{"id":181802,"date":"2025-08-09T18:39:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T18:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/?p=181802"},"modified":"2025-08-09T23:14:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T23:14:51","slug":"debian-13-trixie-released-this-is-whats-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/debian-13-trixie-released-this-is-whats-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Debian 13 “Trixie” Released, This Is What’s New"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Exactly 2 years, 1 month, and 29 days after the release of Debian 12<\/a> “Bookworm,” Debian 13 “Trixie” is now here, powered by Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, with an entirely refreshed package base, serious security enhancements, and a whole bunch of new features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the first time, Debian<\/a> officially supports the 64-bit RISC-V (riscv64) architecture. This means that owners of compatible RISC-V hardware can now enjoy the same Debian experience as users on more established platforms, complete with the full breadth of packages and long-term support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Trixie also continues to offer robust support for other architectures, including amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, ppc64el, and s390x. On 64-bit PCs, partial i386 userland support remains available \u2014 but with reduced scope, as i386 has been demoted to legacy status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now, here\u2019s something sure to get home users who depend on Debian for their everyday computing pretty excited\u2014desktop environments. As you would expect, everything has been updated. With Debian 13, you get KDE Plasma 6.3.6<\/a>, GNOME 48<\/a>, Cinnamon 6.4<\/a>, LXQt 2.1<\/a>, and Xfce 4.20<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Under the hood, package versions leap forward almost across the board: LibreOffice 25.2<\/a>, GIMP 3.0.4<\/a>, Inkscape 1.4<\/a>, GCC 14.2, Python 3.13, PHP 8.4, OpenSSL 3.5<\/a>, MariaDB 11.8<\/a>, and PostgreSQL 17<\/a> are just a few examples from over 14,000 new packages compared to Debian 12 \u201cBookworm,\u201d bringing the total count to more than 69,800.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For developers and sysadmins, there\u2019s HTTP\/3 support in curl<\/code>, plus a handy new download tool, wcurl<\/code>, which works like wget<\/a> but runs on curl<\/code>. Plus, Debian\u2019s installer and live images now support HTTP Boot, letting users load ISOs directly over the network on systems with compatible UEFI or U-Boot firmware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover, when it comes to modernization in Debian 13, two points in particular are worth calling out. First, all architectures except i386 now use a 64-bit time_t<\/code>, solving the Year 2038 problem for good. On some 32-bit architectures, software will need to be rebuilt to avoid silent data loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And second is about the reproducible builds. What I mean is that a new debian-repro-status<\/code> package lets users check which of their installed packages build reproducibly, and a new rebuilderd<\/code> package helps verify results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next stop – probably the most fundamental system component – the APT package manager<\/a>. Trixie brings with it the long-awaited APT\u202f3.0<\/a>, replacing the APT\u202f2.6 lineage from Bookworm. And believe me, this upgrade isn\u2019t just a number bump\u2014it brings real, tangible benefits:<\/p>\n\n\n\n