Debian Bookworm 12 June 10th 2023

This new release of Debian again comes with a lot more software than its predecessor bullseye; the distribution includes over 11089 new packages, for a total of over 64419 packages. Most of the software in the distribution has been updated: over 43254 software packages (this is 67% of all packages in bullseye). Also, a significant number of packages (over 6296, 10% of the packages in bullseye) have for various reasons been removed from the distribution. You will not see any updates for these packages and they will be marked as "obsolete" in package management front-ends; see Section 4.8, “Obsolete packages”.

Desktops and well known packages

Debian again ships with several desktop applications and environments. Among others it now includes the desktop environments GNOME 43, KDE Plasma 5.27, LXDE 11, LXQt 1.2.0, MATE 1.26, and Xfce 4.18.

Productivity applications have also been upgraded, including the office suites:

LibreOffice is upgraded to version 7.4;

GNUcash is upgraded to 4.13;

Among many others, this release also includes the following software updates:

Package	Version in 11 (bullseye)	Version in 12 (bookworm)
Apache	2.4.54	2.4.57
Bash	5.1	5.2.15
BIND DNS Server	9.16	9.18
Cryptsetup	2.3	2.6
Emacs	27.1	28.2
Exim default e-mail server	4.94	4.96
GNU Compiler Collection as default compiler	10.2	12.2
GIMP	2.10.22	2.10.34
GnuPG	2.2.27	2.2.40
Inkscape	1.0.2	1.2.2
the GNU C library	2.31	2.36
Linux kernel image	5.10 series	6.1 series
LLVM/Clang toolchain	9.0.1 and 11.0.1 (default) and 13.0.1	13.0.1 and 14.0 (default) and 15.0.6
MariaDB	10.5	10.11
Nginx	1.18	1.22
OpenJDK	11	17
OpenLDAP	2.4.57	2.5.13
OpenSSH	8.4p1	9.2p1
OpenSSL	1.1.1n	3.0.8
Perl	5.32	5.36
PHP	7.4	8.2
Postfix MTA	3.5	3.7
PostgreSQL	13	15
Python 3	3.9.2	3.11.2
Rustc	1.48	1.63
Samba	4.13	4.17
Systemd	247	252
Vim	8.2	9.0