The eleventh corrective update for the Debian 12 distribution has been released, which includes accumulated package updates and installer fixes. The release includes 81 updates addressing stability issues and 45 updates addressing vulnerabilities.
Among the changes in Debian 12.11, the update to fresh stable versions of the dpdk, nvidia-graphics-drivers, nvidia-settings, openssl, postgresql-15, and wireless-regdb packages stand out. The pidgin-skype package has been removed (Skype has ceased to exist) and viagee is no longer able to connect to Gmail.
Installation builds with Debian 12.11 have been prepared for download and fresh installation. Previously installed systems that are kept up to date will receive the updates present in Debian 12.11 through the standard update installation system. Security issue fixes included in the new Debian releases are available to users as updates are released via the security.debian.org service.
At the same time, the first release candidate for the installer of the next major release of Debian 13 'Trixie' has been formed. The release of Debian 13 is expected in the summer of 2025. Currently, there are 257 critical bugs blocking the release (at a similar stage of development, Debian 12 had 258 critical bugs and Debian 11 had 185).
Key changes:
- The Linux kernel has been updated to version 6.12.27.
- Firmware that is not required during installation, cannot function without non-free packages, or is useless with the current kernel settings has been excluded.
- Support for win32-loader has been discontinued.
- Initial support for the Ceratopsian theme (Debian 13) has been added.
- Support for grub-legacy has been discontinued.
- When deploying a desktop environment in a guest system based on QEMU/KVM, the spice-vdagent package installation is ensured.
- In the partition manager for GPT, the legacy_boot flag has been implemented, and the default size is now specified in gigabytes instead of megabytes.
- The logic of EFI partition management has been changed.
- Mounting options 'discard' and 'prjquota' have been added for XFS.
- Initial support for a recovery mode for systems installed in a Btrfs subvolume has been added.
- Support for using non-ASCII characters in full usernames has been resumed.
- Support for the following boards and devices has been added: Pine64 Pinebook, MNT Reform 2, AM64x HummingBoard-T, Pine64 Star64, Wandboard rev D1.
- Support has been added for ARM SoC Snapdragon X Elite-based laptops and tablets, such as the HP Omnibook X 14, Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x, Asus Vivobook S 15, Dell XPS 13 9345, Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6, and Microsoft Surface Laptop 7.
- The kernel image for the ARM64 architecture includes modules for MediaTek and Qualcomm SC7180 Chromebooks.
- To support HTTP boot in UEFI on amd64 and arm64 systems, pmem modules have been added to the kernel image.
Source: opennet.ru
