Debian 11 Long Term Support reaches end-of-life
August 31st, 2026
The Debian Long Term Support (LTS) Team hereby announces that Debian 11
bullseye
support has reached its end-of-life today, 31 August 2026,
five years after its initial release on 14 August 2021.
Starting in September, Debian will not provide further security updates for
Debian 11. A subset of bullseye
packages will be supported by external
parties. Detailed information can be found at
Extended LTS.
The Debian LTS Team is currently providing security support for Debian 12
bookworm
, the current oldstable release. Thanks to the combined efforts
of different teams including the Security Team, the Release Team, and the LTS
Team, the Debian 12 life cycle encompasses five years.
Debian 12 will receive Long Term Support until 30 June 2028. The supported
architectures in Debian 12 LTS are amd64, i386, arm64, armhf and ppc64el.
For further information about using bookworm
LTS and upgrading from
bullseye
LTS, please refer to
LTS/Using.
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, and who have made Bullseye LTS a success.
If you rely on Debian LTS, please consider joining the team, providing patches, testing or funding the efforts.
About Debian
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
.
Contact Information
For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at https://www.debian.org/ or send mail to <press@debian.org>.