Debian 13 ("trixie") released

The Debian Project has released its latest stable version, Debian13("trixie"), which will be supported through 2030. This releaseincludes GNOME48, KDEPlasma6.3, Xfce4.20,Linux6.12, GCC14.2, Python3.13, andsystemd257.

This release contains over 14,100 new packages for a total count of69,830 packages, while over 8,840 packages have been removed as"obsolete". 44,326 packages were updated in this release. The overalldisk usage for "trixie" is 403,854,660 kB (403 GB), and is made up of1,463,291,186 lines of code. [...]

With this broad selection of packages and its traditional widearchitecture support, Debian once again stays true to its goal ofbeing "The Universal Operating System". It is suitable for manydifferent use cases: from desktop systems to netbooks; fromdevelopment servers to cluster systems; and for database, web, andstorage servers. At the same time, additional quality assuranceefforts like automatic installation and upgrade tests for all packagesin Debian's archive ensure that "trixie" fulfills the highexpectations that users have of a stable Debian release.

Trixie adds riscv64 as an officially supported architecture, anddrops i386 as a regular architecture. Users with i386 systems shouldnot upgrade to trixie; the project recommends reinstalling them asamd64, or retiring the hardware. See the releasenotes and issuesto be aware of before installing or upgrading to trixie.