For me the most important new things on Debian Trixie are the Linux kernel supports.
First is the use of 6.12 where the kernel now starts to have real-time capability that was more than 20 years in the making "so now you can run your space laser or audio production without specialty patches" [1].
Second is the official support for RISC-V64 on Debian Trixie [2].
[1] Real-time Linux is officially part of the kernel (138 comments):
For me the most important new things on Debian Trixie are the Linux kernel supports.
First is the use of 6.12 where the kernel now starts to have real-time capability that was more than 20 years in the making "so now you can run your space laser or audio production without specialty patches" [1].
Second is the official support for RISC-V64 on Debian Trixie [2].
[1] Real-time Linux is officially part of the kernel (138 comments):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41594862
[2] What's new in Debian 13:
https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/whats-n...
I started upgrading my bookworm machines to it to use the updated podman, and it’s been issue-free so far.
Looks like Rust 1.85 made it in[1]. So that's good news for packages that keep their MSRV at 1.63 only for compatibility with Debian stable releases.
[1]: https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/whats-n...
is who command still broken because of systemd?
Interestingly, it’s also broken under devuan. I wonder what the backstory is.