| After 1 year, 9 months and 28 days of development, the Debian project has released its new stable version 12 (codenamed bookworm). |
Debian 12 contains over 11,089 new packages for a total of 64,419 packages and 6,296 packages have been removed as obsolete. This release updates 43,254 packages and has an overall disk usage of 365,016,420 kB (365 GB), consisting of 1,341,564,204 lines of code.
Some package updates for Debian 12:
- Powered by the Linux 6.1 LTS kernel,
- Package built with GCC 12.2 compiler
- Use LLVM/Clang 14 compiler, LLVM/Clang 15 option also available
- PHP 8.2 is the default version
- Rust 1.63 is available
- Use Glibc 2.36
- On the desktop side, there are desktop options such as GNOME 43, KDE Plasma 5.27, Xfce 4.18, LXDE 11, and MATE 1.26.
A total of nine official architectures are supported:
- 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)
- IBM System z (s390x)
Read more about Debian 12 in the release announcement.