Debian 11, code-named Bullseye, was released today. If it’s not already available on your favorite VM provider’s panel, I suggest you own a thread on LowEndTalk and complain bitterly.
Major new features include:
- 5.x Linux kernel (5.10 to be specific)
- Updates to major packages and subsystems including GUI desktops (GNOME, Xfce, etc.) and desktop suites (LibreOffice, GIMP, etc.)
- Greatly improved support for modern printing and scanning devices
- systemd now uses control groups v2 (cgroupv2)
- Better input support for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages
- Support for exFAT filesystems
- Improved password hashing by moving from SHA-512 to yescrypt
- New software oriented towards COVID-19 research
All in all, this is more of an evolutionary release than a radical change, as is typical given Debian’s long tradition of stability.
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Raindog308 is a longtime LowEndTalk community administrator, technical writer, and self-described techno polymath. With deep roots in the *nix world, he has a passion for systems both modern and vintage, ranging from Unix, Perl, Python, and Golang to shell scripting and mainframe-era operating systems like MVS. He’s equally comfortable with relational database systems, having spent years working with Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
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