2. What’s new in Debian 14 —DRAFT—
The Wiki has more information about this topic.
2.1. Supported architectures
The following are the officially supported architectures for Debian 14:
64-bit PC (
amd64)64-bit ARM (
arm64)ARMv7 (EABI hard-float ABI,
armhf)64-bit little-endian PowerPC (
ppc64el)64-bit little-endian RISC-V (
riscv64)IBM System z (
s390x)
Additionally, on 64-bit PC systems, a partial 32-bit userland (i386)
is available.
You can read more about port status, and port-specific information for your architecture at the Debian port web pages.
2.2. What’s new in the distribution?
2.2.2. Desktops and well known packages
This new release of Debian comes with a lot more software than its predecessor trixie; the distribution includes over 14116 new packages, for a total of over 69830 packages. Most of the software in the distribution has been updated: over 44326 software packages (this is 63% of all packages in trixie). Also, a significant number of packages (over 8844, 12% of the packages in trixie) have for various reasons been removed from the distribution. You will not see any updates for these packages and they will be marked as “obsolete” in package management front-ends; see Obsolete packages.
Debian again ships with several desktop applications and environments. Among others it now includes the desktop environments GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3, LXDE 13, LXQt 2.1.0, and Xfce 4.20.
Productivity applications have also been upgraded, including the office suites:
LibreOffice is upgraded to version 25;
GNUcash is upgraded to 5.10;
Among many others, this release also includes the following software updates:
Package |
Version in 13 (trixie) |
Version in 14 (forky) |
|---|---|---|
Apache |
2.4.62 |
2.4.65 |
Bash |
5.2.15 |
5.2.37 |
BIND DNS Server |
9.18 |
9.20 |
Cryptsetup |
2.6 |
2.7 |
curl/libcurl |
7.88.1 |
8.14.1 |
Emacs |
28.2 |
30.1 |
Exim (default email server) |
4.96 |
4.98 |
GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection (default compiler) |
12.2 |
14.2 |
GIMP |
2.10.34 |
3.0.4 |
GnuPG |
2.2.40 |
2.4.7 |
Inkscape |
1.2.2 |
1.4 |
the GNU C library |
2.36 |
2.41 |
Linux kernel |
6.1 series |
6.12 series |
LLVM/Clang toolchain |
13.0.1 and 14.0 (default) and 15.0.6 |
19 (default), 17 and 18 available |
MariaDB |
10.11 |
11.8 |
Nginx |
1.22 |
1.26 |
OpenJDK |
17 |
21 |
OpenLDAP |
2.5.13 |
2.6.10 |
OpenSSH |
9.2p1 |
10.0p1 |
OpenSSL |
3.0 |
3.5 |
Perl |
5.36 |
5.40 |
PHP |
8.2 |
8.4 |
Postfix |
3.7 |
3.10 |
PostgreSQL |
15 |
17 |
Python 3 |
3.11 |
3.13 |
Qt 5 |
5.15.8 |
5.15.15 |
Qt 6 |
6.4.2 |
6.8.2 |
Rustc |
1.63 |
1.85 |
Samba |
4.17 |
4.22 |
Systemd |
252 |
257 |
Vim |
9.0 |
9.1 |