The Debian developers have announced that Debian 12 is moving into a soft freeze of the package base, which stops accepting new source packages and removes the ability to re-include previously removed packages.
On March 12, 2023, a hard freeze is planned before the release, during which the process of transferring key packages and packages without autopkgtests from unstable to testing will be completely stopped and the stage of intensive testing and fixing problems blocking the release will begin. The hard freeze stage is introduced for the first time and is considered as a necessary intermediate step before a full freeze, covering all packages. The time of complete freezing has not yet been precisely determined.
Debian 12 is expected to be released in summer 2023. There are currently 392 critical bugs blocking the release (up from 637 a month ago).
Source: opennet.ru