Debian 13.0 “Trixie” is now officially out as the newest two-year stable release to Debian GNU/Linux.
Debian 13 is powered by the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel, uses the GNOME 48 desktop by default, relies on the GCC 14.2 compiler by default, and has a wealth of other package upgrades like OpenJDK Java 21, Python 3.13, and many other updates.
Debian 13.0 is also the first time Debian has official support for RISC-V 64-bit, there is support for HTTP booting via UEFI and U-Boot, the 64-bit time_t ABI transition is complete, there is more work around reproducible builds, and a lot of other enhancements. Debian 13.0 is also delivering some nice performance improvements over Debian 12.
Those wanting to download Debian 13.0 right now can do so via cdimage.debian.org. More details on the Debian 13.0 changes via the release notes.
