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Debian Releases > Debian Bookworm
Bookworm is the development codename for Debian 12, released on 2023-06-10.
It is the current stable distribution.
Contents
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)
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:
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.
Links
Download CD: https://www.debian.org/CD/
Package Repository: https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bookworm/
Release information: https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/
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
See also:
Debian Bullseye - The previous distribution.
Debian Trixie - The next distribution.