Subj : Re: Bookworm Support To : All From : Richard Kettlewell Date : Sun Oct 19 2025 17:06:31 Daniel James writes: > On 19/10/2025 11:10, Richard Kettlewell wrote: >> Debian bookworm (which is most of the userland) reaches end of life >> in June next year: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases > > That suggests that the current Debian Testing will be released (as > "Forky") around the middle of 2027, not 2026, and that is when Trixie > will become "oldstable". Oldstable is still supported by the Debian > team, so Bookworm should get updates until at least mid 2027 and > Trixie until at least mid 2029. I?m not quite sure where you?re getting some of those timelines from, but anyway, the relevant part is the the table giving release end of life dates, and the EOL for bookworm is June 2026. There is an LTS process, though, which looks like it?ll extend bookworm security support into 2028, albeit that they don?t seem to have decided on the scope for bookworm LTS yet (thought it?d be surprising if it excluded arm64). > Raspberry Pi OS is based on the ARM build of standard Debian, with > some Pi-specific content provided by Raspberry Pi themselves. There is > a comments by Gordon Hollingworth of Raspberry Pi here: > > https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/trixie-the-new-version-of-raspberry-pi-os/ > > That says: > > Debian Bookworm will be supported for another two years by > Debian. We will release new Linux kernels for the legacy OS > for critical vulnerabilities. But otherwise there won?t be > any updates to Raspberry Pi specific packages. > > There will still be updates direct from Debian, of course. Right. So Debian userland and the Pi kernel are still in support but Pi-specific userland is already out of support. -- https://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/ --- PyGate Linux v1.5 * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10) .