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There are 1,152,960,944 lines of code in Debian bullseye. #ReleasingDebianBullseye

More than 6,208 people have contributed to Debian. Some of the contributors are shown in https://contributors.debian.org/contributors/flat #ReleasingDebianBullseye

CD testing is nearing completion! The test matrix is quite extensive and most tests require real hardware so this is the most time-consuming part of the release process #ReleasingDebianBullseye

There are 645 tags in the Debtags vocabulary, with 102370 known packages to tag. Of these, 18093 were tagged by humans and 84277 were tagged by robots. #ReleasingDebianBullseye

CD testing is a great way to contribute to the release and get stuck into Debian. liz in Brisbane, AU has just filed her first ever bug report testing a live image! https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianCd #ReleasingDebianBullseye

Releasing Debian 11 doesn't mean Debian 10 "buster" is abandoned. Debian supports the previous version for at least twelve months following a new release, before it moves to the LTS and eLTS teams for further maintenance #ReleasingDebianBullseye

All images have now generated and the builder is cooling back down! Testing continues before they are released to the mirrors #ReleasingDebianBullseye

There are 31,387 source packages in Debian bullseye. #ReleasingDebianBullseye

bullseye is the first Debian release providing a Linux kernel which has support for the exFAT filesystem, and defaults to using it for mounting exFAT filesystems #NewInDebianBullseye #ReleasingDebianBullseye

So far, there are no show-stopping bugs revealed by CD testing so everything looks good for a smooth release #ReleasingDebianBullseye