Looking at Debian’s release-critical bugs, you can see that Trixie is close:
Testing now has fewer critical bugs than Stable, and the number is dropping quickly.
About 200 bugs still need to be fixed to get the number down to where the previous releases were done.

Maybe you can help? Bugs blocking the next release can be as simple as missing translations for the upgrade instructions.

  • gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com
    24·
    9 months ago

    It’s been reported (Debian mailing list, Phoronix, Linuxiac) that Debian 13 will likely be out this summer. The hard freeze is on May 15 and usually that means the actual release is pretty close, just a couple of months away.

    Phoronix speculated that, since Debian 12 went from initial freeze to stable release in 5 months, Debian 13 could release around August.

    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Pleeaaasssee get kernel 6.14 in, or at least to Backports. I’ve been doing work to support the new dual screen Zenbook Pro in Linux, and I’m having to do it with Ubuntu 25.10 because Backports only goes to 6.13. Though my trusty remove-snap script still works.

      • yoevli@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        Debian stable only uses LTS kernel releases, so unfortunately you’ll need to wait for it to appear in trixie-backports.

          • yoevli@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            8 months ago

            Ah, I assumed you were just talking about the upcoming release. AFAIK trixie-backports doesn’t exist yet though.

  • qistoph@feddit.nl
    20·
    9 months ago

    Yeah, I just finally updated the last remaining servers to bookworm this weekend, so a next release is probably coming soon. Proven by earlier experiences

  • ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    16·
    9 months ago

    The day I do the old fashioned sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade and everything suddenly breaks is when I know I’m on Debian 13.

  • beleza pura@lemmy.eco.br
    13·
    9 months ago

    i made a spreadsheet of debian release dates, graphed the days between releases and calculated a probable release date based on last release date + average days between releases* +/- 1 std deviation

    if i remember correctly, bookworm was within my predicted range (apr-aug 2023, i think) and we’re now fully within trixie’s predicted range

    *before etch (4.0), release intervals varied wildly, so I don’t take those into consideration

  • enemenemu@lemm.ee
    11·
    9 months ago

    That’s a nice graphic. I’d love to see something comparing it to a rolling release or fedora.

    Unfortunately, it wouldn’t tell you anything because you’d compare apples with oranges.

    But since opensuse has a (multiple) stable and rolling release, how would it look there? More like the testing release?