.4 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Postfix MTA | 3.7 | 3.10 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | PostgreSQL | 15 | 17 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Python 3 | 3.11 | 3.13 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Rustc | 1.63 | 1.85 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Samba | 4.17 | 4.22 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Systemd | 252 | 257 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Vim | 9.0 | 9.1 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ .. _dummy-ch: .. only:: fixme Something ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Text