Although the main topic of this blog is Ubuntu, on July 7 we gave the relevance it deserves to Debian 10 "Buster" release. And, although it introduces some new features at a higher speed, Canonical's operating system is based on its older brother. Today, about 5 months later, the project has taken the first important step in the development of its next release, making an installer of Debian 11.
The codename of the next Debian release will be Bullseye. It will be the next major update of the operating system and, as such, will introduce new functions, such as improved support for all types of hardware, among which we have the Raspberry Pi 3, virtio-gpu and the Olimex A20-OLinuXino-Lime2 board eMMC. You have other known news after the cut.
Highlights of Debian 11 Bullseye
- The installer arrives with cryptsetup-initramfs instead of cryptsetup.
- Support for HiDPI displays in netbook images for EFI computers has been improved.
- More documentation translations have been added to DocBook 4.5.
- New GRUB2 module for signed UEFI images.
- Ability to install virtualization-related packages when a virtual machine system is detected.
- Images for QNAP TS-11x / TS-21x / HS-21x, QNAP TS-41x / TS-42x, and HP Media Vault mv2120 devices have been removed due to Linux kernel size issues.
- Work continues to remove Python 2 packages.
- Updated packages.
- Common reliability, stability, and performance improvements.
- More information in this link.
If you are wondering when Debian 11 Bullseye will be released, the answer is simple: it is not known. Unlike companies like Canonical that do publish a roadmap, Project Debian only releases new versions of their operating system when they are sure that everything works perfectly, so the only certainty is that it will be available sometime in 2021.