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Bookworm is the development codename for Debian 12, released on 2023-06-10.

It is the current stable distribution.

Contents

Debian Bookworm Life cycle
1. Before the release
2. Release and updates
Architectures
New Features
1. Packages & versions
  1. Desktop Environments
  2. Applications
2. Artwork
Links
FAQ

Debian Bookworm Life cycle

Before the release

See Bookworm freeze timeline and policy for more information.

2018-04-16: Distribution codename announced
2021-08-14: bullseye is released, and bookworm becomes testing
2023-01-12: Transition and Toolchain Freeze
2023-02-12: Soft Freeze
2023-03-12: Hard Freeze - for key packages and packages without autopkgtests
2023-05-24: Full Freeze
2023-06-10: Release date announced

Release and updates

2023-06-10: Initial release: 12.0 (press release)
2023-07-22: Updated release: 12.1 (press release)
2023-10-07: Updated release: 12.2 (press release)
2023-12-09: Debian 12.3 image release delayed (press release)
2023-12-10: Updated release: 12.4 (press release)
2024-02-10: Updated release: 12.5 (press release)
2024-06-29: Updated release: 12.6 (press release)
2024-08-31: Updated release: 12.7 (press release)
2024-11-09: Updated release: 12.8 (press release)
2025-01-11: Updated release: 12.9 (press release)
2025-03-15: Updated release: 12.10 (press release)

Architectures

Read "Bits from the release teams" emails and arch_qualify page

A total of nine architectures are officially supported for bookworm:

amd64 for AMD64 64-bit PC / Intel EM64T / x86-64
arm64 for ARM 64-bit AArch64 architecture
armel for ARM
armhf for ARM older and more recent 32-bit hardware
i386 for i386 32-bit PC / Intel IA-32
mips64el for MIPS 64-bit little-endian hardware
mipsel for MIPS 32-bit little-endian hardware
ppc64el for PowerPC 64-bit little-endian Motorola/IBM PowerPC
riscv64 for riscv64 64-bit little-endian RISC-V hardware
s390x for S390 64-bit IBM S/390

New Features

See New In Bookworm

Packages & versions

Desktop Environments

Debian 12 Bookworm ships with several desktop environments, such as:

Gnome 43
KDE Plasma 5.27
LXDE 11
LXQt 1.2.0
MATE 1.26
Xfce 4.18

Applications

Debian 12 Bookworm includes numerous updated software packages (over 67% of all packages from the previous release), such as:

Apache 2.4.57
BIND DNS Server 9.18
Cryptsetup 2.6
Dovecot 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
OpenJDK 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
Vim 9.0

Artwork

The selected artwork theme for Bookworm is Emerald, designed by JulietteTaka.

FAQ

Q) What should I use in sources.list for Bookworm?

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main

You may of course add contrib, non-free and/or non-free-firmware if needed, or select a different mirror.

Q) Which ''Toy Story'' character is Bookworm?

see Wikipedia page