>
> https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/16/debian_11_bullseye_released/
> <https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/16/debian_11_bullseye_released/>
>
> Debian 11 formally debuts and hits the Bullseye
>
> 11,294 packages added, 9,519 removed, and five years of support starting …
> now!
>
> The Debian project has released the eleventh version of its Linux
> distribution.
>
> Code-named “bullseye”, the new distro emerged on Saturday and will be
> supported for five years, a lifecycle made possible by its use of version
> 5.10 of the Linux kernel which is itself a long-term support release that
> will be maintained until the year 2026.
>
> New features that the project saw fit to single out as noteworthy include
>
> Native support for exFAT filesystems is now a part of the kernel, rather than
> requiring use of the separate FUSE driver;
> Support for the GNOME Flashback desktop environment if installed as part of
> the task-gnome-flashback-desktop package. KDE Plasma 5.20, LXDE 11, LXQt
> 0.16, MATE 1.24, and Xfce 4.16 are other desktop options;
> USB printers can be treated as network devices with the new ipp-usb package,
> meaning driverless printing now includes USB-connected printers.
> Driverless scanning is also new, thanks to sane-escl in the libsane1 package;
> win32-loader software enables Debian installation from Windows without use of
> separate installation media, now supports UEFI and Secure Boot.
> Panfrost and Lima drivers to enable free support for the GPUs present in many
> ARM devices;
> Podman 3.0.1, a Red Hat-developed daemonless container engine that can
> function as a drop-in replacement for Docker;
> Support for init systems other than systemd is significantly improved
> compared to Buster.
> There’s plenty more, of course – as you’d expect given the distro includes
> 59,551 packages. 11,294 of those are new, and while over 9,519 packages were
> marked as obsolete and removed. 42,821 packages were updated, and 5,434
> packages remained unchanged.
>
> Eight CPU architectures are supported, namely:
>
> 32-bit PC (i386) and 64-bit PC (amd64)
> 64-bit ARM (arm64)
> ARM EABI (armel)
> ARMv7 (EABI hard-float ABI, armhf)
> little-endian MIPS (mipsel)
> 64-bit little-endian MIPS (mips64el)
> 64-bit little-endian PowerPC (ppc64el)
> IBM System z (s390x)
> The new release also updates commonly used open-source staples such as Samba,
> MariaDB, PHP, Perl, Apache, Python, Rust and Emacs, bringing them to more
> recent versions.
>
> “With this broad selection of packages and its traditional wide architecture
> support, Debian once again stays true to its goal of being The Universal
> Operating System,” states the project’s release announcement
> <https://www.debian.org/News/2021/20210814>.
>
> “It is suitable for many different use cases: from desktop systems to
> netbooks; from development servers to cluster systems; and for database, web,
> and storage servers.”
>
> “At the same time, additional quality assurance efforts like automatic
> installation and upgrade tests for all packages in Debian's archive ensure
> that bullseye fulfills the high expectations that users have of a stable
> Debian release.”
>
> Thinking about upgrading to Debian Bullseye? Watch out for changes in Exim
> and anything using Python 2.x
> <https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/26/debian_bullseye_release_set_for/>
> Dependable Debian is like a rock in a swirling gyre of 'move fast and break
> things', and version 11 is no different
> <https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/16/debian_11/>
> Devuan Beowulf 3.0 release continues to resist the Debian fork's Grendel –
> systemd <https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/03/devuan_beowulf_30/>
> You can put those claims to the test yourself by downloading a live image
> <https://www.debian.org/CD/live/> or a disk image
> <https://www.debian.org/CD/torrent-cd/>.
>
> Full release notes can be found here
> <https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/releasenotes>.
>
> The release of Bullseye will be significant as Debian is the basis for many
> popular Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Devuan
> <https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/16/devuan_3_10_adds_runit_init/> and
> Raspbian. ®
>
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