On 12 July 2026, three years after the initial release, the regular
support for Debian 12, alias bookworm
, has come to an end. The
Debian Long Term Support (LTS) Team
is taking over security support from the Security and Release Teams.
Bookworm LTS will be supported until 30 June 2028.
Where possible, users are encouraged to upgrade their machines to Debian 13,
alias trixie
, the current Debian stable release. The life
cycle of Debian releases encompasses three years of regular support plus two years
of Long Term Support. Debian 12 will thus receive Long Term Support until 30
June 2028, five years after the initial release.
Users that need to stick with Debian 12 can find relevant information about Debian Long Term Support at LTS/Using. Important information and updates regarding Bookworm LTS specifically can be found at LTS/Bookworm.
Debian 12 LTS users are invited to subscribe to the announcement mailing list to receive notifications about security updates, or to follow the latest advisories through the LTS Security Information webpage.
A few packages are not covered by the Bookworm LTS support. Non-supported packages installed in users' machines can be identified by installing the debian-security-support package. If debian-security-support detects an unsupported package which is critical to you, please get in touch with debian-lts@lists.debian.org.
One of the differences between regular support and long term support is the set of supported architectures. The Debian LTS team is pleased to announce that 64-bit Little Endian PowerPC (ppc64el) will be supported, for the first time, as an LTS architecture. The supported architectures in Debian 12 LTS are thus amd64, i386, arm64, armhf and ppc64el.
Debian 11, alias bullseye
, was initially released on 14 August 2021,
and its two years of Long Term Support will end on 31 August 2026.
Users of Debian 11 LTS are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Debian 12, and
then to Debian 13.
Debian and its LTS Team would like to thank all contributing users, developers, sponsors and other Debian teams who are making it possible to extend the life of previous stable releases.
If you rely on Debian LTS, please consider joining the team, providing patches, testing or funding the efforts.
The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly
free community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of
the largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of
volunteers from all over the world work together to create and
maintain Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and
supporting a huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the
universal operating system
.
For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at https://www.debian.org/ or send mail to <press@debian.org>.