Appendix B - Features in older releases
Contents
New features for Debian Edu 12 Bookworm
Installation changes
New version of Debian Installer from Debian bookworm, see its installation manual for more details,
including information on non-free-firmware, which is a new section in addition to the well known main, contrib and non-free sections.
New artwork based on the Emerald theme, the default artwork for Debian 12 bookworm.
Software updates
- Everything which is new in Debian 12 bookworm, eg:
- Linux kernel 6.1
- Desktop environments KDE Plasma 5.27, GNOME 43, Xfce 4.18, LXDE 11, MATE 1.26
LibreOffice 7.4
- GOsa² 2.8
- Educational toolbox GCompris 3.1
- Music creator Rosegarden 22.12
- LTSP 23.01
- Debian Bookworm includes more than 64000 packages available for installation.
More information about Debian 12 Bookworm is provided in the release notes and the installation manual.
Documentation and translation updates
- During installation the profile choice page is available in 29 languages, of which 22 are fully translated.
The Debian Edu Bookworm Manual is translated to Simplified Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian (Bokmål), Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian and Ukrainian.
Known issues
Historic information about older releases
The following Debian Edu releases were made further in the past:
- Debian Edu 11 Codename Bullseye released 2021-08-14.
- Debian Edu 10+edu0 Codename Buster released 2019-07-06.
- Debian Edu 9+edu0 Codename Stretch released 2017-06-17.
- Debian Edu 8+edu0 Codename Jessie released 2016-07-02.
- Debian Edu 7.1+edu0 Codename Wheezy released 2013-09-28.
- Debian Edu 6.0.7+r1 Codename "Squeeze", released 2013-03-03.
- Debian Edu 6.0.4+r0 Codename "Squeeze", released 2012-03-11.
- Debian Edu 5.0.6+edu1 Codename "Lenny", released 2010-10-05.
- Debian Edu 5.0.4+edu0 Codename "Lenny", released 2010-02-08.
- Debian Edu "3.0r1 Terra", released 2007-12-05.
- Debian Edu "3.0r0 Terra" released 2007-07-22. Based on Debian 4.0 Etch released 2007-04-08.
- Debian Edu 2.0, released 2006-03-14. Based on Debian 3.1 Sarge released 2005-06-06.
- Debian Edu "1.0 Venus" release 2004-06-20. Based on Debian 3.0 Woody released 2002-07-19.
A complete and detailed overview about older releases is contained in Appendix C of the Jessie manual; or see the related release manuals on the release manuals page.