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Debian 12 has over 34,780 Source packages. #ReleasingDebianBookworm #Debian12 #Debian

Image testing is approaching the final stages, with only a couple of minor issues found. So far they are not serious enough to hold up the rest of the process #ReleasingDebianBookworm #Debian #Debian12

Upgrades by users immediately after a Debian release place a significant load on the mirror network. In July 2019 the release of buster saw nearly 1GiB/s peak file downloads for several days on some networks, whilst in August 2021 the releasing bullseye caused 1.05GiB/s. That's over 840Gbps network bandwidth! More statistics are available at https://www.accum.se/technical/statistics/ftp/monitordata/ #ReleasingDebianBookworm #Debian

Every Debian release includes errata and bookworm is no different. The first update to the stable suite is usually expected about 4-6 weeks after release and includes fixes for issues discovered late in the development process. Check the release notes for more information about the known issues. #ReleasingDebianBookworm #Debian12 #Debian

The new non-free-firmware section of the bookworm archive is opt-in. Do not forget to include it when updating your source lists if you wish to opt into binary firmware for your device. #ReleasingDebianBookworm.

During release all of the automated archive maintenance services are disabled, including for stable distributions. The archive will be administered manually by an FTP master during the release process, and automated services are usually enabled on the day after release. #ReleasingDebianBookworm

Image builds of bookworm are complete and the images team continues to test them thoroughly, moving on to non-PC architectures such as s390x and mips #ReleasingDebianBookworm #Debian #Debian12

Debian takes release codenames from Pixar Toy Story movie characters, Trixie will be the development codename for Debian 13.

Debian's image building server has 88 CPUs along with 384GB of fast RAM and over 8TB SSD storage. Even so, each DVD-sized image takes approximately 90 minutes to complete and 20 are done at a time in parallel #ReleasingDebianBookworm #Debian #Debian12

While the images are built and tested, the FTP masters have been busily getting future suites ready for development so that our cycle can begin again. Say hello to Debian 13 'trixie'! #ReleasingDebianBookworm #DebianTrixie #Trixie