Debian 13.2 "Trixie" Released with Key Security Fixes and Updates

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On November 15, 2025, the Debian project officially released Debian 13.2. This is the second point release for the "Trixie" series, following the initial launch of Debian 13 on August 9, 2025, and the 13.1 update in September. This new version is built on the long-term support Linux kernel 6.12.57.

What's New in This Update?

This point release mainly adds corrections for security issues, along with a few adjustments for serious problems.
The Debian Project

The Debian 13.2 update is primarily focused on stability and security, rolling up numerous post-release fixes into the main distribution. Key changes include:

  • 124 bug fixes across a wide range of packages.
  • 55 security patches to address critical vulnerabilities.
  • Removal of the rust-profiling-procmacros package, as it is no longer in use.

All security patches included in this release are also available through the standard security.debian.org repository.

Notable Package and System Updates

This release includes targeted fixes and updates for numerous components, from server applications to desktop tools. The rebuilt installer ensures that all new installations start from a secure and up-to-date base. Highlights include:

  • Hardware & System: The updated kernel improves hardware compatibility for AMD64, ARM64, and Asahi platforms. Packages like systemd-boot, irqbalance, open-vm-tools, and Nvidia Tesla drivers have received specific fixes.
  • Server Components: Updates for FreeRADIUS, libvirt, QEMU, Postfix, Samba, Suricata, ModSecurity-Apache, and RabbitMQ-Server.
  • Core Utilities & Applications: Fresh stable versions for 7zip, ansible-core, dkms, epiphany-browser, evolution, nextcloud-desktop, openssl, patroni, systemd, and more.

Supported Platforms

Debian remains a highly versatile distribution, with updated desktop environments and broad architecture support, including:

  • Desktop Environments: GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3.6, Xfce 4.20, Cinnamon 6.4, LXQt 2.1, MATE 1.26.1, and LXDE 13.
  • Architectures: AMD64/x86-64, ARM64, ARMv7 (armhf), ARM EABI (armel), MIPS (mipsel, mips64el), RISC-V, PowerPC 64 (ppc64el), and IBM System z (s390x).

How to Upgrade

Users already running Debian 13 "Trixie" can easily upgrade to version 13.2 by running the following commands in their terminal:

sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade

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