After more than two years (wow!) of development, Debian 13 “trixie” has officially been released. The new stable version will receive five years of support from the Debian Security team and the Long Term Support team, continuing the project’s tradition of reliability.
This release includes updated desktop environments such as GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3, LXDE 13, LXQt 2.1.0, and Xfce 4.20. There are over 14,100 new packages, more than 44,000 updated ones, and around 8,800 that have been removed as obsolete. The codebase now spans more than 1.46 billion lines.
Key software updates include the Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, LibreOffice 25.2, GCC 14.2, OpenJDK 21, PostgreSQL 17, PHP 8.4, Python 3.13, LLVM/Clang 19, GIMP 3.0.4, Apache 2.4.64, Nginx 1.26, MariaDB 11.8, and systemd 257.
A major change in this release is the official addition of riscv64 support, making it possible to run Debian on 64-bit RISC-V hardware. Debian 13 supports seven architectures in total. However, this release also ends i386 as a standard architecture and is the last version to support armel.
The Debian team has continued to improve reproducible builds, added 64-bit time_t support for dates beyond 2038, and optimized cloud images for Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, and PlainVM. For those who want to try it before installing, live images are available for amd64 and arm64 in multiple desktop environments.
As you can see, folks, Debian 13 “trixie” remains a universal system suitable for desktops, servers, and cloud deployments, built to meet the needs of a wide range of users. Download an ISO now.
