After a year and 9 months of development, Debian 12 (code name “bookworm”) was officially released on 10/06/2023 as the last major release of the distribution.
Debian 12 runs the Linux 6.1 LTS kernel, packages are built using the GCC 12.2 compiler, the LLVM/Clang 14 compiler is also available along with an LLVM/Clang 15 option, PHP 8.2 comes as the default version. On the desktop, the releases are: GNOME 43, KDE Plasma 5.27, Xfce 4.18, LXDE 11 and MATE 1.26.
So last night the first minor update of version 12 was released, namely version 12.1. The update mainly brings fixes for security issues, along with a few tweaks for serious issues.
Note that the point release is not a new version of Debian 12 but updates some of the included packages.
After installation, packages can be upgraded to current versions using an updated Debian mirror.
Those who frequently install updates from security.debian.org will not need to update many packages. Below you will find the ISOs you will only need for a new installation.
You can find more information about the Debian 12.1 release from official announcement published today on Debian.org. There are 11.089 new packages in Debian 12 and a total of 64.419 packages.
Download the ISO you are interested in https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/
