Bookworm Support

Debian bookworm (which is most of the userland) reaches end of life in June next year:

That's exactly why I chose Ubuntu 24.04 for my latest install, Updates until 2029, with Pro (free for private use) until 2034.

-jw-

Fortunately most of my PI projects need to work and stay working without any upgrades, ever. I try and pick the latest, get it working, add all the extra bits I need and that's it.

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.

Raspberry Pi OS is based 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.

If you look in /etc/apt/sources.list.d (in Trixie, on a Pi) you'll find two files named debian.sources and raspi.sources; those list the online repositories that are used for updates. Most updates come direct from Debian.

I have a box running Buster (AMD64) and that still gets updates (must get around to updating it).

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).

Right. So Debian userland and the Pi kernel are still in support but Pi-specific userland is already out of support.

I've been spending some time debugging Bluetooth issues recently and I would strongly advise anyone using Bluetooth devices to be careful with upgrading... there seems to be some bug somewhere in the processing chain, and I'm guessing user-space, as opposed to the kernel.

Jim

What about this?

The Debian 12 life cycle encompasses five years: the initial three years of full Debian support, until June 10th, 2026, and two years of Long Term Support (LTS), until June 30th, 2028. The set of supported architectures is reduced during the LTS term. For more information, please refer to the Security Information webpage and the LTS section of the Debian Wiki.

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