Debian 12 Bookworm Has Been Released: Release Details
As expected, here in DesdeLinux, we do not lose track of the Linux news and developments related to the Debian Project and its flagship project Debian GNU / Linux. Therefore, in due opportunity (03/04/2023) we address the news related to the launch of the first candidate version (RC1) of its future stable version, that is, "Debian 12 Bookworm".
From then until today, there have been three other version candidate releases, for a total of 4 version candidates (RC). Which took place on the following dates: April 28 for RC2, May 16 for RC3 and May 27 for RC4. While, as of today, June 10, 2023, the official launch of the long-awaited stable version of Debian GNU/Linux can already be enjoyed globally. Therefore, we will explore the news discussed in the official announcement.
Debian 12 RC1: Now available to everyone, Debian Bookworm!
But, before you start reading this post about this great new release of the Debian project, that is, "Debian 12 Bookworm", we recommend the previous related post:
Debian 12 Bookworm: Release of the new stable version
Current news of the release of Debian 12 Bookworm
After exploring and analyzing the official announcement of the launch, then we leave you the 10 most important news that we believe important to know and highlight about it:
Main courses
- It offers the following desktop environments available: GNOME 43, KDE Plasma 5.27, LXDE 11, LXQt 1.2.0, MATE 1.26 and Xfce 4.18.
- add the kernel Linux 6.1 LTS than includes new and updated drivers to support newer hardware. And that also includes support until December 2026.
- Support for 32-bit (i386) computers no longer covers any i586 processor. Given that, the new minimum requirement included is for i686 processors.
- It has guaranteed support for use on a total of nine architectures that are the following: 32-bit PC (i386) and 64-bit PC (amd64), 64-bit ARM (arm64), ARM EABI (armel), ARMv7 (EABI hard-float ABI, armhf), Little-endian MIPS (mipsel), 64-bit Little-endian MIPS (mips64el), 64-bit Little-endian PowerPC (ppc64el), and IBM System z (s390x).
- Includes the following updated essential software packages: Apache 2.4.57, BIND DNS Server 9.18, Cryptsetup 2.6, Dovecot MTA 2.3.19, Emacs 28.2, Exim 4.96, GIMP 2.10.34, GNU Compiler Collection 12.2, GnuPG 2.2.40, Inkscape 1.2.2, GNU C Library 2.36, Lighthttpd 1.4.69, LibreOffice 7.4, LLVM/Clang toolchain 13.0.1, 14.0 and 15.0.6, MariaDB 10.11, Nginx 1.22, OpenJDK 17, OpenLDAP 2.5.13, OpenSSH 9.2p1, Perl 5.36, PHP 8.2, Postfix MTA 3.7, PostgreSQL 15, Python 3 3.11.2, Rustc 1.63, Samba 4.17, Systemd 252, and Vim 9.0.
high schools
- It will offer support for the next 5 years thanks to the joint work of its entire Development Community, especially the security team and the long-term support team.
- Policy remains in force which allows you to separate non-free firmware from other non-free packages, in order to make it possible to build a variety of official installation images.
- development has taken 1 year, 9 months and 28 days to complete. And now includes more than 11089 new packages, 43 packages updated and removes 6296 packages, for a final total of 64419 packages.
- It has more translated manual pages than previous versions, never thanks to the effort and work of the translator team, therefore it incorporates manual pages in new languages, such as: Czech, Danish, Greek, Finnish, Indonesian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.
- It includes about 100 known bugs since RC4. However, all these (minor) issues mentioned in the release notes are expected to be resolved no later than the first release point (V12.1 Bookworm) to be released within a month.
For more current and recent information, you can also explore the following informative links: release notes (in Spanish) and Debian Micronews (in English). While your usual download is available for immediate download ISO Image Download (CD/DVD) section It offers various ways to do so.
Summary
In short, this release of the new stable version of the Debian project, that is, "Debian 12 Bookworm" is as usual one that is highly anticipated by the entire Free Software and Open Source Community, regardless of whether or not they are users of said Linux distribution. Since, being one of the pioneers and most successful, she usually leads the way in many areas to others. For this reason, without a doubt, and as usual, we invite you to download it, try it and tell us about your impressions of it, via comments.
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