.. _ch-whats-new: What's new in Debian |RELEASE| |DRAFT| ======================================================== The `Wiki `__ has more information about this topic. .. _supported-archs: Supported architectures ---------------------------------------------- The following are the officially supported architectures for Debian |RELEASE|: - 64-bit PC (``amd64``) - 64-bit ARM (``arm64``) - ARMv7 (EABI hard-float ABI, ``armhf``) - 64-bit little-endian PowerPC (``ppc64el``) - 64-bit little-endian RISC-V (``riscv64``) - IBM System z (``s390x``) Additionally, on 64-bit PC systems, a partial 32-bit userland (``i386``) is available. You can read more about port status, and port-specific information for your architecture at the `Debian port web pages `__. .. _new-in-distro: What's new in the distribution? -------------------------------------------------------------- .. _news-1: .. only:: fixme Something ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Text .. _major-packages: Desktops and well known packages ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .. INFO: Make sure to update the package numbers in the source/conf.py file This new release of Debian 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`. Debian again ships with several desktop applications and environments. Among others it now includes the desktop environments GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3, LXDE 13, LXQt 2.1.0, and Xfce 4.20. Productivity applications have also been upgraded, including the office suites: - LibreOffice is upgraded to version 25; - GNUcash is upgraded to 5.10; Among many others, this release also includes the following software updates: +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Package | Version in | Version in |RELEASE| | | | |OLDRELEASE| | (|RELEASENAME|) | | | (|OLDRELEASENAME|) | | +======================+======================+======================+ | Apache | 2.4.62 | 2.4.65 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Bash | 5.2.15 | 5.2.37 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | BIND DNS Server | 9.18 | 9.20 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Cryptsetup | 2.6 | 2.7 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | curl/libcurl | 7.88.1 | 8.14.1 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Emacs | 28.2 | 30.1 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Exim (default | 4.96 | 4.98 | | email server) | | | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | GCC, the GNU Compiler| 12.2 | 14.2 | | Collection | | | | (default compiler) | | | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | GIMP | 2.10.34 | 3.0.4 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | GnuPG | 2.2.40 | 2.4.7 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Inkscape | 1.2.2 | 1.4 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | the GNU C library | 2.36 | 2.41 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Linux kernel | 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 | 11.8 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Nginx | 1.22 | 1.26 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | OpenJDK | 17 | 21 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | OpenLDAP | 2.5.13 | 2.6.10 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | OpenSSH | 9.2p1 | 10.0p1 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | OpenSSL | 3.0 | 3.5 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Perl | 5.36 | 5.40 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | PHP | 8.2 | 8.4 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Postfix | 3.7 | 3.10 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | PostgreSQL | 15 | 17 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Python 3 | 3.11 | 3.13 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Qt 5 | 5.15.8 | 5.15.15 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Qt 6 | 6.4.2 | 6.8.2 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Rustc | 1.63 | 1.85 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Samba | 4.17 | 4.22 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Systemd | 252 | 257 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | Vim | 9.0 | 9.1 | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+