After a year and 9 months of development, Debian 12 (code name “bookworm”) is officially released today as the latest 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.
Updated Packages
- Apache 2.4.57
- BIND DNSServer 9.18
- Crypt setup 2.6
- Dovecott MTA 2.3.19
- Emacs 28.2
- Exim (default email server) 4.96
- GIMP 2.10.34
- GNU Compiler Collection 12.2
- GnuPG 2.2.40
- Inkscape 1.2.2
- The GNU C Library 2.36
- lighthttpd 1.4.69
- LibreOffice 7.4
- Linux kernel 6.1 series
- LLVM/Clang toolchain 13.0.1, 14.0 (default), and 15.0.6
- MariaDB 10.11
- nginx 1.22
- Open JDK 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
- I came 9.0
Debian 12 will handle non-free firmware more easily thanks to the new repository and installer integration that now supports UEFI on ARM64.
You can find more information about the Debian 12.0 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.
