Debian 13.0 “Trixie” has been officially released, becoming the latest two-year stable version of Debian GNU/Linux. Debian13 uses the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel, uses the GNOME 48 desktop by default, relies on the GCC 14.2 compiler by default, and includes a host of other package upgrades such as OpenJDK Java 21, Python 3.13, and many other updates.
Debian 13.0 is also Debian's first official support for RISC-V 64-bit, with support for HTTP boot via UEFI and U-Boot, 64-bit time_t ABI conversion completed, more work around reproducible builds, and many other enhancements. Debian 13.0 also brings some nice performance improvements to Debian 12.
Users who want to download Debian 13.0 immediately can do so through cdimage.debian.org.
For more details on the Debian 13.0 changes, see the release notes.